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25 Years of Progress in Process Analyzers' Efficiency
In 25 Years, Process Analysis Has Progressed from Exotic to Ubiquitous
The lead stories seem to always be about control systems, software and networking, but a good portion of the past 25 years' progress in quality and efficiency of production must be credited to improvements in technology and broader implementation of process analyzers. Here's an overview of their evolution, as chronicled in the first 300 issues of Control magazine.
In his October 1992 "Around the Loop" column, Terry McMahon described analytical instrumentation as a 20th century phenomenon. "Beginning in the first decade of this century with the work of Tsvett in Russia (chromatography) and Lord Kelvin in Great Britain (mass spectrometry), analytical technologies have proliferated," he wrote. Post-World War II intelligence revealed that the German chemical industry had been using on-stream, non-dispersive, infrared analyzers for more than 20 years, but it wasn't until the 1950s that U.S. industrial laboratories began to use analytical instruments on a large scale for monitoring production processes.
Also read "A 25-Year Odyssey to Connect the Enterprise"
Union Carbide developed on-stream gas chromatography and the DuPont Co. "began experimenting with on-stream UV photometry in connection with a new process for the production of titanium dioxide," wrote McMahon. Union Carbide spawned Greenbriar, Bendix and Combustion Engineering, which became part of ABB Process Analytics, and DuPont created Ametek Thermox.
In February 1989, contributing editor Mark Weiss wrote, "Today, there is a concerted effort to incorporate state-of-the-art process analyzers into the process control loop of industrial manufacturing processes. The goals are to assure compliance with environmental, health and safety regulations; improve efficiency by optimizing manufacturing processes to reflect the quality of raw materials; lower costs by eliminating the manufacture of 'off-spec' batches; improve quality by manufacturing to tighter tolerances; and increase profits by efficiently and cost-effectively manufacturing the product right the first time."
Weiss described the available technologies and typical applications of near-infrared (NIR), non-dispersive infrared (NDIR), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), ultraviolet-visible (UV-Vis), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), gas chromatograph (GC), supercritical fluid chromatograph (SFC), mass spectrometers, high-performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) and ion chromatograph, as well as online titrators and wet chemical analyzers.
Commenting on instrument reliability, Weiss said, "Failure is probably one of the major reasons analyzers are not more widely used. Process analyzers need to be treated as sophisticated systems that require major manpower for design, maintenance and training."
Over the following decades, as shown in the accompanying timeline, Control reported how advances in materials, miniaturization, standardization, electronics, software, automation and communication made process analyzers less expensive, as well as more useful and reliable. And the constant push for better product quality, lower costs, emissions control and the ability to prove it led to a proliferation of analyzers in the process industries.


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When it comes to the world of technology, it's all about out with the old and in with the new. Chief information officers have likely grown accustomed to swapping out more dated solutions in favor of implementing the latest innovations. However, IT tools are not the only components within these departments that are subject to change, as the professionals who make up tech teams are bound to evolve over time.
For instance, the most recent group of employees coming CIOs' way are members of Generation Y, a demographic that boasts a number of distinct traits that set it apart from past representatives. Bearing this in mind, IT executives will probably find that they have to switch up their management tactics, making significant adjustments to their leadership styles so that they can direct millennials in the most effective manner imaginable. If CIOs leverage certain strategies, they can maximize this new wave of employees' strengths while minimizing their flaws, ultimately optimizing their workforce's potential and allowing millennials to make the most of their jobs.
Prepare to communicate with millennial professionals
There is no avoiding Generation Y, as these young professionals have already flooded the employment market. Soon enough, CIOs will not be able to avoid taking on candidates who are not a part of this demographic. In light of tech executives' dwindling options, they should embrace millennials – in addition to all of the personality traits and work habits that they bring to the table – so that they can seamlessly integrate these professionals into their staffs and allow them to flourish.
If there is one distinction that makes millennials stand out from other employee demographics, it's communication. The Houston Business Journal explained that these IT professionals have grown up in an environment inundated with technology, which has made them inclined to employ tech solutions for an array of daily tasks, including those pertaining to communication. Consequently, CIOs may want to rely on email or even instant messaging when they have to relay information to these representatives, as opposed to speaking with them in person.
That being said, there are certainly instances when tech executives should go back to the basics and deal with Generation Y employees as they would with representatives from other demographics. For example, if CIOs have to discuss matters of importance or ambiguous topics that need to be clearly communicated to representatives, then IT professionals best go with tried-and-true, face-to-face interactions. By mixing up communication styles – combining virtual and real-life mediums – tech managers should be able to cater to millennials' social comfort zones, while still allowing for personal connections and clear conversations so that everyone is on the same page.
Get personal with employees
Another Generation Y preference that will prove revolutionary to CIOs is millennials' desire to be recognized as people, not just employees. According to CIO magazine, managers will want to start becoming comfortable with blurred lines in terms of their rapport with representatives. Members of past generations were in favor of setting and keeping clear boundaries between their managers and themselves, and personal lives were checked at the door. With regards to millennials, that is no longer the case, and they want their supervisors to show an interest in their lives outside the office.
As CIOs can imagine, they have to tread cautiously when it comes to asking representatives about their personal lives, as they do not want to step out of line and make employees uncomfortable with inappropriate questions. However, they should simply show that they want to get to know their Generation Y employees as well-rounded people, viewing them as more than just one of many faceless staff members. To accomplish this, tech executives will want to ask representatives about what they do in their free time, identifying hobbies and interests, which may enable them to bond over common ground and give them a good idea of their employees' identities. This will prompt their tech staff members to feel viewed and valued as real persons, not just manpower.
In that same vein, the Houston Business Journal advised that CIOs customize their review processes, depending on the employee in question. Millennials want to be recognized as individuals. IT executives can cater to this by personalizing each performance review so that they can provide necessary insight in an optimal fashion to every employee.
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New Jersey, where much to my surprise I have now been living for more than half a century, has certain obvious disadvantages. It is crowded. The cost of living is very high. The tax burden—property, sales, and income—is crushing. But there are compensations insufficiently appreciated by the state's detractors. One of the chief of these is that we have very colorful politicians. New Jersey is true blue, so that the national politicians (senators and governors) are usually Democrats, though we occasionally allow exceptions for politicians whose first or last name is Christie. We are in something of a fallow period on the senatorial front at the moment. Neither one of our two senators is under indictment, and one of them is not even under threat of indictment.
The Governor's mansion is where the action tends to be. The hero of this essay is our current governor, Chris Christie, but one needs to know a little about the tradition. Among notable recent governors was Jim McGreevy, who got into hot water when he appointed his Israeli lover as his homeland security advisor. Circumstances surrounding this appointment, in turn, led the governor to make a dramatic revelation that he was a "gay American". The first half of this phrase caught his wife and daughter by surprise, and the second part confused his many supporters who had voted for him thinking he was an "Irish Catholic". Upon resigning the governorship, he continued in his upwardly mobile, linear career by becoming an Episcopal seminarian.
Chris Christie is remarkable, in the first place, for being a Republican. In his taurine manners he is a faint type, shadow, or adumbration of our incumbent president, in relation to whom he was an also-ran. I had very high hopes when he first took office, as one of his initial acts was to tell the New Jersey teachers' unions right where the hog ate the cabbages; but it has all been downhill since. As you probably already know, Christie set something of a political speed record (sixty to zero-point-three in about twelve seconds) at the time of the Bridgegate Scandal in September 2013, when in a moment of unusually petty petulance directed at the mayor of Fort Lee his henchpersons closed down a couple of lanes of the George Washington Bridge, causing the Mother of All Traffic Jams. He tried to recover by running for president. He fell on his face, but not before doing one good deed: putting the quietus on the candidacy of Li'l Marco Rubio. He then tried to attach himself to the winning candidate, Mr. Trump, only to face a long series of incremental humiliations that might be said to continue until this day.
He was more or less quietly living out the last days of his governorship when, a few days ago, Shoregate struck. (What they call the beach in California they call the shore in these parts.) The Governor (Republican) and the State Legislature (Democratic) have been locked in what the papers call a "fiscal battle," the upshot of which was a partial shutdown of state government. This situation, which has inconvenienced New Jersey's citizens quite differentially, has caught the imagination of the Fourth Estate. You know of course about the Main Stream Media and their sinister doppelgänger the Lame Stream Media. But you may be unaware, as I must admit I myself was until only yesterday, of the Jet Stream Media. On a beautiful, clear, summer's day an enterprising journalist from the Newark Star-Ledger took to the air in a small plane and, on a hunch and a prayer, took a joy ride following the New Jersey coast line in a southernly direction. About sixty miles south of Newark and New York, on a thin barrier island, is one of our state's greatest treasures: Island Beach State Park, several miles of fabulous swimming beach along a nature preserve. Now state parks are obviously state property, serviced and maintained by state employees. Should it ever happen, God forbid, that the entire state government should shut down over, say, a budget dispute, state parks would be part of the shutdown. The parks would be closed. Those were the actual conditions on the day that the journalist undertook his flight. He was curious to see what an empty mid-summer beach might look like from the sky. He was also aware of a fact to me as yet unknown: among the gubernatorial perks is a shore cottage right in Island Beach Park.


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"...seeking out similar answers to similar questions." - Response from Washington County Commissioner Fran Miron who is the Chair of the RRPB when presented with the following.
Washington and Ramsey County are in partnership through the Resource Recovery Project Board (RRPB) and are in the final stage of the two year process evaluating the purchase of the Newport Resource Recovery Facility. Explained in both
& Part 2: The $170 Million Dollar Washington/Ramsey County Plan to Take Over Private Sector Garbage Processing
|See emails below to read the questions
This Part 3 post is the dialog between the Counties and Washington County Watchdog respectfully trying to get six valid questions answered by Commissioner Miron. Reading from the direction of the last email contact immediately after this paragraph will allow you to easily follow the communication so you can decide for yourself about this serious purchase. Please decide if you also agree with Commissioner Miron that the questions you are about to read deserve answers.
Part 2: The $170 Million Dollar Washington/Ramsey County Plan to Take Over Private Sector Garbage ProcessingArticle by local Environmentalist Alan Muller and Nancy Hone with Neighbors Against the Burner
Part 3: Project Board Chair Fran Miron Responds to Concerns Regarding Trash Processing Facility Buyout
Part 3: Project Board Chair Fran Miron Responds to Concerns Regarding Trash Processing Facility Buyout
|Part of the overwhelming evidence presented to Commissioner Miron below
[Final email, Read first]
To: email@example.com
Subject: RE: Counties Response to Q/A request
Date: Sun, 5 July 2015
Subject: RE: Counties Response to Q/A request
Date: Sun, 5 July 2015
Commissioner Miron and others CC'd
"seeking out similar answers to similar questions."
The Q&A e-mails and a three part response:
1.) On June 25th we sent six questions regarding the purchase of the Newport Resource Recovery facility and the related hauler mandate specifically requesting you, Commissioner Miron, to please respond by the following week. (message located at the bottom of this email [1st email])
2.) The next day we received a cold response sent on your behalf from an unelected official providing website links as answers to the questions intended for you to respond to. (2nd email from the bottom [2nd email])
3.) We provided a point by point reply to these responses on June 29th explaining why each response was not appropriate. Further explaining we were aware of the data. (third email from the bottom [3rd email]) This was evident in each of the six questions. If you respectfully would have read our concerns in Part 1 and Part 2 as requested you would perhaps understand that.
4.) On July 2nd you responded still not answering the questions. (fourth email from the bottom [4rth email]).
Please consider the following response:
As Chair of the Ramsey/Washington County Resource Recovery Project board (RRPB) we found your July 2nd response (fourth email from the bottom) very concerning for the following reasons:
1.) Every effort was made to make our concerns clear and provide you opportunity to fairly respond to six fair questions regarding the all but finalized buy out of RRT. Your best final response is you are "seeking out similar answers to similar questions." If you are sincere in this inadequate answer than it's deeply disturbing to know you signed off on the Draft Authorization to Purchase that is being re-worked as the official Authorization to Purchase as we speak. With these unanswered questions it's surprising how anyone in good conscience could advance a massive project like this to the final vote coming up.
2.) We pointed out the last two meetings in a row where the buyout authorization was to be voted on were canceled deferring to the August 27th meeting. In the same breath you acknowledge the public being shut out of the discussions in this way you state in your email below "We want the public to be engaged and the new dates will be noticed appropriately." The public is not being allowed to be engaged when the board cancels all the meetings except the one that is to hold the final vote (by then being too late).
You're spending $1.5 million dollars on this buyout decision with heavy emphasis on the buyout decision being the best choice while essentially brushing aside public concern. The RRPB could have held the canceled meetings to invite Foth, Springsted, Stoel Rives, and the unelected joint staff committee who "recommend that the Project Board select the public ownership option" in their May 21st email to you titled "Facility Ownership Decision" Or better yet, it would be great to see you and the members of the board demand answers to these "similar questions" you have at some point very soon. These consultants are being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a month collectively after all.
3.) You state in your July 2nd response below "We would be remiss in making a decision without the added detailed information." we agree. According the the RRPB's August 2012 Processing Agreement the talks on purchasing began over two years ago in March 2013 with the "good faith negotiations." Respectfully, the six questions we all seek and you admit to not having the answers to should have been asked first thing and been answered far sooner than just weeks before the final vote.
It's not too late to start advocating for the citizens, environment, and the haulers by using your chair position on the board to cease talks of buying out this outdated facility and process for handling MSW until we all get answers to these questions.
[4rth Email]
From: email@example.com
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:06:32 +0000
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:06:32 +0000
The decisions made by the Resource Recovery Project Board are based upon information made available to us by staff and contracted consultants to the Project Board. The previous correspondence in response to your initial inquiry included links to that information under my direction, so that you would have the same information in seeking out answers to your questions as I do in seeking out similar answers to similar questions.
The action taken at the May 28th Project Board meeting allowed for more detailed work to be completed to better yet answer all questions surrounding potential purchase of the RRT Facility. This additional time and staff work will allow the Board to have more comprehensive information and come to a solid decision on this critical issue. We would be remiss in making a decision without the added detailed information. The upcoming meeting dates were adjusted to allow for the necessary work to be completed. We want the public to be engaged and the new dates will be noticed appropriately.
Lastly, I would like to acknowledge that the County staff and the consultant staff that are engaged in this project are fully committed to finding the best solution for our citizens. Our public employees take their role in service to the residents of Washington County (and in this case Ramsey County too) very seriously. The health, safety and economic considerations for the citizens of our communities are always front and center. I have deep confidence in the quality of that service.
Thank you once again for your interest in the Resource Recovery Project Board and in the environmental health of our County.
Best Regards,
Fran Miron, Washington County Commissioner
Chair, Resource Recovery Project Board
Subject: RE: Counties Response to Q/A request
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:35:33 -0500
[3rd Email]To: email@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: RE: Counties Response to Q/A request
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 09:35:33 -0500
Thank you for your time Mr. Johnson in the below reply to the six questions we asked of Commissioner Miron.
We find it disappointing the questions could not be directly answered. Attempting to answer questions by providing links to one hundred page meeting minutes (that we are very familiar with) and direction to the extremely vague responses on your promotional sites "morevaluelesstrash.com" is insulting. Furthermore it's disturbing to see the RRPB canceled the June 25th meeting and now they've canceled the July 23rd meeting.
We most respectfully insist you read Part 1 and Part 2 articles as requested to understand that we are aware of all these sites and the data... Our questions came from the concerns we have of the very sites you provided Mr. Johnson; However, we need Commissioner Miron's responses not yours.
We asked for personal responses from Commissioner Miron because you are the elected official who is the Chair of the RRPB leading the process for Washington County's side as evidenced by his signing of the May 28th Draft Authorization to Purchase that will be put up for vote on the final agreement.
In all due respect Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Hunter, Mr. Hansen, and others... none of you are elected by the people. You can get away with brushing us off, sending requests for data via snail mail, or simply ignoring our questions as you have with no consequence. You have no incentive to tell us the truth in personalized responses.
Citizens, tax payers, and the livelihood of the 500 local residents involved in the MSW industry in the counties do not deserve this cold response (Source February 26th 2015 RRPB meeting).
It is up to you Commissioner Miron if you wish to make things right and provide direct answers as requested or if you want to stick with the link responses from Mr. Johnson. Out of respect, we will wait until July 2nd before we issue the full report on the answers. In the interest of truth I've notified the mainstream media and the haulers who've contacted me that you haven't responded yet. We don't think the RRPB and Commissioner Miron realize how bad it looks upon them to answer public outcry with links to board meetings and promotional sites. Eureka and the other environmentalist groups CC'd on this e-mail may not be so kind; but they too await the real answers.
Below are the individual reasons why each response was inadequate (aside from question 4)
If Commissioner Miron refuses to answer, that is his choice.
Refer to our question #1:
We have provided overwhelming evidence of the decline and danger to the environment with the production of RDF at a facility like RRT to have it incinerated and we ask why spend $26.4 million for the facility (+$6.5 on fixes). You provide links stating you "understand that combustion of shredded trash to generate electricity can be improved upon." Again, this is a horrible technology of the 80s that we have no business buying into... if you want to "phase it out" in 3-7 years for its clearly proven financial and environmental risks... why waste $30+ million buying this? Please explain why we can't abandon RDF production and utilize resources towards recycling and the more safe alternative disposal methods for non-proccessable waste? (please read the following articles to provide the most fair responses: Part 1 and Part 2... also, the concerns of the environmentalists in this article)
Refer to our question #2:
We provided overwhelming evidence that haulers will ramp up delivery to Wisconsin to avoid the higher $65/ton tipping fee. Especially Advanced Disposal who has a landfill in Eau Claire they already deliver too. We asked about the likely scenario of even more waste leaving out of state and thus tax payers will be left holding the bag for the six figure fines from Xcel Energy for under delivering RDF. You responded with reference to the MPCA enforcing the hauler mandate... However, you acknowledged in the last meeting on May 28th that this will "Likely will not capture waste currently leaving State" Again, answer question 2: What is your response to the likely scenario of haulers, especially Advanced, going to Wisconsin thus leaving tax payers holding the bag with the six figure fines from Xcel Energy for not delivering enough RDF to burn?
Refer to our question #3
We have provided overwhelming evidence of the $80-$100 tipping fees at the other RRFs in MN and we ask why you think $65/ton will suffice. You provided links to a report that says you're continuing to move forward with the purchase based on blind estimates from Foth as they clearly admit: "Because the Project does not have actual figures, it has had to prepare estimated operating costs" (source p. 8 of the Foth Financial Analysis Report) Again, directly answer question 3: What is your response to tax payers who find your $65/ton plan is inadequate to self fund the Newport Facility as promised, leaving tax payers the burden of paying for it?
Refer to our question #4:
We have provided overwhelming evidence that increased tipping fees, whether $65/ton or the standard $80- $100/ton in the State, will be passed on the the customers. You confirm through a link that generators (customers) will absorb this cost. Furthermore, it appears the CEC... or the 35% garbage tax will continue. So unless corrected, the answer to question 4 is "yes, tax paying residents and businesses are going to get slammed with the increased costs when the government takes over the Newport Facility."
Refer to our question #5:
We provided a resource that states the entire scope and plan will be $170,000,000 based on the calculations of the local non-profit Eureka Recycling in their article. You respond stating they are incorrect but don't correct what the total cost truly is in proof of an itemized list. None of the three links you provided for the answer gave dollar figures on the cost. Furthermore you didn't answer the question: "why not take the advice of experienced experts in recycling like Eureka to promote private sector partnered solutions that are tens of millions of dollars more affordable and proven to increase recycling?"
Refer to our question #6:
We contacted Sigurd Scheurle, the MN Pollution Control Agency State Planning Director about your plan to implement Mixed Waste Processing MWP to remove a small percentage of recylables from MSW. The Director stated the process was difficult and more costly. Going on to say "I personally believe that convenient services to people and robust public information offer the best hope for behavior changes that increase the source separation of materials including organic waste, recyclables, and toxic and hazardous waste." We highlighted the extreme imbalance of investing over $227 million for RDF production and incineration while only investing $20 million on recycling promotion during that same time period of 28 years. We asked "Why not take the Director of the MPCA's advice and invest in the neglected effort of providing "convenient services to people and robust public information" to achieve recycling goals and thus decline in waste being put into incinerators and landfills?" You responded with a link to the waste hierarchy that just provided the talking points on investing in recycling.
[2nd Email]
From: email@example.com
Subject: Resource Recovery
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:14:10 +0000
Subject: Six Q/A on Resource Recovery Buyout from Com. Miron
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 08:08:14 -0500
Subject: Resource Recovery
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 21:14:10 +0000
On behalf of Commissioner Fran Miron,
Thank you for your email. Information you requested can be found at:
Specific links are also provided below.
1) Question 1
a. System Change: http://ramseyatoz.co.ramsey.mn.us/documents/4-23-15_rrp_meeting_materials.pdf - Agenda item II.A.i.
b. Scope for resource management discussion and approval: http://ramseyatoz.co.ramsey.mn.us/documents/9-25-14_rrp_board_materials.pdf. Presentation on: http://www.co.ramsey.mn.us/NR/rdonlyres/C85E23D9-EF87-4CAB-9FDF-55AC7A61551A/39544/policy_evaluation_progress_report_final.pptx.
c. 75% Recycling Goal: http://morevaluelesstrash.com/#/meeting-75-recycling-goal/
d. Fact Sheets:
i. http://morevaluelesstrash.com/fact-sheet-cty-master-plans
ii. http://morevaluelesstrash.com/fact-sheet-hierarchy
iii. http://morevaluelesstrash.com/fact-sheet-reduce-reuse-recycle
iv. http://morevaluelesstrash.com/fact-sheet-tech
2) Report on Waste Designation: http://www.co.ramsey.mn.us/NR/rdonlyres/C85E23D9-EF87-4CAB-9FDF-55AC7A61551A/36779/22014_board_materials.pdf - See page 21.
3) Life cycle financial analysis Report: http://www.co.ramsey.mn.us/NR/rdonlyres/C85E23D9-EF87-4CAB-9FDF-55AC7A61551A/41165/life_cycle_financial_analysis1.pdf.
4) Generator Pays discussion - http://www.co.ramsey.mn.us/NR/rdonlyres/C85E23D9-EF87-4CAB-9FDF-55AC7A61551A/41168/22615_board_materials.pdf - Financial Analysis Report – Page 46
5) The Eureka information is incorrect, and the correct information is in these fact sheets:
a. http://morevaluelesstrash.com/fact-sheet-rwc
b. http://morevaluelesstrash.com/fact-sheet-hierarchy
c. http://morevaluelesstrash.com/fact-sheet-reduce-reuse-recycle
6) Waste Hierarchy: http://morevaluelesstrash.com/#/wastehierarchy/
[1st Email]To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Subject: Six Q/A on Resource Recovery Buyout from Com. Miron
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 08:08:14 -0500
Dear Commissioner Miron (and others CC'd)
With utmost respect for your elected position please understand that many citizens feel you and the Resource Recovery Project Board (RRPB) need to please hear the citizen concern regarding the buyout of the Newport RRF and provide us a response.
With no intent to lecture you, could you please read the following and respond to each of the six questions we have? Explanation would be appreciated as concerned citizens who understand the implications of the buyout are far greater than what is reported in the media as something of routine County business.
We seek your response Commissioner Miron because you are the signer of the May 28th Draft Authorization to Purchase that will be put up for vote on July 23rd as the final agreement.
Citizens ranging from fiscal conservatives to environmentalists to regular citizens fear the immense cost and inefficient and harmful practice of creating RDF to incinerate is not the proper or responsible course to achieve the MPCA's 75% recycling compliance goal from our current 50% standing.
The RRPB voted 7-2 to move forward with the buyout decision and there are major concerns we would like for you to acknowledge and preferably respond to. This is especially appreciated as the public is shut out of the now canceled meeting that was supposed to occur today (June 25th). It is the least you could do.
1.) Production of RDF (refuse derived fuel) for incineration is a harmful solution for waste disposal that is now being quickly abandoned as no new facilities have been built since the late 90s according to the EPA. In fact, their numbers are on the decline from 171 in 1991 to only 89 in 2004. Plastics, paper, and other recyclables are included in RDF and do not increase recycling. Without going off topic on us about landfills. Please explain why we can't abandon RDF production and utilize resources towards recycling and the more safe alternative disposal methods for non-proccessable waste? (please read the following articles to provide the most fair responses: Part 1 and Part 2... also, the concerns of the environmentalists in this article)
2.) There is a giant elephant in the room called the Interstate Commerce act of 1887. After reading the three articles, Please address the concern that the RRPB's Waste Designation Assurance Plan may not work. Historically local mandates to sway private sector behavior in the free market do not work. The board's simple plan to mandate haulers to deliver to Newport for an increase in tipping fees from apx $50/ton to $65+ dollars a ton at their own cost (as the rebates will expire) is bold. In the free market system logic tells us haulers like Advanced Disposal will avoid this massive cost burden and haul to their Eau Claire Wisconsin landfill and keep their prices low. Putting pressure on the competition to find Wisconsin or Iowa alternates also. Thankfully the constitution protects the Interstate Commerce laws and the American Free Market. What is your response to the likely scenario of haulers, especially Advanced, going to Wisconsin thus leaving tax payers holding the bag with the six figure fines from Xcel Energy for not delivering enough RDF to burn?
3.) Currently the Newport facility charges $86/ton tipping fee. The RRPB plan is to lower it to $65/ton to avoid haulers justifying traveling to nearby Wisconsin to keep their apx $50/ton tipping fee. RRT never opened their books to prove their profits and you assume they were taking $21/ton profit to justify the cut to $65/ton you think will sustain the Newport RRF. However, as our fully sourced evidence shows the five remaining Government owned RRFs in MN charge $80 to $100/ton and still lose hundreds of thousands a year in deficits... the tipping fee exception is Hennepin County who charges $60/ton; however they lose $1.8 million dollars a year! (fully sourced in our Part 2 article). The RRPB promises it can not only pay for all the capital costs... but also the operating costs and the future upgrades for things like Gasification. What is your response to tax payers who find your $65/ton plan is inadequate to self fund the Newport Facility as promised, leaving tax payers the burden of paying for it?
4.) Whether the RRPB keeps the $65/ton tipping fee promise or likely ramps it up to the State standard of $80-$100/ton it still leaves the haulers passing the massive cost increase on to the customers. Customers who are still paying the 35% garbage tax to the board and for a system that does not increase recycling participation, nor has it measurably in the last half a dozen+ years. The RRPB website promises that the buyout will lower costs. What evidence do you have for tax paying residents and businesses that we're not going to get slammed with the increased costs when the government takes over the Newport Facility?
5.) The local non-profit, Eureka Recycling, calculated the total cost of the RRPB's Scope and plan for the Newport facility take over at $170,000,000 in their article. In our findings we found the calculation to be accurate. Aside from small gains with labor intensive and massively expensive ideas such as "Mixed Waste Processing" that at most increases the recycling goal by 5.9%... why not take the advice of experienced experts in recycling like Eureka to promote private sector partnered solutions that are tens of millions of dollars more affordable and proven to increase recycling?
6.) In an e-mail we received in January from Sigurd Scheurle, the MN Polution Control Agency State Planning Director had this to say about the labor intensive practice of removing recyclables after they've been put into the trash as you plan to implement with Mixed Waste Processing (MWP): "if waste materials that are recyclable are instead placed in MMSW by the waste generator, then recovering potentially recyclable materials becomes more difficult and more costly." We responded asking what the most cost effective way to achieve the 75% recycling goal would be if chasing recyclables out garbage with MWP is difficult and costly... the Director responded: "I personally believe that convenient services to people and robust public information offer the best hope for behavior changes that increase the source separation of materials including organic waste, recyclables, and toxic and hazardous waste." Considering the past 28 years and the $227+ million dollars to subsidize RDF and incineration in Newport and only $20 million being put towards recycling promotion during that time comparatively... Why not take the Director of the MPCA's advice and invest in the neglected effort of providing "convenient services to people and robust public information" to achieve recycling goals and thus decline in waste being put into incinerators and landfills?
Again, we appreciate your response to each of the six questions (perhaps in line after each question in a reply). It is the least you could do to make up for the act of canceling the last public opportunity to voice concern on this very day of June 25th.
Considering the time sensitive nature of this subject and hauler liberties that are at stake, please reply within one week. We have cc'd all the fellow board members, local environmental groups who are opposed to the buy out, and the local media contacts who may also anticipate your response to consider covering the buyout from a more cautious perspective. So please "reply all" in your response should you hopefully decide to respond.
If after a week you choose not to respond we'll post the questions in full for the public that you decided not to respond.


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The '80s are back - and we're not talking leg warmers.
Last week Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) released "Chinese Professor," a campaign spot with overtones of xenophobia not seen since the Cold War.
The ad takes us to a Beijing classroom in 2030 AD where a Chinese professor is lecturing on the fall of "empires" like the Greeks, Romans, British -- and most recently the United States. As iconic American images are projected behind him, the teacher tells the students, "They all make the same mistakes. Turning their backs on the principles that made them great. America tried to spend and tax itself out of a great recession. Enormous so-called "stimulus" spending, massive changes to health care, government takeover of private industries, and crushing debt." And then the kicker: "Of course, we owned that debt," (professor chuckles smugly) "so now they work for us" (students laugh). The segment closes with a stern narrative voice telling us that we "have to" act or this will be our brave new world in 20 years.
The commercial is described by CAGW in an October 21 press release as, "... a chilling look at one potential future scenario if we continue on our current destructive fiscal trajectory ... a 2010 homage to a 1986 ad that was produced by W.R. Grace & Co. called "The Deficit Trials."
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In response, Campus Progress Action released a smart parody poking fun at the overt fear mongering, xenophobia, and racism of the original. CAGW had the spoof removed from YouTube, saying, "We love parody as much as anyone (I was a huge fan of the Downfall series myself), but what Campus Progress did was not 'parody.' They basically hijacked and adulterated it to help raise money for themselves ... it is a copyright violation."
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Dale Brain Injury Services Along with their partners, The Governments of Canada and Ontario, the City of London and SDI Builders Celebrate New Affordable Housing in London
London, ON – The Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, and the City of London along with Dale Brain Injury Services and SDI Builders, celebrated the Grand Opening of 20 affordable rental units for people with disabilities in London on Friday, November 12, 2010. The many dignitaries and guests in attendance witnessed the ribbon cutting, and the naming of the building - The Nigel & Rhonda Gilby Centre For Building Futures. Nigel Gilby is a founding DBIS Board Member . He and his wife, Rhonda, were pleased to have their names attached to such a worthwhile project.
"This partnership of three levels of government enabled Dale Brian Injury Services (DBIS) and SDI Builders to provide affordable and accessible housing with support services," said Sue Hillis, Executive Director, DBIS. "In the words of tenant Angelo, 'living here is great! The downtown location is very convenient, and it's like living in a brand new building because it's been totally redone`."
Dale Brain Injury Services partnered with SDI Builders on a successful proposal to the Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing Program which provided funding necessary to help make this important project a reality. The 20-unit project located at 164 Albert Street received $1.92 million in funding through the Canada-Ontario Affordable Housing Program. Additional funding was provided through municipal financial incentives.
"The McGuinty government is investing in affordable housing for the people in our community who need it the most," said MPP Deb Matthews. "By providing a safe, accessible and affordable place to call home, we are giving 20 individuals living with disabilities an opportunity to build a stronger future."
DBIS would like to thank everyone for the donations made to their Capital Campaign thus far, launched to raise the funds necessary to pay for furnishings and equipment for the building. Platinum Sponsors: Nigel & Rhonda Gilby, and Protek Systems Staff and Owners. Gold Sponsors: Dennis & Karen Dalton, Marcus & Associates – Hoare Dalton, Cathy McGarrell and Family in memory of Michael P. McGarrell and LOR-DON Inc. Silver Sponsors: Gerald & Kathryn McMahon and Joanne Osborne.
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By Lee Rasizer, CCA Director of Media/Public Relations
At first glance, there's not much that would seemingly connect Nathan Guild and Morgan Rose Nolen.
Guild is a former Navy Seabee, covered in tattoos and now studying international business. Nolen has designs on becoming a priestess and owning her own metaphysical shop where open-minded individuals come to connect with spirits, listen to spiritual readings and purchase various religious curios.
Yet, here they are, these two, joined at the trip.
Both now attend Temple University-Tokyo. And each of them got there after accumulating transfer credits as Community College of Aurora students.
CCA tells individuals that they can "start here, finish there." For Guild and Nolen, they left – and just kept on going, thousands of miles away.
If anything, they are living proof of what the possibilities can be after leaving the CentreTech and Lowry campuses and continuing to study.
And while Guild and Nolen both are focused on their divergent paths, it's important to note that when each started at CCA, they were almost completely unsure of the direction they were headed; in life, not directionally toward the Far East.
"I would never have imagined sitting in the classes that I sat in and actually being an international business major," Guild said by phone from the streets of Tokyo after his last day of classes, pre-finals.
"That would have been crazy thinking."
Guild's thoughts turned to a return to Japan in the summer of 2011. His then-fiancée had finished her studies at Santa Monica College, came to Colorado, and the pair married and started looking more closely at the future.
Ever since Guild stationed in Yokosuka, his passion for the Far East hadn't waned.
"It's kind of a hard feeling to describe, but a lot of it was the culture," he said of the pull he felt to again head overseas to stay.
"Personally, I never watched anime and I was never into Japanese culture growing up – the whole samurai-sword type of stuff. But it actually was the way I was treated, the food, and just the different vibe that brought me back."
Guild spent four semesters at CCA. He unofficially sat in a favorite Japanese class for part of Spring 2012 before the move took place.
Continuing college in Tokyo, though, wasn't as much a plan as happenstance.
"It certainly wasn't 100 percent when I started preparing to come over here," he said as the clock hit 2 a.m. Tokyo time during his phone interview.
"It's kind of a mixed story. I needed a change in my life to motivate myself to push forward. The first step was coming to Japan. Then, I actually found there was a Temple University in Tokyo, and it was probably a 10-15 minute bike ride from the apartment that I rented. So it was a lot by luck that I actually found the school. But once I did and realized what they offered, it pushed me in the right direction and where I'm going now."
Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) is the oldest and largest foreign university in that country. It was founded in 1982 and has since developed into a nationally recognized institution that offers a wide range of programs, including core undergraduate degrees and individual subjects ranging from law to business and education.
Including its participants in Corporate Education and English-training programs, TUJ has an enrollment of about 3,300 students that hail from approximately 60 countries, including Japan, the United States, East and Southeast Asia, Russia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Europe.
It is an English-language education where students can obtain American undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Given that geology studies necessitated fluent Japanese at a local university, Guild chose business as his career path. And, given that he had focused on guaranteed transfer classes while at CCA, mainly in science and math, all of his credits transferred when he enrolled at TUJ.
Guild currently has one more year to complete before he's slated to graduate with his International Business degree. He's also in talks to join a company as an intern this summer.
"Tokyo is a perfect place for networking," he said. "I never really thought about corporations and really big business, but that's basically what it is out here. And if you ever had the idea to travel and see a lot of places on a business trip, this is a place to make connections to get those types of jobs."
Outside of the classroom, he's been able to meet a wide array of people, from the anime crowd he only imagined before coming to Japan to veterans like himself. Guild serves as an advocate for veterans in a TUJ club when he's not going to class.
"The people I meet every day just surprise me," he said.
Morgan Rose Nolen was the restless sort herself, and given her longstanding fascination with Asian culture that started at an early age, finding her way to Tokyo seems nearly predetermined in comparison to Guild's journey.
"I grew up a spiritual person but I never really fit in in America," she suggested.
Nolen was raised in a Catholic family. Her mother is Asian; her father American. Morgan attended Catholic school until fourth grade, "but it never felt right," she said, and told her parents she didn't want to continue with that religion's rites of passage, including her confirmation.
Her search for another spiritual path would be paved by her grandmother. The latter had grown up in the Philippines and, while a Catholic woman, was open to other spiritual practices that she began to share with Nolen over time.
"She was going to psychics. She'd get readings done. She did all these things," Nolen recalled. "And she came from a country where there were shamans and mediums and all that. As I got older, she would tell me about those things and would tell me that I could do things like that. I was always confused by that, but as I got older, I realized what she was talking about."
So did Nolen's sister, Olivia, who was a year older. Soon, both girls were fascinated by the Japanese practice of Shinto and its various sects and would embed those tenets into their lives – and travels.
"My interest did start back in America," Nolen said. "I did research on it and learned about it. And here in Japan, I've gotten a first-hand look at it."
Nolen spent her freshman year at Aurora's Smoky Hill High School before transferring to Colorado Connections Academy. She had the opportunity at both schools to take Japanese lessons and found the language fascinating and the culture dating back thousands of years something she was eager to explore.
Her standardized test scores prevented immediate enrollment at TUJ, and she filed that possibility away as she enrolled at CCA in 2010 at the Colorado Film School. Initially, she had designs on exploring writing and film. Soon, she realized it wasn't what she wanted to do and began to pursue a Fine Arts curriculum while trying to discover a true calling.
Severe stomach issues prompted her to take online courses during her final three semesters at CCA, culminating in Spring 2014.
"I loved it at CCA. There were a few professors I absolutely loved there and I learned a lot," Nolen said.
Yet, one day she was perusing the Internet when she stumbled upon a page about TUJ, and it recalibrated her thought process. "I remembered how much I wanted to be there."
But the trip almost didn't come to pass because of her illness. A Japanese physician at the University of Colorado Hospital provided encouragement, telling Nolen that he was confident that getting away from genetically-modified foods, gluten and chemicals that are replete in U.S. foods and adapting to a Japanese diet would make her healthier.
"I got on that plane to Japan and I was actually pretty sick on my way here," Nolen said in a late-night phone interview from her dormitory in the Tokyo suburb of Itabashi , one of 23 wards in the city. "I wasn't sure if I was going to be OK. But coming to Japan, my doctor was right."
Nolen still has bouts with illness, including some days when she said she can't get out of bed because she's in too much pain. But she hopes to inspire others battling illness, just as much as she's driven to help people through her chosen profession.
Nolen, 21, is on a dual track while in Tokyo. There's learning Japanese and balancing higher education with her religious studies. In all of it, she's found a home.
She eventually hopes to be ordained as a priestess under an eclectic pagan order that follows Konkokyo religion as the base of the training. She attends a church regularly in Shiba, Japan, and consults often with its priestess.
Here, training includes "working with different deities from different pantheons that a lot of people don't know about" or only know in mythology.
"I do a lot of spiritual work for people. I do readings. I'm working on a small business for when I graduate college, a metaphysical store doing spiritual medium work for people," she said. "Here in Japan, it's very common. Unlike America, where people do medium and shaman work and aren't very accepted; here, it's pretty routine.
"At actual Shinto shrines, they still have priests and priestesses that still do things like that in ceremonial settings. When I came here and originally saw it, after reading about it on the Internet, it felt right compared to everything else I'd been exposed to."
At the same time, her sister has been practicing her priestess training in Toronto and will be joining Nolen in Japan later this summer.
That prospect seemed fantastical just a few years ago while at CCA. "I don't know if I would have believed it," she admitted. "Sometimes I don't even believe I'm in the middle of Tokyo right now."
Some of her friends from back home still don't understand her chosen path, but overall, she hasn't met much resistance to her choices. Nolen accepts that there are people who won't believe what it is she is doing, but because she's so passionate and it's her own choice, she's unaffected by those skeptics.
It's easy to discern her happiness at the situation, even through a cellphone connection.
"It's been a complete change. It's incredible," she said. "Everything here is very convenient. In Aurora, I would have to drive everywhere. There are busses and the light rail, but I never took public transportation. Everywhere I had to go was by car.
"Here in Japan," she added. "Everything's so convenient. Train lines get you anywhere you want to go in Tokyo. And the trains here are on time literally to the second. If they're late a minute or two there's announcements in Japanese apologizing for that. You walk down the street; there are vending machines on every corner. People are very friendly and polite. They help you if you just reach out to them."
Helping people is Nolen's underlying goal, too, as she continues, then finishes her priestess training and hopefully opens that planned metaphysical shop.
"In Colorado, and because I was sick, I feel I was incredibly sheltered. Going across the Pacific Ocean, I had to grow up really fast, and with other things, too, like studying to become a priestess," she said. "I still have a lot more growth, but coming to Tokyo has helped me."
Nolen and Guild were unaware that two former CCA students were studying at TUJ. They both laughed when told that a third was expected to begin his studies in Tokyo beginning in Fall 2016.
At a recent CCA transfer fair, the university's senior admissions counselor was on hand discussing with attendees the possibility of studying overseas.
'Start here, finish there?' It's something adventurous CCA students at least can stop and consider tangibly.
Guild, for his part, highly recommends to fellow veterans exploring the notion, if interested. "It's a good chance to use your G.I. Bill," he explained. "You can find places that actually are affordable using your G.I. Bill, living out here, going to school. And I can't lie, it's a pretty fun experience."
Nolen made the transfer to Tokyo a priority item in her life and encourages those interested in doing something similar to go for it.
"I realized a long time ago that this life is short," she said. "We don't have a lot of opportunities to do what we want to do. And I know people back home who are my friends who want to go to Japan and may never get a chance.
"I have an opportunity that a lot of people don't get or may not ever get. But I think if you have the chance to do it, or you're thinking about doing it and you want it bad enough, go for it. That's all there is to it.
"I had doubts about coming here. I had worries about money, which I still do. I was worried about a bunch of different things. But at the end of the day, I knew if I didn't do it, I'd regret it."


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July 11, 2017 8:59PM EDT
Photo: The partially-completed Warrior Course at Sky Zone in Bethel, CT, on July 10, 2017.
Attention Bethel Ninjas! Sky Zone 'Warrior Course' Almost Complete, Grand Opening July 15th
Bethel Advocate got a sneak peek at the new 'Warrior Course' being built at Sky Zone in Clarke Park, 13 Francis J. Clarke Circle, Bethel, CT. It is awesome! Many pieces are still to be added but the course will be ready soon.
The Warrior Course features two lanes with different levels of difficulty for warriors of various ages and skill sets. Warrior Course obstacles include warped walls, cheese boards, tarzan ropes, monkey box and more. Warrior Course is included in purchase of any open jump ticket.
The project is scheduled to be completed by this Saturday, July 15, 2017, and the 'Warrior Course' Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony takes place at 11:00 a.m.
Special Guest American Ninja Warrior Joe Moravsky will be at Sky Zone Bethel, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.. The first 100 guests will receive a Warrior Course Sky Zone t-shirt. (walk-ins only)
American Ninja Warrior Joe 'The Weatherman' Moravsky, is a 28 year old Meteorologist at News 12 Connecticut who grew up in the small town of Sherman, CT. Besides being a weatherman, he currently owns The Weather Warrior, LLC and teaches gymnastics and parkour part-time at a gym in Newtown called Vasi's International Gymnastics.
Sky Zone describes their new Warrior Course: "Enter a jumper. Exit a warrior. For athletes looking to push themselves, the Warrior Course will put your abilities to the test. Take on a variety of obstacles in a test of speed, strength, and agility. Go for a personal record or dominate your friends."
Sky Zone Warrior Course Grand Opening
Hosted by Sky Zone Bethel and Joe Moravsky (Joe "The Weatherman" Moravsky- Ninja Pro)
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The biannual Vogue Bamini Fashion Show is this Sunday October 2nd @ 12:00 pm at the Javits Center in NYC opening the ENK Children's Club Show.
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3) Deglaze the pan with the beef stock and add the Worcestershire sauce. Adjust the seasoning with an additional tsp of pepper and the salt. Add in the prepared roasted vegetables.
4) Preheat the oven to 180C/Gas 4. In a 33cm by 23cm baking dish, add in the vegetable and meat mixture. Top with the asiago mashed potatoes and spread evenly, leaving a 2.5cm border of meat mixture exposed.
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3) Remove the peppers to a plastic bag and when cool enough to handle, remove the skin and seeds. Dice all the vegetables into 2.5cm pieces.
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This is Cwm Darren Parc, outside Bargoed, in the Rhymney Valley. If you Google Earth this location you will see what it looked like whilst in the process of being landscaped.
Again a former mining area which has been landscaped. Now that heavy industry has disappeared, all the Welsh mining valleys have reverted back to what they must have looked like 200 years ago. I doubt though that it looked exactly like this, but its a vast improvement from 50 years ago.


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Did you know that your 'recyclable' takeaway paper cup isn't so recyclable?
Millions in the UK assume that paper cups can be recycled as many of your favourite coffee chains like to promote their cups as being 'eco-friendly'. While this is technically true, the reality is only two small facilities in the UK are even capable of recycling these cups, and one of these sites has never even dealt with a paper cup before! So while all of these paper cups could be recycled, there is no effort to make this happen, and most recycling sites don't have the technology to do so.
What makes them so difficult to recycle?
Most recycling sites can't recycle paper cups due to the polyethylene lining on the coffee cups which is used to keep them waterproof. Unfortunately, this means that the majority of the annual 2.5 billion (!) used takeaway cups either go into landfill or are incinerated.
So what is the solution?
The best way to deal with the paper cup problem is to quit paper cups altogether and use travel mugs instead. Travel mugs are a great way to transport your coffee and should last 3+ years. Also, we understand that saying no to takeaway coffee could be too big of a sacrifice, but the majority of coffee shops are happy to put your order in a mug, and some even offer incentives to do so! Although, if you do want to save some money, using a travel mug could help you ditch that expensive takeaway coffee habit and encourage you to start brewing at home in the morning. So in addition to helping the environment, making coffee in your own travel mug could save you hundreds of pounds. Win-win! Buy your own here.
- Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, 'Viewpoint: The waste mountain of coffee cups' (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36882799)
- KeepCup, 'Disposable Cup VS KeepCup' (http://vs.keepcup.com.au/)


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Wild get rare road win, top Blue Jackets 3-2 in shootout
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — It was a long night on the road for the Minnesota Wild.
This time, it was worth it.
Zach Parise and Chris Stewart scored in the shootout, and the Wild beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 3-2 on Tuesday.
Devan Dubnyk had 28 saves for Minnesota (27-18-5), which earned its 10th road win of the season. Jason Zucker scored his 20th goal, and Charlie Coyle added his fifth in the third period.
"It's been a tough go on the road," Dubnyk said. "We all felt it. We all talked about it. There is nothing we can say to make it go away. We just need to go play better.
"It was a good start for us tonight."
Columbus (27-19-4) lost for the fourth time in six games. Sergei Bobrovsky made 41 stops, Artemi Panarin had a goal and an assist and David Savard scored his third of the season.
Savard got the lead for the Blue Jackets when he scored on a top-shelf shot from the blue line just 1:16 into the game, surprising Dubnyk. Dean Kukan got an assist on the play for his first NHL point.
Savard had a chance for another goal at 12:19, but it was waved off for a distinct kicking motion.
Minnesota got on the board with a power-play goal at 4:25 of the second. Zucker beat Bobrovsky in a battle for the puck in the crease, matching Eric Staal for the team lead in goals and extending his point streak to seven games.
"The first 10 minutes of the second period was a perfect road game," Wild coach Bruce Boudreau said. "Getting it deep, shooting at the net ... doing all the simple things."
The Wild jumped in front when Coyle scored right after his team killed off a Stewart slashing penalty, but the Blue Jackets responded.
With Zucker in the box for delay of game, Panarin scored his 13th of the season at 14:48 on a shot from the right circle.
Panarin also scored Columbus' only goal in the shootout, which went four rounds.
"We can't have so many ebbs and flows in the game," Blue Jackets captain Nick Foligno said. "There are already enough to begin with. It can't come from us.
"Look at our effort in the first period, dominating. The second period hits, and our effort goes away. They come right way and start dictating."
NOTES: The Wild play three of their next four games on the road. ... Blue Jackets F Brandon Dubinsky returned after missing 18 games with an orbital fracture. He played almost 15 minutes and was a plus-one.
Wild: Hosts Vegas on Friday.
Blue Jackets: Host San Jose on Friday.


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Posted: Mar 25, 2017
LAIE, Hawaii – BYU-Hawaii softball fell 6-0, 14-1 in a doubleheader Saturday against California Baptist at the BYU-Hawaii Softball Field.
Lizabelle Talataina drove in the lone run of the day for the Seasiders (10-22, 7-13 PacWest) in the second game. Brittany Vasquez went 1 for 2 in the second game with one run.
Caitlyn Lloyd went 3 for 7 with five RBI and a home run for the Lancers (24-7, 18-2 PacWest). Krista Mann also finished 3 for 7 with four RBI. Ashley Coleman (7-2) and Iveth Alvarado (2-0) grabbed the victories for Cal Baptist.
Game one
- Mann led off the game with a walk and Lloyd doubled to left center to give the Lancers the first run of the game. Lloyd crossed the plate two batters later on a sacrifice fly.
- Makaela Williamson walked and Alanna Anderson singled to short to lead off the bottom of the second inning for BYU-Hawaii, but the Seasiders were unable to bring them home.
- Three singles and a walk brought another run in for Cal Baptist in the fourth to make it 3-0.
- Talataina and Anderson walked to put runners on first and second in the bottom of the frame. Alexa Barrett roped a two-out single to right field, but Talataina was caught at the plate to end the inning.
- Hannah Thieroff homered to straightway center to leadoff the top of the sixth for the Lancers and Mann and Lloyd doubled in back-to-back at bats to score one more for the 5-0 lead.
- Cal Baptist added one more run in the seventh after Deanna Alarcon singled up the middle to score Brittany Galvez from second.


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Helping Skilled Newcomers Find Jobs
McGuinty Government Invests in Skills Training And Expands Opportunities To Work
Ontario is helping more than 5000 highly skilled newcomers transition to jobs that match their qualifications and experience.
The government is investing in 31 bridge training programs across the province. Bridge training programs help highly skilled newcomers
One of these programs is co-sponsored with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The program will help internationally trained electrical workers learn Canadian construction methods, health and safety standards and new green technologies to prepare them for positions in Ontario's labour force.
Support for bridge training programs is an important part of the government's Open Ontario Plan to strengthen the economy by investing in the skills and knowledge of Ontarians.
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- In total, the government is investing $29.5 million to support the 22 new and 9 renewal programs.
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- Two out of three adult newcomers to Ontario have post-secondary education or training.
- Almost half of all newcomers to Canada choose to settle in Ontario.
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"We know that bridge training programs work. We are renewing and expanding our commitment to bridge training so that more of Ontario's newcomers can put their skills and experience to work, and help make Ontario more competitive in today's global economy."
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It was the year 1957 – 57 years ago. The scene was Little Rock, Arkansas. The governor of that state was Orval Faubus (D), a name that may be unfamiliar to younger readers. The nine male white Justices of the Supreme Court had struck down desegregation in public schools in the Brown vs. The Board of Education decision. The governor of Arkansas disagreed with that decision and militarized the Arkansas National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School.
The nine black students who had enrolled in Little Rock Central High School initially were blocked from attending by the Guard. The Mayor of Little Rock, Woodrow Wilson Mann appealed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) who intervened, sending in the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to escort and protect the students. Eisenhower ultimately federalized the Arkansas National Guard, taking them out of the control of Governor Faubus.
Particularly during their first year attending Little Rock Central High, all of the students were subject to derision and abuse by their white counterparts. One of them, Melba Patillo had acid thrown in her face and several white girls tried to light her hair on fire when she was in the rest room. Others were spit on as they walked the school's hallways. That was the way it was in America in 1957 – at least in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The state of Arkansas elects its governor for a two year term. Orval Faubus was elected to six successive terms by the citizens of that state. Notwithstanding what transpired in Little Rock in 1957, Faubus won his final election as governor in 1964 and carried more than 81% of the black vote in that election. What were the black voters of Arkansas thinking back then? What are they thinking today?
There was something refreshing about Orval Faubus. He made the list of the "Top Ten Most Influential Men in America" in 1958. He was either loved or hated. There was no parsing your position when it came to the governor. You knew that Faubus was a strict segregationist. He made no bones about his position and made no excuses for his beliefs. Whether you agreed or disagreed with him, it was impossible to say that he was not honest.
I thought about Little Rock as events in Ferguson, MO are unfolding. To say the least, the way in which the Ferguson PD has managed this has been far from perfect. Suspicion has arisen because of the failure, until today, to release the name of the officer who shot Michael Brown. The governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon (D) took charge and by appointing the head of the Missouri State Police, Captain Ron Johnson took a big step in the right direction. Johnson is well-spoken and is a calming influence, helping to diffuse a situation that was at a boiling point and is now at a fast simmer.
The family made a statement and appealed to the community to keep calm, to continue to demonstrate but to do so in a peaceful manner. That is admirable and is what should happen. But in today's release of the name of the officer who shot Michael Brown, it was also revealed that Brown was caught on the Quick Trip video security camera, robbing the store. His identity and participation in this theft has now been confirmed – as well his manhandling the short owner of the store who is dwarfed by this 6' 4", 292 pound "gentle giant" as he has been characterized. And then the attorneys for the Brown family, headed by Benjamin Crump who represented the Trayvon Martin family, released the following statement:
Michael Brown's family is beyond outraged at the devious way the police chief has chosen to disseminate piece mil (sic) information in a manner intended to assassinate the character of their son, following such a brutal assassination of his person in broad daylight.
There is nothing based on the facts that have been placed before us that can justify the execution style murder of their child by this police officer as he held his hands up, which is the universal sign of surrender.
The prolonged release of the officer's name and then the subsequent alleged information regarding a robbery is the reason why the family and the local community have such distrust for the local law enforcement agencies.
It is no way transparent to release the still photographs alleged to be Michael Brown and refuse to release the photographs of the officer that executed him.
The police strategy of attempting to blame the victim will not divert our attention, from being focused on the autopsy, ballistics report and the trajectory of the bullets that caused Michael's death and will demonstrate to the world this brutal execution of an unarmed teenager.
Benjamin L Crump, Esq.
Anthony D. Gray, Esq.
Daryl D. Parks, Esq.
If I hadn't read the signatures at the end of this statement, I would have guessed that it had been written by Al Sharpton or one of the other race baiters who regularly stir the pot when these sorts of incidents occur. And just for once, it would give all of us some real reason for outrage if the "victim" as Michael Brown may have been, did not engage in possibly illegal acts, such as the store robbery, which only muddy the waters on what happened.
I didn't know the late Michael Brown. Losing your life over fifty dollars worth of stolen cigars is mind numbing. But I do know that good kids don't steal from convenience stores. And if there is one lesson to be learned, it is one that is generally ignored by our black citizens.
In 1964 when black Arkansas voters cast 81% of their ballots for the segregationist/racist Governor Orval Faubus, the overall unemployment rate in this country was 5.2% and for black workers was 6.1%. Today the rate for black teenagers, kids like Michael Brown is nearly 25% – and black Americans voted for another Democrat, Barack Obama giving him 95% of their ballots.
It makes me long for the good old days.


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On February 26th movie fans all over the world tuned into the 89th Academy Awards ceremony, better known as the Oscars, where the best films of 2016 were honored. La La Land has received a record 14 Oscar nominations, but it's another film and its story that is gathering much critical acclaim and popular following.
Hidden Figures tells the true and inspiring story of three African American female pioneers –Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson — who played an integral role in NASA's space-race success in the 1960s. Since its release the film has received 25 industry awards and 61 nominations. And earlier this month the film became the highest grossing Best Picture nominated film, beating out La La Land with a box-office total of $119.4 million. (more…)
I'm one of more than 21 million veterans in the U.S. today. After serving more than 20 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, I was ready to transition to the civilian workforce back in 2005. At first, I questioned how my military skillset would translate to a civilian job. However, after spending the last 11 years in the civilian workforce, I have found that my military experience has helped me thrive and actually create an entire career path.
This week, Sodexo participated in the "Upskilling America's Workforce: Preparing for the Future of Work by Aligning Business and Education" conference, hosted by Manpower Group and Apollo Education Group at the National Press Club. The conference highlighted a ManpowerGroup's Talent Shortage Survey, which found that 38 percent of employers globally report difficulties filling jobs.
As a top 20 global employer, with over 133,000 employees in the U.S., we recognize that a key part of the challenge is building a workforce with the necessary STEM skills. (more…)
While expanded globalization is swiftly increasing the competitive landscape for most businesses, it is also creating many more opportunities (and choices) for top STEM talent. The U.S. Department of Commerce projects that STEM occupations will grow by 17 percent between 2008–2018, compared with only 9.8 percent for non-STEM fields. In addition, the nonprofit Science Pioneers, expects demand for STEM professionals to add more than 1 million jobs to the U.S. workforce over the next four years. Compare this with the number of bachelor degrees in STEM-related fields, which has remained relatively flat for nearly 20 years, and you can clearly see the talent-gap most businesses will have to deal with. To make matters worse, the U.S. Department of Education reports that only 16 percent of high school seniors are interested in pursuing STEM careers. (more…)
In 1953, Winston Churchill said: "All the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind." Over the years, eminent scholars and educators have echoed Churchill's sentiments: If you don't know history, you are condemned by ignorance to repeat, rather than learn from, the lessons of the past. The World Affairs Council-Washington, DC (WAC-DC) advocates a liberal arts education approach to help prepare teachers and students to be 'global citizens' in our diverse, multi-cultural and interconnected world.
International leaders in the STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) education movement also believe that educators and students in the 21st century must acquire knowledge of world history, geography, social studies, civics, arts, humanities, psychology, philosophy and communications to be successful in work and life, particularly in the international arena.
The WAC-DC is an institution 'Where Learning Happens' and it defines global education as: The ability to understand the interconnectedness of people and systems, to express cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity, to empathize with others, to maintain an open-mind, to see different perspectives, to apply knowledge of global dynamics, to practice effective problem solving skills and to communicate and work efficiently in diverse environments.
Our customized programs are focused on empowering educators, students and citizens through a 'Knowledge Transfer' process that is based on ten core 'Global Education' competencies, that can easily be infused into any existing high school or college curricula: Critical Thinking; Making Connections; Leadership Skills; Cross-Cultural Awareness; Problem-Solving Skills/Decision Making Skills; Communication Skills; Understanding Others Perspectives; Investigate the World; Understanding of Major Global Issues; and Media Literacy.
The Council is concluding the evaluation phase of a MasterCard Foundation-sponsored 2015/16 Global Education Teachers – International Exchange Program (GET-IEP) between high school teachers and students in the Washington, DC metro area and their counterparts in South Africa. What we've found is that only 13% of students surveyed in the US and South Africa said that they are currently getting the global education insights and knowledge they felt they needed to better understand their own nation, the global community, and how people and societies can work effectively together to develop understanding of, and mutual respect for worldwide differences. It's through GET-IEP and other global education programs that we provide opportunities for learning and growth outside the classroom.
As future generations continue to innovate in the fields of science and technology, we must also empower them with a well-rounded understanding of our global history. Our world is increasingly globalized and more interconnected than ever before, so it is vital that our students learn about the world that surrounds them. A global education enables students to better identify problems, solutions and the vehicles for change; constructing modern 'empires of the mind'.
Our students are inheriting a world that presents challenges, but it is also a world filled with immense opportunity. The WAC-DC is committed to providing those same kinds of opportunities for learning, through global education programs for teachers and students worldwide.
Tony Culley-Foster is the President and CEO of the World Affairs Council-Washington, DC. He is profiled in Who's Who in the World; a visiting Professor in Communications at the University of Ulster; Board member of the Illinois Institute of Technology – Stuart School of Business; and is a recipient of HRH – The Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award; and numerous American and international commendations for voluntary service, international education, social responsibility and contribution to peace in Northern Ireland.
Today's learners must be able to think critically, recognize patterns, solve problems and communicate effectively in the workforce and society to be successful. Sixty-three percent of education leaders state job placement as the leading success factor for higher education, though only 43% of industry leaders indicate higher education is preparing learners with the needed workforce skills.
According to the Pew Research Center Americans widely believe that men have a better shot at leadership positions in business and politics, even as majorities say that men and women make equally good leaders. There is little consensus, however, on why women remain underrepresented in these fields.
LinkedIn recently summarized findings from data that measured gender diversity across several industries. They found:
- A leadership gap showing a difference in females represented in membership overall and members in leadership positions
- This gap is most pronounced in healthcare, retail and financial services
- In accounting firms, women represent nearly half of the total employee base, but only 26% of leadership
- Companies that operate in e-learning and information services industries have the most gender equal workforces
- Insurance, commercial real estate and venture capital all have leadership gaps of 16% or higher
And current trends are not helping close this gap. A Forbes report revealed that the most popular majors for women include History, English language and literature, Nursing, Accounting, Psychology and Business Administration and Management (which is number one). In contrast, Kiplinger's list of most in-demand degrees center more on STEM fields and include Finance, Civil Engineering, Economics, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Management Info Systems and Computer Science.
Creating interest and opportunities for women around STEM-related fields is an important step towards realizing greater economic success and equality for women across the board. But it requires more effort by individuals and by companies. According to WhiteHouse.gov, supporting women STEM students and researchers is not only an essential part of America's strategy to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world; it is also important to women themselves. Women in STEM jobs earn 33 percent more than those in non-STEM occupations and experience a smaller wage gap relative to men. And STEM careers offer women the opportunity to engage in some of the most exciting realms of discovery and technological innovation.
Women who want to move up the ladder at an accelerated pace should consider coursework in skills that will make them more sought-after in the marketplace and position them for advancement. This may include advanced computer skills, finance or project management. And companies must do more to identify, encourage and support women who have in-demand skill-sets. Stretch opportunities, mentoring and sponsorship are just a few of the ways organizations can encourage the next generation of women leaders.
Another role that appears less common – but is, frankly, more beneficial – is that of a coach. A coach's conversations are more directive because their job is to help their client achieve his or her specific workplace objectives or goals. In other words, a good coach understands what you need to do to get ahead and helps you do just that. While coaches are often assigned only to executives by a company, the Wall Street Journal published a compelling article on the process and benefits of finding your own career coach. An experienced and objective coach may be the best career investment, providing sound advice on what courses to take, which skills to polish and what organizations are the best suited to quickly advance your career.
Michael Norris is COO and Market President for Sodexo Corporate Services and a strong advocate for the new performance frontier: Quality of Life. Mr. Norris is committed to developing the next generation of STEM leaders – both women and men – and helping to prepare all young leaders entering the workforce to be successful.
Michael Norris, COO and Market President of Sodexo Corporate Services, was invited to share his insights on the importance of STEM education in the Health Care field at the University of Phoenix Healthcare Forum. In an associated post on the University of Phoenix's blog, Michael outlines why more emphasis needs to be given to STEM careers in healthcare, the fastest growing segment of STEM jobs. For example, clinical nutrition and clinical technology management are projected to grow 21 percent and 30 percent respectively from 2012 to 2022, much faster than the average for all occupations.
In the 21st century jobs-driven economy, companies are demanding a workforce armed with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills, along with effective team building, communication and problem-solving ability. Business leaders, industry experts and academics must collaborate to develop a strategy that ensures the next generation of STEM-educated leaders is prepared for the jobs of tomorrow. Just like an Olympic athlete who invests years of training to prepare for an event, our talent development strategy must reach future employees long before they enter the workforce.
Globalization is quickly changing the rules of how business gets done. The size and scope of a company is becoming less important – agile and innovative start-ups are changing the rules and context of business. Now the battle for talent, markets, innovations and information is global. People specializing in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) are swiftly becoming the most sought-after employees because they are in short supply and those fields are critical to the prosperity of organizations operating in the global economy.