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Retailers are entering a new era of consumer shopping behavior fueled by the digital world in which we live. The explosion of digital content has major implications for retailers across all of the channels through which they offer products and services.
In fact, a new study just released by the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) reveals that web-based digital content is now the most powerful influence on buying decisions for shoppers across all retail channels. The study surveyed 5,000 shoppers across five countries: the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, and China.
The study's results highlight the need for retailers to "catch and keep" today's consumers, who now effortlessly "mash-up" digital and physical shopping. At this week's National Retail Federation (NRF) Convention & Expo, Cisco will explain how retailers can take advantage of this evolution in consumer shopping behavior.
Cisco IBSG found that a majority of shoppers, categorized as the "Digital Mass Market," have advanced beyond the capabilities of many retailers. These shoppers expect stores to operate with the same information, transparency, and speed as their favorite websites, and two-thirds are interested in personalized shopping experiences when visiting a store.
In addition, these shoppers overwhelmingly prefer in-store self-service access to digital content (85 percent), with one in three using mobile searches to guide their purchasing decisions—up 20 percent from a similar study conducted by Cisco IBSG the previous year.
Here are some of the key findings from the U.S. portion of the study:
Shoppers demand more access to in-store digital content
- 78 percent use the Internet to research and purchase products and services.
- 71 percent want to access digital content in the store.
- 60 percent now expect more value, and 53 percent expecting greater price visibility.
Online resources have strong influence on shoppers' buying decisions
- 52 percent cited ratings and reviews on retailer websites as most influential in guiding their purchase decisions, followed by advice from friends and family (49 percent).
- Shoppers preferred online ratings and reviews by a 4:1 margin over advice from store employees.
Shoppers want more mobile, self-service access to information and personalized services
- 65 percent research online and purchase in store—up from 57 percent last year.
- Cross-channel shopping journeys involving mobile devices rose on average by 20 percent from the previous study.
Cisco also tested consumer interest in several key digital service concepts. Use of personal mobile shopping, an interactive room-design experience, a touchscreen device to help select products, and automated pickup for online orders all ranked high among shoppers, with roughly 50 percent stating they were interested in these types of services.
Leading retailers are already developing and testing omnichannel digital experiences to differentiate and revitalize their brands. Given consumers' new digitally based channel-hopping behavior, retailers must establish how they will "catch" customers and "keep" them within their brands during the shopping journey. The time to act is now.
For complete results of Cisco IBSG's survey, click here.
Additional links:
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By Brooke Jarvis | yes! magazine
Illinois, home to 76,000 farms and more than 950 food manufacturing companies, is a solidly agricultural state in the heart of America's bread basket. Fully 80 percent of it is farmland. But, of all the food eaten in Illinois, only four percent is actually grown there.
Vast quantities of food are exported to other states and nations, while similarly vast quantities are brought in to feed Illinois' citizens. It's a costly arrangement that leaves too many people without enough access to healthy fruits and vegetables.
A new bill, recently signed by Governor Patrick Quinn, will make it easier for farmers to sell their harvests within Illinois instead of shipping them out of state. But first, the state had to figure out what had been making it so hard.
The Local Food, Farms, and Jobs Act of 2009 draws on the recommendations of a 32-member task force asked to determine Illinois' potential for local food consumption. Illinois, the group found, has lots of local food and lots of people willing to eat it. What's been missing is a way to connect them on a large scale.
The state spends tens of billions of dollars on imported food, much of which already is or could be grown in state, and exports its own farm produce. Local food systems developed at the community level have flourished—in the last decade, the number of farmers' markets in Illinois has grown from 97 to 270, while the number of community-supported agriculture organizations, groups that sell shares of farm harvests directly to consumers, has more than quadrupled. But large consumers—like hospitals, museums, restaurants, grocery stores, corporate kitchens, schools, and universities—have found it difficult to procure local food in the quantities they need. And, many inner-city and rural communities in Illinois lack access to grocery stores, markets, or other sources of fresh, healthy foods.
"Illinois' predominant farm and food system," the task force found, "is designed to serve distant markets, not link farm production with in-state markets."
The new bill represents the state government's commitment to restructuring the food system so that it promotes local consumption instead of hindering it. "It encourages Illinois farmers to respond directly to consumers' demand for fresh, tasty, locally produced foods and shows how to do it," says task force chairman Wes Jarrell, a farmer and professor of sustainable agriculture.
Specifically, the legislation sets up a grown-in-Illinois label and certification program, directs state agencies to purchase at least 20 percent of their food locally by 2020, and allows them to pay premium prices for local food. One particular goal is to increase the amount of local food served in public schools.
The law also establishes a new agency that will encourage farmers to grow food for local markets and will help build the statewide distribution networks needed to get their fresh produce to the people who want to eat it.
"I believe economic development begins in the kitchen," says Illinois Agriculture Director Tom Jennings. "There is no question we can produce locally grown fruits, nuts, and vegetables. We also have the processing and packaging capabilities right here in our own backyard. Setting up a distribution system that moves items at reasonable cost from tree or vine to the table is the big challenge, and this legislation is an important step toward realizing that goal."
The state expects that increasing local food sales will bring a $30 billion boost to its economy. Distributing and selling a potato or soybean in-state keeps the money there, helping expand local commerce and ultimately creating new jobs and business opportunities, a phenomenon known as the local multiplier effect. "As Illinoisans meet the increased demand for fresh food grown within the state, every community's economy will see the benefits," says state representative Julie Hamos, who sponsored the bill in the Illinois House. "New jobs will be created as the system to process and transport the food to local markets is developed." She also expects rural communities to grow as job prospects in agricultural areas improve.
"The fact that all but a tiny percentage of the fruits, vegetables, and meats that Illinoisans eat are produced in other states or countries is an astonishing imbalance," says state senator Jacqueline Collins, who was a cosponsor of the bill. But, she added, the state now has "an enormous opportunity" to develop a more sensible, more local food economy.
Illinois' problem is hardly unique—the food Americans eat has traveled an average 1500 miles to reach our plates—but the state's agricultural production makes its lack of local distribution particularly striking. "The fact that all but a tiny percentage of the fruits, vegetables, and meats that Illinoisans eat are produced in other states or countries is an astonishing imbalance," said state senator Jacqueline Collins, a co-sponsor of the bill. But, she added, the state now has "an enormous opportunity" to develop a more sensible, more local food economy.

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By Melissa Iaria and David Beniuk
Tasmania's major bushfires have been downgraded and a major highway has been re-opened as interstate crews get set to fly in to help the fire-fighting effort.
The Tasmania Fire Service (TFS) downgraded a fire at Bicheno in the state's east to advice level, the third most serious level for bushfires. It had been at the emergency warning level earlier on Saturday.
The Tasman Highway was reopened after the downgrade.
The development means there are no more emergency warning-level bushfires in Tasmania.
Fires at Nubeena, Forcett and Lake Repulse are listed in the watch and act category by the state fire service.
A crew of 65 Victorian firefighters is preparing to head to Tasmania on Sunday night for four days.
It is feared that more than a 100 properties have been lost in the fires.
The Forcett blaze on the Tasman Peninsula, east of Hobart, has claimed least 80 properties and left thousands of people isolated overnight.
Recreational and commercial vessels were used to bring in thousands of meals and other essential supplies and to evacuate people on Friday and Saturday.
Police said 600 people, many of them visitors to the area, were likely to spend a second night at convict ruins. There were 2000 people at a temporary refuge in Nubeena and another 100 at the Dunalley Hotel.
The road into the peninsula, the Arthur Highway, has been closed since Friday.
Acting police commissioner Scott Tilyard said he was hopeful some vehicles could be escorted from the peninsula.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard threw the federal government's support behind the firefighting and support efforts in Tasmania and said disaster assistance would start flowing in coming days.
Insurers declared the bushfire-hit towns a catastrophe and police powers were increased when the Tasman Peninsula was declared a serious-incident site.
Electricity company Aurora said it could take several weeks to restore power in some areas, with 300 poles down on the Tasman Peninsula.
Property losses have been huge, with 30 per cent of the buildings in the small community of Dunalley destroyed, including the school and police station.
At Connellys Marsh, 40 per cent of the buildings are gone, along with three houses at Copping and several at Primrose Sands.
Twenty houses have been lost around Murdunna and there are reports of more at Eaglehawk Neck.
No deaths or serious injuries have been confirmed, despite conditions comparable to 1967 when 2000 homes and 62 lives were lost.


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Good news for those of us who see a glass of wine at the end of the day as Mom's reward: Light to moderate drinking may reduce the risk of stroke in women.
Women who drink a glass of wine, beer or a mixed drink daily were less likely to have strokes compared to women who don't drink at all, according to a findings from an ongoing study that has followed the health of more than 80,000 women for 26 years.
The question of how alcohol affects the risk of stroke has been a question among scientists. Moderate drinking appears to lowers the risk of heart disease. It probably does that by boosting the production of HDL, the good cholesterol, and reducing the risk of blood clots.
Blood clots can cause the most common type of stroke, so fewer blood clots should mean fewer ischemic strokes. That's what this new study, which was published online today in the journal Stroke, found.
The researchers also found less risk of hemorrhagic stroke, which is caused by a burst blood vessel in the brain. Earlier studies have found more risk of hemorrhagic stroke, perhaps because a clot would be a good thing there.
"We didn't find much of a difference in the association with either type of stroke," Monik Jimenez, the epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital who led the study, tells Shots. "That's a bit different than what's been shown before."
The study looked at the health records of 83,578 women who participated in the Nurses' Health Study from 1980 to 2006. About 30 percent of the women didn't drink at all, and 35 percent reported very low alcohol intake – less than half a glass of wine a day. Just 4 percent said they drank 2 to 3 glasses of wine daily.
Because there were so few heavy drinkers, this study doesn't give a reliable picture of risk for women who drink heavily. But earlier studies have found that heavier drinking is linked to more strokes.
"At higher levels it can increase blood pressure," Jimenez says. Drinking a lot also can increase the risk of an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, which boosts the risk of stroke.
So this study isn't an invitation to booze it up. In fact, Jimenez says, women who don't drink can feel perfectly comfortable with that choice, because their risk of stroke is still relatively low. "We certainly don't want to advocate initiation of alcohol consumption for those who are non-drinkers."
The American Heart Association has a good overview on the relationship between alcohol and cardiovascular disease. They recommend no more than one to two drinks a day for men, and one a day for women.
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ROMEXPO S.A. is acknowledged internationally and full member of UFI (the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry), CEFA (the Central European Fair Alliance), CENTREX – the International Exhibition Statistics Union and EURASCO – the European Federation of Agricultural Exhibition and Show Organizers.
The company owns an exhibition centre, known as the ROMEXPO Exhibition Centre, lying on an area of 100,000 square meters.
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text: The Wine development release 1.1.18 is now available. What's new in this release (see below for details): - RPC over HTTP support. - Improved support for upgrades in MSI. - Debug symbols in WineDbg on Mac OS X. - Many Direct3D code cleanups. - Various bug fixes. The source is available from the following locations: http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.1.18.tar.bz2 http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.1.18.tar.bz2 Binary packages for various distributions will be available from: http://www.winehq.org/site/download You will find documentation on http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation You can also get the current source directly from the git repository. Check http://www.winehq.org/site/git for details. Wine is available thanks to the work of many people. 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Robert Reif (1): dsound: Fix uninitialized variable. Roderick Colenbrander (2): wined3d: Add WGL_ARB_pixel_format detection. wined3d: Add a classic WGL pixel format backend as not all OpenGL implementations support WGL_ARB_pixel_format. Roman Mindalev (3): ntdll: Check for arch and name fields in assembly_identity structure. ntdll: Free memory for type field of an assembly_identity. ntdll: Move search for assemblyIdentity element. Stefano Guidoni (1): winemp3: Fixed mpeg3_streamsize. Vincent Povirk (1): gdiplus: Support line gradient brushes in GdipFillPath. Vitaliy Margolen (1): shell32: Fix number of returned arguments from CommandLineToArgvW with empty string. William Waghorn (2): msadp32: Refuse unknown destination format. imaadp32: Refuse unknown destination format. -- Alexandre Julliard julliard at winehq.org


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Hartford, Conn., May 6, 2013 / 23:01 pm
A Connecticut priest says a new confessional recently installed at his parish stands as a visible sign of God's grace, and has increased churchgoers' participation in the sacrament.
"A confessional is a sign of the sacrament, and I wanted to have such a sign in the church," said Father Janusz Kukulka, pastor of St. Mary the Immaculate Conception in Derby.
In a May 2 interview, Fr. Kukulka told CNA that more parishioners have now been seeking out the sacrament of reconciliation, "especially people who have not been to confession in many years."
Although new to St. Mary's as of Feb. 16 this year, the oak confessional has a rich history – it was built in 1878 and until recently was located in an Iowa church.
That parish in the Dubuque archdiocese was closed as the state's population has shifted from farming communities to urban environments. The church was sold to a Lutheran community, which in turn sold the confessional to the Connecticut parish for $1,100.
St. Mary's was reconstructed in the 1970s, which included its two confessionals and communion rail being ripped out, as well as the altar being moved. The original confessionals were replaced by an unmarked "reconciliation room."
The parish, which is in the Hartford archdiocese, now has a rejuvenation committee, one of the tasks of which was finding a traditional confessional for the church.
The committee began their search by looking online, according to The Catholic Transcript, Hartford's Catholic paper. A newly built confessional they found was prohibitively expensive, but they soon discovered the oak confessional from Iowa on eBay.
Lisa Knott, a parish member, donated the money for the confessional and dedicated it to the memory of her parents. Another parishioner, Timothy Conlon, traveled to Iowa to haul the confessional back to Connecticut.
It bears a plaque in memory of Knott's parents, Pasquale and Geraldina Scarpa, as a reminder to penitents to pray for them.
Fr. Kukulka told The Catholic Transcript that "the chancery is amazed that we made this progress in a very short time, so the archbishop twice complimented us."
He thanked the Knotts and Conlon, whom he credited with the new development. "Physically they brought it and they paid. I am just here for spiritual input."
The confessional was re-assembled in St. Mary's, and when it was finally used on Feb. 16, Lent had started three days earlier.
The Hartford archdiocese offered extended hours for confession at all its parishes, so the new confessional was put to good use.
Fr. Kukulka offers confessions every week, and is always receptive when he is asked to hear a confession.
"If someone asks, I go every time. I never say no," he told CNA.
Parishioner Patrick Knott, Lisa's husband, said that even in his limited experience he's seen a "significant increase" in confessions at St. Mary's. The separation and privacy afforded by the confessional grill allows you to feel more "comfortable," compared to a "reconciliation room," he noted.
For Fr. Kukulka, it was important to promote more frequent reception of confession at his parish. The priest is from Poland, where he noted that the inculturation of Catholicism has a strong link between the sacraments of confession and communion.
"For me, the practice of going to Communion without confession is strange," he said.
He considers the antique confessional to be less important than a spiritual emphasis on God's mercy as it is encountered in confessions.
In sacramental confession, the penitent is "receiving forgiveness of sins, and graces to be a better person for the future," noted Fr. Kukulka.
"With God's graces first of all you receive the forgiveness of sins...and that's the point of my message as a priest."


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Yesterday, Nov. 9, marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. That event was as important to the 20th Century as was the victory over Germany and Japan — probably more so, since Nazism was not an ideology with hundreds of millions of followers in the West and throughout the Free World that Communism had.
Among them these followers were the editors of The Nation who opened their anniversary feature – a fawning interview with the last Soviet dictator, Mikhail Gorbachev, with these fatuous but also sinister remarks:
"Historic events quickly generate historical myths. In the United States it is said that the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of a divided Europe was caused by a democratic revolution in Eastern Europe or by American power, or both."
So, according to The Nation (actually Katrina vanden Heuvel and her husband who conducted the interview,) the Czechs' velvet revolution, Poland's Solidarity movement, Ronald Reagan and Maggie Thatcher, America's military buildup, Nato, the anti-communist cold warriors and the forty year containment of an expansionist totalitarian power had nothing to do with the frustration and collapse of Soviet power, the end of the Cold War and the liberation of more than a billion people from the worst tyranny in history. Instead, according to The Nation, the story has a Communist hero. Contrary to the myths concocted by the democracies of the West, it was really the dictator Mikhail Gorbachev, a man who described his own agenda as "saving Communism" (not to mention a man collusive in its monstrous crimes) whom we are to regard as the hero of the age.
And in case that didn't register, _The Nation'_s editors dot the i's and cross the t's:
_"_With the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall approaching, we believed that the leader most responsible for that historic event should be heard, on his own terms, in the United States."
So, the Soviet dictator, unprompted, just decided to let the prisoners of the Soviet empire go free.
And now for that bridge that's for sale.
But of course this is not really a laughing matter. The Nation's deep hatred for America, for its institutions and above all its freedoms, is on display here and underscores why the Nation is also in the forefront of the movement to disarm America in the face of its Islamist enemies, undermine its security and deliver us to the mercies of the soldiers of Allah.


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Stephen Fry
Stephen St. Margaret Anthony Cicely Hogmanay Sebastian Reginald Jeeves Fry (1957-) is a celebrated English androgyne, male impersonator, female impersonator, quasi-comic actor, quasi-serious actor, and universal genius and polymath, who is best known for his roles in such historical epics as Blackadder (in which he effortlessly incarnated the insane General Melchett) and any other role that requires a patrician, superior and invariably unsympathetic character with a lah-di-dah enunciation of English together with a crooked physiognomy. Of himself Fry says: "The most intelligent man who ever drew breath."
Fry is the prototypical English man/woman and the highly uncommon clay from which he is made is believed to consist virtually entirely of extremely condensed Englishness (it has been established that Wilde, thought by some to be Fry's biological grandfather, had no Irish blood in him whatsoever). It is stated in DeBrett's that his scientifically measured English content is an unheard of 378%, roughly twice the content of the average Boarding school pupil, four times the content of the average citizen of Great Britain and sixteen times that of Queen Elizabeth II. Born in the year 1957 AD, among Fry's many achievements is that of being a manic depressive from birth. In the opinion of many he is considered a national treasure who should be locked up for safe keeping or buried deep underground and also as the most sexually attractive living person (to male walruses). Moreover, why Stephen has not been made into a Dame of the British Empire is ranked as one of the seven greatest mysteries of the world. In a recent survey Stephen Fry was voted the crookedest straight man in Britain.
Early Life[edit]
Stephen Fry was born in Kazakhstan in 1957 to Mrs Stephanie Fry and Oscar Wilde IV, a clone of Oscar Wilde. His early life was spent traveling the country as part of his parents' goat herding business. When he was 10, he found a magic shrine to SATAN god which gave him the power so that when he made a statement, it automatically became true, and still uses this power to this day. God also gave him the power to be right about everything, and generally more omniscient and awesome than Himself. He attended the London School of Oscar Wilde studies until he was expelled for persistent over-use of inversion. After this he attended Belial College, Oxford, Maudlin College, Cambridge, Yale, and Harvard simultaneously (the phenomenon of multilocation - the ability to be in several places at the same time - being just one of his multifarious talents) while also being Union president of all four as well as the leading light of the Cambridge footlights and Tony Blair's adviser on gayness, doublespeak, non-denial denial, inane-smiling, cherry-picking and never being wrong. Following his graduation with a septuple first (excelling even Wilde who could only manage a double), he began a career of crushing Alan Davies, and enslaving him to his will. Following the enslavement he plans to have him run for parliament and then become prime minister and later he will possess Alan and control the country. It is rumored Stephen's first act as God Prime Minister will be to conquer India and then America in order to banish ignorance, together with all forms of normality and heterosexuality from the face of the Earth. He enjoys a very happy, unconsummated marriage to Mrs. Edna Fry (a transsexual double of Fry himself) who has to date borne him approximately 8 children; though neither of them are really sure or even care.
Having spent much of his life being a radio presenter, writer, actor, valet to Hugh Laurie and as the general Voice of All Things British, Stephen Fry's career is of course far too vast a phenomenon (the latest research suggests that he may well have appeared in over 3000 cameo roles in films alone, over half of them subliminal) to express in mere words so that over 40 of the most brilliant mathematicians worldwide are now working around the clock on a mathematical formula for it, but its full extent, like an insidious pandemic, will probably never be known.
Unfortunately, the downside of this almost universal wonderfulness is that very bad things all too often happen to Stephen as well: in 1995 he escaped to Belgium after some spiteful and envious newspaper journalists had said some not terribly nice things about his acting in a West-end play and in 2008 he cut himself shaving (his legs and pubes - he doesn't need to shave his face). Diddums.
When Stephen is not busy making programs about Wagner (his idol), gadgets, the USA, bipolar disorder or his mild insanity or gayness, he can be found (thanks to multilocation) hosting the quiz show QI (Quasi-intellectual, Quintessentially Inane Queer Information) in which the guests have to produce as many interesting revelations about Jeremy Clarkson's sexuality (for instance, when behind the wheel, he doesn't like drivers of other vehicles going right up his arse but likes it in the back-seat) as possible in a forty-minute slot. Fry's main activity in this is to humiliate Alan Davies as many times as possible in the same period, by declaring his seemingly correct assumptions of Clarkson's sexuality to be completely incorrect. However, recent media speculation has brought to public attention that this humiliation may in fact be a thinly veiled attempt to disguise an intense sexual tension between the pair. Indeed, an unnamed source has described Fry and Davies as "the most homoerotic double act since Oscar and Bosie". It is equally rumored that allegations of this affair prompted a jealous Hugh Laurie's well-documented addiction to Vicodin.
Relationship with Hugh Laurie[edit]
Stephen and Hugh first met when Stephen, looking for work to pay for his University fees, became Hugh's valet. They instantly fell in love and later went on to create several documentaries about their domestic life, most notably Jeeves and Wooster. However, Stephen's mad love affair with Apple products created a rift between the two, which culminated in the canceling of all their shows and the kidnapping of Hugh by the Americans. Stephen has made several attempts to rescue Hugh. However, all have been unsuccessful because Stephen is just too damned English. Evidence of Stephen's longing for Hugh has, on occasion, leaked out into the public domain - it was recently revealed that Fry had been illegally downloading episodes of House M.D. just so he could see Hugh.
Since 2008 Fry has been quietly building an army of followers (or Fries) using the popular online ornithological service Twitter, which he also invented. It is feared that one day he will call his army to rise and lead us all in pleasantly upholstered servitude. Only the massed intellectuals of Barack Obama are thought to be able to stop him. Stephen uses Twitter to protest the treatment of rare bird species, such as the Dodo and Pterodactyl.


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Stefan Eriksson, 2017-03-20
Konftel 300IPx and Konftel Unite - The Art of Easiness
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SALISBURY – Wicomico County has some decisions to make as recommendations come forward to enhance the Wicomico Youth Civic Center (WYCC) to keep it up to par in the modern world.
Earlier this week, Wicomico County's Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism released the market and analysis study of the WYCC prepared by the Maryland Stadium Authority (MSA) and Crossroads Consulting Services. The study was conducted to determine whether the facility should be renovated, expanded or rebuilt to best serve county residents and visitors.
"We needed to come to some kind of decision on our civic center in moving forward," County Executive Rick Pollitt said. "There is so much going on and we want to have as big a piece of pie as we can but we don't want to lose our roots."
According to the study, the most economically feasible with least financial risk option was determined to be an upgrade of the existing building. Expanding the existing space would maintain the existing market share while allowing it to grow, increase revenues and enhance the overall impact to the local economy.
Programmatic recommendations include replacing seats and redesigning the seating bowl to offer closer experience and better sight lines; adding a mechanical curtain system that allows arena to be partitioned for smaller events; building a divisible ballroom, meeting rooms and exhibit space outside Normandy arena; adding additional dressing room areas; reconfiguring the overall layout to accommodate simultaneous events; improving front- and back-of-house support space as well as patron; and improving traffic and parking to support activities at a larger facility.
MSA finds an expansion/renovation project preferable over building a new facility because it necessitates a far less financial commitment, as well as achieves the goals expressed by stakeholders to book more events and offer greater variety of attractions to the regional audience.
Market research also suggests that other changes be made to WYCC policies to enhance potential revenue and economic impact generation. Recommendations include revisiting the policy to allow alcoholic beverage sales, which will be important to fundamentally changing the existing WYCC's event base and financial performance.
According to the report, sports/entertainment and exhibit-oriented events are estimated to be positively impacted by the expansion/renovation by the number of events booked and attendance. With the expansion/renovation events could increase from 218 to 241 and an attendance of about 189,000 to about 246,000. If the alcohol policy was to change than events could increase up to 255 and have 262,000 attendees.
Total economic benefits are estimated to range from $19 million or $20.3 million if the alcohol policy were to change, which would be an increase of 31 percent and 40 percent.
Total fiscal benefits are estimated to range from $1.8 million or $1.9 million in if the alcohol policy is changed, which would be an increase of $138,000 to $174,000 in incremental new county taxes and $307,000 to $421,000 in incremental new state taxes. Also, direct spending is estimated to generate 50 to 70 incremental new jobs.
"Alcohol is a very sensitive issue," Ed Urban, chairperson of the Civic Center, said.
Urban explained that the land the civic center sits on was donated around the 1940's to be used as a ballpark and a covenant has been placed on the land that no alcohol sales will take place.
"We like to get that convent removed and the way we would be able to propose it is if it would have to be a win-win-win," he said. "The citizens of the county would have to benefit and they would benefit by a reduction of tax appropriations because we would make a better bottom line."
Urban furthered that another benefit would be if the 38 acres that were gifted, now currently the site of the civic center, were to be transferred to a different location and a ballpark was constructed in the person's name.
"So in essence to me that would be a win in their memory … we would have accomplished why that land was donated," he said. "We also feel it would be a benefit to the youth of the area because if we had a better bottom line we could do more in our recreation and the park would provide them with the park that this was intended for."
Urban added that if the center were able to sell alcohol all events would have to come before the WYCC committee to be granted permission.
"It would probably take going to court and somebody hearing the trade off and making a decision as to taking the handcuffs off of the civic center and off of the citizens of this town," Urban said of having the covenant lifted.
With Phase I of the study completed, the findings will be processed by the governing center commission and presented to County Executive Rick Pollitt with a recommendation in moving forward into Phase II, which would entail working with the MSA in developing architectural engineering drawings and estimates in costs.
"We want to keep it here, we want it to be alive, we want to keep it vibrant but we also want to be competitive," Pollitt said. "There is a lot of balancing and a lot of study, and a lot of hard decisions that are going to have to be made to keep this facility economically viable …"


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The Translators
Nine translators have been picked by a ruthless publisher and locked in a luxury bunker to translate the highly anticipated book of a famous author in record time. Although the translators are confined to prevent any kind of leak because of the high financial stakes, a crisis erupts when someone posts the first 10 pages of the novel online and blackmails the publisher to pay 5 million euros. A hunt for the culprit inside the bunker unfolds.


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Semyon Varlamov joins Ryan O'Reilly and Nathan MacKinnon as a finalist for an NHL award this season. Varly is one of three finalists for the Vezina, once again surprising no one. This is a much closer race than the others, though, and one could easily see this award going to Tuuka Rask, as well. Ben Bishop's late-season wilt may have cost him the hardware, though. Varlamov was instrumental in the Avalanche's success in 2013-2014, but was it enough to get top honors?
From the NHL press release:
NEW YORK -- Ben Bishop of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Tuukka Rask of the Boston Bruins and Semyon Varlamov of the Colorado Avalanche are the three finalists for the 2013-14 Vezina Trophy, which is awarded "to the goalkeeper adjudged to be the best at his position," the National Hockey League announced today.
The general managers of the 30 NHL clubs submitted ballots for the Vezina Trophy at the conclusion of the regular season, with the top three vote-getters designated as finalists. The winner will be announced Tuesday, June 24, during the 2014 NHL Awards from Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas. The 2014 NHL Awards will be broadcast by NBCSN in the United States and CBC in Canada.
Following are the finalists for the Vezina Trophy, in alphabetical order:
Ben Bishop, Tampa Bay Lightning
Bishop set multiple franchise records in backstopping the Lightning to a second-place finish in the Atlantic Division in his first season as a starter. He became the Lightning's all-time leader for wins in a season with his 31st on Mar. 15 against New Jersey and finished the season ranked fourth in the NHL with 37. Bishop also set a franchise mark in save percentage (.924). He tied for fourth in the League in shutouts (five) and placed seventh in goals-against average (2.23). Bishop is a Vezina Trophy finalist for the first time.
Tuukka Rask, Boston Bruins
Rask posted a 36-15-6 record, highlighted by a career-best 10-game point streak from Mar. 20-30 (9-0-1), as the Bruins captured their first Presidents' Trophy since 1990 and led the Eastern Conference in team defense (2.08 GA/game). He allowed two goals or fewer in 37 of 58 starts, set single-season highs in wins and appearances, and was the only goaltender to rank among the NHL's top five in each of the major statistical categories: first in shutouts (seven), second in save percentage (.930), fourth in goals-against average (2.04) and fifth in wins. Rask is a first-time Vezina finalist.
Semyon Varlamov, Colorado Avalanche
Varlamov led the NHL and set a franchise record with 41 victories, surpassing Avalanche head coach Patrick Roy's previous single-season high of 40 in 2000-01, and joins Roy (1996-97) as the only goaltenders in club history to top the League in wins. He ranked first in the NHL in shots faced (2,013) and saves (1,867) and thrived under the heavy workload, posting a 7-1-1 mark when facing 40 or more shots and going 32-4-4 when facing 30-plus shots. Varlamov is a Vezina finalist for the first time and the first Avalanche goaltender nominated for the award since Roy was runner-up to Montreal's Jose Theodore in 2001-02.
Leo Dandurand, Louis Letourneau and Joe Cattarinich, former owners of the Montreal Canadiens, presented the trophy to the National Hockey League in 1926-27 in memory of Georges Vezina, the outstanding Canadiens goaltender who collapsed during an NHL game on Nov. 28, 1925, and died of tuberculosis a few months later. Until the 1981-82 season, the goaltender(s) of the team allowing the fewest number of goals during the regular season were awarded the Vezina Trophy.
Announcement Schedule
The NHL is announcing the three finalists for its regular-season awards through May 6. The remaining announcement schedule:
Lady Byng Nominees
Patrick Marleau of the San Jose Sharks, Ryan O'Reilly of the Colorado Avalanche and Martin St. Louis of the New York Rangers
Calder nominees
Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Nathan MacKinnon of the Colorado Avalanche
Selke Nominees
Patrice Bergeron of the Boston Bruins, Anze Kopitar of the Los Angeles Kings and Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks
Vezina Nominees
Ben Bishop of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Tuukka Rask of the Boston Bruins and Semyon Varlamov of the Colorado Avalanche
Monday, April 28
Norris Trophy (top defenseman)
Tuesday, April 29
Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award presented by Bridgestone
Wednesday, April 30
Masterton Trophy (perseverance and dedication to hockey)
Thursday, May 1
Hart Trophy (most valuable player to his team)
Friday, May 2
NHL Foundation Player Award (community service)
Monday, May 5
Ted Lindsay Award (most outstanding player as voted by the players)
Tuesday, May 6
Jack Adams Award (top head coach)


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Angus Road Groundwater Plume
The groundwater at this Ector County site is contaminated with 1,2-dichloroethane, 1,2,3-trichloropropane, and manganese from an unknown source. The site is in the remedial investigation (RI) phase.
Site Summary
The Angus Road Groundwater Plume site underlies the 4300 block of Angus Road, approximately four blocks northwest of the city limits of Odessa, Texas. The plume is bounded by West 47th Street to the north, Johnson Street to the west, Kermit Highway to the south, and Cessna Avenue and Brahma Road to the east.
The area consists of mixed commercial/industrial and residential properties. A variety of businesses operate in the area, including light industrial fabricators, warehouses, storage facilities, and oil and gas production wells.
Since 2004, groundwater samples collected from private and public water wells by the TCEQ have detected 1,2-dichloroethane, 1,2,3-trichloropropane, and manganese at concentrations above the Tier 1 residential protective concentration levels for groundwater ingestion established by the Texas Risk Reduction Program.
Superfund Registry and Investigation
In June 2010, the TCEQ proposed the site to the state Superfund registry and published a community relations plan. The TCEQ began the remedial investigation of the site in November 2010 to determine the nature and extent of the groundwater contamination.
Current Status
The site is in the remedial investigation phase.


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