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As the organization's network grows, so does the organization's dependency on the network and the applications that use it. Network-accessible organizational data and mission-critical applications that are essential to the organization's operations depend on network availability.
To design a network that meets customers' needs, the organizational goals, organizational constraints, technical goals, and technical constraints must be identified. This section describes the process of determining which applications and network services already exist and which ones are planned, along with associated organizational and technical goals and constraints. We begin by explaining how to assess the scope of the design project. After gathering all customer requirements, the designer must identify and obtain any missing information and reassess the scope of the design project to develop a comprehensive understanding of the customer's needs.
Assessing the Scope of a Network Design Project
When assessing the scope of a network design, consider the following:
■ Whether the design is for a new network or is a modification of an existing network.
■ Whether the design is for an entire enterprise network, a subset of the network, or a single segment or module. For example, the designer must ascertain whether the design is for a set of Campus LANs, a WAN, or a remote-access network.
■ Whether the design addresses a single function or the network's entire functionality.
Examples of designs that would involve the entire network include one in which all branch office LANs are upgraded to support Fast Ethernet, and a migration from traditional Private Branch Exchange (PBX)-based telephony to an IP telephony solution. A project to reduce bottlenecks on a slow WAN is an example that would likely affect only the WAN. Adding wireless client mobility or provisioning core redundancy are designs that would likely affect only the campus.
The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model is important during the design phase. The network designer should review the project scope from the protocol layer perspective and decide whether the design is needed for only the network layer, or if other layers are also involved. For example:
■ The network layer includes the routing and addressing design.
■ The application layer includes the design of application data transport (such as transporting voice).
■ The physical and data link layers include decisions about the connection types and the technologies to be used, such as Gigabit Ethernet, Asynchronous Transfer Mode, and Frame Relay.
NOTE Appendix C, "Open System Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model," details the seven layers of the OSI reference model.
Table 2-1 exhibits sample results of assessing the scope of design for a sample enterprise, Corporation X.
Scope of Design
Entire network
The backbone at the central office needs to be redesigned. All branch offices' LANs will be upgraded to Fast Ethernet technology.
Network layer
Introduction of private IP addresses requires a new addressing plan. Certain LANs must also be segmented. Routing must be redesigned to support the new addressing plan and to provide greater reliability and redundancy.
Data link layer
The central office backbone and some branch offices require redundant equipment and redundant links are needed. The organization also requires a campus wireless radio frequency (RF) site survey to determine mobility deployment options and equipment scope.
Identifying Required Information
Determining requirements includes extracting initial requirements from the customer and then refining these with other data that has been collected from the organization.
Initial design requirements are typically extracted from the Request for Proposal (RFP) or Request for Information (RFI) documents that the customer issues. An RFP is a formal request to vendors for proposals that meet the requirements that the document identifies. An RFI is typically a less formal document an organization issues to solicit ideas and information from vendors about a specific project.
The first step in the design process should be predocumenting (sifting, processing, reordering, translating, and so forth) the design requirements and reviewing them with the customer for verification and approval, obtaining direct customer input, in either oral or written form. Figure 2-6 illustrates an iterative approach to developing the design requirements document.
Figure 2-6 Iterative Approach to Identifying Customer Requirements
Figure 2-6 Iterative Approach to Identifying Customer Requirements
Figure 2-6 illustrates the following steps:
Step 1 Extract the initial customer requirements (from the RFP or RFI).
Step 2 Query the customer for a verbal description of the initial requirements.
Step 3 Produce a draft document that describes the design requirements.
Step 4 Verify the design requirements with the customer, and obtain customer approval.
Step 5 Revise the document as necessary to eliminate errors and omissions.
Steps 2 to 5 are repeated if the customer has additional comments about the draft document.
As illustrated in Figure 2-7, the process of gathering requirements can be broken down into five steps. During these steps (which are sometimes called milestones), the designer discusses the project with the customer's staff to determine and gather the necessary data, including appropriate documentation.
Figure 2-7 Gathering Data for Design Requirements
Figure 2-7 Gathering Data for Design Requirements
Identify the planned network applications and network services.
Determine the organizational goals.
Determine the possible organizational constraints.
Determine the technical goals.
Determine the technical constraints that must be taken into account.
These steps provide the designer with data that must be carefully interpreted, analyzed, and presented to support the design proposal. Throughout these steps, the designer takes thorough notes, produces documentation, and presents the findings to the customer for further discussion.
The process is not unidirectional; the designer might return to a step and make additional inquiries about issues as they arise during the design process. The next five sections detail these steps.
The designer must determine which applications the customer is planning to use and the importance of each of these applications. Using a table helps organize and categorize the applications and services planned; the table should contain the following information:
■ Planned application types: Include e-mail, groupware (tools that aid group work), voice networking, web browsing, video on demand (VoD), databases, file sharing and transfer, computer-aided manufacturing, and so forth.
■ Applications: Specific applications that will be used, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, and so forth.
■ Level of importance: The importance of the applications—whether critical or important or not important—is noted.
■ Comments: Additional notes taken during the data-gathering process.
Table 2-2 shows an example of data gathered about the planned applications for the sample company, Corporation X.
Application Type
Level of Importance (Critical, Important, Not Important)
Microsoft Office Outlook
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace
Need to be able to share presentations and applications during remote meetings
Web browsing
Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Opera
Video on demand
Cisco Digital Media System
All data storage is based on Oracle
Customer support applications
Custom applications
NOTE The Cisco Digital Media System is an enhanced system that can be used in place of the Cisco Internet Protocol Television (IP/TV) products; Cisco has announced the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco IP/TV 3400 Series products. See http://www.cisco.com/en/ US/netsol/ns620/networking_solutions_white_paper0900aecd80537d33.shtml for more details.
NOTE Information on the Opera browser is available at http://www.opera.com/.
The planned infrastructure services table is similar to the planned application table. It lists infrastructure services that are planned for the network and additional comments about those services.
Recall that infrastructure services include security, QoS, network management, high availability, and IP multicast. Software distribution, backup, directory services, host naming, and user authentication and authorization are examples of other services and solutions that are deployed to support a typical organization's many applications. Table 2-3 shows sample data that was gathered about the infrastructure services planned for the sample company, Corporation X.
Deploy security systematically: Firewall technology to protect the internal network; virus-scanning application to check incoming traffic for viruses; intrusion detection and prevention systems to protect from and inform about possible outside intrusions. Consider the use of authentication, authorization, and accounting systems to ensure that only authenticated and authorized users have access to specific services.
Implementation of QoS to prioritize more important and more delay-sensitive traffic over less important traffic (higher priority for voice and database traffic; lower priority for HTTP traffic).
Network management
Introduction and installation of centralized network management tools (such as HP OpenView with CiscoWorks applications) for easier and more efficient network management.
High availability
Use redundant paths and terminate connections on different network devices to eliminate single points of failure.
IP multicast
Introduction of IP multicast services needed for the introduction of videoconferencing and e-learning solutions.
Company wants to migrate to IP telephony.
Need mobility for employees and guest access for clients.
Organizational Goals
Every design project should begin by determining the organizational goals that are to be achieved. The criteria for success must be determined, and the consequences of a failure understood.
Network designers are often eager to start by analyzing the technical goals before considering the organizational goals and constraints. However, detailed attention to organizational goals and constraints is important for a project's success. In discussions about organizational goals, the designer obtains knowledge about the customer's expectations of the design's positive outcomes for the organization. Both short- and long-term goals should be identified. This organization-centered approach allows the network to become a strategic asset and competitive weapon for the customer.
Preliminary research on the organization's activities, products, processes, services, market, suppliers, competitive advantages, and structure enhances the positioning of the technologies and products to be used in the network.
This is an opportunity to determine what is important to the customer. Some sample questions a designer might ask to help determine organizational goals include the following:
■ What are you trying to accomplish with this project?
■ What business challenges are you currently facing?
■ What are the consequences of not resolving these issues?
■ How would you measure or quantify success if you could fix or correct the identified problems and issues?
■ What applications are most critical to your organization?
■ What is the major objective of this project?
■ What is driving the change?
■ Do you need to support any government or safety or legal mandates?
■ What are your main concerns with the implementation of a new solution?
■ What technologies or services are needed to support your objectives?
■ What other technology projects and business initiatives will affect your group in the next two to five years?
■ What skill sets does your technical staff currently have?
■ What is your goal for return on investment?
Organizational goals differ from organization to organization. The following are some typical goals that commercial organizations might have:
■ Increase the operation's generated revenue and profitability. A new design should reduce costs in certain segments and propel growth in others. The network designer should discuss with the customer any expectations about how the new network will influence revenues and profits.
■ Shorten development cycles and enhance productivity by improving internal data availability and interdepartmental communications.
■ Improve customer support and offer additional customer services that can expedite reaction to customer needs and improve customer satisfaction.
■ Open the organization's information infrastructure to all key stakeholders (prospects, investors, customers, partners, suppliers, and employees), and build relationships and information accessibility to a new level.
NOTE Similar, though not identical, goals are common to governmental, charitable, religious, and educational organizations. Most of these entities focus on using available resources effectively to attain the organization's goals and objectives. In not-for-profit organizations, key measures are typically stated in terms of cost containment, service quality, service expansion, and resource deployment. This section emphasizes the deployment of networks in commercial organizations as an example of the type of research required for establishing the network requirements.
To illustrate the importance of considering organizational goals in a network design, consider two manufacturing enterprises that are contemplating network updates. Enterprise A's main reason for change is to improve customer satisfaction. It has received many complaints that customer information is difficult to obtain and understand, and there is a need for online ordering capability. In contrast, Enterprise B is driven by the need to reduce costs—this is a mandate from its CEO. When design decisions are made, these goals will most likely result in different outcomes. For example, Enterprise A might choose to implement an integrated product information database with e-commerce capability, whereas Enterprise B might not see the value of investing in this technology.
Following are examples of the types of data that can be gathered about some common organizational goals:
■ Increase competitiveness: List competitive organizations and their advantages and weaknesses. Note possible improvements that might increase competitiveness or effectiveness.
■ Reduce costs: Reducing operational costs can result in increased profitability (even without a revenue increase) or increased services with the same revenue. List current expenses to help determine where costs could be reduced.
■ Improve customer support: Customer support services help provide a competitive advantage. List current customer support services, with comments about possible and desired improvements.
■ Add new customer services: List current customer services, and note future and desired (requested) services.
Table 2-4 presents data gathered about the organizational goals of a sample company, Corporation X.
Organizational Goal
Gathered Data (Current Situation)
Increase competitiveness
Corporation Y Corporation Z
Better products Reduced costs
Reduce cost
Repeating tasks—entering data multiple times, time-
consuming tasks
Single data-entry point Easy-to-learn applications Simple data exchange
Improve customer support
Order tracking and technical support is done by individuals
Introduction of web-based order tracking and web-based tools for customer technical support
Add new customer services
Current services:
Telephone and fax orders, and telephone and fax confirmation
Secure web-based ordering Secure web-based confirmations
Organizational Constraints
When assessing organizational goals, it is important to analyze any organizational constraints that might affect the network design. Some sample questions the designer might ask to help determine organizational constraints include the following:
■ What in your current processes works well?
■ What in your current processes does not work well?
■ Which processes are labor-intensive?
■ What are the barriers for implementation in your organization?
■ What are your major concerns with the implementation of a new solution?
■ What financial and timing elements must be considered?
■ What projects already have budget approval?
■ Are other planned technology projects and business initiatives compatible with your current infrastructure and technology solutions?
■ What qualifications does your current staff have? Do you plan to hire more staff? If so, for what roles?
■ Do you have a budget for technical development for your staff?
■ Are there any policies in place that might affect the project?
Typical constraints include the following:
■ Budget: Reduced budgets or limited resources often force network designers to implement an affordable solution rather than the best technical solution. This usually entails some compromises in availability, manageability, performance, and scalability. The budget must include all equipment purchases, software licenses, maintenance agreements, staff training, and so forth. Budget is often the final decision point for design elements, selected equipment, and so on. The designer must know how much money is available to invest in a solid design. It also useful to know the areas in which the network can be compromised to meet budget requirements.
■ Personnel: The availability of trained personnel within the organization might be a design consideration. Organizations might not have enough trained personnel, or they might not have enough personnel. Familiarity with both the equipment and technologies speeds deployment and reduces cost, and trained technicians must be available to verify that all network elements are working. Therefore, the designer must know the number and availability of operations personnel, their expertise, and possible training requirements. Additional constraints might be imposed if the organization is outsourcing network management. The designer must consider the network's implementation and maintenance phases, which require adequately trained staff.
■ Policies: Organizations have different policies about protocols, standards, vendors, and applications; to design the network successfully, the designer must understand these policies. For example, the designer should determine customer policies related to single-vendor or multivendor platforms; an end-to-end single-vendor solution might be a benefit, because compatibility issues do not restrain the network. As another example, many organizations, such as government agencies (for example, defense departments), often have strict policies preventing implementation of proprietary protocols.
■ Schedule: The organization's executive management must discuss and approve the project schedule to avoid possible disagreements about deadlines. For example, the introduction of new network applications often drives the new network design; the implementation time frames for new applications are often tightly connected and therefore influence the available time for network design.
Table 2-5 shows organizational constraints and accompanying data that has been collected for a sample company, Corporation X.
Organizational Constraint
Gathered Data (Current Situation)
Budget can be extended by a maximum of $78,000
Two engineers with college degrees and Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certifications for network maintenance; one has Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification
Three engineers for various operating systems and applications maintenance
Plans to hire additional engineers for network maintenance; need technical development plan for staff
Prefers a single vendor and standardized protocols
Current equipment is Cisco; prefers to stay with Cisco
Plans to introduce various new applications in the next nine months
New applications that will be introduced shortly are videoconferencing, groupware, and IP telephony
Technical Goals
The technical goals of the project must also be determined before the design starts. Some sample questions the designer might ask to help determine technical goals include the following:
■ What are your technology priorities?
■ How does your technology budgeting process work?
■ What infrastructure issues exist or will exist related to your applications rollouts?
■ What skill sets does your technical staff need to acquire?
■ Does your current network have any performance issues?
■ Which portions of your network are considered mission-critical?
■ Do you anticipate significant growth in the number of network users over the next few years?
■ How is your network managed now?
The following list describes some common technical goals:
■ Improve network performance: An increase in the number of users and the introduction of new applications might degrade network performance, especially responsiveness and throughput. The first goal of network redesign is usually to increase performance—for example, by upgrading the speed of links or by partitioning the network into smaller segments.
NOTE Performance is a general term that includes responsiveness, throughput, and resource utilization. The users of networked applications and their managers are usually most sensitive to responsiveness issues; speed is of the essence. The network system's managers often look to throughput as a measure of effectiveness in meeting the organization's needs. Executives who have capital budget responsibility tend to evaluate resource utilization as a measure of economic efficiency. It is important to consider the audience when presenting performance information.
■ Improve security and reliability of mission-critical applications and data: Increased threats from both inside and outside the enterprise network require the most up-to-date security rules and technologies to avoid disruptions of network operation.
■ Decrease expected downtime and related expenses: When a network failure occurs, downtime must be minimal, and the network must respond quickly to minimize related costs.
■ Modernize outdated technologies: The emergence of new network technologies and applications demands regular updates to and replacement of outdated equipment and technologies.
■ Improve scalability of the network: Networks must be designed to provide for upgrades and future growth.
■ Simplify network management: Simplify network management functions so that they are easy to use and easily understood.
Using a table helps the designer identify technical goals. Different goals have different levels of importance, which the customer should determine. One way of expressing the level of importance is with percentages: Specific technical goals are rated in importance on a scale from 1 to 1OO, with the sum totaling 1OO; this scale provides direction for the designer when choosing equipment, protocols, features, and so forth.
Table 2-6 depicts the desired technical goals that were gathered for the sample company, Corporation X, along with their importance rating and additional comments. In this example, the designer sees that the customer places great importance on availability, scalability, and performance; this suggests that the network design should include redundant equipment, redundant paths, use of high-speed links, and so forth.
Technical Goals
Important in the central site, less important in branch offices
The critical data transactions must be secure
Should be 99.9%
Adaptability (to new technologies)
The network must be scalable
Total 1OO
Network designers might face various technical constraints during the design process. Some sample questions the designer might ask to help determine technical constraints include the following:
■ How do you determine your technology priorities?
■ Do you have a technology refresh process? If so, is that an obstacle, or does it support the proposed project?
■ What urgent technical problems require immediate resolution or mitigation?
■ Do you have a plan for technical development for your staff in specific areas?
■ Do any applications require special network features (protocols and so forth)?
Good network design addresses constraints by identifying possible trade-offs, such as the following:
■ Existing equipment: The network design process is usually progressive; legacy equipment must coexist with new equipment.
■ Bandwidth availability: Insufficient bandwidth in parts of the network where the bandwidth cannot be increased because of technical constraints must be resolved by other means.
■ Application compatibility: If the new network is not being introduced at the same time as new applications, the design must provide compatibility with old applications.
■ Lack of qualified personnel: Lack of qualified personnel suggests that the designer must consider the need for additional training; otherwise, certain features might have to be dropped. For example, if the network proposal includes the use of IP telephony but the network administrators are not proficient in IP telephony, it might be necessary to propose an alternative solution.
Using a table can facilitate the process of gathering technical constraints. The designer identifies the technical constraints and notes the current situation and the necessary changes that are required to mitigate a certain constraint.
Table 2-7 presents sample technical constraints gathered for Corporation X. Under existing equipment, the designer notes that the coaxial cabling in the LAN's physical cabling plant still exists and comments that twisted pair and fiber optics should replace it. The bandwidth availability indicates that the WAN service provider does not have any other available links; the organization should consider changing to another service provider. Application compatibility suggests that the designer should take care when choosing equipment.
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As Head of Growth Marketing Strategy and Operations, you will be the business owner accountable for the company's performance against customer growth, purchase frequency, retention, and profitability targets. Your team will provide the insights that enable us to understand not only what's happening with our customer base, but why. And using those insights, you will create broad awareness and understanding of our customer dynamics to inform customer segmentation and lifecycle marketing tactics, and drive an integrated approach to optimizing base size and profit across marketing, business, product, and engineering teams.
This role is right for you if you thrive on distilling actionable insights from customer data and packaging those insights to fundamentally change the way a company engages its customers and optimize the size, mix, and profitability of its base. You are an analytically-minded marketer with demonstrated success developing actionable customer segments and using that segmentation and insights to tailor content and commercial marketing to consumers throughout their lifecycle. This is a highly-visible position, with marketing, business, product, engineering, and executive stakeholders across the company, so your ability to lead by influence and engage with senior audiences is critical.
We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact. We're curious, fun, a little intense, and kind of obsessed with helping local businesses thrive. Does that sound like a compelling place to work?
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Lead the strategy and operations team for Groupon's North America Growth Marketing function
Establish a deep understanding of the "why's" behind our customer acquisition, purchase frequency, and retention trends, and provide executive-level reporting, actionable insights, and recommendations to accelerate progress against base size, mix, and profitability targets
Create an actionable customer segmentation, in partnership with other marketing leaders, category GMs, and product executives, that enables targeted prospecting, acquisition, frequency, and retention campaigns to be built and delivered as part of customer journeys
Work with other senior leaders across the company to identify, prioritize, and ensure the development and delivery of targeted lifecycle marketing campaigns
Lead and develop a business analyst and campaign operations team to develop and deliver your insights and to build select lifecycle marketing campaigns
Partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to define, design, and implement the features in our marketing automation, promotion, and pricing platforms that improve our ability to effectively and efficiently attract and retain customers
10+ years of experience in growth marketing, with senior leadership roles in database marketing, loyalty program, CRM, and/or lifecycle marketing teams for an ecommerce or other consumer internet brand
Extremely strong critical thinking skills, including the ability to identify the most important questions to answer, and the data required to answer them
You're willing to roll up your sleeves and dive into data
Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to explain complex concepts using simple language, and to develop crisp executive-level presentations
Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a cross-functional team, and to lead others by influence and example
Demonstrated success growing the size and profitability of a large customer base through acquisition, frequency, and retention programs
A proven ability to create actionable, needs-based customer segmentation models
Bias for action, with experience driving results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
Groupon provides a global marketplace where people can buy just about anything, anywhere, anytime. We're enabling real-time commerce across an expanding range of categories including local businesses, travel destinations, consumer products, and live or lively events. At the same time, we are providing advertising options and tools that merchants can use to grow and manage their businesses. Culturally, we believe that great people make great companies and that starting with the customer and working backward moves us forward. Community matters to us on an internal, local and global scale—it's fundamental to our company's growth and to the well-being of the world at large. We also value self-awareness, candor, lunch and WiFi. If we match with you, please apply to join us.


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I don't know about anyone else, but I need a miniDisplayPort cross-over connector to get from an "old" mac pro to a less-old LED cinema display (27″).
The relationship between the above and the rumored iPhone is that inter-connectability of "legacy" (two years old or older?) gear with new gear remains a real problem, one which is not always solved by the "after-market" outfits.
Since when did people start putting male-out cables on a device that traditionally receives INPUT? Makes sense for a laptop, where you don't want to bring that guy to the mountain, or the mountain to the guy, I forget which…. That is, makes sense to keep the cables on the big thing that you don't schlep in your backpack, to keep the laptop as Airy as a feather unless you want to tether to some bigger, less portable piece of equipment.
So my two video cards are both double DVI out — but in female form, for the male-ended cable — and one can get a DVI to mDP, but that's also male, which doesn't take to the male-out mDP from the LCD display.
So what I'd need is like the old "null modem cables," but in this case, a "null mDP cable," or "cross-over mDP M to F output (from macPro) to meet F mDP IN connector, not a straight-thru connector which one can find in several form factors.
The cross-over pin-outs are in the wickipedia article mini DisplayPort, in a paragraph beneath the pinout chart:
Pin out
Pin 1 GND Ground
Pin 2 Hot Plug Detect Hot Plug Detect
Pin 3 ML_Lane 0 (p) Lane 0 (positive)
Pin 4 CONFIG1 CONFIG1
Pin 5 ML_Lane 0 (n) Lane 0 (negative)
Pin 6 CONFIG2 CONFIG2
Pin 7 GND Ground
Pin 8 GND Ground
Pin 9 ML_Lane 1 (p) Lane 1 (positive)
Pin 10 ML_Lane 3 (p) Lane 3 (positive)
Pin 11 ML_Lane 1 (n) Lane 1 (negative)
Pin 12 ML_Lane 3 (n) Lane 3 (negative)
Pin 13 GND Ground
Pin 14 GND Ground
Pin 15 ML_Lane 2 (p) Lane 2 (positive)
Pin 16 AUX_CH (p) Auxiliary Channel (positive)
Pin 17 ML_Lane 2 (n) Lane 2 (negative)
Pin 18 AUX_CH (n) Auxiliary Channel (negative)
Pin 19 GND Ground
Pin 20 DP_PWR Power for connector
This is the pinout for the source-side connector; the sink-side connector pinout will have lanes 0–3 reversed in order, i.e. lane 3 will be on pin 3 and 5 while lane 0 will be on pin 10 and 12.
Looks like a doctored iPod Touch.
As we approach the back to school season, the iPhone rumors are in full force. This image, provided to OWC by an unnamed source, is purported to be of the upcoming, lower cost, iPhone 5S or iPhone lite.
As to whether this is the absolute real deal or not, we really cannot say – but there is one thing we can say for certain:
We have great NuGuard KX cases for the current iPhone 4/4s and 5 and you can rest assured that we'll have cases with that same mil-spec protection and slim design to whatever iPhone lineup Apple releases next.


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1996 Assessment
Fact Sheet
Northwest Indiana Cities
EPA Brownfields Initiative
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. On January 11, 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act. Under the Brownfields Law, EPA provides financial assistance to eligible applicants through four competitive grant programs: assessment grants, revolving loan fund grants, cleanup grants, and job training grants. Additionally, funding support is provided to state and tribal response programs through a separate mechanism.
Pilot Snapshot
Date of Announcement: Jul 1996
Amount: $200,000
Profile: The Pilot targets brownfields formerly used in the iron and steel industries in the Cities of Gary, Hammond and East Chicago in Northwest Indiana.
EPA Region 5 selected the Cities of Gary, East Chicago, and Hammond in Indiana (known as Northwest Indiana), in partnership with EPA's Common Sense Initiative (CSI) Iron and Steel Sector Brownfields Workgroup, for a Regional Brownfields Pilot. This Pilot complements a geographic initiative being conducted by EPA's Region 5 and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) to respond to environmental degradation in Northwest Indiana. Northwest Indiana has been home to heavy industry for the last century. Major land use changes since the 1970s have resulted in downsizing of industry and creation of numerous brownfields in prime locations. Since 1980, industrial employment declined by 35 percent and population decreased by 18 percent. A combined total of 3,875 acres of abandoned industrial properties exist in Gary, East Chicago, and Hammond. Potential environmental liability, vague cleanup guidelines, and lack of financing are thwarting their reuse while the tax base shrinks and employment and property values fall. Working with the CSI Iron and Steel Brownfields Workgroup, site assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment issues particular to the industry in the region are being addressed.
The objectives of the brownfields project are to identify and remove threats to health and safety, and restore brownfields impacted by the iron and steel industry to productive use. The project is dedicated to the restoration of the economic and environmental health of the three cities through a broad stakeholder partnership and extensive community involvement. The cities have identified three major aims: 1) identifying and removing threats to the health and safety of residents caused by environmental degradation at the brownfields; 2) restoring brownfields to productive use by appropriate cleanup; and 3) creating sustainable economic opportunities with new jobs while protecting the environment.
The Pilot has:
- Selected one brownfields site in each of the three communities as focal points of the Pilot, with input from a series of public meetings. These sites are the West Point Industrial Park in Hammond, American Steel Foundries in East Chicago, and Gary Machine in Gary; and
- Publicized Pilot activities in a variety of ways including: a radio talk-show appearance by Pilot representatives; an article in Barron's magazine; and a cable TV program on the Pilot aired in January 1997.
The Pilot is:
- Coordinating with the EPA Common Sense Initiative Iron and Steel Sector Brownfields Workgroup and integrating the "Brownfields Guiding Principles," developed by the Workgroup into the Pilots' activities;
- Conducting site assessments of candidate redevelopment properties, and developing remediation plans and objectives;
- Evaluating existing remediation legal authorities and their impact on the redevelopment of the sites; and
- Developing a professional resource manual to promote information about and investment in brownfields redevelopment in Northwest Indiana.
Leveraging Other Activities
Experience with the Northwest Indiana Cities Pilot has been a catalyst for related activities including the following.
- IDEM has contributed $200,000 to the Pilot to match EPA's funding.
- Based on the Pilot's community input process for site selection, the IDEM conducted site assessments on the American Steel and West Point Sites. IDEM has indicated that no remediation will be required.
- As a result of the Pilot's media efforts, relationships with a wide array of stakeholders were developed. Four individuals representing major redevelopment projects in the area have contacted the Pilot requesting the Pilot's participation and assistance.
For further information, including specific grant contacts, additional grant information, brownfields news and events, and publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields Web site (http://www.epa.gov/brownfields).
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Team
(312) 886-7576
EPA Region 5 Brownfields Web site (http://www.epa.gov/R5Brownfields)
Grant Recipient: Indiana Department of Environmental Management
(219) 881-6712
The information presented in this fact sheet comes from the grant proposal; EPA cannot attest to the accuracy of this information. The cooperative agreement for the grant has not yet been negotiated. Therefore, activities described in this fact sheet are subject to change.


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Twistory 3.0
Twistory is a history browser that displays lifetimes and travels of historical figures, dates, and locations of historical events. It is a tool for keeping track of when and where things happened, and their relationships to each other. It is meant to provide a way to keep track of the multitude of different peoples, dynasties, empires and developments throughout history. It answers questions like, "What else was happening in the world at that time?" and "Did A live at the same time as B, or before?" A resource of over 1600 people, events and places is included. The database has an open text format, so that more historical information can be added by any user. A complete description of the file format is included. The two main windows are the time-line window, which shows lives and events against a variable time scale, and the map window, which shows people and events in their geographic locations during an interval of time.


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Progress, a long-held tradition for the Siuslaw News, is something of a yearbook for our community. This year we are expanding our one section into a series of special issues that are designed to highlight important topics, people, places and businesses in our community.
March 23 – NON-PROFIT
Our Giving Back special section is all about charitable giving, allowing you to advertise your institution alongside features focused on fundraising, donating and volunteering.
(DEADLINE March 6)
April 27 – TRANSPORTATION
The transportation section is all about companies that provide services moving people and/or goods, or provide the infrastructure to do so.
(DEADLINE April 8)
June 26 – REAL ESTATE & FINANCE
This section will cover the many topics we all must consider when it comes to our real estate and money, including buying, selling, financing, retirement investing, and smart savings.
(DEADLINE June 10)
July 24 – TECHNOLOGY & INDUSTRY
This section will take a look at where we are headed with technology in the Siuslaw region and highlight the industries that promote our economic growth.
(DEADLINE July 8)
September 25 – LOCAL FLAVORS
This section is dedicated to helping local businesses, like yours, that represent the very best our area has to offer in food, wine and beer.
(DEADLINE September 9)
October 23 – COMMUNITY
This section will focus on businesses and organizations that are the backbone of our community.
(DEADLINE October 7)
There are advertising & advertorial opportunities. For more information, contact Siuslaw News at 541.997.3441.


text: Digital Jill Abramson, Steven Brill Back Long-Form Journalism Startup By Alan Krawitz|November 7, 2014 Share By Alan Krawitz|November 7, 2014 Share photo via celebuzz.comA new startup venture spearheaded by former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson and award-winning journalist-Court TV founder Steven Brill focusing on long-form journalism says it will advance writers around $100,000 to produce substantial, longer-than-magazine length articles, according to Poynter.Abramson, who fleshed-out plans for the as-yet unnamed venture at a Journalism and Women's Symposium last weekend in California, said the venture will feature one story per month and will be available by subscription.Although Abramson did not elaborate on potential investors, she said that she and Brill "were very close" to a possible deal with a funder. Poynter reported that Abramson said, "If you are offering the ability to deliver something that is qualitatively different, there are investors willing to jump into that space." At the symposium, Abramson reportedly told potential writers/contributors to the new venture that they should "pitch a great idea and demonstrate the ability to deliver on it."Given the nature of pitching stories, and with a potential $100,000 on the line, that advice may be a tall order for even the most battle-hardened freelancer. But, notwithstanding Abramson and Brill's intriguing new long-form journalism start-up, I took issue with some of the former editors' comments following her discussion.Poynter reported that Abramson was asked what newsroom leaders should do who inherit pay inequalities, but lack the ability to give raises. Abramson reportedly said, "You bring the guys down to give a little more to the girls." She added that, "I did that at the Times. No one's happy to get a cut, but too bad." Well, we've never been an executive editor at the NYT, but that doesn't seem to be a great way to keep the peace in the newsroom. From what I've experienced, most journalists aren't paid a fortune to begin with. And cutting a journalist's salary purely based on gender doesn't seem quite fair either. Share http://adweek.it/2kdcCn2 copy Adweek Adweek


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Watch MOTIONLESS IN WHITE's Video For 'Necessary Evil' Song (Feat. JONATHAN DAVIS)
September 27, 2017
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE's music video for the song "Necessary Evil" can be seen below. The clip was directed by Max Moore, who has previously worked with CODE ORANGE and OF MICE & MEN.
"Necessary Evil", which features a guest appearance by KORN frontman Jonathan Davis, is taken from MOTIONLESS IN WHITE's latest album, "Graveyard Shift".
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE singer Chris Motionless stated about Davis's guest appearance on the track: "That came about because a couple of months prior we had done a tour with [KORN] and BREAKING BENJAMIN throughout the U.S. And KORN [is] a band that I've loved and looked up to for a really long time in my life — I think [in] seventh grade was the first time I heard 'Follow The Leader' and 'Life Is Peachy'.
"We were working on this song and I was working on the vocals for it, and it just felt like… There was something about it that I felt like… As I was writing some of the vocals, I was writing it hearing Jonathan's voice as the person I was writing it for," he continued. "I had written different parts of the song that, of course, felt like, 'Okay, I'm gonna sing this. I'm gonna sing this.' And then it came time to other parts, and I was just hearing Jonathan on this song. And knowing how much of a great, nice… all of [the KORN guys] were really nice people on the tour and were super great to be around and nothing but pros in every sense of the word. I was, like, 'Okay, I'm just gonna risk it and throw it out there and see if he's interested,' and he came back and said he was definitely into doing it.
"Hearing it back now, it was super easy — very… Like I said, those dudes are pros," Chris said. "It's no secret as to why KORN has had the success that they've had. And when I listen back to it, I think back to being a kid in seventh grade and hearing 'Freak On A Leash' and seeing that video with the bullet flying through the screen the whole time and how crazy that was to me when I first saw it. And I think back to the moments of where, for Christmas, I wasn't working and I didn't have any money, I was in seventh grade or eight grade at that point — maybe in ninth grade — and still being a massive KORN fan, I remember begging my dad to buy me a seven-string guitar like Head and Munky played, and he ended up buying it for Christmas for me. And I got the 'Follow The Leader' tab book and just learned every song in the book. And now, all these years later, so much later in life, I can hear one of my own songs that was written by taking all that time and learning how to play guitar and wanting to play music, and I can hear one of my own songs with Jonathan Davis singing on it, it's kind of a really emotional moment for me. And when I told my dad about it, he immediately recognized that moment in our history, and it's a really special thing. So I'm really happy that Jonathan wanted to do it and I'm very grateful that he said yes."
Last fall, MOTIONLESS IN WHITE opened for KORN on their co-headlining "The Nocturnal Underground" tour with BREAKING BENJAMIN.
MOTIONLESS IN WHITE will kick off its U.S. headline "Graveyard Shift" tour tomorrow with a performance at Las Vegas, Nevada's Brooklyn Bowl. The trek will see MOTIONLESS IN WHITE traversing the U.S. through the end of October where they will wrap up the run with a very special Halloween performance at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's Electric Factory. MOTIONLESS IN WHITE will be joined by Roadrunner labelmates THE AMITY AFFLICTION, MISS MAY I and WILLIAM CONTROL.
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Information about Admit Weekend
The Hume Center for Writing and Speaking rolls out the red carpet for all admitted students, their families, and current students. Share the mic and your own poem or short (1-2 pages) story or essay with other prospective and current Stanford students, instructors, and members of the Spoken Word Collective. No need to sign up in advance. If you don't wish to read, come listen to an enjoyable hour of poetry and prose. Everyone is welcome! Delicious snacks will be served.
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The Refuge Meditation center opens its doors in Fair Park
A new meditation center, yoga studio and fine-art gallery has opened its doors in the neighborhood. Located at 4140 Commerce St., Suite 206, in Fair Park, the new addition is called The Refuge Meditation.
Among its classes, you'll find yoga programs (including vinyasa, restorative and therapeutic), meditation sessions, hypnotherapy and what it calls "modern magic," which fuses astrology and crystal healing to expand your range of emotion. (Check the schedule here to find daily class times.)
With just one review on Yelp thus far, The Refuge Meditation currently has a five-star rating.
Eisaiah E., who reviewed the new spot on July 19, wrote, "This is a place to meditate, do yoga and connect with a positive community. The studio is intimate, clean and welcoming. Brand-new yoga mats and gear. It's full of art and stone jewelry. ... There is a shower in the studio too, in case you need to go to work after class. The space has everything you need to feel comfortable."
Swing on by to take a peek for yourself: The Refuge Meditation is open from 10:30 a.m.–1 p.m. and 5–10 p.m. on Monday-Thursday, 10:30 a.m.–1 p.m. and 5–8:30 p.m. on Friday, 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m. on Saturday, and 10 a.m.–8 p.m. on Sunday.


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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
Our girls are doing big things in the fashion magazine world. Both Joan Smalls and Teyana Taylor have landed fashion spreads in upcoming glossies. Smalls appears alongside Karlie Kloss in the latest issue of W magazine wearing a variety of hot designs from Jason Wu, Ralph Lauren and Dolce & Gabbana. Their fashion spread was shot by photographer Steven Klein and in one, Smalls shows off her sculpted body in a smokin' hot leather three-piece that has us wanting the exact same look. And don't even get us started on the models' beauty game!
Taylor is doing her thing on the pages of Elle magazine. The urban-chic inspired spread has the singer posing through some fun New York City haunts in her Harlem hometown. Taylor takes us from street-smart looks to date-night options in designs by Alexander Wang, Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney and others.
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The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
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The Broward Sheriff's Office on Sunday continued to investigate the killing of Vivetha Morris, 82, whose body was discovered Saturday in her home.
Police said Morris was possibly the victim of a burglary, as some items were thought to be missing from her home in the 4600 block of Northwest 79th Avenue, where she lived alone. Investigators have no suspects and no confirmed motive.
Morris was last seen Friday by her sister, who was planning to drive Morris to a hair salon appointment Saturday, said Jim Leljedal, Broward sheriff's spokesman. The sister drove to the house about 9 a.m. Saturday and discovered the body.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Sheriff's Office at 765-4321.


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A 'True Fundamentalist'April 2, 2007
Dear Readers,
I have been labeled a 'true fundamentalist' by Simen of import Mind.Reason.
Simen mocked me and laughed at me in his post, but who cares. I am quite honored to be considered a 'true fundamentalist.' That means I am truly living the faith, and others know where I stand.
Thank you very much Simen.
-Brian Purkiss
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2724 West Church Street, Eden, New York - 716-992-9172
DUFFETT- Grace I. (nee Perram); age 99
Of Orchard Park, NY; November 26, 2018
Wife of late Paul W.
Mother of Roger (Susan), David (Carol Ann) and late Jonathan (Julie) Duffett.
Grandmother of 10, great-grandmother of 17, and 1 great great-grandson
Sister of late Henry Perram, John Perram and Mary McMenimen.
No prior visitation.
A Memorial Service will be held Saturday, December 1, at 11:00AM at Trinity Episcopal Church, 261 E. Main St. Hamburg.
Flowers gratefully declined. Memorials may be made to Trinity Episcopal Church Alter Guild.
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Olive O'Connor brought her own expertise and personal experience with patient care to VOOM 2016, with her product the MediStori. The MediStori is a paper-based personal health organiser that comes complete with daily medication diaries & individual personal health records.
This year thousands more businesses in the Ireland and the UK will follow in the footsteps of entrepreneurs like Olive in the hope of coming face to face with Sir Richard Branson and competing for a prize pot worth €1,000,000.
Contestants will see themselves pitching their business ideas in front of a panel of leading industry minds, all of which are on the hunt for the next industry-shattering business. Contestants will be split between two entry formats, Start-Up and Grow. As the names suggest Start-Up is aimed at businesses who are bursting to get that game-changing idea off the ground, while Grow will help some lucky businesses up their game to disrupt their respective industries.
To celebrate the upcoming launch of VOOM 2017, Virgin Media Business chatted to Olive about the birth of MediStori, paper versus digital and all things patient care. Olive also had some invaluable advice for this year's VOOM entrants.
Did it surprise you that there was a gap in the market for a product like this that seems quite straight forward?
With most people, when I show the MediStori to them the first thing that comes out of their mouth is: "How did this not exist already?" That was my problem, I couldn't find something like this out there when I needed it. I found lots of different booklets for this, that and the other but nothing that had everything together. A lot of the stuff was focused on the child or the older person, there was nothing that focused on your whole life from when you were a child right up until now. When I looked at all these records or organisers there was nothing that combined medication with all those records. There are pill boxes for pills but lots of people take medication that isn't in pill form like inhalers for example. There was no tool out there that could keep all your medication information together on one page. The MediStori also serves as a tool for nurses and paramedics who would need to know what medication a person could be on.
Did you find a lack of connectivity in the health service inspired the creation of your product?
One of my pet peeves was having to relay my medical history or my family's medical history over and over again, from start to finish. What's more, there's only information available about what happens at the GP or the hospital, if there's an incident that happens in the home, or a family member has unusual symptoms over a period of time, you need a place to record that too. These records should start in the house first. There's only one common denominator between all the health professionals that you might encounter and that's you, the patient.
Are you a one-woman operation?
I'm a one-woman person with a baby in my belly, so I'm more loving because I've got two hearts beating inside me. We just got an investment of €80,000 from Dragon's Den and that's going to give me a great opportunity to grow the team. It has been mainly me doing most things with the business. I also speak at international conferences around the world talking about, not just the product, but also simple changes that we can do to make health systems better. I'm qualified in the area is well, with a qualification from Stanford University and I hold two fellowships one with ISQua and one with Canterbury University. So, I'm qualified in my area but I know it's important never to complicate things. It's all about simplifying processes and talking to people and finding out what it is that they want.
Will the MediStori solution evolve into the digital realm?
We're looking to partner with a massive US company. They have a technology solution that serves 2 million patients and professionals. In the next 6 months, we hope to build the software version of the solution. There are a lot of opportunities out there. We just have to be very careful about who we partner with. People can jump on the bandwagon very quickly, but ethics is what it all comes down to for me. They have to have the right reasons for doing it…I can find out within the first 10 minutes of talking to someone whether they will or they won't fit.
Data is another issue. It's of course important to any future solution and we need connected data in the health industry, but it's very important to me that data is only used in the patient's best interest. I would draw a line there about anyone looking to share the data for other purposes.
How did you find the pitching process at VOOM?
I was always used to having PowerPoint in my presentations as an aid. So, to not have those safeguards around me was a learning curve. It was also daunting that there was a lot to say in a very short space of time. I only had a limited time to speak, but the judges also only had a limited time to ask questions so it was important that I put in as much as I could about the product into the few minutes to make sure they got the picture.
When I didn't get through, I reminded myself to learn from the bad and the good. "Where did I go wrong?" "Where could I have improved" "Where did I go right and how can I make sure I do that again?" Also, it's important to remember that sometimes it's not to do with you, the competition is just that high that they have to pick the best pitchers at the time. But it certainly didn't put me off pitching as I went on to do Dragon's Den.
What would you differently if you did VOOM again?
I talked a lot about what I had done to get where I was. I didn't talk enough about where I was going. That's what the investors really wanted to know and about— your potential…I talked a lot about the past…I didn't talk enough about the ideas for the future and the partnerships on the horizon. My learning from that is to really nail down what the vision is. I brought that experience forward to Dragon's Den.
I went into VOOM and I was contestant number 2,000 and something and I moved into the top ten in the growth category in the space of two weeks. Out of that 10, I was the number one Irish company…It was phenomenal to be seen by such a huge audience in a very short space of time and I was delighted to meet my crowdfunding target during this time as well.
What business advice would you pass on to someone who starting their own business?
When you're a start-up you have to figure out ways to do things yourself because it's cheaper. But when you get to a certain point, you also have to know when it's time to hand it over and outsource, so you can use your own skillset more effectively. A lot of people want the ownership, but they won't succeed if they're always trying to do everything. Richard Branson is my icon, he always teaches that you need to realise how important your employees are. The lesson is to make sure your staff are trained better than you are…that's my ethos too. I love Richard, he's my hero from when I was 17 doing Business in the Leaving Cert. I did a big piece on him and the stigma he faced being young and being in business. He's one of the reason's I was so excited about VOOM.
Unleash Your #VOOM
Whether you've got a business idea in your head, heart or hard-drive, it's time to unleash it. It's your chance to pitch a business idea to Richard Branson and win a share of €1.2 million in prizes to make your business #VOOM. We're accepting entries for the competition now. Find out more and enter your pitch here.


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Queensland Horse Trail Riding Survey
Supporting opportunities for horse trail riding in Queensland
Posted on 01.11.2018
To help support better infrastructure planning for the outdoor recreation community, QORF (Queensland Outdoor Recreation Federation) is undertaking a survey of horse trail riding in Queensland.
The purpose of this survey is to support opportunities for horse trail riding in Queensland by having a better understanding of the horse trail riding community demographic and geographic riding patterns.
The survey should take about 15 minutes to complete.
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Superman will return in Justice League in a big way, if what Geoff Johns is hinting at is true.
Responding to a site ranking Superman's best DCEU moments, Johns said on Twitter they'll need to revise their list:
Get ready to revise your list. https://t.co/lnOMdXYJ58
— Geoff Johns (@geoffjohns) June 9, 2017
So far while Superman has been featured in some printed promotion for the movie, such as the picture released at SDCC last year, he hasn't been seen in any footage from the movie. That's likely because they're saving his return for the second half of the movie, and if Johns is right we'll be seeing some awesome Superman stuff this November.


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New Canaan is seeing an increasing number of food trucks pulling into town parks, alongside the new athletic fields by the Waveny water towers and elsewhere, to the point where it's affecting local businesses, officials say, and creating a need for a formal policy with teeth.
Though town officials have dealt with eager food truck vendors for years—at times running them out of public parks (where they're not allowed), pointing them toward a "Peddlers" or "Itinerant Vendors" license that's outlined in the Town Code, or even inventing rules about how licensed trucks can only go to construction sites—there's no ordinance on the books that limits when and where those vendors can go, and no fine or enforcement agency to back up a formal policy in any case.
"We are getting kind of overrun with food trucks and we don't really have something specifically in place," New Canaan Director of Health Jen Eielson told members of the Town Council's Bylaws and Ordinances Committee at its meeting last week.
"It's starting to run more rampant and then they [food truck vendors] want to have more trucks, and we are trying to limit it because we are getting flack from the businesses in town that pay a lot of money in rent, so I understand their plight and it's not really fair to them."
Nearby towns that are similar to New Canaan have rules in their Charters or zoning regulations that are enforced by police or other agencies in the municipality, Eielson said.
While New Canaan for specific events, such as the Family Fourth at Waveny or the Sidewalk Sales downtown, has food trucks come in as caterers—complete with license checks and health inspections, as well as agreed-upon terms of hours and location—open questions remain about what types of trucks the town may want and what sorts of checks should be required of the businesspeople that operate them.
Councilman Steve Karl, a committee co-chair, said there's "definitely a need" for either a beefed-up "Itinerant Vendors" ordinance or new one.
"Any time we have something like this where you see it's growing, it's up to us in the town to control it," he said.
Karl added: "You look at all of the good work that Baskin Robbins does in terms of charity and volunteering and all of the stuff that goes into having a business, and they pay rent to be there, and to have somebody pull up in a truck and take some business away from someone like that, that is a pretty big deal. And I think all of New Canaan and all of the taxpayers they would side on Baskin Robbins' side."
Ultimately, the Committee called on Eielson, with help from Administrative Officer Tom Stadler, who also deals with food trucks, to propose some language that the group could bring to the full Town Council.
"Obviously you are going to have to have rules that are objective and fair," Councilman Tom Butterworth said. "The hardest part is: What are the criteria?"
Karl noted that any proposed new rules would need to be run by the town attorney.
Stadler said the questions surrounding allowances for food trucks are confusing. For example, residents often claim that no food trucks should be allowed in the "magic circle" that defines the very center of the downtown, though no reference to or specific definition of that area can be found in New Canaan's official documents.
"Would it be OK if they parked in Walgreen's parking lot?" Stadler said. "That is a private lot. What if they parked out front of Town Hall here and they moved every two hours, because that is what the parking rule says? Is that OK? There's nothing on that books that says what they can or cannot do."
Though there are hard rules in place regarding school grounds and town parks, there's no enforcement currently, Stadler said.
Chief Building Official Brian Platz, a guest at the meeting, noted that much of the food truck activity occurs after-hours or on weekends, so that by the time municipal workers return to their desks to retrieve voicemails, the offending vendor may have moved on.
Stadler said he has broached the matter with the police chief and that the local authorities could take on enforcement of an ordinance regarding food trucks. Eielson said it should include fines for violators.
The licenses required for "peddlers" or "itinerant vendors" are obtained through the Town Clerk, as the ordinances now define it, yet expanding requirements that already exist may not be the answer, Stadler said.
"My concern is that anybody can get this itinerant peddler's license," he said. "The toughest part of getting that is you have to get a letter from a resident saying, 'I am of good moral character.' That is the hardest part of it. That was the piece that was put in to keep people out of the town."


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Are you a maths genius? This new quiz might be the way to find out.
The test comes with a warning - only those with an IQ of 146 or above will be able to pass.
- Maths students dazed and confused after disastrous NCEA exam
- Difficult school maths exam may be having long term consequences for students
Playbuzz user Cody Cross created it to challenge the smartest people in the world.
The 10 questions challenge your understanding of decimals, percentages and mathematical formulae.
If you pass the quiz, the creator claims: "You think logically and symbolically, and you easily visualise numeric patterns. You reason analytically, and communicate mathematical concepts in creative and intuitive ways".
Think you're smart enough to pass? Have a go here:
And if you want a further challenge, have a go at this extremely difficult NCEA level one maths exam.
The papers were labelled a "disaster", with students saying they walked out frustrated and tearful.
Kapiti College head of maths Jake Wills told The AM Show last year some parts were "very unfair" on students.
"There were some who just came out in absolute tears because they were like 'I don't know how to do this'," he said.
"We shouldn't expect our students who are in year 11 to be doing year 12 work."


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Jordan Cull is a Business Partnerships Coordinator at the Workforce Intelligence Network for the Southeast Michigan Region working with the state initiative known as MI Bright Future. MI Bright Future is a collaboration between students, educators, and employers that aims to introduce young job seekers to the region's growing occupations by matchmaking through an easy-to-use online platform. Jordan's focus is with enrolling businesses and professionals in the system, allowing students to have a diverse population of company profiles to view and interact with. Her efforts include working directly with businesses, Intermediate School Districts in the region, and various chambers in Ingham, Eaton, and Clinton counties.
Jordan comes to WIN with five years of experience in the nonprofit organization sector. She spent time as a Territory Manager for the American Cancer Society with the goal of deepening community relationships and connecting businesses to partnership opportunities. In addition, Jordan served as an HR/Volunteer Manager in Dallas, Texas at New Friends New Life to ensure smooth organizational processes and volunteer solutions.
Jordan is a native to Michigan and attended Michigan State University where she earned her bachelor degree in Social Science with a Human Development and Family Studies specialization. Her career has led her to Australia, Indiana, and Texas. She resides in the Metro Detroit area and spends many weekends finding adventure with her husband and two dogs.


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"Who scores from third on a pop up to the second baseman, anyway? In the World Series, no less!"
Maybe when Rusty Kuntz tells the story nowadays, to those who don't know any better, the sacrifice fly has become a long drive to the warning track. And Kirk Gibson trotted home from third base, effortlessly.
I wouldn't blame Rusty if that's how it's being put forth. Nothing wrong with a good fish story now and again.
But I was there, and there are tons of folks still around who remember it from watching it on TV, and we know that Kuntz's sac fly that drove Gibson home with the go ahead run in the clinching Game 5 of the 1984 World Series was hardly a boomer.
I wonder if Rusty ever took Gibby out to dinner, or something, for making him moderately famous because of that play.
The scene: fifth inning, Game 5. The Tigers are trying to clinch the Series at home, but the San Diego Padres have come back from an early 3-0 deficit and the game is tied, 3-3. The bases are jammed with one out. Gibson is the runner on third base. Lefty Craig Lefferts has been brought in, so Sparky Anderson pinch-hits Kuntz for Johnny Grubb.
Kuntz, not a power hitter, swings mightily but manages only a soft, harmless pop up between the infield and the outfield, behind second base.
I'm in the CF bleachers, and I can see that Gibby is entertaining thoughts of trying to score, even though the ball is about to be caught by an infielder. But it's really not a bad decision, because 2B Alan Wiggins's back is partially facing the infield when he makes the catch.
Gibson takes off, building up his trademark head of steam. The crowd roars, which tips Wiggins off. But by the time he reacts and throws the ball homeward, Gibson is sliding in, safely.
It wasn't even really close.
Tigers lead, 4-3. A lead they would build on and never relinquish. And a sacrifice fly for Kuntz, who hit the ball maybe 200 feet.
But like I said, maybe that 200 feet is now 360, up to the track in left center at Tiger Stadium.
Or maybe Rusty has played it true, and told the story as it actually happened. Which, frankly, is a better story anyway. Who scores from third on a pop up to the second baseman, anyway? In the World Series, no less!
Kirk Gibson, that's who. He's one of the few who had the daring and the sense of drama to try such a cockamamie thing. But he did it, and gave Kuntz the game-winning RBI in the process. The GWRBI in the game that made the Tigers champions of '84.
Leave it to Gibson, though, to trump himself — twice. First he hits the legendary homer off Goose Gossage later in that game, to REALLY seal the deal, then he bests Dennis Eckersley four years later, as a Dodger, with that even MORE legendary homer.
But Gibby kicked things off, as a Fall Classic hero, with his feat of daring on Rusty Kuntz's pop up. Rusty owes him one, if he hasn't paid up by now.


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For the past few weeks, a juvenile robin has been singing his heart out around here. I don't recall one ever singing so much as this one so I took a couple of videos so we'd always remember him.
I took the awful photo below on March 18 through our bedroom window. At the time, I was thrilled to see a juvenile robin already. Perhaps he's our feathered Pavarotti?


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Beer Mile
SFH3 run #1679
Hare: Lost In Foreskin & Who's Your Daddy
When: October 13 2014, 06:15 PM
Cost: $6
Start: Cupid's Span, the Embarcadero
On On On: Hi Dive
There will be 2 heats:
6:20pm: The Founders Heat (invite-only)
6:30pm: The Rest'o'y'all Heat (you youngins)
Short, scenic trail to follow promptly after second heat.
Beer Check on trail, of course.
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Many of us love going to the movies. But sometimes you feel like staying in and renting something really good. Each week, we'll help you out, with a film you either should see for the first time or visit again.
During October, we'll highlight some of the best horror films ever made.
Slasher films are a dime a dozen these days, and often seem as if that's how much they cost to make. But they rake in the dough, young people - the audience studios really care about - love them and that combination ensures their longevity, if not their quality.
Another "Saw" movie? Must be that time of year. Zzzzz. Ah, but "Halloween," that was different. John Carpenter's brilliant 1978 ode to the perils of teenage life wasn't the first slasher film, but it remains the best. By today's standards the gore is limited, but the scares are indelible. It holds up incredibly well not just because not a lot has changed in the genre in the last 32 years, but also because its simplicity and execution are flawless.
Who isn't scared of the bogeyman? Especially if he's wielding a butcher knife?
A young Michael Myers, dressed as the creepiest little clown you've ever seen, kills his sister at the beginning of the film, and is shipped off to an insane asylum, where Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasence) busies himself trying to convince anyone who will listen that Myers is pure evil. Naturally, he escapes; Loomis thinks he will return to his hometown for a little slice-and-dice action.
Bingo. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, in her debut) and her teenage pals prove perfect targets for Myers' insanity. Thus begins the hallowed tradition of teenagers who are sexually active being slaughtered by psychopathic killers. Happily for Laurie, she is chaste. Perhaps it's a moral judgment, perhaps it's just good storytelling. Whatever the case, Carpenter brings some real terror to his film, which is enhanced by the incredibly creepy piano score, which he composed. He taps into many of our basic fears, and has in fact added to them. Myers' deeming indestructibility - his rising from what seems to be death - and his ultimate disappearance - are now staples of the genre.
Curtis would earn the nickname "scream queen" for this, the sequel and other horror films. Carpenter would go on to direct such films as "Escape from New York," a well-received remake of "The Thing" and "Starman" (and, alas, among many others movies like "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" and "Vampires" ), but "Halloween" remains his signature film, and one of the greatest horror films ever made.
Bill Goodykoontz of The Arizona Republic is the chief film critic for Gannett. Read his blog at goodyblog.azcentral.com. For movie stories, trailers and more go to movies.azcentral.com. Twitter: goodyk.
'Halloween' remains atop horror genre
Many of us love going to the movies. But sometimes you feel like staying in and renting something really good. Each week, we'll help you out, with a film you either should see for the first time or visit again.


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An "EMG" examination has two parts, the electromyogram study and the nerve conduction studies. Together, these procedures measure the functional integrity of nerves and the muscles they supply. Images of nerves and muscles, such as MRI, cannot show if the nerve is functioning properly or not.
The electromyographic (EMG) study measures the electrical impulses of muscles at rest and during contraction by inserting a fine needle electrode into the muscle. Nerve conduction studies determine how well individual nerves can transmit electrical signals. Nerves control the muscles in the body using electrical impulses, and these impulses make the muscles react in specific ways. Nerve and muscle disorders cause the muscles to react in abnormal ways. Measuring the electrical activity in muscles and nerves can help detect the presence, location, and extent of diseases that can damage muscle tissue or nerves. In the case of nerve injury, the actual site of nerve damage can often be located. EMG and nerve conduction studies are usually done together to provide more complete information. The muscle's electrical activity is displayed on an oscilloscope and heard through a speaker. The presence, size, and shape of the wave form produced on the oscilloscope provide information about the ability of the muscle to respond when the nerves are stimulated.
The second part of the test is a set of nerve conduction studies. Nerves transmit information by electrical impulses. Thus, to test a nerve's health, a brief, mild electrical stimulus is applied to the nerve. This electrical impulse may feel like a brief, mild electric shock. Although it may be uncomfortable during the test, there should be no discomfort following the test's completion. This stimulus produces a diagram and from which measurements can be obtained. The nerve is stimulated, usually with surface electrodes, which are patch-like electrodes (similar to those used for ECG) placed on the skin over the nerve at various locations. The resulting electrical activity is recorded by the other electrodes.


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Because I was that girl.
Because I can still remember the first time a man put his hands on me. I remember the way it felt. I remember the way it made me feel.
And I remember thinking he wouldn't do it again.
But I was wrong.
Because I was the girl who swore up and down that if a man ever hit me, he better knock me out for good because if I got up- it would be over.
Except that never happened.
I never stood up for myself.
Because instead, I blamed myself.
I blamed myself because there had to be something wrong with me.
Because maybe I wasn't trying hard enough.
Because maybe I should have just kept quiet because I knew he was in a bad mood.
Or because maybe I shouldn't have let him have so much to drink.
But then it would keep happening. And it didn't matter what I did.
Because I remember wanting to call the police, but being too scared or too embarrassed (not completely sure which one) I just couldn't.
Because every time I thought would be the last.
Because they never stop apologizing.
Because they say exactly what you want to hear.
Because you feel bad for them.
Because you can't believe you're actually here.
And so you put on a face. I thought about saying 'you put on a brave face', but looking back, it was never an act of bravery.
You wear cardigans in the summer at church cookouts because he doesn't want anyone to see where he grabbed you pushed you into a wall.
You learn to cry less.
You learn to hide.
But mostly you learn to fake a smile and just pretend.
Maybe it's to protect him. Maybe it's to protect you.
But you just smile and pretend.
Because I can remember the last time a man put his hands on me.
Because something changed.
Because I knew it would be the last time ANY man would touch me like that.
No, I didn't fight back like I once imagined I would.
No, I never sought revenge of any sort.
I didn't even raise my voice.
I just stood up for myself.
I remember looking at him in the eyes and both of us knowing, without even speaking, that he would never lay a hand on me again.
Not because he didn't want to. Not because he was 'better', but because he knew I was.
Because once I stopped listening to his voice and instead listened to His, it all changed.
I encourage you to listen to His voice.
Listen to what He's telling you.
Listen to His truth.
Because I was never any of those things he would say to me.
Instead, I was worthy. I was loved. I was His.
And so are you.