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Digging for Evidence: FBI Searches Suspect Eric Williams' Home Again
by: Elyssa Lassiter, Digital News Desk
KAUFMAN, TX—It was a familiar scene at a familiar house in Kaufman County.
"We're a small town community. I've been here about 20 years. Oh, it's unreal," passerby Robert McCollom said.
The FBI was searching all over the house belonging to Eric and Kim Williams.
Back in 2013, the couple was arrested, accused of killing Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse outside the city's courthouse, and District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia at their home.
"The murder of a public official such as a judge, a prosecutor, or a law enforcement officer is an assault against all citizens of this state," said an official at a press conference back in 2013.
This all happened after Williams was charged with theft and lost his seat as Justice of the Peace. He was prosecuted by Hasse and McLelland.
Also last year, police discovered a storage unit with dozens of firearms, police badges and even what they considered a possible getaway car.
People in this neighborhood are shocked.
"I happened to be going to Denny's to eat some breakfast, and I saw the helicopter. I didn't know exactly what was going on," McCollom said.
We don't know what the FBI was looking for.
The Williams are being held on a multi-million dollar bond. What exactly agents hauled away in evidence bags may likely be disclosed once Williams' trial starts—that could be as soon as December 1. Then, perhaps Kaufman can get some closure.
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Tam Pham was charged Tuesday with entering a restricted building and engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct on Capitol grounds.
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Federal prosecutors say Islam Yaser-Abdel Said pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to conceal a person from arrest, concealing a person from arrest and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
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Cali Ellis, University of Michigan
What is the influence of interpersonal trust on information sharing in the high-stakes environment of international counter-terrorism? September 11, 2001 occurred near the start of a global economic crisis that affected the middle class worldwide, with ever greater amounts of public resources devoted to military and security spending. Thirteen years later, policymakers and policy analysts continue to struggle with how to reconcile the national security mission that is shared by multiple levels of government. The inherent challenges of American and Canadian federalisms are magnified at the international border, where agencies with widely varying missions and levels of funding must cooperate to solve daily problems and prepare for extremely rare but potentially catastrophic events. Scholars, too, are struggling with how to conceptualize and understand the complex organizational and bureaucratic processes that have been put in place under the new "homeland security" mission. My research begins to fill this gap by focusing on the professionals – from the public and private sectors; from police, fire services, and hospitals; from federal border agencies and provincial law enforcement – who must work together on a daily basis to address shared security concerns at the U.S.–Canada border. Social network analysis provides insights into how even infrequent interaction can facilitate information sharing, but the secretive domain of individuals working in international border security has been largely overlooked. In studying the structure of U.S. and Canadian border homeland security communities, my research provides a novel empirical contribution to the political science literature on bureaucratic politics and a theoretical contribution to the larger social science literature on trust, bridging the two by focusing on the overlap of social norms. It develops a new data set with rarely collected network variables based on survey research that can serve as a baseline for understanding interactions between agents working in complex security bureaucracies, providing a natural stepping stone to further homeland security organizational studies. Based on a social network survey of American and Canadian professionals from multiple levels of government and the private sector, representing a wide variety of policy disciplines, I find that interpersonal trust plays an important role in facilitating social network development across international borders, as well as bureaucratic obstacles. Specifically, dyadic trust becomes one of the most important variables in explaining network density, rivaling traditional in-group measures. Homeland security spending and effectiveness operates in the background, but the ability to prevent another terrorist attack is of fundamental importance to the middle class. My research provides new insight into an infrequently studied community, with implications for other studies of inter-organizational social network analysis of difficult-to-study populations.
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The Benefits of Belonging: How To Build Membership Growth and Retention
Created by Cat Capellaro
Before talking about membership, it's worth spending a moment thinking about belonging. Because that's what membership is—or what it's supposed to be.
Belonging is a reciprocal experience, a mutually beneficial relationship where both parties are growing and gaining from the experience.
People aren't usually interested in paying to be a part of an organization unless it is a community that welcomes them, responds to them, and delights them.
There are lots of ways to do that: social media, events, email marketing, blogs, videos, webinars, to name just a few. But before sharing all these things with members, it's a good idea to take a step back and strategize about how to use your existing resources in smart ways that will serve the organizational goals.
Do you have a nonprofit marketing plan?
Membership growth and retention are at the heart of associations' missions, but it's sometimes a challenge to attract members and keep them around. A marketing plan can help.
Membership organizations are using their marketing strategies to create robust online communities. It was already happening before March 2020, but since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down so many live events, the creativity and dedication of nonprofits has been a wonder to behold.
Organizations like the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) have not just endured the pandemic; they have grown and deepened their collaborative partnerships and harnessed technology to create a more meaningful membership experience for more people.
They are creating a virtuous cycle, where the organizations get bigger and better because of their members. The more members, the more resources, collaboration, and success for the organization.
But how are these organizations standing out among the thousands of associations out there? How are they telling their stories? And how are they responding to the needs of existing members while attracting new ones?
I love this advice from Jackie Lalley, Yodelpop's co-founder and director of content: "Humans are social by nature—we want to interact with your organization and with you. Instead of always pushing information, make engagement a key component of your social media strategy." Membership organizations are using Facebook groups, polls, and social influencer campaigns to build thriving online communities.
The same principle applies to an overall content strategy: Stop pushing, and start interacting.
Here are a few ideas on how to use content marketing to boost and grow membership in ways that will delight you and your growing membership base.
Know Your Members
Without a clear understanding of who your potential and existing members are, you're operating in the dark.
That starts with your membership database. As this article on the Center for Association Leadership (ASAE) website puts it, "You can't manage what you can't measure." Make sure you're working with good, clean data. Everyone on your team should have a clear idea of what your terms mean. Organizations have different criteria for "lapsed" members, for example.
Learn about your existing members so you can continue to offer the content and resources they need. The information gleaned from surveys, interviews, and focus groups is extremely valuable in creating a content marketing strategy.
Personalize Content
Once you know your members, you can start sharing content that is relevant to their lives and professions.
At Yodelpop, both for our company and for our clients, we use nonprofit personas—fictional representations of ideal supporters and participants. That means that before we create content, we try to know as much as we can about the potential members. What are their demographics, goals, challenges, identifiers? What does a typical day look like? Using personas is one way to discover how content can better serve the audience.
As Cori Albrecht, Yodelpop's senior account manager, observes: "Somebody who's an experienced professional for 10 years has different needs for training and resources than somebody who's just entering the field." A good content strategy ensures that you speak to all those audiences, no matter where they are on their journey.
That's when you get to delight them—my favorite part about this philosophy of marketing.
Tell Stories That Delight
Once you know who your members are and have explored the mechanics of how to get meaningful content to them, you get to share stories.
Where do you get those stories? Who has time to write?
Cori has words of comfort and encouragement for associations that might have a small communications department or limited resources for content marketing. "They've heard all the buzzwords about content marketing, and they've heard they need to do more to attract and keep members," she says. "What they don't understand is that they have all kinds of content already. They have brochures about the value of their membership. They do annual conferences every year and probably record many of those sessions; those sessions could be turned into blogs."
In this post, she suggests eight ways to repurpose content for a nonprofit marketing strategy.
She also suggests organizations try content mapping to make sure that the organization gets the right content to the right people at the right time. Content mapping helps you target content according to who will be consuming it and how close that person is to making a purchase or becoming a member. This content mapping template helps you understand the journey of your members.
A Word on Retention
Once you've got members, how do you keep them delighted and eager to renew their annual membership? The ASAE calls this process "injecting a little magic" into the experience.
ASAE has a great list of tactics for boosting membership retention. One suggestion is to think about a singular retention-specific message and "make it sting." That means finding out what messaging worked in the past and building on it. Making it sting means appealing to what members will lose if they let their membership lapse.
They also suggest messaging that speaks to the member's identity. Professionals often identify strongly with their chosen field. It's that sense of belonging that I started with.
And this should go without saying: Renewing should be easy. The user experience should be painless, or even fun.
All of this brings up the question of how much content to give out for free—to attract new members—and how much to reserve for members only.
Content: Free or Locked Down?
There is no simple answer to the question of whether content should be free and available to the public, or restricted to members.
"You want to make sure the value of becoming a member doesn't get diluted by the fact that you are giving it all away in blogs and pillar pages," says Cori. "But you want to attract new members and once they are members, you're delighting them. And delighted members will create more content and more buzz and be an advocate for you to attract more members. That flywheel just keeps spinning."
It's a balancing act. For example, on its website, the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) has a series of blogs, available to the public for free, on all sorts of relevant topics for people in various stages of medical communication careers. For members only, they have AMWA Journal, lively discussions, and discounts on top-notch networking and training opportunities.
The ASAE blog looks at the American Academy of Physician Associates (AAPA) as a case of an organization that undertook a thoughtful and collaborative process of deciding what content to lock down.
A Sense of Belonging
Every organization has a story, and finding ways to share that story in meaningful ways seems to me to be the most important part of a content strategy.
It's a wonderful thing when a whole team creates a shared strategy for creating and sharing content. We know what the message is and how to get it out into the world.
A successful membership organization gets that delightful content to the right people—solving their problems and answering their questions.
And when those people are heard and their suggestions are acted on—well, that's belonging.
Cat Capellaro
Cat Capellaro is a writer at Yodelpop. She is a musician, playwright, and journalist whose work has included serving as arts and culture editor of Isthmus in Madison, Wisconsin, managing editor of Rethinking Schools, and reporter for Wisconsin Public Radio and WORT-89.9 FM.


Leadmill Comedy Club – 2 September 2015, Leadmill, Sheffield
Without my annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival comedy adventure last month, I decided to return to the comedy club were I got my August fix and for a second time headed a short walk from my house (without getting lost this time) to The Leadmill Comedy Club for its monthly comedy night, which takes place on the first Wednesday of every month.
Comedy on the night came from four funny fellows, including headliner and Dudley comedian Sean Percival, a festival and Jongleurs Comedy Club regular host whose trademark comedy confronts real life in an explosively hilarious way. Sean was funny but shouty and slightly scary (if like me you're not used to the West Midlands sense of humour) and I have been advised never to compare him to Noddy Holder (oops).
Joining the ex-welder was Dave's Comedy Festival Comedian of the Year nominee Danny Ward. Known for his outstanding observational comedy, Danny's 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival debut show was awarded the Amused Moose People's Award for Best Show. Danny took the audience on side-splitting tour of recent technological history proving that the gadget choices we make will never be cool for the teenagers of tomorrow, via a rib-tickling visit to a Cardiff service station, Toby Carvery and a London night bus.
At only 18 years old (people half my age shouldn't be so funny but I'll let him off) Elliot Steel (aka "Gaylord" to his friends) made his debut at The Latitude, V and Reading Festivals in 2013, charming audiences with his refreshingly honest routines about growing up in Croydon. I was added to the list of those he charmed with his boyish looks hiding the voice of a 50 year old trucker whose honesty and comedy should make him a role model for teenagers everywhere and gave me new respect for his generation.
Making up the fourth corner of the comedian square and a long way from his Seattle home was host for the evening Erich McElroy, who alongside taking a hilarious look at British life via the microphone, has also written for the Huffington Post, the Independent, the Herald in Scotland and Saga, and has his own show on Fubar Radio. Reminding me of a young Greg Proops (Erich don't take offence as I find you both hilarious live), he covered politics, becoming a British citizen, customer service and why white men can't talk about race in a gentle comic fashion that not only made me laugh out loud the most during the evening but also re-warm to American comedy.
If you'll missed out on Comedy Club which also featured tempting Mexican food from Sheffield's Mexican finest The Street Food Chef (who this evening sold out completed before the first interval) but are still up for an evening of laughter at The Leadmill, I highly recommend booking for Joe Lycett (a comedy panel show regular for good reason) on Thursday 1 October and (not just for geeks) the informatively side-splitting Festival of the Spoken Nerd (who I enjoyed live on stage at a Sci-Fi convention in Wales in March) on Wednesday 18 November, as well as the forthcoming monthly Leadmill Comedy Clubs on 8th October and 4th November.
If that wasn't exciting enough The Leadmill have also introduced a loyalty card (go to four comedy clubs and get the fifth free) and a competition on the night to win a table for four at the next. So comedy fans have no excuse not to attend.
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On International Women's Day (IWD) we, along with many of our clients will be celebrating the strides made to create equality in our society while recognising the work that is yet to be done.
Apparent is incredibly proud that 80% of our management team are women and the different perspective and points of view this (and all forms of diversity) bring to our business every single day.
To celebrate IWD, we asked the team here at Apparent to share with us quotes, campaigns and activities that they believe are inspiring positive change across the world – right now. Hopefully you find some inspiration in them as well.
Bias may be a human quality, but so is self awareness.
#BalanceforBetter
"Movements like Jameela Jamil's 'I Weigh' campaign inspires me deeply, to reevaluate what value we put, and is put on us in society. Living in an insta-famous world can sometimes be overwhelming, no matter how confident you think you are, and regardless of your gender."
– Pandora Key, Account Director
"My mother is an inspirational woman. She runs a hostel, looks after 120 young girls as well as providing food and other essentials to blind and disabled children all while running a business. Anyone that has the drive and compassion to achieve all this in a day is a hero to me."
– Manoj Shivakumar, Senior Developer
"New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern is a refreshing voice cutting through the gimmicks of modern politics. She's the youngest female leader in the world and it's inspiring to see a head of government so in touch with her country."
– Nathan Udy, Associate Editor
"The Nike Campaign 'Be Crazier' blew me away, I watched it over and over. As a female who really enjoys all forms of sport and physical activity and who rides a motorbike, it made me feel inspired and motivated to achieve greater things both professionally and personally."
– Nichola Preston, Account Director
"What would you do if you weren't afraid?" I felt empowered reading Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In', spurred on by her assertion that we ALL suffer from imposter syndrome, no matter how far we travel down the path of our career. It's time to stop focusing on all the things we're not, and celebrate all that we are.
– Nastassia Kuznetsova, Senior Engagement Planner
"I have a huge girl crush on Michelle Obama, always have. While gender equality (specifically access to education) is only one of her focal causes, I think the way she carries herself in the public eye has made her one of the most influential women in America and one of the most powerful role models for young women in the world."
– Emily Eliot, Business Director
"In 2018, Smirnoff backed a campaign to get more people listening to women. It was based on data from Spotify that showed none of the top 10 most-streamed tracks in 2017 were performed by female artists or bands. It created 'the Smirnoff Equaliser' – an API that analysed user data to give them a percentage of the number of female and male artists they streamed on Spotify in the previous six months. It then offered an equalised playlist, made up of tracks by an even number of men and women."
– Katie Chatfield, Strategy Director
"Serena Williams is an inspiring figure – not only through what she's achieved in tennis but how she stands by what she feels is required to achieve greater equality within the sport. This will ultimately have a positive impact outside of the sport and help inspire women and young girls to have a voice."
– Max Austen, Account Director
"Real change takes time, and one person who's been steadfastly fighting discrimination for decades is the Notorious R.B.G., Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I know she's become somewhat of an icon in recent years, but for me her belief that women need to be everywhere that decisions are being made is fundamental."
– Caroline Hutton, Senior Account Director
"Susan Cain, the author of a 'Quiet: The Power of Introverts' is 'quietly' bringing the power of introversion to light in a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else. Susan speaks a lot to the examples of those who bring immense positive impact to society, like Gandhi and Rosa Parks, who were both introverts during their time, and she promotes ways of communication, thinking and problem solving through fostering our introverted traits. I feel that I am an introvert in many aspects, so I really respect her work and strongly think that these are ideas that should help to drive the change we need to see in schools, workplaces, and in general."
– Raelene Loong, Digital Producer
"Quote from Eddie Huang: 'People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you've seen and the people you've met."
– Benny Lee, Content Creative
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Taylor Swift, City of Lover Concert: Commentary
She's your Lover, Taylor Nation.
Taylor Swift released her City of Lover Concert yesterday night, May 17, on ABC. The event was not available on Canada unless you had that channel through cable or other means. After only glimpses last night, I managed to catch the full event this morning through Disney+. It's also available through Hulu. Audio is now available on Spotify and YouTube, which at least I can embed here for your convenience.
Overall, a great but brief concert that clocks at 40 minutes in one sitting. Here at the Swift Agency, just a guy that is cooking at home a lot more often, we appreciate the acoustic solo performances more than the bombastic productions. This comes with added bias in this case, as the two numbers that get the full band treatment are the tracks that I rate musically weaker of the album. On the other hand, the ones that shine for me got the solo spotlight and sounded even better. Let us get down to the details.
The aired special was edited down from the original live event. You probably remember the full live event had a longer set list, but this broadcast set list was considerable shorter. Basically, only the Lover tracks made the cut:
🎵 ME!
🎵 The Archer
🎸 Death By a Thousand Cuts
🎸 Cornelia Street
🎸 The Man
🎹 Daylight
🎵 YNTCD
🎵 Lover
There's probably a story on why the rest of the songs were not cleared, but it's not one to discuss here. Yet. Let's focus on the concert now.
"ME!" got the full band (The Agency is still here) and background vocalist treatment (The Starlights too) with added background tracks for trumpets and the works. Still, this song doesn't really live up to T's bangers. Sorry, I gotta be honest here. I still find it rather weak of a song. In the full concert, it was followed with "I Knew You Were Trouble" which has a lot more of a kick. That song was sorely missed here. The album Lover lacks a kickass concert opener, but I respect that in Taylor's vision that kind of song wouldn't fit the album theme.
"The Archer" is rather subdued, but it does contain a little emotional lightning-in-a-bottle moments that grab you. Taylor still had the band and the backup singers for this one, but it's less evident. The song still has the same treatment than the album's production which doesn't add anything new but it has grown on me since the first listen. There's considerable turmoil bubbling underneath its surface. Definitely not as dramatic a power ballad as other tracks in the album but it has something to say.
"Death By A Thousand Cuts" marks the moment where I properly became fully invested in the concert. This song has sharp edges and claws, and it doesn't let go from the moment it starts to the finish line. And yes, I'm biased and it's one of my favorite songs and to top it off, it gets the acoustic treatment so this is where Taylor's talent for performing and songwriting outshines the spotlight on her. When this song ended I let out a breath that I didn't notice I was holding. This was properly amazing and Taylor at her best.
To follow up with "Cornelia Street" is almost unfair. This is another favorite of mine from Lover, and it also got the acoustic treatment. Emotionally charged enough with nostalgia, this song has vibes just a notch below the likes of "All Too Well". I'm not saying it's as much of a storm drama as that one, but it definitely ranks in its vicinity. It was a delight to see "Cornelia Street" have its day on that stage and it was just Taylor and the guitar.
Up next is "The Man" and this has one, in case you've forgotten, has video:
Yes, "The Man" was released on video from this concert by Taylor back in February, remember? I know, it feels like that happened a lifetime ago, doesn't it? The song got the acoustic treatment way before a proper and hilarious music video was released. Much has been said about its lyrics and video, but acoustically it does feel augmented. It also helps that's one of those songs audiences love to sing along back at Taylor.
I think "Daylight" is one of those songs I have to apologize about. I didn't give this song justice on the first listen but I've edited my full album review to reflect its growth. Definitely shines brighter on piano. Again, if you remember the full set list, the original performance was a meld with "Red" which I wish we can listen to someday.
I don't think "You Need To Calm Down" needed the full production treatment, but it got one. To be fair, it was promo season and the song was still just getting played so we had to get familiar with it. I don't dislike the song, it is lyrically significant and it has a lot of added value, but musically it's a bit just there. There's not much going in melody, not even a bridge to speak off.
Okey, we all know that "Lover" was not the original closer of this event and that Taylor seldom finishes a concert with a goodbye speech. It's obvious she went out with "Shake It Off" but that song wasn't clear because reasons. However, I don't want to take the spotlight from how good "Lover" is. I love how the melody flows and grows here. It's a declaration of love written by Taylor Swift and sung by Taylor Swift. It's brilliant. The bridge is just a thing of beauty. It's meant for her lover, but I can't help but feel that it's somehow meant for her audience too.
Overall, it does fit like a shortened version. You sort of wish the rest of the album was there, if at all to give you a full experience of a concert rather than the 40 minutes we have. I wish there was more behind the scenes takes and footage with Taylor and some shenanigans with The Agency to make it more of an experience but it was never envisioned that way originally. Considering the added value of the acoustic performances, I'd definitely add it to my repeat watchlist.
On other news, we're still waiting for other news and I mean some good news. I really want to stop having to see numbers and charts in my newsfeed. Stay strong out there.
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May 18: The City of Lover Concert is available on Hulu and Disney+.
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Leonard K.S. Chun
Leonard K.S. Chun, 88, of Honolulu, a retired First Hawaiian Bank employee, died in the Queen's Medical Center. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Kang Li Wang, daughter Melanie, brothers James and Stanley, and sisters Alice Ching, Elsie Oris, Janet Taber and Geraldine Weldy. Services: 11 a.m. Wednesday at Borthwick Mortuary. Call after 10 a.m. Burial: 1 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Casual attire.
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William Gouveia Gomes
William Gouveia Gomes, 95, of Kailua, a retired security guard, died in Honolulu. He was born in Kailua-Kona. He is survived by sons William G. Jr., Robert and Theodore; sisters Pam Faria and Mary Owens; nine grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. Services: 9 a.m. Friday at Hawaiian Memorial Park. Call after 8:30 a.m. Burial: 11 a.m. at the cemetery. Casual attire.
Ella Rita Gonzales
Ella Rita Gonzales, 73, of Wahiawa, died. She was born in Honolulu. Private services.
Harvey Reddington Heen
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David Lonokai Hulihee, 68, of Kainaliu, Hawaii, a Kona Krafts yardman and former guitarist, died in Kona Community Hospital. He was born in Hianaloli, Hawaii. He is survived by sisters Josephine Alapai and Rose Fukumitsu. Mass: 10 a.m. Thursday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Call after 8 a.m. Casual attire. No flowers.
Silvestre Jadormio Jandoc
Silvestre Jadormio Jandoc, 67, of Honolulu, died. He was born in Santa Cruz, Ilocos Sur, the Philippines. He is survived by wife Maria L., sons Roel and Rafael, daughter Rossana, brothers Alex and Mario, sister Margarita Sanchez and five grandchildren. Services: 7 p.m. Thursday at St. John the Baptist Church, 2324 Omilo Lane. Call after 6 p.m. Mass: 9:30 a.m. Friday at the church. Call after 8:30 a.m. Burial: 11 a.m. at Valley of the Temples. Casual attire.
Ernest Takiso Kurima
Ernest Takiso Kurima, 85, of Honolulu, a retired foreman carpenter, died in Honolulu. He was born in Aiea. He is survived by wife Mildred, sisters Lillian N. Kabasawa and Elaine S. Mersberg, and a grandchild and caregiver Aaron Kouchi. Private services.
Thelma Coile Craig McLachlan
Thelma Coile Craig McLachlan, 93, of Honolulu, a retired Department of Education principal and administrator, died in Arcadia Retirement Residence. She was born in Virginia. She is survived by sons Dr. Nessly and Robert Craig Jr., daughter Christiane "Christy" Michaels, brother Russell Coile, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Services: 4 p.m. Jan. 7 at Central Union Church, Atherton chapel. Private inurnment.
George Mahoahoa Medeiros
George Mahoahoa "Toby" Medeiros, 64, of Kailua, a Hawaii Business Equipment salesman, died in Lanikai. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by companion Lani K. Twomey, son Kyle, daughter Shannon Aweau, brother Louis "Smokey," sister Juanita "Pepper" Rapozo and three grandchildren. For service information, call 341-1801. Casual attire. No flowers. Donations suggested to Lanikai Canoe Club.
Donald Yozo Mimuro
Donald Yozo "Don" Mimuro, 67, of Pearl City, a retired Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Shop 55 maintenance foreman and U.S. Air Force veteran, died in Kapiolani Medical Center at Pali Momi. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Emeline M., daughters Donalyn A.M. Oshiro and April H. Terayama, brother James T., sister Myrna M. Quiocho and three grandchildren. Services: 6 p.m. Thursday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Call after 5 p.m. Casual attire.
Hideko Nishihara
Hideko Nishihara, 69, of Honolulu, died in St. Francis Hospice. She was born in Kobe, Japan. She is survived by husband Walter T., brothers Il Ho Lee and Cliff C. Rhee, and sisters Hyo Ja Lee, Si Cha Westrick and Hwa Cha Yun. Services: 10 a.m. Thursday at Hosoi Garden Mortuary. Aloha attire.
Praxedes Popa Nonol Respicio
Praxedes Popa Nonol "Peggy" Respicio, 76, of Ewa Beach, a retired Public Work Center supervisor at Makalapa, died in St. Francis-West Hospice. She was born in Koloa, Kauai. She is survived by husband Alfredo "Bay"; sons Alfredo "Boji," Walter and Albert; daughter Christine Tadios; brothers Sonny, Constantino and Frankie Popa; sisters Annette Takahashi, Maggie Sarte, Jean Bradshaw and Debbie Souza; 16 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Services: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Mililani Mortuary-Waipio, makai chapel. Call after 5:30 p.m. Mass: noon Thursday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 91-1004 North Road, Ewa Beach. Call after 10:30 a.m. Burial: 1:30 p.m. at Mililani Memorial Park. Aloha attire.
Kaoru Tamura
Kaoru Tamura, 83, of Wailuku, a retired Maui Land & Pineapple Co. supervisor, died in Maui Memorial Medical Center. He was born in Lahaina. He is survived by wife Fusaye, son John, daughter Naomi and brothers Hirotoshi and Noriyuki. Private services. No monetary offerings.
Fred Paul Tilfas
Fred Paul Tilfas, infant son of Lorna and Hirosi Tilfas, of Kailua-Kona, died in Kona Community Hospital. He was born in Hawaii. He is also survived by brothers Keanu and Hirosi, and sisters Zenisha and Melarie. Graveside services: 10 a.m. Tuesday at Waimea County Cemetery in Kamuela, Hawaii.
David James Vamosi
David James Vamosi, 48, of Waipahu, died in St. Francis Medical Center. He was born in Oak Park, Ill. He is survived by mother Ethly M., brother Robert and sister Paula Kennedy. Private services.
You can also search the Hawaii State Library System's Hawaii Newspaper Index online for older obituaries at www.librarieshawaii.org. The index goes back several decades.


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Fallujah still bears scars of 'Islamic State' occupation
A year ago the Iraqi town of Fallujah - captured by IS in 2014 - was liberated. When Judit Neurink visited the town, she found the scars of occupation still prevalent.
The scenes in the town are depressing. Dead bodies are still being found under the rubble of destroyed buildings. And at least once a week, injured children are being brought into the only partly operational hospital after playing with or stepping on explosives left behind by the "Islamic State" (IS).
"Only about half of the town has been cleared," Hamid Abud Fahd, assistant director of a local health center, told DW. "The government has no money, but the rest needs to be cleared urgently, and the city has to be rebuilt."
Only those who can afford it have left the camps around the city, where thousands of Fallujah's inhabitants still live a year on, to rebuild or repair their homes. And even if the government has started paying its civil servants again, there's no money on its way from Baghdad to help rebuild the many government buildings that have been destroyed.
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teeter (v.)
1843, "to seesaw," alteration of Middle English titter "move unsteadily," probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse titra "to shake, shiver, totter, tremble," from Proto-Germanic *ti-tra- (source also of German zittern "to tremble"). Meaning "move unsteadily, be on the edge of imbalance" is from 1844.
Noun teeter-totter "see-saw" is attested from 1871 (earlier simply teeter, 1855, and titter-totter in same sense is from 1520s). Totter (n.) "board swing" is recorded from late 14c.; see totter (v.), and compare see-saw.
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totter (v.)
c. 1200, "swing to and fro," of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare dialectal Norwegian totra "to quiver, shake"). Meaning "stand or walk with shaky, unsteady steps" is from c. 1600. Related: Tottered; tottering.
see-saw (n.)
also seesaw, 1630s, in see-saw-sacke a downe (like a Sawyer), words in a rhythmic jingle used by children and repetitive-motion workers, probably imitative of the rhythmic back-and-forth motion of sawyers working a two-man pit saw (see saw (n.1). Ha ha.).
In reference to a children's sport of going alternately up and down on a plank balanced on some support, it is recorded from 1704; the figurative sense of this is from 1714. Applied from 1824 to the plank arranged and adjusted for the game. Also compare teeter-totter under teeter (v.).
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Wiese, Kurt
Born on April 22, 1887 in Minden, Germany, Kurt Wiese led a colorful life before he became a children's book illustrator.
He wanted to be an artist, but few people made their living that way, so he became an exporter in China. From 1909 to 1915, he traveled throughout the Far East. When World War I began, he was captured by the Japanese, who sent him to a prisoner-of-war camp in Australia. That's when he began to take his art seriously.
After being released at the end of the war, Wiese returned to Germany, but the economy was so bad that he followed many other Germans in moving to Brazil. He began his illustration career there.
In 1927, Wiese moved to the United States, where he married Gertrude Hansen in 1930. They lived on a farm in Frenchtown, New Jersey for the rest of their lives. His first critical success was Felix Salten's Bambi in 1929.
Mr. Wiese wrote and illustrated 20 children's books and illustrated another 300 for other authors. He received the Caldecott Honor Book Award in 1946 for You Can Write Chinese and in 1948 for Fish in the Air. He also illustrated the Newbery Award winner Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, and the Newbery Honor books Honk the Moose, Li Lun, Lad of Courage, and Daughter of the Mountains. Mr. Wiese died on May 27, 1974.
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We're not a second-string team: WI captain
West Indies skipper Kraigg Brathwaite has said the squad that came to Bangladesh is not a second-string team and that they are capable of doing well at the international level.
Braithwaite interacted with the media on Wednesday evening during a virtual press conference.
Due to the Covid-19 situation, at least 12 regular members of the West Indies opted to stay out of this series in Bangladesh. So, the Cricket West Indies had to send a second-string and inexperienced team. But the stand-in captain of the Caribbeans says insists they are not second-string.
"I don't see the guys here as second-string. I think they can perform and do well at the international level. I know they're looking for the opportunity," Braithwaite told the media.
"I think we've a good team here. A few guys haven't played international cricket, and some haven't played in a little while. I know this team is fully capable of doing well at the international level. I want to lead from the front as a leader. It is my job as an opening batsman to get runs and build a foundation for the team," he said.
West Indies are among the first teams that started playing cricket after the Covid-19 outbreak. They toured England in June-July, and later they visited New Zealand. But this time around, they have to face the hosts in completely different sort of conditions.
"These are (England, NZ and Bangladesh) completely different conditions. I think the principles still remain in terms of batsmanship. For me, being balanced at the crease is the key whether I'm playing spin or pace. It was decent in England, there was the improvement in New Zealand as well," Brathwaite said.
After winning the first Test against England by four wickets in Southampton, West Indies lost six successive games before coming to Bangladesh. Despite this lean display at the international level, the West Indian captain said he is optimistic about doing well against the Tigers.
After arriving in Bangladesh, West Indies are maintaining a strict three-day in-room quarantine due to Covid-19 protocol. They might be allowed to host intra-squad training camp from Thursday if they return negative in the second Covid-19 test. They gave samples on Wednesday, and the result is expected to out on the same night.
Brathwaite explained their plan to get back to the field saying: "On the first day back on the field, you have to get familiar with the atmosphere. You probably do some physical work to get the lungs going on. You don't want to go too hard. I think it would just be a generalised session to get everything going. From day two or day three, you'll be pushing yourself extra."
The series will begin with the first ODI on January 20 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, the second ODI will also take place at the same venue on January 22.
The third and final ODI will be played on January 25 at Zahur Ahmed Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram along with the first Test starting from February 3. The second and final Test will take place in Dhaka from February 11.
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Southwestern Energy Company Securities Litigation
On or around 04/10/2018 (Remanded)
According to a law firm's press release, the complaint alleges on January 15, 2015, Southwestern conducted the Offering, selling 30 million depositary shares at a price of $50 per share, and gaining net proceeds of $1.672 billion. Southwestern's Registration Statement, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in support of the Offering, stated that the company's long-term outlook for the business is favorable and that its resource base, financial strength, and disciplined capital would provide the company with an opportunity to grow through new exploration and development activities. However, the complaint alleges that the Registration Statement Southwestern issued contained misleading statements and omitted material information. Specifically, the company failed to disclose that it was experiencing severe liquidity and debt issues that threatened its ability to continue its drilling activities.
Approximately one year after the Offering, on January 21, 2016, Southwestern revealed in a letter to the Texas Workforce Commission that it would lay off 376 employees at its Spring, Texas office, a strategy that was part of the company's larger workforce reduction plan to cut 1,100 positions. Then, on February 25, 2016, the company reiterated its "decision to temporarily halt its drilling activities." On June 9, 2016, Southwestern announced that it sold 55,000 net acres of land in West Virginia for $450 million due to its looming debt obligations. Southwestern's depositary shares (SWNC) have plummeted nearly 53% since the Offering, closing at $23.54 per share on November 1, 2016.
On April 10, 2018, the Court issued an Order granting Plaintiff's Unopposed Motion to remand the case to the District Court of Harris County, Texas.
Defendant: Southwestern Energy Company
Sector: Energy
Industry: Oil & Gas Operations
Ticker Symbol: SWNC
St. Lucie County Fire District Firefighters' Pension Trust Fund, et al. v. Southwestern Energy Company, et al.
COURT: S.D. Texas
JUDGE: Hon. Alfred H Bennett
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The Bilek Law Firm, L.L.P.
1 Original Petition for Violations of the Securities Act of 1933 12/05/2016
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$408 million Clovis Unified bond to be on March ballot
By Shayla Girardin
CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Clovis residents will see a new bond measure on the ballot this March. It's asking for hundreds of millions of dollars to help grow and maintain the Clovis Unified School District.
Lighting, storage, and much-needed maintenance are just some of the many items Clovis Unified staff say need upkeep. They're asking folks for $408 million to make it all happen through the passage of Measure A.
"You see a building that was built in the 1940s that we're still using every day, and we're not able to do what we could if we're not able to modernize that building," said Denver Stairs, Assistant Superintendent of Facilities.
If approved, the money will go toward updating schools and bringing them to current standards, not just with technology, but with climate comforts.
"We live in the Valley, it's a hundred degrees very frequently in the early fall or the late spring," Stairs said. "To do that work, to make sure our classrooms are cool and a morning like today, they're heating like they're supposed to."
A portion of the funds would also go to work behind the scenes.
There are also plans to address district growth by building new facilities, including an education center in southeast Clovis and a new elementary school.
"If we didn't bring that new intermediate school online in 2025," explained Stairs. "Clovis East would be over 5,000 students."
If passed Measure A would increase existing properties tax rates by about $24 per $100,00 of assessed values, bringing the total to $179. For more details on where the money would go for each campus click here.
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End Times Outer Space Alien Deception
"And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled? And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you"
–Mark 13:3-5
As much as we have written about the end times outer space alien deception, we cannot keep up with the sheer deceptive output which has endlessly spewed from the Corporate Media–let alone science, education and entertainment.
The entire "aliens from outer space" deception is a very important one for Satan in the end times.
God's Word declares that when Jesus Christ returns to earth, he will be seen in the sky by EVERY person living on the earth.
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."
"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first"
–1Thessalonians 4:16
"Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen."
The return of Jesus Christ to earth signals the end, both for the kingdoms of man AND for the prince of this world (Satan).
OF COURSE Satan will portray the coming of Jesus Christ as something altogether different.
Jesus Christ will be portrayed as an existential threat–which He most certainly will be.
For both the wicked AND Satan.
There has been much time, resources and labor invested in indoctrinating the public with UFO/outer space/aliens/ET/alien invasion themes over the past 70 years. The "payoff" is planned to come when Jesus Christ returns to earth.
1- Portraying the return of Jesus Christ as an "alien menace" is seen as a method of uniting the earth's peoples.
This point has been driven home by public speeches given by famous Americans over the past 100 years, as well as countless outer space alien invasion movies.
"Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose."
–John Dewey, 1917 – Educational guru, professor, Columbia University. Dewey has been called (by the Corporate Media) the "Father of Modern
Education." Make that "the father of modern Luciferian education."
"The next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets."
–U.S. General Douglass MacArthur, 1955 speech, West Point
"I couldn't help with one point in our discussions privately with general secretary Gorbachev when you stop to think that we're all God's children where ever we may live in the world, I couldn't help but say to him: just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species; from another planet outside in the universe. We'd forget all the little differences we have between our countries and we would find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this Earth together."
— Ronald Reagan, 1985 speech, Maryland
"Today Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government."
–Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, 1991
–quotes taken from New World Order Strategy: Aliens Attack, the World Unites!
2- A claimed alien attack from outer space would also most likely sway world leaders to commit troops to fight against this claimed attack.
"And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon."
–Revelation 16:13-14, 19:19, 16:16
This is a BIG reason why the "search for alien life" is a daily promotion of Satan's Mouthpiece (the Corporate Media).
Still, even with the many warnings contained in the Bible, the entire deceived earth will be cheering for Satan, the armies of the kings of the earth and the end times demonically-powered heroes called the mighty men in their battle at Armageddon against Jesus Christ.
"And the great dragon…that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world"
"And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."
–Revelation 13:4,8
With all that in mind, we present 28 ETPR articles on various aspects of the space/aliens/ET/alien invasion deception.
End Times Outer Space Aliens
The End Times Deception of Outer Space: Things Which Go Bump in the Galaxy
Bedtimes Stories from Outer Space
UFOs: Building a Narrative
Retro UFO Secrets and the Demonic
UFOs: An End Times Deception
Outer Space Aliens and ET: End Times Deceptions
TALES OF OUTER SPACE: How the Space Industry Works
UFOs, ET and Alien Civilizations and Invasions: A Long-Running End Times Deception
MARS: Hollywood, NASA and End Times Deception
Aliens, ET, Otherworldly Invasions: Strong Delusion
Killer Asteroids, Near Earth Objects and Other Scary Stories of Men
FALSE REALITY AND ILLUSION QUOTES: 20 Quotes about Manufactured Reality
Aliens, ET, Invasions from Outer Space: End Times Pseudo-Christian Fables
Alien, ET Scam: The End Times Con Game
End Times Superhero Doomsday Movie Cult
Aliens, UFOs, Demons and Electricity
Near-Earth Objects: Where We are Headed
THREAT FROM ABOVE: Space Weapons and Armageddon
UFOs, Aliens and ET in the End Times
UFOs, Aliens, ETs, Invasions of Earth: Entertaining End Times Deceptions
METEOR SHOWER: Memorial Day Meteor Show Debuts
Strange Phenomena in the Sky: 2013 Sightings Explode
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is monitoring a large coronal hole in the sun's northern hemisphere
Earth Approaching Objects: December 12, 2013
UFOs, Fireballs, Asteroids: Sky Threats now Common
DOES the reader believe the many tales about outer space, space aliens, alien life, ET, UFOs and how life was brought to earth from outer space?
DOES the reader find these tall tales somehow exciting?
It is not YET too late: there is still time to change direction (repent), place your faith for the future entirely on Jesus Christ and enter the kingdom of heaven.
DOES the reader believe he is saved?
Make Your Calling and Election Sure: End Times Survival
DOES the reader believe he is NOT saved?
Time is Running Out: Today is the Day of Salvation
Gospel of Jesus Christ: Making a Choice
Gospel of Jesus Christ: The Power of God Unto Salvation
Gospel of Jesus Christ: The End Times Power of God Unleashed
"Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:
And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep. After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles. And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time. "
"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek."
-–Romans 1:16
[Portions of this piece appeared originally in End Times Prophecy Headlines: May 28, 2018.]
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Work Begins to Fit ETCS to a DB Cargo Class 66 Freight Locomotive
by railsistem - Kasım 9, 2022 0
The latest European Train Control System (ETCS) is being fitted to a DB Cargo UK Class 66 freight locomotive as part of the East Coast Digital Programme.
The work will take place at Electro-Motive Diesel's engineering workshop in Doncaster and will take around six months to complete. This marks the beginning of fitting this latest version of ETCS to freight vehicles in the UK.
After several years of design and planning, DB Cargo UK's Class 66 locomotive (66039) has now been delivered to Electro-Motive Diesel's engineering workshop in Doncaster
The project is a significant milestone in the roll-out of the new European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) in the rail freight sector, creating a blueprint for the largest class of locomotives – the Class 66.
DB Cargo UK's Chief Transformation and Digitalisation Officer Marie Hill said:
"DB Cargo UK, working in close partnership with our colleagues at Siemens Mobility and Network Rail, is delighted to be playing a pioneering role in the roll-out of ERTMS and ETCS which will use digital technology to create a more dynamic, more reliable, and more flexible railway here in the UK.
"Increased digitalisation and automation of our assets and processes will ensure we can continue to deliver, fast, efficient, reliable services fit for the 21st century and beyond. That's what our customers expect and that is what ERTMS will help us to deliver."
ETCS roll-out in the UK is being co-ordinated by the East Coast Digital Programme, led by Network Rail.
As part of this project, the UK government announced an additional 1 billion GBP in funding earlier this year to aid the first phase of ERTMS installation on a 100-mile stretch of the East Coast Main Line.
Ed Akers, Network Rail's Principal Programme Sponsor for the East Coast Digital Programme said:
"Commencing the installation of ETCS on this freight locomotive marks a significant milestone on the East Coast Digital Programme and brings us closer to creating a more dynamic and reliable railway for all those using the East Coast Main Line."
Although freight vehicles fitted with ETCS currently operate on the Cambrian Main Line, these are fitted with an earlier version that is not compatible with the East Coast Main Line.
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The potential effect of a 100-year pluvial flood event on metro accessibility and ridership: A case study of central Shanghai, China
posted on 2018-09-27, 14:07 authored by Mengya Li, Mei-Po Kwan, Jie Yin, Dapeng YuDapeng Yu, Jun Wang
The Shanghai Metro constitutes a sizeable share of the municipal public transit. This paper presents a gravity-based approach for evaluating the potential effect of a 100-year pluvial flood (PF) event on metro accessibility and ridership. Since physical geographers have examined PF hazards and human geographers have analyzed metro accessibility separately, we seek to fill the research gap through examining metro accessibility and ridership together under adverse circumstances. To this end, road inundations are initially modeled by FloodMap-HydroInundation2D. Accessibility to metro stations by three access modes (walking, cycling, and driving) is measured through three impedance functions (inverse power, negative exponential, and modified Gaussian). Ridership measure mainly concerns the distance-decay effect on stations' attraction for passengers. The results indicate that inundation depth on more than 95% of the road links would reach 10–20 cm in the PF scenario, and road links with inundation deeper than 20 cm and 30 cm account for 47% and 15% of the road network respectively, which imposes notable restrictions on access journeys especially by cycling and driving. Metro accessibility in central Shanghai is quite equitable, even in the PF scenario. 87% of the communities can access the metro stations at the medium and medium-high accessibility levels in the normal scenario, but 80% can access only at the low and medium levels in the PF scenario. Due to the inaccessibility of neighboring station(s) in the PF scenario, 15 more stations may face the challenge of serving more than 50,000 passengers, which is much larger than their normal ridership. These findings have important implications for the formulation of safer usage of public transport in the face of heavy rainfall and associated flood events.
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51761135024, 41671095, 71373084), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFE0100700).
Geography and Environment
Applied Geography
LI, M. ... et al, 2018. The potential effect of a 100-year pluvial flood event on metro accessibility and ridership: A case study of central Shanghai, China. Applied Geography, 100, pp.21-29.
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Applied Geography and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.09.001.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.09.001
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Galaxies - Spiral Colliding Arp 274
Two galaxies are squaring off in Virgo and here are the latest pictures. When two galaxies collide, the stars that compose them usually do not.
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Two galaxies are squaring off in Virgo and here are the latest pictures. When two galaxies collide, the stars that compose them usually do not. This is because galaxies are mostly empty space and, however bright, stars only take up only a small fraction of that space. But during the collision, one galaxy can rip the other apart gravitationally. Dust and gas common to both galaxies do collide. If the two galaxies merge, black holes that likely resided in each galaxy center may eventually merge. Because the distances are so large, the whole thing takes place in slow motion -- over hundreds of millions of years. Besides the two large spiral galaxies, a smaller third galaxy is visible on the far left of the above image of Arp 274, also known as NGC 5679. Arp 274 spans about 200,000 light years across and lies about 400 million light years away toward the constellation of Virgo.
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Submission by Save Our Super in response to Retirement Income Review Consultation Paper – November 2019
Call to grandfather super changes, abolish $1.6m contributions cap
Save Our Super submission: Consumer Advocacy Body for Superannuation
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Retirement Income Policy Division
Langton Cres
Parkes ACT 2600
Save Our Super has recently prepared an extensive Submission to the Retirement Income Review dealing in part with the many 'consumer' issues triggered by the structure of retirement income policy and the frequent and complex legislative change to that policy.
That Submission was lodged with the Review's Treasury Secretariat on 10 January 2020 and a copy is attached to the e-mail forwarding this letter. It serves as an example of the analysis of super and retirement policy and of the advocacy that superannuation fund members, both savers and retirees, can contribute. Its four authors' backgrounds show the wide range of experience that can be useful in the consumer advocacy role.
We note both the policy and the advocacy consultations are running simultaneously, exemplifying the pressures Government legislative activity places on meaningful consumer input. Consumer representation is necessarily more reliant on volunteer and part-time contributions than the work of industry and union lobbyists and the juggernaut of government legislative and administrative initiatives.
Given the breadth, complexity and fundamentally important nature of the issues raised for the Retirement Income Review by its Consultation Paper, we have prioritised our submission to that Review over the issues raised by the idea of a Consumer Advocacy Body. This letter serves as a brief submission and as a 'place holder' for Save Our Super's interest in the consumer advocacy issues.
The idea of a consumer advocacy body is worthwhile in trying to improve member information, engagement and voice in superannuation and in the formation of better, more stable and more trustworthy retirement income policy. It should help government to understand the perspectives of superannuation members.
Save Our Super was formed from our frustration at the evolution of superannuation and broader retirement income policies. We contributed as best we could to the rushed and heavily constrained Government consultations on, and Parliamentary Committee inquiries into, the complex retirement income policy changes that took effect in 2017. One example of our inputs is https://saveoursuper.org.au/save-supers-joint-submission-senate-committee-two-superannuation-bills/ .
For the consultations on the Consumer Advocacy Body for Superannuation, we limit our comments here to point 1 on the Consultation's brief web page, https://treasury.gov.au/consultation/c2019-38640 :
"Functions and outcomes: What core functions and outcomes do you consider could be delivered by the advocacy body? What additional functions and outcomes could also be considered? What functions would the advocacy body provide that are not currently available?"
Consult with superannuation fund members on their concerns, including issues of legal and regulatory complexity, frequent legislative change and legislative risk which has become destructive of trust in superannuation and its rule-making.
Commission or perform research arising from consultations and reporting of member concerns.
Tap perspectives of all superannuation users, whether young, mid-career, or near-retirement savers, as well as of part- or fully self-funded retirees.
Publish reporting of savers' concerns to Government, at least twice-yearly and in advance of annual budget cycles.
Contribute an impact statement – as envisaged in the lapsed Superannuation (Objectives) Bill – of the effects of changes to any legislation (not just super legislation) on retirement income (interpreted broadly to include the assets, net income and general well-being of retirees, now and in the future).
The advocacy body should:
take a long-term view, and could be made the authority to administer, review or critique the essential modelling referred to in Save Our Super's submission to the Retirement Income Review. Ideally, the Consumer Advocacy Body should have the freedom to commission Treasury to conduct such modelling, and/or to use any other capable body.
give appropriate representation and support to SMSFs, and be prepared to advocate for them against the interests of large APRA-regulated funds when necessary.
advocate specifically for the very large number of people with quite small superannuation accounts, when their interests are different from those of people with relatively large balances.
The biggest risk to the advocacy body in our view is that it would over time be hijacked by special interest groups, or hobbled by its terms of reference. Careful thought in its establishment, key staffing choices and strong political support would be helpful to protect against these risks.
Membership issues
Membership of the Body should be part-time, funded essentially per diem and with cost reimbursement only for participation in the information gathering and consumer advocacy processes. A small part-time secretariat could be provided from resources in, say, PM&C or Treasury.
Membership opportunities should be advertised.
Membership of the Body should be strictly limited to individuals or entities that exist purely to advocate for the interests of superannuation fund members. (This would include any cooperative representation of Self-Managed Superannuation Funds.) We would counsel against allowing membership to industry entities which might purport to advocate on behalf of their superannuation fund members, but might also inject perspectives that favour their own commercial interests.
Membership should include individuals with membership in (on the one hand) commercial or industry super funds and (on the other hand) Self-Managed Superannuation Funds. We see no need to ensure equal representation of commercial and industry funds, though we would be wary if representation was only of those in industry funds or only commercial funds.
We offer no view at this stage on whether the Superannuation Consumers Centre would be a useful anchor for a new role, but we would suggest avoiding duplication.
Functions not currently available
The consultation asks what functions the Consumer Advocacy Body for Superannuation could perform that are not presently being performed. SOS's submission to the Retirement Income Review and earlier submissions on the changes to retirement income policy that took effect in 2017 shows the range of superannuation members' advocacy concerns that are not at present being met.
Prior attempts to establish consultation arrangements for superannuation members appear to us to have focussed mostly on the disengagement and limited financial literacy of some superannuation fund members. Correctives to those concerns have heretofore looked to financial literacy education and better access to higher quality financial advice. Clearly such measures have their place.
But in the view of Save Our Super, these problems arise in larger part from the complexity and rapid change of superannuation and Age Pension laws, and in the nature of the Superannuation Guarantee Charge. Nothing predicts disengagement by customers and underperformance and overcharging by suppliers more assuredly than government compulsion to consume a product that would not otherwise be bought because it is too complex to understand, too often changed and widely distrusted.
There needs to be more consumer policy advocacy aimed at getting the policies right, simple, clear and stable, as was attempted in the 2006 – 2007 Simplified Super reforms.
In the time available, we offer no views on questions 2,3 and 4, which are more for government administrators.
Jack Hammond, QC
Founder, Save Our Super


AERO Vodochody Signs Agreement With Hartzell
Date: May 11, 1999 Category: Press Releases
Hartzell To Develop Propeller Systems For The Ae 270 Ibis
PIQUA, Ohio — May 11, 1999 — Hartzell Propeller Inc. announced today that it has agreed to design and develop a propeller system for the AERO Vodochody Ae 270 Ibis aircraft. The Ae 270 is a low-wing, single engine turboprop aircraft intended for short-haul transport and general utility purposes.
Hartzell's propeller design proposal calls for a 96″ diameter, four-bladed lightweight turbine propeller with full feathering and reversing capabilities. The prop would be the latest member of the company's growing family of lightweight turboprop propeller systems that have now seen millions of flight hours in numerous rugged applications.
The new aircraft will be produced by IBIS Aerospace Ltd., which is a joint venture between AERO Vodochody, of the Czech Republic, and Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) of Taiwan. The aircraft will be produced in two versions … the pressurized Ae 270 Ibis and the unpressurized Ae 270 W Ibis. The AE 270 Ibis will feature the Hartzell prop fitted to a Pratt and Whitney Canada PT6A-42A.
In addition to cabin pressurization, the aircraft will also feature retractable landing gear, unlike its cousin the Ae 270 W Ibis. The Ae 270 Ibis is expected to deliver a range in the neighborhood of 1200 nm and cruise speeds of up to 220 knots. To date, the company has fielded more than 100 serious inquiries from the US, Europe, South America, Asia and the Far East.
Hartzell Propeller Inc. is the world's leading manufacturer of propeller systems, shipping into more than 25 countries in 1998. Hartzell enjoys a 60 percent market share on turboprop airliners and 85 percent market share on corporate turboprops. The 82-year old company is also well-known for its design leadership, having introduced the industry's first full-feathering propeller for light twins, the first fully reversing propellers for corporate turboprops and the industry's first composite structure blades.