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The microblogging platform rose to become one of the mainstream social media platforms and today it is placed right next to Facebook in any social media mention. 85% small and medium businesses use Twitter as a platform to offer customer support.
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Twitter through the years has evolved as a great platform for redressing grievances. Today, customers reach out to the Twitter handles of brands to complain and seek redressal. Apart from being a grievance platform, Twitter is a considerably huge stage for laying out customer’s feedback as well. This gives an excellent opportunity for brands to connect to their customers in real-time.
Twitter feed algorithm shows your post to people every time, irrespective of people hitting the ‘like’ button, which means your post will always appear in their feed.
A typical Twitter user is not put off by constant posts, in fact, a Twitterati loves to engage (especially retweeting) if your content is really good. A part of it also true because of the reason that sharing (retweet) content on Twitter is much simpler as compared to other platforms.
Twitter is as much a communication platform for a business/brand as it is for customers. You could ask your customers for their Twitter usernames and reach out to them for a feedback or simply thank them for their visit. The platform is a great medium to strike up a conversation.
Despite the fact that Twitter is almost half of Facebook in terms of the number of users, Twitter gets your word spread faster. The response time on Twitter is much less and you might light up a wildfire if you have a great piece of content in a short period of time.
The fact of being ‘speedy’ makes Twitter resonate the initial stages of the AIDA funnel. Twitter could be the best way to generate awareness and create interest in your potential customer for your product or service.
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Ice Dogs roll, build 2-0 lead in playoff series
April 16, 2017 jtaffe
FAIRBANKS — The Fairbanks Ice Dogs are one game away from advancing to the next round of the North American Hockey League playoffs.
After escaping with a one-goal victory in the first game of its best-of-five Midwest Division semifinals against the Minnesota Magicians on Friday, Fairbanks brought its A-game in hopes of returning to Alaska with a commanding lead in the opening-round series.
The Ice Dogs did just that.
There was no sign of rust or nerves Saturday, as the defending NAHL Robertson Cup national champions cruised to a 4-1 victory over the Magicians in Richfield, Minnesota.
Now the second-seeded Ice Dogs bring a 2-0 series lead back to Fairbanks. They need to beat No. 3 Minnesota once in three tries at the Big Dipper Ice Arena to move on to the Midwest Division finals.
“We played better than we did on Friday, that’s for sure,” Ice Dogs head coach Trevor Stewart said in a phone interview. “We put ourselves into a disadvantage by giving up the first goal, but I thought the guys settled down after that and improved their pace and play. Once we settled down, we started making some plays and were able to put some pucks in the back of the net.”
Just as was the case during Game 1 on Friday, the host Magicians started fast and skated to an early lead.
On Saturday, it was Pieter Von Steinbergs who gave Minnesota a 1-0 advantage only 1:40 into the opening period.
However, the Ice Dogs answered offensively and goaltender Erik Gordon made 19 saves to secure the win.
After squeaking out a hard-fought win in Game 1, Stewart said he feltit was a beneficial experience for many of the Ice Dogs who had never appeared in an NAHL playoff game.
Following Saturday’s win, the coach said his players looked more comfortable and they should be even more prepared when the two rivals meet for Game 3 at 7:30 p.m. April 21 at the Big Dipper.
“There are certain guys that took a step in the right direction,” he said. “Some guys still have a little more work to get to where we need them to be. But at this point, they’ve played a few (playoff) games and now they understand the level they need to be at.”
Among the Fairbanks players who stepped up in Game 2 was forward Hampus Eriksson, who netted the goal that evened the score 1-1 at the 9:52 mark of the first period.
Eriksson, a Gavle, Sweden, native helped the Ice Dogs garner a 2-1 lead in the middle frame, as he and Aaron McPheters tallied assists on Benton Maass’
power-play goal 9:43 into the period.
“He’s our best forward, so it’s a big help when he is making plays,” Stewart said. “He is still learning but he’s a hockey player. He gets it. He was definitely a big part of our success tonight.”
Although Eriksson made his presence felt, he wasn’t the only Fairbanks player who made a difference.
Hunter Wendt extended the team’s lead to 3-1 midway through the third period before Bauer Neudecker put home an empty-net goal to seal the deal in the final minute of action.
Cayden Cahill and Luke Orysiuk recorded assists on Wendt’s score.
Minnesota goaltender Ivan Prosvetov finished with 29 saves in defeat.
Saturday’s win was the 11th consecutive victory for Fairbanks. The team won 22 of its final 25 regular season games before beginning its title defense.
After sweeping the Minnesota portion of the series, the Ice Dogs need just one more victory to advance to the Midwest Division championships, where they’d meet the winner of top-seeded Janesville’s series with the Coulee Region Chill.
The Chill and Jets split their first two games of their series this weekend.
All Fairbanks is focused on is taking care of what it can control. The team did that in Minnesota, and now it’ll be in a good position when the series resumes
next weekend.
“Anytime you can take a multiple-game lead in a series, you put yourself in a better situation to win,” Stewart said. “That’s a good thing, but now our focus has to be on improving what we did in these first two games. If we do that, hopefully we’ll be in position to get a win in Game 3.”
If the Ice Dogs don’t sweep the series, Games 4 and 5 are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. April 22 and 23.
Contact News-Miner sports writer Brad Joyal at 459-7530. Follow him on Twitter: @bradjoyal.
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Vikings stick with offensive approach on draft’s third day
By Brian Hall
EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Kirk Cousins’ first season in Minnesota was a letdown for a Vikings’ team full of Super Bowl aspirations, mainly because the offense underwhelmed and couldn’t support another top-five defense.
Minnesota general manager Rick Spielman set out to help Cousins — the $84 million franchise quarterback — and the offense in this year’s draft, continuing an offensive-heavy approach as Day 3 wrapped up on Saturday.
After taking first-round center Garrett Bradbury, second-round tight end Irv Smith and third-round running back Alexander Mattison, the Vikings started the final day by drafting Oklahoma offensive lineman Dru Samia in the fourth round after trading up to the 114th pick with Seattle.
“Offense was kind of a point of emphasis, and we were never going to pass up a defensive guy if he’s sticking that high on our board, and one of those guys would have fell,” Spielman said after the draft.
“We were never going to not take the best player. But as we went down through the draft, I thought it fell very well for us on the players that we did get on the offensive side.”
It’s the first time Minnesota has used its first four picks in a draft on offense since 1965. In all, the Vikings used seven of their 12 selections to address the offensive side.
Minnesota finished 20th in yards and 19th in points last season. Meanwhile, it was 30th in the league in rushing despite the presence of Dalvin Cook.
“We need to run the ball,” Spielman said. “We need to be better on offense, and that’s where we needed the help. … we don’t have a lot of defensive needs from a starter position.”
Remaking the line was a necessity and the Vikings should have two new starters. Bradbury could figure in at center and Samia will join the competition at guard where free-agent signee Josh Kline is considered to be the lead option at right guard.
“He was an unbelievable interview at the combine, maybe one of the toughest competitors we’ve seen on tape on how he finishes,” Spielman said of Samia. “He fits the zone scheme very well. He has a few technical flaws to clean up, but we think that is correctable with coaching.”
WHO THEY GOT
After trading up for Samia in the fourth round, Spielman still had a slew of later picks after a series of trades. Minnesota traded down four times in the third round on Friday and had seven picks in the final two rounds.
The 12 selections were the most for the organization since the seven-round draft format began in 1994. Linebacker Cameron Smith from USC was the first defensive pick for Minnesota at No. 162 in the fifth round.
Arkansas defensive tackle Armon Watts was selected 190th overall, starting a span of three picks in four spots in the sixth round for Minnesota. Wyoming safety Marcus Epps and Elon offensive tackle Olisaemeka Udoh followed.
The seventh round brought Texas cornerback Kris Boyd, Oregon receiver Dillon Mitchell, Colorado State receiver Olabisi Johnson and Air Force long snapper Austin Cutting.
LIKE A FINE WINE
Smith comes to Minnesota after leading USC in tackles for three straight seasons, the first Trojans linebacker to do so since Dennis Johnson from 1977-79. But it’s his off-field interest that really makes Smith unique.
The 6-foot-2, 250-pound linebacker has an interest in winemaking and interned at the Melville Winery in California in 2017. He said he appreciates the science of winemaking and is fascinated by the agriculture and farming aspect.
“I still feel like most people look at me like I am going to be a big body heavy cabernet,” Smith said of his preferences. “I just like the lighter, prettier looking pinot noirs that taste really good to me. That whole cluster that adds just a little more veggie to it that I think tastes great. It’s something that it’s always important to have a life outside of football and be ready for whatever happens.”
HOW THEY DID
Minnesota paid attention to its offensive needs, particularly along the line. The biggest remaining needs are depth at cornerback, receiver and defensive line.
Perhaps the biggest lingering question is at tight end, where longtime standout Kyle Rudolph is a $7.625 million cap hit for a team close to the salary cap and Minnesota added Smith.
Boyd was the only cornerback drafted in a spot where Minnesota has last year’s first-round pick, Mike Hughes, still rehabbing from knee surgery and Holton Hill suspended for the first four games. Two seventh-round receivers likely won’t be ready to step in where former first-rounder Laquon Treadwell has been a disappointment.
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Etan Harmelech August 1, 2006 updated on August 18, 2017
Say shalom to your Jewish roots. We raise the curtain on resources for researching your ancestry.
What do comedian Billy Crystal, actress and singer Barbra Streisand, director Steven Spielberg, MGM co-founder Samuel Goldwyn and movie-theater tycoon Marcus Loew have in common? These mega-movie millionaires all have Jewish heritage.
But it doesn’t matter whether your own Jewish family tree includes Hollywood stars or ordinary peddlers and tailors: Researching your roots can prove more rewarding than winning an Oscar. “Jewish genealogy is like kissing. You just can’t experience it from the outside and know how good it is,” says Arthur Kurzweil, author of From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History (Jossey-Bass).
Jews across the world share almost 6,000 years of common experiences despite differences in language, cultural traditions and religious convictions. That connection goes even further for North American Jews. For example, American Jews — 80 percent of whom are European-descent Ashkenazim — know that the best way to tell if someone is Jewish is to ask for his last name. From Goldberg to Silverstein, Baum to Rosenblum, surnames capture the very essence of American Jewry. They’re instantly recognizable, and Jews often think of them as being steeped in tradition.
In reality, most Jews didn’t acquire hereditary surnames until the late 1700s and early 1800s, when the Austro-Hungarian, Prussian and Russian empires passed laws requiring Jews to adopt surnames in the countries’ native tongues. Before the promulgation of those laws, most Jews simply used their father’s given name.
Though the relatively recent advent of Jewish surnames can be vexing to Jewish genealogists, it’s hardly your only hurdle (oy vey!). Frequent border shifts and place-name changes in Eastern Europe make it difficult to locate ancestral towns and figure out which archives hold records of your family.
During World War II, Europe’s Jewish population shrank by two-thirds. Those who survived persecution fled to various parts of the world. “The Holocaust is the single most difficult aspect of Jewish genealogy. It colors everything we do,” says Kurzweil.
Still, genealogical payoffs outshine the obstacles. Whether it’s learning what befell relatives in the Holocaust, walking through the shtetl (town) where your great-great-grandparents grew up or becoming more in touch with your religious roots, you’ll discover just how good experiencing your Jewish heritage is.
You’ve surely heard this shpiel before: The best place to begin researching is by talking to your relatives. Perhaps they’ll tell you new stories about your great-grandfather or give you old photographs of your ancestors.
Since American Ashkenazic Jews hail from more than 15 countries in Eastern Europe alone, you’ll want to be sure to ask your relatives if they know your ancestors’ country and town of origin — the keys to locating overseas records. If no one knows your ancestors’ shtetl, you can gain clues from several US records.
First, look in staple US sources, such as censuses, which include the person’s country of origin and language spoken, and vital records.
Next, try passenger-arrival lists — they often give places of origin and departure ports. You’ll find them on microfilm at NARA, genealogical libraries, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Family History Library (FHL) <www.familysearch.org> and the FHL’s branch Family History Centers. But to locate your ancestors’ list, you’ll need to know when and where they arrived in America.
Like many other ethnic groups, the majority of American Jews — 2 million — immigrated to the United States between 1881 and 1924, most via the port of New York. You can search that city’s passenger lists online at <castlegarden.org> and <ellisisland.org>. Stephen P. Morse’s “one-step” Ellis Island searches <www.stevemorse.org> include a Blue Form specifically for Jewish researchers. All three forms (Blue, White and Gray) let you search the records by town of origin, meaning you can find your relatives as well as other emigrants from the same shtetl.
When asked, many American Jews say their ancestors came simply from Russia, Hungary or Germany. But European boundaries have shifted tremendously since 1924 — when the greatest period of Jewish migration to North America came to a close. In some cases, as for Czechoslovakia (now two separate nations), the country of origin no longer exists. Use gazetteers and JewishGen’s ShtetlSeeker <www.jewishgen.org/shtetlseeker> to help locate villages.
US naturalization records usually provide the applicants’ towns of origin, too. Because so many Jewish immigrants entered through New York, NARA’s Northeast regional branch in the Big Apple could have the records you’re looking for. Alternately, you could file a Freedom of Information Act request with the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (formerly Immigration and Naturalization Services) <uscis.gov> if your ancestor applied for citizenship after 1906 — but getting responses to these requests usually takes awhile. Passports also may hold clues to ancestors’ hometowns (check NARA and the FHL).
Finally, look to your US forebears’ final resting places and local synagogues: Jewish immigrants often formed landsmanshaftn, societies based on their towns of origin. Frequently, members bought plots in Jewish cemeteries, so if your ancestor was buried in a landsmanshaftn -owned plot, he likely came from the town that society represented. Look for landsmanshaftn records at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Records (see the opposite page for organizations’ contact information). Synagogues recorded birth, circumcision, marriage and death information. Those records, particularly marriage contracts (see page 51), name the brides’ and grooms’ hometowns as well as their parents’. To find these records, write or visit the American Jewish Archives or American Jewish Historical Society.
The Nazis damaged many synagogues during World War II, including the 1741 fortress-style synagogue in Brody, Ukraine (shown above in 1940 and at right in 1995).
Changing scenes
Once you identify your ancestor’s hometown, you can tackle foreign records. To get an idea of what’s available, check the FHL’s Jewish research outline (from the FamilySearch home page, click Guides, then Research Outline, and then Jewish Genealogy New). As you’ll see, the FHL has an impressive collection of Jewish records from Germany, Poland and Hungary, and it’s continually adding to its stockpile of microfilmed Jewish records from Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Ukraine.
A common misconception is that all Jewish genealogy records were destroyed in the Holocaust. Gary Mokotoff, founder of the Jewish genealogical publisher Avotaynu, says that’s simply not true. “While most Jewish records were destroyed, government records such as birth, marriage and death records did survive,” he says.
• Vital records: To find birth and death records for your Jewish ancestors, you’ll need to contact the proper archives in their town or country. But be prepared: Compared to US repositories such as the FHL, some foreign archives are notoriously unreliable. Those in Eastern Europe — where 95 percent of American Jews trace their ancestry — are especially challenging to work with. The Czech government, for instance, has refused to let its archives be microfilmed.
Although access is improving, written and telephone requests for information too often go unfulfilled. In many cases, the archives just aren’t equipped to deal with your request unless you’re there to spell out what you need. The Ukrainian archives, for instance, has 680 total repositories, including 24 state repositories, in which the document you want could be stashed away.
You can turn to a free online resource for help. Through her nonprofit Routes to Roots Foundation <www.rtrfoundation.org>, certified genealogist Miriam Weiner has collaborated with archives in Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Lithuania to create town-by-town inventories of Jewish and civil records that survived the Holocaust. You can search those inventories on the foundation’s Web site (click Archive Database). For each town, you’ll learn available document types and years, as well as which archives hold them.
Limited records access isn’t your only challenge. Language can be a huge barrier — but you can get translation help from Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman’s Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide (Avotaynu). The price of processing requests can be a hurdle, too. For example, the Ukrainian archives’ Web site <www.archives.gov.ua/Eng> quotes a fee up to $500. Such hefty price tags are common in other nations’ archives. Prices vary depending upon how many archives are involved, how much material is being searched, the number of surnames are involved and how common the surnames are.
You could discover three generations when you look at birth records. Aron Bichek’s Feb. 11,1905, record from Berezno, Ukraine — written in Ukrainian and Hebrew — identifies his father as Yankel Bichek, son of Idel, and mother as Chana Polishuk, daughter of Moishe-Mordko.
If you find these obstacles too frustrating, you could hire a reputable researcher to do the work for you. Consult organizations such as the Association of Professional Genealogists <apgen.org>, the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists <icapgen.org> and the Board for Certification of Genealogists <bcgcertification.org>. And JewishGen <www.jewishgen.org> lists professional researchers under their countries of specialty in its Eastern Europe FAQ section <www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/eefaq.html>.
Whether or not you choose to hire a professional, the more time you put into the endeavor, the more you’re likely to get out of it. Due to staff turnover and foreign archives workers’ varying levels of experience with genealogical documents, it’s difficult to build a network of contacts. Weiner, who’s worked with many different chief archivists in Poland and the former USSR, says she’s personally built those relationships. “Each new archivist involves the development of new relationships and trust,” she adds.
If you have little luck with government vital records, go the religious route. Synagogues document nearly all major life events, including marriages, births and even circumcisions. Some of the most useful synagogue findings are ketubot (marriage contracts) and mohel (circumcision) books — if you’re fortunate enough to locate one. Ketubot — beautifully illustrated and bound books of marriage contracts from the 1800s and early 1900s — provide family information. Sorted by community, mohel books list the names and birth dates of each boy circumcised in a particular rabbinical district. The few surviving mohel books from pre-WWII Europe are scattered, but the Leo Baeck Institute has a number from Germany, and the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People has a worldwide collection (see the toolkit on page 49 for both repositories’ contact details).
If you can’t find your family in synagogue records, look in Christian church records. In many countries, the national church (usually Catholic, Orthodox or Lutheran) was responsible for keeping vital records of the entire population, including Jews. Consult the FHL’s Jewish research outline for details.
• Census records: Enumerations from your ancestor’s homeland can provide a wealth of information, too. Typically, censuses include names, ages, places of origin, occupations and more.
In Europe, regular censuses began in Russia in 1719 (these were poll-tax enumerations), but weren’t taken in Baltic States until about 1940. Political turmoil and social upheaval made censuses sporadic even in countries that aimed to regularly conduct them. And keep in mind that some countries, such as Germany (1939), Hungary (1724 and 1848) and Austria (1724), counted Jews independently of the common census.
To locate European census records, see Angus Baxter’s In Search of Your European Roots (Genealogical Publishing Co.), JewishGen’s Eastern Europe FAQ section, and past issues of Avotaynu, the publisher’s research journal (check with a Jewish genealogical society, at <www.avotaynu.com> or in the FHL catalog).
Screening the Web
Perhaps no Web site is more useful to Jewish genealogists than JewishGen. It posts articles on major Jewish genealogy topics, offers tools to expand your research network and enables you to collaborate with like-minded genealogists.
Most prominent among these tools is the JewishGen Family Finder <www.jewishgen.org/jgff>, which lists genealogical studies being conducted by more than 76,000 researchers worldwide. By signing up, you can glean knowledge from and collaborate with Jews seeking similar information. For example, after entering the town name and/or surname you’re researching, the Family Finder automatically searches the site using the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex System. You can then peruse a list of genealogists conducting searches about your family’s shtetl.
The Eastern Europe FAQ page gives a country-by-country breakdown for obtaining archival data, finding useful reference material and joining a relevant special interest group (SIG). SIGs facilitate research and information-sharing. Organized mainly by country of origin, they generally operate as listservs or chat rooms, with genealogists giving out advice and leads.
JewishGen’s searchable databases include country-specific collections of vital records, voting records, tax lists, censuses, business directories, cemetery data and more. You’ll also find databases for Jewish given names, FHL records and worldwide cemeteries.
Reel in Your Sephardic Roots
American Sephardic Jews face a more difficult task than their Ashkenazic counterparts. In fact, genealogical material on Sephardim can be scarce. And in many cases, it seems as if Sephardic Jews are either able to trace their roots extremely far back, or they can’t get anywhere at all.
The Sephardiclabel originally referred only to Jews expelled from Spain following that country’s 1492 Inquisition, but the term is often used to describe Jews from the lands surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. In recent years, the definition has expanded again to include all non-Ashkenazic Jews. For genealogical purposes, Sephardim are often defined as Jews of Iberian, Italian and North African ancestry.
Many Sephardic Americans are relatively recent immigrants from Israel and Muslim lands who came starting in the late 1960s. But some Sephardic Jews came to the New World to evade the Spanish Inquisition. For these two groups, available US immigration records — largely from the 19th and early 20th centuries — won’t be of much use. Sephardic genealogists must instead turn to less-mainstream research techniques.
Breaking one of genealogy’s cardinal rules — working backward — may prove useful because Sephardic Jews with similar family names likely have a common ancestor before the Inquisition. Jeff Malka, author of Sephardic Genealogy (Avotaynu, $45), has compiled a list of common Sephardic surnames at <www.jewishgen.org/sefardsig/names.htm>. The Sefard SIG <www.jewishgen.org/sefardsig> provides a wealth of information on researching Sephardic roots. The International Sephardic Leadership Council <www.sephardiccouncil.org> plans to add a genealogy research center to its Web site this year.
Whereas Central and Eastern European Jews adopted surnames en masse in the early 19th century, many Sephardic Jews’ surnames date as early as the 12th and 13th centuries. So family names are much more important to Sephardic genealogists than to Ashkenazim.
Additionally, knowing traditional naming conventions is essential to tracing your Sephardic ancestry. Unlike Ashkenazic Jews, who generally name children after deceased relatives, Sephardic Jews often name their children after living grandparents. Oldest sons are named after the paternal grandfather, oldest daughters after the maternal grandmother, and so on. These patterns give clues to family relationships that can help you make sense of your family tree.
Documents from the Inquisition and prior eras are spotty. Although a smattering of records from the expulsion exists, few records were kept, much less preserved. “When Ferdinand and Isabella forced everyone to convert, they didn’t really write it down,” says Mokotoff, founder of Avotaynu.
After their eviction from Spain, Iberian Jews had three choices: Convert (those who did were called conversos), pretend to convert and secretly practice Judaism (marranos) or leave the country. Those who fled repatriated in Muslim nations, particularly in the Ottoman Empire, where Jewish exiles were welcomed with open arms.
To avoid further threat of persecution, many marranos jumped at the opportunity to start a new life in the Americas. Records of Spanish passengers on ships to the West Indies, including marranos and some overt Jews, are kept in the Spanish archives (Archivo General de Indias, Avenida de la Constitución, 41071 Seville, Spain, +34 (954) 500-528, <www.cultura.mecd.es>).
Remembering the tragedies
Many JewishGen SIGs focus on discovering what happened to relatives during the Holocaust, a research hurdle unique to Jewish genealogists.
Not all documents survived the devastation in Europe — so the knowledge you’ve accumulated about your ancestors in the United States may not yield corresponding documents overseas. Simply put, things aren’t as they once were.
During the Holocaust, 6 million of the 9 million Jews who lived in Europe were killed. The death tolls varied disproportionately between nations, provinces and villages. In the Polish province of Galicia, for instance, 95 percent of the Jewish populace was erased. Prior to World War II, Galicia had been home to the continent’s largest Jewish population.
When communities and survivors scattered after World War II, most remaining Jews settled in what was then British Palestine, today’s nation of Israel. “[Practically] every American Jew has a relative in Israel, even if they aren’t aware of it,” says Kurzweil.
And there are Israeli resources to match. In its Hall of Names, the Jerusalem Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem has Pages of Testimony, which give information on murdered family members, as well as submitters’ names. You can search more than 3 million names in the Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names at <www.yadvashem.org/lwp/workplace>.
The Israel State Archives holds naturalization records (more than 28,000 names) of Jews who immigrated to British Palestine before 1948. You can write the archives to request records or research there in person. Look for data in stateside repositories, too: The United States Holocaust Research Institute in Washington, DC, has Holocaust records, including a collection of concentration-camp documents captured by American troops.
Yizkor books are another incredible resource for learning about Holocaust survivors and their relatives. Dedicated to preserving the memory of individual shtetls — and created for 1,000 towns to date — they contain information survivors submitted about their pre-Holocaust homelands. You’ll find town histories, lists of resident families before World War II, captioned photos and sometimes even town maps.
This typical scene from a town bazaar in Mogilev Podolsky, Ukraine, is representative of local culture throughout Eastern Europe.
Although most of the villages and towns hardly look like they used to (some were burned to the ground), yizkor books often can provide startling information. In From Generation to Generation, Kurzweil recalls how stumbling upon a memorial book in a branch of the New York Public Library (NYPL) proved to be an emotional moment. “I was absolutely stunned when I saw a picture of Avrahum Abusch, my great-grandfather, as I looked at a group photo that took up the entire page.” Even if you don’t make a discovery like Kurzweil’s, yizkor books could lead you to people who knew your deceased relatives in Europe.
Jewish cemeteries suffered damage during World War II. Fewer than 100 tombstones remain in Dolina, Ukraine’s 1920 graveyard — and all are toppled.
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Library of Congress boast superb collections of yizkor books. You may need a translator once you find a book for your ancestors’ shtetl, though, since the books are often written in Yiddish or Hebrew.
To find yizkor books at the Library of Congress, you can search its online catalog <loc.gov> for the shtetl name. From Generation to Generation lists villages, towns and cities that have corresponding yizkor books, and JewishGen offers memorial book resources (under the Projects tab). The NYPL has 650 of its yizkor books online at <www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/yizkorbookonline.cfm>.
Once you’ve found your ancestors’ native country and discovered details of their lives, you may get the urge to make a pilgrimage to their hometown. “It’s the most powerful thing in the world,” says Mokotoff. Organizations such as Weiner’s Routes to Roots help genealogists plan such trips.
Whether your kin were Hollywood heartthrobs or just ordinary folks, your journey to find them will lead you to places you never dreamed.
Sound Check
More than 20 years ago, Gary Mokotoff noticed a trend as he was poring over a database and painstakingly cataloging Jews who changed their names upon immigrating to British Palestine. “I found many spelling variants of similar names,” says Mokotoff. He also realized he could make picking a name out of a database much easier.
Since the American Soundex system — an indexing code based on similar-sounding names — wasn’t cutting it for Jewish researchers, Mokotoff created his own Soundex system to fit the Jewish naming patterns he found. He then published his concept of the new system in the premiere issue of Avotaynu in 1985. Reader and genealogist Randy Daitch picked up the journal and wrote Mokotoff with some suggestions to improve the code, now called the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex System.
According to Mokotoff, his system and what he refers to as the “woefully inadequate” American Soundex model have three main differences. First, the Daitch-Mokotoff system carries names out to six significant consonants rather than the American system’s four. This means fewer false positives — for example, using traditional Soundex, Peters and Peterson get the same code because the first four consonants (p, t, r and s) are counted the same. But with Daitch-Mokotoff, a clear distinction occurs when you add the fifth consonant.
Also contrary to traditional Soundex, the Daitch-Mokotoff system codes a name’s initial letter. Mokotoff cites the names Auerbach and Orbach (which are actually variations of same name) as perfect examples: Using Daitch-Mokotoff, the names are grouped together — not so for regular Soundex.
Additionally, the Daitch-Mokotoff system recognizes that certain combinations of letters are actually equivalent to single-letter sounds, and should be Soundexed accordingly. The combinations tz and cz are equal to the s sound. So, the surnames Lipschitz and Lipschicz have the same code. Under the older system, those two names have different codes.
Today, most databases of Jewish names allow for Daitch-Mokotoff searching. “It’s extremely helpful for the average family historian who knows their family comes from Bialystok but doesn’t know how to spell Bialystok exactly,” says Miriam Weiner of the Routes to Roots Foundation.
You can find surnames codes by entering them in JewishGen’s Soundex calculator <www.jewishgen.org/jos/jossound.htm> Read a complete guide to the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex System at <www.avotaynu.com/soundex.html>.
• About.com Jewish Genealogy
<genealogy.about.com/od/jewish>
• American Jewish Historical Society Archives: Finding Aids
<www.cjh.org/academic/findingaids/ajhs/institutionlist.html>
• Central and Eastern European Magnates and Their Archives
<www.avotaynu.com/magnates.htm>
• Centropa
<www.centropa.org>
• Consolidated Jewish Surname Index
<www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.html>
• Cyndi’s List: Jewish
<cyndislist.com/jewish.htm>
• Dorotree Jewish Genealogy Software
<www.dorotree.com>
• Jewish Virtual Library
<www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org>
• JewishGen
<www.jewishgen.org>
• Sephardim.com
<www.sephardim.com>
• Unclaimed Holocaust-Era Assets
<www.avotaynu.com/holocaustlist>
• Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
<www.yadvashem.org/lwp/workplace>
• YIVO Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life
<yivo 1000towns.cjh.org>
• Yizkor Books Online
<www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/yizkorbookonline.cfm>
• The Complete Dictionary of English and Hebrew First Names by Alfred J. Kolatch (Jonathan David Co.)
• A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciations and Migrations by Alexander Beider (Avotaynu)
• Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors by Barbara Krasner-Khait (Heritage Quest, out of print)
• The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy edited by Arthur Kurzweil and Miriam Weiner (Jason Aronson)
• The Family Tree of the Jewish People CD (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, <www.iajgs.org/ftjp.html>)
• Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide by Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman (Avotaynu)
• From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History by Arthur Kurzweil (Jossey-Bass)
• Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy by Gary Mokotoff and Warren Blatt (Avotaynu)
• Jewish Roots in Poland by Miriam Weiner (Routes to Roots Foundation)
• Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova by Miriam Weiner (Routes to Roots Foundation, out of print)
• Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World by Jeffery S. Malka (Avotaynu)
• Tracing Your Jewish DNA for Family History & Ancestry by Anne Hart (iUniverse)
• Where Once We Walked by Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack with Alexander Sharon (Avotaynu)
• American Jewish Archives 3101 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45220, (513) 221-1875, <www.americanjewisharchives.org>
• Avotaynu
155 N. Washington Ave., Bergenfield, NJ 07621, (201) 387-7200, <www.avotaynu.com>
• Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives
1109 W. Franklin St., Richmond, VA 23220, (804) 353-2668, <www.bethahabah.org/bama>
• Center for Jewish History
15 W. 16th St., New York, NY 10011, (212) 294-8301, <www.cjh.org>: This location also houses the American Jewish Historical Society <www.ajhs.org>, American Sephardi Federation <www.americansephardifederation.org>, Jewish Genealogical Society of New York <www.jgsny.org>, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research <www.yivoinstitute.org> and the Leo Baeck Institute in New York <www.lbi.org>.
• Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
Box 1149, Jerusalem 91010, Israel, +972 (2) 563-5716, <www.sites.huji.ac.il/archives>
• International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
4430 Mount Paran Parkway NW, Atlanta, GA 30327, <www.iajgs.org>
• Israel State Archives
Prime Minister’s Office, Qiryat Ben-Gurion, Building 3, Jerusaelm 91919, Israel, +972 (2) 568-0612
• The Jewish Museum of Maryland
15 Lloyd St., Baltimore, MD 21202, (410) 732-6400, <www.jhsm.org>
• Museum of Jewish Heritage
36 Battery Place, Battery Park City, New York, NY 10280, (646) 437-4200, <www.mjhnyc.org>
• Routes to Roots
136 Sandpiper Key, Secaucus, NJ 07094, (201) 601-9199, <www.routestoroots.com>; foundation: <www.rtrfoundation.org>
• United States Holocaust Research Institute
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024, (202) 488-6113, <www.ushmm.org>
From the August 2006 issue of Family Tree Magazine.
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Ron Bowes
Guitarist in Farnborough, Hampshire
Ron Bowes - Guitars, Bass and Vocals
The Lady and the Outlaw - a southern rocker about an unlikely pair of bandits.
Starting playing bass guitar at 14. Started in the school pop band.
1970 Farnborough Tech - Argent. Got in late for 1/2 price and came in as Argent played "Dance in the Smoke". Awesome!
Custom hand built lead guitar. Strat shape. Casio midi guitar (midi function defunct), Lindo Swallow electro-acoustic guitar, Benson (Musicman style) bass and BJ Blues harmonica
Musicians I have met in the past and/or played with in the past. New friends. Also, getting my music heard by a wider audience.
The Rolling stones. Best rock 'n' roll band in the world. First album that blew me away was Let it Bleed.
Been in many semi pro rock bands. Too many to name. Notable ones - Gemini, Stag, Midnight Circus, Gambler, Shoot the Butler, Flix. Did some demo work with Dave Jackson of Van der Graaf Generator.
Smallest - 20 people at a friends party (Just acoustic guitar). Biggest - Windsor Free festival 1973 8000 people.
Close call between 'Let it Bleed' and 'Sticky Fingers'. 'Let it Bleed' wins, because it has my all-time favourite Stones' track 'You Can't Always Get What You Want'.
I want everyone to know that a member known as Susi B has started a hate campaign against me for alleged bullying. https://fandalism.com/weedlesusi#_=_ I don't know who this person is or why they are accusing me of this. I have never written a nasty comment about anyone on this site, let alone Susi B whom I have never even heard of. I have enough stress issues in my life (I won't bore you with my tale of worries), but I can certainly do without this shit!! I will, therefore, be taking a break from Fandalism. I have too much on my plate at the moment to deal with this crap...
Ron Bowes - Guitar
Coming this friday 24th of May to all good download sites and streaming Platforms. The debut album of pArtners in cRhyme
Ron Bowes - Guitars/ harmonica/ bass and vocals
My new album is out in the download and streaming stores. Here is a link to iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/all-the-words-a-cage/1420640105
Ron Bowes - Guitars/ bass/vocals/ keyboard and blues harp
IT'S OUT!! My latest album "Last Man Standing" at all good download stores. itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/last-man-standing/id1278494587 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Ron_D_Bowes_Last_Man_Standing?id=Bg7e6pj6773p3osn6gevvzj5oee&hl=en_GB etc....
Ron Bowes - Guitar/ bass/ blues harp/ keyboard and vocals
Coming soon!!! The return of "Kathy & the Shortt-List"
Ron Bowes - Guitars/ bass and vocals
Coming soon to Fandalism! The return of "DirtPile"! Fred White and I have got together and produced a 3rd DirtPile track at long last. It's called "Take What You Can". See you soon.......
My new album - "The Ballad of Blackwater Bowes" is out now on Google play and Amazon. Other digital download stores will be added over the coming days: https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bezyraa246hn6y5aiczagm7i5dy&tid=song-Tjja7k5rfupn6hqpcss6qa643v4 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06Y6JJ4H6/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1491948704&sr=8-2&keywords=ron+d+bowes
Ron Bowes - Guitar/ bass/ vocals and blues harp
New album.....coming soon
"Someone You Can Always Call" : My new single. Out now!! You can hear it on Fandalism here: - http://www.fandalism.com/rond2/egvn -/- Available on itunes, Amazon,Google Play and on Spotify : - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/someone-you-can-always-call-single/id1213227190?app=itunes&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 -/- https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Ron_D_Bowes_Someone_You_Can_Always_Call?id=By4b5b3u2xwn54xv5a6xmd4tkge -/- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XGVPDDR/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489015465&sr=8-1&keywords=Ron+D+Bowes
Ron Bowes - Guitar/ bass/ kb and vocals
My new album "Clean Mind, Dirty Thoughts" is out on Amazon and will be available on itunes, Googleplay, etc ....shortly. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B06X16ZLS1/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp
Had my interview last night. Was a real blast! Also got to talk about the talents of Kathy Shortt, Ray Brookes and Fred White
Ron Bowes - Guitars/ bass/ vocals and synth
IT's OUT on googleplay and itunes....and others soon. Track list: Little Miss Chief / Bad Man Blues / Sugar & Spice / When the Levee Breaks / You Don't Rock My Boat /By and By / Back Street Sally / Give Me Your Heart / Blowfly Blues / Voyage of the Sea Witch (Parts 1 to 5) / Until my Dying Day / Roadhouse Blues /
Blues Brother :-p
My new T-shirt
IT'S OUT!! My new album "I am Bulletproof" is now out on Google Play, Spotify and itunes. It will be avaiable on Amazon in the coming days/weeks / Running order:1 Bulletproof 2 Nothing to Say 3 Beggin' for it 4 Naughty Little Nell 5 Night Prowler 6 Bounty Hunter 7 Just Another Notch on the Bed8 Make Love, Not War 9 Plight of the Humble Bee 10 Stella's Aunt 11 Bed of Roses 12 On the Road Again 13 It Don't Get Better Than This 14 The Tyburn Jighttps://play.google.com/store/music/album/Ron_D_Bowes_I_Am_Bulletproof?id=Bj6xsm4awvnhnetzbaxmzwd72gq
This is my debut album - out now on, Amazon, spotify, itunes and other good digital outlets....New album "I am Bulletproof" is due out next month.
Tomorrow a new internet collab hits Fando. "DirtPile"!
Ron Bowes - Guitars and vocals
Publicity photo for the band "Sneak Preview" from L to R - Steve, Terry, Me, Doug and Andy
Ron Bowes - Bass and backing vocals
Publicity photo for the band "Sneak Preview"
I fyou haven't heard this - give it a whirl / http://www.fandalism.com/rond2/dXSn
Ron Bowes - Guitar/ vocals and midi kb
An old clipping from back in the day. The band was called "Midnight Circus"
As Far As The Eagle Flies - Another Partners in Crhyme track! I wanted to write something with a Native American vibe running through it. And came up with the title "As Far As The Eagle Flies". Carol Sue took that and ran with it . I think you'll agree that she did a great job.
Ron Bowes - Guitars/ bass and backing vocals
Thirsty For Your Love - $8Rum and I are working on an album. In fact it's just about complete and just need final mixing. This is one of our newer tracks from the forthcoming album
Ron Bowes - Bass/ blues harp and vocals
Long Goodbye - Partners in Crhyme are working on a new album. This will be on the next one. Hope you enjoy......
I've Been Here Once Before - Happy blues thursday! This is my latest track all about dej vu and will be making it to the new album I am working on. I hope you all enjoy
Red Hot Woman 2019 Remix - This song was originally released on my debut album "No Netreat, Never Surrender" (no longer available). It was played on a radio station the other day and I cringed at the mix and performance, but the listeners seemed to like the track. So, I thought i would remix it, only to find that the stems were very poor quality. So, I completely re recorded the whole song and here it is!
I Don't Want No Roses - Ronbo unplugged. A rare acoustic outing for me. Hope you enjoy...
Right Between the Eyes - Peter Murr approached me with rocking track that he thought I would like to add vocals too. My kinda rock, so, not only did I write and sing the lyrics/vocals, but I added blues harp too. Peter played all the other instruments, wrote the music and put the video together. I just added my parts to the already excellent vid. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did making it! Peter Murr's page: https://www.fandalism.com/petermurroz
Ron Bowes - Vocals and blues harp
Sinful Woman - An original blues track for Blues Thursday! Early mix - I have since done, what I consider to be a better mix, but this one has the video.
Ron Bowes - Guitars/ blues harp/ bass and vocals
A Fistful of Pasta - The greatest western ever made!!! When Ronbo and Harry Lasagne, two most wanted outlaws, turn up in the same one-horse town, it ain't big enough for the both of them, So, the shooting starts!...........My tribute to the Spaghetti Westerns
Harley Man - Carol Sue and me back as pArtners in cRhyme! A song about a guy who loves his bike more than his woman....
The Teacher's Daughter - She's a dirty girl. My latest rocker. I hope you enjoy.
Gimme Shelter - My version of the classic Rolling Stones track. I hope you like it....
Man with a Plan - Back to my solo rock work. Happy blues thursday!
Ron Bowes - Guitars/ bass/ vocals and keyboard
OH - A brand new rocking collaboration from pArtners in cRhyme : Ron D Bowes & Carol Sue. Music by me, lyrics and vox by Carol Sue. Hope you enjoy having your sox rocked off ;-)
The Gypsy's Spell - all about the consequences of falling under the spell of a gypsy girl. Out side of my usual genre...
Southern Fried Man - I was aked to collaborate in this online line up of '8$Rum and the Cuzn's' Featuring: Lorne Reid - Drums and rythm guitars. Farrell Jackson - Lyrics and vocals. Joseph Rodriguez - Lead Guitar. Ron D Bowes - Blues Harp.
Ron Bowes - Blues harp
Live With Me - Happy blues thursday and here is my take on a Rolling Stones classic. Originally an all out rock track - I have bluesed it up a little...
A Storm is Coming - Batten down the hatches and brace yourselves. Ron D Bowes & Lorne Reid team up to kick some ass! ....Hope you enjoy...
Molly's Brolly - A song about sharing an umbrella (Brolly) with a pretty girl. Another attempt to get a Caribbean vibe going on. Hope you all enjoy....
Voodoo Woman - Hot voodoo magic. I am under the Voodoo witch's spell..........
The Last tango - take your partners for one last dance......
Sweet Miranda - a love song with a Caribbean flavour. I had a lot of fun doing this one. I hope you enjoy my first song of 2019!
What You Want Me To Do? - I have always been a fan of Status Quo's rock & roll boogie style and have seen them live 4 times. Big in the UK in 70s and as English as fish and chips. I tried to recreate their style in a song earlier this year, called "Breaking Rocks". Nearly there, but not quite. I think I have nailed it with "What You Trying To Do?" wich is a Ron D Bowes original.
Blues Story - a blues song for Blues Thursday. An original by me. Happy Blues Thursday and a merry Christmas to you!
Say What You Wanna Say - an all new rocker. I hope you enjoy...
Enough Of You - Carol Sue and I are back as pArtners in cRhyme!! We hope you enjoy this rock and roller ...
Let It Burn - A kinky song with an S&M flavour. Rock and Roll to punish you!!
Let Lady Luck Decide - This is a collaboration between myself and 8$Rum. He plays the lead guitar solos. everything else me. Throw the dice.........!
Gimme Moonshine - It's been a while, but Ray Brookes and I are back together for a new track. Under the name of RBX2. If for some reason this track does not meet your rockin' expectations - TURN THE BLOODY VOLUME UP!"!!!! .....and hang on to your socks!
Words - pArtners in cRhyme (Ron Bowes & Carol Sue) are back yet again. Hope you all enjoy.
When It's Gone - Let's get down to some rock and roll. Hang on to yer socks.......you can't wear them if they're gone
Time: Ron Bowes & Carol Sue back together again as "pArtners in cRhyme" - Our latest track 'Time'
Breaking Rocks - Watched a documentary on the band Status Quo. Inspired me to write a Quo style song .... and here it is.
Fire and Blood - The battle cry goes out to all the clans..........Something heavy for ya.....
Slasher Horror Movie Queen - a song for halloween abut a Scream Queen. Hope you enjoy!!
Bird On Me Arm - Cor blimey! A slice of Cockney fun. 'Avin a stroll round London with me ocean pearl on me chalk......Enjoy!
Locked and Loaded - This is my brand new single released today!!! Available on all good streaming and download outlets over the next few days. Hope you enjoy.....Rock & Roll!!
I Can't Breathe - Another collaboration with Ricky Moore. This time he wrote the music and played all the instruments. I wrote the lyrics and sang the vocals and Cam Young provided the drum track.
Ron Bowes - Vocals
My Love (Will Last That Long) - Out of my comfort zone and into romantic zone... A love that is eternal...
Just That Easy (Bowes - Kirkpatrick) - We are soon to release our first album together, but whilst adding the finishing touches and cover-work, we slung this little rock & roller together. Won't be on the album, but who knows? Maybe we'll do another.....
Another Star - Another track from our forthcoming album "First Offence" by pArtners in cRhyme. That's Me and Carol Sue to you :-)
Go Tell the Preacher - This is our favourite track from our forthcoming album pArtners in cRhyme : "First Offence". I had a real blast making the video. Hope you all enjoy....
Carol Sue and yours truly invite you come into the "Garden of Freedom"
Another outing for Ricky Moore and me. Things are getting hot - in the "Danger Zone!"
Gutter Funk (8$Rum Feat. Ron D Bowes) - Another collaboration, this time with 8$Rum. 8$Rum : Music, Me: Lyrics and vocal.
Angel's Rescue - This is the 12th collaboration with Carol Sue. That makes an album's worth in our books. So, expect an album later this year.
Ron Bowes - Guitars and bass
Heading for Heaven's Gate - Ricky Moore a cool guitarist from the US of A agreed to add some fine guitar licks to this track. So, here is Ron & Ricky - rocking the joint....Happy blues thursday!
So Mean - a song about a mean man. Myself and Carol Sue rockin' da house.....
Ron Bowes - Guitars/ bass and blues harp
Angels in a Row - A song about choices. I really had a ball doing the video and I want to assure you there is no nudity and no animals were injured in the making of this video :-p . The angels on the outro are from a Lynx aftershave advert - fyi. I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed making it...
Black Hearted Woman - Peter Murr asked me if I wanted to collaborate on this cool tune and so I did. Great groove to work on. Peter wrote and played all the music with the exception of the lead solos by me and I wrote and sang the lyrics. The video was produced by Peter and we were both involved in the master mix of the audio. Hope you enjoy.
Ron Bowes - Vocals & lead guitar
RockTricity - Carol Sue and I back together with some high voltage RockTricity. I wrote the tune. Carol Sue wrote the lyrics and vocal melody. Hope you enjoy...
Ron Bowes - Guitars/ bass/ blues harp and backing vocals
Death of Me - For the first time in 40 years Ron Bowes & Paul Rainbird are back together as "Something Wicked" for this rocking track - hope you enjoy....
Desire - A pinch of spice, a spoonful of funk and a slice of sexy = Desire (Bowes - Kirkpatrick) The fabulous Carol Sue wrote the lyrics and vocal melody and delivered the goods. Another Ron Bowes & Carol Sue collaboration
Ron Bowes - Guitars/ bass and vocals and keyboard:brass
Come in From the Rain - A song about gullibility and stupidity. This girl needs some edumacation and lurning - lol. I hope you enjoy this rocker....
Hunting for You - A vampire is on her trail and there is no escape.....don't venture out at night.....
I Want My Heart Back - acollaboration between Ron Bowes & Carol Sue with Trevor Thornton on drums. We all enjoyed putting this one together - hope you enjoy it too
Get on the Bus - DirtPile are back!! Fred and I are here to rock yer sox off. Hope you enjoy this one
Help Me Doctor - Here is a little dose of medicine. Just what the doctor ordered. Hope you like this blues rocker. Happy blues thursday....
It Don't Matter (It Don't Mean a Thing) - It's all over, but it don't mean anything anyway......Git down and dirty rock for ya with some hot dancing....
Whatever - Carol Sue and me seem to be on a roll. This is our 4th collab and we will be working on a 5th soon. Hope you enjoy this little rock and roller...
I'm the Dreamer - Slow mellow blues track by Me and Carol Sue. Hope you enjoy it...
The Other Side - A Ron D Bowes & Carol Sue collaboration. Music and instruments by me. Lyrics, vocal melody and vocals by Carol Sue. Let's all get wasted...
Get Back (Lennon/McCartney) - The last Blues thursday before xmas! Happy blues thursday. This is an older recording, but I have added more guitar and vox, remixed and recorded a new video for it - Hope you enjoy my rendition of this Beatles classic....
Rock All Night (Tribute to Malcolm Young) An AC/DC style rocker I knocked together as a tribute to riffmeister Malcolm Young. I had a lot of fun dressing up ....:-p PS - I wrote this is. It isn't a cover...
Drowning Man - Was aiming for a Rolling Stones feel with this one. Moral of the story : You can't help some people.....
Ron Bowes - Guitars/ bass/ keyboard and vocals
Two Fingers of Red-Eye - Down in the gutter and looking at the drain. Drink to oblivion......This is the title song of my forthcoming 7th album. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed recording it :-)
Miss Katherine Regrets - Been holding back and waiting for Fando to be fully functional. Not gonna happen - for what it's worth, Miss Katherine regrets and I may live to ......
That's the Situation - Get yer dancing sox on!! Ramshackle lam bam!!!!
Sailing Home - World weary sailors returning home after a long war......Another soft track from me....
Hold On - (Bowes/Kirkpatrick). Carol Sue and I got together on this rock and roller. She wrote the lyrics and vocal melody and I wrote the music and played all the instruments.Here is Carol Sue's page: http://www.fandalism.com/carolsue
Ron Bowes - Guitar/bass/ piano and backing vox
Zombified! - We are all losing our identity....we are all zombified!!! ........Don't worry......it's just a song. WARNING! - Do not watch alone late at night. if in doubt, turn the volume up to 11
I Got the Busted Up Cadillac, Got a Monkey on My Back, Steam Driven Guitar Blues - Nice and short title, huh? If you're gonna get the blues you might as well get some special blues .... Hope you all enjoy
It'll Be OK - Back to my rock stuff. Hope you enjoy this bluesy rocker....
Saturday Suzy - Of all the girls Saturday Suzy is the best. About a serial womaniser who falls for one girl
Back Street Sally - From my album "Bad Man Walking" - DirtPile perform "Back Street Sally". Old track, but all new video. Fred White's work can be found here: http://www.fandalism.com/tader
Sympathy for the Devil - Fasten your seat belts for a roller coaster version. I have always wanted to cover this song, but I wanted to do it justice. Hopefully I have. I hope you enjoy......
You'll Miss Me When I'm Dead - Two people that just don't see eye to eye. Hope you enjoy.....
Barefoot in the Rain - from an idea given to me by a female DJ caled Toni Taylor-Helser. It's song about a guy who needs to be set free from a disfunctional relationship. Or...... it's rock 'n' roll. If you have trouble detecting the nuances of this song.....turn the volume up to 11
White Lightning - DirtPile are back!!! This should rock yer sox off. If it doesn't we're doing something wrong :-p Fred White and Ron D Bowes are DirtPile. Fred has his own page with terrific music on it that you should visit : http://www.fandalism.com/tader
Last Man Standing - About a lone gunslinger who always survives.....Hope you all enjoy.....
Take What You Can - Here it is! The latest trackby DirtPile. DirtPile is myself and Fred White. Fred is on drums on this track and we both hope you enjoy. Fred is an incredible musician in his own right. Have a visit to his page: http://www.fandalism.com/tader
Ron Bowes - Guitar/ bass/ blues harp and vocals
No One's Gonna Make a Fool of Me - Track from my latest album "The Ballad of Blackwater Bowes" - Re - upload, but brand new video with my new gear. Hope you enjoy...
Love in Vain (Blues Harp Version) - This was my first Blues Thursday upload, but originally done with guitars only. Having bought myself a blues harp and taught myself to play it recently, I decided to re-upload with lead guitar taken out and replaced with blues harp. Enjoy and happy blues thursday
Ron Bowes - Guitras/ vocals and blues harp
Yesterday's News - Some people you just don't need. I hope you enjoy this tale of woe .....:-)
She's a bad girl - A bit of fun for ya (I hope)... Getting to grips with the video software. Hope you like...
I Got Mine - My first ever outing on the blues harp. It's on the outro. Hope you enjoy....
Someone You Can Always Call - This is for all those of you that have been a shoulder to cry on.........
Rosie Lea - I treated nyself to a new acoustic guitar. So, here is a softer side to my music. Make yourself a cuppa and listen. Hope you enjoy............NB This is a repost from yesterday. I took it down to add a snippet of strings at the end.....reposted yet again - deleted instead of shared O_o
Ron Bowes - Guitar/ bass/ and keyboard
Listen On Up - Bought myself a new bass guitar and christened it with this track! Shades of tthe Stones in this Rock and Roller. Happy Blues Thursday!!!
Another Man - some good honest soulful blues for Blues Thursday....
Props 45,756
Location Farnborough, Hampshire
Instruments Guitar, Vocals
Genres Blues, Prog Rock, Rock, Classic Rock, Southern Rock, Jazz Fusion
Influences Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep - Band, Styx, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Canned Heat, Howlin' Wolf - Chess Records, Deep Purple, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Emerson, Steely Dan, Rory Gallagher, Uriah Heep, Muddy Waters, The Alan Parsons Project, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Winter, RUSH, Chick Corea, B.B. King, Queen, Eric Clapton, Black Sabbath, Yes, Robert Plant, The Doors, ZZ Top, Eurythmics
, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Slambovian Circus of Dreams, Lake & Palmer, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Bad Company, Aerosmith, Galley Beggar, Ten Years After
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Yohji Yamamoto and adidas Celebrate Ten Years of Collaboration
by Mari Davis January 24, 2011
PARIS, Jan 24, 2011 / FW/ — Last night, at the Maison des Metallos at Paris’ 11th arrondisement, fashionistas gathered to celebrate a decade of synergy between famed designer Yohji Yamamoto and iconic sports brand adidas.
Yes, it has been 10 years since the inception of Y-3, the highly popular sport-style label that took the fashion world by storm since its debut collection. And to commemorate the event, Y-3 went back to its roots as it unveiled its menswear collection in Paris, the city where the label began.
Currently, Y-3 unveils its collection in New York; hence it was a big treat for the Paris fashion crowd to see the famed label as part of Paris men’s fashion week. Bringing its very popular interactive treadmill catwalk, models marched on the “runway” with the background overlaid with film footage of open roads and expansive valleys.
Simultaneously, Y-3 presented a screening of the Yohji Yamamoto documentary “This Is My Dream” and an exhibition of adidas for Yohji Yamamoto footwear, celebrating 10 years of collaboration. Together, the label presented both a look forward and a look back.
“This is My Dream” is a documentary by Theodore Stanley following Yohji Yamamoto during rare, intimate moments of a Y-3 collection in progress. The documentary traces an entire collection from start to finish, including design, casting, styling, and show production.
In the short film, Yamamoto opens up about his inspirations, his love of music, and his aesthetic vision.
It is a big year for Yamamoto and adidas, who are currently celebrating a decade of collaboration. The presentation also included an installation of greatest footwear hits from the leader of Japan’s avant-garde and the forerunners of sport-style.
The installation served as a reminder of the breakthrough concepts brought to reality by Yamamoto and adidas—as well as a symbol of much more to come.
Photos courtesy of Y-3
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future of philanthropy
How To Avoid A Nonprofit Branding Nightmare
Give A Brand! offers high-end design services to nonprofits who might have foregone time and money on their logo in their quest to do good. The results offer some important lesson in nonprofit branding.
By Ben Paynter 5 minute Read
Nonprofits are working on serious missions. Which is why it’s puzzling to see some philanthropies with amateurish logos built around garbled acronyms or bad clip art.
“If the only thing you see is the logo, we want to be able to communicate as much as we can.”
Whether groups want to pour all their money into cause projects–or are problematically mandated to–their overall image takes a hit. “You are competing on this whether you recognize it or not,” says Brett Traylor, a senior partner at Thinkso, a creative agency that’s done editorial, strategy, and design work for clients like UBS Investment Bank, The New York Jets, and Stanford University.
The bottom line? Your branding efforts affect the bottom line, at least in terms of meeting goals for fundraising, volunteer recruitment, and signed petitions. “In order to perform, you have to be able to take advantage of these tactics the same way that a commercial company would,” Traylor says. But it’s hard to act compassionately if a more professional-looking group is attracting all the funding and support.
Thinkso and a team of partners have been working up their own charitable way to solve that problem. In 2012, they started Give a Brand!, an annual “design sprint” that awards one needy group with a one-day, all-inclusive branding makeover. It’s really more like brand triage, a “super compressed, super fast-forwarded” salvage effort to get organizations pointed back in the right direction, says Traylor. Group redos often include a new logo, print, and digital materials; social media strategy; and various freebies to spread the new messaging (Estimated value: $50,000).
But wait: How exactly does a logo end up ugly in the first place? In Traylor’s opinion, most offenders suffer from the same three problems. First, they don’t see branding as a priority. Second, they may let themselves be “ruled by committee,” allowing too many people inside the organization, or on their board of directors, to tweak their look and messaging. “It sort of waters everything down,” Traylor says. The other issue: Not adhering to small but important details, like using the same typeface and color palette. “One thing you can do and not look like a total flop? Be consistent.”
Thinkso’s overhauls may not start with the logo, but checking out what those symbols looked like before and after is a pretty good indicator of what went wrong and how it can be fixed. Starbucks may get away with a mermaid logo (and that Moby Dick-inspired name) because their storefronts and steaming cups make it pretty clear what they’re selling. For nonprofits, great logos should be simple but serve a dual purpose, telegraphing both the cause and how your group is addressing it. “If the only thing you see is the logo, we want to be able to communicate as much as we can,” Traylor says.
To that end, here’s a look at how three different projects progressed.
All Breed Rescue & Training
What it is: This Colorado Springs-based group rescues unwanted dogs in overcrowded shelters from euthanasia by pairing them with foster families. Adoptive families and their pets go though classes to ensure each animal is properly trained and cared for.
The problem: “The former logo was a homegrown, unremarkable mix of clip art and type,” Traylor says. That didn’t highlight how happy animals were ending up in great homes.
To fix that, Thinkso created the “House Dog” symbol, which incorporates a house icon into the body of an upbeat looking dog. The playful imagery carries through to the rest of the campaign by matching each group goal to more icons: rescue (a flotation ring), rehab (a heart), re-home (the house again), and retrain (a prize ribbon).
Giveaways included red tennis balls with the new logo, and funny T-shirts with a dog poop icon and the slogan “We have a class for that.” On some materials, the group uses another double-meaning slogan: “We train dogs for life.”
The Max Warburg Courage Curriculum Inc.
What it is: This primarily Boston-based middle school reading program focuses on books that inspire kids to courageously pursue their own goals. The original name honored Max Warburg, an 11-year-old who died of leukemia.
The problem: “The former logo was an unwieldy nine-syllable string of words combined with a simplistic triangle that held little meaning,” Traylor says. It was sort of impossible to divine much about the group or its intention.
“We shortened the name to Max Courage, which both sounded like a super-hero and sounded like an abbreviation for ‘maximum courage.’ The hand-drawn logotype ties in to the kid-created lettering, one of the core elements of the visual identity.” Importantly, the new name still pays homage to the child who inspired it.
The group has applied their new stamp to both an annual anthology of children’s essays on the topic, and giveaway bookmarks printed with kids’ own quotes about courage on them. As part of the rebrand, Thinkso came up with a new tagline–“Characters Encouraged”–a reference to both what the kids are reading and who they might become.
Family Health Alliance
What it is: The “Family Health Alliance” started as an equality action group that worked directly with women seeking more control over reproductive health choices in places like the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. But they’d also grown into a consultancy, continuing on-the-ground operations while using evidence from their hands-on work to coach other governments and NGOs on what strategies work best.
The problem: “A generic name and an abstract symbol was in use previously,” Traylor says. The outline of the family again didn’t do much to further what the group’s mission was and how they were executing it.
Thinkso decided that the name was bland enough to be scrapped entirely. “We repositioned the organization and changed the name to Think Responsive”–a play on the industry practice of responsive thinking. “That reflects working through an understanding of the local culture,” Traylor says, noting the need for cultural sensitivity in different interventions.
As for the design: “We set their name in a simple, stacked configuration that was then combined with bright colors and graphic patterns from different cultures,” he says. In supporting materials, Thinkso plays on that theme, showing artful pictures of empowered-looking women in regionally appropriate garb with similar patterns. They added a tagline that reads almost like a definition of the group’s new name: “Success through cultural understanding.”
“Usually a logo isn’t forced to tell the whole story,” Traylor adds. But it shouldn’t tell the wrong story, either.
Ben Paynter is a senior writer at Fast Company covering social impact, the future of philanthropy, and innovative food companies. His work has appeared in Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek, and the New York Times, among other places.
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Tuesday Craft Talks
Sooner or Later Sarah Pinsker Breaks Your Heart and Puts It Back Together All Weird
March 8, 2019 Theodore McCombs
Reviewing Sarah Pinsker’s story collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea, is an exercise in self-frustration. The stories’ endings are too perfect to spoil, but they’re all you want to talk about: paragraphs, even single lines in which the emotions, plot threads, and big ideas tie off in one gutsy wrench that leaves you humming.
One non-spoilery observation: Pinsker’s stories tend to grab a hold of their characters in the midst of massive displacements. An aging punk rock band lives gig-to-gig out of the back of their van as live music shows go obsolete (“Our Lady of the Open Road”). A Jewish family flees persecution with their robot grandmother (“The Low Hum of Her”). Don’t ask me to summarize “The Sewell Home for the Temporally Displaced,” but you get the idea.
Each of these stories asks: Who will we be, when all this is gone? It’s a question at the heart of science fiction. Although the immediate threats of climate change make it feel more acute today, science fiction has from the beginning grappled with how technology destroys ways of life in the midst of building new ones. New tech pushes out old industries; it changes our odds against the body or our environment, and not always how we intend. In “Our Lady of the Open Road,” which won the Nebula in 2016, Pinsker’s punk rocker, Luce, sees this only too well: she’s keeping a stranglehold on her authenticity while canned holographic concerts replace the real thing, and it pisses her off:
We all shared the same indignation that we were losing everything that made us distinct, that nothing special happened anymore, that the new world replacing the old one wasn’t nearly as good, that everyone was hungry and everything was broken and that we’d fix it if we could find the right tools. My job was to give it all a voice.
And yet, in the collection’s title story, another rocker sees just the opposite: there’s something pathetic, even bankrupt, in clinging to ways of life that aren’t coming back. In a global collapse, the rich and famous take to cruise ships that try shamelessly to keep afloat the world they left behind: “They throw parties or they stage big collapses and recoveries. They produce documentaries about themselves, upload to the ship entertainment systems.” Gabby signs on but jumps ship after finding herself demoted to entertainment, pulling away in a lifeboat from “a foolish attempt to save something that had never been worth saving.”
Washing ashore half-dead, Gabby is taken in by Bay, who leads a hardscrabble life foraging from a cottage she should be sharing with her wife: she’s lost too much, too. But the clean, salty beauty of the story, and Bay and Gabby’s wittily drawn push-and-pull, suggest there’s new connection and meaning in their future. Similarly, in “The Low Hum of Her,” Tatiana never accepts her robot-grandma as a replacement for “the real Bubbe,” but there’s something rich and wondrous in their new partnership. Pinsker’s stories don’t trust the tech miracle that lets us get back everything we like, or better; but they believe strongly that there will still be something splendid for us to love. Not just consolation, but fulfillment, something unexpected and much too strange for our ancestors.
The best example of this—and maybe my favorite of the collection, but don’t make me choose—is the opening story, “A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide.” Andy loses his right arm in a farming accident and is fitted with an advanced prosthetic. Except, impossibly, in the mirror, his brain sees instead of an arm, a road:
It didn’t just want to be a road. It knew it was one. Specifically, a stretch of asphalt two lanes wide, ninety-seven kilometers long, in eastern Colorado. A stretch that could see all the way to the mountains, but was content not to reach them. Cattleguards on either side, barbed wire, grassland.
Pinsker is still working in science fiction here: Andy’s friend theorizes his prosthetic is recycled from smart-road technology. And that’s what turns it from a clever twist on the Evil Hand story to something more. The hand is just different: something other than human, existing in itself. This mysterious self-containment is to me a much likelier face of our technological symbiosis than all the Singularity hoopla, and more wondrous, and more dangerous.
He had lived here his whole life, but his arm was convinced it belonged someplace else. On the way home it spoke to him without words. It pulled him. Turn around, it said. South, south, west. I am here and I am not here, he thought, or maybe it thought. I love my home, he tried to tell it. Even as he said it, he longed for the completion of being where he was, both Saskatchewan and Colorado. This was not a safe way to be.
Pinsker’s style is clean and intimate, rich with emotion, but not a single unearned sentiment. Her characters are lovable portraits of self-frustration: good, flawed people confronted with too much loss and liking none of their options, with a talent for creative destruction.
This is doubly, triply, N-ly true of the last story, “And Then There Were (N – One),” which I wrote up last year in our Nebula novella nominee review. Here, Sarah Pinsker finds herself—quite a lot of herself—attending “SarahCon,” a convention of Sarah Pinskers from across the multiverse. At the time, I enjoyed it as a romp with exciting implications for moral identity: one Sarah Pinsker gets murdered, by another Sarah Pinsker, obviously, but which one? And how much does the which-one matter? Considered alongside the other stories, now it reads as another gutsy closer, one showing us how our sad but splendid, post-human future is already inside us. We are already fractured, always creating and destroying, full of surprises. Or at least, Pinsker sure is.
Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea is out from Small Beer Press on March 19, 2019.
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Central Texas Rail History Center and Historic Rail Park
Central Texas Rail History Center and Historic Rail Park - 713-524-1750Flatonia Special Projects - Rail Park
Central Texas Rail History Center
The history of the railroads in Flatonia lives at the Central Texas Rail History Center.The Center houses many historical artifacts, model train displays and photographs from when ‘rail was king’ in Flatonia.The Center is dedicated to the preservation and education of Flatonia’s rich railroad history. The Central Texas Rail History Center is open every Friday and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. – noon and 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.Group and special tours are welcomed.
Flatonia Rail Park
Located across the street from the Central Texas Rail History Center is Flatonia’s Historic Rail Park.One of the features of the historic park is
Tower No. 3.Built in 1902 by Southern Pacific Railroad Company, the switching tower was originally located one-quarter mile west of downtown Flatonia at the interlocker, a junction of north, south, east and west tracks.The tower was moved from the interlocker in the mid-1990’s to its current location at the corner of Penn and South Main Street.The tower is available for tours during normal business hours of the Central Texas Rail History Center.In addition to Tower No. 3, Southern Pacific Caboose No. 4743 is also located in the park.The bay-window rail car dates back to the early 0000 and is in the initial stages of restoration.Group or special tours of Tower No. 3 and SP Caboose 4743 are available during the week by calling the Central Texas Rail History Center.
Flatonia Photo Pavilion
Located on the western edge of downtown Flatonia, the Photo Pavilion is a safe and relaxing environment for train watching.The pavilion is located at the interlocker and sits in the approximate location of Flatonia’s 1929 – 1976 passenger depot.The pavilion provides a panoramic view of trains traveling in all directions.It’s open seven days a week and is free to the public.
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http://www.railcrossrdstx.com
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See more: 2 Flutes
Concerto in E Minor TWV 52:e1 (Piccolo, Flute and Piano)
Composer: Telemann, Georg Philipp
Concerto in E Minor TWV 52:e1 (Piccolo, Flute and Piano) by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), Published by Theodore Presser, Adapted by Zart Dombourian-Eby, piano reduction by Valerie Shields, Includes piccolo part, flute part and piano score.
Composed by Telemann as a double concerto for recorder and transverse flute, Zart Dombourian-Eby’s new edition is prepared for piccolo, flute, and piano — remaining compatible with available orchestral editions, and respectfully faithful to Telemann’s detailed nuances. Cast in the slow-fast, slow-fast four-movement mold typical of Baroque concert works, the Concerto in E minor is at once among the most beautiful and exhilarating works of Telemann’s formidable output.
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State-level PACs Add Another Layer to Romney's Presidential Campaign
by Kevin McNellis | 2012-02-16
The 2012 presidential election has seen the emergence of Super PACs, those new federal committees that can raise and spend unlimited amounts, as long as they only make independent expenditures. While these new types of political committees have entered the nation’s political lexicon, many of the Republican candidates have also revived a more traditional practice: contributing to potential king-makers via state-based PACs, especially in early primary and caucus states.
Mitt Romney, in particular, has been active at the state level; his network of state PACs has made $1.5 million in direct contributions to state-level politicians and political parties across the country since 2004.
Romney has registered PACs in at least five states: Alabama, Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. These PACs—called Commonwealth PAC, or Free and Strong America PAC, with some state PACs switching between the two names—have been contributing to state-level candidates since 2004, when Romney was the governor of Massachusetts.
Romney PACs’ Contributions to State Candidates and Political Parties, 2004–2011
2004 $100,600
$1,496,65
*This total is not final because the Institute is still collecting 2011 data.
Not surprisingly, the PACs have contributed to politicians and political parties in early primary states.
Romney PACs’ Contributions by State, 2004–2011
State Total
Iowa $536,437
Michigan $225,400
South Carolina $191,850
Alabama $168,500
New Hampshire $142,250
Total $1,264,437
The early primary and caucus states of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina also feature prominently in the PACs’ giving since 2008.
Contributions Made by Commonwealth PAC, and Free and Strong America PAC, 2008–2011
State Number of Candidates Given To Number of Party Committees
Iowa 41 1
South Carolina 32 0
Michigan 5 2
New Hampshire 46 3
Alabama 18 0
Georgia 36 1
Virginia 4 0
Total 182 7 $435,287
*Free and Strong America also contributed $119,989 in 20 additional states.
The largest of these contributions have gone to governors, lieutenant governors, and state party committees.
Top Recipients of Contributions from Romney PACs, 2008–2011
Recipient State Year Total Contributions Received
Haley, Nikki (Governor) South Carolina 2008, 2010 $62,500
Michigan Republican Party Michigan 2008 $50,000
Branstad, Terry (Govenor) Iowa 2010 $30,437
Iowa Republican Party Iowa 2008 $30,000
Ivey, Kay (Lt. Governor) Alabama 2010 $25,000
New Hampshire Republican Party New Hampshire 2010 $25,000
Georgia Republican Party Georgia 2008 $15,000
Martinez, Susana (Governor) New Mexico 2010 $15,000
Schulte, Renee (House) Iowa 2008, 2010 $14,500
Total $267,437
These top recipients are not the whole story, however. Romney’s PACs gave to a large number of politicians in early primary and caucus states. He contributed to 41 statewide and legislative candidates in Iowa, 32 candidates in South Carolina, and 46 candidates in New Hampshire. All told, since 2008, Romney’s state PACs have contributed to 9 party and legislative caucus committees, and 214 candidates, in 27 states.
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Microsoft Further Differentiates Itself With Enterprises At Ignite 2017
Patrick Moorhead Contributor
I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella headlines Ignite 2017
Patrick Moorhead
This week I’m in Orlando attending Microsoft Ignite and Envision 2017, the company’s annual conference dedicated to all things for enterprise IT and business executives. I’m no stranger to Ignite—I try to attend every year to hear the latest on what Microsoft has been cooking up for big business. Last year, the focus was all on accelerating the digital transformation of enterprises through IT (you can read my Ignite 2016 recap here). This year was a continuation of that, with the company demonstrating how it was integrating AI, mixed reality, and cloud technology across its portfolio to evolve the enterprise and prepare its customers for the workplace of the future. I wanted to go ahead and offer up my recap of the bigger stories coming out of Day 1 of the conference, with a focus on CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote address Monday morning.
Julia White opens Ignite
Corporate VP of Cloud Platform Marketing, Julia White, took the stage first to introduce herself as the host of the event. She took a moment to thank the people of Orlando for hosting the event in the wake of the devastation left by Hurricane Irma, a nice touch. After a few words, she introduced Nadella to the stage. Nadella, as I’ve said before, is a rock star, and while many of the themes of these conference keynotes have become repetitive as I attend nearly all Microsoft’s events, I always look forward to hearing what he has to say. Nadella is one of the few technology leaders who have empathy and business and technical depth and he was firing on all cylinders every Ignite and Envision venue I saw him in.
Nadella led off with a few words on digital transformation, saying that the most critical aspect was bringing together everyone, with their various areas of expertise, together to support the process of continuous change and renewal. Nadella posed the question, “How are we going to empower people?” He went on to say that every piece of technology developed should “embellish the capability of human beings.” This brought him to what he says is Microsoft’s main mission: empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. I like that Microsoft constantly reiterates their mission as it helps put listeners in the right frame of mind. It also helps to amp up Microsoft’s differentiation from their consumer competitors trying to get into commercial and separate itself from the slower database, ERP, and even SaaS companies.
Microsoft aids Ford with design and engineering
Nadella said a few words on Microsoft 365, saying that its core purpose is to “unlock a new culture of work.” Think of Microsoft 365 the “all-in” product enabling every Microsoft piece of software and service. At this point, Nadella brought Raanah Amjadi, Product Marketing Manager of Microsoft Teams, to the stage to talk about modernizing the workplace. She talked about Ford Motor Company, and the company’s need to have a friction-free environment, while still maintaining security standards to protect its IP. Amjadi gave a demonstration of how Microsoft could empower Ford’s teams to design and engineer new vehicles using 365, Mixed Reality with HoloLens, and VR, saying that Microsoft’s vision is for Ford and other companies to have the ability to fully, interactively, collaborate from anywhere in the world.
Ford shows off cutting-edge use of Microsoft 365
This demonstration was “out there” for many enterprises, but it highlights just how far into the future Microsoft can go with an enterprise. Adding mixed reality, AI and conversational platforms to get more work done more collaboratively and globally is the holy grail, right? Microsoft wants enterprise to know they can play with startups and large consumer tech companies and the reality is that they can.
Additions to Microsoft 365
Nadella returned to the stage to talk more about Microsoft 365. He mentioned the first integration of Microsoft 365 with LinkedIn: users can now see LinkedIn profile information from within a select group of Microsoft’s suite of apps and services. This capability is being rolled out first within Outlook Web Access, SharePoint, and OneDrive for Business. This is a cool feature that finally makes good use of Microsoft’s strategic acquisition of LinkedIn back in 2016. If data is the new oil, LinkedIn could be jet fuel for business applications providing depth and context for workers and bots for automated workflows.
Next, Nadella talked about the new Intelligent search features, powered by AI and machine learning, that are being added to Microsoft 365. The big announcement in this area from Day 1 was the private preview of Bing for business, which Microsoft claims will give enterprise customers a unified view of personalized, contextual search results. I liked the yellow box Google had for this and I like this, too. Google has cross-enterprise search too, but only if it's uploaded to the Google public cloud within G Suite.
Nadella then brought Li-Chen Miller, Partner Group Program Manager of AI & Research on stage to give a demonstration of both the new LinkedIn integration and intelligent search with Bing. The demonstration was compelling and fun as it showed the difference between Bing for business and consumer in a search for Harry Shum. Harry Shum with Glee and Harry Shum with Microsoft AI are two very people. Of course, they are, point made.
I want to depart from the keynote briefly to give a rundown of the other flurry of announcements around Microsoft 365. Microsoft also announced on Day 1 that it would be bringing 365 to a couple of new audiences. Targeting students, faculty, and staff, the new Microsoft 365 Education combines Office 365 for Education, Windows 10, Mobility + Security and Minecraft: Education Edition, to facilitate secure classroom collaboration. Obviously, education is a huge market that Microsoft has a long history of tapping into—this announcement came as no surprise. Google is gaining a lot of ground in K-12 and Microsoft needs to act fast to stem the tide of defection.
Secondly, Microsoft is introducing a new enterprise plan called Microsoft 365 F1—designed for so-called Firstline Workers, to maximize their productivity. Microsoft says this plan will help develop employees’ skill sets, digitize business processes, and help foster workplace culture and community. Microsoft also announced a new line of Windows 10 S commercial devices from HP, Lenovo, and Acer, all designed for cloud-based identity and management—which the company says makes them well-suited for firstline environments. I like firstline workers as a target as that audience doesn’t get a lot of attention. I finally “get” Windows S, too, as this firstline environment is perfect for the new operating system that requires higher security and better management. Microsoft and their OEMs also rolled out new Windows 10 S notebooks, priced as low as $279. Combined, Microsoft 365 F1 with new Windows 10 S notebooks will be fighting it out with Google G Suite and Chromebooks. This should be interesting.
Expanding upon Dynamics 365
Back to the keynote—Nadella spoke a while about Dynamics 365, and the new AI solutions that Microsoft was introducing into the suite. He stressed the need to build AI-first business applications. Microsoft is unveiling an intelligent virtual agent for customer care, a smart assistant for customer service, and various conversation management tools—all of which Microsoft says will help its customers to handle more requests, more quickly. Also coming soon to Dynamics 365 are Microsoft’s first two modular apps, Attract and Onboard, which Microsoft says will help companies to recruit the best candidates for job openings. In addition, Microsoft announced deeper integration between Dynamics 365, Office 365, Microsoft Flow, and PowerApps. It was nice to see a real customer like HP Inc. espousing the benefits.
Microsoft 365 + LinkedIn + Dynamics 365 is a unique combination for enterprises
It hit me sitting in the keynote at the new alternatives Microsoft is providing to Salesforce.com, Oracle, and even SAP. While Attract and Onboard are the first two applets, I expect many more to show up that go head to head with services from Salesforce.com, Oracle ,and SAP. These companies have the advantage of being embedded into enterprises today but have a disadvantage in AI, cloud and IoT. I’m breaking out the popcorn for this one as it will be a wild ride.
News from the Azure cloud
After Dynamics 365, Nadella moved on to talked about Azure. There was a whole raft of Azure announcements from Day 1 (which you can read about in detail here, if interested), but the biggest piece of news was that Microsoft’s hybrid-cloud solution Azure Stack is now available through Microsoft’s OEM partners, Dell EMC, Lenovo, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It took a long time coming with many twists and turns, but it’s finally here. Azure Stack allows its customers to develop and deploy apps in a hybrid environment, using the exact same tools they would use within the Azure cloud. In a way, it’s the holy grail for enterprises who don’t want to learn multiple cloud environments for on-prem and public cloud and the ability to flex between them.
Another announcement Microsoft highlighted was the launch of Azure Cost Management Services, by Cloudyn. Microsoft says these services will allow customers to use one unified view to manage and reduce their cloud spend across multiple clouds. As a bonus, these services will be available free to all Azure customers and partners. Many enterprises will ultimately want tools to do real-time comparisons, capabilities, and configuration across Azure, GCP AWS and IBM Cloud, not just across Azure.
In addition, Microsoft announced the new release of SQL Server 2017, which the company touts as the first born-in-the-cloud database that is also available on-prem. For the first time, the SQL Server will be available to Windows, Docker, and Linux Containers, which Microsoft says will enable the construction of the next generation of AI models and intelligent apps. Hell froze over again and SQL Server on Linux is yet another example that sacred cows are still being shot at Microsoft.
Seeking to make the quantum leap
Nadella then pivoted to the area of quantum computing, describing a variety of yet unsolved problems that could potentially be solved by it—the energy crisis, global warming, food production, to name a few. He then brought a panel of experts onto the stage to talk in depth about the science behind quantum computing. I'll be honest, the panel was a bit hard to follow and I'm even a compute guy. This was all context for Microsoft’s announcement that later this year, the company will be releasing a yet unnamed new computing programming language designed specifically for quantum computing, which will come with full Visual Studio integration and a quantum computing simulator. Microsoft clearly sees quantum computing as the next big thing, and with the release of this toolset, it’s trying to position itself at the forefront of the field.
Microsoft's Quantum computer
With IBM, Intel and Google all investing heavily in quantum computing, it was nice to see what Microsoft was investing in I am impressed with the depth of Visual Studio integration and the quantum cloud. Not lost on me either is yet another cloud giant investing in hardware. Silicon is eating the world now, yes?
Overall, it was another engaging, informative keynote from Nadella. There was certainly no lack of new announcements to pour over. Microsoft seems to be well on its way integrating AI, MR, and cloud technology into everything they do, and it was great to see some examples of this new technology at work. From Microsoft 365, to intelligent enterprise search engines, to Azure cloud, it seems like everything Microsoft does is getting smarter and more streamlined. I look forward to seeing what the company does next, and what the rest of the conference holds. While I am doing a lot of comparing and contrasting Microsoft’s announcements to Google, Amazon.com AWS and Cisco collaboration, I’m most interested in how Oracle, Salesforce.com and SAP react to these announcements.
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Timet Takeover Completed; PCC Now Plans Merger
New tender aims to collect 100% Timet now a PCC subsidiary "The potential for value creation is vast,” according to chairman
Robert Brooks | Dec 31, 2012
Precision Castparts Corp. completed a cash tender offer for all the outstanding common stock of Titanium Metals Corp., a manufacturer of primary titanium products (ingots, slabs, forging billets, and mill forms) as well as titanium sponge and mill products (sheet, strip, tubing, pipes, and fittings.)
Timet is listed now as a subsidiary of the Portland-based forger and investment caster. Timet will function as part of PCC’s Forged Products segment.
Combining with Timet is a move by PCC to enhance its position in the aerospace market. In addition to forged parts and investment cast components, several of its other recent acquisitions produce machined components, aerostructures, investment castings, and forgings, as well as machining, testing, and heat treating services.
"Timet will provide us with the titanium capability that has always been a key missing piece of our overall product portfolio," stated PCC chairman and CEO Mark Donegan. "As our 2006 acquisition of Special Metals did for us with nickel alloys, acquiring Timet will enable us to streamline our supply chain and better manage our input costs in our core operations. As we continue to grow in the aerostructure market, this supply linkage will present even more of an opportunity.
The Timet organization has operations in Henderson, NV; Toronto, OH; Morgantown, PA; Vallejo, CA; Witton, England; Waunarlwydd, Wales; and Ugine, France. It has approximately 2,750 employees.
"The potential for value creation is vast,” according to Donegan. “We expect to generate significant synergies by putting our two companies together and leveraging our respective strengths,"
The $16.50/share tender was announced in early November, projected then at $2.9 billion. PCC created a new subsidiary, ELIT Acquisition Sub Corp., to conduct the purchase.
According to details supplied by PCC, the offer fetched 150,520,615 (86%) of the outstanding common shares of Timet.
PCC announced a subsequent offering period to acquire all remaining untendered Timet shares. That period will expire at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time on January 4, 2013, unless extended. Once that offer is completed, Precision Castparts indicated it intends formulate a merger of the two companies in order to gain 100% of Timet.
As a result of the just completed share purchase, PCC noted, it has the votes to approve the merger without an affirmative vote of any other Timet stockholder. In the merger, each share not previously purchased in the offer will be converted, subject to appraisal rights, into a right to receive the same $16.50/share price. Timet stockholders who do not tender their shares in the offer will not receive payment for their Shares until completion of the merger.
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Precision Castparts Buys Timet for $2.9 Billion
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Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI
Prof. Dr. Danny Alexander, UCL, London, Great Britain
Dr. Michaela Arndt, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg University Hospital
Dr. Achim Bahr, IMST GmbH, Kamp-Lintfort
PD Dr. Andrew Chan, Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum
Prof. Dr. Markus Clemens, Institut für Theoretische Elektrotechnik, University of Wuppertal
Dr. Jörn Diedrichsen, Department of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, Great Britain
Dr. Jürg Fröhlich, Electromagnetics in Medicine and Biology Group, Institut für Feldtheorie und Höchstfrequenztechnik, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Elke R. Gizewski, Department of Neuroradiology, Justus-Liebig University of Gießen
Dr. Pål Erik Goa, St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
Dr. Fabian Grabenhorst, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Great Britain
Dr. Dennis Klomp, Image Sciences Institute, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Susanne Knake, Department of Neurology, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Dr. Jürgen Krauss, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg University Hospital
Prof. Dr. Jean-Jacques Lemaire, Université d’Auvergne, France
Prof. Dr. Alexander Lerchl, School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University, Bremen
Prof. Dr. Hans Markowitsch, Psychology, University of Bielefeld
Dr. Martin Meyerspeer, Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Prof. Dr. Ewald Moser, MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Prof. Dr. Johannes Roths, Munich University of Applied Sciences
Prof. Dr. Klaus Scheffler, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen
PD Dr. Peter Schwenkreis, Department of Neurology , St. Josef-Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum
Prof Dr. Freddy Ståhlberg, Lund University Bioimaging Centre, Lund University, Sweden
Prof. Dr. Dieter Suter, Experimental Physics, TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Martin Tegenthoff, Department of Neurology, Bergmannsheil University Hospital, Ruhr University Bochum
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Trattnig, MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Tillmann Wittig, CST GmbH, Darmstadt.
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Will Volkswagen Build This Self-Driving Electric Sedan?
Published February 19, 2018 MarketsMotley Fool
Volkswagen AG (NASDAQOTH: VLKAY) will soon show a concept version of an upcoming premium electric sedan, with a twist: It'll have no steering wheel.
But whether VW ends up building it with or without a steering wheel, the concept car is almost certainly a preview of an upcoming electric sedan that might give Tesla's(NASDAQ: TSLA) Model 3 some stiff competition -- eventually.
Here's what we know.
The VW I.D. Vizzion: An upscale self-driving electric sedan
VW described its I.D. Vizzion concept car as a "fully automated premium class" sedan. It's self-driving -- in fact, VW says, it has no visible steering wheel or controls. It's driven by a "digital chauffeur"; the car's human passengers can communicate with the chauffeur via voice and gesture controls.
It will be the fourth vehicle that VW has shown under its upcoming all-electric "I.D." sub-brand. Like VW's other I.D. concept vehicles, the I.D. Vizzion is fully electric. It has a dual-motor setup for all-wheel-drive, with a 111-kilowatt-hour battery pack that gives it a range of "up to 665 kilometers when braking regeneration is factored in," VW said.
(That's about 413 miles, but note that that's an estimate of the car's rated range using the European testing cycle. The U.S. range test is more conservative: 665 kilometers of range in Europe probably translates to a rated range of a little over 300 miles in the U.S.)
As you'd expect from a fully self-driving vehicle, the I.D. Vizzion isn't a sport sedan. VW claims a top speed of 180 kilometers per hour, or about 112 miles per hour -- enough to keep up on the faster stretches of Germany's Autobahn, but not exactly race car territory.
VW said that the I.D. Vizzion concept car will have its world premiere at the Geneva International Motor Show, which begins on March 6.
Is this thing for real?
For now at least, the I.D. Vizzion is a concept, meaning that it's strictly for show. But VW has confirmed plans to put the first three I.D. concept vehicles into production between 2020 and 2022. It's very possible (even likely) that an all-electric production vehicle resembling this concept is in the works.
Given that the first three VW I.D. vehicles were a hatchback, a compact crossover SUV, and a minivan, a larger sedan seems like an inevitable addition to the lineup.
And given the state of self-driving technology (and of the laws and regulations around self-driving technology) today, it's also very possible that the production version will have a steering wheel -- even if it's offered with some self-driving capabilities.
If so, and if it arrives sooner rather than later, things could get interesting. With its dual-motor driveline and ample range, the I.D. Vizzion has the makings of a car that could be an alternative to Tesla's Model 3 -- especially if you imagine it in a sportier version, with a taut suspension and more powerful motors.
But for now, that's just speculation. We'll know much more after we hear what VW executives say about the I.D. Vizzion concept when it's unveiled next month.
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FMCSA suspends registration rule until new system works
By Kevin Jones, American Trucker, January 17, 2017
A month before the new, simplified, online carrier registration process was to be fully operational, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is extending the implementation date of the final stage of its Unified Registration System (URS), the agency has informed industry stakeholders.
Currently set for Jan. 14, 2017, FMCSA needs additional time to securely migrate data from multiple legacy platforms into a new central database and to conduct further compatibility testing with its state partners, according to the announcement. The agency recently completed a “complex migration” of its information technology systems to a “cloud” environment, “a necessary step in order to provide a foundation to successfully implement URS. “
By moving the implementation date, FMCSA says it is providing its state partners more time to develop, update, and verify data connectivity and system reliability. The additional time will also enable the agency to conduct more thorough training and to implement broader outreach and education activities that will provide for “a seamless transition.”
The agency is working with its information technology contractor to finalize a revised implementation schedule. FMCSA will publish a Federal Register Notice in early January 2017 announcing the revised regulatory compliance dates.
The agency had previously targeted last Sept. 30 for implementation of the final stage, but announced that delay in July—also citing the IT systems upgrade and complex migration to remote storage
Since the December 2015 launch of the initial phase of URS, FMCSA estimates that the industry has saved more than $3 million in registration expenses. In addition, the agency issued more than 100,000 new USDOT numbers, removed more than 360,000 dormant USDOT numbers from its databases, and achieved a 100% screening of operating authority applications for disqualified carriers attempting to fraudulently “reincarnate” as new operators, FMCSA reports.
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3DS » Action » Beat-'Em-Up » 3D
Samurai Warriors Chronicles
The Ranking
63.00% Overall Rank: 14179
3DS Rank: 290
2011 Games Rank: 14153
2011 3DS Rank: 290
Score based on 21 reviews
The legend of the samurai comes to life like never before with immersive battles featuring 3D graphics! Samurai Warriors Chronicles takes the fan favorite series into uncharted territory with 3D graphics and new gameplay improvements that will bring this franchise to the next level. In the game, players will be able to change control between four different warriors on the fly, easily switching between characters by touching the Nintendo 3DS touch panel. Teamwork is a key focal point of the game, as the secret to success lies in positioning your team on the battlefield wisely. There are also friendship levels between the various characters that will ultimately guide where the story goes and how battles play out, so helping others has its rewards. Samurai Warriors Chronicles is set to help usher in the Nintendo 3DS by providing tactical action like you've never seen! Through deep combat, multiple branching storylines and a living 3D battlefield, the legend of the samurai lives on.
GamingUnion 12/19/11 Review 6 out of 10
Thunderbolt 07/19/11 Review 5 out of 10
N-Europe 05/28/11 Review 8 out of 10
Edge Magazine UK 05/01/11 Review 6 out of 10
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Nintendo Gamer 04/01/11 Review 79 out of 100
Nintendo Power 04/01/11 Review 7 out of 10
GameFocus 04/11/11 Review 5.1 out of 10
Cheat Code Central 04/09/11 Review 2.7 out of 5
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Just Cause 3 studio cuts staff
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Review: Mad Catz Arcade Fightstick Tournament Edition S+ for Xbox 360
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Hyperspace Dogfights takes rogue-like to a different level
Christopher Graf
Long time developers of AAA games work extremely hard year round to bring us some of the best titles they can create. With talented designers, programmers, artists, and large budgets, they have a decent amount to work with. When an independent developer wants to create something new and unique, they have to be a bit more clever about it. That is precisely what Sleeper Games has done with their newly announced Hyperspace Dogfights.
If you have ever played a rogue-like game before, you know most are set in some type of dungeon setting. Hyperspace Dogfights, however, is filled with aerial combat on numerous planets, so you’ll be battling for control of the skies. You can take down enemies with either your gun or sword, both of which can be enhanced along your adventure.
As with all rogue-like titles, Hyperspace Dogfights features hundreds of unlockable items as well as permadeath, so you’ll have to stay on your toes. Taking advantage of the open source GDevelop Engine, Lead Designer Stefan Widany stated that he and the team gained a lot of freedom for this title. He also said, “We got quite far in the first three months and we’ll soon launch on itch.io refinery to gather a wider range of much needed feedback.”
Check out the official website to see gameplay action of Hyperspace Dogfights for yourself.
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Gasmet Technologies Oy acquires MonitoringSystems GmbH for expansion in solutions for industrial emissions monitoring
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Gasmet Technologies Oy, Mikko Ahro, CEO
Gasmet Technologies Oy, a Finnish gas analyzer and emissions monitoring systemmanufacturer, has announced its acquisition of MonitoringSystems GmbH, based in Austria. Acquisition further strengthens Gasmet’s global position as one of the leading gas monitoring equipment providers.
Gasmet, founded in 1990, is the leading FTIR gas analyzer and emissions monitoring system provider with 30 years of FTIR experience.
Gasmet offers complete solutions for monitoring industrial emissions and portable instruments to study climate change and ensure people’s safety. The company has supplied more than 4000 analyzers worldwide having the highest installed base for on-site and industrial applications. In the field of gas analysis, the company has established an international reputation for innovative, customer-driven and reliable solutions. All Gasmet’s current devices, such as the Continuous Emissions Monitoring system CEMS II e and the Continuous Mercury Monitoring system CMM, and future solutions are certified. Last year Gasmet was delighted to announce that its CMM system completed the EN15267-3 testing and has now the world’s lowest certified range for measurements of Mercury.
Acquisition strengthens Gasmet’s global position as one of the leading gas monitoring equipment providers. MonitoringSystems GmbH, established in 2001, is a manufacturer and supplier of sampling devices and equipment for dioxins, other persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and for fine dust continuous sampling.
The MCERTS certified system DioxinMonitoringSystem® for continuous sampling of dioxin emissions was developed for automated emissions monitoring of hazardous organic compounds in industrial and domestic waste incineration plants. The system represents the cutting-edge technology for dioxin sampling and fulfils all the requirements of the dioxin measurement standard EN 1948-1.
Gasmet has announced of 100 % acquisition of MonitoringSystems GmbH. Specific financial details were not disclosed. Austria-based MonitoringSystem will remain in their current location with operations continuing as usual.
Mikko Ahro, CEO of Gasmet Technologies Oy says: “We are very happy about this acquisition. We strongly believe there is a growing need for monitoring of dioxin emissions and the DioxinMonitoringSystem is the best solution in the market for such measurements.”
MonitoringSystems fits perfectly to Gasmet’s current portfolio already including FTIR based continuous emissions monitoring systems and CVAF based continuous mercury monitoring systems, all targeted to critical environmental pollutants.
“The acquisition benefits both our existing customers and new customers and enables us to exploit the growth opportunities that we see in the dioxin monitoring market.”, continues Mikko Ahro.
Mikko Ahro, CEO, Gasmet Technologies Oy
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Gasmet is a technology group from Helsinki founded in 1990 consisting of the parent company and four subsidiaries which are located abroad. In total we have over 100 personnel and in 2018 the revenue of the group was 21 M€. Gasmet operates in more than 80 countries covering all continents.
Dioxin emissions – effects and sources
Dioxins are environmental pollutants and belong to a group of chemically-related compounds known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The chemical name for dioxin is 2,3,7,8- tetrachlorodibenzo para dioxin (TCDD).
The biggest source of dioxin emissions is industrial processes, however, there is no intentional production or use. Typically, dioxins are unwanted by-products from different manufacturing processes, like smelting, waste incineration, chlorine bleaching of paper & pulp and manufacturing of chlorinated pesticides. To a small extent, they can also be formed in natural processes, such as forest fires and volcanic activity.
Dioxins are transported across international boundaries far from their sources and, therefore, occur all over the globe in the environment. The highest concentration levels are found in some soils and sediments. Unfortunately, dioxins tend to accumulate in the food chain, especially in dairy products, meat and fish and pose a risk to humans. They are highly toxic compounds and can cause adverse effects such us damage the immune system or cause cancer.
A growing global requirement to protect the environment from pollution is a major driver for the Gasmet business. Reliable measurements help authorities to supervise emissions levels and operators run their business in a sustainable way. Accurate monitoring of emissions also supports operators to control their cleaning systems optimally and to minimize their negative environmental impact.
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Lincoln Electric and David Lincoln, son of its founder, support aspiring engineers at Ohio State
With a $1 million donation, Cleveland-based Lincoln Electric and David Lincoln, son of the company’s founder, have co-funded the first endowed professorship in welding engineering at The Ohio State University.
Lincoln Electric also donated or consigned nearly $420,000 worth of welding equipment and technology for use by Ohio State students and faculty.
“A cornerstone of Lincoln Electric’s success has been welding engineering expertise and product innovation, said Christopher L. Mapes, Lincoln Electric’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. “The endowment at Ohio State honors that legacy and places Lincoln Electric at the forefront of welding engineering education. It also underscores our commitment to develop future ‘welding experts’ who will continue to drive innovation in our industry.”
Founded in 1895 by John C. Lincoln, an Ohio State electrical engineering alumnus (1888), Lincoln Electric is a global provider of comprehensive arc welding, cutting and joining solutions. David Lincoln is a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist. He founded the Lincoln Laser Company and a real-estate business in Phoenix, Arizona, is a former Lincoln Electric board member, Chairman of Lincoln University in Claremont, CA, and served on the board of the Claremont School of Theology for a number of years.
Residing in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the endowed welding engineering professorship will facilitate recruitment of a new faculty member during the 2015-2016 academic year.
“Gifts that support our programs and students are extra special when they originate from the family of a distinguished alumnus like John Lincoln and the company he established,” said College of Engineering Dean David B. Williams. “Lincoln Electric and David Lincoln are steadfast in their belief that education drives innovation.”
State of the art welding equipment provided by Lincoln Electric will benefit more than just the welding engineering program. Students and faculty in mechanical and aerospace engineering, integrated systems engineering and agricultural engineering also will use the latest arc welders, training simulators, fume extraction units, plasma cutters, software and safety equipment. Additionally, manufacturing research collaborations and partnerships will utilize the new technology.
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Linde to install fluorine plant in Icheon, South Korea; Exhibit electronics at SEMICON West
Linde Electronics and Specialty Gases, an affiliate of Linde North America, a member of The Linde Group, and an industry leader in gases for the electronics market, announces today a new on-site fluorine plant to supply SK Hynix Semiconductor, a world-leading manufacturer of DRAM and NAND flash memories.
The plant, which will be the world’s largest on-site fluorine (F2) plant, will supply the M14 line in Icheon, South Korea from the end of Q2 2015. This expansion of Linde’s patented on-site F2 technology to this new facility follows successful implementations at all SK Hynix’s production sites.
Carl Jackson, VP, Technology and Applications Development, Linde Electronics, said: “We’re proud to have had such a successful relationship with SK Hynix over the last 10 years, which has demonstrated the process benefits possible with on-site F2 along with a perfect safety record. We look forward to continuing to work together to further help SK Hynix improve the cost effectiveness of its manufacturing process.”
Linde’s on-site F2 technology has an established presence for chamber cleaning applications across semiconductor, display and solar industries. It has been proven to be a highly effective fluorinated cleaning gas, demonstrating reductions in cleaning and recovery time and reduced plasma power consumption including, in some cases, elimination of the requirement to generate plasma for cleaning and reduced mass of chemicals required compared to the fluorinated gases typically used. Increasing concerns over the environmental impact of NF3 and potential legislation that could restrict its use in the future also contribute to interest in this proven technology.
Linde Electronics and Specialty Gases at SEMICON West
Linde Electronics and Specialty Gases will be exhibiting at SEMICON West tradeshow in San Francisco July 14-16. Its focus will be on the quality, expertise, commitment and environmental leadership that Linde Electronics brings to the semiconductor industry through such offerings as electronic specialty gases, on-site solutions, materials recycling and recovery and SPECTRA® nitrogen plants.
SEMICON West is the annual tradeshow for the micro-electronics manufacturing industry. All visitors are welcome to visit Linde in booth number 1105 in the South hall in the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
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Former Insitu CEO makes the leap over to World View stratospheric balloon venture
by Alan Boyle on February 28, 2019 February 27, 2019 at 10:36 pm Comment
For three and a half years, Ryan Hartman served as president and CEO of Insitu — the Boeing subsidiary headquartered in Bingen, Wash., that pioneered the creation of unmanned aircraft systems… Read More
Blue Origin scores big in NASA’s latest batch of flight opportunities for space tech
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NASA’s Flight Opportunities program has selected 15 promising space technologies for testing on suborbital flights, and almost half of them are set to fly on Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship.… Read More
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by Alan Boyle on March 30, 2018 April 1, 2018 at 8:25 pm Comment
News Brief: Arizona-based World View says it has closed a $26.5 million Series C financing round, led by Accel with participation from previous investors Canaan and Norwest Venture Partners. The… Read More
World View balloon goes boom after Spaceport Tucson test; no injuries reported
by Alan Boyle on December 19, 2017 December 22, 2017 at 10:36 am Comment
News Brief: A high-altitude balloon reportedly exploded at Spaceport Tucson in Arizona today after a test that was being conducted by World View Enterprises. No injuries were reported, but the… Read More
World View unveils first pictures from its Stratollite high-altitude balloon platform
by Alan Boyle on December 18, 2017 December 18, 2017 at 1:54 pm 1 Comment
World View Enterprises’ first near-space pictures demonstrate how the Arizona company’s balloon-based imaging platform can rival satellite views. The photos were released today in conjunction with the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers… Read More
World View completes five-day test flight for ‘Stratollite’ high-altitude balloon
by Alan Boyle on October 6, 2017 October 6, 2017 at 4:37 pm Comment
World View Enterprises has executed its longest stratospheric balloon flight ever, steering a solar-powered payload through five days’ worth of testing at altitudes in excess of 55,000 feet. The high-altitude… Read More
World View launches ‘Stratollite’ balloon from Spaceport Tucson for the first time
World View Enterprises today executed its first balloon liftoff from Spaceport Tucson, the Arizona facility that it expects will be the home base for satellite-like “Stratollite” missions to the stratosphere… Read More
World View downs KFC’s stratospheric chicken sandwich early due to balloon leak
World View balloon sends up KFC’s Zinger chicken sandwich amid space send-ups
by Alan Boyle on June 29, 2017 February 27, 2019 at 10:23 pm Comment
That’s one small step for high-altitude balloon research, one giant cheep for KFC’s Zinger chicken sandwich. After one weather-related postponement, Arizona-based World View Enterprises sent the sandwich to the stratosphere… Read More
World View’s stratospheric balloon mission for KFC isn’t just about a chicken sandwich
by Alan Boyle on June 13, 2017 June 13, 2017 at 2:33 pm Comment
Yes, Kentucky Fried Chicken is planning to fly its Zinger sandwich up to the stratosphere and back on a World View balloon platform. But no, the mission isn’t merely a… Read More
World View shows off its HQ and Stratollite platform for near-space balloon missions
by Alan Boyle on February 23, 2017 February 23, 2017 at 7:25 pm 2 Comments
World View Enterprises declared its Tucson headquarters and its hybrid balloon technology to be ready for prime time today, in the wake of a pathfinder mission that captured satellite-type imagery… Read More
Judge voids Arizona county’s development deal for World View’s strato-balloon base
by Alan Boyle on February 3, 2017 February 3, 2017 at 9:39 pm Comment
A judge in Arizona has struck down Pima County’s $15 million development deal with World View Enterprises for a stratospheric balloon launch facility near Tucson. Thursday’s ruling by Pima County Superior… Read More
World View stratospheric flight company settles into Spaceport Tucson, just in time
Arizona-based World View Enterprises is settling into its new offices at Spaceport Tucson and gearing up for what could be a high-flying year ahead. World View offers a flight system that uses… Read More
Balloons rise up on the strato-frontier
by Alan Boyle on September 23, 2016 September 23, 2016 at 2:18 pm 2 Comments
Drones, satellites and rocket planes are all well and good for high-flying missions, but sometimes the best craft for the job is a balloon. Google’s Project Loon, for example, is enlisting… Read More
World View pivots from stratospheric tourism to ‘Stratollites’ lofted by balloons
World View Enterprises made a splash with its plans to send tourists up to the stratosphere, but now it has a more down-to-earth focus: using balloons to send up satellite-style… Read More
Ride a balloon to space? $15M deal gives a lift to World View spaceport in Tucson
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World View Enterprises’ plan to send tourists from Spaceport Tucson into the stratosphere in a balloon-borne capsule won a $15 million vote of support today from Arizona’s Pima County. In… Read More
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Referendum and district elections slated for September
Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Hajia Alima Mahama, has said a referendum leading to the amendment of the Article 55 (3) of the Constitution would be held alongside the district elections in September.
The article, which is an entrenched provision, states that “Subject to the provisions of this Article, a political party is free to participate in shaping the political will of the people, to disseminate information on political ideas, social and economic programmes of a national character; and sponsor candidates for election to any public office other than to the District Assemblies or lower local government units”.
She said an amendment to this article was critical if MMDCEs would be elected on a partisan basis through the universal adult suffrage system.
Referendum required
“As an entrenched article, a national referendum is required for it to be amended,” she said.
Hajia Mahama said this at a meeting held to sensitise and create a better understanding of the election processes among the representatives of the various political parties.
The forum held under the theme: “Electing MMDCEs for Improved Local Decentralisation and Good Governance,” was also used to discuss the proposed national road map for the elections, expected to take off in 2021.
The minister said: “A draft bill for amendment of the article has been approved by Cabinet and sent to the Speaker of Parliament who has sent it to the Council of State for advice.
The Council of State has given its advice and the Attorney General has since gazetted the Bill."
40 per cent must vote
Hajia Mahama said per the constitutional standard required to approve the referendum amendment, at least 40 per cent of the persons entitled to vote in Ghana must vote at the referendum.
She said it was part of the requirement that at least 75 per cent of those who voted must approve the bill.
To ensure adequate sensitisation of the public, Hajia Mahama said the ministry was collaborating with all key institutions including the Electoral Commission and the National Commission for Civic Education to ensure its smooth implementation.
The ministry has also engaged the media on the road map for the election of MMDCEs to enable them to appreciate and accurately report on the process leading to the election in 2021.
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Catherine Martin is a Woman of the Year because... "She brings warmth and humor and energy to every story and character--and inspires me constantly." -Carey Mulligan, actress
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Catherine Martin is a Woman of the Year because... "She brings warmth and humor and energy to every story and character—and inspires me constantly."
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Fantasy family Martin with daughter Lillian, 10, and son William, 8 (in the bunny costume). Martin's custom outfit by Willow using custom fabric designed by Martin.
Most movies today follow fashion, but costume and production designer Catherine Martin, 48, has made it her mission to have things work the other way around. The films she creates—in collaboration with her husband, director Baz Luhrmann—set trends. Like this summer's little $300-million hit The Great Gatsby, whose flapper-era clothes were rhapsodized over by The New York Times and every major fashion magazine. Martin is business smart too. Her partnerships with Miuccia Prada, Tiffany & Co., and Brooks Brothers boosted the film's profits.
It's no stretch to call C.M., as she's known to friends, one of the most influential visual craftspeople in modern moviemaking. What powers her is a life-long geek-level obsession with fashion. "I'm interested in clothes in the way that other people are interested in cars," she says with a laugh. That enthusiasm is contagious. "Her work is so rich and full," says Gatsby's Tobey Maguire. "It's sexy and sensual and, you know, silly. And yet it still feels authentic because it all comes from a deep knowledge and a great amount of research." Oh, the research! Martin is famous for it. "After working with them," says Nicole Kidman, who starred in Luhrmann's Australia and Moulin Rouge!, "I look at other people and go, 'Where are all the books? Where're the photos?' When talent is backed up with that kind of commitment and passion, it's a high bar to match."
Martin found her calling naturally. An art-school dropout in Sydney, Australia, she was working as a seamstress when a radio ad inspired her to apply to Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art. While at school, she worked for Luhrmann's theater ensemble Six Years Old, and the two went on to create the 1992 breakout hit Strictly Ballroom—the reason anyone today Thinks They Can Dance. (The couple is currently turning the movie into a stage musical.) Today, with a Tony award and four Oscar nominations (two wins), Martin still marvels at how far she's come. "We've gone from me staying up all night to paint the floor," she says, "to where I am now, with 300 carpenters working for me. I feel like the queen of England."
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The August 20th event (2pm EDT) will share the timeline and important next steps for bringing to market the company’s transparent windows for generating electricity on skyscrapers and tall towers.There are an estimated five million skyscrapers, tall towers and commercial buildings in the U.S. alone.Commercial buildings consume almost 40 percent of U.S. electricity. Nearly 70 percent of U.S. electricity relies on power plants that use fossil fuels, such as coal and petroleum, which produce harmful emissions.
“Our goal is to put a solid dent in carbon emissions while providing customers with clean energy solutions that make economic sense. Our calculated financial payback of under one year for SolarWindow™ products achieves exactly that,” said John A. Conklin, President and CEO of SolarWindow Technologies, Inc.
Engineers calculate that a single installation of the company’s proprietary windows can avoid 2.2 million miles of vehicle pollution, at least 12 times more than today’s solar systems on building rooftops; and could reduce carbon emissions equivalent to 770 acres of forest, compared to today’s rooftop (PV) systems equivalent to only 20 to 70 acres of forest.
Carbon emissions from electrical power plants have been linked to harmful climate and health issues in adults and children, an increasingly troublesome concern to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Last week, the Obama Administration responded with the launch of its Clean Power Plan in an effort to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 32 percent.
Among the largest consumers of electricity from these power plants are commercial buildings, the target market for SolarWindow™ products. These buildings consume more electricity than any one of the industrial, agricultural, or transportation sectors in the U.S.
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In the U.S., iconic brands such as Apple, Walmart, Macy’s, Kohl’s, Staples, Ikea, McGraw Hill, Campbell’s and Johnson & Johnson have been increasingly adopting renewable energy.
The push for emissions reductions and the development of clean energy solutions has also been bolstered by a $1 billion increase in investment by prolific investor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Bill Gates, as part of his climate change initiative.
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Andrew Wheeler, who's been leading Trump deregulatory charge, confirmed by Senate as EPA chief
The Senate confirmed Andrew Wheeler as EPA administrator Thursday mostly along party lines. The agency has been leading Trump's deregulatory charge.
Andrew Wheeler, who's been leading Trump deregulatory charge, confirmed by Senate as EPA chief The Senate confirmed Andrew Wheeler as EPA administrator Thursday mostly along party lines. The agency has been leading Trump's deregulatory charge. Check out this story on gosanangelo.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/28/trumps-new-epa-chief-andrew-wheeler-who-replaced-scott-pruitt/3014406002/
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Acting Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler drew criticism at his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday for his environmental rollbacks in six months on the job. (Jan. 16) AP
WASHINGTON – Andrew Wheeler is no longer the acting director of the EPA following the Senate's vote Thursday to make him the official head of the environmental regulatory agency.
The Senate narrowly confirmed Wheeler 52-47, largely along party lines with Republicans in support and Democrats against him.
While leading President Donald Trump's deregulatory agenda, Wheeler also has emphasized the agency's work to clean up Superfund sites and, for the first time, begin regulating a set of harmful chemicals found in drinking water systems that serve millions of Americans.
"Mr. Wheeler has proven his ability to advance pragmatic solutions to pressing environmental challenges," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor before the vote.
Maine Sen. Susan Collins was the lone Republican to oppose Wheeler's confirmation.
While calling Wheeler "certainly qualified for this position," Collins said some of the policies he has proposed as acting administrator "are not in the best interest of our environment and public health, particularly given the threat of climate change to our nation."
The Senate voted to confirm Andrew Wheeler as the permanent EPA administrator. Wheeler had been the acting administrator since July. (Photo: Cliff Owen, AP)
A former EPA bureaucrat who also served as an influential Capitol Hill staffer and an energy lobbyist, Wheeler had been acting administrator of the agency since July when he replaced Scott Pruitt who left under an ethical cloud.
When Trump nominated Wheeler for the official post in November, the president praised him for performing "a fantastic job."
Though not as controversial or ethically compromised as Pruitt, Wheeler is opposed by a number of environmental groups who sharply criticize the president's aggressive efforts to undo Obama-era rules they say are designed to protect the environment and address climate change.
"It's a sad day for public health and the EPA, but mission accomplished for the fossil fuel and chemical industries," Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, said in a statement following the vote. "They have longed for one of their own to call the shots at the agency, and now they finally have their man in Andrew Wheeler."
At his confirmation hearing in January, Senate Democrats grilled Wheeler about his agency's proposals to roll back mercury emissions standards, weaken clean water regulations and scrap Obama-era climate change rules.
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Shortly after taking over in July, Wheeler's EPA moved ahead with a plan to do away with the Obama-era Clean Power Plan and replace it with a proposed rule to set state guidelines for power-plant emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to a warming planet. And his agency finalized revisions to a 2015 Obama-era rule regulating the disposal of coal ash that gives states and utilities what he called "much needed flexibility" to manage their waste.
He also recommended freezing miles-per-gallon standards for cars and light trucks after the 2020 model year and preventing California and other states from setting tougher standards, saying it will improve safety and keep prices lower for consumers.
"We haven't slowed down and we haven't missed a step," Wheeler told senators in August. "As you can see, we're continuing the president's agenda post-haste."
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Matthew Perry's The End of Longing is a courageous play
By Charlie Burton 15 February 2016
It might not be landmark theatre, but The End of Longing is a significant moment in the story of Matthew Perry.
Did you know that Matthew Perry used to enjoy hanging out in the Friends writers’ room, watching as the stories coalesced and pitching lines? Sit through his playwriting debut The End Of Longing, which he also stars in and opened last week at London’s Playhouse Theatre, and that makes a lot of sense. It might be presented on a stage, but it reads as a television sitcom – choppy scene changes, wisecracks aplenty, plot over poetry. Perry plays Jack, a wry creative who uses humour as a defence mechanism and counts a lovable dimwit, Joseph, as his closest friend. The pair meet two girls: one kooky and directionless, the other highly strung and neurotic. Problematic relationships ensue. Any of this sound familiar?
This isn’t a straight Friends reinvention, though. It’s more Friends Later. In Perry’s set up, his character is an increasingly non-functioning alcoholic (or “drinking professional”, as Jack would have it) and the Phoebe-type role is not a masseuse but an expensive prostitute. Unlike plenty of Friends episodes, there’s a high frequency of laugh-out-loud jokes and – from a formal perspective – Anna Fleischle’s set design does an elegant job of communicating a sense of isolation in a bustling metropolis.
As a couple of hours of entertainment it has plenty going for it. But, like eating pizza for dinner (or indeed, watching a gazillionth Friends repeat) it’s comfort food, lacking in real nutrition. Although Perry gives a splendid performance, the characters are, essentially, stock – the wise fool, the whore with a heart of gold – and could use a little incubation. In a post-Girls world, the relationship storylines, especially the denouement, seem equally naïve. Presumably in an effort to offset the romanticism, the script is peppered, liberally, with coarse language – a tactic that quickly starts to grate.
Yet the play’s shortcomings don’t leave a bad taste. It might not be landmark theatre, but it’s a significant moment in the story of Matthew Perry. This is the man who was once so in thrall to drink and drugs that he can’t remember entire seasons of Friends, and here he is, having grappled with his demons and emerged triumphant, talking about alcoholism in the most public and – as both writer and lead of this production – courageous of ways. When he took his bow, the audience rose to its feet.
The End Of Longing is at the Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Ave, London WC2N until 14 May.
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Sunyani West NDC appeals for support to construct GH¢500,000 office - Graphic Online
Sunyani West NDC appeals for support to construct GH¢500,000 office
Date: Aug 16 , 2018 , 16:25
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The Sunyani West Constituency Executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have appealed for support to construct a Constituency Office complex estimated to cost GH¢500,000
to the 28-member Constituency Executives, they had procured a four-acre land at Odomase and raised GH¢10,000 seed money through individual contributions to commence construction work on the project.
Interacting with journalists after a closed-door meeting at Odomase on Thursday, Mr Johnson Nketiah, the Constituency Chairman, said the Party would organise a fundraising rally on Sunday, August 19, to seek support from the general public.
He said it was sad that the constituency had continued to rent office accommodation since 1992 that the NDC was formed and appealed to the national leadership of the Party to come to their aid.
Mr Nketiah, popularly known as “Asenuase” said the Executives were focused to capture the seat which remained one of the strongholds of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Brong-Ahafo Region.
Flanked by other Executive members, the Constituency Chair said the NDC had more than 20,000 registered members in the Constituency, noting that if the members remained committed and paid the GH¢1.00 monthly dues, it would not be difficult for the party to build the office.
He said the membership of the NDC in the area was strong and vibrant, indicating that a new Constituency Office would give the Party a new focus and direction and make it attractive to woo more eligible voters to join.
Mr Nketiah said the Constituency Offices of the NDC needed to be strengthened financially to enable them to function effectively and reach out to voters.
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'Don't let hateful words define you': Students rally for equality at Kansas Statehouse
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One of the state's first two openly gay legislators told students gathered at an equality rally Wednesday at the Statehouse to demand respect.
"Do you know what to do to piss off the opposition?" said Rep. Susan Ruiz, D-Shawnee. "Don't let hateful words define you."
Students with the Kansas chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network got on a bus at 5 a.m. to attend Equality Day events. The lineup of speakers included Gov. Laura Kelly, who was cheered by the crowd for signing an executive order to protect LGBT state workers from discrimination.
"I am proud to be your leader," Kelly said.
Ruiz talked about growing up in Houston during an era in which going to gay bars could lead to violence. There were a lot of rednecks, she said, who would chase people back to their cars.
She encouraged the students to stay in Kansas, become leaders, run for office and find someone special to love.
"That will piss them off," Ruiz said, "because those who spew hate are repulsed by love."
Kansans elected Ruiz, Rep. Brandon Woodard, D-Lenexa, and U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids in November — a breakthrough moment for the LGBT community in the state.
Tom Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas, said their sexuality turned out not to be a campaign issue.
"We finally got queers elected, and everybody yawned — except me," Witt said.
The event was held against the backdrop of a rainbow flag, which was designed by Kansas native Gilbert Baker. Witt said this particular flag was signed and given to him by Baker.
GLSEN provided results from a school climate survey, which shows 20 percent of students regularly hear school staff members make homophobic remarks. The survey shows 84 percent of schoolchildren hear those remarks from fellow students.
Sydney Beal, a senior at Wichita East High School, called on Kansas lawmakers to criminalize conversion therapy, which can lead to suicide, depression and anxiety.
"It teaches kids not to be themselves," Beal said. "The fact that it hasn't changed is revolting. When is common sense going to come to Kansas?"
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GP opportunity Cairns, Qld DWS & HWC with generous relocation assistance
GP with special interest in mental health, Cairns region. DWS position, relocation assistance and income guarantee available We are...
GP with special interest in mental health, Cairns region. DWS position, relocation assistance and income guarantee available
We are looking for a GP with a special interest in mental health to join a team of experienced Doctors, Nurses and support staff.
GP’s with a special interest in Women's and Indigenous Health would also be very welcome.
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Located within the rainforest and just half an hour drive from the centre of Cairns, this is the perfect opportunity for GPs who are passionate about Indigenous Health and Closing the Gap to work from the practice as well as in remote clinics, which are run three times a fortnight to service the surrounding Indigenous communities.
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Cairns is a popular place to visit, but it's also home to about 152,000 people who enjoy coastal living at its best. With wonderful World Heritage Listed playgrounds close by, quiet streets, fantastic tropical weather, warm waters and relaxed lifestyle it really isn't too hard to guess why people come here on holidays and then end up staying for life.
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HLPFI joins DVV Media’s portfolio of leading publications - Business
HLPFI joins DVV Media’s portfolio of leading publications
Effective immediately, DVV Media International has acquired Heavy Lift & Project Forwarding International (HLPFI).
HLPFI’s co-founders, Ian Matheson and Peter Edwards, said: “Documenting events in the project logistics sector over the last 11 years has been fascinating and in that time we have developed a publication and website that has an excellent reputation among its audience.
“With prospects for the heavy lift and project logistics sector improving, we believe that the time is right to hand over the reins to an organisation that is totally committed to maintaining the publication's ethos whilst developing the HLPFI brand and product range.”
DVV Media International is the UK-based division of DVV Media, the publishing division of German media business Rheinische Post. The company’s portfolio of leading publications in the transport and logistics sector include: Deutsche Verkehrs Zeitung; Schiff und Hafen; Ship and Offshore; Air Cargo News; Motor Transport; Railway Gazette International; and Commercial Motor, among others.
DVV Media International’s managing director, Andy Salter, said that HLPFI is a logical fit within the company’s growing portfolio of products: “At present, we publish a number of market-leading transport and logistics titles covering the road, rail, shipping and aviation sectors.
“HLPFI covers a niche but essential part of the infrastructure supply chain, has a powerful international audience and has huge potential for growth.
“The DVV events division has already been working with the HLPFI team on the development and launch of the Heavy Lift Awards event, which will take place in October 2019. We fully expect to announce further developments in the months ahead and we look forward to working with the HLPFI team and seeing this division develop strongly.”
All HLPFI staff members have transferred to DVV Media International as part of the takeover; HLPFI magazine will continue to be headquartered in the London Borough of Bromley.
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30 Best Holiday Cookies From Around the World Recipes
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There isn't a better treat to complement a glass of eggnog than a warm gingerbread cookie. The smell of cinnamon is a sweet reminder of holiday cheer and the warmth that comes with being with loved ones. Around the world, cookies are also a holiday treat, and different cultures enjoy their own traditional cookies. Gingerbread cookies or sugar cookies are traditionally baked around the holidays in America (and in some other countries as well), whether we're leaving them for Santa or baking them for ourselves. But beyond these classic confections, other countries have their own recipes for holiday cookies.
From mailänderli (lemon-flavored shortbread cookies from Switzerland) and joulutorttu (pinwheel-shaped Finnish holiday cookies filled with prunes or lingonberries) to vanillekipferl (crescent-shaped vanilla cookies from Austria made with ground nuts), there are countless international holiday cookies to delight in, so read on for the 30 best holiday cookies from around the world.
Alfajores (Argentina)
Varying recipes for these treats with dulce de leche spread between two butter cookies are enjoyed throughout Latin America, but they're especially prominent in Buenos Aires, where they are often served year-round as a treat to accompany coffee. During the holiday season, though, it's tradition to bake alfajores with one's unique family recipe.
For the Alfajores recipe, click here.
Almond Cookies (China)
These almond cookies are often made in the home during the holiday season and are also a staple recipe to help ring in the Chinese New Year. Ingredients include butter, sugar, sliced almonds, and an egg white.
For the Almond Cookie recipe, click here.
Besitos De Coco (Caribbean and South America)
These are popular around Christmastime and are made with delicious coconut and chocolate. The name literally translates to "coconut kisses" - how could that not be good? You can use sweetened or unsweetened coconut flakes for these.
For the Coconut Macaroon recipe, click here.
Brigadeiro Cookies (Brazil)
This treat is extremely popular in Brazil. Brigadeiro cookies are delicious, sweet little chocolate balls covered in sprinkles. They're perfect if you're looking for a quick and easy dessert to round off your meal. And with only three ingredients, they can even be whipped up in a microwave!
For the Brigadeiro Cookie recipe, click here.
Florentines (France)
These cookies are said to have been introduced to France in the 16th century by Catherine de Medici, who was raised in Florence before marrying Henri II. There are many different variations of the cookie - some include candied cherries, cornflakes, or oats.
For the Florentine Cookie recipe, click here.
Galletas con Chochitos (Mexico)
These ring-shaped cookies are topped with colorful sprinkles - chocolate sprinkles for an everyday treat, and red and green ones for the holidays. They're made with egg yolks, vanilla extract, an egg white, and, of course, a variety of sprinkles.
For the Galletas con Chochitos recipe, click here.
Gingerbread (Europe and America)
Gingerbread is pretty ubiquitous around the holidays in many parts of the world, but it was allegedly brought to Europe in 992 BCE by an Armenian monk named Gregory of Nicopolis. Later, settlers from Europe brought gingerbread to the Americas, where it became a holiday hit. Decorated gingerbread houses were a popular trend in Germany in the 1800s, apparently first inspired by the Grimm Brothers' fairytale "Hansel and Gretel."
For the Ultimate Gingerbread Cookie recipe, click here.
Hamantaschen (Israel)
Hamantaschen is a Yiddish word that literally means "Haman pockets" - they're named for Haman, the antagonist of the Book of Esther. Hamataschen are triangular-shaped cookies usually served on the Jewish Hoilday Purim. The inside of the pastry-like cookies can be filled with a variety of different fillings, including poppy seeds, prunes, nuts, fruit preserves, or caramel.
For the Hamantaschen recipe, click here.
Joulutorttu (Finland)
Joulutorttu are pinwheel-shaped Finnish holiday cookies or tarts that are traditionally filled with prunes or lingonberries. Making them usually entails a two-day process, where the pastry and filling are made on the first day, refrigerated overnight, and then assembled.
For the Joulutorttu recipe, click here.
Kifli (Austria and Eastern Europe)
A vanillekipferl, also called kipfli and kipfel is a crescent-shaped cookie that is made with ground almonds, walnuts, or hazelnuts, flavored with vanilla, and dusted with sugar. The cookie originated in Austria, but is served throughout central and eastern Europe during Christmas time.
For the Kifli recipe, click here.
Koeksister (South Africa)
The koeksister (which literally translates to "cookie sister") is a traditional Afrikaans treat prepared by frying dough strips in oil and then covering them in syrup. They were traditionally made at church celebrations or fundraisers.
For the Koeksister recipe, click here.
Around the holidays, people in Poland bake jam-filled cookies called ko�?aczki, which may be round, square, or diamond-shaped. Poland, Croatia, and the Czech Republic all claim to have invented this traditional treat.
For the Ko�?aczki recipe, click here.
Krumkake (Scandinavia)
Norwegian wafer-like, cone-shaped cookies called krumkake are made with a decorative two-sided griddle. They can be eaten plain, filled with whipped cream, or dipped in chocolate.
For the Krumkake recipe, click here.
Lebkuchen (Germany)
Called either lebkuchen or pfefferkuchen, this German cookie is softer than the traditional gingerbread cookie you may be used to and typically has honey and spices. It can be rectangular or round and has a sweet, slightly nutty taste. Similar recipes date back to ancient Egypt, but the most well-known variation of the cookie is the Nürnberger lebkuchen, from the German city of Nuremberg, where it was made into creative shapes and designs and decorated by a professional guild of gingerbread makers, the Lebkuchner Guild.
For the Lebkuchen recipe, click here.
Mailänderli (Switzerland)
Mailänderli are lemon-flavored shortbread cookies cut into various shapes and sizes, and they are a traditional holiday cookie in Switzerland. They're made with a simple list of ingredients: margarine, eggs, sugar, and a pinch of salt.
For the Mailänderli recipe, click here.
Maltese Lemon-Infused Cookies (Malta)
The addition of lemon gives these cookies a bright Mediterranean twist. They are crunchy and very buttery, a refreshing addition to your tea or coffee at a post-holiday feast.
For the Maltese Lemon-Infused Cookies, click here.
Mantecados (Spain)
Spanish shortbread cookies, called mantecados, are exceedingly crumbly. The recipe calls for cinnamon, lemon peel, and egg white, but the cookies are also flavored with anise.
For the Mantecados recipe, click here.
Matcha Cookies (Japan)
Japan is a culinary goldmine, and it's famous for having many interesting sweets and pastries that have become popular around the world. Matcha has become particularly popular - not only for its health benefits, but also because of its unique, earthy flavor. These bright green cookies are easy to make and slightly healthier than your average butter cookie, and they add a pop of color to any spread!
For the Matcha Cookie recipe, click here.
Melomakarona (Greece)
These egg-shaped cookies are very sweet, as they are dunked in honey and finished with nuts and cinnamon.
For the Melomakarona recipe, click here.
Nanaimo Bars (Canada)
These treats are Canada's hidden culinary secret! They are really wonderful and pretty simple to make: with a graham cracker base, an instant-pudding filling and melted chocolate on top. They are named after the city of Nanaimo, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island. The best part about making these is that they require no baking!
For the Nanaimo Bar recipe, click here.
Nankhatai (India and Pakistan)
These biscuits originated in the city of Surat during the 16th century and are now popular throughout India and Pakistan. Often served warm with tea in the afternoon or after a large meal, they have a dense, buttery texture.
For the Indian Spiced Cookie recipe, click here.
Pepparkakor (Sweden)
Similar in taste to a gingersnap cookie, a pepparkakor is made with maple syrup and is traditionally cut into the shape of a star or heart, although other traditional shapes include a pig or a goat. This Swedish holiday cookie is hung as an ornament on the Christmas tree. Another Swedish custom is to place a pepparkakor in the palm of your hand and make a wish. Then, using your index finger or thumb of your other hand, tap the center of the cookie. If the cookie breaks into three pieces, your wish will come true. If not, you'll still have a delicious cookie to eat.
For the Pepparkakor recipe, click here.
Pfeffernüsse (The Netherlands, Germany and Denmark)
Recipes for pfeffernüsse (which means "pepper nuts") differ slightly depending on who you ask, but these tiny cookies, enjoyed during the holidays in the Netherlands, are commonly spiced with cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, and anise. Other ingredients include molasses, honey, and margarine.
For the Pfeffernüsse recipe, click here.
Rice Cookies (Iran)
These classic Iranian cookies are made with rice flour and a hint of rose water (a common ingredient in many Middle Eastern dishes), and tend to be quite crumbly. They're often topped with poppy seeds for decoration, but it's optional.
For the Rice Cookie Recipe, click here.
Russian Tea Cake Cookies (Russia)
This cookie was also popular in England in the Middle Ages and consists of lots of butter, flour, and sugar - with ground hazelnuts mixed in of course.
For the Russian Tea Cake Cookie recipe, click here.
Shortbread (Ireland)
This iconic cookie that is also very popular in Scotland and Britain is often eaten on New Year's Eve. They are buttery and delicious - perfect to enjoy with a cup of tea or simply as a comforting reminder of your grandparents.
For the Scottish Shortbread Cookie recipe, click here.
Speculaas (Belgium and the Netherlands)
In the Netherlands, the Christmas season begins on the second Saturday of November and continues through December 6, which is St. Nicholas' Day. In Belgium and the Netherlands, these spiced ginger cookies are elaborately cut and carved into depictions of St. Nicholas (or Sinterklaas, as he is called in this region) and other characters from stories about him by way of special wooden molds.
For the Speculaas recipe, click here.
Struffoli (Italy)
Small round cookies called struffoli are baked for the holidays in Italy. They're also known as "honey balls," and they can usually be found piled in a tree-shaped mound or arranged to resemble a wreath. Ingredients include honey, eggs, and margarine, but the treats can be topped with sprinkles, toasted pine nuts, silver balls, or candied fruits.
For the Struffoli recipe, click here.
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Sugar Cookies (United States)
Snowmen, Christmas trees, presents, dreidels, and bells come out to play during the holiday season in the United States - all in the form of sugar cookies. It's common to find elaborately iced, colorful cookies cut into seasonal shapes at holiday parties, and they're often also given as gifts.
For the Sugar Cookie recipe, click here.
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Vanilice (Serbia)
These nutty cookies are perfect for Christmastime. They're rolled in vanilla sugar which gives them a great fragrance as well. The type of nut used can vary - both walnuts and almonds work perfectly. Any of the cookies on this list are worth serving (and eating) anywhere in the world, and some are featured in our ranking of favorite holiday cookies from worst to best!
For the Vanilice recipe, click here.
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MLS Ohioans
Rounding out the 2016 MLS season with a dive into minutes and where players are from. A couple of items stick out. 1. US born players now play less than half the minutes, and 2. There is a strong group of Ohioans in the league right now.
In regards to the first point, MLS is starting to look more like the English Premier League. There's nothing right or wrong with who is playing as it should always be the best available player. But there are forces at work here that might be something to keep and eye on.
The EPL has the entire globe of which to draw the best players. Players are signed based almost entirely off playing ability. Teams cannot afford to lose. Keep in mind that it is a matter of degree, as well. Teams like Arsenal and Manchester United have to remain in the top four. Anything less is a failure. Others, like Sunderland or Burnley, are trying to not get relegated.
Things are different in MLS. Teams bounce around the table all year, every year. The way rosters are constructed are influenced by a number of factors outside of where they will finish. Jersey and ticket sales are at the top of the importance list. Making a splash in the news (social, mostly) is also critical.
Nestled in there somewhere is how competitive a team is. There is a bit of a myth out there that says MLS teams don't suffer consequences if they are bad. For the most part, that is true. No matter how bad they are, they stay in MLS. That said, bad teams do suffer in attendance (the real kind, not the "announced" kind). Bad teams like Chicago or what was Chivas USA or Colorado before the end of last season draw half full stadiums.
Ohioans, 2016 MLS regular season
With the way MLS is constructed this not only hurts the teams but the overall league. The pitifulness of Chivas USA drew the attention of the league office and eventually a sale was attempted. When no buyers emerged, the team was folded. It was a drag on the rest of the teams. The Chicago Fire are currently living the same state of affairs. Have you seen the news that the MLS Allstar game is going to be in Chicago, but not at the MLS stadium in Bridgeview that is the home of the Fire? In recent years, the annual all-star game is usually reserved for new stadiums. This year's game being played at Soldier Field has everything to do with trying to resurrect the MLS franchise there.
Now, to the second point. In the midst of all the wackiness that is how MLS rosters are constructed, the state of Ohio continues to produce a strong stable of good players. This past year was no different.
One piece of information that is a testament to many of the qualities I've witnessed first hand in my ten years here is how teams with Ohioans perform strongly in the MLS Cup Playoffs. In Fig. 1 up there (extra time playoff games trimmed to 90 mins) you'll notice that the percentage of minutes played increases measurably in the playoffs.
It's a one year look in, but it's enough to pull out a thing or two. It's an impressive list of players. There are two players, in particular, to make mention of. Evan Bush and Nick Hagglund. Hagglund wasn't a lock in Toronto's XI during the regular season but did play five playoff games, notching a goal and two assists in a defensive role.
Written By Larry W Johnson II on Sunday, January 29, 2017 No comments:
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MLS Mins by Age
Finally getting back to checking in on MLS player minutes and age after touching on the lack of minutes played by young players in MLS a few months ago.
MLS teams finished the year not giving many minutes to young players. Spending a few weekends watching widely available on TV leagues in England, Spain and Italy will tell you, in general, that they are playing younger players more. Beyond that, a quick look up at whoscored.com or Squawka will tell you how MLS compares to many of the other top leagues out there. Going in on MLS regular season data it should be expected. With that, I'm not (nor do I have the time) going to data mine those figures. Safe to go with observation on this one.
Dropping the info into a spreadsheet it wasn't surprising to find that young male players in MLS aren't playing much. By young, we mean under 20 years old or so. That said; there was something else. Something... unexpected.
MLS - % of Minutes Played, by Age, 2016
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Click around. A gap has formed in MLS. Players in their prime aren't getting minutes. Mid to late twenties. Not sure why this is happening, but it shouldn't be what MLS wants. You want those guys. As it stands right now, you have a group of older (established-ish) players going up against college kids. It's like playing your EA FIFA game on a difficulty level a notch or two below what challenges you.
Written By Larry W Johnson II on Saturday, January 21, 2017 No comments:
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2013 MLS Superdraftees
MLS held its annual "super draft" yesterday. Well, most of it. It's still going, in a way, as there are more rounds next week.
Columbus picked a couple players in the first round (5th pick: Lalas Abubakar and 9th pick: Niko Hansen). It's a little unusual for any MLS team to pick twice in the first round, but Gregg Berhalter and co. pulled it off via... whatever wonky MLS thing has to happen for that to work out.
This had me wondering out first round picks have worked out. The best way to work that out is to look at a draft class from a few years ago. 2013, to be more specific. How are those guys doing? Are they still contributing to their respective teams?
Turns out they are. Well, at least more than I thought they were. I remember looking at this a few years ago and coming to the conclusion that picking 1-10 is basically the only thing that nets you a good college player. Turns out, 2013 pretty much worked that way.
The success rate in the top 20 tells us a couple things. 1. College produces around 3-5 regular starters over a four-year span and 2. Much of it depends on the situation the player goes to. If you hit on both those then you have yourself a cheap, durable pro player who had no other options but to sign with the team that drafted him!
Here are the players in the graphic above:
1. Andrew Farrell
2. Carlos Alvarez
3. Kyle Bekker
4. Kekuta Manneh
5. Erik Hurtado
6. Deshorn Brown
7. Walker Zimmerman
8. Blake Smith
9. Ryan Finley
10. Eriq Zavaleta
11. Dillon Powers
12. John Stertzer
13. Jason Johnson
14. Mikey Lopez
15. Tommy Muller
16. Emery Welshman
17. Taylor Kemp
18. Fernando Monge
19. Charlie Rugg
Last note; None of these players, outside of Deshorn Brown, have progressed beyond MLS. Ryan Finley and Charlie Rugg are still bouncing around the nordic region, but have yet to take root.
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[podcast] Special, part 3/3
Wrapping it up, almost. The search for part one continues! Split show from a recording Justin Bell and I did back in mid December. Great time. We'll do it more often. Thanks for listening.
Written By Larry W Johnson II on Sunday, January 08, 2017 2 comments:
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2017 Crew taking shape
2017 is here and the Columbus MLS team is starting to shape up. First question has to be the same as the one publicly made by operator/investor Anthony Precourt as the 2016 season came to an early close; "Let Gregg do his thing. Expect FINAL roster by end of January."
We are 24 short days away from hitting that deadline, so let us take a look at the look of things. High-level, as always.
My observations:
1. Early action to improve was taken by the team after the season ended. Which is great! It's what Precourt wanted and what Gregg Berhalter said he would do.
2. Berhalter is putting together a group of starters that is long in pro experience outside MLS. Raitala, Mensah are joining Afful, Kamara, Martinez and Naess as guys who have 61 years combined experience in not receiving SUM paychecks.
3. 23 rostered players means the remaining slots will likely be draft picks and/or projects. There could be one more starter in the works but big 5 windows are open now. Makes business hard for teams on a budget. particularly one carrying dead weight (Sauro).
In keeping with my last post before the holiday break - here is a couple visuals that help us get a better understanding of the current roster. Frist up is one sorted by the number of years each player has been pro. This is essentially "real age." That big gray area is what point 2. is referencing.
This next one is similar, but is organized by age (at top).
It's impressive the way Columbus has gone out to find players with lots of playing experience at relatively high levels. Real players in the 25-29 age range. So far, so good from my point of view. A good offseason will put this team firmly in a playoff position come summer.
All I've got for now. Hope everyone had a nice holiday season.
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Reader submissions 12-21
Local | December 20, 2005
Nation-building is not the job of American soldiers
The military’s goal in Iraq was to depose the regime of Saddam Hussein. Our military achieved a brilliant victory in Iraq when it pulled Saddam out of his hole in the ground, eliminated or captured members of his regime and liberated the Iraqi people from his regime. They did so with great speed, competence, courage and honor. That was our military’s victory!
From the time of the military’s victory, we have been in the business of nation building, which has turned into an occupation and training ground for terrorists due to the flawed policies and judgments of this administration. They believed we would be met with flower and song. They were either ignorant of or had no regard for the Islamic religion, culture and the extreme divisions among the Shiite, Sunni, and Kurds. Nation building is the civilian administration’s responsibility. The majority of casualties have occurred for both our military and the Iraq people under the nation building phase of this endeavor. We the people cannot allow the military’s victory to be diminished or forgotten as a means to cover up the flawed policies and judgments of nation building.
So when we hear the rhetoric “We will not leave until we achieve complete victory,” We the people must hold the administration accountable for the political nation building victory. Our military already achieved its victory by deposing the regime of Saddam Hussein, capturing or eliminating members of his regime and liberating the Iraqi people from his regime.
JEAN E. WINKLER
It’s hard to believe such ignorance still exists
This letter is in response to a caller, Ruby, from Greeley. She says “We cater to Latinos.” She is upset because they are working in restaurants and stores, that they are bettering themselves and even getting their own businesses. I very honestly find it very hard to believe that such ignorant people still exist in this day and age.
I’ll bet her ignorant forefathers came here for the same reason, to work and hope for their own businesses and a better life.
If they were anything like her, they probably did it at the expense of the true native Americans. As a matter of fact, the land on which the rock she lives under was stolen from them.
BEATRICE HUNTER
There are responsible exotic pet owners; don’t kill these animals
After reading articles on Mr. Craig’s The Rocky Mountain Wildlife Conservation Center (Tribune, Dec. 18), I felt the sense of dj vu.
He criticizes other exotic owners and he supposedly runs a sanctuary that is saving these creatures, but if he kills them I don’t see how is he saving them.
This is not the first or second time he threatened to euthanize his animals. How come other places can manage their finances in spite of a hurricane related drop in donations without threatening with mass euthanasia?
Responsibility means thinking ahead; love for the animals is not enough. Don’t adopt more than you can support.
I find it totally repulsive that somebody who is calling himself a rescuer threatens to kill the very animals he claims to be saving, while badmouthing responsible owners like myself.
Just like we have some bad drivers, parents or dog owners, there are some bad exotic animals owners, but the majority are great and love their animals. How come you don’t acknowledge it in your article. Isn’t it your responsibility to present both sides?
Imagine the public outcry if everybody adopting foster children or domestics threatened to kill them unless they get money?
Maybe it is time for Mr. Craig to do what is best for the animals, step down and put somebody in charge who, like him, is an animal lover and at the same time is financially savvy and fiscally responsible, as I can’t not bear a thought of another episode where these wonderful creatures would be threatened with death.
Yes, he is accredited by private, self-appointed clubs ASA and TAOS (not government agencies). What does this say about their credibility?
The best way to keep animals safe it to place them with responsible owners (pet home, exhibitor or sanctuary).
ZUZANA KUKOL
Vice president, http://www.phoenixexotics.org
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Galapagos Animals – 21 Famous Species in the Archipelago
by Keenan Ennis on December 5, 2018
The Galapagos Islands are amazing on many levels. The climate is remarkably comfortable for being so close to the equator. The islands themselves were formed by presently-active volcanoes that command respect and truly impress. The ocean and beaches are beautiful. Really, though, it's animals that make the visit unforgettable. The Galapagos Islands are home to loads of endemic species. That means that they're not found anywhere else in the world. The animals here are actually extremely comfortable around humans; they haven't developed a fear of being hunted that animals in other areas have. Let's go over some of the highlights of what awesome animals you can expect to see in the Galapagos.
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Stunning Active Volcanoes in the Galapagos Islands
by Keenan Ennis on June 1, 2018
There are 21 volcanoes in the Galapagos Islands that emerge from the ocean and form the Archipelago. Of these, 13 volcanoes are active! Ever since Charles Darwin showed up here in 1835, there have been over 60 recorded eruptions on 6 of the volcanoes. Many people are fascinated by how such a delicate ecosystem - complete with its own micro climate - exists in such a volatile place! Historically, the critically endangered wildlife of the Galapagos has always been on the brink of destruction.
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2017 Cuyabeno Reserve Review
by Angel Nunez on September 20, 2017
When the Cuyabeno Reserve was initially proposed as a traveling option, it brought up a long lingering question, why do people find the jungle so appealing? It just did not sound like all that much fun. Humidity, strange animal cries in the middle of the night, mosquitoes, and poisonous snakes ? Nope. Nope. Nope. Also, nothing positive ever happened to Indiana Jones in the jungle, and even Mowgli bailed! And he was raised by a Bear!
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Galapagos Evolution
by Angel Nunez on September 6, 2016
Galapagos Evolution - UNESCO declared the Galapagos Islands —an archipelago made up of 127 islands, islets and rocks some 1000 km out west from mainland Ecuador— a World Heritage Site in 1979 because of the uniqueness or endemism of their abundant biodiversity. The Galapagos Islands are home to a greater variety of flora and fauna than anywhere else in the world with a marine environment that is a veritable ‘melting pot’ of marine species. These islands and their marine reserve are known as a ‘living museum and showcase of evolution’.
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Cotopaxi volcano: The awakening of a giant
by Angel Nunez on October 21, 2015
Ever since Cotopaxi volcano became active this past august, Ecuador has being tirelessly working to inform and educate citizens in the event of a potential eruption and its possible repercussions. But how does this translate for tourists and travelers passing by? What precautions should they take? What places are to be avoided? How long will it last? We got you covered, first and foremost let’s get started with your safety! Check out the infographic below on the effects of volcanic ash to your health and how you can avoid them:
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Sangay National Park
by Angel Nunez on March 14, 2014
Sangay National Park is part of the many protected reserves in the country, but this one particular has earned Ecuador world recognition - declared a UNESCO world heritage site. The following is an excerpt of UNESCO's website describing the Park: With its outstanding natural beauty and two active volcanoes, the park illustrates the entire spectrum of ecosystems, ranging from tropical rainforests to glaciers, with striking contrasts between the snow capped peaks and the forests of the plains. Its isolation has encouraged the survival of indigenous species such as the mountain tapir and the Andean condor.
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Judge D. Thomas Ferraro, 14 lawyers, BP Prosecutor Chris Lewis, Mexican Consulate representative, 2 interpreters, bailiff, security guards (a few), 5 federal marshals and a few other corrections officials
Observers: One GV Samaritan, the family of one defendant came in briefly and left with the lawyer—Kevin Leach.
68 defendants were on the list including 6 women. 23 were 1325—illegal entry—only. 45 people had both illegal entry and re-entry charges. 39 people were from Mexico, 17 from Guatemala, 4 from Honduras and 1 from El Salvador. 17 people were picked up near Naco, 15 near Sasabe, 13 near Douglas, 12 near Nogales and 4 near Lukeville. Countries of origin were not mentioned for the 7 cases dismissed or continued at the start of the proceedings.
The defendants entered the courtroom in groups of 7 and went directly to stand in front of the judge now that they are no longer shackled. 5 U.S. Marshals stood around them—the contrast between the very beefy marshals and the Mexicans and Central Americans finishing a long journey was marked—actually the contrast between the defendants and everyone else in the courtroom is marked. Of the first group of 7 men, 4 were dismissed and 3 were continued. I think one of the continued was Mr. Lerch’s client, Antolin Basurto Basurto 25364MP or José Muñoz Reyna 25310M,, who had some family members outside the courtroom but I did not hear the details of this group.
The remaining defendants entered 7 at a time in order of their position on the list. All of the 1325 group were given ‘time served’ which was usually the 2 or 3 days since they had been apprehended by the border patrol. Lawyers mentioned asylum and credible fear in two cases; Luis Felipe Avila Lopez 25343MP (lawyer Bert Vargas) from Honduras and Otilio Calmo Calmo 25374MP (lawyer Homero Torralba) from Guatemala.
Emauel Castillo Erunes 25314M (lawyer Cheryl Blum) seemed not to understand, had further consultation with his lawyer and was seen alone at a break between two groups. He still did not seem very clear on what was being said but was given ‘time served’.
The judge recommended that Gabriela Alamilla Gonzalez 25373M and Oscar Eder Ventura Rojas 25377M be sent to the same facility to serve their 30 days each.
Judge Ferraro sentenced the group to 2440 days (almost 6.7 years). At the cost of incarceration of $161 a day, that’s $392,840 for the taxpayer and untold misery for many families.
I spoke to lawyer Leach for a little while before court. He had worked through the lunch hour and gotten someone to take two of his clients because two needed extra attention. He said in the past when the docket was all plea bargains there was not much that a lawyer could do except get concerns on the record. By the time people charged with a misdemeanor and a felony get to court they have signed a plea agreement and the sentence is set. Now that the ‘petties’ (illegal entry only) are being brought to Streamline again there is leeway for lawyers to argue those cases and they are speaking out more often. I think the family which came briefly to court today was probably the wife and children of a defendant who was picked up returning to his family here. Next time I get a chance I will ask him.
Without the shackles the procedure has changed a bit. Prisoners arrive and leave in shackles to a room next to the courtroom. There is about 5 minutes between groups as the groups of 7 are unshackled and reshackled. The proceedings last a little longer.
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BJP Committed To Ram Temple In Ayodhya: Amit Shah At Party Convention
The BJP chief said 2019 Lok Sabha polls will be a battle of ideologies.
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BJP president Amit Shah on Friday said that the Lok Sabha elections will be a battle of two ideologies, claiming that his party stands for cultural nationalism and development of poor, while the rivals have come together merely for power.
In his inaugural address at the party’s convention at Ramlila Maidan, Shah said the opposition’s grand alliance, which he added has no policy and programme, did not have nationwide influence.
The BJP had defeated each of them in the 2014 general elections, he added.
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Shah also said that the party is committed to the construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya. The party, he said, wants the Ram temple to be constructed at the earliest, but Congress is creating obstacles.
News18 quoted him as saying, “We are trying to expedite the case which is currently tabled in the Supreme Court.”
Amit Shah, BJP President: BJP wants #RamMandir to be constructed at the earliest. We are trying in the Supreme Court that the case reaches its conclusion but Congress here also is trying to create obstacles. pic.twitter.com/A6IzgJiNCH
— ANI (@ANI) January 11, 2019
The party chief also said that there is no leader as popular as Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Top party leaders, including Modi, were present at the convention.
Earlier, in his welcome address, Shah said the Modi government has “fulfilled” the dreams of crores of youths with 10% reservation in jobs and education for the general category poor, and described the constitution amendment bill as one of the most important legislations passed by Parliament.
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Facebook Announces To Launch Its Clear History Privacy Tool Later This Year
February 27, 2019 TechnologyHit Counts
Users on the internet want complete control of how their information is being stored and to which extent can they control their user activity. Browsers give an option to clear history which gives people the freedom to search whatever they want. The average internet user wants greater liberty to be able to restrict some information from websites. Thus, Facebook decided on a new feature for people’s security concerns.
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in May 2018 that the social network is adding a new feature Clear History to its existing privacy tools.
The tool would allow users to wipe information which Facebook collects from third-party websites and apps. Zuckerberg explained further details about the tool. He went on to say that the feature is similar to clearing the cookies and history in an internet browser. Your browsing history includes any website you click on or visit. Most people had demanded this new addition to be a part of Facebook’s security tools.
It is still not made sure, as to what the tool would look like and how it would work. However, it would be a great way forward to enhance the user’s experience on the social network. But the advanced tool will come at an expense. Facebook would not be able to target ads to the people efficiently, as they will remove their browser history, leaving less appropriate data for Facebook ads and Analytics tool. So the feature will be introduced at the cost of losing some revenue by Facebook.
The announcement was made by chief financial officer David Wehner, at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telecom Conference that the new feature will launch later this year. The initial mention of this tool was made in 2018 during the Cambridge Analytics data privacy scandal. However, when Wehner made the announcement recently, users saw it as a legitimate update to be made in the social network, and not something is done as a publicity stunt.
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After the screening > 930 pm: I am so EXCITED to see SUPER 8. Steven Spielberg is the reason why I love movies. His blessing, influence, reminiscent of Goonies/E.T are all over Super 8. Just the music from the trailer gave me chills, took me back to the 80's. - incredibly nostalgic wild, adventurous thrill ride to follow these kids, who are fun, innocent with BIG HEART!!! -honestly don't expect big explosions, expect a hearty story. -it's not about the monster, instead it's about the characters, Love, loss, grief, fear and letting go. If you know, followed jj and his shows, then you know his central idea/subtext, LOVE. - ahh love interest....Speilbergian sentimental moments ....aww -Totally miss sandlot, stand by me -complete utter homage to 80's Spielberg E.T, Goonies - Cinematography by Larry Fong -monster designed by jj's regular make up Neville Page (star trek, cloverfield, avatar, watchmen...) -music composed by Michael Giacchino (alias, lost, fringe, cars, The Incredibles...) channeling Spielberg's music buddy JOHN WILLIAMS - Am I watching E.T No I'm Watching Goonies....AHHHHHHH -awesome feeling like I was watching E.T/Goonies for the first time. so much love in this film -Congratulations JJ and Spelberg for reminding us why we all love the movies! -E.T. Extremely Terrific. - The best sci-fi thriller of the year -They just don't make them like this anymore. -met every expectation.
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The Education of Charlie Banks (2007)
First of all, I love high school/college setting, dysfunctional family and coming of age drama. Despite having the elements in this film, it was missing lot of chemistry between the actors, the time period didn't fit the screen, wasn't really impressed by the lens/filter or the cinematography. It would be amazing if Gus Van wrote/directed this film.
Nevertheless, I do have to praise Fred Durst for evolving. He has come long way from directing music videos to the big screen. He displayed so much maturity through music choices in this film and long drone camera staring into the characters. Also, to get a dramatic gig like this film and to bring forth so much emotion off the characters/story was just good for Fred. He really tried to capture the mentality of teenagers/young adult. it was very good first choice for Fred Durst. I am very much impressed by his first attempt. (o yes I love the guy, he was so humble and awesome guy when I met him at TRL in 2003)
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Dr. Zacur received his undergraduate degree in biology from Harvard College. He earned his M.D. from the University of Miami School of Medicine and his Ph.D. in reproductive biology from the Johns Hopkins University. He completed his residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and went on to perform a fellowship there in reproductive endocrinology. Dr. Zacur joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1980.
Dr. Zacur has published more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles and several book chapters on reproductive endocrinology and infertility. Dr. Zacur is a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists and a member of several scientific societies, including the Society of Reproductive Surgeons, The Endocrine Society and the American Fertility Society. He serves as a member of the editorial board for Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Zacur is also the recipient of the first annual J. Donald Woodruff Teaching Award.
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MD; Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (1973)
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GallicchioL, Miller SR, Kiefer J, Zacur H, Flaws JA: Change in Body Mass Index, Weight, and Hot Flashes. A Longitudinal Analysis from the Midlife Women’s Health Study. J Womens Health (Larchmt). Mar.23(3):231-237, 2014. PMCID: PMC3952652
Ziv-Gal A, Flaws JA, Mahoney MM, Miller SR, Zacur HA, Gallicchio L.: Genetic polymorphisms in the aryl hydrocarbon receptor-signaling pathway and sleep disturbances in middle-aged women. Sleep Med. 2013 Sep;14(9):883-7. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2013.04.007. Epub 2013 Jun 13 PMCID: PMC3750063
Zhao Y, Zacur H, Cheadle C, Ning N, Fan J, Vlahos NF: Effect of luteal-phase support on endometrial microRNA expression following controlled ovarian stimulation. Reprod Biol Edocrinol. 2012 Sep 6;10:72. doi: 10.1186/1477-7827-10-72 PMCID: PMC3462109
Ziv-Gal A, Gallicchio L, Miller SR, Zacur HA, Flaws JA: Genetic polymorphisms in the aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling pathway as potential risk factors of menopausal hot flashes. Am J Obstet Gynecol.2012 Sep;207(3):202.e9-202.e18. Epub 2012 Jun 1. PMCID: PMC3432652
Ziv-Gal A, Gallicchio L, Miller SR, Zacur HA, Flaws JA: A genetic polymorphism in the CYP19A1 gene and the risk of hypertension among midlife women. Maturitas. Epub 2011 Nov 21; 71(1):70-5, 2012. PMCID: PMC3253901
Jurema M, Vierira A, Bankowski B, Petrella C, Zhao Y, Wallach E, Zacur H: Effect of Ejaculatory Abstinence Period on the Pregnancy Rate After Intrauterine Insemination. Fertil and Steril, 84(3): 678-681, 2005.
Zhao Y, Vlahos N, Wyncott D, Petrella C, Garica J, Zacur H, Wallach EE: (2004) Impact of Semen Characteristics on the Success of Intrauterine Insemination. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, 2004; 21 (5) 143-148.
Whelan J, Zacur HA: Uterine Leiomyoma. In Conn's Current Therapy. Rakel RE (Eds.) W.B. Saunders Company, Division of Harcourt Brace and Company, Philadelphia, PA, pg 1092-1093, 2002.
Zacur H: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Hyperandrogenism, and Insulin Resistance. Obstet Gyencol Clin North Am Mar; 28 (1): 21-33, Review, 2001.
Phelps JY, Figueira-Armada L, Levine AS, Vlahos NP, Roshanfekr D, Zacur HA, Garcia JE: Exogenous Luteinizing Hormone (LH) Increases Estradiol Response Patterns in Poor Responders with Low Serum LH Concentrations. Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics. 16(7); 363-368, 1999.
Zacur HA: Indications for Surgery in the Treatment of Hyperprolactinemia. J Reprod Med. 44(12): 1127-1131, December, 1999.
Zacur HA: Hyperprolactinemia. Encyclopedia of Reproduction. Academic Press, pg 725-735, 1999.
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Zhao Y, Kolp L, Yates M, Zacur H: Clinical Evaluation of Female Factor Infertility. In D.T. Carrel and C.M. Peterson’s Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility: Integrating Modern Conical and Laboratory Practice. Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Chapter 10, pages 133-146 (DOI:10.1007/978), 2010.
King JA, Zacur HA: Hyperprolactinemia. In Bieber E, Sanfilippo J, and Horowitz I (eds): Clinical Gynecology, First Edition, Elsevier Publishing, Philadelphia, PA, Chapter 56, pp803-814, 2006.
Hoover K, Zacur HA: Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy. In The Johns Hopkins Manual of Gynecology and Obstetrics. (Eds. Bankowski, Hearne, Lambrou, Fox, and Wallach) Lippincott Williams& Wilkins, Philadelphia, pg 426, 2002.
Montz FJ, Zacur HA, Fox HE: Evidenced Based Medicine: Chapter 38, Gyencologic Surgery. (Eds) Toby A. Bordon, ScD, and John Cameron, M.D., BC Decker, Inc., Hamilton, London, pages 549-559, March 2000.
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PM says, Killers and money launderers must be punished
PM says, Killers and money-launderers must be punished
Published : 10 May 2019, 10:30
In a veiled attack on BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said the killers and money-launderers must be punished.
"There’s no mercy to the killers and money-launderers. The nation won't forgive them, no matter where they hide in and whatever amount of money they spend," she said in a views-exchange meeting at Taj Hotel here.
The United Kingdom (UK) chapter of Bangladesh Awami League and its associate bodies organised the views-exchange meeting with UK Awami League President Sultan Mahmud Sharif in the chair.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md Shahriar Alam was present on the dais, while UK AL General Secretary Syed Shazidur Rahman conducted the function.
The Prime Minister said courts have delivered verdicts against the killers and money-launderers. "We'll take measures so that the verdicts are executed, no matter what slogans they shout and what abusive words they use…they must be punished," she said.
Sheikh Hasina, also the chief of the ruling Awami League, said the government has tried the killers of Bangabandhu and war criminals defying all the odds and obstacles.
Tarique Rahman went to London in 2008 for treatment after his release from jail on parole. Since then, he has been living there.
The BNP leader faces over a dozen of cases and he has been convicted in five of these, including the 10-truck arms-haul, August 21 grenade attack, Zia Orphanage and Zia Charitable trust graft cases.
Turning to the December-30 election, the Prime Minister said ruling Awami League achieved a landslide victory in the polls due to the country's tremendous development over the last 10 years.
She urged all to stay alert so that the victory is upheld and no one can play ducks and drakes with the fate of people as they did in the past. "You'll have to remain alert so that no one can play with people’s fate and distort the history of the country," she said.
About the construction of the much-awaited Padma Bridge, Sheikh Hasina said the government is building the bridge with its own funds. "Two kms out of 6.5 kms of the bridge are now visible."
She said the allegations of graft in the bridge project had been raised against the government. "But we didn't accept the allegations, rather we protested it as we had such a courage," she said, adding, "Why would we accept the allegations of what we didn't do? An organisation will blame us and we’ll accept it, this will never happen. We don't want to come to power with any blame."
The Prime Minister firmly said she will not take the responsibility of false blame and she knows that people love the truth. "I also know the path of truth is tough and I've come to this stage choosing this way."
Pointing at BNP's false propaganda against the government, the Prime Minister said those who were born through falsehood and in an illegal way see everything as illegal.
"Trading with lies is a one of BNP’s characters and they've amassed huge wealth by embezzling orphans' money and siphoning off money abroad," she said adding, "I believe in a word that the victory of the truth is a must."
Pointing out the reasons behind BNP's debacle in the general election, the Prime Minister said the party did not take the polls as a competition; rather it took it as a scope of ‘nomination trade’. "They gave nominations to a number of candidates in a single seat and sidelined the prospective ones," she said.
The Awami League chief said women and young people voted for her party massively that helped it secure a landslide victory in the polls.
Highlighting the country's tremendous socioeconomic development over the last 10 years, she said her government is working hard to fulfill people’s basic needs.
Hasina said the government has been able to bring down the poverty rate to 21 percent from 41 percent. "The country expects 8.13 percent GDP growth in the current fiscal year due to various pragmatic steps of our government."
She recalled the contributions of expatriate Bangladeshis to the country's economy. "The country's economy stands on a strong footing as they send huge remittances to the country every year," she said.
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Ark Survival Evolved Recent Price Hike Earns Criticisms
By Binot Lewis , Jul 11, 2017 06:45 AM EDT
At Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) last June, developer Studio Wildcard announced that Ark Survival Evolved will be leaving Steam's Early Access soon. This basically means that the game will be launched as an official title come August. During that time, though, the studio revealed that the price of the game will remain the same prior to the official release.
However, as reported by ComicBook, the debut price of Ark Survival Evolved on Steam now sits at $60. This was doubled from the previous $30, thus making the game's price similar to the console. Obviously, this came as a shock to the community, as it opposes the announcement the studio made at the aforementioned event.
Apparently, there is a reason why Studio Wildcard opted to make the price change. They revealed that the decision to do so came primarily from the retailers. They advised that if they are to release the game on both platforms (physical and digital), there must a price consistency. This was suggested as a way to keep retails parity at bay. The video game company further explained that, in one way or another, it was never their intention to do so.
Whether or not this is true, the main reason for the price change in Ark Survival Evolved is to basically keep the business side of things thriving. Obviously, retailers who will sell the physical copy of the game will be notch higher compared to the digital copy. As a result, there is likely a huge difference in sales between the two, as noted by PCGamer.
According to GamesIndustryBiz, the move from Studio Wildcard only earned criticisms and loathing from the Ark Survival Evolved community. Many do not agree with the decision, considering how abrupt and unpromising it was. After all, the developers already made clear of it at E3, only to change it later on.
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Video of The Scent Of A Flower
Friday, September 14, 2018 - 09:00
(Inside Science) -- Would a fresh bouquet of flowers lose its appeal if it didn’t smell? Or what if you could no longer buy your favorite perfume? Find out why scientists are studying how pollution is interfering with flowers’ scents.
“I've always loved plants. I love flowers in particular; I love smelling them. I'm also really interested in chemistry. I actually majored in chemistry as an undergrad, and also perfumery. The research that I do, it's a perfect mix of all these topics of interest for me. I'm investigating in particular is how pollution affects the ability of floral scent to be transmitted through air,” said Jeremy Chan at the University of Washington.
And being able to actually “smell the roses” is a big part of any flower’s allure. But how does pollution affect a flower’s scent?
“Let's say you were standing a few hundred meters downwind of the flowers. Are you able to smell the flower? And it turns out that where the chemical compounds that are in the atmosphere affect the ability of floral scent to travel distances,” said Chan.
And if pollinators like bees, butterflies and moths can’t pick up a flower’s scent, then these insects can’t do their job. To help them, first, scientists need to measure how far a flower’s scent can travel.
“It is really hard because, you might imagine, these scent compounds are present in the atmosphere at tiny concentrations; the atmosphere is mostly air, and even so, you don't feel much when you move your hand through the atmosphere. The best machines that we have can really detect these floral scents maybe a few meters away from the flower, but we know from observations that pollinators can detect floral scents from up to a kilometer away,” said Chan.
One example that Chan studies is the hummingbird moth.
“I measured the electrical responses of the insect antennae to floral scent, which is a measure of what they're detecting. And I found that the responses were actually much higher to the oxidized gases than to the floral scent itself. That was kind of confusing,” said Chan.
Unfortunately, the moth was “smelling” all the scents in the air including the flowers and pollution.
“For the pollinators, it represents a lot of noise. It's like trying to listen to a conversation with another person, in a room full of other people that are yelling at each other,” said Chan.
The next step for Chan and his colleagues is to measure how far floral scents can travel when the concentration of gases, like ozone, change inside a large, closed room.
“Then we can release pollinators, in this case the large hummingbird moth, to observe the scent-tracking behavior in the room, and how it's impacted when we change the levels of these atmospheric gases,” concluded Chan.
Chan hopes to study pollution and pollinators to keep floral fragrances in the air, flower bouquets and your perfume bottle.
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Date: 13th June 2018, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Place: František Bartoš Regional Library in Zlín, Vavrečkova 7040, 760 01 Zlín, café
In the Zlín Region, the round table was attended by Mgr. Miroslav Kašný, member of the Zlín Region Council for Culture, Conservation, Churches, Youth and Sport, MUDr. Miroslav Adámek, mayor of Zlín, PhDr. Vít Richter, director of the National Library CR Librarianship Institute, Prof. PhDr. Zdeňka Friedlová, director of the Regional Library of František Bartoš in Zlín, Ing. Vojtěch Ryza, mayor of Lidečko and chairman of the Association for Rural Renewal of the Zlín Region, Mgr. Radovan Jančář, director of the Bedřich Beneš Buchlovan Library Uherské Hradiště. Other participants in the program, including writer Antonín Bajaja, MgA. Petr Michálek, director of the Municipal Theater Zlín, Mgr. David Valůšek, director of the State District Archive Zlín and others.
The programme was moderated by Mgr. Pavel Nášel, head of the Municipal Library of Fryšták.
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In the regional library of František Bartoš in Zlín the future of libraries in the digital era was discussed
Zlín - On June 13, a public panel discussion on the Library - a matter of public was held in the František Bartoš Regional Library in Zlín. The event took place in the building of the regional library in the café and was attended by 70 librarians, mayors and representatives of the professional public of the Zlín Region.
In the Zlín Region, the round table was attended by these main speakers: Mgr. Miroslav Kašný, member of the Zlin Region Council for Culture, Conservation, Churches, Youth and Sport, MUDr. Miroslav Adámek, mayor of Zlín, Prof. PhDr. Vít Richter, director of the National Library Library Institute, Prof. PhDr. Zdeňka Friedlová, director of the Regional Library of František Bartoš in Zlín, Ing. Vojtěch Ryza, mayor of Lidečko and chairman of the Association for Rural Renewal of the Zlín Region and Mgr. Radovan Jančář, director of the Bedřich Beneš Buchlovan Library Uherské Hradiště.
The introductory presentation was performed by dr. Richter and the show hosted by Mgr. Pavel Nášel, head of the Municipal Library of Fryšták. Other participants in the program, including writer Antonín Bajaja, MgA. Petr Michálek, director of the Municipal Theater Zlín, Mgr. David Valůšek, director of the State District Archive Zlín and others participated intensively in the discussion.
But what is the future of libraries in the digital era? Are libraries an unnecessary burden or value worth continuing to support and develop? How should libraries change in response to societal demand and their users' current needs? Or should they not? These were the main topics of the panel discussion. The councillor of the Zlín Region, Miroslav Kašný, emphasized "the irreplaceable and persistent role of libraries as cultural and social centers, guarantors of culture, quality and education". Mayor Miroslav Adámek and Vojtěch Ryza agreed that mayors want to hear from the libraries and would like to get to know examples of well-functioning libraries that provide their users with a pleasant environment for meetings, leisure and community activities.
"We are currently at a crossroads where, on the one hand, there is an outflow of users from classic library services to freely available electronic information resources and, on the other hand, the number of visitors to educational and cultural events organized by libraries. Libraries must respond to these facts. We must be able to keep up with the development of the information society, adapt to new ways of communication and above all to offer our users added value in the form of premium services and lifelong learning, " said PhDr. Zdeňka Friedlová, director of the Regional Library of František Bartoš in Zlín.
More information can be found on the project website https://www.knihovna-vec-verejna.cz/zlin/. A video was made from the discussion, which will be displayed on the project's website in the coming days.
Jana Tomancová
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2 The attack
USS LST-738
LST-738 burning after she was hit by a kamikaze off the Mindoro landing beaches, 15 December 1944. USS Moale (DD-693) is nearby. Note the hole in LST-738's starboard side, just forward of the large "738" painted there. Smoke in the left distance may be from LST-472, which was also hit by the kamikaze attack.
Builder: Dravo Corporation, Neville Island
Laid down: 20 February 1944
Launched: 1 April 1944
Commissioned: 9 May 1944
Struck: 19 January 1945
awards: 2 battle stars (World War II)
Fate: Sunk in action, 15 December 1944
Class and type: LST-542-class tank landing ship
1,780 long tons (1,809 t) light
3,640 long tons (3,698 t) full
Length: 328 ft (100 m)
Beam: 50 ft (15 m)
Draft:
Unloaded :
2 ft 4 in (0.71 m) forward
7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) aft
Loaded :
14 ft 1 in (4.29 m) aft
Propulsion: 2 × General Motors 12-567 diesel engines, two shafts, twin rudders
Troops: Approximately 130 officers and enlisted men
Complement: 8-10 officers, 89-100 enlisted men
1 × single 3"/50 caliber gun mount
8 × 40 mm guns
12 × 20 mm guns
USS LST-738 was an LST-542-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II.
LST-738 was laid down on 20 February 1944 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the Dravo Corporation of Neville Island; launched on 1 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs. John S. Mason; and commissioned on 9 May 1944 with Lieutenant John T. Barnett, USNR, in command.
During World War II LST-738 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and participated in the Leyte landings in October 1944 and the Mindoro landings in December.
On 15 December 1944, while off the southern tip of Mindoro, she was hit by a Japanese kamikaze plane and set ablaze. After attempts to control the fires were unsuccessful, LST-738 was abandoned and sunk by the guns of other ships of the invasion fleet.
USS LST-738 earned two battle stars for her World War II service.
On 15 December 1944, LST-738 was one of thirty LSTs in Task Unit 78.34, under the command of Captain Richard Webb. The Task Unit was operating in support of the landings at Mindoro, scheduled for that day. A group of approximately ten Mitsubishi A6M 'Zeke', Nakajima Ki-44 'Tojo' and Ki-43 'Oscar' single seat fighters, and Nakajima B5N 'Kate' three seat torpedo bombers began their attack on the Task Unit shortly after 09:10, as the LSTs were positioning for their landings. Ships within range opened fire, shooting down several of the attackers. Two Kates that survived the initial anti-aircraft fire made a run on LST-738 at a low altitude. Anti-aircraft fire from LST-738 and USS Moale (DD-693) hit both planes, but they continued in spite of the damage. The first Kate crashed onto LST-738 amidships, just above the waterline. There was an explosion from the plane's bombs, and a fire from the plane's wreckage. The second Kate dove for LST-738's bridge, but missed and was shot down by Moale, crashing to the port of LST-738.[1]
Damage control parties went to work fighting fires, but the crash had damaged LST-738's fire mains making the fires hard to control. The commanding officer ordered the army troops on board to abandon ship.
LST-738's crew flooded her magazines, which made fire fighting even more difficult. In her hold were drums of aviation gas and a load of oxygen bottles, a certain combination for massive explosions if the fire reached them. A second explosion ripped through the ship, and most of the crew abandoned ship. At that time, Captain J. T. Barnett, the Pharmacist Mate, and a radioman last of the crew still aboard. The Captain destroyed the IFF radar and the SOS radar, then ordered the radioman to the stern and to abandon ship.
A third explosion then threw the Captain and Pharmacist Mate to the bridge deck. The Captain then determined that all hope was lost and that if Moale was to come alongside, it would not help save the ship. The Captain waited to see if Moale wished to come alongside, but a fourth explosion threw him to the deck. Moale backed off rapidly.
The water around LST-738 was covered in oil, and was burning, and a few personnel were observed working hard to swim away. After the Pharmacist Mate jumped over the side, both sides of the ship, the Captain checked for personnel hanging on lines. Several were observed and were ordered away from the ship. The Captain, the last man on board, then went over the side.[1]
The fourth blast had put a hole in Moale's bow, killing one of her men and wounding ten others. As for LST-738's crew, no one had died, but several men were injured in the crash, fire and explosions. LST-738 was abandoned as a burning hulk. The next morning she was sunk by destroyer USS Hall (DD-583) at 12°19′N 121°05′E / 12.317°N 121.083°E / 12.317; 121.083 (wreck of USS LST-738)Coordinates: 12°19′N 121°05′E / 12.317°N 121.083°E / 12.317; 121.083 (wreck of USS LST-738).[2]
List of United States Navy LSTs
List of United States Navy losses in World War II
^ a b USS LST 738, No Serial, Preliminary Action Report: Submission of, Covers Air Attack While Maneuvering off San Jose Sector, Southwestern Mindoro, on 15 December 1944, 29 December 1944 pp. 1–2
^ Cressman
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
Photo gallery of USS LST-738 at NavSource Naval History
Rielly, Robin L. (2010). Kamikaze attacks of World War II : a complete history of Japanese suicide strikes on American ships, by aircraft and other means. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. pp. 147–148. ISBN 978-0-7864-4654-4.
Cressman, Robert J. (1999). The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Naval Historical Center. pp. 591–592.
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LST-855 / Kent County
LST-857 / King County
LST-858 / Stentor
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LST-880 / Lake County
LST-883 / La Moure County
LST-887 / Lawrence County
LST-888 / Lee County
LST-898 / Lincoln County
LST-900 / Linn County
LST-901 / Litchfield County
LST-902 / Luzerne County
LST-903 / Lyman County
LST-904 / Lyon County
LST-905 / Madera County
LST-912 / Mahnomen County
LST-914 / Mahoning County
LST-928 / Cameron
LST-929 / LST(H)-929
LST-938 / Maricopa County
LST-948 / Myrmidon
LST-953 / Marinette County
LST-954 / Numitor
LST-955 / Patroclus
LST-956 / Sarpedon
LST-962 / Romulus
LST-963 / Sphinx
LST-966 / Callisto
LST-967 / Ulysses
LST-971 / Menelaus
LST-975 / Marion County
LST-976 / Telamon
LST-977 / Alecto
LST-980 / Meeker County
LST-983 / Middlesex County
LST-987 / Millard County
LST-988 / Mineral County
LST-1000 — LST-1099
LST-1000
LST-1003 / Coronis
LST-1032 / Monmouth County
LST-1036 / Creon
LST-1037 / Poseidon
LST-1038 / Monroe County
LST-1041 / Montgomery County
LST-1048 / Morgan County
LST-1064 / Nansemond County
LST-1066 / New London County
LST-1067 / Nye County
LST-1068 / Orange County
LST-1069 / Orleans Parish
LST-1070 / Electron
LST-1071 / Ouachita County
LST-1072 / T-LST-1072
LST-1073 / Outagamie County
LST-1074 / Overton County
LST-1076 / Page County
LST-1077 / Park County
LST-1078 / Proton
LST-1079 / Payette County
LST-1080 / Pender County
LST-1082 / Pitkin County
LST-1083 / Plumas County
LST-1085 / Colington
LST-1088 / Pulaski County
LST-1096 / St. Clair County
LST-1097 / League Island
LST-1098 / Laysan Island
LST-1099 / Okala
LST-1100 / Palmyra
LST-1102 / Chimon
LST-1110 / San Bernardino County
LST-1111 / Blackford
LST-1112 / Dorchester
LST-1113 / Kingman
LST-1115 / Pentheus
LST-1116 / Proserpine
LST-1117 / Tantalus
LST-1118 / Typhon
LST-1119 / Diomedes
LST-1121 / Demeter
LST-1123 / Sedgwick County
LST-1124 / Amphitrite
LST-1125 / Brontes
LST-1126 / Snohomish County
LST-1127 / Helios
LST-1131 / Askari
LST-1132 / Bellerophon
LST-1133 / Chiron
LST-1136 / Bellona
LST-1137 / Chimaera
LST-1138 / Steuben County
LST-1143 / Daedalus
LST-1145 / Gordius
LST-1146 / Summit County
LST-1147 / Indra
LST-1149 / Krishna
LST-1151 / Quirinus
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Brazilian Navy
Belmonte (ex-Helios)
Garcia D'Avila (ex-Outagamie County)
Chilean Navy
Comandante Hemmerdinger (ex-New London County)
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Republic of China Navy
Chung Hsing (ex-LST-557)
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Chung Fu (ex-Iron County)
Chung Cheng (LST-224) (ex-Lafayette County)
Chung Chiang (ex-San Bernardino County)
Ecuadorian Navy
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Chélif (ex-LST-874)
Odin (ex-Ulysses)
Wotan (ex-Diomedes)
Bamberg (ex-Greer County)
Indonesian Navy
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Teluk Bone (ex-Iredell County)
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Imperial Iranian Navy
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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
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Oosumi (ex-Daggett County)
Shimokita (ex-Hillsdale County)
Shiretoko (ex-Nansemond County)
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Home / Other Political News, Politics / RAILA ODINGA says he support the arrest of KIDERO over graft! Let us eliminate this cancer of stealing public money!
RAILA ODINGA says he support the arrest of KIDERO over graft! Let us eliminate this cancer of stealing public money!
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Friday August 10, 2018 - National Super Alliance (NASA) leader, Raila Odinga, has today said that he supports the ongoing purge against corruption where a number of high profile state officers and politicians have been arrested for looting public money.
Speaking in Muranga during the graduation ceremony of Murang'a University, Raila said the fight against graft must be supported by all Kenyans because it will make all institutions collapse if allowed to thrive.
“We must tackle corruption which has become acceptable as a way of life.”
“Success comes from honesty and hard work," Raila said.
Raila’s remarks come a day after former Nairobi Governor Evans Kidero was arrested and taken to court over the mismanagement of public funds.
Raila also told Murang’a University graduates not to be defined by violence, corruption and impunity.
“Every year, corruption drains billions of shillings from the State in rackets involving Government officials and businesspeople - known as "tenderpreneurs" for their success in winning public contracts.”
"Create a more positive culture and image. We must stand together, bring everyone on board and agree that we are weaker alone, stronger together," Raila said.
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Super Saiyans are invading the Game Boy Advance. Infogrames has announced that it's working on The Legacy of Goku for the Game Boy Advance. It's gonna be the first in a series of games and it's all about some bad dudes that kidnap Goku's son and end up putting the whole universe at risk.
Square - the guys behind the Final Fantasy movie and games - are doing some serious expanding with their plans for Final Fantasy XI. They're not sticking to just the Playstation. They're planning to make a version for the Xbox and the GameCube as well. They're going to take the game online and let everybody who has a console, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, whatever, play their game. Sounds like a plan, but what about if you're on a Dreamcast?
Speaking of the Sega Dreamcast, they're already a step ahead of Final Fantasy XI. Phantasy Star Online has been letting people play together across the net for a long time and now the info on Phantasy Star 2 is up. On Sept. 11th the new version will be shipped out and everybody can check it out. It'll have new options, extra stuff and a charge to play. $15 per three months. You can still play the original for free and a limited version of two but it'll take some cash to go the whole way.
Japan is the place to be right now, too. The price of Japanese PS2's just took a dive. Now rather than shelling out $320 US to pick up the lean, mean, black machine you can save yourself $40 US and get one for $280 US. The price drops haven't hit the US or anywhere else yet but keep your fingers crossed for a price drop in November 2001 when the Xbox and Gamecube come out.
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A Poplar Bluff teenager was seriously injured early Tuesday morning in a single vehicle wreck.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, 19 year old Matthew Lambert was driving on Butler County Road 448 when his vehicle ran off the side of the road and struck a tree.
Lambert suffered serious injuries in the wreck and was flown to a Memphis hospital.
PARENTS FACING CHARGES IN CONNECTION TO DEATH OF FOUR YEAR OLD CHILD
The parents of a four year old Steele child have been arrested in connection to the child’s death.
According to the Steele Police Department, 32 year old Erica Pleasant, of Steele, and 30 year old Aaron Jackson, of Hayti, are each facing charges of abuse or neglect of a child, resulting in death, and two counts of abuse or neglect of a child.
An autopsy was conducted and officials say that preliminary results were that the child was very sick and had not been given medical attention.
Evidence indicated the child was living in deplorable conditions. The home was infested with roaches and mice as well as human and animal waste, and it appeared the child had not been receiving basic hygiene.
Two other young children were at the home and have been placed in the custody of the Children’s Division.
Both Pleasant and Jackson will be arraigned in Pemiscot County Circuit Court on Thursday.
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A suspect has turned himself in to authorities in connection to a shooting in Sikeston.
Captain Austin Henley with the Sikeston Department of Public Safety tells KWOC News that at around 10:45 pm on Sunday, officers responded to a report of a subject being shot on South Scott Street.
At the scene, officers found a male victim with gunshot wounds to his legs. He was transported to a local medical facility for treatment of his injuries.
During an investigation, it was learned that a suspect shot the victim after an argument in front of a residence.
The suspect, identified as 20 year old Bryan Campbell, of Charleston, later turned himself in to Sikeston DPS officers. Campbell has been charged with assault 1st degree, armed criminal action, unlawful use of weapon, and endangering the welfare of a child.
Captain Henley says that Campbell is being held in the Scott County Jail and his bond is $100,000 cash or surety.
DEXTER TEEN ARRESTED ON CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE WARRANT
Authorities in Stoddard County have arrested an area teenager on a controlled substance warrant.
According to the Stoddard County Sheriff’s Department, 18 year old Skyler Bresee, of Dexter, was recently arrested on a warrant for possession of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana, and unlawful use of drug paraphernalia.
Bresee’s bond was set at $7,500, cash only, and officials say he remained in jail as of this morning.
TWO FLOWN TO MEMPHIS HOSPITAL FOLLOWING WRECK IN PEMISCOT COUNTY
Two people have been flown to an area hospital after a wreck Tuesday evening in Pemiscot County.
Officials with the Missouri State Highway Patrol tell KWOC News that the wreck occurred shortly before 5:30 pm Tuesday at the intersection of Missouri State Highway 84 and County Road 344.
The vehicle reportedly failed to stop at a stop sign, became airborne, and rolled several times.
The driver of the vehicle, 61 year old Ralph Chamberlain, of Hayti, and a 59 year old passenger from St. Louis were both seriously injured and flown to a Memphis hospital.
NEW MISSOURI LAWS GO INTO EFFECT
The cost of prepaid cellphone service is slightly increasing in Missouri as the result of a new state law.
Under the law taking effect yesterday, a 3 percent surcharge will be applied to the sale of prepaid wireless service to help fund 911 emergency call centers.
The new Missouri law also authorizes cities and counties to ask voters to replace their current 911 sales taxes or landline phone taxes with a new fee of up to $1 a month that would be charged both on landline and traditional wireless phone services.
Other laws taking effect yesterday reduce the state's individual income tax rate by one-half of a percentage point but offset that by reducing the state income tax deduction people can claim for taxes they pay to the federal government.
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PHOTOS: Pastor invites community into church memorial after mass shooting
by: Arezow Doost
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (KXAN) – Beyond the black tarp surrounding the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a memorial has been created to remember the lives lost in the mass shooting.
Inside, 26 white chairs with roses are arranged in the sanctuary. Each chair sits where a member of the congregation was found after the shooting. The chairs, pews and equipment have all been removed. Volunteers painted the inside white and placed the chairs after investigators cleared the scene.
“I didn’t expected it to hit me this hard. I was very overwhelmed,” Zeke Casarez said. “I hadn’t even gotten into the church — I was already overwhelmed.”
Casarez has ministered inside the church. “I needed to see this,” he said. “I needed to feel the enormity of it — of what happened here.”
Associate Pastor Mark Collins said Sunday that it was not an easy decision to turn the sanctuary into a memorial, but something needed to be done for the families impacted.
“Of course some don’t want to step foot in this building again, and others said, ‘I need to,'” said Associate Pastor Collins “We wanted to make it where they could come in … mourning their own way those that we have all lost.”
He said the congregation will decide what happens to the church. One plan could include demolishing it. Services next week will be held inside a tent on church grounds.
“Satan got one play, and then he fumbled the football,” Collins said. “We have seen such an outpouring — and salt and light has come to Sutherland Springs like we’ve never seen before.”
He said the church is 100 years old, and it set a record Sunday morning with more than 700 people gathering for services a week after the shooting.
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With the baby boomer generation growing older and the need for medical care increasing, Springfield will be getting more urgent care centers in the near future.
That word coming from Mercy, who announced on Wednesday that they'll be partnering with GoHealth Urgent Care to bring in more facilities.
It's still to be determined how many urgent care centers Springfield will be getting and where they'll be, but what is known is that GoHealth, a four-year-old company with urgent care centers on the east and west coast, will partner with Mercy to expand into Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma with 30 urgent care facilities over the next two years including locations in Springfield and northwest Arkansas.
And like Cox, who has moved into Walmart these days, they'll be in convenient but yet-to-be-determined retail locations like strip malls.
"This is very needs-based," explained Dr. Rob Cavagnol, the Chief Physician Officer with Mercy Springfield Communities. "We're not bringing this in because this is something we just wanted to do. This is something that the community is asking for. Quick, easy, convenient, high-quality, high patient satisfaction. And that's really what GoHealth brings is that combination."
Promising the latest in technology, the new urgent care centers will be open seven days a week with extended hours, allowing patients to walk-in or pre-register and choose a time when they can get in faster.
There will also be access to Mercy's online app so patients and doctors can see medical records and communicate with each other.
"Certainly companies like Amazon and other ones have really set that standard," Cavagnol said. "People want to be able to access their provider on their phones, schedule online, see how long the wait times are."
If you think the demand is not there, just try to find a parking place at most medical buildings or try to get in an emergency room and not have a long wait. The purpose of the urgent care centers is to take the less serious patients away from the ER yet not take the place of a primary care physician.
"We actually had the conversation with 60 of our primary care doctors and said what do you think about this," Cavagnol said. "They feel like it's going to be an adjunct to what they're able to offer. And so patients will get seen at GoHealth, they're on the same electronic health record that we use, and then from there they'll get referred in to get established with a primary care doctor."
So because of our fast-paced society where we want it, and we want it now, we're getting our medical care the same way we're getting served at places like Walmart or a fast-food place.
Even though the medical folks don't like the fast-food analogy for obvious reasons..
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Famous people brought to life at B-C Primary
Miniature versions of famous figures from history, sports and pop culture crowd into Bloom-Carroll Primary's gymnasium.
Famous people brought to life at B-C Primary Miniature versions of famous figures from history, sports and pop culture crowd into Bloom-Carroll Primary's gymnasium. Check out this story on lancastereaglegazette.com: http://ohne.ws/2kP9BMJ
Trista Thurston, Reporter Published 3:02 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2017 | Updated 10:33 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2017
Bloom-Carroll students create living wax museum
Jim Collins leans in to listen to Sully Ray's report about Neil Armstrong Wednesday morning at Bloom-Carroll Primary School in Carroll. Collins was at the school to see his grandson Mason Storts and other second graders take part in the school's living wax museum. Matthew Berry/Eagle-Gazette
Bloom-Carroll Primary School second graders gave reports about historical figures during Wednesday's wax museum in Carroll. Matthew Berry/Eagle-Gazette
Leah Baughman, a Kindergarten teacher at Bloom-Carroll Primary School, listens to second grader Addison Seager give her report on Betsy Ross Wednesday at Bloom-Carroll Primary School in Carroll. Second graders were taking part in the school's living wax museum. Matthew Berry/Eagle-Gazette
Doyle Sargent gives his report about Michael Jackson Wednesday during a living wax museum at Bloom-Carroll Primary School in Carroll. Second graders were taking part in the museum. Matthew Berry/Eagle-Gazette
Landon Hansel, dressed as George Washington gives his report on the first president of the United States Wednesday at Bloom-Carroll Primary School in Carroll. Second graders were taking part in the school's living wax museum. Matthew Berry/Eagle-Gazette
Tristan Roberts, right, portraying Davey Crockett, and his classmates read their reports to visitors Wednesday at Bloom-Carroll Primary School in Carroll. The second graders were taking part in the school's living wax museum where they dress up historical figures and give short first-person reports on them. Matthew Berry/Eagle-Gazette
Gabby Gross speaks as Ole Kirk Christiansen, the founder of the Lego Group, Wednesday at Bloom-Carroll Primary School in Carroll. Second graders at the school were presenting reports of historical figures during the school's living wax museum. Matthew Berry/Eagle-Gazette
Bloom-Carroll Primary School second graders give reports about historical figures during Wednesday's wax museum in Carroll. Matthew Berry/Eagle-Gazette
Heather Shumaker, right, listens to her daughter Maili Shumaker give her presentation as Ruby Bridges Wednesday at Bloom-Carroll Primary School in Carroll. As a six-year-old Bridges desegregated an all-white elementary school New Orleans. She was escorted to and from school each day by deputy U.S. Marshals. Matthew Berry/Eagle-Gazette
Jim Collins leans in to listen to Sully Ray's report about Neil Armstrong Wednesday morning at Bloom-Carroll Primary School in Carroll. Collins was at the school to see his grandson Mason Storts and other second graders take part in the school's living wax museum.(Photo: Matthew Berry/Eagle-Gazette)Buy Photo
CARROLL - Miniature versions of famous figures from history, sports, and pop culture crowded into Bloom-Carroll Primary School's gymnasium earlier this week.
Second graders participated in the wax museum, where students portray someone from history.
"They bring history to life by becoming that person," Vivian Coleman, a second-grade teacher, said. "Whenever you can bring learning to life, and the kids have fun with it, that's what it's all about."
Two of each of the six classes presented over three days. Coleman's students showed on Wednesday, the final day. She said her students prepared costumes, speeches and a short book about their selected person.
Throughout the week, costumed students sat patiently as parents, relatives, teachers and classmates paraded through the cafeteria. Each waited for a passerby to press their button and bring their character to life. They recited a brief biography, some from memory.
"It's been two to three weeks, but they're really excited about it," Coleman said. "Anytime the kids can be involved in the learning process; they're going to get a whole lot out of it."
She added it's probably the second-largest project the students work on all year, aside from the science fair. It's important, too, Coleman said, for parents to see the event.
"They're amazed by how much their kids have learned," Coleman said. "I'm learning a lot, too."
Sandy Dickey helped her daughter, Olivia, select William "Buster" Lloyd-Jones for her project. He cared for abandoned pets during World War II.
"I'm shocked that she remembered a lot," Dickey said, adding that she wasn't sure if she would have been able to memorize all those facts herself for the presentation.
A small-suited John F. Kennedy, or Gabe Young, had grandparents from West Virginia visit to see his project.
Superintendent Lynn Landis said that most of his career dealt with high school students, so he always enjoys visiting the younger kids.
"When I need a pick-me-up, I come over here," Landis said. "It gives the kids a chance to be creative, learn something about history and practice their presentation skills."
This is the second year Bloom-Carroll Primary has hosted the wax museum. Second-grade teacher Joey Conrad said she came up with the idea when her son was in second grade.
"He loved it," she said of the wax museum project. "He still talks about it to this day."
Conrad said for some of the students; it's their first foray into research. The wax museum is an authentic way to integrate state standards into the curriculum, learning about not only their figure but their fellow classmate's choices as well.
It also gives them a chance to practice public speaking skills.
Coleman said she gave her students a list to generate ideas, but she lets students pick their projects.
Popular choices like Johnny Appleseed, Neil Armstrong, Betsy Ross and Rosa Parks stood amongst Lebron James and Lego creator Ole Kirk Christiansen.
Gabby Gross said she loves Legos and found it fascinating that Christiansen first made the bricks out of wood.
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Oregon's largest hospitality school, which is located in Portland, is Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts. In 2009, a reported 31 students graduated with a hospitality degree from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts. This was 63% of the total hospitality graduates in Oregon for that year. In 2009, tuition at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, was approximately $38,450 per year.
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A majority of hospitality graduates choose to work as hospitality professionals. If after graduation, you are planning on sticking around the state, you should keep in mind that the job outlook for hospitality graduates in Oregon is average. There are currently an estimated 14,500 hospitality professionals working in Oregon. This number is projected to increase to 16,140 by the year 2018. This indicates a 11% change in the number of hospitality professionals in Oregon.
In Oregon, as a hospitality professional, you can expect to earn a salary of anywhere from less than $19,527 per year to more than $30,045 per year. In Oregon, hospitality professionals make an average of $23,166 per year.
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These Game of Thrones Photos Hint at What's to Come for Jon and Daenerys
Some major conspiring is about to go down.
By Chanel Vargas
Jul 26 2017, 2:10 pm EDT
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Warning: This story contains possible spoilers for Season 7, Episode 3 of Game of Thrones.
Sunday night's episode of Game of Thrones, “Stormborn,” hit us with all the sex, violence, and sickening can’t-look-away scenes we could have asked for. Now that you’ve recovered from the disgust of seeing Sam peel off Jorah’s scales and the sweetness of Arya reuniting with Nymeria, it’s time to get excited for what comes next.
HBO's official description of Sunday's episode leaves a lot to the imagination: “Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) holds court. Cersei (Lena Headey) returns a gift. Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) learns from his mistakes.” The official synopsis leaves a lot to the imagination. But now the network has released new photos from “The Queen’s Justice,” and it sheds some light on what's to come.
It looks like Lord Varys has something very important and very secret to share with Daenerys. His talents have proven useful to her up until now, but could he be advising her to go against her plan to take over the Seven Kingdoms? Be the dragon, Dany.
Dany looks out at the room from her throne in Dragonstone. Could she be preparing for her long-anticipated meeting with Jon Snow?
Jon snow and Sir Davos come ashore after what appears to have been a long journey. It's time for the King in the North and the Mother of Dragons to meet.
Backed by Sir Davos, Jon looks at something with a slightly terrified look in his eye. Is he really that intimidated by Daenerys, or could she be showing him one of her fire-breathing children?
A concerned Tyrion stands in front of a group of Dothraki men, possibly preparing to greet Jon Snow during his arrival at Dragonstone.
Melisandre and Lord Varys have a chat out by the water on Dragonstone. Could they be conspiring against Daenerys? Anything is possible at this point.
Sansa give Littlefinger some major side eye during what looks like one of their many arguments. Littlefinger might be trying to manipulate Sansa, but the Lady Regent of the North doesn't seem to be having it.
Grey Worm, in full battle armor, is prepared to fight. He and his army might have arrived at Casterly Rock, according to Daenerys and Tyrion's plan for conquest. We can only hope this isn't the last we see of our favorite Unsullied soldier.
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One of the Most Respected Voices on Wall Street
Owner, Ellevate
With a reputation for integrity, creativity, independence of thought, a sense of humor and an unrelenting focus on results, Sallie Krawcheck has built a career that has reached the top levels of success across a range of functions: as a senior corporate executive, as a research analyst and now as an entrepreneur. Recently named number 9 on Fast Company’s list of the “100 Most Creative People 2014,” she has also been referred to as one of the most successful and influential executives in financial services. From turning around and growing troubled wealth management businesses to eliminating Wall Street conflicts of interest and advocating a true client-centered business model, Fortune magazine called her “The Last Honest Analyst” during her tenure at Sanford Bernstein. She spent years as the guardian of such brands as Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch and US Trust.
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Diversity as Competitive Advantage
As demographics and buying power shift, diversity has moved from being a fairness issue to also being a significant business driver. In a multitude of research studies, diversity in senior management has been linked to superior business results, leading to higher returns, lower risk, greater long-te ...
As demographics and buying power shift, diversity has moved from being a fairness issue to also being a significant business driver. In a multitude of research studies, diversity in senior management has been linked to superior business results, leading to higher returns, lower risk, greater long-term focus, increased innovation and improved stockholder returns. Despite this, progress in corporate America has stalled. As a former senior Wall Street executive and now owner of the professional woman's network, 85 Broads, Sallie Krawcheck provides unique insights, based on real-world experience into how companies can improve their diversity results.
Leadership Lessons Learned from Working for 7 (Yes, 7) Financial Services CEOs in the Best and Toughest of Times
Sallie Krawcheck has been on the front lines of financial services for the past two-plus decades. During that time, she has led and managed complex businesses through some of the most volatile markets in history. At the same time, she has had a front-row seat in working directly for seven financial ...
Sallie Krawcheck has been on the front lines of financial services for the past two-plus decades. During that time, she has led and managed complex businesses through some of the most volatile markets in history. At the same time, she has had a front-row seat in working directly for seven financial services CEOs, at all points in their career spectra, gleaning important insights into leadership during crisis on what works and what fails. Offering sharp insight, laced with humor, Sallie Krawcheck lays out the most important lessons in leadership, and particularly in leadership under fire.
Women and Money: Insights from the “Most Powerful Woman on Wall Street”
The U.S. is in the midst of a financial planning crisis and nowhere more so than among women. Women live on average six years longer than men, but save just two-thirds as much for retirement. The causes are widespread, from earning less than men at every stage of their careers to outsourcing financi ...
The U.S. is in the midst of a financial planning crisis and nowhere more so than among women. Women live on average six years longer than men, but save just two-thirds as much for retirement. The causes are widespread, from earning less than men at every stage of their careers to outsourcing financial management to the men in their lives.
This talk can be tailored to women’s groups looking for how to engage on this, or to financial services firms who see this as a business opportunity:
For women’s groups: Krawcheck brings practical advice and tips, learned both from her business background, as well as from her own personal experience, for women at every stage of their lives.For businesses: The business opportunity that this presents is significant, but it’s not as easy as putting a pink bow on the checking account. Many firms have failed in the pursuit of women. Krawcheck offers insights into this important and growing market, which derive from her business as well as her personal experiences.
The Outsider Inside: The “Last Honest Analyst” on the Future of Financial Services
As a top-ranked research analyst, a chief financial officer and senior manager in financial services over the past 20 years, Sallie Krawcheck has an unmatched perspective on the financial services industry. It is an industry whose future is uncertain, given stepped-up regulation, populist anger, an ...
As a top-ranked research analyst, a chief financial officer and senior manager in financial services over the past 20 years, Sallie Krawcheck has an unmatched perspective on the financial services industry. It is an industry whose future is uncertain, given stepped-up regulation, populist anger, an unfavorable operating environment and the increasing importance of technology. Unraveling the secular from the merely cyclical is challenging but crucial, both for the industry, as well as for the broader economy. Krawcheck does so with an insider’s knowledge and an analyst’s perspective.
The Outsider Inside: The “Last Honest Analyst” on the Future of Wealth Management
The wealth management business is the subject of much commentary by industry pundits…a good portion of it wrong. The business is in many ways stronger than conventional wisdom would have it—but faces some significant obstacles and headwinds that if not addressed will have a meaningful i ...
The wealth management business is the subject of much commentary by industry pundits…a good portion of it wrong. The business is in many ways stronger than conventional wisdom would have it—but faces some significant obstacles and headwinds that if not addressed will have a meaningful impact on the business (as well as its cousins, the asset management and research businesses). Having run two of the largest wealth management businesses in the world, Sallie Krawcheck offers insider insights, many counterintuitive, into the business that financial services professionals will find useful as they participate in, partner with or serve that business.
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Krawcheck has often noted that “Investing in women is simply smart business” and is expressing this view through her ownership in the Ellevate companies. The Ellevate network (formerly 85 Broads) is 34,000-strong (and growing) global professional woman’s network, the most expansive and diverse of its kind.
Krawcheck's embrace of social media as a means of including more people in her frank business conversations on women and business, regulatory reform and investor protection has garnered her more than 500,000 followers as a LinkedIn’s INfluencer and more than 22,000 followers on Twitter.
A Tar Heel fan through and through, Krawcheck also spends her time advising start-up companies, focusing on education-oriented philanthropy and serving on a variety of boards.
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Middlesbrough FC news: Jonny Howson's blunt assessment as youth team claim Dunston win
Dominic Scurr's Hartlepool United player ratings: 'Strong' Jason Kennedy shines against Middlesbrough
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'Still got a lot to learn': What Hartlepool United fans need to know about Luke Molyneux's time at Sunderland under Elliott Dickman, Jack Ross & Chris Coleman
Sunderland academy product Luke Molyneux joined Hartlepool United just a week after confirming his departure from Wearside.
Sunday, 16 June, 2019, 18:54
Luke Molyneux in action for Sunderland's U21s
Molyneux revealed he would leave the Stadium of Light this summer when his contract expired - and the news was confirmed when the club published its retained list.
The 21-year-old attacker spent a successful loan spell at Pools last season, scoring twice in 16 appearances and exciting fans with his direct style and ability to beat his man.
Whilst at Sunderland, Molyneux made only six appearances for the Black Cats first team.
Unsurprising, really, given the wealth of attacking options the Wearside club have had at their disposal - most notably Aiden McGeady and Chris Maguire alongside youngers Joel Asoro and Josh Maja in recent times.
Due to good form, however - four goals in three games for the U21s - there were calls for Molyneux to be given a sustained chance in the first-team by former manager Chris Coleman as a last throw of the dice towards Championship survival in the 2017/18 season.
The opportunity didn’t materialise though, and the young prospect had to make do with a smattering of bit-part appearances.
His last minutes for Sunderland came under Jack Ross in the EFL Trophy against Newcastle United’s U21s at the Stadium of Light, Molyneux replaced Charlie Wyke on 77 minutes with the home side 2-0 up.
The late substitution perhaps hinting that despite his obvious potential, Ross believed Molyneux wasn’t ready for a sustained run in Sunderland’s first team
Indeed, the Bishop Auckland-born player’s former youth coach at Sunderland, Elliott Dickman, explained last year that Molyneux’s group ‘still had a lot to learn’ and had ‘a lot of developing to do.’
But what better place to do it than at Hartlepool where he will get vital game time and help Pools kick on in the National League? Poolies have themselves a raw, exciting prospect who is hungry to develop.
And Molyneux has already adapted to the tough non-league surroundings with a tough loan stint at Gateshead.
With such a bright youngster on the wing, Hartlepool United fans have something to be excited about this coming season.
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Commentary: Kings Road in Newport Beach would benefit from a homeowners association
Homeowners association can have their downsides, but one reader writes that they cab help keep neighborhoods looking better and protect views.
(Rick Bowmer / AP)
By Lynn Lorenz
My best friend is president of her homeowners association in northern Orange County. I never miss the opportunity to tease her about HOAs and their reputations for telling you what color to paint your house and when to trim your trees. To many of us, these rules feel like an infringement of our property rights.
However, I now have a new perspective on what an association can provide, particularly in a beach community. In the case of my friend, the HOA maintains the slopes in her area.
In Newport Beach, at one time a regulatory HOA could have protected views and prevented people from building houses that did not fit architecturally into a neighborhood.
In older neighborhoods, people rarely have a regulatory HOA. But people moving into newer neighborhoods join mandatory associations that charge substantial dues. Many of these people, however, welcome an HOA because it gives them some assurance that the area in which they live will be well-maintained and their property values will be protected.
In beach communities, where property values usually are determined by additional factors, HOAs might even restrict the height of structures beyond the city standards and thus maintain the harmony of a neighborhood. For example, Irvine Terrace has an HOA that has attempted to preserve views by establishing a height limit of 14 feet. One need only drive through the neighborhood to appreciate the general standard of architecture that is the result of belonging to an HOA.
In contrast, Kings Road in Cliff Haven has suffered because of the absence of a mandatory HOA. It is struggling right now with trying to maintain the harmony of the neighborhood architecturally and emotionally.
Views are being threatened and the size of the houses vary to the extent that a few houses are twice the size of the norm. One new house being considered is 10,800 square feet, not including the garage, while the approximate average size of homes in the area is between 3,000 and 5,000 square feet.
These large houses that have been built, or are in the planning stages, are also threatening to damage the site’s natural topography: the bluffs. In so doing, they threaten to affect the public views from Coast Highway, a designated coastal view road.
One might think that the city would have become more directly involved in protecting views and the bluffs. Private views are not in their purview but public views are. And the city does have height standards. But what has been affecting the symmetry of Kings Road and other Newport Beach neighborhoods the most is the city’s granting of building variances to excess. Many of the variances they have been granting in recent years are “luxury” rather than “hardship” variances. And building standards due to variances are being challenged to the extent that HOAs no longer have the power they once had.
It is not surprising that Cliff Haven and/or Kings Road do not have mandatory HOAs because of their age. This is true also in the Heights area adjacent to Kings Road. During the era that these neighborhoods were first established, neighbors relied on the civility of the community. It would have been rare to find someone who would block the coastal view of an adjacent neighbor, and the city would have granted variances very sparingly.
In our modern world most people do not often know their neighbors and community spirit is lacking. Individuals are more concerned about what they think are their personal property rights regardless of what that means to their neighbors. As a result, large houses are being built now that block neighbors’ views and their light as well. And no one seems to be stopping them.
Lynn Lorenz lives in Newport Beach.
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Commentary: Remembering Costa Mesa High School’s first musical theater production
It was the spring of 1961, my junior year at Costa Mesa High School.
Column:: The Crowd: Members of the Whittier Trust sail in Transpac
The celebrated California-to-Hawaii Transpac race took off July 10.
Letters to the Editor: Development in Mesa North is great but the area needs parkland, more walkable areas
In Costa Mesa, we locals treasure our traditional Eastside and Westside neighborhoods.
Commentary: Don’t focus on college rankings lists, which are misleading and easily manipulated by colleges
When the college admissions scandal news broke, we called one another in extreme concern, lamenting the crazy circus that our beloved profession has become as a result of a hyper-competitive college admissions landscape coupled with inappropriate parenting madness.
Column:: Falling birth rates and charter schools are threats to public school funding
A major issue affecting public schools has so far gone largely unnoticed by the masses, but that’s probably going to change soon.
Column:: The Crowd: ‘Speakeasy’ event benefits Philharmonic Society of Orange County
The dynamic duo of Donna Kendall and Carol Perry produced an amazing evening for the Philharmonic Society of Orange County’s 2019 annual benefit gala, “Speakeasy.”
Letters to the Editor: Grand jury report on trees overlooked the strong demand for ocean views in Laguna Beach
Re the report on Laguna needing trees (“Laguna Beach needs more public trees, O.C. grand jury report says,” July 5): I read the report by grand jury, which doesn’t take into consideration that Laguna is unique in its views.
Letters to the Editor: Six reasons why Costa Mesa should ban the sale of fireworks
Once again, Costa Mesa turned into a war zone on July 4.
Column:: The Crowd: Respected chefs serve at ‘Dinner Under the Stars’
Top chefs are rock stars. A so-called celebrity chef is a demigod.
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Government to ban referral fees in personal injury – but not conveyancing
Djanogly: referral fees are one symptom of the compensation culture problem
The government is to ban referral fees for personal injury (PI) work, it announced today.
However, it has no plans to take action on referral fees paid to estate agents for conveyancing.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) said referral fees in PI “have led to high costs, encouraged a compensation culture and led to the growth of an industry which pursues claimants for profit”.
This feeds through to higher insurance premiums, it argued, “unnecessarily forcing up the cost of living”.
The current intention is for a regulatory offence, which will be enforced by the relevant regulators. The timing has not yet been finalised, but the hope is to add it to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill, currently going through Parliament. Justice minister Jonathan Djanogly said on the Today programme this morning that if this happens, the ban could be in place by Easter.
However, there is no guarantee it will be allowed to do this for reasons of parliamentary procedure, and failing that Legal Futures understands the ministry would seek to introduce the ban directly through the regulators.
Following introduction of the ban, the MoJ said it will consider “what changes may be necessary to the fixed amount of costs” recovered under the road traffic accident portal and predictable costs scheme for cases worth £10,000 or less.
Mr Djanogly described referral fees as “one symptom of the compensation culture problem and too much money sloshing through the system”.
He restated the government’s commitment to pushing ahead with the Jackson reforms, contained in the bill, despite the voices of opposition to them. They will “end the bizarre situation in which people have no stake in the legal costs their cases bring”, he said. Lord Justice Jackson also recommended banning referral fees.
On conveyancing, earlier this week in a written reply to a question in Parliament, Mr Djanogly said the government is “not currently pursuing further work specifically in relation to referral fees and estate agents”.
Speaking before news of the PI ban broke, Law Society chief executive Des Hudson said the approach on conveyancing is “short-sighted and does not recognise the clear potential for consumer detriment that exists in respect of the most important transaction most people make in their lives – buying or selling a house”.
He said the society has written to the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills asking it to reconsider this move “and will be pressing the government to include a general prohibition on referral fees throughout the legal sector”.
Deborah Evans, the chief executive of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, said that while most solicitors have reservations about referral fees, “it’s difficult to see how they can be banned without simply being driven underground, where we know from past experience that chaos and lack of transparency for consumers will be the inevitable outcome”.
She argued that the MoJ should tackle “the real problems in the system”, such as by banning the practice of passing on of injured people’s private details without their express consent, tighter regulation of advertising and “a strict and consistent ban on cold calling”, which would include defendant insurers approaching injured people.
The MoJ announcement came as the Claims Standards Council and Access to Justice Action Group outlined a series of measures aimed at tackling abuses in the claims system.
These include introducing powers to disconnect numbers from which unsolicited text messages are sent; an end to cold calling; a ban on financial inducements in advertising just to make a claim; and making insurers who refer claimants to solicitors register as claims managers.
On referral fees, AJAG said the claims regulator should have the power to require a claims management company or liability insurer “to justify either their referral fee structure or the fee in a particular case, in response to a complaint”.
Yesterday the Office of Fair Trading issued a call for evidence on the motor insurance sector, with a particular focus on whether and why premiums are rising, but said that because of the MoJ’s work, the cost of PI claims will “not be a focus of our evidence gathering”. It was pressure from the Office of Fair Trading that persuaded the Law Society to lift the ban on referral fees in 2004.
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C. Steel says:
We have been down this road before and it didnt work then. Should the answer not be stricter regulation of the insurance industry as a whole?
so Neil contrary to what D’ogly said to us he’s reversed the idea that the Gov would wait on ABS’s before referral fees ban. TLS happy but lot of solicitors will have to radically adjust their business model and ABS’s likely to make it all meaningless.
Stuart Bushell says:
I thought that the objections to referral fees centred upon them being unprofessional and morally wrong. If that’s what the Government thinks, how can it be true for PI work but not for conveyancing? It couldn’t be that the Government’s sole interest is in saving money could it?
Malcolm Roberts says:
When is a referral fee a sly backhander? When it is generated without the injured party’s express knowledge and consent. The CMCs are not the problem – regulate the insurers and let access to justice for victims continue.
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RAVN and Neil Cameron Enter into AI Partnership
Added on the 29th Nov 2016 at 1:44 pm
RAVN Systems has entered into partnership with leading legal IT consultant Neil Cameron, who will help law firms to identify AI opportunities in their business and also leverage AI to increase the accuracy of client estimates.
RAVN, a London-based AI, enterprise search and search management company that was launched in 2010, has a broad range of current, planned and potential applications for its solutions, which extracts and interprets information from unstructured data and pushes it into searchable formats.
While RAVN’s law firm engagements now include Berwin Leighton Paisner, Linklaters, Reed Smith and Travers Smith, it is still, with the aid of hires including David Lumsden, ex CEO of Tikit, and Gareth Thomas, ex Tikit sales director, evolving its product to fit different use cases.
Cameron, who has worked in or around the legal sector for 30 years, will work with law firms to identify a range of AI opportunities using business impact analysis, analysis of dependencies and integrations as well as applying cost-benefit analysis techniques.
According to RAVN and Cameron, the pre-packaged exercise can be undertaken in five days, at “a low and contained level of cost” that “will identify what you should be doing with legal AI and why.”
Cameron will also work with law firms to apply RAVN’s technology in their own pricing of client matters, helping them to improve the accuracy of client estimates, with the ambition of significantly improving the realisation of the forecasted sum.
The move comes as CIOs report that senior partners in their firms are increasingly asking how they should be engaging with AI initiatives, often under pressure from clients.
Cameron said: “We hear of many managing and IT partners asking their CIOs, ‘what are we doing about all this AI I keep reading about?’
“We can now help with this conundrum.”
Peter Wallqvist, CEO at RAVN Systems commented: “We are delighted to be collaborating with Neil on a new use case for our AI Engine. By providing law firms with insight they need to more accurately forecast and budget future work they can ensure they deliver an overall improved service to their clients”.
Well that’s a visionary partnership. Well done both.
Andrew Haslam says:
Neil, David and Gareth on the same expense account, what could possibly go wrong 🙂
Seriously though, an excellent move (so long as Neil gets to pick the restaurant)
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Car explosion causes fire at Main Street Sunoco
David Dore
Mar 7, 2019 at 11:57 AM Mar 7, 2019 at 2:59 PM
On her way to work Thursday morning, March 7, and with a flat tire on her car, Donna Rabidou pulled in to Main Street Sunoco in Leominster.
“I stopped in here to see if they could repair it and they said that they would check because they had a full bay,” the Leominster resident explained. “And then the guy came out and asked for the keys. I just went inside the waiting area to wait, and all of a sudden I heard a big boom. I looked in the bay and I saw some fire. And then next thing I knew within seconds the whole back of the bay was all on fire.”
“They were working on a car in the repair garage,” Leominster Fire Chief Robert Sideleau II said. “Something happened, a malfunction, and the car caught on fire.”
Rabidou and the five people working at the gas station and garage at 468 Main St. (Route 13) around 9:50 Thursday morning got out safely. According to NBC Boston, one person declined treatment for minor injuries.
At around the same time, Leominster Deputy Fire Chief Gary Ranno was in the area.
“I was off duty, out doing some errands,” Ranno told NBC Boston. “I stopped in at the dealership [across the street], was pulling out of the dealership and saw the smoke coming out of the building.”
After reporting it to firefighters at the station, NBC Boston reported, Ranno helped with putting out the flames.
About 50-60 firefighters from Leominster, Fitchburg, Lunenburg and Sterling joined Ranno in responding to the to the two-alarm fire, Sideleau said. The Leominster Emergency Management Agency was also on scene to provide assistance.
Firefighters stayed outside, working in what the fire chief called a “defensive posture” until it was safe to go inside. They also had to be careful of the materials in the garage.
“Automobile fires are loaded with plastics,” Sideleau said, “and inside of a repair garage there’s going to be motor oils, batteries, all kinds of petroleum products and lubricants.”
As morning turned into afternoon, at least one burned-out vehicle was pulled out of the destroyed Main Street Sunoco. By nightfall, protective fencing surrounded the building and wood sheets covered the holes that were once doors and windows.
Route 13 between Haws Street and Hamilton Street, as well as the Route 2 West ramps at Exit 32, were closed for about three hours.
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The current school site was opened in September 2008 by H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth II. We benefit from outstanding purpose-built facilities inclusing:
75 acres of playing fields
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We benefit from being surrounded by 75 acres of playing fields with two all-weather hockey pitches [one sand-based and one water-based], 5 rugby pitches, a dedicated cricket pitch, 8 floodlit hard tennis courts/netball courts along with a standalone pavilion with integral catering and changing facilities. The indoor sports complex offers multi-use courts for badminton, basketball and netball. Indoor cricket nets and table tennis are also available in the main hall along with a well-equipped fitness suite featuring the Technogym Wellness system, a gym/dance studio and a 25 metre, 6 lane, heated swimming pool.
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Home > News > Data curation becomes shared endeavor
Data curation becomes shared endeavor
Backed by a $526,438 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U-M Library and seven other academic libraries will launch the Data Curation Network. The network helps institutions better support researchers who are seeking to meet a growing number of mandates to openly and ethically share their research data.
Data curators apply disciplinary knowledge and librarian expertise to ensure that stored datasets are reusable, but no single institution can provide this curatorial expertise in every discipline. The Data Curation Network will seamlessly connect a wide network of expert data curators to supplement local expertise.
The data curation challenge
Federal agencies, publishers, scholarly societies, and the public increasingly expect that data generated by faculty and students at universities will be made openly available, explains Jake Carlson, director of research data services at the U-M Library. But it’s a challenge to make data available in ways that it can be discovered, understood, and used by people other than those who created it.
“Different people will have different expectations, depending upon disciplinary norms, standards, and perspectives,” Carlson said. “Our librarians have deep expertise in the fields that they serve, but they cannot know every norm or anticipate the needs of every field. Indeed, there is no way that any one library would have access to the breadth and depth of expertise needed to conduct deep and thorough curation reviews for all of the data deposited into its repository.”
A new model for interlibrary cooperation
The project, in addition to expanding member libraries’ data curation capacity, might well serve as a model for how libraries can scale and extend their services via cross-institutional networks.
“The Data Curation Network will provide expert services, incentives for collaboration, normalized curation practices, and professional development training for the data curator community,” said Lisa R. Johnston, principal investigator for the Data Curation Network and director of the data repository for the University of Minnesota.
The University of Minnesota Libraries will lead the three-year implementation phase of the project along with the U-M Library, Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University, Duke University Libraries, University Library at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Cornell University Library, Penn State University Libraries, and the Dryad Digital Repository.
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Hillbilly Elegy (Vance) - Discussion Questions
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We'll add publisher questions if and when they're available; in the meantime, consider these LitLovers talking points for Hillbilly Elegy...then take off on your own:
1. In what way is the Appalachian culture described in HillBilly Elegy a "culture in trouble"? Do you agree with the author's description of the book's premise:
The book is about what goes on in the lives of real people when the industrial economy goes south. It’s about reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible. It’s about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it.
2. Follow-up to Question 1: Vance suggests that unemployment and addiction are self-inflicted and that the Appalachian culture is one of "learned helplessness"—individuals feel they can do nothing to improve their circumstances. Do you agree with Vance's assessment? What could individuals do to improve their circumstances? Or are the problems so overwhelming they can't be surrmounted?
3. What are the positive values of the culture Vance talks about in Hillbilly Elegy?
4. The author's mother is arguably the book's most powerful figure. Describe her and her struggle with addiction. How did the violence between her own parents, Mawaw and Papaw, affect her own adulthood?
5. To What—or to whom—does Vance attribute this escape from the cycle of addiction and poverty?
6. Talk about Vance's own resentment toward his neighbors who were on welfare but owned cellphones.
7. Follow-up to Question 6: Vance writes
Political scientists have spent millions of words trying to explain how Appalachia and the South went from staunchly Democratic to staunchly Republican in less than a generation.... I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off of government largess enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.
Does his book address those two separate but related issues satisfactorily?
7. Critics of Hillbilly Elegy accuse Vance of "blaming the victim" rather than providing a sound analysis of the structural issues left unaddressed by government. What do you think?
8. What does this book bring to the national conversation about poverty—its roots and its persistence? Does Vance raise the tone of discourse or lower it?
(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online or off, with attribution. Thanks.)
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LBS alumna named in 2018 TechWomen100 list
LBS alumna named in TechWomen100 list
Augmented reality app developer recognised in annual list
Tara Reddy (MBA 2016) has been named one of the 100 most influential women in tech.
Reddy was selected by a panel of judges for inclusion on the 2018 TechWomen100 list for her work at LoveShark, an augmented reality (AR) app maker. The company, which Reddy co-founded in 2018, has since published Laser Draw, a social drawing app.
Prior to LoveShark, Reddy spent two years product managing innovative AR reality apps including two AR social networks at Blippar, which she joined after interning at two startups during her MBA with London Business School (LBS).
Before LBS, Reddy founded a specialist exotic pet veterinary service in Wellington, New Zealand.
“Five years ago I was working as a veterinarian in New Zealand,” said Reddy. “After six years as a clinician, I wasn't sure what my career options were. My MBA was a way to explore opportunities, broaden my skills and make the move into tech. Now I've founded an augmented reality games startup and it's great to be recognised for this career leap.”
The TechWomen100 Awards is run by WeAreTechWomen, an initiative set up by events and recruitment company WeAreTheCity that promotes female representation in tech industries.
Mark Carney and SP Kothari receive Honorary Degrees from LBS
Recipients recognised for outstanding contributions in the fields of finance and economics
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Mapping; Mapping News
Lovell Johns wins new European Commission contract
By Wil Adnams March 7th 2017
Web-based GIS portal, developed by Lovell Johns to map marine and maritime data, renewed for a further two years
Lovell Johns has been awarded a renewed contract as part of a consortium of companies (with Cogea, AND International, AZTI Tecnalia, CETMAR and Eurofish International Organisation) by the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE). The aim of the contract is to assemble fragmented marine and maritime mapping data on the extent and intensity of human activities, and make them available through a single web-based GIS portal.
The EMODnet Human activities web portal, previously developed by Lovell Johns, presents marine and maritime mapping data of a series of activities related to the sea. The new two-year contract (with available two-year extension) will enable us to further develop the mapping portal and related web services. The data themes and coverage of the datasets will also be extended.
In 2008 the European Commission proposed to take steps towards a European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) after marine and maritime data was confirmed to be a barrier to scientific understanding, a brake on the economy and a handicap to government decision-making.
“Human Activities” was added to the family of EMODnet portals in 2014. The mapping data is collated and harmonised by other consortium members from across the EU. GIS layers such as wind farms, ocean energy facilities, pipelines and hydrocarbon extraction facilities can be viewed, interrogated and downloaded using the web-based GIS portal.
The website uses responsive design, allowing the information pages to resize and adapt the layout according to the screen space available on the viewing device. The main data viewing page is designed for non-GIS experts. It allows the user to toggle GIS layers on and off, identify features and related information and filter data by category or custom data ranges. Custom maps can also be easily shared via social media.
In a 2016 survey, the portal was rated highly by users [PDF] for its overall visual appeal, ease of navigation and user friendliness of the interactive map.
Web-based GIS portal, developed by Lovell Johns to map marine and maritime data, renewed for a further two years.
For experienced GIS users, data layers and INSPIRE compliant metadata are made available for download. OGC Web Features Services (WFS) also allow direct connection to the GIS datasets from desktop GIS applications and other websites.
During the renewed contract, the web-based GIS portal will be improved by
The addition of more datasets, such as shipping density
The expansion of current datasets to cover more sea basins
Improved INSPIRE compatibility of data models
The addition of a data extraction tool to download filtered data or selected areas
Improved integration with other EMODnet services
The web-based GIS portal will continue to use open source technology and be hosted by Lovell Johns. We look forward to working with our consortium partners once again.
Watch this video to find out more about EMODnet and how it is used by the European Commission.
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A ranch hand turned scrap sculptor
John Lopez's lifesize art from scrap metal draws worldwide attention
This life-size buffalo is stampeding in front of the Dakotah Steak house in Rapid City, SD
credit: John Lopez Studio
A life-size work horse sculpture installed near Kensington, New Hampshire .
The grand animals found on working ranches are already remarkable enough in their physical stature and powerful presence, but one artist takes their grandeur a step further with his sculptures welded from rusty old scrap metal.
John Lopez was born and raised on a ranch in his home-state of South Dakota, where he’s received critical acclaim and community commissions for his work. He grew up as a ranch hand and went on to study bronze sculpting in college. After a successful career in the art field well known for his work with bronze, he began to experiment with unconventional scrap iron material taken from an old tractor and other abandoned machinery.
These life-size re-creations of stallions, buffalos and bulls quickly called attention from around the world. The 43-year-old told the Daily Mail this summer, “I get my ideas from my life, the ranch, our history here, the animals around our area.” “My favorite part about these pieces is the texture,” he explains. “I just start grabbing stuff from the pile and welding it, and if you weld enough of the same thing on over and over it creates this really cool texture.”
In 2000, the Pro Rodeo Hall of Fame commissioned John to create two bronze monuments for their sculpture garden. The first features World Champion Calf Roper Paul Tierney on Coffee Jeff, a horse raised by Lopez's uncle; the second depicts Charmayne James on her famous horse Scamper.
Today, Lopez remains busy with a full roster of projects. The best way to dip into his work, however, might be to take a tour of his sculptures in the Dakotas. View a map here, and buckle up for an eye-opening ride.
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by Tarun · Published February 19, 2008
Microsoft wants more students using its software tools and it thinks it has hit on the right business model.
It’s going to give away its software.
Starting this week, college students in 10 countries will be able to get Microsoft’s Visual Studio and several other programs for free as part of an effort dubbed DreamSpark. Over the next year, Microsoft plans to offer the program worldwide for college and high school students.
In addition to giving away its Visual Studio tools, Microsoft is also providing no-charge access to its Expression Web design tools and its XNA studio for developing Xbox 360 software. Microsoft already provides discounted academic versions of its software, as well as a free “express” version of Visual Studio. Students can also get free copies of Windows Server and the developer version of the SQL Server database.
Source: News.com
“You can go build software applications,” said Joe Wilson, Microsoft’s senior director of academic initiatives. “You can go build Web sites. You can do a really cool Facebook application…There are a lot of possibilities that comes with this small list of products.
Included in those initial 10 countries are the United States, the United Kingdom, China, France, and Germany.
Clearly, Microsoft has a couple of goals here. One is to get more students who have enough design or science aptitude to enter the software field. The other is to get them using Microsoft’s tools early.
“That next generation and future generations of technologists, they are vital to any industry leader like us,” Wilson said. Wilson said his goal is to be able five years from now to spot businesses that got their start because a student used Microsoft’s tools for free.
“I expect that to happen,” Wilson said. “Maybe it’s hundreds or thousands of companies.”
Bill Gates is set to discuss DreamSpark Tuesday in a speech to students at Stanford University.
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Freeview: CJ CAM (Part 2)
In an exclusive feature, iFollow Stags views Portugal through the perspective of winger CJ Hamilton, as we bring you the inside track from the heart of the pre-season camp.
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MANTRA GROUP TO MANAGE BELL CITY HOTEL AND CONFERENCE PRECINCT IN GREATER MELBOURNE
Mantra Group is set to manage the 844 room Bell City mixed-use development in Melbourne's Preston precinct following its purchase by Elanor Investors Group. Currently under Rydges Hotels management, the dual tower hotels will rebrand as Mantra and BreakFree late December.
The Bell City site consists of two towers – one comprising a 383 room 4.5 star hotel and apartment complex which will carry the Mantra brand, offering extensive conferencing areas and food and beverage outlets; the second tower, which will carry the BreakFree brand, offers 461 hotel rooms, apartments and studios of a 3.5 star level as well as 2.5 star student accommodation, catering to the surrounding La Trobe, RMIT and Melbourne University campuses. An extensive gymnasium and pool is also on site for guest use.
As a true mixed-use development, Bell City also houses retail and commercial tenancies, serviced offices and a 600 space car park.
Mantra Group CEO, Bob East, said the company was keen to expand its presence in Australian capital cities, including dynamic metropolitan locations:
"The consistently high-performing greater Melbourne hotel market combined with the metropolitan location of the Bell City hotels and its unique market drivers, presented us with an exceptional opportunity to capitalise on our existing portfolio of seven hotels in the Melbourne CBD," said Mr East.
"We are excited to again partner with Elanor Investors Group and on this property and believe it has great potential to service a number of markets."
Bell City is located within a major development area approximately 11 kilometres (20 minutes) north of Melbourne's CBD and 20 kilometres (25 minutes) south east of Melbourne Airport. The property is located within the suburb of Preston, ideally positioned within close proximity to a number of major linkages and industries.
Recognised as the leading hotel and events precinct in Melbourne's north, the purpose-built conference venue complex includes a choice of 15 rooms of varying configurations and sizes- from a vast ballroom with a 500-person capacity to more modestly sized meeting and conference spaces.
"We are confident that this unique property will operate with great success under Mantra Group management and provide travellers with a high quality accommodation and conferencing option in Melbourne's north," said Marianne Ossovani, Head of Hotels, Tourism and Leisure at ElanorInvestors Group.
Bell City is the fourth management agreement signed between Mantra Group and Elanor Investors Group, joining Peppers Cradle Mountain Lodge, Mantra Wollongong and BreakFree on Clarence Sydney in the shared portfolio.
Further information: Elanor Investors Group ASX announcement (code ENN)
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INspirations for Manufactured Housing Professionals
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A paradox is a seemingly contradictory statement that may reveal a truth. A paradox of freedom is that it is rarely, if ever, free.
There are many forms of freedom that should be considered.
Freedom of thought;
Freedom of speech;
Freedom of religion and belief;
Freedom of movement;
Freedom from oppression;
Freedom from violence;
Freedom from deception;
Economic freedom and more.
Do you love freedom? Do you want to protect and expand that freedom?
Threats to freedom often come from an abuse of “power.” So one way to maximize freedom is to keep power in check.
In the United States, our Declaration of Independence said that we our “endowed by our Creator” with certain “unalienable rights.” All of those rights – the freedoms noted or implied in the bullet points above – were designed to be enshrined and protected by our Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Constitution Day is normally observed in the U.S. on Sept 17th. Image credit, The Political Student.
Knowing the Constitution was an imperfect creation of a compromise, the founders made it subject to legal amendment. That process was designed not to be easy, so that changes would come only from broad consensus.
Bill of Rights cartoon, circa 1971 – credit – libguides-cu-portlan-edu.
Among the ways that power was to be checked by Constitutionally limited government was division or “separation of powers.”
The president (and executive branch) was limited and checked by;
the Congress (the legislative branch) – further divided in a House of Representative and the Senate; and
the Courts and Supreme Court were to decide cases and act as a check on legislative and/or executive overreach.
Inefficient?
Dictatorships and kingdoms may in theory be more efficient than constitutionally limited government. But that’s the point, to maximize freedom, the power of a rule needed to be checked.
Constitutionally limited federal power was meant to be a way to hobble the fast passage of actions, precisely to protect We the People, and the States, from the overreach of power by the federal branch of government.
All of this requires an informed and engaged electorate to work properly. That electorate had to be grounded in an understanding of freedom and justice.
Constitutionally Protected Freedom Under Assault
It would be easy to point to the last 7 years and say that the executive branch has been exceeding its authority. But the truth is that constitutionally limited government has been under assault for well over a century. It’s been done by Democrats and Republicans. The constitution is being violated by all three branches of the federal government.
That said, one presidential candidate – an attorney – is promising to pack her lower and Supreme Court appointees with judges who will back her vision of government. By contrast, Donald Trump is promising to appoint justices is the mold of the late Antonin Scalia. Originalists who would apply the original meaning of the law, instead of imposing their political view on the law.
If the law doesn’t apply to all equally, then one has injustice. Injustice leads to rebellion and anarchy. To be free, your rights and your property have to be protected.
How is it fair if you earn and work for something, and then a power greater than your own simply takes it away? Yet isn’t that what often happens through laws, as well as by criminal acts? These are the notions that Constitutionally limited government were supposed to protect against.
The struggles are routinely changing, but freedom is something that is worth the effort.
Freedom isn’t free. Each of us ought to work to understand freedom. To spread the understanding of freedom. To campaign, lobby, advocate and vote for freedom. The paradox of freedom is that it isn’t free, but it is worth working and struggling for as necessary. ##
L. A. ‘Tony’ Kovach is a publisher, consultant and service provider to the manufactured housing industry.
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It’s Roar time
Janelle Patterson
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Map courtesy of the Marietta Riverfront Roar committee Road closures will begin at noon on Friday and will be cleared within the city by 6 p.m. Sunday.
With road closures planned and races set, organizers are praying for good weather and smooth rides this weekend at the Riverfront Roar.
“We’re hoping that we chase this rain away. If we can get by tonight and set up, the rest of the weekend looks hot but pretty good,” said Barry Mullen, a committee member with the Roar. “We’re set up for some great racing, and of course we have a variety of live music anywhere from bluegrass to country to rock–it’s more special because we have local talent.”
Racers come for the annual event from all over and for Dan Bunting with Powerboat Nationals, it’s the closest race to home, bringing a bit of nostalgia as a former racer.
“My first race was in Marietta, and we raced there when I had a team, and now as a race promoter to be back and bring in the hydro cross events again with the jetski racing, I love coming back,” said Bunting.
Bunting got started racing nearly two decades ago, he said, after working wake patrol on the water of a few races and watching the speed.
“Then I went out and bought a boat and started racing myself,” he laughed. “About 18 years ago, eight laps in Marietta I was running the Monster Energy boat and had made eight turns when the boat split in half and I went swimming.”
Now, to bring in new racers, meet generations of fans who started watching the sport as children and now bring their kin, Bunting said he’s happy to see the races continue.
“Especially bringing in more female drivers, too,” he said. “One of our strongest contenders is a female driver, Jayme Durand.”
Durand, 35, of North Augusta, S.C. is returning to Marietta for a third year of racing, coming off a win last weekend.
“I grew up on the Savannah River, and I race with my dad,” said Durand as she traveled to Ohio Thursday, hauling the trailer with her boat. “Back when I won my first race four years ago, I was hooked, in the boat, it’s the only place where my brain shuts down any stress, all things go away, and the adrenaline kicks in–all you have is what you see and the person on your radio.”
Durand said she’s looking forward to not only seeing the racing family but also those who come to watch.
“The fans for us are an extended family,” she said. “I’m really looking forward to being there and being on the water.”
Janelle Patterson can be reached at jpatterson@mariettatimes.com.
Road Closures:
• Friday through Sunday:
• Front Street from Butler to Greene.
• Greene from Front to Third.
• Second from Butler to Ohio.
• Ohio from Front to Third.
• River Trail from Third to Post.
• Saturday and Sunday: Butler Street from Front to Second.
• Sunday, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.: Front Street from Butler to Putnam and the Armory Parking lot.
** The Williamstown boat ramp will also have partial closures from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and full closure from 8 to 10 p.m.
Events today:
•Noon: Road closures begin, Front Street from Butler to Greene Street, Greene Street from Third to Front Street, Second Street from Butler to Greene, and Ohio Street from the levee to Third Street.
•5 p.m.: Powerboats on display on Front Street, Greene Street and Second Street.
•5 p.m.: M&M Kids’ Zone opens.
•5 p.m. – Bud Light Beer Garden Opens. Driver meet-and-greet inside the beer garden.
•6 p.m. – Midnight: Live entertainment and beer garden at the corner of Front Street and Greene Street in the river-side parking lot. Bands include OYO, Jinx, The Bash and J.P. Chandler.
•10 a.m.: Powerboats on the Ohio River for testing.
•11 a.m.: Beer Garden opens.
•Noon: Opening Ceremonies at the Ohio River levee, M&M Kids’ Zone opens.
•12:15 p.m.: MOV’n Dragon Boat row-by.
•1 p.m. to 5 p.m.: Heat races.
•6 p.m. – Midnight: Live entertainment and beer garden at the corner of Front Street and Greene Street in the river-side parking lot. Music by Red Idle Rejects, The Faculty, Aftershock, and J.P. Chandler.
•6:30-7:30 p.m.: Columbus Zoo on the Armory lawn, presented by Marietta Morning Rotary Club.
•9:30 – 9:50 p.m.: Fireworks Show presented by Marietta College.
•9 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Rollin’ Oldies Car Club show, near the Armory.
•11 a.m.: Beer garden opens
•Noon: Race day opening ceremonies
•Noon: M&M Kids’ Zone opens
•1 to 4 p.m.: Final races
•4:30 p.m.: Trophies awarded
Source: mariettariverfrontroar.net
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Carolina League All-Star MVP Nick Banks, who collected MVP honors, gets doused with Gatorade by his Potomac teammates. (Alexis Oser)
By David Driver / Special to MiLB.com | June 18, 2019 11:44 PM
FREDERICK, Maryland -- Potomac's Nick Banks already was on a hot streak at the plate prior to Tuesday's Carolina League All-Star, hitting .405 in his previous nine games with 10 RBIs.
The outfielder from Texas didn't slow down against top-flight pitchers, going 3-for-4 with a go-ahead three-run homer in the eighth inning as the Northern Division rallied from a 5-0 deficit to an 8-7 victory before a crowd of 6,927 at Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium.
"I didn't think I got it up high enough. He just kind of left it elevated," said Banks, holding the MVP trophy near home plate. "I definitely feel good. It is definitely a great experience. We were all having fun. We didn't let the momentum stop."
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The left-handed batter sliced his shot down the left-field line off Cubs No. 18 prospect Paul Richan of Myrtle Beach to give the South an 8-5 lead in the eighth. Corey Julks of Fayetteville hit a two-run homer for the North in the top of the ninth, but Tyler Zuber of Wilmington got the last out for the save.
In 2016, Banks was drafted in the fourth round by the Nationals out of Texas A&M. The Carolina League showcase marked the third midseason All-Star appearance of his career. He also was named to the 2016 New York-Penn League and 2018 South Atlantic League contests, but couldn't recall doing much at the plate in those two.
"Nothing like this," he said, after getting a Gatorade bath from Potomac teammates and fellow All-Stars Jakson Reetz, Cole Freeman and Aldrem Corredor.
"That was pretty exciting," Freeman said of Banks' long ball. "He has been an aggressive hitter. It was fun. Obviously, we were down early."
Jarrett chooses own track with Orioles
The win at the home of the Orioles farm team was aided by Frederick infielder Willy Yahn (2-for-4, two RBIs) and outfielder Cole Billingsley.
"It was a blast," Yahn said. "It was so much fun to do it here in Frederick. It was a real treat."
The winning pitcher was Wilmington right-hander Tad Ratliff, who allowed two runs one one hit and a walk with four strikeouts in two innings.
Freeman led off the eighth with a walk and went to third as Yahn singled up the middle off Richan. That brought up fourth-ranked Royals prospect MJ Melendez of Wilmington, who struck out before Banks went deep.
The North scored four in the sixth to pull within 5-4. Boston's No. 25 prospect Pedro Castellanos of Salem delivered a sacrifice fly, Freeman had an RBI single and Yahn added a two-run knock. Then Billingsley tied the game with a two-out RBI single in the seventh.
The South scored four in the second to take a 4-0 lead. Two runs came in when Lynchburg lefty Juan Hillman threw wildly to home on a squibber in front of the plate off the bat of Down East's Yonny Hernandez. Brewers No. 10 prospect Payton Henry of the Mudcats, the No. 9 hitter in the lineup, increased the lead with a two-RBI single.
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In the sixth, sixth-ranked Rangers prospect Leody Tavares of Down East -- the cousin of former big leaguer Willy Tavares -- grounded an RBI single to right field just after a light rain began to fall.
The North got on the board on a sacrifice fly from Salem's Ryan Fitzgerald and Freeman collected an RBI single to trim the margin to 5-2 against Winston-Salem's Will Kincanon in the sixth. Yahn followed with a two-run double to left to trim the lead to 5-4.
Frederick skipper Ryan Minor, a former third baseman for the Orioles, led the Northern squad. Despite a rough start for the Orioles, he said there remains a lot of energy among Baltimore prospects.
"You have to be excited to be in the Orioles organization right now," Minor said.
David Driver is a freelance writer from Maryland and can be reached at @DaytonVaDriver and davidsdriver.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.
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Deals this week: Seriti Resources Holdings, Bacanora Minerals, Vendetta Mining
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Seriti Resources Holdings Proprietary Limited has announced plans to acquire Anglo American’s Eskom-tied domestic thermal coal operations for ZAR2.3bn ($164m).
The property to be acquired comprises the New Vaal, New Denmark and Kriel collieries, and four closed collieries.
Seriti Resources is a coal mine operator and developer based in South Africa, while the target company is a diversified mining company in the UK.
Bacanora Minerals intends to issue 12,333,261 shares of its common stock through a private placement, priced at C$1.35 ($1) a share to Japan-based global trading company, Hanwa.
The placement is expected to raise approximately C$16.65m ($12.39m) in gross proceeds.
"The placement is expected to raise approximately C$16.65m in gross proceeds."
Hanwa plans to use proceeds to gain 10% ownership in a Canadian lithium and borate mineral exploration company.
Canadian junior exploration company Vendetta Mining is intending to raise C$3m ($2.23m) in gross proceeds through a private placement of 15 million units, each comprising a common share and one-half common share purchase warrant.
Each unit will be priced at C$0.2 ($0.14), while each warrant will have an exercise price of C$0.3 ($0.22) for two years following the closure.
Canada-based Giyani Gold has entered binding agreements with Everbroad Investments and Marcelle Holdings for acquiring six new prospecting licences in the Kanye Basin in south-east Botswana.
Valued at $0.075m, the deal will enable Giyani Gold to acquire an 88% stake in PL322/2016 (Kgwakgwe Hill Licence) and 100% stake in licences from PL336/2016 to PL340/2016.
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“Part of me will be sad to see them go but only a small part of me,’’ said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, who was among a number of political leaders FPL invited to observe the demolition from the third-floor of the nearby Broward County Convention Center.
Wasserman Schultz praised the utility as an industry leader in reducing use of foreign oil and for investing in clean and renewable energy production that will slash the output of carbon dioxide, a so-called “green house” gas that scientists say is driving climate change and the rising sea levels that are a major threat to South Florida.
Since 2001, Silagy said, the company has cut back on foreign oil use by 98 percent, from 40 million barrels to less than 1 million barrels today.
The Port Everglades plant, which has been offline since late last year, is the third and largest oil-burning plant that FPL has razed in Florida in the last three years, following Cape Canaveral and Riviera Beach. FPL routes power from elsewhere to serve the area’s consumers. The upgraded plant is expected to go online in 2016.
Though the Port Everglades plant had been upgraded over the years to meet increasingly stringent federal pollution standards on power plants and could also burn natural gas, it remained a major source of air pollution in Broward County and a relic of both the industry’s and Fort Lauderdale’s past.
When its boilers first fired up in 1960, said Pam Rauch, an FPL vice president, the city was a fifth of its current population, a typical house cost $12,000, a car cost $2,600 and a gallon of gas ran 26 cents. Dwight Eisenhower, namesake of one of Port Everglades’ main roads, was the president.
The demolition went off with near clock-work precision at 6:45 a.m., just five minutes after sunrise. In the soft morning light, the first linear-shaped charges flashed like a photographer’s strobe light, cutting the steel legs out from under the massive boiler buildings. Then the red-and-white towers wobbled as dynamite detonated in holes drilled in their bases. They tumbled slowly sideways, criss-crossing like giant bowling pins. The whole thing, from first flash of explosive to last falling stack, took just over 40 seconds on a stopwatch — even faster than the 60 seconds blasting contractors had estimated.
A cloud of brown dust — the old plant’s last dirty emission — rose but dissipated in a few minutes under the gentle ocean breeze.
Clean-up work, however, is far from over. Contractors now have to a haul away an estimated 30,000 tons of steel from the boilers and from 4,000 to 6,000 tons of concrete and brick from the smokestacks.
The demolition got a lot of play on both local and national news, with ABC’s Good Morning America showing a clip and citing the improved pollution and energy standards of the plant that will replace it. In addition to local media shots, FPL had a series of cameras on the site that will provide closer views and different angles. FPL spokesman Erik Hofmeyer said the utility planned to post links to them on its website, www.FPL.com/Port.
FPL turned the event into a company celebration with 300-plus people, including several dozen retired plant workers. Julia Dale, a Davie middle-schooler who has gained fame for singing the national anthem during the Miami Heat’s championship playoff runs, sang it for the pre-boom ceremony. Chaplain Ronald Perkins of the port’s Seafarer’s House gave the invocation.
“I have been asked to pray over a lot of things but I have never done a demolition before,’’ he said, drawing laughter.
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Take Your Relationship to the Next Level by Sharing Your Netflix Password
By Nicolas DiDomizio
There are certain milestones that occur throughout the course of any romantic relationship — first date, first kiss, first boinky-boinky, first time you unapologetically let a fart rip, etc.
But once your new partner emails your heart and finally gets the password to your love and devotion, there's another, more literal password that you'll probably share, one that's becoming a universal signifier of closeness and trust in any modern relationship: the Netflix login.
Insert Netflix and Chill joke here!
Just in time for Valentine's Day, Netflix has taken it upon itself to conduct a survey re: how couples connect over its own video streaming service.
After surveying more than 1,000 18- to 39-year-olds, the company found that some people (27% of those surveyed) place importance on "show compatibility" when selecting a mate, and others (25%) believe that a potential partner's viewing preferences can make them more (or less) hot. The company named the latter phenomenon "show goggles," in which a guy's smart and #masc love of ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary series, for example, could help compensate for the fact that he's maybe kinda ugly or something.
Netflix also coined the phrase "Netflix Official" for that v. serious stage in a romantic relationship where you decide to consolidate Netflix accounts and share a single password (presumably something like "We@re$OinL0ve!") together.
According to the survey, 51% of participants "believe sharing a Netflix password means the relationship is serious," while 17% refuse to share a password before getting engaged (for... religious reasons, maybe? Idk).
Source: Netflix
Meanwhile, on Twitter, 82% of 369 respondents in a Mic poll said that "Yes, of course" they would share their Netflix password with a significant other.
Source: Twitter
While it's not exactly surprising that Netflix would self-importantly conclude that it is a big part of peoples' relationships (#humble #blessed), the takeaway is also kinda true. During these modern times, in which choosing a romantic partner typically means choosing a binge-watching partner as well, streaming passwords have indeed become symbolic of at least some kind of commitment.
"Sharing passwords to video-on-demand sites is a telling step in contemporary coupling — a contemporary version of leaving an extra toothbrush in your partner's bathroom," wrote Christina Cauterucci in Slate last year. "However small, it's a gesture of trust and generosity; it suggests that you'll spend more time together than apart. On streaming platforms that keep track of users' viewing histories, it becomes a tiny window into your partner's desires and habits."
And it's not just romantic relationships that password sharing is infiltrating — Netflix password-sharing is known to be a common occurrence among friends, especially if those friends happen to be teens.
So not to be all Grim Reaper-y or anything, but what happens when you and your beloved break up after already taking the Netflix-official leap? Well, if an ex holds on to the shared password after the breakup, it won't be long until your "Continue Watching" category is chock full of unnecessary reminders of your failure to make love last.
This was the case for 21-year-old Claire Landsbaum, who told the Daily Dot last year that it took her ex-boyfriend's 12 episodes of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown popping up in her feed to realize that although they may have finished executing most formalities of the breakup, the tiny little connection of a shared PW still lingered. "That's what you do when you're in love," she told the site. "You give your password away."
Something to keep in mind before impulsively making things Netflix Official this Valentine's Day.
February 9, 2016, 3:36pm: This story has been updated to include the results of Mic's Twitter poll.
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Kinship triumph in Partners Tournament
Annual competition takes place at Stadium MK...
Kinship Logistics were the big winners at the MK Dons’ Partners Tournament, which took place at Stadium MK.
The annual competition was held on Monday evening and involved seven club partners as well as a representative side from the Dons.
Teams were split into two groups of four, with the two division winners then going head-to-head in a final. Second, third and fourth-placed teams also played in a play-off match to determine their final ranking.
Academy Partners Kinship secured their place in the final after winning all three of their Group 1 matches without conceding a goal, while Bidfood were the Group 2 champions, edging out the Dons representative side to finish top of the table by two points.
The two teams played out a tightly-contested final but it was Kinship who came out on top, winning 1-0 to secure the trophy.
Final rankings
1st – Kinship Logistics
2nd – Bidfood
3rd – Easycopiers
4th – MK Dons
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8th – University of Buckingham
The Club would like to thank those who took part, as well as all other club partners, for their support during the 2016/17 season.
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No room for complacency despite teen pregnancy levels falling for 10th year running
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The data published by the ONS today shows that in England 17.8 per 1,000 young women under-18 became pregnant
The rate of under-18 conceptions in England and Wales decreased for the 10th year running, according to data released today (Monday 15 April) by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The data published by the ONS today shows that in England 17.8 per 1,000 young women under-18 became pregnant, a 5.3% decrease compared with 2016, and a 57% decrease compared with 2007. The estimated number of conceptions to women aged under-16 fell to 2,517 in 2017, compared with 2,821 in 2016, a decrease in the rate of 10%. Both rates are at the lowest level since records began.
The Teenage Pregnancy Knowledge Exchange (TPKE) at the University of Bedfordshire, welcomed the publication of the ONS, but stressed the need for a continued focus.
Alison Hadley, Director of TPKE and Teenage Pregnancy Advisor to Public Health England, said:
"We welcome the continuing downward trend in England's teenage pregnancy rate, but there is no room for complacency. Stark inequalities persist between and within local areas, and outcomes for young parents and their children remain disproportionately poor, with notably higher rates of poor maternal mental health, low birth weight and infant mortality.
“Effective implementation of statutory relationships and sex education in all schools in 2020 is key for sustaining progress in the long term, but councils continue to require sufficient resources to focus on the other aspects of effective teenage pregnancy programmes – including youth-friendly contraceptive services, targeted help for young people most at risk and high-quality support for young parents.
“Significant reductions in inequalities will also depend on tackling the wider determinants of early pregnancy and poor outcomes – notably family poverty and school exclusion and poor attainment."
The Teenage Pregnancy Knowledge Exchange, at the University of Bedfordshire, is the national source of expert advice and information on teenage pregnancy, providing training, research and consultancy. Alison is also Teenage Pregnancy Advisor to Public Health England and working with the World Health Organisation to share the successful lessons of the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy internationally.
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WILD is Commissioned by Gulbenkian & ART31 and Birmingham Hippodrome (as part of the Hippodrome Associate Artist programme). Supported by Without Walls with commissioning from Freedom Festival Arts Trust, Hat Fair, and Out There International Festival of Circus & Street Arts. With additional backing from the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Foyle Foundation, The 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust and supported by The City of London Corporation.
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We invite you to join a special Supporters’ Circle for our extraordinary new outdoor dance-circus production, WILD, which will premiere in summer 2019.
As a WILD Supporter you will have the opportunity to access our creation process throughout late March and April 2019 until the production goes out on the road for its premiere in May 2019.
WILD Supporters will have unique access to the creation process and be part of the magic as it unfolds. Meet Artistic Director, Kevin Finnan MBE, chat with the dancers and watch rehearsals. Be the first to hear the commissioned score, to see the costume designs and be part of this new Motionhouse production as it takes shape. WILD will tour the UK and Europe from May 2019.
Become a WILD Supporter today and help bring this cutting-edge new work to life! You will benefit from:
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WILD, the daring new outdoor production from Motionhouse, explores our disconnect with the natural environment and how, in a world where many of us live in large urban areas, the wild environment is becoming increasingly alien to us.
As urban humans, how do we relate to a way of being that we no longer understand? Is the wild still shaping our behaviour?
WILD creates an urban forest in the everyday of the city. Using the powerful physicality distinctive to Motionhouse and combining dynamic choreography, acrobatic movement and hand-to-hand partnering, WILD is a juxtaposition of the complex relationships in the forest and the more atomised life of humans in the city.
A forest of tall poles enables performance on multiple levels. From the top of the pole, we explore life in the canopy, looking down onto the forest floor – a dangerous world of unknown meetings.
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Elon Musk Promises Autobahn-Tuned Model S: Video
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Here in the U.S., Tesla Model S owners are likely to rarely reach the car’s 130 mph top speed, but in Germany, where the electric sedan has just been launched, this isn’t the case, thanks to the country’s unrestricted stretches of autobahn. The CEO of Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA], Elon Musk, recently got to experience driving a Model S on the autobahn and determined he could make the experience even better.
At a recent presentation at Tesla’s new service center in the German city of Munich, Musk revealed he will offer a free upgrade for the Model S aimed at improving the dynamics during high-speed driving.
“For buyers of the Model S, we’ll offer a free, optional high-speed tuning,” Musk said at the presentation, which is captured in this video uploaded to YouTube by Sk8orDie123 (via Transport Evolved).
Unfortunately, Musk didn’t mention what the tuning will involve and whether it will be offered to customers outside of Germany. He did, however, reveal that he will be sending an engineering team to Germany to develop the upgrade.
Of course, driving an electric car at or near its maximum speed will quickly deplete its batteries. That’s why Musk has also promised to roll out an extensive network of his company’s Supercharger high-speed charging stations. He said that by the end of 2014, the entire German population would be within range of one of the stations.
The Tesla Model S has been on sale in Germany for two months, though the car hasn’t fared as well as it has in other markets. According to International Business Times, Tesla sold 98 Model S sedans in Germany in its first two months, which was well below the sales levels of other electrics such as the Nissan Leaf and Smart ED. In fact, Smart managed to sell 146 of its electric cars in Germany in the month of September alone.
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Pseudo-productivity with Dr Eric Crampton
The Productivity Commission’s report on state sector productivity makes for dismal reading.
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State Sector Productivity: innovation and measurement are the missing keys
Higher state sector productivity is critical to delivering more and better public services now and into the future, yet many government agencies lack the cultures, capability and encouragement to make these gains, says the Productivity Commission in its latest report, Improving state sector productivity.
Rod Oram: So what happens if we fail?
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Kiwi execs predict growing gig economy
Nov 23, 2017 - Four in ten business leaders believe there will be an increase in casual and contractor employment over the next ten years, according to the newly-released Future of Talent report.
“It is about how businesses are looking to find different ways to utilise workers across their lifetime,” said Geraldine Magarey, leader of policy and thought leadership at CA ANZ – the organisation which conducted the recent report.
“It’s a great sign for older workers who would prefer part-time retirement, students with study commitments and new parents who don’t yet want to go back to a full-time job.”
The challenge, she added, is to strike the right balance with employment regulation, to allow the widest variety of working patterns, including casual, contracting, part-time and project-based or seasonal work.
The report also highlighted the need to ensure that vulnerable workers are protected from unscrupulous employers.
“Flexibility must still provide decent work and remuneration.”
The paper launched Tuesday night in New Zealand also surveyed what attributes business leaders felt to be very important for the future: There was an overwhelming response for communication skills (90 per cent).
Other qualities deemed important are problem solving, adaptability and agility, collaboration, quick building of relationships, resilience, creativity and innovation, the making of good designs even with incomplete information, leadership and empathy.
“These are difficult to replicate with technology,” Magarey said, pointing out that business leaders still feel a human touch remain crucial at work even as technological advancements influence the workplace.
And while agility and adaptability are crucial for workers, “it’s crucial for workplaces too,” Magarey said.
“Businesses need to be flexible in relation to hours, locations and where employees can work. These initiatives help to increase the talent pool and the employees they can attract.”
The paper surveyed 400 leaders from all sectors including agriculture, manufacturing, construction, hospitality, logistics, IT, professional services, accounting, finance and healthcare.
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Five industries at the heart of New Zealand’s “prosperity map”
17 Nov 2017 - To mark the launch of Deloitte Access Economics in New Zealand, a new report entitled Shaping our slice of heaven: Industries of opportunity was released in Wellington last night. The report identifies five industries with the greatest opportunity to contribute to New Zealand’s future economic prosperity. The industries lie at the intersection of global growth and national comparative advantage, forming the heart of New Zealand’s “prosperity map”. These industries of opportunity are tourism, agribusiness, food processing, international education and advanced manufacturing.
Each of the five industries is expected to achieve above average global growth over the next twenty years, in a large part due to the rise of the middle class in emerging economies, in particular the Asian powerhouse economies of China and India. Consumers in these countries, and around the world, want many things New Zealand can offer – excellent agricultural and food products, high quality education, the latest health technologies and unique tourism experiences.
Shaping our slice of heaven: Industries of opportunity analyses where global opportunities and New Zealand’s advantages will coincide to create growth opportunities for the economy. Recognising that New Zealand’s prospects are as bright as they were a decade ago is not in itself enough. The report asks how New Zealand companies, industries and government can work together to apply these insights and take a longer-term view around how to ensure future economic prosperity.
Deloitte Access Economics lead partner in New Zealand Linda Meade says the report is a call to action.
“The core message of the report is that while global or domestic opportunity and structural advantages are necessary, they are not sufficient. To ensure success, we need to build on New Zealand’s areas of advantage to maintain and improve performance relative to global competitors,” says Ms Meade.
“We need to seize the day - there are plenty of competitors waiting in the wings if we are complacent,” she warns.
Ms Meade says Deloitte is very pleased to be launching Deloitte Access Economics in New Zealand and she expects strong growth in economic advisory as a key component of Deloitte’s client services.
“Demand for expert knowledge and industry experience in economic advisory services has grown for some years now. Growth has been driven by the pace of business and regulatory change and the value inherent in understanding the economics that drive these changes, at national, state, industry and enterprise levels,” says Ms Meade.
Since forming as Access Economics in 1988, and joining Deloitte in 2011, Deloitte Access Economics has experienced significant growth. They are now a team of 160 professional economists across New Zealand and Australia and are the leading Australian economic advisory practice.
Canberra-based Deloitte Access Economics Lead Partner Stephen Smith says Deloitte Access Economics has deep specialist skills across macroeconomics, microeconomics, health economics and social policy, and competition and regulatory policy, and a strong commitment to delivering client value when it comes to providing insights and advice.
“Our team’s success in combining deep economic rigour with practical commercial advice is helping to shape conversations around any number of social, political and business issues, deliver business insights and inform investment strategy in Australia – and now here in New Zealand,” says Mr Smith.
You can download or read Shaping our slice of heaven: Industries of opportunity at www.deloitte.com/nz/slice-of-heaven.
You can learn more about Deloitte Access Economics in New Zealand at www.deloitte.com/nz/economics.
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it's businesses that drive productivity, not consumers
Multinational tech giants like Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are taking a bigger slice of the New Zealand economy every day writes Rohan MacMahon in his article published on Newsroom:-
'Lack of IT skills adds to dismal productivity'
As productivity flatlines, we need to help Kiwi businesses stay competitive in a global world, writes management consultant Rohan MacMahon
Whatever the make-up of the next Government, we can expect some major topics debated in the election campaign to get a lot of attention. Things like housing supply, mental health and water quality.
One fundamental challenge for New Zealand which received little attention in the campaign, but will need to be addressed, is productivity. The latest statistics paint a dismal picture (read a great summary by Michael Reddell here).
Basically, once you net out population growth, New Zealand's productivity is static or, if you choose the most optimistic measure, growing at less than one percent per annum.
This means workers need to work longer hours to have more money in their pockets. It means farmers must hope for better prices on commodity exports or an uptick in global demand to generate growth in profits.
Why is it so hard to, as they say, "work smarter, not harder"?
One area where New Zealanders are not "working smarter" at scale yet is in the use of ICT.
New Zealanders are enthusiastic consumers of technology. Kiwis love global technology brands like Apple, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon and Google, and are generally quick to take up attractive new technologies.
However, it's businesses that drive productivity, not consumers - and here the story is less rosy.
| Continue to the full article on Newsroom here || October 17, 2017, |||
TheSpinOff: Bigger than agriculture: How design became a multi billion dollar industry
According to a new report, the design sector contributed over $10 billion to the New Zealand economy in 2016 writes Henry Oliver from TheSpinoff in which he asks Thomas Mical, the head of AUT’s School of Art and Design, what that means for New Zealand design.
Designers know that their work creates value, but a recent report from DesignCo – commissioned by ten New Zealand institutions including AUT – confirms it, by quantifying design’s growing impact on the New Zealand economy. According to The Value of Design to New Zealand report, the design sector contributed approximately $10.1 billion to the New Zealand economy in 2016, about 4.2% of New Zealand’s GDP.
And if design were treated as its own industry rather than a sector within various industries, its contribution to the economy would be larger than agriculture ($8.1 billion) and on the heels of retail trade ($10.6 billion) and food, beverage and tobacco product manufacturing ($10.6 billion). Product design and interactive design are the two biggest contributors towards design’s economic impact, along with manufacturing, human health, financial, environmental and construction industries.
But it’s not just design for design’s sake. The report shows a strong design sector and national prosperity and economic growth. Further, design is a powerful tool of urban regeneration and a way to help solve complex and hard-to-solve problems in both the private and public spheres.
Thomas Mical, the head of AUT’s School of Art and Design, was trained as an architect and has thought a lot about the interaction of public and private spaces. He sees reports like The Value of Design as vital, not just for the design industry to prove it’s worth to the government and the private sector, but for designer’s themselves to understand their economic impact and the value of the work they do. And for Mical, who sees the future of design everyday in his student’s work, its value is only going to grow.
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Christchurch – will be a city of choice
As the rebuild takes effect, Christchurch has a golden opportunity to become New Zealand’s number one city of choice, says outgoing Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce chief executive Peter Townsend.
Townsend says Christchurch is back and running after 11,000 aftershocks, 53 of them over five on the Richter scale.
Currently $83 million is being spent in rebuilding the city every week, and by the end of this calendar year 75 per cent of the housing stock will have been repaired and rebuilt. A total of 70 percent of the commercial building repairs and rebuilds will also have been completed, he says.
The cost of the Structural side of the rebuild so far is $33 billion. But there is still a massive amount to do. The total cost of the whole rebuild is still estimated at somewhere between $40 and $50 billion.
EQC insurance proceeds have accounted for around $11 billion dollars of insurance monies injected into the rebuild with other private insurance contributing another $20 billion
“There is nowhere in the world where around $30 billion dollars of insurance proceeds have been applied to the rebuild of a city of 400,000 people”.
“The Government have injected around $8.5 billion into land, infrastructure and amenities”.
Townsend makes other factual and compelling points about Christchurch and Canterbury, as it becomes a city of choice.
• A total of 1100 commercial buildings in the city were lost in the earthquakes but they might be replaced by just 400 buildings.
• By the end of 2020 Christchurch is going to have as much hotel accommodation as it had before the earthquakes.
• Christchurch will be the safest city in New Zealand because all the shonky stuff has gone.
• The city will be the most energy efficient city in New Zealand because it has rebuilt to a new code of double glazed windows, better insulation, heat pumps under the floors to heat the concrete pads and it all results in much cheaper electricity.
• A total of 25,000 Christchurch houses were destroyed or had in excess of 100,000 of damage in the earthquakes.
• There is no other city better equipped in primary, secondary and tertiary education, by a country mile.
• Canterbury is regarded as having one of the top six health systems in the world.
• Christchurch is going to be the most accessible city in the country as its traffic infrastructure is taking off with the southern motorway, the northern arterial route and the west diversion.
• A taxi driver told Townsend that many of his overseas passengers says the drive from the airport into the city is the most beautiful airport to city drive in the world
• Christchurch is the only city in the world with under a million people that has a daily Airbus 380 service
• The city is a target for medical specialists and doctors wanting to live and work in Christchurch. Why – Brexit, Trump, lone-wolf terrorism and Christchurch is seen to be a safe bolt-hole for people to live and bring up their kids; it’s really a compelling proposition.
• Canterbury is not all about dairy. Canterbury grows 68 percent of the world’s radish seeds and 34 percent of the world’s carrot seeds
• Finally, the rebuild of the ChristChurch Cathedral over the next seven to 10 years must be a tourist attraction. Townsend says, why not, instead of fencing it off and wrapped in white plastic, why not put glass panelling around the outside of it? Why not put a couple of grandstands in the Square so people can look into the rebuild? And why not make the rebuild of the ChristChurch Cathedral a positive experience for tourists.
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First ever NZ Tech Leaders group launched
A new national group of New Zealand’s leading tech experts was formed in Auckland today, because the country is facing unprecedented growth and change in tech – which is now the nation’s fastest growing sector.
Tech Leaders has been set up with the support of NZTech and is a group of passionate New Zealand tech, digital and ICT focused-executives from leading organisations that will work together, with the support of NZTech, to use their experience to help address tech related issues of national importance.
NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says New Zealanders are seeing dramatic tech changes the likes of which have never been seen before.
“Electric car charging stations are popping up all over New Zealand and we are seeing the introduction of driverless cars and buses. A string of artificial intelligence and IoT devices are continually being introduced into our daily lives.
“With the ultimate goal of improving the prosperity of New Zealand underpinned by technology Tech Leaders will define, communicate and promote initiatives around the use of technology from their experience and perspective.
“These tech executive, from organisations such as Auckland Transport, Downer, Fonterra, Fletcher Building and Westpac, are at the coalface, driving the tech change in large New Zealand companies and organisations.
“What they can see is new tech out there which will make New Zealand more efficient and businesses will benefit,” Muller says.
David Kennedy, Global Chief Information Officer of Transaction Services Group, is the first chair of Tech Leaders and he says it is up to the leaders to create a platform for the success of New Zealand today and for the future.
“To ensure international and domestic success of Kiwi businesses, it is vital we act now to consider what’s being covered in our education system. Learnings should be designed to develop global leading talent who can cope with all the opportunities and challenges of tomorrow’s world.
“Our education system needs to be producing these type of employees today. We do not have a shortage of skilled people – however, we need to be sure the education being provided is equipping people to succeed in today’s business, as well as tomorrow’s world.
“Tech Leaders is committed to delivering change to the very fabric of New Zealand. Never before has a group of the most senior tech executives got together in this way for the sole purpose of ensuring the prosperity of New Zealand.
“Tech Leaders will work together to answer the toughest questions around the impacts and opportunities of new technologies. Large firms are piloting artificial intelligence tools and fleets of vehicles will soon become driverless, potentially costing thousands of jobs.
“This is just one of the questions we should be asking… What should the government and New Zealand’s largest firms be doing to protect the livelihood of Kiwi families that rely on driving jobs for the food on their table when, not if, autonomous vehicles are widespread on New Zealand roads,” Kennedy says.
| A MakeLemonade release || September 28, 2017 |||
Red meat sector looks to government for action
Written by Rural News Group the red meat sector looks to government for action. The red meat sector has eight key priorities and believes the next government can play a key role in bringing about positive change.
• Continuing to improve the sustainability of our production is a top priority. We are committed to improving our water quality and further reducing the sector’s GHG emissions.
Our leaders recently committed to bringing New Zealand’s rivers back to swimmable levels and we are working on further ambitious targets for the environment.
The incoming government can help by:
o Working with the sector to develop environmental policies focused on the outcomes we want to achieve and that recognise different farming systems can meet these outcomes in different ways.
o We need government support with research and the tools to give us answers on the best way to build productive, sustainable environment.
• We are an export-focused sector: 90% of NZ’s sheepmeat production and 83% of beef production is exported. We continue to face major tariff and non-tariff barriers around the world that affect our competitiveness.
o Continued leadership on trade liberalisation, including negotiating high quality FTAs and putting resources into tackling non-tariff barriers.
• Food safety is critical to the meat industry and for maintaining consumer confidence. NZ is recognised as a world leading in its industry and regulatory systems.
o Continuing to provide government services in an efficient and cost-effective way and to maintain the high performance of NZ’s regulatory system for food safety, market access and reputational reasons.
• Incursions of pests and diseases are among the biggest risks to the sector and could be catastrophic to the NZ economy.
o Continuing to invest in a strong biosecurity system aimed at keeping pests and diseases out and working with industry to improve capability and systems to respond to those which arrive.
• NZ has high animal welfare standards. Farmers and meat processors work hard to ensure their animals are well cared for and treated humanely.
o Continuing to partner with the sector to enhance the animal welfare systems in NZ and promote NZ’s good reputation in this area.
• Huge innovation and productivity improvements have occurred in the sheep and beef sector, onfarm and in processing. The sector is committed to striving for further improvements.
o Continuing to partner with the sector and ensuring its investment strategies include long-term support for sheep and beef sector innovation and growth.
• We represent NZ’s largest manufacturing industry and our processing companies employ some 25,000 people nationwide. We strive to employ NZers first. Every year, however, we need to bring in about 100 Halal slaughterers to support a fundamental component of the industry’s business model and to meet Halal regulatory requirements. The processes for this are lengthy and complex and expose the industry to significant risk.
o Putting Halal slaughterers on the long-term skills shortage list or finding other practical solutions to provide a secure pathway to source necessary workers from overseas.
Health & Safety and Training
• Working with livestock and machinery means the sector has health and safety hazards that need to be well managed. Industry leaders are committed to improving the sector’s health and safety performance and creating a safer work place.
• Having a skilled workforce is extremely important to the sector and we are investing in training systems to upskill workers, promulgate industry standards and promote the sector as a career pathway.
o Supporting a strong partnership between WorkSafe NZ and industry; and
o Supporting the sector in developing new qualifications to accelerate career pathways and maintaining and expanding the funding model with the Primary ITO.
| A RuralNews release || September 21, 2017 |||
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Rush Take Down Mammoth In Low-Scoring Battle
Adam Levi 04.07.2019
As expected, it was a gritty defensive battle Saturday night between the Colorado Mammoth and Saskatchewan Rush in Denver. With a chance to clinch an NLL Playoff spot, the Mammoth tried to make a late surge and overtake the visitors, but to no avail. The home side would lose 9-7 and surrender the season-series to their West Division foes.
The chess match between the minds of Mammoth head coach Pat Coyle and Rush head coach Derek Keenan was on full display all night long and it was wonderful to watch. It was equally enjoyable to sit back and see the performances of both goaltenders, the Mammoth’s Dillon Ward and the Rush’s Adam Shute, who were arguably the best players for their respective teams.
Shute has been thrust into the starting role in net over the last few weeks while Evan Kirk remains sidelined by an injury and he has improved each time he’s stepped on the floor. Tonight he had the best game of his brief three-year career by making 25 saves and only allowed a personal-best of seven scores.
Ward was much busier on the night. He stopped 46-55 Rush shots in the loss to secure his fifth match with 40 or more saves this season and his highest save total in a match since his career-best 57-save night back in January against the Toronto Rock.
Dillon Ward did more than just make saves in the contest, though. In the third quarter, Ward assisted rookie Julian Garritano on his first NLL goal. It was Ward’s 50th career assist and his eighth in 2019.
While the entire Mammoth offence struggled to get in a groove all night, one of the players presumably who was the most frustrated on the evening was Joey Cupido. The transition player had two breakaway opportunities to score but was denied by Shute who stood tall, spread his arms and stopped Cupido on both occasions.
Over on the visitor’s side, the Saskatchewan Rush were on milestone watch coming into tonight’s game and they got what they were hoping for. Jeff Shattler was one point shy of 800 for his career and he tallied it only eight minutes into the game when he scored the first goal of the night.
It was also a special night for Rush defenceman Scott Campbell who was acquired by the team in mid-March. It was his third game with his new club and he managed to score a goal for his fourth of the season and the 51st of his 15-year career.
Once again, Mark Matthews was a thorn in the Mammoth’s side as he scored twice and assisted on two other goals. In their first encounter of the season, Matthews also scored twice and had a hat trick of assists in the first meeting. Robert Church and Ryan Keenan also had a pair of goals while Shattler and Ben McIntosh had a pair of assists each.
Even though the Mammoth will be in the playoffs this May, this weekend hurt their chances to move to a higher seed. The Calgary Roughnecks won their game this weekend putting the Mammoth a game and a half behind them in the West Division standings with three games left on their schedule. The Mammoth do hold the tiebreak against the Roughnecks, though, if the two teams finish the season with the same record.
The Mammoth will have their next chance to move up the standings in six days time back in the Pepsi Center when they face the Rochester Knighthawks. That game on April 12th will be on B/R Live at 9:00 pm EST.
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Gwyneth Paltrow reveals Jay-Z wish on Oscars red carpet – Daily Gossip
Matt Wilkinson Feb 28, 2011 10:40 am GMT
Gwyneth Paltrow arrives before the 83rd Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles) Credit: PA
N-Dubz and RHCP hang, Cee Lo on the prowl again – your music gossip stop
Welcome to the Daily Gossip: your daily stop-off to find out what the stars of the music world have been up to in the tabloids and beyond, with the help of plenty of “anonymous sources”.
Today’s top gossip:
Could Gwyneth Paltrow be about to collaborate with Jay-Z? The actress, who has been performing songs from her new film Country Strong recently, revealed her wish on the red carpet at the Oscars ceremony last night (February 27).
Asked which musician she would most like to collaborate with, she mentioned the rapper, who she and hubby Chris Martin are already good pals with, and who she sang with onstage in London in 2006. “I think we’d be a good combination,” she said, adding that he was “a genius” and she’s “his biggest fan”. How could it fail? (various).
From the papers:
Noel Gallagher hung out with Dave Grohl, Juliette Lewis and Pink backstage at the NME Awards Big Gig on Friday night (25), where Foo Fighters headlined.
Ever the ladies man, Cee Lo Green apparently asked for The Saturdays‘ Rochelle Wiseman‘s phone number after his gig at London club Merah last week. Alas, she only gave him her Twitter details (The Sun).
Peaches Geldof gleefully paraded her latest boyfriend, S.C.U.M.‘s Tom Cohen, in front of the media at Milan Fashion Week (Daily Star).
Professor Green says he’s against people getting loads of tattoos, we read. This, erm, as he plans on getting his eighth piece of body art (Daily Star).
It’s probably the least of the country’s worries at present, but according to new Wikileaks documents, the likes of Beyonce, Usher and Mariah Carey have all performed lucrative gigs for the family of Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi (various).
N-Dubz have been hanging out with Red Hot Chili Peppers in LA – both groups are recording there, and according to the red-tops bumped into each other in a studio corridor. Weirdly, they apparently got on so well they started ‘chilling’ in each others’ respective studios (The Sun).
Check back tomorrow for the next Daily Gossip.
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Liberty University on Self Defense
At Liberty University they apparently take safety seriously. The Lynchburg, VA Christian university recognizes the very rare, but very real threat posed by an active shooter on campus. They also recognize the fact that law-abiding armed citizens might be the first responders in such a situation. Armed faculty or students may indeed be the only ones on hand to defend themselves and others from serious injury or death.
This week, Liberty also posted details of their new campus gun policy. It's nice to see an institution of higher learning taking positive steps in creating a safe environment, and not passing "feel good" regulations that actually keep students and faculty less safe. Mass shooters are cowards by nature, and focus their evil on places where they know their intended victims are not armed.
The advice in the Liberty video is certainly more useful than resorting to attacking a shooter with canned soup or relying on "improvised" weapons.
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Links to Related Musings: 2nd Amendment, Guns, Liberty University, Safety, Self Defense
Carolina Reaper Peach IPA
The first thing I thought when I saw this beer's label was "Well, this could be interesting." The Carolina Reaper pepper is ranked as the world's hottest pepper, and the use of peach is interesting in itself; most "pepper beers" I've tried involve mango or pineapple as the "cooling" fruit.
Flying Dog Carolina Reaper Peach IPA pours a bright amber-yellow color with a thin head. The aroma of sweet peach is quite evident, with barely a hint of pepper. My immediate impression upon sipping is the sweetness of peach but the pepper heat comes quickly in to play. The Carolina Reaper peppers provide a strong flavor, but don't overwhelm despite their natural intensity. As the initial heat kick fades, though it never vanishes, the lingering sweetness and heat levels remain in a flavorful balance.
As I continued drinking the beer, I was able to detect the subtlety of the fruit notes, from both the peach and the citrusy hop base. Even as the warmth lingered, with each sip the sweet peach flavor would pop up, then give way to the peppery burst. The heat kick would fade, once more leaving the lingering sweet and heat in balance.
Flying Dog Carolina Reaper Peach IPA is the third beer in the brewery's Heat Series, and it's definitely my favorite so far.
This bottle of tasty brew was an unsolicited review sample from the brewery. The drinking was done of my own free will.
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Airsoft For More Practice
For a short time, my son was involved in an airsoft club in high school. At that time I started thinking that it might be a useful way to practice for shooting real guns. I forgot about it for few years, but recently picked up a Tokyo Marui SIG Sauer P226 airsoft replica. The gun is a very close copy, in ergonomics and operation, to the real thing that I often carry and shoot in matches.
After opening the box, I discovered that the manual is written entirely in Japanese. There are drawings too, but sometimes it's not clear what they are trying to depict. Fortunately I'm pretty familiar with how to shoot a pistol, so some of it was easy to interpret. But other parts of the instructions are less clear. After ordering some propellant and BB's online, it was time to shoot.
I plan to enhance my shooting practice with the airlift replica. I'll be able to work on movement and drawing drills, right in my backyard. Having the "bullets" hitting the target will keep me more honest with sight picture too. A repair center or paper practice target placed over a well-shot out cardboard target ensures the plastic pellet leaves a hole even at distance.
Acquiring this gun took longer than expected. The shipment from Hong Kong was held up by Customs in New York for five weeks. (If U.S. Customs and Border Protection was as diligent about illegal weapons and illegal immigrants as they are with toys, we'd probably be a lot safer. )
My first practice session with the gun was spent working on shooting while moving sideways, a skill deficit I noted at my last IDPA match. I'm looking forward to setting out a barricade to shoot around as well. It's probably fortunate, at least until the trees drop their leaves, that my backyard is well hidden from the neighbors' views.
In the end, I don't know how much more beneficial airsoft will be over regular dry fire practice, but shooting the airsoft pistol is certainly fun. And that's enough reason to try it.
Links to Related Musings: Guns, Practice, Shooting Sports
Fight McAuliffe Mandated Killing Zones
This alert from the Virginia Citizens Defense League highlights the hypocrisy of Governor McAuliffe and his support of gun free killing zones, applicable only to law-abiding citizens. If you are a Virginia resident, please read and take action now.
STATE AGENCY GUN BAN - POLITICS AT ITS WORST
Late last year Governor McAuliffe put into effect an "emergency" ban on the carry of firearms in state agency buildings (DMV, ABC stores, etc.), banning even those with CHPs.
What was the emergency situation that the ban was addressing? There was none. When was the last time you heard of a shooting in a state agency building? When was the last time you heard about one of Virginia's 421,000 CHP holders committing a violent crime?
Everything the Governor does is based on politics and its associated rhetoric. The state-agency gun-ban is just another example of McAuliffe putting politics over the SAFETY and RIGHTS of Virginia's citizens!
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGREED WITH VCDL AND TRIED TO STOP THE BAN
VCDL urged the General Assembly to clarify that state agencies cannot have any kind of gun ban without the permission of the General Assembly. Delegate Mike Webert put in HB 1096, a state-agency preemption bill, to do just that. The bill passed the House by 65 to 33 and the Senate by 21 to 17, but did not become law because McAuliffe showed his disdain for the General Assembly and gun owners by vetoing it.
THE PERMANENT VERSION OF THE GUN BAN HAS A HEARING ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31ST
Emergency regulations cannot be in force forever; they have to be replaced with a "permanent" version.
Your written requests for a public hearing on the emergency regulation earlier this year worked! That's why the Commonwealth is having a public hearing on the permanent regulation.
The hearing is next Wednesday, August 31, from 10 AM to noon at:
Pocahantas Building (a block south of Capitol Square)
900 E. Main Street (northwest corner of 10th and Main)
**Carry is NOT allowed, with everyone having to go through metal detectors (McAuliffe, always the hypocrite, sure likes HIS security, doesn't he?)**
ACTION ITEM #1: I REFUSE TO ROLL OVER! WE WILL FIGHT FOR EVERY INCH OF GROUND. LET'S **PACK** THE MEETING ROOM ON WEDNESDAY!
This is a hearing, so everyone who wants to speak will be allowed to do so. There is a sign-up sheet, with names called in the order they are on the sheet. You will have two minutes to speak. No signs are allowed, but VCDL GSL stickers will be available.
You can simply say, "I oppose this regulation." If you wish to say more than that, here are some talking points:
1. Where is the problem this is supposed to solve? There have been no shootings in Virginia state agency buildings and the ban on concealed carry is even more unreasonable, as CHP holders are the most law-abiding group of citizens in the Commonwealth.
2. The Governor has no direct authority from the General Assembly to ban guns in state agency buildings. To that end, this year the General Assembly passed a bill clarifying that the Governor cannot do any type of gun control without the express permission of the General Assembly. The only reason that bill did not become law is that the Governor vetoed it! This action ignores the will of the People, as expressed through their elected representatives in the General Assembly.
3. Since 1960, all but two of the public mass-shootings have been in gun-free-zones, like this regulation creates. This would make state-agency buildings in Virginia less secure, not more secure!
ACTION ITEM #2: WE ALL NEED TO COMMENT ON THE PERMANENT BAN
Click here to leave your written comment opposing the permanent regulation (my comment is the first one on the list). The title should clearly state that you oppose the regulation:
http://townhall.virginia.gov/L/comments.cfm?stageid=7579
The written comment period ends on October 21.
The megalomaniac in the governor's mansion is the same elitist who violated the Virginia constitution in an attempt to pad the voter roles for Hillary Clinton. The governor is a political thug who cares only for his leftist comrades, not the people of Virginia.
Links to Related Musings: Gun Control, McAuliffe, The Constitution, Thugs, VCDL, Virginia
Rivanna IDPA Match
I went down to Charlottesville to shoot the August Rivanna IDPA match on Saturday. For August, the weather was surprisingly pleasant not overly oppressive. It was certainly better than we experienced during last weekend's rifle class.
The first stage our squad shot was reminiscent of a stage from last month's Cavalier match, though with a couple more targets set over a slightly wider spread. The six near and one far target were engaged in tactical sequence while seated. The gun started with a magazine inserted but with an empty chamber, and all reloads were from the table. The placement of the non-threats meant lots of shifting in the seat to see all the targets.
At the next stage, all three mags were loaded with just six rounds each, and placed on three barrels arranged in a triangle. There were six targets set in a line downrange from the barrels. The targets required one shot each while moving left to right between the barrels. Then reloading at the right barrel, one shot was made on each target while moving forward to front barrel. Another reload and six more shots were made while backing up. I missed my first shot moving left to right, mistiming the shot while stepping. Shooting while moving sideways can be difficult, and something I rarely practice, though I practice moving frontward and backward regularly. (Note to self: Fix that.)
Strong and weak support hand only shooting was required on the third stage we shot, which consisted of two limited round strings. The first string required three shots, freestyle, on a ~20 yard target, a reload with retention, then six SHO shots on a 10 yard target. For the second string, the three shots on the far target and reload were followed by six WHO shots on a seven yard target. I was pleased with my SHO and WHO shots, thankfully that practice is paying off, though I got a little sloppy on the distant target.
The final stage I shot, which was Stage 1 of the match, offered a switch from the usual table start — we were seated facing to the side of the range, the targets to our right. Upon the signal, we turned in the chair and engaged three targets with three rounds each. Them moving downrange, we engaged two more targets from cover.
There was a side BUG match being held a well, and I had originally planned to shoot that at some point during the day. However, the fast moving match meant I never had a enough down time to do it between stages. After the match there was a large group of shooters waiting, so I opted to hit the road for home and lunch.
The quick, simple stages kept things moving quite well, and we never never had to wait on the squad ahead of us to finish shooting. Temps in the upper 80's, intermittent cloud cover, and even the occasional breeze kept things relatively pleasant. It was an enjoyable match with a fun crowd of shooters. The stages at Rivanna are often deceptive in their simplicity and the matches always offer variety of challenges. Other than a couple of poor shots, I was pleased with how I shot. As usual, I'm already looking forward to some practice in preparation for the next match.
Links to Related Musings: IDPA, Match Journal, Rivanna Action Pistol, Shooting Sports
Event: Adventure Brewing Oktoberfest
Since Adventure Brewing purchased Blue & Gray Brewing, the most frequent questions I've heard from folks revolve around the future of the popular St. Patrick's Day and Oktoberfest celebrations held each year at Blue & Gray. I've been told that these events will continue at the new Adventure Brewing South location, but it's still been a matter of "wait and see."
We know now that the fourteen year Oktoberfest tradition will continue. Adventure has announced plans for their first annual Oktoberfest on September 17th from 12:00 PM -8:00 PM. The event lives on, though with some changes.
The biggest change, and most exciting I think, is the addition of other local breweries to the lineup. Currently Maltese Brewing Company, Rusty Beaver Brewery, and Wild Run Brewing Company are all on the list. Ticket fees will include either a shaker pint or an Oktoberfest mug, and a token for a beer fill. There will traditional Oktoberfest foods for sale, as well as games and vendors.
More details and advance ticket sales can be found at the event website.
Links to Related Musings: Adventure Brewing, Events, Oktoberfest
60,000 Rounds And A New Barrel
While I have several pistols that I shoot, and carry, regularly, my SIG Sauer P226 E2 is by far my favorite. Since I purchased it in 2010, I've put somewhere around 60,000 rounds through it. It's had several sets of new springs put in, but other than a new guide rod, it's still original equipment. Lately I've been thinking about replacing the barrel. The gun still shoots more accurately than I do, but I figured I wouldn't wait until there's a serious problem.
I opted for a factory replacement from SIG Sauer. After looking at the online store, I called the shop to ask a couple questions. The guy on the phone was friendly and very helpful. After I thanked him for the info he offered to get me a better price than what was posted online, so I ordered right then and there; for 15% off!
The barrel dropped right in and I ran over to the range to put 100 error-free rounds through it — and it still shoots more accurately than me. I was also struck how different the gun looks with a black barrel rather than a worn silver one. As long as the slide and frame continue to hold out, I expect to continue shooting this gun for a long time.
Links to Related Musings: Guns, Shooting Sports, SIG Sauer
Brewery Road Trip
After an exhausting day on the range, we spent Saturday evening and next morning rehydrating before heading off on a brewery road trip on Sunday. We employed our favorite college student to act as chauffer for the day
Our first stop was Devils Backbone on Route 151 in Nelson County. I almost didn’t recognize the place; there’s been a lot of expansion on the property since our last visit three years ago. We were quickly seated and got our beer orders in. Colleen and Checkered Flag chose their favorite style Hefeweizen, Trail Angel Weiss and Apricot Weiss respectively. I opted for one of my old favorite styles, Altbier, and chose Devil’s Secret. This German-style beer is a collaboration between Devils Backbone and Apocalypse Ale Works. I enjoyed the rich, dark, Dopplebock-like flavor very much.
While walking between the car and the restaurant entrance we were treated to the aroma of the meat being smoked. There was no doubt I was going to partake in the house-smoked barbecue. My pulled pork sandwich was rich in spice and smoke, and went perfectly with my beer.
Finishing my food and first beer, I decided to stick with the German theme, and enjoyed a pint of Meadow Bier, a delicious German-style Pilsner. Then it was time to move on to our next stop so we had the driver bring the car around. (Actually, we walked to the car, but we did enjoy more than a few chauffeur jokes at my son’s expense.)
Soon we found ourselves at Bold Rock Cidery. Unlike our last visit the weather was not conducive to sitting on the large outdoor deck area taking in the scenery. We opted to enjoy the comfortable indoor lounge area, while watching various Olympic activities on several TV screens. We ended up sitting and enjoying ourselves for longer than intended. I was sipping on an IPA, or India Pressed Apple, a cider dry hopped with five hops for a tasty blend of tart apple cider and sweet, citrus notes. I found it quite enjoyable. Checkered Flag drank a Vat #1 while Colleen sipped a Prime Lime, a refreshing drink made with their Premium Dry cider and lime juice and served over ice.
Continuing on our way, we made an unplanned stop at Blue Toad Cidery. Blue Toad is a New York-based cidery that opened in Virginia last year. The tasting room had only two other visitors when we arrived and took our seats at the bar. We looked over the one cider menu we were handed to decide what we wanted to try out, receiving no information or suggestions from the lady behind the bar. A few other folks come in while we sat the bar, and still it seemed the atmosphere was less than welcoming. I remarked that it was almost as if we were interrupting the bartender’s alone time; either she didn't want to be there, didn't want us there, or both.
We ended up ordering pints of three cider varieties; Back Cherry, APA Triple Hopped, and PommeGranny Batch 1. Since this was an spur-of-the-moment stop, we discussed skipping the next brewery on our agenda, Starr Hill in Charlottesville, and head straight to South Street Brewery for dinner. However, after a few minutes of sitting at the Blue Toad bar, we opted to leave our drinks and the unwelcoming atmosphere and try to make it to Starr Hill after all.
On the way to Starr Hill Brewery, we came upon an accident just as the emergency equipment was arriving, and were directed to turn around as the road was now closed. After a slight detour and GPS rerouting we arrived at the brewery shortly before last call. I had time to enjoy a pint of Reviver Red IPA. I’d seen this seasonal in my local grocery store, but had just never gotten around to trying it. I was not disappointed and I think I may see if it's still in the store. Pints of The Love Wheat and The Hook were also ordered by the rest of our party.
Starr Hill is one of my favorite Virginia breweries, but oddly enough, I had never visited previously. I would have liked to been able to stay a while longer, and try out a few more of the offerings. I will try to find time for another visit in the near future.
Finally, to my son’s delight, we made it to our last stop for the day, South Street Brewery. All of us were quite hungry as it had been a long day since lunch at Devils Backbone. South Street’s varied menu was just the ticket. But first things first, we had to decide on a beverage. I opted to try the Tongue Dropper, an odd but enticing sounding "Sour Double IPA". Our server warned it was more Sour Ale than IPA, but upon sipping my impression was that of a citrusy Double IPA that had a mildly tart tang at the end. I found it a worthy sipper, and a good "I've had enough" beer at the end of the day. I paired my beer with a plate of hearty Mac n' Cheese with sausage. Colleen and Checkered Flag indulged their wheat beer passion with El Jefe's Hefeweizen.
It was a long, but enjoyable day. Our previous trips along the "Brew Ridge Trail" have been in the fall, and the roads and breweries were always very crowded. This mid-summer trip was less so. We never had to wait for service, nor search for parking places. While the scenery isn't as colorful as it is in the fall, the area is still beautiful, and the food and beer well worth the drive.
Links to Related Musings: Beer Review, Blue Toad Cider, Bold Rock Cider, Craft Beer, Devils Backbone, Food, Road Trip, South Street Brewery, Starr Hill
Minuteman Rifle Course with FPF Training
On a very hot Saturday, thirteen rifle enthusiasts spent the day in the oppressive heat working to improve on their skills with the "modern sporting rifle." The class was the Minuteman Rifle class taught by John Murphy of FPF Training. Most of my experience with the AR-15 has been shooting at shotgun clays at 25 yards, so I was looking forward to the class and getting some practical lessons. This event was for me a family affair as Colleen and our son also took the class. Our friend and frequent shooting partner, "Checkered Flag" also came along.
When we signed up for the class last January, the heat of August came into discussion, but little did we expect we'd be in the midst of major heat wave. With temperatures near 100°, and the heat index topping 110°, the weather was downright brutal. But we braved it, to a point.
The Minuteman Rifle class is intended to be an intro class covering basic safety, manipulation and marksmanship skills. At the start John covered safety and nomenclature, followed by weapon manipulation. We then spent some time using dummy rounds and working on remedial action drills. Then it was time for live fire.
Four shooting positions were covered in the class; prone, kneeling, seated and standing. We started out at the 25 yard line shooting prone, to make sure everyone's weapons were hitting paper. After that we moved to the 50 yard line and shot a few groups. Between each group, John checked the targets and made adjustments to sights as needed. Once he was satisfied, we moved on the next shooting position, shooting from a kneeling position. We repeated the process as before, shooting a group from 25 yards, followed by moving to the 50 yard line and repeating process a few times.
After we moved through the sitting and standing shooting positions, we combined the positions into a single string. We were using targets with four bullseyes stacked vertically. We shot groups of five on each circle from each position — standing, kneeling, seated and prone. The goal was accuracy, not speed. After each string, targets were reviewed and corrective advise given. Throughout the day, John and his assistant Gary watched us and offered suggestions for fixing problems, as well as occasional praise or pejorative as warranted.
For the latter part of the course, once we were all getting decent hits from all four positions, the targets were switched to a photo-realistic target and we repeated the drills. This time the goal was to put four center of mass and one head shot on the target from each position. At 50 yards, the size of the target head behind iron sights is quite small. I was pleased to make most of those tight shots.
We ended the day shooting at steel at 75 yards. The original intent had been to shoot at 100 yards, but the range had to be shortened as by then we had several folks recuperating in their air conditioned cars, which were parked at the side of the range.
Throughout the day, we took frequent breaks and close attention was paid to the affects of the extreme heat. A few folks took themselves out of the action as the afternoon progressed. In deference to safety, John modified the curriculum and shorted the day a bit. I had hit my own limit by the end, if the class had gone much longer I would have likely called it quits myself.
Despite the heat and modified schedule I found the class to be extremely beneficial. Except for some degradation from exhaustion at the end of the day, I saw improvements as the day progressed. My trigger pull got smoother and my hold on the gun was more stable, with the associated improvements in accuracy. John reminded us that his class is a gateway for more advanced classes. Before I consider that option, I intend to work on improving on what I learned this weekend. If you're looking for a good basic class to learn to shoot the AR-15, I can heartily recommend this offering from FPF Training, perhaps a spring or fall scheduled class rather than mid-August.
It's also good to know that my family has competency with the AR — one never knows when that will come in handy.
Links to Related Musings: FPF Training, Self Defense, Shooting Sports, Training
The Perfect Camouflage
When you need to hide your guns in plain sight.
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How Quickly We Forget
Though written 100 years ago, these words should serve as a reminder, and as a warning, to the Christians in America and throughout the world today.
Christianity is not the creed of Asia and Africa at this moment solely because the seventh century Christians of Asia and Africa, in addition to being rent asunder among themselves by bitter sectarian animosities--and sectarian intolerance and animosity stand for most that is evil in Christianity--had trained themselves not to fight, whereas the Moslems were trained to fight. Christianity was saved in Europe solely because the peoples of Europe fought. If the peoples of Europe in the seventh and eight centuries, and on up to and including the seventeenth century, had not possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing superiority over, the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would at this moment be Mohammedan, and the Christian religion would be exterminated. Wherever the Mohammedans have had complete sway, wherever the Christians have been unable to resist them by the sword, Christianity has ultimately disappeared. From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact that it was able to show that it could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor.
-- Theodore Roosevelt in Fear God and Take Your Own Part, 1916
It may indeed be too late for the citizens of Europe, their surrender to the invaders has been willful and largely unrepentant. I pray that Christians in my own country will heed the warnings.
A major battle against this invasion will be fought in the U.S. on November 8.
Links to Related Musings: Christianity, Elections, Freedom, History, Islam, Terrorism
Sanner's Lake IDPA Match
Last month I attended the monthly IDPA match at Sanner's Lake for the first time and had a blast. Even though it means spending a total of about four hours on the road, it's a fun match and I was excited to go back. I rendezvoused with a friend at about the halfway point of the trip and we rode to the match together. It was happy to share the ride with another shooter. Stuart's company and the interesting conversation made for a fun trip.
The first stage for our squad had us seated, facing six targets, most partially obscured by barrels and/or non-threats. It required some hard leans from the chair to complete the course of fire; many shooters ending up with two legs of the chair up in the air. The next stage was also shot while seated, this time with a non-threat directly in front of the shooter blocking the targets.
Moving on, a standards stage presented a unique challenge. There were four targets, each requiring two body and one head shot, and all shooting was to be done weak had only. The targets were set at just seven yards, but only one was fully in the open. As can be seen from the photo posted below, the non-threat targets were taking a beating. I didn't hit either of the "good guys" on this stage, but did miss one head shot.
The next stage combined a few close but partial targets, with falling steel and paper out at 25 yards. Adding to the challenge, two of the distant steel targets were set in front of a non-threat target, and the paper target was also behind a non-threat target.
Our fifth stage reminded me of a classic USPSA stage with barrels hiding targets on either side of the bay. However unlike USPSA, we had to be conscious of cover. The path chosen while moving downrange — staying to the left or right, moving down the center, crossing back and forth — affected the order in which we were exposed to the targets. One had to pay close attention to cover while shooting the stage. I think I reverted to a USPSA mindset and ran past one head shot target way too fast, missing the target completely. That cost me 20 points and several places in the overall finish.
The last stage started with fast shots on an arm's length target, transitioned to more distant targets and a steel activated swinger, then concluded with a sprint to a final up close and low target hidden behind some barrels. It was a fun fast stage, and the only one I shot clean, to finish the match on a high note.
I found this to be a very challenging match. All paper targets in the match required three hits, and all but a few of them were partial or head shot only targets. I never really got into the groove, and had more than a few misses. Leaving the match I wasn't expecting to finish well. But after seeing the scores, I wasn't as disappointed as I thought I'd be. I could have done better, but at least it was not the disaster I had imagined.
The match was a lot of fun, well-run and went very quickly. The facility is large enough that each stage is in it's own bay, which allows the match to flow with little or no waiting between stages. We finished all six stages in less than three hours and the summer heat didn't really become a factor until the last two stages. Adding to the fun, at Stuart's suggestion we made a brief stop at a local liquor store on the way home where I picked up a couple beers I can't find in Virginia. I'm looking forward to enjoying them in the coming days.
Somebody left non-threats behind the steel
Sanner's Lake has been improving and adding shooting pits over the past year. The bay pictured above wasn't even there last month. I'm looking forward to shooting more matches at the club in the future.
Links to Related Musings: IDPA, Match Journal, Sanner's Lake IDPA, Shooting Sports
Range Trip: I Needed That
I've not had a lot of time to blog do anything interesting recently, which may be obvious from the lack of posting. I am not sure how much that will change much in coming weeks. However, I do have some shooting matches on the schedule, so there's that. For that reason, an impromptu range trip this week was most welcome. I was at work when the text from Checkered Flag came in, "Will shooting fit?" Well, twist my arm.
I finished up at work, and since I already had most of the range gear in the car, from an unfulfilled plan to shoot earlier in the week, Colleen, CF, and I were soon at the range. Keeping within the local range rules, most of our shooting was slow(ish) fire while standing still. We did get in some practice shooting on the move, as well as SHO and WHO, which I try to do each time I hit the range.
Near the end of our time, and ammo, we were shooting at 15-17 yards, and using the 5.5" splatter targets to help see our hits. I was hitting the target, but often just barely, and not in any good groups. Chalking some of that up to being tired after an hour of steady shooting, I started taking my shots a bit faster, spending less time staring at the sight alignment. Suddenly I started seeing yellow splats appear in the center of the target. Isn't that interesting, I thought.
For an August afternoon in Virginia, the 77° temp was also a welcome treat and made for a pleasant time. Soon we were home, enjoying some good beer and ranting about democrats and apostates, which aren't always mutually exclusive. Colleen cooked up a fantastic dinner featuring some flavorful filet mignon done just right. It was indeed a wonderful evening and a great way to relax after a busy day.
Links to Related Musings: Food, Practice, Range Time, Shooting Sports
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Photos: The Crystal Method electrified San Antonio at Paper Tiger
Published 1:24 pm CST, Sunday, December 2, 2018
San Antonio electronic rock fans packed Paper Tiger when The Crystal Method performed Saturday, Dec. 1.
Photo: Fabian Leon Villa For MySA.com
Nineties electronic rock was revived on the St. Mary's Strip when The Crystal Method performed for San Antonio fans at Paper Tiger.
The pioneers of the big beat genre are known for their hits such as "Trip Like I Do," "Busy Child" and "Keep Hope Alive."
RELATED: Photos: San Antonio Spurs fans show their support for the Silver and Black
Members of the band are Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan.
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15 More Senior Tax Officials, Accused Of Corruption, Made To Retire
The action comes exactly a week after a similar purge - when 12 officials of the Tax Department were shown the door
All India | NDTV News Desk | Updated: June 19, 2019 06:46 IST
The centre sent a tough message by sending tax officials on compulsory retirement (Representational)
A government statement named officials detailing accusations they face
Most officials named are senior, with the rank of commissioners and above
Last week 12 officials of the department were also shown the door
Fifteen more officials of the tax department - all of whom have corruption allegations against them - were made to retire compulsorily by the centre as part of its renewed tough stance on criminal misconduct. The action comes exactly a week after a similar purge - when 12 officials of the department were shown the door.
A statement from the government named the officials - all from the Central Board of Indirect Taxes - detailing the accusations they face. Eleven of them have CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) against them. Two others have cases filed by the Revenue Department. Most of the officials named are senior, with the rank of commissioners and above.
The list is headed by Principal Commissioner Anup Srivastava, who has two cases against him filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation. The charges involve criminal conspiracy and bribery. Besides, he is accused of harassment, extortion, non-vacation of government flats and disproportionate assets.
Commissioner Atul Dikshit is also facing two CBI cases of fraud and disproportionate assets against him.
In a series of tweets announcing the retirement, the Finance Ministry said," All these 15 Officers shall be paid a sum equivalent to the amount of pay & allowances for a period of 3 months calculated at the same rate at which they were supposed to be withdrawing them (pay & allowances) immediately before their retirement."
Last year, the country marginally improved its ranking on the global corruption index. From the 81st position among 180 countries, it has gone up by three points to 78th spot, according to the annual index of the Transparency International, an anti-graft watchdog.
Apart from Anup Srivastava and Atul Dikshit, the names of the 13 other officers are: Sansar Chand, G Shree Harsha, Vinay Brij Singh, Ashok R Mahida, Virendrakr Agarwal, Amresh Jain, Nalin Kumar, SS Pabana, SS Bisht, Vinod Kumar Sanga, Raju Sekar, Ashok Kumar Aswal and Mohd Altaf.
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How to Resolve Finances After a Death
These eight steps help you sort out a loved one's financial affairs — or prepare your own to make things easier on your family.
Anna-Louise Jackson
Advisors, Investing, Personal Finance
After his mother’s death, Ken Moraif had to unravel her finances. Millions of Americans each year face a similar task, but he had a unique challenge — he had to crack a code.
His mother had detailed her financial accounts in a notebook, but each password was written in code, and clues for deciphering the passwords were written in code. Sorting through his mother’s estate took more than a year, he says.
This level of security was fitting for his mother, a former Morse code operator in the Royal Air Force during World War II. She was “very secretive” about her financial information — even with her son, a certified financial planner at Money Matters in Plano, Texas. “That’s a level of paranoia most people don’t have,” Moraif says.
While Moraif’s experience is extreme, dealing with finances after a person dies adds another level of stress to an already stressful time. These eight steps can ease the process:
1. Don’t make emotional decisions
The first advice Moraif gives clients who’ve had a death in the family: Don’t rush into anything. Under emotional stress, people may make rash decisions they later regret.
Someone who loses a spouse may hastily choose to move in with a child or sell their home, or may fall victim to nefarious salespeople. “Don’t make wholesale changes with your investments until you’re emotionally ready to do so,” says Moraif, who recommends clients wait six months to act.
If your family member had a financial advisor, this should be a primary point of contact. This person can handle finances — including tracking down accounts or coordinating with estate attorneys — while you deal with your emotions, says Stephanie Sandle, a certified financial planner at MAI Capital Management in Cleveland. Even though she’s helped clients after a loved one’s death, she says that she didn’t fully appreciate all of the emotion and stress until she experienced it firsthand.
No financial advisor? Enlist help from other family members. “Don’t try to do everything yourself,” Sandle says.
» Read more: Have ‘the talk’ with your parents about finances
3. Get multiple copies of the death certificate
Be sure to request copies of the death certificate, generally from the funeral home handling arrangements. Ask for help estimating how many and the type you’ll need — certified, long or short form, etc. — because people often underestimate. Moraif recommends ordering at least 20, because you’ll need them for financial institutions, insurance providers and other companies.
4. Call the employer
If the individual was still working, call the human resources department to notify the employer. Ask whether benefits coverage will continue for family members, whether there’s a life insurance policy and the name of the company that administers the retirement plan.
5. Locate the original will and trust
If the decedent had a will or trust (or both), these documents serve as the guide for many financial decisions to come. A legal process, known as probate, will likely ensue for distributing property and assets, unless the estate is small or the trust is all-encompassing.
“This process is kind of daunting if you’re not aware of how it works,” Sandle says. She recommends working with a financial advisor if you have one or a probate attorney if you do face probate court, because it can be a long and expensive process.
If you’re named executor of the estate, keep track of expenses related to the family member’s death (including final medical bills). You may need this information when you file the person’s final tax return, Sandle says.
6. Gather necessary financial documents
You’ll need to track down all the decedent’s accounts. Any preparation the person did will be helpful, but some accounts may have been overlooked. The process is not unlike being a detective, Moraif says. Plan to sort through the person’s mail for at least three months to find missing information, including non-recurring bills, he says.
This list of possible documents isn’t exhaustive, but it serves as a starting place:
Mortgage and other loan statements
Bills — including services, utilities, credit cards, property taxes
7. Prepare to file tax returns
In the next year, you must prepare a final tax return for the decedent, so collect all information that will make that process easier. In addition, you may need to file an estate tax return if the estate is more than $11.2 million.
8. Use this as a learning experience
Many people don’t think about what they’ll leave behind when they die. But if you’ve had to sort out someone else’s finances, you’ll appreciate how arduous the process is.
“No one wants to think about dying, but if you talk about it in advance and have a plan in place, it’s so much easier on the survivors,” Sandle says.
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Anna-Louise is a personal finance writer at NerdWallet. Her work has been featured by Bloomberg, CNBC, The Associated Press and more. Read more
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