The classic public relations press release – a traditional public relations device, once paraphernalia for print journalists, has evolved to a way that can be applied more into the online world. I call it the birth of social media magic.
The social media release originated from a blog post back in late February 2006 by blogger and former Financial Times correspondent Tom Foremski titled, “Die! Press Release! Die! Die! Die!” Foremski complained that traditional press releases were narrative exercises in spin that took time to deconstruct and reassemble into a story of interest to his readers.
Foremski offered several suggestions, which SHIFT Communications principal Todd Defren took to heart, so much so that, May 23, 2006 brought about the unveiling of the first social media press release template.
A recent study by the Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) found that most releases now target consumers and customers directly, rather than through the filter of the news media. The study also provides rich insight into how successful the incorporation of a SMR can be.
“Another goal of the study was to provide insights as to how public relations professionals can understand these changes in order to work more effectively with journalists,” SNCE pointed out. “[Also to] provide more value to the journalistic community.”
Public relations analysts Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge describe a social media release as “the opportunity to share news in ways that reach people with the information that matters to them, in ways that they can easily use to digest and, in turn, share with others through text, links, images, video, bookmarks, tags, and so on, while also enabling them to interact with you directly or indirectly.”
The same company that developed the first template offered this updated version 1.5 in April 2008:
Who does a social-media release target? SMRs simultaneously target three types of audiences, Mascott said:
- Traditional, mainstream journalists
- Bloggers and other digital influencers
- The general public
Mascott points out that SMRs should be written for three types of readers:
- Real people
- Search engines
- Social-networking sites
Where do I put a social-media release? Solis and Breakenridge recommend putting SMRs on a blogging platform such as WordPress, or on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts.
Keep headlines short. Make sure the headlines are no longer than 80 characters, Mascott counsels. “If you want something that’s going to be shared, a long bureaucratic headline is not going to generate any word-of-mouth or traffic on social-media websites,” he says. Ask yourself, “If this appeared on Facebook, would I click on it?”
Tell a story. “Write like a person and not an organization,” Mascott says. Get rid of the marketing-speak and craft a narrative you’d like to read in the newspaper.
Aim for “diagonal” readers. “Diagonal” readers take in a story in 10 seconds or less. “People don’t read an article like they read a book,” Mascott explains. “There’s an awful lot of scanning going on.” To help readers hit the most important points, Mascott offers the following:
- Subsection headers. Search engines can also index a story more effectively if the story is broken up into subsections and write a subtitle for each section using keywords.
- Boldface. Search engines appear to pick up on bolded and underlined words better than plain fonts.
- Pictures, graphs and summaries. Make key concepts easy to grasp.
Create multimedia objects. Creative use of video, photos and interactive objects can be embedded and shared. Rather than including a quote within the story, Mascott offers to consider recording a video of an executive making the statement and uploading it with a transcript.
Provide resource links. Link to executive bios, company fact sheets, downloadable logos, and a delicious or Digg page that aggregates articles supporting — or even opposing — the point of view. These features are timesavers for journalists and bloggers, making them more likely to turn your SMR into a story.
Make sharing easy. Ensure the release syndicates to RSS readers, shows up error-free when pulled into Facebook, Twitter or other sites, and comes in a printer- and e-mail-friendly version. Include one-click buttons for popular social-media sites at the bottom of your SMR. If you don’t have an IT person to help, go to a DIY site such as AddThis.com or ShareThis.com to generate embeddable code.
Make feedback easy. Include a section for moderated comments at the bottom of your release. SMRs are all about fostering dialogue about your news.


The next month may be very busy with Downtown Cleveland construction announcements. As a follow-up to my recent posting The Cleveland Skyscraper Building-Binge Starts, it appears that three projects will be making news very soon. One project is a surprise.
Least surprising is that workers this month are swarming over the nine-level 515 Euclid parking garage. Stark Enterprises will soon erect a $62 million, 19-story apartment building called The Beacon on top of it. The workers are construction managers who are mapping out the logistics and sequencing of work to be done over the next 16-18 months. The Beacon, with its 187 apartments, is due to open in late-2018.
The Beacon apartments, 515 Euclid
The project faces a small glitch, however. Stark representatives discovered a typo in a variance approved in Sept. 2016 by the city's Board of Zoning Appeals regarding the height of The Beacon. In 2016, BZA approved a height of 340 feet. Instead, Stark is requesting a height of 355 feet at BZA's May 22 hearing. It is possible this glitch will delay the project's start until about Aug. 1.
I've also learned from several sources that Medical Mutual's board of directors will meet June 20 to decide its facilities plan, including possibly a new downtown headquarters. They health insurance company wanted to decide its facilities plan in May but negotiations with the developer/property owner have taken longer than expected. Medical Mutual said it is unlikely it will own its new headquarters, be it an existing building or a new building. The company may seek to extend its leases to strengthen its negotiating stance.
The address or size of its new office building isn't known, but at least several major Northeast Ohio developers responded to a request for proposals from Medical Mutual last year on new or renovated buildings for Ohio's largest health insurance company. It is quite likely the public will learn in the next month about the winning proposal.
Medical Mutual HQ (Rose Building)
Medical Mutual also is moving forward on a new suburban office, apparently for its Consumers Life Insurance subsidiary based in Strongsville. There will be some corporate consolidations but those may involve its much smaller Beachwood and Copley locations. It isn't known if the Toledo office is part of the office consolidation plan.
In Northern Ohio, Medical Mutual has these existing offices (lease information according to LoopNet.com):
- Downtown Cleveland HQ -- 2060 E. 9th St. -- 1,300 employees (lease ends late-2020)
- Toledo Business Team -- 3737 W. Sylvania Ave. -- 500 employees (lease ends late -2020)
- Strongsville Consumers Life Insurance Co. -- 15885 W. Sprague Rd. -- 400 employees (lease ends mid-2020)
- Copley Mutual Health Services/Benefit Health Services Inc. -- 3636 Copley Rd. -- 50 employees (lease info NA)
- Beachwood Data Center -- 23700 Commerce Park -- 20 employees (lease ends mid-2020)
After the real estate market crashed in 2008, BentleyForbes has been unable to repay or refinance the mortgage on the downtown headquarters. About $47 million remains unpaid. BentleyForbes has occasionally been trying to sell its three buildings that are occupied by Medical Mutual. Medical Mutual will reportedly move out of all of their existing offices, and it may move out of all of them at the same time when their leases expire simultaneously in 2020, sources say.
This includes its Strongsville location to which it moved from another location in Strongsville in late 2016. But Medical Mutual will retain a suburban presence, sources said. It is not known where it will be, how many employees will be located there or from where they will come. But the board's action now allows enough time for constructing new buildings for either the downtown Cleveland headquarters, the suburban Cleveland office, or both.
Finalizing architectural documents, securing government approvals, programming and other pre-development activities for new office buildings will require about a year. Construction will take about 18-24 months. The new-construction timeline fits, albeit tightly, within the timeframe of Medical Mutual's simultaneously expiring leases. Medical Mutual may seek to stay i
Lastly, a proposed skyscraper that seemed a distant possibility may instead leap forward into the ranks of the likely candidates. As early as next month, a national real estate developer will reportedly announce plans for a 34-story luxury apartment tower on a surface parking lot at the southwest corner of Euclid Avenue and East 17th Street, according to two sources.
Development site is on the left, past the gateway arch
The 1-acre property is owned by the Playhouse Square Foundation who in 2011 razed the two-story Hanna Annex at 1512 Euclid. Later, in 2015, the foundation acquired a mid-lot, 1/4-acre parcel to put the entire lot under one owner. The goal was to encourage development of the lot which was made more accessible after the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority extended East 17th Street south of Euclid to Prospect Avenue. The street extension was part of the Euclid Corridor Project that in 2008 that yielded the HealthLine bus rapid transit.
The Playhouse Square Foundation has been seeking to boost foot traffic in the theater district. It recognized two shortcomings of the district -- parking decks are behind and connected to the theaters, meaning that too few theatergoers set foot on Euclid Avenue's sidewalks to patronize its shops, restaurants and cafes. The foundation also says the district needs more residents -- something that is slowly being delivered by local real estate developer K&D Group Inc. K&D recently converted the eight-story Hanna Building Annex on Prospect to apartments and has begun work on the residential conversion on the upper six floors of the 12-story Halle Building.
But the proposed 34-story luxury tower would make a major contribution to the Playhouse Square Foundation's goals in two profound ways. First, it would add hundreds of moneyed residents to the theater district. And, second, it would add a proposed 600-car parking deck with ground-level retail on Euclid Avenue that requires people to set foot on Euclid Avenue's sidewalks to reach the theaters. No more sneaking in the back way, sight-unseen.
Much like 515 Euclid, this Playhouse Square tower would be built on a parking pedestal of perhaps five levels high. The foundation requested $4 million from the state's capital budget in 2016 to help fund the parking deck but got only $1 million. Additional subsidies are usually needed to make the financial numbers work for residential construction. But the more downtown residents there are, the more rents are growing to where fewer subsidies are needed.
Downtown's residential growth has attracted the interest and headquarters of powerhouse national developer NRP Group, based in Garfield Heights. NRP has chosen to relocate to Playhouse Square, into the lower floors of the Halle Building. The timing of NRP's relocation is intriguing. NRP is the nation's seventh-largest developer of apartment buildings. But it's tallest apartment building thus far is a 10-story structure in St. Petersburg, FL. If NRP is the developer of the proposed 32-story tower, it would mean a new philosophy for the 22-year-old company.
But so does relocating its headquarters and 200 employees from the suburbs to downtown Cleveland. NRP Principal and CEO J. David Heller said in an April 30th press release the company is moving to seize on opportunities for "rapid growth and expectations for further expansion (and for) enabling our employees to fully experience the city of Cleveland and what it offers."


Feeling a little greener today? We’re lucky to finally live in a world where pretty much every day is Earth Day. Ha. Ok, that might be an idealistic exaggeration — but at least we live in a society where eco-friendly discussions aren’t limited to one day a year. Where being environmentally conscious is applauded, not mocked.
But let’s be honest, your pregnancy is still going to come first — Earth Day or no Earth Day. Luckily you can still do your part for the earth without taking your focus off the task at hand.
So while you’re out shopping for baby gear and mom-to-be necessities, keep these eco-friendly diaper bags in mind:
The Maria Buzina Recycled “Briage” Diaper Bag (hand-painted in Brazil by eco-artist Gabi Goncalves), is made completely from recycled materials. And because it’s designed to transition from diaper bag to mom tote, it’ll be used far longer than the traditional “diaper bag.” Each bag is individually painted and signed by the artist, giving you a piece of earth-friendly and functional art. (Earth Lover Shopping, $199)
These Maggie Bags Diaper Bags (which come in grey, brown and pink) are made from recycled seat belts! Lined with a waterproof interior and roomy organizational pockets, it’s as functional as it is eco-chic. (Maggie Bags, $155)
The Fleurville ReRun diaper bag is made from PVC-free, PET-recycled fabric. In fact, each bag keeping six plastic bottles from going to a landfill. And right now the Fleurville Hana Ogo Eco-Friendly Hobo Bag is on sale at Gilt.com, selling for $50 instead of the normal $89.
Dad can be eco-friendly too with the Diaper Dude Eco-Friendly Messenger II, made from recycled water bottles rewoven into a polyester fabric. Each Diaper Dude messenger bag is made with 25 plastic water bottles, which would otherwise sit in a landfill. To top it off, a portion of the $98 purchase is donated to Global Green USA.
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Love HBO, but hate your cable company? Listen up.
If you wait until next year, you'll be able to enjoy the premium service without the "help" of the Comcasts and Direct TVs of the world. It will probably be cheaper, too, because you'll be streaming the HBO content.
Sometime in 2015, HBO will offer its HBO Go streaming service as a standalone subscription, according to the company's CEO Richard Plepler. Plepler didn't reveal many details. It's unclear how much the service will cost, and whether or not you'll be able to stream programs on an à la carte basis, but I suspect you will.
What is clear, though, is that the announcement is a break from the company's long-standing business model of selling its service as part of an expensive cable (or satellite) bundle. The news comes at a time when companies including Neflix, Amazon and Hulu, and devices, such as the Roku box and TiVo's Romio, are making "cord cutting" a more viable option for people who like TV but dislike their cable providers.
Many of today's HDTVs are Internet-ready, and some manufacturers -- Samsung, for example -- include features that make it much easier to stream directly to your TV.
How pervasive is cord cutting? The numbers conflict. Analysts at Experian Marketing Services published a study last April that suggests the number of customers with high-speed Internet access who have either never subscribed to cable or who stopped subscribing to cable has increased by 44 percent, up from 5.1 million households to 7.6 million, during the past three years. The culprit? Netflix and Hulu. Subscribers to those services were three times more likely to not have a cable subscription than the average household, Experian said.
Other studies, including one from Morgan Stanley and reported by Forbes, indicate that the shift is less significant.
Ultimately it doesn't matter which analysts are right. Streaming technology and the devices that make it possible to enjoy programming without a cable contract are clearly pushing the entertainment and broadcasting industries. Netflix, for example, was the first streaming service to begin producing its own programming with hit shows including "House of Cards" and "Orange is the New Black." Amazon had less success with its Amazon Originals series, but it continues to crank out new shows.
HBO already offers streaming video with HBO Go subscriptions. In the United States, only consumers who subscribe to HBO via a pay-TV service can access it. We're talking major change here. HBO has a good deal of clout, is an industry leader, and others are sure to follow its lead. That's great news for cord cutters and those who aspire to be.
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Nearing completion, now, is a one-story mini-mall on the north end of the LA Fitness parking lot near Sepulveda and Erwin.
Pleasantly innocuous, in a beige/brown way, the mall (with circa 1999 cornice) is being landscaped, pretty extensively, all around, with various trees and shrubs to decorate the sea of asphalt.
Zoned commercial, this is also next door to a Wendy’s, also recently naturalized, with new water saving plants and a modernistic, horizontally striped renovation. Customers who feast on industrial meat, sugary soda, and frozen French Fries, all trucked in from Iowa, will do so surrounded by native California succulents.
This is all bordering the Metro Orange Line Parking Lot, 50% of which is occupied as a storage center for not-yet-sold new Keyes Automobiles. This scientifically zoned area is irrationally sited along an efficient, pleasant bus line that runs on schedule and connects Van Nuys to Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles.
Left over in the new mini-mall layout is a rectangular island of land that, in my imagination, I envision as a small apartment building or even a white, wooden Colonial house, a residential arrangement that provides living space for people who can walk next door to the gym, stop for milk at CVS, ride their bikes on the bike path, and most importantly, are there to populate, energize and humanize a sea of parking spaces.
I picked “Colonial” to lovingly pander to the nearby residents of privileged, filmed upon Orion Ave. hoping they might not object to an 18th Century House with a garden in front, housing a nice coffee place or a fort-monthly locale for filming Target and Walmart commercials.
Why not build something on this open spot like these below:
But, for now, the neat, empty rectangle of land is unoccupied with forms either natural or man-made.
This waste of land, and the time-wasting, perpetual, irritating and circular question, “Where will they park?” dominates the beginning and end of any discussion of new apartments, housing or commercial building in Los Angeles.
If there is no room for 1,000 New Hummers in that New 200 Unit Apartment…then I say, to hell with it, let people sleep on the street in tents!
What exists, when it’s built, is a battleground of short-tempered drivers circling parking lots, looking for parking, even when there are 2,000 or 3,000 spaces provided for their temporary storage!
So the opportunity for a new, innovative, and imaginative kind of development, one that integrates the commercial and the residential, is again squandered.
What have we got to lose?
We are already losing.


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She holds an MSc Social Science of the Internet and MPhil Development Studies from the University of Oxford. She worked previously as an Overseas Development Institute (ODI) Fellow in Liberia and Ghana. Her research interests lie at the intersection of digital labour, migration and resistance.
Srujana is based in the UK arm of Fairwork, where she leads strategy planning for the project’s external-facing communications, including media and social media liaison, organising workshops and conferences, and laying the groundwork for expanding the project into new contexts. She additionally provides project management and research support across country teams and contributes to research outputs.


Find Me in Your Memory Episodes 21 & 22: Release Date & Streaming Details
Find Me in Your Memory K-drama information.
On MBC’s Find Me in Your Memory, a new development in the story is going to happen in the upcoming episodes. The identity of Moon Ga Young’s stalker will be revealed in episodes 21 & 22 which will air this week.
The K-drama starring Kim Dong Wook and Moon Ga Young is doing great with its second half. It’s performing decently in the ratings department with its fresh and compelling story.
Find Me in Your Memory tells the story of Lee Jung Hoon (played by Kim Dong Wook) who is a news anchor who falls in love with up and coming star Yeo Ha Jin (played by Moon Ga Young). Lee Jung Hoon is great at his job as he has a rare condition called hyperthymesia, which enables him to remember literally everything that happens with him. Meanwhile, Yeo Ha Jin has forgotten memories of her past due to an incident.
In this article, we will take a look at the preview of what’s to come and the streaming details as well as the release date of Find Me in Your Memory episodes 21 & 22.
Find Me in Your Memory Preview
In newly released stills of Find Me in Your Memory, we see Yeo Ha Jin trapped in her stalker’s web. In the pictures, we see her with what looks like a butter knife in her hand? Not really a very good weapon to defend yourself from a stalker. In other pictures, we see her taking up in a room, supposedly somewhere her stalker has her locked in, as in the other picture we see her trying to open the door with a scared expression on her face.
It would be interesting to see if Lee Jung Hoon would be able to save Yeo Ha Jin from the stalker.
Find Me in Your Memory Episodes 21 & 22 Release Date & Streaming Details
Find Me in Your Memory episodes 21 & 22 will release on the South Korean local cable TV channel MBC on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, at 21:00 KST (Korea Standard Time). Find Me in Your Memory releases episodes weekly on every Wednesdays and Thursdays. Find Me in Your Memory will finish airing on May 7, 2020, after airing its 32nd and final episode.
For viewers outside Korea who want to watch Find Me in Your Memory with English subtitles, the show is available to stream on Rakuten Viki, Viu, Kocowa, and OnDemandKorea. Keep in mind that Viu is only available in a select few countries in Asia, while Kocowa and OnDemandKorea are available in North and South America regions only. It is recommended to use a VPN service or proxy if you can’t access the sites in your region.


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Obeya, 24 Jan 2011First SE messes up in updates big time, now they focus on staying up to date with software yet... morewhat? if you have a sd card on the phone, then you can save all your apps and stuff there.
First SE messes up in updates big time, now they focus on staying up to date with software yet offer awful hardware. Seriously 300MB of internal memory? That's not even enough to the standard apps I usually have. And most apps don't move to SD card. Why don't they ever balance software and hardware just like hTC do.
No, I have a X10i and it's not better than this one.
This one has Gingerbread from start and a front facing camera, much stronger GPU in Adreno 205, the camera is the same megapixel but is has a sensor wich is improved alot.
And on top of that the price will come in at the same level as X10i for starters but will propably drop a little lateor on.
Anonymous, 22 Jan 2011wp7 not doing well with sales etc...android doesemm i think low price can stimulate wp7 sales just like some1 buy 'standar' phone with nice ui,
i mean wp7 ui has something different in it.
this is xperia neo.xperia neo has bean registreted by sony ericsson in december.this phone is known also as vivaz 2.neo means something new or revival of something old in this case revival of vivaz.
Anonymous, 23 Jan 2011LOL but right now u can buy X10 for 320 euro . and i believe X10 is better than this Halon .Why do you consider that it is better than this??
Windows mobile is slowing every mobile! it's just WINDOWS!! ask the experts
LOL but right now u can buy X10 for 320 euro . and i believe X10 is better than this Halon .
i hope there is twin brother of this unit that run wp7, with the same price range €320-350
surely will boost up se sales.
what do you think guys?
Anonymous, 21 Jan 2011the specs are amazing considering its a mid ranger, and 320~ euros for this seems to be a grea... moreThe Arc is a high end because of a BIG, backlit screen, stylish exterior and classy finish.
It's made for a rich people who want a great looking, showoff phone.
But overall, i think this is a better phone.
3.7 inches works better for me with the same resolution and also the size-wise, the device is shorter and more compact.
Not to say it'll be cheaper than the Arc.
Front facing camera is a no matter to me.
One thing is for sure... !!!
This yr is gonna see pretty much awesome competition in smartphone segment.
Just take a look at the devices coming in 2011 -
From SE - Arc , play ,neo ,duo & some dual cores as SE confirmed recently & they even said that they have some interesting concept in mind for this yr.
From samsung the only mean machine would be galaxy s2 , nothing else.
From apple - the much anticipated iPhone 5.
From nokia - n9 (seems a great device) & even some dual core sets at the end of 2011
From HTC - qualcomm processors based dual core phones.
From LG - optimus 2x, optimus black & many other devices
From moto - atrix, bionic & some other phones.
From Blackberry - dual core smartphones.
I don't like samsung at all & i'm accepting that in front of everyone & the truth is that this yr samsung won't be able to sell even the half of galaxy smartphones it sold last yr.
The competition is so much hot this yr that samsung too will be lost in the crowd with it's only android flagship device for 2011 - galaxy s2.
Best of luck to every company except samsung.
how appropriate that they finaly named a cellphone after a gas that gobbles up oxygen!!!
this is what i called mobile, nice one has a front camera for videocall conference or some apps to use vcalls like fring!!!
Anonymous, 21 Jan 2011This absolutely Fake, just imagine how can they store android 2.3 in 300 mb internal memory, f... morex10 mini had only 256 rom and it runs 2.1
i don't know which phone you got but that rom you have on your phone is probably custom


Pluralsight, a developer training company, has bought up PeepCode and TrainSignal, two semi-competitors, for the total sum of $23.6 million in cash and stock.
PeepCode focuses on open-source technology training for developers; the startup is based in Seattle. TrainSignal is based in Chicago and specializes in IT skill sets and technologies like Citrix and Cisco.
Pluralsight, which offers learn-to-code video coursework, will grow its library to more than 1,000 courses. The integration of the two sites into the Pluralsight fold will occur over the next few months.
“As everybody rushes to implement cloud-based infrastructure, CIOs and CTOs need IT professionals who can support the new technology, which requires a foundation in traditional IT topics like Cisco and Citrix as well as leading-edge web dev skills,” said a company rep in a statement on the news.
“Pluralsight is now a one-stop shop for these skills and in some instances is becoming a more compelling credential for professional development than traditional academic degrees.”
While Pluralsight does rake in a fair amount of cheddar for its services, we can imagine that a sizable portion of this deal was a direct result of the company’s hefty funding earlier this year — a $27.5 million first round of institutional funding.
Pluralsight was founded in 2004 and is based in Layton, Utah.
Disclosure: The writer created three freelance videos for Pluralsight in 2010.


France hands 'Mama Jihad' the maximum sentence for role in terrorist conspiracy
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A French woman who travelled three times to Syria in support of her jihadist son was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for being part of a terrorist conspiracy.
It was the maximum sentence possible and included a stipulation that Riviere, a Muslim convert nicknamed "Mama Jihad" in the French press, will be ineligible for parole for seven years.
Vilus, 27, travelled to Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State group in 2012 or 2013.
Riviere, who visited her son three times in 2013 and 2014, denied fighting with the Islamic State group, though she posted pictures on Facebook of decapitations and of herself holding a Kalashnikov.
"I didn't want to push him to die a martyr, but that could happen," she said of her son. "Then he would be in heaven, near Allah."
Friday's verdict came barely a week after the conviction and sentencing of another French mother of a jihadist.
Nathalie Haddadi, 43, whose son fought and is thought to have died in Syria, was given a two-year jail sentence for financing terrorism because she wired funds to him.
Haddadi's lawyer Herve Denis said she would appeal the verdict, to avoid it becoming a precedent for the 2,000 French parents whose children had travelled to Syria to wage jihad.
Riviere's 30-year-old son Leroy, in tearful testimony, said he did not think his mother had "killed innocents".
"She left for her son, for love, not to fight," he said.
He described Riviere as a loving mother who dreamed of going on a world cruise with her sons, who were named after characters in the television series "Fame".
A psychiatrist who served as an expert witness at the trial said Riviere had lost her critical and moral judgement and had fantasies about sharing her son's extremism.
'She is completely lost'
Her lawyer Thomas Klotz described a woman who had lost her bearings but had only a rudimentary knowledge of Islam. "She is completely lost, we are in the heart of darkness," he said.
The prosecutor called Riviere a "jihad madam" because she supplied brides to IS soldiers.
Riviere said she converted to Islam in 2012 at her son's behest but would have been drawn to the religion anyway, saying it had "calmed" her.
Riviere, the daughter of funfair workers, was arrested in July 2014 as she was preparing a fourth visit.
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QNI responds to Autumn Budget
29 November 2017
The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) welcomes the Chancellor’s announcement of additional funding for the NHS. This shows the government recognises the challenges facing the health service and will go some way in alleviating pressures.
The QNI is pleased to hear the Chancellor recognise the work and contribution of the nursing workforce and the commitment to provide additional funding to meet NHS pay awards is good news.
However, we are disappointed that the funding committed has been largely directed to the hospital sector and tied to performance measures in this setting. Government policy has placed increased emphasis on the provision of care within the community, yet this has not been followed with the required level of investment. Community nursing services are facing significant pressures, yet the ‘invisible workforce’ has once more been overlooked in this budget.
We know that patients want to be cared for in their homes and government have reflected this in policy developments such as the ‘Five Year Forward View’. Community nurses are at the core of this, but without significant levels of investment and resource, the vision for “far more care delivery locally” will not translate into reality.
Health services face significant challenges and it is community nurses who play an integral part in alleviating these pressures. In the UK, an estimated 15 million people live with a long-term condition and 6.75 million of these have multiple conditions. 18% of the population are aged over 65 and 2.5% over the 85.
Research indicates that one in four people over the age of 75, and one in two over the age of 85 will receive care from a District Nurse. Yet, as reported last week, over the last seven years the number of District Nurses in England has fallen by almost 50%. Approximately 63% of the UK population wish to die in their home, yet only 20% fulfil this wish.
Whilst the Chancellor’s decision to provide £350 million to help trusts plan for winter 2017/18 is welcome, we note the fall in District Nurses has led to increasing numbers of patients admitted to hospital and experiencing delayed discharge. Community nursing services are buckling and the Chancellor has missed the opportunity to inject much needed resource into community nursing services to assist the whole system in meeting the current needs of our population.
We welcome the allocation of £200 million to support efficiency and fund technology. Community nurses are often using technology which is antiquated and inefficient, with 27% of the community nursing workforce still working from paper. Directing the technology funding to community nursing services would ensure the development of technology to improve efficiency and productivity, with systems built to reflect their need and suit the context in which they work.
 The Queen’s Nursing Institute (2009) 2020 Vision: Focusing on the future of district nursing
 Marie Curie, Sue Ryder, Help the Hospices (2013) Can giving patients choice be cost effective for the NHS?
 Christie and Co (2017) Adult Social Care 2017: Funding, staffing and bed blocking challenge
 QNI research to be published January 2018


written by Lindsay McWilliams
Today, 1859 Magazine got the first look at the official designs for the James Beard Public Market (JBPM). Director of the JBPM project, Ron Paul, released the renderings, and the result is breathtaking. Plans for the new downtown food hub and cultural center have been fifteen years in the making and tomorrow’s JBPM Grand Reveal at OMSI will highlight the details of the designs.
The market, which will be located at the west end of the Morrison Bridge in downtown Portland, was designed by the esteemed Snøhetta architecture and design firm. The two-floor, multi-purpose structures will be built on either side of bridge head in lots that are currently used for parking.
Designs for the indoor-outdoor JBPM include two market halls with more than 100 vendors, restaurants, and a kitchen for public cooking and nutrition classes.
The opening of the James Beard Public Market is projected for spring of 2018.


Fill Rate is associated with measuring the ability of an inventory in meeting the demand of the customers. So, the percentage of customers that can be satisfied with the stock that you have at hand can be understood as Fill Rate or Demand Satisfaction Rate.
In this post, we will dive deep into the world Fill Rate and understand its importance in boosting the customer retention rate and enjoying the satisfied customer base. So, let us get started right away-
Introduction to the Fill Rate
When it comes to wholesale sales, it is essential to make sure that you have some methods in line so that you can measure the amount of success that you have.
Some critical metrics can be used when it comes to evaluating the performance of the business that you have in the best way. We are going to be talking about one such metric and it is known as the fill rate.
It is one of the most amazing and yet pretty salient metrics that are used by the wholesalers these days. This is a proper metric that can be used to view the inventory management process and is based on the decisions made by the customers. The percentage of the orders which are shipped to the customers from the immediate stock availability is known as the fill rate.
Well, it should be the way that you service the customers in the first place.
So, it can be said without a doubt that it is a critical metric for sure. This certainly has a profound impact on the relationship that you have with the retailers of yours.
To gain the trust of such people, you need to have a proper fill rate. So, here we are going to discuss it in an in-depth fashion so that you can have a decent idea in the best way. Let us now have a more proper look upon the definition and formula of Fill Rate-
Fill Rate Meaning
The fill rate is defined as the right proportion of the orders of your customers that you have in the company stock, so you can satisfy them without having some backorders. Now you must be wondering what backorders are.
Well, the backorders are the orders for specific items that are not in stock temporarily.
Fill rate can also be defined as a fraction of the demand of the consumer that your current stocks can meet without actually losing any sales.
So, now, it must be evident that Fill Rate is an important metric that you can use to measure the inventory or stock strength in the best way.
If we try to put it in simple terms, it will reflect the ability of the supplier to provide the services to the customers accurately without any trouble or hassle in the first place.
When you want to know how well the company of yours would be able to provide for the demands of the customers, the fill rate is something that you go ahead and measure to know. Let us now have a look upon the formula of calculating the Fill Rate-
Fill Rate Formula: How to Calculate Fill Rate
For calculating Fill Rate, it is important to have a proper look upon the below-given formula-
The fill rate ?1 isà ?1(s) = E[min(X,s)]E[X]
The service level ?2 isà ?1(s) = P(X?s)
X represents demand over the next cycle
S represents the available stock
Min (X,s) talks about the restrictions available stock imposes upon the quantities that can be offered without any delay
So, it can be simplified as
If demand value X is < (lower than) the available stock (s) then X unit will get served easily or else, only S units will be served
Example of Fill Rate Calculation
Imagine your client orders 50 books, and you can only deliver 20 books at the time of order, in such case, your fill rate will be-
(20/50) * 100 = 0.4 * 100 = 40%
Understanding the Importance of Fill Rate
When you have a business of your own, you need to know how you are going to meet all the needs and expectations of your customers in the best way. This is the thing that you need to do when you have to manage your inventory without any trouble.
The main goal is to fulfill the wishes of your customers and provide them with an experience that they are not going to forget. With the help of Fill Rate, you will be able to do this.
There are some other benefits that you can have, as well.
It helps you in managing the expectations of the customers in the best way. In case you have knowledge that you cannot fulfill some of the orders, you can let them know and they have the option to substitute it with something else or wait.
There is no doubt that you will also be able to offer them some other products in the line. In case you know that you cannot achieve that particular product to satisfy the customers, you can communicate appropriately with them. This offers you an opportunity to provide them with something else which can improve the fill rate.
Knowing about the fill rate also helps in the whole process of inventory management in the best way.
When your fill rate is going consistently low, it is time to focus on the inventory and make some changes. Admittedly, that will help you out in fulfilling the needs of the customers.
So, in brief, you can say that Fill Rate plays a crucial role in improving the fulfillment processes, optimizing inventory management processes, and enabling you to offer some alternative products in case you cannot fulfill the demand on the go.
Fill Rate Wrap Up!
So, we have already made it pretty clear that the fill rate is significant to businesses these days. That is why you need to ensure that you are paying proper attention to it so that you can get some great results.
Aiming for a 100% fill rate will help suppliers in productively influencing their relationships with the customers. Suppliers having better fill rate enjoy more trustworthiness and loyalty from their customers. A better fill rate also guarantees adequate cash flow for the businesses.
While if your fill rate is low, it can destructively impact your sales, customers, and reputations.
So, how important do you consider the fill rate for your business? Do you have any interesting stories related to Fill Rate? Share with us in the comments below.


Do you like your birthdays? I love my own birthdays and everyone else’s, and even though now that I hit my 30s I have started to find the thought of aging a bit freaky daunting, I fight the idea by living the present the best I can and know how. That includes celebrating special moments with people I love. J is not big on planning celebrations, so ever since we have been together I eagerly took on that responsibility and make sure we do something memorable on our jubilees. Well, this weekend my man became one year wiser and it was a perfect excuse to pack our small suitcases and arrange a little weekend staycation in Tokyo. Gosh, what a great idea it was! It totally did feel like we were on a mini-vacation even though we were within 45-minute train ride from our own home. We spent a few hours relaxing in our comfortable room at Hilton Tokyo in Shinjuku and after getting all dolled up and handsome headed out for our pre-dinner birthday drinks. Making the choice for the right bar was easy, I’ve been dying to visit Bar Gen Yamamoto and taste his highly praised one-of-a-kind cocktails for a while now. Thankfully, J approved the idea and at 5 pm sharp we arrived at a tiny place in the back alley of Azabu-juban. As soon as you step inside you understand that this is not a place to get drunk and while your time away as you listen to the rhythmic beats and sip your colorful cocktails. Don’t expect the glitz and pizazz of Park Hyatt’s New York Bar, or the loud chatter of Golden Gai. Instead, this is a place to ponder each meticulously prepared drink in a serene, clean and uncluttered ambiance so typical of traditional Japanese aesthetic. A tiny space is filled with huge 500-year-old L-shaped wooden counter that sits only eight, while uneven walls painted off-white are kept bare to offer nothing but peaceful simplicity and a little bit of well-honed Zen. I was overjoyed to find that we were the first ones to arrive and had the entire place to ourselves. Gen Yamamoto, in his pristine white jacket, greeted us behind the counter and provided his undivided attention. There is not much thought involved in deciding what to order. You have a choice of four or six cocktails, the rest is up to Yamamoto-san and his daily inspiration. You can also request modifications or add-ons in the end.
We intently started observing Yamamoto-san’s every move as he first chose the appropriate delicate hand-blown glasses, then placed a bottle of featured liquor in front of us and continued on to transform the fruit into a base of a cocktail. What sets Gen Yamamoto’s cocktails apart?
The young mixologist made his name in New York City managing a bar at the high-end Japanese restaurant Brushstroke, where he prepared his concoctions using fresh produce found at farmers’ markets. He remains true to his philosophy in his own bar too and highlights locally sourced fruits and herbs of the season in each drink. Thus, the cocktails are constantly changing with the seasons and availability of ingredients.
He didn’t share the fancy names of the drinks, instead he talked about the produce he used because that’s where his inspiration stems from, “Always.”, he pointed out.
While the lights in the room are dim, the inner edge of the counter is well illuminated to make sure the spot where cocktail glasses rest are in the center of attention. The presentation is simple and sophisticated, to match the rest of the experience. First cocktail was prepared using sweet plum and very rich sake. Being keen on sweet drinks I loved the freshness and natural sweetness that came from the plum. Aroma from the fresh fruit was simply unforgettable and I ended up buying fresh plums in the local market the next day just to be able to taste that incredible flavor yet again. Second cocktail was mixed with gin from Spain and ume juice. It was frizzy and lively with a pleasant hint of tartness from the Japanese plum. The third “course” was an eye-opening cocktail of peach and sparkling sake, spiked with a touch of wasabi which added different dimension to the drink and elevated the flavor profile to a whole new level. Fourth cocktail surprised our tastebuds with its tart flavors coming from a passion fruit from Amami island (next to Okinawa), and a light whiskey with a trace of smokiness, finished with a sprig of Hebesu citrus. Fifth drink featured sweet potato spirit from a local distillery and pineapple from Okinawa. The cocktail was presented in the form of shaved ice and was topped with green bell-pepper which sounded a bit weird in the beginning, but made perfect sense once the entire combination touched the palate. It was packed with tropical flavors while the spirit added sweetness and body to the “drink”. For his last cocktail Yamamoto-san prepared more savory drink using milk, edamame and classic sake adding Hebesu citrus for a touch of acidity. The drink was smooth, but it was not our favorite of the night. One would think after six cocktails we’d leave the bar wasted, but somehow we hardly felt we consumed any alcohol. As you can see it’s not just the ambiance that dictates you not to get drunk, but also the size of drinks which are served in a dainty glasses size of an espresso shot. I am no expert in cocktails, but I felt the key here was to have alcohol elevate and bring out best in the local produce, not vice versa. And if I am right, then Yamamoto-san excels in what he does.
Looking forward to our dinner later that night we left with our spirits high, although a tad sad we didn’t have time to linger a bit longer and maybe ask Yamamoto-san to improvise and excite our tastebuds with another surprise drink. But then, there is always next time…
Do you like celebrating birthdays? What is the most amazing cocktail you have ever had?
Bar Gen Yamamoto | 1-6-4 Azabu-Juban, Minato-ku, Tokyo | Tel: 03 6434 0652


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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Language arts teacher Lacey Boland keeps her classroom fresh and modern at Independence Charter School in Center City, Philadelphia by combining the benefits of literature and technology. She has taken language arts to the blogosphere.
For the past two years, Boland has had her 7th graders write Six-Word Memoirs within the context of a blog with the short, yet all-encompassing title, 7Speaks. The blog assignments vary each week, and cover a wide-range of topics: Six-Word Memoirs, controversial current events, reflections on independent reading/shared class novels, and other prompts to get her students creatively cooking.
“Writing and responding to one another on the blog is a great equalizer,” says Boland. “Students who might be less inclined to raise a hand to share their writing aloud with the whole class can share their thoughts more easily on the blog. In fact, many of my students have said that sharing their writing on the blog has helped them to get to know one another better—which I hope helps to make 7th grade just a little easier.” As a painfully shy kid in class, but with plenty to say, I wish blogging had been around during my middle-school years—with an inventive teacher like Ms. Boland at the head of the class.
The blogosphere not only gives the stage-frightened an accessible platform with which to share their written thoughts, but also gives each student an opportunity to go public with his or her ruminations. “On the blog students write for real audiences not only for one another, but for the world, which increases their motivation and accountability in their writing, and provides a sense of purpose,” says Boland, adding that blogging is also a good medium to teach her students internet etiquette and safety.
Her six-word assignment begins, we’re pleased to report, on SMITH. Students start the exercise by reading Six-Word Memoirs and take it from there. Explains Boland: “After lessons on using punctuation powerfully, revising for descriptive and juicy words, and taking part in peer conferences, students are ready to publish. We look at other student examples of Six-Word Memoir slides on the web, and discuss how images and text can work together to tell a story.”
Video is an essential part of the class’s experience. Each class creates its own video of six-worders, chooses the accompanying music carefully. Boland has the students identify any themes they see in the memoirs as a whole, and then pick a song that best fits the overall theme. “Students get to see firsthand the effect that their words have on the viewer—gasps, laughter, and sighs fill the room as we watch each slide and read each student’s Six-Word memoir. This year when I posted the Six-Word Memoir videos on the blog I asked the students to tell the stories behind their memoirs. They were able to say so much in only six words, but their comments also showed how much more they were willing to share.”
The students were also asked to write Six-Word Memoirs from another person’s perspective. In one assignment, Boland’s students composed a Six-Word Memoir from the main character’s point of view in a novel they were reading. The notion was to offer a deep level of understanding about the internal and external conflicts the character was facing—her essence in six well-chosen words.
We give Boland’s six-word assignment an A+. “It’s a challenge even my most reluctant writers have enjoyed,” she reports. “Many continue to scribble Six-Word Memoirs in their notebooks; one student admitted to me last year, that she simply couldn’t stop‚ she ’saw’ Six-Word Memoirs everywhere.”
To view more videos from this inventive classroom, or read the insightful stories behind the memoirs, be sure to check out the 7Speaks blog.
Note: With the generous support of our publisher, Harper Perennial, we’ve created two free Six-Word Memoir lesson plans, one for our first book, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure, as well as one for our teen book, I Can’t Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure. Download a PDF of either or both below. All we ask in return is this: let us know how six words works in your class. We love sharing your stories with the rest of the SMITH community.


Mumbai's divine eats at dirt-cheap rates make it to a culinary map that celebrates mid-day turning 37 with a spread of under-Rs 37 dishes. It's yummy!
It’s not every day that you hear a chef drop this question. We follow chef Ranveer Brar as he hits a suburban café trail to pick his favourite fare beyond coffee and cookies
Sip unusual teas with saffron and curry leaves and pair them with interesting nibbles as you unwind with a book or play a game of chess at this roomy tea house in Bandra
'Nach Baliye 7' couple Karishma Tanna and Upen Patel have signed their first film together which will be helmed by Chinese director Edd Liu
Early morning breakfast seekers from Chembur and other parts of Mumbai shouldn't miss out on delicious Idlis, Medu Vadas, Poha and other snacks whipped up by a group of gifted moonlighting cooks from Mandya in Karnataka, as Nevin Thomas vouches for
Stuck at home during monsoon and don't know what to cook? Try these simple recipes and make the most of your rainy day
Indian-American chef Floyd Cardoz, the man behind New York's now-closed Danny Meyer Indian restaurant Tabla, has taken home the $100,000 top prize in the third season of Top Chef Masters with a simple upma dish


Sri Lankan ex-lefts promote the right-wing UNP
15 March 2012
Amid developing protests of Sri Lankan workers and rural poor, the pseudo-left Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) and United Socialist Party (USP) are seeking to shackle the movement against the government to the right-wing United National Party (UNP).
The NSSP and USP are supporting a UNP-led “joint opposition” against the government’s price rises and anti-democratic methods. The alliance includes the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the main Tamil capitalist party; the Democratic Peoples Front, another Tamil bourgeois party based in Colombo; and the Sinhala racialist organisation, Nava Sihala Urumaya.
Writing in Irida Lakbima on February 26, NSSP leader Wickremabahu Karunaratna took on the job of promoting this reactionary alliance as the defender of working people. He appealed to “everyone” to come under the UNP’s umbrella, as the means for opposing the imposition of the International Monetary Fund’s austerity measures and defending democratic rights, including of the Tamil minority.
A series of protests took place last month against President Mahinda Rajapakse’s huge price hikes for fuel and electricity. The government responded by deploying the security forces to suppress the demonstrations, killing one fisherman in the process. Among the island’s Tamils, there is bitter hostility to the continuing military occupation in the North and East and the abuse of their basic rights.
Working people should stop and think, however, before they swallow Karunaratna’s lies about the UNP and its leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.
The NSSP’s claim that the UNP will lead a movement against the IMF’s dictates is false. The UNP is a bourgeois party, which rests on powerful sections of big business. Despite its rhetoric against price rises, the UNP is committed to implementing the terms of the IMF’s loan conditions, including savage budget cuts and currency devaluation.
The UNP has been the champion of the pro-market agenda since the UNP government of J.R. Jayawardene launched it in 1977. The UNP ruthlessly implemented privatisations, huge job losses and the degradation of essential social services such as public education and health before losing office in 1994.
The UNP returned to power in 2001–04 under Ranil Wickremesinghe to impose its infamous Regaining Sri Lanka program, which was approved by the IMF. It wiped out hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs and slashed a range of price subsidies. Wickremesinghe would do the same as Rajapakse if he were in office today.
The NSSP’s Karunaratna also claimed that working people had “a big opportunity to fight for democracy” under the UNP. He was forced to note, however, that the UNP had introduced the present “dictatorial constitution”, before claiming it was now “severely criticising the built-up dictatorial powers.”
The UNP was the party responsible for the 1978 constitution, which grants autocratic powers to the president and was notorious for the anti-democratic methods that it facilitated in the 1980s and 1990s. Between 1989 and 1991, the UNP was responsible for unleashing the security forces in a bloodbath against Sinhalese rural youth that claimed 60,000 lives. Out of office, the UNP continued to support gross abuses of democratic rights under emergency regulations and anti-terrorism laws.
Finally, Karunaratna argued that the UNP could resolve the “national question”, claiming that under Wickremesinghe, the party was “opposing the government’s communal and militarist policies.”
The UNP is just as mired in Sinhala chauvinism as Rajapakse’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). The UNP was responsible for launching the communal war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 1983 and for prosecuting the war until 1994.
The UNP’s call for a “political solution” is not aimed at ending discrimination against ordinary Tamils but at establishing a power-sharing arrangement between the Sinhala and Tamil elites, which is why the TNA has joined the alliance. The UNP and TNA have joined hands in supporting the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission set up by Rajapakse to cover up his government’s responsibility for war crimes.
The presence of the Sinhala extremist Nava Sihala Urumaya (NSU) in the UNP-led alliance underlines its utterly opportunist character. The NSU, like the Jathika Hela Urumaya from which it split in 2005, is bitterly opposed to any concessions to the island’s Tamil minority.
The USP is also part of the UNP-led joint opposition and, like the NSSP, has called for it to become the rallying point for those opposed to the government. The USP is preparing an additional trap for workers, calling for a National Independent Trade Union Centre to unite workers’ struggles. If such a centre were built, the USP claims that, “some trade unions could not betray the strikes.”
The purpose of the USP’s new union centre is not to strengthen the struggles of workers, but to strengthen the trade union bureaucracy against the emerging struggles of the working class. Under SLFP- and UNP-led governments, the unions—whether aligned to government or opposition parties—have played the critical role in sabotaging and selling out strikes. Any genuine struggle by workers will only develop as a rebellion against these treacherous organisations.
In his column, the NSSP’s Karunaratna declared: “The left must go through this [UNP] platform because by this agreement people can be awakened. Those awakened people can go beyond and break capitalist boundaries.” But the opposite is the case. The UNP, with the support of the USP and NSSP, has established its front precisely to prevent working people going beyond capitalist boundaries.
Workers should learn the necessary lessons from the role of the ex-lefts in the revolutionary movement that erupted in Egypt last year. These outfits have fostered the dangerous illusion that the military junta that replaced the dictator Hosni Mubarak would provide an “enlarged democratic space” for the masses. They also called for unity with a “left leaning tendency” in the reactionary Muslim Brotherhood.
These pseudo-radical organisations, which are based on well-off middle class layers, have always been fundamentally hostile to any struggle for the political independence of the working class. Now they are integrating themselves fully into the political establishment in every country. In Sri Lanka, the USP and NSSP function as open propagandists of the oldest capitalist party, with a long record of viciously attacking the working class.
Workers and youth should reject this class collaborationist perspective, which can end only in disaster for the working class. What is necessary is the building of an independent revolutionary movement of the working class and rural masses to fight for a workers’ and peasants’ government and socialist policies. That is the perspective advanced by the Socialist Equality Party as part of the struggle for socialism in South Asia and internationally.


State police begin new chapter
Gov. John Carney has appointed Lt. Col. Melissa Zebley to the position of Superintendent of Delaware State Police.
Zebley is a 28-year police veteran, having served in various roles throughout the Delaware State Police. She was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in Feb. 2019 by state police superintendent Col. Nathaniel McQueen Jr. McQueen is retiring and will become secretary of the Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security.
“Lieutenant Colonel Zebley has served the Delaware State Police and the citizens of the state of Delaware with distinction,” said McQueen. “She has served as a member of the executive staff for the last nine and one half years, and she will continue to build on the foundation and the rich history of the Delaware State Police as she guides the agency forward.”
Zebley begins her new role Monday, July 13.
“I am humbled and honored to serve as the 26th Superintendent of the Delaware State Police. I thank Governor Carney and Acting Secretary Chandler for their faith in me to lead this division of professional and dedicated members. I pledge to serve with the dignity and honor befitting the high standards of the agency,” said Zebley. “The Delaware State Police remain steadfast in our mission of service to all citizens and will continue on our course of community collaboration and progressive policing.”


Just as I was composing a blog post in my head about not having much news to share regarding running, I went and did something completely crazy and signed up for a half marathon.
Nick mentioned a few weeks ago that he would love to do the Knysna Half Marathon in July. I initially just thought a little midyear break in our favourite spot in the world would be awesome and didn’t give much thought to participating in the race, but then I read the race details and I was intrigued.
The race coincides with the Knysna Oyster Festival. It starts in the forest and ends in the town. They taxi runners into the forest from 4am in the morning, runners shrouded in old blankets and clothing, which is then discarded and donated to the needy in the community. It is apparently one of the most scenic races in SA. The cut off for the half marathon is three and a half hours and a quick calculation based on my current pace told me that if I could train myself to keep moving for 21.1 kilometres, I could actually finish within the time limits. Based on that, it seemed stupid not to just try and participate. You know… FOMO and all.
Most 21 k training plans available online work on a 10 or 12 week programme and as luck would have it, we are 12 weeks from the big race date. I am big on signs from the universe, and I am taking that as my sign!
Since I am already doing the basics, 5 or 6 kms, three times a week at RWFL, I figure if I start upping my distances gradually for the next few weeks, I should be fine… right? Right.
I am also using the race date as a goal date by which I want to lose another 10kgs. I’ve been battling to focus on my eating over the last few weeks so I think using the race as my motivation and eating clean and upping my distances on the road will be just the key to get my weight loss back on track.
I admit that I am a little terrified by the reality of three hours of run/walking but I am also really excited to have a big goal to work towards and a little holiday to look forward to. I was even more excited when I realised that a couple of friends have also signed up, including Jeanette and her husband. I have a feeling it will be a fabulous trip. Champagne, oysters and a little run through the forest – what could be better?


To the Community,
Unless you are up to date on all of the Menomonee Falls School Board Meetings, most of you probably don’t know who we are. To give you a little background we are two high school seniors at MFHS who were selected at the beginning of the 2016-17 school year to be student school board members. This means that we provide insight on the high school through the direct eyes of the students. Now, what does this mean for you?
Well, students, this means we are giving you a voice. Sometimes, you may feel removed from your school. It is hard to understand big changes and ominous words such as budget cuts when it seems as if no one tells you anything. Half of you are probably unaware of who it is, behind the scenes, of the decisions being made that will ultimately affect you. Whether you are a freshman, spending a lot more time at the high school or seniors just about to graduate, the School Board makes decisions that affect both your learning and future success after graduation. These are changes that you deserve to know about. Why should us students remain passive in a world that is changing all around us? Essentially, as students school board members we are here to make you more comfortable about your position in the school district. You should know what is going on, and know that your best interests are being considered even when it may not seem like it.
Now, parents, this letter is meant to be reassuring. We want you to know, that as students ourselves, the Menomonee Falls School District is carefully making sure that the needs of your children are being met. This not only takes place at the high school level, but district wide. We sit at the Board of Education meetings every two weeks knowing that your School Board members are deliberately allocating their time and the money that your taxes have contributed to build a better district for your students. Trust us, we have sat through many a meeting revolving around monotonous numbers that are being looked at every which way. There are policies that are discussed multiple meetings in a row before they are voted upon to make sure that the School Board is providing the best education for the students. It may seem that money just keeps pouring into the district to no avail, but we ask you to reconsider. Look at the heart of the referendum (why we need it and how it will work), see the bright spots in the district, and believe that this school district is helping your children build upon a competitive education that will only help them grow in this expanding world.
As this is our first letter to you, students and parents, we will talk about the thing that we’ve spent the most time discussing and what the community seems to know the least about: the referendum. The amount of money that a school district has permission to spend in a given year is called the revenue limit, which includes both local taxes and state aid. Basically, since the early 90s the state has set limits in order to prevent over taxation, and every two years the state adjusts the limits as needed. These limits are based on, among other things, the student population and property values. Unfortunately, for the past 6-7 years, the state has been setting these limits lower than they usually do, including not adjusting them for inflation, resulting in less state aid for many school districts around Wisconsin. This problem is especially troubling for our district due to our village being deemed a “property wealthy” community, resulting in portions of our state aid being reallocated to less affluent communities.
To compound this further, our district has had a slightly declining enrollment recently which has since begun to level off. But, since the state gives priority to funding growing districts, our recently flat student population has led to a further decline in funding. Since these decreases in funding have occurred -while the operating costs have remained as high as ever due to increasing academic standards, various course offerings, and inflation- we are left in a tough situation. This gap between what we need to spend in order to have a productive and exceptional learning environment for our community’s children, and how much the state is allowing us needs to be made up somehow.
Therefore, the School District of Menomonee Falls has voted to put an operating referendum on the ballot for April 2017. The proposed operating referendum will seek to increase the revenue limit by 2% for the next three years. The key difference between this question and last year’s question is that this referendum is not permanent meaning that after three years the district would have to ask the community again before they could continue to raise the revenue limit. This was the largest piece of feedback given to the school board after last year’s operating referendum did not pass.
This 2% increase would allow the board to run the district effectively while also being able to monitor how the district enrollment as well as state funding changes over the next three years. If this question does not pass in April, there will be major cut backs within the district that would cause very visible changes within the district.
These would include redistricting the elementary schools in order to pool resources which would increase class sizes, and cutting many elective and extracurricular courses/activities. The rest of these changes can be seen on the district website under the referendum 2017 tab.
Also on the website, you can find more background information about the referendum including ways the district has cut back on costs in recent years, and the specifics of how the referendum would impact your or your parents district tax contribution.
While we are not here to force the option of the referendum on you, we are here to educate you about why this referendum is occurring. Students and parents, consider how you see your future education and the education of your children. Look at what the school district values, and make an informed decision come April.


"Up Close" with Tarvoris Hill
Tarvoris Hill is one of the most battled veterans on Florida Atlantic’s defense, having 21 career starts at the cornerback position, but to most fans his hard work and production are unknown. A redshirt-senior entering the 2010 season, Hill has 91 career tackles and two interceptions for the Owls and has often had to play in the shadow of fellow cornerback Tavious Polo.
Hill began the 2008 season as the starting cornerback opposite of Tavious Pol,o and has held that position ever since. Playing his best football against some of the top competition, Hill had six tackles against South Carolina and five tackles and an interception against Nebraska. Hill’s best outing came last season when he had a career-high seven tackles versus Wyoming. Missing the final four games of last year’s season due to a broken forearm, Hill still managed to finish the year with 27 tackles and a pass broken up.
A product of Central High School in Miami, Florida, Hill played football and ran track while in school, and earned All-County honors his senior season, after having 59 tackles and nine interceptions. Often recording music, Hill claims to have made some individual tracks of himself, and would like to someday produce a mix tape when football is over.
Hill recently sat down with us for “Up Close”.
What is your favorite food?
What is your pet peeve?
“When somebody calls or texts me, I see how you forgot about me.”
Who is your current off the field role model?
“My mom. No matter how much adversity she has to overcome, she puts her faith in God.”
What are you most proud of?
“I’m going to be the first person in my family to graduate college come this fall.”
What is your major?
“Criminal Justice. I want to be a parole officer.”
What is your Faith?
Line of scrimmage
What aspect of your game do you feel is your strength?
“Experience. There are a lot of times out there, where I will recognize a play in a few seconds and already know what the whole offense
will do. I watch about two hours of film a week and it also comes from playing in games.”
What aspect of your game do you feel is your weakness?
“Sometimes I’m a little risky and take some chances. I will diagnose the play and then try to make a break on it, if you win you’re the
hero but if you’re wrong you’re not.”
Down the field
Besides football, what brought you to FAU?
“All of my other offers were up north, and I didn’t want to go that far from home. It is far enough from home but still close enough. I
don’t like the snow.”
What are your goals for the upcoming season?
“Get some national exposure, I need interceptions.”
What game are you looking forward to the most next season?
“Texas. They are the big dogs up there and we got to knock them off.”
What do you want FAU fans to know about you personally?
“I record a little music and I have a pit bull named Blue, it’s like my son.”
Coming up, our next player is a happily married husband.
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Ventilating gas-suction units УВЦГ
Ventilator gas-sucking units
To prevent explosions in the mines, methane gas mixture is used by gas-ventilating fan units. One of the varieties of such designs is a ventilator centrifugal gas-suction unit.
Ventilating centrifugal gas-sucking installation
Similar complexes are represented by several models. Basic components:
- A centrifugal fan, which is the main component. The motor of the fan is protected from explosions.
- Becoming pipes.
- Fittings for the selection of a mixture of air and methane.
- Branch pipe.
Gas-ventilating fans in the mine
The gas-ventilating fan units in the shaft must be adapted for operation at high temperatures and humidity. The parameters of the operation of the УВЦГ:
- The temperature range is 228-323 degrees Kelvin.
- Humidity greater than 90%.
- The methane density of the air mixture is up to 1.2 kilograms per cubic meter.
- Dust 50 milligrams per cubic meter.
- Methane content in the explosive mixture is up to 100%.
Installing the centrifugal fan
A vented gas blowing unit ensures removal of a mixture of methane and air from the mine through a special air duct. Suction of the flows of the explosive mixture and its outlet to the surface are provided by a powerful mine fan. It is constructed so, so as not to create high vibrations during operation.
Fresh air is fed into the mine. Control of the installation is provided by operators for which special rooms are fitted. The centrifugal fan is installed on the surface, on a special foundation.
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In a bowl, mix together the soy, garlic, ginger, scallions, honey, Dijon, wine and oil. Toss with pork to coat well and let marinate for at least 4 hours, refrigerated. Pull the pork out of the marinade. Place marinade in a small saucepan and bring to a boil and reduce by 25 to 30 percent. Meanwhile, in a large, hot saute pan coated lightly with oil, pan sear the pork until brown on all sides, about 10 to12 minutes total. Glaze the pork every 3 to 4 minutes with the reduced marinade. In a large bowl, mix together the eggplant, zucchini, pepper, onion, sweet potato and fennel. Toss lightly with oil, season and place on hot grill. Cook vegetables until done, chop into 1-inch pieces and check for flavor.
PLATING: On a dinner plate using an o-ring mold (3-inch diameter by 2 inches tall or a tuna fish can) fill with grilled veggies. Cut each tenderloin into 3 petit fillets and drizzle with reduced marinade.
WINE: Rosemont GSM, Australia
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The Cross River Government has concluded plans with a Slovakian firm, Sirieco, to establish electric car assembling plant in the state.
The Chief Executive Officer of Sirieco Company Limited, Mr Groidis Peter, disclosed this while he and his team were on an inspection tour of Ayade Industrial Park in Calabar.
Apart from the electric car plant, the Slovakian firm will also establish a factory to manufacture energy bulbs in the state.
Speaking to newsmen after visiting the park, he said, “After a useful deliberation with the governor and tour of some of the projects here in this industrial park, I am glad to announce to you that we will love to build a strong working relationship with the Cross River State government which will culminate in the building of a hub that will be second to none in Africa.”
He added that, “We are starting with Eco-Cars; electric cars and we hope to set up the car assembling plant here in this park. We are also building a factory for the manufacturing of long-lasting street lamps.”
Speaking on the issue, Governor Ben Ayade said, “The Ayade Industrial park has 42 plots of land ready for any serious investor who is willing to create jobs for at least 50 Cross Riverians from its investment outlay.
“We are offering free land, tax exemption and providing the necessary utility support services including free Wi-Fi.”
Ayade also said, “The team we just received has expressed its readiness to commence the installation of an electric car assembling plant and, in addition, set up a modern street light bulb manufacturing plant with minimum of 18 watts and above for our streets using the latest technology that has a better temperature control system and 22 years life span solar systems.”
He said, “The new solar bulb will not suffer the deposition burden that characterises the technology we currently have and that it will have no attenuation of its lighting on the basis of long use occasioned by high temperature in Nigeria.”
Ayade underscored the importance of touring the industrial park, saying “We brought them here to make a choice of a location because we are giving them free land and also guaranteeing them three years tax exemption.”


Late Friday afternoon (August 22), the University of Illinois broke its three-week long silence on the controversy regarding the Chancellor's revocation of a tenured offer to Steven Salaita, who had accepted a faculty position in the American Indian Studies Program at the flagship campus at Urbana-Champaign. Chancellor Phyllis Wise and Board of Trustees Chairman Christopher Kennedy both issued statements explaining the revocation, but in terms far more alarming than the original decision itself. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Chancellor and the Board of Trustees have now declared that the First Amendment does not apply to any tenured faculty at the University of Illinois.
A bit of background to Friday's bombshell statements. Last October, Professor Salaita, then teaching at Virginia Tech, accepted a tenured offer from the Urbana-Champaign campus. He went through the regular appointments process at the University of Illinois, and received approval by the relevant departments and deans after a review of his scholarship and teaching. The offer, which he accepted, was conditional on approval by the Board of Trustees. Such approval clauses are typical in all teaching contracts and had, previously, been pro forma at Illinois, as they are at all serious universities: it is not the job of the Board of Trustees of a research institution to second-guess the judgment of academics and scholars. Well before the Board took the matter up, even University officials were describing Salaita as a faculty member, and he moved to Illinois and was scheduled to teach two classes this fall.
Salaita also has a Twitter account. "Tweets" are limited to 140 characters, so the medium is conducive primarily to spontaneous and superficial commentary. As a Palestinian-American and scholar of colonialism, Salaita tweeted extensively about the Israeli attack on Gaza. Contrary to the initial misrepresentations put into circulation by far right websites, none of the tweets were either anti-semitic or incitements to violence. Some were vulgar, some juvenile, some insulting, some banal. The First Amendment unequivocally protects Salaita's right to express every one of those opinions on a matter of public concern, and to do so, if he wants, with vulgarity and insults. As a matter of American constitutional law, this is not a close case.
Part of the First Amendment's protection of such speech is that government, including a state university, is prohibited from punishing the speaker for his expression or viewpoint. Revoking a job offer because of such speech would, again, be clearly unconstitutional. Salaita's constitutional and contractual claims will no doubt be adjudicated in court, and the University should lose.
That now brings us to Friday's shocking statements. Chancellor Wise declared that "we cannot... tolerate... personal and disrespectful words or actions that demean and abuse either viewpoints themselves or those who express them." Yet as a matter of well-settled American constitutional law, the University of Illinois must tolerate "words... that demean and abuse either viewpoints themselves or those who express them." The University has no choice, both as a matter of constitutional law and as a matter of its contractual commitment with its faculty to academic freedom. Scathing critiques of both viewpoints and authors abound in almost all scholarly fields; it would be the end of serious scholarly inquiry and debate were administrators to become the arbiters of "good manners." More simply, it would be illegal for the University to start punishing its faculty for failure to live up to the Chancellor's expectations for "civil" speech and disagreement.
The university, of course, need not and should not tolerate the mistreatment of students in the classroom, but there is no evidence of any such pedagogical misconduct in this case; indeed, the public evidence is that Salaita is a successful and popular teacher. No serious university evaluates pedagogical fitness based on speculative inferences from twitter accounts, yet the Chancellor's statement implies that this is what Illinois has done in this instance. Faculty have pedagogical and professional obligations to their students, but that does not include the obligation to refrain from expressing views, whether about matters of public concern or matters within the purview of a faculty member's scholarship, that some student somewhere might find upsetting, leading that student to conclude that that faculty member might not "value that student as a human being." A student's entitlement is to be treated seriously and professionally in the classroom; students have no entitlement to never find the views of their professors offensive or upsetting.
Chairman Kennedy's statement is even worse than the Chancellor's. While endorsing the Chancellor's abrogation of the constitutional and contractual rights of the faculty, he goes even further, declaring that "there can be no place" for "disrespectful and demeaning speech" "in our democracy, and therefore, there will be no place for it in our university." We may certainly hope for more civility in public life, but "disrespectful and demeaning speech" not only has an extensive presence in our democracy (as everyone knows), it has a constitutionally protected place as well, as the United States Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed. Yet Chairman Kennedy says he believes only in "free speech tempered in respect for human rights." But there is no doctrine of "free speech tempered in respect for human rights" in American constitutional law. It is a national embarrassment that a public official, the Chairman of the University of Illinois's Board of Trustees, apparently does not know even the basic facts about the American constitutional system.
At moments like this, one wonders: Where are the lawyers? Chancellor Wise and Chairman Kennedy have made statements that commit the University of Illinois to illegal because unconstitutional courses of action. They should resign, or be removed from office, before doing further damage to one of the nation's great research universities. Their public statements make clear they are unfit to lead academic institutions in which both freedom of speech and freedom of research and inquiry are upheld.


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Tower Hill State Park
This 77-acre state park takes its name from the mining of lead and production of lead shot at this property in the 1800s. Today, park visitors can tour the restored Helena Shot Tower and melting house. Shot towers were used to drop molten lead 75+ feet into a basin of cooling water. During the free-fall, the lead became spherical. After cooling the shot was sorted by size and could be further fashioned as necessary. The property is heavily wooded and borders the Wisconsin River. There are a number of places to launch a boat or canoe for a quiet day of fishing or paddling. Hikers will enjoy the challenging bluff trails that command panoramic views of the beautiful countryside.
Directions: Located on Cty C just off of Hwy 14, 2.5 miles east of Spring Green.
Gazetteer: Page 34, C-3 (prior to 10th edition). | Page 84, D-3 (10th edition).
Phone: 608/588-2116 (Tower Hill State Park).
Signature Species: Turkey Vulture, Indigo Bunting and American Goldfinch.
Rare species: Scarlet Tanager, Acadian Flycatcher, Broad-winged Hawk and Yellow-throated Warbler.
Parking: Parking lots.
Nearest food & lodging: Spring Green.
Fees: Park fees apply.


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