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SAFETY DOC LIVESTREAM #142 with Joe Dolio | Assessing the Situation | Body Cams | Mustering Member Checks [Podcast]
[Podcast] Joe Dolio is a USMC Veteran with over 20 years in corporate security investigations as a Certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Forensic Interviewer. He is a KyoSaNim (Instructor) and Second Degree Black Belt in Tang Soo Do. Joe is adept in situational awareness and successfully negotiating exits from chaotic environments. He curates the website…Read More
Philipp Heinrich – Face Validity from Germany | Crowd In Theory | The Psychology of Security | SAFETY DOC LIVESTREAM #141
[Podcast] Philipp Heinrich is an entrepreneur, security instructor, and weapons trainer in Germany. He's an oracle of face validity and recognizes both gradual and rapid nuances in society. Are Germans smashing into Finite Voltage? How does it manifest? Is anyone spared? Read the full blog post for episode #141 at safetyphd.com. DIRECT LINK to MP3…Read More
Ex-Convict Larry Lawton | Situational Awareness in Prison | SAFETY DOC PODCAST Livestream 6-23-2020
[PODCAST] Larry Lawton was America's biggest jewel thief, on the FBI's most wanted list, and spent 11 years in dangerous federal prisons. Released from prison in 2007, he focused on decision making and bringing awareness to his "The Reality Check Program" which guides people away from the felonious life path and brings clarity to the…Read More
America is Burning – FACE VALIDITY with Bacon & Doc | SAFETY DOC PODCAST LIVESTREAM 05-31-2020 [ Podcast]
[PODCAST] Bacon and Doc kick off an unscheduled livestream to offer face validity on the rapid progression of rioting and civil unrest across America. Nick Schulaner and John Steele join to complete the cabinet. Regional observations from member checks across the country; dissecting the velocity of information; and what does this civil unrest chaos mean…Read More
Homeless in San Francisco | Videographer Juan Cabrera | LIVESTREAM 5-28-2020 [Podcast]
[Podcast] Juan Cabrera is a videographer of the homeless condition and has observed San Francisco transform itself into a deranged city due to malfunctioning local and state level policies. He is a Mexican immigrant who grew up in The City by the Bay. Read the full blog post for this episode (137) at safetyphd.com. DIRECT…Read More
Cognitive Offloading: How the Internet is Taking Over Human Memory | SAFETY DOC PODCAST #136
[Podcast] Memory is changing. Research shows that as we use the Internet to support and extend our memory we become more reliant on it. Whereas before we might have tried to recall something on our own, now we don't bother. As more information becomes available via smartphones and other devices, we become progressively more reliant…Read More
Pandemic Lingo | Shaking a Contact Tracer | Bacon Maldito Interview | SAFETY DOC PODCAST #135 [Livestream]
[Podcast] Guest Bacon Maldito talks about new terms since the COVID19 pandemic, shaking Contact Tracers, closing city streets for green space, permanent protocol changes for a temporary event, & deals at Dissmore's IGA. DIRECT LINK to MP3 of this Episode: https://tinyurl.com/SDP135-AUDIO PANDEMIC LINGO – 15 NEW TERMS SINCE MARCH In a mere sixty days, Americans have…Read More
Is Special Ed Dead? | Canada's Dystopian Back to School Informational Videos | SAFETY DOC PODCAST
[PODCAST] Before 1961, the United States did not publicly educate any children with any disabilities. If a child had cognitive or emotional disabilities, deafness, blindness or needed speech therapy, parents had to educate their children at home or pay for private education. In 1975, the US voted to ensure that all children, regardless of their…Read More
Return of Chuck Mak: Face Validity from Pittsburgh | SAFETY DOC PODCAST #133
[Podcast] Chuck Mak delivers face validity from Pittsburgh, describing the rapid scale up of University of Pittsburgh Medical's campus for influx of coronavirus patients; the biggest IT challenges; essential worker papers; COVID19 GIS hotspots tracked by phone; economic smash landing; and locus of control. DIRECT LINK to MP3 of this Episode: https://tinyurl.com/SDP133-AUDIO SCALING UP ONE OF…Read More
Schools Won't Open This Fall – Here's Why | SAFETY DOC PODCAST #132
[Podcast] The coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools this spring. Something else will keep them closed this fall. Doc explains the trifecta that will keep schools closed for some or all of 2020-2021. DIRECT LINK to MP3 of this Episode: https://tinyurl.com/SDP132-AUDIO TEACHERS UNIONS CONSIDERING STRIKES AND PROTESTS OVER COVID19 Politico's Nicole Gaudiano, John Hendel and Leah Nylen wrote: "Teachers…Read More


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In a previous article, we talked about how SEO might not always work. Sometimes we find ourselves in a never-ending circle of keyword brainstorming and evaluating with little to no results. This is where a solid distribution strategy comes in.
Let's take a look at 9 different distribution channels that will help get your content in front of your target audience. Before we begin, we created a list of 45+ distribution tactics. Click here to view, no opt-in needed!
1. Facebook
With well over 2.19 billion users, Facebook is the reigning king when it comes to social distribution channels. The sheer volume of daily active users gives businesses (big or small) ample opportunity to connect with their audience. This is an exceptional tool to enhance your brand's visibility and your audience's engagement.
Further, joining relevant Facebook groups is always a good idea as it might help you find, engage, and build relationships with members of your target audience. (Click here to join our exclusive Facebook Group!)
If your budget allows it, consider using Facebook Ads. Here, you can upload existing lists into the platform or try retargeting all together to reach your audience.
Another exceptional Facebook tool that will help you reach a broader audience are Lookalike Audiences.
According to Facebook, "Lookalike Audiences let you find more people who are similar to your best customers. It's a great way to use the insights you've gained from your Facebook marketing to find more people who'll love your products and services."
For more reading on Facebook, check out the links below:
- 36 Facebook Marketing Tips To Help Maximize Your Efforts
- The Fall of Facebook Engagement: What Should You Do Next?
- 67 Things You Need to Know When Creating a Facebook Ad Campaign
If you want to learn more about how to optimize your advertising strategy on Facebook, be sure to check out "Facebook Marketing: World Class Strategies for Optimizing Your Page, Getting Lots of Likes, and Creating Compelling Facebook Ads that Produce Powerful Results" by Susan Hollister. The title truly says it all.
2. Instagram
Instagram leverages the power of hashtags to bring visibility to your content. Additionally, it is an excellent platform for finding influencers to help increase your brand's awareness. Running paid advertising and sharing posts with links and CTA might go a long way to increase engagement as well as visibility.
Posting on Instagram might be one of the easiest actions to take, yet one of the hardest to generate an effective result. In essence, Instagram is simply a photo and video sharing tool. All you have to do is upload an image to your account. (This is the easy part.)
The hard part is understanding what kinds of photos, captions, and even filters work best. As a business, you will find that Instagram best serves as a branding tool (although it is also very capable of driving traffic like we mentioned above.)
If you're looking for quick visibility, consider influencer marketing. Instagram influencers can cost hundreds of dollars but a good starting point is Fiverr. (Low risk, high reward.)
For more reading on Instagram, check out the links below:
- How To Create A Business Page On Instagram To Attract More Customers
- This Instagrammer Built 10 Million Followers - Here's How You Can Too
- Instagram For Business: Five Lessons (I Learned) to Get More Followers
- 3 Types of Posts to Help You Get Followers on Instagram
- 11 Ways to Optimize Your Instagram for Business
Also be sure to check out the "Ultimate Guide to Instagram for Business" by Kim Walsh Phillips, where she tackles some interesting tactics for generating a larger following and increasing your ROI by using Instagram as a business tool.
3. Twitter
Twitter is one of the best platforms to use if you're looking to amplify your blog. To master this medium, you need to be concise and to the point. Limited to only 280 characters, be sure to include a short message, a shortened link back to your website/blog you want to promote, and of course a (#) hashtag.
Furthermore, adding an image to your post can go a long way in helping you generate additional traffic. In fact, a study shows, "Tweets with images receive 150% more retweets than tweets without an image."
If you're also promoting a new long-post article or want more awareness to a specific web page, you can always try 'pinning' the tweet to the top to grab visitors' attention.
Twitter can be an effective tool in your digital marketing arsenal. Use it wisely to leverage content curation, share your original posts, retweet relevant and interesting articles, and reply to those sharing your content.
For more reading on Twitter, check out the links below:
- Instantly Improve Your Twitter Marketing With These 7 Twitter Tips!
- Twitter Optimization: Creating A Winning Twitter Page
- Twitter Engagement - Why You Should Pay Close Attention
- 24 Tips To Help You Maximize Your Twitter Marketing Strategy
- The Twitter Page Template That Helped Me Gain 17k Followers
- Improve Your Business Use of Twitter with These Steps
If you are planning to fully utilize Twitter for business, be sure to check out Michael Clarke's "Twitter Marketing in 2019 Made Easy" for tips on how and when to tweet, how to gain followers, and how to start generating leads.
4. Pinterest
This social platform allows you to create a board of all the content you have created and "pin" it for users to see. However, it might not be for everyone. Pinterest is another "visual" medium, so make sure your content is full of imagery. Another possible tactic is to repurpose some of your blog posts into infographics and draw your audience's attention.
Furthermore, like Instagram, Pinterest is also an excellent tool for finding influencers with a significant following. We will explain more about the importance of influencers in just a bit.
5. LinkedIn
This social platform will allow you to share your content within your niche communities and groups, and utilize your existing email or contact lists for further promotion via the networking platform. You could even write a blog on LinkedIn that will divert traffic back to your site, or gain an influencer's attention by tagging them within your status updates.
It is important to understand that "serious" and "business" do not equal "bland". LinkedIn's users might be more "corporate" but that doesn't mean your posts should be strict and simple. Add an image, links, a short description, and generally make your post appealing so it can stand out and get more visibility.
For more reading on LinkedIn, check out the links below:
- 7 LinkedIn Tools to Boost Your Performance
- 4 Tactics for a Better LinkedIn Content Strategy
- 20 LinkedIn Marketing Tips To Help You Grow Your Business
And for even more insight on LinkedIn check out the "42 Rules for 24-Hour Success on LinkedIn" by our very own Chris Muccio.
6. SlideShare
Owned by LinkedIn, SlideShare is an excellent site to leverage if you have repurposed your content into a slideshow presentation or an infographic.
Before moving on, let's briefly address something.
You might have noticed that we used the term "repurpose" a few times already. For those who are unfamiliar with the phrase, repurposing content means taking one of your older posts and altering its format so it can be used again. For instance, common repurposing methods include transforming a blog post into:
- Infographics
- Slideshows
- E-Books
- Podcasts
- Videos
If you are interested in this topic, check out this article for insight on all you need to know about The Art of Repurposing Content.
7. Distribution Through Email
If you have a relatively new or small business, you might be thinking that it is a bit unrealistic to use email marketing for content distribution. While it might seem that way, we beg to differ. Even if you have 2-3 contacts in your email list, share your content with them. In turn, they might share it with their contacts or social followers, and before you know it, views and traffic might start flowing in.
The same goes for those with an already established list; utilize it, share your quality content with your subscribers.
For anyone interested in building an email based campaign here is a cool little tool for you.
MailChimp allows you to create contact lists, monitor your subscribers' interests, utilize customizable templates to form unique emails or lead magnets, and finally schedule dates for your content to be distributed to all or select members of your list. Moreover, there is a free and paid version available to suit every budget time.
Before we move on; if you currently have very few subscribers or are just looking for ways to increase your contact database, check out this article talking about the importance of link building.
For more reading on email marketing, check out the links below:
- Our Favorite Email Marketing Tools
- 13 Email Marketing Tips for Killer Campaigns
- 5 Elements For Writing An Effective Holiday Email Marketing Campaign
- The Importance of Email List Building
If you want to learn more about growing your list and potentially increasing your ROI from email marketing, be sure to check out "Email Marketing Strategies 2019" by author Phillip Rusell.
8. Guest Blogging
While not widely talked about, guest blogging is one of the most popular ways to get noticed and reach out to a new audience. By publishing your content on other (oftentimes more established) websites, you can significantly increase your brand awareness, build backlinks to increase your website/blog's traffic, and even generate referral traffic.
9. Realizing the Power of Influencers
Influencer marketing has gone from a buzzword to one of the most successful content distribution and online growth strategies in mere months. The main benefit of building relationships and targeting influencers is getting access to their engaged audience.
Influencers already have a large, active audience that trusts them and views them as an authority. If your content is shared, or even mentioned by an established influencer you can expect:
- Significant increases in your thought leadership and authority within your industry
- A sizable boost in exposure, visibility, and traffic
- Much greater engagement (backlinks, shares, likes, retweets, etc.)
- Enhanced social proof
- Fast results
To reap these benefits, you will need to build quality relationships with the right kinds of influencers. It's not a one size fits all approach, you will need to find influencers that are a good fit for your content and brand.
Unfortunately, the way to do this is beyond the scope of this article but we got you covered. Click here to find out all you need to know about influencer marketing and how to leverage its power.
For more reading on influencer marketing, check out the links below:
- 6 Things You Need To Know for Influencer Marketing in 2018
- The 10 Step Recipe for Influencer Marketing Success
- 5 Steps to Unlocking the Power of Influencer Marketing
- The 8 Step Influencer Marketing Strategy To Help You Get To The Top
- Influencer Marketing [It Starts With This Step!]
The Takeaway
Generating traffic isn't the easiest thing in the world. If it were, we wouldn't be here talking about it! So don't get discouraged if these tactics don't work on the first try. Building an audience that wants to come back and read your posts takes time.
We hope you found this article useful, if you have any further questions or comments feel free to contact us.
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- 10 LinkedIn Tools Marketers Need To Be Using
- Twitter Engagement - Why You Should Pay Close Attention
- Viral Contest: How To Generate 1,000 Leads Your First Time


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Our ability to successfully conceptualize and align a methodological framework for a research project with the project's broader theoretical context and ultimately research objective is essential to the overall quality of our research. The implications of the poorly specified methodological frameworks can be costly both short- and long-term. Therefore, this course will aim at helping advanced students – those interested in either expanding or effectively applying their research capacities – formulate a qualitative methodological framework for a research project of their choice. Students already working on their dissertations or those interested in pursuing research projects within their professional settings will benefit from a broad examination of qualitative approach discussed in the class. Students will ultimately expand their skills in the arena of applied social research. They will build their own critical perspectives by examining, as well as building on, the methodological approaches currently employed in the field of education.
In this course, students will examine a number of challenges and approaches to qualitative research as they explore ways to optimize their own methodological framework. By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Bridge gaps between theoretical conceptualization of a research question and actual implementation of the research plan;
2. Critically examine methodological frameworks of research projects and published writings in the field;
3. Be able to point to key methodological weaknesses, advantages and/or disadvantages of a chosen approach;
4. Learn ways to optimize their own research goals by devising a methodological framework tailored to the goals of their research;
5. Optimize their sample by formulating effective interview guides and select appropriate analytical tools.


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The dictionary defines a snack as 'a small portion of food or drink or a light meal, especially one eaten between regular meals'.
My definition is a bit more like this: 'something yummy, healthy and filling to be eaten or drunk at any time of the day when you're a bit peckish'.
Yeah, I love snacking.
So here are some ideas for healthy office snacks:
1) Vivid Matcha drinks
These fruit-based drinks are mixed with matcha powder, a green-tea powder rich in antioxidants with a gentle boost of caffeine. Although I don't drink much caffeine, sometimes you need a hit and I find the Vivid drinks wake me up in a nice way rather than the shaking, wide-eyed way that coffee hits me. They also taste really fruity and refreshing and the grape & elderflower flavour is by far the tastiest.
2) Cereal Bars
Sweet and chewy bars are the best way to get through that afternoon lull in energy and my home-made seeded flapjacks (from the Honestly Healthy cookbook) are the best that I've found. Not that I'm biased… Packed full of dried dates for instant energy, jumbo oats for slow-release energy and loads of seeds for protein, these babies are the best snacks around, especially if you're planning on working out in the evening. If you don't fancy making them, try the Nakd bars that are all gluten and dairy free and mostly raw. Just try to avoid the ones with loads of processed sugar in, these will give you a sugar high and then a massive low.
3) Yogurt and fruit
This is a total no-brainer. Fruit, especially berries, is packed full of antioxidants, vitamin C and natural sugars for a quick energy boost. The yoghurt provides a hit of calcium and protein and will definitely keep you full until the next meal. Top tips – sprinkle with chia seeds for added omega 3 and/or try goats milk yoghurt, it's a new favourite of mine and very kind on the old tummy.
4. Apple and almond butter
This is my favourite pre-workout snack as the almonds fill you with energy (and taste very excellent) and the apple satisfies any sweet cravings that you might be having. Try Meridian Food's smooth or crunchy almond butter and I promise, you'll be thanking me later.
So there you are, there's no excuses to be eating a sneaky packet of Maltesers or a can of Diet Coke when you feel that post-lunch slump. Make a clever choice and you'll feel better!


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Many years ago, long before Twitter, we all became aware of the limits of email as a medium of communication. Lacking the depth of non-verbal communication, voice inflection, and body language, it was easy to misunderstand the writer's intention. Misunderstandings and conflicts could develop that would never have occurred in a face to face conversation or even a phone call.
If you think email has problems…
I learned early in my career that if things seem to be getting heated or confrontational on email, it's time to pick up the phone and clear things up.
In the days of email discussion lists, Usenet newsgroups, and Live Journal, the term Flame War came into use, generally referring to an online argument which arose as an artifact of this format in which tone could be easily misinterpreted.
Facebook made this phenomenon a bit worse. It encouraged posts of a few sentences instead of a few paragraphs, and comments on those posts were generally even shorter. With less information, misunderstandings increased.
Twitter distilled communication to a form which minimized content and nuance, creating an optimum environment for misunderstanding and conflict.
Twitter and the loss of nuance
I have never been a great fan of Twitter. How could you express any kind of nuanced, meaningful idea in 140 characters? Of course, that is the appeal of Twitter. Most people are not interested in nuance and meaning. They want to make a quick quip and be on to the next thing.
Twitter legitimizes intellectual laziness. When everyone is speaking in 140 characters, then your short, meaningless post is just as deep and meaningful as everyone else's.
Yes, I know that Twitter has doubled their maximum to 280 characters. The basic principle remains. By comparison, according to Sprout Social, Facebook allows 63,206 characters, Instagram 2,200. Even YouTube allows 5,000 characters.
In a previous article, I emphasized the importance of not debating in comments for anyone who needs to speak from a position of authority. Twitter is like one big comment section. It's very format almost encourages misunderstanding and strips nuance. Worse, it trains its users to think in short, staccato bursts.
When I set up this web site, I was suggested by a number of friends to read Jon Ronson's book So You've Been Publicly Shamed. In it, he discusses a number of examples of individuals for whom a single Tweet or post had gone viral causing them to become pariahs. Often, they lost jobs, friendships, and prestige due to a simple misunderstanding.
Justine Sacco's Twitter nightmare
Justine Sacco made a single Tweet that went viral while she was on an international flight. It was one of a series of silly, off color, poorly thought out tweets that she made during her long travels to amuse herself. She was followed by 170 people at the time, and rarely have much if any engagement in her postings.
But this one was picked up, and in the tinderbox of Twitter, all that anyone needed to know was what the 64 characters of her tweet said. Having been trained that every tweet is a fully self contained thought and that every tweet can represent a whole person, the Internet was fully prepared to judge and punish her based on this single entry.
She would subsequently lose her job, many of her friends, and her standing in the community, moving to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for a time. Ultimately, four years later, she was able to fully return to society, getting a new job with IAC, from which she had been fired after her tweet.
Coming back in out of the cold
There are likely two factors in her return, both of which are instructive. The Internet forgets, and nuance finally developed. In his book, Ronson laments the fact that he has been part of many public shamings, and cannot remember the identity of most of his victims. Many of those involved in Sacco's shaming probably forgot about her as quickly as they hit the send button.
She was also featured in Ronson's 2015 article, which provided an opportunity for people to understand a larger picture. People were able to see her as the bored, exhausted traveler amusing herself with thoughtless tweets that she was, and not as the ignorant, spoiled, racist, rich brat that they wanted her to be.
Nothing spoils a joke like nuance.
Crisis communications in a Twitter World
One of the key axioms that I recommend to my clients is to communicate from the high ground. Get out of the comment sections. A social media status is better than a comment. An article or blog post is better than a social media status. A book is better than an article. And so on.
Most of those who suffered most gravely at the merciless hands of the Internet did so because they allowed the crowd to control their message, and thus, to define their identity. In such situations, while it is impossible to control the narrative, it is vital to influence it, and the first step of doing so is making the full truth available to the public. Only then is the next step to encourage them to partake of it.
A most common mistake is failing to put your story out there because you believe that nobody wants to hear it. They may not want to hear it, but when they do, and when they discover that their victim is a multidimensional person with a family, friends, hopes, dreams, and foibles, the joy of slaying a monster evaporates.
Is someone else defining your identity to the public? Contact us, and let us help you to make your story your own.


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Spy Shots: Mercedes SL Black Series
Spies have caught a Mercedes-Benz SL Black Series prototype around the roads of Nurburgring. The car is making preparation to hit up the Nurburgring later this week and is expected to be what spies say "the most wicked SL ever conceived."
In order to increase performance Mercedes has added huge fenders which are said to be made from carbon fiber. Mercedes has also converted the convertible roof into a fixed coupe roof, also expected to be made from carbon fiber to lower the SL Black Series' center of gravity. No word on what's under the hood.
The SL 55 AMG will now become the SL 63 AMG sporting a 6.2 liter V8 engine producing over 600 horsepower. So we expect power to be above 600hp.
Click through to check out our renderings of the 2009 Mercedes-Benz SL 63 AMG.
Head over to WorldCarFans for the full shots.
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by Yuyutsu Sharma
Between your marble
shoulders and my hairy chest
the river roaring,
tears, tears, tears...
Between your mellowing
mouth and my scented tongue
a night of flames
and flesh, flesh, flesh ...
Between your hefty thighs
and my throbbing hands
clouds drunk
from the forests of rhododendrons.
Between your almond eyes
and my warm mouth
rain dropping like pearls
on the plump leaves of the jungle.
Between your shimmering skin
and my dark hair grass greener
than the greenest parakeet
growing yellowish from incessant rain.
Between your nights by
the impotent pillow of your husband
and my crazed headpiece
a poem of spring that shall fill my deep wounds,
sprouting flowers, flowers, flowers ...
Between your tulips
and my fragrant pen
a brain-fever bird's
crazed cry, mad, mad, mad...
Between the sparkle
of your teeth and my sleep
a rain coming
like roar of a starving steam
in the starless
summer gloom of the night.
Between your melon breasts
and thirst of my soft lips
the rage of the river
battering its head against the magic mountains.
Between your decisions
and my flickering lamps
the river mad
you, you poet, you bastard, go away !
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I've been a busy bee
Just over a month ago, I self-published my novel Mervyn vs. Dennis on Amazon. A lot's happened since then and I've been much busier than I expected. Here's a fairly self-congratulatory list of the things I've managed to do in 5 weeks:
- Design my cover
- Buy a pineapple
- Buy a larger pineapple from a different supermarket because the first one looked a bit pathetic and not bristly enough
- Take a load of profile pictures
- Eat both pineapples
- Format my manuscript for Kindle and other devices
- Write a new blurb (this actually took hours)
- Completely redo my cover because I'd done the whole thing in the wrong size
- Write a bio
- Create an author site for Amazon
- Buy a domain name and create my own website
- Revamp my personal Twitter account into a more authory one
- Write my first 4 blogs
- Feed the cat
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Simi stolen vehicle suspect linked to other crimes, police say
A Simi Valley stolen-vehicle suspect who led officers on a vehicle chase Monday night had been seen stealing car parts in the city over the weekend, authorities said.
After an extensive search, Lawrence Huhne, was taken into custody about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 4000 block of Crabapple Court in Moorpark. Residents spotted him in the area and called 911, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.
Simi Valley police said on Tuesday night that sheriff's deputies transferred Huhne, 39, of Simi Valley, to their custody after he was found.
The agency's effort to arrest him began at 7:50 p.m. Monday when an officer saw him in a stolen vehicle and chased him, authorities said. The pursuing officer lost sight of the vehicle but shortly afterward found it crashed and abandoned on the Tierra Rejada Road on-ramp to Highway 23, police said. It was determined that the vehicle had been seen at the site of a Camarillo burglary earlier that evening, authorities said.
A search was launched that included a sheriff's helicopter, but authorities were not able to find him.
It was the second time since early Saturday that Huhne evaded Simi Valley police, authorities said. A witness saw Huhne stealing wheels and tires early Saturday before fleeing in a vehicle, authorities said. An officer saw the vehicle but Huhne ran from the police, authorities said. The vehicle was impounded after stolen property was found inside, authorities said.
A third police search for Huhne was conducted Tuesday morning before he was eventually taken into custody after a resident spotted him in the neighborhood off Miller Parkway and Delaware Drive, sheriff's officials said.
Authorities did not find him until Tuesday evening, but he was found near the last place he was seen on Crabapple Court.
Huhne was booked into Ventura County jail on suspicion of felony dissuading a witness, felony residential burglary, felony burglary of a vehicle, felony grand theft, felony evading, felony unlawful driving or taking of a vehicle and two misdemeanor offenses, according to jail records.
His bail was set at $270,000.


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Symbolic meaning
Kiwi fruit is highly valued in many cultures of the world, especially in China, New Zealand, and Italy. In these countries, kiwi is similar to a sacred fruit. Kiwi can be associated with health, generosity, well-being, kindness, and openness. Kiwi also symbolizes luck, youth, energy, strength, and unity with nature. Given these factors, a logo with kiwi can be chosen by brands that work in the niches of creativity, healthcare, and services. This symbol can also be used by brand companies in the IT sector or organizations working in the fruit supply market.
Who uses it?
The Internet marketing company known as Kiwi Agency uses a stylization reminiscent of the fruit in the cross-section as a logo. A similar idea was implemented for the KiWi Gruppen corporate sign. However, at the same time, the symbol resembles the sun. The marketing agency Kiwi Creative used an unusual picture of a kiwi half, looking like a blot, as its logo. A company with the same name specializes in design services. Its logo is also built on the visualized symbol of the fruit half.
Which colors to choose?
The kiwi logo is most often rendered in the natural colors of the fruit. The flesh is white-green, with a hint of yellow and small black seeds. However, at the same time, the recognition of the fruit allows you to use any combination of colors and shades for it. So, you can emphasize the non-standard brand. The current trend is the simplification of branding. Therefore, it is recommended to use one to three colors for the logo. Gradients are also allowed. The kiwi logo must retain its sense of recognition in different ways: colored and black-and-white (for example, on company letterheads).
Which fonts to choose?
If you decide to make the kiwi logo bright, you can use a neutral sans-serif font for contrast. In cases in which the logo is completely textual, the font can be supplemented with the typical colors of the fruit. In addition, this will help avoid associations with the bird of the same name. You can also use thin serif fonts; visually, they harmonize with the image of a kiwi. However, you can try rarely used, unusual fonts because kiwi is an exotic fruit. As always, everything should be consistent with your brand philosophy and concept.
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More than three-quarters of local residents are aware of the Durham Performing Arts Center, although they may not know how to dress for it. The Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau released results of a study today showing that public awareness of DPAC, due to open later this year, is greater than that of megamall Streets of Southpoint nearly a year after it opened.
The report goes on to state that there are lingering questions about DPAC such as dress code, parking and tickets. Here is the press release, misspellings, included:
DPAC Awareness Level Trancends The Streets at Southpoint It appears that general awareness is not a problem for the new Durham Performing Arts Center A survey in June revealed that even before the doors open it is known by 77% of residents and 40% of residents in nearby counties with 20% uncertain or undecided. Awareness in surrounding communities exceeds awareness of The Streets At Southpoint, Durham's super regional shopping mall, nearly a year after it had opened. So the remaining challenge is 'logistical awareness", e.g. dress code, driving directions, parking, tickets, etc. This is similar to the marketing required of Durham's signature restaurants. They may have great reviews and name identity but people still have logistical questions. DPAC collaborated with the Durham Convention & Visitors Buearu on the survey, conducted by Catevo Group with a plus or minus 4.9% margin of error.


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Whether you love it or hate it Facebook is often a great way to connect. Today, a friend tagged me in a post, I clicked it to discover this.
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Honoring two friends who will now go with me on very run. Thank you for watching over me, giving me the ambition to have the knowledge to handle any situation and the intuition to get me through the really difficult ones. You both made a huge impact on my life and I miss you both every day. RFB-KTF!!! With John Smith & Chris Good –Sam Terry
I wasn't familiar with RFB & KTF… a little research shows me that these are firefighter acronyms RFB- Remember Fallen Brothers & Keep The Faith. With John watching out for his fellow firefighting brothers, I'm sure he'll have everybody's backs to make sure that EGH- Everyone Goes Home.
My condolences to the family and friends of Captain Chris Good who recently passed away.
Sam, thanks so much for making sure that John will not be forgotten and will live on through the fire service!


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ICS Syllabus for Class 11 and 12 are available here. We are providing ICS Syllabus 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 for Class 11 & 12 from below. Candidates who are going for preparing for upcoming examination must check these ICS Syllabus for Class 11 & 12. ICS Syllabus is tougher when compared to CBSE because of the detailed study of all the subjects of ICS Board. But ICS Syllabus provides more practical knowledge and it aims to build analytical skills in students. With the help pf this page candidayes can get complete details on ICS Syllabus 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 for Class 11 & 12 from below.
ISC Syllabus 2023 for Class 11 & 12 [Revised Syllabus]
ICSE stands for Indian Certificate of Secondary Education which is organised by Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations. Every year CISCE conducts ICS examination for Class 11 and 12. Below given are the subjects that are teached in the Classes 11 and 12.
ICS All Subjects Syllabus for Class 11 & 12
- Accounts
- Art
- Biology
- Biotechnology
- Business Studies
- Chemistry
- Classical Languages
- Commerce
- Computer Science
- Copyright
- Economics
- Electricity & Electronics
- Engineering Science
- English
- English Elective
- Environmental Science
- Fashion Designing
- Geography
- Geometrical & Building Drawing
- Geometrical & Mechanical Drawing
- History
- Home Science
- Hospitality Management
- Indian Languages
- Legal Studies
- Mass Media and Communication
- Mathematics
- Modern Foreign Languages
- Music
- Physical Education
- Physics
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Sociology
Significance of the Syllabus
The syllabus is the first thing that is required by the students while preparing for the exam. The ICSE Syllabus is very helpful for the students as with the help of it students can understand the course structure and can prepare in a right direction by covering all the topics mentioned in the syllabus. Also, it provides an idea of exam pattern and weightage of each topic so that the students can know the importance of a topic and prepare for the examination accordingly.
About ICSE
The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations conducts three examinations, namely, the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE –Class X); The Indian School Certificate (ISC – Class XII) and the Certificate in Vocational Education (CVE – Year 12). The subject choices and syllabuses prescribed for these examinations are varied and aimed at nurturing the unique gifts of individual pupils The Indian Certificate of Secondary Education has been designed to provide an examination in a course of general education, in accordance with the recommendations of the New Education Policy 1986, through the medium of English. Private candidates are not permitted to appear for this examination.


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Cardinal Attilio Nicora, Pontifical Legate for the Basilicas of St. Francis and of St. Mary of the Angels in Assisi, President emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, President emeritus of the Financial Information Authority, was born on 16 March 1937 in Varese, Archdiocese of Milan, Italy.
He was ordained a priest on 27 June 1964. He holds a degree in jurisprudence, a licentiate in theology and a doctorate in canon law. Cardinal Nicora taught canon law and public ecclesiastical law in the Major Seminary of Milan, where he later became rector.
On 16 April 1977 he was elected titular Bishop of Furnos minor and Auxiliary of the Archdiocese of Milan and on 28 May 1977 he was ordained, later becoming the pro-vicar general. He was appointed President of the Commission of the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI) for Ecclesiastical Institutes and Goods; President of the Episcopal Commission for Charitable Service and of the Italian Caritas.
On 30 June 1992 he was transferred to Verona and continued his collaboration with the Holy See on juridical matters.
On 18 September 1997, he returned to Rome as delegate of the presidency of the CEI he continued to deal with juridical matters. He also represented the CEI at the Commission of the Episcopates of the European Community and in 2000 he was nominated vice president.
On 1 October 2002 he was nominated Archbishop and President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See.
On 21 February 2006 he was nominated Pontifical Legate for the Basilicas of St. Francis and of St. Mary of the Angels in Assisi.
Member of Cardinal Commission for the Supervision of the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) (2007 - February 2013).
On 19 January 2011 he was appointed President of the Vatican's Financial Information Authority.
President emeritus of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, 7 July 2011.
President emeritus of the Vatican's Financial Information Authority, 30 January 2014.
He participated in the conclave of April 2005, which elected Pope Benedict XVI and in the conclave of March 2013, which elected Pope Francis.
Created and proclaimed Cardinal by St. John Paul II in the Consistory of 21 October 2003, of the Title of S. Filippo Neri in Eurosia (St. Philip Neri in Eurosia), Deaconry elevated pro hac vice to presbyteral title (12 June 2014).
Member of:
- Secretariat of State (second section);
- Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura;
- Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts;
- Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See;
- Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State.


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Behind the scenes at the UEFA Europa League final
Wednesday 9 May 2012
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UEFA.com's photo coverage has been taken to a new level with our exclusive all-area access at UEFA Europa League games – see what went on before the final at the National Arena.
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Photographers working for UEFA.com have unparalleled access to stadiums on UEFA Europa League matchdays. Browse our gallery for a taste of what went on behind closed doors ahead of this year's final at the National Arena, Bucharest.
UEFA.com offers unrivalled live photo coverage throughout the UEFA Europa League campaign, covering games from the early qualifying rounds through to the final itself. We even carry content from media conferences and training sessions to give you a full flavour of the build-up to European ties.
Why not visit our photo section and browse through all our pictures from this season or those from any team of your choice. You can also check out our MatchCentre where live photos will appear during the games.


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How to Write a Book Summary
A book summary condenses the key points and ideas of the original text in an objective format. Unlike a book review or literary response, you won't inject your opinions or interpretations in the summary. A well-written book summary shows that you understood the author's point and are able to pull out the main ideas of the text.
Creating Format
A solid format creates the framework for the book summary. It also helps you determine how much information you need to draw from the book to develop the summary. The summary is significantly shorter than the original work, but the exact length depends on assignment guidelines and the size of the original writing. For a book with chapters, Butte College recommends dividing the number of chapters by the number of pages required for the paper. If your instructor assigns a five-page summary for a book that is 15 chapters long, each page might cover about three chapters. When summarizing a shorter passage, your summary should be about 1/4 to 1/3 the original length. Six to eight paragraphs should sufficiently cover a 24-paragraph article, for example.
Finding Main Ideas in Nonfiction
The type of passage you summarize influences the type of main ideas included in the paper. A nonfiction passage typically states the main ideas in a thesis statement in the introductory paragraph. In a longer passage or book, each section or chapter typically presents a main idea for that section. Note these topic sentences as you read the text. If the main ideas aren't obvious, stop after each chapter or section to determine the author's main point. You should be able to condense it to one sentence. Jot down important facts that support that main idea.
Analyzing Main Ideas in Fiction
The key points in a novel typically take more work to identify. Instead of coming neatly packaged in a topic sentence, works of fiction present main ideas in the form of plot twists, key actions and revelations about characters. Look for pieces of information that change the story line or reveal things that are key to your understanding of the story line. Write notes as you read the book so you'll have a reference when you summarize the work. Leave out the fine details that don't influence the outcome.
Synthesizing the Key Points
The introduction of the summary should include the title and author of the text, along with the overall main idea or storyline of the entire work. You can also introduce the key points throughout the book. These additional key points become the topics of the paragraphs in the body of the summary. Develop the paragraphs with significant supporting details from the passage. This might include names of characters, dates and key events presented in chronological order. Include only details that actually happened in the book. You should reword the ideas so they take on your own voice, but should not include your opinion, agreement or disagreement with the text, interpretations or conclusions that aren't actually presented in the piece.
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Based in the Midwest, Shelley Frost has been writing parenting and education articles since 2007. Her experience comes from teaching, tutoring and managing educational after school programs. Frost worked in insurance and software testing before becoming a writer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education with a reading endorsement.


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The Securities and Exchange Commission says it's stepping up scrutiny of corporate accounting and disclosure fraud. That means going after gatekeepers like auditors, lawyers, and directors under an aptly named initiative Operation Broken Gate. The AgFeed case is the mother lode for an SEC that says it's ready to rack up some accounting fraud enforcement points and, perhaps, pursue a more aggressive enforcement approach to sparsely utilized Sarbanes-Oxley provisions like Section 304, compensation clawbacks.
AgFeed has everything a reinvigorated corporate fraud fighting and broken gate fixing SEC could want. My recent three part series on this Chinese reverse merger gone bad and bankrupt was published before the SEC recently filed a complaint against AgFeed and six executives. The SEC complaint includes fifteen allegations that cover a wide range of federal securities laws including Sarbanes-Oxley law.
I previously wrote about the Audit Committee member, Milton Webster, who was a whistleblower. The complaint alleges another guy, an Audit Committee Chairman, "engaged in a scheme to avoid or delay disclosure of the fraud."
I previously wrote about the two audit firms that missed the fraud, Goldman Parks Kurland Mohidin LLP and McGladrey & Pullen LLP, defendants in private shareholder class action litigation alleging malpractice. The SEC's complaint says AgFeed executives deceived the auditors, a violation of Rule 13b2-2 or Section 303(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. (The SEC has, in the interest of strengthening its own case against the executives, given the audit firms a big SEC-supported leg up in defending themselves against private litigation for malpractice.)
The SEC's complaint "anonymizes" two trusted advisors, a firm and an individual, and credits them with trying to do the right thing and warning executives about the potential for fraud. I wrote about Fred Rittereiser, an advisor to the board that Milton Webster referred to in his deposition as a "consiglieri", and not the upstanding, law abiding kind. I also wrote about Protiviti, a consulting firm with close ties to the Audit Committee Chairman and, later, AgFeed CEO and Chairman Van Gothner. Protiviti helped AgFeed management prepare its Sarbanes-Oxley internal controls assessments starting in 2008, respond in March of 2012 to initial SEC investigative inquiries and then doubled down in early 2013, after the fraud was well-known, to be the company's internal audit service provider.
The SEC complaint does not even mention law firm Latham & Watkins, since the agency chose to focus only on the fraud in the Chinese operations of AgFeed that allegedly occurred from 2008 until the end of June 2011. I wrote about Latham & Watkins, the firm that began representing AgFeed and its officers and directors shortly they disclosed the Chinese fraud and shareholders sued them. Latham continues to represent the company and some executives. Latham & Watkins was hired as counsel to a special investigative committee at the end of 2011 and the law firm hired consulting firm FTI to act as forensic accountants under its direction. A derivative suit was eliminated by the bankruptcy in July of 2013. Latham also now serves as special counsel to the company in bankruptcy.
The SEC complaint includes a claim against the former Chinese CEO and CFO and the subsequent US CFO for "failure to reimburse", a violation of Section 304(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Section 304 claim hits all the highlights of the law:
"As a result of the misconduct described above, AgFeed filed reports that were in material non-compliance with its financial reporting requirements under the federal securities laws. AgFeed's material non-compliance with its financial reporting requirements resulting from the misconduct required the company to prepare accounting restatements." But the SEC admits "the company prepared a draft restatement but never completed it because on July 15, 2013, the company filed for protection under the United States Bankruptcy Code."
The SEC then makes a calculation of the impact of the restatement that should have been, if only the AgFeed executives had completed and filed it.
"Based on the company's draft restatement work, the fraud caused AgFeed's publicly-reported revenues to be overstated by approximately $239 million over a three-and-a-half year period. On an annual basis, for 2008, 2009, and 2010, the fraud caused revenue inflation ranging from approximately 71% to approximately 103% and gross profit inflation ranging from approximately 98% to approximately 153%."
On March 7, 2014 AgFeed filed an 8-K to, among other things, announce "the Company has not completed, and is not working on, its financial statements for the years ended 2013, 2012 or 2011, or its restated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2010." The company's auditor, McGladrey LLP, also resigned on March 7.
(The company had previously disclosed that, based on the completion of the special committee investigation into certain accounting issues in the Company's animal nutrition and legacy farm hog operations in China, "investors and others should not rely on the Company's (1) audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2010, which were audited by McGladrey, (2) audited financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2009, 2008 and 2007, which were audited by another registered accounting firm and not McGladrey, and (3) unaudited financial statements for all quarters within those years and the first two quarters of 2011.")
The SEC's fifteenth and final claim against AgFeed and its executives, "Failure to Reimburse – Violation of Section 304(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 [15 U.S.C. § 7243(a)]" is a huge prosecutorial stretch given the law and the agency's track record, if you can call it that, for enforcing Section 304.
Here's why…
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G3FerrariEstablished 1970
Founded in 1970 and taken over by Trevidea in 2011, G3Ferrari is an Italian manufacturer of kitchen appliances, mostly know for its home pizza ovens. Being one of the first Italian companies to offer irons, G3Ferrari expanded business in the 1980s with the production of kitchen appliances.
G3Ferrari's most iconic product is the Original Delizia Pizza Oven. This patented machine can cook a traditional Italian pizza in only 4 minutes. Thanks to the high cooking temperature (up to 400°C) and the refractory stone plate, the Delizia cooks a pizza without drying the sauce, guaranteeing the same result of the best pizzerias in Naples.
Care has been taken to trace the ownership of any copyright material and to contact the owner. The author does not intend to infringe on anyone's copyright for text, photos or otherwise. Anyone who feels that any item in these pages may have inadvertently breached their copyright should advise the author via the contact sheet, including a link to the page, so that appropriate remedial action can be taken.


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Check out the below video created by Don Glanden, who teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. It's an detailed analysis of Chick Corea's improvised solo on his composition 500 Miles High. It's an excellent discussion of an amazing solo.
The University of the Arts currently has 73 videos uploaded on their YouTube page. I'm going to have to look through them carefully for more gems like this one.
Thanks to the Ottowa Citizen Jazz Blog for spotting this one!


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Robach Announces Senate To Act On "timothy's Law" To Provide Mental Health Parity
The New York State Senate will act today on "Timothy's Law," sponsored by Senator Tom Libous (R-C, Binghamton), to provide parity in insurance coverage for mental illnesses. The legislation would require insurance companies to cover most mental illnesses and would require coverage for a broad range of mental illnesses and conditions specifically related to children. The bill reflects an agreement with the State Assembly that was reached at the end of the regular legislative session.
Senate action on the legislation (S.8482) was announced today at a Capitol news conference where Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno and Senator Libous were joined by Tom and Donna O'Clair of Rotterdam, whose 12-year-old son Timothy took his own life in 2001 after repeated bouts of depression.
"I'm very pleased that we've been able to work together to craft this bill that we're passing today in remembrance of Timothy, and to help other individuals affected by mental illness," said Senator Libous. "Not only is this legislation providing access to mental health coverage, but it also has built in safeguards to protect small businesses and their employees."
"Mental illness can result in tragedy if it is not properly treated. However, many families do not have access to the proper treatment," said Senator Bruno. "This legislation would provide parity in coverage and help people get the treatment they need. I applaud Senator Libous for the hard work he has done to address such a complex issue, and also Tom and Donna O'Clair, who have courageously advocated on behalf of this legislation since the tragic loss of their son, Timothy, five years ago."
"Today is a landmark day for New Yorkers suffering with mental illness and disorders," said Tom O'Clair. "It's a wonderful testament to what the Legislature can accomplish when they work together and a heartfelt tribute to Timothy. I thank the Senate and look forward to the Assembly's return so they can pass it as well."
"As Chairman of the Senate Mental Health Committee, I want to thank Senator Libous for his role in sponsoring this important mental health legislation," said Senator Tom Morahan. "I am pleased that the Senate will act today on 'Timothy's Law,' which provides parity in coverage, and represents a vital step in providing services for individuals with mental illnesses. I also want to commend the many mental health advocates and caring New Yorkers who worked so hard to secure agreement to cover biologically based mental illnesses, as well as a broader range of coverage for children."
The legislation includes the following provisions:
The agreement would require insurance companies to cover 30 inpatient days of treatment and 20 outpatient days of treatment for all mental illnesses.
The agreement would also require insurance companies to fully cover biologically based mental illnesses, including the following: Schizophrenia/psychotic disorders, Major Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Delusional Disorders, Panic Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Bulimia, Anorexia and Binge Eating.
In addition, the agreed upon bill would require insurance coverage for children under age 18 with attention deficit disorder, disruptive behavior disorders or pervasive development disorders where there are serious suicidal symptoms or other life-threatening self-destructive behavior; significant psychotic symptoms (hallucinations, delusion, bizarre behaviors); behavior caused by emotional disturbances that placed the child at risk of causing personal injury or significant property damage; or behavior caused by emotional disturbances that placed the child at substantial risk of removal from the household.
To address cost concerns raised by small businesses, the agreement directs the state Superintendent of Insurance to develop a methodology that would hold businesses with 50 or fewer employees harmless from any increase in insurance premiums that result from this measure.
The bill would also require the state Insurance Department and the Office of Mental Health to conduct a two year study to determine the effectiveness and impact of mental health parity legislation in New York and other states. When enacted, the bill would take effect January 1, 2007 and sunset on December 31, 2009, to provide for an opportunity to amend the law based on the findings and recommendations of the study.
Paige Pierce, Executive Director of Families Together in New York State, said: "Families of children with special emotional and behavioral disorders know first hand the trauma caused by the lack of services. They have endured crisis trips to the emergency room, have given up their houses to pay for treatment, have witnessed the slow starvation of anorexia and suffered through suicide attempts of their son or daughter. Our families have hope for the future of their children. That's why families have worked so hard for passage of Timothy's Law. That's why they are watching on this historic day as the Senate passes Timothy's Law. We want to thank the Senate for passing Timothy's Law today. We are grateful for the Assembly's support and look forward to the day it is signed into law by the Governor. On that day our families will truly celebrate."
Glenn Liebman, CEO of the Mental Health Association in New York State, Inc., said: "We commend the members of the New York State Senate and their staff for their work to make this day, on which this historic legislation is passed, a reality. Timothy's Law supporters throughout New York State are now counting on the New York State Assembly to return to Albany to pass this legislation and for Governor Pataki to sign this bill into law when it arrives at his desk for his consideration. Only then will New York join the majority of other states working to eliminate unnecessary barriers to mental health treatment, allowing people to live full and productive lives, and beginning to curb the annual loss of billions of dollars caused by untreated mental illness that plague businesses of all sizes and our economy as a whole."
Richard Gallo, Government Relations Advocate for the New York State Psychiatric Association, said: "We applaud the sponsors and proponents of this bill for enabling this landmark step toward ending the disparity in New York State between health insurance coverage for physical illnesses and that of mental illnesses. Perhaps the single most important 'benefit' of Timothy's Law is not found in the bill's text but rather in the compassion and understanding that propels it – for this bill is as much about eliminating the stigma of mental illness as it is about removing other barriers to treatment."
J. David Seay, Esq., Executive Director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of New York State (NAMI-NYS), said: "Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno and Senator Tom Libous are to be commended for getting Timothy's Law through the New York State Senate. Their dedication and hard work will benefit countless New Yorkers and their families who daily struggle to live and cope with serious mental illness," Seay continued. "Their skillful mix of compassion and compromise will help to avoid untreated and under-treated mental illness in the future and the heartbreaking suicides of New Yorkers like Timothy O'Clair," he added.
Shelly Nortz, Deputy Executive Director for Policy with Coalition for the Homeless, said: "The value of this legislation will be measured not only in improved mental health and productivity for millions of New Yorkers, but also in lives saved and enriched. We commend and thank everyone who has helped to bring Timothy's Law this far, and we look forward to enjoying similar support in the Assembly and from Governor Pataki later this year when the bill reaches their desks."
Jeff Wise, President / CEO of New York State Rehabilitation Association, said: "We highly commend the Senate for moving to correct a patently unfair – and ultimately costly – form of discrimination regarding adults and children with very real health issues. With the concurrence of the Assembly and the Governor, New York's law will be one that matters. It is a credit to all involved – legislators and their staff, advocates, and the huge contingent of New York's citizens who have expressed support for this step. All have been admirably and touchingly led by Tom O'Clair and family, whose tireless and selfless efforts to make things better are nothing short of inspirational."
Harvey Rosenthal, Executive Director of the New York Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, said: "With passage by the legislature and the approval of Governor Pataki, New York State government will have taken long overdue action to stop the needless suffering of thousands of New Yorkers and allow appropriate access to mental health treatment that will prevent lost hope and productivity and, most tragically, lost lives of those in need."
Richard El Barnes, Executive Director of the New York State Catholic Conference, said: "For too long, mental illness was considered to be somehow not as serious a problem as physical illness. With this legislative agreement, New York State has put that falsehood to rest. Timothy's Law will ensure that those who suffer the devastating effects of mental illness will not be denied the services they need. The Catholic Bishops of New York State are most grateful to the legislative leaders, Senator Bruno and Speaker Silver, as well as sponsors Senator Thomas Libous and Assembly Member Paul Tonko for coming to a resolution in this long-standing struggle."
Reinaldo Cardona of the National Association of Social Workers, New York State Chapter said: "We commend the Senate for taking this important step toward ending the discriminatory coverage of treatment for mental illnesses. NASW-NYS applauds Tom O'Clair for his courageous leadership and perseverance in fighting for parity on behalf of his son Timothy to provide relief for so many New York families. We look forward to the Assembly returning in the near future to take swift action to pass Timothy's Law, so that this fair and affordable solution that will save lives and families may be signed into law by Governor Pataki as soon as possible."
Mary Jean Coleman, Upstate New York Area Director for the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, said: "The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention applauds the NYS Senate and all who have worked to further 'mental health parity' in New York State. We look forward to the Assembly's return for passage in their house and to Governor Pataki signing this crucial legislation when it is delivered to his desk."


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When newspaper compositors were sporting heroes
In the 19th century, crowds cheered and bet on competitions to see who could set metal type fastest
By G.F.
IF YOU imagine there's nothing less exciting than watching paint dry, imagine the hordes who poured into middle-brow entertainment centres called dime museums in the 1880s to watch compositors set type by hand. With the printing industry on the verge of a shift to mechanised typesetting, which relied on hot-lead-squirting machines of unparalleled complexity, the public developed an odd interest in seeing one of the few vestiges of craft work valued above the operating of mere machines.
These man-versus-machine exhibitions had echoes of the American folk legend of John Henry, "The Steel Driving Man". They are being replayed today during the current robot uprising, in which every repetitive task in factories, construction and retail will supposedly end up being replaced by perfect, affordable robots that never require breaks or maintenance.
In 1886, just as the first Mergenthaler Linotype hot-metal composition machine was installed at the New York Tribune, the informal races among human compositors shifted from newspaper offices and trade locales into public venues where hundreds, even thousands, of people would pay to watch typesetters work like demons. The history is told by Walker Rumble in "The Swifts" (2003), named after the term for the fastest setters. In Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Memphis and New York, competitions abounded. Winners could take home purses ranging from $10 to $50, and in big competitions prizes went as high as $1,000. A compositor's weekly wage was about $30.
While typesetting might seem tame fare to those who have never seen it done, the competitions were anything but. Competing for hours at a time with few rests, typesetters' arms would pump back and forth to the case as fast as twice a second, churning like pistons. Punters would cheer on the compositors, who would be docked for errors by proofreaders later. At the peak of these races in 1886 one competitor, Alexander Duguid, set 2,277 "ems" (the width of the font's point size) in an hour, roughly 7,000 letters and spaces. That is blindingly fast when the usual working pace was 700 to 1,000 ems an hour.
Typesetting was invented, like so many elements of printing, by Johann Gutenberg. His key invention, movable type, allowed the casting of consistent pieces of interchangeable metal letters, from which books could be expertly printed. The trade changed little for hundreds of years, even as mechanisation caught up to printing by the late 1700s, resulting in paper-making machines that produced continuous rolls and presses that could operate tens and then hundreds of times faster than previous manually driven ones.
Yet composition was still done one tedious character at a time. A typesetter stood at a tilted shelf, rapidly picking letters out of cubbyholes into a case (a drawer of type), and, like Ginger Rogers to Fred Astaire, assembling them both backwards and upside down in a type stick. It was piecework, brutal and relentless. A newspaper compositor might work from 1pm to 4am, with breaks to sort the type back into slots, to eat and, inevitably, to drink. They preferred gas lighting to candles or early electric lights, slowly asphyxiating themselves in poor ventilation. Occasionally, they slept. This may explain why in 1850 the average life expectancy of a printer (a group that included typesetters) was 28 years, according to a sick-benefit association of the time cited by Mr Rumble.
From the early 1800s, tinkerers tried to find ways to mechanise typesetting, which would require less motion to pick and arrange type in order, and sometimes to distribute it back into its cases. Some systems were fast; none were reliable. And with compositors setting 700-1,500 ems an hour, and an American newspaper of 1880 averaging about 75,000 ems of copy, typesetting was one of a newspaper's biggest costs. With illness, rampant absenteeism, drunkenness and individual speed variation, a fleet of compositors had to be available to get through a night's work. Something had to change.
It came in the form of the Linotype, which let a compositor tap on a keyboard to release individual letter moulds from a "magazine" above the device that slid into place, one after another, forming a "line o' type." When the line of moulds was complete, an operator released boiling lead amalgam, which filled the line of moulds, rendering a slug—one line's worth of type on a single piece of metal—in an instant. Despite the lead and fumes, Linotypes resulted in far safer and faster conditions than handsetting, and hot-lead composition quickly became the rule for books and periodicals. By 1905, the average age of death for printers had lifted to 46.
A Linotype operator with 30 days' training could set well over 3,000 ems an hour, with no time required for returning the moulds to their trays, as they were ingeniously carried by wires and lifts back into a magazine, ready to be dispensed again. With more experience, the rate could easily hit several thousand ems an hour, no matter the size of the type. Linotype swifts, as praised in the Linotype Bulletin in 1921, could easily hit sustained rates above 10,000 ems an hour.
Duguid, the great swift of the handset era, submitted an essay called "Practical Working of Composing Machines" to the 1894-1895 edition of the Inland Printer, a trade journal. He wrote: "The glory of the composing room is gone forever, and soon will be but a reminiscence as it fades before the everyday, practical typesetting machine."
Handset type had poetry in it. Walt Whitman was not the only wordsmith who started his career fishing characters one at a time from a case. And mechanisation had little effect on "job" printers, who set most of their broadsides, stationery, business ephemera and small editions of books by hand until metal type mostly melted away by the 1970s. Perhaps today's remaining manual professions, from burger flippers to bricklayers, will be memorialised the same way in a century.
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With the World Junior Championship Tournament in full swing, some players have been experiencing some hockey tunnel vision. That happened to Team Czech Republic yesterday before their game against Sweden.
After Czech players were let on the ice early for warmups, an ice crew member got a rude awakening when pucks started coming his way while he was preparing the net.
After just dodging pucks from the Czech team, this #WorldJuniors staff member gets hit in the Sweden end. Get the ice packs. pic.twitter.com/HOU1zDmAQg
— TSN (@TSN_Sports) December 28, 2017
The poor official dodged multiple shots from the Czechs, including one 90 MPH puck that buzzed right past his head.
The ice crew member received a glove pat apology by Czech defenseman Ondřej Vála.
His adventurous time on the ice wasn't over yet. While skating down to Sweden's end, the poor game crew member was hit by a puck directly on the shoulder.
This dude could not get off that ice fast enough. Thankfully he did not get seriously hurt.
Hopefully, next time the ice crew can finish their duties before the teams arrive or maybe the players should actually look up and observe their surroundings.
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My Mother, the Bedtime Historian
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She was at it again, this time with the Presidents. "I'm going to name all of the Presidents in order — backwards," my mom said Wednesday night in the New York City hotel we were sharing. I don't know how this helps my mother fall asleep, but it does. She goes through various lists in […]
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (April 23, 2017) – After racing through the first two rounds of the Southern Conference Tournament in Spartanburg and Greenville, S.C., the ETSU women's tennis team saw its run come to an end as the Bucs were out-dueled by No. 1 Furman 4-2 inside the Mickel Tennis Center.
The Bucs gave a valiant effort in the championships, but the Paladins proved to be too much for the Bucs as Furman earned the SoCon's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Furman set the tone early as the Paladins ran past Jayde Viccars (Glen Waverly, Australia) and Melissa Esguerra (Derrimutt, Australia) 6-3 in the No. 3 slot for doubles. However, the Blue and Gold quickly retaliated with a dominating 6-2 win by Marina Guinart (Castellar Del Valles, Spain) and Ioanna Markesini (Athens, Greece) in the No. 1 flight. The No. 2 position for both teams was a battle. Furman's Katty Weymouth and Danni Vines earned the narrow victory as they defeated ETSU's Alory Pereira (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Yi Chi Ma (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) 7-6 (7-2).
Despite being down 1-0, Markesini evened the match for ETSU as she raced past Weymouth 6-2, 6-2 in the No. 2 flight. The victory was her fourth straight with all four coming out of the No. 2 position.
Furman quickly broke the tie as Katarina Kozarov defeated Ma in three sets: 3-6, 6-1, 6-3. However, the Bucs bounced back as Esguerra cruised past Hannah Ferrett 6-0, 6-0 in the No. 5 flight.
With her unbeaten career record on the line (36-0), Guinart, unfortunately, saw that stretch come to an end as she tried to battle past the SoCon Player of the Year, Ansley Speaks. The Spain native battled back after dropping the first set 7-6 (7-4) as she won the second set 6-2. However, Speaks shutout Guinart in the third set 6-0 to give Furman the narrow 3-2 team lead.
In the No. 3 singles, Pereira and Vines posted a three-set battle. Vines won the first set 6-3, but Pereira posted a 7-5 victory to even the head-to-head match. After being down 5-0, Pereira won four straight to put pressure on Vines. However, Vines won the final game to lift Furman to a 4-2 team victory in the SoCon Championship.
With the loss, ETSU drops to 14-6 overall, and with the win, Furman moves to 23-5 on the year.
The tournament title was Furman's first since 2008 and its 17th overall championship.
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|Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven, commonly abbreviated to Might and Magic VI or simply MM6, is a role-playing video game developed by New World Computing and published by 3DO in 1998. It is the sixth installment in the Might and Magic series, the sequel to Might and Magic V: Darkside of Xeen and the first of the Might and Magic titles to take place in the same world as Heroes of Might and Magic. It continues the storyline of Heroes of Might and Magic II, and takes place at the same time as Heroes of Might and Magic III in the series chronology.
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|Might and Magic VII: For Blood and Honor is a role-playing game published in 1999 by 3DO and developed by New World Computing, and is the predecessor of Might and Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer. It is the sequel to Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven and, in a way, Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra.
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