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Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update
United for a Barrier-Free Society for All People with Disabilities
www.aodaalliance.org email@example.com Twitter: @aodaalliance
AODA Alliance Writes Federal Party Leaders Seeking Election Commitments on Advancing the Cause of Accessibility for Over 6 Million People with Disabilities in Canada
July 18, 2019
A hotly-contested federal election will take place this October. The candidates are already fanning out across Canada, campaigning for our votes.
Once again, the AODA Alliance is jumping into the fray. On July 18, 2019, we wrote the leaders of the major federal parties. We asked them for election pledges concerning accessibility for over 6 million people with disabilities in Canada. We set that letter out below.
Our letter offers this short summary of what we seek:
"In summary we ask your Party to make 11 commitments to ensure that the implementation and enforcement of the Accessible Canada Act (ACA) is swift, strong and effective, including, e.g. making needed accessibility standard regulations within four years, effectively enforcing the law, establishing a single unified process for complaints under the ACA, ensuring that nothing is done under the ACA that cuts back on the rights of people with disabilities, and ensuring that public money is not used to create or perpetuate barriers against people with disabilities."
The specific pledges we seek include:
- Enforceable accessibility standard regulations should be enacted within four years.
- The ACA should be effectively enforced.
- Federal public money should never be used to create or perpetuate barriers.
- The ACA should never reduce the rights of people with disabilities.
- Section 172(3) of the ACA should be amended to remove its unfair and discriminatory ban on the Canadian Transportation Agency ever awarding monetary compensation to passengers with disabilities who are the victims of an undue barrier in federally-regulated transportation (like air travel), where a CTA regulation wrongly set the accessibility requirements too low.
- The ACA's implementation and enforcement should be consolidated in One federal agency, not splintered among several of them.
- No federal laws should ever create or permit disability barriers.
- Federal elections should be made accessible to voters with disabilities.
- Power to exempt organizations from some ACA requirements should be eliminated or reduced.
- Federally-controlled courts and tribunals should be made disability-accessible.
- Proposed Opposition amendments to the ACA that were defeated in the House of Commons in 2018 and that would strengthen the ACA should be passed.
We will let you know what responses we receive. We will be active over the next three months on social media and elsewhere, in an effort to raise these issues leading up to the federal election. In future AODA Alliance Updates, we will offer you action tips on how you can help.
As we say time and again, but must repeat here: We don't support or oppose any candidate. We try to get the strongest commitments on accessibility from as many candidates and parties as we can.
To learn about our efforts over the past four years to get a strong and effective Accessible Canada Act enacted by Canada's Parliament, visit www.aodaalliance.org/canada
Text of the July 18, 2019 Letter to the Leaders of the Major Federal Political Parties
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United for a Barrier-Free Society for All People with Disabilities
July 18, 2019
The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau
Via email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office of the Prime Minister of Canada
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
Twitter: @JustinTrudeau
The Hon. Andrew Scheer, Leader of the Loyal Opposition and the Conservative Party
Leader of the Conservative Party; MP, Regina-Qu'Appelle
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Leader of the Conservative Party
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Twitter: @AndrewScheer
The Hon. Jagmeet Singh Leader of the NDP
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300 – 279 Laurier West
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5J9
Twitter: @theJagmeetSingh
The Hon. Elizabeth May Leader of the Green Party; MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands
Via email: firstname.lastname@example.com
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A6
Twitter: @ElizabethMay
The Hon. Rhéal Fortin Interim Leader of the Bloc Québécois
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3730 boul. Crémazie Est, 4e étage
Montréal, Québec H2A 1B4
Twitter: @RhealFortin
The Hon. Maxime Bernier, Leader of the People's Party of Canada
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House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6 Canada
Twitter: @MaximeBernier
Dear Federal Party Leaders,
Re: Seeking Your Commitments to Ensure the Effective Implementation of the Accessible Canada Act (ACA)
With a federal election approaching, we seek 11 commitments from each federal political party on Canada's new national accessibility legislation, the Accessible Canada Act (Bill C-81). It is good that Parliament recently passed Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act . That is only the first step on the road to making Canada accessible to people with disabilities in Canada.
In this letter, we explain what we seek, who we are, and why over six million people with disabilities in Canada need these strong election commitments. Founded in 2005, the AODA Alliance is a non-partisan community coalition that advocates for accessibility for people with disabilities in Ontario and at the federal level. We were one of the disability organizations that appeared before the House of Commons and Senate to call for amendments to strengthen Bill C-81. During debates in Parliament over this bill, MPs and Senators relied on our submissions.
In summary we ask your Party to make 11 commitments to ensure that the implementation and enforcement of the Accessible Canada Act (ACA) is swift, strong and effective, including, e.g. making needed accessibility standard regulations within four years, effectively enforcing the law, establishing a single unified process for complaints under the ACA, ensuring that nothing is done under the ACA that cuts back on the rights of people with disabilities, and ensuring that public money is not used to create or perpetuate barriers against people with disabilities.
1. Enforceable Accessibility Standard Regulations Should Be Enacted Within Four Years
The ACA's centerpiece is the enactment and enforcement of accessibility standard regulations. These regulations will specify what an organization must do and by when, to become accessible. The ACA lets the Federal Cabinet, the Canadian Radio, Television and Telecommunication Commission (CRTC) and the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) enact these regulations. However, it does not require them ever to be enacted. If they are not enacted, the ACA will fail.
- Will you enact or amend legislation to require the Federal Government, the CTA and the CRTC to enact regulations to set accessibility standards in all the areas that the ACA covers within four years? If not, will you commit that those regulations will be enacted under the ACA within four years?
2. The ACA Should Be Effectively Enforced
We have learned from extensive experience with provincial accessibility legislation that the ACA will be ineffective unless it is effectively enforced.
- Will your party commit to ensure that the ACA is effectively enforced?
3. Federal Public Money Should Never Be used to Create or Perpetuate Barriers
The ACA does not require the Federal Government to ensure that federal money is never used by any recipient of those funds, to create or perpetuate disability barriers. For example, the ACA doesn't require the Federal Government to attach accessibility strings when it gives money to a municipality, college, university, local transit authority or other organization to build new infrastructure. Those recipients of federal money are left free to design and build new infrastructure without ensuring that it is fully accessible to people with disabilities. Also, the bill doesn't require the Federal Government to attach any federal accessibility strings when it gives business development loans or grants to private businesses.
It is helpful that the ACA lets the Federal Government impose accessibility requirements when it buys goods or services. However it doesn't require the Federal Government to ever do so.
This allows for a wasteful and harmful use of public money. The Senate's Standing Committee on Social Affairs that held hearings on Bill C-81 made this important observation in its May 7, 2019 report to the Senate:
"Your committee heard concerns that despite this legislation, federal funding may continue to be spent on projects that do not always meet accessibility standards. Therefore, we encourage the federal government to ensure that when public money is spent or transferred, the funding should never be used to create or perpetuate disability-related barriers when it is reasonable to expect that such barriers can be avoided."
- Will your party ensure by legislation, and if not, then by public policy, that no one will use public money distributed by the Government of Canada in a manner that creates or perpetuates barriers, including e.g. , payments by the Government of Canada to any person or entity to purchase or rent any goods, services or facilities, or to contribute to the construction, expansion or renovation of any infrastructure or other capital project, or to provide a business development loan or grant to any person or entity?
4. The ACA Should Never Reduce the Rights of People with Disabilities
The ACA includes only limited and insufficient protection to ensure that nothing under the ACA reduces the rights of people with disabilities. The ACA provides:
"121.1 For greater certainty, nothing in any provision of this Act or the regulations limits a regulated entity's duty to accommodate under any other Act of Parliament."
- Will your party amend the ACA to provide that if a provision of the ACA or of a regulation enacted under it conflicts with a provision of any other Act or regulation, the provision that provides the highest level of accessibility shall prevail, and that nothing in the ACA or in any regulations enacted under it or in any actions taken under it shall reduce any rights which people with disabilities otherwise enjoy under law?
A discriminatory provision was included in the Accessible Canada Act. It is helpful that it was softened in the Senate, after extensive advocacy efforts by people with disabilities. However, it should be repealed altogether.
Making this worse, section 172(3) of the ACA unfairly takes away important rights from people with disabilities in a discriminatory way. It bars the CTA from awarding justly-deserved money compensation to a passenger with a disability, even if the Agency finds that an airline or other federally-regulated transportation-provider has imposed an undue barrier against them, so long as a federal transportation accessibility regulation wrongly says that the airline did not have to provide the passenger with that accommodation. Section 172 of the ACA provides:
"Inquiry — barriers to mobility
172 (1) The Agency may, on application, inquire into a matter in relation to which a regulation could be made under subsection 170(1), regardless of whether such a regulation has been made, in order to determine whether there is an undue barrier to the mobility of persons with disabilities.
(2) On determining that there is an undue barrier to the mobility of persons with disabilities, the Agency may do one or more of the following:
(a) require the taking of appropriate corrective measures;
(b) direct that compensation be paid for any expense incurred by a person with a disability arising out of the barrier, including for any costs of obtaining alternative goods, services or accommodation;
(c) direct that compensation be paid for any wages that a person with a disability was deprived of as a result of the barrier;
(d) direct that compensation be paid up to a maximum amount of — subject to the annual adjustments made under section 172.2 — $20,000, for any pain and suffering experienced by a person with a disability arising out of the barrier;
(e) direct that compensation be paid up to a maximum amount of — subject to the annual adjustments made under section 172.2 — $20,000, if the Agency determines that the barrier is the result of a wilful or reckless practice.
Compliance with regulations
(3) If the Agency is satisfied that regulations made under subsection 170(1) that are applicable in relation to a matter have been complied with or have not been contravened, the Agency may determine that there is an undue barrier in relation to that matter but if it does so, it may only require the taking of appropriate corrective measures."
This unfairly protects huge, well-funded airlines and railways from having to pay monetary compensation in situations where they should have to pay up.
- Will your party repeal the offending portion of section 172(3) of the ACA that reads "but if it does so, it may only require the taking of appropriate corrective measures."" And replace them with words such as: "and grant a remedy in accordance with subsection 2." ?
5. The ACA's Implementation and Enforcement Should be Consolidated in One Federal Agency, Not Splintered Among Several of Them
The 105-page ACA is far too complicated and confusing. It will be hard for people with disabilities to navigate it. This is because the bill splinters the power to make accessibility standard regulations and the power to enforce the bill among a number of federal agencies, such as the new federal Accessibility Commissioner, the CTA, and the CRTC.
This makes the ACA's implementation and enforcement less effective, more confusing, more complicated and more costly. It will make it take longer to get accessibility regulations enacted. It risks weak, contradictory or unnecessarily complex regulations.
This splintering makes it much harder for people with disabilities to navigate the system, to find out what rights they have, and to get violations fixed. People with disabilities are burdened to learn to navigate as many as three or four different sets of accessibility rules, enforcement agencies, procedures, forms and time lines for presenting an accessibility complaint.
This splintering only helps existing federal bureaucracies that want more power, and any large obligated organizations that want to dodge taking action on accessibility. Those organizations will relish exploiting the bill's confusing complexity to delay and impede its implementation.
It is wrong for the ACA to give almost exclusive powers over accessibility to federally-regulated transportation organizations (like airlines) to the CTA, and almost exclusive powers over broadcasters and telecommunication companies (like Bell Canada and Rogers Communications) to the CRTC. The CTA and CRTC have had powers in this area for years. Their record on accessibility is not good.
- Will your party assign all responsibility for the ACA's enforcement to the Accessibility Commissioner and all responsibility for enacting regulations under the ACA to the Federal Cabinet? If not, then at a minimum, would your party require by legislation or policy that the CRTC, CTA and the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board must, within six months, establish policies, practices and procedures for expeditiously receiving, investigating, considering and deciding upon complaints under this Act which are the same as or as reasonably close as possible to, those set out for the Accessibility Commissioner?
6. No Federal Laws Should Ever Create or Permit Disability Barriers
It is important to ensure that no federal laws impose or permit the creation of barriers against people with disabilities.
- Will your Party review all federal laws to identify any which require or permit any barriers against people with disabilities, and will your party amend Section 2 of the ACA (definition of "barrier") to add the words "a law", so that it will read:
"barrier means anything — including anything physical, architectural, technological or attitudinal, anything that is based on information or communications or anything that is the result of a law, a policy or a practice — that hinders the full and equal participation in society of persons with an impairment, including a physical, mental, intellectual, cognitive, learning, communication or sensory impairment or a functional limitation."
7. Federal Elections Should Be Made Accessible to Voters with Disabilities
Voters with disabilities continue to face disability barriers in federal elections, including, for example, barriers that can impede them from voting independently and in private, and verifying their choice. Recent amendments to federal election legislation do not ensure this.
- Will your party pass legislation or regulations and adopt policies needed to ensure that federal elections become barrier-free for voters and candidates with disabilities.
8. Power to Exempt Organizations from Some ACA Requirements Should be Eliminated or Reduced
The ACA has too many loopholes. For example, it lets the Federal Government exempt itself from some of its duties under the ACA. The Government should not ever be able to exempt itself.
- Will your Party eliminate or reduce the power to exempt organizations from some of the requirements that the ACA imposes? Such as eliminating the power to exempt the Government of Canada, or a federal department or agency? If not, will your party commit not to grant any exemptions from the ACA?
9. Federally-Controlled Courts and Tribunals Should be Made Disability-Accessible
People with disabilities continue to face barriers when they try to take part in proceedings in courts for which the Federal Government is responsible.
- Will your party develop and implement a plan to ensure that all federally-operated courts (e.g. the Supreme Court of Canada and Federal Courts), and federally operated regulatory tribunals (like the CRTC and CTA) become accessible.
10. Other Measures Needed to Strengthen the ACA
In 2018, federal opposition parties proposed a number of amendments to strengthen Bill C-81 in the House of Commons. The Government defeated most if not all of them.
- Would your party pass the amendments to the ACA which the opposition proposed in the fall of 2018 in the House of Commons, which the Government had defeated, and which would strengthen the ACA?
We would appreciate a response by email in MS Word format. We will make responses public. We would be pleased to answer any questions you have.
David Lepofsky CM, O. Ont
Chair Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance


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In Mali, a war ends but instability lingers
The French drove out Islamist rebels in northern Mali. But can France and its African allies translate those victories into regional stability and peace?
| Bamako, Mali
On paper, the French bid to oust Islamist rebels from northern Mali has been nearly perfect: locally popular, internationally approved, well executed.
The French drove out a mosaic of jihadi fighters and sustained only five casualties. It appears that civilians in Mali were largely spared from the fighting. And now the French say they are mostly ready to draw down and leave.
Mali's small but intense war began Jan. 11 after the rebels, who had controlled northern Mali for the better part of a year, launched an ambitious push to the south, taking towns and recording surprising victories along the way.
The Malian government, its Army swept aside, asked the international community for help. France responded with an array of airstrikes in central and northern regions. The French sold the action at home as necessary to avoid an Afghanistan in West Africa, Europe's back door.
Since then the rebels, who have links to Al Qaeda and who imposed a harsh and destructive version of sharia law, have abandoned the towns they controlled and melted into the landscape.
To be sure, the last three months of French action are an impressive application of modern military intervention – waged from the sky with only a few thousand boots on the ground.
But any pretense that the war for Mali would be a tidy affair was shattered in February when Gao, northern Mali's largest city, was rocked by suicide bombings at the gates of the city.
Since then, French and Chadian troops have been involved in heavy combat with Islamist militants near Mali's mountainous border with Algeria; a string of suicide bombings and protracted gunfights have left the cities of Gao and Timbuktu hanging in the balance.
Whether the rebels would wage a nasty insurgency is now answered in the affirmative. The new question is whether France, its African allies, and the broader international community can or will translate tactical victories against Islamist radicals in northern Mali into a more strategic goal of regional stability and peace.
What the French call Operation Serval forced the rebels to retreat but did not defeat them. Large swaths of territory are not secure.
Nor are the Malian Army and its allies in Africa yet capable of securing the north without help. The handful of battles so far between the Malian Army and the rebels show clearly that French air power and logistical support alone cannot secure the region. Some French boots are still needed.
So as France prepares to draw down and give way to an African-led, UN-approved force, the limits of Operation Serval are more apparent. Cities considered secure are regularly attacked, creating fear that initial successes may be easily reversed.
"Obviously, on a straight kill ratio, they [the French] have done a good job," says Rudy Atallah, who served as Africa counterterrorism director for the US secretary of Defense. Yet Mr. Atallah is skeptical of the view, offered by a French commander, that Al Qaeda's "neck has been broken" in the region.
"I sincerely doubt it," Atallah says. "France has been restricted in its operations to Mali's borders. But Islamists go back and forth across borders. Operationally, they may have scattered them, but the minute France withdraws ... the bad guys are going to come back."
The road lies through Bamako
That "bad guys" may reappear is not a reason in and of itself for the French or a UN force to stay in northern Mali indefinitely. At some point, Mali must defend its own territory. But its politics are paralyzed. The Army is in disrepair. Months or years may pass before a solid Malian state exists.
In Bamako, Mali's capital, it is hard to find evidence of the war. In the relentless heat and dusty commotion, the war feels like a rumor, save for French flags that sprouted everywhere after Jan. 11.
Bamako has all the trappings of an improvised city. Efforts over the years to create a "city center" were outstripped by growing webs of impromptu alleyways and side streets. Public transport is ill-defined, but is attuned to the needs of the poor, and seems to move people and goods better than any technocratic plan could. Traffic jams were supposed to end after a Chinese-built overpass was unveiled two years ago in celebration of Mali's 50th anniversary of independence.
Yet if good government is missing, a polyglot of geopolitical symbols is not: The French legacy is found in language and scattered examples of colonial architecture. The fingerprints of Libya's Muammar Qaddafi are smudged all over, from the "Malibya" gas stations to the few graceless high-rises that dot Bamako's skyline. Chinese plastic goods fill shops, old US aid projects are depicted on faded placards reading "a gift from the American people," and Gulf and Arab influence is seen in many shiny new mosques and Islamic centers.
For some Malians, these are symbols of generosity and progress. For others, they are predatory foreign invaders, corrupting politicians and stifling progress.
Either way, the road to putting Mali back together, after the conflict, after the jihadis, and after the French, must pass through Bamako. Or start here.
When the French intervened, a main aim was to restore the "territorial integrity" of the country. Yet this is a vague and murky objective that can be defined many ways.
"If you look at the political, social, economic conditions of long-term stabilization, those conditions are clearly not in place," says François Heisbourg of the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. "But that was never within the scope of Operation Serval."
Mr. Heisbourg says a "negative" definition of restored territorial integrity means that "you've chased out the bad guys." He defines a "positive" definition as "a legitimate government based in Bamako in control of the entirety of its territory." There's a huge gap between those two definitions, he adds.
Mali requires a government that is both legitimate and capable of making tough decisions for its people, traits that the current government lacks.
There are many complicated reasons for this. But things came to a head last spring, and Mali began a serious slide. In Bamako, where taxis are plastered with images of global celebrities – Madonna, Barack Obama, soccer stars, Osama bin Laden – a new image started appearing. His name: Amadou Haya Sanogo, a previously unknown Malian military captain.
Captain Sanogo was behind a coup d'état that started March 21, 2012, led by mid-level Army officers. It plunged Mali into chaos. The coup toppled twice-elected President Amadou Toumani Touré only weeks before elections. Coup leaders said their actions were justified by Mr. Touré's mishandling of an ongoing Tuareg-separatist rebellion in the north of the country.
Yet within weeks of the coup, ethnic Tuaregs and a panoply of Islamist rebels scored a string of stunning military victories against an ill-equipped and deeply divided Malian Army. They quickly gained control of a vast desert expanse roughly the size of Texas.
A year later, Mali's government is a transitional one, an awkward and incoherent partnership between interim President Dioncounda Traoré – a veteran politician firmly entrenched in Mali's deservedly maligned political class – and elements from the former military junta.
Though they have formally stepped down, various coup leaders continue to wield power from the garrison town of Kati just outside Bamako.
Amid continued political paralysis, and at the request of outside pressures (notably the United States and European Union), a first round of elections is scheduled for July 7.
Why elections are important now is unclear. Many agree that Mali desperately needs a functional government to address problems. But few think elections are an immediate priority.
"Who is running? What is their platform?" asks Ibrahim Maiga, an unemployed Gao resident who opposes the July 7 vote. Mr. Maiga gets by on the few dollars a week that his uncle gives him to guard property. He wants state resources used for something other than voting.
"Elections would be a distraction. The priority should be security and getting food here," he says. Food supplies run low because of insecurity.
Dozens of interviews with ordinary Malians in the north suggest that physical security, food and fuel prices, and a lack of basics, make elections a peripheral concern.
Even in Bamako, enthusiasm for a July 7 vote is hard to find.
"How would they help at this point?" wonders Bamako resident Youcha Dicko. "Would the people in the US accept elections without a real campaign?"
Mr. Dicko drinks tea with friends amid radio parts strewn about his used electronics shop in Bamako. He has extended family in the north and thinks the July vote favors entrenched political parties that won't offer new ideas. Worse, he says, hasty elections could further divide the country. "This would be an election without any real debate ... only the winners would accept the results," he says.
Experts also question the wisdom of July elections.
"I certainly don't think the July date is feasible," says Bruce Whitehouse, an anthropologist at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., who has worked in Mali. "For one thing, it's going to be in the middle of rainy season, and even in the best of circumstances it is not a great time of year to hold elections."
Professor Whitehouse says technical issues that existed before the coup, such as voter lists, are still unaddressed. Many lists were destroyed while rebels held towns in the north. Refugees and the internally displaced number at least 400,000, and some fear they will be shut out of the political process.
Large areas of northern Mali remain insecure, despite being liberated. As France readies to withdraw, the EU is only beginning to rebuild Mali's broken Army. The United Nations has yet to approve a peacekeeping force, and many wonder if the north is even secure enough to hold a vote. Faith in government is at an all-time low.
Early elections, status quo
Several hundred thousand Malians linger in refugee camps in neighboring Niger, Burkina Faso, and Mauritania. For many who stayed through the fighting, a feeling of abandonment in desert towns like Gao and Timbuktu is inescapable. The Malian Army is nominally in control there, but the Malian state is barely present.
Without establishing security allowing refugees to return, there is a serious risk of the "complete disenfranchisement of everyone above the Niger bend," says Gregory Mann, a Columbia University historian of West Africa, referring to the Niger River, considered a divide between north and south.
Another concern is that early elections will reestablish the status quo. Few Malians – even those who opposed the military coup out of principle – are nostalgic for the old government.
"We can't put too much stock in elections creating a legitimate government," says Susanna Wing of Haverford (Pa.) College, who has studied political transitions in Mali. "I understand the urgency of elections [and] the idea that they will help establish legitimate government. But in the Malian context, you have a political class that is viewed as illegitimate ... that is part of how Mali got here in the first place."
In Gao, Mali's largest northern city, the site of recent suicide bombers, electricity is available only a few hours a day. The power comes not courtesy of the Malian state, but overseas donors. With temperatures regularly hitting 100 degrees, and the truly "hot season" just around the corner, Gao residents are increasingly irritated by the lack of goods and services.
In March, when power inexplicably flicked on a few hours early, a Malian friend joked, "It's a party!" He and his brother ran to get their cellphone chargers and started to bicker over access to the lone outlet, just as power again cut off.
"You see, we are already fighting with each other over resources!" he joked, while aware that such problems can spark inter-communal conflict.
The people in northern Mali want better governance, but question if July elections are the answer.
"We need national dialogue," says Awa Traoré, a retired schoolteacher who lives in a simple apartment in the heart of Bamako. "Politicians can influence and dominate elections, but they cannot control the conversation," she says, referencing Mali's democratic transition in the early 1990s, which saw thousands of people, including student activists, trade union leaders, and religious figures, participating in a broad and participatory national dialogue.
According to Ms. Wing, "Something like a national conference could bring people from civil society who represent a wide range of interests into the same space to try to really address some of the critical problems in the country."
The global community can help secure northern Mali and provide assistance. But national dialogue and a political process is not something that can be air-dropped in.
"The Malian political class and civil society are really the only people who can sort out these problems," says Whitehouse. "The French can't do it for them, the United Nations, ECOWAS [Economic Community of West African States], the African Union ... they can help. But the Malians are the only people who can really solve the problems that need to be solved. And they need to begin in Bamako; they can't be solved on the battlefield in northern Mali."

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|Break Now the Bread of Life
|Author (st. 1-2):
|Mary Artemesia Lathbury
|Author (st. 3-4):
|Alexander Groves, 1842-1909
|William F. Sherwin
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1 Break now the bread of life, dear Lord, to me,
as once you broke the loaves beside the sea.
Beyond the sacred page I seek you, Lord;
my spirit waits for you, O living Word.
2 Bless your own word of truth, dear Lord, to me,
as when you blessed the bread by Galilee.
Then shall all bondage cease, all fetters fall;
and I shall find my peace, my All in all!
3 You are the bread of life, dear Lord, to me,
your holy word the truth that rescues me.
Give me to eat and live with you above;
teach me to love your truth, for you are love.
4 O send your Spirit now, dear Lord, to me,
that he may touch my eyes and make me see.
Show me the truth made plain within your Word,
for in your book revealed I see you, Lord.
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|Break now the bread of life
|Break Now the Bread of Life
|Author (st. 1-2):
|Mary Artemesia Lathbury (1877, alt.)
|Author (st. 3-4):
|Alexander Groves, 1842-1909
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|Biblical Names & Places: Galilee/Galilean; Bread of Life; Illumination(3 more...)
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|William F. Sherwin (1877)
|D Major
Scripture References:
st. 1-2 = Matt. 14:13-21
st. 3 = John 6:33-35
st. 4 = Matt. 9:27-30, Matt. 20:30-34
Mary A. Lathbury (b. Manchester, NY, 1841; d. East Orange, 1913) is known primarily for two hymns: this one (originally "Break Thou the Bread of Life") and "Day Is Dying in the West." She wrote both at the request of Bishop John H. Vincent for use in the services of the Chautauqua Assembly, well-known in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a conference center that offered a rich fare of Bible study, Sunday school teaching methods, concerts, and plays. Vincent, the secretary of the Methodist Sunday School Union, founded the Chautauqua Institution on Chautauqua Lake in upper New York State in an effort to educate Sunday school teachers. An assistant to Vincent at the camp, Lathbury was also a well-known writer, editor, and illustrator of children's books. Her literary skills earned her the nickname "Poet Laureate of Chautauqua."
Lathbury wrote stanzas 1 and 2 in 1877; they were first published in Chautauqua Carols (1878). Alexander Groves (b. Newport, Isle of Wight, England, 1842; d. Henleyon-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, 1909) added stanzas 3 and 4 later, and they were first published in the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine (London, Sept. 1913). Groves's career included being a grocer and accountant as well as a trustee, auditor, and actuary for the Henley Savings Bank. He served as organist of the Henley Wesleyan Chapel but later in life became a member of the Anglican Church in Henley.
Some expressions in "Break Now the Bread of Life" may not satisfy everyone in the Reformed community, but these verses were not written to define doctrine in sharp detail. They were intended to be used as a simple prayer for illumination for Bible study groups and in the meetings of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. Tradition also calls for the hymn's use during Sunday-evening vespers at the Lake Chautauqua' assembly grounds.
The hymn text draws on biblical images to depict Scripture's role in our lives. Stanzas 1 and 2 recall the breaking and the blessing of the bread at Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. Stanza 3 confesses Christ as the bread of life. Stanza 4 calls for the Spirit's presence and alludes to Christ's healings of various blind people.
Liturgical Use:
A simple prayer for illumination; vespers. (Though it uses the "bread of life" image, this is not ordinarily a hymn for the Lord's Supper.)
--Psalter Hymnal Handbook
William F. Sherwin (PHH 8) composed BREAD OF LIFE in 1877 for the stanzas by Lathbury when he was the music director for the Chautauqua Institution.
A good fit for the hymn text, BREAD OF LIFE is a quiet tune, meditative in tone but with a fine climax in its final phrase. Sing this tune in harmony at a firm tempo.
--Psalter Hymnal Handbook
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Contrary to claims Jesus Christ is not the son of God, the Leader and founder of Glorious Word Power Ministry International (GWPMI), Reverend Owusu Bempah has stated that he was misquoted by the media.
According to him, he only sought to give the antecedent of how the name Jesus Christ came about.
The prophet maintained that, he was only educating the nation that Jesus Christ, the son of God had an original name called Yeshua Hamashiach.
"I never said Jesus Christ is not the son of God. I was only explaining that some years back, the Jews didn't recognize Jesus because the only name they knew was Yeshua Hamashiach and that was what I was trying to explain to Ghanaians" he said on Accra-based Neat FM.
The Man of God who has stirred the latest controversy, insists that the real son of God is called Yeshua Hamashiach reiterating that Jesus Christ was an impostor.
"The son of God is not called Jesus Christ. He is called Yeshua Hamashiach. The name Jesus Christ was given by Constantine gave that name to Yeshua Hamashiach. Yeshua Hamashiach was given birth to by a woman on earth and was crucified by Plato and rose from the grave the third day into the skies with the hope he will return same as prophesied by angels.
He is called the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. Jesus Christ is not the name of the son of God. There was this man who came called Nero who was killing the followers of Jesus Christians who were not even called Christians but Nazarenes. He could feed them to lions and other dangerous animals but their numbers increased", he revealed on Kofi TV.
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"Fairness is not equal, identical treatment; rather fairness means that every student receives what he/she needs." -Richard Lavoie-
There are three statutes in Colorado used to provide children with school support services. A student may have one or the other but not more that one at the same time. It is important that you as a parent know what these are and what they are used for. One of the best resources can be found at Wrightslaw.
IEP (Individualized Education Program) - IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is designed to meet the unique educational needs of your child once they qualify. Remediation for dyslexic students are services such as specialized classes, modifications to education, additional support and accommodations. An IEP is accompanied by federal funds to help offset the cost of the additional needs of these students.
Section 504 -Section of the Americans with Disabilities Act that ensures a child with a disability has equal access to an education thus leveling the playing field. It may be used in cases where students do not qualify for school services (IEP). A 504 is not accompanied by additional federal funds.
Some common effective accommodations for dyslexic students are:
· Provide students extra time to complete assignments and tests
· Provide a quiet workspace or preferential seating
· Provide a glossary or vocabulary list in content areas prior to introducing new materials
· Provide an extra set of textbooks at home
· Provide help with note taking through peer notes or teacher copies
· Allow or provide books-on-tape
· Provide allowances for oral testing
· Allow the use of Assistive Technology
· Absolving the student from having to read out loud in class
These are a few common accommodations taken from a comprehensive list by the International Dyslexia Association. We suggest you choose the 4-5 that will best serve your child and encourage your child to be a part of the selection process (if age appropriate). Perhaps you can start by asking your child what he or she is struggling with and then look at creative accommodations to help. You also need to consider what the accommodation will look like in the classroom and be prepared to help work out the details in applying it to your student's learning environment. Over time, accommodations change as the school's expectations change and your son or daughter grows in their learning. Expect to review and revise them annually at your 504 or IEP meeting.
RtI (Response to Intervention) - Response to Intervention (RtI) is a multi-tiered approach to help struggling learners. Students' progress is closely monitored at each stage of intervention to determine the need for further research-based instruction and/or intervention in general education, in special education, or both. Here is the link to a good informational website - RtI Action Network. Many schools will put a struggling student into RtI in order to evaluate and establish the best teaching method for that student. At any point during the RtI process, a parent may request Special Education testing.
The READ Act (Colorado) - The Colorado Reading To Ensure Academic Development Act (Colorado READ Act) was passed by the Colorado Legislature during the 2012 legislative session. The READ Act repeals the Colorado Basic Literacy Act (CBLA) as of July 1, 2013, keeping many of the elements of CBLA such as a focus on K-3 literacy, assessment, and individual plans for students reading below grade level. The READ Act differs from CBLA by focusing on students identified as having a significant reading deficiency, delineating requirements for parent communication, and providing funding to support intervention. Other components of the Colorado READ Act include a competitive Early Literacy Grant and a resource bank of assessments, instructional programming, and professional development.


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Star Trek: Voyager: Body and Soul Rewatch Season 7, Ep 7
When the Delta Flyer II is attacked, The Doctor must hide his program in Seven's Borg implants. Meanwhile, Tuvok undergoes the pon farr. Can the away team escape the Vortex of Unsatisfied Crushes? [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: The Q and the Grey Rewatch Season 3, Ep 11
When Q comes marching home again/ Hurrah! Hurrah!/ Janeway will tear her hair out then/ Hurrah! Hurrah!/ The ship will be rocked and the drums will roll/ The continuum will be out of control/ The captain saw right through ye/ Q, we hardly knew ye! [more inside]
Star Trek: Voyager: Resolutions Rewatch Season 2, Ep 25
"I closed my eyes and sank deeper into the steamy bath, feeling my troubles and worries slip away. I was no longer a starship captain, really, no longer even a scientist after the oddly-precise storm destroyed all my technical equipment but left everything else untouched; now, I was just a woman. 'Everything OK, Kathryn?' I smiled, thinking of the man who was once my second-in-command, but now... now, just a man. A very considerate, thoughtful, available man. 'Better than OK, Com- I mean, Chakotay. Makes me wish that I'd gotten the incurable yet peculiarly asymptomatic space plague earlier. Say, you didn't happen to find a loofah out there, did you?'" -- from Passion's Pesilent Planet, Jane Katrina (pseud.) [more inside]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Penumbra Rewatch Season 7, Ep 17
(Series Finale - Part 1 of 9) Sisko puts a ring on it, Worf gets a chance to practice his singing, Dax takes a trip down Memory Lane, the Founder gives Weyoun a piece of her mind, a familiar face gets a different look, a new player enters the game, and Kasidy Yates' future mother-in-law has some bad news. It's the beginning of the end. [more inside]
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My lovely blogland friends
Saturday, 16 April 2011
A new challenge at Let's Ink It Up!
20 comments:
A truly beautiful creation Claire. Love all the beading and lace and the adorable little mouse.ReplyDelete
Fliss xx
PS: I was a bit quick off the mark with my post as I forgot about British summertime!
Hi Claire, Your work for the stitching challenge is stunning, so much work, so inspirational. Cheers CazReplyDelete
This canvas is gorgeous, Claire! I love the crackle. I've tried this technique a couple of times and it never works for me :((( Maybe I was using a wrong surface/material... Anyway, stunning project! xxReplyDelete
A lovely project, Claire, perfect for our challenge at Sir Stampalot this month. Thanks for sharing it with us.ReplyDelete
Lynne x
Pretty project! Love the crackle background! Thanks for joining us at Sweet Stamps!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 April 2011 at 23:40
What a gorgeous project Claire! Love your crackle on this and the stitching details look fabulous too!! :) Thanks for joining us at Squigglefly this week!! Smiles, VickiReplyDelete
Gorgeous project Thank you for joining us at Sweet stampsReplyDelete
Hug s
Wow! Very meticulous and so pretty and feminine! Thanks for playing in Squigglefly's challenge.ReplyDelete
Oh Claire this is so pretty- I love Pink.ReplyDelete
So glad you could join us.
Thank you for sharing with us this week at
Sweet Stamps Challenge
Have a sweet week.
Wonderful job claire!! Love your sewing design and the mouse is soo cute!!ReplyDelete
Another beautiful piece of work Chaire.ReplyDelete
I was interested to see you have used the crackle background on canvas, I wondered if it would work and you ahve answered my quesiton.
Thank you so much for joining us at Stampalot challenge again this month.
B x
This is so pretty Claire! I love it!ReplyDelete
Alicia xx
perfect creation!ReplyDelete
a real eye-candy!
hugs and kisses from germany,
silvi xoxo
How very sweet!!ReplyDelete
Thank you for joining us at the Simon Says Stamp & Show Challenge!
Its looks gorgeous from here, love the soft vintage feel to it. Thanks for joining us at Sir Stampalot this month.ReplyDelete
What a beautiful card, it's very elegant. I love the colors you chose. Thank you for joining our challenge at SweetStamps.com.ReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous! What a fab project. Thanks for joining us at Sir stampalot this month and good luck!ReplyDelete
Thanks for playing at The Artistic Stamper this monthReplyDelete
xoxo Sioux
This is beautiful Claire, one of my favourite colour schemes, and I love your crackle background and your flower xReplyDelete
Absolutely Beautiful creationReplyDelete
Thanks for joining us at Sir Stampalot this month and good luck!


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Steps to Install a Tempered Glass Screen Protector
Installing a tempered glass screen protector requires precision and patience. Follow the directions below to successfully install a smartphone screen protector. For best results, avoid dust, hair, and touching the protector during the installation process for best results. If you need any assistance with this process we will be more than happy to place this on for you.
- Clean your smartphone screen with rubbing alcohol or eyeglass cleaner.
- Dry the screen with a microfiber cloth.
- Remove the screen protector from its packaging.
- Ensure there are no dust particles on the screen.
- Holding the tempered glass on the sides to avoid fingerprints, peel the adhesive backing from the screen protector.
- Carefully align the protector with the phone, ensuring that all camera and microphone openings are aligned and that the margins on each side of the protector are equal.
- Place the glass on device and lightly apply pressure on the glass to ensure the adhesive is sticking.
- If you notice air bubbles, use the tool included in your kit or a credit card to push the air bubbles towards the edges of the screen protector.
If the tempered glass installation process sounds too complicated, don't worry! Smartphone Repairz is your one-stop shop for all of your phone protection needs. Our stores carry a wide variety of phone accessories including tempered glass screen protectors and plastic screen protectors.


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The Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon weekend is a multi-race event, offering four different distances. Saturday gets started at 8am with our Margaritaville Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon 5K, and is followed by our Chevron Kids Marathon 1-Mile race at 9:30am. Sunday is our Marathon and Half Marathon, both of which start at 7am. We also offer a Double Down award for runners who want to run on both days.
7:00 am Start – Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, Henderson Point, Pass Christian, MS
The Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon course features a fast, flat, BQ-friendly path along the coast from Pass Christian to Biloxi. The course is a USATF Certified Boston Qualifier route and offers unobstructed beach views, as well as takes you past some of the coast's most historic and beautiful homes.
7:00 am Start – Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, Jones Park, Gulfport, MS
Join us on the coast for the fastest growing race distance in the country, the half marathon. While the Mississippi Gulf Coast Half Marathon may only be half the distance, it's all the fun you need with 13.1 miles of unobstructed beach views.
*All courses are very well marked. There are mile markers for each distance event, directional signs for course splits and TURNAROUND signs for course turnarounds. Course splits and course turnarounds will be manned with an operations staff member who will typically be making announcements on a megaphone. Course turns are indicated with traffic cones and usually (not always) have police units, volunteers and/or staff members. Traffic on courses is managed by our law enforcement partners, but no roads are promised to be closed to all traffic. Runners should be aware of their surroundings: the course, applicable signage, vehicles, staff, volunteers, and police officers.
*Runners must maintain a 13:45 minute per mile pace to be allowed to continue the Full Marathon. Runners not able to maintain this pace will be picked up in a SAG vehicle and moved forward on the course or brought to the finish line.
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Since the launch of Windows 10 in late July, shares of longtime mobile loser Microsoft (MSFT -0.74%) have been seemingly unstoppable.
Windows 10 enjoyed a strong initial response. Microsoft's Surface Book and new Surface Pro 4 have further demonstrated Microsoft's commitment to winning in enterprise tablets, despite Apple's (AAPL -1.67%) encroachments.
However, one critical element of Microsoft's multiyear turnaround plan remains absent -- mobile apps. As a number of recent moves highlight, Microsoft's software strategy perhaps isn't on as sound of footing as it might seem.
Developers, developers, developers ...
A few weeks ago, Microsoft confirmed its plans to halt its controversial Project Astoria, without further word on the divisive initiative's future. Project Astoria is one of four "bridge" projects Microsoft created to allow non-Windows apps to run on Windows 10 devices, projects aimed at directly addressing what many viewed as an impediment to Windows 10's long-term appeal. The project used Microsoft's tools to port apps from Alphabet's (GOOG 0.28%) (GOOGL 0.24%) Android mobile OS onto Windows 10. But why would Microsoft either pause or kill such an important initiative?
The answer might lie in one of CEO Satya Nadella's core ambitions for Windows 10 -- universal Windows programs. To further court Windows developers, Microsoft touted what it calls "Universal Windows Apps," which run seamlessly across all Microsoft device types, as a cornerstone of its Windows 10 efforts. However, with Project Astoria creating a low-effort path to flood the Windows 10 app store with Android-based apps, management may have opted to cater to the current developer base by sacrificing Astoria.
The strategy underpinning Universal Windows Apps doesn't sit well with all shareholders. In fact, it recently pitted Nadella publicly against Steve Ballmer, the former CEO, a current board member, and Microsoft's largest individual shareholder.
At Microsoft's shareholder meeting last week, Ballmer criticized the idea, publicly saying "that won't work" to the audience as Nadella explained the rationale behind Universal Windows Apps. Instead, Ballmer again made the case for Project Astoria and the hoard of Android-based apps it promises as the optimal software strategy for Windows 10, especially on mobile. Risking disenfranchising your current developers presents a major risk for Microsoft, which needs all the developer support it can muster. However, refusing to aggressively address its mobile apps issue seems to play right into Apple's and Alphabet's hands.
Alphabet and Apple remain in the lead
Microsoft has made meaningful strides on nearly every product front in the past several years. Windows 10 is a huge improvement over the unpopular Windows 8. The Surface lineup of tablets has evolved from laughable iPad wannabes into compelling devices that can justify their own claim of being "laptop replacements." The new Lumias can go toe-to-toe with any of the best smartphones on the market.
But in business terms, this all matters very little. Despite all the recent improvements, Microsoft appears to be too late to the mobile party. Dawdling between mobile strategies for years allowed Apple and Alphabet to win the day. According to respected industry analyst Benedict Evans, here's how the balance of power has shifted in computing in recent years.
Things become particularly problematic for Microsoft, since the smartphone market is headed toward maturity. Research firm IDC expects the global smartphone market to expand by 9.8% in 2015, the first ever year that the smartphone will fall into single-digit growth. This situation leaves Microsoft in the challenging position of having to steal market share from Apple and Alphabet's Android, rather than win first-time users. Raiding Apple's sticky ecosystem or countering Android's inherent cost advantages with OEMs will be only more difficult under these conditions, which is why IDC projects Windows' smartphone market share to remain flat through 2019.
In light of the apparent backtracking on Project Astoria, it's hard to see how Microsoft can make inroads against Apple and Alphabet without a sizable base of apps with which to attract users. In one prominent example from Microsoft's contentious shareholder meeting, one attendee asked why Microsoft still lacks a Starbucks app for its smartphone ecosystem. Ballmer has a point.
Of course, this is only a single example, but it speaks to the meaningful gaps Microsoft faces in mobile, a situation that Project Astoria was supposed to help remedy. So with Project Astoria's recent delay and possible death, Microsoft's mobile comeback plans against Apple and Alphabet appear even more distant than they did even several weeks ago


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Saginaw, Michigan Area
Enterprise Systems Specialist at Morley Companies, Inc.
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Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science
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Albuquerque, New Mexico Area
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Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area
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Greeley, Colorado
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Toronto, Canada Area
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
Marketing and Advertising
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Bachelor of Arts, Economics
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Charlottesville, Virginia Area
Lead Teacher at Malcolm Cole Child Care Center (UVA)
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Greater Philadelphia Area
Account Representative at KJ Innovations
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University of Pittsburgh 2007 – 2011
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication, General
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Grand Rapids, Michigan
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Bachelor of Applied Arts, Broadcasting & Business Administration
Baudville March 2015 – Present
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Greater Boston Area
President at Cambridge Forest Products Associates
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Binghamton University 1972 – 1976
PhD, Labor History
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 1970 – 1972
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University of Nottingham 1966 – 1969
BA, Economic & Social History
Cambridge Forest Products Associates June 2007 – Present
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Terre Haute, Indiana Area
Chemical Technician at Hydrite Chemical Co.
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis 2015 – 2016
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Bentonville, Arkansas
President and CEO
Visual Merchandising, New Business Development, Team Building, Negotiation, Cross-functional Team..., Product Development, Toys, Merchandising, Customer Service, Retail, Management, Inventory Management, Sales Management, Trend Analysis, CPFR, Global Sourcing, Private Label, Business Development, Sales, Sourcing, Consumer Products, Inventory Control, Apparel, Styling, Marketing Strategy, Income Statement, Logistics, Supply Chain, Entrepreneurship, Multi-channel Retail, Business Strategy, Microsoft Excel, Pricing, P&L Management, Forecasting, Leadership, Budgets, Wal-Mart, Process Improvement, Strategic Planning, Profit, Sales Operations, Competitive Analysis, Purchasing, Start-ups, Strategy, Business Planning, Supply Chain Management, Market Planning, E-commerce
Utah State University 1991 – 1994
BA, Liberal Arts/Spanish
Brigham Young University 1985 – 1991
Bear River International 2008 – Present
LDE Licensing 2006 – 2008
Wal-Mart Stores 1997 – 2006
Steve Grourke, CAP®
Greater Philadelphia Area
Executive Director of Planned Giving at Villanova University
Philanthropy, Building Relationships, Program Management, Marketing Communications, Planned Giving, Major Gift Fundraising, Public Speaking, Strategic Partnerships, Non-profit..., Non-profit Leadership, Conservation Issues, Land Conservation, Conservation Easements, Public Administration, Non-profit Volunteer, Non-profit Boards, Stewardship, Charities, Fundraising, Non-profits
The American College 2012 – 2013
Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy
Villanova University 2011 – 2011
Certificate, Principles of Fundraising
Eastern Washington University 2005 – 2008
Master of Public Administration, Summa cum laude
North Idaho College 2001 – 2001
Certificate, Real Estate Essentials
Gwynedd Mercy University 1996 – 1999
Bachelor of Arts, History, Cum laude
Montgomery County Community College
Villanova University July 2015 – Present
Villanova University May 2013 – Present
Partnership for Philanthropic Planning of Greater Philadelphia April 2014 – Present
Grourke Advisors, LLC 2012 – Present
Upper Hanover Township January 2012 – Present
Villanova University July 2011 – April 2013
The Nature Conservancy January 2009 – July 2011
The Nature Conservancy May 2001 – December 2008
Idaho Department of Lands March 2005 – September 2005
Kootenai County, Idaho December 2003 – September 2005
Brian Luce
Brooklyn, New York
Architectural Designer, Builder, and Writer
Architecture & Planning
AutoCAD, Rendering, Rhino, Adobe Creative Suite, Vray, Construction, Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, SketchUp, Revit, Architectural Design, Model Making, Digital Fabrication, Illustrator, Design Research, Construction Drawings, InDesign, Photoshop, Sketching, Architectural Drawings, Architecture, Microsoft Office, AutoCAD Architecture, Sustainable Design, Interior Architecture, Rhino 3D, Furniture
School of Architecture at Syracuse University 2008 – 2013
B.Arch, Architecture
KING / CONSTRUCTION / DESIGN October 2014 – Present
PlaygroundIDEAS October 2014 – February 2015
UPSTATE: A Center for Design, Research, and Real Estate June 2013 – August 2014
Syracuse University Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies August 2012 – December 2012
Leroy Street Studio May 2012 – July 2012
Freedom By Design September 2009 – June 2011
C.O. Co. June 2010 – August 2010
Crown Construction June 2009 – August 2009
Crown Construction June 2008 – August 2008
Ellie Hindsley
Richmond, Virginia Area
Lawyer at Williams Mullen
Law Practice
Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation, Welfare Plans, 401k, ESOP, 401k Rollovers, Mergers, Corporate Law, Tax Law
Washington and Lee University School of Law 2005 – 2008
Law Degree
Washington and Lee University 2001 – 2005
Bachelors of Arts, Art History
Roland park country school 1988 – 2001
High School
Williams Mullen September 2008 – Present
United States Attorney's Office 2007 – 2008
Cole Gebhardt
Greater New York City Area
Maintenance Manager at CocaCola Refreshments
Food & Beverages
Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Leadership Development, Supervisory Skills, Team Building, Mentoring, Data Analysis, SAP, Leadership, Operations Management, Military, Team Leadership, Supply Chain, Management, Sales Operations, Budgets
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 2009 – 2011
Bachelor of Science, Business and Communication Studies
Inver Hills Community College 2009 – 2010
Associates in Arts, General Studies
Coca-Cola Refreshments May 2013 – December 2013
Coca-Cola Refreshments June 2012 – May 2013
Coca-Cola Refreshments June 2011 – June 2012
Metropolitan Council 2010 – December 2010
Army National Guard 2000 – 2009
Floyd Stober
Palestine, Texas
Rigging Foreman at REMETRONIX
Hospital & Health Care
restoration of old..., welding and fabrication, auto painting, Six Sigma, Army, Hospitals, Process Improvement, Team Building, Training, Operations Management, Leadership, Team Leadership, Troubleshooting, Medical Devices, Cross-functional Team..., Project Planning
The University of Texas at Arlington 1961 – 1965
none, Mechanical Engineering
UT Arlington. 1961 – 1965
none, Mechanical Engineering, 3
REMETRONIX March 2004 – Present
Siemens Healthcare January 2001 – March 2004
Siemens Healthcare June 1974 – October 2001
US Army December 1965 – December 1968
Amber Burgess
Charlotte, North Carolina Area
Dispatcher at Carolina Medical Center
Law Enforcement
Enforcement, Police, Criminal Investigations, Criminal Justice, Firearms, Microsoft Office, Investigation, Public Safety, Emergency Management, Patrol, Surveillance, Customer Service, Public Speaking, Evidence, Security, Protection, Crime Prevention, Law Enforcement..., Interrogation, Self Defense, Background Checks, Security Training, Disaster Response, Police Training, Workplace Violence, Defensive Driving, Taser, Community Policing, Evidence Collection, Crisis Management, First Responder, Crime Scene..., Crime Scene, Preparedness, Loss Prevention
Rowan-Cabarrus Community College 2002 – 2002
Certificate, Basic Law Enforcement Training
South Rowan High School 1994 – 1998
Diploma, General
Carolinas Healthcare System January 2014 – Present
G4S Secure Solutions (USA) Inc. July 2013 – Present
Livingstone College April 2011 – July 2012
Security Forces Inc December 2010 – April 2011
Salisbury Police Department September 2005 – August 2010
China Grove Police Department September 2003 – September 2005
Cabarrus County Sheriff's Office 2001 – 2002
Erdem Asma MSM, PMP
Greater New Orleans Area
Advisor at Acibadem Healthcare Group
Information Technology and Services
Healthcare Information..., EHR, EMR, Project Management, Cerner, Software Implementation, Healthcare Consulting, Revenue Cycle, Management, Healthcare Management, CPOE, Change Management, Business Analysis, Information Technology, Software Project..., PMP, Revenue Cycle Management, Data Analysis, Leadership Development, Medical Records, Agile Project Management, Financial Analysis, Medical Coding, MS Project, Clinical Data Management, Hospital Information..., ICD-10, Soarian, McKesson STAR, HIMS, Medical Billing, Clarity, PeopleSoft, Primavera P6, Implementation..., Software Design, Software Installation, Information Systems, Executive Coaching, Soarian Clinicals, NextGen, Soarian Financials, Process Improvement, Career Development, CRM, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Business Process, Strategy
Troy University 2004 – 2006
Master's degree, Healthcare Management, 4.0
Troy University 1996 – 1999
BS, Political Science
Bilkent Üniversitesi 1991 – 1995
Public Administration and Political Science
Kadikoy Anadolu Lisesi 1991
High School, Social Sciences
Acibadem Healthcare Group August 2015 – Present
Orion Health September 2014 – 2015
Siemens Healthcare August 2011 – August 2014
South Hampton Community Hospital March 2011 – August 2011
Beacon Partners 2010 – 2010
Linkage, Inc. 2010 – 2010
Cerner Corporation 2009 – 2010
HCA August 2008 – 2009
Cerner Corporation September 2005 – July 2008
Cerner Corporation September 2005 – July 2008
Erica Stanton
Fossil, Oregon
Founding Partner at IDLife, LLC
Alternative Medicine
Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Customer Service, Research, Outlook, English, Photoshop, Windows, Teaching, HTML, Budgets, C++, C, Public Speaking, Editing, Strategic Planning, Java, Negotiation, Team Building, Higher Education, Grant Writing, Nonprofits, Training, Program Management, Policy, Community Outreach, Fundraising, Program Development, Management
Saybrook University 2010 – 2014
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Clinical Psychology
Goddard College 2007 – 2010
Master of Arts (MA), Psychology
Eastern Oregon University
Bachelor of Science, Liberal Studies
Homestead Youth and Family Services May 2012 – Present
Blue Mountain Community College September 2010 – Present
Blue Mountain Community College July 2007 – January 2013
Blue Mountain Community College October 2009 – September 2010
Blue Mountain Community College August 2009 – September 2010
Blue Mountain Community College October 2008 – January 2009
Blue Mountain Community College December 2007 – October 2008
Blue Mountain Community College July 2007 – December 2007
For Those In Need/MOOV, Inc August 2003 – August 2005
Lisa Bommarito Hall
Greater Detroit Area
Marketing and Advertising
Marketing Communications, Advertising, Marketing, Blogging, Strategy, Direct Marketing, Public Relations, Trade Shows, Business Development
Trifecta Marketing Group July 2006 – Present
Jessica Lopez - Dominguez
Ridgewood, New York
Electrical Buyer at Cox and Company
Newtown High School 2000
Mary Kay inc October 2011 – Present
Cox and Company May 2006 – Present
Mark Bruce, Ph.D, FSA Scot
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Associate Professor of English at Bethel University
Higher Education
Medieval Studies, Writing, Teaching, Research, Communication, Literature, Digital Humanities, Editing, Public Speaking, Copy Editing, Publishing, Tutoring, Nonprofits, History, Academic Writing, University Teaching
University of Iowa 1999 – 2005
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Medieval Studies (Literature)
Colorado State University 1992 – 1995
Master of Arts (M.A.), English
Bethel University September 2005 – Present
Bethel University 2005 – Present
Paul Girolamo
Greater New York City Area
Owner, Paul Girolamo Associates Inc.
Media Production
Video Production, Video, Television, Video Editing, Post Production, Documentaries, Media Production, Adobe Creative Suite
School of Visual Arts 1976 – 1977
Graphic Design, Video Production
University of North Carolina at Greensboro 1970 – 1975
Paul Girolamo Associates Inc. 1985 – Present
Joy Rodgers, M.S., PA-C
Chillicothe, Ohio
Medical Practice
Psychiatry, BLS, Mental Health, Post Traumatic Stress, Medicine, Healthcare, Emergency Medicine, ACLS, Board Certified, Emergency Room, Direct Patient Care, Patient Advocacy, Acute Care, Advanced Trauma Life..., Team Leadership, Higher Education, Elementary Education, Organizational..., Process Improvement, Process Management
Leadership Development Institute 2011 – 2012
Certificate, Leadership
A.T. Still University of Health Sciences 2004 – 2007
M.S, Advanced Physician Assistant studies
Kettering College of Medical Arts 1989 – 1992
Associate's degree, Physician Assistant
Veterans Administration February 2008 – May 2012
Thomas Crowe
Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Information Technology and Services
CRM, Program Management, Analysis, Telecommunications, Project Management, Product Management, Accounts Payable, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Management Consulting, Business Analysis, Business Process..., Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Not for Profit, SDLC, IT Strategy, Internal Audit, Forecasting, Consulting, Requirements Analysis, Auditing, Management, Process Improvement, Information Technology, Agile Project Management, Team Leadership, Vendor Management, Business Process, Business Intelligence, Risk Management, Cross-functional Team..., Software Project..., Strategy, PMO, Project Portfolio..., Analytics, Requirements Gathering, SaaS, Visio, PMP, Databases, SharePoint
Benjamin Pergament
Washington D.C. Metro Area
Premier Government at Forrester Research
Information Services
Account Management, Relationship Development, New Business Development, Customer Satisfaction, Lead Generation, Government, Customer Relations, Customer Service, Consultative Selling, Strategic Planning, Selling, Salesforce.com, Business Development, Forecasting, Solution Selling, Training, Sales Operations, CRM, Market Research, Sales Process, Strategy, Presenting Proposals, Engagement, Keen Listener, Collaboration, Collaborative Problem..., Sales
St. John Fisher College 2002 – 2006
BS, Business Marketing
Carla Schulz-Oyster
Greater Denver Area
President & Founder of Diva Dog LLC
Individual & Family Services
Training, Customer Service, Public Speaking, Event Planning, Management, Social Media, Event Management, Coaching, Public Relations, Marketing, Leadership, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking, Leadership Development, Team Building, Sales
DivaDog Walking Service October 2008 – Present
Nordstrom June 2004 – March 2008
Ice Capades and Bietak Productions 1989 – 1999
Eddie Webb
Greater Los Angeles Area
Supply Chain Analyst at The Boeing Company
Aviation & Aerospace
Supply Chain Management, Aviation, Lean Manufacturing, Leadership, Warehousing, Supply Management, Supply Chain, MRP, Aircraft, Aerospace, Continuous Improvement, Integration, Project Management, Strategic Sourcing, Process Improvement, Six Sigma, Manufacturing, Team Building, Strategic Planning, Supply Chain..., Management, Quality Management, Cross-functional Team..., Procurement, Operations Management, Quality Assurance, Kaizen, Root Cause Analysis, 5S, Value Stream Mapping, Logistics, Program Management, Training, Earned Value Management, Materials Management, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Operational Excellence, Engineering Management, Process Engineering, AS9100, ISO, Supplier Development, Systems Engineering, SPC, Supplier Evaluation, Manufacturing..., Purchasing
University of Southern California 1984 – 1988
Penasco High School
Boeing January 2011 – Present
The Boeing Company June 2006 – March 2011
Boeing Commercial Airplanes January 1999 – May 2006
The Pacific Stock exchange 1988 – 1990
Seattle, Washington
机械 在职者
美国华盛顿大学 2014 – 2016
Mechanical Engineering
Self-employed 2013 – 2013
Laura Georgy, MS, RDN, LDN
Greater Chicago Area
Registered Dietitian. Food & Nutrition Specialist.
Health, Wellness and Fitness
Laura Georgy Nutrition Services, Inc. April 2014 – Present
Dawn Jackson Blatner Nutrition December 2010 – March 2014
The Baupost Group June 2006 – June 2008
Quad Graphics, Inc June 2003 – May 2006
William H. Brown
Greater Salt Lake City Area
President at Impact Navigators & the Utah Cyber Security Alliance
Management Consulting
Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Strategic Planning, Business Development, Leadership, Strategic Partnerships, Small Business, Business Strategy, Product Development, New Business Development, Start-ups, Team Building, Management, Business Planning, Marketing Strategy, Coaching, Program Management, Medical Devices, Management Consulting, Consulting, Leadership Development, Executive Management, Budgets, Manufacturing, Product Management, Cross-functional Team..., Change Management, Customer Service, Marketing, Team Leadership, Training, Process Improvement, Executive Coaching, Strategy Development, Strategic Consulting, Market Research, Public Relations, Account Management, Contract Negotiation, Customer Relations, Operations Management, Project Planning, Business Process..., Entrepreneurship..., Mentoring, Design Control, Benefit Corporations, Sales, Public Speaking, Mergers & Acquisitions
City University of New York
Newark College of Engineering
Utah Cyber Security Alliance January 2015 – Present
Impact Navigators 2014 – Present
Brown Businesses International, L.L.C. September 2009 – September 2015
Entrepreneur Launch Pad 2010 – March 2015
BoomStartup 2014 – 2015
ARC Impact September 2013 – December 2014
BusDev Advocates 2012 – December 2014
Salt Lake & Summit Counties Small Business Development Center July 2011 – December 2014
Utah Business Advocates 2010 – December 2014
Utah Small Business Coalition 2012 – 2014
Daren Cheng
Stanford, California
Mathematics PhD student
Stanford University 2012 – 2017
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Mathematics
National Taiwan University 2007 – 2011
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics
Kylie Grimsrud
Huntley, Montana
Photography, Photoshop, Portrait Photography, Phlebotomy, Digital Photography, Commercial Photography, Event Photography, Fine Art Photography, Customer Service, Image Editing, Portraits, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Fine Art
Montana State University-Billings 2014 – 2018
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse
Academy of Art University 2010 – 2012
Billings Clinic March 2014 – Present
BioLife Plasma Services October 2013 – March 2014
Kylie Renee Photography 2010 – October 2013
Biolife Plasma Services April 2011 – November 2012
Ernesto Nava
Irving, Texas
Graduate The University of Texas at Dallas School of Management
Information Technology and Services
Microsoft Office, Communication, Teamwork, Presentation Skills, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Business Process, Database Design, Relational Data Modeling, UML Tools
The University of Texas at Dallas - School of Management 2012 – 2014
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management Information Systems, 3.92
PricewaterhouseCoopers June 2014 – August 2014
John Deere September 2010 – June 2014
Daniel Roland
Greater Philadelphia Area
District Attorney's Office, Chester County, PA
Law Practice
Microsoft Office, Salesforce.com, Social Media, Facebook, Customer Service, Research, Microsoft Excel, YouTube, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Project Management, Customer Satisfaction, Sales, New Business Development, CRM
Widener University School of Law 2012 – 2015
Doctor of Law (J.D.)
East Lyme High School 2006 – 2010
Gettysburg College 2006 – 2010
BA, Political Science, Philosophy
Chester County District Attorney's Office May 2014 – Present
County of Chester May 2013 – Present
Ricoh Americas Corporation November 2010 – July 2012
J. Crew July 2010 – October 2010
Chester County Adult Probation June 2009 – August 2009
Mohegan Sun Resort & Casino May 2008 – August 2008
Jennifer Wolter
Edgerton, Wisconsin
CNA at Mercy Health System
Hospital & Health Care
Herzing University-Madison 2015 – 2015
Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse
Blackhawk Technical College 2010 – 2014
Nursing Assistant, Practical Nursing, Nursing
Mercy Health System January 2013 – Present
Earl C. Reed
Greater New York City Area
Director of Security
Hotel Management, Hospitality, Resorts, Pre-opening, Hospitality Management, Hotels, Hospitality Industry, Customer Service, Executive Protection, Revenue Analysis, Opening Hotels, Security Training, Supervisory Skills, Security, Front Office, Catering, Yield Management, Security Operations, Food & Beverage, Corporate Security, Rooms Division, Micros
Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY)
Highgate Hotels March 2014 – October 2014
The Standard, East Village November 2011 – December 2013
The Cooper Square Hotel September 2008 – November 2011
Hotel on Rivington August 2005 – August 2009
The Empire Hotel August 2007 – August 2008
The Peninsula New York 1995 – 2005
David Roberts
Greater Denver Area
Board Director, CEO and Board Advisor
Management Consulting
Mergers, Due Diligence, Product Development, Valuation, Strategic Planning, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Venture Capital, Corporate Development, Management Consulting, Strategic Partnerships, Team Building, Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, CRM, Competitive Analysis, Business Development, Executive Management, Management, Leadership, Business Planning, Program Management, Portfolio Management, Managerial Finance, Sales, Restructuring, International Business, Acquisition Integration, New Business Development, Consulting
Harvard Business School 1974 – 1976
MBA, (with Distinction)
Brown University 1964 – 1970
A.B., American Civilization
NG1 Technologies April 2015 – Present
Newport Board Group 2012 – Present
Sun Strategies Innovations, Ltd. April 2014 – Present
Strategic Programs, Inc. 2014 – Present
Solera National Bank 2012 – 2014
NeX Step 2010 – 2012
Soup Digital Innovations June 2008 – March 2010
Commonwealth Partners, LLC January 2004 – March 2010
University of Colorado, Denver August 2006 – May 2007
First Data Corp 2002 – 2004
Emily Shortt, CFE
Charlotte, North Carolina
Lead Consultant, Dixon Hughes Goodman
Management Skills, Internal Audit, Internal Controls, IT Audit, Compliance, Contract Management, Communication Skills, Project Management, Financial Reporting, Management Consulting, Consulting, Accounts Payable, Government, Non-profits, Manufacturing, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SSAE16, Business Process..., Onboarding, Cost Reporting, Executive Reporting, Nonprofits, Process Improvement, Access, Budgets, Analysis, Auditing, Accounting, Financial Analysis, Account Reconciliation, Training, Human Resources, GAAP, Financial Statements, SharePoint, Recruiting, Managerial Finance, Finance, Financial Accounting, Risk Management, Management, SAS70, PeopleSoft, US GAAP, Governance, Forecasting, Data Analysis, Financial Services, Assurance, Enterprise Risk...
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2008 – 2010
MACIS, Accounting
North Carolina State University 2004 – 2006
B.S., Accounting
Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP September 2014 – Present
Ingersoll Rand July 2014 – September 2014
Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP January 2013 – July 2014
Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP August 2012 – January 2013
Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP October 2011 – August 2012
PwC July 2010 – October 2011
Virginia Tech April 2008 – March 2010
US Department of Health & Human Services June 2006 – April 2008
Geoffrey Erwin
Greater Detroit Area
Maintenance Operations Professional
Facilities Services
Engineering, Continuous Improvement, Root Cause Analysis, 5S, Facilities Management, Maintenance Management, Operations Management, Safety Management..., Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Process Scheduler, Construction, Budgets, Customer Service, Contract Management, Contract Negotiation, Microsoft Office, Construction Management, Leadership, Project Management, Project Planning, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Management
Lofts at Merchants Row. November 2014 – Present
Wayne State University January 2011 – February 2014
Broder & Sachse Real Estate Services April 2006 – August 2010
Finsilver/Friedman Management Corporation April 2003 – September 2005
Farbman Group 1991 – 2003
Andrew Wong
San Francisco Bay Area
Software Engineer at HackerOne
Computer Software
Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, AJAX, JSP, ActionScript, PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, REST, JSON, SOAP, Eclipse, chrome, Firebug, Photoshop, Wireshark, jQuery, JUnit, OAuth, Perforce, Java web applications, Google App Engine, Heroku, Mockito, Selenium, Git, Backbone.js, Guice, Gradle, Salesforce.com
The University of British Columbia 2003 – 2008
Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering, Software Option, Minor in Commerce, 4.0 GPA
John Oliver Secondary School 1998 – 2003
HackerOne December 2014 – Present
Salesforce.com July 2012 – December 2014
Google November 2010 – July 2012
SAP September 2009 – October 2010
Electronic Arts May 2008 – May 2009
University of British Columbia January 2008 – April 2008
Business Objects April 2007 – August 2007
Autodesk Media & Entertertainment, Canada May 2006 – August 2006
Business Objects September 2005 – April 2006
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce May 2005 – August 2005
Traci Vaughn
Greater Nashville Area
Acting, Entertainment, Theatre, Singing, Stage, Musical Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Voice Over, Vocal, Choreography, Drama, Voice Acting, Directing, Improvisation, Hospitality, Plays, Emcee, Music, Photography, Songwriting, Comedy, Film, Theatrical Production, Festivals, Concerts, Piano, Jazz, Vocal Coaching, Recording
Columbia College Chicago 1986 – 1988
Wright State University 1981 – 1983
Zanesville High School
Private Edition June 2012 – Present
Delaware North Companies 2002 – 2005
Delta Queen Steamboat Company 1996 – 2002
American Hawaii Cruises 1990 – 1996
American Hawaii Cruises 1990 – 1996
James Pascarella
East Haddam, Connecticut
Deck Staining, Power Washing, Marketing, Management, Sales, Cold Calling, Social Media Marketing, Microsoft Office, Leadership, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Outlook
University of New Haven 2011 – 2011
Masters of Business Management, Sports Industries
University of New Haven 2008 – 2011
Bachelors of Science, Business Management
DeckSavers December 2012 – Present
DeckSavers June 2008 – November 2012
Webster Bank Arena at Harbor Yard August 2011 – January 2012
Tilcon June 2006 – June 2008
Allstar Automotive 2005 – 2006
Namco Pools 2004 – 2005
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Working Group Session: Business un-usual - Unpacking the latest regulations and scaling up operations in level 406 & 07 May 2020
We have officially moved to level 4 lockdown regulations. As such, our video conference working group sessions continued this week with our focus on unpacking these latest regulations and on scaling up operations in level 4.
In this week's discussion, we delved deeper into the following discussion points.
- COVID19-ready workplace plan
- Getting firms prepared for operations
- Getting workers prepared for operations
- Managing external value-chain factors: Logistics, ports and the transportation of goods


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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley impressed some Democrats and moderate Republicans with her Republican response to the State of the Union Tuesday night -- but there's already backlash brewing on the conservative right.
"Trump should deport Nikki Haley," conservative commentator Ann Coulter tweeted part way through Haley's speech. She later added: "Nikki Haley says 'welcoming properly vetted legal immigrants, regardless of religion.' Translation: let in all the Muslims."
Radio host Laura Ingraham also tweeted about Haley's speech, writing, "[Former Obama official] Van Jones just praised Nikki Haley speech. Enough said."
The lines in the speech getting particular notice are those that seem to allude to Donald Trump -- particularly when Haley said, "there's a tendency to falsely equate noise with results."
RELATED: Haley warns against following 'angriest voices' in GOP response
The quickly evolving sentiments underscore the deepening divide in the Republican Party - one that has many so-called "establishment" Republicans increasingly convinced that Trump is on his way to winning the nomination. It's a reality, many believe, that will fundamentally reshape the GOP as it's now known.
Haley's speech won praise from Republicans who've opposed Trump.
"Proud of my friend @nikkihaley for delivering a positive & uplifting response to Pres. Obama's #SOTU. Clear vision for a brighter future," Jeb Bush wrote on Twitter.
Other conservative pundits took to Twitter to defend the Palmetto State governor:
Democrats, too, praised Haley's address. "Really effective speech by @nikkihaley. Avoided the Response to SOTU curse," former Obama adviser David Axelrod wrote on Twitter.
This article originally appeared on NBCNews.com.


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Our Sun's Mysterious 11-Year Cycle Appears to Be Driven by Alignment of The Planets
Every 11 years, the Sun cycles through from riotous flare and sunspot activity to a quieter period, before ramping up again. SCIENCE ALERT It's almost as regular as clockwork, and for years astronomers have been wondering what causes it. Now, they've proposed a new solution. Even though the Solar System's planets are much smaller than the Sun, the gravity of some of them is able to influence our star's magnetic field. This, the researchers assert, is what controls the solar cycle. Venus, Earth, and Jupiter assert a small gravitational tug…Read More