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ChildFund's response to Ebola continues, as the number of diagnosed cases nears 9,000, with 4,493 deaths recorded. For the next five days (until Oct. 20), you can listen to a BBC interview (go to the 44-minute mark) with Billy Abimbilla, national director of Liberia and Sierra Leone, and Ebola survivor and volunteer Decontee Davis about the Interim Care Center started for Liberian children affected by the deadly virus. It's a remarkable story, and Billy reports that Liberians are volunteering to foster and adopt children orphaned by Ebola. You can read more and help our efforts in West Africa through the Ebola Response Fund.
By Meg Carter, ChildFund Sponsorship Communication Specialist
Home from an afternoon at the beach, my brothers, sisters, cousins and I would sit crowded on the front porch, still in our swimsuits with our feet crusted in sand, eating ice cream made with heavy cream, sugar, eggs, vanilla and fresh peaches. My first summer living in Senegal, I found a cast-off barrel freezer, bought mangoes from the market and a block of ice and sea salt from the local fishery, then invited my friends to an ice cream party, which brought back those memories from the beach.
Food is far more than just nutrition; it's also a universal symbol of hospitality. Sharing a meal creates community. Food comforts us when its scent or flavor triggers emotion and memory.
Comfort food is generational as well as geographical. Senegalese children take comfort in a knobby green fruit called corossol, with flesh the color, flavor and texture of custard. Ugandan children scoping out street food choose kabalagala, a deep-fried doughnut made of sweet fingerling bananas and cassava flour. And children in Guinea suck on small bags of frozen bissap, gingembre or pain de singe – hibiscus, ginger or baobab fruit juices.
Food shortages throw families and communities into crisis, and it's mainly a distribution problem because we have enough food to feed everyone. Food shortages result from climate change, waste or spoilage, poor infrastructure, unstable markets, conflicts, politics and disease.
We rarely consider disease as a factor in hunger, but epidemics dramatically affect food availability. HIV and AIDS, by primarily killing adults between ages 25 and 45, leave the back-breaking labor of farming to the children and elderly. Annual bouts of malaria reduce a farmer's capacity to plant and harvest. And the Ebola outbreak in western Africa threatens food security through human response.
Ebola spread as people moved freely around the Western Guinean Lowland Forest that spans southern Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. This shared ecosystem is home to ethnic groups whose family members extend across all three countries. Borders in the rainforest are unofficial and permeable. Initially, Ebola cases clustered in the triangle where Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia meet. But in time, as the infected sought treatment elsewhere, Ebola was transmitted to every district in Sierra Leone and to all but two of Liberia's southernmost districts.
An early approach to limiting Ebola involved closing land borders. This tactic threatened thousands with starvation because more than three-quarters of Liberia's produce comes from Guinea. Sierra Leone cannot cultivate enough crops to feed its population, either, and relies on trade with Guinea.
Also, Liberia quarantined towns and Sierra Leone locked down the country for a time. Because many western Africans lack a reliable source of electricity, they have no refrigeration and must purchase food daily. Otherwise, it perishes.
As World Food Day, Oct. 16, approaches, consider making a donation to our Ebola Response Fund, which will assist families affected by this deadly virus, both now and in the future.
In October, the blog is focusing on the harvest and traditional foods. Stay tuned this month for recipes from some of the countries where we work.
ChildFund's emergency management unit provided a status report late last week on the spread of the Ebola virus in our program areas in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Senegal, which has reported only one case so far. Read more here about Guinea, too. To help, you can make a gift to our Ebola Response Fund, which will help ChildFund support local efforts to control the virus' spread and provide information and resources to communities.
By Meg Carter, ChildFund Sponsorship Communication Specialist
Ebola, a deadly and extremely painful virus, has broken out in western Africa. We asked Meg, who worked in Uganda during a previous outbreak, to share her impressions of Ebola and how it's spread.
In Guinea's Forest Region, where the world's latest Ebola outbreak began, a bat is considered a delicacy — unless it's your totem animal. If your family name is Guemou, Gbilimou, Gamamou, Balamou or Kolamou, you won't eat bats, dogs or snakes.
You'll also be at slightly less risk of contracting Ebola. Researchers believe that one in three West African bats carries Ebola antibodies. Even animals with no sign of illness can infect humans through blood or body fluids.
Every Ebola outbreak begins with a single animal-to-human transmission, then spreads from human to human through direct contact with blood, saliva, perspiration, urine, feces, organs, even semen. After an incubation period of two to 21 days, those infected pass Ebola on — often to family members and health care workers.
In Guinea, doctors initially mistook Ebola for Lassa, another viral hemorrhagic fever that accounts for about one in seven hospital admissions across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Hospitals there often lack laboratories equipped to distinguish one virus from another.
Rats excrete the Lassa virus in their urine. It disperses during the daily sweeping of dirt floors, and then humans inhale it. Lassa, like malaria, requires vector control. Ebola's transmission, on the other hand, plays into religion and culture; greetings, hospitality, caring for the sick, personal hygiene and funeral preparations all can cause its transmission.
I lived in Uganda in 2007 when a new strain of Ebola surfaced on its border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Guinea's virus is also a new strain, very closely related to the type from the DRC. Back in 2007, an infected doctor seeking treatment in Uganda's capital brought Ebola to Kampala. This March, an infected doctor brought Ebola to Guinea's capital, Conakry.
In 2007, Uganda threatened to close Entebbe International Airport. Now, Senegal has closed its land border with Guinea, The Gambia cancelled flights into Conakry, and other passengers must undergo health screening at arrival and departure. Saudi Arabia has even suspended visas for the haj, meaning that Guineans and Liberians won't be among the pilgrims to Mecca this October. Muslims save money for decades to make pilgrimages on behalf of their families. Upon return, they bless all who shake their hands.
Ebola twists, knots and adorns itself in filaments. It is one of the most lethal pathogens on earth, and the U.S. has classified it under bioterrorism. There's no vaccine, cure or treatment. If your immune system can't fight it off, the virus bores holes in your blood vessels. Ebola kills most of its human hosts. Since it's rare for Guineans and Liberians to ever touch a microscope or see germs, many still attribute sudden death caused by Ebola to sorcery.
No child should have to watch her mother die alone, touched only by doctors encased in protective armor. No father should suffer the agony of having infected his child. And those who recover don't deserve stigma. Please help us counter fear with education and hygiene interventions.
One hundred days have passed since Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines, leaving 6,201 people dead and more than 1 million homes either damaged or destroyed. ChildFund has been on the ground since the immediate aftermath, assisting with food and water distribution, setting up Child-Centered Spaces and helping families rebuild homes and livelihoods. And yet, the people of Capiz, Leyte, Cebu and Bantayan islands still need your help as they try to get back on their feet. Consider making a donation to ChildFund's Philippines Relief and Recovery Fund.
"It is a war against hunger and disease. It is a war against negative coping strategies families feel forced to adopt. It is a war against thirst, and it is a war against international news cycles and ambivalence," says Isaac Evans, ChildFund's director for global safety and security.
I've been in the Philippines nearly a month now, supporting our emergency response to Super Typhoon Haiyan. I've learned a lot on this trip, but one thing I will carry with me is being able to count to eight in Cebuano. I did not learn it because I read it in a book or used language-learning software. I learned it by placing eight bags of dried noodles into larger plastic bags – hundreds and hundreds of times: Ousa, duha, tolo, opat, lima, unum, pito, walo.
The eight bags of noodles, combined with other food items, were enough to feed a family of five for five days.
The other day, I went to Sacred Heart Church here in Cebu, where staff and volunteers have been packing food and non-food items nearly every day for the last month. I've stopped in before, but this time I wanted to thank them and help with packing, to experience what they were doing for us. Of course, I had no idea what I was in for. The labor – packing and moving combined food items weighing about 90 kilos (200 lb.) – is especially tough here, where the temperature and humidity are high. Sheets of sweat ran down my face within minutes.
My colleagues, Joel and Martin, were with me that day, and after an hour or so of heavy lifting, we settled into other work: packing rice, sardines or noodles into the bags. Eventually we found our niche, taking noodles from boxes (thousands of boxes!) and placing eight bags into a small plastic bag. Joel and I worked as a team – as a machine, really – while Martin packed canned sardines into other bags. We were moving quickly, so we counted aloud to make sure we were putting the right number in each bag.
Joel soon fell into his native Cebuano, and a game of sorts was afoot. Soon enough, I would learn to count in Cebuano, but only to eight. There were many laughs as I tried to first remember, then sound the words out and slowly develop mastery. After a couple of hours, Martin said it was time for me to go; the others had already worked well past quitting time but would not leave as long as I was there.
Sorry and a bit embarrassed, I got up slowly. The work was harder and more monotonous and dirtier than I had thought. But now I can count to eight in Cebuano, and the story of how I learned to do it is one more memory that helps restore me when the work of providing relief gets me down.
When I think of 2013, I see great waves of floodwater. Over the past year, a typhoon and a cyclone struck communities in India and the Philippines, causing great devastation to families we serve, as well as our local partner organizations and national office staff. Yet these disasters also gave us the opportunity to show the best of our human spirit, whether it was through donations or assistance on the ground.
Here's a look back at some of ChildFund's highlights in 2013.
In November, Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm to hit the Philippines in many years, blew through several communities that ChildFund serves. Nationwide, more than 6,000 people died, and 550,000 homes were destroyed. We are still collecting donations to help those who lost their homes and belongings, as well as giving psychosocial support to children and families who were traumatized by the storm's destruction. In October, Cyclone Phailin struck eastern India, causing massive flooding and the destruction of homes and more than a million acres of farmland. Our support there continues.
Our work against exploitative child labor took center stage in mid-June, when we recognized World Day Against Child Labor. We learned how child labor takes many forms, whether it's in a sugarcane field, a mine or inside the home; sometimes, it's hard to tell when children and youth are being exploited because of the secrecy surrounding the practice. In fact, a poll we commissioned in June revealed that 73 of Americans surveyed believe that only 1 million children are working in exploitative conditions. Wrong: The actual number is closer to 150 million. It's important to pay attention to the signs and to make efforts to support industries that are taking a stand against child labor. ChildFund Alliance also launched the Free From Violence and Exploitation petition this year, aiming to make child protection a priority in the United Nations' post-2015 goals.
In November, the Alliance released the results of its Small Voices, Big Dreams children's survey, asking children what they would do if they were president of their countries, as well as what they consider the most important issues of the day. As usual, children gave wise and considered responses to our questions.
In September, ChildFund began marking its 75th anniversary, a landmark that our national offices, Alliance members and international office have recognized with numerous events, including meetings and celebrations with staff members, our Alliance countries, board members and, of course, sponsored children. Our 75-post anniversary blog series, which shares historical photos and stories — as well as the views of sponsors, children, Alliance members and staff — continues through the end of March.
As we take a look back at the past, we employ our history to lend perspective to ChildFund's work and to help determine our future goals. Just as our founder, Dr. J. Calvitt Clarke, declared in October 1938, the well-being of children in need remains at the heart of ChildFund. Thank you for your past and present support, and have a happy and healthy 2014!
The past two months have been filled with challenges for families in parts of the Philippines as they cope with the devastation and loss caused by Typhoon Haiyan. Martin Nañawa, a communications staff member in our Philippines office, has spent this time reporting on the children, youth and adults affected by the typhoon, the worst in recent history in the Philippines. Today we feature a compilation of some of his recent reports. Please consider making a donation to ChildFund's Philippines Relief and Recovery Fund to help these communities.
As of Dec. 15, Typhoon Haiyan has claimed more than 6,100 lives, with nearly 1,800 missing and almost 28,000 injured. More than 1 million homes were damaged, and 550,000 of these were destroyed. The estimated total cost of damage is $36.6 billion.
Giving Thanks
Here is a vignette from Martin, reflecting on the storm's toll:
"Are you sure you don't want anything?" I asked the young boy. I was suddenly concerned. When I was 10 years old, I wanted a lot of things for Christmas. Justin just looked back at me and said, "I'm alive, Mama and Papa are alive. All three of us are alive."
Justin and his family were sheltered at the evacuation center at the Special Education Center at Tacloban. Their home had been destroyed in the winds and catastrophic storm surge caused by Typhoon Haiyan.
As ChildFund Philippines' communications officer, I've been on assignment with ChildFund's Emergency Response Team since Nov. 7, before the typhoon made first landfall. I've been with the team through rapid assessments in Leyte communities at Ormoc City, Palo, Tolosa, Tanauan and Tacloban. Other ChildFund teams were in Bantayan in northern Cebu and Capiz, Iloilo and Toboso in the western Visayas.
Everywhere I trained my camera lens, it found a unique form of misery: homes flattened for miles around, as if the entire landscape had been carpet-bombed, vehicles strewn about like toy cars and trucks flung about by a now unseen force. Every kilometer or so, I'd find distress messages painted on pavement or concrete. Regrettably, cadavers by the roadside were an even more frequent sight.
I remember shooting dozens of photos in all directions the first time I walked through the Leyte corridor. When I thought I'd captured everything, we'd push on into the next community to find more of the same. It took a while before it sank in that I could fill memory cards and still fail to capture the full extent of the destruction, hunger and misery.
I turned to see the row of young faces lined up next to Justin. Two 9-year-old boys sat with him at a little table. Next to them, there were three more wooden tables lined up, and when the children caught my glance as I scanned the room, they all smiled back at me. The boys were in the middle of an exercise from ChildFund's psychosocial support modules for emergencies. They were writing and drawing their wishes and thanksgiving for this Christmas.
Soon other children were volunteering the entries they had written. Each time I'd lift my camera to my face, these smiles grew wider, and boys automatically touched their chins with their thumb and forefinger, vying for attention in my viewfinder. After a long day in the field, wading through my countrymen's anguish, scenes like this at CCS sites have become the respites I look forward to.
I could feel my legs starting to go numb from squatting to talk to the kids. Standing up to stretch, I bumped my head into something hanging from the ceiling. It was a parol, a handmade Filipino Christmas lantern fashioned like the star of Bethlehem. I wasn't sure who had hung the parol there, but I could see a few more of them dotting the corridor. Despite the circumstances, Christmas had found its way to this small space in Tacloban.
ChildFund's Response
During the relief phase immediately after the typhoon, ChildFund and our local partner organizations assisted in distributing food and non-food necessities, establishing Child-Centered Spaces (CCS) to provide safe places for children to gather and address the trauma they had experienced, providing nourishment for children and mothers and educating children while schools were closed.
During the recovery phase, which is ongoing, ChildFund and its partners help to restore community members' livelihoods, strengthen child protection mechanisms and build emergency response capacity for future disasters.
In Roxas City, two Child-Centered Spaces continue to operate at a reduced schedule, now that schools there have reopened. In Ormoc City, three CCSs continue to operate, and teachers at an elementary school have received training in psychosocial support to help their students heal from the devastation. The teachers note that this process has been helpful for them, as they too have suffered great losses. Schools have closed for the holidays in many areas.
In Tacloban, Tolosa, Tanauan and Palo on the island of Leyte, seven CCSs continue to operate, and two more spaces, including one funded by Barnfonden (ChildFund Sweden), are in the planning stages. Both are expected to open by the start of 2014. Funding from UNICEF for a nutrition project in Tolosa, Tanauan and Palo was approved Dec. 18, and this project's staff will coordinate with UNICEF representatives in Tacloban. Food and non-food essentials are still being distributed in this region.
On Bantayan Island (Northern Cebu), day-care workers and other local representatives attended psychosocial training for their work with children who are still feeling the emotional effects of the storm's devastation. Most participants still show signs of stress (like crying while telling their experiences).
The facilitators provided non-intrusive, practical care and support; assessed needs and concerns; listened to participants without pressuring them to speak or share; comforted them and provided activities to calm them. ChildFund staff members also helped participants connect to appropriate sources of information, services and other social support.
Also in Bantayan, electrical power has been restored, but many children age 5 and under are moderately to severely malnourished. The World Food Program is addressing this problem, as providing the proper nutrition requires special attention.
Please consider making a donation to help children in the Philippines; we are still collecting funds, and they will make a big difference in the lives of thousands. Thank you.
By Martin Nañawa, ChildFund Philippines
In the weeks after Typhoon Haiyan, Martin Nañawa, ChildFund's communications officer in the Philippines, met many people who suffered fear and uncertainty during the storm. Here are the stories of two young women who work as teachers and are now volunteering in our Child-Centered Spaces to help children in their communities.
Darlene pressed her cheek against the sheet roofing of her home. She feared that otherwise the wind would tear her from the rooftop. Still, she tilted her face as far upward as she could, and squinting into the lashes of rain, she cried and cried, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I'll be good! I'll change, I promise!"
If heaven had heard her, it made no sign. Though Darlene could barely hear herself over the roar of wind and rain, she pressed her appeal longer and louder.
Ivy watched the wind rattle her home's windows and a glass door facing the patio. The tempo picked up so violently, she instinctively moved to brace the windows, if only to keep them in place. Her mother cried, and adrenaline shot through Ivy. Like a great, invisible fist, a gust of wind smashed through her windows and door. She felt time slow to a crawl as slivers of glass hurtled toward her. Her arms felt leaden, refusing to rise fast enough to shield her face. Her mouth opened to scream, but she spat back what she hoped weren't tiny shards of glass.
Next, a wall of water was rushing into her home, and Iris latched her arms desperately onto a doorway, struggling against the current that threatened to throw her deeper into her house.
Shimmying her way wall to wall, Ivy inched away from the doorway over to her brother, who was further back in the living room behind her. They both lost their footing, and the waves of floodwater threatened to sweep them out of their now absent front door, into a gurgling blender of waves and debris outside.
Just then, Ivy turned to see the family's refrigerator barreling towards her, top first like a battering ram. She and her brother just barely waded out of the way when the fridge spun lengthwise. The refrigerator then became a form of protection when it barred the doorway, just as Ivy lost her grip and would have been swept outside.
Days later, Darlene looked up at the clear Leyte sky and wiped the perspiration from her brow. Above her, stone angels peered calmly back at her from the cathedral's steeple. She traced the cathedral's silhouette with her eyes, checking how many angels survived the typhoon. From where she stood on the ground, Palo Cathedral seemed largely intact. Though rooftops were ripped clean off, the angels stood calmly in place.
Darlene followed the angels' gaze to the edge of the cathedral's yard. Freshly turned earth marked the final resting place of 300 men, women and children. The mass grave was a grim reminder of the fate so many suffered during Typhoon Haiyan's path through Leyte and the Visayas. Also, it was a personal reminder of the fate Darlene was spared when she clung for life on her rooftop. "I promised to be good," she reminded herself.
The sound of children's laughter roused Darlene from her reverie. Two young girls ran past her while chasing a ball. Then a line of giggling children hemmed her inside a small circle. One of the girls walked up to her, having just retrieved the ball that had gone astray. Darlene turned to address the young faces ringed around her; she announced the next game.
It was Darlene's first day as a Child-Centered Space volunteer with ChildFund. She got the call for volunteers from a sister at the academy where Darlene is a teacher. Though fresh out of college, Darlene has had much experience working with children — and she promised she'd help out.
Friends and peers from St. Mary's Academy similarly volunteered to work with ChildFund as it set up Child-Centered Spaces, or CCS for short, across Palo and Tolosa towns, just outside Tacloban City, which was hit particularly hard by the typhoon.
In a large green-and-white tent in the shadow of Palo Cathedral, ChildFund staff members and volunteers assigned young people in groups according to age — infants, children and adolescents — play games appropriate for each group. These weren't just games for the sake of fun. The children's world had just been hammered into ruin, and the CCS was perhaps the one place in Palo where children could be children for at least a few hours a day.
Ivy's CCS group assembled at the cathedral's parking lot, not far from Darlene's group. Just like Darlene, Ivy signed up as a CCS volunteer, and they were both so overwhelmed by the turnout of children, they had to spread their groups beyond the tent and across the cathedral's lot. Like Darlene, Ivy is a teacher. Classes remain suspended in devastated areas of Leyte, but she regards her service as a CCS volunteer a fit expression of gratitude for having survived the typhoon.
The volunteers received an orientation in using the CCS modules to help children overcome the trauma, which were designed in consultation with a leading wellness center. Dozens of children come to these spaces every day on the cathedral grounds. Both Ivy and Darlene understand the commitment it will take to see CCS activities through the holidays and into 2014.
While setting up the space, ChildFund staff members held a workshop to help CCS volunteers manage their own emotions. Ivy, Darlene and their peers had just survived what could be the strongest typhoon in recorded history.
"It sounds childish, and I couldn't say I've been bad before, but bargaining seemed to be all I could do as I clung to that rooftop," Darlene said.
"These children and I have been through the same experience," Ivy added, "and when I help them overcome their fears, I feel myself making peace with mine."
To help children in Palo and other communities devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, please consider making a donation to ChildFund's Relief and Recovery Fund for the Philippines.
By Julien Anseau, Asia Region Communications Manager
As you approach Tambulilid school, the singing and laughter of children gets louder and louder. It's great to hear children having fun and being children again.
Nearly one month after Typhoon Haiyan struck islands in the Philippines, ravaged communities are slowly getting back on their feet. In the devastated city of Ormoc, ChildFund is addressing the immediate needs of impacted families by distributing food packs and essential items including hygiene kits, roofing materials and cooking utensils.
ChildFund is also focusing on providing psychosocial support to children. In disaster situations, children are particularly vulnerable. While parents are out looking for shelter, food, water and emergency assistance, children are often left unsupervised, increasing their susceptibility to abuse, exploitation and harassment. Children are often separated from loved ones and exposed to levels of destruction that have long-term effects on their psychological and physical development.
ChildFund was quick to establish Child-Centered Spaces immediately following Typhoon Haiyan to provide a safe haven for children to play, socialize, learn and express themselves in a caring and supportive environment. At Tambulilid school, where ChildFund established its first CCS after the typhoon, a young mother, Rein, says: "I leave my daughter here while I stand in the long distribution line for food. She is only 5 years old. It is important she has a safe place to play under supervision."
At a CCS, children take part in activities that help them overcome the traumatic experience they went through. It is also a place where children can be children again.
"For a few hours every day, I can forget what happened and play with friends," says a smiling Angel, age 7. Marcela, a local ChildFund staff member, explains: "Children take part in drawing, singing, dancing, playing and storytelling, which allow emotional expression."
Today, children are drawing. They are enjoying themselves. Marcela adds: "At first, most children drew pictures of the typhoon and the destruction, but in more recent days, they are drawing their family and friends. This is an important sign in post-trauma healing. Child-centered spaces help in this respect."
More than 300 children participate daily at Tambulilid, one of three CCSs run by ChildFund in Ormoc. "We conduct separate sessions for different age groups, where we provide age-appropriate structured activities," Marcela says. "Many youths are trained facilitators and have volunteered to conduct sessions for younger children, because they want to be active in the community's recovery. We have also mobilized many volunteers. ChildFund has worked in Ormoc through a local partner organization for many years, and we have a strong relationship with the local community. We train our volunteers to provide basic support to children dealing with distress and shock from their situations, and to recognize children who need to be referred for more specialized services."
Although food aid has arrived in Ormoc, malnutrition is still an issue as a number of children appear to be underweight. ChildFund provides food to children at the CCS. Marcela says: "The first day we opened the CCS, we served pancit (a type of Filipino noodles). It was the first time children ate a cooked meal since the typhoon struck. They were extremely hungry. They ate everything up quickly and they had a smile back on their faces. The second day we served pandesal (a popular bread roll in the Philippines made of flour, eggs, yeast, sugar, and salt)." Today, it is spaghetti with tomato sauce. It makes a nice change from the rice and canned sardines they eat every day in the evacuation centers.
While the situation in Ormoc is improving, basic survival resources — food, drinking water, shelter and access to medical treatment — are still needed. Schools were expected to reopen sometime this month, but with school buildings extensively damaged, this is unlikely. Schools are in need of major repair to be safely occupied, and learning and teaching materials need to be replaced if classes are to resume as intended. There is still no date for the restart of pre-school and day care activities at this time — highlighting the critical importance of ChildFund's Child-Centered Spaces.
ChildFund has opened 13 CCSs impacted areas in the Philippines, but thousands of children still require psychosocial support to overcome trauma from the typhoon. With your support, ChildFund will be able to open more spaces for affected children.


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Kinross Gold to Buy Red Back Mining for $7.1 Billion
Kinross Gold Corp., Canada's third-largest producer of the metal, said it agreed to buy the shares of Red Back Mining Inc. it doesn't already own for about $7.1 billion to add mines in West Africa.
Red Back investors will get 1.778 Kinross common shares and 0.11 of a Kinross common share purchase warrant for each Red Back common share held, the companies said today in a statement. The value of the offer is C$30.50 ($29.80) a Red Back common share, they said, which represents a premium of about 17 percent over Red Back's July 30 closing share price in Toronto. The city's stock exchange is closed today for a public holiday.
The volume of gold-mining mergers and acquisitions is increasing as producers are discovering less metal while the bullion price has advanced each year since 2000. Gold-mining companies have been involved in about $32 billion of deals this year, compared with about $4.8 billion a year earlier, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
"Once you get to a certain scale the challenge of actually finding and growing production becomes quite horrendous," said Grant Craighead, managing director and co-founder of Sydney- based research company Stock Resource. "It is often cheaper to buy growth rather than find it."
Kinross, which will issue about 425 million common shares and 26 million common share purchase warrants as part of the deal, closed at C$16.87 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on July 30. The shares have fallen 13 percent this year. Red Back closed at C$26.02 in Toronto. The stock has gained 73 percent in 2010.
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Gold discovery rates have been dropping by 4 million ounces a year for the past three decades, Credit Suisse Group AG's Michael Slifirski said in November, citing a presentation from Gold Fields Ltd. The price of the metal has increased 7.8 percent in London this year. Gold traded at a record $1,265.30 an ounce on June 21.
Red Back, based in Vancouver, operates the Tasiast mine in Mauritania and the Chirano mine in Ghana, and has exploration projects in both countries.
"It is a fashionable part of the gold world at the moment," Craighead said. "Kinross is probably chasing Red Back specifically for its growth attributes."
Kinross, based in Toronto, agreed in May to a pay C$600 million for a 9.4 percent stake in Red Back. Kinross said last month it agreed to sell a stake in a diamond mine for $220 million. The diamond deal helped the company build its cash position, said Tom Winmill, a New York-based portfolio manager with the Midas Fund.
Kinross produced 544,134 gold equivalent ounces in the first quarter of this year. The company said it expects to produce 2.2 million gold equivalent ounces this year. Red Back produced 96,160 ounces of gold in the first quarter and said in May it expects to produce 485,000 to 525,000 ounces in 2010.
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White House Taps Hormats for State Post
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration picked Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS 0.06 % Vice Chairman Robert Hormats to be the State Department's undersecretary for economic, energy and agricultural affairs, the White House announced Friday.
Mr. Hormats, if confirmed by the Senate, will buttress Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign to use economic, trade and environmental issues to redefine Washington's relationship with nations such as China, India and Russia, said administration officials.
Mr. Hormats also will play a central role in managing Washington's "strategic and economic dialogue" with Beijing, a diplomatic exchange overseen by Mrs. Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. The first Obama administration U.S.-China dialogue is slated for this month in Washington, according to the State Department.
Mr. Hormats "will be key in Secretary Clinton's efforts to bring more visibility to the work of the department on economic matters," a senior U.S. official said Friday.
Mr. Hormats said he couldn't comment -- standard practice for nominees before and during the confirmation process.
Before joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Hormats had a career in public service, holding posts in Republican and Democratic administrations.
He served during the 1970s as an economic adviser in the White House to former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Mr. Hormats helped to manage the Nixon administration's opening of diplomatic relations with China's communist government.
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#81 May 11, 2012
Only Imperials in the street and nothing else. NO kids, no pets, no people, just his cars.
#82 May 18, 2012
If he wants to spend time on something, go after the junkers speeding down the streets on trash night! Leave the kids alone.
#83 May 22, 2012
He hasn't said anything in the last few council meetings. The kids have won and can play in the street. No other council members want to band kids from having honest fun so he gave up!
#84 May 25, 2012
I saw the meeting and this guy is calling the cops on neighbors and bragging about it. Be careful what you do around this guy, he will turn you in the the EPA for farting.
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#85 May 25, 2012
About an hour ago there were two squirrels chasing each other back and forth across the street. Must have crssed four times and twice caused cars to slow down. The question is "what would Vitale do"?
A. Call the police.
B. Call the animal control officer.
C. Talk about the squirrel problem at the next council meeting.
D. Run them over with his Imperial.
E. All of the above.
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#86 May 25, 2012
I thought the animal control officer was part of the police? A and B don't make sense and I am confused.
#87 May 25, 2012
Many of you have probably spent too much on your current home. If you desire to live among the street basketball gangs, oop, I mean "games" and renter neighbors screaming F-you all night, you could probably get a comparable home in South Warren or Hazel Park for thousands less than you currently owe.
#89 Jun 5, 2012
Vitale and Tiseo want to stop me from parking my tow truck in the street. I just rented a home here and brought my wrecker over to my house because I can park it out front with two wheels on the lawn. My son loves my truck and my renter neighbors and the grayhairs on the other side like it when he sits inside playing tow truck. What a bunch of blowhards. Im not hurting anyone when I park my rig half way on the front lawn. Hell, where I come from in south Warren we had wash machines on the front porches.
#90 Jun 5, 2012
Yea I should be able to park my extra car without a plate in my backyard like Vitale. I also should be able to improve my property without having to pull permits like Vitale.
#91 Jun 6, 2012
This guy breaks the rules all the time and has been cited for violations. Now he is on council.
#92 Jun 9, 2012
Let me understand this. This guy calls the cops on his neighbors and wants kids to not play in the street. Then he goes and brags about this stuff at council meetings. What a fool.
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#93 Jun 9, 2012
Don't forget that he wants you to vote for one of his Chrysler Imperials at the local car shows too. If he gets enough votes he can win a trophy and show it to everybody at the council meeting.
#94 Jun 9, 2012
Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong
Pride and BEST guy in SCS is Mike
End of Story.
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#95 Jun 10, 2012
this is the stuff that has stifled his once tough voice.jes afraid of a podium resident mentioning this. come clean and you need not worry anymoe. be the man we voted for
#96 Jun 16, 2012
Today I saw kids with a slip n slide in their front yard. Really, that type of play in the front yard. Why isn't Street Cop V man on this?
#97 Jun 17, 2012
On Friday the kids in my neighborhood were playing with lawn jarts. Remember those things? So many people got hurt that the company stopped making them and I believe it became illegal to sell them. So where is Vitale? What if some kid throws one and it accidentially hits a passing Imperial?
#98 Jun 24, 2012
He got busted a few times by code enforcement. Now he calls others hillbillies for things he got busted on.
#99 Jul 2, 2012
No maybe he just wants to keep the ghetto out of SCS. All of these rental houses around us they bring out the portable basketball hoops into the street and we can not even get down our street now. Playing basketball at 11 p.m. isn't cool it is ghetto!
#100 Jul 2, 2012
Then call the cops smarty paints. It's not really that hard to get addressed.
#101 Jul 2, 2012
Ok you (not so smarty PANTS--no paints), if you live in SCS then you know our are pretty useless in this situation.
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Naxos of America Begins Distribution of Cutting-Edge New York Label New Amsterdam Records
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On October 27, Naxos of America began distribution of cutting-edge New York-based label New Amsterdam Records. Founded as a haven for young New York composers and performers whose music traditionally has slipped through the cracks between genres, New Amsterdam was the brainchild of composers William Brittelle, Judd Greenstein, and Sarah Kirkland Snider.
New Amsterdam Records is a non-profit model service organization run by independent musicians whose goal is to support talented colleagues by functioning as truly "pro-artist"—without the conflict of interests present in conventional record labels. To that end, the vast majority of proceeds from all music sales go directly to New Amsterdam artists in order to help them develop sustainable careers.
In its first year of existence, New Amsterdam's recordings have been featured on NPR's All Things Considered and in New York magazine, MUSO magazine, and Time Out New York. The Sunday New York Times cited their first group of releases in two separate year-end "best-of" articles. The label's first 12 albums have garnered radio airplay and glowing reviews from major media outlets around the country (including New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C.). New Amsterdam also has become a major concert presenter in New York, putting on sold-out shows at venues such as Joe's Pub, Le Poisson Rouge, and Issue Project Room, as well as a new monthly chamber music show, Archipelego, at the Galapagos Artspace in Brooklyn.
"A smart young chamber group that straddles a line between contemporary classical music and indie rock."
—WNYC's Soundcheck
"Striking a balance between the old and the new has rarely sounded this good."
Hailed as "a deft young group gaining attention" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker), NOW Ensemble is a dynamic band of performers and composers dedicated to chamber music for the 21st century. With their unique instrumentation of flute (Alex Sopp), clarinet (Sara Budde), electric guitar (Mark Dancigers), double bass (Peter Rosenfeld), and piano (Michael Mizrahi), NOW Ensemble brings a fresh sound and new perspective to the classical tradition. The music performed by the ensemble reflects the diverse backgrounds and listening experiences of its members. They play in concert halls, art museums, rock clubs, and jazz venues—for large audiences and intimate gatherings—acoustic and "plugged in." Over the course of their five years in existence, NOW Ensemble has developed a reputation for performances that are as lively and engaging as they are rigorous and technically sophisticated.
For their debut album, entitled NOW, the group chose seven works by four composers, three of whom are members of the ensemble—Patrick Burke and Judd Greenstein, along with guitarist Dancigers. In addition, the group chose to present a piece by their good friend, the ascendant Nico Muhly. The resulting disc is both a compilation of the band's core repertoire from its early years and also a highly listenable, smoothly-flowing album that "combine(s) the formal elegance of chamber music with a pop-honed concision and rhythmic vitality" (Time Out New York). NOW Ensemble has performed works by many of today's most prominent young composers, commissioning over 40 pieces, and has played on some of the country's most vital new music series, including the Bang on a Can Marathon, Wordless Music, Undiscovered Islands, Pittsburgh's Music on the Edge, Sarasota's New Music New College, and the Carlsbad Music Festival, as well as the 2008 Festival International de Chihuahua in Chihuahua, Mexico.
"Rustic folk melodies, gangly dances and pulse-oriented workouts on woodblocks and marimbas—as well as flowerpots, rocks and a wheelbarrow—interspersed with quirky narratives."
—Time Out New York
"Draw[s] on a tremendous variety of sounds and musical traditions."
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The highly esteemed, New York-based percussion quartet So Percussion has teamed up with fiddle/guitar duo Trollstilt for an album that combines the innovative and edgy sounds of contemporary music with ancient Norwegian fiddling. The artists employ multi-media percussion, guitar, Hardanger fiddle, spoken word, and electronics in a unique and compelling collection of music. The album also features the vocals and spoken word of writer, composer, performer, director, and Pulitzer Prize finalist Rinde Eckert. Five (and-a-half) Gardens contains a DVD portion featuring motion paintings (a series of paintings strung together with computer animation) set to the music from the album.
Five (and-a-half) Gardens is the brainchild of composer Dan Trueman (of Trollstilt), whom PopMatters calls "the most fascinating musician on the face of the Earth." In a similar style to So Percussion's most recent album, Amid the Noise (Cantaloupe Music, 2006), Five (and-a-half) Gardens features instruments made from materials such as flower pots, plumbing tubes, and cell phone microphones, as well as traditional percussion instruments, fiddles, and guitars. These instruments are combined with electronic samples, processed sound, and spoken word to create a multi-layered sonic effect. The juxtaposition of traditional folk and percussion music with electronic and computer-synthesized sounds results in a unique listening experience.
Dan Trueman, professor of music at Princeton, is also a co-founder and director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), an ensemble of laptop musicians with six-channel spherical speakers and various control devices. Trueman was awarded a major grant from the MacArthur Foundation for his work with the orchestra. He also is a member of interface, an electronic improvisation ensemble. Their first CD, /swank, was released in early 2001; their DVD, RECORDING FIELD, H, with guest Pauline Oliveros, was released by the Deep Listening label in 2003.
"Invigorating, innovative but immediately approachable… [with] an unguarded quirkiness and a sense of accidental poetry."
—Philadelphia Inquirer
"Dargel sings in a modest, sweet-toned, conversational way, and writes songs whose lyrics and melodies are at once wistful and wry, tender and irreverent… giving voice to the lives and relationships of his subjects."
—New York Times
Corey Dargel is a "baroquely unclassifiable" (New Yorker) composer, lyricist, and singer of "elegantly skewed" (Time Out New York) electronic art-pop songs that stir the heart and delight the mind. His gentle assault on the pop idiom creates a tension that pervades his music: deadpan and detached vocals reveal heartbreaking intimacies, awkward and obtrusive drum patterns struggle against fragile harmonies, vocals and music uneasily opposing each other as songs stumble to their ends.
Dargel's Other People's Love Songs is based on an earnest, sentimental concept: All 13 songs were commissioned by individuals as gifts to their significant others. Dargel—acting as reporter along with his regular duties as composer, lyricist, and singer—interviewed the couples and learned all about their histories, personalities, quirks, private jokes, and emotional lives. He spun this tender data into music and lyrics that encompass a universe of feeling: not only gratitude, as one would expect from songs written as gifts, but generous measures of wistfulness, longing, frustration, and pride … and, in some cases, regret, sadness, and resignation. The real-life subjects of these songs range from celebrities to the "couple next door." Newlyweds, long marrieds, gay couples, siblings, daughters, mothers, and others stepped forward to commission these songs. The album is hardly a mere compilation, however; it is a unique and deeply emotional exploration of the many angles of love and relationships. At times, the songs are almost voyeuristic in their intimacy.
Corey Dargel has performed on bills with Joanna Newsom, Final Fantasy (Owen Pallett), Grizzly Bear, Anti-Social Music, Eve Beglarian, Phil Kline, Nico Muhly, William Brittelle, Margaret Lancaster, and the American Composers Orchestra. His music-theater piece about love and voluntary amputation, Removable Parts, premiered in September 2007 at HERE Arts Center in NYC and was hailed by The New York Times as "almost perversely pleasurable … pleases on almost every level … with an intelligent grace that is as moving as it is impressive." Dargel's latest composition, Thirteen Near-Death Experiences, is a 50-minute art-pop song cycle about hypochondria, commissioned by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and performed by Dargel and ICE.
Infernal Machines is the debut studio recording by New York's acclaimed 18-piece steampunk big band, Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, a group The New York Times' Nate Chinen describes as "calibrated for maximum intrigue, with a sound that suggests Steve Reich minimalism as well as orchestral jazz in the lineage of Bob Brookmeyer (one of Mr. Argue's mentors)."
This release, which takes its name from a John Philip Sousa quote about the dangers of music technology, features new, definitive studio recordings of material Argue and the band have been developing since their first gig in 2005. "No swing-era revivalist," writes Time Out New York's Hank Shteamer, "Argue draws on the full spectrum of modern rock, jazz and classical music with his band, Secret Society. Yet his complex, emotionally-charged pieces handily transcend pastiche … the album ought to not only raise Argue's profile, but also serve as a reminder that big-band jazz needn't be a fossil."
"A nearly perfect creative synthesis between tradition and innovation."
"Big band music for folks who like Jimi Hendrix and Parliament Funkadelic. This is unlike any jazz I've heard before."
– Paste Magazine
"This is a seriously great band, with a tremendous rhythm section, a beautiful blend of brass and winds, chops and enormous reserves of power. The soloists are outstanding, particularly Ryan Keberle's tasty, funky trombone on 'Zeno' and Ingrid Jensen's searching trumpet on 'Transit.' The album comes to an intense and unresolved end, not unlike Mingus' 'Black Saint and the Sinner Lady,' which just leaves one reaching for the replay button. Because, to repeat something else, this is a seriously great record, one of the finest examples of new jazz I've heard in the past decade, one of the finest big band records ever made, one of the finest jazz records I've truly ever heard."
– The Big City
Despite the inherent obstacles facing a big band leader in 2009, composer Darcy James Argue is one of the most visible and respected musicians in New York. Part of that success comes from the broad-spectrum popularity of his blog, also called Secret Society, which covers relevant political issues as well as musical ones. Musically, as allaboutjazz.com's R.J. DeLuke recently observed, "he's garnered critical praise from just about everyone who has heard the band." Critics have called him "a young jazz master" (The New Yorker) and noted his penchant for "mixing jazz harmony, rock edge and postmodern angst into a new music creole" (Tom Greenland, AllAboutJazz-New York). "The morning after," declared Montreal Gazette reviewer Juan Rodriguez, "I was still stunned at what I'd heard—clearly some of the most ambitious and compelling sounds I've ever encountered in the past 40 years."
Argue's extensive resume also includes arranging work with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, featuring jazz/soul vocalist Lizz Wright, alt-country artist Shelby Lynne, and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. The recipient of a variety of commissions and composition awards, Argue accepted the SOCAN/CAJE Phil Nimmons Emerging Composer Award, in May 2009 at Canada's National Jazz Awards in Toronto. Learn more at http://secretsociety.typepad.com.
Erica vonKleist (flute, alto flute, soprano and alto saxophones), Rob Wilkerson (flute, clarinet, soprano and alto saxophones), Sam Sadigursky (clarinet, soprano and tenor saxophones), Mark Small (clarinet, bass clarinet and tenor saxophone), Josh Sinton (clarinet, bass clarinet and baritone saxophone), Seneca Black (lead trumpet), Ingrid Jensen (trumpet), Laurie Frink (trumpet), Nadje Noordhuis (trumpet), Tom Goehring (trumpet), Ryan Keberle (trombone), Mike Fahie (trombone), James Hirschfeld (trombone), Jennifer Wharton (bass trombone), Sebastian Noelle (acoustic and electric guitars), Mike Holober (piano and electric piano), Matt Clohesy (contrabass and electric bass), Jon Wikan (drum set, cajon, pandeiro and percussion).
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[…] I'll get to next, and as for distribution, New Amsterdam release are now available through Naxos, so DJA gets another more than deserved change next year. But really, the incredible blandness of […]


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Combat to Banking: Finding Transferable Skills
Mr. Murphy, 35, spent a year as an associate in the investment banking division of Bear Stearns until the firm collapsed in March. He holds an M.B.A. from USC's Marshall School and spent nearly 10 years in the Marine Corps, serving two deployments in Iraq, and one in Afghanistan. During his job search, he divides his time between California and New York.
My military experience always comes up during an interview, usually at the asking of the employer. But one of the challenges I face as a career switcher who spent almost a decade in the service is trying to translate my prior military work experience to potential employers. I also have to dispel any preconceived notions that the interviewer harbors regarding my strengths and weaknesses; it seems that since I've spent such a significant amount of time in uniform, some interviewers question my ability to operate in a corporate environment, as well as my willingness to take on a lower-level position again.
With the continuous supply of fresh talent hitting the streets, I can often be at a disadvantage when compared to the average associate who typically has 4 to 5 years of relevant work experience. (A large percentage of candidates have had careers in the finance, accounting or consulting areas prior to business school .) I had also started my post-M.B.A. career right as the credit markets had fallen apart, leaving me with a lack of transactional experience that other associates had accumulated during the 2004-2007 boom.
Still, I realize that my background as a Marine officer and pilot is what differentiates me; the tough part is being able to convey that to someone during a typical 30-minute interview. I almost always stress that I posses a significant amount of leadership and general management experience, which is uncommon to find in a recent M.B.A. grad.
More often than not, the potential employer asks me to explain my Marine experience in greater detail and asks about my transferable skills. My answer to this usually emphasizes my ability to handle large amounts of responsibility (I was captain of a multimillion dollar aircraft that was deployable around the world), my ability to operate in stressful environments (I bring up my combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan), and my ability to excel in a team environment (I managed a six-person aircrew–even during extremely risky nighttime or combat flights).
For the most part, the translation has been easy.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks rose on Monday, pushing U.S. market indexes to all-time highs, as investors bought some of the unloved stocks that have been slumping in recent weeks. Pinnacle Foods jumped after the company said it would be acquired by Hillshire Brands.
KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 14 points, or 0.8 percent, to 1,893 as of 1:35 p.m. The index closed at an all-time high of 1,890 on April 2. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 98 points, or 0.6 percent, to 16,682. The Dow closed at a record high on Friday of 16,583. The Nasdaq climbed 58 points, or 1.5 percent, to 4,130.
BARGAIN HUNTING: Some areas of the market that had slumped in recent weeks gained on Monday. Facebook rose $1.81, or 3.2 percent, to $59.05. The stock is still down 18 percent since March 10, after investors started dumping high-growth stocks. Twitter, another stock that has been beaten down recently, rose $1.45, or 4.5 percent, to $33.52. The social media company's stock is still down 47 percent this year.
SMALL STOCK REVIVAL: The Russell 2000 index, which is made up of small company stocks, rose 2.1 percent, its biggest gain in two months. The index slumped almost 10 percent from March 4 to May 9 as investors sold riskier stocks in favor of big, less volatile stocks that also pay rich dividends.
GOBBLED UP: Pinnacle Foods surged $4.30, or 14.1 percent, to $34.75 after the company agreed to be acquired by Hillshire Brands. Pinnacle's brands include Duncan Hines and Aunt Jemima, while Hillshire makes Jimmy Dean and Sara Lee products. Hillshire fell $2.15, or 5.8 percent, to $34.81.
EUROPEAN CONSOLDATION: Twenty-First Century Fox rose $1.10, or 3.2 percent, to $33.52 following reports that the company is seeking to consolidate its European satellite television business.
THE QUOTE: A backdrop of an improving economy and low interest rates should favor stocks in the long run, said Gerry Paul, chief investment officer of U.S. value equities at AllianceBernstein.
"We've taken a temporary pause in the confidence that was pushing the market forward," Paul said. "But the fundamentals will ultimately bear out and bring people back in."
BONDS AND COMMODITIES: U.S. government bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.65 percent from 2.63 percent late Friday. The price of oil rose 50 cents, or 0.5 percent, to $100.50 a barrel.
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Jane Savage, Director, Best Practices, joined Yale in 2007. Jane is an alumnus of the Yale School of Management and has nearly twenty years of experience consulting on a variety of organizational development and labor-management efforts. They include healthcare organizations involved in a partnership between the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes of New York and 1199 SEIU, as well as Fortune 500 apparel, chemical, and auto supply manufacturers partnering with UNITE HERE. Jane also has experience with university operations. Prior to joining Yale, she was employed by the Cornell University ILR School Extension Division where she assisted its leadership team in undertaking significant changes to their mission and services, managed the Organizational Change Group, and co-founded and directed a training program that teaches skills in managing change to human resource professionals, consultants, and managers. Jane brings to the work with the University and Locals 34 and 35 multiple perspectives as a manager, as a union member (in her early work as a structural engineer), as a Yale student and alumnus, and as a resident of New Haven for more than fifteen years.
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Shumlin notes job training, despite few joblessBy WILSON RING
The Associated Press | April 11,2013
Toby Talbot / AP Photo Gov. Peter Shumlin, center, holds a news conference Wednesday at Omega Electrical Construction Inc. in South Burlington. Omega has been working with the state to sponsor employees who get trained while working full time.SOUTH BURLINGTON A South Burlington electrical contractor that is hiring to meet burgeoning demand for its services has been meeting that demand with a state apprenticeship program that trains employees while they are working full time.
In the last 30 days, Omega Electrical Construction Inc. has hired six to eight new employees, and over the last decade about 50 of its current 130 workers have come through the four-year apprenticeship program, company officials said Wednesday, when Gov. Peter Shumlin and other top officials highlighted the program in a news conference.
With the economy growing, the firm is the busiest its been in years, said Al Senecal, who has owned the business with his wife, Cheryl, since 1990.
Its difficult to find licensed electricians right now, so were growing them ourselves, he said. Weve been hiring a lot of people.
Shumlin, speaking at the companys headquarters near the Burlington International Airport, said the state has been working hard to ensure businesses have enough workers.
I think its worth celebrating that Vermont right now has the third-lowest unemployment rate in America. That doesnt happen by coincidence, Shumlin said.
In February Vermonts unemployment rate was 4.4 percent, tied for the third-lowest in the country.
There are a number of other programs that Shumlin highlighted, including programs for military veterans, on-the-job training and internship grants for high schools.
The Vermont Department of Labor says a number of industries are hiring, including manufacturing, health care, and business and professional services. Openings are also expected in construction and related industries and businesses that cater to summer tourists.
The apprenticeship program that Omega is a part of hires untrained people. They work full time while attending classes. If all goes well, at the end of the four years the employee will graduate with an electricians license. Omega pays the tuition for the classes, which run three hours twice a week from September through March.
Before they are licensed, the employees will do work for the company that doesnt require a license. Currently, the company has about 20 employees in the training program, Al Senecal said.
Its a very important part of our livelihood, quite frankly, he said. If were not training young men and women to be the future, we just wouldnt be here. We wouldnt be able to do what were doing without them because otherwise wed be staffed with an old bunch of retirees.MORE IN Vermont NewsPHILADELPHIA After standing at the podium to second the nomination of Sen. Full StoryBARRE A Middlesex man could serve as many as five years in prison if he fails to complete drug... Full StoryPHILADELPHIA With his presidential campaign officially over, independent Sen. Full Story
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WordPress can use a great many combinations of different content to acheive a site owners desired look and feel.
Custom Post Types is one and one that's been in core for some time now.
When trying out the Digg Digg plugin, I noticed that the floating tool bar appeared 3 times on a page!
On closer inspection, they are there as the theme and page uses custom post types (blocks) for the layout.
The real issue here is I'm unable to untick anything to disable the toolbar from these as the plugin is ignorant of custom post types nor am I able to remove it from specific pieces of content.
- Can you please scan for custom post types and allow these to be allowed or disallowed for display?
- Would be great to also be able to do the same for a piece of content in the content edit screen.
- And fixing Pinterest so a user is presented with a list of page media would be fantastic. Not much point for Pinterest to be displayed otherwise, is there?
Thanks for the work on the plugin. I'm interested to see how much Buffer has on content distribution.