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On Thursday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported an earthquake of 7.1 magnitude in New Zealand's Kermadec Islands region. According to the agency, the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10km. US Tsunami Warning System said some Kermadec Islands coasts may experience tsunami waves reaching 0.3m to 1m above tide level.
"Tsunami waves are forecast to be less than 0.3m above the tide level for the coasts of Fiji, New Zealand and Tonga." However, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Bureau of Meteorology confirmed there was no tsunami threat to mainland New Zealand and Australia.

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It's been a big year for Lupita Nyong'o. After winning an Oscar and a lucrative advertising deal the actress was named on Wednesday as the world's most beautiful woman for 2014 by People magazine.
Nyong'o, who took home this year's Academy Award for best supporting actress for her role as the slave Patsey in director Steve McQueen's acclaimed film "12 Years A Slave," said she "never dreamed" she would be praised for her looks and land on the cover of the weekly magazine.
"It is exciting and just a major, major compliment," Nyong'o, 31, told People. "I was happy for all the girls who would see me on it and feel a little more seen."
Although the Mexican-born actress who grew up in Kenya first equated beauty with television images of light skin and long straight hair, Nyong'o said her mother always told her she was beautiful.
"And I finally believed her at some point," she added.
This year's most beautiful people list also includes actresses Keri Russell, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Mindy Kaling and Amber Heard. Pop singer Pink, actresses Gabrielle Union, Molly Sims and Kerry Washington, and model and former professional wrestler Stacy Keibler also made annual ranking.
In addition to her acting talents Nyong'o, a graduate from the Yale School of Drama, has won praise for her distinctive style on the red carpet and was named as the new face of the French cosmetics and skincare company Lancome Paris.


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Elizabeth Wood: May 2012 Graduate on Dream Career Track at Boeing
While Elizabeth (Ellie) Wood (MAIEP '12) was a student of in the Master of Arts in International Environmental Policy (MAIEP) program at the Monterey Institute, she focused on energy and climate change and also on sustainable business development. She is one of the 96 percent of the MAIEP graduating class of May 2012 to successfully gain employment in their desired field within six months of graduation.
Originally from Seattle (a graduate of Colorado College), Ellie had her sights set on Boeing, where she had "always wanted to work." She was able design her studies at MIIS to perfectly suit her interests. "I got really interested in nuclear energy and was able to take amazing courses at CNS (the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies). It was wonderful to have that opportunity," she says.
Ellie plays an integrative role in the Environmental Strategy and Aviation Team at Boeing, where she works as an analyst. "I feel incredibly uniquely qualified for this job, as it combines my interests and academic background in business, policy and energy." Her team sets the strategy for environmental initiatives related to noise, carbon emissions, biofuel and other issues for Boeing commercial planes. "I would like to stay here and continue to grow and am fortunate that there are many opportunities for vertical growth at Boeing," says Ellie Wood, one of our very happy statistics at the Monterey Institute.
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I just went and found the post about Elijah.
I'm so sorry Julie. I'm praying with you...
I am so glad Elijah is in recovery mode. He (and you) have been in my prayers. <3 On another note - how do you calculate your stash?? HAHA! I will post pics of mine later on on my blog...
Bet you are really torn, nice to get back home but wishing you could be here and that extra pair of hands.
In this week for me, oh a bunch, 12 yds for backings another assorted 5 yds for baby things, burp cloths and bibs and probably a receiving blanket or two for a Feb 5th shower and finally 1 yd of terry cloth for the cutest baby toy. Since its 60 in wide I'm figuring this will be an addition to my baby boxes for quite a while!
Out 1 yd, the adorable apron I just gave my sweet granddaughter Annika! (But next week I can count 12 out since the 3 quilts are going off to Natalia this week!
I am glad you were able to get some good deals. I wish I could get my hands on good fabric deals, but they come few and far between here. The last time a store closed it was 45 minutes outside of town, had GREAT deals, but the roads were too bad to get to in a timely manor and hubby had to be at work that evening.
I hope Elijah's recovery goes well. Sorry to hear about the quilt shop closing.
How do you count donated fabric? Do you still count that as fabric in? Do you count it as "purchased" in your yearly totals?
Looks like you got some nice things. Will add your nephew to my prayers.
My thoughts are with Elijah and the rest of your family *hugs*
That really stinks about the shop closing... I'd be really upset if the quilt shop I work at shut.
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Copters and Gliders
"Flight of the Imagination"
by Rebecca Lewis
Reprinted with permission from the Tar Heel Junior Historian. Fall 2003.
Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, NC Museum of History
Thomas Edison said that flying would never be practical "until someone invents a machine that can stop in midair and hover like a bird." The machine that allows a pilot this degree of control is a helicopter. And the first person to develop a working helicopter came from Carteret County.
William Luther Paul was known in his hometown of Davis as Mr. Fixit. This talented handyman made his own laborsaving tools for every use imaginable. In 1903, around the time that the Wright brothers were testing their flyer, Paul was experimenting with his Bumble Bee, a compound helicopter. Powered by an engine that Paul had made from four motorcycle engines bolted together, the machine had two four-blade rotors on top for vertical lift and a pulling propeller for forward flight.
Paul tested his helicopter in an open-ended barn that functioned as a wind tunnel. In 1907 the Bumble Bee lifted about five feet while tethered to the ground and carrying sixty pounds of sandbags. There were several eyewitnesses. Paul planned to test it with himself as the pilot, but after reading about a fatal plane crash, his wife begged him not to continue the experiments. Paul abandoned his project, without any tangible proof of its success.
Another rotary-type flyer, the gyrocopter, was built by Igor Bensen of Raleigh. Bensen was born on April 1, 1917, in Rostov, Russia. He enrolled at Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey in the late 1930s. In 1939 Bensen took a summer job with Igor Sikorsky, generally recognized as the father of the modern helicopter. After working for Sikorsky, Bensen was a research scientist at General Electric before starting his own company, Bensen Aircraft Corporation, near Raleigh-Durham Airport.
Bensen began building gyrocopters in 1953. In a gyrocopter, no power is used to turn the overhead blade. Instead, the engine powers a pusher propeller that drives the machine forward. As the gyrocopter picks up speed, increased airflow through the top rotor causes it to spin and creates lift. If the engine loses power, the overhead blades rotate on their own, and the machine floats down like a parachute.
Bensen wanted to mass-produce a "people's flying machine," so he designed his craft to be simple to assemble and operate, and inexpensive. Thirty dollars bought plans for a gyrocopter, and $1,795 would buy a kit. Bensen sold around ten thousand kits. His clients included diamond prospectors in the Amazon, crop dusters in the United States, and James Bond! In the 1967 movie You Only Live Twice, Bond piloted a highly modified gyrocopter that he called Little Nellie. The rocket launchers and smoke screens used in the movie did not come as standard features in the gyrocopter kits.
The Bensen gyrocopter was a highly maneuverable machine. Bensen set world records for speed (79 mph), altitude (7,275 feet), and distance (82.76 miles) in a gyrocopter named Spirit of Kitty Hawk. The Bensen Aircraft Corporation closed in 1989, but one of Bensen's gyrocopters remains on permanent display at the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh.
Another scientist who wanted to make flight possible for everyone is Francis M. Rogallo. Rogallo had joined the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the forerunner of NASA, in 1936. He wanted desperately to fly a plane, but he never had the opportunity. So he began to think of other ways to fly. He devoted himself to designing a flexible wing—one that could be applied to man-carrying devices such as gliders. With the help of his wife, Gertrude, Rogallo built a wind tunnel at home and began testing wing models. In 1951 the Rogallos received a patent for a flexible delta-shaped (triangular) wing. The prototype of today's hang gliders was made from one of Gertrude's kitchen curtains.
After receiving a patent on the flexible wing, the Rogallos tried to interest government and industry in their design but were unsuccessful. Instead, they began producing flexible-wing kites as children's toys. The Rogallo Flexible Wing Flyer was one of the first products to use the plastic Mylar. Unlike standard kites, it could crash multiple times and not be damaged. The toy kites were great, but Francis Rogallo was still determined to fly, so a full-scale version was needed.
The first full-scale, flexible-wing hang gliders were built for the Rogallos by a man who owned a clothing factory. The entire Rogallo family—Francis, Gertrude, and their four children—began flying the gliders in the sand dunes of the Outer Banks. The sport of hang gliding really took off in the early 1970s. Today hang gliding events occur at places like Jockey's Ridge and Grandfather Mountain. Hang gliding enthusiasts everywhere honor the "father of hang gliding," Francis Rogallo.
NASA, then known as NACA, took notice of Rogallo's invention in 1957 after Russia launched the Sputnik satellite. Suddenly, the flexible wing had potential as a possible reentry tool for America's rockets. NASA began conducting experiments with the gliders, the results of which were published in technical journals such as Popular Mechanics. One of these reports attracted the attention of engineer Thomas Purcell.
Purcell studied engineering at North Carolina State University. In 1961 Purcell, using photographs of Rogallo's design from a magazine article, constructed a sixteen-foot-wide glider with an aluminum frame that he tested by towing it behind an automobile at the Raleigh-Durham Airport. Purcell called Rogallo one day, and the two engineers agreed to meet.
When Purcell arrived at NASA, he was surprised to find himself surrounded by engineers who were asking numerous questions about his FlightSail glider. Purcell had figured out how to do something that NASA had not—achieve stability in a towed glider. He continued to work on his glider. He replaced the wheels with floats for towing it behind a speedboat. He flew the pontoon glider for the first time at Lake Waccamaw on July 26, 1962. It worked so well that he never went back to land-based liftoffs again. This was the first water-based use of the Rogallo wing.
Innovations in aviation continue. To see the future of aviation, visit the NASA Web site at http://www.nasa.gov. Today NASA and private research companies search for ways to make aeronautical travel safer and more efficient. Aviation has come a long way in one hundred years, but there are many engineers and scientists who believe the quest for flight has just begun. Where will we go next? Will you be the one to take us there?
At the time of this article's publication, Rebecca Lewis was the program coordinator of the Tar Heel Junior Historian Association. She served on the Pioneers of Aviation Exhibit Team at the museum, in addition to being the conceptual editor for this issue of THJH.
References and additional resources:
Resources in libraries via WorldCat
Resources in the NC Digital Repository
Image credits:
"Bensen Gyrocopter." Image courtesy of N.C. Museum of History.
"Francis Rogallo with Rogallo Wing." NASA Langley Research Center. Image courtesy of dvidshub.net.
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"Sailing to Byzantium"
By Geoffrey Cook, MMNS
Paul Laudree's Report on running the Israeli Blockade into Gaza with Relief Packets.
Sunnyvale, California–November 13th–The UN had to end its food distribution due to the lack of security since Hamas (Gaza's ruling Party) broke their fragile cease-fire with Tel Aviv by shooting their longest-range missiles towards the far Jewish Settlements. The New York/Geneva Organization found it impossible to ensue with their impossible assignment delivering their humanitarian duty under such anarchistic conditions. As I wind down my Gazan story on Monday night, the missiles are still raining on Israeli territory (17th) while the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) respond with precision strikes against the Palestinian Republic with the most technically advanced American fighter-plane technology!
Given that I had told the story of a small town on the West Bank last week, I intended to hold this piece for at least a week, but circumstances have overtaken this journalist!
I usually do not follow a strict interview format within my articles, but I had an opportunity to do so with Laudree. Initially, I asked him about the current crisis, and how it may resolve itself. He replied that when the Israelis blockade Gaza by land, they typically back down over a realistic period of time, and he expects this will be the case over this confrontation. It is happening now because "Israel desires to utilize collective punishment†— an action that violates the Geneva Conventions. Dr. Laudree continued that "The Israelis fail[ed] to weaken Hamas. [What they have accomplished] is to marginalize the Palestinians [there], and to make them wretched.â€
"The Question becomes what shall We do about it?â€
He felt that his project (of relief boats) had little practical affect, but produced an enormous sociological re-enforcement to the citizens of the enclave, or in Paul Laudree own words, "It was more symbolic than substantive, but we intend to extend [our efforts more into practicable significant assistance.]…†The Doctor Laudree did berate the traditional assistance agencies for their failure to offer respite to the inhabitants (that gets us back to the U.N.'s recent decision).
In his venture in which he was one of the primary founders and strategists, he was able to put together good-sized ships that sailed from Cyprus to dock at the very difficult man-made harbor in Gaza that was primarily created for fishing ships. Paul's three crafts — plus now one leased vessel (i.e., four in all at the moment) – are the size of large trawlers. The pilot has to make careful maneuvers into the harbor to docket it. The depth of the harbor is three and one half to four meters, but it can be dredged to a full eight meters. During the first voyage two boats were able to make it through to landing! Subsequently, two more aid voyages of one liner each were able to race Israel's Navy to provide much sought for supplies to this beleaguered enslaved nation!
Laudree clarified that Israel "threaten to stop – not sink – their cruisers.†Yet, leaders within the endeavor personally received anonymous intimidation. Paul Laudee himself received a publicly pronounced threat by a pseudo-blog-scribe.
"We need to change the lives of the Palestinian public – especially in transport! Palestinians have the right to move about their own land, and to travel abroad which is enshrined in the U.N. Charter!†Yet, "Israel not only controls their own borders, but those of the Palestinians as well!†Gaza is different because it borders both Egypt and Israel. "We wish to take advantage of that fact.†So far Tel Aviv has permitted us to employ the sea lanes since the commodities we deliver are not perceived as a security threat.


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This week: The third in the lecture series that was in conjunction with the Bad at Sports organized exhibition "Don't Piss on Me and Tell Me it's Raining". Tom and Amanda talk to Bridget Elmer and Emily Larned of Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts.
Founded by two letterpress printers, Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (ILSSA). ILSSA is a membership organization for those who make conceptual or experimental work with obsolete technology. Consisting of a Union and a Research Institute, ILSSA seeks to build community and create resources, promoting the creative re-use of discarded innovations and the values embedded within them. Since its inception in 2008, ILSSA has grown to over 100 members, including a social sculpture weaver, a clip art librarian, a blogger who posts in needlepoint, a designer/builder of vacuum tube electronics, and an heirloom farmer. On this evening with the use of an overhead projector and a portable anachronistic sound system, the ILSSA co-operators will provide an overview of the organization, its activities and members, and the philosophy behind their collective interests.


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Cold chain management for Covid-19 vaccination
New Delhi (India Science Wire): COVID-19 vaccination can be considered as a unique landmark in the history of vaccination campaigns in public health in terms of the scale of operations involved. It requires highly focused planning and implementation of various activities. There is particularly a need to ensure proper management of the cold chain and other logistics critical for the reach and quality of the campaign.
Accordingly, the national operational guidelines prepared by the Government of India for the immunisation programme has drawn out a detailed plan of action to take care of this aspect. There are standard operating procedures for the storage, movement and usage of the vaccine vials and other material at different levels.
At the immunisation centres, where there is a higher risk for the vaccines to get warmed up beyond the required temperature range, special efforts are required to be taken to avoid exposing the vaccine carrier, vaccine vials or icepacks to direct sunlight. The vaccines and the diluents are also kept inside the vaccine carrier with the lid closed tightly until a beneficiary comes to the centre for vaccination and at the end of every session, vaccine carriers with icepacks and unopened vaccine vials are sent back to the distributing cold chain point for safekeeping. Intact sealed vials that are returned are clearly marked and kept separately in the ice lined refrigerator on the top layer so that these will be the first to be used on the following session day.
Besides, before vaccines are brought to the immunisation centres, at the last cold chain points, it is ensured that the vaccine carriers are clean and dry before being packed with ice packs and vaccine vials inside a zipper pouch to avoid any possibility of contamination. Whenever vaccines have to be moved in bulk, it is ensured that they are transported in a properly insulated manner.
Arrangements are also made to ensure that technicians tasked to maintain the cold chain follow a proper preventive maintenance plan to cover all cold chain points regularly. The cold chain technician should follow the recommended norms for response time (less than two days from intimation) and downtime of equipment (maximum of seven days in normal areas and 21 days in hilly areas).
Since the safety and security of each dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is of paramount importance, State Governments undertake adequate safety and security measures at location of vaccine storage, during transport and at immunisation sites. Stringent vigilance mechanisms are in place to protect against pilferage and theft. Further, at immunisation sites, all vaccination teams should have an extra vaccine carrier with ice packs to provide for any contingency.
Likewise, at cold chain points, any temperature excursion beyond 30 minutes is required to be responded to with alternate storage of vaccines in the short term and repair of the affected cold chain equipment as soon as possible on an emergency basis. At district vaccine stores, vaccine distributions are planned with small quantities to avoid any risk of temperature excursions that could arise if vaccines were to be transported in large quantities.
At State/ regional vaccine stores, vaccine distribution plans ensure minimum time for vaccine delivery to district stores and vaccine vials, with earlier manufacturing dates prioritized for issue first. Alternate vaccine storage sites (including the private sector and non-health public sector) are also identified in advance of vaccine arrival including all contractual arrangements and site inspections. State level monitors should supervise every vaccine arrival and distribution event to ensure the quality process in vaccine receipt and distribution. (India Science Wire)


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First drive: the Infiniti FX Vettel Edition
What do we have here then?
It's an Infiniti FX Vettel Edition, named after the two-time F1 champ. The trail goes like this: Red Bull Racing use Renault engines. Renault is shacked up with Nissan. Nissan owns Infiniti, which therefore gets to glue its stickers on Vettel's racing car. And as part of the deal, they get to use his name on a road car.
So it's a lean, featherweight racing homage, then?
Absolutely not. It might be slathered in real carbon fibre, but this is still a large, luxo SUV. The brochure tries to convince us it's the 'perfect sports car', which is blatant nonsense. It weighs over two tonnes.
Tell us more about this carbon fibre.
It's the real deal: hand made and baked in a small autoclave, like it would be in an F1 factory. Many hours go into each bit, and the rear wing costs £4,800 on its own. Infiniti asked Mr Vettel to shape it, which is why the front wing looks like the wavy one from his racecar and the rear diffuser incorporates a central F1-style foglight.
Sounds expensive.
A regular FX costs £58,280. This one is £100,800 and that's before you add the rear wing. The material cost of the carbon takes care of some of the premium (it's all over the wing mirror and interior console too). There's also a new exhaust worth an extra 30bhp and many decibels, plus new and slightly lighter wheels. The seats are re-trimmed in Alcantara with purple stitching and super-Seb badges. Every buyer gets an iPad so they can track the build process of their car. And Infiniti will throw in an unspecified but hopefully excellent experience, depending on dates and availability. Early buyers got a few laps of a circuit with Mr Vettel himself.
So what's it like to drive?
Brutish. The 5-litre V8 now boots out 420bhp versus 390bhp in the normal car, and the new exhaust batters the air like a distant Chinook. It's 20mm lower and a bit stiffer than usual, so there's marginally less slop through corners. The carbon bits are actually functional, so there's five per cent less drag and 30 per cent less lift. But you'd have to be going massively fast to notice it, because mostly, this still feels like a monster. It's more agile than a Range Rover, but doesn't feel as sharp as a Porsche Cayenne GTS. And it's wide: on the narrow cols above Monaco, we were permanently paranoid about grating all that lovely carbon on an Alp.
Hmm. But what if I really, really like Mr Vettel?
Then this is the car for you, you big show-off. So move fast before they sell out: only 150 will be made, 50 of which will come to Europe with 15-ish of those for Britain. Oh, and Mr Vettel will get the first one. It's an impressive thing to look at, and anyone with a passing interest in cars will enjoy the noise and spectacle of it all. Otherwise, it's hard to take it seriously. Especially at that price...
The numbers: 5026cc V8, 4WD, 420bhp, 383lb ft, 21.6mpg (combined), 307g/km C02, 0-62mph in 5.6 seconds, 155mph max
The cost: £100,800
The verdict: It's loud and amusing, but a bit of carbon fibre dressing does not transform this into a sports car. It might be named after an F1 champ, but it's a world away from his Sunday wheels. 5/10
The rival: Porsche Cayenne GTS
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It's all done and it's definitely a hit!
This may be the perfect little lacy shrug – – with minor variations and in different yarns I can imagine it filling a lot of different uses.
Little Copernicus is finished. Down to the sweet little Mother of Pearl buttons. Very cute. All it needs now is a baby!
I have knitting work to do. I'm about three skeins away from finishing the endless black hole afghan. And, I should be knitting it over the weekend as it's so big it can only be worked on at home.
But no. Write it off to knitter's ADHD or spring fever, but I put the afghan down for the weekend. I also bypassed two charming projects I've purchased pattern and yarn for, Norie and Laar by Gudrun Johnston, but not yet started. And I even let the hat I'm knitting for my snowbound eldest child in some incredibly soft Eco Alpaca from Cascade Yarns sit swatched, but not started.
Instead I picked up the shrug I've been meaning to knit for my Mom for quite some time. I have four luscious skeins of Jade Sapphire 6-ply Cashmere in the Blackberry Fudge colorway and I had selected the Dream in Color Shrug Pattern. I selected that pattern after seeing this Shrug knit up last fall — one of the dancers at my daughter's ballet school was wearing it, and it was beyond-words-amazing. I always have lace anxiety (really, you keep count with kids chirping about homework, the Judge whining about "where's my dinner," and a Blackberry that goes off incessantly with work) but decided to tackle it and see what happened.
Things are always much more manageable after you start, right? The 30 rows of ribbing zipped by in the dentist's chair (the pattern is knit from cuff to cuff). The yarn is just fabulous. It's soft, the knitted fabric is squishy, it's everything I like best in Cashmere. And the lace is a simple 11 stitch 20 row repeat. With only five sets of 11 stitches and a few extra on each end to the row, this pattern is very do-able, even for someone tackling their first lace project. So much for the anxiety!
I'm midway through the second lace repeat and finding this to be lots of fun to knit. But, I'm going to set it aside to pick up the afghan for the next few evenings. It now has the benefit of being large enough to snuggle under while knitting. And it's so soft and inviting that the time has come for me to finish it off and make it available to the whole family.


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For the second year in a row, JPod Films was happy to be the video sponsor for Eventiques, an event created by New England Wedding Planners Ruthie McDonald and Lauren Mace of Eutopia Events. Ruthie and Lauren, with an acceptional team of helpers, put together the event which is subtitled, A Wedding and Event Flea Market. The event took place earlier this spring at the Eastworks Building in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Eventiques allows former brides the opportunity to sell their one-time use, wedding related items from wedding dresses to detail-related items like mason jars, lanterns, vases, wine cork placecard holders, linens and so much more. It's like a live pinterest board in one locations, and everything is for sale. Wedding planners and brides who are planning their big day have the opportunity to find an amazing array of unique items for their event at prices that are much lower than purchasing them brand new. To see what this event is all about, take a 100-second look back at the event that is growing and growing every year!
Event Sponsors Included Cakes by Amanda, CJC Event Lighting, Cronin Hill Photography, Daisy Stone Studio, Durocher Florist, Forget Me Not Florist, Lattitude Restaurant, Michael's Party Rentals, The Knot, Love, Inc. Magazine, Rum and Steel, Viren Entertainment, WellWed and Western Woods Coffee.


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A non-compete agreement is a contract between two parties, usually two individuals or one company and one individual, in which one of the individuals promises not to compete with the other individual or company once their relationship with the company has ended. That is, they will not start, join, or buy a business that is similar to, and in competition with, the other.
The agreement is typically signed at the start of a business relationship, such as between a company and:
- A new employee
- An independent contractor
- A consultant hired to address a particular internal issue
- A vendor that will be privy to confidential information
But it can also be signed as a relationship is ending, too, such as when:
- A key employee is being let go or chooses to leave
- A partner decides to exit the business, or is forced out
The goal of the agreement is to make it clear that if an employee leaves the company, or an external consultant finishes his or her engagement, they are prohibited from creating a new business to compete with the company that just paid them for their services.
Key clauses
While the overarching goal of such an agreement is to discourage or prevent a new competitor from forming, there are specific aspects to the agreement that need to be spelled out, including, but not limited to:
- Who is agreeing not to compete
- Who is preventing the competition
- As of when is the agreement effective
- How long is the agreement enforceable
- What type of business is prohibited
- The reason for the prohibition
- The geographic area within which competition is prohibited
- What the payment is – called "consideration' – in return for this agreement
There may also be other clauses included, especially when employees are concerned, that spell out:
- Non-solicitation – meaning clients of the firm may not be contacted and persuaded to leave
- Non-recruitment – nor can employees be approached about jumping ship for the new company
Are they enforceable?
There has been much discussion about whether non-compete agreements will hold up in a court of law. In some states, such as California, non-compete agreements are unenforceable against employees. So, as a business owner, you can ask an employee to sign one, but it won't mean much there.
In other states, non-competes may be enforced, and it often comes down to how reasonable the contract was. In particular, how restrictive is the scope, geography, and time. The more broad the agreement, such as asking for a global non-compete in any kind of management consulting lasting ten years, the less likely the courts will uphold it, or enforce it.
It's always wise for anyone creating or signing a non-compete agreement to first consult an attorney for advice about it.


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The Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's® is the world's largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer's care, support and research. Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide, this inspiring event calls on participants of all ages and abilities to reclaim the future for millions. Together, we can end Alzheimer's disease, the nation's sixth-leading cause of death.
Walk to End Alzheimer's unites the entire community — more than 450,000 participants that include family, friends, co-workers, social and religious groups and more — in a display of combined strength and dedication in the fight against this devastating disease. While there is no fee to register, each participant is expected to fundraise in order to contribute to the cause and raise awareness. The Alzheimer's Association provides free, easy-to-use tools and staff support to help each participant reach their fundraising goal.
When you participate in Walk, your fundraising dollars fuel our mission-related initiatives of care, support and research. In addition, your actions, both through fundraising and participating in the event, help to change the level of Alzheimer's awareness in your community. Take the first step to a world without Alzheimer's by finding a Walk near you. Once you register, you will have access to a wide range of tools and support through your Participant Center, ensuring a successful and fulfilling experience.
Our mission
To eliminate Alzheimer's disease through the advancement of research; to provide and enhance care and support for all affected; and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health.
Our vision
A world without Alzheimer's disease.
Learn more about our mission-related activities or contact your local chapter for information about programs and services in your community.
2015 Kearney Walk to End Alzheimer's
8/30/2015 Add to calendar
Registration at 11:30am | Walk at 1:00pm
Route Length: 2 miles
Yanney Park – ERC Building Map it
2020 West 11th Street, Kearney, NE 68845


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