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Silver lining: India leads world in keeping women in power
India leads the world in putting women in positions of power and keeping them there for longer than any other nation, a recent study has revealed, underlining a stark contradiction in a country where gender bias runs deep.india Updated: Aug 09, 2015 00:50 IST
India leads the world in putting women in positions of power and keeping them there for longer than any other nation, a recent study has revealed, underlining a stark contradiction in a country where gender bias runs deep.
Women have held leading positions for 21 of the last 50 years in India, with Indira Gandhi as prime minister for about 16 years and Pratibha Patil as President for five, according to the report released on July 30 by the Pew Research Center.
(Map sourced from Pew Research Center. Original map has been edited for accuracy.)
Using data from the United Nations, the research revealed that there are currently only 18 female leaders around the world, half of whom are the first women to hold positions of power in their country.
Some 79 of 142 countries polled have never had a female leader in the five decades to 2014, it said.
The findings reinforce a peculiar trend in India, where some of the most powerful figures are women although they continue to face a slew of threats - from female foeticide and dowry killings to discrimination in access to healthcare and education and crimes such as rape, domestic violence and human trafficking.
In 2015, India ranks ninth among countries with the worst sex ratio -- 926 females per 1000 males in India which is lower than the sex ratios in Afghanistan and Pakistan, UN figures showed.
The Pew report showed that apart from India, only four other countries -- Ireland, Bangladesh, the Phillippines and Iceland -- had female leaders for more than 15 years.
Nordic countries championed female leadership with Iceland having a woman in power for 20 of the last 50 years, followed by Finland and Norway (12 and 11 years respectively). Finland also has the highest number of women -- 62.5% -- holding ministerial positions.
Female leadership has also been a common phenomenon in South and Southeast Asia -- regions often criticised for patriarchal social structures and gender inequality.
This was also in contrast to UN data which show that participation of women in parliament continues to be lower than the world average in this region.
(Chart sourced from United Nations)
The case in not very different in India which sees the participation of a little more than 12% of women in parliament and only 22.2% females holding ministerial positions.
Austria, Ecuador and Madagascar, meanwhile, have had female leaders for the shortest duration -- just two days.


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Classification essay 11/20/96
Christmas Gifts You Love (to Hate)
Christmas. The most exciting and anticipated holiday of the year. A time when
visions of sugar plums--or stereos, new cars, the latest computer, and various other
desirable and expensive gifts--dance through our heads. Unfortunately the reality of
Christmas gift-giving is often a far cry from our visions.
When we're children, it seems as the holidays approach that anything is
possible. But as we mature and gain experience with this annual observance it
eventually begins to dawn on us that it might not always be all it's cracked up to be.
By the time we've reached our late teens--when, coincidentally, the potential for
receiving truly outstanding gifts is optimized--we realize that Christmas gifts are
seldom what we hope for. In fact, from year to year it becomes possible to actually
predict the kinds of gifts you'll unwrap on Christmas morning. Let's look at a few
The Necessity Gift
The necessity gift is one that always seems like a really great idea to your
mother or grandmother, but which is invariably a big yawn to unwrap. Let's be
realistic, how excited is anybody likely to get over a dozen pairs of matching socks, a
hairbrush, winter gloves or underwear? Slipper Sox, new sheet sets and toothbrushes
also qualify. After unwrapping such a gift, a person is likely to exclaim: "Gosh, you
shouldn't have!" And mean it.
The Token Gift
The Token Gift might be received from almost anyone. Though it seems like an
intimate friend or close relative wouldn't stoop so low, experience proves that token
gifts take up where imagination and/or money leaves off. So it's possible to receive
these kinds of gifts from the most unexpected sources.
One present in this category is the ever popular "soap-on-a-rope." I've never
seen these marketed in June. But come early November the soap factories undoubtedly
pay double-double overtime to their workers in order to meet the vast holiday demand
for nameless, pungent-smelling brown soap manufactured over the top of what
appears to be a six-foot-long shoe-string. A note of caution: Soap-on-a-rope should
never be given to boys under the age of 12. They invariably turn them into near-lethal
weapons. If disappointed enough, they might even turn them on you.
Other token gifts include cheap aftershave lotion/cologne, stationery, and the
ever-popular electric shaver. Though this latter might occasionally fit into the Necessity
Gift category, I've never met anyone who actually uses an electric shaver. For this
reason, this gift might also fit into our next category.
The Closet Stuffer Gift
Closet Stuffers are exactly what they sound like: gifts that are stuffed into the
closet shortly after Christmas, never to be seen again. The reason they stay there for a
very long time--generations, even--is because most Closet Stuffers make us believe
that someday they might be fun and/or useful. But of course, they never are.
Great Closet Stuffers include pasta makers, fondue sets, tacky knick-knacks, tie
racks, and the ever-popular but usually short-lived all-around exercise machine. Some
of these gifts might have actually been on someone's "want" list. But don't kid yourself.
If you purchase such a gift, within weeks it will be doomed to a life of utter darkness.
The "I Didn't Know What to Buy You" Gift
We've all been guilty of purchasing one of these gifts as some time or another.
But that doesn't make it any more fun to unwrap them ourselves. Many of the
"IDKWBY" gifts fall into the food category. Examples include: cheese and sausage gift
sets, mixed nuts, chocolate covered cherries or pretzels, tins of tasteless Christmas
cookies, ribbon candy, five-gallon tins of assorted flavored popcorn and, last and
certainly not least, fruitcake. Now some fruitcakes wouldn't qualify for this category.
There are actually people in the world who spend months concocting 12-pound,
liquor-filled, green-red-yellow speckled wonders (you wonder what's in them) as
special gifts for their favorite relatives. This doesn't make them taste any better, but
they do make great door-stops in the off-season. No, only department or drug store
fruitcakes fall into this category.
Of course, not all "IDKWBY" gifts are culinary in nature. Calendars qualify, as do
chia pets. Enough said.
It would be possible to list several other Christmas gift categories that would
send a cold tingle up your spine. But rather than list any more of these, I'd like to give
you a few examples of really great gifts: Stereo components (good quality), gold
jewelry, an appropriate music C.D., gift certificates, and quality clothing.
But if you want to be absolutely certain your gift will be appreciated, go with
cold, hard cash. The receiver is certain to experience the true American holiday spirit.
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Dear Mimi,
Hopefully this post will be shorter than the last, so here goes nothing. Welcome to hometown week y'all!
But, before that, we have the drama with Britt. As the rest of the girls talk about what happened the night before (read: gossip and overanalyze), Britt comes in and tells all of them that she is leaving. She doesn't think that Chris is the man for her and doesn't want to introduce him to her family next week. DIDN'T I CALL THIS? Read the last post if you don't believe me! Carly does 436457389475 different voiceovers/interviews explaining how Britt always wants to be the center of attention, how she wants Chris to fight for her, how she is always so used to getting what she wants and when she finally realizes that Chris is forming relationships with other people, Britt wants to get out while she still can without looking like she was dumped. Carly goes "I don't feel bad for Britt at all. It's fun to see her squirm". Homegirl even calls Britt out pretty much saying that "you say you are leaving now, but after you talk with Chris, you're going to magically stay because you always change your mind whenever Chris tells you something and you always manipulate him". Okay maybe not that last part directly, but it was inferred (confirmed in the 436457389476th interview). Well be careful Carls, because karma has a way of working things in lightning speed on the Bachelor. (Remember what happened to Kelsey and Ashley?)
Oh and through all of this, Becca has a date! Nothing much happened except they chill at Chris' apartment, which looked like my hotel room from when I stayed at Yellowstone National Park, and they watch the sunset. Becca tells Chris she has never been in love. Join the club Becca.
"Up next, it's the most dramatic rose ceremony ever" *Chris Harrison voice*. Yeah, cuz you've only been saying that for 8 weeks in a row now. There is no time to talk because Chris has made up his mind. In the middle of facing the girls and talking, right before he is going to hand out roses, Britt interrupts him and they go somewhere else to talk. RIGHT after they leave, all the girls start gossiping like little old ladies again. I'm surprised Britt and Chris didn't hear them on their way out of the room; it was that instant.
So Britt was going to tell Chris that she just doesn't see herself with him and that she wants her husband to want her and her only (a reasonable concern) and that she is going to dump him and go home and nothing he says can make her stay. But, before she can barely even get the words "I apologize" out of her mouth, Chris does a complete 180 on her. He tells her that she is not what he had pictured his wife to be in terms of behavior and conduct and that she pretty much just lashed out at him and was being selfish and how that was not okay. Damn Chris! I didn't know ya had it in you. Then he asked her about lying about Arlington and Britt asked if Carly ratted her out, but Chris says it doesn't matter and that he doesn't trust her anyways. Boom! It's bye bye for Britt, who bawls like a freaking baby outside the house where all the girls and Chris can clearly hear her (maybe that was her intent?), which surprised me because I thought she wanted to go home anyway. Then again, what Chris said to her was all Sasha Fierce.
Chris comes back to the rose ceremony and pretty much says that Britt was not who he thought she was and that he finally saw the side of her that he had been speculating about. He thanked "everyone" who told him about her, aka Carly.
But alas, in a "shocking" twist of events, Carly goes home. To be honest, I knew this was going to happen before it even did. She puts on a brave face, but breaks down in the limo saying how her family has to see her sad again, like always, and why doesn't anyone just want her. We all wonder that during breakups girlfriend, we all do. On the plus side, she is now free to become my best Galentine! Ovaries before brovaries ftw.
Now it is ze time for ze hometownz. Becca is up first and takes him to a park in Louisiana, where they also canoe in a pond full of alligators. No thanks. If one of those came out of the water, I'm not sure there would even be a chance for a second date. Mostly because I would be eaten alive if the alligators could sense fear, or I would so paralyzed with it that I would just fall into the water and get eaten. So either way, bad ending. Thankfully though, all is well, and everyone still has all their limbs when they get out of the water. Becca takes Chris home and we learn that her family is very protective of her (aren't all families?) and that Becca has never been in love or ever brought a guy home to meet her family and that she isn't a very touchy feely person. It sounds like her family is reading off of my diary. Chris says he is concerned, which I think is douchey because hello?! She's pretty much telling you that you are the first one she's ever had any real feelings for and that you are special. Then the tube light in Chris' head finally goes off and he feels excited about how cool it would be that he would be Becca's first and last love. I swear, if it takes my husband that long to realize that about me, then I don't need no man.
Whitney's turn is next and it's in hey! Chicago! My hometown! But Chris has already been there a billion times, so Whitney takes him to her clinic to show him what she does (she's a fertility nurse) and jokingly asks him to do some things that I don't ever want you to know about Mimi. So moving on. She takes him home and pretty much tells her older sister that Chris will be asking for her blessing to marry Whitney and that she has to give her approval no matter what. Obviously, her sister doesn't think it's fair for Whitney to even ask for her approval and put that much pressure on her if she's going to tell her what to do anyway. What's the point? Mimi, I'm telling you right now. If I don't like a guy and he doesn't pass all my tests, there is no way I am going to lie and give my approval no matter how much you tell me you love him. ESPECIALLY if he is still with 3 other girls. Hell to the no. Sorry kiddo, that is just the way older sisters roll. You'll thank me someday. And for that, here's an advanced 'you're welcome'.
Chris talks to Whitney's sister and she tells him exactly what she should've and what she said she was gonna and asked Chris to call and ask for her blessing when Whitney is the only one left.
Next up, we have Kaitlyn, whose family is rich enough to live in Canada, but also have a winter home in Phoenix, Arizona. Dual citizenship eh? They record some rap lines together about their journey and what they've done and Chris just cannot rap to save his life. It was almost hurtful to watch. But they have a good time so that's good. They go to meet Kaitlyn's family and while she talks to her mom she totally says the word "about" like a freaking Canadian. Abaooot. It was funny to see. I think I relate most to Kaitlyn because just like her, I have a really big wall up. I don't let other people see me get vulnerable and I have an extremely, thick and tough outer shell. It's very hard for me to open up and be real about my self and my feelings. So going through what Kaitlyn is feeling, I can relate…well somewhat. I highly doubt I will EVER be in this situation in my life. If I go insane and decide to go on a show like this Mimi, I totally give you permission to knock me out and send me to Arlington, Iowa, err I mean, the middle of nowhere. Is there really a difference?
Kaitlyn shows Chris a billboard at the end of their date that says "Kaitlyn ❤ Chris". I mean how much did that cost you? Was it worth it? Do dance instructors in Canada really make that much? I guess it was a cute gesture, but now it's up there for a while and all the people on the highway are most definitely going to think it was for some kind of 'progressive' proposal. In other news, Kaitlyn has by far, the best, most quotable one-liners. I wish she would start doing stand up comedy.
Then it's Jade's turn. Nothing really happens here either. Her family says she has a really wild side and is really nervous to tell Chris about what she did in the past. Let's just say that she did some questionable things that she probably should not have done. Ever. And now it's out there for everyone to see. Well, she tells Chris and you could totally see him scratching his head. He is just extremely baffled and I think a little disappointed. It just gets more awkward from there, but I'll spare you all the details, mainly because I am too weirded out and you are my little sister. Stay innocent sweetie.
"Up next, it's the most dramatic rose ceremony ever!" 4 girls left, but only 3 roses to give. Do the math and that's correct! One girl has got to go. Sayonara sister. I'll be honest I thought it would Kaitlyn since they show her kind of fidgeting around and looking all nervous. He calls out Whitney. Okay that was obvious. Then……it's Kaitlyn! So now it's between Jade and Becca. Dun, dun, dun! He picks…pause for dramatic effect so that Chris Harrison can hang on to a shred of truth….Becca. He walks Jade out. And as much as he says that it wasn't about the things she did, I really think it was. I mean, Jade was the one that was chosen by his sisters and was the only one that got to go see his home in Arlington and meet his parents so far. That is huge and that means he really really liked her. Even after she leaves, Chris starts to cry. You can see how he really wanted her to be the one, but he knew that if he picked her with the things that she's done, he would have to explain to his family why and he would have no excuse for that. So instead, he gives her the excuse that "things weren't moving quickly enough". Yeah okay Chris, you just met her family and she's already met yours. How much quicker did you want things to go? Let's all be honest with ourselves here. Furreal.
And finally I get a break from the Bachelor this week. Two nights is more than the one night, which is already one night too many to dedicate to this social experiment.
Next week, we finally spend some money to get out of America the beautiful and go to Baaaaali. It seems like most of the trouble is over. Or is it? Let's ask Chris Harrison shall we?
Enjoy 😉


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The UCA Biennial Deacon Intensive, hosted at UTC enjoyed an impressive attendance and wonderful learning experience.
The Biennial Deacon Gathering is a national meeting that gives Uniting Church Deacons the chance to participate in continuing education with an intentional diaconal focus.
The Diaconate Intensive is an undergraduate intensive that candidates are required to undertake. This year, the intensive was opened up to all who attended the conference.
United Theological College hosted the 2019 conference from Monday 11 February to Friday 15 February.
Rev. Dr Rhonda White was part of the event team (led by Rev Karen Mitchell Lambert), which was linked to the prior week's Pastoral Strengths Conference.
Rev. Dr White told Insights that the event had been well-received. "The variety of presenters reflected the diversity of the Diaconate and the challenges that Deacons encounter in their different ministry settings," she said.
"I think credit has to be given to Rev Karen Mitchell Lambert who put the program together and corralled the different presenters for each session."
"She also organised the catering to keep the costs as low as possible as some of the Deacon candidates are not in placements yet."
Sally Yabsley-Bell is one of the Deacons who attended.
"The amount of wisdom that was shared between the group, about job opportunities and experiences was particularly valuable as diaconal placements are often very isolating," Mrs Yabsley-Bell said.
Deacons had the chance to visit some of Sydney's outreaches, including Wayside at Bondi and Kings Cross and Uniting's safe injecting room. Thursday afternoon featured an exposure visit to Bidwill Uniting Church and the Community Garden and Café in Lalor Park.
"We were blessed to hear from Karen Paull and about her role of Community Chaplain at Lane Cove, and gain insight from her experience," Mrs Yabsley-Bell said.
According to Mrs Yabsley-Bell, one of the main takeaways from the conference was "seeing how many deacon candidates are beginning to come through."
"There was a feeling that the reason more deacons are being called might be the church is either better understand the role of the diaconate or that people are recognising the need for the church to look beyond the traditional gathered community."
"The deacons shared many fresh expressions of how they live out there call to ministry and it was inspiring to me, to hear all the ways God is calling us to minister."
Jonathan Foye is Insights' Editor
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Two weeks of being sick with a flu/bronchial thing, one week of a mild steroid, and no gym means that despite hardly eating anything during this period I have completely erased all the gains of the winter's gym regimen. I clocked in at 180 pounds this morning, and had to dig out my size 37 chinos. Never, ever get rid of your fat pants after losing a bunch of weight.
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Two more days of the steroid and then it's back to the gym. Salad for everybody!
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A Community Based Problem Needs a Community Based Response
Child abuse is a community-based problem and the success of prevention efforts demands a community-based response. Regional Child Abuse Prevention Councils are primarily voluntary groups who organize public engagement campaigns to heighten public awareness of child abuse and neglect, and most of all, what the community can do to assist in prevention.
The Councils highlight local programs and policies that promote the general welfare of children and families; working to prevent the first occurrence of child abuse and neglect. They are located in 16 different areas of the state of Arizona. Please consider joining or otherwise supporting your local council!
For more information, please contact the Statewide Prevention Administrator, Sue Smith, [email protected], (602) 255-2548.
To learn more about the prevention program and campaigns click on to the links below:
- Child Abuse Prevention Proclamation 2018 (280 KB PDF)
- Program Description
- Regional Child Abuse Prevention Councils Contact List
Contact List and RCAP Map
The Regional Child Abuse Prevention Councils are located throughout the state of Arizona. The Councils meet on a regular basis for public events, educational meetings and presentations. Community members are encouraged to join a Child Abuse Prevention Council in their area.
- April Child Abuse Prevention Activity Reports
During the month of April, the Councils are involved in many activities to support Child Abuse Prevention Month. Learn more about different prevention campaigns and see how you can get involved at work, at home and in your community. It is a way to think global and act local. Please note that most councils have activities year round. Contact your local council for current activities.
- Child Abuse Prevention Fund
The Child Abuse Prevention Fund was established by the legislature in 1982. The purpose of the Fund is to promote child abuse prevention and to provide financial assistance to community agencies for the prevention of child abuse. The Fund receives its revenue from the following sources:
If you would like to make a tax deductible donation to the Child Abuse Prevention Fund, please contact the Statewide Prevention Administrator or Coordinator, Sue Smith, [email protected], (602) 255-2548.
- The income tax check-off on Arizona tax forms
- A percentage of the surcharges for marriage licenses, dissolutions, death certificates and notary services
- Private donations
Protective Factors Video
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Consortium
The Arizona Department of Child Safety is a founding member of the ACE Consortium which is a group of Arizona professionals devoted to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. The ACE Consortium has developed a statewide media campaign called "Strong Communities Raise Strong Kids." The goal of the campaign is to help make people aware that "ACEs can last a lifetime, but they don't have to!"
For more information about the ACE Consortium and the ACE study, please visit:
Arizona Adverse Childhood Experiences website
CSO-1249A - Adverse Childhood Experiences Brochure
CSO-1249A-S - Adverse Childhood Experiences Brochure (Spanish)
- "Who Do You Trust With Your Child?"
The Arizona Department of Child Safety, as a leader of the Arizona Coordinated Prevention Campaign, is pleased to announce the "Who Do You Trust With Your Child?" child abuse prevention and awareness campaign to help parents choose a safe caregiver and prevent child maltreatment. Prevention is the key to keeping Arizona children secure.
For more information about the "Who Do You Trust With Your Child?" campaign, please visit: https://www.childhelp.org/
- WDYT Brochure English (290 KB PDF)
- WDYT Brochure Spanish (329 KB PDF)


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For 13 years, September was crazy time for me. The seasonal deluge that was the fall TV roll-out required me to churn out copy by the ream and opinions by the bushel. "The Wire" was brilliant, "The Practice" was blah, "The Bachelor" was so stupid it would make you want to turn your TV set into a terrarium.
From 1995 until I took a buyout in 2008, I was the TV critic for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Three days a week, a little mugshot of me ran with my column. Even eight years later, this little piece of my past can make people I meet for the first time tilt their heads at a 45-degree angle, sort of the way your dog does when you ask her where you put your car keys.
"Have I met you before? Your name" – or "Your face," or "Something about you" – "rings a bell."
I still get slightly flustered when people say this; confirming their suspicion sometimes feels more like a confession than a mere statement of fact. Honestly, I don't know whether it's because I'm one of those lucky people who eventually got my dream job, or because I feel like a bit of a has-been.
You have to have been a lot more famous than I was to qualify as a has-been. But in a strictly local way, I was something of a brand name, and now I'm not. I toil in the pleasant anonymity of editing jobs for some publications you've heard of and some you haven't. Having your name appear in small print in a magazine you read at the dentist's office does not make you Queen Elizabeth II, or even Pippa Middleton.
Once in awhile I miss my old job, but mostly I don't. One of the things I loved about it was that, with DVDs arriving from the networks well in advance of a show's airdate, I usually had days or even weeks to watch a show and write about it. Toward the end of my tenure, though, live blogging was born, and more and more I was having to form opinions between commercials. If that sounds like fun to you, your mental metabolism is faster than mine.
I'm now blissfully free of the need to watch "The Real Housewives of Wherever" and other shows I loathe. Like restaurant critic Jeffrey Steingarten, who once apologized for not being able to stand Greek food, I believe a critic should be an omnivore. Sadly, I was no more capable of appreciating shows about vampires, zombies or dragons than Steingarten was of enjoying spanakopita, but I had to try.
I was on the beat at a time when sitcoms were starting to show a new sophistication and sparkle – think "Frasier" and "Seinfeld." A few years later, cable dramas – "Six Feet Under," "Mad Men" and others – would begin to rival the best movies and novels for depth, color and addictive plotlines. Reality TV, beginning with "Survivor," started as a sideshow and wound up changing the definition of celebrity.
I sampled it all. In June and December, the sampling became gorging as the networks started sending out videos by the ton so we could watch them before the July and January press tours, two- and three-week marathons attended by some 150 TV critics from throughout North America.
The "tour" part was a misnomer, since apart from occasional set visits, we mostly just holed up in a Los Angeles hotel as everyone from Jennifer Aniston to LL Cool J paraded before us in a 14-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week round of press conferences and catered gatherings. Not for nothing did we call it the Bataan Death March with cocktail parties
Press tour was good for daily scoops, interviews to run later in the season and bits of stardust to sprinkle through your copy. And because the networks liked to show off their prestige specials along with the everyday fare, things could get pretty starry.
One afternoon Elizabeth Taylor swept onto the ballroom stage with her tiny white Maltese, Sugar, in tow, then feigned embarrassment when the dog wriggled free and ran up the aisle. Later that day, Meryl Streep talked about perfecting her Midwestern vowels to play a Kansas mom in a TV movie, "First Do No Harm." Another time a young Beyonce, then merely one-third of Destiny's Child, took the stage and emanated such an unearthly glow that she appeared to be made not of flesh and blood but of some impossible alloy of caramel and silk.
In fact, most of TV's beautiful people look even more beautiful in person. True, they were primped and perfected by stylists before we saw them, but you can't fake perfect symmetry of features or grace of torso and limb.
Every so often, it was rumored, one of these gods would descend to earth and mingle with a mortal. Early one morning the particularly pretty, vivacious Southern critic we all liked was said to have been seen leaving the room of a "60 Minutes" host. Me, I never got closer than planting a chaste kiss on the cheek of Hugh Laurie when it was my turn to present him with a critics' award for "House."
But there were other diversions. At an outdoor event to promote a PBS series on frontier life, I milked a goat. A Travel Channel party offered a smorgasbord of insect- based cuisine. (I regret only the dried cricket, which tasted like a broom straw.) When Jimmy Kimmel came to tout "The Man Show," I asked about the big-breasted women hired to bounce on trampolines – they were named, if memory serves, The Juggy Girls – and he called me an idiot.
Soon, however, the gaudy circus of press tour receded, and it was just me, my notebook and the videos, with Maxie, my golden-beagle mix, curled up beside me on the couch if she didn't have other plans. No amount of hoopla could make a dumb series into a smart one or disguise the emergence of something exciting.
In late 1998, I slid a bulky tape of a new HBO drama into the VCR and soon realized that I was leaning forward on the couch, eager to catch every nuance. This one had nuance and then some. There were four hourlong tapes, and I couldn't watch them fast enough.
So I was on board with "The Sopranos" – and "The West Wing," "Friends" and "Breaking Bad" – from the first 15 minutes, but of course I didn't always call them right. I'm on record as saying, for example, that Stephen Colbert's clever but limited right-wing-blowhard act would quickly stale after four half-hours a week.
As it turned out, Colbert outlasted me. By 2008, newspapers were quickly shrinking, and the Journal Sentinel could no longer afford a full-time TV reviewer. I had to choose between a different job at the paper and a buyout. The going-away cash was too good to turn down.
Now and then, when a show makes ripples in the water – I'm thinking of "Key & Peele," which is so hilarious and incisive about race – I miss the chance to have a conversation with readers about it. On the other hand, even if someone were to launch "The Real Housewives of Milwaukee" in the condo next door, I'd be free to ignore it.
Nobody sends me videos anymore, or volunteers to pay my cable bill, but I never miss an episode of "Modern Family" or "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." When I binge, it's on reruns of "30 Rock" or "Arrested Development."
Opinions? If you run into me, just ask me about Amy Schumer, Jimmy Fallon or whatever it was NBC thought they were doing with Maya Rudolph and Martin Short this summer. I'm always up for a chat about TV.
Don't ask me about "Game of Thrones," though. I just can't get past the dragons.


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The Closing Bell: Humana parachutes growing more golden, FoodPort seeking new ideas, NuLu biz updates, stock roundup, and more
Welcome to The Closing Bell. This is your last stop for biz scoops and big news before the weekend — a roundup of stories that can't wait till Monday.
Golden parachutes for Humana execs just got a little bit more golden
Humana released a new joint preliminary proxy filing with would-be acquirer Aetna. And nestled among its hundreds of pages was some new information about the kind of golden parachutes Humana's execs can expect if the firm is acquired by Aetna and their services are no longer required, known in industry parlance as a "change in control" agreement.
This newest set of golden parachute data comes just five months after Humana's prior annual proxy statement, which came out last March. In that document, Humana tabulated the total severance payouts that would go to its top six executives should there be a change in control. These execs were: CEO Bruce Broussard, CFO Brian Kane, senior VP Steven McCulley, COO James Murray, chief human resources officer Timothy Huval, and chief strategy officer Christopher Hunter. At that time, their total reported golden parachute compensation came to $66 million.
But this figure is no longer current. The newly released change in control figures up the ante for these execs to a total of $86.8 million, and this may be a conservative number. The biggest bump went to CEO Broussard, who saw his reported golden parachute total go from $16.9 million to $31.3 million — thanks to early vesting — though the site Seeking Alpha said his total is more like $45.6 million. The other big step-up in pay went to CFO Kane, who saw his parachute rise from $5.9 million to $12.9 million.
Meanwhile, COO Murray actually saw his parachute number tumble, from $19.9 million to $15.2 million. IL has contacted Humana spokesman Tom Noland for additional information about why these numbers changed from one proxy to another but did not immediately hear back.
Humana's execs are able to earn this compensation whether they are terminated without cause or resign for what the firm calls good reasons. These good reasons can include: an adverse change in title or responsibilities; a reduction in base salary; or the relocation of their office to more than 30 miles from where they had worked prior to the change in control. —David Serchuk
Capture Higher Ed adds high-level staff to roll-out new recruitment software
Louisville's Capture Higher Ed has added some high-level staff to help roll-out a new product aimed at enhancing student recruitment efforts. These new staffers are part of Capture's ongoing fast-track growth, as it's more than doubled its employee head count in the past year.
Capture helps its clients — colleges and universities — improve both the quality and quantity of students enrolled.
The catalyst for these newest hires is the recent launch of Capture's Behavioral Engagement (CBE) software, a proprietary product that helps schools better target students, said Kristen Seger, a marketing coordinator at Capture.
The thrust of CBE is that it actively tracks how potential students use a school's website. If the students are gravitating toward specific fields of study, like liberal arts or engineering, the software tracks this. It then uses this information to recruit the kind of students that would be the best fit for a given school. "This will change the way schools recruit," Seger said, adding the goal is for schools to use this software to recruit the students most likely to graduate and avoid those most likely to drop out because they weren't a good fit.
CBE — which went live in May — is being used by 15 of Capture's client base of 50 colleges and universities; the plan is to get the other 35 using it over the next six months. Capture's current client schools are able to use CBE free of charge, as part of their partnerships. The plan is to eventually market CBE as a separate product, or as an add-on for new clients.
As for the two high-level hires made in conjunction with CBE: Matt Cobb came on as vice president of product strategy, and Dr. Brad Weiner is a higher-education data scientist in charge of analyzing info generated by CBE.
According to Seger, the CBE and these new hires are being partly financed via $1.2 million in new funding, led by the Yearling Fund, which IL wrote about on Aug. 10.
Capture now has 54 employees, whereas a year ago it had 24. The plan is to add another 15 employees by December, Seger said. —David Serchuk
Norton Commons lands painting studio
Sip wine, paint and be merry beginning this fall at Studio G.
Studio G is just the latest studio that combines the arts of painting and not spilling your wine. Similar to other concepts of its ilk, Studio G will have a large studio room where customers can enjoy painting among strangers and a small room for private parties.
Owner Pam Gatti said in an email that Studio G also will host "paint it forward" nights in coordination with nonprofits. Those nights, 20 percent of the proceeds will go to charity.
Studio G will be located in Norton Commons at 10606 Meeting St. Gatti didn't have a specific open date set but is shooting for October. —Caitlin Bowling
West Louisville FoodPort seeking ideas for 5.5 acre space
Now that the West Louisville FoodPort has axed controversial plans for an anaerobic digester that would have transformed organic waste into methane gas, the people behind the project are looking for something to take its place.
The digester would have occupied 5.5 acres of land at the 24-acre FoodPort, located at 30th Street between Muhammad Ali Boulevard and Main Street.
With the digester eighty-sixed, Seed Capital Kentucky, the nonprofit behind the FoodPort, is seeking suggestions from Louisville residents on what type of business should take up that space at the site.
"We are definitely open to ideas," said Caroline Heine, project director for the FoodPort. It just needs to be food-related to keep with the project's theme.
Heine mentioned the possibility of attracting something like a fish farm or vertical farming business. "We would love a company like that," she told IL.
Work on the first phase of the FoodPort is expected to start in late spring. Thus far, Seed Capital has raised $3.5 million of the roughly $25 million it needs for the project and continues to fundraise. "We have a quite a bit of outstanding requests out there, so fingers crossed those come through," she said.
The nonprofit also is in talks with six entities that received new market tax credits from the federal government this year; Seed Capital expects such tax credits to cover about $7 million of the necessary funding.
Before it can possibly secure the tax credits, though, it must sign tenant agreements with the businesses that have preliminarily agreed to open operations there. Seed Capital must also line up debt, Heine said.
Seed Capital decided to dissolve its partnership with Nature's Methane, the Indiana-based company planning to build the digester, after public outcry from west Louisville residents.
"The voices were angry and hostile," Heine said, adding that Seed Capital thought the digester was an "appropriate and progressive part of the plan" and was "surprised" by residents reactions.
Seed Capital created a council of west Louisville residents earlier this year to help communicate about the project and gather feedback.
Still, after a public meeting last week where an overwhelming majority expressed disapproval of the digester, Heine said Seed Capital was forced to drop it or risk losing the entire project.
"We felt like there was a real chance we could lose the forest for the trees," she said. "We felt like that was too big a loss to incur."
Earlier this year, Nature's Methane submitted plans to the city for a second digester at 15th Street between Breckenridge and Maple. After Thursday's news, the company has recommitted to continuing with plans for the second digester and said it would work with the city and residents to figure out how everyone can work together.
"Anaerobic digesters have successfully coexisted in both rural and urban communities for many years, providing great value," Steve Estes, CEO of Star Distributed Energy, Nature Methane's parent company, said in a news release. "As cities continue to grow, and increased demands are put on resources, more and more communities will be looking to anaerobic digesters as the solution." —Caitlin Bowling
IL's local stock focus
1. Yum Brands (ticker: YUM): I know we just wrote about Yum! in a recent stock focus, but the fast-food giant continues to be a company tied in with the see-sawing Chinese economy. As such, it presents an ongoing, interesting story. Basically, the markets are a bit rattled by talk from the Chinese government that it could devalue its currency, the yuan. If this were to happen, it would make Chinese goods cheaper to export, but also make it more expensive to buy things at home, such as fast-food. And this would, naturally, hit Yum pretty hard as China remains the major international fast-growth driver for the firm. This news caused the firm's stock to take a pretty nasty dive on Wednesday, when it slid over 4 percent, though it had an equally strong Thursday.
But don't cry too many tostada-flavored tears for longtime Yum shareholders. The stock has been a strong one, both over the short and long term. In the short term, meaning the past year, it's up 20.6 percent, well past the general markets, up 7.4 percent. Over the longer term, i.e. five years, it's up 107.5 percent, again better than the markets, up 93.8 percent. As such, it's gotten pretty expensive, with a price-to-earnings ratio of 41.6. This prices Yum, even now, like a growth stock, and way more expensive than a competitor like McDonald's, which has a P/E ratio of 23. So maybe the markets are just using this chance to take a rest between courses of Yum.
2. General Electric (ticker: GE): GE just announced it's selling its GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services unit for $8.4 billion to Capital One, as it continues to try to shed non-core assets to instead focus on the parts of it that actually make real money. (And an argument can be made that this same mentality is why it's selling its GE Appliances division, or trying to — it just doesn't make enough money.) This new sale also represents an ongoing effort by GE to shed what assets it has in GE Capital. GE Capital, incidentally, was the lending division within GE that nearly nuked the entire company during the great recession thanks to its portfolio of terrible deals.
As for GE's stock, it remains a bit of a paradox. It pays a great dividend at 3.56 percent a year, but is also expensive when compared to the general markets, with a P/E ratio of 69.6. And its performance, both short and longer term, has been generally un-electrifying. —David Serchuk
Revolver closing; everything half off
Revolver, the home accessories and gift store in the heart of NuLu, is closing. On the 50 percent off signs, it reads: "We're selling the building. While I've loved my 4 year experiment in retail, it's time for Revolver to close the big red door for good."
The sale of the building is expected to close soon. Owner and photographer Tom Gnadinger — who lives in Oldham County with his family — told us he's not sure what's next for him.
This would be a great time to stock up on hip and snazzy holiday presents. At half off, some of this stuff is a steal.
According to Zillow, the building is "pending" a sale for $850,000. It has four bathrooms and three bedrooms and is 4,824 square feet. It's located at 707 E. Market St. —Melissa Chipman
In other NuLu news: When will The Taj open?
It's been more than a year since IL first reported Todd Moore, owner of Construction Consultant Services, was rehabilitating 807 E. Market St. At that time, Moore said he planned to open a bar and lounge called The Taj, but there's been no word since.
Back in July 2014, Moore said he hoped to open in the fall after already missing a self-imposed June 2014 deadline. Given IL's offices are right across the street, we've watched workers come and go, with little to show for their efforts on the exterior of the building … until now.
Workers recently installed a hanging sign and a metal awning with a fleur-de-lis (wearing a fedora). But when IL called Moore last week to check in, he told us to call back next month. He did say he has brought on a couple of unnamed private investors to the project and added he is sworn to secrecy for the time being.
Meanwhile, NuLu business owners have taken notice of the look, particularly the addition of some decorative concrete work that's topped off with a gargoyle. The consensus at the recent NuLu Business Association meeting was less than glowing. —Caitlin Bowling
Frazier Museum adds two senior positions
If you need further proof of the Frazier History Museum's ever-expanding presence, it was announced this week the downtown museum has added two new members to its senior administrative team. WHAS-TV news anchor Andy Treinen will take on the role of director of marketing, while veteran cultural arts professional Mindy Johnson will be the director of guest experience.
Treinen spent nine years as anchor and cohost of WHAS's "Good Morning Kentuckiana." His new duties will include communicating the museum's content to targeted audiences as well as marketing the brand locally and nationally.
Johnson worked more than 10 years as director of ticketing for the Kentucky Center for the Arts, and more than 10 years as the Speed Art Museum's director of visitor experience. She will oversee all aspects of the Frazier experience, including admissions, the museum store and volunteer programming.
"We are excited to bring two such talented and experienced professionals onto our team," said Frazier president & CEO Penny Peavler in a press release. "Their knowledge and insights will be invaluable as we all work together to expand the Frazier's role as the home to the heart of Kentucky, including our developing bourbon history presence."
Last spring, it was announced that the Frazier will serve as the official starting point to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail, and they're currently working on an expanded bourbon experience to go along with that partnership with the Kentucky Distillers' Association. —Sara Havens


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UC Irvine will close its orthopedic residency program at Mission Hospital on April 12 due to its loss of more than one million dollars over the program's span of three and a half years.
'The consensus decision was that the business arrangement should be terminated because it was not successful,' chairman of the UCI orthopedics department Dr. Ranjan Gupta said in an L.A. Times article dated March 29.
UCI will terminate its contract with Mission Orthopedic Medical Associates, a private medical practice, five months earlier than its scheduled end date. According to physicians in the orthopedics department, the school originally pursued the contract with the private practice and its well-known surgeon, Dr. Bernard Reimer, as a means to expand the school's progression into and profits from southern Orange County's medical market.
'The decision on the value of the residency program is being made based on a poor business decision on the administrative side,' said CEO of Mission Hospital Peter Bastone in an L.A. Times article dated March 29.
After UC Irvine's School of Medicine hired an auditor to review the orthopedics department's finances and determine the definite cause of its revenue loss, records indicated that Reimer and his wife, Dawn, his office manager until last year, were receiving large amounts of money up front.
Dawn Reimer blamed UCI's business practices for the school's monetary losses.
'We are their scapegoats,' Dawn Reimer said in the same L.A. Times article. 'They were losing money because they didn't know how to bill for their patients.'
The program at Mission Hospital started in 2003, when Dr. Harry Skinner served as the chairman of the orthopedics department and Dr. Thomas Cesario resided as the dean of the medical school.
Although he still remains on staff as a faculty member, the medical school forced Skinner to resign as chairman in January after he made inappropriate racial remarks to medical school employees.
Cesario served as the medical school dean for 11 years but decided to take an early retirement late last year. Doctors stealing women's eggs and embryos, missing bodies from the school's willed-body program and questionable failings in the hospital's liver, bone marrow and kidney transplant operations characterized his tenure and occurred during his time as dean.
Initially, Skinner and Cesario had agreed to pay Dawn Reimer over $100,000 for her job as office manager and recruit her as a faculty member as long as her patients were billed for her husband's services at Mission Hospital through the UCI Medical Center in Orange.
The medical school prohibits full-time faculty from overseeing their own practices. Dr. Mark Ishimaru, a colleague of Reimer's, has no affiliation with the UC Irvine Medical School and thus now owns the private practice. Reimer was required to give Ishimaru total control of the private practice once Reimer became a UC Irvine faculty member.
Records indicate that Reimer, who had been diagnosed with cancer at the time the contract went into effect and was therefore only working part-time, could receive disability insurance stipends as long as he did not earn more than $100,800 a year.
Skinner found ways to pay Reimer for extraneous tasks in order to keep Reimer's salary within the allotted boundaries so he could still collect insurance compensations. For instance, Skinner paid Reimer and Dawn $50,000 for attorney fees and an additional $10,000 a month for the initial three months of his contract. In addition to her annual $38,400 salary, Dawn received between $6,000 and $7,000 a month for 'general expenses.' In turn, Dawn received approximately $128,000 in 2005, which was more than what the school was paying her husband to treat patients, teach residents and conduct surgeries.
When one of the school's attorneys, Peter Schneider, confronted Skinner about Dawn's high salary and asked to eliminate her payments. Skinner responded by suggesting that the sum be lowered to $88,000 annually.
Although Reimer remains on the faculty, Dawn quit in July after Ishimaru, the doctor currently in charge of Mission Orthopedic, refused to approve her request to work three days a week and earn $65,000 a year. Her current replacement earns an annual salary of $45,000.
Three UCI doctors at Mission quit and approximately 1,000 Mission Orthopedic patients will be notified by the school that they will be able to continue to see their UCI doctors at alternate locations. The school will put Reimer on leave without pay in two weeks because of his disagreement to work at an alternate UCI office.
Reimer said he worked for 20 years to build Mission Orthopedics, for which orthopedic residents elected him as the top clinical faculty member in 2006.
'I made a deal with the devil by going to work at UCI,' Reimer said in the L.A. Times article. 'Now, I don't even have an office to go to.'
Med School Claims Mission Hospital Has Lost the School Millions
UC Irvine will close its orthopedic residency program at Mission Hospital on April 12 due to its loss of more than one million dollars over the program's span of three and a half years.


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THE UPND has been ferrying its cadres from across the country to public places such as the police and courts in an attempt to inflate its popularity and have in the process caused chaos and mayhem, the Patriotic Front (PF) has charged.
PF media committee member Brian Hapunda said the UPND had allegedly been hiring cadres to attend their party functions and that when its vice-president for administrations was arrested on Wednesday last week, the party had bussed hundreds of youths from as far as Kasama, Choma, Kafue and other areas.
He said the violent clashes between the police and the UPND cadres was as a result of the opposition party importing cadres which should be stopped because it caused breach on the peace of the country.
Mr Hapunda said in an interview yesterday that the PF was aware that the UPND had been ferrying cadres from different parts of the country to stage solidarity matches for some of their leaders who had come into conflict with the law.
He said most of the youths the UPND was gathering often were not aware of the assignment they were being collected for and that most of them only discovered that they were being used to stage solidarity matches upon arrival in Lusaka.
Mr Hapunda said the PF was on record of having done away with the culture of ferrying cadres from other parts of the country to attend party functions and it was therefore important that the UPND should stop the habit because it had become a cause of violence.
"It is unfortunate that each time the UPND have a function or one of their leaders is summoned by the police of is appearing in court, they have to buss their cadres from as far as Kasama, Choma, Kafue and many other places. The case in point is when the UPND vice-president Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba was summoned at Woodlands police station and the UPND had to bus youths from Kasama, Choma and Kafue and some of them did not even know why they were being loaded on buses to Lusaka. The result was the chaos and mayhem and you do measure popularity by importing cadres and the UPND is not cheating anyone but itself," Mr Hapunda said.
Mr Hapunda appealed to youths in the country to reject to be used as tools of violence by selfish politicians advising that the young generation should instead invest their energy into working hard to d\develop the country.
He said parents should also take the responsibility of counselling their children to avoid politicians who were in the habit of using youths as agents of violence.
"I urge my fellow youths to use the Youth Day celebrations to deeply reflect on the conduct of some of the politicians. The youths should be wise and expose politicians who want to use young people as tools of violence for their selfish reasons. Let the youths say no to violence and hooliganism," Mr Hapunda said.


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If you're a small company that is shipping your products for the first time, don't feel bad if less-than-truckload shipping is your only option.
You may not have enough cargo to fill a full truckload (FTL), but that's not the only reason logistics managers choose LTL shipping. Plenty of companies, large and small, rely on the flexibility of LTL shipping to help save them money and time.
Leveraging LTL shipping as a small or startup enterprise allows you to stay streamlined, securing only the amount of cargo space you need. By understanding what makes it most effective, you can use LTL to your advantage — even when your company makes it big.
LTL shipping: A quick rundown of the process
It's worth reviewing the basics of LTL shipping as a foundation for considering how you can develop best practices for success.
Cargo that exceeds 150 pounds typically moves beyond the realm of package shipping — the kind that happens with consumer carriers such as UPS and FedEx — and into LTL shipping. There is no definitive weight limit, per se, for LTL shipments. As an outer limit, one could say that shipments with weights exceeding 20,000 pounds likely will ship FTL.
Your LTL cargo is embarking on a different kind of travel than door-to-door FTL shipping, and you need to prepare properly. Actually taking the time to conceptualize the steps your shipment takes from your warehouse to its destination can help you figure out how to implement best practices.
When your LTL shipment leaves your warehouse location, it will be loaded onto a box truck, tractor trailer or other cargo container. From there, it likely will go to a local warehouse to be consolidated with other LTL shipments in the same or a different truck.
The truck will then embark on its route making multiple stops, including the final destination of your particular LTL shipment.
LTL Best Practices: Continuously optimize
Optimization means making positive adjustments at every level of your LTL shipping process, including picking at the warehouse, packaging, scheduling, tracking and follow-up.
Take the time to optimize, then track data about your LTL shipments and optimize again. This ongoing cycle improves processes over time and allows you to react more deliberately to the inevitable ebb and flow of business.
LTL shipment package optimization: Product grouping and proper materials are every LTL shipper's two mantras of package optimization.
To accomplish smart product grouping, combine items of similar freight class in the same LTL shipment. This eases the consolidation process for your LTL carrier and provides the most strategic packing approach for you.
Don't skimp on LTL shipment packaging, least of all when considering crates and pallets. LTL shipments are subject to potential damage during consolidation and by other cargo while in transit. Crating and palletizing your LTL shipment also makes it more easily stackable, a feature attractive to LTL carriers.
LTL shipment process optimization: Even small companies can garner significant optimization by using a transportation management system. These software programs allow logistics managers to track success rates and monitor data over time. Most TMS are now cloud-based, positioning them to more easily align with data from carrier and other vendor systems.
Although supply chain technology is exciting, be sure to account for the human element of your LTL shipping process, as well as its importance in optimization. You can maximize internal productivity with the right logistics manager and warehouse processes. Allow team members to contribute ideas for optimizing LTL shipping processes and combine them with data to make the smartest decisions.
LTL Best Practices: Properly classify your freight
The freight classification system is fascinating, but the truth is that you don't have to know much about the system itself in order to properly classify your freight.
Identifying the proper freight class for your LTL shipment involves analyzing its characteristics, including weight, size and overall fragility. If you need help, ask your LTL carrier for suggestions. Freight class is a critical bit of knowledge for LTL carriers, so they won't mind helping you figure it out.
Learn all about the freight classification system with our easy-to-understand guide.
Improperly classified freight can cause real problems later on, as it could mean a delay during the customs process while officials wait for corrected paperwork. These last-minute changes also will trigger an accessorial charge from the LTL carrier to correct the bill of lading.
Additionally, your misclassified freight that is stuck at customs also holds up the other LTL shipments in the truck. It delays the driver and could disrupt upcoming routes.
A company that chronically misclassifies freight could get dropped as a client by LTL carriers who consider them too unreliable. With LTL shipping capacity at a premium, small companies especially cannot risk getting alienated by carriers.
LTL Best Practices: Understand documents and accessorial charges
Any gap in knowledge about your company's LTL shipping process risks you being surprised by a negative outcome along the way. Be sure you understand the documents you're completing and the contract you sign. Read the fine print and ask questions about any charges you could incur.
Get to know bills of lading inside and out. These most basic LTL shipping documents are your opportunity to set your freight out on the right foot. Each company's may be a bit different, but if you know what the terms mean, you can be confident in completing them.
As a first-time shipper, be sure to review all the fine print in your LTL carrier contract. Pay special attention to potential accessorial fees. These are charges added by LTL carriers onto the price of your original quote for services rendered during the commission of your delivery.
Some accessorial fees are ones you can avoid, while others are inevitable. Be sure to understand every fee to which your LTL shipment might be subject.
LTL fees related to cargo characteristics
LTL shipments may be subject to accessorial fees if the freight requires special handling or is challenging to carry. This could include cargo that:
● Measures in excess of 10 feet in length
● Is crossing into Canada from the United States
● Contains hazardous chemicals or substances
● Must be protected from freezing
LTL fees for carrier services
If the LTL carrier must extend any special services in the process of picking up, transporting or delivering the shipment, they likely will charge for it. Carriers may charge service fees if you ask them to:
● Notify a party prior to delivery
● Sort an LTL shipment according to characteristics such as size, brand or flavor
● Use a special lift gate truck to pick up or deliver the LTL shipment
● Pick up or deliver an LTL shipment inside a building, instead of at a doorway or dock
LTL fees for delivery special requests
Depending on where and when your LTL shipment is being picked up and delivered, the carrier may charge additional fees. This may be relevant if your LTL shipment is being delivered or picked up outside normal business hours or from location such as:
● A grocery or food warehouse
● From a convention, trade show or exhibition
● At a residence or farm
● Places with limited access, such as a school, prison, airport or construction site
LTL fees for errors
If something goes awry during the carrying of your LTL shipment, the carrier may assess fees for adjustments they must make in the moment. These include fees for:
● Correcting a bill of lading that was incorrectly used or completed
● A variance in weight from what was claimed on the BOL, discovered later in re-weigh


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Compared to the Swiss federal referendum on September 22, Ticino cantonal vote regarding the ban of full veils in public space attracts smaller attention. However, the issue is not negligible as a country accepting a large number of foreign workers, international students and asylum seekers. It is not an easy topic to tackle due to the complexity of the problem, and the proposal on the prohibition of veils raises significant questions about the integration of migrants in the host society.
The ban of veils is not a new story and has been vividly mentioned in Europe in the last several years. In France, this topic acquired attention when the government has passed the law prohibiting the use of face-covering garments in 2010. Some said that the use of veils prevents the clear identification of a person and poses a threat to national security. Others argued that this law was just a xenophobic response from the native population.
Having observed the controversies in the neighboring country, a canton in Switzerland has put veil ban on the agenda. A leading actor of this proposal, Giorgio Ghiringhelli, argues that this proposition is aiming at the prohibition of veils especially in sport events and manifestations. He also claims that "security will be improved", despite the fact that Muslim residents in this canton represent only 1% of the total Ticino population. Several Swiss newspapers estimate that this proposal will be approved, but the percentage is not clear. If this referendum will be approved, migrants and ethnic minorities will feel the dilemma between respect to host community culture and preservation of their own customs. It might also raise strong reaction from the women who chose to wear full-covering veils, and will further enlarge the distance between the native community and migrants.
This referendum raises the question of understanding cultural identity and diversities. The wearing of burqa or niqab is one of those issues that makes many people profoundly uneasy. For some, it is a simple profession of faith; for others, it is an act of defiance and rejection of the local customs and society, or a question of female submission. The imperatives that current migration trends impose on European countries bring to light a number of issues that need to be addressed. Can one wear a full-covering veil and still be integrated in the host community? What does integration in the host community actually mean? What are the patterns and dynamics of cultural integration? How do they differ across migrants of different ethnic groups and religions? How do they differ across host societies? What are the implications and consequences for public policy?
Independently of the outcome of this referendum, it is certain that the debate will continue after the vote. Although little is mentioned in the media for the moment, this topic should not be neglected and discussions from both sides, natives and migrants, are needed.


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with hand embellishments of a plastic safety pin,a cross,a half tooth,a hollow point bullet and a razor blade.
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ESC Governing Board June meeting
Published on July 8, 2019
The Governing Board of the South Central Ohio Educational Service Center met for its regular monthly board meeting on June 27, 2019.
Among the actions taken during the meeting:
• Approved the minutes of the regular meeting held on May 9, 2019,
• Approved resolution to adopt temporary appropriations and estimated resources for FY20
• Approved resolution to adopt handbooks for 2019-20
• Approved resolution to adopt job descriptions for CAPE Guidance Counselor.
• Approved resolution to authorize an agreement with Licking County ESC for FY20 to provide consulting services.
• Approved resolution to employ substitute employees for FY19, including Brandon Pate and Marin Applegate.
• Accepted the resignations of Travis Brown (ED Teacher), Amanda Maxim (Speech Therapist), Adam Fox (School Psychologist), Cory McKnight (ED Teacher), Kimberly Johnson (HMG Home Visitor).
• Approved to amend Susan Smith, Hanna Stitt, and Vicki Shoemaker's employee contracts for 2019-20.
• Approved an unpaid leave of absence for Hanna Stitt while completing her student teaching.
• Approved to adopt salary schedules and set salaries for all personnel for 2019-20.
• Approved resolution to set salary of administrative personnel for 2019-20.
• Approved a resolution to employ personnel, including Brittyn Saunders (CAPE Guidance Counselor), Haley Stang (Speech Therapist), Lynlee Wells (Administrative Assistant), Amy Partlow (FCFC Service Coordinator), Scott Caudill (ED Teacher).
• Authorized a special Governing Board meeting on Tuesday, July 9, 2019, to consider resignation and/or employment of personnel.
• Mr. Fred Edgington, board member, publicly announced his resignation effective June 27, 2019.
The next regularly scheduled meeting of the Governors Board will be Thursday, Aug. 8, 2019, at the SCOESC Business Center in New Boston. For more information about the ESC, visit online at www.scoesc.org, or follow on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
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Daily Fantasy NASCAR Driver Preview: South Point 400
Two of the biggest pillars of driver selection in daily fantasy NASCAR are track history and current form. Knowing where drivers sit on both of those spectrums is going to make our lineups look a whole lot nicer at the end of the race.
By looking at which drivers have excelled at this week's track in the past and those who are currently racing well, we can know which drivers are in line to be good plays for the slate. That's what we're going to try to do today, dividing drivers into those two buckets with noteworthy track history or noteworthy current form.
Clearly, this isn't to say that all of these drivers will be great plays in this race. A lot of that will be dictated by where they start and the scoring history at that track. To read more about what strategies we need to deploy based on starting position, check out this week's track preview.
Later in the week, once qualifying is in the books, we'll go through the top plays for the race based on all of these factors. But which drivers should we be keying on for the time being? Let's check it out. Here are drivers we should monitor for the Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard.
Track History
Brad Keselowski (FanDuel Salary: $13,000): You can't start discussing track history at Vegas with anybody other than the Penske drivers in Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano ($). We'll get to their other teammate, Ryan Blaney, in the section on current form, but let's kick things off with the top two horses in the stable.
Keselowski is a three-time winner in Vegas, including last year's fall race to start the playoffs. His last finish worse than seventh at the track was all the way back in 2012, and he finished outside the top five just twice in that eight-race sample.
Between Keselowski and Logano, it's clear that Keselowski has the preferred current form, as well. He picked up top-five finishes in both Bristol and Darlington, and he led 66 laps the race before that in Michigan. Combined with his top-end results in Vegas, Keselowski should be viewed as one of the favorites entering the weekend.
Joey Logano ($12,500): Keselowski was merely the runner-up in 2019's first race at Las Vegas, though. It was Logano who got the checkered flag there, a continuation of a really strong history for him at the track.
Logano finished fourth in last year's fall race, one of four top-fives in his past five races here. He was seventh in the other, and Logano has had a top-nine average running position in seven straight Vegas races. He has also led 25 or more laps in six of those seven races, so you know he'll be up near the front at some point Sunday night.
It's likely not a coincidence that Logano's mini slump happened at this part in the schedule. The past seven races have included three races at big, fast tracks, a road course, a short track, and two intermediate tracks where drafting isn't a factor. There haven't been any 1.5-mile tracks in that stretch, and Logano holds the best average finish for any driver at 1.5-mile tracks using this package in 2019. In addition to the Vegas win, he was second in Charlotte and third in Chicago, so don't be surprised if Logano's "slump" goes fully out the window this week.
Aric Almirola ($8,300): Aric Almirola isn't a driver who typically pushes for wins, and that is something we want out of any driver that we roster. But his consistency is commendable in this salary tier, and it has helped him rack up some impressive recent races at this track.
Almirola has raced in Vegas three times with Stewart-Haas Racing, and all three have resulted in top-10 finishes. He was also 14th here in 2017 while still driving for the underfunded Richard Petty Motorsports. He even had an 11th-place average running position in the first race here, better than everybody with a salary lower than $10,600 except for the next guy on our list.
Almirola has been strong at other 1.5-mile tracks, as well. He followed Vegas up with a seventh-place run in Texas, and he had an eighth-place average running position in Kentucky before slipping back to 14th. His appeal is much higher if he starts 15th or lower, but Almirola's almost cheap enough to pay off based on top-10 finishing points alone.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. ($7,500): Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was one of the drivers most likely to benefit from the aero package, which increases the prevalence of the draft outside of tracks like Daytona and Talladega. Las Vegas was the track that validated that line of thought.
Back in the March race, Stenhouse ran up front all day long. He was in the top 15 for 96.3% of his laps, his second-highest mark of the entire year, and converted his eighth-place average running position into a sixth-place finish. He has held that speed since then at these tracks, as well.
The only other race in which Stenhouse spent a larger chunk of his laps in the top 15 was in Kansas, where he had a season-best sixth-place average running position. His average finish of 10.3 on similar tracks ranks fourth among drivers in this weekend's field, but Stenhouse still checks in with a value salary thanks to his middling performances elsewhere. With the Cup Series returning to a strong track type for Stenhouse, we should be sure to give him a sizable boost in our minds.
Paul Menard ($6,800): On Tuesday, Paul Menard announced that 2019 would be his final year in the Cup Series as he would retire following the season, ceding his seat to Matt DiBenedetto ($7,300). Menard's got a chance to start off the stretch run to his year on a high note.
Menard has netted a top-10 finish in 5 of 14 Las Vegas races, his highest top-10 rate at any track on the circuit. Two of those came last year as he was 9th and 10th in the two races with a 10th-place average running position in the spring race.
It isn't too hard to figure out why he has had success at this track. Those two top-10s last year were Menard's first races at Las Vegas with Wood Brothers Racing, which operates from the same shop as Penske Racing. If they run well, Menard tends to do the same, though clearly to a lesser degree. As long as Menard doesn't qualify directly at the front this week, he could be a palatable value option with the upside for a top-10.
Current Form
Kevin Harvick ($14,000): Kevin Harvick has been lighting it up recently, winning three of the past seven races after going winless the entire season before that. Wins are great regardless of the context.
But that heater came in the same stretch where the Cup Series had zero races at 1.5-mile tracks, which is what we'll have this weekend. So how should we view Harvick here?
At first glance, it'll look like Harvick has struggled to keep up at these tracks. He has just one top-five, and he has finished 13th or worse three times. But that doesn't tell the full tale.
Harvick has led 338 laps on 1.5-mile tracks using this package in 2019; nobody else has led more than 231, and Kyle Busch ($15,000) is the only other driver to even lead half of Harvick's total. Harvick has just gotten stuck in traffic late in races and been unable to make up that ground.
Harvick has led 88 or more laps in half of these six races, including the first race in Las Vegas. When a driver does that, you expect them to have far better finishes than what Harvick has had. There's risk here if Harvick's passing issues at this track type return, but there's zero doubt that Harvick will have the speed to push for a win on Sunday.
Ryan Blaney ($10,000): As mentioned earlier, Penske Racing mops up in Vegas, and Ryan Blaney has lived up to that hype since joining the team. He was fifth in both of last year's races, and he was seventh and sixth the two previous years while running with Wood Brothers Racing, the seat the aforementioned Menard currently occupies. But Blaney finished 22nd here this spring, and he has broadly struggled at 1.5-mile tracks. So can we trust him while slobbering all over his teammates?
In the six races at 1.5-mile tracks in this package, Blaney's best finish is sixth, and that's his only finish better than 13th. Given how well Logano and Keselowski have run on these tracks, that's a concern.
But there has also been some bad luck in there. Blaney got pinned a lap down early in Vegas and couldn't dig his way out of the hole. In Texas, he led 45 laps before a mechanical issue ended his day. He restarted the final stage in second place in Kansas before ill handling and contact sent him back to 32nd.
In a sample of just six races, we have to acknowledge that some drivers may have been on the wrong side of variance. That has been Blaney at times. He's coming off of holding a fourth-place average running position in Indianapolis and has had an average running position of eighth or better in three of the past four. Don't write him off just because the finishes on this track type have been underwhelming.
William Byron ($9,500): Prior to July's race in Daytona, William Byron had never had a top-five finish in the Cup Series. He finished second there, and in the eight races since, he has added two more top-fives. This speed bodes well for this weekend in Vegas.
It's true that all of Byron's top-fives this year have come on tracks dissimilar to Las Vegas (a pack-racing track and two large, fast tracks). But he has been far from a dud on the 1.5-milers this year, logging top-10s in Texas, Charlotte, and Chicago. His teammate, Alex Bowman ($9,000), won that Chicago race, so it's clear the Hendrick cars have at least some speed at this track type.
Byron comes with risk because he tends to qualify well, and his salary got boosted up to $9,500. But when a top-five finish is within your range of outcomes, you can still pay off for DFS even without coming from the back. As such, Byron's a name we should monitor in practice, and we shouldn't cross him completely off our list even if he does happen to qualify near the front.
Chris Buescher ($7,000): Entering the weekend, there are 15 drivers who have at least three top-10 finishes in the six races at similar tracks this year. All of them except for one has a salary of $8,800 or higher. That one exception is Chris Buescher all the way down at $7,000.
The surge for Buescher didn't even get going right away as he was 18th in the first Vegas race and 20th in Texas. Since then, though, he has been top-10 in Kansas, Charlotte, and Kentucky, including a sixth-place finish in the Coca-Cola 600. He has shown good speed on other tracks since then, too, as he hasn't finished worse than 18th in the past 15 races. That's unreal for someone at this salary.
What's even better is that Buescher isn't someone who qualifies well, meaning that those stout finishes are coming with some solid place-differential points. He has qualified 18th or worse in all six relevant races, and if that continues this week, he'll once again be a high-upside value option.
Bubba Wallace ($5,500): When a team with minimal funding and support cranks out a third-place finish, it needs to turn some heads. That's what Bubba Wallace did last week in Indianapolis, and he validated the run with a 14th-place average running position. What does that mean for him going forward?
The one word of caution with Wallace is that the big run occurred at a big, fast track, and that's a track type where drivers in similar equipment -- Austin Dillon ($6,500) and Daniel Hemric ($6,000) have teams that are technically aligned with Wallace's -- have excelled this year. That success hasn't been apparent at the 1.5-mile tracks.
Dillon finished 10th in Chicago, and Tyler Reddick -- in a one-off ride as Dillon's teammate -- was 9th in Kansas, but the Richard Childress Racing-equipped teams have no other top-10s at the 1.5-mile tracks in this package. Wallace's best finish at this track type is 23rd, so we do have to view the Indianapolis run with a bit of skepticism.
That is not to say that we shouldn't continue to monitor Wallace. His team got additional funding back in the spring, and only two of those races at 1.5-mile tracks have come since then. Wallace even had a 20th-place average running position in Kentucky. His best average running position through the first 23 races was 20th, but he has improved upon that twice in three races since. He's a talented driver in potentially improving equipment, and because of that, we should at least keep an eye on what kind of speeds he's able to put up in practice on Friday.