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Hydrotek Marine Plywood is manufactured utilizing BS 1088 specifications, it is a multiply type construction, with balanced internal plys and thick (1mm before sanding) face veneers, and water proof phenolic glue. It is made using a stiff and strong wood specie which when put together, yield a very good quality marine panel. The faces and core are rotary cut veneer and the faces are one piece without splices. Inner veneers are well selected for Hydrotek and built to the 1088 spec for absolute minimum core voids . This all combines to make Hydrotek a strong and structural marine ply plywood.
It is a perfect replacement for the declining quality of marine Douglas Fir.
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The BS (British Standard) 6566 grading rule has been replaced and updated though it is still in use through out much of the world of marine plywood. It is used as a mill standard now and demands a high level of quality control but not quite as stringent as the ultimate grade which is BS1088. The highest quality Marine Plywood in the world is manufactured in Europe to the BS1088 grading standard. The European mills hire Lloyd's of London to monitor and test their quality and certify their products to be on specification. Some Asian mills claim their products are built to the "1088" specification, however none are Lloyd's Certified and few, if any, reach the quality of the better European plants.
It is the standard that specifies the quality of the best Marine Plywood in the world. Reading the entire BS1088 spec. is a long and tedious process. So we have condensed our list to the main headings.
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|View of the Pulaski
Skyway over the Passaic Riiver (1978)
Looking east towards Jersey City and New York City.
Credits: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Historic American Engineering Record Collection
View of the Pulaski Skyway from the Jersey City Heights.
Photo: A. Selvaggio, c2003.
Upon its completion in 1932, the Pulaski Skyway was declared the "Most Beautiful Steel Structure" among long-span bridges by the American Institute of Steel Construction. On its sixtieth anniversary, the bridge drew praise as "a black steel necklace draped over the industrial meadows" (New York Times 10 October 1993). It again became a local celebrity when it appeared with the opening credits of the popular New Jersey-based TV program The Sopranos (1999-2007).
Costing approximately $20 million, the riveted-construction bridge with cantilevered Pratt trusses atop concrete columns was the most expensive bridge of its day. Danish-born engineer Sigvald Johannesson designed the four-lane 88,461-ton skyway, selecting a truss design over the suspension bridge concept chosen for the George Washington Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge in the 1930s. At 3.5 miles long, the elevated roadway spans over the Meadowlands, peaks at 135-feet over the Hackensack and Passaic rivers, and crosses over Kearny's industrial sites and the NJ Turnpike. It begins at Jersey City with ramps to Newark and Kearny.
The construction of the Pulaski Skyway began as part of a larger $40 million, 13.2-mile long Route 1 Extension project in the 1920s. The movement of troops and war materials between the Port of New York and New Jersey railroad yards during World War I demonstrated the need for new highways between the two areas. After the war, the New Jersey State Highway Department (NJDOT) drew up a master plan for the extension of Route 1 from Elizabeth, through Newark and Jersey City, to the proposed Holland Tunnel at downtown Manhattan.
Johannesson and Frederick Lavis, former railroad engineers and veterans of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad project, began to work on the roadway in 1923. It was referred to as the "Diagonal Highway," as it was originally designed to cross diagonally the New Jersey Meadowlands with a "high-level, bridge-causeway complex." The following description captures its eventual design: "The two 550-foot-long main spans consist of cantilever steel (Pratt) trusses that support flanking 350-foot-long suspended spans. The land sections of the structure consist of 118 cantilever steel deck truss spans ranging from about 175 to 350 feet in length" ("Pulaski Skyway Historic Overview," 3). The 135-foot clearance above high tide met the requirement for the passage of warships underneath the bridge.
According to "1-9 Pulaski Skyway Historic Overview," the construction of the proposed elevated highway had implications for Jersey City's future development thereby needing the approval of its mayor Frank Hague: "The highway was to cross the high ridge (part of the New Jersey Palisades) before descending to the Holland Tunnel. Connections were to be provided with Tonnele Avenue (US 1 and US 9), which was to be the primary route to the then-proposed George Washington Bridge. To avoid an open cut through Jersey City something that the Erie and Pennsylvania railroads had already done to separate the city the state highway department proposed a subterranean route that lessened the grade over the ridge. The highway was located alongside the Erie Cut, and topped by a roadway. The adopted route, which curved north towards US 1, provided good connections to the local street system" (2).
The project as described met Hague's approval on several counts. The roadway was a state financed project; it would provide much needed employment to his constituents during the lean years of the Depression; and it had approaches to both Hudson (now Kennedy) Boulevard and Tonnele Avenue that linked Hudson County's communities as well as access to the Marion section of Jersey City and South Kearny.
Construction of the skyway began in 1930 taking two years to complete. There were fifteen fatalities associated with the construction, including a murder resulting from a labor dispute over wages for union workers. It allowed Hague to use police force to terminate a labor strike affecting progress on the bridge.
The bridge opened to vehicular traffic at 8:00 a.m. on Thanksgiving, November 24, 1932. It was later dedicated on October 11, 1933, on the anniversary of the death of General Casimir Pulaski's death. Pulaski, the Polish-born hero of the American Revolutionary war, known as the "Father of the American Cavalry," was bestowed the rank of Brigadier General by Congress in recognition of his leadership at the Battle of Brandywine of September 11, 1777. He later resigned his command and formed the "Pulaski Legion," an independent cavalry. Severely wounded fighting the British at the Battle of Savannah, GA (1779), Pulaski died at age 31 aboard the colonial gunboat Wasp. A bas relief portrait for Pulaski by John Sheba of Irvington, NJ, is at the Jersey City approach of the skyway.
Mayor Hague gave the welcoming address to 20,000 attendees at the dedication ceremony held at Lincoln Memorial Park Athletic Field from which the spectators had a wide-angle view of the viaduct over the marshlands. Governor A. Harry Moore, who was responsible for the executive order to rename the bridge, gave one of the dedication speeches.
The Pulaski Skyway became a popular truck route between Jersey City and Newark--but not without unintended consequences. The heavily utilized roadway brought congestion that affected the traffic pattern between New York and Newark (Liberty) Airport. State highway officials banned trucks from the roadway and rerouted them onto Communipaw Avenue, which became Truck US 1-US 9. In 1956, relief came with the newly constructed New Jersey Turnpike-Newark Bay Extension (1-78) as an alternate truck route to Jersey City and New York.
Safety issues also plagued the new viaduct. The number of fatalities gave way to its popular designation as "death highway" and even "suicide lane." The NJDOT website reports the dimensions of the Skyway that contributed the the problem: "The typical roadway section of the Skyway consists of two 11-foot lanes with no shoulders in both directions. There is a center median barrier, and two-foot safety walks along both outer lanes." When constructed, it had a center "breakdown lane" for disabled vehicles and no shoulder. Fearful drivers sped along the highway for a fast exit. Due to the increasing number of head-on accidents, a concrete median or "Jersey barrier" was added to the center lane.
While the narrow roadbed was suitable for the railroad industry, the design left something to be desired during the automobile era of increasingly larger vehicles. In recent years critics have also claimed that the bridge's decking is outdated and rapidly deteriorating, although the black steel structure mounted on concrete beams is reportedly secure for the more than 85,000 vehicles that cross the Skyway daily.
In 1983, the NJDOT received a $15.2 million federal grant for the Skyway's first major rehabilitation to repair structural deficiencies. Presently the NJDOT spends approximately $10 million annually on repairs to the concrete railings, deck and structural steel. Moreover, it has long debated whether to rehabilitate the bridge or replace it. Neither is inexpensive. In January 2013, the Department of Transportation announced its remediation for the 80-year old Skyway. After the 2014 Super Bowl at NJ's MetLife Stadium, the steel behemoth of Hudson County will be repaired at a cost of $355 million. The plan is to repair the northbound lanes that travel east to New York, leaving the southbound lanes open for two-way traffic, and then repair the southbound lanes, reversing the pattern. Commuters headed for New York may need to use alternate routes such as the Lincoln Tunnel and the George Washington Bridge.
The plan, while inconvenient during construction, will preserve the iconic Skyway noted for its design and traffic connections.
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Project Administrator: Patrick Shalhoub

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Smoothie King to Launch New! Summer Hydration Smoothie Line Nationwide for a Limited Time Only
Smoothie King to Launch New! Summer Hydration Smoothie Line
Nationwide for a Limited Time Only
Leading Smoothie Franchise Recruits Pro Beach Volleyball Players for Summertime Promotion
NEW ORLEANS, (May 2016) -- Smoothie King Franchises, Inc., the leading smoothie franchise company with more than 750 stores worldwide, will launch a new line of Summer Hydration Smoothies at all store locations on May 23, 2016. Replenishing fluids better than water, all four of the new smoothies will be blended with coconut water and strawberries and provide more potassium (an important electrolyte to help you stay hydrated) than the leading sports drinks.
"When we develop and launch new smoothies, our goal is to fulfill a specific purpose for our guests," said Davis Jaeger, Food Scientist for Smoothie King. "Hydration in the hot, summer months – particularly through high-powered summer activities – was the driving purpose behind this line. Blended with coconut water, which has naturally hydrating power, these smoothies are also high in vitamin C. Our guests will be mentally and physically prepared to take on the summer heat."
As part of the summertime launch, Smoothie King will be enlisting the support of two well-known, professional beach volleyball players, Brooke Sweat and Emily Day. As athletes at the top of their sport, Sweat and Day embody Smoothie King's mission to inspire people to live a healthy and active lifestyle. The athletes will share their purpose with Smoothie King guests through social media, in-store appearances and community events. (Dates and locations to be announced.)
The Summer Hydration Line will feature the following four smoothies.
• Watermelon Hydrator: Strawberries, Watermelon Juice Blend, Coconut Water, Lemon Juice Blend, Turbinado, Protein Blend
• Strawberry Mango Hydrator: Strawberries, Mango Juice Blend, Mango Sorbet, Coconut Water, Water, Electrolyte Mix
• Passionfruit Peach Hydrator: Peaches, Strawberries, Coconut Water, Passion Fruit Juice Blend, Turbinado, Electrolyte Mix
• Watermelon X-Treme: Strawberries, Watermelon Juice Blend, Coconut Water Turbinado, Protein Blend
The watermelon juice blend and coconut water will be making their debut as ingredients for the brand. Watermelon will be a limited time flavor option, while coconut water will be a permanent addition guests can add to any smoothie. The Summer Hydration Smoothies range from 260–360 calories per 20 oz. cup and are fat free, cholesterol free and low in sodium. For more information, visit www.SmoothieKing.com.
About Smoothie King Franchises Inc.
Smoothie King Franchises, Inc. is a privately held, New Orleans-area-based franchise company with more than 750 units worldwide. By creating each smoothie with a purpose, Smoothie King makes it simple and pleasurable for guests to achieve their individual health goals as part of a low-calorie diet and regular exercise routine. The franchise also offers a number of healthy retail products, including sports beverages, energy bars, vitamins, supplements and more.
Smoothie King was founded in 1973 by Steve Kuhnau, whose mission was to help others achieve better health in a tasty way. In 1989, Smoothie King became the first smoothie franchise in the U.S. and currently operates in 33 states, the Caymans and the Republic of Korea. In 2015, Smoothie King was ranked No. 1 by Entrepreneur magazine in the juice bar category for the 21st year and No. 79 overall on the 2015 Franchise 500 list. In 2014, Smoothie King partnered with the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association to launch the Smoothie King Center, a multi-purpose indoor arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. Visit www.smoothieking.com or www.smoothiekingfranchise.com; engage on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SmoothieKing; follow on Twitter at http://twitter.com/smoothieking.


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In response to the challenge of developing more sustainable agriculture and fisheries and to reduce habitat destruction, a number of Business and Biodiversity Initiatives have emerged across South Africa, particularly in the Western Cape. The initiatives aim to put production on a more sustainable footing by conserving agricultural resources of soil, water and grazing while demonstrating that all production landscapes are dependent on biodiversity for the ecosystem services they provide. A recent study has shown that the initiatives in the Western Cape comprise over 400 000 ha under better land management and contribute to many of the nation's conservation targets.
The GreenChoice Alliance has several tools for managing farms according to ecological, sustainable and integrated principles. To learn more, visit the GreenChoice Alliance website.
A number of retailers across South Africa have launched conservation-related campaigns, while others have set up mechanisms whereby their suppliers are rewarded for farming sustainably.
Stewardship aims to give environmentally conscious, private landowners the tools to be true custodians of the natural heritage. Learn more at Cape Nature
Producers, with the help of the conservation sector, have established exciting ways to combine conservation into their production systems. Since the inception of these initiatives, there has been a shift from a focus on conservation alone to a holistic one that includes conservation, sustainable agricultural practices, social equity and financial management.
The citrus industry is the second largest earner of foreign exchange through South African agricultural exports. The industry generates R3 billion per annum and exports 54 percent of total production, making it the third largest exporter of citrus in the world after Spain and the USA.
While many of South Africa's key fish resources are well managed and in a healthy condition, many years of overexploitation and poor management have caused the abundance of other species to drop to dangerously low levels.
The South African cut-flower industry contributes considerably to SA's economy and employment, particularly in the Western Cape, and has shown significant growth in the past ten years. The country produces half the world's wild-cut proteas, employing 25,000 people and generating total revenue of approximately R82 million per annum.
Beekeepers have always played a critical role in agriculture, contributing to crop pollination and the development of products worth billions of South African rands.
Livestock farming for meat production is the largest agricultural sector in South Africa, generating over R6.7 billion per annum.
Pecan nuts and macadamias are produced predominantly in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga and groundnuts are farmed extensively in the Limpopo, Free State and North West provinces.
Potato production is the core economic activity and employer in the Sandveld region, producing an annual turnover of R400 million and employing 3,250 people. High input costs and challenging farming and environmental conditions make maintaining a viable enterprise difficult for farmers in the area.
The rooibos industry has seen an exponential increase in demand over the years and its cultivation is now posing a threat not only to Fynbos vegetation in general, but also to wild rooibos in the area.
Although cane production in South Africa declined 4 percent in 2007/8, the country maintains the 5th largest per capita consumption rates in the world. Sugar cane is one of the heaviest water consumers of any crop, placing significant pressure on natural water resources.
In response to the threat that encroaching vineyards were having on the Cape Floristic Region and the Biodiversity and Wine Initiative was launched in 2004.
Current wool production practices pose certain pressures on the environment. Overgrazing of livestock and desertification reduce rangeland productivity, which may reduce production capacity and has increased land degradation.


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Burger King
Burger King is offering "Burgers for Breakfast," which include its Whoppers, Cheeseburgers and Big King sandwiches, as well as its Original Chicken Sandwich, french fries and apple pie. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Burger King
The Miami-based chain says its "Burgers at Breakfast" menu includes its Whoppers, Cheeseburgers and Big King sandwiches, as well as its Original Chicken Sandwich, french fries and apple pie. The items are offered alongside the chain's normal breakfast menu.
Burger King Worldwide Inc. said in an email that more than 5,000 locations will participate in the program. The company said it began rolling out earlier this month but did not say whether it would be available permanently or for a limited time.
The rollout was first reported by the website BurgerBusiness.com.
Burger King's move comes as fast-food chains look to tap into the growing breakfast category. Most notably, Taco Bell recently launched its national breakfast menu by poking fun at McDonald's in TV ads. But finding success in the morning isn't necessarily easy for new players.
Wendy's Co., for instance, recently gave up on testing breakfast and says it doesn't plan to pursue it again anytime soon.
In a phone interview, Wendy's CEO Emil Brolick noted that people tend to be "entrenched" in their morning habits and that they seem "pretty happy with the offerings they have in the marketplace."
McDonald's, meanwhile, remains the leader in breakfast with its popular Egg McMuffins, Hot Cakes and other items. Fans of McDonald's breakfast have long wanted it to be available beyond normal breakfast hours, and executives have tinkered with some options.
McDonald's says a key sales metric was flat in April in the U.S., as the world's largest hamburger chain worked to fend off competitors and improve service in its restaurants.
Global sales at locations open at least 13 months rose 1.2 percent, boosted by stronger performance overseas.
Over the past year, McDonald's executives have also conceded that the chain introduced too many items too quickly, which resulted in slower service and inaccurate orders. But CEO Don Thompson has said the company is working with franchisees to address those problems, in part by ensuring restaurants have appropriate staffing.
Looking ahead, the company plans to underscore popular items like the Big Mac in advertising. It's also emphasizing its breakfast menu as rivals such as Taco Bell look to take a bigger share of the growing breakfast market.
McDonald's spokeswoman Lisa McComb says the idea came from the company's "Shake Shake" seasoned fries, which debuted in Hong Kong in 2005 before spreading to countries including China, India and Australia.
The website GrubGrade.com had published photos of the seasoned fries at a McDonald's in Stockton, California, on Thursday. The packaging includes directions telling people how to pour the seasoning onto french fries in a bag and shake them.
"As with all tests, we aren't in a position to draw conclusions or make assumptions about the test since it is just beginning but we hope our customers in these two markets enjoy the new flavors," McComb said in an email.
reported a sharply higher profit for its first quarter on Thursday as the hamburger chain saw lower costs and an improvement in sales.
Sales at established company-owned restaurants climbed 1.3 percent as a result of successful product promotions and improved traffic at remodeled locations, Wendy's said.


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Blocking Google isn't the answer (or why Murdoch has it wrong) November 11th, 2009
Rupert Murdoch's recent interview with Sky News in Australia has raised more than a few eyebrows this week. In it, he claimed that once his papers started charging for online content, they'd give the boot to Google, along with other search engines and news aggregators. With the exception of Mark Cuban, who lives in a fantasy world where more people find news content through Facebook and Twitter than through search engines, the general reaction online has been predictably hostile to Murdoch's approach. If you watch the interview, though, Murdoch actually makes some noteworthy observations on the future of news.
Of course the move to block search engines is ill-advised. Google sends over a billion visitors to news websites every month. And whether you're monetisation strategy is based on advertising or direct payment, the first step is getting enough traffic to monetise. Removing your news site from Google (or, more importantly, Yahoo News) is akin to taking your newspaper off the stands because you're afraid people will read the ledes above the fold instead of buying the paper itself. Like a newsagent, search engines are an integral part of news distribution … only they don't charge for connecting you to your readers.
Murdoch's real beef is with changes in consumer behavior: he wants loyal readers for his news sites. But he's forgotten that the medium affects the content. A newspaper is a discrete editorial artefact, but the web is an atomized collection of individual pages, and nothing will change that. A newspaper will have regular readers who buy the paper every day, whether through subscription or regular purchase. Others will buy a particular paper on a particular day because the splash is appealing. Online behavior is, in some ways, analogous. Those who consume online news regularly will visit certain sites (or read certain RSS feeds) with some frequency. Casual news consumers are more likely to seek information about a particular topic through search. Regular news consumers use search engines, too, when they're interested in learning more about a topic of interest (in part because even some very good newspapers on the web today have very poor site search).
Two things differentiate online behavior from its offline counterpart. First, non-unique content is commodified. Before the Internet, most people only encountered one newspaper in a given day, so even a healthy padding of stories from a newswire was tolerable (or even welcomed). The same is not true online. The second difference is that switching is extremely easy online: it's literally a click away. Unless your content is unique, making it difficult for your users to find and/or read your content means they'll quickly find similar information elsewhere. Offline, people who buy a newspaper may not like the coverage of story x, but they've paid for the whole package, and even if they buy another paper to learn more about story x, the first paper is no worse off in the short term. The same isn't true online, where a single disappointing story will drive users to other sites.
Fighting changes in consumer behavior is a losing battle, so it will be interesting to see how News International navigate the waters ahead.
Tags: aggregators, discoverability, distribution, Google, Mark Cuban, News International, newswires, Rupert Murdoch, Sky News
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The Platform: Key to Micropayments' Success October 12th, 2009
In my last post, I wrote about why consumers may be more willing to pay for some types of news content over other types, and how publishers that are focused on creating original, unique content for their readers will benefit most from the transition to paid (or partially paid) distribution models on the web.
I also mentioned, though, that's only half the challenge. As Google pointed out in its recent submission to the Newspaper Association of America:
When it comes to a paid content model, there are two main challenges. First, the content must offer value to users. Only content creators can address this. The second is to create a simple payment model that is painless for users.
That second challenge has been at the front of our minds for the past six months, as we've been building the bitcents platform. We started with a simple goal: to make micropayments work for publishers, consumers and the web as a whole … and not just now, or in the next year, but in the long term.
In short, we believe that for news micropayments to flourish, the systems adopted by publishers will need to:
- Operate at scale
- Be easy to use
- Earn and keep user trust
- Embrace the web
Future blog posts will go into greater detail, but here's a rough overview of these four principles, which we've built bitcents to address.
1. Operate at scale
A successful micropayments system will need to work as well for a site that receives five million visits a day as it does for a site that gets fifty thousand … or five hundred. But the system must also offer scale to users, by allowing them to access content from a broad range of publishers of all shapes and sizes. A micropayments platform solution like bitcents benefits consumers (who won't need to deal with different siloed payment systems for each publisher site they visit) and benefits publishers (because all consumers on the platform will be able to easily access and pay for publisher content).
2. Be easy to use
From a consumer side, that means integration with participating publisher websites needs to be smooth and intuitive, the sign up process needs to be fast and straightforward, and (more than anything else) each individual transaction needs to be completely frictionless. For publishers, it means that the system must be both simple to integrate and offer enough flexibility to keep the publisher in full control of their content.
3. Earn and keep user trust
Competition on the web is only ever a click away, and any successful micropayments system will need to earn the trust of both consumers and publishers. How? By being reliable, secure and privacy-sensitive. The privacy settings we've built into bitcents allow a consumer to pay for premium content without having it associated with her account if she prefers greater privacy.
4. Embrace the web
The other three principles could be applied to any web app, which is why we're particularly excited by the fourth one: embrace the web. We think of it as having two main components:
First, there's the link-driven nature of the web. Links are, to put it bluntly, what makes it a web, by connecting each page to other pages. Links drive traffic around the web. Whether a publisher's revenues come from advertising, micropayments, or some combination of the two, they'll need to start with traffic … and therefore with links. That's why Rupert Murdoch or Tom Curley's complaints of exploitation by search engines are red herrings.
By default, bitcents keeps publishers' content available to search engines. An individual publisher can, of course, decide to override the default, but we strongly believe that for a micropayment system to work, it will have to embrace the web's linkability.
Secondly, there's the rapid innovation that happens on the web, driven by constant competition. For micropayments to thrive in the long term, they'll have to embrace this culture of rapid iteration and change. The problem, of course, is that this need doesn't naturally fit alongside scale and ease-of-use principles.
That's why we've built bitcents as a platform, on top of which developers can build subscriber networks. Each subscriber network will provide full access to every bitcents publishing partner's content.
It's easiest to think of it like using a credit card to pay for something in a store. A publisher's site is like a store, and subscriber networks are like different types of credit cards (your Amazon.com Visa or US Airways MasterCard). bitcents is the card machine that sits on the counter in the store. Just like different types of credit cards, subscriber networks will be able to offer different benefits, building special tools and services for their users. For example, one subscriber network may offer a recommendation engine based on a user's social network. Another may manage multi-user corporate acocunts, while a third could allow users to buy and tag stories from a variety of publishers over the course of the week and deliver a personalized newspaper to the user's door on Saturday morning for leisurely weekend reading.
We think the competition between subscriber networks will drive innovation, which will make micropayments more useful for both publishers and consumers, and the subscriber network will receive a percentage of the revenues it helps publishers to earn.
We founded bitcents because we want to make micropayments work for publishers, consumers, and the web as a whole. It's a long term project, which is why we think it's important to get the fundamentals right from the start.
Tags: be easy to use, competition, discoverability, earn and keep user trust, embrace the web, Google, micropayments, Newspaper Association of America, operate at scale, platform, privacy, Rupert Murdoch, subscriber networks, the web, Tom Curley
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An honest discussion about charging for news online October 7th, 2009
Today we announced the launch of bitcents, a new micropayments platform for news publishers online. We built bitcents because we believe that rigorous, ethical journalism has an economic as well as a societal value, and we hope that it will be a tool that publishers of all shapes and sizes will use to make the most of their content online. We're excited about the potential for paid content on the web, but while everyone from Rupert Murdoch to Steve Brill is evangelizing its benefits, the data are more ambiguous: recent surveys in the UK have found that somewhere between 5% and 84% of readers would be willing to pay for content online. That's why we think it's important to engage in an honest discussion about the opportunities and limits of charging for online news.
The basics (supply, demand, and the long tail)
Before we even start talking about micropayments, we should acknowledge some basic prerequisites of any trade:
- People must be willing to buy what you're offering.
- It must be easy for your customer to complete the transaction.
These points may seem obvious, but they are missing from many discussions about the potential for paid news content on the web…especially among those who believe such a model can work. We've built bitcents to address the latter requirement, and we're excited to work with publishers to better understand (and satisfy) the former.
What makes something worth buying? Put simply: supply and demand. As paid news skeptics regularly and rightly point out, the supply of free national and international news is huge, and perhaps inexhaustible. It is therefore unlikely that national or quasi-national newspapers will be able to charge for their online content in the foreseeable future. (As an aside, Britons regularly point to the BBC's provision of free, high-quality news as a source of particular woe, but the glut of general news available in the US and in other countries around the world suggests that the market is equally prepared to provide similar challenges.)
The skeptics would leave it there, forgetting that while general news, by definition, attracts the largest audiences, it is only a small fraction of the total news produced each day. Most news remains specialized, attracting an audience within a specific locality, discipline, or industry. This is the long tail that the Internet supposedly serves so well. Unfortunately, these are the publishers who have been hit hardest by the changes the web has wrought on the advertising industry; sites with fewer than two million monthly visitors struggle to extract the full benefit from online advertising. On the plus side, these smaller publishers are more likely to produce original, high-value content that is suited to direct payment.
Trusted guidance is more valuable than ever (or: the PageRank fallacy)
Newspapers, of course, have always been more than the sum of their parts: by bundling stories together, a newspaper is a guidepost to what matters, and why. The web has undermined the information scarcity that gave newspapers their primacy in this role. Online, readers skip from site to site for information, consuming content in an atomized way that has no parallel offline.
As more people and more information move online, though, the need for trusted guides will only increase. With billions of pages being added to the web daily, people are finding it more difficult to discern what matters. That's hardly surprising: On the web today, people discover content primarily through search engines and word of mouth. These are invaluable tools for discovery, but they are better at identifying what is popular than what is important. As an example, we can look to Wikipedia, which (for all its strengths) dedicates nearly four times as many words to Harry Potter as it does to the printing press. The wisdom of crowds (and algorithms that tap into it) are well-suited to the recommendation of general interest material, but more specialized interests remain elusive. The value of editorial judgment, meanwhile, has yet to be established online. bitcents provides both publishers and developers with new incentives to provide just such guidance.
The web is good for content (even when it hurts)
There's no doubt that web has changed the how people consume information: for the first time in history, the average person has access to information on virtually any topic at a moment's notice — more information than can be consumed in a lifetime. That's a good thing for humanity (more information empowers citizens and consumers alike), and it also means that more people are consuming more news than ever. But it creates challenges as well. It has changed the economics of offline media, destroying the scarcity that subsidized their advertising revenues.
We are now in the midst of a great transition, and while change is never easy, newspapers have a long history of adapting to change. One thing is clear, at least: the publishers that embrace the opportunities offered by the web — and recognize its limits — will be the ones the thrive in the years to come. Confronted with a fundamental shift in consumer behavior, adaptation is better than the alternative, as Studebaker would no doubt attest.
And finally…
Micropayments are not a panacea. but they do have an important role to play in the future of news in an online era. There are still many questions, of course, but we're happy to be working with publishers, developers and consumers to find new answers.
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In honor of V-Day, which is a day dedicated to raising awareness of violence against women, I have been thinking a lot about the issues that young women our age face all over the world. One issue that has stood out to me is the stories of the girl soldiers in the Ugandan civil war. Uganda has been entrenched in this extremely destructive civil war for the past 21 years. Women and girls have been greatly affected by the violence. Thousands of children, including 60,000 girls have been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the militia group that is fighting against the Ugandan government.
The war has been tearing through Northern Uganda for the past 21 years, despite several attempts to cease the fighting. The LRA has operated by abducting children, mainly from the Acholi people. When girls are abducted from their homes, they are usually forced to be the "wives" of older soldiers. The girls are raped, beaten and many of them are murdered by the soldiers. What most people don't know is that the girl soldiers were sometimes forced to fight in combat, and were often forced to pillage the villages that were being destroyed by the LRA.
The reason why I wanted to address the stories of the thousands of girls and young women that have been abducted is because of this story that I read recently that is very inspiring. The story is about a young woman named Lucy, who is a former child soldier. Lucy's story is awe-inspiring, and it reminded me that we can't forget about the violence that women face every day all over the world.


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Google revenue has rocketed to US$16.86n (£10.23bn), according to the internet giant's fourth quarter results.
The figures show that consolidated revenue rose by 17% from US$14.42bn in the same period the previous year, according to the latest figures.
Google increased the number of paid clicks by 31%, but the company's average cost-per-click for the fourth quarter was down 11%.
Google chief executive Larry Page said: "We ended 2013 with another great quarter of momentum and growth. Google's standalone revenue was up 22% year on year, at US$15.7bn dollars (£9.5bn).
"We made great progress across a wide range of product improvements and business goals. I'm also very excited about improving people's lives even more with continued hard work on our user experiences."
The figures come on the heels of fellow heavyweights Apple and Facebook posting results earlier this week.
In October, HM Revenue and Customs indicated that it is investigating Google over its tax affairs following evidence from a whistle-blower who claimed British taxpayers are being "cheated" by the company.
According to its latest figures, Google had 47,756 full-time employees on its books at the end of 2013.


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Evolving the shooter genre with its unique and exhilarating combination of fluid action and combat, Damnation will feature huge, open environments, frenetic combat, daredevil acrobatics and high-octane vehicle-based stunts. Presenting players with an intense test of reflexes, quick thinking and rapid-fire conflict, Damnation will feature vast, breathtaking landscapes, each covering miles of distance and thousands of vertical feet.
Billed as a 'shooter gone vertical' and visually inspired by iconic elements of American history, these massive streaming landscapes will form the battlegrounds for a post-industrial conflict between humanity and an unstoppable arms dealer hell-bent on total world domination.
Players will be able to choose their own paths and navigate the world by performing daredevil feats on the edge of human ability. However players aren't the only ones with mind-blowing acrobatic skills; intelligent enemies will give chase and engage players in frantic gun fights and attacks that can come from any direction – in Damnation's world there's no safe place to hide.
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In addition to the single player experience, Damnation comes complete with a unique set of multiplayer options that take full advantage of the game's expansive levels.
"With such a rich and uniquely diverse visual environment to create for next generation graphics hardware," Gilbert continued, "we knew we would need a top partner to manage art direction. We are thrilled to have signed industry leading art and animation studio Liquid Development to that role." Liquid Development's work has been featured in blockbusters like Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, Mass Effect, and Rock Band, amongst many more.
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The New American Home: Wright-Inspired 'Party Pavilion'?
Each year at the National Association of Home Builders' big trade show, a group of home-product suppliers teams up with a builder to sponsor the construction of the "New American Home," showcasing the latest builders have to offer American consumers.
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This year is different. Blue Heron, a Las Vegas developer, has built a New American Home that hardly resembles the typical American home at all. Sprawling at nearly 7,000 square feet, the home features a subterranean courtyard, thousands of square feet of artificial water features, massive concrete-like overhangs, metal hand rails, faux-travertine floors and dozens of glass walls. The home has a price tag of about $4 million. (See photos)


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Our Download of the Day today is TeamSpeak Client 3.0.0 RC2.
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2013 LB. Reuben Foster "Wants to visit Michigan"
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Following up on a Sam Webb report, 2013 commitment Henry Poggi tells me that five-star LB Reubon Foster "wants to visit Michigan". He says they've been talking a lot and that he thinks Foster is serious about taking a visit.
It's still a long-shot either way, but apparently it's worth at least speculating on in regards to a visit. Director of Player Personnel Chris Singletary was following him on twitter yesterday afternoon; this is only meaningful because Singletary is the guy who sets up and coordinates recruit visits.
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Sioux Falls Gets Levee Reimbursement for Big Sioux River Project
The City of Sioux Falls will get a return on their investment to build the levee system. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and City of Sioux Falls officials announced that the Corps will reimburse the City approximately $10 million for the work on the levee that was built along the Big Sioux River system.
The levee project cost approximately $62 million. The federal share of the project is 75 percent, ($46.5 million) and the local share of 25 percent ($15.5 million) is split between the State of South Dakota and the City of Sioux Falls.
After more than ten years of work on the City of Sioux Falls levee system, improvements are now substantially complete. In 2009, after several years of little federal funding and the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) announcement of upcoming changes to the city's flood insurance rate maps, the City advanced funds to ensure the project was completed in a timely manner. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District now has received funds to reimburse the City for that advancement.
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BPL 2015 cricket tournament will start on November 22 and finish on December 15 with the BPL 2015 T20 final match. This will be the Season 3 of domestic T20 competition of BPL, the Bangladesh Premier League 2015. BPL 2012 & BPL 2013 took place with seven teams from seven districts. But in BPL 2015, there will be six teams. BPL Season 3 T20 matches will be played in SBNCS Mirpur Stadium in Dhaka and JACS Chittagong Stadium.
However, the BPL 2015 Opening Ceremony will be held two days earlier on Nov 20 at the SBNCS Mirpur Stadium in Dhaka.
BPL 2015 Teams – BPL 2015 Sponsors
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|Dhaka Dynamites
|Beximco group
|Nasir Hossain
|Chittagong Vikings
|DBL Group
|Tamim Iqbal
|Barisal Bulls
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|Comilla Victorians
|Royal Sporting Ltd.
|Mashrafe Mortaza
|Sourav Ganguly/Wasim Akram
|Sylhet Superstars
|Alif Group
|Mushfiqur Rahim
|Rangpur Riders
|i-Sports Ltd.
|Shakib Al Hasan
|Robin Singh
|Khulna will not participate in BPL T20 2015
|Rajshahi will not participate in BPL T20 2015
BPL 2015 Players Price Category
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|1 player
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|3 players
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|3 players
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Each BPL 2015 team can hold 12 local cricketers & 7 international cricketers. Out of seven international cricketer, four can play in a match. Each team of BPL 2015 can spend 4.40 crore taka to collect local & international players.
BPL T20 2015 Schedule
BPL 2015 cricket schedule will be finalized after finalization of franchise selection. Probably, BPL 2015 match schedule & play timetable will be announced after Eid ul Azha 2015 vacation.
BPL T20 2015 will start on 24th November, 2015 with the inaugural match at Mirpur Stadium. Earlier, on 22nd November, BPL T20 2015 opening ceremony will be held at the same venue.
BPL 2015 Players Final List – All Teams
Barisal Bulls Players List
Mahmudullah (icon player), Chris Gayle, Brendan Taylor, Kevon Cooper, Evin Lewis, Seekkuge Prasanna, Mohammad Sami, Imad Wasim, Sabbir Rahman, Sohag Gazi, Taijul Islam, Rony Talukdar, Al-Amin Hossain, Shahriar Nafees, Mehedi Maruf, Nadif Chowdhury, Mohammad Sharifullah, Sajidul Islam.
Chittagong Vikings Players List
Tamim Iqbal (icon player), Umar Akmal, Chamara Kapugedera, Mohammad Amir, Elton Chigumbura, Kamran Akmal, Robin Peterson, Saeed Ajmal, Jeevan Mendis, Anamul Haque, Taskin Ahmed, Ziaur Rahman, Naeem Islam, Enamul Haque jnr, Shafiul Islam, Nafees Iqbal, Elias Sunny, Yasir Ali Chowdhury, Asif Ahmed.
Comilla Victorians Players List
Mashrafe Mortaza (icon player), Sunil Narine, Shoaib Malik, Marlon Samuels, Ahmed Shehzad, Krishmar Santokie, Andre Russell, Nuwan Kulasekara, Lahiru Thirimanne, Darren Stevens, Liton Das, Imrul Kayes, Shuvagata Hom, Sanjamul Islam, Kamrul Islam Rabbi, Ariful Haque, Mahmudul Hasan, Naeem Islam jnr, Abu Hider, Dhiman Ghosh.
Dhaka Dynamites Players List
Nasir Hossain (icon player), Kumar Sangakkara, Ryan ten Doeschate, Mohammad Irfan, Yasir Shah, Nasir Jamshed, Sohail Khan, Dawid Malan, Shahzaib Hasan, Mustafizur Rahman, Mosharraf Hossain, Mosaddek Hossain Saikat, Shamsur Rahman, Saikat Ali, Farhad Reza, Nabil Samad, Abul Hasan, Irfan Shukkur.
Rangpur Riders Players List
Shakib Al Hasan (icon player), Lendl Simmons, Darren Sammy, Thisara Perera, Wahab Riaz, Sachithra Senanayake, Mohammad Nabi, Soumya Sarkar, Arafat Sunny, Mohammad Mithun, Muktar Ali, Saqlain Sajib, Jahurul Islam, Abu Jayed Chowdhury, Murad Khan, Rasel Al Mamun.
Sylhet Superstars Players List
Mushfiqur Rahim (icon player), Shahid Afridi, Ravi Bopara, Brad Hodge, Ajantha Mendis, Chris Jordan, Sohail Tanvir, Joshua Cobb, Rubel Hossain, Mominul Haque, Abdur Razzak, Nurul Hasan, Mohammad Shahid, Najmul Islam, Junaid Siddique, Nazmul Hossain Milon, Abu Sayem.
BPL 2015 Live TV Broadcast
BPL 2015 T20 Cricket tournament will be live telecast by Channel 9 Bangladesh. Other broadcast partners are Bangladesh Television (BTV), Star Sports in South Asia, Geo Super in Pakistan, Channel 9 UK in Europe, SportsMax in the Caribbean and BeIN Sports in the Middle-East.
BPL 2015 online live streaming will be available on RootsBD TV in RootsBD.com .
BPL 2015 T20 Tournament Format
All the six teams of BPL 2015 will play each other and top two teams will play the 1st Semi-final of BPL 2015. BPL 2015 1st Semi-final winner will get place in the BPL 2015 final match. For the first time in BPL 2015, 3rd & 4th place holders will complete each other in the qualifier eliminator match and the winner will play in the 2nd Semi-final with the 1st Semi-final looser team.
BPL 2015 Player Auction for Season 3
BPL 2015 player auction held on Oct 22, 2015 at SBNCS Mirpur Stadium in Dhaka, which is known as 'Player's by Choice'.
BPL 2015 Opening Ceremony
BPL 2015 opening ceremony will be held at Mirpur Stadium in Dhaka. BPl opening ceremony programs will start at 4pm with popular local bands & singer (LRB, Chirkut, Sabina Yasmin/Runa Liala/Momtaz). Indian superstars, Hrithik Roshan & Jacqueline Fernandez will get on stage under the lights at around 8pm. BPL 2015 opening ceremony curtains will close with amazing fireworks display while the flood-lights turned off.
BPL 2015 Theme Song
BPL 2015 theme song will be unveiled in November 2015. BPL T20 2015 will get a new theme song. Previous seasons of BPL T20 used the theme song by Bappi Lahiri, Kumar Bishwajit & Shaan.
BPL 2015 Team Songs
Each team of BPL 2015 will release a team theme song for BPL 2015 soon.
BPL 2015 Team Jerseys
BPL 2015 teams will wear new BPL 2015 jerseys designed by their own designers. We will post each BPL 2015 Team Jersey once they are unveiled.
BPL T20 2015 Venues
BPL T20 2015 will start on 24th November, 2015 with six teams. BPL T20 2015 matches will be played at three venues, Mirpur, Chittagong & Khulna Stadium. Sylhet stadium was not considered due to Under-19 World Cup Cricket 2016.
BPL T20 2015 opening match & final match will be held in Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadum (SBNCS), Mirpur, Dhaka.
BPL T20 2015 Title Sponsor
BRB Cables got the title sponsorship & stadium right for the BPL T20 2015 cricket tournament.
BPL T20 2015 Icon Cricketers
Six icon cricketers have been selected for BPL T20 2015.
- Shakib Al Hasan
- Mushfiqur Rahim
- Mashrafee Bin Mrtaza
- Mahmudullah Riadh
- Nasir Hossain
- Tamim Iqbal


text: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 New in the Literature: Blast-related TBI (Otol Neurotol 2011 Feb 24 [Epub ahead of print]) Vestibular function testing confirms a greater incidence of peripheral vestibular hypofunction in service members who experience dizziness with blast-related brain injury (TBI) relative to those who are asymptomatic, say authors of an article published online ahead of print February 24 in Otology & Neurology. Additionally, oculomotor abnormalities and/or nystagmus consistent with central involvement were present in 10 of the 24 study participants tested. The precise cause of these findings remains unknown, the authors add. This prospective, nonblinded, nonrandomized descriptive study conducted at a tertiary care facility within the Department of Defense Medical Center included 24 service members recovering from blast-related TBI sustained in Iraq or Afghanistan. Vestibular testing confirmed a greater incidence of vestibular and oculomotor dysfunction in symptomatic (vestibular-like dizziness) personnel with blast-related TBI relative to asymptomatic group members. Videonystagmography in the symptomatic group revealed abnormal nystagmus or oculomotor findings in 6 of 12 subjects tested. Similarly, rotational chair testing in this group revealed evidence of both peripheral (4/12) and central (2/12) vestibular pathology. By contrast, the asymptomatic group revealed less vestibular impairment with 1 of 10 rotational chair abnormalities. The asymptomatic group was further characterized by fewer aberrant nystagmus findings (4/12 abnormal VNGs). Computerized dynamic posturography testing revealed no significant differences between groups. Self-report measures demonstrated differences between groups. APTA member Matthew R. Scherer, PT, PhD, NCS, led this study, which was coauthored by Michael C. Schubert, PT, PhD, who also is an association member.


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It's that time of year again, strawberries and their alluring scent are easing their way into farmers' markets. While there are different varieties of strawberries available, there's no question that the ones grown nearby (wherever you live) and freshly picked have a superior flavor. Capture the sweetness of red-all-the-way-through berries by making a quick simple syrup, perfect for pouring on pancakes or yogurt, or incorporating into a refreshing sangria.
Sangria is like a frame to show of the lovely forms and colors of fruit, with the added benefit of infusing those fruit slices with alcohol. It's a drink best made in big batches and enjoyed with a group of your favorite people. This version uses light, bubbly cava which brings a bright and energetic contrast to the sweetness of the strawberries and other sliced and muddled fruit. And since it's so light, it's just as at home on the table at brunch as it is at an evening get together.
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Need a person/studio to design a church based website. This will include the site being responsive (so a mobile interface is needed as well as desktop), having a style guide available as a resource, using Google Fonts as body text, and additional details that will be provided to the winning bidder. Potential bidders must have a portfolio of their work available for me to look at. Only design work is necessary, as I'll be developing the site upon completion. Must also be available for edits if applicable. Again, if you do NOT have a portfolio available, you will NOT be considered.
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This Act Of Generosity Just Made Us Love Prince Harry More
Prince Harry has made a personal donation to a crowdfunding campaign aimed at getting Brazilian youngsters in the stands for the Paralympics.
The 31-year-old gave an undisclosed sum to the online #Filltheseats drive which is raising money to enable 10,000 children watch the Rio Games live.
Rock band Coldplay are among those supporting the global initiative, which was started by former London 2012 marketing director Greg Nugent.
It initially aimed to raise $US15,000 to send 500 youngsters to the Games but, after generating $US20,000 dollars in one week, the International Paralympic Committee and the Rio 2016 organising committee called for the campaign stay open.
Prince Harry has made a personal donation to #filltheseats so Rio kids can see Invictus & Paralympic competitors in action. Enjoy the games!— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) September 6, 2016
Prince Harry has a special message for the 11 @WeAreInvictus competitors heading to the #Rio2016 Paralympic Games— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) September 5, 2016
To those @WeAreInvictus #Rio2016 competitors, what an incredible achievement - well done for your selection - H. pic.twitter.com/uKwXhxJJ7t— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) September 5, 2016
You've trained harder than ever, but the fight to the finish line won't be easy. You know this better than anyone -H pic.twitter.com/0LM9JxdFUQ— Kensington Palace (@KensingtonRoyal) September 5, 2016
A Kensington Palace spokeswoman said: "Prince Harry is following closely the Invictus Games champions who are competing in Rio and this is one way he is lending support to their efforts."
Harry sent a good luck message on Monday to the 11 Invictus Games competitors taking part, telling them the ''fight to the finish line won't be easy'' but that he was proud of them and they should make sure they have fun.
Former soldier Harry founded the Invictus Games - a Paralympic-style competition for injured servicemen and women - in 2014.


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By Wesley Ratko
Declining membership in the Chestnut Hill Community Association was a central concern of the Board of Directors meeting Thursday night. Prompted by a report from Community Manager Celeste Hardester, who identified membership as one of the most important issues to be addressed in 2012, the Board agreed that stepping up efforts at increasing the number of members requires additional focus.
Hardester said that membership has diminished over the years.
"I'm concerned that [membership] is not going to keep going up but it will go in the opposite direction," she said, adding that she is concerned about the impact this will have on the association.
She said it would require "a counter-force effort" on the part of the Board to find ways to address membership.
"I don't know the answers to that," she said, "I'm simply stating that I really feel that I have reached a place where that is at the top of my list of what needs to happen."
Board president Jane Piotrowski said that a membership roll of 1,900 members would square things financially. According to Hardester, membership stood at 1,640 when she assumed her role as community manager last September.
Responding to concerns that it was the cost of membership that has decreased the number of members, board member Richard Snowden said he didn't think the membership cost was the reason for the decline.
"We have done a poor job of re-introducing this organization and all of the things it does to the all of the new neighbors who have moved to the neighborhood in the last seven or eight years," he said.
Other members of the Board agreed, saying that no one knows the value of the CHCA.
"We have allowed ourselves to be defined by other forces in the community that are unfairly categorizing what this organization does," Snowden added.
While the Board took no formal action on this, there were several members present who said that the next month or two — during which the association is crafting its next budget — would be a good time in which to strategize ways to increase membership.
Other actions
• The Board approved a minor change to the by-laws that replaced the term "Business Manager" with "Associate Publisher," a position currently held by Larry Hochberger. The business manager position no longer exists. Justification for the change, which was suggested by Community Manager Celeste Hardester, is that the outdated title is not in keeping with the rest of the by-laws. "It's confusing for new members to see a title in the bylaws that does not exist," she said.
• Board members Tom Hemphill and Mark Keintz were unanimously appointed to be co-chairs of the Election Committee.
• Board members Rob Lamb, Lisa Howe, Marianne Dwyer and Nick Yzzi were nominated and approved to the Nominating Committee. That committee, chaired by the CHCA's past president, Walter Sullivan, will nominate candidates for the CHCA's Executive Committee.
• The Board nominated and unanimously approved the appointment of three new members of the Budget and Finance Committee. Board member Mark Keintz will be joined on that committee by Bob Fles, a former head of the Upper School at Chestnut Hill Academy and resident of Chestnut Hill since 1970, and Laura Lucas, a financial services consultant and Chestnut Hill resident since 2005.


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The timeless treats and classic confections of James' Candy, Fralinger's Salt Water Taffy, and Bayard's Chocolates continue today under the watchful eyes of the Glaser family.
A confectioner by trade, Enoch James had been tinkering with a recipe for Salt Water Taffy for years on end, and in the 1880s, he relocated with his family to Atlantic City, eager to sell his signature confection.
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Chestnut Hill College's racquetwomen completed their regular-season conference campaign with a sweep of visiting Holy Family University last Thursday. The official final score of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference contest was 7-0, and the Griffins held the advantage in two other matches that were halted due to darkness.
CHC wound up with a 6-2 record in the CACC and improved to 8-2 overall, while the Tigers went home to Northeast Philly at 4-3, 6-4. After a close 4-5 loss in mid-September to powerful defending conference champ Concordia College of suburban New York, the Griffins hoped to run the table in their remaining CACC matches, but fell 1-8 to Wilmington's Goldey-Beacom College at the end of last month.
With Concordia rebounding from its close scrape against Chestnut Hill to drub Goldey-Beacom, 8-1, the upcoming conference tournament promises to be an interesting wrangle. It will be one with a foreign accent, as well, since even in NCAA Division II many schools have a number of international players on their roster.
The entire match between Concordia and Goldey-Beacom featured a total of one U.S. player, and even last Wednesday's meeting between CHC and Holy Family – two Philadelphia schools – included seven imports between the two squads.
Chestnut Hill's own "Minsk Marauder," senior Nastia Shcherbakova of Belarus, ground out a 7-5 win in her first set against Holy Family number one Juliana Victoria, a product of Ecuador. With daylight fading and Victoria vociferous about her inability to see the ball, Shcherbakova went out to a 5-0 lead in the second set before the match was called.
By that time the Griffins already had seven wins in the books (including three at doubles) and had clinched the team victory.
In the second singles tilt, CHC junior Kelly Dennis dispatched Russia's Alina Nersesyan, 6-2, 6-0, and at number three Australian native Maria Parapouras, a senior who is one of the Griffins' most successful players, produced a pair of 6-2 sets against Serbian Tiger Maja Pantelic.
The hosts' sophomore number four, Morgan Oechsle, licked London's Steicy Castro, in another 6-2, 6-2 match, and a pair of freshmen anchored the fifth and sixth spots for the Griffins. Moving up a notch from her usual position, Axé Owens played number five and sailed past HFU's Casey Borish, 6-0, 6-1, and in a sixth singles bout that didn't get underway until dusk was approaching, CHC's Hayley Craskey took a 3-0 lead in games against visitor Jacqueline Clyne before their clash was called off.
In the doubles matches which started off the encounter, Shcherbakova and Dennis won, 8-5, in the first flight, while Parapouras and Oechsle coasted at second doubles, 8-2. At third doubles, Owens prevailed, 9-7, with the help of partner and classmate Iman Williams-Mulesa, who comes from Ontario, Canada.
Williams-Mulesa ordinarily plays fifth singles for CHC, but she was feeling a little under the weather on Wednesday, so for singles action Owens bumped up one spot and Craskey was called on to complete the line-up for the victorious Griffins.


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Jack Wu isn't shy about his beliefs.
Topeka is evil. Harry Potter promotes witchcraft. Christmas trees are pagan idols. Cancer is a judgment from God. And the teaching of evolution should be rooted out of Kansas schools because it's a satanic lie.
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He also believes that America's public schools are cultivating a culture of "liars, thieves, murderers and perverts."
Outside the mainstream? It doesn't matter to Wu, running for a seat on the Kansas Board of Education.
A northern California transplant, Wu is seeking to defeat first-term Democrat Carolyn Campbell of Topeka in an admittedly uphill battle for the 4th District seat on the state school board. Uphill because he only received $5 in contributions through July, the most recent reporting period.
But Campbell is taking her Republican opponent seriously.
"I want to make sure the folks that don't know Carolyn Campbell and her record will try to get to know me and understand who my opponent is and what he stands for," Campbell said.
The 4th District covers six northeast Kansas counties and takes in parts of Topeka and Lawrence. Campbell's district became a little more Republican this year when she picked up parts of Jefferson and Pottawatomie counties when election boundaries were redrawn to adjust for the census.
Teachers union officials also worry that voters who cast ballots along straight-party lines might be unaware of Wu's background.
Wu's campaign, small as it is, comes at a time when the state school board is expected to consider new science standards, raising the prospect of revisiting the evolution debate that consumed the board in 1999 and again in 2005 — an issue about which Wu has strong views.
Yet the 29-year-old Wu says it's better to be loved by God and live in heaven than be loved by man and rot in hell.
"The truth matters more than the opinion of other men and women," said Wu, clutching his green cloth-bound King James Bible during a recent interview on the grounds of state Capitol about a block away from the Kansas Department of Education's offices.
"The Bible says if you're hated by other people for taking a stance that's not popular, it's like a sign you're chosen by God, almost," added Wu, who describes himself as a reality television fan who works as a self-employed computer programmer and designer of video games.
His last-minute decision to file for the seat in June is drawing attention because he also attends Topeka's Westboro Baptist Church, which has gained national notoriety for picketing military funerals with signs that read, "Thank God for dead soldiers," "God hates the USA" and "God hates fags."
Last year, the church, led by the Rev. Fred Phelps, won a Supreme Court case blocking a civil lawsuit seeking damages for intentionally inflicting emotional distress at a soldier's funeral in 2006. Wu said he has joined the congregation's pickets in California and Topeka, but to the best of his recollection hasn't participated in a protest at a military funeral.
Born in Taiwan and raised in a San Francisco suburb, Wu moved to Topeka in 2008 after learning about Westboro on an Internet message board.
Wu said he was drawn to the church's all-or-nothing message of obey God or else. Westboro stands apart, he said, because its congregation confronts issues of heaven, hell and eternal fate. He believes Westboro preaches the Bible accurately and hasn't watered down its message.
Church spokesman Jonathan Phelps, the son of the church's leader, said he didn't know much about Wu. He sees Wu at church most Sundays.
"It seems like he believes what he says," Phelps said. "I think he's a nice guy."
But Campbell, 70, said she thinks Wu is negatively focused, especially with comments he's posted on his Web site about public education "preparing its students to be liars, crooks, thieves, murderers, and perverts."
"That is very sad that anyone would go that route in their thoughts about the education system," she said. "I have a lot of respect for our educators. Anyone that decides to be a teacher starts out knowing that their income isn't going to be what it could be. That shows they are dedicated to our children."
And then there's the issue of evolution.
Kansas is one of 26 states working with the National Research Council to develop voluntary standards to be used by multiple states. The proposed standards direct teachers to engage students in research in evolution and natural selection. Evolution's pivotal place in life science is not diluted, and there is no mention of creationism.
If the proposed science standards came before the board today, the vote would likely be 7 to 3 in favor, political observers believe.
However, the standards won't be complete until after the Nov. 6 school board election, when five seats will be on the ballot, including the race pitting Wu against Campbell, who favors teaching evolution.
While Wu appears to bring little firepower to the race — he lists no support from any prominent political groups — he's not someone who should be overlooked, especially in a heavily Republican state, said Mark Desetti, lobbyist for the Kansas National Education Association.
"We take everybody seriously, especially in a state where there is one-party dominance like there is in Kansas," Desetti said.
Desetti cautioned that voters might be more focused on the presidential race and higher profile statehouse races, so it might be easy to overlook a state school board race and just vote along party lines.
"I honestly believe that if Kansans know this guy, if they know what he says, they would not vote for him," he said. "I've read his Web site. I've read his views. As a parent, I would find them quite disturbing that he could be setting education policy for the state of Kansas."
Wu said he is a graduate of what used to be called California State University-Hayward where he was involved in student government, and also ran for the Kansas House in 2010.
Wu is well aware of the attention his latest candidacy has attracted and expects people to scoff at his beliefs. But he said his candidacy is not about being part of the political mainstream.
"If you're mainstream, you're going to hell," he said.


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