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By Steven Case, 2010. NC Government and Heritage Library. Greenville is the county seat of Pitt County. It was established by statute in 1771 (incorporated 1774) as Martinsborough, named in honor of Josiah Martin, the last Royal Governor of the colony. The town was renamed Greenesville in 1786, in honor of the Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene, and the name was gradually shortened to Greenville. Originally peopled by the Tuscarora Indians, the land around Greenville was slowly re-settled in the early 18th century by immigrants moving up the Tar River or down from Virginia and the Albemarle region. Early settlers engaged largely in subsistence farming and some tobacco cultivation. By the 1840's, the area had developed a small but thriving cotton culture, and the town, situated at the intersection of the river and the plank road from Wilson, became a regional link between the Piedmont and the trading cities on the coast during the antebellum years. Greenville's status as a transportation hub on the Tar River made it a potential target for operations during the Civil War. Though no major fighting occurred, the town was fortified and entrenched, and several skirmishes took place in and around it. Recovery from the war was slow, and because of war casualties and out-migration, the population of the city dropped to about 600 by 1870. Tobacco processing and storage increased in the 1880's, and this factor, coupled with the arrival of the railroad, created favorable conditions for expansion, so that by the turn of the century the population had reached more than 4000.. Education--always a priority in the town, with its first academy chartered in 1787--was considerably enhanced when the state chartered the East Carolina Teachers Training School in 1907. Within a few years, the Training School was a four year college, and by 1967 had become East Carolina University, adding the Brody School of Medicine in the 1970s. Culturally diverse and vibrant, the city currently plays host to the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival and the Billy Taylor Jazz Festival, as well as being the home base for many of the top BMX riders in the world. Greenville's estimated population 1980: 35,740 Greenville's land area (square miles): 1980: 15.03 Data from the NC State Data Center: References and additional resources: "About Greenville." City of Greenville. Bratton, Mary Jo Jackson, 1991. Greenville: Heart of the East. Chatsworth, Ca.: Windsor Publications. Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce. Kammerer, Roger. "Yours if you come." Greenville-Pitt County NC Convention and Visitors Bureau. "The New Breed of Greenville" ESPN. Pitt County Historical Society, 1982. Chronicles of Pitt County, North Carolina, 1982. Winston-Salem: Hunter Publishing Co. Powell, William Stevens, and Michael R. Hill. 2010. The North Carolina gazetteer: a dictionary of Tar Heel places and their history. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. p. 218. Williams, Thomas, ed., 1974. A Greenville Album: The Bicentennial Book. Greenville: ERA Press. "Seal of the City of Greenville." From 2010 Citizens Handbook, City of Greenville, NC. "Steamboat on River" Photograph no. N_74_8_98. From the North Carolina State Archives, Non-Textual Materials unit. Case, Steven Government & Heritage Library, State Library of North Carolina. 22 October 2010 | Case, Steven

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Astonished to Wake by Julie Suk Jacar Press 17.95, paperback Available from the publisher "The poetry of Julie Suk is at once deceptively spare and metaphorically rich, and the sensual mystery of her perfectly pitched and etched lines is haunting, elemental, and wild," - R. T. Smith In her sixth collection, Julie Suk continues to write poems that are deeply sensuous and unflinching. "Oh the things we would all say to the stars in the sky if we found ourselves alone in a lifeboat at sea." - Charles Simic, former Poet Laureate of the United States Julie Suk is the author of five previous volumes of poetry. The Angel of Obsession won the University of Arkansas Poetry Competition, the Roanoke-Chowan Award, and was on the short list for the Poets Prize. The Dark Takes Aim (Autumn House Press) was awarded the Brockman-Campbell and the Oscar Arnold Young awards. Suk is also a recipient of the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry magazine, and received the Irene Honeycutt Lifetime Achievement Award from Central Piedmont Community College. She was formerly a managing editor of Southern Poetry Review, and co-editor of Bear Crossings and the Anthology of North American Poets.

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Play Netball Community Netball Mother Earth futureFERNS Technical Officials Resources & Equipment New voice for New Zealand's Umpires New Zealand is leading the way with a Netball world first in advocating for those in control of the game with the establishment of a New Zealand Netball Umpires' Association. A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed off between Netball New Zealand (NNZ) and the newly formed New Zealand Netball Umpires' Association (NZNUA), with a key objective to support the country's High Performance Umpires. NNZ Chief Executive Jennie Wyllie said it was a significant move which would create structure and ensure a closer working relationship between NNZ and the NZNUA. "It is important that, like the players who have the Players' Association, there was a voice for the Umpires who could support and advocate for them," she said. "We recognise the importance of quality High Performance Umpiring in New Zealand, which will also have a significant benefit on the international game." She said the relationship would ensure that the two parties would work more closely together with the best interests of the game in mind. "New Zealand has a committed group of officials and we want to make sure that our Umpires are the best and most respected Umpires in the world." The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) would also provide the terms and conditions on which contracted Umpires would officiate in elite competitions in New Zealand. Experienced international umpire Jono Bredin, who will head the NZNUA, said it was an exciting initiative which would not only strengthen ties with NNZ but also promote the role of Umpiring in Netball throughout the country. "It is important that we continually attract new Umpires but also work hard to retain those who are dedicated at all levels by advancing their interests and welfare," he said. "I believe there is an understanding that our elite Umpires are high performance athletes and I think this relationship will underpin the importance of having high quality Umpiring in netball in this country." The MOU was signed off between the NNZ and the NZNUA in February to cover the next 12 months when it will be reviewed. Netball Centres Beko Netball League Netball Waikato/BOP Zone Level 2, Gateway Building, Gate 5, Hillcrest Road, Copyright © 2019 MyNetball - Netball New Zealand. All Rights Reserved.

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Home " Sports " NHL Eastern Conference Final: Tampa Bay vs. Rangers - Game 7 NHL Eastern Conference Final: Tampa Bay vs. Rangers - Game 7 May 29, 2015 • It's come to game 7, and it's anybody's game. The Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Rangers have been wildly offensive in Eastern Conference final which has had it's ups and downs and exciting OT surprises. After six games, both teams have combined to score his 40 goals. Outside the 2-1 Rangers win in Game 1 and 2-0 Lightning win in Game 5, the games have looked like baseball scores of 6-2, 6-5, 5-1 and 7-3. They are still 29 goals away from breaking the imfamous Oilers' record and going into Game 7 Friday night, the players probably want to keep it that way and not get into a run and gun type of play. "We have to go in there with a 1-0 mentality," said Lightning defenceman Victor Hedman. "I think it's a matter of playing better defence," said Rangers forward Rick Nash. "We're going to get a big push from the other team, and we're going to make sure we're defensively sound." The Lightning and the Rangers are averaging 6.6 goals per game and have kept the red goal light burning brightly. In the West, the Anaheim Ducks and Chicago Blackhawks have averaged 6.2 goals per game. In comparison, the two leading offensive teams during the regular season (Tampa Bay and Dallas) averaged a combined 6.3 goals per game. So this series is explosive. Usually, the playoffs are a time when scoring goes down. Coaches are typically trying to coach to prevent goals, at the same time the officials put their whistles away allowing players to dictate the flow. The Lightning and Rangers have ranked first and third, in goals per game, with Steven Stamkos finishing second with 43 goals in the regular season, and Nash, third with 42 goals. Tampa Bay versus New York has been an awesome ride, with so many lead changes, odd-man rushes, breakaways and highlight-reel goals. It's been exactly what the NHL needed: an exciting series that will definitey provide a worthy competitor for the Stanley Cup. This hockey has been a pleasure to watch. The Eastern Conference champion will play the winner of Saturday's Game 7 of the Western Conference Final between the Ducks and the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, which is expected to hit the ice Wednesday, June 3. This game will probably come down to the goaltenders. Rangers' Lundqvist is phenomenal in Game 7s, only giving up five goals total in winning six straight since suffering his lone Game 7 defeat to Washington in 2009. Tampa Bay's Ben Bishop will be playing in the second Game 7 of his career, the first of which he won in the opening round against the Detroit Red Wings. Who's side will Lady Luck be on? The team that scores first and can carry it through 60 minutes. Our Pick: The Tampa Bay Lightning

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Conductor, Artist of the past Nationalities : Italy Representation : Claude Debussy: La Mer (Lucerne Festival Orchestra,... Claudio Abbado - GIOACCHINO ROSSINI - Ouvertures Friedrich Gulda & Claudio Abbado - Mozart: Piano Concerto... L'ORCHESTRA - Claudio Abbado Abbado 2004 Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 (Brendel, Abbado) Cecilia Bartoli & Claudio Abbado,Exsultate ,Jubilate... Claudio Abbado, moved after Mozart Requiem in Lucerne... Verdi - Requiem: Dies Irae (Claudio Abbado, Berlin... Mahler - Symphony No 4 - Abbado Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [ˈklaudjo abˈbaːdo]; 26 June 1933 - 20 January 2014) was an Italian conductor. One of the most celebrated and respected conductors of the 20th century, particularly in the music of Gustav Mahler, he served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of Lucerne Festival Orchestra, music director of European Union Youth Orchestra and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra. Family history and early life The Abbado family for several generations enjoyed both wealth and respect. Abbado's great-grandfather squandered the family fortune and reputation by gambling. His son, Abbado's grandfather, became a professor at the University of Turin.His grandfather re-established the family's reputation and also showed talent as an amateur musician. Born in Milan, Italy, Claudio Abbado was the son of violinist and composer conductor Michelangelo Abbado, and the brother of the musician Marcello Abbado (born 1926). His father, a professional violinist and a professor at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, was his first piano teacher. His mother also was an adept pianist. Marcello Abbado later became a concert pianist and teacher at the Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. His sister also exhibited talent in music, but did not pursue a musical career after her marriage. His other brother later became a successful architect. Abbado's childhood encompassed the Nazi occupation of Milan. During that time, Abbado's mother spent time in prison for harbouring a Jewish child. This period solidified his anti-fascist political sentiments. However, his musical interests also developed, with attendance at performances at La Scala,as well as orchestral rehearsals in Milan led by such conductors as Arturo Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwängler. He later recalled that Toscanini's periods of abusive behaviour to musicians in rehearsal repelled him. Other conductors who influenced him as a child were Victor de Sabata and Rafael Kubelík. It was not until hearing Antonio Guarnieri's conducting of Claude Debussy's Nocturnes that Abbado resolved to become a conductor himself. At age 15, he met Leonard Bernstein, who commented, "You have the eye to be a conductor." Musical education and early engagements Abbado studied piano, composition, and conducting at the Milan Conservatory, and graduated with a degree in piano in 1955. The following year, he studied conducting with Hans Swarowsky at the Vienna Academy of Music, on the recommendation of Zubin Mehta. Abbado and Mehta both joined the Academy chorus to be able to watch such conductors as Bruno Walter and Herbert von Karajan in rehearsal. He also spent time at the Chigiana Academy in Siena. In 1958, Abbado made his conducting debut in Trieste. That summer, he won the international Serge Koussevitzky Competition for conductors at the Tanglewood Music Festival, which resulted in a number of operatic conducting engagements in Italy. In 1959, he conducted his first opera, The Love for Three Oranges, in Trieste. He made his La Scala conducting debut in 1960. In 1963, he won the Dimitri Mitropoulos Prize for conductors, which allowed him to work for five months with the New York Philharmonic as an assistant conductor to Bernstein. Abbado made his New York Philharmonic professional conducting debut on 7 April 1963. A 1965 appearance at the RIAS Festival in Berlin led to an invitation from Herbert von Karajan to the Salzburg Festival the following year to work with the Vienna Philharmonic. In 1965, Abbado made his British debut with the Hallé Orchestra, followed in 1966 by his London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) debut. Abbado taught chamber music for 3 years during the early 1960s in Parma. His early advocacy of contemporary music included conducting the world premiere of Giacomo Manzoni's Atomtod, on 25 March 1965, in Milan. Conducting career In 1969, Abbado became principal conductor at La Scala. Subsequently, he became the company's music director in 1972. He took the title of joint artistic director, along with Giorgio Strehler and Carlo Maria Badini, in 1976. During his tenure, he extended the opera season to four months, and focused on giving inexpensive performances for the working class and students. In addition to the standard opera repertoire, he presented contemporary operas, including works of Luigi Dallapiccola and of Luigi Nono, in particular the world premiere of Nono's Al gran sole carico d'amore. In 1976, he brought the La Scala company to the USA for its American debut in Washington D.C. for the American Bicentennial. In 1982, he founded the Filarmonica della Scala for the performance of orchestral repertoire by the house orchestra in concert. Abbado remained affiliated with La Scala until 1986. On 7 October 1968, Abbado made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera with Don Carlo. He began to work more extensively with the Vienna Philharmonic (VPO) after 1971,which included two engagements as conductor of the orchestra's New Year's Day concert, in 1988 and 1991. He was a recipient of both the Philharmonic Ring and the Golden Nicolai Medal from the Vienna Philharmonic. He served as Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) from 1975 to 1979 and became its Principal Conductor in 1979, a post he held until 1987 (he was also the LSO's Music Director from 1984 until the end of his principal conductor tenure). From 1982 to 1985, he was principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO). In 1986, Abbado became the Generalmusikdirector (GMD) of the city of Vienna, and in parallel, was music director of the Vienna State Opera from 1986 to 1991. During his tenure as GMD in Vienna, in 1988, he founded the music festival Wien Modern. Berlin Philharmonic Abbado first conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in December 1966. After 33 appearances as a guest conductor, in 1989, the Berlin Philharmonic elected him as its chief conductor and artistic director, in succession to Herbert von Karajan. During his Berlin tenure, he oversaw an increased presence in contemporary music in the orchestra's programming. In 1992, he co-founded 'Berlin Encounters', a chamber music festival. In 1994, he became artistic director of the Salzburg Easter Festival. In 1998, he announced his departure from the Berlin Philharmonic after the expiration of his contract in 2002.Prior to his departure, he was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2000,which led to his cancellation of a number of engagements with the orchestra. Subsequent medical treatment led to the removal of a portion of his digestive system, and he cancelled his conducting activities for 3 months in 2001. In 2004, Abbado returned to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic for the first time since his departure as chief conductor, for concerts of Mahler's Symphony No. 6 recorded live for commercial release.The resulting CD won Best Orchestral Recording and Record of the Year in Gramophone Magazine's 2006 awards. The Orchestra Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic established the Claudio Abbado Kompositionspreis (Claudio Abbado Composition Prize) in his honour, which has since been awarded in 2006, 2010 and 2014. Other orchestras and post-Berlin work In addition to his work with long-established ensembles, Abbado founded a number of new orchestras with younger musicians at their core. These included the European Community Youth Orchestra (later the European Union Youth Orchestra (EUYO)), in 1978, and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester (GMJO; Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra) in (1988). In both instances, musicians from the respective youth orchestras founded spinoff orchestras, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe (COE) and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, respectively. Abbado worked with both these ensembles regularly as well, and was artistic advisor to the COE, though he did not hold a formal title with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. In turn, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra formed the core of the newest incarnation of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, which Abbado and Michael Haefliger of the Lucerne Festival established in the early 2000s, and which featured musicians from various orchestras with which Abbado had long-standing artistic relationships. The final new orchestra that Abbado helped to establish was the Orchestra Mozart, of Bologna, Italy, in 2004, and he served as its founding music director until his death. In addition to his work with the EUYO and the GMJO, Abbado worked with the Orquesta Sinfónica Simón Bolívar of Venezuela. Amongst a wide range of Romantic works which he recorded and performed, Abbado had a particular affinity with the music of Gustav Mahler, whose symphonies he recorded several times. Despite this, he never managed to complete a cycle with a single orchestra: in a mix of studio and concert releases, he recorded Symphonies 1-2 and 5-7 in Chicago, Symphonies 2-4, 9 and the Adagio from 10 in Vienna, Symphonies 1 and 3-9 in Berlin, and Symphonies 1-7 and 9 in Lucerne. A planned Eighth in Lucerne (the intended culmination of his traversal of the symphonies there) had to be cancelled owing to his ill health. The symphony was finally performed and recorded in 2016 under Riccardo Chailly as a tribute to Abbado. He was also noted for his interpretations of modern works by composers such as Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giacomo Manzoni, Luigi Nono, Bruno Maderna, György Ligeti, Giovanni Sollima, Roberto Carnevale, Franco Donatoni and George Benjamin. Musical style Abbado tended to speak very little in rehearsal, sometimes using the simple request to orchestras to "Listen".This was a reflection of his own preference for communication as a conductor via physical gesture and the eyes, and his perception that orchestras did not like conductors who spoke a great deal in rehearsal. Clive Gillinson characterised Abbado's style as follows: "...he basically doesn't say anything in rehearsals, and speaks so quietly, because he's so shy, so people can get bored. But it works because everyone knows the performances are so great. I've never known anybody more compelling. He's the most natural conductor in the world. Some conductors need to verbally articulate what they want through words, but Claudio just shows it, just does it." In performance, Abbado often conducted from memory,as he himself noted: "...it is indispensable to know the score perfectly and be familiar with the life, the works and the entire era of the composer. I feel more secure without a score. Communication with the orchestra is easier." Courtesy: Wikipedia FranceMusique 28 December 18 10:39 with : Gil Shaham , Jian Wang , Alfred Brendel , Claudio Abbado Abbado et l'orchestre de Berlin (5/5) Abbado et l'orchestre de Berlin (5/5) du 28 12 2018 : l'émission de radio replay sur France Musique. Retrouvez les podcasts et les programmes en réécoute gratuite.

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Upsell & Intelligence Platform eStandby Upgrade® eXpress Upgrade™ CheckIn Merchandising™ eReach™ eDirect PRiME® About Nor1 Careers at Nor1 We know we can't do it alone, that's why Nor1 welcomes and searches for the influence and guidance from business and technology's greatest minds. Our Board of Directors are a balanced blend of skill and experience, allowing each member to offer guidance in critical areas of the Nor1 business. It's been that influence that has led to some of the biggest names in capital investment to sit up and take notice of this burgeoning upstart. Jason Bryant - Nor1 Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board Jason Bryant, Nor1 Founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board oversees day-to-day operations, provides visionary leadership and strategic direction for the upsell technology company. With Jason at the helm, Nor1 has quickly emerged as the technology leader in upsell solutions. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Nor1 provides innovative revenue enhancement solutions to the hospitality industry. A seasoned entrepreneur, Jason has over 20 years experience building and leading international software development and operations organizations. Prior to Nor1, he founded and grew DRCI into a world-class offshore software development organization which maintained facilities in India and Mexico. DRCI focused on providing services to the travel industry, specialized in both high-volume transaction systems and Internet technologies. Jason is a frequent speaker on technology and entrepreneurship at global events such as World Travel Market, the Hospitality Upgrade Vendor Summit, ITB Berlin, and many other industry events. He also volunteers his time to a number of non-profit organizations. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan. Jason currently sits on the board of CYC - Giving Foster Youth A Voice. John Pasquesi - Managing Director, Otter Capital, LLC; Nor1 Board Member Mr. Pasquesi serves as Vice Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Finance and Investment Committee of Arch Capital Group Limited (Nasdaq: ACGL), a Bermuda based insurance and reinsurance company with $4+ billion of shareholders equity and $9+ billion of investment assets. Mr. Pasquesi also serves as Chairman of the Board of AgraQuest, a leading producer of biopesticides and as a director of several other private companies. Mr. Pasquesi graduated from Dartmouth College (AB degree in Religion 1981) and Stanford Graduate School of Business Administration (MBA degree 1985). Otter Capital was founded by John Pasquesi to make a variety of private equity investments. Prior to founding Otter Capital, Mr. Pasquesi was a Managing Director and member of the Executive Committee of Hellman & Friedman LLC, a private equity investment firm that has raised and managed over $4.8 billion of committed capital. Prior to joining Hellman & Friedman in 1987, Mr. Pasquesi was associated with Golder, Thoma & Cressey, a Chicago based private equity firm. More information: Charlie Sultan - Senior Vice President, Concur Supplier Service, Nor1 Board Member Mr. Sultan joined Concur in April 2014 as the SVP of Supplier Services, where he leads the team that is responsible for travel content in Concur Travel and managing all relationships with Travel Suppliers. Previous to joining Concur, Mr. Sultan spent 2 years outside the travel industry as the Chief Operating Officer of Bankrate Insurance and 15 years at American Airlines in 11 different roles. He left American Airlines as Vice President of AAdvantage Partner Marketing, where he was responsible for overseeing AAdvantage's relationships with over 100 partners, including the major Hotel and Car Rental companies, along with Citibank. Mr. Sultan also ran the Sales Planning & Distribution group at American Airlines and was responsible for creating and managing American's incentive programs for TMCs, evaluating corporate discounts, and reshaping American's Small/Medium Business selling strategy. In addition, he was responsible for directing the activities of American Airlines' $300MM+ Distribution strategy, which included renegotiated agreements with 3 GDSs along with the OTAs and Meta sites. Mr. Sultan has a Bachelor of Science in Economics degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. He currently resides in Denver with his wife and 3 children. Art Norins - Nor1 Founder and Board Observer Art Norins serves as a Board Observer for Nor1. Prior to founding Nor1, he also founded Sandium, a B2B commercial heating ventilation and air conditioning system equipment supplier. Art continues his role as Chairman of Sandium. 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(1 of ) The sign for the Graton Resort & Casino's hotel casts a shadow near the main entrance, in Rohnert Park, on Wednesday, September 28, 2016. (Christopher Chung/ The Press Democrat) Hotel occupancy in May climbs in Napa Valley, declines in Sonoma County NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL North Bay hotel data For May, compared with a year before. • Occupancy: 79.9%, up 3.7% • Average daily rate: $382.24, up 4.6% • Revenue: $47.5 million, up 7.2% • Revenue year to date: $155.9 million, up 5.3% • Survey size: 5,023 rooms • Occupancy: 78.2%, down 5.2% • Revenue year to date: $115.7 million, down 6.9% • Occupancy: 79.7%, up 2% • Revenue year to date: $52.6 million, up 4.9% Source: STR See past reports on local lodging: Napa County hotel occupancy rebounded in May, scoring its first month this year in which rates increased over the previous year, according to data released by STR on Friday. Meanwhile to the west, the average occupancy rates for Sonoma County continued to decline, albeit at the slowest rate so far this year. And occupancies in Marin and Solano counties, as well as revenue, climbed. A year in which occupancy rates declined took a big swing toward the positive in May, increasing to 79.9%, a 3.7% increase. That was the best for the year so far. Revenues for May were also up, 7.2% higher than May last year. Napa's hotel industry for the first five months year saw revenues up 5.3%, or $155.9 million. Average room rates - declining since January - showed a slight improvement in May, according to the data. The average rate of $196.82 per night was up 1.8% from a year before. Rates had declined throughout 2019. Occupancy in May, however, continued the trend lower than a year before, as Sonoma County occupancy rates have moved all this year. Occupancy surged in early 2018 to house survivors of the October 2017 wildfires. The average occupancy last month was 78.2%, down 5.2% from a year before and down year to date by 9.9%. Hotel revenues for May were up by nearly 5% over the previous May and by 6.4% year to date, at $52.6 million. Year to date average occupancy rates, as well as those for May, were relatively flat, though trending positive. With 4,153 rooms included in the survey, Solano County in May remained in the positive for average occupancy rate and revenue. The latter figure was $10.9 million for May, up 8.1%, and $42.3 million year to date, up 5.4%, the data showed.

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Costel on clean sheet NFFC Costel Pantilimon was pleased to have kept a clean sheet as Nottingham Forest drew with Preston and feels there is plenty to build on. The Reds had the better of the game against North End at Deepdale, with Pantilimon also called into action to make a couple of fine stops, but neither side could find the breakthrough. Speaking after the game, he said: "I tried to be focused every single minute because you never know what can happen in the game. I am happy because I was able to help the team and a clean sheet is very important for the confidence. "We are proud of the hard work and that was an important thing. We tried to keep our heads up, to keep working and to hope we can get into the play-offs and see what the future will be." Pantilimon felt that Forest deserved all three points overall yesterday afternoon and is now looking to carry on building some momentum ahead of the East Midlands derby next week. He said: "I think we could have taken all three points but in the end it was hard work as the pitch wasn't the greatest. "It is important that we didn't lose these two away games and we can now look forward to the Derby game. "We are approaching the games in a different way with the new manager and his different ideas and we are all trying to adapt as quickly as possible. I think we are getting there and after a few games we are understanding what the manager wants and we are starting to improve." Preston North End vs Nottingham Forest on 16 Feb 19

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First Novels: Acquiring Minds Martha Woodroof looks at the process of acquiring a first novel from the point of view of publishers who both employ their own taste and then take care of the deal. Pop-Culture News And Analysis From NPR First Novels: Acquiring Minds December 13, 20138:43 AM ET Martha Woodroof The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern Paperback, 516 pages | Buy Featured Book Erin Morgenstern Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? The first in my series of posts on The First Novel Experience was called "The Romance of Agents." A couple of people wrote me after it was posted and asked if I was going to include in this series any stories of any writers who'd had a bad time with their books. I thought about it and decided no - at least not yet. As someone who's had her share of disappointments in these uncertain and confusing publishing times, it seems more useful - and encouraging - to tell stories of books that are having the kind of success authors dream of. But I'm open to other thoughts, so feel free to leave them in the comments. I'm calling this second post in the series "Acquiring Minds." It is, as you might have guessed, about first novels from the acquiring editor's point of view. As in the series' first post, the novels referred to come from a list sent to me by Elizabeth Khuri Chandler, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Goodreads. Publishing is, of course, a business. It has to make money. If you're a writer and you'd like to read a well-written and engaging real-life publishing business story in which the hero endures ten years of poverty in order to write his first novel, then signs with a relatively unsung agent who then sells the novel for a whopping $665,000, then Keith Gessen's article "The Book On Publishing" is for you. It gives useful insight into novel publication by telling the backstory of Chad Harbach's first novel, The Art of Fielding. You can find Mr. Gessen's article in the October 2011 issue of Vanity Fair, or as a Kindle Single on Amazon (where it's called "Vanity Fair's How A Book Is Born: The Making Of The Art Of Fielding"). There's one sentence in the article that, to me, speaks eloquently to the beating heart of publishing as well as its bottom line. "Publishing houses," Gessen writes, "appear to be giant monoliths. In fact, in the end, they are the sum total of the judgment and taste of their individual editors ..." Among those editorial tastes are those of Alison Callahan, who was an Executive Editor at Doubleday when she bought Erin Morgenstern's first novel, The Night Circus, a story of magic and young love set in a mysterious circus that arrives in the book's setting one day without warning. And as the title suggests, this mysterious circus is open only at night. The Night Circus was the first novel ever submitted to Ms. Callahan by Richard Pine, an agent at InkWell Management. He sent it based on intuition, honed by the couple of times Alison had taken him out to lunch to talk books. So what does Alison Callahan look for in a manuscript? She puts it this way: The books that I tend to gravitate toward typically have a bit of an edge or a high-concept element of style or tone or storytelling. The best way I can describe my taste is that I like books that go off the beaten path...but you can still see the path. The Night Circus unapologetically plays with time, with actual magic and illusion and love. Alison began reading the manuscript in her office, but soon decamped to the Random House cafeteria. With The Night Circus, I knew from those first few chapters that [this] book was unlike any other first novel I had read. My heart started pounding, and every time the phone rang or my email chimed, I was annoyed to be pulled away from the pages, which is why I went to the cafeteria. Once the distractions were gone, I flew through the pages as fast as I could both because I was enthralled by the story, and propelled by the fear that someone else in another office in town was doing the same thing and would beat me to it. Each publishing house, Alison Callahan says, works differently when it comes to acquiring books. When I acquired the novel, I was an Executive Editor at Doubleday and no, I was not allowed to buy anything I wanted and I certainly didn't have a blank check. But I am rather reserved when it comes to acquiring novels, so when my boss saw how wild I was about it, we moved in a much quicker way than is typical when attempting to buy a fiction debut. At Doubleday, it is typical to have the publisher [in this case Bill Thomas of Doubleday] read it as well as an editor or two from the paperback division. The reads that came back were unanimously positive. There was a ton of competition [for The Night Circus], but because we moved very quickly (and very aggressively), we had a jump on some of the other houses. I also spoke with the author at length about how much I was in love with her manuscript and she and I hit it off on the phone instantly. Sometimes, all the pieces line up perfectly. Okay, that's pretty much that as far as the influence of Alison's Callahan's "judgment and taste." Now, it was on to serious business. Ms. Callahan says everyone at Doubleday knew the book was going to be pricey. But we also knew that the sales potential was huge. These days, editors must appreciate a debut novel for not only its beautiful writing or creative storyline but also for its marketability and The Night Circus had it in spades. We gave the pages to our foreign rights director to gauge if she thought she could sell it in translation and she came back with a big number which we could incorporate into our profit & loss. She wound up selling it to nearly 30 publishers worldwide. Publishing is not a business for the faint of heart. It is as subject to the vagaries of consumers as, say, software development or the fashion industry. Doubleday found out through Mr. Pine that other houses were also pursuing The Night Circus. The book was heading into auction, when Ms. Callahan offered a "pre-empt," a publishing term for an offer from a publishing house that's so good it stops the book from going to auction. About that looming auction, Ms. Callahan says: We [Doubleday] didn't want to be in a competitive situation where the money would continue to creep higher and higher. We made a very generous offer, and when the agent said there was one other publisher nipping at our heels, about to make the very same pre-emptive offer, we upped ours substantially. My conversation with Erin is what tipped the scale in our favor. The day we acquired the book was one of my happiest at Doubleday...followed closely by the afternoon we found out that she was going to debut on the New York Times Bestseller list at Number 2. The whole publication process was, if you'll indulge me, magical. Okay, so how much did The Night Circus sell for? Nobody at either Doubleday or InkWell Management would talk money specifics - at least not to me. But Publisher's Marketplace, the industry's journal of money, reported The Night Circus went for a "major deal." That means at least half a million dollars. So, there was Doubleday, willing to stake at least $500,000 on an unpublished author. Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt Hardcover, 360 pages | Carol Rifka Brunt Carol Rifka Brunt's first novel, Tell the Wolves I'm Home, was named one of the best books of the year by The Wall Street Journal, O: The Oprah Magazine, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and School Library Journal. Amazon.com one-sentences the novel's story as: "... a singular portrait of the late-'80s AIDS epidemic's transformation of a girl and her family." Does that sound like a sure-fire bet to you? Or a gamble? I asked Dial Press's Jennifer Smith - who championed and edited Wolves - how close book-buying feels to high-stakes gambling? Her answer: I'm not a big gambler, to be honest, but I imagine it's much the same. You put your chips down when you love a book, show your cards when you talk to the author and agent, and if it turns out they're not good enough, it can be a crushing blow. But when you win? It's such a great feeling. Even better than gambling, I imagine, because it lasts longer. Winning a book is just the beginning of a long journey to publication. It's the start of something really exciting. Speaking of excitement, my next post will be about what it's like to sell your first novel from the author's point of view. Before I finish this post, however, I want to go back for just a moment to InkWell Management's Richard Pine, who, when we talked, insisted on making the point that a lot of publishers' limited resources are dedicated to what he calls "house authors" who have dominated these resources for a long time. It was, he says, a thrilling experience [in the case of The Night Circus] to have a publishing house muster its personnel, dollars, imagination and enthusiasm, in a way that every author - not just every first-time author - dreams of. I take this as encouragement for all novel writers. Speaking from personal experience, I hit my own soon-to-be published gold with the fourth novel I'd written and hustled. Was it worth it to write three that didn't sell? It was. Read an excerpt of The Night Circus Read an excerpt of Tell the Wolves I'm Home first novels

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Della Reese, 'Touched By An Angel' Star And Singer, Dies At 86 : The Two-Way When she was cast as an angel boss on the long-running CBS spiritual drama, Reese had been famous for decades as a gospel-influenced R&B performer, TV guest star and talk show fixture. Della Reese, 'Touched By An Angel' Star And Singer, Dies At 86 Della Reese, 'Touched By An Angel' Star And Singer, Dies At 86 3:47 November 20, 20176:16 PM ET Heard on Morning Edition Merrit Kennedy Enlarge this image Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced singer who in middle age found her greatest fame as Tess, the wise angel in the long-running television drama Touched by an Angel, has died at age 86. Douglas C. Pizac/AP hide caption Douglas C. Pizac/AP Reese, the actress and gospel-influenced singer who in middle age found her greatest fame as Tess, the wise angel in the long-running television drama Touched by an Angel, has died at age 86. Della Reese, a performer and pastor best known for her starring role on the CBS spiritual drama Touched by an Angel, has died at 86. "Her signature television role came late in life," NPR's Eric Deggans reported. "Reese already had been famous for decades as a gospel-influenced R&B performer, TV guest star and talk show fixture." Her husband Franklin Lett released a statement through her Touched by an Angel costar Roma Downey, saying that Reese "has passed away peacefully at her California home surrounded by love." Downey added, "I know heaven has a brand new angel this day." Reese, who was born Delloreese Patricia Early in Detroit, started singing in church when she was six. She told NPR in 2003 that she was recruited by gospel legend Mahalia Jackson to tour with her at the age of 12. "My mother took Mahalia aside and looked into her eyes and said, `I've got a good child here. I wouldn't let her go off with everybody, but I trust you. I know you're a woman of God and I'm expecting you to bring me back a better child than I'm sending away with you,'" Reese told the Tavis Smiley Show. From there, her songs climbed pop charts, such as "Don't You Know," which is adapted from an aria from the opera La Boheme. As Eric reports: "Her dignified image led to mainstream stardom. She was on The Ed Sullivan Show 18 times in one year. She also became the first black woman to host her own syndicated variety series and the first black woman to guest host Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. "It was on the set of that show in 1979 that she suffered a brain aneurysm; a near-death experience that inspired her to become an ordained minister." Her own show, Della, was on air for one season in 1969-70 with nearly 200 episodes, The New York Times reported, with guests including "George Burns, Ike and Tina Turner, Little Richard, Steve Allen, Tony Bennett, Ethel Waters and Gypsy Rose Lee." In Touched by an Angel, Reese plays Tess, a sarcastic angel boss who is a maternal figure to Downey's apprentice guardian angel. "No one played the down to earth, worldly mother figure like Della Reese," Eric adds. The show was a hit, and ran for nine years "telling stories of God's impact in everyday life," Eric says. "People need something to help them with their lives. In the show, we didn't tell you what to do, we said, 'did you ever think about it like this?'" Reese said, as Eric reports. Reese also sang the show's theme song, "Walk with You." As an ordained minister, Reese founded a church called the Understanding Principles for Better Living Church out of her living room. The church's website recounts that from an original eight members, the church soon outgrew her living room. As the Times reported, "she delivered Sunday services there for many years."

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Daley May Outlast Father As Chicago Mayor The lessons Richard M. Daley learned from his father's missteps during the chaos of the 1968 Democratic Convention helped him claim - and hold - the seat behind the Chicago mayor's desk where his father served for 21 years. Daley May Outlast Father As Chicago Mayor David Schaper Photo Gallery: Convention Chaos Richard J. Daley (right) served for 21 years before he died in 1976. His son has held the seat for 19 years. hide caption NPR Tours Chicago Before The 1996 Democratic Convention Vietnam War protesters clashed with police on the streets and in the parks of Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The violent crackdown on the Chicago demonstrators marred the convention and may have cost the Democrats the election that year. It also badly damaged the city's image and hurt Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley's career. Now, Richard M. Daley runs the city and is closing in on his father's record for longevity in the Chicago mayor's office. Some say the younger Daley is the city's most powerful Chicago mayor since his father and, like his dad, he is one of the most powerful mayors in the country. But in order to sit behind the desk on the fifth floor of Chicago's City Hall where he's served for 19 years, Richard M. Daley had to take a much different path. Young Activists, Old Guard The younger Daley has always argued that what happened on the streets of Chicago those steamy nights 40 years ago was not really his father's fault. In late August 1968, the nation was still reeling from the assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. There was a cultural clash between young activists who wanted the party to be more progressive and inclusive, and the old-guard bosses, like Richard J. Daley, who cut deals behind closed doors and maintained tight, iron-fisted control. Democrats came to Chicago for the convention as a party deeply divided over the Vietnam War and civil rights. "There were plenty of warnings for anyone who was listening that there was going to be confrontation in the streets of Chicago," says Bob Crawford, retired political editor of Chicago news radio station WBBM-AM. "The only question was how was it going to be handled and what would the ultimate outcome of it be." By most accounts, the elder Daley handled the situation poorly. 'Gestapo Tactics' At the time, Richard J. Daley was the most powerful big city, Democratic machine boss in the country. He was known as a kingmaker after delivering critical votes that helped put John F. Kennedy in the White House. Daley had the president's ear just about any time he wanted, and hosting the convention was his way of flexing his party muscle. As the city geared up for the convention, he wasn't going to let any long-haired, vulgar demonstrators ruin the party. "He was the last of the big city bosses," said Ed Burke, alderman of Chicago's 14th Ward since 1969, when he was elected as an ally of Richard J. Daley. "He had a great pride in Chicago. He had a great love for the city. Throw into that a good measure of his Irish temper and you had a volatile mix." In 1968, Burke was a Chicago police officer assigned to the International Amphitheater for the convention. He was on the floor, just a few feet behind the mayor and his sons when television images of the violent clashes between demonstrators and Chicago's police force were being broadcast. The footage led Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT), to alter his speech nominating George McGovern for president to denounce what he called "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago." "Ribicoff stared down at Daley, looked him in the eye," Burke says. "It was a direct insult to Daley." The mayor tried to defend himself, his city and his police force. "The confrontation was not created by the police," he said at the time. "The confrontation was created by the people who charged the police. Gentlemen, get the thing straight once and for all - the policeman isn't there to create disorder, the policeman is there to preserve disorder." But the sounds and pictures of the events told a different story: Daley's machine overreacted. An inquiry after the convention labeled it a police riot. "The Democratic Convention of 1968 was a disaster for the city of Chicago. It was a disaster for Richard J. Daley, and it was a disaster for the Democratic Party," says Paul Green, director of the Institute for Politics at Roosevelt University in Chicago, who has co-authored four books on the Daleys. "He was never the same." 'Power Is Everything' After the dust settled, Daley's influence in the party nationally started to wane. "The '68 convention left such a bad taste in the mouths of Democrats all across the country that even party regulars were blaming Richard J. Daley for the fate of the party, losing the election in '68," Crawford says. By 1972, reformers in the party were able to change the rules for selecting delegates to the nominating convention and Daley's delegation to Miami was thrown out. "But here at home, Mayor Daley was a hero," Crawford says. "Chicagoans thought the way he handled those demonstrations was the way it ought to be handled." "As a result of the convention in 1968, Richard J. Daley could never be defeated in the city of Chicago," Alderman Burke says. "The people of Chicago admired him for being a strong leader." Daley easily won re-election in landslides in 1971 and 1975. He maintained firm control over Chicago's City Council, where he never lost a vote and never needed to use his veto - lessons his son Richard M. Daley took note of. During that infamous scene on the floor of the convention hall when Ribicoff criticized the mayor, the younger Daley was screaming back at Ribicoff right alongside his father. "He saw chaos and he saw his dad lose control," which for a Daley is everything, says Roosevelt University's Paul Green. "I think he may have learned at that time that power is everything and weakness is nothing," says Crawford. Mini-Machine And Patronage While serving in the Illinois Senate, Richard M. Daley felt the sting and betrayal of some city ward bosses who turned their back on him in the power struggles that followed his father's death in 1976. Although the younger Daley won election as Cook County State's Attorney in 1980, he lost a bid for his dad's old job in 1983 when he challenged Mayor Jane Byrne. The two split the white vote, enabling a new coalition of independent blacks, Latinos and liberals to elect Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington. With all of the elements of the old machine falling apart, Daley had to start building a new machine all his own. "He came to the conclusion very early on that he had to change with the times or that he was doomed to failure," says Burke, who was a leader in the anti-Harold Washington block on the City Council in the 1980s and who supported Byrne over Daley in 1983. "And he made a very conscious effort to avoid the mistakes that older political bosses in Chicago had made," he says. When Washington died in 1987, his coalition split, creating the opening for Daley in a special election to finish Washington's term in 1989. He pulled together the remaining white ethnic machine bosses, Hispanics and white liberals, including a growing and politically viable gay community, to start a new mini-machine. "That coalition has never wavered in their support for Richard M. Daley, not once," says Green. "And he's added to that the growing support in the black community [and] the other new communities like the Asian community. You win elections by addition and he has been very good at that." Daley did not seek to be chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, a position his father used to control politics and government from the courts to the state capitol to Congress. His father's machine doled out lower level offices, jobs and political favors in exchange for loyalty. The younger Daley's machine rewards loyalty, too, often with jobs and favors - his last patronage chief, Robert Sorich, is now in a federal prison after being convicted last year on corruption charges - but this Daley keeps a further distance from the inner workings of his machine. He garnered the support of Chicago's business community, using pinstripe patronage - government contracts - to amass millions in campaign contributions, making the foot soldiers of the old machine less important. He has also surrounded himself with brilliant young minds, both on politics and urban policies, invested heavily in public works, building new parks, schools, libraries and police and fire stations in the neighborhoods, while at the same time, sparking a new building boom of skyscrapers downtown and along the lakefront. In order to get done what he wants, this Daley operates just as autocratically as his father. He has complete control of the City Council, he squashes and sometimes ridicules dissenters, and he leans heavily on the private sector. As a result, the city looks better, city services operate smoothly and Chicago has retained a vibrant middle class. "There's a lot to be said for the progress of the city. It's important for tax revenues; it's important to make the city livable," says Crawford. "How would I sum up their leadership? Call them great mayors, but remember the price. The price is corruption." Richard M. Daley is admired by mayors around the country for his innovation in managing cities and coming up with new ways to tackle old urban ills such as failing schools, affordable housing and cleaning up the environment. His longevity in office, 19 years and counting, has helped him forge important relationships in Washington, where his influence has been helped by his brother Bill, who was Commerce secretary under President Bill Clinton, campaign manager for Al Gore and is now a key adviser to presidential hopeful Barack Obama. While he may not yet be as powerful nationally as his father was at the height of his reign in Chicago, Daley's stature on the national political scene stands to rival that of his father, should Obama win the White House in November.

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Bids to Unlock iPhone Yield Mixed Results AT&T's legal team has discouraged one company's efforts to offer software that would open up Apple's iPhone to services not provided by AT&T. But a 17-year-old has posted instructions on the Web for how to unlock the iPhone - using a soldering gun. Bids to Unlock iPhone Yield Mixed Results < Bids to Unlock iPhone Yield Mixed Results August 27, 20076:00 AM ET STEVE INSKEEP, host: People who love Skype might like to use it on the most hyped phone in history. The trouble is that the iPhone is linked exclusively to AT&T. You can't use any other companies. One group announced that it has software that frees the iPhone so you could use other companies, and they were planning to sell that software until they got a 3:00 a.m. phone call from AT&T's legal team over the weekend. You can, however, still find the instructions that a 17-year-old posted on the Web. He revealed how to unlock the iPhone, provided you are willing to attack your pricy phone with a soldering gun. It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. RENEE MONTAGNE, host: And I'm Renee Montagne.

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As L.A. Probes Sex Abuse Charges, Staff Replaced At Elementary School : The Two-Way Two teachers at Miramonte Elementary School have been arrested on charges related to the alleged sexual abuse of students. Officials say no other staffers at the school are under suspicion, but they want to allay the fears of students and parents. As L.A. Probes Sex Abuse Charges, Staff Replaced At Elementary School As L.A. Probes Sex Abuse Charges, Staff Replaced At Elementary School 3:28 < As L.A. Probes Sex Abuse Charges, Staff Replaced At Elementary School February 7, 20128:00 AM ET From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. And I'm Audie Cornish. In south Los Angeles, Miramonte Elementary is closed to students today. The school, the district and the community are dealing with a still-unfolding scandal. Two teachers are in jail, accused of sexual abuse and lewd acts involving their students. And some major changes are coming to the school, as NPR's Karen Grigsby Bates reports. KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: Miramonte reopens on Thursday, and the brightly painted building will look the same. But, says Superintendent John Deasy, students will be greeted by an entirely new faculty and administration. DR. JOHN DEASY: And we're talking, in this case, the entirety of the staff. That would be custodian to secretary, to teacher to administrator. BATES: Drastic measures because of the scandal. The school is located in Florence Firestone, an often-overlooked part of unincorporated Los Angeles, far away from the affluence of neighborhoods like West L.A. or Beverly Hills. Miramonte's population is almost 100 percent Latino. Raymond Canal(ph) grew up in this neighborhood. At a recent protest, he says demographics may have everything to do with why nobody has paid attention to Miramonte until now. RAYMOND CANAL: Where is Gloria Allred at? They touch a white lady's booty in somebody's political office, and Gloria Allred is there already. We got over 30 kids probably got molested, and all that, in here. And we're not doing nothing about it - nothing! BATES: In fact, civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred might not yet be on the case, but lawsuits have been filed. Lawyer Luis Carrillo said the turmoil at Miramonte is the result of a school system that kept no running record of complaints that have been lodged against 61-year-old John Berndt and 49-year-old Martin Bernard Springer over the years. LUIS CARRILLO: Year after year, parents were complaining. But the school district failed to monitor the classroom of these teachers, failed to monitor these teachers, and failed to properly supervise the children to protect them from abusive teachers. BATES: Although there were no recorded complaints against John Berndt, there had been warning signs. The L.A. Times reports a former student saying she and two friends complained to their counselor about Berndt's lascivious behavior in the classroom, but they were told to stop making things up. The Times also said a father complained in 2008 that Berndt had taken inappropriate photos of his daughter. Carrillo believes these reports won't be the only ones to surface. CARRILLO: As a result of all these failures, we have all these tragedies. And I predict that we're just looking at the tip of the iceberg. BATES: At a press conference yesterday evening, Superintendent John Deasy faced an auditorium of angry Miramonte families. Pale and obviously shaken, Deasy told them they were right to be furious. DEASY: I'm a dad and a teacher, and I can't imagine anything more horrible than the trust that was violated of the students. I try to think about what I would say to my own child, and you struggle for words. BATES: And, he said, two bad teachers shouldn't taint all the extraordinary ones he's met at Miramonte. DEASY: I've also walked the campus, and seen astonishing teaching and caring and work inside that school - amazing work. BATES: But, Deasy said, some hard steps will have to be taken to restore trust, including relocating all previous adults to an unoccupied school. They'll be placed on paid administrative leave until the end of the school year. And, like their students, Miramonte faculty and administrators will also receive psychological counseling, as the scandal is sorted out. It's a lot of change to restore trust. But parents are already asking, is it enough? Karen Grigsby Bates, NPR News.

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Martin Bóna - Henrieta Žažová Church of St. Helena in Demandice-Hýbec The municipality of Hýbec in the Hont county is first mentioned in a document from 1276. The local noble family of Hébeczy originally owned it. The Deméndys, owners of the neighbouring Demandice village, acquired it during the reign of Louis I (1342 - 1382). Hýbec today, is one of the three municipalities of the Demandice village part called Osady. Above the Hýbec municipality, in a wooded hillock near a functional cemetery (139 metres above sea level) is the concealed Roman-Catholic Church of St. Helena, a solitary one-nave building with polygonal presbytery. The year of the church's construction, in 1023, is engraved on a late-gothic pastoforion (tabernacle). The lawyer and county archivist Lajos Hőke, however, questioned the authenticity of the ANNO D İ 1023 inscription during the middle of the 19th century. The oldest known reliable report on the church in Hýbec comes from as late as February 9, 1526. After the Battle of Mohács (August 29, 1526) and the seizing of Buda and Esztergom in the 1540s, southern Slovakia became an immediate neighbour with the Ottoman Empire. The Church of St. Helena was abandoned, but it was repaired in the 1720s using the money of local landlord Samuel Blaskovich (around 1680 - 1737). According to István Majer, the Blaskovich family tomb is situated in front of the cross near the Hýbec church. In modern history Hýbec became a country estate and the church was turned into a chapel, which only held processions on Easter Monday and the day of St. Helena. The map of the first military planning from 1782 - 1784 details the Hýbec church as a ruin (Rudera einen alten Kirche). At the beginning of the 19th century, local landlord František Simonyi de Simony et Varsany (1761 - 1833) and his wife Mária Bellusi Baross initiated the renovation of the Church of St. Helena. In 1836, Pope Gregory XVI granted the Hýbec church the privilege of indulgences, which could be renewed every seven years. Eventually, the church became a popular pilgrim place on the day of St. Helena (August 18) and birth of the Virgin Mary (September 8). The exterior of the chapel was renovated in 1882. At the beginning of the 20th century, the church was again in a dismal condition. Despite that, the Hungarian monuments commission refused to allocate money from the state budget for its reparation in 1905. The pilgrimages have been forbidden since 1950 and the church was only used sporadically. Between 2000 and 2007, the Hýbec church underwent a renovation, which also included an architectural-historical and restoration research that brought new information about the building's development. Eva Borecká Killy Mansion in Častá The reconstruction works in Killy Mansion in Častá (Pezinok district) revealed fragments of glass items dating to the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries, Hutterite (Haban) pottery from the 17th and 18th centuries and an early Renaissance wall painting on the house's façade. The archive documents about the house are incomplete and offer little information on its previous owners. The owners of the mansion, who are mentioned in documents, worked for the owners of the Červený Kameň castle. The name Killy Mansion is derived from the Kelio family, who lived there for several generations since the 17th century. According to the land maps, the following owners, the Pálffys, who most probably rented the mansion to tradesmen, are identified from the middle of the 19th century. The property also included a neighbouring house with land. The current ground plan of the one-storeyed mansion was created in the past by adding a traditional longitudinal house, which contained a black kitchen in the centre, to an older stone building. Other extensions and adjustments added to the plan's overall outline. The buildings were interconnected in the basement as well as aboveground, and covered with a high, steep saddle roof, reminiscent of the so-called German roof. The excavation works in the interior revealed glass fragments, unglazed pottery, pottery with brown and green glazing, Hutterite faience, a golden men's ring with brick-brown semi-precious stone and clay pipe (so-called "štiavnička"). The products can be dated when compared with similar findings from the 16th to 18th centuries. Some items of the Hutterite pottery are marked with a date (the last one from 1760). The findings improve the knowledge of period decorative items as well as items of everyday usage, the level of workmanship and the dining habits of burghers, or landlords living in the town's market square, outside the stone castle walls that offered protection from frequent plundering. The most recent discovery is the fresco on the corner of the Killy Mansion, dated to the beginning of the 16th century, which was hidden, until now under a newer stone wall. Vladimír Krupa History of the Piešťany Town Park The two-century-old Town Park, originally called Spa Park, dominates the spa town of Piešťany in western Slovakia. Piešťany, as we know it today, originated when a town of the same name merged with the Teplice spa (aka Thermae or Small Piešťany). Count George Erdődy (1754 - 1824) bought the town of Piešťany and the Piešťany spa from Emperor Charles III in 1720. The Erdődy family owned the town until 1848 and the spa until 1940, when it was nationalized. Joseph Erdődy managed the family property from 1789 to 1824. He was the first to initiate arrangements in the park, which he planted in a French style in the area behind the former František (Francis) villa and former spa headquarters. Between these two buildings was the main entrance to the park with a small square, where the Baroque Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk (built in 1760) used to stand. It also had a separate belfry with a single bell. A cemetery developed around the chapel before the last third of the 18th century. The park arrangements of Joseph Erdődy are captured in detail on the Frauenfeld's plan from 1824. The so-called Manorial House stood at the park's eastern end and faced the house of a spa inspector. This park's area was also called the Old Park at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, when the New Park was planted. Both parks form a united complex today, the Town Park, which is an immovable cultural monument. A park survey from January 1890 has been preserved, which was probably ordered by Francis Erdődy, the then owner of the spa, before he rented it to Alexander Winter. The survey was done by architect Anthony Pelka and surveyor Hugo Pelka, and captures the most significant buildings, such as the Spa Hotel and its adjacent pavilion, café, Park Villa, Arena summer theatre, inn and the Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk. Between 1893 and 1894, A. Winter ordered the building of a poly functional Spa Saloon at the edge of the park. It was used for organising cultural events (concerts, exhibitions), and as a restaurant, café, wine-room, confectionery, and later, as a casino. Spa guests were accommodated upstairs. A theatre stood nearby, and on the other side were tennis courts and an original music pavilion. A large planting in another part of today's Town Park took place at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The so-called Main Alley of the New Park was built, which led from the Spa Saloon to the centre of the park, where a big fountain stands today. Denis Pongrácz Painted coffins from Trstená The beginnings of the parish Church of St. Martin in Trstená are not yet historically clarified. It was probably built at the time, when Trstená acquired the town privileges (1371). The first written reference comes from 1397. After the arrival of the Thurzo family, in the second half of the 16th century, the parish became evangelical. Based on some sources, the evangelists rebuilt the church in the 17th century, while other authors think the church's Baroque reconstruction did not start before 1738. The canonic visitations mention two crypts in the church. The church interior, however, almost certainly contains other graves as well, because during the construction modifications in the interior in 1996, the workers of the company, which laid the floor heating, found two other stone boards under the side altars. The older crypt could have originated at the end of the Middle Ages (around 1500?). It has a rectangular ground plan of 8.99 and 4.46 m. It contained 88 fully and partly preserved coffins and around 11 coffins that were partially burnt. The coffins were in a bad condition and were literally thrown one over the other, often in 3 - 4 layers. Many body remains were lying outside the cases. The coffins come from the middle of the 18th century to 1837. Members of local noble families of Stankovics, Kruzlics, Stas, Gasparides, Bocko, Koroda de Főlsó, Javorka-Javorek, Hattala, Stefanides and Vilcsek de Podwilk were buried in the crypt, as well as Trstená's prominent inhabitants, such as the notary Wrchovina. The specific feature of the Trstená coffins, is their painted decoration with floral and votive motifs, often with recording the name and day of death of the deceased one. Also remarkable are the coloured - blue and green - children's coffins. Textiles and footwear, in several cases, have been very well preserved. Most of the coffins come from the period of late Rococo and Empire. Experts selected a set of 27 best preserved coffins to include them on the list of the movable cultural monuments. As an integrated collection of rustic funeral art, they have a great documentational, artistic and ethnological value. Besides, they represent a collection that is unique in the territory of Slovakia. Katarína Beňová Rombauer's portrait of Ferdinand V Painter Johann Rombauer (1782 - 1849), a native of Levoča, who was a globetrotter who lived in Petersburg, decided to settle in Prešov after his return from the Russian metropolis, where he lived until his death. The Šariš Gallery in Prešov, in cooperation with the Slovak National Gallery (SNG), initiated a research project that documented this artist's personality, which culminated in exhibitions of his work in Bratislava (June 4 - August 29, 2010) and Prešov (September 21, 2010 - January 9, 2011), as well as a voluminous catalogue entitled Ján Rombauer (1782 - 1849) Levoča - Petersburg - Prešov. The inter-disciplinary research carried out by experts from Slovakia and Hungary focused on Rombauer not only as a painter, but also as a historic person, whose example enables the documentation of fine art created during the first half of the 19th century in Slovakia. In a surprisingly short time, after the exhibitions opened, new works of the painter appeared. The restoration works on collection items at Šariš Museum in Bardejov revealed Rombauer's signature on the painting of the Portrait of Monarch Ferdinand V. The museum acquired this work in 1953, but its original locality is unknown. Johann Rombauer was one of the popular portrait artists living mainly in the Šariš and Spiš regions. Apart from the works ordered by Prešov and Šariš aristocracy, burghers and tradesmen, he also painted for the Prešov administration. The centre of the Šariš See required portraits of the monarch, who could not be present in Hungary in the long term, for representation purposes. Ferdinand V was crowned as the Hungarian king in Bratislava on September 28, 1830. Consequently he also received titles of Austrian emperor (1835), Czech king (1836) and king of Lombardy and Venice (1838). In 1848, he assigned the reign to his nephew Francis Joseph I. Based on graphic models, Rombauer made two versions of portraits of Ferdinand V. The Šariš See ordered the portrait in 1840 and originally placed it in the See residence. The portrait was discovered in the collection of the Slovak National Museum-Červený Kameň Museum, as the Portrait of Ferdinand V in hussar uniform with the signature Joh. Rombauer Anno 1840 pinxit. The second monarch's portrait has recently been discovered during the restoration works on a painting in the collections of the Šariš Museum in Bardejov, where Rombauer's signature was revealed during the cleaning process. The work was made three years earlier than the painting from Červený Kameň Museum. The monarch wears a brocade, richly embroidered coronation coat, with an unidentifiable country painted in the background. The painting from the Bardejov Museum shows composition parallels with the graphic drawings in the collection of the Hungarian National Museum, where the monarch is situated in an interior with the regalia of power and coronation coat. Milan Togner Unknown drawing by J. J. Keller In several variants of the Baroque transcript in Slovak territory and fine-art literature, the name of Johann Julius Keller is associated with two works created in the first half of the 17th century. As painter Hans Keyller from Lipnik in Moravia, he created a set of coats-of-arms for the Thurzo family, which were ordered by the widow Elisabeth Czobor-Thurzo for the burial of Palatine George Thurzo at the Bytča castle. In the second case, as a painter from Vienna, he decorated the University Church in Trnava. He most probably painted the Trnava church's altar with the theme of St. Stephen's Martyrium, which is situated in the Chapel of St. Martyrs. The chapel's original decoration apparently contained a hitherto unknown Keller's drawing, which was preserved in a collection of old drawings by the Olomouc painter Anthony Martin Lublinsky (1636 - 1690), in a set of drawings adjusted for an original Baroque album. The drawing with the theme of the saint martyrs bears the full signature of Johannes Julij Kelleris delineavit Wienna Ao 1642 and probably entered the Lublinsky collection before 1690. The hitherto unknown drawing shows only an average, and to a certain extent, basic drawing level, and can thus be considered to be a sketch for the altar painting that has the theme of the saint martyrs in the Trnava University Church, which has by now been the only proof of J. J. Keller's painting activity in the area. Regarding the theme, dating to 1642 and Viennese origin, the drawing could also be a contract sketch for another painting with the presumptive location in the Chapel of Saint Martyrs of the Trnava church. Unfortunately, the painted picture is not known; nevertheless, the composition arrangement of the more or less traditional scheme suggests that in this case we can talk of Keller's own interpretation. Ivana Fialová Belveder Hunting Castle in Šaštín-Stráže Francis I, the husband of Maria Theresa, became the owner of the Holíč and Šaštín estates in western Slovakia in the course of the 1730s and 1740s. As a modern economist, he used these estates for implementing economy theories into practice. He introduced many reforms and innovations, which turned the neglected and indebted properties into effectively functioning economic units. The lands of both estates hosted large hunts each September and the Holíč estate, with its castle, became a favourite summer residence of the imperial family. Very little, however, is known about the other, no longer existing building of the Belveder Hunting Castle, which served the needs of the Vienna court. It was located in the municipality of Stráže (today part of Šaštín-Stráže), which belonged to the Šaštín estate. It was built before 1736, when the estate was in the hands of the Czobor family. The historical documents from the 18th century mention the castle's existence very sporadically, mainly recording the accounts of its repairs during certain years. However, some of the inventories of the castle's furnishings have been preserved to help create at least a partial picture of its interior. There also are a few records that directly concern Belveder, or the buildings in its vicinity. The death of Emperor Francis I on the 26th June 1765 significantly influenced the fate of the Belveder Castle. Maria Theresa did not consider it necessary to keep the building any longer and in 1766 sent part of the mobiliari to the Halbturn Castle (Burgenland, Austria) and neighbouring Holíč. The castle and its garden was rented, but later deteriorated and during the first three decades of the 19th century was razed to the ground. Barbora Matáková Jr. Laskár - the memory of a country Laskár lies in the Upper Nitra valley, around 5 km southwest of Prievidza. This, originally an independent village became part of the Nováky town in 1941. Laskár was founded at the end of the 12th century, when it separated from the settlement of Svätý Jakub (Saint Jacob). It is first mentioned in 1355, in connection with aristocrat Ján, the son of Laskár from Svätý Jakub. The document from 1419 records the name of Laskár as Lazkarfalva. The settlement of Svätý Jakub ceased to exist in the first quarter of the 16th century. The village of Laskár was part of the Prievidza castle estate, and yeoman families of Majthényi, Berényi, Erdődy and Tarnóczy. The document from 1546 first mentions the existence of a fortified construction Castellum Lazkar vocatum, which was rebuilt in the Renaissance style at the end of the 16th century. In 1788, the Laskár manor house was enclosed with two walls, between which was a water moat with drawbridge. The Chapel of St. Jacob was part of the fortified manor house. With the Baroque reconstruction in 1799, the manor house lost its appearance of a fortress. An arched bridge was built and a natural-landscape park grew around the manor house. The building was again modified at the end of the 19th century, when the family of Tarnóczy built up a family archive there. Near the manor house were the houses of a pandour, blacksmith and brewer, a manorial bakery, granary, distillery, brewery and smith's forge. A wooden manorial mill and sawmill were also in the village. One tavern stood at the end of the village and two others on the roads to Nováky and Bojnice. The events of 1918 and 1948 brought radical changes to the life of Laskár, when the manor house met a similar fate, like many others in Slovakia. The noble family was moved out, and the manor house was nationalised by the Ministry of Home Affairs and turned into a military building. The onset of the Laskár's end, however, came in the 1990s, when the Upper Nitra Mines Prievidza purchased the lands of the local people in order to begin an underground exploitation of coal and lignite. The planned undermining of Laskár was also the reason that the manor house was excluded from the Central Register of Cultural Monuments in 1988, where it was registered in 1965. The demolition of the manor house was subject to a construction-historical and archaeological research. The adjacent buildings were demolished in 1997 and garden allotments were created on their sites. The manor house was demolished in the summer of 1999. Today, these places bear noticeable remains of the natural-landscape park - with sycamores, that are almost 200 years old, which were planted during the manor house's Baroque reconstruction. The only place preserving the memory of the municipality is the cemetery in Laskár, which is also unique with its stone grave crosses dating from the end of the 19th century. It is crucial to preserve it in its original place by identifying the cemetery's area as a significant cultural-historical locality in the general ground plan and by defining the conditions of its preservation. Peter Nagy Archaeology of the Church of All Saints in Dechtice The origin of the All Saints Church in Dechtice (Trnava district) can be dated to 1172, based on the record from a canonic visitation that took place in 1782. It is a unique building, which (though it sounds like a nonsense) can be described as a square rotunda. A church with such a ground plan was not to be found anywhere else in Slovakia or the then Hungary. The only similar construction is in the village of Hidegség, on the bank of the Neusiedl Lake in modern day Hungary. The church is situated above the village, in the middle of a cemetery. It consists of a square-circular nave, which is finished with an elongated semi-circular apse. The Dechtice church has always had a slanted saddle roof, as the preserved gable wall on the eastern side suggests. Today, we can still admire the original entrance on the southern side, with a Romanesque portal, where a stone pointed arch was inserted in the gothic period. A tower with a new entrance from the western side and matroneum, which disarranged the nave's circular ground plan, were added in the Baroque period. Architecturally significant is the construction material used. Despite the fact, that the locality has plenty of suitable construction stone, the whole church was built from bricks. Brick making in the Middle Ages was financially demanding as well as time consuming; apart from the raw material it also required an experienced brick-maker. The brick material could create a unique decoration; in Dechtice they used layers of bricks, which originally protruded from the profile by several centimetres. These relief elements were removed in the latter years, which made the wall level. Fortunately, the rare wall paintings with the scenes from the life of Christ have been partially preserved in the church interior. It is possible that the white walls still hide rare medieval paintings and that there are other decorations behind the smooth outer façade, which could only be revealed by potential restoration research. An archaeological research that took place in the All Saints Church in July 2010 revealed the construction of the church foundations and a unique cornice built of two rows of specially shaped bricks. Another unique finding was discovered during an interior probe under the original Romanesque entrance. Three layers of brick floors have been preserved there, of which the lowest one was made using Romanesque bricks, that were identical with the construction material of the church. It is the first medieval discovery of this type of paving in Slovakia. Zuzana Zvarová - Miroslav Matejka - Tomáš Janura Fifth Canonry House in Nitra A chapter in the Roman-Catholic church grouped priests-canons, who followed certain rules - a canon, according to the monastery example. The priests-canons jointly served the holy mass and helped the bishop with the administration of the diocese. The canonic life was different from the monastic one. The canons could own a private property and the canonic houses were separately run households. They were fenced and consisted of the house of a canon and the house of servants. A canon could not sell his house, sign it away or exchange it. The Upper Town of Nitra was divided between the Nitra's residential chapter and bishopric. The chapter's property could momentarily appear in the hands of the canons, who kept houses - canonries, and had to live and keep the chapter's residency. The number of priests-canons varied; there were probably twelve in the Middle Ages, ten after 1500, twelve in the second half of the 16th century, thirteen in 1629, nine at the end of the 17th century and only six in 1789. Each newly appointed canon was officially assigned a canonry house. The canon usually lived there until his death. The so-called Fifth Canonry House on the Square of John Paul II, No 2 and 4, in Nitra was researched in 2010. The research confirmed that it had undergone a complicated construction development and what is really important is that the archival-historical sources primarily described this specific canonry house. The house is situated in the centre of the castle hill; in the place of the present access to the Nitra Castle from the north of the Pribina Square. It consists of two buildings: a newer southern building No 2 and older northern building No 4. The two oldest construction phases out of the overall number of 12, which concern the development of No 4, are dated to the 15th and end of the 16th centuries. The building was extended in the 17th century, enlarged to the south in the 18th century and to the west in 1757. The building No 2 was built in the southern part of the area during the first half of the 19th century. It had two wings, the street one served as a lodging, dooryard and communication place. The most significant construction adjustment was the reconstruction from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and the utility arrangements following the damage to the building caused by the bombing of the castle hill in 1945. The building of the Baroque canonry house with masonry wall, green area and courtyard, accurately documents the development of architecture specifically in Nitra's Upper Town, as well as, in general terms, across Slovakia. Peter Buday Močenok manor house in archive sources In order to get to know the architecture of the 19th century, one needs to study archive sources. This is also inevitable because there are almost no authentic records regarding the construction development of the representative examples of recent history. Only in exceptional cases - rather by a happy coincidence than an aimed effort - we find monuments that can be explored in almost every detail thanks to their archives. The story of the former bishop's manor house in Močenok is also told as a mosaic of secondary documents, such as official records, correspondence and newspaper coverage. The former residency of Nitra's bishops in Močenok is unique because not only is it preserved as a monument; it also has completed documentation, mainly concerning the fundamental construction phase of the building in the 1840s. The manor house escaped the tragic fate that most of the Slovak noble residencies met, because the former (Communist) regime gathered priests and nuns (the "enemies" of the state) in there. It has thus survived without significant changes, as a unique example of the classicistic gesamtkunstwerk from around the middle of the 19th century. The six decades between 1848 and 1911, which mark the completion of the manor house and the transfer of the bishop's office to the renovated castle palace in Nitra, could be seen as a blooming era of the Močenok estate's residence. The building has a symmetrical ground plan in the shape of the letter H and is situated in a large park in the historical centre of the municipality, where the late-Baroque Church of St. Clement also stands. The manor house was most probably built on the site of an older building, which stood there until the second half of the 18th century, at the latest. The inventories recorded by John Zelenay, the economy director of the bishopric, suggest that it was quite a large, luxuriously furnished residence. Its unusual beauty is described not only in period records, but also in the hitherto unexplored voluminous archive material kept in Ivanka pri Nitre, which contains documents from 1840 to 1848, 1876 and 1900 to 1901. With regards to the documents referring to the interior description of the "summer house", of particular interest, is the exceptional collection of chandeliers, which were probably made in Vienna. Ľudmila Husovská - Naďa Hrašková - Adriana Reťkovská The Burgher's house opposite the Kremnica walls The central-Slovak mining town of Kremnica had not only an urban centre enclosed by walls in the Middle Ages, but also a built-up area along the roads leading to the individual gates of the town fortification. Dolná (Lower) Street, lined on sides by a continuous row of Burgher's houses gradually built from the end of the 14th century, leads to the barbican and the up-to-day preserved Lower Gate. The storeyed Burgher's house No. 2/67 at the north-western corner of Dolná Street is a national cultural monument. Despite its significance, it has not yet undergone detailed architectural-historical, artistic-historical and archaeological research. The house has been almost continuously repaired since the 1980s. No expert documentation has been done during these interventions, only a geodetic survey of the house in 1980 that served as a preparation for research and consecutive works, which took place in 2007 - 2008. The development of the house is based on the historical data mainly concerning the urban landscaping in this part of the town, reconstructions following the fires of the town and Dolná Street and town images on vedutas from the 18th century. The researchers also drew on the cadastral map from 1858 and historical cards and photo-documentation from the first half of the 20th century. The first construction phase dated from before 1599. The basement was the oldest part of the house and determined a two-tract ground-floor house typical for Kremnica inside the fortified part of the town as well as at Dolná Street. The second construction phase concerned the period from after the fire in 1599 to the 17th century, when the house was extended and vaulted by renaissance vaults. The third construction phase dated after 1742 and after other fires in the town. It is clear that the individually standing houses were joined together in the 18th century, creating a corner storeyed house drawn in the veduta from 1742. We assume that the fire in 1716 influenced the reconstruction of the building, when a corner with niche and sculpture of St. Florian, the patron saint of fire-fighters, was built there as a sign of fire protection. The fourth construction phase of the house, which only brought along smaller adjustments, dated from after the fire in 1787 until the first half of the 19th century, or 1858. The fifth construction phase, mainly documented by the precise drawing of the building on the cadastral map, took place from 1858 to the beginning of the 20th century. The house received today's appearance with a drawn-in addition of a garage with workshop and open passage through the gate. The sixth construction phase, dated between 1918 and 2007, mainly recorded negative interventions into the building. Eva Spaleková The Holy Sepulchre in the Church of St. George in Spišská Sobota The regional restoration atelier of Slovakia's Monuments Board in Levoča (ORA) last year restored quite a significant and unique monument in Slovakia - the Holy Sepulchre in the Church of St. George in Spišská Sobota. Following restoration of the late-gothic altar, baroque pulpit, cancellus, oratory parapet and the church's sculptural and painting decorations, this was another progressive step regarding preservation of the mobiliari in this sacral interior which is of both artistic and historical significance.

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District 10 Supervisor Concerned About Public Safety Published on March, 2015 in News by Ben Taylor Since winning her second term as District 10 Supervisor last November, Malia Cohen has pursued the same policy priority she initially put for-ward four years ago: public safety. She pointed to car break-ins, armed robberies, home invasions, and gun violence as problems that need to be addressed in the district. "Last year I put in several re-quests. First, I established a request to create a gun violence prevention task force," Cohen said. Cohen drafted legislation - which was unanimously approved - to establish a thirteen member task force, to be appointed by the Board of Su-pervisors Rules Committee. Cohen also requested that the Legislative Analyst conduct an audit of current violence prevention programs in San Francisco. "This audit has yielded me a few gems. First, it's identified where the resources are being spent. Most of the resources are being spent in the Mission, and in the South-of-Market," Cohen said. The audit also revealed that San Francisco has spent $208 million on violence prevention programs since 2010, yet there were thirteen homicides in the first six weeks of the year, at least nine of which took place in District 10. Co-hen wants adequate police resources allocated to District 10; specifically Bayview and Potrero Hill's Southern Slope, areas which she said are most adversely affected by violence. Cohen and her staff have been working on evaluating the impacts of Proposition 47, which reduced the classification of most non-serious and non-violent property and drug crimes from a felony to a misdemeanor. Pas-sage of the measure in 2014 allowed hundreds of inmates, being held on charges such as petty theft or pos-session of small amounts of drugs, to be released from state prisons or to appeal their convictions. Critics of the initiative have expressed concern that it could lead to an increase in crime, and a heightened risk to public safety. "It's going to have an impact on us, and I'm trying to understand ex-actly how," Cohen said. "We need to talk a little bit more about the pros-ecution of these crimes. I'm working with the district attorney's office and getting his commitment and his as-surance that this is a priority for him, that he is not plea bargaining out, not letting established criminals go into community courts, but that they are being punished for the crimes that they have committed." In response to the onslaught of construction in the district, Cohen said she wants development that matches the neighborhoods' tone and composition. She'd like to discourage developers from proposing projects that are too dense, and is looking for retailers that will complement the community. "One of the things that I hear often is that people would like a pharmacy in the area, a Rite Aid, a Walgreens, or something like that." While there are Walgreens on Potrero Avenue and on Third Street, the desire for more pharmacies has come from individuals across the district, according to Cohen. As chair of the Board of Supervisors Land Use and Economic Development Committee, which oversees legislation related to zoning, planning, and development, Cohen can play a significant role in green-lighting such projects. On the issue of homelessness, Cohen advocates relaxing the City's rules governing same-sex shelters. One prominent homeless shelter in the district, Providence Baptist Church at 1601 McKinnon Avenue, like the majority of San Francisco's homeless shelters, is gender segregated. "A lot of folks on the street are in couples," Cohen said. "They're hesitant to go into shelters because they don't want to be separated from their husband, or wife, or partner, and they don't want to be separated from their dog if they have one." According to Cohen, there are legitimate reasons for gender segregated shelters, but she wants at least once space that would allow couples. "That's really been the chal-lenge because our City has a policy where there are very few beds for couples. There are family shelters, and then there are male shelters and female shelters," she said. Cohen isn't working on legislation to relax gender segregation at Providence or any other shelter. Cohen supports the proposed Navigation Center, to be located at 16th and Mission streets, which would serve as a triage center, offer-ing services to those most in need. It's intended to move homeless people into treatment and housing, or guide them towards other resources. Cohen is working with City agencies to en-courage them to prioritize homeless people from District 10 at the facility. Cohen said she has no plans to run for another office once she's termed out in four years. Previous Story Previous post: Goat Hill Pizza Celebrates 40 Years of Pies Next Story Next post: Community Group Proposes Alternative Design for Cor-O-Van Site

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- Prison Planet.com - - 'Rulers', 'Foolers', & 'Shooters': They're Closing The Cage In Plain Sight Posted By admin On May 8, 2018 @ 7:55 am In Prison Planet | Comments Disabled Jeremiah Johnson [1] SHTFplan.com, A picture that has been around awhile depicts Homo sapiens society at its finest...as it truly is. There are four "tiers," so to speak, with the politicians, royalty, and rulers occupying the uppermost level, followed by the clergymen and religious swamis on tier two, and then the gendarmes/police/soldiers on tier three. The bottom tier is occupied by the people, supporting the other three tiers upon their back. The caption is "We rule you [Leaders], we fool you [Religious Heads], we shoot you [the "Enforcer" class]. These "tiers" are to be found in every nation, among every people and tongue. It is not a new concept: these three levels of nabobs have existed ever since man formed social communities that encompassed more than the nuclear family. The difference between the past and now: for the first time, these tiers will soon be interconnected regardless of location and mutually supportive of one another to obtain global totalitarian rule. They already have so much in place, as outlined in previous articles: cell phones for most of the populations that transmit user location along with biometrics (in the latest models), interconnected CCTV (Closed Circuit Television) cameras that coordinate and fix your position with the phones, and a record of all that you buy or sell at a POS (Point of Sale) in the happy big-box stores. They have laws to make you pay taxes on income, property, and they will come to seize your property and/or you if you don't pay it...with force. The laws are increasing in number, tightening the corral around you in your daily life...controlling where you can live, what type of home you can build, how you can communicate on the Internet, how you conduct business. Every business has a corresponding government inspector or regulator. The death of cash is coming soon, as governments replace it with EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) completely: they will then be able to keep track of every dime you earn or spend, keep track of what they can tax you (overt theft) and what they can pilfer (covert theft, in the case of an electronic "glitch," a "matter of national security," or some other nonsensical operation). Many people do not realize the depth...the lengths these people are going to in order to achieve global totalitarian rule over all mankind. Recently Bill Gates announced a decision to invest with corporations to place 500 satellites in orbit to be able to monitor every inch of the globe in real-time surveillance. Last week he announced his intentions to develop a "super vaccine" in order to "safeguard" the health of the planet from an outbreak that could kill tens of millions of people. There is one "biggie" that must be "taken care of" before all this control can be finalized: They must first confiscate all firearms. The most recent news headlines show their intent to do just that. Let's take it by "category" of the three tiers: Rulers: The United States' very own Representative Eric Swalwell, (D-CA) is the one representing the first big push toward totalitarian takeover via gun seizures. On Thursday, 5/3/18, Swalwell (as reported by NBC News on an interview with Swalwell by USA Today) proposed a complete ban of what he describes as "military-style semiautomatic assault weapons," along with a government "buy-back" of these rifles...and pursuit of those who refuse it. Swalwell describes this last part as "criminally prosecute any who choose to defy [the buyback] by keeping their weapons." Swalwell cited the Australian mandatory gun buyback laws and as an example used the "unprompted" walkout and demonstrations of Parkland High School students after that school's shooting. Here's what Swalwell had to say: "There's something new and different about the surviving Parkland high schoolers' demands. They dismiss the moral equivalence we've made for far too long regarding the Second Amendment. I've been guilty of it myself, telling constituents and reporters that 'we can protect the Second Amendment and protect lives.' The right to live is supreme over any other. Australia got it right." Foolers: On Sunday, 5/6/18, the Pope came out and said that all firearms must be confiscated and taken away, and that the only firearms must be in the hands of the UN (United Nations). This is not a new thought, as it was John F. Kennedy who proposed a ban of all nuclear weapons and firearms, with the UN "peacekeepers" being the only ones who retained any weapons. That "clarion call" has been echoed by the UN Small Arms Treaty (the one that Bolton...current Secretary of State...refused to sign when he was UN ambassador under Bush Jr.). Sure, many may try to disregard what the Pope is saying...but you can't completely discount anyone who has a billion people under his dominion, spiritually and economically. Shooters: There are two excellent articles for your perusal written by John W. Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute [3]. One of them is entitled Armed and Dangerous: If Police Don't Have to Protect the Public, What Good Are They? [4] on 2/28/18. The other more recent article of 5/2/18 is entitled Dial T for Tyranny: While America Feuds, the Police State Shifts Into High Gear [5]. In "tier 1" of the "Rulers," we have a sitting Representative of Congress who openly advocates bypassing the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the United States by banning a specific type of rifle; he also proposes the governmental "buying" of those semiautomatic rifles. It would do well here to remember the words of Alexis DeTocqueville in "Democracy in America," [para.] "The end of the Republic [America] will come when the government can buy the people with their own money." Then(so-called) Representative Swalwell suggested the government follow (in the event weapons owners do not submit) a violation of due process, as well as the supreme law of the land to illegally confiscate any weapons not submitted under a proposed government buyback...a clear violation of the 2nd Amendment. It runs deeper, as we can see how the "Parkland Students" cited as an example by Swalwell are the new mantra, the new paradigm to enforce social consciousness and supplant Constitutional law with the law of the mob...the "tyranny of the majority" (a phrase of DeTocqueville) inflicting its wishes. Then there's the "Australia got it right" grammatical eyesore of Swalwell's populist jargon, a phony attempt to appear "grass roots" and an average guy...jargon that also pushes the "groupthink" (Australia's doing it, why shouldn't we?) so necessary to obtain global governance. In "tier 2" we have a Marxist who is the leader of one of the world's largest religions openly calling for a confiscation of the guns, with only the UN holding them. As mentioned, this guy has more than a billion people under his control, and he's clearly in the "pocket" of those moving toward global governance. Standard Alinsky principle in "Rules for Radicals" is "organizing the organized." His loyal followers will follow his lead. Don't worry: Protestants, Jews, Mormons, and all the others are also "subjected" to the same playbook, perhaps not under one "figurehead" but with their own "Master of Puppets" enforcing their submittal to his/her authority and then compliance with outside directives of the governments. In "tier 3," when you read these articles, you will come to see how there is no more "Officer Friendly." The police are duty-bound to protect the taxpaying corporate entities, businesses, and politico-oligarchy, and nothing more. They are our jailers, not our protectors. They ensure the continuity of the establishment: the existing social, political, religious, and economic order of things, nothing more. Those who mistakenly believe in the law (as police officers) will eventually be marginalized and drummed out of the force. Recently it was reported in Austin, TX that trainees/police cadets were informed by their instructors that the public are nothing more than cockroaches. In truth, the public pays for their funding...and they are under governmental control and direction: to obtain ad valorem for the municipal and state coffers while keeping the beeves moving, "tagging" the strays with tickets for the quotas and ensuring the docility of the herd. The rulers, "foolers," and shooters are tightening their grasp by the day, aided by the ever-increasing technology that allows for more surveillance and control, along with the stultified and complacent mentality of the public. There is a conspiracy, but it is not a theory: it is a fact. It is no longer a hidden agenda, but openly being pursued in plain sight. The goal is global governance and the complete abrogation of all rights. We're seeing it today, and it becomes worse with the passage of time. Article printed from Prison Planet.com: URL to article: [1] Jeremiah Johnson: [2] Image: [3] Rutherford Institute: [4] Armed and Dangerous: If Police Don't Have to Protect the Public, What Good Are They?: [5] Dial T for Tyranny: While America Feuds, the Police State Shifts Into High Gear: Copyright © 2013 PrisonPlanet.com. All rights reserved.

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Relay of Voices research expedition travels length of Mississippi LET'S TALK TRASH: Separate non-burnable from burnable waste COMMENTARY: Past Minnesota VFW Commander says veterans deserve the Veterans Restorative Justice Act FAITH BRIEFS By Enterprise Staff on Mar 7, 2019 at 4:11 p.m. Faith briefs from area churches. St. Johns Lutheran (Park Rapids) Worship with us Sunday at 8 or 10:30 a.m. Sunday, March 10. The sermon is titled "A Walk Through the Wilderness," based on Luke 4:1-13. Bible study and Sunday School are held between services at 9:15 a.m. St. Johns sponsors "The Lutheran Hour" broadcast on KPRM 870AM at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday. This week's topic is "Through Another's Eyes," based on John 9:1-41. Join us Wednesday, March 13 for our second Lenten service at noon or 6 p.m., with a light lunch following the noon service and a light supper preceding the evening service. St. Johns (LCMS) is located on Highway 34 across from the Hubbard County Fairgrounds. For more information, contact the church at 732-9783 or visit our website at . Hubbard United Methodist "Catch the Hubbard Spirit" at Hubbard United Methodist Church when the lively hymn sing begins at 8:45 a.m. on Sunday, March 10. We continue with worship at 9 a.m. with Rev. Laurie Kantonen. Join us as we begin our Lenten Season. This week's message is "A New Identity," based on Matthew 5:1-16. Our choir anthem this week will be "The Pure in Heart," with music by Patrick Hawes. All are invited to stay for coffee fellowship following the Sunday service. Thank God It's Wednesday (TGIW) schedule for next week: Kids' Club and youth group, 4:30 p.m.; supper, 5:30 p.m.; worship service and tutoring, 6 p.m.; choir practice, 7 p.m. Eastside Christian Church This Sunday, March 10, Eastside Christian Church invites you to join us for worship and our pastoral message at 8:30, 10 and 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Join us as we begin our series "Modgnik." Is it a new dance move? Maybe it's a high-tech material used in space exploration. Learning the meaning behind this mysterious word will be full of wisdom and spiritual truth. Wondering what your next step is? Try "Next Steps" during our 10 a.m. service. Find out what Eastside is all about, what God is doing here and how you can join in our exciting journey. Jump in any week. Children ages birth through fifth grade are welcome in Kidside during each service. We are located 6 miles southeast of Park Rapids at 16623 State Hwy 87. Check out . Join us in worship this season of Advent at Riverside United Methodist Church, Highway 71 North in Park Rapids. Worship is led by Pastors Chip and Lori Nielsen. Riverside offers a traditional service at 8:30 a.m. and a contemporary service at 10:30 a.m., with a staffed nursery available at both services. The building is handicap accessible, and bus service is available in Park Rapids city limits to the 10:30 a.m. service; call the church office at 732-5205 to schedule a pickup. Communion is served the first Sunday of each month, and all are welcome. This Sunday, March 10, is the first Sunday of Lent. Pastor Chip Nielsen will begin a new sermon series on the Beatitudes with the message, "Realizing the Good Life Now: Heaven Happens." For more information about worship, outreach and programming, call 732-5205 or visit . Become a fan on Facebook. Lakes Area Vineyard Church Join us for our Sunday morning worship service! We are a community of believers with an outward focus on mission and a vision of experiencing God, growing in love and giving it away. Service time is 10 a.m. Vineyard Kids is available for nursery through fourth grade. Vineyard Church is located at 17765 State Hwy. 34 in Park Rapids. For more details check us out at . Faithbridge Church Faithbridge Church worship schedule includes a traditional service at 8:15 a.m., Sunday school for all ages at 9:30 a.m., and a contemporary service at 10:45 a.m., which is streamed live from our website. Fellowship time begins at 9 a.m. A staffed nursery is available at both services. Wednesday night activities from 6:55 to 8:30 p.m. include AWANA, God's Path Seekers (GPS), Faith Student Ministries (FSM) and Parents Time Out coffee and conversation. Faithbridge is located on Highway 71 South in Park Rapids. For more information, call the church office at 732-1404 or visit . Calvary Lutheran Church Calvary Lutheran Church welcomes all for services. Saturday service is at 5:30 p.m. Sunday worship is at 8 and 10 a.m. Coffee and fellowship will be at 9 a.m. Sunday in the fellowship hall. Total Impact Bible study for senior high youth is at 7 a.m. Monday at Bella Caffé - a great kick-start for the week. Text study of the Sunday readings will be at 10 a.m. Monday in the Luther Room. Christian Life Study Group meets at 5 p.m. Monday. Tai Chi meets at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the youth commons. Release time begins at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday. After-school program for youth grades K-5 is 3-5 p.m. Wednesday. Bell choir will practice at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Stephen Ministry is at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday. Heritage Living Center Bible study is at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Faith Conversations begin at 3 p.m. Thursday at Knute Nelson. Men's Fellowship will meet at 7 a.m. Friday. Trinity Church - Episcopal and Presbyterian Morning worship on Sunday will begin at 9 a.m., with coffee time and fellowship to follow. The church office will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, with a service of morning prayer at 9:30 a.m. The congregation will observe its tradition of "Cookie Day," with each member encouraged to bring a half-dozen cookies to share during coffee hour, every Sunday until attendance picks up at the end of winter. Trinity Church is a unique partnership recognized by the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota and the Presbyterian Church (USA). It is located at Court Ave. and Third St. W. in Park Rapids, and is handicap accessible. Look for the red doors. Our Lady of the Pines The church is located at 205 Main St. W. in Nevis. Phone: 652-4005. Assemblies of God Church Sunday school at Assemblies of God begins at 9:30 a.m. for all ages. At 10:30 a.m. there is a praise and worship experience. Wednesday night Bible study is from 7 to 8:15 p.m. for all ages. Office hours at Assemblies of God are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For additional information, call the church at 732-8818. The church is located at 208 Western Ave. South in Park Rapids; half a mile west of the fairgrounds off of Highway 34. St. John's Lutheran (Akeley) We are located at the corner of Carroll Street and Pleasant Avenue, one block south of Highway 34 in Akeley. Come and be a part of our church family! Nevis Church of Christ Nevis Church of Christ is located at the corner of Pleasant Ave. and Bunyan Trails Road (County Road 2) in Nevis. Services at the church are at 10 a.m. on Sundays, with junior worship during the service. Adult Bible study is at 9 a.m. The church has a bus available for transportation if needed. All are welcome to attend. For more information or to arrange to be picked up for services, call Pastor Paul at 652-3900. Park Rapids SDA Church Join the Park Rapids Seventh-Day Adventist Church this Saturday with Sabbath School beginning at 9:30 a.m. and Worship at 11 a.m. The church is located at 18908 Elisha Dr., a mile and a half west of Park Rapids. For more information visit their website at parkrapidsmn.adventistchurch.org. Peace Lutheran Church Sunday morning worship at Peace Lutheran Church (LCMC) begins at 9:30 a.m. Services on the first and third Sundays of the month are a traditional service, and the second and fourth are contemporary. Women's community Bible study meets on Mondays at 1 p.m. Men's Bible study meets at 8 a.m. Wednesdays. Follow us on Facebook! The church is located at 24025 State 34 in Nevis. For more information, visit , call 652-6508, or email or . Akeley UMC The Akeley United Methodist congregation exists to serve the Hubbard County Communities in any way we can. If you are looking for a church home to connect with others and grow in your faith journey, you'll find a place to belong at Akeley UMC! Akeley United Methodist Church is located one block south of the Hwy. 34 & Hwy. 64 intersection, on State 64 in Akeley. Questions? Call 218-252-6251 or 218-652-2572. Redeemer Lutheran Church Redeemer Lutheran Church (LCMS) is located at 15 12th St. SE in Menahga. Worship is led by Pastor David Walsh at 9 a.m. Sunday, and a Bible study is held at 7 p.m. Wednesday. For more information, call 564-4931 or visit . Heartland Lutheran Community Church The Heartland Lutheran Community Parish invites all to worship Sunday at 9 a.m. at Bethany Lutheran Church in Nevis and 10:30 a.m. at First Lutheran Church in Akeley. All are welcome at the Lord's Supper every Sunday. Fellowship coffee at First Lutheran begins at 9:30 a.m. and follows the worship at Bethany. Visitors are always welcome! The community dinner at Bethany is from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the last Thursday of every month. All are invited to these free monthly meals, a time for food and fellowship. Bethany prayer chain is at 652-3485 or . For more information go to Facebook, , or . Fellowship Baptist Church is located at Pleasant and Main streets in Nevis, half a block east of the giant muskie. Call Pastor Tom Drury at 952-222-0596 for more information. First Baptist Church is located at 909 W. 8th St., Park Rapids. For more information, call 732-3321 or visit . Frontline Church Join us for worship Sundays at 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m. Weekly small groups are also available. Pastor Russell Smith's purpose is to introduce Jesus to people and connect them with their destiny in God. Frontline Church is located at 15936 192nd Street in Park Rapids, one mile north of Walmart and one block east of Henrietta Avenue. To contact us, call 237-3727, email or visit . Grace Community Grace Community Church of Osage invites all to a worship service on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Preceding the service is Sunday school and an adult Bible class at 9:30 a.m. Following the morning service there is a weekly time of fellowship and refreshments. The church is located one block north of the old schoolhouse in Osage. Grace also hosts a community breakfast each Wednesday at 9 a.m. with a freewill donation. Also available are a women's Bible study Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. and an adult Bible study Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Pastor Paul McKibben can be reached at 573-3143. Iglesia Cristo Viene Damos la bienvenida a nuestros amigos españoles de habla hispana en los Servicios de becas que se celebra todos los sábados a las 4:30 p.m. Iglesia Puente de Fe Fireside Sala del Centro de Vida Familiar en el 1505 Park Ave. S. (Note: This Spanish-language ministry meets in the fireside room at the Faithbridge Church Family Life Center.) The Restoration Christian Church currently meets on Sunday evenings at 6 p.m. in the basement of the Park Rapids Library. For more information call 237-1700 or visit their website at . First English Lutheran, Dorset First English Lutheran Church (LCMS) is located at 20252 State Hwy. 226 in Dorset. The Rev. Chris Davis is pastor. Sunday worship is at 9 a.m. with Sunday school and Bible study at 10:30 a.m. Book club meets at 9 a.m. on Thursdays. A Bible class is at 10:30 a.m. on Fridays. Men's club meets at 8 a.m. the second and fourth Fridays of the month. Lutheran Women's Missionary League meets at 1 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month. For more information, call 732-9466 or visit dorsetlutheran.org. Community of Hope Church of the Nazarene Park Rapids Community of Hope Church of the Nazarene, formerly Evergreen Church, invites all to worship service and Bible study every Sunday at 10 a.m., as well as women's group every Thursday at 6:30 p.m. and men's group every Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome to join in fellowship, study and worship, with a goal of bringing the hope of Christ to the Park Rapids community. Contact Campus Pastor Seth Keysor at 330-1130 for more information, find them on Facebook at , or at . The church campus is located at 295 Western Ave. S. in Park Rapids. New Life Community Church Join New Life Community Church on a journey to know God better. Sunday school classes for all ages meet every Sunday at 9 a.m., followed by the worship service at 10 a.m. New Life Community Church is a non-denominational church located at 600 Bridge Street in Park Rapids; two blocks north and two blocks west of Holiday gas station. Bethany Lutheran Sunday Worship at Bethany Lutheran Church (LCMC) in Menahga begins at 10:30 a.m. with Pastor James Hallaway officiating. Sunday school is on the first and third Sundays of the month at 9:30 a.m. during the school year. The church is located at 59423 140th Street in Menahga. For more information visit or call 564-4610. Friends In Christ Lutheran Sunday worship at First In Christ Lutheran Church (LCMC) in Sebeka begins at 9:30 a.m. with Pastor James Hallaway officiating. Sunday school begins at 10:30 a.m. during the school year. The church is located at 305 5th Street NW in Sebeka at the DAC building. For more information visit or call 564-4610. First English Lutheran, Menahga Sunday Worship at First English Lutheran Church (LCMC) in Menahga begins at 8:30 a.m. with Pastor James Hallaway officiating. Sunday school begins at 9:45 a.m. during the school year. The church is located at 17 Main St. NW in Menahga. For more information visit or call 564-4610. Join White Oak Bible Chapel for Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. Worship services begin at 11 a.m. White Oak Bible Chapel is located at 30908 170th St. in Akeley for questions call the church at 652-3848. Sunday Mass at Assumption of Our Lady Catholic church in Menahga begins at 10:30 a.m. Thursday Mass at Green Pines Acres Nursing Home begins at 10 a.m. The church is located at 113 Aspen Ave. in Menahga. For more information contact the church at 564-4509. Messiah Yahusha Disciples of Messiah Yahusha are meeting each Sabbath in homes. For more information, call 766-8176. Gethsemane Lutheran Join in worship at Gethsemane Lutheran Church in Snellman every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. with Holy Communion every first and third Sunday of the month. Bible class and Sunday school begin at 9:30 a.m. St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church is located at 305 W. 5th St. in Park Rapids. Mass is at 5 p.m. on Saturday and 9 a.m. on Sunday. Office hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday. For more information, call Father Thomas Friedl at 732-5142 or visit stpeterpr.org. Mass is at 11 a.m. on Sunday at St. Mary's Catholic Church and Grotto, 55744 County Road 44 in Two Inlets. For more information, call Father Thomas Friedl at 732-5142 or visit . Explore related OUTDOOR BRIEFS1 hour ago Editorial cartoon1 hour ago Don't leave your pet in a car where temps rise rapidly1 hour ago

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Discover great cities in your pocket with Pilot Pocket Guides, get under the skin of a place with The Grassroots Tour or relax with Slow TV, all free to view. Presenter : Ian Cross Share this series Buy this Series Canberra Style Australia's capital, Canberra, a city described by writer Bill Bryson as, "living death" on account of its lifeless exterior, may well be a triumph of style over content, but its modern cityscape remains cutting edge. Travel journalist, Ian Cross, takes to the road for a series of short reports on people, places and events across the globe - The Grassroots Tour... Architect and city planner, Walter Burley Griffin, a colleague and student of Frank Lloyd Wright, laid out the city less than 100 years ago. His symmetrical vision of straight lines, circles and curves is still in evidence today. The futuristic Academy of Science building was built more than 50 years ago in the 1960s. Opposite is the brand new Hotel Hotel in the New Acton district which carries on this innovative tradition, having won many Australian architectural and design awards. The National Gallery offers an impressive James Turell installation, in addition to showcasing Australia's premier artworks and foreign prizes like Jackson Pollock's Blue Poles. Canberra is home to Australia's national Parliament, a building built into the hillside of the appropriately named Capitol Hill. A very popular attraction here is the Australian War Memorial. One of the oldest national institutions in the capital, its Hall of Remembrance, houses the tomb of the unknown soldier. Outside the pool of reflection is centred by the eternal flame, surrounded by the Roll of Honour, walls containing the names of more than 100,000 Australians killed in world wars. Red poppies adorn the walls in a moving tribute to the fallen. Across town in the New Acton district, Canberra rushes into the future. This is a new city looking forward, true to the futuristic vision of the architect who developed it less than 100 years ago. Presenter/voice/producer: Ian Cross Photography: Robin Constable Places Mentioned - Australia Share the series View Destination Guide Modern Brisbane Sydney Mini Walk Hamilton Hume: The Bushman Behind The Highway While in 2017 you can drive the entire distance between Sydney and Melbourne in 10 to 12 hours, the original Hume-Hovell expedition in 1824 took 18 weeks.... GLOBE TREKKER - ULTIMATE AUSTRALIA In this Ultimate Double DVD guide to Australia,...

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Streetcar from St. Paul to Airport Takes an Initial Step Forward Regional interests around the Twin Cities are considering a proposal that would connect St. Paul to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and the city of Bloomington by streetcar. December 18, 2017, 7am PST | James Brasuell | @CasualBrasuell Riverview Corridor A plan to build a modern streetcar line to connect Downtown St. Paul to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and the city of Bloomington is moving forward, after a regional committee approved the plan. "After three years of study and 29 public meetings, the Riverview Corridor's policy advisory committee voted 11-2 on Thursday in support of the future $1.4 billion to $2 billion transit line, which would travel down West Seventh Street in St. Paul and cross the Mississippi River at or near the Minnesota 5 bridge," reports Frederick Melo. As Melo notes, the streetcar "would share a travel lane of West Seventh Street with local traffic" and "operate no more than one train car at a time" so transit advocates might have some reason to criticize the proposal. Melo also notes that despite the approval and all the study already completed, years of planning, environmental, and engineering work remain before the project can break ground. "Over the next several months, local municipalities such as St. Paul, Bloomington, Hennepin and Ramsey counties, and the Metropolitan Airports Commission will be expected to vote on the transit concept, which will eventually be added to the Metropolitan Council's regional transit plan," according to Melo. Panel approves St. Paul-to-airport streetcar concept, but much more work to come Published on Thursday, December 14, 2017 in Pioneer Press

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PLUGGED IN RATING Watch This Review Victory is so sweet. Especially when you win countless awards and receive mountains of recognition. But nothing lasts forever. And when the stage lights and applause die out, the only thing left is reality. That is exactly where the former Barden Bellas have found themselves these days: trudging through the mundane routines of post-competition life. Until one day, that is, when they get a call from a current Barden Bella, Emily, inviting them to reunite. Brimming with renewed purpose, the Bellas prepare to take the stage once again. That's when they discover they've been asked to watch, not to perform. Bummer. Talk about a complex. But it's hard to keep a good Bella down. So these young women devise a plan to reclaim their a cappella fame: performing for military personnel and their families on the USO tour in Europe. But when they get to France, they find that the competition is far tougher than they expected. Facing stakes higher than they've ever been, the Bellas must rally together one last time as they compete for the top spot and work to remain a loyal, musical family. Beca and Fat Amy share an apartment these days, working hard to stay positive about where their lives have taken them. And when all of the members of the Barden Bellas reunite, they realize that they can still have fun shooting for the stars. And what says "shooting for the stars" better than a European tour? After the women arrive in France, Fat Amy consoles Aubrey, who's disappointed that her father may not be able to see her last performance as a Bella. Later, Fat Amy ponders the possibility of reconnecting with her own father (who's just reappeared in her life), though she's hesitant because he's a criminal with a tendency to bend the truth. A soldier named Chicago, along with his partner, offer to be personal body guards for the women - especially in one particularly threatening situation. After realizing that they may not win the competition, the Bellas set aside their insecurities and decide to have fun instead of just competing. And that leads to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Beca. In support of Beca, the members of the group agree that family members hold each other up, not back. Finally, we hear public recognition for all the hard work and sacrifice made by American troops, even as Beca sings about the importance of trust and remaining faithful: "I won't let you down, I will not give you up." Lilly, who's notorious for her silence, eventually speaks, saying, "Satan has finally left my body." Flo responds by crossing herself. One of the Bellas, Stacie, is pregnant. When asked who the father is, she shrugs as if it's unknown and unimportant. The women dance provocatively on- and offstage. The Bellas and other competitors wear short skirts and dresses, as well as low-cut shirts baring cleavage, bras and midriffs. One man rips open his shirt, while another stands shirtless, and we see men and women in bathing suits at a pool and at the beach. Fat Amy says she knows some of her father's criminal associates "really well," implying past sexual experiences with them. She's also responsible for most of the movie's sexual innuendos. Fat Amy talks about a band named Ever Moist, while referring to her own grandmother as "never moist." We hear a crude references to a "camel toe," as well as comments about various body parts and Fat Amy's promiscuous past. There's also a gag about a tattoo her boyfriend has on his backside. When referring to how close she feels to the Bellas, a singer named Chloe says, "I'm inside all of you and it feels so good." In one scene she "accidentally" grabs Beca's breasts for an extended amount of time. She also tells the women they won't have to "sleep on top of each other" since they have their own rooms, which visibly interests Chicago (whom she eventually kisses). Some song lyrics are suggestive, such as those we hear in the tune "Ignition." Someone crudely quips that Beca must be having her period when she refuses to produce a song entitled "Bend Over." She is referred to as "sweet cheeks" by one of the announcers, who also says he got footage of "a little bit of ... panties." Someone comments that she intends to pursue a career in the Air Force, now that they "accept gay people." There's a double entendre gag about the women being in a "sea of seamen." A Chicken's Guide to Talking Turkey With Your Kids About Sex Kevin Leman Even the bravest parents feel timid about discussing sex with their 8- to 14-year-olds! This resource offers reassuring, humorous, real-life anecdotes along with reliable information to help you with this challenging task. Aubrey says her father "basically killed Osama bin Laden." Fat Amy refers to her father as having used C-4 explosives. [Spoiler Warning] After Fat Amy finds that her father has sent men to abduct the Bellas, she threatens, "I will kill you." Fat Amy beats up a few men along the way, twisting the nipples of one and knocking out the rest during one pursuit scene. She even has a knife fight with one of those antagonists (though no one is seriously injured), and an explosion follows. A yacht is named the "Fat Dingo B--ch." We hear several s-words, as well as uses of "b--ch" and "h---." We also hear insults such as "slutty," "idiot" and "stupid." Emily tells the girls to "pick up their t-ts" and says that during their performance they "sucked b-lls." Someone says she could "crap herself." Various scenes show the Barden Bellas, as well as other characters, drinking beer, liquor and wine. Fat Amy's father tries to reconnect with her for selfish, manipulative reasons. One scene shows Chloe, who's working as a veterinarian, with her hand in a cow's backside. One character mockingly refers to a group of woman as looking "like they were breastfed." A competition announcer makes sexist comments about women not being as intelligent as men. One scene shows a woman and man licking the same Starburst wrapper. In a recent interview with Elle, actress Anna Kendrick (who plays Beca) described how those involved with this franchise have bonded while filming these three movies. "We got especially close. ... I just feel so proud. It's such a diverse group. I think I didn't fully appreciate until the third one how rare it is to work with ten women from such different backgrounds. We're close in age, but we have such different points of view and such different senses of humor. I feel very lucky." It's truly a precious thing to form such close friendships with people who are different than you. And while those tight, largely positive bonds are evident in the latest Pitch Perfect film, so are a variety of other things. Pitch Perfect 3 has some funny moments, to be sure. But too often, they come at these characters' expense (especially in the case of Rebel Wilson's Fat Amy). The humor here is often loaded with sexual innuendo and crass vulgarity, too. So despite this film's undeniable feel-good moments, it's still quite a ways from perfect. Anna Kendrick as Beca; Rebel Wilson as Fat Amy; Brittany Snow as Chloe; Anna Camp as Aubrey; Hailee Steinfeld as Emily; Ester Dean as Cynthia Rose; Hana Mae Lee as Lilly; Kelley Jakle as Jessica; Shelley Regner as Ashley; Chrissie Fit as Flo; Elizabeth Banks as Gail; John Michael Higgins as John; John Lithgow as Fergus; Matt Lanter as Chicago; Guy Burnet as Theo; Alexis Knapp as Stacie; DJ Khaled as himself; Troy Ian Hall as Zeke; Michael Rose as Aubrey's Father; Ruby Rose as Calamity; Andy Allo as Serenity; Venzella Joy as Charity Trish Sie ( ) Kristin Smith Content Caution Chasing Happiness

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PAID SICK LEAVE FOR ALL! It's time to add hand sanitizer and medical face masks to your company's office supply list. The cost of doing business in California just went up (yet again!) especially as it pertains to lost employee time due to illness. Over the Labor Day holiday weekend, the California legislature worked feverishly to beat the deadline to pass new legislation, and approved the largest expansion of employer-paid sick leave in the nation. Assembly Bill 1522, which was promptly signed by the Governor and becomes effective on July 1, 2015, provides that all employees who work at least 30 days per year must accrue paid sick leave at the rate of one hour for every thirty (30) hours worked. This means that every full-time (40 hours per week) employee could earn as many as 70 hours per year of paid sick leave. The legislature did provide a small reprieve by allowing employers to put a "soft cap" on the accrual of the new benefits, as long as every employee receives a minimum of three (3) days or twenty-four (24) hours of paid sick leave each year. Part-time employees accrue at the same rate, and may be subject to the same "soft cap." Much like vacation time, the new paid sick leave benefits will carry over to the next calendar year (though the maximum accrual from year-to-year can be capped at six (6) days or forty-eight (48) hours). Unlike vacation time, however, sick leave does not need to be paid out at the time of separation (e.g. resignation, termination or layoff). The new law provides that paid sick leave may be used to take care of the employee, as well as family members (including parents, grandparents, domestic partners, etc.). The law also specifically forbids discrimination or retaliation against an employee who requests paid sick days. Failure to provide notice to all employees or failure to comply with the new requirements will subject the employer to statutory penalties, liability for lost wages/benefits, interest and, of course, plaintiff's attorneys' fees and costs. Employers of any size are required to comply. Employees may begin using their accrued benefits after 90 calendar says of continuous service. The legislature also specifically indicated that "exempt" employees (those employees who are not subject to the wage and hour requirements set forth in the Industrial Wage Commission's Wage Orders) are subject to the new protections. This poses an interesting problem for business owners, since it will effectively require them to track and confirm that exempt employees are receiving the appropriate benefits, even though the employer would generallynot track the exempt employee's work hours. The only employees who are specifically excluded are: (1) Union employees subject to a collective bargaining agreement that provides sick leave and earn 30% more than the state minimum wage; (2) Construction employees subject to a collective bargaining agreement that specifically waives the protections of the new law; (3) flight crew members covered by the federal Railway Labor Act; and (4) certain in-home supportive services providers. What should you do if you are a California employer? First, contact competent employment law counsel to discuss revising any existing sick leave policies and procedures to comply with the new law, and to ensure that the "soft cap" language is properly drafted, limiting your liability. In addition, all wage statements (a/k/a paystubs) should be updated to reflect accrued sick leave pursuant to Labor Code section 226. Finally, the latest "Wage Theft Notification" poster, which will include updated information regarding sick leave, should be posted beginning on January 1, 2015. Though obtaining a new poster may be the least of your concerns, there is a $1,000 penalty for failure to have an up-to-date notice. While the motivation behind this new law seems fair and just on its face (protecting workers from losing income due to illness), the legislature has been unable to articulate why it should be the employer's burden to bear the cost of employee illness, especially during a period when more businesses are leaving the state, than coming in. California small business owners may be forced to take a sick day of their own after realizing what the cost of AB 1522 will be on their business!

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TicketGuardian and International Speedway Corporation "ISC" Partner to Offer Ticket Insurance to All Motorsports Fans LOS ANGELES, March 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- TicketGuardian announced today that it has entered into an exclusive partnership with International Speedway Corporation (ISC) to offer millions of NASCAR fans ticket insurance to ISC motorsports facilities. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, TicketGuardian will start providing an option for fans to insure their tickets to major motorsports events when they buy them in advance. ISC owns and/or operates 13 of the nation's premier motorsports entertainment facilities, which include historic Daytona International Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway and ISM Raceway, of which TicketGuardian is the title sponsor of the TicketGuardian 500, held in Arizona this March. "Our partnership with ISC couldn't be any more exciting!" says Bryan Derbyshire, Founder and CEO of TicketGuardian. "The opportunity for TicketGuardian to work for such a dedicated group of fans is a major milestone towards our endeavors in the live events industry and with the help of ISC, we hope that peace of mind and TicketGuardian become synonymous with motorsports fans everywhere," added Derbyshire. TicketGuardian's insurance technology provides fans a feeling of security when buying tickets in advance. With low-cost coverage, fans are protected from the burden of having to resell their ticket or losing their money altogether if they're unable to attend the event. Customers instead can receive a refund despite the traditional status quo of events, tickets, and registrations being non-refundable. "We are excited about our new partnership with TicketGuardian," adds Tom Canello, Managing Director of Consumer Engagement Services at ISC. "Their fresh approach to providing a low-cost ticket insurance coverage option is a benefit to our race fans and provides peace of mind that their purchases are protected. We look forward to integrating TicketGuardian into the ISC family of tracks." ISC was founded in 1953 and is a leading promoter of motorsports themed entertainment activities in the United States. ISC's facilities are located in six of the nation's top 13 media markets, and nearly 80 percent of the country's population is located within the primary trading areas of its facilities. About TicketGuardian TicketGuardian is a full transactional insurance engine, built for the non-refundable world that is ticketing and events. Founded in 2016, TicketGuardian's intuitive and easy-to-use platform provides low cost coverage to protect attendees from financial stress, should normal life circumstances prevent them from attending an event. Based in California, TicketGuardian provides ticket protection in various different markets in addition to racing, including concerts, festivals, professional sporting events, endurance races, conferences and more. Find out more at TicketGuardian.net. About International Speedway Corporation ISC is a leading promoter of motorsports activities, currently promoting more than 100 racing events annually as well as numerous other motorsports-related activities. The company owns and/or operates 13 of the nation's major motorsports entertainment facilities, including Daytona International Speedway® in Florida (home of the DAYTONA 500®); Talladega Superspeedway® in Alabama; Michigan International Speedway® located outside Detroit; Richmond Raceway® in Virginia; Auto Club Speedway of Southern CaliforniaSM near Los Angeles; Kansas Speedway® in Kansas City, Kansas; ISM Raceway near Phoenix, Arizona; Chicagoland Speedway® and Route 66 RacewaySM near Chicago, Illinois; Homestead-Miami SpeedwaySM in Florida; Martinsville Speedway® in Virginia; Darlington Raceway® in South Carolina; and Watkins Glen International® in New York. The company also owns and operates Motor Racing NetworkSM, the nation's largest independent sports radio network and Americrown Service CorporationSM, a subsidiary that provides catering services, and food and beverage concessions. In addition, the company owns ONE DAYTONA, the retail, dining and entertainment development across from Daytona International Speedway, and has a 50 percent interest in the Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway. For more information, visit the company's website at InternationalSpeedwayCorporation.com. Bryan Derbyshire March 6, 2018 TicketGuardian and International Speedway Corporation "ISC" Partner to Offer Ticket Insurance to Motorsports Fans TicketGuardian Partners with EzTix to Offer Refundable Tickets

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DVD|When Hollywood Learned to Talk, Sing and Dance DVD | DVDs When Hollywood Learned to Talk, Sing and Dance By DAVE KEHR JAN. 15, 2010 AS the snowballing box-office success of "Avatar" suggests a paradigm shift in film, it's rewarding to contemplate the last time the movies assumed a new dimension, that of sound. The gradual transition from silent films to talkies took place between 1926 and 1930 and included many small steps - both technological developments and adjustments to audience expectations - before it was complete. Many of these steps are vividly illustrated by a group of nine early musicals released last month by the Warner Archive Collection, the burn-on-demand division of Warner Home Video. The limited scale of the Archive Collection makes sense for these titles, most of which are in imperfect condition and would not have been suitable for a mass-market home video release. Some were shot in two-color Technicolor and survive only as black-and-white prints that suffer from fuzzy definition and low contrast. Others have their Technicolor sequences intact but are marred by dirt and scratches. All of these films reflect the limitations on sound recording of the time; to modern ears they will seem hollow and tinny. The transition to sound was carried on the backs of two genres, the gangster film and the musical. Gangster films were already in vogue, thanks to the success of Josef von Sternberg's "Underworld" (1927), but they flourished when sound introduced the sensational elements of chattering machine guns, screaming tires and, most important, the varied timbres of contemporary American speech, bursting with vivid idioms ("Aw, go slip on the ice!") and filtered through every accent known to man. Early talkies seemed to revel in the range and diversity of American English, from the elocutionary exercises of transplanted Broadway stars like Conrad Nagel and Claudette Colbert to the creative manglings practiced by ethnic comedians like Benny Rubin, Stepin Fetchit, Leo Carrillo and Herman Bing. Here is what America sounded like before time and television made Nebraskans of us all. Music, of course, was a key component of the Vitaphone short subjects that, as they began to appear in 1926, probably played the crucial role in establishing sound as an added value for audiences: "The Jazz Singer," for example, was preceded by the 1926 Vitaphone short "A Plantation Act" in which Al Jolson performed three songs in blackface and employed his famous signature line, "You ain't heard nothin' yet." Some of the early musical features resemble random collections of shorts strung together - isolated musical numbers and comedy bits introduced by masters of ceremonies. Most of the studios made revue films as a quick way to get their stars before the microphones - and to see who would survive the transition and who would not. The Warner Archive Collection batch includes two of them. MGM's "Hollywood Revue of 1929" features many of that studio's fabled roster of contract players - John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Buster Keaton, Joan Crawford, William Haines - gamely singing, dancing and performing comedy bits; from Warner Brothers, "The Show of Shows" seems almost aggressive in the way it pits the studio's biggest stars of the silent era, including John Barrymore and Rin Tin Tin, against peppy newcomers like Sally Eilers and Chester Morris. Another strain of early musicals consisted of Broadway shows simply transplanted to Hollywood (or Astoria) sound stages and back lots. The Warner Archive Collection includes RKO's 1929 "Rio Rita," a Florenz Ziegfeld hit from 1927 with songs by Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy. An operetta with a western theme, the film is at its most awkward when it is straining to be cinematic, by staging the action on a back-lot ranchero; it recovers its fluidity in the final two reels - presented here in well-preserved red-and-green Technicolor - which take place on a highly stylized interior set representing a gambling ship. Warner Brothers persuaded the Broadway favorite Charlotte Greenwood ("Oklahoma!") to recreate her 1916 Broadway hit "So Long Letty" (1929) for the Vitaphone cameras, with the play's startling wife-swapping plot intact. (Enforcement of the Production Code was almost five years away.) The oddest of this bunch is "Golden Dawn," a transplant of a bizarre 1927 show by Oscar Hammerstein II, Otto Harbach and Emmerich Kalman. The film is set during World War I in a jungle encampment in German East Africa, where captured British officers look on in imperialist frustration as the local savages prepare to sacrifice a white virgin (Vivienne Segal) to their "grinning, wooden god," and Noah Beery, in blackface as a Simon Legree-like overseer, croons a love song to his favorite whip. Filmed entirely in Technicolor, it survives only in black-and-white, which may be just as well. The most fertile of the early forms, though, was the backstage musical. Direct inspiration may have come from the show business plotline of "The Jazz Singer" (and of that film's more financially successful follow-up, "The Singing Fool"). But the father of all backstage musicals was probably "Broadway," an enormously successful 1926 stage piece by George Abbott and Philip Dunning (brilliantly filmed by Paul Fejos for Universal in 1929, and a movie in dire need of restoration). From left, Lawrence Gray, Vivian Duncan and Rosetta Duncan in "It's a Great Life" (1929). Credit Warner Brothers Entertainment By cutting between the stylized performance space of the stage to the naturalistic drama unfolding in the wings, the backstage musical offered a way of integrating music and dialogue that did not disrupt the established tenets of movie realism. Audience members who may have been tempted to laugh when the jungle girl of "Golden Dawn" started crooning the love song "My Bwanna" had no trouble accepting show folk doing much the same thing. "On With the Show!," directed by the Alan Crosland ("The Jazz Singer") and released in 1929, establishes many of the themes that would soon become clichés: the bankrupt producer (Sam Hardy) hustling for money; the temperamental star (Betty Compson); the lovable stage doorman, Dad (Thomas Jefferson); the chorus girl (Sally O'Neil) who goes out there a nobody and comes back a star. "They Learned About Women" (1930) offers the forgotten vaudeville team of Joe Schenck and Gus Van as baseball players who work as song-and-dance men in the off-season. (A woman comes along and nearly breaks up their act.) "It's a Great Life" (1929) presents the equally obscure Rosetta and Vivian Duncan as a pair of performing sisters. (A man comes along and nearly breaks up their act.) Mervyn LeRoy's 1930 "Show Girl in Hollywood" is a backstage musical set in a movie studio that also functions as a documentary on early sound technology. As glimpsed in LeRoy's film that technology now seems outlandishly cumbersome. Noisy, clattering contraptions, cameras still had to be isolated in soundproof booths, from which they peered with fixed, telephoto lenses. Because sound mixing was still primitive, and the trick of performing to a recorded "playback" had not yet been discovered, live orchestras had to be present off screen to accompany the performers. Musical sequences were performed in continuity, with as many as six cameras (as we see at one point in "Show Girl") positioned at different angles, to allow intercutting in the editing room. The results could be visually flat and dramatically stiff, but because no one had yet laid down the rules, there was also a freedom to experiment in the air. For example, in "It's a Great Life," directed by the decidedly nonadventurous Sam Wood, one of the Duncan sisters suddenly "hears" the other calling her name from her sickbed in another city, a blatantly nonnaturalistic use of sound that would have been problematical just a year later. Intriguingly, as sound grew more naturalistic, the visual element was allowed to become more unreal. Gradually the static camera assuming the position of a spectator in the center of the auditorium unmoors itself and begins to float free, assuming "impossible" angles, like overhead shots of the chorus line. And where the production numbers of 1929 mostly respect the actual dimensions of a theater stage, by 1930 they had expanded into the non-Euclidean dream space that Busby Berkeley would soon be exploring so brilliantly. "It's a Great Life" climaxes with a Technicolor production number, "Sailing on a Sunbeam," that erases any sense of a proscenium, as giggling chorus girls glide down giant chutes in every direction. Hollywood turned out too many musicals in those first years of sound, and audiences grew tired of them: it's said that some theaters started advertising "Not a musical" to lure patrons back. Will Hollywood overproduce fantasies and space operas as the industry tries to recapture the 3-D magic of "Avatar," or will it learn, as it did once before, to spread the new technology to other genres and other forms? The grace period will last about two years, or so history suggests. ALSO OUT THIS WEEK CHE Steven Soderbergh's ambitious, two-part, 261-minute biography of Che Guevara (Benicio Del Toro), presented as contrasting studies in success (the Cuban revolution of Part 1) and failure (the disastrous Bolivian campaign of Part 2). "In chronicling the deeds of their hero - and the heroism of Ernesto Guevara is not something 'Che' has any interest in questioning - Mr. Soderbergh and the screenwriter, Peter Buchman, restrict themselves to a narrow register of themes and effects," A. O. Scott wrote of the film in The New York Times in December 2008. "Its motifs are facial hair, tobacco smoke and earnest militant bombast." (Criterion, Blu-ray $49.95, standard definition $49.95, R) GAMER A new generation of video games allows players to use real-life prisoners as their avatars in gladiatorial duels to the death. With Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall and Kyra Sedgwick; directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. "If you thought that Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (the brain trust behind the "Crank" franchise) had already plumbed the basement of bad taste, be prepared to discover the sub-basement," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote of the movie in The Times in September, adding that the movie is "a futuristic vomitorium of bosoms and bullets." (Lionsgate, Blu-ray $39.99, standard definition $29.95, R) THE INVENTION OF LYING Ricky Gervais stars in and co-directed (with Matt Robinson) this comedy, set in a world where the concept of an untruth does not exist - until a failed screenwriter (Mr. Gervais) makes a signal discovery. With Jennifer Garner, Jonah Hill and Jeffrey Tambor. Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times in October that "while the movie is a conceptual pip filled with quotable laughs and gentle pokes at religious faith at its most literal, it also looks so shoddy that you yearn for the camerawork, lighting and polish of his shows, like the original 'The Office,' because, really, these days TV rarely looks this bad." (Warner Home Video, Blu-ray $35.99, standard definition $28.98, PG-13) YOU, THE LIVING From Roy Andersson of Sweden ("Songs from the Second Floor"), a haunting black comedy constructed as a series of elaborately staged tableaus. "The film is slow, rigorously morose and often painful in its blunt reckoning of disappointment and failure," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in July. "It is also extremely funny." (Tartan Video, $19.93, not rated) 8 1/2 Federico Fellini's influential fantasia, about a filmmaker (Marcello Mastroianni) who fears he has run out of ideas, gets a handsome Blu-ray upgrade. "Here is a piece of entertainment that will really make you sit up straight and think, a movie endowed with the challenge of a fascinating intellectual game," Bosley Crowther wrote in The Times in 1963. (Criterion, $39.95, not rated) Correction: January 31, 2010 The DVD column on Jan. 17, about the transition from silent movies to talkies, misidentified the composers who wrote songs for the 1927 Broadway musical "Rio Rita," which Warner Brothers released as a movie in 1929. The songs were written by Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarthy - not by E. Y. Harburg and Harold Arlen, who wrote some of the music for the 1942 version of the film. A version of this article appears in print on January 17, 2010, on Page AR19 of the New York edition with the headline: When Hollywood Learned To Talk, Sing and Dance. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

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Europe|Panel in Hacking Case Finds Murdoch Unfit as News Titan Panel in Hacking Case Finds Murdoch Unfit as News Titan By JOHN F. BURNS and RAVI SOMAIYA MAY 1, 2012 LONDON - A damning report on the hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers concluding that Mr. Murdoch is "not a fit person" to run a huge international company has convulsed Britain's political and media worlds and threatened a core asset of Mr. Murdoch's American-based News Corporation. The parliamentary report, issued Tuesday, found that three senior Murdoch executives misled Parliament in testimony. It also alleges that the company sought to cover up widespread phone hacking that Mr. Murdoch's News of the World, a tabloid newspaper now shut down, used to gather information about politicians, celebrities and other people in the news. It has opened deep divisions between the main political parties, accentuated the challenge Prime Minister David Cameron faces in explaining his past ties to Mr. Murdoch and some of his top executives in Britain, and added new momentum to regulators' scrutiny of Mr. Murdoch's controlling interest in the British Sky Broadcasting network, or BSkyB, which is one of the most lucrative Murdoch investments. It also offers new details that suggest further damaging revelations may lie ahead. Sprinkled through its 121 pages are tantalizing references to potentially damaging sealed documents in dozens of lawsuits from the scandal, and an audio recording in police hands of a conversation between two News of the World journalists that may implicate an unnamed Murdoch executive. The select committee that issued the report closed ranks in making many of its critical findings, but split, 6 to 4, on party lines over the specific censure of Mr. Murdoch as unfit for his responsibilities as head of one of the world's most powerful media conglomerates. The governing Conservatives opposed it, while the Liberal Democrats, the junior partner in Mr. Cameron's government, joined the Labour opposition in supporting it. The partisan divide leaves Mr. Cameron as a de facto defender of Mr. Murdoch, while his Labour Party opponents have asked British regulators to move, on the basis of the report, toward reducing Mr. Murdoch's 39.1 percent controlling interest in BSkyB, the satellite broadcaster that produces a hefty profit for the News Corporation. The members of Parliament rejected the defense of Mr. Murdoch, 81, that his executives kept him in the dark about the hacking, saying he "exhibited willful blindness to what was going on in his companies and publications." It said the use of illegal reporting methods and the efforts to thwart inquiries into the practice came from a culture that "permeated from the top throughout the organization and speaks volumes about the lack of effective corporate governance at News Corporation and News International," its British newspaper subsidiary. Rupert Murdoch in Paris last year. On Tuesday, he sidestepped criticisms of his leadership. Credit Pool photo by Lionel Bonaventure "We conclude, therefore, that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company," the report said. While the long-term impact on Mr. Murdoch's United States-based News Corporation remains uncertain, the report at least initially cheered investors, some of whom have pressed for a change of leadership at the News Corporation and a reduced role for Mr. Murdoch and his family. The company's share price rose about 1.25 percent in early afternoon trading on Wall Street. The parliamentary findings increase pressure on Ofcom, Britain's broadcast regulator, which since last summer has been assessing the News Corporation to determine whether it is "fit and proper" to hold the BSkyB television license. In the nine or so years of its existence, Ofcom has only once removed a television license on the basis that its owner had not met the "fit and proper" test - in the case of the broadcaster of a pornography channel. Losing BSkyB would be a startling blow for the News Corporation, but one that could be mitigated by the reaction of analysts and investors, who have long urged that the company shed some minority-owned assets in an effort to raise its share price. In its report, the committee did not use the full term "fit and proper" in condemning Mr. Murdoch, a distinction that John Whittingdale, the committee's Conservative nonvoting chairman, told the BBC was significant. Media commentators said the phrasing appeared to be an effort not to throw the committee's weight fully behind the Labour Party push for a regulator-ordered sell-off of News Corporation's BSkyB interest. Mr. Murdoch released a message to News Corporation employees that sidestepped the criticism directed at him, stressing instead the company's cooperation with the inquiry and his recognition of "mistakes we have made." "I recognize that for all of us - myself in particular - it is difficult to read many of the report's findings," the memo said. "But we have done the most difficult part, which has been to take a long, hard and honest look at our past mistakes. "There is no easy way around this, but I am proud to say that we have been working hard to put things right." Tom Watson, one of the most vocal British lawmakers on the hacking scandal, spoke during the report's release in London on Tuesday. Credit Carl Court/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images In a statement from its New York headquarters, the company acknowledged "serious wrongdoing" but also said the committee was "wildly outside" its mandate in finding that Mr. Murdoch was "not a fit person." It called that a purely partisan attempt to influence regulators. In a statement on Tuesday, Ofcom said it was reading the committee's report "with interest" and would use it, along with other evidence, to make its final judgment on the News Corporation. It gave no timetable, but some analysts say they expected the decision before the summer. But it is significant, media analysts said, that Ofcom has openly discussed some of the evidence it is considering as it makes its assessment - evidence that at the very least presents an unflattering portrait of the News Corporation's activities. The committee report singled out James Murdoch, the second son of the media tycoon, who until recently was head of the family's media interests in Britain, for failing to act much earlier. "Had James Murdoch been more attentive to the correspondence that he received at the time, he could have taken action on phone hacking in 2008, and this committee could have been told the truth" during an earlier inquiry in 2009, the report said. It said the News Corporation had tried to blame lower-ranking executives while "striving to protect more senior figures, most notably James Murdoch." The panel raised the possibility that three senior former managers at News International, Colin Myler, Tom Crone and Les Hinton, could be cited for contempt of Parliament for misleading the panel in their testimony. "I am shocked and disappointed by the culture, media and sport select committee's allegations that I have misled Parliament and was 'complicit' in a cover-up," Mr. Hinton said in a statement on Tuesday. "I refute these accusations utterly." He said he would formally object to the findings. Mr. Myler, now the editor of The Daily News in New York, said he stood by his testimony. "I have always sought to be accurate and consistent in what I have said to the committee," he said in a statement. TimesCast | Report Criticizes Murdoch May 1, 2012 - A British parliamentary panel investigating the phone-hacking scandal found Rupert Murdoch unfit to run a large international corporation. By Emily B. Hager and Rob Harris on Publish Date May 1, 2012. . Watch in Times Video " Mr. Crone did not respond to a message seeking comment. The committee's findings appeared certain to set off a new storm in Parliament, with the Labour opposition signaling that it would press for a vote finding the three men guilty of contempt of Parliament, a sanction rarely used in modern times that Labour supporters said would seriously damage the men's reputations and careers. James Murdoch told the panel last week that when he took over News International in late 2007 - months after a News of the World reporter and a private investigator were jailed for hacking into the voice mail of members of the royal family - he believed that the affair had been settled. But that version has been challenged by Mr. Myler, a former editor of The News of the World, and Mr. Crone, the newspaper's former legal manager - the executives accused by Rupert Murdoch of a cover-up. The men have testified that they told James Murdoch in June 2008 of the extent of the hacking, but Mr. Murdoch has said he did not learn of the extent of the practice until last year. In a measure of the damage to his interests since the scandal broke last year, Rupert Murdoch has closed the 168-year-old News of the World and the family has withdrawn a $12 billion bid to assume full control of BSkyB. For his part, James Murdoch has severed many business ties with Britain, although he remains on BSkyB's board. Meanwhile, the company still faces investigations by Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service, which the parliamentary committee criticized as failing to take action soon enough. The police in Britain have started three separate investigations into phone hacking, e-mail hacking and bribery of police officers. All have focused largely on Mr. Murdoch's newspapers, but can extend to more general wrongdoing in newspapers he does not own. A public inquiry led by a judge, Brian Leveson, has also been calling witnesses under oath and publishing evidence on the "culture, practices and ethics of the press." It has most recently sought to investigate allegations of inappropriate closeness between Mr. Murdoch, his family and closest executives, and the British political establishment. More than 40 people have been arrested and questioned - though not charged - including senior editors and executives at News International. They include Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of News International, and Andy Coulson, a former editor who left the company to become Mr. Cameron's media adviser - a job he quit last year under pressure from the media scandal. Sarah Lyall and Allen Cowell contributed reporting from London, and Amy Chozick from New York. A version of this article appears in print on May 2, 2012, on Page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Panel in Hacking Case Finds Murdoch Unfit as News Titan. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe THE LEDE BLOG Reading the British Hacking Report Cameron Stands to Lose Much as Hacking Scandal Wears On MAY 1, 2012 News Corp. Report Bolsters Call for Change at Company MAY 1, 2012 Colin Myler, Daily News Editor, Back in Spotlight With Phone-Hacking Report MAY 1, 2012

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Business Day|Popular Wrench Fights a Chinese Rival Popular Wrench Fights a Chinese Rival By SHAILA DEWAN NOV. 8, 2012 Last Christmas, Sears had a brisk seller in the Bionic Wrench, an award-winning, patented tool with spiffy lime green accents. This holiday season, though, Sears has a special display for its own wrench, in the red and black colors of its house brand, Craftsman. One customer who recently spotted the new Craftsman tool, called the Max Axess wrench, thought it was an obvious knockoff, right down to the try-me packaging. "I saw it and I said, 'This is a Bionic Wrench,' " recalled Dana Craig, a retiree and tool enthusiast in Massachusetts who alerted the maker of the Bionic Wrench. "It's a very distinctive tool," he added. The tools have one significant difference, Mr. Craig noted. The Bionic Wrench is made in the United States. The Max Axess wrench is made in China. The shift at Sears from a tool invented and manufactured in the United States to a very similar one made offshore has already led to a loss of American jobs and a brewing patent battle. The story of the Bionic Wrench versus Craftsman, which bills itself as "America's most trusted tool brand," also raises questions about how much entrepreneurs and innovators, who rely on the country's intellectual property laws, can protect themselves. For the little guy, court battles are inevitably time-consuming and costly, no matter the outcome. Still, the inventor of the Bionic Wrench is determined to fight. He is Dan Brown, an industrial designer in Chicago who came up with the wrench after watching his son try to work on a lawn mower. Mr. Brown says he believes that the Max Axess wrench copies his own and he is planning to file suit against Sears, which declined to answer any questions about the wrenches for this article. The Bionic Wrench is distinguished by its gripping mechanism, a circle of metal prongs that, inspired by the aperture in a single-lens reflex camera, descend evenly to lock onto almost any nut or bolt. Since Sears has halted new orders, the Pennsylvania company that makes the Bionic Wrench has had to lay off 31 workers, said Keith Hammer, the project manager at the company, Penn United Technologies. "And that's not to mention our suppliers," he added. Mr. Brown sees a broader issue than just the fate of his wrench. "Our situation is an example of why we're not getting jobs out of innovation," he said. "When people get the innovation, they go right offshore. What happened to me is what happened to so many people so many times, and we just don't talk about it." Inventors typically spend $10,000 to $50,000 to obtain the type of patent Mr. Brown has on the wrench, said John S. Pratt, a patent expert at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton in Atlanta. Though he said he could not comment on the merits of Mr. Brown's potential suit, patent infringement cases can be especially difficult in the tool field, where many improvements are incremental, Mr. Pratt explained. A defendant in such a case would most likely argue that either the tool did not warrant a patent in the first place, or that its own product did not violate the patent. Dan Brown, inventor of the Bionic Wrench, is defending his patent rights against the Max Axess, made in China. Credit John Gress for The New York Times The fact that Sears made some changes to the wrench's design, like making the grooves that allow the metal prongs to slide back and forth visible instead of hidden, will make the case more challenging, he said. "It's hard for me to imagine that Sears isn't particularly careful about breach of patent, so there's probably another side to the story," he said. After patenting the wrench in 2005, Mr. Brown formed a company, LoggerHead Tools, to bring it to market, making a point of having it made in the United States. The Bionic Wrench was greeted with enthusiasm at trade shows and in industrial design competitions, and the company survived the downturn in 2008. Mr. Brown resisted overtures from large chain stores that wanted to sell the tool under their proprietary brand, he said, and rejected the lure of cheaper manufacturing in China. "I was raised a different way," he said. The tool sold fairly well on its own - LoggerHead has shipped 1.75 million of them - but Mr. Brown, 56, who teaches industrial design at Northwestern University, says LoggerHead operated on a shoestring and he plowed much of the profit back into the company. "You cannot have big offices and fancy cars and everybody with an administrative assistant, because we are competing with China," he said. In 2009, LoggerHead hit pay dirt when Sears agreed to do a test sale. The product sold out, Mr. Brown said, and Sears ordered 75,000 Bionic Wrenches the next year. In exchange Mr. Brown agreed not to sell the wrench to Sears's competitors, including Home Depot and Lowe's. In 2011, sales at Sears increased again, far outpacing LoggerHead's other outlets like the QVC shopping channel and smaller hardware stores. But LoggerHead's profit margin remained small, in part because it produced a television commercial and paid Sears to show it. The Sears Holdings Company, which owns the Craftsman brand, declined multiple requests to comment on the Bionic Wrench or the Max Axess Wrench. The company would not answer questions about patent infringement or the volume of sales. But in a string of e-mails provided by Mr. Brown, the buyer at Sears who had the LoggerHead account wrote, making liberal use of exclamation points, that the wrench's holiday sales last year exceeded its target by 23 percent. In the manufacturing world, lead time can determine price, and from the beginning cost was a particular issue for the Bionic Wrench, because of the competition from China. A 2006 article in The Wall Street Journal was headlined, "Wrench Wins Awards, but Is It Priced Too High to Be a Hit?" According to Mr. Brown's account of his dealings with Sears, the chain was pleased with the tool's performance and agreed to place an order for 2012 in plenty of time to keep the cost low. Then his buyer at Sears changed and that agreement seemed to get lost in a new round of haggling. When the order for Father's Day finally came, Mr. Brown said, it was too late to guarantee the lower price. He refused the order. Sears responded by agreeing to the higher price. But when it came time for the Christmas holiday order, negotiations stalled once more, again pushing LoggerHead past the deadline to get the best price, according to Mr. Brown. "We were sitting there going, 'Why do they want Father's Day so bad but they won't commit for Christmas?' " Mr. Brown said. Now he believes that the company had already placed its order for the Craftsman version. The Bionic Wrench is made in America by Penn United Technologies. Sears sells the Max Axess, sourced from China. Credit William P. O'Donnell/The New York Times In late September, Mr. Brown said, his suspicions were confirmed. LoggerHead got a "customer feedback" e-mail from Mr. Craig, the tool connoisseur, describing the new Max Axess wrenches. "Sadly, they are made in China," Mr. Craig wrote. "Can you tell me if LoggerHead has authorized these?" Craftsman has come under fire before, accused of misleading customers into thinking that its tools are made in America and for stealing intellectual property. In one case, Sears spent two decades defending itself against a claim by Peter M. Roberts, who as a young Sears employee had, on his own time, invented a type of socket wrench. Mr. Roberts told the court that Sears had played down the value of his invention, paid him $10,000 for the rights, and then made tens of millions of dollars. He eventually received settlements of less than $10 million, according to news reports. In another, more recent case led by Lee Grossman, Mr. Brown's lawyer, a judge awarded $25 million to the maker of a tool called the Rotozip who said he had disclosed trade secrets to Sears in an attempt to get the store to carry a new version of the tool. Sears, a jury decided, took the trade secrets and had the tool made abroad for Craftsman. "You have LoggerHead out, Dan Brown out, and dozens of American workers laid off - all in the name of profits for Sears," Mr. Grossman said. LoggerHead's lawsuit, Mr. Brown said, will most likely include claims that Sears interfered with the company's ability to do business with other stores. "I'm in favor of free trade," Mr. Brown said. "The person who's out-innovated loses. But it's destructive when someone competes but doesn't out-innovate, they just produce it in a different market without regard to safety codes and human conditions." The company that makes the Max Axess wrench and other tools for Craftsman, the Apex Tool Group, is being acquired by Bain Capital, the company founded by Mitt Romney, in a $1.6 billion deal. Throughout the presidential campaign, Bain was criticized on the grounds that it encouraged outsourcing by companies it buys at the expense of American workers. Apex makes many of its tools overseas. A company spokesman referred all questions to Sears. Mr. Brown and his lawyer say they believe they have a solid case against Sears, but it could take years to litigate. "What happens to us in the meantime?" Mr. Brown asked. Mr. Brown is also concerned that while he fights in court, Sears can undercut the price of his wrench. For now at least, Sears still has some of Mr. Brown's wrenches in its inventory. On the Sears Web site, the Craftsman and the LoggerHead wrenches are listed at the same regular price, $24.99 for the 8-inch version, and today both are on sale. But for at least a few days in recent weeks, only the Craftsman version was on sale, for $19.99. Correction: November 13, 2012 An article on Friday about a patent battle between an American inventor and Sears misidentified the camera feature that inspired the gripping mechanism on the patented product, called the Bionic Wrench. It was the aperture, not the shutter. A version of this article appears in print on November 9, 2012, on Page B1 of the New York edition with the headline: An Innovator vs. a Follower. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe TODAY'S QUESTION Could the Inventor of the Bionic Wrench Have Avoided This Fight? NOV. 9, 2012

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Access to thousands of journals in danger of being blocked MAASTRICHT. A sinister radio silence is all that is left, after negotiations between Dutch universities and Reed Elsevier publishers have failed. Licences are due to run out on 1 January and researchers will no longer be able to read the latest editions of many journals, including The Lancet. What exactly is the problem? Dutch universities and government want publishers to change over to an open access model, in which articles based on publically funded research will be freely accessible for anyone. Things are not that far yet. At the moment there is a transitional phase, which is very unfavourable for universities. They have double expenses, which is referred to as double dipping. The institutes pay subscription fees for the journals and they also have to pay (an average of two thousand euro) for each open access publication. It works like this: the author pays, not the subscriber. Universities expect a gesture from the publishers. A breakthrough was achieved recently with the Springer publisher. University umbrella organisation VSNU and Springer had reached agreement, a press release stated: "Open access publishing is the way of the future." Exactly what that entails, remains to be seen. Negotiations are still going on. Discussions with Elsevier, the largest publisher, came to a standstill at the beginning of November. The proposal that the publisher presented, was brushed from the table by VSNU. And then all was quiet. What was Elsevier's proposal? What was unacceptable for VSNU? What will happen now? Nobody knows, says Henk van den Hoogen, programme manager at the university library. "Things are tense at the moment. The licence runs out in a couple of weeks' time. Having articles published is always possible and older articles will remain accessible, but new content will not. This means that researchers cannot learn about the latest insights in their field." Access to thousands of journals will be blocked, including leading journals such as The Lancet and Cell. "Many researchers are capable of finding each other, I expect, and will exchange articles among themselves. It is now more important than ever to have an international network, where researchers inform each other about new publications. I expect a lively exchange of academic publications on social media. The geographic position of Maastricht is no disadvantage in that case. There is a lot of content present in Hasselt and Aachen. It is not something that the university library promotes, but some researchers will reconnect with their Belgian and German contacts." Not all researchers will be affected equally. "Economists have a culture in which they share early versions of articles, at congresses, or on digital platforms such as Repec. There is SSRN for social scientists. In medical-biological circles, this hardly happens at all." Alongside the so-called golden route to open access (through publishers), there is also a green route. This is when universities, such as the UM, give researchers the opportunity to place their manuscript in a repository (digital archive), which is accessible through Google. "There is usually a ban or embargo on the publisher's version, but to a lesser extent on the author's version, which does not differ in content, only in its look and feel." However, very few people at the UM have found their way to the repository, says Van den Hoogen. "It is a matter of lack of awareness, as well as the willingness to look into things. You have to know what conditions the publishers set. Fortunately there is a website, by platform Sherpa Romeo, where you can see exactly which requirements the publishers have, and the university library has an information desk." How many Maastricht publications end up in open access journals? Research by the university library shows that 10 per cent of the 3,200 Maastricht research publications that saw the light in 2013, ended up in freely accessible journals. "So the UM is pretty much in line with other universities. Those who want to know more about what is 'on sale', can visit the DOAJ site, a Danish initiative that provides a directory of open access journals." Maurice Timmermans - 03-Dec-2014 15:11 Oxford University Press journals behind a paywall THE NETHERLANDS/MAASTRICHT. Dutch scientists are soon to lose access to Oxford University Press jour... Deal between Elsevier and universities after all THE NETHERLANDS. The Association of Universities (VSNU) and publisher Reed Elsevier have reache... "Young researchers aren't panicking - that came as a surprise" Twenty-eight days to go. Will the Dutch universities manage by 31 December to reach an agreement wit... News, Science

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Resale Store Oconee County Habitat for Humanity Amanda Harris Oconee County Habitat receives Malachi 3:10 Award Habitat's vision: A world where everyone has a decent place to live. This summer, Oconee County Habitat for Humanity received the Malachi 3:10 Award from Habitat for Humanity International. This award recognizes a $500,000 lifetime tithe milestone. Founded in 1986, Oconee County is only the 2nd affiliate in South Carolina, the 128th affiliate within the United States (there are over 1,200 affiliates), and the very first all-volunteer affiliate to meet this goal. Oconee County Habitat has, through its tithe, supported Habitat International's Global Mission Fund which enables the gifts to be used where they are needed most around the world. The tithe represents helping over 140 families worldwide obtain decent homes, as well as community projects for safe infrastructure and water. Susan Yow, Director of Affiliate Tithe and Global Engagement, Habitat for Humanity International; Jon Goyert, Oconee County Habitat President; Tom Bottin, Past President; Ken Cushing, Past President The award was presented by Susan Yow, Director of Affiliate Tithe and Global Engagement, Habitat for Humanity International, to the Oconee affiliate's board of directors on June 10th. "The work here in Oconee County is as much a part of our big global mission is as the work in Zambia, Nepal, Ethiopia, Guatemala, and the other 70 countries around the world where we're working," said Yow. "I know you are all very blessed here in Oconee County, and our families around the world certainly are blessed with your support." This coveted award is named after a verse in the Bible, Malachi 3:10: "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that it may be food in my house. Test me in this and see if I do not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it." For more information visit . Older PostWest Union Subdivision Moves Along Quickly Email: 130 Bountyland Rd.

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Poets & Writers Receives $25,000 Grant from the NEA New York, NY - Poets & Writers, Inc. received a $25,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support creative writing workshops for seniors. Poets & Writers is one of fourteen recipients of the NEA's first Creativity and Aging in America grants. According to the NEA, "the program supports projects that involve older Americans as creators through literature and music, and that promote lifelong learning in the arts." The writing workshops sponsored by Poets & Writers will be led by published writers and will focus on poetry and creative nonfiction. Each year, Poets & Writers' Readings/Workshops program supports hundreds of writers participating in events in large cities and small towns throughout New York and California, as well as in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Seattle, New Orleans, Tucson, and Washington D.C. ABOUT POETS & WRITERS Poets & Writers is the nation's largest nonprofit organization serving creative writers. Since its founding in 1970, Poets & Writers' mission has been to foster the professional development of poets and writers, to promote communication throughout the U.S. literary community, and to help create an environment in which literature can be appreciated by the widest possible public. Poets & Writers accomplishes this by publishing Poets & Writers Magazine, maintaining Poets & Writers Online, offering publishing advice to writers, producing an on-line database of more than 7,500 authors, introducing emerging writers outside of New York City to the New York City literary community, and providing direct financial support to writers participating in public literary events.

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Molecular data helps specialists predict chance of breast cancer recurrence March 15, 2019 | Michael Walter | Care Delivery Molecular data from a patient's breast cancer cells can help predict if they are at an increased risk for recurrence, according to new findings published in Nature. The research, a collaboration of the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, built on previous work published by the team from Stanford and included tracking the medical histories of more than 3,000 breast cancer patients. It revealed that approximately one in four patients with ER-positive, HER2-negative tumors are at a higher risk of recurrence for up to 20 years after diagnosis. "We found that about 25 percent of women whose tumors express the estrogen receptor and not HER2 have an exceedingly high risk of late distant relapse and account for the vast majority of these events," co-author Christina Curtis, PhD, assistant professor of medicine and genetics at Stanford and co-director of the Stanford Cancer Institute's Molecular Tumor Board, said in a prepared statement. "These are the women who seem to be cured but then present with systemic disease many years later. Until now, there has been no good way to identify this subset of women who might benefit from ongoing screening or treatment." Another subgroup of patients with triple-negative breast tumors, according to the team's work, is unlikely to see its cancer return after five years. "A clinical challenge in breast cancer management has been distinguishing which tumors pose greatest risk of late recurrence," Harold Burstein, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, said in the same statement. Burstein was not an author of the study. "This important scientific paper identifies molecular features that determine the timing of cancer recurrence. In the future, this type of genomic classification should help us separate patients who remain at jeopardy - and might warrant additional or ongoing treatment - and those who do not." The research team's next step is to conduct clinical trials to investigate if these findings can help improve patient outcomes.

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PG&E says prepare for days-long power... PG&E fire-safety shutdowns: 'We're all freaking out about it' Utility says it must keep customers safe in dangerous 'new normal' SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 18: Neal Narayan and Anthony Malnati confer inside PG&E's Wildfire Safety Operations Center, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 18: Aaron Green keeps an eye on monitors inside PG&E's Wildfire Safety Operations Center, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 18: Components for a PG&E weather station sit on a window ledge inside the company's Wildfire Safety Operations Center, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 18: Neal Narayan works inside PG&E's Wildfire Safety Operations Center, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) SAN FRANCISCO, CA - June 18: Sarah Gibson works inside PG&E's Wildfire Safety Operations Center, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) By Ethan Baron | | Bay Area News Group In a large office overlooking the San Francisco Bay Bridge, PG&E's wildfire-safety analysts keep watch 24/7, monitoring streams of images and data from satellites, weather stations, forest cameras and emergency responders. Sitting in front of dual monitors at work stations, with a wall of giant screens in front of them, they track winds, temperatures, humidity and the dryness of vegetation to calculate wildfire risk across Northern California. Under a new PG&E program to reduce the threat of its power lines sparking fires, these are the people whose work could get your power shut off even if your community is not in danger. Under the embattled utility's new Public Safety Power Shutoff program, when the analysts in this Wildfire Safety Operations Center determine conditions have reached a threshold for fire risk in an area, company officials will activate an emergency center in the basement of a building next door, and begin cutting power to electricity lines. That means that communities that aren't at risk but get power from the same lines could also be blacked out. Any of the utility's 5 million customers could be affected for several hours or "multiple days," according to PG&E. "That is why we are telling all of our customers to be prepared because it is possible that you could be some distance from the problem area and experience a public safety power shutoff," said PG&E spokesman Jeff Smith. As the utility seeks to limit the threat of fires sparked by power lines in what it calls a "new normal" of massive fire risk from drought, widespread tree deaths, record heat waves and "extremely strong" windstorms, its program has ushered in a new era in Northern California that's forcing everyone to prepare for blackouts that could come without notice. The company says in an online fact sheet that it will give customers up to 48 hours advance notice of shutdowns - "when possible." PG&E is urging customers to update their contact information with the utility for calls, texts and email notifications, and offering tips to prepare. The program, similar to one in effect in Southern California for years, has already raised concerns as health care providers, restaurant owners and others scramble to figure out how to power electricity-dependent medical devices, air conditioning, appliances and more during a shutdown. Jason Belden, a disaster-preparation manager for the California Association of Health Facilities, which represents 1,300 skilled-nursing facilities and intermediate-care facilities, worries about a worst-case scenario if back-up power isn't immediately available to patients who rely on oxygen, dialysis or other life-sustaining equipment. "You could kill people right away," he said. For Alan Carlson, chef and owner at Italian Colors in the Oakland hills, PG&E's new program came as a shock. "We're all worrying and freaking out about it," Carlson said, noting that power outages can cause problems that range from filling a restaurant with smoke when kitchen fans shut down to spoiled food. "We maybe have to get a generator, at least for the walk-ins and freezer. It's pretty darn scary." Since the shutoff program was approved by California regulators in May, PG&E has turned off power due to fire risk in two areas. One day earlier this month, power was cut to 1,700 customers in Solano, Napa and Yolo counties and to some 21,000 customers in Butte and Yuba counties. Both shutdowns lasted less than a day, PG&E said. The utility did its first preventative power shutdown last year, but that was only for distribution lines, which carry power shorter distances than transmission lines. That outage, in the North Bay and Sierra Foothills, left 60,000 customers in the dark for four days. "The changing conditions in climate throughout the state and ... extreme weather events driven by climate change have caused unanticipated wildfires in our state primarily over the last couple of years," Smith said. "We've been looking at how can we best keep our customers safe." After devastating fires in Southern California, the state Public Utilities Commission in 2012 gave San Diego Gas & Electric approval to run a program that's been a model for PG&E's plan. However, although a commission review of two 2017 shutdowns by the San Diego-based utility found the blackouts were a "reasonable" response to fire risk, the commission concluded that even five years after the program was approved, there had been multiple complaints about last-minute or non-existent warnings of shutdowns, and the utility's provision of back-up power was inconsistent. PG&E, which filed for bankruptcy in January seeking relief from billions of dollars in debts and liabilities following a series of deadly wildfires that torched Northern California over the past two years, says it expects it will restore power after public-safety shutdowns within 24 to 48 hours once extreme weather conditions have subsided. The Camp Fire rages in Magalia Nov. 9, 2018, as Sacramento Metropolitan firefighters battle the flames. The fire burned for 18 days and was determined fully contained when rainstorms hit the area. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group file) Large areas of the hills surrounding the Peninsula and East Bay are "extreme" fire-threat areas, and most of the rest of the Bay Area's heights have "elevated" risk, according to the Public Utilities Commission. PG&E says electric lines passing through such areas are the most likely to be shut off for public safety. Nursing homes and other care facilities worry about what could happen if an outage persists. Back-up power systems typically provide effective air conditioning, and facilities where frail seniors live would have to be evacuated, leading to "transfer trauma," said Belden. "About 10 percent of those residents are going to die in the next three months just simply because of that evacuation," he said. If, for example, during the 2018 Carr Fire in the Redding area, PG&E had shut down power to that city while temperatures were hitting 115 degrees, every resident of skilled-nursing homes and intermediate-care facilities serving the mentally disabled would've had to be evacuated, Belden said. "It could be really, really bad," he said. Redding is under evacuation as the Carr fire makes its way into the city. A long line of traffic on Buenaventura Blvd. along Benton Air Park. Credit: Hung T. Vu/Special to the Redding Record Searchlight PG&E, which recently agreed to pay $1 billion to local governments for damage from fires in 2015, 2017 and 2018, acknowledges that while the blackouts may shield it from liability for causing fires, shutting off power carries its own threats. "It's not a decision that we make lightly," Smith said. Although state and federal law requires backup power systems for hospitals, skilled-nursing facilities, intermediate-care facilities and long-term care facilities, many people who get home care or live in hospices, assisted-living or group homes don't have generators to power medical devices, said Corrigan Gommenginger, CEO of Advanced Home Health and Hospice, which provides home-based services in the East Bay and other areas of the state. Gommenginger thinks PG&E's program falls short. "Our public utilities have a real responsibility to consumers to be able to provide us safe energy, and we shouldn't have to worry about ... trees rubbing against the lines," he said. "Turning off people's electricity to prevent fires is a band-aid. The real response should be, 'How can we deliver safe energy to everybody all of the time?'" Ethan Baron Ethan Baron is a business reporter at The Mercury News, and a native of Silicon Valley before it was Silicon Valley. Baron has worked as a reporter, columnist, editor and photographer in newspapers and magazines for 25 years, covering business, politics, social issues, crime, the environment, outdoor sports, war and humanitarian crises. Follow Ethan Baron @ethanbaron 46 whales were confirmed entangled in 2018, trending up from the year before California heat wave to slowly ease Lightning strikes in Red Bluff; power knocked out to nearly 200

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After returning to Formula 1™ in 2001, Renault gradually moved up through the field, eventually claiming its first race wins in 2003 and 2004. The following year, Renault was officially aiming for the world championship title. Giancarlo Fisichella and Fernando Alonso were tasked with leading the team to glory in an R25 designed to meet the new regulations. The new car boasted an innovative front suspension system to combat the outlawing of tyre changes, improved aerodynamics and an engine capable of running in two successive Grand Prix. Despite pressure from Ferrari and McLaren-Mercedes, Renault became the first mainstream manufacturer in F1™ history to win both the Drivers' and Manufacturers' titles, an achievement they would then repeat in 2006.

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EBTC Enterprise Bancorp Inc. Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2019 Net Income of $8.7 Million LOWELL, Mass., April 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company" or "Enterprise") (NASDAQ: EBTC), parent of Enterprise Bank, announced net income for the three months ended March 31, 2019 of $8.7 million, an increase of $1.9 million, or 27%, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2018. Diluted earnings per share were $0.74 for the three months ended March 31, 2019, an increase of 28%, compared to $0.58 for the three months ended March 31, 2018. As previously announced on April 16, 2019, the Company declared a quarterly dividend of $0.16 per share to be paid on June 3, 2019 to shareholders of record as of May 13, 2019. Chief Executive Officer Jack Clancy commented, "Over the past twelve months, total assets increased 8%, total loans increased 4% and customer deposits have increased 14% as compared to March 31, 2018. The increase in customer deposits includes several relationships which had large short-term balance increases in the quarter. Loan and deposit growth, along with a reduction in the loan loss provision due to improved credit metrics compared to the March 2018 quarter, were the key drivers to our earnings increase as compared to the first quarter of 2018." Mr. Clancy added, "The collective efforts and contributions of our dedicated Enterprise team, including active community involvement, relationship building, a customer-focused mindset, and ongoing enhancements to our leading-edge product and service offerings, continue to drive our growth. This includes operating from a sense of purpose to serve our fellow team members, customers and communities. Our top priority and focus has been, and always will be, ongoing investment in our greatest asset: our people. We also remain focused on organic growth and continually planning for and investing in our future with an emphasis on people, technology, digital transformation, branch renovations and market expansion." Founder and Chairman of the Board George Duncan commented, "We are profoundly grateful for the trust and confidence placed in us by those who create our success - our shareholders, our customers, our team members, and the communities we are privileged to serve - and who embrace our mission as a genuine community bank to create a lasting and positive impact in our world. All of us at Enterprise Bank have an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment in what we have achieved to date - a branch network consisting of 24 locations in 19 communities, assets in excess of $3 billion, assets under management in excess of $4 billion and 118 consecutive profitable quarters - and we are extremely excited about the opportunities that lie ahead." Net interest income for the three months ended March 31, 2019 amounted to $28.1 million, an increase of $2.1 million, or 8%, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2018. The increase in net interest income was due largely to interest-earning asset growth, primarily in loans. Average loan balances (including loans held for sale) increased $98.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2019, compared to the same 2018 period average. Tax equivalent net interest margin was 3.98% for the three months ended March 31, 2019, compared to 3.95% for the three months ended March 31, 2018. For the three months ended March 31, 2019 there was a negative provision to the allowance for loan losses of $400 thousand, compared to a provision of $1.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2018. The primary factor in the decrease in the year-to-date provision for loan losses compared to the prior year was a reduction in the balance of the allowance for loan losses allocated to impaired, adversely classified, and criticized loans of $81 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2019, compared to an increase of $1.4 million during the three months ended March 31, 2018. Also affecting the provision for loan losses for the three months ended March 31, 2019 compared to the prior year were: Net recoveries of $280 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2019, compared to net recoveries of $9 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2018. Total non-performing loans as a percentage of total loans amounted to 0.46% at both March 31, 2019 and March 31, 2018. The ratio of adversely classified loans ("substandard," "doubtful," "loss") to total loans amounted to 1.45% at March 31, 2019, compared to 1.19% at March 31, 2018. However, the reserves allocated to these loans declined $472 thousand over the same period due to generally improved collateral values on impaired loans. Loan growth for the three months ended March 31, 2019 was relatively flat, compared to loan growth of $20.3 million during the three months ended March 31, 2018. The allowance for loan losses allocated to general reserves for non-classified loans declined $39 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2019, compared to an increase of $233 thousand for the three months ended March 31, 2018. The allowance for loan losses to total loans ratio was 1.41% at March 31, 2019, 1.42% at December 31, 2018 and 1.51% at March 31, 2018. Non-interest income for the three months ended March 31, 2019 amounted to $3.8 million and was relatively flat compared to the three months ended March 31, 2018. Increases in deposit and interchange fees and other income, primarily as a result of market value adjustment gains on equity securities, were partially offset by lower wealth management fees. For the three months ended March 31, 2019, non-interest expense amounted to $20.9 million, an increase of $1.4 million, or 7%, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2018. Increases in non-interest expense over the first quarter of 2018 primarily related to the Company's strategic growth, digital and market initiatives, particularly salaries and employee benefits expenses and technology and telecommunications expenses, partially offset by lower FDIC deposit insurance expenses in the first quarter of 2019. Key Financial Highlights Total assets amounted to $3.07 billion at March 31, 2019, compared to $2.96 billion at December 31, 2018, an increase of $109.4 million, or 4%. Total loans amounted to $2.38 billion at March 31, 2019, compared to $2.39 billion at December 31, 2018, a decrease of $2.9 million, or 0.1%. Customer deposits (total deposits excluding brokered deposits) were $2.73 billion at March 31, 2019, compared to $2.51 billion at December 31, 2018, an increase of $217.7 million, or 9%. Investment assets under management amounted to $848.4 million at March 31, 2019, compared to $800.8 million at December 31, 2018, an increase of $47.7 million, or 6%. Total assets under management amounted to $4.01 billion at March 31, 2019, compared to $3.85 billion at December 31, 2018, an increase of $158.1 million, or 4%. Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. is a Massachusetts corporation that conducts substantially all of its operations through Enterprise Bank and Trust Company, commonly referred to as Enterprise Bank. Enterprise Bank is principally engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the general public and investing in commercial loans and investment securities. Through Enterprise Bank and its subsidiaries, the Company offers a range of commercial, residential and consumer loan products, deposit products and cash management services, digital banking options, and insurance services. Enterprise Bank also provides a range of wealth management, wealth services and trust services delivered via two channels, Enterprise Wealth Management and Enterprise Wealth Services. The Company's headquarters and Enterprise Bank's main office are located at 222 Merrimack Street in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Company's primary market area is the Greater Merrimack Valley, Nashoba Valley, and North Central regions of Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire (Southern Hillsborough and Rockingham counties). Enterprise Bank has 24 full-service branches located in the Massachusetts communities of Lowell (2), Acton, Andover, Billerica (2), Chelmsford (2), Dracut, Fitchburg, Lawrence, Leominster, Methuen, Tewksbury (2), Tyngsborough and Westford and in the New Hampshire communities of Derry, Hudson, Nashua (2), Pelham, Salem and Windham. This earnings release contains statements about future events that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by references to a future period or periods or by the use of the words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "estimate," "assume," "will," "should," "plan," and other similar terms or expressions. Forward-looking statements should not be relied on because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond the control of the Company. These risks, uncertainties and other factors may cause the actual results, performance, and achievements of the Company to be materially different from the anticipated future results, performance or achievements expressed in, or implied by, the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause such differences include, but are not limited to, general economic conditions, changes in interest rates, regulatory considerations, competition and market expansion opportunities, changes in non-interest expenditures or in the anticipated benefits of such expenditures, the receipt of required regulatory approvals, and changes in tax laws. For more information about these factors, please see our reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"), including our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K on file with the SEC, including the sections entitled "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations." Any forward-looking statements contained in this earnings release are made as of the date hereof, and we undertake no duty, and specifically disclaim any duty, to update or revise any such statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable law. ENTERPRISE BANCORP, INC. (Dollars in thousands) March 31, 2018 March 31, Cash and cash equivalents: Cash and due from banks $ 35,715 $ 43,865 $ 34,703 Interest-earning deposits 99,547 19,255 22,175 Total cash and cash equivalents 135,262 63,120 56,878 Investments: Debt securities at fair value 458,765 431,473 412,213 Equity securities at fair value 2,049 1,448 295 Total investment securities at fair value 460,814 432,921 412,508 Federal Home Loan Bank stock 1,491 5,357 2,370 Loans held for sale 332 701 - Loans, less allowance for loan losses of $33,729 at March 31, 2019, $33,849 at December 31, 2018, and $34,524 at March 31, 2018 2,350,908 2,353,657 2,255,649 Lease right-of-use asset 18,851 - - Accrued interest receivable 12,619 11,462 11,210 Deferred income taxes, net 10,632 11,747 12,858 Prepaid income taxes - 732 - Prepaid expenses and other assets 8,470 11,279 10,953 Goodwill 5,656 5,656 5,656 Customer deposits $ 2,725,667 $ 2,507,999 $ 2,385,895 Brokered deposits 30,499 56,783 185,494 Borrowed funds 488 100,492 - Subordinated debt 14,863 14,860 14,850 Lease liability 17,871 - - Income taxes payable 809 - 53 Accrued interest payable 1,092 979 596 Preferred stock, $0.01 par value per share; 1,000,000 shares authorized; no shares issued - - - Common stock, $0.01 par value per share; 40,000,000 shares authorized; 11,798,114 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2019, 11,708,218 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2018, and 11,682,914 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2018 118 117 117 Additional paid-in capital 92,089 91,281 89,159 Accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) 1,850 (1,284 ) (5,848 ) (Dollars in thousands, except per share data) 2019 2018 Loans and loans held for sale $ 29,616 $ 26,150 Investment securities 3,222 2,487 Other interest-earning assets 459 134 Total interest and dividend income 33,297 28,771 Deposits 4,706 2,236 Borrowed funds 279 292 Subordinated debt 228 228 Total interest expense 5,213 2,756 Net interest income 28,084 26,015 Provision for loan losses (400 ) 1,600 Net interest income after provision for loan losses 28,484 24,415 Wealth management fees 1,299 1,408 Deposit and interchange fees 1,564 1,489 Income on bank-owned life insurance, net 162 168 Net (losses) gains on sales of investment securities (1 ) 1 Gains on sales of loans 36 84 Other income 776 641 Total non-interest income 3,836 3,791 Non-interest expense: Salaries and employee benefits 13,471 12,108 Occupancy and equipment expenses 2,212 2,157 Technology and telecommunications expenses 1,726 1,553 Advertising and public relations expenses 715 720 Audit, legal and other professional fees 423 507 Deposit insurance premiums 351 500 Supplies and postage expenses 224 232 Other operating expenses 1,728 1,670 Total non-interest expense 20,850 19,447 Income before income taxes 11,470 8,759 Provision for income taxes 2,774 1,934 Net income $ 8,696 $ 6,825 Basic earnings per share $ 0.74 $ 0.59 Diluted earnings per share $ 0.74 $ 0.58 Basic weighted average common shares outstanding 11,730,482 11,628,587 Diluted weighted average common shares outstanding 11,783,405 11,700,854 Selected Consolidated Financial Data and Ratios At or for the year ended At or for the (Dollars in thousands, except per share data) March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018 March 31, 2018 BALANCE SHEET AND OTHER DATA Loans serviced for others 90,200 89,232 88,816 Investment assets under management 848,412 800,751 846,853 Total assets under management $ 4,012,393 $ 3,854,341 $ 3,770,597 Dividends paid per common share $ 0.16 $ 0.58 $ 0.145 Total capital to risk weighted assets 11.89 % 11.77 % 11.48 % Tier 1 capital to risk weighted assets 10.06 % 9.93 % 9.62 % Tier 1 capital to average assets 8.57 % 8.56 % 8.24 % Common equity tier 1 capital to risk weighted assets 10.06 % 9.93 % 9.62 % Allowance for loan losses to total loans 1.41 % 1.42 % 1.51 % Non-performing assets $ 11,304 $ 11,784 $ 10,558 Non-performing assets to total assets 0.37 % 0.40 % 0.37 % INCOME STATEMENT DATA (annualized) Return on average total assets 1.17 % 1.00 % 0.98 % Return on average stockholders' equity 13.59 % 12.15 % 12.00 % Net interest margin (tax equivalent)(1) 3.98 % 3.97 % 3.95 % (1) Tax equivalent net interest margin is net interest income adjusted for the tax equivalent effect associated with tax exempt loan and investment income, expressed as a percentage of average interest earning assets. Contact Info: James A. Marcotte, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (978) 656-5614 Underlying EBTCEnterprise Bancorp Inc. To request access to management, click here to engage with our partner Phoenix-IR's CorporateAccessNetwork.com Reports by Enterprise Bancorp Inc. Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2019 Net Income of $8.7 Million LOWELL, Mass., April 18, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company" or "Enterprise") (NASDAQ: EBTC), parent of Enterprise Bank, announced net income for the three months ended March 31, 2019 of $8.7 million, an increase of $1.9 million, or 27%, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2018. Diluted earnings per share were $0.74 for the three months ended March 31, 2019, an increase of 28%, compared to $0.58 for the three months ended March 31, 2018. As previously announced on April 1... Enterprise Bancorp Inc. 87d 18/04/2019 1 EN Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend LOWELL, Mass., April 16, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") () On April 16, 2019, the Board of Directors of Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. declared a quarterly dividend of $0.16 per share to be paid on June 3, 2019 to shareholders of record as of May 13, 2019. Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. is a Massachusetts corporation that conducts substantially all of its operations through Enterprise Bank and Trust Company, commonly referred to as Enterprise Bank. Enterprise Bank is principally engaged in the busines... Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. Completes its 30th Year and Announces 2018 Net Income of $28.9 Million Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. Completes its 30th Year and Announces 2018 Net Income of $28.9 Million LOWELL, Mass., Jan. 24, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company" or "Enterprise") (NASDAQ: EBTC), parent of Enterprise Bank, announced net income for the year ended December 31, 2018 of $28.9 million, an increase of $9.5 million compared to the year ended December 31, 2017. Diluted earnings per share were $2.46 for the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to $1.66 for the year ended December 31, 2017. Net income for the three months ended December 31, 2018 amounted to... 171d 24/01/2019 1 EN Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. Announces Quarterly Dividend LOWELL, Mass., Jan. 15, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") () On January 15, 2019, the Board of Directors of Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. declared a quarterly dividend of $0.16 per share to be paid on March 4, 2019 to shareholders of record as of February 11, 2019. Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. is a Massachusetts corporation that conducts substantially all of its operations through Enterprise Bank and Trust Company, commonly referred to as Enterprise Bank. The Company is principally engaged in the busi... Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2018 Net Income of $8.0 Million Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2018 Net Income of $8.0 Million LOWELL, Mass., Oct. 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enterprise Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company" or "Enterprise") (NASDAQ: EBTC), parent of Enterprise Bank, announced net income for the three months ended September 30, 2018 of $8.0 million, an increase of $2.5 million, or 45%, compared to the same three-month period in 2017. Diluted earnings per share were $0.68 for the three months ended September 30, 2018, compared to $0.47 for the same three-month period in 2017, an increase of 45%. Net income for the nine months ... 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Galecki Christmas Vacation Anthony Michael Hall in "Vacation" (1983), Jason Lively in "European Vacation" (1985), Johnny Galecki in "Christmas Vacation" (1989) and Ethan Embry in "Vegas Vacation" (1997). In this new "Vacation,". National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, 8 p.m. ET The Griswolds are preparing for. Directed by Jeremiah Checkik, starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D`Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki and Randy Quai. Quarks fly when two geeky physicists discover that they have a new neighbor: a sexy actress who inspires them to try a relationship with a real woman. This quirky sitcom follows the adventures of roommates Sheldon and Leonard, two brilliant physicists who don't have a. The actress has landed a guest-starring role as the girlfriend of Johnny Galecki's character, David. The casting is a little odd as the two former child stars once played brother and sister in 1989 co. Movies.com, the ultimate source for everything movies, is your destination for new movie trailers, reviews, photos, times, tickets + more!Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at Movies.com. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Each week, The News-Gazette will show a screen shot of a home from a movie and ask readers, "Who lives here?" The first person to. and son Russ (Johnny Galecki) in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vac. Articles and galleries about the latest celebrity news, breaking stories, and Hollywood exclusives from PEOPLE. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is a 1989 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik. It is the third installment in National Lampoon 's Vacation film series , and was written by John Hughes , based on his short story in National Lampoon magazine, "Christmas '59". You will get a notification at the top of the site as soon as the current price equals or falls below your price. You can also optionally receive an email notification (sent only once), this is specif. Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase). The ringleader of the Griswold clan, Clark "Sparky" Griswold has grand visions of a good old-fashioned family Christmas. In typical fashion, however, things do not go to plan. The comic misadventures of the beleaguered Griswold family continue in this latest "Vacation" outing, the third and most successful of the series. "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" is a classic holiday comedy, and it features all of the Griswold family hijinks we've come to know and love. If you are a fan of this film, take our quiz and see how much you really know about Clark and the gang! Blue Water Vacation Rentals Vacation Rentals Crescent City Ca We sell real estate in Crescent City CA, Smith River, Hiouchi, Klamath, and. 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Left: Galecki in 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation; Right: Galecki at the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles in April 2014. Back to top and "Christmas Vacation," in which the son was portrayed by Johnny Galecki of TV's "The Big Bang Theory." For "Vegas Vacation," Ethan Embry, who'd previously starred in the Hughes-scripted "Dutch," st. Mainz Travel Germany profile, German facts and links to internet recourses regarding geography, travel, culture, art and history. Official web sites of the government, embassies, cities, tourist boards and newspapers. Germany profile, German facts and links to internet recourses regarding geography, travel, Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Juliette Lewis and Johnny Galecki star in the 1989 comedy "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (9 p.m., ABC Family). - Willy cuts a Christmas record on. Johnny Galecki, Actor: The Big Bang Theory. John Mark Galecki was born in Bree, Belgium, to American parents; his father was stationed there while serving in the U.S. Air Force. When he was three years old, his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he grew up with his parents, Mary Lou and Richard Galecki... Johnny Galecki - 'Christmas Vacation' (1989) Before he was one of the world's most endearing and favorite nerds, Johnny Galecki was dealing with Clark Griswold's desire to put on the perfect Christmas. . their own Christmas Tree deserves some kudos - it plays out as a nice hat tip to Johnny Galecki's performance in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Assuming it was intentional, aside from it p. Then I think of him as "Rusty" on Christmas Vacation. Find this Pin and more on big bang theory by Ashley Michelle. johnny galecki: When I think of him, the first thing I think of is when he was "David" on the show Roseanne. Johnny Galecki once said. 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The most popular of all the Chevy Chase "Vacation" movies was. attempts at having a big family Christmas end in disaster. Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Miriam Flynn, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Juliette. Galecki and Lewis, who famously played siblings back in 1989's National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, will guest star on The Conners Season 1. The best Christmas bit: Kidnapping Santa so that they can take over Christmas. Why it qualifies: It's wild and crazy comedy, certainly, but it also makes some decent observations about a 'real family. Playing Mona Lisa and the comedy classic National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, playing Rusty, the son of dad Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase). A longtime patron of the theater, Galecki has himself been i. Luggage For International Travel Reviews Norwegian Cruise Line is known for its fun, laid-back ambiance and inventive "freestyle cruising" concept, which promotes no enforced dress codes, no fixed dining times and comes with a plethora of on. 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Grenjaðarstaður Sitting exposed to the prevailing icy winds in a broad valley, Grenjaðarstaður is a nineteenth-century church and block of well-insulated turf-roofed farmhouses, now a museum (June-Aug). The estate was founded in medieval times (a contemporary altar cloth from the original church is now in the Paris Louvre) when it counted as one of the best holdings in all Iceland, and now comprises the largest collection of period buildings in the country. Most of the rooms are kept as they were when last lived in, full of household items and farming implements from days gone by, though one building has been taken back to its original state, with beaten earth floors and central stone fireplace and kitchen. The Rough Guide to Naples, Pompeii & the Amalfi Coast The Rough Guide to the Cotswolds, Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford

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Men in Contemporary Russia The Fallen Heroes of Post-Soviet Change?, 1st Edition $59.95$47.96 SAVE ~$11.99 12 Month Rental - $35.97 6 Month Rental - $29.98 Rebecca Kay assesses how men in post-Soviet Russia are represented through media and popular discourses. Using case studies she explores the challenges which have arisen for men since 1991 and the ways in which their responses are shaped by and viewed through the prism of widely accepted attitudes towards gender. The lives and concerns of men in provincial Russia are examined through ethnographic fieldwork, combining extensive participant observation with in-depth interviews. The book reveals how individual men strive to maintain a sense of equilibrium between the activities in which they are engaged and the ways in which they are perceived, both by others and by themselves. The findings of the research have produced significant areas of contrast and comparison with the author's earlier work on women. This is drawn out throughout the book, placing the study of Russian men in a broader gendered context. The issues raised by the men mirror concerns discussed in men's studies literature and popular discourse beyond Russia. The book is therefore of interest to a wider international audience as well as contributing to ongoing interdisciplinary debates, in Russian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology and Human Geography, addressing the need for new approaches to understanding post-Socialist change. 'An intriguing and suggestive book that illuminates men's experience as they try to find new meanings for manhood in post-Soviet Russia. Based on interviews with men from Siberia and the European heartland of Russia, and from a wide range of backgrounds, Kay's book explores how these men have responded to the challenges of military service, the new economy, marital life and fatherhood. The commonplace view of Russia's men as superfluous and self-destructive in the face of economic and national crisis is found wanting, and the significance of both the civic and the intimate in Russian men's own reconstructions of gender should give politicians, policy makers and scholars pause for thought.' Dan Healey, Senior Lecturer, Swansea University, UK 'Rebecca Kay's study of narratives of masculinity brings an important new dimension to the English-language literature on gender in post-Soviet Russia. This book is a thoroughly researched, empathetic and engagingly written account of how the other half� has negotiated the constraints of the post-Soviet gender regime. It will be an important resource for teaching and research in the fields of gender studies, Russian and East European studies, sociology, cultural studies and social policy.' Hilary Pilkington, University of Warwick, UK 'Russian policymakers concerned about very high male mortality and very low birthrates would do well to read Kay's account...The challenges for Russian men and women are great because of the scale and rapidity of change but they are also part and parcel of far broader processes of globalization. Kay's fascinating and insightful work helps to enhance our understanding of both.' Transitions Online 'With this thorough and rich study of changing masculinities in contemporary Russia, Rebecca Kay has made an important contribution to our understanding of gendered structures and relations in post-socialist societies...Kay's study...fills a gap in the literature and simultan Contents: Introduction: studying men in Russia: historical perspectives and international contexts; Heroes or Villains?: 'being a man' in contemporary Russia. Men in the Public Sphere: Military service: rite of passage or waste of time?; 'What kind of a man doesn't provide for his family?': making ends meet in the new labour market; 'What's a man without capital?': the pitfalls and potential of private enterprise. Men in the Private Sphere: 'I couldn't live without my kids': fatherhood as a contested identity; 'A woman has a right to expect certain conditions': personal relationships between men and women; 'Just give me an aspirin and I'll be fine': the provision of social services and support for men, a case study of the Altai Regional Crisis Centre for Men; Conclusions: new perspectives on men in contemporary Russia; Appendix: Respondents' socio-demographic data; Bibliography; Index. About the Originator Rebecca Kay is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Central and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. She is author of Russian Women and their Organizations, Macmillan, 2000, winner of the Heldt Prize for the best book in Slavic Women's Studies in 2000. In addition, she is author of a series of articles on gender in contemporary Russia. Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General

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Swiss court frees air worker's killer Published time: 8 Nov, 2007 14:13 Edited time: 8 Nov, 2007 17:13 The highest Swiss court has ruled that Vitaly Kaloyev should be freed. The Russian was jailed for stabbing to death an air traffic controller he blamed for an air crash that killed his wife and two young children in 2002. Earlier this year, his eight-yea Sister Zoya Kaloyeva said they felt great joy: "Tears were in our eyes when we got the news. The phone keeps ringing all the time. Vitaly must take care of his health - he suffers from high blood pressure. He will first stay with his older brother in Moscow, and then will see". "Finally the truth has triumphed and Vitaly is released. We thank those judges who have been deciding his fate and who understood that this man has had enough and shouldn't be punished any longer. He has already lost the most precious things he had - his loved-ones. The whole family and all the neighbours have been praying for him and God eventually heard us," she added. "This is a long-awaited moment. He is exhausted. This is a person who went through two major tragedies: the first one, when he lost his family, and this got him into the second one, when he killed Peter Nielsen," Konstantin Kaloyev, Vitaly Kaloyev's brother, commented. Kaloyev's lawyer, Markus Hug, told Russia Today that it was one of the most difficult cases he's ever had to deal with because of all the tragic circumstances of the crash and unanswered questions. Kaloyev was also a victim of this tragedy, the lawyer believes. Monument on the grave of Kaloyev's family And he added that he believed that good reasoning by the defence helped persuade the judges: "I was always convinced that we had good arguments in the case and we proved it today. I've already contacted Kaloyev's translator. I will perhaps meet Kaloyev tomorrow - if he stays in prison until tomorrow. He could be released in a matter of several hours". Kaloyev, 50, stabbed Peter Nielsen to death because he held the SkyGuide employee responsible for an air crash that killed his wife and two young children in 2002. Earlier this year, the eight-year term was cut to five years and three months with the possibility of parole. But an appeal to the Federal Court by the prosecution overruled the parole decision. Now the court has ruled Kaloyev is a free man as he served more than 2/3 of his term and behaved well in prison. Kaloyev will be actually released within a few days. On July 1, 2002 a Russian passenger plane collided with a DHL cargo plane over southern Germany, killing 71 people, including 49 children. Peter Nielsen was the only air traffic controller on duty at the time of the accident. Kaloyev tracked him down to his home in Switzerland, where he stabbed him to death.

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Ultra-left activists storm Russia's foreign ministry Published time: 2 Jul, 2008 07:25 Edited time: 2 Jul, 2008 11:25 Banner says: "Foreign ministry - a lair of traitors" (AFP Photo / Natalia Kolesnikova) © AFP A dozen Bolshevik activists have been detained in Moscow after storming the reception of Russia's main foreign ministry building. The members of the banned National Bolshevik movement handcuffed themselves to pipes and h "Police detained three Muscovites and nine Moscow Region residents in the Russian Foreign Ministry lobby in Denezhny side-street. They were brought to the Khamovniki police station," the source in Moscow's police said, adding that they were likely to be given fines. The ultra-left activists timed the act to coincide with the criminal sentencing of one of the National Bolshevik movement leaders, Vladimir Abel, in a Latvian court. Abel was arrested in Moscow in February, 2008, and extradited to Latvia, where he had been accused of plotting an assassination attempt on the country's president at the time Vaira Vike-Freiberga. National Bolsheviks themselves claim it was the Russian foreign ministry inaction in protecting the Russian-speaking minority rights in the Baltic states that made them go the length of such a move. A week ago the Latvian Ambassador to Russia, Andris Teikmanis, was attacked by members of the same movement during a media briefing in Moscow. The assailants, a man and a woman, threw a substance which they claim was blood at him. During the incident they chanted "Free Vadimir Abel".

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Learning Disability Super League Launched Wed 13 Feb League Super League (Europe) and the Rugby Football League (RFL) have partnered with the national social care charity Community Integrated Care to form a ground-breaking inclusive sports programme for people with learning disabilities and autism. The 'Community Integrated Care Learning Disability Super League' will give people with learning disabilities the opportunity to play an adapted version of Rugby League, in a series of high-profile festivals and events. The programme aims to promote the development of skills, confidence and positive experiences for people with learning disabilities, and make a major statement about social inclusion. This world-first initiative is the first ever example of a professional sports league sharing its brand with a learning disability sports programme. The inclusive competition has been supported by eleven founder clubs, who have established or will be developing Learning Disability Rugby League teams: Castleford Tigers, Huddersfield Giants, Hull KR, Leeds Rhinos, Newcastle Thunder, Salford Red Devils, St Helens, Wakefield Trinity, Warrington Wolves, Widnes Vikings, Wigan Warriors and York City Knights. Learning Disability Rugby League is a specially adapted non-competitive game, which focuses on encouraging participation and skills development. To support the success of this programme, Community Integrated Care is providing specialist training to all participating clubs, as well as direct investment into the sport. The programme is set to launch at the Betfred Super League's Dacia Magic Weekend event, which takes place at Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, on 25-26th May 2019. This will provide one of the biggest ever crowds for a learning disability sport event. The initiative was revealed today at Community Integrated Care's Annual Conference, which took place at Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United. The launch event was hosted by Sky Sports presenters Terry O'Connor and Brian Carney. It featured contributions from Warrington Wolves hooker Danny Walker, Leeds Rhinos forward Jamie Jones-Buchanan, Wigan Warriors second-row, Willie Isa, and St Helens prop, Luke Douglas, who have all signed up as Ambassadors for the programme, having proudly supported LDRL initiatives or the charity Community Integrated Care in the past. Community Integrated Care is one of Britain's biggest and most successful social care charities, supporting over 3500 people who have learning disabilities, autism, mental health concerns and dementia across England and Scotland. The charity has developed several pioneering sports and social care programmes, including initiatives with leading Rugby League clubs that have been recognised at the National Dementia Care Awards, 3rd Sector Care Awards and the Great British Care Awards. This announcement is part of a wider strategic partnership between Community Integrated Care, the Super League and the RFL, which aims to develop and enhance the community programmes provided by the sport to people with care and support needs. As the Official Social Care Partner of the sport, the charity will be leading the development of a range of programmes that will use Rugby League to transform the lives of people who require care and support. Robert Elstone, CEO of Super League, said: "I would like to thank Community Integrated Care for presenting this ground-breaking opportunity to Super League. The passion and commitment shown to date to get this project underway bodes well for a partnership that will reward all participants in so many ways. Not only will this deliver amazing opportunities for all the players, and experiences that will live in the memory for lifetimes, it will also endorse everything that Super League stands for. Our Clubs sit at the heart of proud communities and bring people together every day of the year. The Community Integrated Care Learning Disability Super League will widen that reach and amplify these special qualities." Ralph Rimmer, the Chief Executive of the RFL, said: "As a governing body we are extremely proud of our work in developing both Physical Disability and Learning Disability Rugby League over the past 12 months. To have a partner of the calibre of Community Integrated Care come on board is really exciting and they will add real value as we look to develop this format. The work the Club Foundations have done in giving players with a learning disability the chance to experience Rugby League has been first class and we look forward to working with Super League, Club Foundations and Community Integrated Care to continue to deliver some unprecedented playing opportunities." Mark Adams, CEO of Community Integrated Care, says: "We believe that this collaboration will become one of the most significant inclusive sports programmes in the world. This initiative gives people with learning disabilities an unparalleled platform to stay active, make friends, develop skills and achieve their dreams. By providing people with the opportunity to represent the clubs that they love, become Super League players, and be part of the game's biggest events, such as Magic Weekend, the sport is not only changing people's lives but also making a powerful statement about the inclusiveness and values of Rugby League. "As the Official Social Care partner of the sport, we are looking forward to working with the sport to changing the lives of thousands of people with learning disabilities, mental health concerns, autism and dementia. "We would like to commend the Super League, RFL, all participating clubs, and the players and legends who have signed up as Ambassadors, for their vision and passion for this programme." St.Helens LDRL face Wigan Warriors LDRL this Sunday at Robin Park. 3pm kick off This is the first game of the Community Integrated Care Learning Disability Super League so come on down and support the saints! Robin Park Leisure Centre Loire Drive WN5 0UL See whats it all about here. Watch J.P, A current LDRL saint. check out his story here. Wed 22 May League Super League and Betfred announce record deal 3 months ago Club New refereeing rules in place with immediate effect 5 months ago League Man Of Steel Panel Announced

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Immoweb takes full advantage of changing search behaviour with mobile apps SAS Visual Analytics lives up to the expectations at Electrabel GDF SUEZ Get Started With SAS BeLux Support SAS Belgium SAS Institute nv/sa Kasteel de Robiano Hertenbergstraat 6 B-3080 Tervuren E-mail: Journalist Alan Schwarz crunches the numbers and breaks a scandal wide open Anne-Lindsay Beall, SAS Insights Editor How Alan Schwarz took his statistical background and used it to achieve what one Hall of Fame sports writer described as "the most remarkable feat in sports journalism history." On his first day of kindergarten in 1973, when the teacher asked Alan Schwarz what he wanted to do when he grew up, Schwarz's answer was: "I want to learn square roots because I don't know all of them yet." Schwarz describes himself as "a proud, card-carrying math geek." He was on the math team in high school, and his life's ambition was to teach high school math. But when he found out he'd need a master's degree, he changed course to something else he'd always loved: sports. He became a sports journalist and brought his love of math into his writing, finding fertile ground in baseball's numbers and statistics. He even wrote a book about the history of statistics in baseball. And then everything changed. Want to change things for the better? Download GatherIQ™ App Use your own number crunching skills to make a difference with GatherIQ™, a crowdsourcing community of volunteers who dig into data to offer a fresh perspective on challenging social issues. You don't need to be a data scientist, or spend hours of your time. Just get involved. Download the GatherIQ app The story of a lifetime Someone came to Schwarz with something big: A brain disease commonly associated with boxers (dementia pugilistica, commonly known as "punch-drunk syndrome") had been found in deceased NFL football players Mike Webster, Terry Long, Andre Waters and Justin Strzelczyk. All of them had basically lost their minds between the ages of 30 and 52. Why did these players have cognitive problems? Postmortem examinations found that they had chronic traumatic encephalopathy - a rare disease related to punch-drunk syndrome that's not seen in the general population. "So we went to the NFL and said, 'Hey, your ex-employees are showing brain damage, psychological problems, memory problems and emotional problems - far earlier than the general population,'" said Schwarz. In a response to The New York Times, an NFL spokesman said: "There are a great many people who have played football ... who do not appear to have suffered these types of deficits." But Schwarz knew the numbers didn't add up. "Statistically, it doesn't matter how many healthy players there are," said Schwarz. "What matters is how many players have the disease and how it compares to the right proportion." When Schwarz pushed further, the NFL released another pseudo-statistical argument, saying: "Memory disorders affect many people who never played football or other sports." "Right. But, once again, it's not how many people in the general population have the disease," said Schwarz. "It's how many guys in football have it, compared to how many should?" Statistically, it doesn't matter how many healthy players there are. What matters is how many players have the disease and how it compares to the right proportion. Alan Schwarz Pulitzer Prize-nominated National Correspondent The New York Times With more retired players reporting problems, the NFL came up with a plan to pay any ex-football player who had dementia $88,000 a year to help offset medical expenses - but the league wouldn't admit that head trauma sustained from football was the cause. "I knew this would be their downfall," said Schwarz. "They were now collecting data and figuring out how many ex-football players had this disorder, and then we could take that data and compare it to the general population." Schwarz began collecting the names the NFL came up with, getting their birthdays, researching who they were. "I was obsessed with this for two years," said Schwarz. "And when I found out that there were 95 players in January 2009, I ran the numbers in many different ways to try and conceptualize and show that what I knew in my bones was true. And I was so close." But before he could finish his analysis, the NFL scooped him. They did their own study with the University of Michigan, and the numbers they found helped Schwarz make his case. The Michigan report stated that in the US population, for men ages 30-49, only one out of 1,000 suffered from dementia. For retired NFL players ages 30-49, one out of 50 suffered from dementia. The numbers were even worse for retired NFL players 50 and above. When compared to the general US population, the retired players were six times as likely to suffer from dementia. When Schwarz asked the NFL about this, the response was: "The numbers are still small." In response, Schwarz wrote his groundbreaking 2009 article, stating: All rates appear small. But if they are accurate, they would have arresting real-life effects when applied across a population as large as living N.F.L. retirees. A normal rate of cognitive disease among N.F.L. retirees age 50 and above (of whom there are about 4,000) would result in 48 of them having the condition; the rate in the Michigan study would lead to 244. Among retirees ages 30 through 49 (of whom there are about 3,000), the normal rate cited by the Michigan researchers would yield about 3 men experiencing problems; the rate reported among N.F.L. retirees leads to an estimate of 57. So the Michigan findings suggest that although 50 N.F.L. retirees would be expected to have dementia or memory-related disease, the actual number could be more like 300. This would not prove causation in any individual case, but it would support a connection between pro football careers and heightened prevalence of later-life cognitive decline that the league has long disputed. The New York Times put Schwarz's article on the front page, and it caused an immediate sensation. "People went bananas," said Schwarz. "Congress held hearings. I proved that other data reinforced the Michigan study, and everything started changing. The NFL changed its rules and philosophy of how to handle a concussion. And they finally acknowledged that the data was out there to show the link." Alan Schwarz took his statistical background and used it to achieve what one Hall of Fame sports writer described as "the most remarkable feat in sports journalism history." He's been credited with saving lives and revolutionizing the protocol for head injuries in almost every youth and professional sport. And it all goes back to the numbers. "I love finding the mathematical argument where I can say, 'No. 2 + 2 does not equal 5, and I'm not going to let you get away with that,' " said Schwarz. Adapted from SAS Technology Connection Keynote, SAS Global Forum 2015. Article Can data sharing help cure cancer?Clinical trials can bring new drugs - and new hope - to the market for cancer patients. 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Music in the Air, Music Everywhere: Students host pop-up concert series across Greater Victoria to celebrate diversity in music More than 1,500 music students in the Greater Victoria School District will be performing in concerts across the region from May 6-16th, 2018. Students and their instruments will be popping up in city squares, parks, senior residences and shopping centres to sing and play for the community. This is part of an 11-day concert series called, "Music in the Air/ Music Everywhere". Elementary, middle and secondary students in music programs are participating to raise awareness of, and engagement with, Greater Victoria School District's music programs. "This is a great opportunity for community members to engage in our music programs collectively", noted Board Chair Edith Loring-Kuhanga. "Over the years, school music programs have played a significant role in student learning while promoting musical competence across the District. Now, students can showcase their talents to the broader community through a shared musical experience." More than 30 student performances will happen during the festival. The concert series will feature choirs, string quartets, orchestras, ukulele ensembles, drum circles, concert bands and marching bands. Concert Schedule Highlights: Beacon Hill Park - May 6, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. Centennial Square - May 9, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. Willows Park - May 11, 2018, at 6:00 p.m. Buccaneer Days Parade - May 12, 2018, at 10 a.m. Ship Point - May 12, 2018, at 10:45 a.m. University of Victoria - May 15, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. Songhees Wellness Centre - May 16, 2018, at 7:00 p.m. Senior Residence performances - May 7-16, 2018 For more information on above performances visit Music in the Air, Music Everywhere Brochure. Detailed Concert Schedules: Jazz Stage Music in the Air, Music Everywhere is supported by the Cooper Smith Music Library (CSML). The Cooper Smith Music Library Collection holds over 9,000 sets of choral works, vocal and instrumental jazz charts, musicals, string orchestra selections, and pedagogical resources for ukulele, recorder, general music at all levels, conducting, music theory, world music, and music history. It also houses a large inventory of instruments for rent and a recording studio. The CSML is supported by the Administration and Board of Education of the Greater Victoria School District. The library opened in 2003 and has expanded steadily over the years. It was formally named after its founders, Eileen Cooper and Bonnie Smith, in the fall of 2013. This will be the last year Eileen Cooper and Bonnie Smith will oversee the library. The pair were part of the first music steering committee in 1981, which held the District's first music festival.

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Sunny. High 72F. Winds WNW at 15 to 25 mph.. Bar, gym approved in San Carlos By Anna Schuessler Daily Journal staff San Carlos will be home to a downtown cocktail bar and a gym slated for a warehouse space on the city's east side after two separate sets of plans submitted to the city's Planning Commission got the green light in recent weeks. Expected to replace the dry cleaning business Jin's Cleaners at 765 Laurel St., a proposal to operate a piano bar and lounge offering high-end cocktails earned approval from the Planning Commission Monday. Situated just south of Frank D. Harrington Park, the single-story building where the business has been proposed would receive interior improvements and a new facade under the plans submitted by applicant Kevin Canfield. Equipped with a 6-inch podium for musical performances, a 250-square-foot bar as well as tables and banquette seating, the bar will feature space for live entertainment and a lounge, according to a staff report. The bar is expected to be open Sunday through Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. and Thursday through Saturday from 4 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. with one to two bartenders, a bar-back and a security guard working at the business each night, according to the report. Required to provide eight parking spaces, the applicant plans to pay $143,488 in parking in-lieu fees to the city. As a condition of approval, the applicant is also required to close windows and doors at 10 p.m. each night to comply with the city's noise ordinance. The Planning Commission also approved a conditional use permit allowing Rev Fitness to offer personal training and fitness classes at a warehouse space at 930 Commercial St. previously used by Abbey Carpet for storage. Though his business currently operates as Core Total Fitness in a shared space at 969 Industrial Road, applicant Elliott Spear said at the commission's June 17 meeting that the move into the 7,200-square-foot space marks an opportunity for his business to expand. Spear's business would share the building with Galleher Corporation, which uses the space for warehouse use, and the 1.7-acre lot where the 14,400-square-foot building currently stands holds another commercial building. "We've loved being part of the community and hope to continue doing so as we expand into this new facility," said Spear, according to a video of the meeting. By offering boutique-style classes, the business is expected to draw no more than 40 people at a time with three employees at its busiest hours, said city planner Lisa Costa Sanders. Because the business plans to create two on-site bicycle parking spaces, two motorcycle parking spots and two accessible parking spaces, the 46 parking spaces currently provided on the site were deemed sufficient for the new use, explained Sanders. Sanders said Rockin' Jump at 401 Quarry Road and PongPlanet at 848 Brittan Ave. are among the other recreational uses that have more recently been approved in the city's industrial zones. In response to Commissioner Jim Iacoponi's question about whether the business would consider expanding its hours from the 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. as currently proposed to a 24-hour model, Spear said he doesn't plan on keeping the business open 24 hours due to safety concerns. As owner of the building, Tony Bollock, president of Black Mountain Properties, said he was pleased to work with Spear, who was a previous tenant of the company. Bollock said he felt Spear's business could meet demand for a high-quality, membership-based fitness facility, noting it may fall into a sort of middle ground between 24 Hour Fitness, which is more affordable, and some of the higher-end, expensive clubs on the Peninsula. Elliott Spear Tony Bollock

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AB 1968 Creates Lifetime Gun Ban for Some Afflicted with a Mental Health Disorder Posted by Neil Shouse | Jan 04, 2019 | 0 Comments Assembly Bill 1968 establishes a lifetime ban on gun ownership for certain individuals Assembly Bill 1968 was signed into law by Gov. Brown in September 2018. The bill establishes a lifetime ban on gun ownership for those persons who are: involuntarily admitted to a facility for a mental health disorder more than once in a year; and, are considered a danger to themselves or others. Please note, though, that persons subject to this ban can petition the court every five years to have the ownership ban reversed. AB 1968 marks a change in California law. Prior to the bill, persons involuntarily committed to a mental health facility, and deemed a danger to themselves or others, could potentially own a gun after five years from the date of release from the facility. New Laws Under Assembly Bill 1968 AB 1968 applies to those persons who are both: involuntarily admitted to a mental health facility on more than one occasion in a single year; and, are designated as a danger to themselves or others. The bill states that if a person falls into this category, they are prohibited from owning a firearm for the rest of their lives. But this ban can be reversed. Persons subject to the ban can petition the court every five years to have the gun prohibition overturned. Gun ownership will be granted if a judge believes the person would be likely to use a gun in a safe and lawful manner. Laws Prior to Assembly Bill 1968 AB 1968 changed California's existing law on gun ownership for those involuntarily admitted to a mental health facility. Under the State's old law, persons involuntarily admitted to a mental health facility, and deemed a danger to themselves or others, were prohibited from possessing a firearm for five years from the date of release from the facility. After the five-year period expired, a party could petition the court for the restoration of the right to own a gun. This right would be restored if a judge determined that the party would be likely to use a firearm in a safe and lawful manner. Reasoning for AB 1968 Proponents of the new law support it for two main reasons. The first is a pure policy interest in safety. Supporters of the bill state that it is in the best interest of society if people at risk of harming themselves and others do not have easy access to guns. The second reason is to help prevent persons with mental health disorders from killing themselves. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, mental health afflictions are a major contributor to suicide, and 51% of suicides are committed with firearms. The reasoning then follows that if persons with a mental health disorder do not have a gun, they will have less of a chance to take their own lives. Assembly Bill 1968 was introduced in January of 2018 by Assembly member Evan Low. The bill adds Section 8103 to the California Welfare and Institutions Code. Neil Shouse Southern California DUI Defense attorney Neil Shouse graduated with honors from UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School (and completed additional graduate studies at MIT). driver's license revocation room confinement solitary confinement of juveniles juvenile justice fees

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Ledley King Stresses the Importance of England International for Tottenham Hotspur Former Tottenham Hotspur legend Ledley King has hailed current Spurs player Eric Dier for his versatility, and praised him for his importance to the North London club, reports the London Evening Standard. King, who started 268 matches for Spurs between 1999 and 2012 before retiring due to injury, recalled his thoughts when he first watched him put on the Lilywhites' jersey in 2015. "I remember watching him in pre-season in Denver, and he impressed me straight away. At the time, I didn't know he could step into midfield and perform that well." King, who is now an ambassador for the team, continued: "I quickly saw he was capable of that and he went on to have a great season in midfield. I'm not sure what position he would say he wants to play, but he does both equally well." Alex Menendez/GettyImages "It can be difficult but playing multiple positions is the sign of a good player. When you're competing in a tough team that's full of top players, you're usually happy to be on the pitch and to have a starting position. He can start and if he feels as comfortable at the back as he does in midfield, it may be no problem to him." King then went on to discuss the England international's importance to his club side: "That's a great strength that this Tottenham team have. They are able to play three centre-halves or two, so you can change. You've seen Eric either step out or step back and make subtle adjustments. "It's a great strength for any team to have, without having to change your personnel. It makes it a lot easier. People rotate a lot more now and that's one of the things that surprised me about how easy it was for Eric. "With the ball at his feet he looks very comfortable and very cultured. He doesn't give the ball away at all but also he's not just playing sideways and backwards, he's turning on the ball under pressure and playing forward balls, and he's been brilliant." King's praise comes as Dier celebrates spending three years at the club, after joining from Sporting Lisbon on 31 July 2014, for an estimated £4.5m. There had been rumours that Jose Mourinho had been looking to lure Dier to Old Trafford, with a £40m bid being made last week. However, with the news of Manchester United's £45m signature of Nemanja Matic from Chelsea, it appears that his future is safe at Tottenham. And the club's fans are most definitely happy about that, with some suggesting Dier is of a higher standard to Matic. When you need a plan B after failing to sign Eric Dier. #THFC - Marc Benamram (@MarcBenamram) July 31, 2017 Dier has only missed three Premier League matches in the last two seasons as his team have put forward two sustained title challenges for the first time in decades. He has also played on 19 occasions for the England national team.

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Relative motion The laws of physics which apply when you are at rest on the earth also apply in any reference frame moving at a constant velocity with respect to the earth. The bike racers here are in relative motion with respect to each other. Lets learn more about the concept of relative velocity as we run through this topic. After completing the topic, the student will be able to: Connect day-to-day experiences to linear motion. Discriminate clearly between distance and displacement. Define and distinguish between speed, average speed, instantaneous speed, velocity, acceleration and deceleration. Differentiate between uniform and non-uniform motions. Develop and apply equations of motion. Understand the nature of acceleration due to gravity. Develop and apply position and displacement vectors in two dimensions. Apply equations of motion in X and Y directions. Develop and apply equations of motion, time of flight and range of projectile for any projected object. Apply changes to the equations of motion, time of flight, height reached by the projectile, range of projectile when a projectile is launched vertically upwards. Understand and correlate the concept of relative velocity to daily life examples like moving boat in a river etc.,. Tugboat race The participants in the tugboat race maneuver to optimize their chances of winning. They do so by controlling the displacement, velocity and acceleration of their boats. Kinematics is the branch of mechanics that describes the motion of objects without considering the cause of motion. It provides a foundation that will help us in all areas of physics. It is most intimately connected with dynamics (another branch of mechanics): while kinematics describes motion, dynamics explains the cause for this motion. It involves the relationships between the quantities displacement (d),velocity (v), acceleration (a), and time (t). We develop a mathematical formalism that allows us to represent the position, velocity, and acceleration of moving objects, and to express how these quantities are related to each other with time. Note: We will restrict our study to speeds that are slow compared to the speed of light and also to objects which are generally large, compared to atoms or molecules. Reference frame When we talk about the motion of an object, we first determine a reference frame and then according to this reference frame we discuss the motion of the object. With respect to Earth, the Sun appears to move across the sky, but it is the Earth which is actually spinning and causing that apparent motion. Study of Motion - Frame of reference The world, and everything in it, moves. We see cars and trains moving, a person walking on the street, birds flying in the sky, a leaf floating in the breeze. Even seemingly stationary things such as buildings move with Earth′s rotation. Earth orbiting around the Sun, the Sun's orbit around the center of the Milky Way galaxy and the galaxy′s migration relative to other galaxies are all examples of such movements. In fact, nothing in the entire universe is completely stationary. Reference Frame: All motions are relative to some frame of reference. An object is said to be in motion if the position of the object changes with respect to some reference frame. If an object is said to be at rest, then it means that it is being described with respect to a reference frame that is moving together with the body. The reference frame is called the 'observer' and is arbitrarily chosen. The example below illustrates the concept of an observer. Look at a person standing in a playground. His position relative to the ground, the trees and the buildings in the background does not change. So it appears as if he is at rest. But he is standing on the ground i.e. on the Earth, which rotates on its axis revolving around the Sun. If we have a facility to stand on the Sun, we will feel that the person is moving! That is the person is rotating as well as moving forward, along with the Earth. Thus, the person is at rest (or is not moving) relative to the ground, the trees and the buildings. But, on the other hand, the person, along with the ground, the trees and the buildings, is moving with respect to the Sun.

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You are here: Home News News and features Student wins national social mobility award at House of Lords ceremony Student wins national social mobility award at House of Lords ceremony A social work student from Kingston University and St George's, University of London has won a national social mobility award for her voluntary and charity work at the inaugural UpReach Student Social Mobility Awards. Rochelle Watson, a single mother to three-year-old son Allan Junior and the first in her family to go to university, picked up the Charity and Third Sector accolade at a ceremony at the House of Lords. The awards recognise the achievements of undergraduates from less advantaged backgrounds across the United Kingdom. Rochelle is in the final year of her degree at the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, run jointly by Kingston and St George's. The 24-year-old carer from Merton, whose mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when she was 12, regularly volunteers at the Kingston Family Contact Centre supporting non-residential parents to see their children. Reacting to her award, Rochelle said: "I'm still in shock. More than 200 students were originally nominated so to win the award is a massive thing. It's great to be recognised for my achievements and I'm proud to represent students who have gone through similar things. I want to be a positive role model." Rochelle has played an active role in student life at Kingston University, inspiring and supporting others to overcome barriers to success. As well as being a member of the student council and a student ambassador, she has taken part in Kingston Hub's Transform Leadership Programme, which helps second year students plan for public sector graduate schemes. She has also worked as an Empower co-ordinator, helping mentors support disadvantaged young girls to achieve their potential. Inspired by her mother's mental health issues, Rochelle has written a report about parental mental health and engagement with schoolchildren for the Reach Academy. The report explored the impact having a parent with mental health problems has on young people. She was also first person from her course to be a finalist in the University's Bright Ideas competition, where she created a personal development programme to support children affected by parental mental health and help them realise their full potential and develop skills they otherwise wouldn't have been able to. The BA(Hons) Working with Children and Young People: Social Pedagogy student, who also took part in the University's SADRAS project to develop research into enriching students from underrepresented groups, credits the University for helping her develop as a person and igniting her self-belief. "My experience at Kingston has transformed my life. I've been able to build my confidence during my studies and I'm so grateful to my lecturers and personal tutor for believing in me and encouraging me," she said. "When I started I wanted to develop my confidence and gain new skills but all of the extra-curricular activities Kingston offers have helped me develop belief in myself and have made me become more independent," she added. Working with children and young people: social pedagogy course leader Yvalia Febrer, who is also Rochelle's personal tutor, said: "We are absolutely thrilled with Rochelle's success in the Social Mobility Awards, she is a model student and an inspiration to others not just on her course, but to everyone in the Department of Social Work and Social Care." Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching at the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education Professor Jane Lindsay added: "We are all so proud of Rochelle. She has really taken on every initiative we have to offer at Kingston to develop herself and help others. She has overcome so many obstacles and is a shining example of what we want our students to be, she deserves every bit of success that comes her way." Find out more about completing a BA(Hons) in Working with Children and Young People: Social Pedagogy at Kingston University and St George's, University of London. Our calendar of events includes lectures, exhibitions and performances. You can discover more about our research, meet our scientists or explore our rich history and the vibrancy of life here today. Read more (PDF) We build on over 250 years of innovation and keeping pace with the health challenges of a changing NHS. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to join in the conversation and keep up to date with our news and activities.

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'He has left our family broken,' Sheffield man says as brother is jailed for raiding family home 'I don't feel safe in my own home because of my own brother,' the brother of a prolific Sheffield criminal said, as he described the devastating impact his raid on their family home has had. Wednesday, 15 August, 2018, 17:31 Patrick Bailey, 34, was jailed for four years and three months during a hearing held at Sheffield Crown Court today (Wednesday, August 15) During a hearing held at Sheffield Crown Court today (Wednesday, August 15), Recorder James Baird jailed Patrick Bailey, 34, for four years and three months for a range of offences committed between July 2017 and February 2018. Among the offences committed by Bailey, of no fixed abode, was the theft of several items from his family home during a raid carried out on July 29 last year, including priceless guitars that had once belonged to his late grandfather. "He has left our family quite broken," said the man, adding: "I was shaken. I don't feel safe in my own home. I don't feel safe in my own home because of my own brother." The court was told how their mother, who suffers from anxiety and panic attacks, had been left with post-traumatic stress disorder in the wake of the raid on their home. Prosecutor, Eddison Flint, told the court that the family managed to locate three stolen guitars at a branch of Cash Converters, but said the majority of items, which had a combined value of several thousand pounds, were not recovered. In addition to stealing from the family home, Bailey also took his step father's car without permission a few days later, the court heard. During Bailey's spate of offending he also burgled a number of commercial premises including PP News in Crookes; the Aagrah restaurant in Leopold Square, Sheffield; the Cheese and Wine Emporium in Bakewell, Derbyshire and Scarborough Lifts in Burniston, North Yorkshire. Bailey pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, theft, common assault, possession of a bladed article, taking a vehicle without consent, driving whilst disqualified and possession of cannabis at an earlier hearing. James Gould, defending, told the court that Bailey had a range of mental health problems including schizophrenia, which, he said, were 'no doubt' exacerbated by his drug misuse. "Perhaps by his guilty pleas, preventing his family from having to give evidence [in court] it's some small demonstration of remorse," said Mr Gould, adding: "As you can see, he's struggling with emotions of shame for bringing these offences on those who were doing their best to cope with him." In addition to sending Bailey to prison, Recorder Gould also granted restraining orders requested by members of his family. He told Bailey: "Whatever your impressions of your family, it is clear to me that they have only ever offered you their full support. You regrettably cannot see that because of your drug use, and no doubt, mental health issues."

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Pakistan deploys troops, fighter jets in anti-militant offensive A Pakistani tribesman in a shuttered market in Miranshah in North Waziristan, a stronghold for Taleban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants near the border with Afghanistan, on June 15, 2014. -- PHOTO: AFP Jun 16, 2014, 11:12 am SGT MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) - Pakistan on Monday launched fresh air strikes on the northwest tribal region where it has deployed up to 30,000 troops in a long-awaited offensive to eliminate Taleban and Al-Qaeda militants from their border stronghold. The action in North Waziristan was launched a week after a brazen insurgent attack on Pakistan's main airport in Karachi which left dozens dead and marked the end of a troubled peace process. The offensive was announced on Sunday, shortly after airstrikes killed at least 105 people including insurgents linked to the airport raid, and jets and helicopter gunships continued to pound the region over the weekend. A local security official said fighter jets bombed two government schools west of Miranshah - the main town of North Waziristan - early on Monday, killing at least 10 Uzbek militants who were sheltering in them. The military announced the offensive on Sunday, saying it would wage "a comprehensive operation against foreign and local terrorists who are hiding in sanctuaries in North Waziristan". Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said that the time for dialogue was over and that the nation could no longer tolerate attacks on "innocent Pakistanis and damage to national assets". "This operation will continue till the surrender or elimination of enemy," he said. The Karachi airport siege was claimed by Taleban and Uzbek militants holed up in the district on Afghanistan's border - considered the last remaining stronghold of Islamist militants in the region. An operation in the region has been a long-standing demand of Pakistan's Western allies. Washington accuses Islamabad of using the area to give sanctuary to the Haqqani network of fighters, known for their raids on NATO targets inside Afghanistan. A military official in Miranshah told AFP: "Thousands of troops will participate in this action. You can roughly say 25,000 to 30,000 troops will be involved in the operation. "We are trying to finish this operation as soon as possible but can't give an exact time frame. It can conclude in a few days but can also take longer," he added. At least another 10 militants were killed in attacks by Pakistani helicopter gunships in the village of Mir Ali as the fighting got underway Sunday, a local intelligence official in Miranshah said. SHOOT-ON-SIGHT ORDERS The initial overnight air strikes on Saturday killed at least 105 people according to the military - though local officials placed the toll as high as 150. One official said the alleged Uzbek mastermind of the Karachi attack had been killed in the air strikes. "Abu Abdul Rehman Almani, who was mastermind of attack on Karachi airport, and several other commanders have been killed in the strikes," he said. Some 40 per cent of the region's population of half a million have already fled the violence, leaving around 300,000 behind, residents told AFP. Shoot-on-sight orders have been imposed on those who leave their homes after dark, according to local intelligence officials, leading to two people being critically wounded near Miranshah. In Miranshah itself, imams made announcements from mosque loudspeakers asking people to recite from the Quran and pray to God for the safety of those who remained behind. US drones were also spotted hovering overhead, raising suspicion that Washington and Islamabad were coordinating their efforts after two US drone attacks - the first this year - killed 16 militants on Wednesday. DIALOGUE OVER Washington reportedly suspended its drone attacks in December to give Islamabad time to pursue peace talks with the Tehreek-e-Taleban Pakistan (TTP), aimed at ending a seven-year insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives. The dialogue resulted in a month-long ceasefire between March and April, but later broke down, with Pakistan resuming air strikes on suspected militant hideouts in the tribal areas. The army was widely seen as being opposed to the dialogue because of the heavy casualties it has sustained at the hands of the TTP. Mr Talat Masood, a retired general and security analyst, said the army would aim to end its operation before the Islamic holy month of Ramadan which begins around June 28. "It should go only for two three weeks and then troops can be stationed in the area to control the situation and consolidate the positions," he said. The operation's success, he added, was contingent on sealing the porous Pakistan-Afghanistan border which foreign fighters including Chechens, Uzbeks, Turkmen, Tajiks and Uighurs have crossed in recent weeks. A military statement said Afghan security forces "have been requested to seal the border on their side to facilitate elimination of terrorists who attempt to cross the border". It added that announcements would be made for local residents to approach designated evacuation points. "Surrender points have also been made for those militants who chose to quit violence and give up their arms," it said, without elaborating on their fate.

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'Rugged And Uncompromising Formula' - HipHopDX Reviews 'Kickin' & Screamin' HipHopDX continues to show love for Krizz Kaliko as the popular hip hop site recently put Kickin' & Screamin' to the test and saw how Krizz Kaliko's best work measured up during one of Strange Music's strongest years. As his fourth full length solo album, Kickin' & Screamin' challenged Krizz Kaliko to take his music in different directions and paired him up with the likes of Tech N9ne, Twiztid, Chamillionaire, and Rittz. Praising his collaborative efforts, the review noted: "Kaliko's team up with Tech N9ne and Twista, "Kill Sh*t," is as ferocious and lyrically intense as you'd expect, while "Mayday," in cahoots with Chamillionaire and Rittz, is similarly defiant. Business as planned, then." With a final ranking of 3.5/5, HipHopDX credits Strange Music's lieutenant as keeping true to the indie label's cause and while some of Kickin' & Screamin' may not be for everyone, it certainly maintains its mission to be completely out of the ordinary. Click here to read the full review. Click here to pre-order Kickin' & Screamin'. What did you think of the review? Let us know in the comments section below!

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Johnson has concerns as end nears CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- It's down to Talladega Superspeedway in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship, which has hardly resembled a title race over the past four weeks. Three-time defending champion Jimmie Johnson has taken commanding control in his bid for a NASCAR record fourth consecutive title, and his challengers have one last desperate hope at the largest and most unpredictable track on the circuit. Only it's not about how well Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart or Juan Pablo Montoya might run on Sunday. Nope, this race is all about what could happen to Johnson.See, Talladega is Johnson's worst track in the 10-race Chase. There was a win in 2006 and a pair of runner-up finishes the next season, but the rest of his record represents the struggle that Johnson has had on the high-banked Alabama track. Three engine failures and three wrecks, including a late accident in April that led to a 30th-place finish, have left Johnson with six DNF's and a 17.7 average finish. "Man, it (stinks) racing here," Johnson said after wrecking out of April's race. So it makes sense that Johnson was a bit testy following his second-place finish at Martinsville last week. The questions, of course, turned to Talladega and all the unknowns that track brings for the usually unflappable champion. He knows the smallest miscalculation Sunday could trigger "The Big One" and the damage might be enough to swallow up a ton of Johnson's cushy 118-point lead over Mark Martin. Tell us, champ, just how do you feel about going to Talladega? "I'm so tired of answering this question," he replied. "I think you guys can all figure it out. Talladega, there's no telling." No, there's not, and that apparently has Johnson on edge. Particularly since it's the one place that has his challengers chomping at the bit. Martin, who has made no secret of his dislike of Talladega despite two career victories, figures the odds are in his favor of having a good race on Sunday. He was caught in the very first accident in April and was headed home after just six laps. He finished last. "Somehow or another, I just feel lucky about this one," Martin said recently. "If you can wreck on lap five of the last one there, something tells me I ought to be able to miss it this time. That's about as bad of luck as you can have." Gordon, another Hendrick teammate, is a six-time Talladega winner with a 12.3 average finish. Although he also was a victim of accidents in the last two races -- he has consecutive finishes of 38th and 37th -- he swept the 2007 events. Gordon, the four-time series champion, is hoping a good finish Sunday will trim into the 150-point lead Johnson has over him. "You can be aggressive or you can be conservative, either approach can be good or bad, and I don't believe one approach works better than the other," Gordon said. "The 'Big One' is going to happen, it's just whether you get caught up in the crash or not, or whether it comes early or late in the race. Just be ahead of it or way behind it -- don't be in the middle of it. "Rarely do you escape when you are in the middle of it." Then there's Stewart, the defending race winner. A six-time runner-up at Talladega, his victory last October was long overdue and another one could help him chip away at his 187-point deficit. And don't forget Montoya, who wishes he could forget the Chase race at Charlotte two weeks ago. Throw out his 35th-place finish there, and Montoya would be right on Johnson's back bumper. Instead, he's 195-points out despite finishes of either third or fourth in every other Chase race. Now he goes to Talladega, a track that has suited him since his 2006 departure from Formula One. He made his stock-car debut at Talladega three years ago in an ARCA race, finished second in the 2007 Cup event and won the pole in April. He's perhaps the one driver not concerned with how Johnson runs every week, and that could play into his favor Sunday. "You've got to worry about what you're doing, not what everybody else is doing," Montoya said. "I think people keep worrying about what he is doing and as long as you keep worrying about what he's doing, you're not doing your job properly."

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59: Don't Die With Your Book Still Inside You Chris Kennedy is a bestselling Science Fiction and Fantasy author. He's also a former naval aviator with over 3,000 hours flying attack and reconnaissance aircraft (basically, he's a badass). We sat down with Chris for an exclusive interview, and he shared some powerful ideas and tips for any author who wants to build a platform and create an avid group of loyal readers. The Journey to Bestseller Chris took an unlikely path to becoming a best-selling self published author. He read somewhere that 81% of people say they have a story to tell. Chris always thought of himself as part of the other 19%. All of Chris's friends will tell you that his strong suits are math, science, and systems. No one in his life thought of him as a particularly creative person (I used to feel the exact same way!). Then one day while he was driving home from work, he got an idea for a story. He actually talked himself out of writing that story. When he got home Chris found out there was an hour to wait until dinner would be ready, so he decided to start writing his first novel. When Chris told his wife he was writing a novel, she didn't believe him. After he finished the novel, Chris began writing query letters and trying to get a literary agent. He queried over 80 agents but he didn't see any results. That's when he started on the path to self-publishing. Why Self Publishing As he began to research self-publishing, Chris realized that he needed to create a plan to publish his book and put it into action. And that's exactly what he did. He created a plan and saw it through. Chris publishes four books a year. He would publish more if it weren't for his day job doing instructional systems design for the Navy. Get a Daily Action Plan Chris's daily publishing work changes based on what phase of production he's in at any given time. Right now he's doing editing for an upcoming novel, so not as much writing is getting done. A typical day for Chris when he's writing goes like this: Work from 7 AM to 4:30 PM Come home and engage in social media for 1 to 2 hours before dinner Eat dinner Write for one hour to three hours. His goal is to get at least 1000 words written every day during the writing phase of his production process It can be hard to sleep with his production schedule and he finds himself playing a lot of catch-up on the weekends when it comes to sleep. "Start marketing (your book) early. Do not wait until it comes out. Start developing the relationship with the readers about 4 to 6 months early." - Chris Kennedy The biggest mistake Chris sees new self published authors making is that they don't try to develop a relationship with customers before the book is released. The best thing you can do to ensure the success of your book is to get on Amazon's email list. And the best way to maximize your chances of doing that is to get enough traffic to your book when you launch your book that Amazon's algorithms take notice. That's why Chris suggests building a relationship with your audience 4 to 6 months before the book is released. If you build a relationship with people who might be interested in your novel, and then tell them when it's released, a percentage of those people will buy that book. Then, you email those people who bought your book and say "If you like this book would you mind leaving a review?" Again a percentage of those people won't leave a review, but some will. And that's how you begin to build your platform as an indie author. Chris's Marketing Strategy Chris does the majority of his marketing on social media. He is active on Facebook and twitter. He makes a point to post 3 to 4 pieces of content a day that will help aspiring indie authors. The most important thing you need to do is begin building your email list. Building an email list allows you to communicate with your fans directly. Especially these days where everyone has a cell phone when you email people you often get their attention immediately. Chris's Redshirt Marketing Strategy Chris's biggest marketing success has been his redshirt marketing strategy. The term redshirt comes from Star Trek. A "redshirt" in Science Fiction refers to a walk on character who gets killed almost immediately after they enter the scene. People can email Chris and ask to be put into his next book. You have a better chance of getting into the book if you can give Chris one or two details about your personality and interest that will help him flesh out your character for the book. It turns out people really enjoy being killed in a fictional story (not so much in real life, though). Chris has several fans who have requested that he put their friends and family into the books after he has already killed them. Chris actually had a blogger for the Pope ask to be in one of his books. That was the first character that Chris carried over into a sequel. The priest was killed in the next book. He's currently running a contest to see which one of the redshirts characters for his next book will survive into the future. Chris is getting the rest of his audience involved in the competition by having them vote on who deserves to survive based on the reason they gave for why they should survive the book. The cool thing about this redshirts marketing strategy is that it gets the audience involved as collaborators in the creative process. "Everyone's going to get opportunities to have their big break. A lot of times people will be willing to change their plan to capitalize on those opportunities." - Chris Kennedy Chris has had a couple of podcast hosts who were interested in being killed in his novels. When you have someone who has an audience that wants to be part of your creative project, it can really help spread the word about what you're doing. Chris puts an invitation to be part of his next book in every book he publishes. The great thing about this strategy is it recruits people who'll be eager to buy your book when you launch it. They'll also spread word-of-mouth about your book because they're in it. The redshirts have to buy the book in order to read it. That's how Chris gets the initial momentum when he launches his books. Chris has a stable of editors he works with on any given project. So he doesn't need beta readers or fresh eyes before publishing. Making Audiobooks All of Chris's books are available in e-book, paperback, and audiobook formats. At first Chris was reluctant to create an audiobook because of the time and expense involved. But one of his friends is visually impaired and insisted that Chris create the audiobook for him. When Chris began to research ACX he found out that creating an audiobook was much easier than he first thought. All you do is go to ACX.com and sign up. Then you put your book on there and audition producers. If you can't afford to pay a producer upfront you can do a royalty split with the narrator of your book. That way they get half of the royalties, and you get half the royalties and produce the book without having to spend thousands of dollars up front. Chris has developed a relationship with the narrator who has produced all of his audiobooks to date. The only thing Chris has to do after agreeing to work with a narrator is listen to the chapters as they are produced to make sure that the narrator isn't mispronouncing character names or other words. Producing different versions of the same book maximizes your audience because different audiences want different ways of consuming your content. To do a paperback and an e-book is simply a matter of formatting. You should really do both types of book so that your audience can buy the type of book they prefer. In Chris's case he actually sells more audiobooks than he sells e-books, so investing his time in audiobooks really paid off for him. If you think about it, everyone has some device that they can play an audiobook on. Listening to an audiobook allows you to consume a book while you're doing other things. If you want to create your own audiobooks, check out our free guide on how to make an audiobook. Write Your Story "Don't die with your story still inside you." - Chris Kennedy 81% of people have a story inside them that they want to tell. 10% of people actually start to write the story. 1% of people actually publish the story. Be part of the 1%. Right now is the easiest time in history of the world to publish your book. You don't need an agent or publisher. All you need is the determination to achieve your goals. Self-publishing a story is something anyone can do as long as they have a process and plan in place and they follow the plan to completion. You do still want to find a good editor, but there are plenty of editors out there. There is no reason not to get your story out into the world where people can read it at this point in history. - Chris's website. You can contact Chris and get links to all of his books. Chris Kennedy's Amazon author page Ebookpublishingschool.com - learn how to format your e-book for free and upload the book to Amazon. How to get a great book deal that will launch or expand your writing career Tom Corson-Knowles Tom Corson-Knowles is the founder of TCK Publishing, and the bestselling author of 27 books including Secrets of the Six-Figure author. He is also the host of the Publishing Profits Podcast show where we interview successful authors and publishing industry experts to share their tips for creating a successful writing career. Latest posts by Tom Corson-Knowles (see all) 12 Best Baby Name Generators - June 30, 2019 9 Best MasterClass Courses for Writers - June 7, 2019 14 Best QR Code Generators - May 29, 2019

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Gene Bertoncini 16 archived shows Previous shows (16 ): Gene Bertoncini Solo Guitar Gene Bertoncini (Guitar) Gene Betroncini Solo Guitar View more shows... Over decades, Gene Bertoncini has firmly established himself as one of the most eloquent and versatile masters of the guitar. With elegance and ease, he bridges jazz, classical, pop, and bossa nova styles, integrating his own spontaneous and tasteful improvisations along the way. He has earned highest critical acclaim for his artistry on both the classical and electric guitar. Bertoncinis musical roots go back to his early years in the Bronx where he grew up in a house filled with music. His love affair with the guitar began when he was seven, and by the time he was sixteen, he was appearing on New York television. His career took an unusual turn when he decided to fulfill another long-standing interest, and took a degree in architecture at Notre Dame. He was quickly swept into the musical scene at the university, and the first thing he did after picking up his degree was to work opposite Carmen McRae in Chicago. He returned to New York to work with vibraphonist Mike Manieri, and then with a quintet led by drummer Buddy Rich. He describes his architectural experience as something which gives his music its finely-wrought form and style. He wins continual praise for the superb structure of his arrangements and improvisations which serve as a vehicle for his virtuosic technique. Gene Bertoncini has worked and recorded with the Metropolitan Opera orchestra, the Benny Goodman Sextet; singers Tony Bennett, Morgana King, Lena Horne, Vic Damone and Edye Gorme; jazzmen George Benson, Jimm Hall, Tal Farlow, Johnny Smith, Buddy Rich, Wayne Shorter, Hubert Laws, Clark Terry, Paul Desmond, and Paul Winter; and arranger/composers Burt Bacharach, Lalo Schifrin and Michel LeGrand, among others. He performed regularly on the Merve Griffin and Johnny Carson shows, and has been one of the most prolific and popular studio musicians in New York City. For the past eight years Bertoncini has performed with bassist Michael Moore in a duo which The New York Times describes as ...one of the finest pairings of jazz strings.... Mr. Bertoncinis teaching credits include the Eastman School of Music where he regularly performs and conducts summer workshops for jazz guitarists, the New England Conservatory, New York University, and the Banff School of Fine Arts. He has been a highly sought-after guest clinician in colleges and universities throughout the country. Weblinks:

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How The Sights & Sounds Of The Casino Inspired "Mississippi Grind" By : Rory Fish Tag: mississippi grind Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's Mississippi Grind, about a charismatic poker player determined to change his luck, is inspired by the energy and characters the writer-director team found while making their previous movie in Iowa. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck were living in Iowa making their second film Sugar when road movie Mississippi Grind was conceived. Fleck remembers a poker room separated from the main casino by glass and recalls watching the games with interest, not understanding the rules but eager to learn them. Boden says the pair started to go to a local riverboat casino while shooting Sugar, a film about a Dominican baseball player in Iowa, where they became fascinated by what they saw. This wasn't like the glamorous gambling meccas of Las Vegas but a place for seasoned local players to frequent, playing classic games from slots to blackjack and, of course, poker. The two filmmakers found their interest piqued by the various characters they saw there. Fleck began to learn the game of poker, spending his free time going up and down the Mississippi river getting to know other players as well as the rules of popular forms such as Texas Hold'em. The fact Mississippi Grind somewhat ignores the spectacle of the casino as seen in, for example, Martin Scorsese's Casino, it gives it a unique aesthetic that focuses on the characters and why they're gambling. Fleck told USA Today the casinos he spent time researching were "dark, divey little places" unlike what you typically see in Vegas. He saw people "either grinding out a living at the poker table or just sitting at the slot machines, using their pay cheques. The characters really fascinated us." Actor Ryan Reynolds, who plays Curtis in the film, says he too wanted to see how gambling played out in venues that weren't on the tourist map. "These types of places are sort of the end of the rainbow," he says, rememebering he saw some people who had been playing for 30 years. These gamblers had many of the most interesting stories to tell and while he wasn't sure how much of their tale was fabricated, it was fascinating nonetheless. Facing financial hardship, Curtis joins Gerry (played by Ben Mendelsohn) for a road trip on which they hope to win not only money but their own sense of direction, an existential hangover drifting amongst quietly contemplative scenes. Fleck told Collider.com it was important for the realism of the film to have lived it in someway. He and Boden did the trip we see in the film in reverse. "Along the way we took pictures and wrote down any dialogue we heard that might fit in. We played in poker tables, visited dog tracks, horse tracks, and off-track betting parlours which I definitely didn't know about. You know, down and dirty places along the Mississippi River." It was one of these conversations that heavily influenced the theme of the movie. "Anna was sitting at a table and she was the only woman and she was eavesdropping on the poker conversation," Fleck said in an interview with Jessica Kiang of IndieWire. "The topic of rainbows came up and a guy literally said "I drove to the end of a rainbow once. Wasn't nothing there." And how great is that? Without any sense of the irony of what it means to be chasing a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. And so we worked that into the movie." That the film has become a firm favourite of casino fans comes as no surprise given the mainstream appeal of table games like poker and slot machines thanks to online casino operators bringing the joys of these to internet-based platforms. And while the film didn't enjoy success at the box office, it was well-received at major film festivals in 2015 and now ranks amongst Casino, The Gambler, Croupier, The Cooler, Hard Eight and California Split as one of the finest films about gambling. Aside from Mississippi Grind's strong sense of kinship between its two protagonists, it's the casino that offers a third main character. It is here where the sights, sounds and smells of the environment add drama, energy and a singular colourful aesthetic that gives Fleck and Boden's film an appealing charm. Rory Fish has loved movies since he can remember. If he was to put together an "all time" top 10 of absolute favourites it would have to include North By Northwest, 12 Angry Men and Sunset Boulevard. See Inside Michael Jackson's "Neverland" Home 10 Years After His Death Top 10 Casino Related Films

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Treasurer grants energy funding | The Triangle Treasurer grants energy funding By Alissa Falcone State Treasurer Rob McCord announced Oct. 5 that Drexel University will be the inaugural participant in the Campus Energy Efficiency Fund program. Drexel University will be the inaugural participant in the government-sponsored Campus Energy Efficiency Fund program, Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord announced Oct. 5. during a visit to Drexel's campus. The initiative, which was developed in partnership with the Pennsylvania Treasury and Blue Hill Partners, will help as many as 12 Pennsylvania colleges and universities cut utility costs by funding efficiency improvements that will create jobs and create a cleaner environment. The Pennsylvania Treasury and Blue Hill Partners is the local investment firm that acts as an investment manager to the Treasury and has a background in green technology. As the first school to join the program, Drexel will use the money given by the Treasury to make environmentally friendly renovations in six of its buildings. According to Bob Francis, University Facilities vice president, a project engineering team from the Transcend Equity Development Corporation will spend the next six weeks analyzing and choosing which buildings will be upgraded. "They like each building to have a lighting, a demand management and a building automation feature in the recommendations. These things can be implemented within six months, with the possible exception of lighting, which will need to be timed with a break in classes," he wrote in an email. Other examples of general upgrades that will be funded through the Campus Energy Efficiency Fund include heating and cooling systems, building control systems, energy-efficient windows and high-efficiency lighting. The improvements are estimated to save Drexel between $500,000 and $600,000 annually while reducing the University's annual energy consumption by more than 7 percent, with no cost to Drexel. "The idea is to make investments that pay back within five to seven years, which translates into an attractive return on investment," Francis stated. Francis continued, "Drexel volunteered when it learned the Commonwealth [of Pennsylvania] was interested in investing public funds in sustainable projects on a basis competitive with any other private market investment." Jim Tucker, senior vice president of Student Life and Administrative Services, explained that representatives from Blue Hill and the Treasury met at Drexel in the summer of 2010 to review Drexel's work in sustainability and discuss how Drexel could work with the program. "They visited our Drexel Green website, met with members of the faculty and profession staff to learn more about our work and commitment to sustainability. They also assessed our interest in being a first responder to the Energy Efficiency project. The team left impressed with Drexel's efforts around sustainability and invited us be their first project," he said. The Campus Energy Efficiency Fund has the potential to generate up to $45 million in environmentally friendly improvements for the colleges on the receiving end of the sponsorship, with as much as $10 million of the funding coming from the Treasury. The upgrades are expected to last around 20 years and save up to $150 million in utility costs while reducing the schools' carbon footprint. Over 700 jobs are projected to be created through the project. The Treasury previously received $1 million from the state Department of Environmental Protection to bear the cost of developing the fund and then identifying possible schools to have as participants. Additionally, the Treasury received over $200,000 in grant funds from the Rockefeller Foundation for the Treasury to team up with the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania for developing a peer-auditing course that will train staff and students in campus energy master planning so they can conduct primary campus evaluations with the aid of professional energy auditors. It is not known what other Pennsylvania colleges and universities will also receive funding to make their campuses greener.

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Much has been said about the nature of government and how it "should" serve the interests of the "people" or the "public". Unfortunately, I can think of no government on the planet that fits this description - and in fact I have come to the conclusion that the description itself is a mechanism intended to deceive the public, thereby hiding the true nature of government from those to be governed. The description below is a parable or metaphor for government as it really is and always has been. Those who give faith more credence than truth will take issue with it; but those who love truth, and who won't accept comforting falsehoods in the name of faith, will recognize its validity in the real world. Origin of the B.O.R.G. "Robot" Many years ago, some eight thousand to be precise - or not so precise - a group of kings and chieftains in Sumer (now southern Iraq), got together and decided they were tired of fighting with each other over local resources. The bloodshed for arable land, water rights, mineral deposits, seaport access, and slaves was just getting to be too much to bear the cost of. So they formed a cartel - a shared power monopoly - choosing to cooperate henceforth instead of continuing to compete. From a business standpoint you'd say their "product" was power over others - their industry, "power brokerage". This was consistent with their ethic: "Might Makes Right" that was accepted by many in that era. To accomplish their ends they traded specific segments of their power/authority to others in exchange for services rendered. For instance, they would appoint a Master Tax Collector, upon whom they would bestow the privilege of stealing from other (less powerful) people. In return for this delegated privilege they expected to receive the lion's share of the taxes thus collected. The Master Tax Collector, in turn, was authorized to hire whatever thugs he wished to go out and do the dirty work of enforcing the tax collection - rewarding them in turn for their efforts. This process of delegating authority is what we today call hierarchy. Through this invention of the power brokerage cartel "government" was born. And in the years that followed, the bigger businesses and organized religions adopted the very same model for their own development - and for their relationships with one another. Today, Big Business, Organized Religion, and Government (The B.O.R.G.), the institutions that most of us have been duped into believing exist to serve the public, are in fact the central causes of almost all societal problems. On the Nature of Machines The most general and accurate definition of a machine is "any device, tangible or intangible, that augments or extends one's intelligence" - where intelligence is defined as "the ability to predict or control events in one's environment." In this sense, government may be thought of as a machine designed to forever increase the power and wealth of those who own it. Today that machine incorporates modules and components in all of the world's important institutions, be they social, financial, religious, corporate, educational, charitable, legal, or military. So it is technically correct to say that government, in this broad sense of the word, has become an evil robot. Characteristics of the Evil Robot Like any machine, the robot of government can be characterized by its structure, its functions, and the behavioral rules that have been built into it. It is further characterized by its meta-rules - which is to say the rules about the rules. The meta-rules determine how the rules can be changed (or not), who has the authority to change them, and by what means and under what circumstances permitted changes can be made. There also exist meta-meta-rules that determine who may know about the details of the rules, what may be said about them in public, and which ones are intended to be kept secret from the public. The following section provides a concise specification of the more important characteristics of the robot we know as government. Mission (The Robot's Prime Directive): To serve the interests of its creators - forever increasing their wealth and power over others, in accordance with the Power Ethic (might makes right). Awareness: The robot has a high level of awareness, but lacks awareness of its own awareness and has no conscience whatever. The robot's awareness includes the determinants of its internal states and can evaluate the performance of each of its internal components. Construction: The robot is highly complex and is comprised of many hierarchically organized components and modules, including perceptors, effectors, and both internal and external communicators. It also has "thinking" components that include memory storage and recall as well as logic and math. In addition, the robot has remote components that are not obviously part of it, yet which are controlled by the robot and/or its makers. Most of its components are people. Most of its modules are organizations comprised of people. Control: The robot is run by an operating system, the "prime directive" of which is its mission. The operating system permits no component or module thereof to interfere with its mission - nor can the prime directive be altered by means of "parts" replacement. Only a very few elite individuals are able to directly influence the robot's programming - and they are very careful about who gets invited to join their club. Parts Replacement: Many, though not all, of the robots components and modules are replaceable. Some can only be replaced by the robot's makers and their delegates. Some can be replaced by the robot itself. Others can be replaced by the public; but only using the tools and methods built into the robot for this purpose; and only at those times that the robot is programmed to permit such replacement. Response to "Malfunctioning" Parts: The robot is able to tell if one of its parts, components, or parts is performing in support of the robot's mission - or not - and, if not, it can repair itself. If a particular part is not critical to the robot's mission and is performing poorly or not at all, the robot will simply ignore the part. If a part is performing in a way that threatens to hinder the robot's mission, the robot's first response will be to isolate the part from the rest of the system (without removing it), so the hindrance becomes ineffectual. If the malfunctioning part continues to hinder the robot in its mission, the robot will remove the part from its system and replace it or have the public replace it. If the robot sees the part that has been removed as a continuing threat to its mission, it will first attempt to isolate the part from the public, so no one can re-deploy it within the robot's system. Failing in this, the robot will take whatever steps are required to nullify the threat - often destroying the part removed without compunction. To this end it has killed millions of human people without the slightest remorse - and it will probably kill millions more. Success of the Robot The robot has been doing its job successfully for some eight thousand years! Although its makers are long gone, their (philosophical) heirs are still with us and the robot still serves their interests extremely well. Since the robot is not aware of its awareness, it would be incorrect to call it a "person" and it would therefore be incorrect to call it "immoral" any more than it would be correct to call a sword immoral. Unfortunately, many of the robot's components and modules are people, who choose to act on the robot's behalf. Their behavior can be properly characterized as immoral. Immoral or not, it remains to be seen whether the robot is immortal. If so, it can only be destroyed by its own actions - and this is a likely outcome, because the robot is parasitic, feeding on the public at large that is its host - while creating nothing of intrinsic value. Like most parasites, it will probably destroy its host and itself with it, since it cannot exist without those who nurture it. I have no doubt of the truism that it is evil to nurture parasites. If you agree, then you must decide what you are willing to do to avoid nurturing this particularly destructive parasite. If no one nurtured it, it would disappear - but this is an unlikely outcome, because the lure of power over others is very seductive to those who have been dominated by others all their lives. Make a decision. Take a stand. For much more on this subject, read Ethics, Law, and Government. Posted by Morpheus Titania at 6:02 pm 4 Responses to "Government: The BORG Robot" Simon Black - what is a sociopath? " Titania - Ethical Creative Society says: [...] In Levin's world, it's perfectly acceptable to hold US citizens on US soil without charges or trial, based merely on the suspicion of terrorist activity in the sole discretion of the government. [...] Copyright and the End of Internet Freedom " Titania - Ethical Creative Society says: [...] Government: The BORG Robot [...] The next frontier says: I agree that no government actually serves the people. However, a robot government would mean that the society under it would be dominated by cold facts and objective reality, meaning more subjective fields like arts, literature, subjective emotions like love and others would gradually become dominated by scientific facts, which would gradually make people under a robot government robots themselves: what makes us humans is emotions and desire for progress, and since an apparently perfect system removes the ability for progress and also removes emotion as mentioned above, so the meaning of life once again returns to that of survival, just like in primitive times. I would rather have the current human government than such a perfect government. doc tdynamics says: Much has been said about the nature of government and how it "should" serve the interests of the "people" or the "public". Unfortunately, I can think of no government on the planet that fits this description Only because you have been witchcrafted into it... By takedown of two trade towers... By an evil president. Why do you think Steven Segal walked away... Because most of what you say, is on the opposite of what you should say.... My Constitution includes the Declaration of Independence first, which First, puts the Ten Commandments ... Then, the Constitution, of which it states, \For the People\ But before it can be \For the People\ it must be \In God We Trust\ Why dont you go to church jerk who wrote this, then get the true History straight in your head of just how the real United States Government is supposed to work. AS it was built... Leave a Reply to doc tdynamics Cancel reply

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Study: Telehealth Doesn't Improve Quality of Life Lindsay Abrams Remote health monitoring, which allows clinicians to keep track of the behaviors and symptoms of patients from afar, is promoted as a more cost-efficient and comfortable way of managing chronic conditions. But a new analysis didn't find any psychological or patient-reported health benefits from the new technology as compared to regular care. Sarah Twitchell/Flickr Patients Who Are Confident About Their Care Save Everyone Money Forcing a Smile Genuinely Decreases Stress Parents Are Better Off Not Admitting They've Tried Drugs Of the coolest (or creepiest, depending on how you look at it) health care innovations currently in use, the toilet that keeps track of how often you pee probably tops the list. Systems like this, designed for monitoring health from afar, are lauded as the high-tech assisted-living solution for the aging population. They're promoted as a way of allowing people with chronic conditions to live on their own, all the while remaining under the watchful eye of health professionals who can identify symptoms that indicate changes or declines in their health. As implemented by the U.K. Department of Health, patient homes are equipped with monitors that keep track of their vital signs -- which are collected by equipment like blood pressure cuffs, scales, and blood glucometers -- and then transmit that information to remotely located clinicians. But the systems have been rolled out based largely on assumptions of their utility instead of evidence for their effectiveness, and a study published by BMJ is now suggesting that remote monitoring may not have any quality of life or psychological benefit for people managing chronic conditions. Following 1,500 patients as they used telehealth to manage conditions like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and heart failure over the course of a year, British researchers found no evidence of improvements in the patients' health-related quality of life, nor of their symptoms of anxiety or depression, as compared to patients receiving ordinary, low-tech care. They based their measures on a series of questionnaires administered before the system was installed and at various points during the year that it was used. The evolution of health technology. See full coverage The authors take a swipe at previous reviews that suggest differently, arguing that, "while most conclude that telehealth is beneficial, such inferences are not supported by the evidence they present." On the upside, they didn't find any negative effects -- which is significant in that many have expressed concern that being constantly monitored might increase people's anxiety. And this study didn't look at objective health or cost efficiency. The larger trial from which this study emerges, which includes a variation on remote health monitoring intended for vulnerable populations such as people with dementia or physical disabilities, previously identified an astounding 45 percent decline in mortality, for example, and a 95 percent reduction in costs for treating infertility. But quality of life, depression, and anxiety are all linked to worse outcomes for patients with chronic conditions, the authors argue, so from a patient's perspective, it may not be the optimal solution. Lindsay Abrams is a former editorial fellow at The Atlantic.

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Bill O'Reilly's "Killing Kennedy" Released Today Bill O'Reilly describes himself as a journalistic "watchdog" and a "champion bloviator." He's not a historian - "not really. That's not my discipline," he says in his corner office at Fox News, home of The O'Reilly Factor, the top-rated show on cable news. But few history books can approach the popularity of O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln, which has sold more than 2 million copies since it was released a year ago. His new book, Killing Kennedy (Henry Holt), about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, could be as popular. It goes on sale Tuesday. Both books were co-written by Martin Dugard, who did most of the research, leaving the writing to O'Reilly, whose approach is to write "history that's fun to read" in a "populist way. No pinheaded stuff, just roar it through!" It's history as fast-paced thriller, with dramatic foreshadowing in a you-are-there present tense. And, O'Reilly says, "it's all true!" A few historians questioned details and a lack of documentation in Killing Lincoln. O'Reilly, a former high school history teacher, says any errors, corrected in later editions, are "picayune." The criticism, he says, is just jealousy. "These guys toil in obscurity their whole lives, and a punk like me comes along and sells 2 million copies. They're not happy." O'Reilly, 63, is to traditional history what best-selling novelist James Patterson is to literature. Neither gets much respect from academic types. Both say they don't care - all the way to bank. They also share a collaborator. Dugard (whom O'Reilly calls "the best researcher I could find - and I talked to all the top guys") co-wrote Patterson's 2009 non-fiction bestseller, The Murder of King Tut, about a 3,000-year-old mystery. O'Reilly says he didn't solve all the mysteries of the Kennedy assassination. He found no evidence of a conspiracy but stops short of ruling it out. "I know that Oswald killed Kennedy. Now, was he pushed? Encouraged to do it by outsiders? Possibly. Possibly. Was he sitting down with Fidel Castro? No." But he adds, "There were people around Oswald who shouldn't have been there." He cites George de Mohrenschildt, a well-educated Russian immigrant with possible CIA connections, who "had ties to some very, very important people. Why is he hanging with this loser (Oswald)?" De Mohrenschildt pops up in other books on the assassination. He's even a minor character in Stephen King's best-selling novel 11/22/63. But O'Reilly has a personal connection.In 1977, as a Dallas TV reporter, O'Reilly tried to interview de Mohrenschildt, who also was a target of congressional investigators re-examining the assassination. As O'Reilly tells it, as he knocked on the door of de Mohrenschildt's daughter's house in Palm Beach, Fla., he heard a shotgun blast. Police later ruled that de Mohrenschildt committed suicide. "There were rumors he was murdered," O'Reilly says, "but I found no evidence of that." He adds, "I'm still working the story. There's something there. What it is, I just don't know." O'Reilly's biggest surprises were "how crazy, and I mean crazy," Oswald was, and "how little the authorities did to protect Kennedy" in Dallas. Two-thirds of the book deals with Kennedy's presidency and private life, including his extramarital affairs. It portrays Kennedy as a pragmatic and decisive leader who treated sexual risks as "his carpe diem way of living life to the utmost." "I wanted to show the good and the bad," O'Reilly says. He says his biggest break was getting FBI agents who flooded Dallas after the assassination to share what they learned about Oswald. He says that helped him understand the assassin, a former Marine who defected to Russia, then returned to the USA with his Russian-born wife, Marina. For a taste of O'Reilly's style, consider his description of Oswald on the eve of the assassination as he visits his estranged wife. As O'Reilly sets the scene, Oswald is undecided about shooting Kennedy as he begs his wife to take him back. "But if she doesn't, " O'Reilly writes, "Oswald will be left with no choice." "That's how delusional Lee Harvey Oswald's world has become. He now deals only in absolutes: either live happily ever after - or murder the president." O'Reilly may not be a historian, but his office walls are filled with historic artifacts, including the last South Vietnamese flag to fly over the U.S. Embassy in Saigon and the errant Chicago Tribune front page proclaiming "Dewey Defeats Truman." He boasts, "Everything in here is an original," which could be applied to O'Reilly himself. His love-him-or-hate-him personality is part of his appeal. To viewers who complain that he shouts, he says, "Turn down the volume. I don't really shout that much. I'm just a loud Irish guy." He says that the liberal media "don't get me" - that he's not a conservative but a "traditionalist." In 2009, he supported President Obama's financial bailouts and economic stimulus, which, he says "led to a big brouhaha with (Rush) Limbaugh." Now, O'Reilly complains, Obama "has lost control of the economy." Mitt Romney, he says, can't connect with "the guy making $40,000 a year." He writes popular history "to get people engaged with their country." He complains that few history books are fun to read: "Even the really good ones, by Robert Caro and these guys - I mean, they're brilliant guys, but to get through 800 pages, you either have to be retired or on vacation for six weeks." For those keeping score, Caro's fourth book on Lyndon Johnson,The Passage of Power, is 712 pages, including 79 pages of footnotes and sources. Killing Kennedy is 325 pages, including seven pages about its sources. The Passage of Power landed on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list at No. 15 and spent seven weeks in the top 150. Killing Lincoln landed on the list at No. 3 and has been in top 50 for 42 weeks. It's now No. 38. (A kids' version, Lincoln's Last Days, landed on the list at No. 42 and is now No. 61.) No history book has sold so well since David McCullough's 2001 biography, John Adams, which was adapted as an HBO miniseries. A two-hour version of Killing Lincoln, narrated by Tom Hanks, will be on National Geographic in February. But beyond its commercial success, Killing Lincoln got mixed reviews. Its "narrative flair" was praised by University of New Hampshire historian Ellen Fitzpatrick in a Washington Post review, but she said it "offers no direct citations for any of its assertions." Rae Emerson, deputy superintendent at Ford's Theatre, site of Lincoln's assassination, cited seven errors in the book - such as references to Lincoln in the Oval Office, which wasn't built until 1909. O'Reilly says he invited anyone who challenged his facts to appear on his TV show, but no one would. Emerson didn't respond to questions from USA TODAY. As with Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy doesn't always name names or cite its sources. It describes a 1962 party at Bing Crosby's home and a rendezvous between Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe this way: "There is an intimacy in their movements that leaves no doubt they will be sleeping together tonight." O'Reilly says that's based on an article in the British tabloid Daily Mail, confirmed by a federal agent who was at the party. "I don't want to sound defensive, but either you believe what we wrote, or you don't," he says. "I'm not writing a Ph.D. dissertation." Douglas Brinkley, a Rice University historian and prolific author (most recently of the biography Cronkite), says that popular history often omits footnotes and that O'Reilly shouldn't be "held to a double standard because of his politics." But Brinkley adds that the Kennedy assassination remains a heated issue, and "whatever O'Reilly writes, it will be picked apart. The lack of footnotes and details about its sources make it harder to find the book's frailties. But someone will find them - if they are there." Thanks to Bob Minzesheimer. Related Stories Book Recommendations, JFK, LBJ, RFK

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Our solar project Bijli reaches over 25,000 people in India and joins social enterprise SunSaluter Bijli, India NEW DELHI: The Climate Group's project Bijli - Clean energy for all has now reached over 25,000 people in India, and is on its way to achieving its goal of connecting over 50,000 to solar power in India alone by the end of 2015. Principally founded by the Dutch Postcode Lottery, Bijli aims to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions while enhancing the lives of rural villagers in India, providing clean and cheap renewable and solar-powered energy. This is particularly important in a nation with a failing energy system: 40% of India is still not connected to the power grid - a number we could eventually connect via renewable sources. One of the means to reaching this goal is installing off-grid solar panels. To accelerate the development new, bold solar projects, recently The Climate Group joined SunSaluter, an award-winning social enterprise founded by the young engineer Eden Full. In 2011, Eden Full's project was a runner up in the Postcode Lottery Green Challenge Competition, which is closely followed by The Climate Group. "This was a fantastic opportunity for us," says Krishnan Pallassana, India Director, The Climate Group. "To apply an award-winning technology that is simple, appropriate and adaptable but also adding significant value to our ongoing efforts to reach clean energy to rural people in India." Eden Full's technology was built from developing a low-cost rotating tracker for solar panels, based on a simple but ingenious mechanism. Bottles full of water are attached to the solar panel with a counterweight to the other side. The water then passes through a filter and goes to a receiving container, so the more water is filtered, the less it remains in the bottles. This make the solar panel rotate and follow the sun for maximum exposure, and so harnesses the most power. The system increases solar panels' energy output by up to 40%, by the end of the day producing at least 4 liters of clean water. "It's a win-win," underlines Jarnail Singh, India Program Manager, The Climate Group who leads the Bijli project. "The areas where our projects are deployed often have to struggle both with the lack of energy and clean water. This is a big improvement for their every day's life, and can really help us to switch towards a clean, healthier use of energy." Since September, the company has deployed over 20 installations throughout India aiming to increase this number to 45 for the pilot phase. After that SunSaluter, with the help of The Climate Group and the Dutch Postcode Lottery, will gather the data to show how this innovative concept can be scaled up. Igniting a solar revolution in India's villages Low auction bid prices show solar cheaper than coal in India The Climate Group awards winners of Indian off-grid energy challenge Picking up the pace - India Inc. accelerates the electric mobility... EV100, India Low Carbon Mobility in India The clean makeover of India's transportation systems: Reasons for optimism

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Electoral Commission turns to geo-targeting to reach young voters By Jennifer Faull-16 March 2015 10:29am The Electoral Commission has begun targeting young voters on their mobile devices for the first time in an effort to remind them to register online. There are an estimated 7.5 million eligible people who aren't correctly registered to vote - equivalent to the population of Greater Manchester, West Midlands and West Yorkshire combined. In the last general election less than half of 18-24 year olds voted. Based on the insight that 85 per cent of this age group in the UK either own or have ready access to a smartphone, the campaign from the Electoral Commission has harnessed data from Weve - the joint venture between O2, EE, and Vodafone - to target potential voters. It will see messages sent around some of the biggest university campuses in the UK to remind people that they need to be registered to vote by the deadline of 20 April. Additionally, in Wales, activity is to run in Welsh and English to reflect the correct location. "Registering to vote is now easier than ever. For the first time in the run up to a General Election people can use their smartphones to go online and register to vote, so it makes sense to use that same technology to remind young people they can do this," said Michael Abbott, head of campaigns at the Electoral Commission. "We know young people are less likely to be registered to vote than older people, so it's vital that we use innovative methods to communicate with them." The government team at Carat worked with Weve to harness the vast amounts of data it collects. Oliver Mountstephens, manager of the digital display team at Carat said it expects to see an uplift in 18-24 year olds registering to vote as a result. "We know how much this audience love their phones so it makes sense to talk to them encourage them to register to vote whilst they are already on their handsets," added Nigel Clarkson, commercial director at Weve. "They can register whilst in a coffee shop or waiting for the bus, the important thing is that they can participate in the forthcoming general election." It comes as Weve restructured its commercial team with a raft of new hires and promotions. Tom Pearman has been promoted to sales director which will see him manage three agency group heads and a client and brand group head. The restructure has also seen the research and marketing teams bought together and centralised under the control of Nigel Kwan, the former Microsoft, News Int and PHD strategist, as the newly-appointed group head of marketing and research. This article is about: UK, Weve, UK Government, General Election, Carat, Electoral Commission, Advertising, Digital, Marketing, Mobile, Public Sector

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RM486m tax refunds not returned in 2018 due to mismatch of info or inactive bank accounts - IRB March 18, 2019 18:30 pm +08 KUALA LUMPUR (March 18): The Inland Revenue Board (IRB) of Malaysia said today that 6.2% or RM486.29 million in tax refunds last year failed to be returned to taxpayers due to a mismatch of information provided, or closed or inactive bank accounts. In a statement today, it said it places great importance on the processing of tax refunds to ensure taxpayers who are eligible for a refund receive them within a stipulated timeframe. "However, failure in updating personal information and bank account details results in the failure to complete the tax refund process," it said. In terms of mismatch of information, it said cheques or vouchers were not delivered to taxpayers due to differences in taxpayers' actual address with the one they had registered in the IRB's database. There were also incidents of mismatch of bank information, account number and identification number or company registration number between the IRB's database and that registered at the bank. "Therefore, taxpayers are advised to update their latest personal and banking information in the annual Income Tax Return Form (ITRF) in a move to assist IRB Malaysia in minimising the failure rate of processing tax refunds. In addition, they also can use the e-Kemaskini system or the Feedback Form which can be accessed online at any time through to update their personal and banking information," the IRB said. Among the information it said is needed to expedite the tax refund process are: personal identification number, bank account number, correspondence address, telephone number, e-mail address and company registration number (for taxpayers in the company/organisation category). "Starting Jan 1, 2020, income tax refunds will be fully made using the electronic method of e-payment which is in line with the government's aspiration to preserve the environment by promoting paperless Go Green campaign," it added.

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Follow FIRE FIRE > Justices > Byron White Majority Opinions Authored by Justice Byron White FRAZEE v. ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY et al., 489 U.S. 829 (1989) The Illinois Unemployment Insurance Act provides that "[a]n individual shall be ineligible for benefits if he has failed, without good cause, either to apply for available, suitable work when so directed . . . or to accept suitable work when offered him . . . ." Ill. Rev. Stat., ch. 48, ¶ 433 (1986). In April 1984, William Frazee refused a temporary retail position offered him by Kelly Services because the job would have required him to work on Sunday. Frazee told Kelly that, as a Christian, he could not work on "the Lord's day." Frazee then applied to the Illinois Department of Employment Security for unemployment benefits claiming that there was good cause for his refusal to work on Sunday. His application was denied. Frazee appealed the denial of benefits to the Department of Employment Security's Board of Review, which also denied his claim. The Board of Review stated: "When a refusal of work is based on religious convictions, the refusal must be based upon some tenets or dogma accepted by the individual of some church, sect, or denomination, and such a refusal based solely on an individual's personal belief is personal and noncompelling and does not render the work unsuitable." *831 App. 18-19. The Board of Review concluded that Frazee had refused an offer of suitable work without good cause. The Circuit Court of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Illinois, Peoria County, affirmed, finding that the agency's decision was "not contrary to law nor against the manifest weight of the evidence," thereby rejecting Frazee's claim based on the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. Id., at 23. GRAVEL v. UNITED STATES, 408 U.S. 606 (1972) 408 U.S. 606 (1972) GRAVEL v. UNITED STATES. No. 71-1017. Supreme Court of United States. Argued April 19-20, 1972. Decided June 29, 1972.[*] CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT.*607 Robert J. Reinstein and Charles L. Fishman argued the cause for petitioner in No. 71-1017 and for respondent... Read more HAZELWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT et al. v. KUHLMEIER et al., 484 U.S. 260 (1988) Three former editors of the Spectrum, a student newspaper run as part of a journalism class and funded by the Board of Educators, sued after the principal removed two articles from the May 1983 issue that described student experiences with pregnancy and divorce. The principal believed that the students interviewed and parents discussed in the articles could be identified and found the discussions of birth control and sexual activity inappropriate for younger students. HEFFRON, SECRETARY AND MANAGER OF THE MINNESOTA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY BOARD OF MANAGERS, et al. v. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS, INC., et al., 452 U.S. 640 (1981) A rule (Rule 6.05) of the Minnesota Agricultural Society (Society), a Minnesota public corporation that operates the annual state fair, provides that sale or distribution of any merchandise, including printed or written material, except from a duly licensed location on the fairgrounds shall be a misdemeanor. As Rule 6.05 is construed and applied by the Society, all persons, groups, or firms desiring to sell, exhibit, or distribute materials during the fair must do so only from fixed locations. However, the Rule does not prevent organizational representatives from walking about the fairgrounds and communicating the organization's views to fair patrons in face-to-face discussions. Space in the fairgrounds is rented in a nondiscriminatory fashion on a first-come, first-served basis, and Rule 6.05 applies alike to nonprofit, charitable, and commercial enterprises. Respondents, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Inc. (ISKCON), an organization espousing the views of the Krishna religion, and the head of one of its temples filed suit in a Minnesota state court against state officials, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on the ground that Rule 6.05, on its face and as applied, violated their First Amendment rights. ISKCON asserted that the Rule suppressed the practice of Sankirtan, a religious ritual that enjoins its members to go into public places to distribute or sell religious literature and to solicit donations for the support of the Krishna religion. The trial court upheld the constitutionality of Rule 6.05, but the Minnesota Supreme Court reversed. HERBERT v. LANDO et al., 441 U.S. 153 (1979) By virtue of the First and Fourteenth Amendments, neither the Federal nor a State Government may make any law "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press . . . ." The question here is whether those Amendments should be construed to provide further protection for the press when sued for defamation than has hitherto been recognized. More specifically, we are urged to hold for the first time that when a member of the press is alleged to have circulated damaging falsehoods and is sued for injury to the plaintiff's reputation, the plaintiff is barred from inquiring into the editorial processes of those responsible for the publication, even though the inquiry would produce evidence material to the proof of a critical element of his cause of action. LAMB'S CHAPEL AND JOHN STEIGERWALD v. CENTER MORICHES UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT et al., 508 U.S. 384 (1993) The school district of Center Moriches, New York, adopted rules that permitted its facilities to be used for social, civic, and recreational purposes, but that prohibited any group from using the facilities for religious purposes. Lamb's Chapel, an evangelical church, applied for permission to show a six-part film series in one of the buildings. The series presented a religious perspective on family issues and child rearing. The school district denied the application, relying on the prohibition against using the facilities for religious purposes. Lamb's Chapel sued in federal court, but both the trial court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals found in favor of the school district. A government is not obligated to make its non-public facilities available for use by the general public. Even when it does so, it may limit the purposes for which the facilities may be used. The government may not, however, deny access to the facilities based upon the viewpoint of the person who seeks access to them.Cornelius v. NAACP Legal Defense and Ed. Fund, 473 U.S. 788 (1985). A government may deny access to a religious group if allowing access would violate the First Amendment's prohibition against establishing a religion. One test for evaluating whether the Establishment Clause is being violated is set forth in Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602 (1971) - whether the challenged governmental action has a secular purpose, whether the action has the principal effect of advancing or inhibiting religion, and whether it fosters an excessive entanglement with religion. While never quite repudiated, this test has proven unpopular with many members of the Court. METROMEDIA, INC., et al. v. CITY OF SAN DIEGO, et al., 453 U.S. 490 (1981) 453 U.S. 490 (1981) METROMEDIA, INC., ET AL. v. CITY OF SAN DIEGO, ET AL. No. 80-195. Supreme Court of United States. Argued February 25, 1981. Decided July 2, 1981. APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA. *492 Floyd Abrams argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs were Theodore B. Olson, Dean... Read more MUNRO, SECRETARY OF STATE OF WASHINGTON v. SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY et al., 479 U.S. 189 (1986) The State of Washington requires that a minor-party candidate for partisan office receive at least 1% of all votes cast for that office in the State's primary election before the candidate's name will be placed on the general election ballot. The question for decision is whether this statutory requirement, *191 as applied to candidates for statewide offices, violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declared the provision unconstitutional. 765 F. 2d 1417 (1985). We reverse. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD et al. v. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., 421 U.S. 132 (1975) The National Labor Relations Board (the Board) and its General Counsel seek to set aside an order of the United States District Court directing disclosure to respondent, Sears, Roebuck & Co. (Sears), pursuant to *136 the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U. S. C. § 552 (Act), of certain memoranda, known as "Advice Memoranda" and "Appeals Memoranda," and related documents generated by the Office of the General Counsel in the course of deciding whether or not to permit the filing with the Board of unfair labor practice complaints. NEW YORK STATE CLUB ASSOCIATION, INC. v. CITY OF NEW YORK et al., 487 U.S. 1 (1988) New York City has adopted a local law that forbids discrimination by certain private clubs. The New York Court of Appeals rejected a facial challenge to this law based on the First and Fourteenth Amendments. We sit in review of that judgment. NEW YORK v. FERBER, 458 U.S. 747 (1982) The owner of a bookstore in Manhattan was convicted of promoting a sexual performance of a child by selling two sexually explicit films involving young boys to undercover police officers. New York argued this was in violation of a state criminal statute that prohibits knowingly promoting sexual performances by children under 16 by distributing material which depicts such performances. It also prohibits such materials that are produced out of state. OSBORNE v. OHIO, 495 U.S. 103 (1990) In order to combat child pornography, Ohio enacted Rev. Code Ann. § 2907.323(A)(3) (Supp. 1989), which provides in pertinent part: PERRY EDUCATION ASSOCIATION v. PERRY LOCAL EDUCATORS' ASSOCIATION et al., 460 U.S. 37 (1983) Under a collective bargaining agreement between the Board of Education of Perry Township, Ind., and Perry Education Association (PEA) as the exclusive bargaining representative for the School District's teachers, PEA was granted access to the interschool mail system and teacher mailboxes in the Perry Township schools. The bargaining agreement also provided that access rights to the mail facilities were not available to any rival union, such as Perry Local Educators' Association (PLEA). PLEA and two of its members filed suit in Federal District Court against PEA and individual members of the School Board, contending that PEA's preferential access to the internal mail system violated the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. POPE et al. v. ILLINOIS, 481 U.S. 497 (1987) In Miller v. California, 413 U. S. 15 (1973), the Court set out a tripartite test for judging whether material is obscene. The third prong of the Miller test requires the trier of fact to determine "whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value." Id., at 24. The issue in this case is whether, in a prosecution for *499 the sale of allegedly obscene materials, the jury may be instructed to apply community standards in deciding the value question. RED LION BROADCASTING CO., INC., et al. v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION et al., 395 U.S. 367 (1969) The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has for many years imposed on broadcasters a "fairness doctrine," requiring that public issues be presented by broadcasters and that each side of those issues be given fair coverage. In No. 2, the FCC declared that petitioner Red Lion Broadcasting Co. had failed to meet its obligation under the fairness doctrine when it carried a program which constituted a personal attack on one Cook, and ordered it to send a transcript of the broadcast to Cook and provide reply time, whether or not Cook would pay for it. The Court of Appeals upheld the FCC's position. After the commencement of the Red Lion litigation, the FCC began a rulemaking proceeding to make the personal attack aspect of the fairness doctrine more precise and more readily enforceable, and to specify its rules relating to political editorials. The rules, as adopted and amended, were held unconstitutional by the Court of Appeals in RTNDA (No. 717) as abridging the freedoms of speech and press. REGAN, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, et al. v. TIME, INC., 468 U.S. 641 (1984) 468 U.S. 641 (1984) REGAN, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, ET AL. v. TIME, INC. No. 82-729. Supreme Court of United States. Argued November 9, 1983 Decided July 3, 1984 APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK*643 Elliott Schulder argued the cause for appellants. With him on... Read more RENEGOTIATION BOARD v. GRUMMAN AIRCRAFT ENGINEERING CORP., 421 U.S. 168 (1975) The issue in this case is whether certain documents - documents generated by the Renegotiation Board (Board) and by its Regional Boards in performing their task of deciding whether certain Government contractors have earned, and must refund, "excessive profits" on their Government contracts - are "final opinions" explaining the reasons for agency decisions already made, and thus expressly subject to disclosure pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (Act), 5 U. S. C. § 552 (a) (2) (A), or are instead predecisional consultative memoranda exempted from disclosure by § 552 (b) (5). See NLRB v. Sears, Roebuck & Co., ante, p. 132. RICHARD A. LYNG, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE v. INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE AEROSPACE AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA, UAW, et al., 485 U.S. 360 (1988) A 1981 amendment to the Food Stamp Act states that no household shall become eligible to participate in the food stamp program during the time that any member of the household is on strike or shall increase the allotment of food stamps that it was receiving already because the income of the striking member has decreased. We must decide whether this provision is valid under the First and the Fifth Amendments. SABLE COMMUNICATIONS OF CALIFORNIA, INC. v. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION et al., 492 U.S. 115 (1989) The issue before us is the constitutionality of § 223(b) of the Communications Act of 1934. 47 U. S. C. § 223(b) (1982 ed., Supp. V). The statute, as amended in 1988, imposes an outright ban on indecent as well as obscene interstate commercial telephone messages. The District Court upheld the prohibition against obscene interstate telephone communications for commercial purposes, but enjoined the enforcement of the statute insofar as it applied to indecent messages. We affirm the District Court in both respects. SCHAD et al. v. BOROUGH OF MOUNT EPHRAIM, 452 U.S. 61 (1981) In 1973, appellants began operating an adult bookstore in the commercial zone in the Borough of Mount Ephraim in Camden County, N. J. The store sold adult books, magazines, and films. Amusement licenses shortly issued permitting the store to install coin-operated devices by virtue of which a customer could sit in a booth, insert a coin, and watch an adult film. In 1976, the store introduced an additional coin-operated mechanism permitting the customer to watch a live dancer, usually nude, performing behind a glass panel. *63 Complaints were soon filed against appellants charging that the bookstore's exhibition of live dancing violated § 99-15B of Mount Ephraim's zoning ordinance, which described the permitted uses in a commercial zone,[1] in which the store was located, as follows: Freedom of Speech & Expression Freedom of Religion Freedom of the Press Freedom of Assembly Freedom of Association Cases on Campus Cases on Campus Featured Homepage Timeline Freedom of Assembly Fees & Permits for Marches, Parades, Rallies Parades Picketing Protests Right to Petition Freedom of Association Freedom of Religion Establishment Free Exercise Government Aid to Religious Schools Religion in Public Schools Freedom of Speech & Expression Advocacy of Violence Anonymous Speech Bar Admission Book Banning and Related Activities Campaign Finance Captive Audience Commercial Speech Compelled Speech Content Neutrality Defamatory Expression Electronic Media Faculty Academic Freedom False but Protected Speech Fighting Words Flag Desecration Gag Orders Government Employment Government Speech Government Subsidized Expression Handbills and Leaflets Hateful Speech Hostile Audiences Indecent Expression Jehovah's Witness Expression Loyalty and Security Loyalty Oath Movie Censorship Nude Dancing Obscenity Sexual Material Prior Restraint Profanity Public Forum and Private Property Secondary Effects Sedition Speech Harmful to Children Speech-Conduct Distinction State Action Doctrine Student Expression in the K-12 Setting Symbolic Speech and Expressive Conduct Threats Time, Place, and Manner Restrictions Freedom of the Press Access to Court Trials Child Porn and the First Amendment Defamation and the Press Electronic Press Fairness Doctrine Parody and Satire Press Freedoms Prior Restraint and Review Sedition Miscellaneous Antitrust Civil Rights First Amendment Cases Contempt Orders Exceptions to First Amendment Freedom of Information Act and similar statutes Invasion of Privacy Labor Laws Miscellaneous Category Overbreadth Doctrine Preferred Position Prisons Search & Seizure Standing Void for Vagueness Doctrine Special Collections 1st Amendment Overview Essays Eugene Volokh Lenny Bruce Cases The First Amendment Salons Tag Conscientious Objectors Intermediate Scrutiny Cases Jurisprudence: Absolutism, Balancing, Ect. 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Explore the burma map for a complete trip burma is the ancient name of myanmar - the Buddhist country with tens of thousands of temples, pagodas and antique cultures that are preserved intact until now. Located in the northwest of the Sino-Indian Peninsula, in recent years, burma is considered as an captivating destination for international visitors. To get a complete and noteworthy trip in this country, before going, you need to learn a bit about the myanmar map. Use the map below to start planning a trip to myanmar - The Golden Land in the world. Introduction about myanmar country myanmar is a country in Southeast Asia, northwestern Indian Peninsula. It has 5,876 km of borderlines with China (2,185 km), Thailand (1,800 km), India (1,463 km), Laos (235 km) and Bangladesh (193 km). The coastline is 1,930 km long. Area 676,577 km². Burma gained independence from Britain in 1948 and became the Union of myanmar Socialist Republics in 1974 and later changed to the Union of burma in 1988. myanmar is the name derived from the local name Myanma Naingngandaw. It was used in the early 12th century but its origins are still unclear. The root of this name is Brahmadesh in Sanskrit, meaning "land of Brahma", the Hindu god of all creatures. burma - The country of gold pagodas Yangon is the ancient capital and also the largest city of burma. Now, The capital of this country is Naypyidaw. myanmar has a population of 50,020,000 people with 135 ethnic groups and tribes, including Burmese (68%), San (9%), Karen (7%), Chinese (3%), Indians (2%), Mon (2%) and other ethnic groups (5%) The myanmar map 1. Geographical location burma is a republic in Southeast Asia with the coordinates 16 ° 48 'north latitude, 96 ° 09' east latitude (16.8, 96.15), according to the GMT/GMT +6: 30-hour zone. - In the north: bordered by the Tibet Autonomous Region of China - In the east: bordered by China, Laos, and Thailand - In the south: bordered by the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal - In the West: bordered the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh, and India. The total area of the country is 676,552 square kilometers (261,218 square miles), makes it the largest country in the mainland Southeast Asia and is the 40th largest country in the world (after Zambia). It is slightly smaller than Texas and slightly larger than Afghanistan. The burma map image 2. Topographic characteristics The horseshoe-shaped mountains and valleys of the Ayarwaddy River system (Irrawaddy) are the major terrain features in burma. The mountains at the north edge are 5881 meters high, on top of Hkakabo Razi, the highest mountain in Southeast Asia. Two other mountain systems have axes from north to south. The Arakan Yoma area, with its peaks reaching over 2740 meters, separates burma and the Indian subcontinent. Bilauktaung area, south of the Shan plateau, lies along the border between south-west Thailand and southeastern burma. The Shan plateau, originating from China, has an average elevation of about 910 meters. The continent is generally narrow and long, with central ridges about 320 km stretching over the Ayarwaddy-Sittaung plain. The deltas, especially the country's most fertile and economically important lands, cover an area of about 46,620 square kilometers (18,000 square miles). Both the Arakan coast (northwest) and Tenasserim (south-west) of burma is full of rocks and are surrounded by islands. 3. Popular tourist destinations on burma map Yangon (16.8661° N, 96.1951° E): Formerly known as Rangoon, with over 7 million people, Yangon is Myanmar's largest city and its most important commercial centre. On the map of myanmar, Yangon is located in Lower burma (Myanmar) at the convergence of the Yangon and Bago Rivers about 30 km(19 mi) away from the Gulf of Martaban at 16°48' North, 96°09' East (16.8, 96.15). Its criterion time zone is UTC/GMT +6:30 hours. The map of burma with cities Bagan (21.1717° N, 94.8585° E): This is an old city located in the Mandalay Region of burma. The Bagan Archaeological Zone is the main highlight for the country's nascent tourism industry. It is seen by tremendous as equal in attraction to Angkor Wat in Cambodia, with over 2,200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day. The Bagan Archaeological Zone, defined as the 13 x 8 km area centered around old Bagan, consisting of Nyaung U in the north and New Bagan in the south, lies in the vast expanse of plains in Upper myanmar on the bend of the Irrawaddy river. On the myanmar map, it is located 290 kilometers (180 mi) south-west of Mandalay and 700 kilometers (430 mi) north of Yangon. It accorde to the GMT/GMT +6: 30-hour zone. Inle Lake (20.5863° N, 96.9102° E): This is a freshwater lake located in the Nyaungshwe Township of Taunggyi District of Shan State, part of Shan Hills in burma (Burma). It is the second largest lake in myanmar with an estimated surface area of 44.9 square miles (116 km2), and one of the highest at an elevation of 2,900 feet (880 m). During the dry season, the average water depth is 7 feet (2.1 m), with the deepest point being 12 feet (3.7 m), but during the rainy season this may increase by 5 feet (1.5 m). Hope that the useful information about the myanmar map above will help you on exploring burma and having captivating experiences in this Golden Land - one of the most magical and undiscovered destinations in the world.

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Music · Features The 405 Exchange: Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes in combining ambition with creativity Ken Grand-Pierre linked up with Carter and guitarist Dean Richardson to discuss how End Of Suffering came to be. The 40526 Jun, 2019. Photography by Ken Grand-Pierre No one could've predicted the career that Frank Carter has carved for himself. From Gallows to Pure Love and now Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - he's always been an ambitious musician, but that's never been clearer on The Rattlesnakes' latest album, End Of Suffering (out now). It's a rock album that reminds us how much dynamism can be evoked from a band; album opener 'Why A Butterfly Can't Love A Spider' being a prime example of such growth. Ken Grand-Pierre linked up with Carter and guitarist Dean Richardson to discuss how the album came to be and why it's important to risk alienating others when evolving a sound. "If you're grumbling about your album being old news than you've already lost the battle." You can subscribe to the 405 Exchange podcast on iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher, Google Play, and Overcast. You can also listen to the podcast over at Anchor. The 405 ExchangeFrank Carter & The RattlesnakesThe 405 Podcast Network

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THE KID in CONNAISSANCES DES ARTS Magazine - France - April 2013 - Page 112 Stay tuned about THE KID's latest works and exhibitions via social medias : Official website of young & provocative self-educated contemporary artist THE KID, presenting a selection of his socially-committed and thought-provoking art works, including some of his already world-famous wall-size blue Bic ballpoint pen or oil-pencil and charcoal drawings and oil-paintings, as well as of his controversial fully hand-made and oil-painted hyperrealist life-size silicone sculptures and installations, plus extracts of the press review about his work, of his biography, his book and contact details. Contemporary Artist THE KID is a committed activist and supporter of the leading International Non Governmental Organization HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH () - which defends The Human Rights all over the world, in particular for its fight against social discrimination and inhumane justice. Exhibitions (Extracts) : THE KID : I GO ALONE. Solo Show. March 30 - April 3, 2016. Art Paris 2016 International Exhibition. Le Grand Palais Museum. Paris. THE KID : GOD IS DEAD. March 29 - April 3, 2016. Our Future Is Now International Exhibition. Drawing Now. Le Carreau du Temple. Paris. THE KID : DO YOU BELIEVE IN GOD? March 11 - May 8, 2016. Triennale Of Their Times ADIAF Exhibition. Contemporary Art Institute. Villeurbanne. THE KID : UNTIL THE QUIET COMES. Solo Show. March 25 - 29, 2015. Art Paris 2015 International Exhibition. Le Grand Palais Museum. Paris. THE KID : THE MORNING I WAS BORN AGAIN. Solo Show. March 26 - 30, 2014. Art Paris 2014 International Exhibition. Le Grand Palais Museum. Paris. THE KID : ENDGAME. Solo Show. March 30 - May 25, 2013. ALB Anouk Le Bourdiec Gallery. New Art District. Paris. THE KID : ARTIST IN FOCUS. April 9 - 14, 2013. Drawing Now International Exhibition. Le Louvre Museum. Paris. THE KID : HUMANITY IS OVERRATED. October 16 - 20, 2012. Slick International Exhibition. Le Garage. Paris. THE KID : GOD IS DEAD. June 16 - July 19, 2012. ALB Anouk Le Bourdiec Gallery. New Art District. Paris.

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The Last Chicago Boss Kerrie Droban Mining for memory I've been asked before about my writing process, how I "live inside a person's head" and write from their perspective, how I "became Pete" enough to "know him, "understand him", "live" inside his world for two years and transform his life to paper. I've never met Pete - but I conversed with him for hundreds of hours about topics as diverse as The Godfather and The Art of War, Greek dishes and Chicago-style pizza. All topics mattered. The key to writing about memory and especially someone else's memories is to realize their significance to them. Memoir includes short narratives of pieces of a life. Pete used to ask me, "Am I doing this right?" But there is no "right" way to tell a life story. Some colleagues accused me of using "method acting" techniques, a controversial theater whereby the actor "becomes" the character, like Billy Bob Thornton depended on an unusual - and painful - method to nail his character Karl's signature shuffle: The actor placed crushed glass inside his shoes, forcing him to limp around. He earned an Oscar nomination for the role. I didn't need to know how to ride a motorcycle, or live among the Outlaws to write about them. I needed to "know" Pete; and so I listened to his inflections, the way he told a story, the way he laughed, I listened to what he believed was important. I heard him. And I did my best to capture his essence, his larger-than life powerful persona in just a few thousand words. Writing Pete's book was different than any other - in order to "know" Pete we spent every Sunday talking for three hours...not always about his story, sometimes about his life, how challenging it was for him to live in the "square world" and abide by new "rules of engagement." He said it was like navigating a new planet. But one thing he found universal was the concept of gratitude. He showed me this right out of the gate....sending me a dozen roses as if I had just walked onto a great stage having embarked on the biggest writing adventure of my career. It was a symbolic and thoughtful and deeply touching. He thanked me for my dedication before I had even written a single word. Life Imitates Art A major influence in Big Pete's life was Mario Puzo's, "The Godfather," a famed novel about the Corleone Mafia family. Coincidentally, it was also a book I knew well, having particularly recalled the gruesome "horse's head" in the bed scene. Every Sunday Pete and I spoke for three hours or more while I interviewed him at length about his life as Boss of the Chicago Outlaws Motorcycle Gang. We discussed "The Godfather," the Mafia, and the symbiotic relationship between The Outlaws and The Outfit. And, as often happens when writing about biker gangs and the players involved, life imitates art. Shortly after finishing The Last Chicago Boss and delivering the manuscript to St. Martin's for editing, I was startled awake at midnight. I heard a shuffling outside my front door. I flipped on the hall light, my heart hammering in my chest, and peered through the keyhole. There, on the front stoop, lay a ripped UPS package. I opened the door, stared dully at the plastic wrapped animal skull resting on the top of the box. Antlers poked from the plastic. I stared at the package for several minutes not wanting to flip over the box to study the address for fear of smudging fingerprints. Should I call the cops? And tell them what? There's a skull on my front porch? Should I text Pete? Wake him up in the middle of the night? And ask him "what the hell"? Who would play such a sick joke on me? Don't my neighbors know what I write for a living? I paced my hallway in the dark contemplating my options. Finally, I braved flipping over the box. I stared at the return address: China? China? I stared at my address and relief washed over me: the numbers had been transposed. Phew! The box was meant for someone else. Now I was really irritated. What if it was delivered to the wrong neighbor and that neighbor opened it by accident and just assumed it was meant for me? Who in the hell would deliver the animal skull to my front stoop at midnight? It couldn't have waited until morning? What kind of freakish neighbors do I have anyway? Now I was really pissed. I was more worried about my neighbors now. I decided to wait until morning to address the skull. I left it on my porch in exactly that condition overnight. I left it there the next morning while I went to work. The freakish bone white skull with the antlers rested on top of the box for the next three hours. I felt a little sick, I felt a little .....like the fictional Jack Woltz who wakes up to the horse's head in his bed. I texted Pete a photo of the head, along with a "WTF?" in all caps. Pete and I immediately discussed the meaning of the head, reviewing possible scenarios, what did it mean? Who would be sick enough to do blah blah blah. ....finally I summoned the courage to read the name on the address....the head belonged to my neighbor! And when I marched next door with the open box and the skull, she exclaimed, "there it is! I've been looking everywhere for that head!" KERRIE DROBAN is a criminal defense attorney in Phoenix, Arizona, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars and the University of Arizona where she received her Masters and Masters of Fine Arts degrees in Poetry. Her true crime books, Running with the Devil: The True Story of the ATF's Infiltration of the Hells Angels, (Lyons Press, 2007) won the USA News National Book Award for best True Crime in 2008 and Prodigal Father, Pagan Son: My Life Born Into Madness,(St. Martin's, Winter, 2011) is a two-time winner of the USA News National Book Award for Best True Crime and Best Memoir). Her book, Vagos, Mongols and Outlaws: My Infiltrations into America's Deadliest Biker Gangs, (St. Martin's, Winter 2013) is now a television series entitled, "Gangland Undercover," produced by the History Channel. Her book, A Socialite Scorned: The Murder of Gary Triano, was featured on American Greed, Dateline and in "Murders and Mansions" produced by La Brea Entertainment. Kerrie's poetry collection entitled "The Language of Butchers" has received critical acclaim, excerpts of which are published in The Antioch Review, Poet Lore, New Letters and Amelia and have won The Academy of American Poet's Award, New Letters International Poetry Award, The Amelia Encore Award and The Daniel Shockett Award. Her fiction, The Watchman's Circle (New Concepts Publishing) received the Daphne Du Maurier Award for Mystery Writing Excellence. Kerrie has been a Keynote speaker at gang task force conferences and a national speaker at various Writing Conferences around the country. She has also appeared on national television on CNBC's American Greed, "A Widow's Web." "A & E's "Gangland" "Behind Enemy Lines", the American Hero's Channel, "Codes and Conspiracies," Investigation ID and the Discovery Channel's "Deadly Devotion."

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Marcus Brigstocke Live in Hong Kong: January 17, 2019 By The Loop HK Staff | December 17, 2018 Marcus Brigstocke Devil May Care: Comedian, actor and author Marcus Brigstocke has graduated from playing devil's advocate to addressing his audience as Lucifer himself in his latest tour. The award-winning performer is a regular at festivals such as Glastonbury and the Edinburgh Festival, hosts shows like "The Brig Society" and "I've Never Seen Star Wars" on the UK's Radio 4, and has acted on both stage and screen in productions like West End's "Spamalot" and romcom "Love Actually." Catch him in Hong Kong for one night only. When? 8pm, January 17, 2019. Where? Tamarind, 2/F, Sun Hung Kai Centre, 30 Harbour Road, Wan Chai. How much? $388. How to book? Tickets are available via TicketFlap. Looking for more to do? See what else is happening in Hong Kong. Tags: Event Stand Up Comedy Tamarind Wan Chai Events What's Happening

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The Okapi Population Gets a Boost at Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge October 19, 2018 Disney Parks, Featured, Main Street Mouse News, Walt Disney World No comments From the Disney Parks Blog and written by: Scott Terrell Today is World Okapi Day, and I believe there's no better way to celebrate this magnificent animal than announcing the birth of one more! Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge is celebrating the birth of a rare okapi, who was born on Oct. 1 to mom Zelda. Weighing in at 54 pounds, the calf was up and mobile within the first hour of his birth. He has been nursing and bonding with his mom. The pair will remain in a backstage habitat for the next few months before joining the animals on the savanna. The calf's parents - mom Zelda and dad Mandazi - were chosen to breed through the Species Survival Plan (SSP), which is overseen by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and ensures responsible breeding of threatened and endangered species. When I visited the okapi care team recently, keeper Kim Thomson expressed how excited she was to care for a new calf and how it changes the dynamics of her team's routine. "We will spend a lot of time conducting observations on mom and calf making sure the calf is bonding well with mom, nursing well and basically hitting all of the milestones we would expect of a growing okapi," Kim said. Okapis are an endangered species found in rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Known as the ghosts of the forest, okapis are shy, reclusive and rarely encountered in the wild. In fact, they weren't even discovered until 1901. There are an estimated 20,000 okapi in the world, and their population continues to decline due to poaching and habitat loss from commercial logging and mining. Through the Disney Conservation Fund and our involvement in the AZA's Species Survival Plan, I'm proud to say Disney has been at the forefront of okapi conservation for many years. We have a long-standing relationship with the Okapi Conservation Project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In fact, the AZA recently recognized Disney's Animal Kingdom for its contributions to the Okapi Conservation Project. To learn more about okapis and other animals you can visit at the Walt Disney World Resort, visit DisneyAnimals.com. Disney, DIsney Parks Blog, Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge, News

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A Good Cause: Giving Orphans a Loving Home By Jemma Buckley George Smyth, a 21-year-old student from Bristol University, England, moved to Russia in September 2011. He has spent the last two months living in Kitezh, a therapeutic community that provides orphans with a loving home. Q: What is Kitezh, and how does it differ from a normal Russian orphanage? A: Kitezh is located in the Kaluga region and is a therapeutic foster community made up of lots of small buildings for orphans or children who have been taken into care. The adults who live there act as foster parents, teachers and friends to the children. Weekly meetings are held to discuss community issues in which the children take an active role and are encouraged to make suggestions. The members of Kitezh see themselves as one big family and the children receive a lot more attention than they would in a normal Russian orphanage. Q: What are Kitezh's goals? A: Kitezh aims to make sure their children are morally aware, able to form loving relationships and that they have received a good education so they are ready to face Russia when they leave. On a national scale, Kitezh aims to promote their educational and psychological methods to try and improve the way that state orphanages are run. Q: What would a normal day involve for a volunteer? A: While I was there I helped to build a barn for the goats, taught English, helped out in the kitchen and did activities with the children, like arts and crafts or sports. There is a friendly atmosphere and communication is encouraged. Q: Why did you decide to live and work at Kitezh? A: I had never done any volunteer work so it was a new experience for me. I had heard about the difficulties Russian orphans face and wanted to see how Kitezh's program worked. It is also a good chance to experience the real Russian countryside in a safe and structured environment. It's a welcome change to the noisy metropolis of Moscow. I also wanted to improve my Russian, which I have done. Q: How is Kitezh funded and what can people do if they want to help? A: Half of Kitezh's funding comes from the state and half comes from Russian companies, individual donors, Western charities and other organizations. There is a good foreign volunteer scheme and Kitezh encourages applications from open-minded people who are willing to contribute to their community. Kitezh is located 400 kilometers southwest of Moscow in the Kaluga region. To find out more about the community, visit Cultural clips On This Day Anton Chekhov Died Anton Chekhov died at a spa in Germany on this day. On This Day Writer Isaac Babel Was Born A brilliant writer with a tragic fate was born in Odessa on this day. Julia Phillips' novel follows the people of Kamchatka as they respond to the abduction of two young women. Religious Celebration Russian Buddhists Celebrate Kalachakra Religious Festival in Siberia The Buddhist Kalachakra festival celebrates world peace and harmony.

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Roberta Pennington World's largest population of Indian Ocean humpback dolphins found in Abu Dhabi Three-year research by Environment Agency Abu Dhabi places population estimate at 701 A survey of small cetaceans by the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi in collaboration with the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute in the coastal waters of Abu Dhabi found that the area is home to the world's largest observed population of the Indian Ocean humpback dolphins. Courtesy Environment Agency Abu Dhabi The emirate's shallow, warm seawater has attracted the world's largest observed population of Indian Ocean humpback dolphins. The Sousa plumbea population was identified during a marine survey of small cetaceans by the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) in collaboration with the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute (BDRI) along the coastal waters of Abu Dhabi in 2014 and 2015. Findings from the research project, which is ongoing, were published last month in the Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. "We are very excited to have identified the presence of the world's largest population of Indian Ocean humpback dolphins in Abu Dhabi's waters," said Dr Shaikha Al Dhaheri, EAD's executive director - terrestrial and marine biodiversity sector. "This demonstrates the international value of Abu Dhabi's marine biodiversity and it is our responsibility to ensure the conservation of this important resource." Identified by a distinctive hump, elongated dorsal fin and small pectoral fins, the Indian Ocean humpback dolphin can grow up to about 2.5 meters and weigh between 100 and 139 kilograms. The species occur exclusively in the near-shore waters of the Indian Ocean from South Africa to the Bay of Bengal, usually living within 3 kilometres from shore in water less than 25 metres deep. But, little is known about the species, said Bruno Díaz López, director of the BDRI, who co-authored the research paper. "Up until a few years ago, they were considered data deficient because there were no data about these species," said Mr Díaz López. "Now this is the first time that there is an abundance estimation and it's the biggest study about this species." The researchers spent 55 days over a period of five months zigzagging the sea along Abu Dhabi's coast collecting data using hand-held GPS, binoculars, digital cameras and an iPad application used to collect and visualise the environment and human activity information. They applied a "mark-recapture" method, which involved taking photographs of the dolphins' dorsal fins and storing the images in a digital database that could be used to cross-check future sightings. "The dorsal fins have unique markings of patterns of notches and cuts that enable us to identify the animal if it is seen again," said Edwin Mark Grandcourt, the study's co-author and section manager - marine assessment and conservation terrestrial and marine biodiversity at EAD. "In the same way that our fingerprints are unique to an individual, the dorsal fin of the dolphin is unique to that animal and we digitise the profile of the dorsal fin to then catalogue it. And then every time we make a sighting, we compare the sighted animals to our catalogue and it's kind of like image recognition - similar to what a detective will use when he's looking for a criminal. He will compare a fingerprint to a database - we will do the same thing, we'll compare a dorsal fin profile to a database of profiles of dorsal fins and that will pull up the ones we have already seen before." The scientists spotted humpback dolphins on 32 of the 55 days they spent at sea, or 58 per cent of the time. They observed 54 independent groups of Indian Ocean humpback dolphins, ranging in size from one to 24 individuals. Most groups - 79 per cent - contained less than 10 dolphins. More than one-quarter of the humpback dolphins observed in groups - 27 per cent - were calves. Using statistical inference models, the researchers estimate that there are 701 Indian Ocean humpback dolphins inhabiting Abu Dhabi waters. Watch: Group of rarely-seen humpback dolphins spotted off Abu Dhabi coast Major research project aims to unravel the mystery of the deep-sea whales off Fujairah's coast "We really were surprised with the findings because, in general, the humpback dolphins in other places of the world - from South Africa up to almost the Indian coast - all the populations were very small compared with this one, we are talking about 200 individuals maximum in most of the estimations," said Mr Díaz López, chief biologist and director of the BDRI, who co-authored the research paper. The sightings also showed clear evidence of threats to the animals caused by human activity. Of the humpback dolphins that were identified, 12 per cent had dorsal fins that were damaged. "There were a very high number of animals that had evidence of scars that resembled the cuts from propellers or scars that resembled entanglement in gear," said Mr Grandcourt. "We actually had seen some dolphins that had been entangled in ropes as well. They occur in an area where there is a lot of activity - dredging, shipping, fishing activity - so they are really threatened by those activities and that's really evident from the number of animals that had scars." The research team is currently appealing to private and corporate sponsors to help fund the project. "What we are trying to do now is we want to carry on running the survey to improve estimates and also to work on other species and, really, to do that we have to reach out to the corporate sector and maybe people who want to spend on corporate social responsibility, or other conservation organisations who want to support us," said Mr Grandcourt. Added Mr Lopez: "We are talking about one species that is rare, there are very few populations in the world because it has been clearly impacted by the human activities because of living so close to the shore in areas where humans live. In five years, 10 years maybe they can disappear. It is very important to see the evolution now. We need to monitor their presence in these waters because it is important for us to know if they are OK or if it is necessary to apply some conservation measurements because we found the threats, we know that the main threats are marine traffic and fisheries, but we don't know at (what scale) it's affecting the population. Maybe the population is OK, and it will be stable over the years, but maybe not. So that is fundamental to know." Dolphins in the Arabian Gulf During the research team's days at sea, they came across the three most common species of dolphins found in Abu Dhabi's water. Over 55 days, there were 54 encounters with Indian Ocean humpback dolphins (Sousa plumbea), 48 with Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) and five with finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides). Indian Ocean humpback dolphins (Sousa plumbea) Red List category and criteria: data deficient These dolphins are characterised by the conspicuous humps and elongated dorsal fins found on the backs of adults of the species. The dorsal fin of the humpback dolphin is to some degree curved. The pectoral fins are small and the tail flukes have a well-defined median notch. Adults can reach from 1.8 to 2.6 metres and weigh in the range of 100 to 139 kilograms. They typically live less than 3km from shore and in water less than 25 metres deep. "They play a very important role in the marine ecosystem because they catch other species of fish, but in some way also facilitate the equilibrium of the full ecosystem," said Bruno Díaz López, director of the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute. Source: Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphina swim at Dolphin Island, part of the Marine Life Park in Resort World in Singapore. Hwee Young / EPA Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) It is probably the most recognisable of all dolphin species, with its steel grey skin tone, triangular dorsal fin and long rostrum, and it is found along the coastline of Dubai and Abu Dhabi. It differs from the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), showing smaller size, longer rostrum and ventral spotting. However, the Tursiops observed in the Gulf sometimes lack some of these characteristics, leaving the question open as to whether they represent a different subspecies or if both species occur. Bottlenose dolphins can be found in small groups of few individuals but also in big groups of up to 40 individuals. They often approach boats and dhows. Source: UAE Dolphin Project A newly born Yangtze finless porpoise swims with his mother at the Hydrobiology Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Getty Finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) Red List Category and criteria: Vulnerable Very little information is available worldwide on this species and taxonomy is still an issue. It is one of the most elusive dolphins and among the least studied cetaceans in the world, with a distribution ranging from China through to Thailand, India and the Arabian Gulf. Finless porpoises are notoriously difficult to identify due to the lack of a prominent dorsal fin and their small size. In the Gulf they are a uniform dark-grey colour. They are coastal species that favour sandy and marsh areas and can be found in very shallow waters. These elusive animals have only been recorded a handful of times in this region and are usually only confirmed when they get stranded. Being coastal, this species has been critically impacted by human activity and habitat destruction. Updated: August 8, 2017 06:29 PM Sheikh Mohamed receives gift during meeting with Yemeni official Watch: Emirati astronaut answers questions ahead of historic mission

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Leaked DNC E-mails Show the Fix Was In for Hillary Written by C. Mitchell Shaw E-mail and Hillary Clinton: The two seem to go together like oil and water. Whenever the two appear together in an article - much less the same sentence - there is bound to be scandal. Now, as Clinton approaches the official announcement of her nomination as the Democrat candidate in the upcoming presidential race, scandal is once again afoot. This e-mail scandal, though, appears to run through the very center of the DNC. As a direct result of WikiLeaks publishing a nearly 20,000 DNC e-mails, the Clinton campaign and the DNC itself are scrambling for damage control. In fact, the DNC chairperson, Congresswoman Deborah Wasserman Schultz, has resigned over the scandal. Some of those e-mails show DNC leadership discussing plans to directly manipulate events to favor Hillary Clinton in the bid for the nomination to be the Democrat candidate - in direct violation of the DNC charter, which requires that it remain neutral during the primary cycle. Undermining the Sanders campaign - which was seen as a viable threat to the Clinton campaign - seems to have been a priority of the leadership of a party that claims to be "democratic." WikiLeaks released the e-mails late last week - just ahead of the Democratic National Convention, which began Monday - and the fallout was immediate. Wasserman Schultz, who represents Florida's 20th Congressional District and was elected to the DNC chair in 2011 - resigned as DNC chair over the weekend amid the kerfuffle. Supporters of Bernie Sanders launched a social media campaign - under the hashtag #BernieMustDisavow - in an effort to convince the embattled socialist candidate to rescind his endorsement of Clinton, who those supporters say "stole the nomination." Clinton's campaign wasted no time denying any knowledge of any improprieties within the party to guarantee her the nomination. It's almost enough to make the Republican convention look normal. Almost. The most damning of the DNC e-mails shows a clear pattern demonstrating efforts to hurt the Sanders campaign even as he was continuing to gain steam in the primaries: • One e-mail thread shows the degree to which DNC leadership suffers from a very real detachment from reality. The e-mail - dated May 6 and written by DNC press assistant Rachel Palermo - discusses the media accusation that Clinton was the nominee-assumptive, pre-chosen by party leaders. The e-mail referred to such stories as "#bernieclickbait." • An earlier e-mail lays out plans for a series of e-mail announcements to supporters and donors. The e-mail announcements - to be sent and signed by Wasserman Schultz - assume that Sanders will have suspended his campaign and that Clinton will be the nominee. The DNC internal e-mail discussing those plans is dated April 26 at which time Sanders was still actively campaigning and Clinton had not yet secured the nomination. • An e-mail thread from May 21 details a plan to discredit Sanders by putting forth a "good Bernie narrative for a story, which is that Bernie never ever had his act together, that his campaign was a mess." That plan was quashed in a reply lamenting that though it would be a good plan, "the Chair has been advised to not engage," adding, "So we'll have to leave it alone." • Ahead of the Rhode Island primary, staffers discussed strategies to "get out in front of this one with an inquiry to the RI Gov, even though she's one of ours." The e-mail also said that if Clinton were able to come out on top in that primary, "the Bernie camp will go nuts and allege misconduct," adding, "They'll probably complain regardless, actually." • The e-mail that has gained the most attention from the mainstream media, though, is dated May 5. That e-mail - written by staffer Brad Marshall - suggests that a reporter in either Kentucky or West Virginia be recruited to ask Sanders about his religious beliefs. The e-mail - under the subject "No sh*t," said: It might may [sic] no difference, but for KY and WVA can we get someone to ask his belief. Does he believe in a God. He had skated on saying he has a Jewish heritage. I think I read he is an atheist. This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist. Marshal also added, "It's these [sic] Jesus thing." Amy K. Dacey, CEO of the DNC replied, "Amen." Sanders has subsequently denied that he is an atheist and the ask-his-belief e-mail has caused a stir with DNC leaders being accused of anti-Semitism. While it could be interpreted that way, it is worth noting two points. (1) One can be Jewish by birth without practicing the Jewish religion; conversely, one can convert to Judaism and practice the religion without having been born a Jew. In other words, the words "Jewish" and "Jew" require context to determine whether what is being discussed is either racial or religious. (2) It is obvious from the context that what is being discussed in the e-mail is the Jewish religion. It is not likely anti-Semitic to say that a man of "Jewish heritage" is not practicing his religion. The anti-Semitic angle has drawn attention away from other points about the e-mail that are more germane to the point: Those in leadership positions within the DNC - all the way to the top of the food chain - are not above using religion (referring to this as a "Jesus" thing and using Sanders' lack of observance as an opportunity to besmirch his image) to their own ends, while working in cahoots with reporters who would be willing to do the DNC's bidding and ask Sanders a question designed to embarrass him for Clinton's benefit. Considering the clear pattern of preference given to the Clinton campaign evidenced in the e-mails, there is little doubt that the fallout has only begun for the DNC; Wasserman Schultz may have been the first casualty of this scandal, but she will not likely be the last. In an effort to stave off the fallout and dodge blame, both the DNC and the Clinton campaign have attempted to lay the leaked e-mails at the feet of Putin, saying that state-sponsored hackers passed the e-mails to WikiLeaks, which they accuse of acting as an arm of Moscow in an attempt to throw the election to Trump. In the absence of any evidence to support that assertion, it is worth noting that even if it were true, it would be beside the point. The point is that the DNC violated its own charter and conspired to assure Clinton the nomination by manipulating the primary process. As for the nominee, Hillary Clinton is such a close comrade of scandal that she almost assuredly feels right at home. As The New American continues to pore over the leaked e-mails, we will continue to report on our findings. More in this category: " The Queering of the GOP Undercover Video Confirms Hillary's Strategy to Ban All Firearms "

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May 26, 2009 - News Leader TOWN COUNCIL BRIEFS A company called Jameson Resources is interested in buying coal property from Compliance. The property is located at Blakeburn, near Coalmont. Jameson Resources plans to export coal. If the deal goes through, it could mean 40 to 50 new jobs. Radio needs adults - Students from Princeton Secondary School have received grants to set up their student radio station. They are looking for adults who would be willing to volunteer their time to work with the students. Message board - A computer-controlled message board for downtown has met with approval from Princeton Performing Arts, who have donated $500 to the project. The theatre group will give a bursary this year to a local grad planning to study dramatic arts. Princeton Racing Days Association has added their $500 to the message board project. If they could use the board today, they would be telling local residents they need people with experience working in the parimutuels. If you can volunteer for this duty, please call John Bey or Carol Ruoss. Highland Dancers - Councillor Jason Earle praised Princeton's Highland Dancers who attended competitions held in Nelson. Every Princeton dancer placed. Deer count - The Ministry of Environment scheduled a deer count for last weekend to find out how many deer are in town. Fire protection - Persons noting forestry activity in the Snowpatch area will be pleased to learn this is part of the Wildfire Protection Plan. The work is taking place on private property and will clear out dead wood. Council discussed other areas where dead wood should be removed, such as on the slope between the arena and the high school. Affordable housing - Council will meet soon with Community Services Society to discuss options for affordable housing. Airport - Councillor Marilyn Harkness praised the work of the Airport Committee. She had toured the new fuelling facility and reception area. Plans are going ahead for a great celebration at the second annual Airport Day on July 18. STUDY REVEALS LOCAL HOUSING CONCERNS The report is titled: "Affordable Housing Assessment - the future of healthy homes for healthy people - Town of Princeton, British Columbia" and is a report prepared for the Princeton Attainable Housing Society (PAHS), dated March 2009 by Alice Sundberg and Dianna Hurford. Here is the report's Executive Summary: Similar to many small towns in British Columbia, the Town of Princeton is familiar with living in transition. Although recent uncertainty in the resource economy has negatively affected employment in BC, the number of people in Princeton receiving benefits such as Income Assistance and Employment Insurance is decreasing. The majority of residents earn income through employment (60%), followed by a high percentage of pension earners (21%). The majority of Princeton households own their own home (72%). Home prices in Princeton have more than doubled over the past 10 years (from $92,000 in 1998 to $202,000), but a working family with a moderate income may still find Princeton an affordable and pleasant town to buy a home. It appears rents have not yet seen as drastic an increase as the buying market. Rents range upwards from $300 for a bachelor in a non-profit seniors' building and $500 in a private market suite. Four mobile home parks also provide a significant number of affordable options for low-income families and seniors over the age of 55. These findings do not displace the fact that a number of residents are struggling to find housing, and that this number may increase in the near future. This study found that a minimum of 16 low-income families (6 single-parent families with mental health issues), 55 independent seniors, 7 seniors requiring support (such as home care), and 4- 14 single people with mental health issues require healthy, safe and affordable housing in the community. Core need data revealed 275 households living beyond their means, paying more than 30% of their income on housing costs. Upon an initial examination, a significant proportion of the existing affordable stock in the private sector (with the exception to groundoriented homes) is in various states of deterioration. Future affordability and the health of low-income residents will be 'at risk' assuming this trend continues and future stocks remains unidentified for replacement. The most relevant trends currently affecting the demand for housing in Princeton include the possibility of a new Similco mine opening in the next two years, a growing seniors population, amenity migration and second-home buying, several retiring doctors and a decrease in wage incentives for locum doctors, a reduction of services at the local hospital, and an aging and uncertain affordable housing stock. The community in Princeton also has many assets to contribute to the future of a strong, healthy community. Future planning will require strong cooperation - planning with residents for the future sustainability of the town, building on community strengths, and addressing challenges. Phase 2 of the project will identify priorities for further exploration and determine the level of demand for particular housing options; phase 3 will provide a feasibility analysis of the priority option. Given the needs, opportunities and challenges identified in the housing needs assessment, the following steps are recommended: 1. Plan to increase the supply of affordable housing for independent seniors, low income families, and persons with mental health disabilities. 2. Involve potential residents in the planning process. 3. Include a holistic approach that includes social, economic and environmental considerations. 4. Build and foster partnerships between all levels of government, private and non-profit sectors. 5. Develop rapport and trust with local government and private sector. 6. Educate and raise awareness in the community about the needs and contributions of low income and vulnerable populations. The PAHS hosts their annual general meeting Thursday, May 21st at 7:00 PM in the Hospital Board Room. The meeting is open to anyone with an interest. RECESSION DELAYS MINE OPENING Town Council has revised its priorities due to new information about the mine opening at Copper Mountain. Council learned, at the May 4 public meeting, that the mine is not likely to open before summer 2011. The delay has been caused by the poor economic climate. However, work continues at the mine site. The mine opening, and the Town's readiness for it, was one of the priorities Council set for this year. Mayor Randy McLean asked Council to revise the priority list, giving greater weight to an evaluation of Town Hall. The building has problems, not only with inadequate space, but with structure. Mayor McLean wants a report as soon as possible about the viability of maintaining Town Hall as it is. He is concerned that the building may have to be replaced. COUNCIL SIDESTEPS AMBULANCE REQUEST Town Council received a letter from Ambulance Paramedics of B.C. asking for support. The paramedics are currently bargaining with the provincial government to bring wages into line with other emergency service employees. The ambulance paramedics letter stated the paramedics are currently the lowest paid emergency service workers, receiving only $10 an hour, with an on-call standby wage of $2 an hour. The government asked for a 90 day delay before negotiations continue, and the ambulance paramedics wanted Council's support by passing a motion requesting the provincial government go back to the bargaining table with a third party mediator. Council took the position that they had no business taking a position of attempting to influence the outcome of a labour dispute, and filed the letter. LIBERALS ROAST RICK THORPE The event was identified as a 'Rick Thorpe Roast and Appreciation Dinner' and for the almost 100 local Liberal supporters who paid $50 each to get into Riverside Theatre May 2nd, they were well fed and thoroughly entertained. The 'target' of the fundraising event in support of Fraser-Nicola Liberal Candidate Ella Brown's election campaign was Okanagan-Westside MLA Rick Thorpe. And although there was no shortage of jabs, wisecracks and zingers, the flavour of the evening often bounced between a roasting and a tribute to the retiring former Minister of Small Business & Revenue. RDOS Area Director Brad Hope was first at bat and presented a factual and often hilarious slide show highlighting many of Thorpe's contributions to the Princeton area. Master of Ceremonies Princeton Mayor Randy McLean was also properly skewered in Hope's presentation. In fact, for someone who may have arrived late it would have looked as if Hope was presenting a tongue-in-cheek tribute to McLean. Kamloops MLA Claude Richmond keep the room filled with laughter with his funny stories involving Thorpe and the former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. At one point Richmond quipped, "Rick is a hard worker. Not very effective, but a very hard worker," which kept the crowd entertained. Richmond did take the opportunity to take a shot at the Referendum on Electoral Reform (the STV vote) and had probably the funniest line during the evening when he stated; "The STV is like a STD, very nasty and difficult to get rid of." Penticton Mayor and RDOS Chair Dan Ashton and Keremeos Mayor Walter Despot also took their turns with the most entertaining of the speakers being Thorpe's Administrative Assistant Mike Reid. Reid, who has held that position for the past 13 years, described in great detail his joining 'TA' a support group for former staff and employees who have survived working with Thorpe. Reid himself admitted the key to his longevity was linked to his answering "Yes, Minister" to everything Thorpe has asked of him over the years and the ability to cover any follow-up questions with reasonably plausible answers. Then it was Thorpe's turn. First on his list was a complete roasting of RDOS Area H Director Brad Hope for choosing Australian wines over Similkameen Valley wines to be served during the evening. He also roasted Princeton Mayor Randy McLean for being the biggest whiner of the three Similkameen Valley political heads at the function. Then he roasted Keremeos Mayor Walter Despot for his fears related to the Mobile Business License Program. In all, it was a fun evening full of good-natured barbs and pokes where everyone, including the designated targets, had an opportunity to laugh at themselves and the sometimes silly things that happen while participating in the complex game of politics. Thorpe did state he appreciated the working relationships he had developed with local politicians and enjoyed working with them. "It's been a pleasure to help your community get the things that really matter to you." News Leader Copyright 2010 Bengel Publishing Inc.

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Japanese exchange students, host families, and The Office of Education Abroad staff have a picnic at Bellevue Beach Park. They are enjoying their last weekend in America. Leonard Ivey One last 'kanpai' for NKU's Gifu exchange students Leonard Ivey, Reporter After two weeks of exploring Kentucky and Cincinnati - and yet another week to come - the Gifu students were ready for a little bit of downtime. It was time for a small going-away party at Bellevue Beach Park in front of the Ohio River, and they had earned it. After all, in only so little time they were doing so much: from going to watch The Reds and The Bengals in Cincinnati, to taking a tour of Bellevue, to visiting museums in the area, and even going horseback riding in Lexington, they checked off quite the exhaustive itinerary. Not to mention, of course, that they are Japanese exchange students still learning English. Gifu University, a college in central Japan that enrolls approximately 8,000 students, sent 11 of its students to NKU for a three-week cultural exchange for the second year in a row. The students arrived on Aug. 26 and left on Sep. 15; their going-away party was on the Sunday before their departure, Sep. 11. While in America, they were expected to take English classes and put on some presentations about Japanese culture for local schools; outside of that, they had plenty of time to enjoy the people and places of Kentucky and Cincinnati. A "give-and-take" of culture Candace Gibson, the Special Projects Coordinator for the Office of Education Abroad at NKU, worked with Dr. Toru Tatsumi of Gifu University to arrange the program. She manages the schedule for the exchange students, and during Labor Day weekend she connects them to host families for a weekend homestay. "[For NKU students], we do the semester- and year-long exchanges with Gifu - they're already one of our exchange programs - but they have decided they wanted to do something that was more of a short-term English and cultural exchange [for their students]," Gibson said. "So we decided to do this during their summer, which happens to be right in the beginning of our fall semester. "For three weeks they stay right here on the river at the Comfort Suites, and they [use the TANK system to] come to campus every day." About three days every week of the program, the students take English classes and shadow classes on campus. When they're not doing classes and presentations, the program also arranges for the students to enjoy regional attractions. The Office of Education Abroad had arranged for trips such as a visit to the Slugger Museum in Louisville, a Reds game and a Bengals game, a tour of the Toyota factory in Georgetown, and horseback riding in Lexington. "A lot of the students, when they know they're coming to Kentucky, they want to ride a horse, they want to try barbecue - you know, things like that. So we're trying to make sure they get as many of those regional cultural experiences that they can get." Joining them in all of their cultural experiences is NKU alum Arturo Minera. He comes along to provide insight about the local cultures wherever they go. "I get to be the person that sees [the students learn about the American culture], and help them understand and even talk it out," Minera said. "I'm just there to make sure that they are enjoying and seeing America for what it really is." Minera believes the experience is mutually beneficial to both the Japanese students in the exchange program but also the American students that volunteer to go places with them. "[These students are a good example of how] wherever you go, not only do you have the opportunity to learn, but you also have the opportunity to teach. When it comes to speaking about Japanese culture, they're the experts, and when it comes to being American, we're the experts," Minera said. "It's been awesome how, everywhere they go, even though their intention is for them to learn about the American culture: whatever we're going to see or do, the Americans on the other side end up learning as well. "We're learning about what they think. And I think that's been [my] biggest takeaway: I continue to be reminded about how there's always a give-and-take to conversation, to dialogue, to experiences, where they are learning about the American culture, and we in turn - by seeing how they respond to it - are learning about the Japanese culture." The Japanese students themselves have come to America for many different reasons. Yuka Nishio wanted to improve her confidence in speaking English. She was pleased with how helpful people in America were whenever she was speaking. "They are very kind.... When I got some trouble because of my English, they talked to me and helped me. So I was very happy and enjoyed my stay." The students and host families enjoyed a day in the park. In addition to a picnic, they also brought cornhole and soccer balls. The host family weekend On the final weekend of the program, Labor Day weekend, the students were paired with a host family to spend the holiday in an American household. Gibson considers this time to be very valuable. "There are multiple reasons for our host family stay. One of them being that they are [staying] on the river, and Riverfest is a little - intense," Gibson said. "So that's the chance for them to check out of the hotel and spend a good American holiday with a family. "It's a little more special than just spending a day or two with them: Labor Day's normally a time when people plan some nice outings, or they've got picnics with their family and friends. So we kind of let them take a break from the hotel and all of the madness of Riverfest." She also thinks that not only do the students benefit from the homestay, but the host families also take away something special from the experience. "I've seen so many of our host families that have just - you know, they're so excited that not only are they opening their home and sharing their culture, but their children are getting more of a glimpse into other cultures in the world. It's helping them to understand more about people who aren't exactly like them," Gibson said. "I'm Facebook friends with a lot of these host families and a lot of the students from last year, and I can see where they still communicate on Facebook and they form a pretty lasting bond. For several of our host families, this is their second year in a row, so they're always willing to do this again; apparently they're getting a really great experience out of it." Indeed, the host families themselves echo this sentiment. Matt Steinhauer and his family have hosted every time the program has happened since he became an NKU student, and after hosting the first time he even decided to go to Gifu University to study for a year. He says the experience of hosting and studying Japanese completely changed his career goals. "[When I originally enrolled at NKU my plan was] to learn enough Japanese to get by and be a computer science major.... So that first year I started taking Japanese, and I had the opportunity to host someone and I did. I couldn't speak anything, but gradually I was getting introduced to all this Japanese culture which I turned out to love... It really resonates with me," Steinhauer said. "Before I realized it, I became an integrative studies major focusing on East Asian studies and Japanese." Ashley Reed and her family hosted for the second time this year, and she is planning on doing it again next year. She does her best to accommodate the students and make them comfortable. "Everybody, whenever you host, is kind of nervous at first; but once you crack that shell, they really feel like they're part of the family. I like to give them a night to themselves so they can acclimate to the house and don't feel pressured to do anything.... And then I spend time with them during the weekend, and I always ask, 'What do you want to do?' And I try to make whatever they want happen," Reed said. "I just treat them like family, like I would anybody else." If one wants to participate in the program as a host family, they can contact the Office of Education Abroad here. The students and host families enjoyed a variety of foods from both America and Japan, such as barbecue and green tea cupcakes. The picnic was held at Bellevue Beach Park. The Northerner • Copyright 2019 • FLEX WordPress Theme by SNO • Log in

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Thursday, Dec 06, 2018 06:30 PM Quotes & Notes 12/6/18: Donald on Sack Record, Talib Talks Trubisky Clarence Dennis Following each practice, Quotes and Notes will bring you what was said, who said it, and what it means for your Los Angeles Rams. "These young, innovative offensive people are making me get gray hair." -DC WADE PHILLIPS Defensive coordinator Wade Phillips is preparing for yet another unique offense for Week 14, led by offensive-minded first-year head coach Matt Nagy. On Thursday, Phillips mocked head coach Sean McVay's Wednesday press conference - naming several members of the Chicago offense in his opening statement. The coordinator specifically mentioned Bears multi-threat back Tarik Cohen, tight end Trey Burton, and second-year quarterback Mitchell Trubisky as possible problem-causers come Sunday. Cohen has been an integral part of the Bears' offense in 2018. The Swiss Army knife of the unit has 315 yards rushing with two touchdowns and 659 yards and four touchdowns receiving in his second season as a pro. Trubisky missed Weeks 12 and 13 to a shoulder injury, but has been a full participant in this week's early practices. The former Tarheel is completing 65.4 percent of his passes and has thrown 20 touchdowns with nine interceptions this season. "I thought he moved around nice, we are expecting probably more from him this week..." Phillips said while his All-Pro cornerback Aqib Talib wasn't the only reason the Rams allowed just three first-half points against the Vikings, he is a good communicator and played a part in allowing such few points. Talib played 26 first-half snaps in Detroit and didn't see much action before being pulled for the second half. Phillips and head coach Sean McVay said the veteran defensive back will not likely be on a "pitch count" against the Bears. PHOTOS: Rams vs Bears Through the Years Check out photos of the Rams taking on the Chicago Bears through the years . "St. Louis Rams running back Todd Gurley during the game against the Chicago Bears. (Photo by Scott Rovak/St. Louis Rams)" Scott Rovak/2015 Scott Rovak/St. Louis Rams "CHICAGO - DECEMBER 6: Brandon Gibson #11 of the St. Louis Rams runs with a reception against the Chicago Bears on December 6, 2009 at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by G. Newman Lowrance/St. Louis Rams)" G Newman Lowrance/2009 G. Newman Lowrance "St. Louis Rams running back Tre Mason during the game against the Chicago Bears. (Photo by Scott Rovak/St. Louis Rams)" "St. Louis Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald and St. Louis Rams defensive end William Hayes during the game against the Chicago Bears. (Photo by Scott Rovak/St. Louis Rams)" "The St. Louis Rams defense gets set at the line of scrimmage against the Chicago Bears offense during a NFL football game on Nov. 24, 2013 in St. Louis. The Rams won, 42-21. (Photo by G. Newman Lowrance)" G. Newman Lowrance/2013 G. Newman Lowrance "St. Louis Rams defensive tackle Aaron Donald and St. Louis Rams strong safety Maurice Alexander during the game against the Chicago Bears. (Photo by Scott Rovak/St. Louis Rams)" "St. Louis Rams Isaac Bruce scores a touchdown against the Chicago Bears during a game on November 18, 2002 in St. Louis. The Rams won, 21-16. (Photo by Bill Stover/St. Louis Rams)" Bill Stover/2002 Bill Stover "ST. LOUIS, MO - NOVEMBER 23: Chris Long #72 of the St. Louis Rams comes off the line against the Chicago Bears on November 23, 2008 at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri. The Bears defeated the Rams 27-3. (Photo by G. Newman Lowrance/St. Louis Rams)" "St. Louis Rams James Laurinaitis and Robert Quinn (94) make a tackle on Chicago Bears Matt Forte during a NFL football game on Nov. 24, 2013 in St. Louis. The Rams won, 42-21. (Photo by G. Newman Lowrance)" "St. Louis Rams Benny Cunningham dives in to score a touchdown during a NFL football game against the Chicago Bears on Nov. 24, 2013 in St. Louis. The Rams won, 42-21. (Photo by G. Newman Lowrance)" "St. Louis Rams center Tim Barnes and St. Louis Rams quarterback Nick Foles during the game against the Chicago Bears. (Photo by Scott Rovak/St. Louis Rams)" "St. Louis Rams William Hayes makes a tackle against the Chicago Bears during an NFL football game on Sunday, September 23, 2012 in Chicago. The Bears won the game 23-6. (Photo by G. Newman Lowrance)" "ST. LOUIS, MO - NOVEMBER 23: The defense of the St. Louis Rams lines up against the Chicago Bears on November 23, 2008 at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri. The Bears defeated the Rams 27-3. (Photo by G. Newman Lowrance/St. Louis Rams)" "CHICAGO - DECEMBER 6: Chris Long #72 of the St. Louis Rams rushes in against the Chicago Bears on December 6, 2009 at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by G. Newman Lowrance/St. Louis Rams)" "St. Louis Rams defensive tackle Nick Fairley and St. Louis Rams middle linebacker James Laurinaitis during the game against the Chicago Bears. (Photo by Scott Rovak/St. Louis Rams)" "I thought he was at his best when we needed him the most." -HC SEAN McVAY Head coach Sean McVay was pleased with running back Todd Gurley's performance against the Lions. Gurley bounced back from his 55-yard, banged-up outing against the Chiefs in Week 11 with 132 yards rushing and two touchdowns against the Lions. McVay said Gurley was well deserving of his NFC Offensive Player of the Week award for Week 13. It was Gurley's second NFC POTW honor in 2018. "Yeah I was lying - I really did care." -RB TODD GURLEY Running back Todd Gurley admitted he wasn't quite truthful with the media last season about whether or not he cared about winning the rushing title. Gurley finished his NFC Offensive Player of the Year campaign a season ago with 1,305 yards rushing - just 22 yards shy of former Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt's league-leading 1,327 yards. After coming clean, Gurley said, "Who wouldn't want to be the NFL's passing or rushing leader?" Gurley currently leads the NFL with 1,175 yards on the ground, with Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott not far behind with 1,150. "If there's going to be a week where the weather isn't what we are accustomed to out here in L.A., then we'll take it." Forecasts are calling for lows in the mid-20s and low winds for Sunday's game in Chicago. McVay said Thursday's blustery conditions in Thousand Oaks doesn't hurt in preparing for Soldier Field in December. Several Rams practiced with sweatshirts under their navy and white practice jerseys, with temperatures hovering in the high-40s on the campus of Cal Lutheran University. The Rams beat the Broncos 23-20 in an unseasonably frigid game Week 6 in Denver. "He spreads the ball around, he's got that Russell Wilson effect, he scrambles to throw the ball downfield, or he's got that Cam Newton effect - he's kind of like both of them put together." -CB AQIB TALIB Cornerback Aqib Talib had lofty comparisons for Trubisky's ability to extend plays and create with his legs. Trubisky is Chicago's second-leading rusher with 363 yards and three touchdowns on the ground this season. Talib said the young quarterback and head coach Matt Nagy work well together to utilize all their weapons on offense. Trubisky has thrown touchdowns to eight different receiving options this season. Rookie wide receiver Anthony Miller leads all Bear receivers with six. "Anything is possible, you just got to keep playing." -DT AARON DONALD Leading the NFL in sacks, defensive tackle Aaron Donald said he is aware of the 22.5 single-season sack record set by former New York Giant Michael Strahan back in 2001. On Thursday, Donald said he's "just playing football" before quoting former Boston Celtic Kevin Garnett - with fewer exclamation marks. Donald's 16.5-sack season so far is tied with former defensive end Warren Sapp's total for the third-most sacks in a season by a defensive tackle in NFL history. Donald went sackless for the first three games of the season, before posting six multi-sack games since Week 4 - including each of his last three games.

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Chandra Crawford, Sheldon Kennedy amplify call on Ottawa to police athlete abuse and harassment By Lori EwingThe Canadian Press Fri., Jan. 4, 2019timer4 min. read A group of Canadian sport leaders have lent their voice to the growing chorus calling for an independent body to handle cases of harassment and abuse. Former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy and Olympic cross-country skiing gold medallist Chandra Crawford were among the coalition of some three dozen sport organizations, researchers and athletes who sent an open letter Friday to Kirsty Duncan, Canada's Minister of Science, Sport and People with Disabilities. "Canada is at a crossroads in its efforts to eliminate the scourge of gender-based violence in sport," the coalition wrote. "It is clear that the 1996 Sport Canada policy to prevent harassment and abuse in sport has not been effective." Duncan is expected to present a proposal on dealing with athlete abuse in Canada to cabinet on Tuesday. Canadian wrestlers appeal to federal government for independent body on safe sport issues Canada falling behind on policing abuse and harassment in sports, new study finds 'My childhood was stolen': Four women sexually assaulted by ex-ski coach Bertrand Charest speak out Safe sport has been governed through the Sport Canada Accountability Framework since it was implemented in 1996 in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal involving former junior hockey coach Graham James and Kennedy. Kennedy founded the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre in the wake of abuse at the hands of James. Sports must have a safe sport policy, and a designated individual to handle complaints, in place to receive government funding. But critics complain policies aren't adequately applied. There are two policy directions being proposed, according to Gretchen Kerr, a kinesiology and physical education professor at the University of Toronto. Canada's national sports organizations (NSOs) have proposed developing a sport-by-sport system of self-regulation, with more consistent enforcement by Sport Canada. And a coalition of multi-sport organizations, researchers and retired athletes have proposed establishing a single, independent, arm's length system of education, investigation and compliance. "The undersigned strongly urge you to endorse the second approach and put in place the steps to realize it," the letter to Duncan said. "It's become quite divisive ... there are clearly two distinct points of view on how to move this whole agenda forward," said Kerr, one of the signees. "A complainant has the option to take it to the NSO, the PSO (provincial sport organization) or an independent body, but it all flows through the NSO. And so the NSO is still playing a triage role, determining whether a complaint is major or minor, and whether it should be handled in-house, or should be handled independently. "The other problem is the conflict of interest that currently exists, if the complaint goes to the NSO and it involves an Olympic coach or whatever, there are real implications for the NSO and even the staff, if that's brought forward because the funding for NSOs depends on the team's performance." Canada has had its share of high-profile sex abuse cases in sport. Marcel Aubut resigned as Canadian Olympic Committee president in 2015 after an investigation over numerous sexual harassment complaints. In June, several former members of Canada's ski team spoke publicly about the abuse suffered at the hands of former coach Bertrand Charest in the 1990s. Charest was convicted last year of 37 offences of sexual assault and exploitation. Last month, the sexual assault trial of former Canadian women's gymnastics coach Dave Brubaker wrapped up in Sarnia, Ont. Brubaker has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual assault and one count of sexual exploitation, and Justice Deborah Austin is expected to deliver her decision on Feb. 13. Olympic champion Erica Wiebe was among a group of Canadian wrestlers who wrote an open letter to Duncan last month appealing for a third-party body to handle complaints. "Sport-by-sport self-regulation means that there will be as many different approaches to gender-based violence as there are sports bodies, a situation that is inconsistent with the principles of uniform treatment and the values of Canadian sport," Friday's letter said. "There is clear evidence of the failure of self-regulation. A 2016 study of 40 NSOs showed that after 22 years of Sport Canada's requirement to have a publicly accessible policy, many of the NSOs had limited policies, often hidden on their website, or no policy at all." The coalition argued that sport in Canada is the only remaining child-populated domain that is self-regulating and autonomous, leaving young people vulnerable to harassment and abuse. They stressed that no country has ever developed an effective policy for sport organizations to self-regulate harassment and abuse. The coalition is proposing a universal policy that has the capacity to investigate all allegations and provide counselling to those affected; mandatory application to all federally-funded sports; focus on education and prevention; and eliminating financial barriers to complainants and sports by providing appropriate funding and fee structures.

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Ubisoft Exclusive Blue Fang Games 08/11/03 Microsoft Game Studios Zoo Tycoon: Complete Collection (PC) Who told you that managing a zoo was easy? 26th Mar 2019 | 122 views Darwinianevolution Presentation - 5.0 Gameplay - 7.0 Value - 6.0 Zoo Tycoon: Complete Collection is the compilation of the original game and its expansions. While still a fun game to play and remember, its slow gameplay and surprising difficulty can be jarring. Game: Zoo Tycoon: Complete Collection. Platform: PC. Developer: Blue Fang Games Videogames that try to simulate certain aspects and activities tend to have a very estrange relation with that they simulate. On the one hand, they have to be close enough to said action to be worth the name of simulation, otherwise the selling point is mostly lost. On the other hand, many aspects of reality that do not translate particularly well to gameplay should be removed to improve the experience, even if it takes the form of acceptable breaks from reality. After all, The Sims would be a completely different game if, instead of paying your bills by clicking on the checks, you had to fill your taxes with painstaking detail. A good simulator will have all the fun aspects of the activity being simulated while also streamlining the aspects that are not particularly suited for an enjoyable experience. After the success of Roller Coaster Tycoon in 1999, a lot of similar themed videogames would try to capitalize on its success, with the business management simulation becoming a well populated genre to this day. One of the most interesting offerings of those days is Zoo Tycoon. Zoo Tycoon was originally released in 2001. Developed by Blue Fang Games and published by Microsoft, the game received two expansion packs, Marine Mania and Dinosaur Digs, both in 2002, plus an Endangered Species pack. The game was re-released in 2003 as a complete pack, which is the version I'm reviewing. Before starting, a bit of warning. Considering the game has never had a re-release for modern platforms, this games tend to be rather wonky on modern computers, but by fidgeting with the compatibility settings I was able to get it to work to a pretty decent standard. Still, while I haven't found any problems related to the age of the software during my playthrough, I cannot guarantee that such a thing won't happen in OS above Windows 8.1. The game itself is quite simple in its approach. You are a zoo manager that have to create successful and sustainable zoo models. You have a patch of land, usually barren, a bit of money to start your zoo and a selection of animals, commerces and general attractions to get people to come to the zoo and enjoy the animals (while spending as many of their dollars as possible). The more success you have in that regard, the more access to new structures and animals you will be able to use. And that's pretty much it. Keeping the business together is a rather taxing activity, though. Making the animals as happy and healthy as possible, increasing the efficiency of your employees, checking which of your commerces is doing right and which one should be moved or substituted for another, designing the layout of the zoo to keep the visitors from getting lost, making the appropriate repairs, handling the budget for investigation and advertisement... All of this elements are expected on a zoo simulator, and are done quite well here. They never feel like they overtax your attention, and with the ability of different speed settings for your playthrough, you can use all the time and attention you want. With that said, once you get used to the rhythm of the game, you may find the game loop somewhat repetitive and tedious. Many critics and players have complained that, once the structure of the zoo is put into place, you only need to react to whatever problems appear, and that might turn your experience from an active creative role to a more passive caretaker, with most of the actions of the game being quite automated. While that is one of the criticisms of the game, I've never found myself really falling for that, although that might be because I've always focused my attention on the campaign mode, rather than the freestyle mode. There are two forms of gameplay in Zoo Tycoon, Freestyle and Campaign, both being quite self-explanatory. Freestyle gives you no objectives and no time limit, and thus leave you free to do whatever you want with your zoo. Campaign mode puts you in the shoes of a zoo manager, solving different scenarios and problems for zoos all around the globe. Suffice to say, the campaign mode is the one part of the game that might get the most of the player's time and attention. After a couple of tutorial levels explaining you the different gameplay mechanics (something especially important once we deal with the contents of the expansions), you are given a series of missions. You have a set amount of time, space and resources to get the zoos working in optimal form, and when time runs out, you must have accomplished all of the goals set, or is game over for you. In theory, all of the goals are rather simple: win certain amount of money, have certain amount of animals, have all animal and/or guest happiness over certain level, make your zoo as popular as possible... The first couple of levels will not tax the majority of players due to their simplicity, but as the game progresses, the game's difficulty goes from easy, to fair to really unfair. See, one of the biggest problems of the game is the overreliance of animal happiness as a goal. This element is quite tied to their enclosure, and if it's not pixel perfect for them, it won't go over certain level. You can choose their pen's vegetation, rocks, layout, terrain, toys (only for some animals), exposure to the visitants, water level for those that need a tank to live... But without a reliable way to know how much one element affects the overall score, it becomes a hair-pulling problem on later levels. You have access to a rough view of the elements that affect negatively the animal's happiness, but you can't see how much they affect them positively, and that's a huge problem. You can have an animal's happiness within their enclosure to 80, and the game will tell you the cage is absolutely perfect for them, while the mission is asking you for 85-90 and you have no idea what are you doing wrong, because the game tells you you're doing nothing wrong. As such, savescumming becomes almost unavoidable once you reach medium level stages. You get an enclosure to the adequate level of happiness, you better make sure you save and keep it that way. And that's nothing compared to higher levels of difficulty, when the game asks you to get certain endangered species to breed, something quite random at the best of times. To be fair, you can increase the odds of that as much as possible, but in the end, if the animals don't want to breed on a timely manner, you will lose anyway. Maybe it's just me not being that good at the game, but considering how painstakingly detailed some of the walkthroughs and guides for this game are, I'm sure I'm not the only one finding this problem. Also, whoever decided that dinosaurs and ancient mammals would be able to destroy the vegetation within their enclosure, forcing you to constantly pay attention to the amount of trees and foliage there is within them, is evil and wants us to not play with dinosaurs. The best way to solve that is to surround the trees with rocks and the fence itself, but come on, the game is already quite finicky with this kinds of details, let me design the enclosures however I want, dammit. At least the game offers you a wide variety of animals to take care of. There are around 100 animals in total, including those of the expansions. Some animals are incredibly easy to maintain (the camel, the gazelle and the lion are a godsend at the beginning of the game) while others are incredibly hard to keep happy (the panda, the tyrannosaurus rex, the mermaid and the big whales take an unholy amount of resources), but without risks there are no rewards. The rarer the animal is, the more visitors will attract, and that means more money. Plus the game offers you different rewards and prices for accomplishing different objectives. Get an endangered species to breed, you get a grand and a trophy. Get all animals very happy, you get a trophy. Get a certain amount of different species, you get a trophy. That affects the prestige of your zoo, but usually is only useful when it comes with a substantial private donation. Money is always good, considering the amount of expenses a zoo can have. Once you have the animal part settled, the business part takes over. You have to find a balance of how much space you dedicate to selling merchandising and food, how much to shows and small attractions, and how much to the animal enclosures themselves. You have three different sources of income (not counting the plethora of cheat codes): ticket sales, merchandise/food selling and private donations. Ticket sales is fairly straight-forward, people pay to enter the zoo, you automatically charge different amounts for adults and children, though we should've been able to manually establish each of their ticket prices individually, and not automatically like the game does. The more you charge, the less people come, and viceversa, although don't expect to getting massive amounts of tourism if you offer free access, after certain thresholds it stops being noticeable. Private donations are managed by the already mentioned rewards, plus to certain popular enclosures. The bulk of the money will come from your food and entertainment posts. Restaurants, gift shops and other attractions will be quite big sources of money, as well as other structures. In particular, the carrousel is the safest of all attractions, and the dung store (yes, there is one) will automatically give you 50$ for each pile of animal dung you clean up. The only caveat is that it stinks, so you better put it as far as possible from tourists. With that said, the customer's satisfaction can be quite finicky. Keep the roads clean and with enough empty trash cans, make a park with picnic tables and pretty vegetation and make sure there are enough bathrooms around, and it should be fine. Again, the minmaxing aspects of the game will bite you in the ass here too, because you have to deal with so many customers at one point, and it's impossible to make everyone happy, so reaching certain happiness thresholds is quite impossible without trial and error and savescumming. The frustration levels can make you try and recreate a horror movie by deleting all enclosure walls and letting the animals lose. This will immediately sink your zoo's reputation, but seeing the annoying customers run from a T-rex or a lion can get the same level of cathartic relaxation than erasing the ladder from the swimming pool in The Sims. I should mention the content of the expansions as well. Marine Mania adds marine animals, with different gameplay and maintenance needs, while Dinosaur Diggs goes full Jurassic Park and adds... dinosaurs. I'm pretty sure the makers of Jurassic World have played this expansion, because the similarities are plenty. Both also offer more decoration and services, but overall their purpose is to add more missions and animals. A particular element of note is aquatic spectacles, which can be very profitable under certain conditions, but it's only accessible to a handful of species (seals, dolphins, orcas, otters and white sharks of all things). An interesting thing to take into account, but otherwise not that big of a game changer. The presentation is... a bit dated. The game is based on 2D sprite graphics, and sometimes the level of pixelation of the animals, the enclosures and the terrain can be annoying, especially when you are preparing animal terrain and you are searching for that pixel of wrong land type it's annoying your animals. It never becomes game breaking due to the game offering you options to unsee different elements so you can work undisturbed, but nonetheless it's an annoyance you have to deal with. The developers show a lot of sense of humor as well, with certain dates showing different environmental gags, such as witches flying during Halloween, or Santa Claus flying on Christmas. This kind of game was both ahead and behind its time. Just imagine how good this game could be nowadays, with mod integration adding thousands of different animals, businesses, decorations and missions, to get a neverending experience. However, a very hands on/off approach to gameplay combined with the need to minmax absolutely everything in the campaign gets quite annoying after a while. Campaign mode is too demanding, while freestyle is not demanding enough for my taste. In the end, though, I do think this was a valiant effort that has aged a lot comparatively due to the improvements gaming in general has suffered throughout the years. 1 n/a n/a 80 20 100 2 n/a n/a 112 28 140 4 n/a n/a 74 19 93 10 n/a n/a 108 27 135

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Multichannel News, Cable Center, TVWeek Cable Pioneer Dies - He Was Behind the Creation of One of the First Cable Networks, Which Is Still Going Strong Today Aug 4, 2016 • Post A Comment A cable television pioneer who was behind a number of the industry's milestones - including the creation of the early Madison Square Garden Network, which became the USA Network - has died. Multichannel News reports that Robert Rosencrans, founder of UA-Columbia Cable, died this week in Greenwich, Conn. He was 89. Rosencrans' work in cable goes all the way back to 1953, when he produced and distributed live TV events for theaters and hotels, first through Box Office Television and later with TelePrompTer Corp., Multichannel reports, citing information from the Cable Center. His efforts with UA-Columbia Cablevision would lead to the creation of one of the first cable networks, USA Network, which began as the Madison Square Garden Network - not to be confused with the later regional sports channel of the same name. "Rosencrans formed Columbia Cable Systems in 1961, acquiring systems in Washington, Oregon, Arizona, and California, eventually growing it to more than 250,000 customers," the story reports. "Columbia Cable was the first operator to install a satellite Earth Station to receive the feed of the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier heavyweight championship fight from Manila in 1975." Rosencrans was also behind the creation of C-SPAN in the late 1970s, cutting a check for $25,000 to help it get started and convincing other cable operators to also kick in. In a statement, the National Cable Telecommunications Association said of Rosencrans: "Bob embodied the cable entrepreneur, investing time, money and sweat equity in the creation of products and services that have become vital to consumers." Here's a featurette on Rosencrans posted by the Cable Center ... NBCU Accused of 'Double Standard' Treatment of Talent at NBC and Telemundo TV Station Group Reports Record Revenue

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Bob Dylan's 40 best songs Tom Pinnock As chosen by famous fans, Dylan associates and Uncut writers TAGS: Bob Dylan 13 Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again From Blonde On Blonde (May 1966) JACKIE LEVEN: A thing happened in Scotland in the late Sixties and early Seventies which was that when Blonde On Blonde came out, seemingly every single young Scottish guy went out and bought it. It was THE absolute, total record to listen to. When you went round anyone's council house and opened the door, there was always the smell of tinned lager, congealing bacon fat, home-grown grass and Dylan bawling our, "She said that all the railroad men/Just drink up your blood like wine". I couldn't get on with the album, but this particular song just feels very relaxed, I have this thing I do on my own albums when I have a song and every day of recording, before we do anything else, I just put one more idea on it. I refuse to develop it, just put one idea on per day until it's finished. It's a different way of looking and recording and freshens up the album. And "Mobile" just has that same kind of feeling for me. It seems like he said, "Oh, I'm not sure about this one," and they kind of threw it away. There's all sorts of what-shall-we-do? bits in the arrangement and a lovely bass descent which conjures up images of the musicians shrugging and looking at each other. The rest of the record sounds too much like they're trying very hard to make a record that sounds different. I find the hardness unappealing, but there's a smooth, throwaway quality to this. And lovely images. JEFF TWEEDY: A lot of these songs I picked have a real similarity. It's an incredible concentration of performance, and then the limitation of it at the same time. There's a structure that basically keeps rolling over itself over and over again. And it gets more and more charged every time. It's like a self-charging battery or something. PETE WYLIE: There's a great bit in this where they've edited the tape and you get two words spliced together. After the bit where his grandpa dies, there's a line that should begin "I" but they cue it to "he built a fire on Main Street" so it goes "I sp-ee built a fire on Main Street". They've chopped two words in the middle, But that;s another thing you get with Dylan where there's all these little secret moments that you think you're the only one who's spotted them, even if somebody else told you, so you get into that whole trainspotter stupidity mode. And that lyrics about :he just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette" - fucking brilliant! It's a long song but it doesn't seem long. It's like a bunch of movies - the Coen brothers would have to do a trilogy there. A stunning piece of work. ROBERT FISHER: I've always liked the idea of telling stories without telling the whole story. There is great intuitive energy in the playing on this song. It sounds like there was magic in the air when the tape was rolling. 12 Positively 4th Street BILLY BOB THORNTON: I love Bob Dylan, I'm a great Dylan fan. I'd have to say this song is the ultimate. We've all had someone who we've wanted to tell "Y'know what? You hate my guts, just come out and say it! Why'd you ver pretend to be who you're pretending to be? Cos we all know you're not . . ." It's the ultimate 'fuck-you' song, y'know? It's never been put better. It's the one. The greatest line in a song, maybe ever, to say - you don't have me fooled, I got your number, is: "I wish that for just one moment/I could be you . . . You'd know what a drag it is to see you". Great! PETE WYLIE: When I started with Wah! Heat, we covered this, mainly because of the Zoo lot. It's that thing where your tiny universe is all-consuming, and I'd fallen out with Julian and Mac [Cope and Ian McCulloch] so when I sang it, in my secret little world it was like I was singing it at them and they were going to be destroyed by it, just by me singing it. Strangely they weren't! It's got that thing again of great put-downs and jokes, but then I think, "Well, where did the master thief bit come from?" That's another Dylan trait. I bet even songs that don't get into this Top 40 have still got great lines. Like in "Tombstone Blues" - "The sun's not yellow, it's chicken!" Or there's that song where that doctor says, "Don't go back to this woman", and when he does the fuckin' doctor's there instead. That's like the premise for a play, that one verse. EDWYN COLLINS: Some say this was a vitriolic address to the folk fundamentalists, post-Newport, others that it was an embittered farewell to the Factory crowd - both of which Dylan denies. Whatever its target(s), it suggests the Sixties music biz and its satellites were as mendacious then as they are now. GERRY LOVE: I don;t know whether Lou Reed was a fan of this song, but I can hear the roots of the Velvets in this song. This is a basic, raw pop song and its keening melody drew me in the first time I heard it. Dylan's pop abilities are often overlooked, and never more so than here. LYNDON MORGANS: "Like A Rolling Stone" - Part Two. One of the all-time great opening lines. An erect middle-finger to the old Greenwich Village folkie scene he'd left behind. If I think of Dylan's voice, I think of this song first - the tone and delivery melds perfectly with the emotions expressed in the lyric. STEPHEN PASTEL: He had an amazing run of singles, songs like "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" and this particularly. One of those really bitter, jaded lyrics. There was definitely a change in Dylan, though, if you compare him in Don't Look Back to Eat The Document. In the latter he's just really cold, this amphetamine lunatic going around with his pal, the two of them like a brainy Beavis and Butthead. I'll never forget that horrible scene where he tries to buy this girl from her boyfriend, it makes you cringe. MARC 'LARD' RILEY: I'm not sure why but I seem to be drawn to Dylan's most caustic efforts when cherry-picking his oeuvre. In an ideal world, if you were to look up the word 'contempt' in any dictionary a copy of this 1965 single would drop out. So cutting - so witty - AND SO YOUNG! Of all the people I admire I'd have to say that Bob is the one I'd least like to meet. 11 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue From Bringing It All Back Home (March 1965) BRYAN FERRY: I am very partial to Dylan's songs - it's the lyrics, really, the imagery. They're always compelling and interesting to me, and very poetic. "Yonder stands your orphan with his gun/Crying like a fire in the sun/Look out, the saints are comin' through/And it's all over now, Baby Blue." Beautiful images. The "seasick sailors", the "reindeer armies", the "vagabond who's rapping at your door". What have I brought to it on my own version? Very little, probably, other than enthusiasm and inspired amateurishness! This song sets the tone for my new album in the same way you might say "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" did for These Foolish Things, years ago. And it's nice to start an album with a goodbye song! GRANT-LEE PHILLIPS: The basic thrust of the song, to my ear, is that Dylan is taking a kind of inventory of all that might seem to matter. The currency of our values is being put up to the light, to see if it's counterfeit. This would fall into the category of 'finger-pointing songs', which is a definite Dylan trait, like "Positively 4th Street". Songs that tend to put a phantom second person in their place. But Dylan seems to extract something interesting and vital out of that form. It's something that re-emerges in his work time and time again. It's the people who get stepped over who tend to secure the starring roles in his songs. There's only much time in this life to take it all in. Some folks plunder the Bible, and I've done a little bit of that, but I always got a lot more out of Dylan. COLIN MacINTYRE: The first band I had in Glasgow, I used to stand on my own and play it, and murder it. I'm sure that song's served as a poultice for so many failed relationships, while people wait to get over them. ADAM SWEETING: The title makes it sound like just another guy-leaves-girl song, and there was indeed a "lover who has just walked out your door", but the sombre beauty of the melody and the tumbling panorama of the words created an altogether grander picture. Dylan's songwriting was in such torrential spate that he seized the opportunity to spin a saga of loss and loneliness on a cosmic scale. The song was partly a playful surrealist pageant - the tooled-up orphan "crying like a fire in the sun", the "seasick sailors" and "reindeer armies" - and part instruction manual. "Take what you have gathered from coincidence," Dylan ordered. "Strike another match, go start anew." Easy for him to say. 2. Page 2 10. Page 10 Page 10 of 15 - Show Full List IntroductionPage 2Page 3Page 4Page 5Page 6Page 7Page 8Page 9Page 10Page 11Page 12Page 13Page 14Page 15

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Carrie Johnson, PE, SE Joined Wallace Engineering in 1986 "I think the key to being a great consultant is listening to your client." You Might Not Know: Carrie has developed a number of proprietary tools which automate project management and structural engineering design. Notable Achievement: Carrie served as President of National Council of Structural Engineers Association (NCSEA). Carrie serves as Chief Information Officer of Wallace Engineering. She received her Bachelor of Architectural Engineering and Master of Architectural Engineering degrees from Oklahoma State University. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in 43 states and a licensed Structural Engineer in Utah. Carrie's project work is concentrated in the retail industry where she has been instrumental in the development of multi-sited building prototypes. She has automated many in-house operational and administrative functions and has developed proprietary software programs to automate repetitive structural engineering tasks. Carrie served as the 2013-2014 National President of the National Council of Structural Engineers Association, is a past President of Eastern Oklahoma Chapter of American Institute of Architects, a past President and active member of the Oklahoma Structural Engineers Association and the City of Tulsa Transportation Board. She received the NCSEA Service Award in 2016. She currently serves on the Board of Applied Technology Council as President, and is currently serving as chair of the Structural Engineering Summit Committee, and as co-chair of the Continuing Education Committee. Read Carrie's Blog Walmart, Inc. Casey's General Store Walmart Neighborhood Market at Midtown Center

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October 27, 2012 at 5:21 pm EDT | by Peter Rosenstein Role of 'dirty money' in marriage fight At a book salon hosted by Donald Hitchcock and Paul Yandura, Juan Ahonen-Jover, Ph.D., discussed his book, "The Gay Agenda 2012: All Out." Juan has written an interesting book with some theories that will gain the support of many activists while not necessarily finding favor with the leaders of the more prominent LGBT organizations. Juan talked about his ideas with regard to where the LGBT community needs to go from here and then opened the floor to a broader discussion. There were about 30 or so LGBT advocates in the room and one of the more interesting issues that arose was whether or not the LGBT community should be taking what some referred to as "dirty money" for marriage equality campaigns. It was an interesting discussion and as is often the case with such a touchy issue people's opinions were all over the map. The people who used the term "dirty money" were talking about money and support that comes from individuals like Ken Mehlman, Ted Olson (who coached Paul Ryan in his debate prep) and Paul Singer. There is a strong difference of opinion over whether or not to take money and support from them. The "them" refers to those who support marriage equality but who also support candidates pledged to prevent marriage equality from happening and want to turn back any movement on LGBT civil and human rights. Many in the room felt that while they appreciated the support, gay organizations should not take money directly from these individuals and organizations. There were strong feelings that there is too much hypocrisy making it impossible in good conscience to accept this money. Although I agree that LGBT organizations shouldn't take the money, there is no reason that we would turn our backs on or try to stop anyone who wants to donate to or support marriage equality. We need all the support we can get and clearly all the money we can get to fight for our civil rights. There are ways for this money to come into campaigns other than through LGBT organizations and hedge-fund manager and billionaire Paul Singer has found a good one. In a June 2012 article by Frank Bruni in the New York Times, Singer says he provided $1 million to start a new "Super PAC" with several Republican compatriots. Named American Unity PAC, its sole mission is to encourage Republican candidates to support same-sex marriage, in part by helping them to feel financially shielded from any blowback from well-funded groups that oppose it. He told Bruni that he's confident that in congressional races, which would most likely be the Super PAC's initial focus, there are more than a few Republicans "who could be on the verge of support" or are "harboring and hiding their views." "And this kind of effort could be catalytic in generating some more movement," he said. This is also the way to have those like Singer, who has a gay son, pour money into marriage equality campaigns and influence their outcome in a positive way. This issue reminds me of what many organizations, particularly those in the area of education and children's issues, faced when they gave up tobacco money. People wanted to find a way for tobacco companies to contribute to good works in other ways. Such a Super PAC allows someone like Mehlman, who came out as gay in 2010, but has yet to separate himself totally from all Republican candidates who want to keep him a second-class citizen, to work on the issues he currently feels comfortable with like marriage. Mehlman has said, "I can't change the fact that I wasn't in this place personally when I was in politics, and I genuinely regret that. It was very hard, personally." Mehlman has also said, "As I've been involved in the fight for marriage equality, one of the things I've learned is how many people were harmed by the campaigns in which I was involved. I apologize to them and tell them I am sorry." What I have never heard Mehlman say or apparently come to grips with is that he came up with those campaigns and led them. But we can still thank Mehlman for what he is willing to do today. While these individuals shouldn't become icons within the LGBT community, it is important to encourage everyone who wants to support the forward movement of civil and human rights for the LGBT community to participate in the fight. There are clearly ways to do that on separate paths for those who are not yet ready to see this fight as the overriding mission that it must be for LGBT organizations. Donald HitchcockFrank BruniGOPJuan Ahonen-JoverKen MehlmanPaul SingerPaul YanduraRepublicansTed OlsonUnity PAC

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February 9, 2016 at 4:33 pm EDT | by Chris Johnson N.H. congressional race could pit gay vs. gay Gay congressional candidates Dan Innis (left) and Shawn O'Connor could compete against each other in the general election. (Washington Blade photo of Innis by Michael Key; photo of O'Connor courtesy of CreagerCole Communications) MANCHESTER, N.H. - In the week of the presidential primary in New Hampshire, another race is brewing in the state that could pit two openly gay candidates - one Democrat, one Republican - against each other. In a bid to represent New Hampshire's 1st congressional district, Shawn O'Connor, a gay businessperson and lawyer who founded the college admission advisory firm Stratus Prep before selling the company, is competing against former Rep. Carol Shea-Porter for the Democratic nomination. Meanwhile, on the Republican side, gay business professor Dan Innis - the former dean of the business school at the University of New Hampshire - is for a second time challenging incumbent Rep. Frank Guinta (R-N.H.) after having lost the Republican nomination to the lawmaker in 2014. If both candidates succeed in winning their party's nomination on the day of the congressional primary on Sept. 13, New Hampshire's 1st congressional district would be home to a national first: Two openly gay congressional candidates nominated by major parties competing against each other for a U.S. House seat. In separate interviews with the Washington Blade, the two candidates outlined their visions if elected to Congress - and their plans reveal stark differences. O'Connor said he formed an exploratory committee to pursue a congressional bid in February 2015 before Shea-Porter announced she'd pursue a sixth run because "people are ready for a change." "When this race went Republican last time, it's gone back-and-forth between the same two members of Congress for about 10 years: Carol Shea-Porter and Frank Guinta," O'Connor said. "I think it's a seat that the right Democrat can definitely hold, and therefore, I decided to toss my hat into the ring without knowing who else might run." Among the items on O'Connor's agenda are what he called "bread-and-butter" issues: Making it easier for small business owners to succeed and investing in infrastructure. According to O'Connor, 351 of the bridges in New Hampshire are designated as "red list," which means they have a series of documented deficiencies getting worse over time. But O'Connor, who has endorsed Bernard Sanders in the presidential election, also identified income inequality as among the issues he wants to tackle. Until the minimum wage is raised to $15 an hour, O'Connor said he'll only accept the current minimum wage as a salary from Congress, which would be $15,080 a year, and donate the remaining $159,000 to New Hampshire charities. "I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is, and I just think it's immoral to accept a salary of $174,000 a year and go around telling people it's OK to live on $7.25 an hour," O'Connor said. Innis said he's pursuing another bid for Congress because he had a good showing in the 2014 Republican congressional primary, earning 41 percent of the vote in the race against Guinta. "Coming in at 41 percent as a first-time candidate against a semi-incumbent? That ain't bad." Innis said, adding he thinks he took that percentage of the vote because he ran as "a problem solver, not a political insider." But Innis took Guinta to task for allegedly violating campaign finance laws by taking $355,000 donated to him by his parents during his first House campaign in 2010. As a result of a settlement with the Federal Election Commission, Guinta in May 2015 paid a $15,000 fine and agreed to return his parents' money. Innis said the donation was unlawful and shamed Guinta for calling his opponents liars for bringing it up. "And the liar was Frank. Period," Innis said. "He broke the law, he knew he broke the law. He denied it for years, and when he was fined, he tried to further cover it up." In terms of policy differences, Innis said he differs with Guinta in some areas, although he doesn't think the difference is terribly dramatic. "I sit closer to New Hampshire on a number of social issues, and I'd further argue I'm more fiscally conservative than just about anyone you'd meet," Innis said. For Innis, the No. 1 crisis facing the country - in contrast to the views of others who say it's the Islamic State of Iraq & Syria or climate change - is the nation's $19 trillion debt. "It's money, and we don't have enough," Innis said. "And we spend too much. We've got to bring these two things in balance, and if we don't the country - and I'm not overstating this - the country is doomed, right? I understand business. I studied business. I've got an advanced degree in this stuff. So, I'm not blowing smoke. I know what I'm talking about. We're doomed." Innis was coy about whom he's backing in the presidential election, but said the way candidates approach LGBT rights is something he factors into his support. "There are certain candidates that are more open to equality issues, and those are the candidates that I'd certainly get behind," Innis said. "There are other candidates who are clearly closed to equality and it's very, very difficult to support them, and you know who those are." In terms of LGBT rights, O'Connor identified as a priority a federal LGBT non-discrimination bill known as the Equality Act to "make sure LGBT equality is complete," but also said we must ensure the United States is "a real social, moral leader" on international LGBT rights. "Once we get full equality nationwide, and we've accomplished marriage, I think that incorporating LGBT rights more fully into our international policy would be really important, particularly in Africa," O'Connor said. Innis said if he's elected, he'd "push for" a federal prohibition on employment discrimination against LGBT people, arguing his position in the Republican caucus would hasten its passage. "If you've got a majority party that has the ability to bring that thing forward, and then you add someone to the party who is gay and who's affected by this stuff, who can speak to the other members and leadership, I think the dynamic changes," Innis said. "It always changes when you get to know someone and when you've got them sitting there with you dealing with the issue, and I do think we'll have more success in pushing that forward if candidates like me are elected." Innis said he couldn't immediately commit to co-sponsoring the Equality Act, but based on what he heard on the legislation as described by the Blade said it "sounds like something that is easy to support." Both candidates had differing takes on the idea of facing off in the general election as a gay candidate against a gay opponent. O'Connor said it would be "exciting" and reflect the progress made on acceptance of LGBT people in New Hampshire. "I think the nice thing about it in a way is in a purple state like New Hampshire - trending blue, but purple - to have two LGBT candidates face off in a general election really demonstrates that we're becoming fully integrated into the political system, which I think is wonderful," O'Connor said. But O'Connor said the national LGBT community should support him if they both were to receive their nominations if Innis won't back affirmative action, support women's reproductive freedom or fight income inequality. "Dan Innis has a very conservative - he doesn't have a voting record - but based on his statements, he's a pretty conservative candidate," O'Connor said. "I believe the LGBT community as a community has been marginalized for decades, if not centuries, and there's a responsibility to help others." Innis expressed skepticism O'Connor would be able to beat Shea-Porter. If he had to face off against him in the general election, Innis said the gay vs. gay nature of the race "wouldn't matter" to him. "I think I've defined myself as a candidate on the issues and on my background and my experience, and people now are used to the idea and more interested in what I have to say on the issues," Innis said. They both face challenges in defeating an incumbent on one hand and one-time incumbent on the other who have name recognition in New Hampshire. Innis has the added challenge of facing another potential competitor for the Republican nomination: State Rep. Pamela Tucker. Nathan Gonzalez, editor of the Rothenberg & Gonzalez Political Report, said it's hard to put specific odds on an O'Connor vs. Innis matchup, but it's "unlikely" both candidates will make it to the general election. "Guinta is in an incredibly precarious electoral position, so it's not hard to see him losing the primary," Gonzalez said. "But Innis doesn't have a clean shot at winning the nomination with Tucker in the race. Shea-Porter has her fair share of general election losses, but I have a hard time believing she is going to lose in a primary, until proven otherwise." One question is which candidate national LGBT groups - the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund - will support. In the 2014 election, the Victory Fund endorsed Innis and the Human Rights Campaign endorsed Shea-Porter. O'Connor said he applied for endorsements with both organizations, but was told by both they were staying out of the race at the time. Innis said he'll likely seek support from the Victory Fund again, but had harsh words for the Human Rights Campaign. "They endorsed Hillary, I'm not sure they should be playing in this," Innis said. "To me, their job is to advocate for rights for equality; it's not to pick candidates at a presidential level. Part of the problem here is I've never thought of HRC as so political, but it clearly is, but HRC I always thought was more politically driven rather than agenda driven, and they seem to be moving more toward the politics." Jarod Keith, spokesperson for the Victory Fund, said his organization usually stays out of races if multiple candidates apply for support and meet endorsement criteria. "We typically don't endorse a candidate if they're running against another candidate who also qualifies for our endorsement," Keith said. "In order to qualify, candidates have to be openly LGBT, support LGBT rights and a woman's right to choose, and demonstrate a clear path to victory. Endorsements are made by the Victory Fund's Victory Campaign Board." Brandon Lorenz, a Human Rights Campaign spokesperson, didn't say when his organization would make an endorsement in the race. "HRC has not made an endorsement in this race at this time," Lorenz said. "In the 2014 cycle, HRC supported incumbent Rep. Carol Shea-Porter." Dan Inniselection 2016Gay & Lesbian Victory FundHuman Rights CampaignNathan GonzalezNew HampshireRothenberg & Gonzalez Political ReportShawn O'Connor

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Debate on drug benefit persists By - The Washington Times - Sunday, May 14, 2006 Three years after its creation, the Medicare prescription-drug program remains a source of partisan bickering, as evidenced by the fight that has surrounded tonight's deadline for seniors to sign up for the program. But even after the deadline passes, the fight over the program will go on. Republican leaders have been arguing that the program is working well, but dissent is starting to swell within the party over such matters as whether people should pay a penalty for missing the enrollment deadline. "I'm pleased to see the robust enrollment in the program," said House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas, California Republican said Friday. "Choice of plans proves competition is working. As a result, prices, premiums and drug costs are down." After midnight tonight, seniors will have to wait until November to sign up and will face a penalty fee, which Democrats argue amounts to an unfair tax. The deadline and fee have been waived for low-income people, but Democrats said it should have been done for all, and at least one key Republican agrees. Rep. Nancy L. Johnson of Connecticut, who leads the House Ways and Means' subcommittee on health, told the Associated Press that she will introduce a bill to waive the penalty and said she thinks a waiver has enough support to pass in the fall. "The bottom line is, this is a democracy, and the Congress responds to the people and shapes the program so it's good for them," Mrs. Johnson said. "I think it's fair and reasonable to eliminate the penalty" for 2006. House Republican sources said the proposal has enough support to make approval possible. The administration said last week that about 37 million of the 43 million people on Medicare and thus eligible for the Part D program now have prescription-drug coverage - through Medicare, other government programs or private insurance. About 27 million of them are in the new Medicare prescription-drug program. Democrats and advocacy groups, however, say that administration numbers have been inflated and that many of the seniors the administration counts as already having coverage from other sources in fact do not. They've been pushing to extend tonight's deadline and will continue to push to make some major changes to the program. "To make it work for all seniors and people with disabilities, it needs clarity, and it needs common sense. Democrats are ready to provide both," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, who led the Democratic demand that the deadline be extended. The liberal advocacy group Families USA pledged Friday to closely monitor the program well after today's deadline to see whether drug prices go up, how many seniors enter the so-called "doughnut hole" when they will be without coverage for a time and how many private plans will drop out. These factors "will determine whether the program succeeds or fails," warned Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. The new Medicare drug program allows seniors to choose from several private insurers. The administration estimates that the average beneficiary will save more than $1,100 this year by enrolling, and average monthly premiums are $25, more than $10 less than expected. Some groups say that overall, the drug program, which got off to a rocky start in January, is going much better now. "The results are better than anyone anticipated," said Cheryl Matheis, an AARP spokeswoman. "It's been on a lot more positive trajectory over the past months." She also said AARP field offices Friday were reporting a last-minute crush of seniors signing up.

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Global War on Terror gives next president broad powers STEPHEN JAFFE <p>US President George W. Bush addresses the nation aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln 01 May, 2003, as it sails for Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California. Bush declared major fighting over in Iraq, calling it "one victory in a war on terror" which he said would continue until terrorists are defeated. "In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed," Bush said. Bush touted Saddam Hussein's ouster as "a crucial advance" towards stamping out extremist violence.AFP Photo/Stephen JAFFE</p> When the next president is inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2017, that person will not only inherit a Global War on Terror, but he or she will also receive broad war powers over the strongest military in the world. Following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the American defense budget doubled within a decade, and new defense institutions were added to the federal government. With an ever-expanding United States defense, the next president could be considered the most powerful person ever. Although the Constitution states that Congress is tasked with formally declaring war, the United States has not formally declared war since World War II. Presidents have generally accepted the responsibility when the United States goes to war. President Bush received near universal support for War on Terror In the weeks following the 9/11 attacks, 92 percent of Americans polled by the New York Times were in favor of using military action against al-Qaida and the Taliban. Vowing vengeance both from the White House in an address on Sept. 11, 2001, and during a joint session of Congress nine days later, Bush garnered a historically high 90-percent approval rating, according to Gallup. Following the attacks on the United States, Bush asked Congress to approve the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists act (AUMF), which gave the president broad powers to fight terrorists. The bill passed by a 420-1 margin in the House, and a 98-0 ledger in the Senate. "In 2001, there was this debate of exactly what extent the president will do with this much authority," said Robert Farley, professor of political science at the University of Kentucky. "There was this debate inside the Bush administration where some people like (Assistant Attorney General) John Yoo and (Vice President) Dick Cheney were saying that the presidency is unfettered at all. Besides impeachment, the president could do whatever he wanted in terms of interpreting treaties, in terms of prisoners, in terms of going to war." With broad power handed to the executive branch to fight terrorists, Yoo crafted highly controversial policy regarding the waterboarding of terror suspects, and to legitimize the United States' efforts fighting terror under the Geneva Convention. Unlike past declarations of war, the AUMF gave the president authorization to use the military to fight groups considered a threat to the homeland wherever and whenever. The law did not place any restrictions on methods for fighting terrorists, allowing the Bush administration to develop policies such as the enhanced interrogation methods, and to place prisoners of war in Guantanamo Bay without trial. Congress' lack of interest in foreign affairs coupled with the need to give the president the ability to launch an immediate attack allowed the commander-in-chief absolute power with few checks. Although President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Jan. 21, 2009 his second day in office to officially end the United States' practice of using waterboarding, it is possible the next president could override Obama's order. While Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has come out against enhanced interrogation tactics, GOP standard-bearer Donald Trump has said he is fond of the tactic. "I like it a lot. I don't think it's tough enough," Trump said at an Ohio rally in June. When Obama delivered an address in May 2013 to discuss his administration's plan moving forward after the United States would leave Afghanistan after 2014, he said he wanted to engage Congress on amending the AUMF. "The AUMF is now nearly twelve years old," Obama said in 2013. "The Afghan War is coming to an end. Core al-Qaida is a shell of its former self. Groups like (al-Qaida) must be dealt with, but in the years to come, not every collection of thugs that labels themselves al-Qaida' will pose a credible threat to the United States. Unless we discipline our thinking and our actions, we may be drawn into more wars we don't need to fight, or continue to grant presidents unbound powers more suited for traditional armed conflicts between nation states. "So I look forward to engaging Congress and the American people in efforts to refine, and ultimately repeal, the AUMF's mandate. And I will not sign laws designed to expand this mandate further. Our systematic effort to dismantle terrorist organizations must continue. But this war, like all wars, must end. That's what history advises. That's what our democracy demands." With Congress' inaction on the issue, the AUMF has remained untouched since 2001. Congress gave the Bush administration a couple blank checks in terms of the authorization of use of military force in Afghanistan and then in Iraq (in 2003)," Farley said. "Those authorizations are so broadly worded that they allow the executive branch to do anything it wants with respect to fighting those wars. "They don't have much in the ways of geographic limits, they don't have much in the way of on limits on means or different kind of weapons. The reason that we are still fighting in Libya and Iraq and so forth even though Saddam Hussein is long gone is based on using these laws that were passed." Even though the United States is not currently fighting al-Qaida or the Taliban groups considered directly responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks the AUMF has been used to justify a long-term battle between the United States and the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. While the AUMF gives the president plenty of authority, it also gives the commander-in-chief flexibility to follow terrorists across global borders. This flexibility could be considered useful going against an organization such as the Islamic State group, which spans multiple nations. "It is a new era, I think you're going to have to realize that it is totally different from any previous era or war that the US has been involved in." - Timothy White "We live in a different world, the same constitution exists, in that we have an old constitution, so that means it is vague enough so it can be interpreted in different ways to accommodate the needs and interest of society and government," political science professor and foreign policy expert Timothy White said. The AUMF also accounts for groups that are not associated with official governments. For instance, the majority of the Sept. 11 attackers were from Saudi Arabia; a nation that the United States is allies with. US President Barack Obama Shakes hands with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef of Saudi Arabia - Getty Images What this means is that many nations, even ones the United States is on good terms with, have citizens wanting to attack using small, rogue armies. "There are groups across the world that could be classified a terrorist organization," White said. "There are terrorist groups in many countries, so to think that all threats of terror will be gone are just wrong. The logic behind why terrorists exist is because they are militarily weak and want to have some mechanism to express their anger and outrage or resentment and want to use terror." Military strength does not make the US immune from terror The United States' military is not just the most expensive force in the world; the US spends more on defense than the next seven nations combined, according to the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. The United States spends 3.3 percent of the national GDP in defense, which is more than China, the United Kingdom and Japan, but less than Russia and Saudi Arabia. Despite having such a large military, the United States is still prone to lone wolf attacks, such as incidents that took place at the Boston Marathon in 2013 and the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando in June. It is an unusual military dominance in the world," White said. "It has not been seen really in earlier eras This is in some ways an unusual situation. Americans are frustrated that we have all this military capability and all this power but we don't get our way. "There is not an equal translation of military power to political influence on the world. That is probably because we live in a world where the military can't solve all of the problems of ethnic conflict in different parts of the world. Often the solution to these situations is domestic solutions, not something from an outside power like the United States." Justin Boggs is a writer for the E.W. Scripps National Desk. Follow him on Twitter @jjboggs or on Facebook .

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How Chicago Could Win Amazon's HQ2 (Updated!) Posted by Terri McAuley on Monday, April 16th, 2018 at 3:23pm Editor's Note: This post was originally published in October 2017 and has been revamped to include the latest information on Chicago's HQ2 bid. What happens when one of the largest companies in the world announces that it's looking for a city in North America in which to build a massive expansion? In early September, Amazon did just that. The company announced that it plans to spend $5 billion on a second headquarters - dubbed "HQ2" - somewhere outside of its current home in Seattle, Washington. This additional headquarters, which the company claims is "not a satellite office," is expected to employ 50,000 people beyond 2027. Naturally, cities from coast to coast have formed bid committees to attract this titan of online retail, and Chicago is no exception. In January of 2018, Amazon announced 20 finalists for HQ2, including Chicago and a long list of rivals like Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Columbus, Dallas,Los Angeles, New York City, Pittsburg, Toronto, and D.C.. Co-led by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Governor Bruce Rauner, Chicago's "all-hands-on-deck" committee is made up of more than 600 members, including a number of business and civic leaders as well as representatives from Chicago real estate developers like Related Midwest, Sterling Bay, and Magellan Development. According to the mayor, Chicago sees itself as - and is recognized as - a definite frontrunner in the competition thanks to its business-friendly incentives, youthful workforce, and a robust commercial real estate market. The deadline for proposals is October 19, and the committee had been accepting nominations for possible sites until September 27. While Chicago's chances may be good, other cities across the nation are offering some stiff competition. Atlanta's position within two-hours of 80% of the U.S. population, for instance, makes it ideal for a business that values having easy access to several American cities. And Washington DC, with its strong pool of tech talent and connection to the federal government, is also a strong possibility. Still, Mayor Emanuel and the committee are very confident that Chicago's bid will rival any other put forth. The competition is ours to lose. Amazon's Wishlist Why is Chicago a possible favorite? When it comes to Amazon's Request for Proposal ("RFP"), Chicago is one of the few cities in the country that can check off all the right boxes. Amazon has indicated a preference for a location that has: A metropolitan area of more than 1,000,000 people A stable local economy friendly to business development An urban or suburban location that attracts technical talent A location within 45 minutes of an international airport A location with 1-2 miles of major highways Mass transit accessible at the site Possible Locations A lot of the speculation about possible locations for this massive headquarters has centered on the troubled redevelopment of the Old Main Post Office in West Loop. In the past, new construction at the Old Main Post Office was slated to include a series of residential and commercial buildings, including construction of twin mixed-use towers that would have been the tallest in North America. However, after financing fell through, the project languished until preface by New York-based 601W. Mayor Emanuel has pushed to get development started again, and a bid from Amazon might be all the fuel he needs. According to Curbed, other potential sites under consideration are likely Related Midwest's sprawling 62-acre South Loop - expected to be the largest development project in the city's history - and Sterling Bay's similarly ambitious series of redevelopment on both sides of the North Branch. The inclusion of these developers on the committee lends credence to speculation that, at the very least, these sites are being considered for HQ2. No matter what site the committee chooses for its proposal, Amazon requires that it must have at least 500,000 square feet with the possibility of expanding up to 8 million square feet in the next decade. This doesn't necessarily entail new developments, though. Amazon will accept proposals for existing buildings, 100-acres of shovel-ready land, creative infill, or a combination of these. What HQ2 Could Mean For Chicago Real Estate Though the logistical challenges are many, there will be plenty of rewards for Chicagoans and the Chicago real estate market if Amazon decides to locate HQ2 here. The $5 billion investment in the local economy would certainly be a boon, for instance, and Amazon's presence in Chicago would likely bring many other tech companies and retailers to the city as well, likely setting off a boom in the commercial real estate market. Given how many new, high-paying jobs this would create, the residential market will also be affected. According to the Tribune, HQ2 is also expected to offer the average worker compensation of more than $100,000, more than double the current median household income. This will lead to greater demand for luxury real estate and luxury condos and probably accelerate future development. Properties near the site would likely see their values skyrocket, so we're excited to see what site the committee puts forward. However, since Amazon is likely to attract a young workforce eager to start families, HQ2 may also lead to the desire to build single-family housing as close as possible to the headquarters. For this reason, many of Chicago's suburbs and nearby communities could also benefit from an influx of upper-middle-class families looking to plant roots near the company. Updated: Amazon's Chicago Visit In March of 2018, representatives from Amazon visited Chicago, where they inspected half of the sites that make up Chicago's 10 location bid. Though this visit was cloaked in secrecy, we know that the trip included a visit to the 37-acre River West District development as well as Lincoln Yards, The 78 on Chicago's Near South Side, and Fulton Market. These mega-investments in Chicago's residential and commercial real estate were likely to have impressed Amazon, though we'll have to wait and see if they've been convinced. Have questions about the future of the Chicago real estate market? 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A Board Gamer's Guide to Marketing Strategy By Joe Judd on February 14, 2017 In my free time, I like to play board games. I enjoy the various themes that come with each - saving the world from an outbreak, building rail lines across the U.S. in the early 1900s, capturing treasure from a hidden island before it sinks into the sea and is lost forever, outbuilding your opponents in the middle ages, and working together as superheroes to defeat a villain, to name a few. There are board games that appeal to virtually anyone - even those who are interested in quilting and sewing. But I especially love learning about the different strategies and tactics involved with each game, then putting them into practice. Sure, it doesn't result in a victory every time, but my gameplay definitely improves as I put these tried-and-true methods to work. And I can't help but see the parallels between various board game strategies and my job as a marketing and advertising strategist, like the many twists and turns that one must navigate to reach an objective. Here are six marketing strategy tips you can learn from board games (or maybe it's the other way around): 1. Understand the basics. Before getting started with any board game, it's important to have a thorough understanding of the rules, objectives, and gameplay. Sometimes the rules are simple, but other times they're complicated, 16-page novels where the rules change as the game progresses (yeah, I'm talking about you, Power Grid). As much as possible, it's also good to get a handle on your opponents. Are they board game veterans who purchase the VIP ticket package to Gen Con each year? Or are they casual weekend players? Understanding the basic landscape is critical if you want to compete. The same applies to marketing. Before diving head first into producing web videos, promoting posts on social media, creating brochures and other marketing collateral, or placing print ads in the IBJ, take a step back and understand the basics. What are your business objectives? What are your marketing goals? Who is your audience? What does the competitive landscape look like? What are your competitors doing? Where are your biggest opportunities? Answering these questions and others will lay the foundation as you begin developing your marketing plan and strategy. 2. Focus your efforts. Dominion is a deck-building game where players try to build up their hands by adding more money and actions, with the ultimate goal of purchasing victory points. One particular card - Chapel - allows a player to trash up to four cards from his or her hand. I was so confused when I first saw this card, thinking, "Why would I ever want to permanently get rid of cards from my deck?" Well, the answer is quite simple. The idea is to continually "trim the fat" from your deck in order to make your powerful cards appear more frequently, giving you a lean deck and an effective hand virtually every turn of the game. Donald X. Vaccarino, creator of Dominion, goes so far as to say that "Chapel is the most powerful Dominion card relative to its cost." How does this apply to marketing? Too often, we see small organizations with small marketing budgets trying to accomplish too much and not getting anywhere as a result. They're spreading their resources too thin. With this in mind, it's important to take a hard look at your marketing goals and objectives, your marketing budget, and the tactics you're employing to see how everything stacks up. Every tactic should be directly related to an organizational goal. And if your tactics are all connected in some way, all the better. More on that soon. 3. Plan ahead. In most games, you have to think multiple turns in advance, and that planning should ideally start before the game does. In Catan, players begin the game by strategically placing settlements and roads on intersections that touch various resources (brick, wood, wool, wheat, and ore). In short, these early placements will affect your entire game and will either help you turn your settlements into sprawling cities or deserted villages. Beyond these initial placements, it's important to think about how you're going to grow your empire, what resources you'll need as the game progresses, and what threats there are from your opponents. Similarly, in marketing, it's good to think through your strategies thoroughly, to have a really good grasp of how they will play out in the world, and to have contingency plans in place should things not go according to the original plan. Most marketing success doesn't happen overnight. It takes careful planning and thoughtful execution over a period of time to gain traction. Which leads me to my next point. 4. Pick a strategy and stick with it. The winners rarely change strategies mid-game, and the losers usually go into a game not knowing what their strategy is. But a winning strategy takes time to develop and perfect. You've probably heard this before, but I'll say it again: There's no silver bullet in marketing. Marketing takes time to pick up steam. You won't jump to the top of a Google search overnight, nor will you triple your leads in a week's time. But stick with it, and with a sound strategy and the creative to support it you're bound to see success. As a rule of thumb, we suggest monitoring marketing performance and making small tweaks on a monthly basis, with larger adjustments on a quarterly basis. 5. Remain flexible. While it's not wise to change your strategy mid-game, it is important to remain flexible. After all, there are tons of things you won't be able to control: the moves your opponents will make, the cards that will be drawn, the number rolled on the dice, or turning up an "epidemic" card. You need to have the ability to remain calm and to adapt as these external threats come into play. Just as it's important to keep an eye on how these threats shape a board game, it remains equally important in marketing. Ever hear of Murphy's Law? Well, Mr. Murphy tends to hang around the marketing and advertising industry. Things will go wrong: There's a new marketing goal that wasn't a goal just two days prior, board members aren't buying into a particular strategy, or a competitor is rolling out a campaign that's eerily similar to what you've been working on for months. As a marketing professional, it's your job to remain calm, adjust (not change) your strategy, and put a plan in place to overcome these hurdles. 6. Multiply your efforts. In Dominion, it's possible to build your deck in such a way that the action cards you play allow you to draw and play more cards. If you have the right combination of action cards - usually consisting of Libraries, Markets, and Villages - you can go on playing and drawing cards until you've added a lot of money to your hand. This is called a non-terminal engine strategy. In today's immersive media environment, it's important to have strategies and tactics that go deep. A 15-second pre-roll spot may get a good laugh, but not be likely to trigger an action on its own. If it's good, consumers will inevitably want to see more, and you need to have the content strategy to support that. Ticket To Ride is a game set at the turn of the 20th century where you're competing to claim railway routes connecting cities throughout North America. The longer the routes, the more points you earn. Once you've fulfilled two or three large routes, say one going East-West and another couple North-South, it becomes much easier to fulfill additional routes later in the game by adding small tracks to the larger, already established routes - giving you a lot more victory points in the end. The bottom line: once you have the foundation in place, consider adding to it. The last thing you want to do is cut corners with a marketing strategy or advertising campaign. Make sure you support your content with more content. If it's any good, your customers will only want more. Need help with your marketing? Give us a shout. Posted in: Advertising & Branding Tagged: board gamescatandominionticket to ride Fit to Print Is Your Agency Full Service or Full of Services?

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Police and Crime Commissioner thanks Julian Knight MP for funding boost Julian Knight MP has been publicly thanked for his role in delivering millions of pounds of new funding to crime-fighting in the West Midlands. David Jamieson, Labour's Police and Crime Commissioner for the area, wrote to Julian after the Home Office allocated £3.37 million to set up the region's first-ever Violence Reduction Unit (VRU). The VRU will focus on reducing crime by preventing children and young people from getting involved in criminality. Julian has been a long-standing champion of policing in the West Midlands, and only recently spoke in the House of Commons during the debate on the Government's new Serious Violence Strategy. Commenting on the news, Julian Knight said: "I'm delighted that the Government have chosen to commit millions of pounds to combating violent crime in Solihull and the West Midlands - the latest in a strong track record of central government support for local policing in our region. "There is always more to do, and I will continue to fight to ensure that our police have the resources they need. That includes a proper base in our community, and I hope David Jamieson will carry on this spirit of cross-party cooperation and work with me to save Solihull Police Station." In his letter, David Jamieson wrote: "May I thank you once again for your support in helping to secure this funding which will make a big difference to the work we can do to tackle serious violence in our region. The VRU will succeed with all partners engaged and involved. It will work closely with the NHS, local authorities, education, Community Safety Partnerships, and other key stakeholders who all have a part to play to tackle serious violence on our streets." Sutton Coldfield Royal Town youth challenged to tug of war with royal town politicians The Sutton Coldfield Community Games take place this weekend and are to be opened at one o'clock on Saturday by the Royal Town's MP Andrew Mitchell and the Mayor of Royal Sutton Coldfield, David Allan.

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France thwarts possible attack, warns of threats Jacques Brinon PARIS (AP) - French police have arrested a 15-year-old boy at his Paris home to thwart what they feared was a planned weekend attack, as the prime minister warned on Sunday some 15,000 people in the country could be in the process of being radicalized. The arrest of the teenager on Saturday came two days after police moved in on what the Paris prosecutor says was a group of female "commandos" arrested after an aborted attack at Notre Dame Cathedral and another possible attack. Those arrested included a 15-year-old girl, the daughter of one of three women arrested south of Paris. A security official said Sunday that France's intelligence services "detected a threat" and a judicial official said police moved into action Saturday fearing a planned attack this weekend. The officials weren't authorized to speak publicly about the arrest and asked not to be named. Both said the boy's arrest was not linked to the arrests last week of four women, the 15-year-old daughter of one of the women and a man. So far, one woman has been charged. Intelligence agents suspected the boy planned to carry out a knife attack in a public place this weekend, the judicial official said, refusing to name a spot where it was thought the attack might occur. The official said the teenager, born in December 2000, is 15 - not 16 as officials previously said. France is in a state of emergency after three attacks this year, including the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice that killed 86 people. That followed two waves of attacks last year, notably the Nov. 13 attacks on restaurants, bars, a concert hall and stadium that left 130 people dead. News of the arrest came shortly after Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday that "every day attacks are foiled ... (including) as we speak." Valls said nearly 15,000 people in France are being tracked because they are suspected of being in the process of radicalization, while 1,350 are under investigation - 293 of them for alleged links with a terrorism network. "Today the threat is at a maximum, and we are a target," Valls said on Europe 1 radio. "Every day intelligence services, police foil attacks, dismantle networks, track terrorists." Despite the tracking, with plots uncovered, "There will be new attacks. There will be innocent victims," the prime minister said. The teenage boy had been placed under house arrest this summer due to France's state of emergency, after a search of his home, the judicial official said. It wasn't known what was found in the search.

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Russia to renew kangaroo meat imports after three year ban 12 DEC 2012: After a complete three year ban on the import of kangaroo meat due to serious health breaches, Russia has reportedly reached an agreement with Australia's largest kangaroo meat processor, Macro Meats, to renew imports. However, leaked documents between Macro Meats and its kangaroo shooters have revealed that shooters have been ordered to spray all kangaroo carcasses with acid in an attempt to combat controversial contamination issues. The Russian government announced a total ban on importing kangaroo meat in 2009 after systematic food safety and hygiene violations were found within the industry. Russia had previously accounted for about 76% of Australia's kangaroo meat exports. Russian delegates examined kangaroo meat processing recently in a three week visit to Australia. Wildlife Protection Association of Australia has now revealed that in the months leading up to the visit, Macro Meats ordered its shooters to spray the carcasses with acetic acid, despite stating on its website that its "kangaroo meat is completely free from antibiotics, chemicals, growth hormones or any artificial intervention". Spokesperson Mark Pearson stated that Russian delegation left Australia with the "last minute revelation that they had been deceived by industry with misleading reports about hygiene and contamination control." Acetic acid is used in the preparation of numerous topical medications including wart removal, in ear drops, as an expectorant, liniment and astringent. The Australian Government Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities states that acetic acid is also used in the manufacturing of a number of chemical compounds, plastics, pharmaceuticals, dyes, insecticides, photographic chemicals, vitamins, antibiotics, cosmetics and hormones among other uses. The Government warns that when acetic acid is ingested it "may cause severe corrosion of the mouth and gastrointestinal tract, leading to vomiting, diarrhoea, circulatory collapse, kidney failure and death." This happens also in spite of the expose shown on Lateline this year of the high levels of contamination and E. Coli being present in supermarket samples of kangaroo meat purchased by Animal Liberation activists. See here. WLPA and other animal welfare groups are stunned by this turn of events and remain deeply concerned over how far an industry will go to deceive consumers in an attempt to revive a cruel and out dated practice.

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Trump expected to pick State spokeswoman for UN ambassador FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2017, file photo, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington. President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Nauert to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Two administration officials confirmed Trump's plans. A Republican congressional aide said the president was expected to announce his decision by tweet on Friday morning, Dec. 7, 2018. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) (Source: Alex Brandon) By CATHERINE LUCEY, MATTHEW LEE, and ZEKE MILLER | December 7, 2018 at 1:38 AM CST - Updated December 7 at 1:38 AM WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is expected to announce he will nominate State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, officials familiar with the plans said Thursday. Two administration officials confirmed Trump's plans. A Republican congressional aide said the president was expected to announce his decision by tweet on Friday morning. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly before Trump's announcement. Trump has previously said Nauert was under serious consideration to replace Nikki Haley, who announced in October that she would step down at the end of this year. If Nauert is confirmed by the Senate, she would be a leading administration voice on Trump's foreign policy. Trump told reporters last month that Nauert was "excellent," adding, "She's been a supporter for a long time." Still, with Trump, no staffing decision is final until he makes the formal announcement, since he has been known to change course in the past. Nauert did not respond to requests for comment. She was a reporter for Fox News Channel before she became State Department spokeswoman under former secretary Rex Tillerson. Plucked from Fox by the White House to serve as State Department spokeswoman, Nauert catapulted into the upper echelons of the agency's hierarchy when Tillerson was fired in March and replaced with Mike Pompeo. Nauert was then appointed acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs and was for a time the highest-ranking woman and fourth highest-ranking official in the building. Nauert, who did not have a good relationship with Tillerson and had considered leaving the department, told associates at the time she was taken aback by the promotion offer and recommended a colleague for the job. But when White House officials told her they wanted her, she accepted. That role gave her responsibilities far beyond the news conferences she held in the State Department briefing room. She oversaw public diplomacy in Washington and all of the roughly 275 overseas U.S. embassies, consulates and other posts. She was in charge of the Global Engagement Center that fights extremist messaging from the Islamic State group and others, and she has a seat on the U.S. Agency for Global Media that oversees government broadcast networks such as Voice of America. Just 18 months ago, she wasn't even in government. Nauert was a breaking news anchor on Trump's favorite television show, "Fox & Friends," when she was tapped to be the face and voice of the administration's foreign policy. With a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she had come to Fox from ABC News, where she was a general assignment reporter. She hadn't specialized in foreign policy or international relations. Shut out from the top by Tillerson and his inner circle, Nauert developed relationships with career diplomats. Barred from traveling with Tillerson, she embarked on her own overseas trips, visiting Bangladesh and Myanmar last year to see the plight of Rohingya Muslims, and then Israel after a planned stop in Syria was scrapped. All the while, she stayed in the good graces of the White House, even as Tillerson was increasingly on the outs. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders described Nauert in March as "a team player" and "a strong asset for the administration." According to a new rule published in the Federal Register, asylum seekers who pass through another country first will be ineligible for asylum at the U.S. southern border. The rule, expected to go into effect on Tuesday, also applies to children who have crossed the border alone. JONATHAN LEMIRE and CALVIN WOODWARD Published July 14, 2019 at 11:30 AM ICE immigration raids, arrests to start Sunday Around 2,200 federal inmates to be released under reform law

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Kiev: A Portrait, 1800-1917 Author: Michael F. Hamm Size: 107.25МБ In an "urban biography," Michael Hamm tells the story of one of Europe's most diverse cities and its distinctive mix of Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Jewish inhabitants. A splendid urban center in medieval times, Kiev became a major metropolis in late Imperial Russia, and is now the capital of independent Ukraine. After a concise account of Kiev's early history, Hamm focuses on the city's dramatic growth in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first historian to analyze how each of Kiev's ethnic groups contributed to the vitality of the city's culture, he also examines the violent conflicts that developed among them. He shows why Kiev came to be known for its "abundance of revolutionaries" and its anti-Semitic violence. This carefully detailed account reveals another side of the city's history. It helps to put present events in context, showing that at least one of the 'new' nationalisms in the former Soviet Union has old and very deep roots. WorldHistory -> Literature. Modern history

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Novell Expects 75% Jump In E-Mail Software Sales a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter Updated Sept. 6, 1996 12:01 am ET SAN FRANCISCO -- Novell Inc. expects a 75% jump in unit sales of its GroupWise electronic-mail software in the next 12 months, said vice president Stewart Nelson. Mr. Nelson said the sales growth will be driven by GroupWise 5, a new version of the product that will be unveiled in New York on Sept. 12. It is expected to begin shipping in volume within days of the announcement. "We...

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The W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness " Deming Cup " Deming Cup 2010 The inaugural Deming Cup Award Dinner took place on October 18, 2010 at Columbia University's Low Rotunda from 6 to 9 pm. We honor Samuel Palmisano, Chairman, President and CEO of IBM, for his outstanding contributions in the area of operations. We truly believe his accomplishments are a model to foster operational excellence practices. Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of IBM. Mr. Palmisano was appointed to Chief Executive Officer in March 2002 and Chairman in January 2003. Previously, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer. He began his career in 1973 in Baltimore, Maryland. Since then, Mr. Palmisano has held a series of leadership positions during his IBM career, including senior vice president for the Enterprise Systems and Personal Systems groups. Mr. Palmisano also played a key role in creating and leading IBM's Global Services, rising to senior vice president, and building the largest and most diversified IT services organization in the industry. He also served as senior managing director of operations for IBM Japan. Mr. Palmisano is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University. In recognition of his leadership role as co-chair of the Council of Competitiveness' National Innovation Initiative, as well as his many business accomplishments, Mr. Palmisano was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in September 2005. In July 2006, he was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the London Business School. Download the Deming Cup Award Ceremony Highlights 2010 (.pdf) Samuel Palmisano, Chairman, President and CEO - IBM Read his speech(PDF) | Read his bio In this picture Paul O'Neill, 72nd Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, and co-chair of the Deming Cup, congratulates the inaugural recipient, Sam Palmisano, Chairman, IBM.

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Third Rock's Bet on Lotus Tissue Repair Generates Big Return Luke Timmerman conservative in hopes of eking out some short-term returns, Third Rock has bet on long-term fields of science, like tumor metabolism, gene therapy, and epigenetics. Sometimes, like in the case of Lotus, it decided to take the risky route of being the sole investor, rather than build a broader syndicate of venture investors that could help mitigate the downside. Although some of these early portfolio companies have shown signs of promise, like Agios Pharmaceuticals, Foundation Medicine, and Constellation Pharmaceuticals, many of Third Rock's investments, by their nature, will take years to achieve the scientific validation they need to generate liquid returns. Only one member of Third Rock's original portfolio of more than 30 companies had delivered a liquid return before Lotus. That was Cambridge, MA-based Alnara Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired by Eli Lilly for $180 million up front in July 2010. That return, however, wasn't as meaningful to Third Rock, because it was one of five venture firms in the deal, and it didn't start the company. Lotus, which we profiled at its start back in June 2011, was founded by Third Rock to treat a rare genetic disease called dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB). Only about 300 people in the U.S. are thought to have this condition, which causes painful skin blisters that can result in fingers and toes getting fused together. Sometimes the blisters migrate internally, to the esophagus, the mouth, the gastrointestinal tract and the upper airways, causing all kinds of pain and suffering. Victims are also at high risk of developing squamous cell carcinoma, a deadly skin cancer. There is currently no FDA-approved treatment for the disease. The technology for the startup came from Mei Chen and David Woodley, a pair of dermatology professors at the University of Southern California. They performed animal studies with a protein replacement treatment that is supposed to migrate to the wounded skin, and heal it. Mark de Souza, formerly of Dyax, was the founding CEO, and served as a co-founder with Philip Reilly, a venture partner at Third Rock. Third Rock Gets $616M to Grow New Crop of Biotech Startups

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Improving quality, increasing impact: The Youth Programme Quality Intervention UK-Wide Pilot The Centre for Youth Impact has received over £607,000 of National Lottery funding through the Big Lottery Fund to lead a three and a half year (Apr 2018- Sep 2021) test and learn project for a ground-breaking quality improvement initiative. The Youth Programme Quality Intervention (YPQI) was developed in the US, and has never before been piloted in the UK. Through extensive research, the YPQI has been shown to improve outcomes for young people, to create a sustainable and supportive culture of organisational reflection and improvement, and to refocus evaluation on the quality of relationships and setting. This pilot project will test the YPQI in all four nations of the UK, to learn from its impact on culture and practice, and assess its applicability to different policy and practice contexts. It will build the foundations for wider roll-out, through establishing a community of practice and cohort of trained coaches. It will translate the YPQI for the UK context. It is an exciting and potentially transformative opportunity for the UK youth sector. Quality improvement and impact measurement in the youth sector The drive to measure, demonstrate and prove impact is strong within the UK youth sector, though it has evolved at different 'speeds' across the four nations. Regardless, a uniting feature is a policy narrative that connects sustainability and funding to evidence of impact, which has led to an over-focus on the measurement of outcomes in isolation in an effort to prove impact at the expense of improving services. Refocusing on the quality of practice would create the opportunity for two profound shifts: firstly, it would direct energies to the improvement and observation of quality alongside the monitoring of outcomes, and secondly, as a consequence, it would create the potential for the observation of quality to become predictive of outcomes for young people. At the same time, there has been a concerted development of quality standards across the UK youth sector, which although welcome, have a different focus to the YPQI. Indeed, the systematic and embedded reflection on continuous improvement that is at the centre of the YPQI approach is both different and complementary to formal quality assurance processes. The Youth Programme Quality Intervention (YPQI) The YPQI is a systematic approach to quality improvement, developed in the States during the 1990s. It is based around an observational assessment tool, the Program Quality Assessment, and training in Youth Work Methods from qualified coaches. It follows an assess-plan-improve sequence to help youth organisations focus on and improve the quality of their provision. The YPQI looks at quality in four domains of practice: safety, support, interaction and engagement, which together create a set of key developmental experiences for young people. The assessment of quality is based on observation, by peers and youth work managers. The YPQI creates a context where quality improvement is prioritised, provides technical support for providers to improve, and builds capacity within providers to put continuous quality improvement into practice. It has been subjected to an experimental trial, which highlighted its positive impact on the quality of provision, and thus outcomes for young people[1]. [1] See Smith, C et al (2009) Managing for Positive Youth Development: Linking Management Practices to Instructional Performances in Out-of-school Time Organizations.; and Smith, C. et al (2012) Continuous quality improvement in afterschool settings: Impact findings from the Youth Program Quality Intervention study; both Washington, DC: The Forum for Youth Investment. The UK pilot plan The UK pilot is being led by the Centre for Youth Impact in partnership with the David P Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality. The pilot will work with its first wave of organisations in England (starting Autumn 2018), followed by Scotland and Wales (starting Spring 2019) and finally in Northern Ireland (starting Autumn 2019). We will be working with partners in each country to help support and guide the pilot. Alongside the piloting of the YPQI itself there will be substantial research and evaluation that aims to understand both the experience and success of the approach in different contexts and assess the link between the quality framework and positive outcomes for young people. The Centre for Youth Impact will work with partner organisations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to recruit and support pilot organisations and build the infrastructure for further roll-out beyond this project. Specifically, the goals of the pilot are to: Explore the applicability of the model to informal and non-formal youth provision in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland; Test the potential of the model to make a measurable improvement to the quality of informal and non-formal youth provision; Assist participating organisations in developing a culture of continuous quality improvement; Learn about the support delivery organisations need - and how best to provide this support - to improve the quality of their provision; and Demonstrate that the YPQI can assist a diverse group of providers in improving the quality of their provision. The ultimate goal of the pilot is to both increase the availability of high-quality provision for young people in the different countries of the UK, and to develop an in-depth understanding of the relationship between the quality of practice and outcomes for young people. For more information please contact Matthew Hill at . Our monthly newsletter collects news, events, research and blogs from the Centre, our networks and practitioners and organisations around the world. Sign-up, and read our previous newsletters, here. Centre Thoughts Listening Fund YIF YPQI

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Request Product Review Z6 Mag The Rise Of VoIP Scammers: How To Protect Yourself From Getting Scammed Reysel Montero The advent of sophisticated digital technologies has produced more accessible and convenient ways for people to interact and do business transactions. But, along with the digital revolution and the spawn of technologies, comes a considerable uncertainty in terms of security of valuable information. Nowadays, scammers and illegal transactions are taking full advantage of the internet, as well as, technology solutions. Most frauds are usually done in cloud communications and in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), to access crucial data for financial purposes. VoIP makes businesses communication inexpensive and straightforward, that is why intelligent scammers have found a way to use it as a means to carry out "vishing scams;"a type of phishing where frauds make phone calls to trick somebody. Usually, scammers pose as a businessman or a financial partner who request private details from their victims. The reason why I am writing this article is mainly, not to give you tips on how to detect scams online, because that alone is a job of a fraud investigator. What I am trying to do here is to make you understand these scams well, so you know how to beat the fraudsters personally. With VoIP, people can create fake numbers easily. Using a phony number, scammers can make calls and pretend to be a bank or a business representative, who may ask for critical information such as employee data, bank details, or even about company's properties; and they can get away with it effortlessly. This is because attackers can easily hide their tracks with minimal risk of detection, and nowadays, VoIP hardware has become more accessible and less expensive. If you think that cybercriminals have to be geniuses to make fraud calls or illegal transactions, the answer is NO. VoIP is easy to set up but difficult to track, meaning to say, cybercriminals can conveniently connect this equipment to their computers and smartphones to steal vital information. They only need to know the basics of a VoIP set up. Also, fake numbers are difficult to track because they can be destroyed instantly. And with the feature of advanced voice-changing software, has been made available to the public nowadays, a vishing scam is much easier to pull off. In some cases, attackers don't have to destroy a number to cover their tracks. Instead what they usually do is tampering with the caller ID. With this vicious scheme, they can trick users into thinking that they are having a conversation with some of the most legitimate business representative in the country, a Microsoft technical support staff, or even a fraud investigator. Traditional phone lines are said to be very expensive, that is why scammers choose VoIP services to target victims all over the globe at a fraction of the cost. Other than traditional phones and email phishing scams, cybercriminals are resorting to VoIP due to its cost-efficiency. These people are very resourceful, and they will use all means to attack you and your family for profit. These scenarios may happen to you and your loved ones since cybercriminals are very rampant today, especially with the advent of digital technologies. VoIP is very useful and offers a lot of advantages; it all depends on the people and how they intended to use it. There are no effective ways on how to spot scammers, but the best thing you can do is to protect yourself. The first step is to set stringent policies on information-sharing and impose stricter security processes for all your business communications and other personal transactions. Or, if you detect one, you may get in touch with scam experts. Businesses Agreed With The Conversion Of Plain Old Telephone Service Into VoIP VoIP Phone System Are Now Creating Wonders Into The Medical World I've been contributing news since 2010, both online and print. Aside from Z6Mag, I manage independent news blogs that provide awareness on a diverse list of topics to every reader. AMCA Breach: 20 Million Victims, 19 Class Actions [bctt tweet="AMCA previously reported that there were only 200,000 victims in the recent breach, but their partner labs said there were more than 20 million." username="Z6Mag"] Al Restar AMCA previously reported that there were only 200,000 victims in the recent breach but the company, but their partner labs said there were more than 20 million. Photo: cbgrfx123 | Flickr | CC BY-SA 2.0 More than 20 million and not 200,000 have fallen victim to a massive data breach that has seen medical clients using the services of healthcare billing company, American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), to pay for their laboratory tests in different blood testing labs across the U.S. were confirmed by the SEC filings of affected medical institutions amidst the earlier claims of AMCA that there were fewer victims. The data breach was a result of a cyber attack that aims to phish for financial information from the website of the AMCA. The exposed data belongs to Americans who paid laboratory services at several clinical and blood testing labs and institutions and used the AMCA billing portal. What happened in the AMCA breach? Data that were stolen from the victims include their names, phone numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, social security numbers, credit card numbers, and other bank details. The said information was auctioned off by the hacker in several financial hacking forums. According to DataBreaches.net, the organization who first reported about the incident, AMCA officials, following the notification of the breach confirmed that their system has been compromised and has remained undetected for more than eight months. AMCA corroborated that the breach took place between August 1, 2018, and March 30, 2019. Notifications have been sent by several of AMCA's corporate partners and clients to their customers following the disclosure of the security breach that has seen information from millions of Americans compromised. Related: Hospitals Only Spend 5% Of Its Budget For Cybersecurity Amidst 82% Of Them Reporting To Have Been Attacked The list of impacted testing laboratories includes Quest Diagnostics (11.9 million patients), LabCorp (7.7 million patients), BioReference Laboratories (Opko Health subsidiary, 422,600 patients), Carecentrix (500,000 patients), and Sunrise Laboratories (undisclosed number of patients). However, neither the AMCA nor its five clients have yet to notify ALL impacted citizens by the breach making them vulnerable to a lot of cyber crimes and their financial data could be used by anyone who gets hold of the information against the persons of those who still don't know that their financial information is floating around the internet. The companies involved in the breach are facing several lawsuits Appropriately, the lawsuit came into the direction of AMCA, Quest, and LabCorp regarding the incident. More than 11 class-suite actions have been filed against the three companies for their inability to protect consumer data. The 11 lawsuits were recorded at The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) on June 3. Since then, eight more lawsuits were filed against the companies in federal courts from New Jersey, New York, and California. According to litigation experts, "If many cases are filed in federal court, any of the lawyers on any of those cases can file a motion with the JPML [..] to centralize the various federal cases that have been filed by sending all of them to a single judge for coordinated pre-trial proceedings." "Healthcare companies are especially susceptible to data breaches not only because they aggregate a tremendous amount of important and sensitive data, but also because they tend to be less focused on cybersecurity protection than other industries," said John Yanchunis of Morgan and Morgan, one of the firms who filed lawsuits against Quest Diagnostics. "These companies, like Quest Diagnostics, know they are at an increased risk and yet have not taken the proper steps to protect their patients' data. We will fight for justice on behalf of those impacted by this breach," added Yanchunis. Lawmakers are demanding an explanation The U.S. government, led by attorneys general from Connecticut and Illinois has also opened an investigation on the matter. Furthermore, lawmakers and other politicians have sent letters to the responding companies to ask for an explanation of why an eight-month data breach remained undetected and to demand accountability from them. In Washington, US Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) also sent a letter to Quest Laboratories demanding the company explain its vetting process for selecting AMCA as a billing vendor, and what requirements a third-party vendor has to pass. Democratic New Jersey Sens. Cory Booker and Bob Menendez also sent letters to AMCA, Quest, and LabCorp, seeking official answers on how a breach of this severity went undetected for eight months. "The months-long leak leaves sensitive personal and financial information vulnerable in the hands of criminal enterprises. Moreover, such breaches force victims to contend with identity theft that may lead to irreparable harm to their credit reports and financial future," said the letter sent by the NJ senators. 'The Hunger Games' Is Launching A Prequel And A Possible Movie [bctt tweet="Suzanne Collins is releasing a prequel to The Hunger Games storyline and Lionsgate is already looking forward in turning it into a blockbuster movie" username="Z6Mag"] Sean Louis Salazar Source: Scholastic Almost fours years after the last The Hunger Games movie (The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part II) and almost nine years after the first book from the trilogy was released, Suzanne Collins is returning with the famed trilogy - but this time in a form of a prequel. Scholastic, the publishing company that distributed Collins' The Hunger Games trilogy, announced today that it is publishing a prequel novel to the series, currently untitled, which will hit shelves on May 19, 2020. "Suzanne Collins is a master at combining brilliant storytelling, superb world-building, breathtaking suspense, and social commentary," Scholastic Trade Publishing President Ellie Berger said in a statement. "We are absolutely thrilled - as both readers and publishers - to introduce the devoted fans of the series and a new audience to an entirely new perspective on this modern classic." Collins' original Hunger Games trilogy - The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and Mockingjay - altogether, sold more than 100 million copies and has been translated into more than 50 languages. Moreover, The Hunger Games books appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 260 consecutive weeks (more than five straight years). After writing the last installment in 2010, Collins teased in 2013 that she was working on a new series, but did not say whether it was related to The Hunger Games. This time, the novel will be set in the world of Panem, 64 years before the events of the original Hunger Games trilogy - the morning where Katniss Everdeen volunteered as a tribute on the 74th Hunger Games. Presumably, Katniss Everdeen played by Jeniffer Lawrence will not be involved in the upcoming novel. Based on the previous novels in the series, 74 years before the main novels, the 13 Districts of Panem already tried to initiate a rebellion against the Capital. In the aftermath of the failed attempt, 12 Districts remained to leave District 13 to rubbles. The Hunger Games was a result and served as a reminder that all the other Districts should obediently comply with the Capital's rule. The novel will take place 10 years after the first rebellion and will tell the story of Panem during the "Dark Days following a failed rebellion in Panem "With this book, I wanted to explore the state of nature, who we are, and what we perceive is required for our survival," Collins told the Associated Press in the announcement. "The reconstruction period 10 years after the war, commonly referred to as the Dark Days - as the country of Panem struggles back to its feet - provides fertile ground for characters to grapple with these questions and thereby define their views of humanity." On other news, the Lionsgate film studio, who adapted The Hunger Games trilogy into movies, is already looking forward to the next addition to Collins' franchise given that it received praise and public attention for producing them. "As the proud home of the Hunger Games movies, we can hardly wait for Suzanne's next book to be published," said Joe Drake, chairman of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, in a recent statement to the Associated Press. "We've been communicating with her during the writing process and we look forward to continuing to work closely with her on the movie."S Lionsgate turned Collins' Hunger Games novels into a series of four films, dividing the last novel, Hunger Games: Mockingjay, into a two-part finale. Over the course of the four movies, it earned almost $3 billion dollars an the worldwide box office with the last movie earning $653.4 million. Collins helped with the movies as an executive producer and a co-screenwriter on the first 2012 movie but distanced herself after she finalized Mockingjay in 2010. Lionsgate is also known to have produced Twilight, which is one of their platinum franchises along with Collins' trilogy. The studio earlier licensed The Hunger Games to theme parks and live concert tours being built around the movie franchise. Additionally, it starred Jenniffer Lawrence who played the main character as Katniss Everdeen in all of the four movies, which helped catapult her acting career in 2012. Scholastic acquired world English rights to the prequel novel and it will publish in print, digital and audio formats in the US, Canada, the UK and Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand next year. The deal was negotiated by Rosemary Stimola of the Stimola Literary Studio for Suzanne Collins and David Levithan, VP, Publisher, and Editorial Director, for Scholastic. Global Ice Melting At Rates Faster Than Expected Photo by Sergey Kuznetsov on Unsplash The global ice, or the size and number of glaciers located across cold spots around the world, is a clear indicator of the effects of global warming. With human's excessive and consistent use of o-zone depleting resources such as fossil fuels - the rate of global ice is melting will only keep accelerating. The National Snow and Ice Data Center reported that based on data they have gathered since the1900s, glaciers around the globe are shrinking and melting at an alarming rate. Arctic sea ice has been in constant general low over the years following the increasing trend of greenhouse gas. Additionally, as the frozen ground across the Arctic melts, it releases a massive amount of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Scientists say that this effect could make global ice melt accelerate even faster. A separate study found that parts of the Canadian Arctic are experiencing a rate of permafrost thaw six times the long-term average. Meanwhile, melted ice is especially notable both in and around Greenland - home to the second largest ice sheet on the planet. "Communities in #Greenland rely on the sea ice for transport, hunting, and fishing. Extreme events, here flooding of the ice by abrupt onset of surface melt call for increased predictive capacity in the Arctic," Steffen Olsen, a climate researcher at the Danish Meteorological Institute said in a tweet. Olsen was referring to Greenland losing 2 billion metric tons of ice. "The high melt is unusual so early in the season but not unprecedented," Greenland Ice said in a tweet. Experts are calling the lost ice "not normal" considering that it equates to almost half of Greenland. Roughly 45 percent of the ice sheet surface has been melting. Usually, less than 10 percent of the ice sheet surface is melting at this time of year. According to data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Wednesday set a daily record for the widest melt area on that date, with 275,000 square miles. "I'm losing the ability to communicate the magnitude [of change]," Jeremy Mathis, a longtime Arctic researcher and a current board director at the National Academies of Sciences told Mashable. "I'm running out of adjectives to describe the scope of change we're seeing." On other parts of the globe, a city in western Alaska is experiencing drastic changes to its land formations as the state's ice and permafrost are starting to thaw away. "Springtime in Alaska isn't what it used to be. This is the 3rd time past 21 years we can say" warmest spring of record." 1998 was the warmest to date, exceeded in 2016 and now 2016 exceeded in 2019. Trend +4.0F (+2.2C) since the 1970s." Rick Thoman said in a tweet. The continued ice and permafrost melting in Iceland are causing significant damages in terms of requiring towns and villages like Newtok in western Alaska to relocate to avoid dangers. "It's a real challenge because in the US there isn't the precedence to deal with this and there isn't the political framework to deal with it either," said Susan Natali, a scientist and Arctic expert at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts. "The numbers needing relocation will grow, the costs are going up and people's lives and cultural practices will be impacted. "Every year there's a new temperature record, it's getting worse and worse and you feel like a broken record saying it. This should be the number one urgent conversation happening right now because it's not just going to be Alaska, it's going to be other communities all over the US," Natali added. The problem does not only persist in Greenland, the Arctic or Alaska. Global ice is melting all across the globe. "The famed snows of Kilimanjaro have melted more than 80 percent since 1912. Glaciers in the Garhwal Himalaya in India are retreating so fast that researchers believe that most central and eastern Himalayan glaciers could virtually disappear by 2035 [...] From the Arctic to Peru, from Switzerland to the equatorial glaciers of Man Jaya in Indonesia, massive ice fields, monstrous glaciers, and sea ice are disappearing, fast," the National Geographic reported. This week, the Pope has talked to oil executives in the Vatican to find solutions in the growing problem of global warming. He called for a "radical energy transition" from conventional fossil fuels and develop greener energy alternatives. 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" Hurricane Michael Could Be Strongest to Hit Panhandle | Main | Haley to Step Down as UN Ambassador " S.C. Waiver Eases Evacuation of Farm Animals from Storms Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at 6:30PM COLUMBIA - For the second time in less than a month, South Carolina officials have issued a temporary waiver of certain requirements for farm animals being evacuated due to a hurricane. The action was requested by agriculture officials in Florida, where Hurricane Michael is bearing down on the coast, said State Veterinarian Boyd Parr. "In order to accommodate evacuations in advance of the hurricane, we are temporarily suspending some of the requirements governing the importation of agricultural animals into South Carolina as we did during Hurricane Florence," Parr said. Parr directs Clemson University's Livestock-Poultry Health, a regulatory agency that oversees animal health issues. To prevent the spread of animal disease, both state and federal regulations include requirements for interstate movement and identification of animals, such as horses, cattle, swine and goats. These regulations frequently require certification by veterinarians as to the health status of the animals being transported. Parr's declaration waives many of those requirements. Specifically: Horses being evacuated to South Carolina that have a current Coggins test will be admitted to the state without a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI). A current Coggins test chart should accompany these horses. Horses being evacuated to South Carolina without a current Coggins test will be allowed entry into the state provided they will be allowed to return to their state of origin without a current Coggins or CVI after the evacuation is lifted. All other animals being evacuated without a CVI will be temporarily admitted to South Carolina and also allowed to leave South Carolina provided the state to which they are destined also has waived their import requirements. The order extends until Oct. 31 unless extended or rescinded. South Carolina and states throughout the Southeast took similar action during Hurricane Florence in September. The waivers apply only to animals being evacuated from the hurricane. Information for animal owners on emergency preparedness, response and recovery is posted on the LPH Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery page.

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India's growing environmental crisis A longstanding ALERT fan, Dr Shaju Thomas from the Tropical Institute of Ecological Sciences in India, weighs in here with worries about the future of India's environment: Indian environments in peril (photo by William Laurance) Environmental governance in India has evolved over the last 60 years, via a bevy of Acts, Rules, Bills, Ordinances, and other such legal measures. Despite growing pressures from various vested interests, these legal acts have clearly helped to save India's environment from even worse deterioration than it has so far suffered. But the opening up of India to global market forces in the 1990s, and the policies that accompanied it, have created severe challenges for the environment. A striking example is the appointment of a High Level Committee (HLC) in 2014 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change. The HLC was charged with reviewing major environmental laws in the country, including: - The Environment Protection Act, 1986 - The Forest Conservation Act, 1980 - The Wildlife Protection Act, 1972 - The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 - The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 - The Indian Forests Act, 1927 The HLC submitted its report in November 2014 -- without giving enough time for public discourse. The biggest problem with the report that it oversteps its mandate. The HLC wants to get rid of time-consuming procedures for approval of development projects. It wants to introduce "speed" in project approvals, which it says are the "engines of the nation's growth". Further, the HLC is proposing an "Environment Law (Management) Act", as well as more centralized federal and state environmental authorities, which can be more easily controlled. And the HLC's report has no provision at all to deal with climate change and related issues. These are all dangerous developments. The HLC report is a deliberate attempt to derail the legal and policy framework that has evolved over time to protect India's environment. Indians need to stand up and be heard. If its recommendations are adopted, the HLC report will pose great perils for India's environmental future. High Level Committee, India, environmental protection, governance, Ministry of Forestry, Shaju Thomas, globalization

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Interview with Jonathan Doering, author of Battalion 202 August 18, 2014 July 31, 2013 by Mark Jonathan Doering has now contributed three stories from his series about a German invasion of Britain in WW2, so it's about time we heard a bit more about him. His story Battalion 202: Rotten Parchment Bonds appeared in Alt Hist Issue 5, and the previous stories appeared in Alt Hist Issue 4. Here's some more from Jonathan. This is a photo of Monika, Noah and Jonathan on holiday in Germany last summer. Jonathan is the one on the right! Three stories from your series Battalion 202 have now appeared in Alt Hist. Can you tell us what's next in store for the people of Pontefract? Unfortunately, things are going to get far worse before they start getting better. The Nazis have been gradually consolidating their power, as they would have done in reality had they successfully landed in Britain. The next story, "The Sheep and the Goats", again focuses on the local police officer Harold Storey and his growing awareness of the sinister aspects of the Nazi project, and how he reacts to this. The next story that I'm working on now deals again with the local Auxiliary Unit which has a traitor in its midst. What's the historical background for your story? Was there really an organisation called Battalion 202? Yes, there really was an organisation called Battalion 202. In 1941 there was a growing realisation in Britain that Hitler intended to invade Britain. Churchill ordered for a nascent resistance movement to be organised against that possibility, with the umbrella title of 'The British Resistance Organisation'. The spine of this organisation was to be dozens of Auxiliary Units, teams of between four and eight men who had been trained in clandestine warfare and who were to go to ground as the Nazis swept over Britain. They were actually supposed to focus on sabotage and interference rather than fighting and assassination, but there is little doubt that there would have been a lot of violence, both on their parts and that of the German occupiers. Administratively, they were organised into three battalions: 201 covered Scotland, 202 the North of England, 203 the South of England. AUs were established in Wales, but were not organised under an overarching title as in other parts of Britain. Their uniforms were ordinary Home Guard uniforms, apart from the shoulder patches which identified their Battalions - although the numbers would have been meaningless to anyone not in the know. George Orwell, with his experience of front line warfare in Spain, was involved in training AU volunteers in London. Many of these men served from D-Day onwards in the regular army. There were also "observers", civilians who had been trained to gather intelligence which they would then pass on via intermediaries to radio operators. These operators would transmit the intelligence to AUs in the locale, which would then plan attacks. Finally, there were deep-level agents, members of local and national government and the civil service, primed to apparently collaborate with the Nazis, who would also be sending intelligence out to the Resistance and doing what they could to frustrate the Occupation. These people were known as "the other side" and would have walked a daily knife edge as well. Although some members of the AUs have been identified, as far as I know no one in the "the other side" has ever been made known to the public. They would have all been taking appalling risks for their communities and their country, and in researching and writing these stories, I've heaved several sighs of relief that history spared us the horror of occupation. So, yes, there was such an organisation, and they really were told that in the event of the Nazis arriving that they could expect to live for fourteen days. For our readers not familiar with Pontefract, can you tell us a bit more about your home town? Truth to tell, I'm a bit of an interloper, not being a native of Pontefract. I was born in Stockport and as a child lived just South of Manchester. My father was an engineer, so we moved with his job. When I was eight we went to North Berwick, near Edinburgh, and when I was thirteen we moved to Southport, near Liverpool. Since leaving home and taking my degrees, I've lived and worked in Japan, France, Norwich, Oxford, London,... and now Ponte! Pontefract is ace! It's a market town of about 30,000 inhabitants. Previously it relied heavily on mining, and retains quite a bit of farming. There is still a sweet factory (one of its products is the world-famous liquorice Pontefract Cake). Pontefract is a fairly tightly-knit community which has weathered a lot over the years. Its castle was where Richard II was imprisoned and died, and where Richard III was declared king. It was also besieged during the Civil War by Cromwell's Roundhead forces (if you look at the town crest that I use on the Resistance newspaper, it includes the town's motto: Post mortem patris pro filio - Latin for "After the death of the father [Charles I] we are for the son [Charles II]"). It occupies a central position, being fairly central in the island of Britain if you look at the map, as well as central to the North and to Yorkshire, which means that although it was and is relatively small; its strategic significance has led to its involvement in several historical developments. It also meant that I could imagine the Nazis being keen to establish themselves here. I met my wife whilst I was teaching in North London, which is another lovely place, but my wife prefers to visit London rather than live there, so being a Northerner I started to look for teaching jobs in quieter, leafier climes North of Watford Gap. The job I have now came up, so we moved here. Pontefract is a hard-working, good-humoured place to have fetched up in and I think we'll be here for quite some time to come. How did you get into writing? I think many writers are similar in that they have always felt an urge to write. When I was young (five or so), one of my aunts visited us from Canada. I was already making up little stories in my head and playing around with words, and one day she had me tell her a story, which she wrote down and then read back to me. That sense of pleasure from making up stories stuck with me and I carried on doodling away. In school I wrote Science Fiction stories for fanzines that some friends were printing, and at university got involved in the campus newspapers and magazines, and so on. What do you do when you're not writing? Be with my family, day dream, teach English at a sixth form college, read as much as possible, listen to music (Folk, Jazz and Classical mainly), watch films (just watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid again for the first time in twenty years, and it's still brilliant!), attend my local Quaker Meeting, dig over our allotment, go walking.... Are you working on any other short stories or novels at the moment and if so can you tell us a bit more about them? Beyond Battalion 202, I'm mulling over a story set during the witchcraft trials in Seventeenth Century Scotland, which I first heard about when I was growing up there, so that would be interesting to return to. I'm also thinking over a short comic play about allotment holders, just for a bit of a change! I used to write comic sketches for my friends to act in at school, so it would be good to have another go at that kind of writing. On top of that I'm hoping to write about Quaker communities in Prague and Budapest for the national Quaker magazine, The Friend. What are your ambitions as a writer? To keep writing and getting my work read! I enjoy writing short stories and articles, so that's where a lot of my energy goes. I have an ambition to communicate with other people about the things that I find exciting, interesting and important. If someone enjoys reading something I've written, and also gets something useful from it, that's fantastic. I've thoroughly enjoyed developing a series of interlinked short stories in Battalion 202 - it's been very challenging and rewarding. I hope that people who have read the stories have enjoyed them and are looking forward to more - please do keep reading! If anyone would like to read another of Jonathan's stories (which is set in the present day and doesn't deal with WW2 at all, please follow the links below to read 'Magic Christmas Snowballs' online, or to purchase a print version of Gold Dust Magazine. Categories Interview, Issue 5 Tags Auxiliary Unit, Battalion, Britain, George Orwell, London, Nazi, Pontefract, Pontefract cake 1 Comment

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Book Review, International Legal Theory and Teaching, Middle East Arbitration in Douglas Johnston's The Historical Foundations of World Order Andrew Newcombe (University of Victoria Faculty of Law)/ June 2, 2009 April 15, 2019 /Leave a comment Professor Roger Alford's recent posting, "The Arbitrator as Diplomat", discusses the role of "diplomatic arbitration," a concept with a long historical pedigree. Some of that history (and much more) is contained in the late Professor Douglas M. Johnston's posthumous opus, The Historical Foundations of World Order: The Tower and the Arena (2008). The book was awarded the ASIL's 2009 Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship and was the subject of a panel discussion at the ASIL Annual Meeting in March 2009. It was feted as an extraordinary work of scholarship. As Professor W. Michael Reisman discusses in the book's preface, Professor Johnston's work is "the most detailed account of the history of international law." Although the treatment of international arbitration in The Historical Foundations of World Order: The Tower and the Arena is brief, there are some treasures. Prof. Johnston notes that legend in primitive and classical antiquity suggests that arbitration was favoured by the gods, although the gods retained a "fickle attachment to war as an honorable course of action to settle issues." From arbitration in Sumer, Greece and Rome, Johnston turns to the Jay Treaty of 1794 as "the first early modern experiment in the peaceful settlement of international disputes" and "the modern foundation of the adjudicative model of world order." Historical tidbits abound. For instance, when the US House of Representatives demanded access to documents relating to the Jay Treaty negotiations, President Washington asserted "executive privilege," a precedent that "still reverberates within the American constitutional system." Johnston's discussion of the 1899 Hague Peace Conference exemplifies his approach. As Professor Reisman describes in the preface: Great history is far more than a chronological narrative. It requires a contextualization of events in their cultural, economic and technological milieu and an appreciation of their contingency. It must account for the impacts of exceptional individuals, without, as Harold Lasswell put it, rendering them taxidermical specimens. Yet it must also account for collective actions and path-driven results, the so-called "great historical forces." Johnston highlights the efforts of legal internationalists and the European and American peace movements in advocating for the process of international arbitration in the late 19th century. He also details the role of individuals, including Léon Victor Auguste Bourgeois, who presided over the Third Commission (and who later became President of the League of Nations), and state policy resulting in the establishment of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Johnston's functionalist, multi-model approach to international law "commits the historian - and his reader - to a long story of slow and uneven human development." At 772 pages this is not a short summer time read. Yet it remains accessible to the general reader and expert alike. It is a richly rewarding discussion of the historical foundations of the international legal system. Investment Treaties in Times of Crisis: Balancing National Interests and the Rule of Law Charles H. Brower II (Wayne State University)/ June 4, 2009 June 4, 2009 Land deals could sow arbitration disputes Luke Eric Peterson (Investment Arbitration Reporter)/ May 30, 2009 May 30, 2009

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