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I'am very pleased with the season dates as they are i kill we more ducks in the 1st split so i will always vote for a early season
Sounds like the coastal zone should be done away with and go back to the east and west zones.
I know that there is alot folks that want the season to run into Febuary but, this will never happen because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sets the end of season dates. This is to give the birds time to rest before the migration back north.
First, I can't set seasons: that is the job of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission. All I can do is make recommendations.
Second, what do you mean by 'what data?' The data I presented at public meetings over 2 years to help justify the new zone boundaries, and the data I presented to the Commission to support the recommendation for the Coastal Zone season dates. The same data that has been posted at websites including this one.
Of course, those data are for total kill. It could be that many fewer hunters are still active late in the season but their per-hunter kill might be higher. So I also presented ducks per hunter taken at our coastal WMAs.
Those harvest data and the season-date preference data from hunters in all 3 zones were presented to the Commission prior to their decision last August to set the dates for this past season.
I currently have no intention of conducting another hunter-opinion survey until 2015, so I would recommend taking demands for different season dates directly to the Commission members. Their contact information can be found at:
got a week long trip planned with a good friend in Montana and a trip to Kansas the plane ticket to Montana much cheaper than my lease including my 7 day lic. Kansas is a easy drive. Get to shoot ducks and geese I shot two ducks this year.
going to hunt private farm land at no fee just took a knock on the door. dates are set oh yeahhhh
I do not think we are doubting the data and agree with you with what the data says. I think some of these guys are just saying that the hunting may even be better with a latter opening weekend allowing more birds to be in the area like your surveys report.
The opening weekends., whenever they are, will normally be better than the last weekends due to birds getting educated.
Thanks for the time
So I provided the data ..... again.
And I clarified who sets the season dates and what information I presented to them before they made that decision.
I haven't made a single argument. I've only presented information and recommended folks go directly to the Commission with season-date demands because no additional hunter-opinion data is anticipated.
The only thing I would like changed is a two week gap between the youth weekend and the regular opening weekend. I have nothing against the youth weekend at all for I have grandkids that are starting to hunt. I just think a longer break between the two seasons would make the regular opening weekend seem like opening weekend again. It sure seems like for the past several years the birds haven't acted like 'opening weekend ducks.'
The majority of them have been very wary. Maybe,just maybe, the youth weekend the week before is the problem. I don't know. Just a thought. And it's not because they have been shot at up the flyway in Arkansas or elsewhere. Arkansas season usually opens the third week of November after our coastal zone does. Any thoughts?
not just this late cold spells, i see this every year, there's more ducks in the coastal and southern areas of louisiana in febuary than any other month, we pay high dollar fir gear and equipment to shoot a few ducks and get frustrated year after year. louisiana duck seasons are for the northern states to shoot more the next year, why should we be punished year after year, i'm giving up on ducks unlimited, they do NOT have us in the loop.
The main reason you see a lot of birds in February is because THERE IS NO PRESSURE . They just didnt migrate here. Late in the season LOTS of birds simply get away from all the hunting pressure and move offshore where they are safe. Strong southerly winds during the late season produce the best hunting days.
In March and April you will see thousands of blue winged teal in the marshes.It's not because they just migrated here from the north. Lol. They are starting their northward track back from Mexico. You may see lots of pintail in the coming weeks also doing the same thing.
The real reason for all the ducks in feb. is that all the hunting is over all over no more rice up north no more heated ponds and real cold up north. We need feb. to hunt down south, the time have change and the fed. need to change with it. Duck will head up north late March to med. April.
Forget about a February season. It will never happen. NO pressure is the reason you see so many in February. NOT because the birds just arrived. The birds you see are moving back into the interior marshes. By January most of the birds have moved to safe havens such as the outside waters where no one can harass them. The majority of the time strong southerly winds will push them into the inside marshes.
Feel free to chime in Larry if I'm wrong.
The shooting stops, birds disperse from sanctuary habitats, and we see many more of them where we hunt. It happens every year in all places.
Many birds, especially mallards, are moving back north starting in mid-February.
And I agree that the feds are un-likely to allow regular season hunting to extend into February. Ducks need time to accumulate body condition and reserves for spring migration, re-pairing after a loss of a mate from later hunting means increased energy expenditure during this time, and we already know from a number of radio-telemetry studies that a mallard or pintail that survives until mid-January typically survives until breeding. Consequently, late-January and February harvest is shooting into the breeding stock where earlier-season harvest is more likely to be compensatory.
With harvest-rate estimates from banded birds at about allowable levels and the harvest data from the Questionnaire and Parts surveys showing we are still killing large numbers of birds, there isn't a real compelling argument for the USFWS to allow later hunting.
The problem this and all posts have about duck seasons, kills, and migration is not the data you provide is wrong....all your data is probably correct....but that is not the data the USWF and LDWF look at. You forget they are not concerned with adjusting limits and season to help the hunter have a better kill ratio and experience. The authorities that set these dates and limits are concerned with protecting the resource(ducks). Ducks begin pairing for breeding season in early January if not sooner...Ducks need that late January and February time with no pressure to pair, fatten, and get ready to fly to the breeding ground so we have more next season.. so they set season according to that type of data and not so we can kill more of them.
Larry I would like to see a duck count in feb. We know the # in jan. count, let see a # in feb. then we will know.
If the ducks or moving up way up north in Feb. when it is know the coldest of the year , then y did they come down in Nov. to start with. food, food, food they will not head up till March and April.
But they were found to give the same information as the January survey, AND those data aren't used for any management purpose. Consequently, they aren't good use of $$.
The northward movement of mallards in February has been documented with radio-marked birds.
Last time I shot a mallard in the deep south was in the 70's they just don't come down here, it take a lot of cold to drive them down, they stay in the rice up north our bread and butter down here r gray and teal and do gree when they come down. In saying that there r no mallards down to head north.
Here are my beliefs. First, the birds are not 'just' getting here in time for February. With that being said, I'm not denying some new birds could have made it down here but let's think this through. Hunting season is over, that means they are no longer getting shot at or being harassed by the hundreds of mud motors running around spooking them every 10 minutes. This allows them to once again come into the interior marshes to rest and feed. Just look at the couple days leading up to the two opening weekends. We all see the birds stacking up the days approaching the opener, then after a few days or weeks of pressure, there's a decrease in birds 'seen'. Of course the big assumption is, 'They left!' These birds didn't just leave the state. They find sanctuary (lakes, bays, GULF OF MEXICO) and learn to survive. Many turn nocturnal, only returning to the marshes at night when they can't be shot only to return straight offshore before sunrise. They are wild animals, they find a way to escape the pressure. When things calm down, guess what, they try to return to the marshes! You see this during the split, after the season, and even between weekends during the season to a lower degree. Yes, this year has had below normal numbers of migraters, the numbers speak for themselves, but hey, that's nature! Things fluctuate and as much as we want to, we might not know all the answers and why or why not this occurs. I can't compare hunting now to 20 and 30 years ago, but I'm pretty sick of people saying how the ducks don't migrate here anymore like they 'used' to. Because of this I went dig up some data from the WLF website. What I saw supported my belief. There isn't a real change in numbers of birds that migrate to the state, the real change is the dramatic increase in hunters and pressure over the last 10 years. Also, some birds move north and south several times during the season pending on weather changes. We have double if not triple the hunters. Most of these have souped up mud motors who constantly harass the birds 24/7. (Personally I feel we need more Limited access areas on WMAS or stricter regulations on the use of these mud motors on WMA to alleviate some pressure.) This all goes back to the first point from earlier, this increase in human activity is driving birds into much further areas to escape pressure. Many are interpreting this as birds not migrating here, but I strongly feel the birds are still coming, we are just driving them out of the hunting grounds during hunting hours. At night, in between splits, and after season, these same birds flood back into the marsh because they are now safe. Here is the data I retrieved from the WLF website.
http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/sites/default/files/january1_averages.pdf It shows the duck population in LA from the months of nov-jan from 1977 to 2003. I also retrieved yearly counts from 2004-present to compare if there is a decreasing trend in numbers. What I found is that the last 10 years that are missing from the graph still fluctuate up and down around the long term average. This tells me that most likely the birds are still coming here in normal numbers, we just aren't seeing them during the season due to 'chasing them out the marshes' for lack of better words. A lot of guys say the hunting is terrible now compared to the 90s, but if you look at this graph, the 90s had ABOVE normal migration, hence better hunting. Of course the migration is altered slightly due to numerous factors (drought, feed, weather, etc) each year. I don't think anyone knows the true answer to why we had such a below average year this year, but I think water in the states north of us had a lot to do with it. This post wasn't to bash anyone who commented previously, I just wanted to share some of the stuff I've looked into. It's kind of hard to go against the numbers that Larry and others collect each year. I don't think its the end of the world because we had a slower season. Just a few years ago in 2010-2011 hunter success was excellent. We will have up and down years, its just nature. Until we see a steady decline away from the long term average over the course of several years, then I don't think we can make an argument that birds no longer come here and we need to extend the season into February (which won't happen anyway). Also, we wouldn't have anything to worry about if it wasn't for DU. I can't stand to see people bashing this organization and blaming them for poor seasons. If it wasn't for them conserving breeding grounds, we wouldn't even have a population of ducks to hunt anymore. Whether we want to accept it or not, human involvement is to blame. Loss of breeding grounds, change in agricultural practices, wetland loss, and extreme increases in pressure in recent years are all traced back to human involvement and likely causes for tougher hunting seasons. If you think its bad now, duck production on the breeding grounds has been up in recent years, but when that production goes into a downward cycle for some time (like nature ALWAYS does), then we will be in trouble! Anyways, rant over just wanted to share some of the stuff Ive been looking at!
You absolutely cannot have a duck season that goes into Feb.. Any biologist worth his salt will tell you ducks are pairing up in Feb.. Once a duck looses his mate after Feb. the chance of having a breeding pair goes way down. Duck season in Feb. would be counter productive to the resource. If you are not shooting ducks in Nov. you need to get a better property. Your problem is definitely not the season.
feb is a bad idea, just does not make sense. birds are paired and need time to rest before starting north. i hunt coastal SE and feel there are good reasons to open a week later. it allows more birds to arrive, more time for them settle into feeding areas and a week of hunting later in the season.
a later opener will get my vote, if i get a chance, as i am a non res hunter
I would be in favor of pushing the first opening date back to allow more ducks to accumulate in the hunting area before the they start getting shot at, and also close the season as late as possible within the federal framework. If this means reducing the number of hunting days then so be it. Also, I would be for getting rid of the zones. I think all of Louisiana should open at the same time as to disperse the hunting pressure.
I have only been chasing ducks for 20 years, so many of you have more experience than me, but I see several problems with the way the season was set up this year.
* Coastal zone opens before north Louisiana and Arkansas, don't the birds migrate north to south? If we corrected this perhaps hunting pressure could facilitate migration.
* Only the coastal zone split gave ducks a weekend off during the split! Let me be clear, if hunting pressure affects duck habits, we must give them more than 5 weekdays off!
* More than a month without a split hammers ducks! We watched ducks shy away from real ducks because they were so wary by the end of the season. Another split would have helped the ducks calm down some, and allow us to hunt till Jan 31.
With these being said, I had the best duck season I have ever had, but I was able to watch the ducks as the season progressed. I also don't think we need to use this year as a normal year in our adjustments, as I killed several bluewings and grays with pin feathers the last week of the season, indicating the hatch, and therefore the migration was extremely late.
1.) I think this may be the first time that I have somewhat disagreed with LA Marsh, you are 1/2 correct with your thoughts on the press. keeping ducks away, hence thats why we see more in Feb. I have a friend who owns ' used to be great duck hunting property' in Greenville MISS.,
guess when approx. 350,000 mallards showed up this yr, you got it, one week after the season closed. Do you really think they were coming back from the south? He said that the mallards do this every year for the past 10 yrs now. Why? Way too much feed for them to leave northern states. Other species are now learning what the mallards have known for quite some time now.
2.) The Feb. pairing excuse is just that, an excuse, there have been studies done that indicate the period of time it takes a female to pair with another male after he's been taken, any idea what that period of time is??? Less than 3 days and she has another mate. So I'm sick of the pairing excuse.
3.) Just like some on this site, I've been hunting since the late 60's and have seen what happens to thousands of pounds of feed when there isn't much press. on the ducks, it's gone in a matter of days. Guess what happens when the feed is gone, ducks leave. When the press. up north is over and the ducks just stay and eat, feed is gone quickly and then, only then, they will move southward in search of more food!!!!
You are partially right on the mallards because there sure isn't 350,000 mallards on the coast to move back north!
As far as other species........... no matter if the season closed in December or January you will ALWAYS see more after it closes. Even if the season closed February 28 for example you will see more the next week or two. Then people will be saying we need a March season!!!!!!!!!! HA!
I would like to see these dates for the 2014-2015 'Coastal Zone'
Youth Day November 1st
1st Split Nov 8th - Nov 16th (9 days)
2nd Split Nov 28th - Dec 7th (10 days)
opened the Friday after Thanksgiving.
3rd Split Dec 20th - Jan 29th (41 days)
Youth Day Feb 7th
I like to say 1st that my group had a great season this year but it make no sense that all states north of us are hunting to the end of January & we cannot.
It also makes no sense to have youth days 2 days in a row the week before the season. The second day is a wasted one in my opinion.
I would like some feed back from Mr Reynolds. -Thank you Mike Hepler
So many things against good duck seasons now. Need a drought, no hurricane , a cold winter . That's not even considering the severe erosion and saltwater intrusion. Habitat is being lost at an alarming rate . Prairie pothole region turning into farms. Breeding grounds being lost. Hunters with big money flooding corn and Japanese millet up north and in southwest la. Can't blame du for that. Thank the good Lord that du provides money for breeding ground conservation. To say it's du fault u got to have rocks in ya brain just my opinion. Don't look good for se la at all and what's worse the state doesn't do much to prevent coastal erosion. Add up those factors that's where our birds are. Didn't even talk about surface drives and twice the hunters we had. 5 years ago. You could go on and on.
First, zones and splits are set for 5-year periods, so there can't be 2 splits (3 season segments) in next year's duck season. The only way we can have 2 splits in Louisiana is if we have no zones. The next opportunity to change zones and splits is 2016. Obviously, no further evaluation of your proposed season dates is possible.
We have already discussed ad nauseum how and why the season dates for the coastal zone were set. I will continue to support the traditional dates in the coastal zone because of the harvest and participation data, both statewide and from the SE Louisiana coastal WMA bag-checks. However, 2014-15 is a year where the traditional second Saturday in November is as early as it can be, AND Thanksgiving is late (Nov. 27). So this may be the year to push the Commission for a later opening/closing if that is what you favor.
As for the Youth hunt, I don't have good harvest or participation data except that pre-season coastal zone youth hunts are very popular and successful. Here are the hunter-opinion survey data from last year regarding timing of the youth hunts in the coastal zone:
My biggest problem with the early opening is the upstate and out of state pressure in the coastal zone.There were caravans of trucks with surface drives heading to Venice from North La.,Arkansas,Mississippi,Alabama and Georgia.All loaded up with camping gear and 17 Mallards decoys.Then running all over scouting then bitching because of no ducks.Most of them justify the trip because of great fishing.I always hope for a early high river so they will all leave.
They will hear us slamming the ducks over our 100 decoys,all pins,teal and cans,then comment thet they wouldn,t bother with that many dekes,heck all you need is 17 mallard decoys,You just got to be in the right spot.The next morning they will be where we were and kill 3 teal and we just move further down and slam them again.Heck you can't fix stupid.They drive from Georgia and don't bring decoys.Then say theres no ducks here.
Here are your exact words:
NO pressure is the reason you see so many in February. NOT because the birds just arrived.
I said that I somewhat disagreed with your assestment and I stick to that. I have nothing but appreciation for you're duck hunting wisdom, through experience,that you share with us. 50% of the no press. being the reason we see more ducks in Feb. is def. correct. But,,,,every year we see more and more birds just getting here because the feed has finally run out north of us. Used to be mainly mallards, but like I stated in my previous posts, other species are finally seeing the picture too. Especially our beloved Greys. Just spoke with an engineer friend of mine from Mizzou and he said, with a smile on his face of course, the reason we had a great season 2 yrs ago, was because of the severe drought they were having up there and they could not get there corn to grow. His exact words: We saw more ducks this year, even with -8 degree temps, than we ever saw, even greys and teal. There it is in a nutshell. FOOD+some water and dey ain't coming JACK.
I have been hunting for along time on the Biloxi WMA never have I had a bag check or been prompted to fill out a check in and check out card. I also have never been asked how many ducks I have killed other than the Hip certification. So what ever data is being provided as the numbers of ducks killed on WMAs and killed in LA is skewed or a guestimate at best. Do private land owners get get questioned? I have only seen a represntative for the LDWF once and that was to give me a ticket for not wearing my kill switch on a tiler handle motor which has a clutch that takes the boat out of gear as soon as you let go of the sqeeze handle throtle. If you are going 50 in a bay boat with a fixed handle throtle and you fall out the boat it won't stop and the law says you do not have to where the kill switch. Figure that one out.
1) The data collected from SE WMAs bag checks is presented above in this thread. Those data are collected consistently, reported throughout the season, and have been cited many times by people who write for Louisiana Sportsman and other publications.
2) The harvest data for the state are similarly collected with consistent methods every year. Anyone listening to Don Dubuc last Sunday heard that he was selected for the survey this year and reported his hunting activity and bag along with hundreds of other Louisiana hunters. All hunters are eligible for the survey, private and public. Harvest reports, which include the specific methodology, can be found at: http://www.fws.gov/migratorybirds/NewReportsPublications/HIP/hip.htm
None of us have to remain ignorant. We can spend some time and learn a little bit about what we're talking about. By doing that, we might get past the BS, and start having meaningful discussions about our sincere differences in season-date preferences.
Larry there is no reason feel threatened. What I am saying is not ignorant it just does not line with your agenda. I have been selected by the Fish and wildlife Service for the survey twice. The way people are selected for this survey is based on the HIP report from the previous year. I did well one year and got the survey packet the next. The next year I did not do well because of hurricane activity and lack of feed. So the info I provided was not substantial enough to be used. I did not get a survey packet the next year. Right from the begining the data is skewed because thay only target individial's who harvest over a certain number of birds. They are focused more on wether or not the birds are young of the year or not. Not getting an acurate count of birds killed. They make estimates on information only from people who are killing over a certain ammount of birds.
I'm not threatened by things that are not true. People that read this need to understand that you don't know what you're talking about.
The HIP sample is not SKEWED toward more successful hunters; the sample is STRATIFIED by hunter kill reported on the registration questions.
Hunters are stratified into High kill (>10 per year), Med kill (1-10 per year) and Low kill (0 per year), and samples are collected from each one of those 3 groups. If you are in the High-kill group you have a higher probability of being selected, 5% instead of 2% for the Low kill group, but the total estimate accounts for sample sizes in each group. The harvest from the High kill group is NOT expanded to everyone; only to the number in the High kill group. The harvest from the Low-kill sample is expanded to the number in the Low-kill group, and so on.
This is basic, kindergarten sampling and estimation.
Why is it done that way? Because there is FAR more variation among hunters that report killing >10 ducks per season than there is among hunters that kill less than that. Consequently, we need larger relative samples to get the same confidence limits. Also, it is a better use of money, hunters money, to use a stratified random sample because we can get the same level of confidence with fewer samples. Again, this is basic fundamental statistical methodology.
Furthermore, it wouldn't matter even if the data were skewed as you wrongly suggest ..... because it would be similarly skewed every year in every state. So the comparative outcome of Louisiana's harvest vs past years or other states would still be the same.
Ignorance is BLISS in more ways than one. I'd rather be ingnorant on a subject than just plain ignore the truth even though it is right in your face, for whatever reason i.e. POLITICS/MONEY/ECT.
You must live a blissful life! Good for you!
Ignorance is not an insult; we all have to admit to it before we can make progress, instead of making arguments that expose it, like Bill Collector continues to do. Speaking from my own ignorance, I sincerely wish it were all so simple to understand and easy to fix.
Just not as many ducks. I can't see how us starting the season one week before most of you would like to start would affect the entire season. Seems like the second and third weeks would be better then, right? Maybe there short stopping them, but that is out of our hands. Not going to stop production of agriculture because a bunch of coonasses aren't meeting their yearly quota on ducks.
This is my point. There is a reason for LA having less ducks this season. But the waterfowl study leader who apparently is all knowing does not want to provide an answer other than the counts before the season may not have been as good as they thought. If he reveals the real reason it may decrease the bottom line for DU and we dont want to do that. I know that part of the waterfowl study leaders job should be to know why the ducks did not come down.
Not in to conspiracy theories. I will say this: I rode from Intracoastal City to Cameron Tuesday on the back road and saw more ducks than I've seen in some time. Also, last Saturday, I took a ride to my property in Bayou Black and there were ducks like mosquitos. It is my belief that there are too many hunters. Ducks, when everyone is referring to the good old days, had lots of resting areas, now, there are hunters around every corner. This is why, unless you have a lot of money to spend on a good lease, you won't have great opportunity to harvest a lot of ducks. Loss of habitat is also a huge factor. Years ago, Bully Camp (point-au-chene)on the Larose side was one of the greatest hunting areas anyone could ask for. Marsh was filled with vegetation, held thousands of ducks and coot throughout the winter. Now, everything just looks dead. Sure, on days of cold fronts, you can still kill well, but once they arrive and find no vegetation they leave. Blame it on what you will, but to say that we had a bad season due to the fact that it opened on the 9th rather than the 16th is ridiculous. I'm sure not much has changed with regards to farming and agriculture between 2012/2013 season and 2013/2014 season and everyone had great seasons in 12/13, so to blame it on shortstopping seems a bit out of line also. My personal belief is too much pressure and the amount of water up and down the flyway. I'm sure that the late hatch had something to do with it also. Everyone should have suspected something after the terrible teal season we had. That it all. Thanks!
I'd be shouting it from the rooftops!
And if I knew why ducks were distributed the way they were every year, I'd be selling that information to the highest bidder and NOT working for LDWF. I don't get paid by anyone but LDWF, so I have no incentive to lie for/protect anyone. I will use all information at my disposal to evaluate those distributions this year. The only major changes up the Flyway for this year was the widespread breaking of the drought in the mid-west, and the very late spring and precipitation on the breeding grounds. All the other agricultural shenanigans you accuse northern hunters of pulling existed last year, and the year before .......
So much for all knowing.
But what I won't do is act like I know things that I don't, and a lot of times that means saying, 'I don't know, but I'll try to find out.'
Farming season is here and a flooded field has no use now since its not hunting season. Everyone is draining to prepare for planting. Ducks have no choice but to find other areas to feed. So this could explain the ducks being everywhere
It would be interesting to see if there would be lots of ducks in February if the season stayed open through the month. I doubt it. I think that the amount of hunting pressure has lots to do with the amounts of ducks we are seeing right now.
lets simplify this so we can move on and call a truce. Did we have a storm to ruin SAV availability? NO. Did we have large amounts of food for the ducks? YES. Did we have a good enough hatch for ducks to be available for harvest? YES. Did we have a cold winter with many fronts to push birds? YES. Was there freeze up north to cause birds to come down for lack of food availability and frozen water? YES. Were there some isolated places in south LA the killed ducks all season? Yes. Did the majority not have a good season? YES. Was there drought in the upper and mid continental US? NO. Knowing those things as general knowledge what do you think anyone's conclusion would be.
Hopefully the lack of ducks thinned out all the mini duck commanders that sky blast. Stock in face paint will plummet
It is my belief (opinion only) that cold weather has nothing to do with the amount of ducks we have. Looking back at my logs - 2011/2012 was a great year for me and the average temperature on the days that I hunted was around 58 degrees. conversely, this year, my average temperature on the morning of each hunt was around 49 degrees. As I recall, 2011/2012 was very mild and we had a incredible year with mallards and gray ducks on our lease, to go along with the usual bwt and ringnecks. This season, with all the cold weather, I killed 4 mallards and 1 gray duck. We need droughts. But, with that said, drought conditions cause poor breeding grounds, which also causes the counts to go down on nests. Lose lose for us. All we can do is hope next year is better.

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Leo G. Hyde of Hazleton passed away Wednesday morning in his home.
Born in Hazleton, he was the son of the late George and Alice (Fisher) Hyde and was a member of Queen of Heaven Parish at Our Lady of Grace Church, Hazleton.
Leo was an Army veteran of the Korean War and, prior to retiring, he was the owner of Hyde's Korner, Hazleton.
Preceding him in death, in addition to his parents, were his first wife, the former Annette Kakalecik; sister, Alice Porreca; and his dog, Apache.
Surviving are his wife, the former Beverly Engler; son, Keith Hyde, Langhorne; granddaughters, Rebecca and Amanda Hyde; sisters, Rosemary Nasko, Hazleton; Kitty Sanders and her husband, Adam, Baltimore, Md.; and Betty Ann Radtke and her husband, Robert, Baltimore, Md.; brothers, Anthony Hyde, Hazleton; and George Hyde, Bath; and numerous nieces and nephews.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Monday at 9:30 a.m. in Queen of Heaven Parish at Our Lady of Grace Church.
Burial will be in the parish cemetery.
The family will receive friends at Joseph A. Moran Funeral Home Inc., 229 W. 12th St., Hazleton, on Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Jude Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
Condolences may be sent through www.moranfuneral home.com.
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Surveys show disconnect between IT, employees over BYOD security
More than two-thirds of employees are accessing the corporate network with their personal smartphones, yet few employees want security controls placed on their devices, according to an IDG Research survey of 350 IT managers and employees at enterprises with more than 250 employees.
While a majority of employees are willing to have malware protection and password requirements placed on their personal device, only 24 percent are willing to allow logging of corporate data they access from their personal device, even though logging access to corporate data is a compliance issue for many companies, according to the survey sponsored by mobile security firm Blue Coat.
In addition, only 19 percent of employees are willing to allow logging of web content accessed from their personal device and only 12 percent are willing to have restrictions placed on the types of sites and content they access.
At the same time, 41 percent of IT managers expect to be able to log access to corporate data from personal devices. 37 percent expect to enforce restrictions on the types of websites and content employees can access from their personal devices, and 34 percent of IT managers expect to log web content accessed from personal devices.
A full 88 percent of employees believe that their personal mobile devices are somewhat or very secure from malware, while 42 percent of IT managers believe that the risk of malware spreading from mobile devices to the corporate network is high or very high.
This BYOD security disconnect has limited the applications that businesses are willing to allow employees to access. While a majority of businesses allow access to email and instant messaging from personal mobile devices, fewer than one-quarter allow employees to access other applications, such as sales force automation, customer relationship management and supply chain management, from their personal mobile devices.
Nearly two-thirds of businesses said that they would block personal device from accessing the corporate network, including email, work applications and any shared internal sites, if the employee fails to comply with BYOD policies, according to the IDG Research survey.
Along with the survey results, Blue Coat unveiled a new mobile device security service for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iOS devices along with the survey results. The company said that the new security-as-a-service, which operates at the network level, provides enterprises with a control point over mobile browser applications and a defense against web-based threats.
Yet, according to a separate survey of 100 network IT professionals by network monitoring company Endace, a majority of enterprises admit that their employees use mobile applications that violate corporate policies. Nearly 40 percent of respondents noted that they do not know which applications are in use on their network.
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Rice Twp. squashes Easter egg hunt
RICE TWP. - The township's annual Easter egg hunt has fallen victim to a dispute over how candy purchases would be made.
Last month supervisors approved spending $1,000 from the township's recreation fund for an Easter egg hunt at the township park. The motion to approve the expenditure was made by Supervisor Miller Stella Jr. and seconded by Supervisor Marcia Thomas after Thomas offered to help with the event if she could get some volunteers. Township residents Felicia Bierzynski and Joan Pipech volunteered to serve on the hunt committee.
However, at Tuesday night's supervisors meeting, Pipech and Bierzynski said they have not received cooperation from township secretary/treasurer and Supervisor George Venesky, who participated in the meeting by conference call.
Pipech said she called Stella following last month's meeting to discuss the event and asked if the township would issue her a check for $1,000 so the committee could purchase supplies. She said Stella, who was absent from Tuesday's meeting, told her he saw no problem with issuing the check as long as the committee submitted receipts. She said when she contacted Armstrong he told her he would get back to her and a short time later called back and told her the township could not issue her a check.
"Who is in charge here?" Pipech asked, noting she had the support of both Stella and Thomas.
"It's the kids you are hurting, not the volunteers," Pipech said.
Venesky told Pipech while the $1,000 was approved, it has been past practice in the township for reimbursement to be made after receipts were submitted.
"You were given an opportunity and you chose not to play by the rules," Venesky said.
Armstrong told Pipech that giving out cash is not a good practice. "It's not a good internal control," he stated. Thomas, the township's former secretary/treasurer, said in the past payments for events like the egg hunt have been done in different ways.
"Other communities give it (money) to the volunteers because they trust them," she said.
Bierzynski put the cancellation of the event in the laps of Venesky and Armstrong.
"It's been canceled because there was no cooperation," she said.
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The Melba Mustangs football team beat the Payette Pirates in Payette last Friday 35-25 to even their record to 1-1 on the young season.
The Mustangs out-gained Payette by 171 total yards as they put up 417 yards to the Pirates 242 yards.
The opening quarter found Melba breaking the ice with a two yard score with 3:25 on the clock, but the Pirates quickly responded with a score when Jonathan Herrera hooked up with Aaron Murdock for a 21 yard touchdown strike. However, the Pirates failed on the point after attempt and trailed 7-6 at the end of the opening quarter of play.
In the second quarter, Melba extended its lead with two more scores. The first coming at the 8:19 mark on a 12 yard touchdown and the second with eight seconds on the clock on an eight yard score to bring the game tally to 21-6 at the intermission.
The Pirates cut into the Mustangs lead with another touchdown pass from Herrera, this time to Chase Neill for 38 yards. Jose Alcala added the point after to bring the score to 21-13.
Early in the fourth quarter Payette was back in the end zone again, when Herrera found a wide open Neill this time for 66 yards and the score. Payette now only trailed by two points, 21-19 with plenty of time on the clock.
The Mustangs responded to the Pirates action with an 11 yard score with 10:16 left in the fourth quarter with a one yard score to extend its lead to 28-19.
Back came Payette with 8:45 remaining in the game, Herrera again found Neill for the score, this time on a 48 yard catch and run, and brought the game tally to 28-25.
Melba put the icing on the cake at the 3:41 mark of the fourth quarter with a two yard score.
Melba has a bye this week.
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Area roundup: Wheeling Park downs Charleston Catholic 3-2
cZachary Vanhorn scored on a header off a corner kick with 4:21 left to send Wheeling Park past Charleston Catholic 3-2 at Wheeling Island Stadium in a showdown of top-ranked teams Saturday in boys high school soccer.
Vanhorn's first goal gave the Class AAA No. 1 Patriots a 1-0 halftime lead. Thad Jameson booted a goal to knot it at 1-all in the second half for the AA-A No. 1 and four-time defending state champion Fighting Irish (7-2-2). Park (9-1-2) retook the lead on a corner kick header from Braedon Carroll, but Catholic's Anthony Cipollone answered with a header on a free kick from Lucas Gocke with 15:52 to go.
Catholic saw its 64-match unbeaten streak come to and end in a 2-1 loss to Linsly on Friday night. The last time the Irish had back-to-back losses was in 2008.
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Jayne Lawman, Josee Erlandson, Jordan Pauley, Mackenzie Pritt, Claire Miller and Charlotte Karnes also had single tallies for Winfield (12-0) and Braiden Maddox registered the shutout.
CATHOLIC 3, GREEN. EAST 0: Sophie Bumgarner donated two goals for AA-A No. 1 Charleston Catholic in a road win over AAA No. 18 Greenbrier East. Peyton Keener added a goal for the Fighting Irish. (13-0).
The AA-A No. 11 Huskies (8-2) held off St. Joseph (3-8) a man down after a red-card ejection. Emilee Henry pitched in a goal for Hoover and Bailey Aab turned in 10 saves. Lindsay Bates scored for the Fighting Irish.
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BOWLING: Galaxy Lanes will be starting it's three-person adult league at 6:20 p.m. Thursday. For more information, call Galaxy Lanes at 304-415-7467.
WVU FAN CLUB: The Kanawha Valley WVU Fan Club will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday at Harding's Restaurant. The speaker will be assistant basketball coach Larry Harrison.


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Two firms that together invested Rs 28.35 crore in Tarun Tejpal's holding company, Anant Media, which publishes Tehelka magazine, have links to a Jindal group company that is named in a CBI FIR in the coal blocks allotment scandal, an investigation by The Indian Express has found.
Records show that Enlightened Consultancy Services invested Rs 16.75 crore and Weldon Polymers Private Ltd Rs 11.60 crore in Anant Media. Both companies made the first two tranches of their investment on the same dates: June 20, 2008 and November 20, 2008. Both bought Rs-10 Anant Media shares at a premium of Rs 10,623. This effectively valued Anant Media at Rs 93.1 crore while its loss was Rs 21.06 crore.
An analysis of the share transactions (see box) involving Tehelka and these companies shows that between 2006 and 2010, through sale and purchase at regular intervals, Tehelka's management sold shares at a high premium, bought them back at nominal face value and then re-issued these same shares among these interlinked companies.
For instance, Enlightened bought shares at a premium of Rs 10,623 in 2008, sold them back to Tehelka in 2009 at Rs 10 a share and, within days, Tehelka issued these shares at a Rs 2,505-premium to Trinamool MP K D Singh's Royal Building and Infrastructure Ltd. In effect, Anant Media collected a premium of Rs 13,128 for a Rs 10 share.
In the Registrar of Company (RoC) records, Weldon, which holds a 5.87 per cent stake in Anant Media, has the same address as that of a firm named N D Exim Pvt Ltd. N D Exim was named by the CBI in its FIR in June 2013, which also named Congress MP and industrialist Naveen Jindal, in connection with Rs 2.25 crore it
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Since returning home to the Ohio Valley, artist Bob Dombrowski of St. Clairsville has found his artistic vision renewed by the light and landscape of his native place.
Dombrowski moved in February 2013 to St. Clairsville, where his mother, Carol Dombrowski, still resides. His father, Bob, died in 2002. "I missed my family. I missed being around family," he said.
After living in Los Angeles for seven years and then 23 years in New York City, he said, "It just wears you down. I just wasn't inspired anymore living in the city."
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Inspired by his eastern Ohio roots, artist Bob Dombrowski of St. Clairsville creates a landscape painting depicting a sunset along U.S. 250.
But, now that he's home, Dombrowski has rediscovered inspiration for his artistic pursuits. "I found myself being drawn to the landscape and light," he remarked.
"After coming back here, I got inspired again. I picked up the paintbrush and started painting away," Dombrowski commented. "Seasons change the light. I just had to paint it."
Reflecting on the Ohio Valley's scenic beauty, he said, "The landscape is gorgeous. How could you not want to paint it? Growing up, I did not appreciate it."
Currently, he said, "I'm doing a lot of commissioned pieces. People are asking for house portraits."
At the same time, Dombrowski said, "I'm working on fine art for myself. When I have 25 pieces, I'll go to a gallery. I just don't have the body of work that I used to."
While living on the East Coast, his work was exhibited in galleries across the country. Described as a skilled colorist, he was commissioned to do work for major advertising and design agencies, national magazines and publishing houses.
In addition to creating fine art, he works as a master muralist and illustrator. Recently, he completed a mural of a beach scene for a poolhouse at a home in St. Clairsville. When he lived in New York, he was commissioned by designers to create murals for numerous clients in New York and New England. In a few cases, he painted murals on site.
For other projects, he did paintings on canvases which were then applied like wallpaper.
"I do a lot of wallpaper restoration," he added, explaining that he matches and restores patterns such as Zuber, a French hand-painted, hand-blocked wallpaper, and Gracie, another hand-painted wallpaper.
For one project, he had to create a panel to match three panels of antique wallpaper. "They wanted it dirty and antique-looking. I had to match the dirt and the cracks, which I love doing," he said. "I love the challenge of how to match something ... I find it really exciting and challenging to match color."
He also is involved in "the more decorative side of restoration," working on marble, stone, granite and brick and creating faux finishes and trompe l'oeil ("fool the eye") effects.
He started in this line of work with Chuck Fischer Studios in New York, beginning in 1995 and still ongoing. "We've continued to work together on small projects," he said.
As an illustrator, he has produced images for books and magazines, doing 20 covers a year at one point. However, he said, "The illustration stuff, it really died off with the whole digital age."
When he illustrated books for a number of reading series, he said, "It was really rewarding for me because growing up I didn't go to the museums. My only exposure to art was through these wonderfully illustrated children's books."
His career as an illustrator almost halted before it truly began, through an ill-timed mishap. Dombrowski recalled that in 1995, he worked three and one-half weeks creating 18 illustrations for his first job with artists' representatives. However, on his way to show the finished product, he left all 18 original illustrations on a subway train by accident. "I was petrified to tell my agents," he said.
Instead, he set out to re-create his work. "In a week, I did what I did in three weeks. It actually turned out better," he said.
But what became of the lost original illustrations? "Probably they were sold on the street for a quarter in The Bronx," he joked.
A 1977 graduate of St. John Central High School in Bellaire, Dombrowski attended Ohio University's Eastern Campus for two years and spent three years on the main campus in Athens, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Later, he studied in New York at the Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts.
Dombrowski, who has been "drawing since I could hold a pencil," was interested in art and theater. After college, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. He branched out to work with special effects, and "that got me to art," he said.
"I do love acting. I just don't have a hard enough skin," he commented. "It's much easier to take the critique in the art world.
"I really believe that things happen for a reason," he reflected. "I learned over the years not to have regrets. People are put in my life for a reason and taken away for a reason."
As an artist, Dombrowski said, "I developed this style on my own. I didn't have those rigid rules to follow. I was just self-taught - and had fun with it."
A series of providential circumstances led to Dombrowski's work as a professional artist. After moving to New York, "I didn't know what I wanted to do," he said. He was waiting tables in restaurants by day and drawing at home at night.
He completed about a dozen pieces, which he showed to his friend, Fischer, who bought one of the pieces. In turn, a friend of Fischer in the publishing industry saw the piece and arranged for Dombrowski to meet with the art director of a magazine. "I went in and he offered me the cover and five inside illustrations," the artist recalled.
"I don't believe in coincidences either," Dombrowski remarked. "I think Chuck (Fischer) was meant to buy that piece and to hang it, and it was meant for that guy to see it."
Another friend, an illustrator, introduced Dombrowski to an agent who signed the budding artist. "I had no idea how hard it was to get illustration representatives in New York City at that time. It was all meant to be," he said.
Now, having come full circle to his Ohio Valley roots, Dombrowski commented, "It's great. I feel like a big fish in a little pond here. It's much better than being a little fish in the big pond of New York City."
As for his artistic endeavors, he said, "I just need to take it slow and let it unfold the way it should be."


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The Allianz team, comprising employees and the AJFC boys, in a group picture after the match.
Allianz Malaysia organised the final Legacy Programme for young football talents of Allianz Junior Football Camp (AJFC) 2013 recently at the Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur.
This is the third such programme held in five months since September last year, which brought back the top boys who were shortlisted at the selection matches held in Kuantan and Kuala Lumpur in June last year.
The Legacy programme is a continuity programme from the Allianz Junior Football Camp which Allianz Malaysia has been a part of.
"The Legacy Programme acts as a platform to reach out to aspiring footballers to grow and further develop their skills.
"Through this programme, these boys can pursue their dreams and ambition of becoming professional football players. This is our continuous effort to promote the skills of these talented boys," said Allianz Malaysia Berhad CEO Jens Reisch.
The first Legacy Programme was held at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur in September last year while the second one was held at the Victoria Institution in December.
One of the AJFC finalists heading the ball away during the match against team Allianz.
Both these programmes started with a 15-minute warm-up session, which was followed by coaching on football techniques including ball control, passing, turning, dribbling, shooting and heading.
These sessions were conducted by an experienced coach from Selangor.
At the end of these sessions, a 11-aside match was held among the boys.
The Legacy Programme session was interactive as there were ideas and knowledge exchanged between coach, the boys, and even some Allianz Malaysia employees.
Employees were invited to be part of the programme by joining in an exclusive and friendly match with the boys.
After the warm-up, training and catching up on some rest, a match between the boys and the employees was held. The AJFC finalists ended up winners in a closely-fought encounter.
"These boys have been meeting each quarter since September last year and we hope that the Legacy programme has been able to sharpen their football skills and provide opportunities for them to exchange knowledge and experience.
"We are happy that on of our AJFC 2012 winners, 18-year-old Luveen Visnu Anandhan was recently recognised for his talent and has signed a nine-month contract with Angkatan Tentera Malaysia football team.
"This is indeed very encouraging news for us as young talents can continue doing what they have passion for, through AJFC," concluded Reisch.
For these young talented Malaysian footballers, it all began in April last year as Allianz announced the global company initiative in Malaysia for the second consecutive year.
Teenagers between 14 and 16 years with keen interest in football were invited to register online.
A total of 2,900 Malaysian teenagers registered and more than 1,200 turned up at the selection matches in Kuantan and Shah Alam.
The selection process was a little different this year in Malaysia, where the spectators of the final match had an opportunity to vote and determine the winners.
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The participants were judged based on their speed, endurance and football skills.
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Arguably Hollywood's most time-honored tactic for injecting a sense of the mystical and mysterious into a production is borrowing from the Bible. Sometimes the gambit scores (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lost), sometimes it doesn't (End of Days). Whether it will work for Fox's new Monday-night fantasy, Sleepy Hollow, remains to be seen, but the early numbers look promising—the show's first outing on Sept. 16 gave the network its highest-rated drama premiere in six years.
Turning Washington's Irving classic tale on its, ahem, head, Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) becomes a dashing revolutionary war hero who travels 250 years into the future. The last thing he remembers is lopping off the head of an enormous horseman with an arrow mark burned into his hand. Unfortunately for Ichabod, the horseman has also found his way to 21st century New England and is resuming his bloody work.
From there, Hollow weaves a lot of plot threads together in too short a time. Ichabod's wife, Katrina, was part of a coven of "good witches" working to prevent the events foretold in Revelation, a plan George Washington may or may not have been in on. The only person who believes Ichabod's tale is local police officer Abbie (Nicole Beharie), who has her own supernatural past.
Beyond a refreshingly positive take on the founding fathers, Hollow's saving grace is its willingness to embrace the inherent campiness of its premise with frequent fish-out-of-water jokes. Ichabod wonders if the government mandates a certain number of Starbucks per town and whether Abbie, who is African-American, has been emancipated. While certainly not a show for younger viewers, for all the head-lopping, the blood in the premiere is kept to a relative minimum. Unfortunately, common primetime-level swearing is not.
More troubling is a witchcraft element combined with the notion that the final judgment is something humans can prevent. For all the allusions to the apostle John's prophecies, God isn't mentioned in the first episode and it seems to be solely occult forces driving the action. Even for a lighthearted fantasy series, that's a pretty dark worldview.


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Public housing in Singapore
Public housing in Singapore may be said to have begun in the 1930s with the housing schemes undertaken by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT), the predecessor of the Housing and Development Board (HDB). HDB replaced SIT as the national housing authority in 1960 and is now the sole provider of public housing in Singapore. It is estimated that more than 80 percent of Singapore's resident population now live in public housing, that is, flats managed by HDB.
In 1918, the colonial government set up a housing commission to review the living conditions in the central area of Singapore. The SIT was formed following the recommendations of the commission and started functioning in 1920 with the recruitment of Captain Edwin Percy Richards as deputy chairman. However, SIT was not constituted as a legal entity until the Singapore Improvement Ordinance was passed in 1927. Although Singapore was facing an acute housing shortage at the time, SIT was not given the authority to build housing for the people except for those left homeless by its improvement schemes. It was only in 1932 that SIT was given more powers to undertake building projects. One of its earliest projects was the Tiong Bahru housing estate, which is regarded as the first public housing estate of Singapore. However, SIT's building efforts were far from adequate to meet the needs of the fast-growing population and the housing situation worsened, especially after the Pacific War of the 1940s.
By the time Singapore attained self-government in 1959, the housing shortage and its related problems such as overcrowding and squatter colonies had reached alarming proportions. Public housing for the lower-income groups was thus given top priority and HDB was set up by February 1960 to replace SIT. This marked the beginning of large-scale public housing development in Singapore. Compared to the cramped and unhygienic living conditions in shophouses and squatter areas, flats built by HDB seemed luxurious – they were spacious and equipped with basic services such as electricity, flush toilets and piped water. By 31 March 1976, more than 50 percent of the population was living in HDB flats, a significant improvement from the 8.8 percent living in SIT flats in 1959.
Besides those built by HDB, a limited number of public flats were also built by the Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) in the Jurong and Sembawang industrial estates for the lower-income groups between 1968 and 1982, and by the Housing and Urban Development Company (HUDC) for the middle-income groups between 1974 and 1982. HDB took over the management of JTC and HUDC flats in 1982 and is now the sole provider of public housing in Singapore, excluding dwellings built or managed by other government bodies as staff quarters. As of 31 March 2008, 82 percent of the resident population was living in HDB flats.
Public housing in Singapore generally comprises high-density, high-rise developments, mostly located in the suburban areas. The majority of public housing estates are self-contained communities with not only the essential facilities to meet the residents' basic needs but also various community amenities such as schools and recreational facilities. The larger estates are called new towns. Singapore's first new town, Queenstown, was initiated by SIT in the 1950s but has been developed mostly by HDB. The second new town, Toa Payoh, was the first to be developed entirely by HDB. Presently, there are more than 20 new towns and the three largest by population size are Jurong West, Tampines and Woodlands.
There are eight categories of public housing: one-room flats, two-room flats, three-room flats, four-room flats, five-room flats, executive flats (including executive apartments and maisonettes), studio apartments (reserved for Singaporeans who are at least 55 years old) and HUDC flats. Studio apartments and one- and two-room flats are the smallest with floor areas of less than 50 sq m; five-room, executive and HUDC flats are the largest with floor areas exceeding 100 sq m. The size and layout of new flats are guided by standard design plans, with some degree of variation.
The standard design plans for new flats have been updated over the years to cater to the changing expectations and preferences of buyers. For example, three-room flats did not have a bathroom attached to the master bedroom until the 1970s, and executive flats were launched in the 1980s in response to the desire for bigger flats while the elderly-friendly studio apartments were introduced only in 1997. These changes reflect the broader shift in the focus of public housing programmes from quantity to quality.
Whereas the emphasis of the early building programmes was on meeting the population's basic need for proper shelter, there is now an emphasis on quality that extends beyond the design of the flats to the surrounding living environment, as evidenced by efforts to improve the landscape architecture and enhance the visual identity of housing estates and to provide better amenities for the residents. Furthermore, upgrading works are carried out under various estate renewal programmes to prevent physical decay and obsolescence and to enhance the residents' living environment.
Most public flats are sold units, a result of the government's conscious effort to build a nation of homeowners in the belief that homeownership would promote a sense of nationalism by giving Singaporeans a bigger stake in their country. At the end of March 2008, 95 percent of public flats were owner-occupied, with the rest being rental flats. The government encourages ownership of public flats by providing concessionary home loans and housing grants and by allowing Central Provident Fund savings to be used to finance home purchases, subject to some conditions. These incentives are available for purchases of both new and resale flats. In addition, new flats offered directly by HDB are sold at subsidised prices. However, only those who meet HDB's eligibility criteria are allowed to buy public flats, including new units sold by private developers (under HDB's Design, Build and Sell Scheme) and resale flats.
Public housing as a tool to achieve social and political objectives
Through the application of eligibility conditions, public housing has been used explicitly to support certain government policies. For instance, before 1991, singles were not allowed to buy HDB flats on their own, in line with the government's pro-family and pro-marriage stance. However, the rule was gradually relaxed, initially giving singles access to three-room or smaller resale flats in certain areas, then to such flats in any location, and now single Singaporeans aged at least 35 years old can purchase resale flats of any size in any location on their own. Another example would be the maximum proportions that are set for the various ethnic groups in each HDB block and in each HDB neighbourhood. To prevent the formation of racial enclaves and promote ethnic integration, HDB will not approve the sale of a new or resale flat to a particular ethnic group if it would lead to that ethnic group's limit being exceeded.
Public housing services have also been linked to support for the ruling People's Action Party (PAP). This is demonstrated in PAP's use of estate upgrading as an incentive to pull in votes during past elections. However, in July 2009, the government announced that the two opposition wards – Potong Pasir and Hougang – would be included in HDB's lift upgrading programme earlier than expected, prompting some to suggest that PAP was finally depoliticising the national upgrading programme.
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Koh, E. (1991, October 18). Singles above 35 may buy HDB flats on their own. The Business Times. Retrieved October 12, 2009, from Factiva database.
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Ministry of National Development. (1997, November 5). Studio apartments for elderly lessees of HDB flats [Press release]. Retrieved October 12, 2009, from STARS database.
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Singles will be able to buy HDB flats of any size in resale market: PM Lee. (2004, August 29). Channel NewsAsia. Retrieved October 12, 2009, from Factiva database.
Tai, C.-L. (1988). Housing policy and high-rise living: A study of Singapore's public housing. Singapore: Chopmen Publishers.
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Tan, A. H. H., & Phang, S.-Y. (1991). The Singapore experience in public housing. Singapore: Times Academic Press.
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Wong, A. K., & Yeh, S. H. K. (Eds.). (1985). Housing a nation: 25 years of public housing in Singapore. [Singapore]: Maruzen Asia.
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Yeh, S. H. K. (Ed.). (1975). Public housing in Singapore: A multi-disciplinary study. Singapore: Singapore University Press.
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Further resources
Ooi, G. L. (2004). Future of space: Planning, space and the city. Singapore: Eastern University Press.
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Singapore Improvement. (1925, August 11). The Straits Times, p.11. Retrieved August 5, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
The town planner departs. (1924, May 10). Malayan Saturday Post, p.10. Retrieved August 5, 2010, from NewspaperSG database.
The information in this article is valid as at 2010 and correct as far as we are able to ascertain from our sources. It is not intended to be an exhaustive or complete history of the subject. Please contact the Library for further reading materials on the topic.
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Published in Company Comment on 28 April 2010
Pharmaceutical giant GSK makes a solid start to the year, with double-digit growth.
GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK), the world's fourth-biggest pharmaceutical firm by sales, reported strong first-quarter results at noon on Wednesday.
GSK reported rising sales and earnings, as follows (using constant exchange rates):
However, GSK's first-quarter sales were boosted by seasonal sales of pandemic products: H1N1 bird-flu vaccine and anti-viral Relenza. Stripping out these £782m of sales, revenues grew by a more sedate 4%.
GSK's first-quarter dividend is up 7% to 15p from 14p.
Under youthful CEO Andrew Whitty (who bagged a 76% pay rise to £8.1m in 2009 while freezing pay for most workers), Glaxo seems to be moving steadily away from its time-honoured strategy of relying on "white pills and western markets".
In the latest three-month period, just over a quarter (27%) of its pharma sales came from this category. Sales in emerging markets grew 43% and in Asia Pacific/Japan by 45%. In addition, sales of new products rose by almost two-thirds (65%) to £412 million.
However, thanks to generic competition, US sales were down 1% to £1.9 billion, although this was an improvement on the 24% fall seen in the same period last year. GSK claims that it is ready to compete in the American market, even after President's Obama's healthcare reforms lead to higher discounts for drugs bought by government programmes such as Medicaid. This competitiveness will partly be achieved by global cost savings of £2.2 billion by 2012.
As well as its pharmaceutical sales -- including best-selling asthma drugs Advair and Seretide -- GSK has a big consumer-healthcare division. This sells well-known brands such as drinks Lucozade and Ribena, and toothpastes Aquafresh and Sensodyne. Consumer healthcare recorded sales of £1.2 billion, up 9% on last year, and well ahead of market growth of 1%.
When it comes to blue-chip companies here in the UK, you don't get much bigger than GSK. The drugs Goliath has a market cap of nearly £64 billion. What's more, you don't get much steadier and safer businesses than selling drugs. For example, GSK's annual dividend (paid quarterly) has risen handsomely this century, as you can see below:
As you can see, while lesser firms were collapsing in the worst financial meltdown since the Great Depression, GSK strongly increased its dividend. As an owner, what more could you want (apart from a much higher share price, that is)? Although GSK is the already the ninth-highest yielding share in the FTSE 100, its dividend is covered at least twice.
For the record, I've owned shares in GSK for more than twenty years. Trading on a price-earnings ratio of 10.9 and yielding 4.6%, Glaxo is a core holding for income seekers, cautious investors -- and even the proverbial widows and orphans!
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Me too!:-)
I'm also a long term investor.I have chosen to re-invest dividends which may have been a mistake.Although I now have significantly increased my shareholding via DRIP,the share price has been static at best in real terms.I may need to wait quite some time to make a decent profit.Should I abandon DRIP?
Shame you didn't sell them in 1999 Cliff.
You have owned them for over 20years! Gosh Cliff, you are tenacious. Well you could have saved yourself a whole ton of worrying in climbing that " wall of worry" . Stock now is same price as it was 13 years ago. On a biblical 70 year basis, I make that a stress lasting 18.6% of a lifetime.
So with price now so low, you going to load up on more stock Cliff?
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I, Frankenstein Still Features A Muscular And Non-Monstrous Aaron Eckhart
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In my day to day life, there are many things I feel I have to take with a grain of salt, from political news to box office expectations to whatever insane miracle health cures people incessantly post on Facebook. The world is rich with things to peer at behind a skeptical lens.
This brings us to the above picture, the first official still from Stuart Beatties upcoming horror thriller I, Frankenstein, which makes me certain that no one involved with the making of the movie has ever stitched a bunch of different body parts together in the goal of reanimating them as one living being. The photo comes to us courtesy of Entertainment Weekly via Bloody Disgusting, and it features Aaron Eckhart just standing there looking fucking ripped. Seriously, was his body dug up from the graves of men who died due to an overdose of upper body exercises?
I guess those are faded scars across his chest and his arms (and maybe a little eyeliner around his peepers), but Im beginning to think the medical consultant used in the movie was actually the guy from Milton Bradleys Operation. I know that Eckharts character whose name is Adam, since referring to someone as the Monster removes all traces of personality wont be solely defined by his looks, and that the battles hell face will inevitably be in the spotlight more than his non-cobbled physique, but its disconcerting nonetheless. Its like making a Dracula movie where he uses a special tool to extract the blood from peoples necks. You guys remember Robert De Niros monster from Kenneth Branaghs Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, right?
Scarred up and nasty, just like a Frankenstein creature should be. But I suspect anyone with a Hollywood crush on Eckhart doesnt have much of a problem with this appearance.
Beattie wrote the script based on the graphic novel of the same name written by Kevin Grevioux, co-creator of the Underworld franchise. It follows Adam into modern times, which hes able to live through due to quirky genetics. On the way to some kind of a dark metropolis, he is caught between two immortal clans that have been battling for centuries. My guess is that at some point somebody will punch Adam in the stomach, and hell be able to brush it off, since his abs are made of steel.
Co-starring Bill Nighy, Socratis Otto, Miranda Otto, Aiden Young and Yvonne Strahovski, a post-converted 3D I. Frankenstein will finally shamble its way into theaters on January 24, 2014. But youll be able to catch some preview footage at the films Comic-Con panel.
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