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Companies Banking on Quick Recovery Risk Making the Same Mistakes as Companies That Failed During the Great Depression, Says Boston Consulting Group Report
Study of More Than 60 Leading Indicators Worldwide Shows That Talk of 'Green Shoots' Is Premature as Global Economy Continues to Decline
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BOSTON, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/15/09 -- Chief executives risk falling into the same trap as those among their predecessors in the Great Depression who were too quick to call the end of the downturn, according to the findings of a report released today by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
In "Green Shoots, False Positives, and What Companies Can Learn from the Great Depression," BCG found that, for all the talk of "green shoots" today, most of the popular leading economic indicators show that the world economy is still shrinking -- if at a slower rate than at the beginning of the year.
It warns CEOs to guard against the kind of hasty optimism -- based on an excessive reliance on one or two promising indicators -- that undermined some companies during the Great Depression. In June 1930, after a stock market rally that saw the S&P regain 60 percent of its lost value, Herbert Hoover, the U.S. president, confidently announced that "the depression is over."
In a study of 61 leading economic indicators in five of the world's largest economies -- the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan -- BCG found that only five are in the "clearly positive" category. Another 15 are in the "positive trend but too early to confirm" category. The rest are ranked among either those showing some deceleration in the rate of decline but no consistent upturn (36) or those continuing to show a consistently negative trend (5).
Although this represents an improvement -- 37 of the 61 indicators were ranked in the most negative category in December 2008 -- the report's authors conclude that there are few signs that the global economy is back on a positive trajectory. They warn that nearly half of all the indicators showing signs of an upturn are driven by monetary policy. Of those indicators that are not related to monetary policy initiatives, less than a quarter have shown any positive sparks.
Daniel Stelter, global leader of BCG's Corporate Development practice and coauthor of the report, said, "In recent conversations at companies the world over, we have detected a change in the mindset of many executives. Many seem to be adopting a more optimistic economic outlook. They tell us that they see 'green shoots.' But although government intervention means that we are unlikely to see the bank failures that contributed to the paralysis of the 1930s, we should nonetheless learn from President Hoover's hubris -- and take it as a warning to be cautious about any premature celebrations of the upturn."
Major Risks Remain
BCG's report, part of its ongoing "Collateral Damage" series of papers on the downturn, also points to a set of factors which suggest that, even when the green shoots do start appearing, the recovery will be sluggish.
-- The empirical evidence is discouraging: similar recessions have lasted seven quarters, on average
-- The deleveraging of the U.S. consumer has barely begun
-- Credit is not flowing yet
-- The banks have not been restored to health
-- The not-so-stressful "stress test": the U.S. government's stress test was more a negotiation than a true assessment of banks' health
-- Governments do not have unlimited resources
David Rhodes, global leader of BCG's Financial Institutions practice and coauthor of the report, said, "For us, the key issue is not the precise timing of the upturn but the nature of the recovery. We expect this upturn to be sluggish -- as with all upturns after a recession that is synchronized around the globe and preceded by systemic financial stress. And in a sluggish economy, trading conditions will be tougher, competitive advantage more important, and broken business models exposed."
BCG's "Collateral Damage" Series
Based on its long history of helping companies survive and thrive during global economic downturns, BCG created its "Collateral Damage" series, which explores the "new realities" of a world in crisis. The series is providing a big-picture analysis of the crisis as it evolves in different regions, countries, and sectors. It offers senior executives practical guidance for protecting their companies from the worst of the crisis and preparing them for economic recovery.
Current titles in the series include:
-- Collateral Damage: What the Crisis in the Credit Markets Means for Everyone Else
-- Collateral Damage, Part 2: Taking Robust Action in the Face of the Growing Crisis
-- Collateral Damage, Part 3: Asia, Advantage, and Action
-- Collateral Damage, Part 4: Preparing for a Tough Year Ahead: The Outlook, the Crisis in Perspective, and Lessons from the Early Movers
-- Collateral Damage, Part 5: Confronting the New Realities of a World in Crisis
-- Collateral Damage, Part 6: Underestimating the Crisis
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Mercata wins group-buying Net patent
But it doesn't look as though it will hurt competitors
Online US co-op group Mercata has won an attempt to patent its group-buying e-commerce system (US Patent Office number 6101484).
The patent concerns the way in which the company provides its real-time purchasing. Snappily called a "dynamic market equilibrium management system", it ties in the start time, end time, a range of minimum and maximum properties, price and individual preferences with an e-commerce system that distributes the goods when bought.
This is a fancy piece of software and so the company logically went for a patent. While the patent has been granted, an outstanding legal argument between Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble may yet undermine it. Amazon obtained an injunction against Barnes & Noble in December last year, claiming it had infringed its "1-click" ordering system. The system basically cut out all the steps of ordering, making a purchase possible with just one click. The case is still pending and the legality of the patent is bound to be called into question.
We pondered the effect this would have on other bulk buyers on the Internet. Mercata didn't bother to respond to our questions, and Priceline drew a distinction between its approach and Mercata's. Priceline works on an individual basis. Our attempts to discover how UK-based Letsbuyit.com may be affected were hampered by the fact that the patent is only enforceable in the US and that the company's PR firm is still in a bad mood with the Reg.
To add further confusion, the European Patents Office is still working out how to discern between plain software programs which are non-patentable and software that "achieves a technical effect" which is patentable.
And of course there was the interesting case where BT decided it had the patent on hyperlinks. Not many people have put money on that one being successful.
The issue of bulk-buying is a difficult one and has yet to prove itself as a viable business plan. It is clearly up in the air at the moment, but then you can't blame Mercata for trying to get in there and gain a legal foothold. Even if it has managed to patent the optimal way to run this kind of system, that doesn't mean it'll ever see a red cent in return. ®
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Destination camping, a concept that's been around for several decades, is gaining traction among consumers which, in turn, has caught the attention from one of the sector's chief beneficiaries – RV manufacturers.
During the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association's (RVIA) Committee Week June 11-13 in Washington, D.C., an ad hoc Destination Camping Committee embarked on a strategic plan to identify the scope of this rapidly growing segment of the market. Manufacturers currently build a variety of products that meet the needs of the destination camper, but the goal of the committee is to examine exactly how big the market currently is, and how big it might become.
The concept of destination camping, which refers in part to "snowbirds" – RVers who keep their RV on one site all year or campers who rent an RV for a season at a single site – dates back at least to the 1980s and became more prominent in the '90s, according to John Soard, general manager for Fairmont Park Trailers, a division of Fairmont Homes in Nappanee, Ind.
"The traditional concept of an RV being used on the road all the time is being circumvented by the customer parking their unit all the time," said Soard, who chairs RVIA's newly formed Recreational Park Trailer Committee, which also met during Committee Week. "It's taken the industry this long to recognize that it's a nice little market segment."
Determining the breadth of that market is the focus of a survey the ad hoc committee commissioned through Precision Research, an Arizona-based firm that has done previous work for RVIA. Hard data is needed because everyone has an idea how big that market is but no one knows for certain, Soard says.
Many in the industry consider recreational park trailers as the major choice for destination campers. Soard thinks otherwise.
"I am on the higher end of what I think the total number of destination campers is," he said. "Of all travel trailers out there being built over 30 feet, I think 75% of those are not being towed. I think they're being delivered and parked in a seasonal site. That distinction makes them destination campers."
The survey will reach out to 400 RVers and 400 non-RVers. Results are due back by the fall. They'll also be looking to see how words like "seasonal" and "annual" and "snowbirds" fit with this new destination category.
When that RV, whether it's a travel trailer, a fifth-wheel or a recreational park trailer, takes on a sense of permanence at a campground or elsewhere, it becomes a vacation home.
"Part of the challenge is to figure out how to keep from becoming painted with the same brush stroke as housing, because they're not," he said.
The RVIA isn't just paying lip service to the destination camping concept. The ad hoc meeting was well attended by RVIA staff, both public relations and legal, as well as representatives of the Pennsylvania RV Camping Association (PRVCA), the Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA), Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA) and park model builders such as Kropf Industries Inc., DNA Canterbury RV and Cavco Industries Inc., among others.
Says RVIA President Richard Coon, "So the bottom line is we're trying to determine the market size, the demographics of people who have created this destination camping – what they like, what they don't like – and determine the best way to promote it."


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Walk step by step through the process to build and consume web services, with both Delphi Win32 and Prism.
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Score: Game 1: Pomona-Pitzer 8, Wesleyan 3; Game 2: Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 19, Wesleyan 4
Records: Wesleyan (5-3); Pomona-Pitzer (9-11); Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (9-8)
Location: Claremont, Calif.
Date: Sunday, March 19th
Time: 2 p.m. / 6 p.m.
The Lead: The Wesleyan University baseball team dropped two games to Pomona-Pitzer and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps as it continued its Spring Break trip in California on Sunday afternoon.
- The Sagehens would get out to an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third.
- Pomona-Pitzer would score three runs in the bottom of the sixth as a triple from Tanner Nishioka scored two and a single by Bryce Rogan would score Nishioka from third to make the score 4-0.
- Ryan Earle '19 would launch a homerun to right field, scoring Will O'Sullivan '17 and Andrew Keith '19 to bring the Cardinals to within run run at 4-3.
- One run in the seventh and three in the eighth would give the Sagehens a comfortable lead, and they would go onto claim the 8-3 win.
- Trey Smith and Nick DeGallier would knock in runs in the bottom of the first to give Claremont-M-S an early 2-0 lead.
- The Stags would open the game up, scoring seven runs in the second and another in the third to make the score 10-0.
- Wesleyan would begin chipping away at the CMS lead in the fourth as Earle took a pitch yard for a two-run homerun to make the score 10-2.
- Danny Rose '19 would double home AJ Ferrara '18 and Matt Jeye '18 in the sixth to bring the Cardinals to within six.
- CMS would add to its lead, scoring two runs in the sixth, one in the seventh and six in the eighth as it went onto claim a 19-4 victory.
- The Cardinals will return to action on Tuesday, March 21st as they will take on the University of Redlands at 6 p.m.
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We are happy to announce the first beta release of our new product – Journalite! It's a fresh approach to diary/journaling software on Windows.
When we first released Mémoires, our Mac diary app, back in 2007, we received a lot of requests from Windows users, who liked its simplicity and elegant interface, to make similar program for PC. We still receive such requests in 2014, and now we have the answer!
Journalite is a new app written from scratch using the cutting-edge technologies. Our experience in making diary software led us to re-think a lot of details, and we think we have the easiest to use and very powerful application for writing journals on Windows. (Even though some features we'd like to have are missing, they'll be added soon).
But it's just the beginning! We're releasing the first early beta version today so that you can start writing your diary right now and give us feedback.
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I sensed a bad performance coming before she got into her skating pose to begin her routine. I felt "bad" for her already, and she hadn't even begun. Her breathing, the look on her face, the visible nervousness as she skated to the center of the rink -- she was telegraphing her inner state before beginning her final skate at the Four Continents Ice Skating Championships in Taiwan just a week ago. She was in second place. This skate was going to make all the difference.
Have you ever felt this way before your big competition? Especially with a lot on the line. Trembling, unsure, trying to pump yourself up and talk yourself out of what was unconsciously choking you?
This Canadian champion knew she had it all on the line. Her first move, a very doable axel was "shaky" (commentator's remarks). The next was a triple lutz. She fell. The next triple toe/double toe was easier and she did much better. "She looks slow and sluggish to me," said the codmmentator. Cynthia was not having a good skate, not having fun, and she ended the entire international competition falling from 2nd to 6th.
No doubt she has done each of these moves, and probably the entire routine, with ease and excellence. But not this day; not when it really counted, not on her final skate to determine the champion of the Four Continents Ice Skating Championships.
This ever happen to you?
I'd love to hear about your experiences - and what you've learned about these mental performance slips. We can discuss some of your biggest challenges - I'm here to assist.


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Dear Universitians and friends, Please join us at our open (hour-long) World University and School monthly business meeting this Saturday, December 10, at 9am Pacific Time, electronically by letting email@example.com know you'd like to participate. News and Agenda A I'm pleased to announce that Prasanna Venketesan is Head of India World University and School and is seeking funding for WUaS from India. B UC Berkeley Law Professor Bill Kell is withdrawing from representing WUaS; Big thanks to Bill for vetting favorably forking WUaS from a non-profit into a non-profit with its own Board, and a new parallel for-profit with a separate Board, around these 14 Planned Revenue Streams - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/01/14-planned-wuas-revenue-streams.html. WUaS is planning to become CC Universities on its non-profit wing in all ~200 countries' main and official languages - the "Harvards of the Web." C WUaS was glad speak with Harvard Medical School's Dr. Katz (at Brigham and Women's Hospital) this month (10/23) about possible collaborations re CC World University and School's planned online medical schools, and online teaching hospitals (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital), in all ~200 countries' main and official languages. As a result, WUaS also came into email communication with 2 other Harvard Medical School MD / Professors / Deans. WUaS would be very interested in having the Harvard Medical School inform all WUaS's online Med Schools in all ~206 (per the recent Olympics) countries' official + languages. Universitians: Thank you for joining the World University and School team. WUaS invites you to participate in our open, hour-long, monthly, business meeting on Saturday, December 10th, beginning at 9 a.m., Pacific Time / 12 noon ET. I'd like to invite you to WUaS's monthly business meeting this Saturday, December 10th at 9am PT (2nd Saturdays of the month, hour-long and electronically mediated) if you'd like to learn further how WUaS makes decisions, plans and works, and participate in this process. This month please join us at our open (hour-long) World University and School monthly business meeting electronically by letting email@example.com know you'd like to participate - at 9am Pacific Time. The agenda for the upcoming Saturday, December 10th, 2016 WUaS, monthly, business meeting is here - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/12/wuas-december-10-monthly-business.html. I've attached WUaS's financial report for November 2016 in this WUaS business meeting email.
World University and School is looking for a new, Board member, for example, to focus on fundraising, and to actually bring in significant monies for WUaS.org, the Non-Proift wing. The next, open, hour-long, WUaS, monthly business meeting is on Saturday, January 14th, 2017. And this month I'll continue to send out a second email after business meeting with WUaS Minutes. You'll also find some previous monthly business meetings (conducted electronically in the manner of F/friends) as examples in Google Hangouts here - http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm. WUaS's active blog with past monthly business information is here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com. For people on the sporadic, somewhat frequent, WUaS, email list, or who wish to be, WUaS is posting actively to both the WUaS Google Group ( email@example.com), and the WUaS Yahoo Group ( firstname.lastname@example.com), both of which allow for daily and weekly digests. Please join these groups for daily and weekly digests. Concerning this WUaS team email list, we'll generally send out business meeting emails twice a month. If you'd like to receive more frequent, sporadic, WUaS emails, please reply to this email telling me so. If you could, please REPLY with UNSUBSCRIBE, or an alternative email address, if you wish NOT to receive WUaS's emails, or receive them in a different email account, - and WUaS would be very grateful. World University and School is planning to become the MIT / Harvard / Yale / Stanford / Oxbridge of the Internet, and in all 7,097+ living languages and 206+ countries (in recent Olympics), with online, Creative Commons' licensed MIT OCW-centric university degrees in large languages. Free, Creative Commons' licensed, online, wiki WUaS, like Wikipedia with MIT OCW, is planned for all 3,000-8,000 languages and for around 204 countries, with free degrees accrediting on C.C. MIT OpenCourseWare in 7 languages and C.C. Yale OYC+, - and will help many, many people. Thank you again for your generous donations in helping grow World University and School. Sincerely, Scott http://worlduniversityandschool.org https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch-- - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President - Please donate to tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) - World University and School - via PayPal, or credit card, here - - http://worlduniversityandschool.org - or send checks to - 415 480 4577 <(415)%20480-4577> - PO Box 442, (86 Ridgecrest Road), Canyon, CA 94516 - World University and School - like Wikipedia with best STEM-centric OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line intact. Thank you.


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Liam Payne's new single is better than Liam Payne's last single
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call "damning with faint praise".
Get Low is a collaboration with pop alchemist Zedd, which accounts for the sudden uptick in quality. The German DJ's lightness-of-touch keeps the song afloat with a brisk and uncluttered production that'll drift out of a thousand car windows this weekend.
Lyrically, Get Low doesn't plumb the depths of Liam's hopelessly clumsy Strip That Down: A song about sex that makes Carry On Camping seem intellectually sophisticated. But it still contains the following stanza:
I like the way you touch yourself
Don't hold back, I want that
When the water come down, I'ma get in that
Frankly, if I were Liam's missus, I'd rather go bowling.
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Aside from being adorable, this photo may have actually saved the lives of the two adorable pups pictured in it.
An Atlanta-based animal rescue organization posted the photo of the shelter pups, Kiera and Kala, along with a pleading message, saying the two dogs would soon be separated—and headed for death row.
The folks at Angels Among Us Pet Rescue hoped that the picture would help Kiera and Kala find a home in the nick of time.
The photo was shared thousands of times, and, as a result, the furry pals were claimed just two hours later by the man pictured below and brought home—together.
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A parent's face is full of bliss when his kid can communicate in multiple languages. Recent studies have demonstrated that kids who enroll in bilingual studies stand better chances of success in academics and careers. As a parent, you need to understand the support that the kid requires for faster acquisition of multiple languages.
Enroll the kid in the best school in Singapore
The first and, perhaps the most important support you can give to a kid is enrolling him into the right school. The school will define how fast the kid will learn and attachment with the new language.
One school that many parents keep talking about because of its success is the Bilingual International School of Paris http://bilingualschoolparis.com/en/. It has great facilities and expert staff to help the kid every step of the way.
Make the environment conducive to learning
While bulk of the learning takes place in the school, the home environment must also be conducive. It is important for the parent to get materials that have information written in the target language at home.
If the child is learning French, buy some magazines written in French so that the child can continue practicing the new language even away from home.
Be part of the process
As a parent, you have to be part of the child's learning process. This gives the child extra confidence to keep learning and advancing to the next level. You can do this by attaching incentives to every success achieved by the kid. Besides, you should also learn a few words and communicate in the target language.


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Chris Cornell's Bond theme (You Know My Name from Casino Royale) is quite the best of the three Daniel Craig-era theme songs so far and brought him to an audience who never heard Soundgarden or the skyscraping vocals of Cornell's youth (seriously, Slaves & Bulldozers. Go listen to it. There's nothing like it. It's a tour de force. Cornell does everything with his voice that a rock singer can, from Kurt Cobain shrieking to Bruce Dickinson wailing). But perhaps even You Know My Name won't be Chris Cornell the solo artist's legacy track.
A little over two years ago, a film came out called Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, starring Steve Carell and Keira Knightley – a spectacularly miscast pair, given Knightley's lack of comedic talent and the 23-year age gap between the two, which is just creepy (recalling the days when Hollywood thought nothing of casting Grace Kelly opposite Bing Crosby in High Society). Its plot was based on a little-known song from Cornell's forgotten solo debut, Euphoria Morning, called Preaching the End of the World.
It is, by Cornell standards, a subdued piece. The first time I heard it (courtesy of Mel) I didn't even recognise him singing until he started doing that Chris Cornell thing in the choruses; it might actually have been nicer if he'd sung the whole song in the soft, sad quasi-falsetto voice in which he begins the verses. Sadsackery suits him.
Soundgarden songs were notable for eschewing simplicity. They tended to be structurally knotty, with odd time signatures and counterintuitive feels. Preaching the End of the World takes Cornell's love of stretching out musically within the context of a tight, through-composed pop song and applies it to harmony rather than rhythm. It's a treat for fans of a good chord change. I rather like the Bmin7b5 in the verse under the line 'Feeling the same way as me' and the diminished seventh chord formed by raising the bass note of a standard D7 shape a semi-tone under the words 'feeling just the same' near the end of the bridge. The C6 in the chorus under 'You can't hide' is pretty sweet too. When did Cornell learn all these Beatles-play-Gershwin chord changes? It's impressive.
But the really impressive thing is the amount of pathos Cornell wrings out of his goofy sci-fi premise. The lyric has to establish character and premise, and make us care. It succeeds on all three fronts, in four and half minutes, rendering the film it inspired unnecessary.
Chris Cornell – signature 335, sensible knitwear
One of my own recent recordings


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It has been a long time since Techie Girl.com has been active. This is the first domain name I purchased in the late 90s. I paid $100 bucks for it and that was a lot of money for me at that time. I got online officially in 1998 with my dial up modem and HP Celeron Computer. In fact, a TV show called The Screen Savers on ZDTV got me very interested in computers. That is one reason I started Techiegirl was to build a fan site around the show. I wrote silly stories about Leo Laporte, Kate Botello, and the rest of the crew. To look back at it now…. I was writing fan fiction which is something I would never do now and the tv fan fiction I have read recently freaks me out. Hopefully I did not freak anyone out back then. I mean I was young… okay I was 20 something… still young right? Yep, I was a geek and proud of it. I was surrounded by geeks online and the majority of the time being the only gal in the The Screen Savers chat room. I was on the show a couple of times with my new netcam (as it was called) that I suppose many people did not have because I was on there a lot along with a few others. Plus a 56k modem so I could not use the audio and had to be on camera with a cell phone. It was a work around. Well the site went from TV Show fan site, to Proud to be a Geek Girl site, to nothing. For the past years I would say that it has been a blank canvas and has sat wasting away… until now. Continue reading


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I did not make any changes to the cover that I had altered previously.
This book was an encyclopedia and I altered the volume "S".
I made tabs as the watercolor paper I chose was handmade with irregular edges. It makes for easier page turning.
I gave myself lots of freedom to create.
These are some of my favorite quotes.
I enjoyed adding imagery from magazines.
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I loved this image from a magazine and added the quote I had saved - both from long time ago.


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Always Platinum
The Always Platinum collection is a premium feminine protection range, which includes pads and liners. The collection was designed with attention to beautiful, feminine detail and superior comfort in mind. The new embossing and lacy design details allow you to delight your senses with luxury every day of the month.
The pads not only provide the best Always protection, but both the liners and the pads have a luxuriously silk-like soft and dry top-sheet. The new core, found only in Always Platinum pads, also features a super-absorbent gel that works instantly to lock in fluid, leaving the upper layers dry and luxuriously soft like silk.


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Almost 200 3.6-megawatt wind turbines may eventually be constructed 13 miles off the Rockaway Peninsula. Described as what could be the largest offshore wind farm in the United States, the Long Island – New York City Offshore Wind Project is working its way through a multi-year federal review process.
The wind farm could yield as much as 700 MW of energy—enough electricity to power an estimated 245,000 homes.
The project is a collaborative effort between Con Edison, the Long Island Power Authority, and the New York Power Authority. LIPA submitted the proposal to federal regulators in September, 2011.
To date, no wind farms have been constructed in U.S. federal waters (more than three nautical miles off-shore). But several projects are grinding toward execution. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has issued seven commercial leases for offshore wind farms. Several other wind projects are now in the initial review stages.
Plans for wind farms in state-managed coastal waters are also underway. A competitive auction for possible developers of a wind demonstration project off the New Jersey coast is to be held on January 29th, a BOEM spokesperson said.
A Plan for Our Coastal Waters
As the Rockaway wind farm project is being reviewed, a full-scale comprehensive planning effort for the mid-Atlantic coastline is underway. Government regulators and advocacy groups say that the wide array of potentially competing uses in coastal waters—from commercial fishing to energy projects to military exercises to tourism—requires more public direction.
Public meetings regarding how best to manage New York's coastal waters, and those of neighboring states, are taking place this week in Manhattan's Javits Center. The meetings are led by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean, a partnership of the state governments of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia.
Could a Rockaway Wind Farm be Commercially Viable?
Developing a major wind farm off the coast of New York City is not seen as far-fetched by the private sector. Tracey Moriarty, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, told NYER that other potential wind farm developers have expressed interest in the site off the Rockaways.
"Wind has transitioned from an expensive green energy propped up by legislative support to a bona fide player that competes shoulder-to-shoulder with gas and coal for large generation projects," noted a March, 2014 article in Business Insider.
"If natural gas prices go up any faster, wind power may even run at a discount to all major generation sources by 2018," BI concluded.
And the Rockaway wind farm may even be able to out-compete other New York State wind projects.
"An offshore wind facility of this size has distinct advantages over inland options," says the Con-Ed, LIPA, NYPA collaborative. Off-shore wind power will ultimately be cheaper and more reliable than wind power generated upstate, they say.
"In contrast to land-based wind facilities in remote regions of the state, ocean-based wind power is stronger, more consistently available, and can be situated closer to Long Island and New York City," the collaborative notes.
"Land-based wind power availability tends to diminish during the hottest part of a summer day, which is precisely the time that Long Island, New York City and Westchester customers use the most electricity."
A Long Way to Go
The Rockaway wind project is intended to help New York State reach its goal of meeting 45 percent of its electricity needs through improved energy efficiency and renewable sources by 2015. According to BOEM spokeswoman Tracey Moriarty, the project still has a long way to go.
The Rockaway wind farm is at the beginning of a four-step process.
First, BOEM must conduct a preliminary environmental review of the potential impacts of a wind farm in the proposed ocean site. The public will be able to submit comments as part of the review.
Second, a lease to develop the wind farm in federal waters is issued to the winner of a competitive auction process.
Third, a site assessment plan is developed, which involves the collection of more information (e.g., wind speed data, biological data) about the area proposed for development.
And finally, the wind farm's developer submits a construction and operations plan. BOEM must then carry out a full environmental review of the project.
Moriarty said that BOEM is now completing an "Area ID" (i.e., identifying the Wind Energy Area). This is a necessary step before they can even begin the preliminary environmental review.
Balancing Renewable & Fossil Fuel Energy Projects Off the New York Coast
As the Rockaway wind farm review moves forward, the New York coast is also being examined as a possible site for a liquid natural gas facility. Liberty Natural Gas and West Face Capital have proposed to build a deepwater port in federal waters approximately 19 miles from the New York shore.
The facility, Port Ambrose, would consist of a submerged buoy system, which its developers say would be used to receive natural gas deliveries from the Caribbean.
In a June, 2014 letter to BOEM, Liberty argued that the two projects could co-exist. "Liberty believes that with proper siting and mitigation measures in place, one or more wind farms can be developed in the Call Area near Port Ambrose," the company wrote.
"The minimum navigation requirements for Port Ambrose will total less than 4% of the 127 square mile Call Area, providing approximately 122 square miles of space for wind farm development," they maintained.


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Statement by Mayor Wheeler on Police Chief Marshman
April 12, 2017
Contact: Michael Cox (503) 823-6593
Statement by Mayor Wheeler on Police Chief Marshman
PORTLAND, OR – Mayor Ted Wheeler released the following statement on Police Chief Mike Marshman:
"Today, after reviewing initial findings of the Independent Police Review investigation into Portland Police Chief Mike Marshman provided to me by Human Resources Director Anna Kanwit, I made the decision to return Chief Marshman to full duty effective immediately. The findings concluded that Chief Marshman did not violate the Police Bureau's directive on truthfulness, and does not appear to have violated any bureau directives. Chief Marshman has clearly and consistently stated his view that the same rules apply to every officer, regardless of rank, and I thank him for putting that belief into action during this process. I also want to thank Assistant Chief Chris Davis, bureau command, sworn officers, and professional staff. The IPR process can be disruptive, and all involved remained focused on the important work of the Police Bureau."
The initial findings from HR Director Kanwit are attached.


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The French call it "la gueule de bois," or wooden mouth. For Germans, it's "Kater," or a tomcat. Japanese know it as "futsukayoi," or "two-days drunk." But whatever the language and wherever it takes place, a hangover is the same: headache, nausea, shaking, blurred vision, biliousness, dry mouth … the list of evils is long.
Just as lengthy is the roster of remedies for alcohol abuse that have been touted over the centuries.
In Roman times, Pliny the Elder swore by raw owls' eggs. In Elizabethan England, a pair of eels suffocated in wine was touted as the trick. Green frogs were an acceptable substitute for those who were out of eels. In the 19th century, hungover chimney sweeps would sip warm milk with a teaspoon of soot added.
Look around today, and the Internet has unleashed an explosion in proposed hangover fixes, from fried food and the hair of the dog to expensive formulae derived from plant extracts.
For those who wake up with a throbbing head and a mouth like a parrot's cage, the choice seems like a life-saver — as long as they overlook the fact the "cures" are underpinned more by hope than the approval of science.
"From aspirin and bananas to Vegemite and water, Internet searches present seemingly endless options for preventing or treating alcohol hangovers," say US pediatricians Rachel Vreeman and Aaron Carroll. "No scientific evidence, however, supports any cure or effective prevention," they write in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal.
In a 2005 study, doctors in the UK and the Netherlands reviewed the only trials of hangover cures that had been conducted to objective criteria.
The eight remedies tested were three drugs and four dietary supplements, as well as the fruit sugar fructose.
The drugs comprised tolfenamic acid, a painkiller; a beta-blocking drug called propranolol and tropisetron, used for nausea and vertigo. The dietary supplements were derived from dried yeast; from a flower called borage (Borago officinalis); the globe artichoke (Cynara scolymus); and prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica).
Volunteers were chosen randomly and were divided into two groups, with one group taking the supposed remedy and the other taking a placebo.
The borage, the yeast and the tolfenamic acid did ease some symptoms in a number of volunteers, and a previous study found the prickly pear also made a difference. Apart from that, "no compelling evidence" could be found to describe any of these products as effective in treating or preventing a hangover.
In plain language, say experts, to avoid a hangover, do not drink or drink only in moderation and have water too, to avoid dehydration, as well as some food.
Whoever finds a cure for hangovers is clearly on the fast track to millions. In 2004, alcohol-related absenteeism from work, due in part to hangover, cost the UK up to US$2.7 billion dollars, per year, according to an estimate by 10 Downing Street. But this figure does not include indirect costs such as the impact of worker performance from hangovers.
But can a cure ever be found? And — here's an intriguing question — should we even look for one?
Edzard Ernst, a professor of complementary medicine at the Peninsula Medical School at Britain's University of Exeter, who took part in the 2005 study, says a hangover is a simple word for a complex thing.


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What you'll need
If you want to re-create Tim Goodman's poster, open the Tim Goodman's Poster library. Click Save to Creative Cloud to create a copy of the library in your own account.
Once in your Creative Cloud Libraries, you can use these assets to capture a sketch with Adobe Capture CC. Then open your sketch in Illustrator CC to refine your artwork.
Note: You need to be signed in to your Creative Cloud account to save the library.
Launch Capture CC, tap Shapes and then plus (+), and point your camera at your own sketch or anything that inspires you. Adjust the slider to get the amount of detail you want, and then tap the Capture button to trace the sketch and create a vector version. Name the file, choose the appropriate Creative Cloud library, and then save your shape.
For more about using shapes in Capture CC, see Capture shapes for Illustrator.
Note: The screenshots in this tutorial show Capture CC on an iPhone. The user interface may vary between iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
Optional: If you are re-creating Tim's poster, tap the icon to the right of the Capture button. Tap the Creative Cloud option and choose the Library Assets drop-down. Then select the Tim Goodman's Poster library you copied in Step 1.
Choose Tim Goodman Poster and tap Open. Now you can refine the image as needed.
Note: If you have set up an Adobe Stock account, Adobe Stock will appear as an additional Capture From option.
In Illustrator, create a new document and choose Windows > Libraries to access your Creative Cloud Libraries. Select the library where you stored your captured sketch and drag the shape onto the artboard.
Click the Shape Builder tool over the area inside the letter shapes. A new solid shape is created. Repeat this process for each letter you want to include in your poster.
Tip: Select all shapes and choose Object > Compound Path > Release to quickly create solid shapes of the entire group.
Use the Selection or Direct Selection tool to select the new shapes and apply a different color or gradient.
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Christmas is officially off but there's plenty of reasons to take a look to what USA Magazines Christmas decoration offered us this year! A few months ago and after a trip to New York city, BRABBU got extremely excited about this holidays, and heard about what the best 4 USA Magazines Christmas decoration have to say about this holidays!
Southern Living, Holiday Home, House&Home and HGTV magazines, have a lot to say when it comes to Christmas decoration and ideas. BRABBU made a compilation of those we think will suit you, and we hope you get inspired to make these USA Magazines Christmas decoration tips unforgettable. Take a look!
Southern Living says that create a warm welcome is the most important thing. And gave us the idea to decorate a mailbox. "Wrap sheer ribbon loosely around a pin garland and drape the garland around the mailbox"
To create a warm welcome and your own gleaming arrangement never forget about you garden and surprise your guests and everyone who's passing by.
SEE ALSO: Get to know Ester Lauder's family Christmas traditions
Get everything you need to make spirits bright throughout the season, from tips from adecorating a gorgeous Christmas tree to finding the perfect gifts!
SEE ALSO: The best 2014 Luxury Christmas Gifts for Her
"Make your home feel more festive with these Christmas tree themes, glittering fireplace mantels and cheery wreaths" you can read on HGTV Christmas edition.
Merry Christmas 🙂
Top magazines with very good ideas! I usually buy the House&Home.


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On October 11, 2016 the American Physical Society (APS) announced that Jens Dilling, TRIUMF Associate Lab Director for Physical Sciences, has been awarded the 2017 Francis M. Pipkin Award, which honours exceptional research accomplishments by a scientist in the interdisciplinary area of precision measurement and fundamental constants and to encourage the wide dissemination of the results of that research. The award cites Dilling "for technical contributions and the use of Penning traps for the precise measurement of short-lived, radioactive nuclei such as halo nuclei and highly charged ions."
An expert on ion traps, Dilling led the design, construction and operation of the the TITAN (TRIUMF's Ion Trap for Atomic and Nuclear science) system at TRIUMF's ISAC accelerator complex. TITAN has become the fastest and one of the most precise ion trap mass spectrometers in the world, enabling for example first-time measurements of the quintessential neutron-halo nucleus lithium-11 in a trap, a breakthrough for nuclear physics.
Dilling responded, "I am very honored to be chosen for this award, in particular in light of its interdisciplinary aspect. For me the measurements at TITAN bring together high precision atomic physics techniques applied at accelerator-based facilities to answer fundamental nuclear physics questions. This highlights how the disciplines have grown and what the impact of crossing their boundaries has been.'
The Pipkin Award honours the memory of Francis M. Pipkin, an enthusiastic and active member of the Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants whose wide interests in physics included experiments in condensed matter, nuclear, high energy, and atomic, molecular and optical physics, always with a special interest in precision measurements. The award includes travel to the APS April Meeting in Washington D.C. in January 2017 to present a prestigious invited lecture on his work.
TRIUMF extends an enthusiastic congratulation to Jens on this well deserved award!


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- An increasing number of entrepreneurial broker-owners are trying the virtual brokerage model, convinced that there are more important things than offices for their agents.
- Others say it is still vital to have offices to maintain the professional image of the real estate agent and to appeal to top producers and their teams.
- Russ Cofano, president of eXp Realty, says there is room for all models in the market.
- Inc. 500 lister Big Block Realty founders said they tried going fully virtual, but pressure from agents led to them opening offices anyway.
- Virtual brokerages are achieving multistate expansion thanks to no-office policies.
- Brokerages with brick-and-mortar locations are enjoying the good times and say offices bring in business if used well.
Brand-new brokerage Clockhouse Realty started business on January 1, servicing all of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Why the decision to be virtual? "We quickly realized that by not opening a traditional office, we would be able to offer a much higher commission split to our agents …"


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Happy Monday, my dears!
First of all, I'm excited to say that I'm hosting The Blog Baton on Instagram today, and today only! It's a pretty cool idea... a couple days a week, a blogger takes the Instagram account and posts on it, linking back to their blog so that others following @TheBlogBaton Instagram account are constantly being introduced to new bloggers. I've been following it for a long time and have most definitely been introduced to some new cool people. It's Mason from Mason...Like The Jar in charge of it, so you know it's going well! See her original post about the idea here. So, to find more cool bloggers (other than me, duh...), go follow the account and spread the Blog Baton love, as well as the Monogram Meredith love! (Showing that love could mean following @meredithscroggin on Instagram!)
And of course, if you're here because you were already following The Blog Baton and want a little more Monogram Meredith, WELCOME! I am so ecstatic to know that the power of social media is truly making a difference.
I am an 18-year old living in and loving the beautiful city of Lexington, Kentucky. I started my blog with the intention to just promote my monogrammed t-shirts (hence the blog name), but it's turned into a whole blog full of recipes, fashion, life, and of course, a love of monograms. I'd say that I truly embrace the Southern lifestyle, but that there's a lot out there for others, as well. I think that fashion is an art, with a special spot for preppy fashion (all of my style posts are here)...
....that you should never pay full-price for things (want to see how I saved $120 on a lookalike J. Crew necklace? Click here.)
{making my own Lilly Pulitzer monogrammed school supplies}
{above is the necklace where I spent less than $10)
{the day my mom saved $158 in coupons at the grocery store. how does she do it? here.}
....have a passion for writing (see those posts here)
(Why is this photo relevant? It has to do with this post, one of my most popular writing blurbs)
.....and love food so much. So much that I make food all the time and feel obligated to share why I don't fit into my jeans all the time...so see all of my recipes right here (but of course, I do like saving calories, so there are some posts for those tucked in. See? A little bit for everyone)!
{baking in my mom's 'queen of the kitchen' apron and a Monogram Meredith t-shirt. does it get any better?}
Oh, and I have the funniest family ever. I don't have any posts specifically about them, but you'll see them sprinkled throughout my posts.
I will most likely write in every post that I 'love' something, simply because I love loving things and I love the beautiful things that life has to offer. I smile and laugh a lot, which is why I have a whole blog page dedicated to it (here). I think that passions (and quirks) are what make a person who they are, which is why I aim to share mine and those of others.
Speaking of passions.......
I have a passions for monograms. Like I mentioned earlier, I sell monogrammed t-shirts. This small business of mine has forced my love of business and crafting together into a wonderful brand of being everything Monogram Meredith. If you want a shirt, I have a whole page about how to order one right here.
Yeah, I love monograms a whole lot. Here's a post where you'll understand why.
Well, I've hoped that this little taste of my blog has convinced you enough...
And you can follow via Google Friend Connect over on the left.
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Colton is 4 1/2 months. He can't keep the ladies away so this was the perfect costume for him. I used 1 large box,2 yards of red fabric and 1 pack of post it sticky letters. Total cost $6.00 :)
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Being an SEO Company we were busy with some of client work and not able to post on blog since long time, Apology for it. Sometimes its s?m?th?ng invisible (such as an algorithm change) wh??h the ordinary user m?? not notice but m?? affect the search results profoundly. But ?th?r times its s?m?th?ng much more visible and design-based that ?ff??ts the w?? user interacts with ? search engine at the most basic level, and wh??h webmasters and SEO professionals would do well to pay attention to.
Exited to know What will be SEO Trends 2012 ?
No, not the fact that if ??u type 'let it snow' into Google it… well type it in, ??u'll find ?ut. We're talking ?b?ut ?n? of the most r???nt trends in the search engine user experience – single word searches.
Keyword Selection
According to data from Experian Hit wise, the numbers of search queries that use just ? single word have risen from 20.3% of the total at the start of 2009, to 27.2% of all search queries in October 2011. ??tw??n September and October 2011 ?l?n?, the number of one-word search queries grew by 3%. In comparison, the number of searches ??nt??n?ng more than three words declined s?gn?f???ntl? ?v?r the same period.
SEO experts have b??n tr??ng to understand the trend, with ? variety of explanations b??ng offered such as the effects of Google Instant; wh??h produces search results b?f?r? ??u finish typing.
So far, any suggestions for this change have b??n inconclusive, but what webmasters and website owners should take ?w?? from this is that it ?? happening. While it m?? not be ??us? to ditch all this long-tail key phrases (??t), ??u might want to pay extra attention to single keywords that are relevant to ??ur site and create additional content accordingly.
Local search
The second search engine trend to take into consideration for this year is that more and more people are relying on the Internet to find local businesses and services. ? survey by Pew Internet revealed that 51% of people who are l??k?ng for ?nf?rm?t??n ?b?ut local restaurants, bars and clubs 'turn to the Internet', and 38% of those surveyed relied on search engines to do so. ?h?s was more than those relying on newspapers, word of mouth or TV for information.
Even those who werent l??k?ng for restaurant or bar reviews were dependent on the Internet for local business ?nf?rm?t??n, including 36% who s??d th?? rely on search engines for such info.
This second trend for 2012 highlights that while the Internet is ? global medium, local search SEO is vital and ??u should never forget to target customers on ??ur own doorstep.
Mobile Search
If you are checking your Google Analytics regular then you might notice that your Website / Blog might get visitation from Mobile device also. Try to compare with that previous year data. Get shocked?
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What is Cable Broadband?
Skinttariffs have received many calls asking 'what is cable broadband?' so as glossary to help you decide the best broadband for you we have published this in reponse:
Cable broadband is not as readily available as ADSL, although it is on the increase in the UK and is already well-established in the United States.
How it works is a cable modem allows data to be sent using the cable television infrastructure by utilising the unused bandwidth on the network. Hence access to cable broadband is subject to you living in an area that is served by cable. However, the plus side of this is that you do not require a BT phone line unlike ADSL broadband.
Virgin Media are the leading supplier of cable broadband internet in the UK, since taking over ntl:Telewest, in 2006.
If you are not currently connected to a cable line, you will need to discuss with a provider the possibilities of connection and what it will cost. Installation usually includes a cable modem attached to a coax cable from the property into a cabinet in the street. In order to work with your PC, it is usually necessary to install a LAN card which you can do yourself or speak with the provider about assistance from an engineer. Even though it is often called a 'cable modem', it acts more like a network router.
Many cable modems will also incorporate their own router alongside the modem functionality and as a result, both the wireless router and the cable modem will have their own distinct IP and MAC addresses.
Usually cable modems are available as part of a broadband package from most leading providers. Many of the Skinttariffs broadband retailers offer free broadband modems free with their cheap cable broadband deals. Alternatively as with other services you can buy or rent a cable modem directly from the supplier -see the list of Skinttariffs cable broadband retailers for details.
Download speeds are much higher than the speeds achievable for uploads although cable speeds generally are much faster download speeds than ADSL. Speeds reaching 50Mb are available for some business broadband packages and some cable companies allow you to run your own web server at home. However one thing to consider with this is that your IP address may be replaced periodically which can make access difficult.
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Google Is Now Tracking and Reporting Your Buying Habits
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants to know where you are and what you are doing – specifically, what you are buying – at all times.
According to Digiday, the company is beta testing a program that registers your visits to bricks-and-mortar stores via your smartphone, provided certain conditions are met.
Those conditions include whether you have opted in to location services on your Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone or Android device. Chances are you have according to Dan Auerbach, staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who told Digiday most users don't realize they have opted in for constant tracking.
Auerbach said, "The disclosure mechanism for these apps is pretty weak. I think there's a gap between user expectations and what apps are really doing."
It's easier for Google to track your buying habits if you have an Android phone or device since location tracking is part of the OS. Apple iOS users, however, are not off the hook. If you have an iPhone and use Google apps, you have probably opted in to location services with that app. Even when you stop using the app, tracking continues in the background.
Between Android, with 45.9 percent market share and iOS with 38.3 percent according to eMarketer a significant chunk of smartphone users is subject to Google tracking.
Related: Rumor: Google Smartwatch Merely A Few Months Away
According to Business Insider, it's all part of Google's war with Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) for advertising dollars. The idea is to provide a mechanism for letting advertisers know about consumer buying habits and to reassure advertisers that their investment resulted in "conversions" or sales because of an advertising campaign.
How the system works is both simple and complex. If you conduct a Google mobile search for a specific product, say a popular toy as a Christmas gift, Google could steer you to a nearby Target (NYSE: TGT) store that carries that toy.
Later, Google could tell Target that not only did it suggest you visit that store but that based on location data you did, in fact, go there. It's advertising and follow-up marketing data at an extraordinarily high level.
As Digiday pointed out, location tracking is not new for Google. What is changing is the way in which that data is used.
Google called the overall process Estimated Total Conversions and described it in an Oct. 1 blog post. According to the post, Estimated Total Conversions would provide advertisers with a "holistic view of all of the conversions driven by your Google search advertising that can be used to make important decisions like how much to bid and how to assign budget across your various marketing channels. "
At the time of this writing, Jim Probasco had no position in any mentioned securities.
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See all of center of mass, there are 2 more in this node.
|Guns don't kill people. Wait, guns do kill people.
|How to improvise a double boiler
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|Mozambique drill
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After several failed attempts at bedtime, I learned that a simple verbal instruction wasn't going to work.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Milo Gets Older, They Stay the Same Age...
Today Irene was driving home from school with the boys. As they drove by Anderson High School Milo said "Hey, check out those cute high school girls in those short shorts!"
Irene asked him "Where did you learn that?"
Personally I don't know why she bothered asking that...
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Dan Carriere
Chairman of the Board
During the past 30 years, Mr. Carriere has been instrumental in the development and financing of private and public companies that include being a co-founder and Director of ID Biomedical Corp. a start-up that ultimately sold to Glaxo Smith Klein for $1.7 Billion in 2005. Mr. Carriere was also a founding partner of Corriente Resources Inc. from 1992 until the sale of Corriente to CRCC-Tongguan Investment (Canada) Co., Ltd. in 2010 for $780 million. Dan has been Chairman of Terrace since its inception as an oil & gas developer in 2011.
Dave Gibbs
President and Chief Executive Officer, Director
Mr. Gibbs, (BSME Ga Tech 1975) has held executive and senior management positions in several successful independent oil companies, including roles on the senior management team of Superior Oil through its merger with Mobil, the largest transaction in US history at the time ($7 billion) and later participated in the leveraged buyout and ultimate monetization of Union Texas Petroleum with KKR ($2 billion). As CEO of TDC Energy, Dave also built a highly successful offshore Gulf of Mexico development company from 1992 to its merger in 2005. Dave has been President of Terrace since its inception as an oil & gas developer in 2011.
William McCartney
Director, Audit Committee Chairman
Mr. McCartney received a Bachelor of Arts from Simon Fraser University in 1978 and has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia since 1980. Since 1990, Mr. McCartney has been the President of Pemcorp Management Inc. He is a present or past director of: Mercer International Inc., Sunward Resources Corp., Newstrike Capital Inc., Exeter Resource Corp. and Dynasty Metals & Mining Inc. among others.
Ken Shannon
Mr. Shannon received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Geology at the University of B.C. and has been involved in the junior resource sector for over thirty years. He has participated in the grass roots discovery of over 30 Billion pounds of copper in Argentina and Ecuador as well as managing work on feasibility and pre-feasibility studies for various commodities in Bolivia, Ecuador and British Columbia. As CEO of Corriente Resources, and other companies he has raised over $200 Million for mining exploration and development. In 2010, Corriente was sold to CRCC-Tongguan Investment (Canada) Co., Ltd. (owned jointly by Tongling Nonferrous Metals Group Holdings Co., Ltd. and China Railway Construction Corporation Limited) for approximately $780 million. Ken is currently President of Inca Management, a private management company in Surrey, B.C.
Murray Oliver
Mr. Oliver has a B.A. in economics and over 25 years' experience as a consultant providing corporate finance, restructuring and shareholder communication services to both private and public companies. Mr. Oliver has worked with the Pemcorp Group of Companies since 1995 and has served as Vice President of Business Development since 2000. He is currently a director of Karsten Energy (TSXV:KAY) and Prospero Silver Corp (TSXV:PSL).
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Chief Financial Officer
Jennie has over 30 years of extensive international experience in financial management and corporate governance. She has held a number of senior financial management positions in a variety of industries including natural resources, technology, pulp and paper and insurance. Since 1998 she has been providing financial accounting consulting services to public, private and not for profit organizations. Jennie earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calgary and is a Chartered Professional Accountant.
Deborah Cotter
Corporate Secretary
Ms. Cotter served as Corporate Secretary of CRH Medical Corporation from January 2006 until January 2011. Prior to that, Ms. Cotter was Corporate Secretary of ID Biomedical Corporation from January 1999 until December 2005, the time of its takeover offer by Glaxo Smith Kline plc. ID Biomedical grew from an initial $3 million market capitalization to $1.7 billion at the time of its takeover offer from Glaxo Smith Kline plc in 2005.


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In honor of Independence Day, I thought it was only fitting to make my Learning the US Presidents & Learning the USA Study Packs free for a limited time!
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Gionee today launched its Virat Kohli Signature Edition Gionee A1 in India for Rs. 19,000. This smartphone will sell exclusively via Amazon starting on June 27, 12 PM. The Gionee A1 Virat Kohli Signature Edition can now be pre-booked on Amazon India's website.
Gionee is also offering additional benefits to the people who pre-book this smartphone, they will be getting a free Sennheiser headphone set, Rs. 1,280 Amazon Pay balance, and an additional Rs. 2,000 discount on the exchange of a smartphone. Vodafone users will also be getting 45GB of free 4G data for a period of five months.
As for the specifications of the smartphone, they remain the same as the Gionee A1. The device sports a 5.5-inch full-HD AMOLED display with 1920×1080 pixel resolution, it comes with a quad-core MediaTek 6755 Helio P10 processor with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of Internal Storage expandable up to 128GB via a microSD card, the smartphone is being backed by a 4,010 mAh battery.
The rear camera on the device is having a resolution of 13-megapixel with f2.0 aperture, autofocus, 1/3.06-inch sensor, 5P lens. The front camera is 16MP with a selfie flash, fixed focus, F2.0 aperture., 5P lens.
The Gionee A1 Virat Kohli Signature Edition is running on Google's latest Android 7.0 Nougat operating system. The device comes with dual SIM support along with connectivity options including 4G LTE, VoLte, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS.
Gionee has made no changes to the smartphone internals except for adding Virat Kohli's signature on the back, is that enough to drive up the sales of this smartphone?


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A Harvard Panel Tackles the News Blues
The media landscape has changed dramatically since Harvard's Shorenstein Center was established 20 years ago. And when journalists and dignitaries assembled there on Oct. 13-14 to evaluate the current role of journalism in our democracy, there was good news and bad. The bad was that new technologies have created credibility concerns and economic problems for mainstream journalists. The good news may be the emergence of the citizen journalist.
A Shakeup in the Evening News?
The long-stable world of evening network news looks a bit jostled just three week's into Katie Couric's tenure in the CBS Evening News anchor chair. She may not be in first place anymore but compared to other anchor debuts, Couric has at least temporarily disrupted the long-consistent one, two, three finish among NBC, ABC, and CBS. Is it a long-term change or just a ripple?
What's Next for the Ethnic Media?
While much of US news media endured shrinking audiences recently, ethnic media have seen growth. In our seventh roundtable discussion, industry analysts assess the growing clout of ethnic news outlets in the US as well as the formidable business challenges they face, including slowing industry growth.
Cable TV at a Crossroads
In the sixth of our roundtable discussions on the future of the news media, our expert panelists say that cable TV news has rapidly become a mature platform that faces serious challenges from fresher technologies and information-saturated viewers.
The Future of News Magazines
The fourth of our roundtables on the future of the news media focuses on news magazines. Our group of experts sees big changes ahead for the industry in content and approach.
Challenges to the Newspaper Industry
In the third of our roundtables on the future of the news media, industry experts analyze the health of the newspaper business and offer their ideas on what it can and should do to survive.
The Future of Network TV News
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The Use of Collective Responsibility
It is a famous fact that the Government-General in Taiwan adopted the baojia (保甲) system in 1898 in reaction to a series of attacks against the Japanese. It is a method of mutual policing at the village level for the purpose of maintaining local order and preventing tax evasion. Although GGT officials explained that it was a system that they were adopting from the old Chinese dynasties, it had already been a familiar style of policing for the Japanese too since Toyotomi Hideyoshi and others adopted it to police hidden Christians and so on.
I never encountered a mentioning of a similar system in the history of colonial police in Korea. For example, Matsuda Toshihiko's recent publication, 日本の朝鮮植民地支配と警察 1905-1945 (Japan's Colonial Rule of Korea and the Police. 2009), discusses how the police tried to propagate its authority to the masses (民衆化) and how they tried to co-opt local leaders into their networks (警察化). But it does not look like there was a rule or a law about mutual policing like the baojia (保甲) system.
It turned out that the collective responsibility system was used in tenant contracts between Japanese agricultural companies (landlords) and Korean peasants, instead. One example was the Chosen kōgyō gaisha, run by the Shibusawa zaibatsu family. A scholar Asada Kyōji describes how the Chosen kōgyō gaisha established the gonin gumi (5-person groups) system and used it as a basic unit of Korean tenant farmers. (Asada Kyōji. 日本帝国主義と旧植民地地主制. 1992. 161). Apparently this was a common custom among the Japanese landholders as the half-governmental Oriental Developmental Company also required five tenant farmers to register together. In Ham Hanhee's oral interview with a farmer in Cholla Namdo, he said that the most difficult part in getting a contract with the ODC is that "he needed four sponsors who were willing to take on a collective liability for his wrongdoings." (Hahm Hanhee, Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University 1990. 82)
I wonder if the difference in where this collective liability system belonged somehow reflects the difference in the nature of rule in Taiwan and Korea… just a thought. Another thought is that, if it is possible that the infamous tonarigumi system in Japan during WWII was a product of the experiences of organizing local units in the Japanese colonies… maybe?
2 Responses to "The Use of Collective Responsibility"
Thanks for posting this! I am also grateful to you for quoting the Matsuda source. I haven't heard of that new work and will definitely take a look at it!
Also this is an important observation and issue. I agree with your assessment. As for the connection between tonarigumi and the baojia system. I haven't read anything on the development of the tonarigumi in wartime, but it would be fascinating if it was determined that some of the officers who had key responsibilities were those with colonial experience.


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Today at writer's club we'll be talking about where ideas come from, how to get more of them, and how to tell when you've got a really good one. We'll also discuss the importance of WRITING IDEAS DOWN before they slip away from our minds.
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Hopland Band of Pomo Indians Distribution of Assets Plan
Any name you see listed as the initial name is considered the base roll membership. These are the official names that all future enrollment applicants have to prove a lineal descendency to. The main name for each parcel is considered Category A members.
All listed dependants of Category A members are Category B members.
All born from Category B members are Category C members, which is now should be the majority of the tribe as of this writing.
Anyone who does not have a Distributee lineal relationship must prove substantial ties to the Hopland Tribe.
Please note on page 6 of the Hopland Distribution list, our grandmother Marian Wilder is jointly listed with her husband William Wilder on Parcel 19.
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