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Ford Focus ZX3 (2001)
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by Carey Russ
Remember hatchbacks? "How Eighties," you say? Have you looked at gasoline prices lately? Perhaps economical, convenient hatchbacks have a future in this country. They've never gone away in the rest of the world, where high fuel costs and limited space have kept them popular.
Of course, there were drawbacks to many of the hatchbacks sold here in the '80s. Interior space was limited, comfort was minimal, and "frugality," not "fun" was the descriptive word. "Econobox" wasn't exactly a compliment.
But it is possible to combine space, comfort, fuel economy, and fun, and to sell that combination at a reasonable price. The Ford Focus ZX3 does just that. It is one of the few hatchbacks offered in this country today, and can fill the needs of commuters and young-at-heart (and wallet) enthusiasts equally well. I've been driving one for the past week. I haven't been bored, and the small- outside, not-so-small-inside ZX3 fits easily into tight parking spaces. It has no problem keeping up with traffic, or staying ahead, for that matter, and the gas gauge takes its time dropping from "full."
APPEARANCE: There is no denying that the Focus ZX3 looks small. But, there is a bit of an optical illusion at work. The hatchback ZX3 is built on the same platform as the Focus sedan and wagon, and shares their wheelbase, width, and the sedan's height. It is about seven inches shorter than the sedan, and almost ten inches shorter than the wagon. Its styling is identical to the other Focus models from the windshield forward, but it is the most radical member of the family from that point back. Many different geometric forms blend together for dynamic harmony. Broad curved surfaces meet well-defined edges, with no straight, flat lines anywhere. Don't call it a box - the roofline slopes back to a slight "ducktail" spoiler above the three-dimensionally curved backlight. The side windows form a teardrop shape, with a small point at the rear. If the triangular headlamps and small oval grille are distinctive in front, the large, high-mounted taillights are even more so in the rear. Appropriate for its performance mission, the optional 16-inch wheels and low-profile tires fill the wheel arches.
COMFORT: Although it is shorter than the Focus sedan, and lacks separate trunk and rear doors, the ZX3 coupe has as much interior space as its sedan sibling, with slightly more rear headroom and marginally less rear shoulder room. It actually has more potential luggage capacity, if the rear seat is folded. It's split 60/40 for that, and the rear cushion can be flipped up (in one piece only) for a flat cargo floor. Liftover height is less than the sedan's. Rear seat access is not as easy as in a four-door sedan, but it's not too difficult, and anyone under six feet tall can be tolerably comfortable. The ZX3 shares most of its interior styling with the other Focus models, and it is as geometrically interesting as the exterior. But function and space are not sacrificed to style. Although the base-level ZX3 is fairly Spartan in accommodation, option packages are available to make it quite comfortable. Included in the pricey "Premium Group" is a tilt and telescope-adjustable steering wheel, very unusual for the ZX3's class, that makes it easy to get the driving position just right.
SAFETY: All Focus models have a rigid central safety cell around the passenger compartment, with front and rear crush zones and side impact protection. All occupants have three-point harnesses. Dual depowered front air bags can be supplemented by optional side air bags.
ROADABILITY: Like the Focus ZTS sedan, the ZX3's fully- independent MacPherson strut / multilink suspension is tuned in a very European manner. It's well-damped, with long travel and soft springs to take advantage of the rigid unibody structure. The relatively long wheelbase helps, too. The result is a very comfortable ride, with no choppiness, and nimble handling. Body roll during enthusiastic maneuvers serves as a psychological damper on excessive corner speed. However, Ford is trying to crack the Japanese-brand dominated sport-compact market with this car, and is aggressively working with aftermarket makers of suspension kits and other tuning parts. So, if you like the car but want more sport at the expense of comfort, it should be available.
PERFORMANCE: The ZX3 and the ZTS sedan are the sporty Focus models, and share the 2.0-liter twin-cam "Zetec" four- cylinder engine. The ZX3 is slightly lighter than the ZTS, and some people consider its hatchback style to be sportier. The Zetec engine is a near-perfect small-displacement sports engine. Its maximum 130 horsepower and 135 lb-ft of torque are enough for entertaining performance, especially with the standard five-speed manual gearbox. Keep it above 3500 rpm for the best response and a classic sports car exhaust note. Stay below that for frugal fuel economy. And there is an undeniable practicality factor in its small, easy-to-park size and good fuel economy (EPA 25/33, real world depends on judicious use of the right foot.) It can be a good commuter, but it's far too much fun to be called an "econobox." Besides, it's not boxy.
CONCLUSIONS: Economical but not a box, the Ford Focus ZX3 illustrates all that is right about hatchbacks.
SPECIFICATIONS 2001 Ford Focus ZX3 Base Price $ 12,125 Price As Tested $ 16,400 Engine Type dual overhead cam 16-valve 4- cylinder Engine Size 2.0 liters / 121 cu. in. Horsepower 130 @ 5300 rpm Torque (lb-ft) 135@ 4500 rpm Transmission 5-speed manual Wheelbase / Length 103.0 in. / 168.1 in. Curb Weight 2551 lbs. Pounds Per Horsepower 19.6 Fuel Capacity 13.2 gal. Fuel Requirement regular unleaded gasoline, 87 octane Tires P205/50 SR16 B.F. Goodrich Radial T/A (opt) Brakes, front/rear vented disc / drum, antilock optional Suspension, front/rear independent MacPherson struts / independent multilink Drivetrain front engine, front-wheel drive PERFORMANCE EPA Fuel Economy - miles per gallon city / highway / observed 25 / 33 / 27 0 to 60 mph 8.7 sec OPTIONS AND CHARGES Power group - includes: remote entry and antitheft system, power locks, side windows, external mirrors $ 740 Advance Trac traction control system $ 1,225 Premium group - includes: 16" aluminum wheels with P205/50 R16 tires, front seat armrest, tilt steering column, speed control, front maplights $ 1,095 Antilock brakes $ 400 Side-impact air bags $ 350 Destination charge $ 465


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The Binance exchange continues to make a lot of headlines. After its migration to Malta, the company has now struck a major partnership. Their new venture together with Changelly will result in more tokens, better rates, and faster transactions for users. It is symbolic how this partnership came to be through a meeting in Valletta, Malta.
Changelly Steps up its Game
In the cryptocurrency world, converting between different currencies can be a challenge. Rather than relying on cryptocurrency exchanges, people often use intermediary services. Changelly is quite a popular solution in this regard. It is a competitor to ShapeShift, as there is room for more than one company in that particular space.
By partnering with Binance, the conversion platform aims to improve its number of supported currencies. Additionally, they will benefit from slightly more liquidity and faster transactions. It appears to be a win-win situation for both parties. With the demand for cryptocurrency growing on a global scale, partnerships like these become more important. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao explains the decision:
"After meeting Konstantin in person to finalize our partnership, I am confident that Changelly has a professional team with great experience and even bigger potential. We believe that together we will provide users all over the world with a top-class level of service."
Another Big Move for Binance
This new partnership puts Changelly in the position of "broker" between Binance and its users. There are no complicated interfaces, high fees, and other off-putting aspects to take into account. Changelly's algorithm picks up the live exchange rate from Binance and provides them to users in real-time. The instant exchange between different currencies will remain a possibility. Changelly CEO Konstantin Gladych comments:
"This partnership is a huge honor for Changelly: I am sure that it will help us provide even higher-quality service to our users around the world and increase our presence on the crypto market. The top exchange trusts us to have business with — this gives us confidence in what we do, and also responsibility to ensure five-star user experience. We are up for the challenge!"
For Changelly, having access to more cryptocurrencies to support is a smart decision. Binance is the world's largest altcoin trading platform and as such, they support dozens of currencies, tokens, and assets. Changelly can add new tokens to their platform, although it remains unclear if all currencies will be supported in the long run. Binance provides access to over 100 assets, albeit not all of them are in high demand all the time.

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NMMS Online Practice Test 8 Subject – Science : NMMS Scholarship 2021-22 Apply online can be done scholarships.gov.in Fresh New Registration Renewal, Eligibility status application form. NMMS Scholarship has a Central Government sponsored scheme. It has been started for the welfare of students from class 8th onwards.
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The NMMS Scholarship 2021-22 scheme has financial support given to meritorious students. And also encourage them to study further. At the secondary stage class, a much weaker section child becomes labours. They started to do work for family earnings.
Though NMMS is a Central Government scholarship scheme, its selection test is conducted by each State/UT for their respective students. These tests include a mental ability test and a scholastic aptitude test whose guidelines are set by the NCERT. The applicants need to complete each test in a maximum time duration of 90 minutes. However, children of special abilities are given some extra time to complete the tests. Given below are the details about this State Level Examination Test.
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The National Means Cum Merit Scholarship (NMMS) is provided by the MHRD, Government of India. The Ministry of Education awards a total of 1,00,000 NMMS scholarships every year to meritorious Class 8th students. NMMS exams are conducted by SCERTs/Education departments at state level in offline mode. Students have to go through a NMMS scholarship 2021 apply online and offline process.
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It is mandatory for students to pass 8th with a minimum score of 55% to be eligible for the NMMS scholarship 2021-22. Those who qualify the NMMS 2021 scholarship exam with minimum marks will receive the Scholarship.
Highlights of NMMS Scholarship 2021-22
S.No. | Particular | Detail |
1. | Objective | To arrest the dropout rate of students at Class 8 and encourage them to continue their education at the secondary level |
2. | Award | INR 12,000 per annum |
3. | Eligibility | Regular students of class 9 with a score of 55% marks in class 8 final exam |
4. | Application period* | August-November |
5. | Application process | Through the official government portal NSP |
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NMMS disburses a total of 100,000 scholarships every year at the rate of INR 12,000 per annum, i.e. INR 1,000 per month, to the selected students. Under National Means-Cum-Merit Scholarship, the scholarship amount is paid by the State bank of India (SBI) on one go. The amount is directly transferred into the students' accounts through Public Financial Management System (PFMS).
The number of scholarships allocated to each State and UT is done on the basis of students' enrolment in class 7 & 8 and their population in the respective states. The details of the NMMS amount are highlighted below.
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- The students of class 9 receive a scholarship amount on one go, i.e. INR 12,000 per annum, for an academic year.
- The scholarship is renewed every year till the student completes his/her Higher Secondary level of education (Class 12), provided the candidate gets clear promotion into higher class every year.
NMMS Scholarship 2021 – Eligibility Criteria
A student must have been selected by the state level authority in the merit list.
A student must pass Class 8 with a minimum of 55% marks (50% marks for SC/ST) to fulfill the eligibility criteria of NMMS 2021 Scholarship exam.
The family income of the students should not exceed Rs. 1,50,000 p. a. or less from all the sources.
The NMMS scholarship is applicable only to students studying in India.
To get the scholarship. Students need to appear and clear the NMMS 2021 exam.
This has huge development in Education sector also. Moreover, the development of the state, as well as the country, will happen too. Here, we have given you all the related details about the NMM Scholarship. With the help of this program. The number of drop-out students has decreased from last year.
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"Thanks very much, Building Doctors for the outstanding work.
Let me start off by saying that I decided to wait a year before writing this review just to see how the improvements to our house paid off and to see if any quality issues came up with their work. The year has passed and the work they did is worth every dime! We hired them to do an energy audit on a 1932 house we had just bought.
It's our first home, so we bought a fixer-upper, which meant we had no heating and cooling. The place was hot in the summer and cold in the winter... no fun. The audit price felt expensive at first, but that's before I understood what we were getting. The information about energy efficiency and the level of detail they provided in suggestions for improvement was really quite awesome. The services they priced out for us were nicely tailored to our house and there were no hard sales pitches. Instead, they simply just armed us with information and we did the choosing. They made it clear that no project was too small, and helped us prioritize. In the end, we enrolled in a city pilot program for heating your home using a tankless water heater, had them install AC, and made major upgrades to our energy efficiency, including air sealing and adding insulation.
I can't express enough how much those last two improvements (sealing and insulation) made a difference. Building Doctors told us it would, and they weren't kidding. Because we wanted to claim state and city energy efficiency credits, there was quite a bit of paperwork, but they handled nearly everything. For any forms or surveys that we needed to complete for the pilot project, we were given a heads-up well in advance. And the end result was a big payoff in savings.
The crew are friendly, hard-working, and dedicated. They are a small business with a focus on doing the right thing. As with all projects, there is room for error. And their one mistake was a worker who missed a large section when insulating one of our walls. But on the exit energy audit, they caught the mistake themselves and came the next day to fix it. I wasn't thrilled about the mistake, but extremely pleased with the response. They could easily have let this slip by... and they didn't. I'm pretty particular about knowing all the details, and they answered every question with a tremendous level of knowledge. If you have an interest in energy efficiency, and knowing the nuts and bolts, these are your guys. Their owner, Dan, is a pro and a leader in the field. And the best part, he's involved in the project through most every step. On the last day of work, Dan came out and helped his crew finish with some insulation work. Yep, he was up on the ladder himself getting it done.
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Customer relationship management (CRM) software has been around for almost 30 years, almost mirroring the rise of the PC. But now as we are firmly entrenched in the Post PC era, how has CRM changed, and more importantly, what impact will it have on companies needing to build relationships with the modern day consumer?
Tsal Tsafany, Chief Customer Officer for Base CRM, shares his thoughts on the importance of having a modern CRM strategy and approach to match the new technology environment we are living in today. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation. To hear the full conversation you can click on the audio player below.
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Small Business Trends: Can you tell us a little bit about your personal background and about Base CRM?
Tal Tsfany: I've been in IT all my life. I'm an Industrial Engineer by profession and I've been involved in enterprise software, specifically CRM, for almost 20 years now.
Back in 2009, we started Base CRM. Uzi Shmilovici, the CEO, started it and I was involved and it grew from a small company with a big vision to a medium company with a big vision.
We are now almost 100 people. We've finalized our B rounds with over $15,000,000 in investment and we have 2 main offices, one in Poland, where we have our R&D and product team, and we have our headquarters in Chicago. But it's soon going to be moved to the Bay Area where we're going to ramp up sales, marketing and other parts of the organization.
We are now the number one CRM app in all app stores, growing very fast, exponentially and doing pretty well – very happy to serve many customers, small to big. That's where we are today.
Small Business Trends: What's the biggest difference in importance for CRM from a post P.C. perspective?
Tal Tsfany: Let's break down the concept of what post PC means. If you look at how people use computers today and interact with devices, they're looking for three main things:
- Ubiquity: They want to have the data on their fingertips everywhere, wherever they are, in the right size – in the right context.
- Intelligence: We're generating tons of data, to date. In order to make sense of the data, we need to have a very intelligent engine that brings us the right data, and more than that, even, maybe suggest what we need to do with that data.
- A natural interface: We don't have patience anymore for training sessions and going to a three day training workshop to learn how to work with this system or that system. We see beautiful, amazing, intuitive consumer apps and we want that experience in our enterprise or work context.
There's a big story of Avon just shutting down an SAP implementation that cost them $125,000,000.00 because when they got it to the user, the user just said:
"Sorry, not going to use it. It's too complicated for me."
So, they shut it down. And, I think that gap of usability – the usability gap is just expanding right now.
So, from an enterprise perspective, I think that the natural interface is the third pillar that, in my mind, is what constructs what post P.C. is. So, ubiquity, intelligence and a natural interface.
Small Business Trends: Are we seeing much more success in post PC era with CRM? Are we at least on the right track?
Tal Tsfany: Well, first we have to decide how we measure success. For me, it's all about productivity and user adoption. I can tell you that we started an organization called Base Success with the objective of seeing 100% adoption. And, we have 100% success, meaning I never received love letters from CRM users in all of my previous implementations and right now I get love letters of people telling us that geo-location on their iPad or their iPhone changed the way they sell or made them much more productive, because they can see their pipeline on a map and they can plan their day and things like that.
Again, we can argue about the success of CRM so far, but our goal is to get to a place where every implementation, 100% of the implementations are successful in the sense that they are being implemented, used on a daily basis by 100% of the users, generating 10 times more data and making the managers make better decisions. So yes, definitely I think the fact that you're bringing fresh data to the users and to the managers is on the right track.
We see the amounts of data being generated by an average user on our platform. I can tell you I never saw anything like that. People are just on the application all day long. They start with their PC in the morning. They go out in the evening. They're working on their tablets. It's just a whole different ball game.
Small Business Trends: Are the sales people that you focus in on – are their interactions with their customers and prospects more efficient and more effective?
Tal Tsfany: Yes, we have a vision in that area which is called zero input. And, that vision is a day where you won't have to document anything that you're doing. You just have to focus on doing what it is that you're trying to do.
Today we can tell you that you should be talking to this customer because we know that customers in this stage usually stay active if they're in that stage no more than eight days. And you didn't talk to that person for 10 days, so maybe it's time to call them, etc.
I think we're going to see a revolution when it comes to the interaction channels and technologies as part of the sales productivity aspect of CRM.
Small Business Trends: So, what kind of atmosphere do we need for that to happen?
Tal Tsfany: I think, philosophically, we have to go back to the core, the fundamental problem with CRMs, and that is the gap between effort and the value that a specific individual user is getting out of the system. If you focus on closing that gap or maybe trying to get the value to be higher than the effort, then you'll be heading in the right direction.
That's the first principal that we try to follow in everything that we do. Everything that we do, every feature, every function needs to serve the value and reduce the effort. It's amazing to me that small, medium businesses are more nimble and are already doctors of this and this is why they're enjoying a full, mobile, everywhere CRM. Because they only have, like, five people in their sales team or their customer service team.
When it comes to the hundreds of people, the complexity of the processes is really a challenge. I think to your question, what those organizations will have to understand is that they need to take their system to the next level. Hide the complexity behind the curtain. Try to do everything automatically and focus on creating a phenomenal user experience that is contextual with a natural interface across all devices and platforms. Easier said than done, but you know. We love big challenges and I think that's how platforms should be constructed.
Small Business Trends: So you think that smaller, more agile businesses are in a better position to be able to take advantage more quickly than the more mature, larger organizations?
Tal Tsfany: I think fundamentally, yes. But, the nice thing is that we're seeing early adopters in the enterprise space already making big moves on this. The way they think about it is they try to separate the IT aspect from the sales or service aspect. Meaning the V.P. of sales, for instance, will initiate a process that says, 'I want every sales rep in my organization to use this CRM every day, not because they have to, but because it will help them sell more.' Where can I find a system that will just increase the productivity?
From a technological perspective, the integration aspect of it needs to be almost like a plug-and-play.
Small Business Trends: Where can people learn more about what you guys are doing?
Tal Tsfany: Our domain is GetBase.com and just look for us – Base CRM. We have a lot of information.
This is part of the One-on-One Interview series with thought leaders. The transcript has been edited for publication. If it's an audio or video interview, click on the embedded player above, or subscribe via iTunes or via Stitcher.


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From National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor comes an epic fantasy about a mythic lost city and its dark past.
The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around--and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was just five years old, he's been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the form of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he has to seize his chance or lose his dream forever.
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WASHINGTON — Canada's cannabis industry, banking on the chance to expand into the United States, is nervously eyeing the American political calendar and the Biden administration's narrow legislative window to ease federal prohibitions on recreational marijuana.
The White House has said President Joe Biden supports decriminalizing cannabis, legalizing pot for medicinal purposes and changing how marijuana is classified by the Department of Justice to allow for further study of its potential positive and negative effects.
But while Democrats currently hold all the political cards on Capitol Hill, their control of Congress remains precarious, and progressives fear the Republicans are likely to take over the House of Representatives following the 2022 midterms.
That means if change is going to happen in the United States, it needs to happen soon, said David Culver, vice-president of global government relations for Canopy Growth Corp., one of the largest players in Canada's legal cannabis market.
"We were literally dealt, in my opinion, the perfect political hand for cannabis reform to occur during this Congress," Culver said in an interview.
"The White House made it very clear when they took office, at least to our industry, that they needed to get this pandemic under control. We've been sitting with this perfect political hand for almost six months now … and we're still waiting patiently as it relates to the administration."
The cannabis landscape in the U.S. is an ever-changing patchwork; the drug is or will be allowed for medical use in 36 states and for recreational use in 13, as well as the District of Columbia. But federal law still considers it a Schedule I controlled substance with high risk of abuse and no accepted medical use, alongside drugs like heroin, LSD and peyote.
As a result, it's impossible for companies operating in a legal state landscape like California or Colorado to make use of institutional banking or financing services, access capital markets or do business outside their respective state lines. Nor can they take advantage of tax writeoffs for routine business expenses, capital equipment like computers or payroll costs.
Still, there is rampant enthusiasm among Canadian players looking for opportunities to expand into the U.S., where the prospect of a legal market that could soon top US$40 billion annually offers a salve for what have been largely disappointing results at home.
That doesn't mean it hasn't been complicated: in 2019, Canopy entered into an elaborate acquisition deal with New York's Acreage Holdings, amended last year, that's contingent on an important "triggering event": changes to U.S. federal law.
"The United States is going to be a core market for Canopy Growth," CEO David Klein said in a statement announcing the amended deal.
Aphria Inc. CEO Irwin Simon said much the same in April of his Ontario company's acquisition of SweetWater Brewing Co., an Atlanta craft beer purveyor that aligns its brands with a "cannabis lifestyle." Aphria merged last month with B.C. giant Tilray, which now controls more than 17 per cent of Canada's retail cannabis market.
Kelowna, B.C.'s Valens Co. agreed in April to spend US$40 million to buy out Green Roads, a Florida-based producer of oils, topical ointments, edibles and supplements infused with cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-intoxicating component of the marijuana plant.
As long as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wane in the U.S., Culver said expects the Biden administration and Congress to get serious about cannabis reform at some point in the fall.
That could happen in a number of ways: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is planning a comprehensive legislative effort to remove cannabis entirely from the federal schedule of controlled substances. Failing that, the SAFE Banking Act — a bill that aims to make financing more accessible — has already passed the House of Representatives and is currently before a Senate committee.
In February, Schumer and Democratic allies Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon vowed to begin drafting their legislation "in the early part of this year" and that it would be a top priority for the Senate.
The politics, however, are complicated. Schumer has said he fears U.S. lawmakers on the fence about full-blown legalization would see the SAFE Banking Act as a more reasonable compromise should it come up for a vote in the Senate first.
"There is a huge political challenge in getting all the reform advocates to agree on the right model," said Douglas Berman, an Ohio State University law professor and expert on marijuana policy.
"It becomes dangerously easy for the status quo of no reform to persist, even if there's widespread affinity for reform in general."
Not everyone in the sector in the U.S. is keen to see the federal laws change.
Living inside a walled garden has its advantages, said Frank Knuettel, the chief executive of Terra Tech Corp., a high-tech grower and dispensary operator with facilities in California and Nevada.
"I actually like the fact that it's federally illegal right now, because we have a competitive moat around the business," said Knuettel.
"We have an opportunity to build our company and our industry without the outside competition from really large consumer packaged goods companies or beverage or tobacco companies."
Knuettel said he's more worried about those heavy hitters — Big Tobacco in particular — than he is about the prospect of a Canadian invasion of the U.S. cannabis sector.
"Tobacco consumption's declining, and while it's still a really good cash cow, they've got to be looking down the road and wondering how long that cash cow's going to last," he said.
"I think the threat from Big Tobacco is potentially the largest threat that our industry and any company in it would see."
There's another firewall, said Knuettel. Canadian operations that work directly with cannabis — so-called "plant-touching" companies — are allowed to list their stocks on U.S. exchanges because they do business in a foreign jurisdiction where their product is legal.
That listing ability goes away as soon as they buy a plant-touching company in the U.S. — a wrinkle that Knuettel said has kept some would-be Canadian suitors at bay while American companies have been able to take advantage of recovering capital markets and a widening legal landscape.
"As a result, the large U.S. suppliers and companies are now on a much more equal footing than the large Canadian counterparts," which have been struggling domestically, he said.
Eventually, those would-be Canadian suitors could find themselves becoming the hunted instead of the hunter.
"At some point, the script is going to flip," Knuettel said.
"Canada represents one of the largest non-U.S. markets, and I could envision a scenario where some of the largest players pick up on the large Canadian players at some point in the future, if the current dynamic continues."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 14, 2021.


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Relaxation techniques
Relaxation is an important tool for helping the body deal with the anxieties and stresses of life. It comes in two forms: immobile and physical. Immobile relaxation includes techniques such as meditation and other activities that may involve sitting or lying and concentrating on breathing. Physical relaxation comes in the form of light exercise or an activity. Gardening, tai chi, swimming walking, painting, etc are all helpful physical techniques as they occupy the mind and therefore free it temporarily from stressors.
There are also other things you can do that can indirectly help you become more relaxed:
Making healthy food choices, such as replacing caffeinated drinks and sweet foods with water and fruit will go a long way to keeping your energy levels more constant and reducing internal stress.
Regular exercise is also important – a twenty minute walk or cycle is usually achievable for most people and will help reduce stress.
Learning to prioritise can help you organise your workload more effectively so that you get things done with out too many stressful last minute panics.
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Well before the cleanup from Superstorm Sandy was in full swing, students could read about the weather system that slammed the East Coast in their textbooks.
Welcome to the new digital bookcase, where traditional ink-and-paper textbooks have given way to iPads and book bags are getting lighter. Publishers update students' books almost instantly with the latest events or research. Schools are increasingly looking to handheld tablets as a way to sustain students' interest, reward their achievements and, in some cases, actually keep per-student costs down.
"We must use technology to empower teachers and improve the way students learn," said Joel Klein, a former New York City schools chief who now leads News Corp.'s education tablet program. "At its best, education technology will change the face of education by helping teachers manage the classroom and personalize instruction."
News Corp. officials planned to debut their Amplify tablet during a breakfast March 6 at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. Priced at $299, the 10-inch unit runs on a school's wireless internet system and comes with software for teachers to watch each student's activities, offer instant polls, and provide anonymous quizzes to gauge student understanding.
Orders placed by June 30 will be ready for the start of the school year in the fall, officials at Rupert Murdoch's company said ahead of the official announcement, adding yet another platform for schools to consider.
Putting a device in every student's hand is not a pie-in-the-sky dream. Some 2,000 schools already have partnered with Google to use its lightweight Chromebooks, which start at $199. Some 20 million students and teachers are already using them, company officials said.
And a study from the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project found that more than 40 percent of students or teachers use some sort of tablet in their Advanced Placement and National Writing Project classrooms.
"When you think about it, these are AP classes and National Writing Project classes, and four in 10 say they are using these devices," said Kristen Purcell, associate director for research at Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project. "That's six in 10 who aren't using them. We still have a lot of room for growth."
In coming years, growth seems to be the norm.
(Next page: A look at schools' plans to adopt tablets—and some keys to success)
Christine Quinn, the speaker of the New York City Council, has suggested replacing textbooks—they cost the city $100 million a year—with tablets. Schools in Los Angeles last month allocated $50 million to start buying tablets for every student; the project is expected to cost $500 million by the time it is completed. Schools in McAllen, Texas, distributed 6,800 Apple tablets last year at a cost of $20.5 million.
But it's not just the biggest school districts making the shift. The Eanes Independent School District in Austin is distributing more than 2,000 iPads to every student, from kindergarteners to high school seniors. The cost: $1.2 million.
Students, unlike some of their parents, aren't blinking.
"The biggest challenge is that they're growing up as digital natives, but when they get to the school door, they have to leave that at the door," said Scott Kinney, who trains teachers on how to use Discovery Education's digital textbook products, which work on various platforms. "Kids are very comfortable with these things, so why aren't we reaching them in a way that's most beneficial to students?"
Discovery, the top digital content provider to U.S. schools, recognizes its potential to keep students interested with the most up-to-date material. For instance, it updated its science lessons for students in grades six through high school to incorporate Superstorm Sandy within weeks of its making landfall.
Students traced the path of the storm using digital maps, compared the changes in barometric pressure with wind speed, and proposed cleanup plans for the region—even while cleanup crews were still working.
That fast turnaround is one of the main advantages of shifting to digital textbooks. So, too, are their language functions. For instance, a student working on his homework with a parent who isn't fluent in English can switch to Spanish. The textbooks can toggle between languages so students who aren't native speakers can check their understanding.
Another advantage: the digital books' cost. Discovery's lessons—branded "Techbooks" that run on laptops, desktops, iPads, or other tablets—run between $38 and $55 per student for a six-year subscription. The average traditional textbook is $70 per student.
See also:
Schools confront digital textbook challenges
Publishers answering the call for digital textbooks
More than a half-million students are using Discovery's texts in 35 states on various platforms.
But technology doesn't guarantee success.
"If the teacher doesn't know how to use it, obviously it's not going to make much difference," said Mevlut Kaya, a computer teacher at Orlando Science Schools, a charter program that offered each student a leased iPad if he or she achieved a 3.5 grade point average.
In classrooms at the private Avenues: The World School in New York City, students at all levels receive an iPad and then receive an iPad and MacBook Air in middle school. The school doesn't buy textbooks and, in most cases, teachers automatically send students their reading and homework assignments over the school's wireless internet network.
It's a system that's normal for students, who often already have mastered the technology.
"They live in the world where they have these distractions, where they have an iPad on their desk or a smart phone in their pocket," said Dirk Delo, the school's chief technology officer.
That's not to say there should be an instant shift, even technology evangelists warn.
"All too often, the technology programs I observed seemed more focused on bells and whistles, gadgets and gizmos, than on improving learning," Klein said. "And in many school districts, teachers have been handed technology they either don't think is effective or don't know how to use. The last thing we need is just another pile of unused laptops in the back or the classroom."
- 'Buyer's remorse' dogging Common Core rollout - October 30, 2014
- Calif. law targets social media monitoring of students - October 2, 2014
- Elementary world language instruction - September 25, 2014


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Suing TraitorsBy Bruce Walker November 19, 2007The depressing and dishonest films about American troops in the Middle East, like the odious Redacted produced by Mark Cuban, seem to be immune to pressure from patriotic Americans. Although the films lose huge amounts of money, the billionaire producers of the films do not care. Hollywood and the coastal elites love bashing America and the financial bottom line in these films simply do not matter to anti-Americans with billions of dollars of personal wealth. What can we do? Well, to the extent that the films deliberately portray an inaccurate and defamatory picture of our troops in combat, there is at least one approach we could take: sue the producers. The mother, father, wife or husband of a soldier killed in Iraq after Redacted came out should bring a defamation action for ten million dollars or so against Mark Cuban. Ten million dollars is reasonable compensation for the wrongful death of an American citizen. Although defamation, or libel, is almost impossible for a public figure to prove in court today, those brave men and women who fight in Iraq today are not public figures. The hundreds of thousands of privates, corporals and sergeants who are risking their lives to protect our freedoms cannot be considered "public figures" unless all of us are considered public figures. Consider a lawsuit brought by a mother who had lost a son in Iraq after Redacted came out, and consider that American forces found DVD copies of Redacted in the hands of al-Qaeda or other terrorists killing American troops in Iraq. Now consider that in a civil lawsuit, Cuban could be compelled to state what sources he relied upon in producing his nauseating film. Is there any doubt that Cuban would come across as an arrogant, reckless or negligent billionaire who did not really care if his defamatory cinematography endangered innocent American lives? Would a jury be sympathetic to such a lawsuit? Contrary to what anti-Americans like Cuban think, the overwhelming majority of Americans strongly support our military forces (even if they do not necessarily support the mission or the president.) Moreover, the military is an all volunteer force and it is as diverse a group ethnically and racially as any group in America. Most members of the jury probably have relatives serving in the military. Most juries would be deeply offended at the defamation of their own relatives in films like Redacted. Moreover, there are thousands of plaintiffs in this sort of lawsuit for every Cindy Sheehan in America. Cuban and like-minded billionaires safe in their palaces could find themselves facing hundreds or thousands of lawsuits in hundreds of different venues. Tobacco companies, merely for seeming to mislead Americans, paid many billions of dollars and were compelled to take measures to inform the public that what tobacco companies had told the American people was not entirely true. Films like Redacted are much more blatantly defamatory, not merely misleading but outright lying. The damages should be comparably greater. A few dozen such lawsuits could do much more than Bill O'Reilly holding up a sign saying "Support Our Troops." One is free to support or not to support our troops. But defaming them in time of war, giving aid and comfort to our sworn enemies, is another thing entirely. It is treason, but then, in America, the whole notion of treason seems to have disappeared. So let us replace treason with defamation, and in so doing, let us protect those who are protecting us.
Bruce Walker is a long-time conservative writer whose work is published regularly at popular conservative sites such as American Thinker. |


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We rely on impeccable sources in the league and the financial industry who say authoritatively that the Blue Jackets are a "potential" candidate for sale. Sorry I can't be any more detailed about it. The fact that they could "potentially" be for sale, as we wrote, doesn't mean that anyone wants to buy them. Mr. Belson and I didn't mention every team that might be for sale but trustworthy people who know about teams that are potentially for sale say the Blue Jackets are on that list.
Richad Sandomir
An interesting reply, wouldn't you say? I suppose my question is now, "If the Jackets might be for sale but that doesn't mean that anyone wants to buy them, why publish the Jackets' name when just about ANY team could be potentially for sale?" For example, if I owned the Anaheim Ducks and someone offered me a billion dollars unsolicited, would that make the team potentially for sale? Sure would. (And I'd sell!)
Also, he "didn't mention every team that might be for sale" but did mention the Jackets. Why? What makes the Jackets' position so special as to place them in the front of the line on this list of pie-in-the-sky possibilities?
Again, another unsatisfying answer. Perhaps that this whole dialogue centers around a rumor rather than a fact makes it doomed for a non-satisfying resolution. I am heartened, though, to know that people like Sandomir and the Jackets' Todd Sharrock dignify serious questions with replies.
UPDATE: I tossed those followup questions at Mr. Sandomir, and his answer was pretty straightforward....
the Blue Jackets name came up constantly.So there you have it.


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Near the end of Mel Gibson's film "Apocalypto," we see Christian missionaries arriving in the New World to save the natives from a culture of death that celebrates beheadings and human sacrifices to pagan Gods. Gibson has said he based the dramatic landing scene on the fourth expedition of the great Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. But celebrating the spread of Christianity has become so politically incorrect that a New Age adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has called for repealing Columbus Day.
Marianne Williamson, a prominent supporter of Sanders and his "political revolution," writes in her book, The Healing of America, that Columbus was "a murderer of indigenous peoples," and says his life "was a model for the standard of enslavement and killings that came to characterize much of European settlement in the New World…"
She insists that Columbus Day, which was declared a federal holiday in 1937 by President Franklin Roosevelt, must be repealed.
"When it comes to celebrating Columbus or Columbus Day we should just say no," she writes. She proposes that Columbus Day be replaced by "Immigrants' Day."
Williamson, founder of The Peace Alliance and the campaign to establish a U.S. Department of Peace, has been doing much in the political realm other than promoting Sanders and writing about his "revolutionary" vision on the Sanders campaign website. She is sponsoring a conference in Washington, D.C. this month featuring such luminaries as Phil Donahue and promoting "personal peace" and the teaching of "peace in schools."
In this context, a former teacher who is the curriculum editor of a group called Rethinking Schools and the co-director of the Zinn Education Project hasproposed the abolition of Columbus Day and creation of what amounts to an "Indigenous Peoples Lives Matter" movement. The name "Zinn" refers to Howard Zinn, the Communist Party member who rewrote American history in favor of a "people's struggle" against evil elites.
While Sanders has embraced Williamson, even speaking at one of her "Sister Giant" feminist conferences, it's not clear if Sanders favors the tearing down of theColumbus Memorial Fountain, which is located at Union Station in Washington, D.C., just a few blocks from Sanders' Senate office.
What's more, there are images of Columbus throughout the U.S. Capitol complex. One shows Columbus examining a globe and chart, using an octant, mercury barometer, and magnetic compass to plan his voyages.
The attack on America's history as a nation of European immigrants is not new, although the involvement of New Agers and Bernie Sanders supporters like Williamson in this assault doesn't get any attention in the press. Sanders is usually portrayed as a nice man who believes in a "democratic" version of socialism, unlike the Soviet approach.
However, many Americans are tired of the trashing of their nation's European roots and are now pushing back against the attempt to smear the reputations of those like Columbus who brought Christian civilization to natives who practiced savagery and barbarism.
An interesting historical fact is that the Columbus voyages were designed to counter the influence of global Islam. "By sailing west, Columbus was aiming to outflank Islam, gaining access to the riches of the East so as to finance the retaking of Jerusalem," writes Ben Broussard. "Since the fall of Constantinople in 1453 [to Muslim armies], while Columbus was still a child, calls had come from all corners of Europe to renew the Crusade. Columbus saw himself as the instrument to fulfill the longed-for end."
While the politically correct major media avoid the truth about the reasons for the voyages and what motivated the discovery of the New World, bloggers are stepping forward to answer the question, "Why was Columbus looking for a trade route to the East?" The Citizen Warrior blog notes that "during its second great jihad, Islam had invaded Central Asia and defeated Constantinople in 1453, cutting off the overland route for Europeans. Islamic armies continued their jihad northward, and conquered much of what is now Eastern Europe, until they were finally stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1683 (on September 11th)."
In his book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades), Robert Spencer confirms this, noting that the march of Islam had closed the existing trade routes to the East and that Columbus was trying to "bypass the Muslims" and make it possible for Europeans to reach India by sea.
The Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA), an organization of men and women of Italian heritage in the United States, has vigorously defended Columbus in a report entitled "Columbus: Fact Vs. Fiction." However, the report notes that since 1992 "special interest groups" have "used this 15th century Renaissance navigator to further their 21st century political and social agendas."
Of course, we know these "special interest groups" are the anti-American and Marxist-oriented organizations whose agendas include denigrating America's Founding Fathers as white racists who oppressed the natives.
There was a time when Democrats and Republicans honored Columbus and didn't bow to political correctness. In a statement on Columbus Day issued in 1940, President Roosevelt declared, "The courage and the faith and the vision of the Genoese navigator glorify and enrich the drama of the early movement of European people to America. Columbus and his fellow voyagers were the harbingers of later mighty movements of people from Spain, from Columbus's native Italy and from every country in Europe. And out of the fusion of all these national strains was created the America to which the Old World contributed so magnificently."
The OSIA report notes that while left-wing activists portray the New World at the time of the arrival of Columbus as an earthly paradise, the natives "practiced cannibalism, ritual human sacrifice and slavery and suffered from syphilis, hepatitis, addictive cocaine use and cancer, caused by smoking."
The Gibson film "Apocalypto" depicts the human sacrifices in dramatic and graphic scenes, as human hearts are literally cut out of victims and offered up to their sun god. A Mayan priest then chops off a victim's head, holding it high and then rolling it down a stairway.
In a review, Dr. Peter Hammond, Director of Frontline Fellowship, writes, "By the time the Christians arrive, we have a far greater understanding of what life was like in Central America before the blessings of European civilization brought an end to the incessant genocidal tribal warfare, rampant slavery and human sacrifices of idolatrous paganism."
The bloody pre-Christian paganism that preceded the arrival of the Christian missionaries is what is now being sold as a Garden of Eden that America should be celebrating instead of Columbus.
With abortions being performed in the U.S. at the rate of over 3,000 per day, and baby parts being harvested for profit, as documented by the Center for Medical Progress, one can only conclude America is already well on its way back to barbarism.
But Marianne Williamson, who ran for Congress on a "pro-choice" platform, thinks honoring Columbus gives America a bad name. That Bernie Sanders embraces her and gladly accepts her advice says a lot about the nature of the Sanders socialist "revolution." Williamson calls it a "Revolution of Love" against a "sociopathic economy" that requires meditation. "Ignite the change," she concludes.
Who will defend Christian civilization and Columbus against this New Age socialist gibberish?


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New research has found exposure to violent video games can desensitize individuals to real-life violence. According to the investigators, this is first documented finding that video-games can alter physiological responses typically aroused by real violence.
Past research revealed that exposure to violent video games increases aggressive thoughts, angry feelings, physiological arousal and aggressive behaviors, and decreases helpful behaviors. Previous studies also found that more than 85 percent of video games contain some violence, and approximately half of video games include serious violent actions.
Nicholas Carnagey, an Iowa State psychology instructor and research assistant, and ISU Distinguished Professor of Psychology Craig Anderson collaborated on the study with Brad Bushman, a former Iowa State psychology professor now at the University of Michigan, and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
They authored a paper titled "The Effects of Video Game Violence on Physiological Desensitization to Real-Life Violence," which was published in the current issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. In this paper, the authors define desensitization to violence as "a reduction in emotion-related physiological reactivity to real violence."
Their paper reports that past research — including their own studies — documents that exposure to violent video games increases aggressive thoughts, angry feelings, physiological arousal and aggressive behaviors, and decreases helpful behaviors. Previous studies also found that more than 85 percent of video games contain some violence, and approximately half of video games include serious violent actions.
The methodology Their latest study tested 257 college students (124 men and 133 women) individually. After taking baseline physiological measurements on heart rate and galvanic skin response — and asking questions to control for their preference for violent video games and general aggression — participants played one of eight randomly assigned violent or non-violent video games for 20 minutes. The four violent video games were Carmageddon, Duke Nukem, Mortal Kombat or Future Cop; the non-violent games were Glider Pro, 3D Pinball, 3D Munch Man and Tetra Madness.
After playing a video game, a second set of five-minute heart rate and skin response measurements were taken. Participants were then asked to watch a 10-minute videotape of actual violent episodes taken from TV programs and commercially-released films in the following four contexts: courtroom outbursts, police confrontations, shootings and prison fights. Heart rate and skin response were monitored throughout the viewing.
The physical differences When viewing real violence, participants who had played a violent video game experienced skin response measurements significantly lower than those who had played a non-violent video game. The participants in the violent video game group also had lower heart rates while viewing the real-life violence compared to the nonviolent video game group.
"The results demonstrate that playing violent video games, even for just 20 minutes, can cause people to become less physiologically aroused by real violence," said Carnagey. "Participants randomly assigned to play a violent video game had relatively lower heart rates and galvanic skin responses while watching footage of people being beaten, stabbed and shot than did those randomly assigned to play nonviolent video games.
"It appears that individuals who play violent video games habituate or 'get used to' all the violence and eventually become physiologically numb to it."
Participants in the violent versus non-violent games conditions did not differ in heart rate or skin response at the beginning of the study, or immediately after playing their assigned game. However, their physiological reactions to the scenes of real violence did differ significantly, a result of having just played a violent or a non-violent game. The researchers also controlled for trait aggression and preference for violent video games.
The researchers' conclusion They conclude that the existing video game rating system, the content of much entertainment media, and the marketing of those media combine to produce "a powerful desensitization intervention on a global level."
"It (marketing of video game media) initially is packaged in ways that are not too threatening, with cute cartoon-like characters, a total absence of blood and gore, and other features that make the overall experience a pleasant one," said Anderson. "That arouses positive emotional reactions that are incongruent with normal negative reactions to violence. Older children consume increasingly threatening and realistic violence, but the increases are gradual and always in a way that is fun.
"In short, the modern entertainment media landscape could accurately be described as an effective systematic violence desensitization tool," he said. "Whether modern societies want this to continue is largely a public policy question, not an exclusively scientific one."
The researchers hope to conduct future research investigating how differences between types of entertainment — violent video games, violent TV programs and films — influence desensitization to real violence. They also hope to investigate who is most likely to become desensitized as a result of exposure to violent video games.
"Several features of violent video games suggest that they may have even more pronounced effects on users than violent TV programs and films," said Carnagey.
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Welcome to St. Vincent Guest House - Bethlehem
St. Vincent Guest House is situated in the city of Bethlem, a palestinian autonomous area, 10 km far from Jerusalem, Israel. The guest house is managed by the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincenzo de Paoli. Originally, the guest house was realized in order to use the incomes to support the adjoing orphanage La Crèche (in french means "the craddle"), also managed by the Sisters of Charity, offering welfare services for all the Palesinian Autonomies.
Settled in the central area of Bethlem city, at John Paul II Str., St. Vincent Guest house is an excellent place to stay in order to visit the town. The building is new: finished in the year 2000, it has 4 floors connected by a lift. Wide external spaces and gardens are a peculiarity of the house. The reception is at the ground floor, provided with a large hall with armchairs and TV. At the second floor, a roomy veranda offers an unique sight of town and the surrounding hills.
Overall, the guest house has 52 rooms with 1,2,3 and 4 beds. In a comfortable athmosphere, St. Vincent Guest House welcomes groups, families and individuals.
Also, it is possible to visit the several activities of La Crèche (see the page to learn more about it): we will be glad to show you our work!
Please contact us for more informations.


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UNVEIL THE STRENGTH Release Official Music Video for "Hell's Never Over"!
UNVEIL THE STRENGTH—-featuring Mark Wölfe, Andy James, Matt Snell, Matt Guillory, and Tim Hassemer (former members of Five Finger Death Punch, Sacred Mother Tongue, Invidia, Flatline, Devolved, and Stratovarius)–has released the official music video for their single "Hell's Never Over." Originally premiered on Heart Support, "Hell's Never Over" was directed by Matt Zane (Society 1).
"We believe in Heart Support because they are doing something no one else has done. They are bridging the gap for mental health in a relateable way that people and music fans can connect with. On one end you have the music fans that are maybe going through something and feel Isolated , trapped, and lonely. On the other end you have people making music about the very same feelings. The truth is, everyone goes through a dark place, but we have to remember its just temporary, just a moment. Heart Support is never above, never below, and always beside you." – UNVEIL THE STRENGTH
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Unveil the Strength, a quintet composed of former members of iconic bands such as Five Finger Death Punch, Sacred Mother Tongue, Invidia, Flatline, Devolved, and Stratovarius are returning to the soul of hard rock: writing and performing real songs with real meaning. Says Matt Snell, bassist for Unveil the Strength, "We want to put the grown man back in metal – that spirit is being lost in the shuffle. We're going back to the roots, to real fucking metal."
Despite the band's old-school approach to writing, they're taking a contemporary approach to marketing their music. For their upcoming album, Unveil the Strength will not do a traditional record release. Snell reveals, "The landscape has changed so much regarding how to successfully get music to the public, so we're going a different route. Right now, we're halfway through the album and we have video concepts for every song. Instead of releasing all 10 songs at once that will just be put up on the internet to be stolen, our idea is to constantly release new songs all the time. We want to unveil this record to the public, with a video to go along with each song."
Although the band is officially based out of Austin, TX, Unveil the Strength is truly an international band with members in London, Nevada, California, Colorado, and Texas. All of the band members have professional studios where they can record their own instrument's tracks, so the group easily collaborates by file sharing.
Their first recording, titled "Foundations," was recorded in Austin, TX. They wanted an edgier sound than what is currently being produced in the States, so they have been working with Rob Kukla of Studio Fredman and Henrik Uddof Henrick Udd Recording in Gothenburg, Sweden. Udd is known for his impeccable production with acts such as Architects, Bring Me The Horizon, At The Gates, and Delain. The upcoming album slated for a 2019 release, is still in the recording process, but Snell admits, "The production is amazing on the new album. It accentuates that we're an active rock band – but we're a little bit heavier, a little bit edgier. It illustrates that we can write, and that we have an ear for metal." Snell is especially proud of Mark's lyrics, which he describes as "real." Snell goes on to praise Mark's extraordinary writing ability, saying, "Mark has had an amazing life. He is a Marine; a veteran. He's lived on the streets, ya know? He's seen and done a lot. He writes from his core being and writes real songs that relate to the band's message."


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Profit from the Core: Growth Strategy in an Era of Turbulence
by Chris Zook and James Allen
Harvard Business School Press, March 2001
224 pages, $27.50
Chris Zook runs the worldwide strategy practice for Bain & Co., a $1 billion global consulting firm. His book, Profit from the Core, arose from a 10-year Bain study on how companies grow and why companies that seem to have all the ingredients for growth often fall short. The findings are surprising: Only about one in 10 companies actually achieves what Zook defines as sustained, profitable growth—5.5 percent of real growth in profits and revenue on an average annual basis over the 10 years of the study. Zook was interviewed by Karen Southwick.
CIO Insight: I've often heard consultants advise sticking with your "core competencies." What new advice does Profit from the Core offer?
Zook: What's new in the book is a set of techniques and approaches to go beyond the concept of focus to determine exactly where and how you should focus. We answer the questions, "How do I dominate the area of my focus?" and "How do I grow around that area of focus and extend that into new areas?"
What role does information systems, and specifically the CIO, play in achieving sustained, profitable growth?
Since 55 percent of capital spending is on information technology, CIOs are the custodians of a majority of capital spending and investment resources. They must ask themselves: "How much of the spending is strengthening and reinforcing the core?" and "How much of it is in secondary activities or businesses?" If significant spending is not toward the core, they should note that.
Companies with sustained, profitable growth out-invest their competitors by a ratio of more than 2-to-1. CIOs should keep close track of the reinvestment rates of competitors, especially in areas that improve productivity, speed and velocity.
How do you define your core? When do you need to redefine it?
You define the core (or cores) by asking, "What is my area of greatest strength and greatest uniqueness?" You then map the market out from your core and look at every single section in terms of how it reinforces your core. For Pete Sampras, his core is his serve. For Dell, it's the channel, not PCs. Your core is also the generator of your greatest profitability. If you begin to see your profit growth or your customer loyalty erode in your core, then redefine it.
We looked at whether sustained companies had changed their businesses. Only about 4 percent had done so in 15 years. In general, when a new technology or model appears, the right answer is not to transform the core, but to set up a separate unit to compete. If Sears had pursued the Home Depot model, setting up low-cost warehouse stores, they could have been successful in that market.
Give me an example of a company that lost sight of its core and the consequences.
Bausch & Lomb, which dominated the optical business, went into hearing aids and dental products. That took financial and management resources from its core business, which was bought by Johnson & Johnson. Bausch & Lomb is now trying desperately to go back to their core, but it might be too late. Mattel, moving into software with The Learning Company purchase, also over-reached.
Karen Southwick, a veteran technology journalist, is the executive editor of Forbes ASAP magazine.


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He asked me to drop by if I'm free so I asked Sam if she was keen to go and she said okay.
I got there around twelve-ish and it was great.
There were all these computers around for the people there to try out some of the online games around today and even a Call of Duty 4 competition.
I love First Person Shooter games. Heck I was damn bloody good in Half-Life and CS (Especially Half-Life) but I've never before played Call of Duty 4 so I didn't even bother trying to compete.
I'm so left behind in computer games now it's actually shocking. And to think I used to call myself a hardcore gamer. Ish... shame on me.
But hey since I was there I decided to try on some of the games they had there.I tried on this game called.... Ok I can't remember what it's called but it's some MMORPG game from Korea (yeah I know.. I'm not exactly narrowing it down for anyone here).
Anyway..... I figured that since I couldn't really play many of the games there, I would just walk around and check out all the people dressed in Cosplay.
Heck it was pretty fun.
I mean we had people dressed like Hellboy.Girls dressed like some Anime characters that didn't really ring a bell to me.
And even this fella here...
Whom I really don't know who he's supposed to be.
It didn't take long before a girl dressed in a Japanese School Girl uniform came up to me and offered me a balloon.
Now when a hot Japanese School Girl offers you a balloon you take it!!! You JUST TAKE IT!!!
Heck even if she comes and offers you a lump of dog shit you say
"Arigatou gozaimasu!"
I was a little excited though.
I mean heck... the last time I got myself a balloon was when I was a little kid. Ever since then, nobody ever bothered to give me a balloon seeing that I'm all grown up and all so when handed me a balloon.. hey I felt young again!!!
I decided to give my balloon a name at the point in the time.
I called it "Behloon".
Armed with my Behloon I walked shamelessly around the area to check out more of the Cosplay outfits.
They were all pretty cool so I decided to take pictures with a few of them (With Behloon of course).
Since Sam was there with me I would say
"Hey could you please help me take a picture" and go ahead and pose with whoever the Cosplay character was.
Now here's where it started. Before a woman unleashes her wrath on you, she will always give you a few warnings. A few may be less than 3 but definitely at least ONE warning.
The stupid thing with men is that more often than not, we don't notice those warnings until much later on.
The first warning came when I was going looking at the girls around and saying
"Holy shit.. that girl is pretty!!!" and Sam replied with a
"Where got hot... her nose not nice". (She was actually quite pretty but I didn't take a good photo).
Being the man I was, I ignored that warning unintentionally.
Then I went on and saw this girl in a Maid Cosplay kind of outfit.
I got so excited and went up to her and said
"Come come take picture with me and my Behloon".
Sam grunted
"Why like that also you want to take picture with? Please lah!!!".
That was my second warning but I ignored it again.
Finally, I was walking around when I spotted this girl dressed in a pink outfit.
I have no clue what she character she was supposed to be but she looked kinda cute to me!
I wanted to go take a picture with her but so did everyone else and she was so busy taking all those pictures, I didn't get a chance so I tried repeatedly to get a good picture of her.
After this picture I felt that I didn't get a good enough picture of her so I tried again and again.
That was when Sam shouted
Now that warning was pretty pretty clear even to a dumbass like me.
So I backed off and said
"Okay okay... lets go home".
I grabbed my Behloon and started walking off.
On the way back to the car I was playing around with Behloon, bouncing it off Sam's head and going
"Boing.. boing... boing..." you know just for some childish fun.
Sam looked pissed. She didn't look entertained at all
I mean online when you see her blog you see cute cute pictures of her like that you think she's a little harmless puppy right?
But let me assure you... if you get on her bad side... she will finish you off!
So I decided not to push her limits and I walked ahead of her a little bit with Behloon.
Suddenly I heard a loud BANG which echoed off all the walls in Berjaya Times Square's lobby. Almost at the same time I felt a GUSH of air between my arm and body where I was carrying Behloon like a football.
I turned back to see Behloon on the floor, destroyed.
Sam looked at me and started laughing away
I got angry and I shouted
and she defended herself
"I didn't burst your Behloon, it just burst itself".
Even that didn't made sense to me... HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? HOW CAN MY BEHLOON BURST ITSELF??!?!She just kept laughing away.
So there you have it everyone.
Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman's Wrath.
You piss her off, you get on her bad side, and she will hit you where it hurts.
In this case, it was Behloon, the very first balloon I have had in many many years.
As I drove home, the silence in the car was deafening.
We didn't speak to each other.


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For the past year, I have had a foggy notion for a new librarian position, but I can't quite get my mind wrapped around it. So, I am turning to you, TTW community, to help.
Today, I am once again skimming through R. David Lankes' amazing book The Atlas of New Librarianship. I am looking over page 67 at the idea of librarians as "Publisher of Community." This may be the closest definition to what I have in mind. Lankes writes,
"I foresee the day in the near future when librarians spend the majority of their time working with community members and community organizations making their content accessible: where acquisitions is a matter of production, not purchasing. The future of libraries (and librarians) is in becoming publishers of the community."
For me, this is another demonstration that the most powerful ideas are not new ideas. They are ideas you've already had but someone else expresses for you. In the future, I want all of the librarians at my library to be publishers of the community. We do this on a smaller scale now, but I would like to see this grow. The best way to make this happen is to devote a position to it so that there is a person taking on the responsibility and providing leadership.
But, what skills should this person develop? What responsibilities should this position carry forward? Considering our library's organizational structure, this position would work best as an faculty librarian with public service & instructional responsibilities. On our campus, this would align the position with classroom faculty and build connections to the curriculum. Additionally, momentum is building on our campus around mobile technology, lecture capture, cloud-based solutions, and e-textbooks. The timing could be right.
With all of this in mind, I want to find someone who can:
- Capture content: I am thinking digitally (video, images, blog posts, etc), but I am not quite sure. This may also be more along the lines of publishing. But, I am not really thinking about an archivist. Maybe…
- Think like an activist: see my past TTW post
- Act with the sensibility of a journalist: I envision someone who can develop content following a process similar to that of a journalist developing a story. This is someone who can write (create?) information that engages the community in discussion around important issues facing our campus & region.
- Help instill meta-literacy skills in our information literacy program: We have built a solid information literacy program on our campus, but it is largely focused on traditional research skills. While this is still relevant, we have a need to expand our conceptualization of information literacy.
- Work with students and faculty within and outside of the classroom: Ideally, this person would be able to speak the language of the classroom, so she or he would understand assessment, classroom management, and the instructional design process.
I am not sure about a job title: Community Publishing Librarian, Meta-Literacy Librarian, Digital Content Librarian,???
Now, I turn to you TTW readers. I know that I have listed enough ideas here for about five positions, but in this budget environment, it may take several years of advocating before I get one (if any). So, I have to shoehorn these skills together as much as possible, get a job description together, and then start planning.
Maybe you know of job descriptions that could be helpful? Perhaps you can better define needed skills? What am I missing? What should I remove?
Focusing and defining this position will require specific knowledge of our campus and our library, so don't stress about that. I'll worry about that. I am looking for ideas, inspiration, and examples. I would love to hear what's on your mind.
-Post by Troy Swanson, Tame the Web Contributor
Troy A. Swanson is Department Chair & Teaching & Learning Librarian at Moraine Valley Community College. You can follow him on Twitter at @t_swanson.
Two quick disclaimers: 1) This is an academic exercise focusing more on the evolution of librarians and is in no way part of my job responsibilities on my campus. No confidential or HR-related information has been shared in this post. 2) If you are a job seeker (and I know there are many out there), please do not send me your resume. As I mentioned above, we do not have a job opening and probably will not have a job opening in the near future.


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