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Greetings, dear brethren, in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ! First, let me apologize for such a long break between newsletters. This past school year my teaching schedule changed in such a way as to make it necessary for me to try and do almost all of my traveling to give reports to supporting congregations during the Spring and early Summer. Since the middle of March I have done just that, giving this year's report to twelve congregations. I still lack a couple that I will hopefully be seeing within the next couple of months. So, I have seen most of you in that time period, but getting out this newsletter has still been weighing on my mind.
As I said, I spent a lot of my time since March traveling, but most of that was in the months of April and May, since I was not in the classroom during the fourth quarter. However, once I returned from my trip in May, things got busy around here, as well. Our graduation exercises and activities filled the weekend of May 29-31. It is always exciting and sad at the same time as we say good-bye to our graduates; students we have grown to love so much. We bid them Godspeed and wish them every happiness and blessing in their work in God's kingdom!
June is always a busy month here at Bear Valley. For me, it involved teaching a class via our Polycom video conferencing system to the new students in Guatemala. We studied Old Testament Introduction. They seem like a great group of students. The next week was our Future Preacher Training Camp. This year we had 35 young men (ages 13-18). This is always an exciting week and this year was no different. On Saturday of that week, my family and I left for one more trip to give reports, visiting the congregations in Wagoner, Hugo and Tecumseh, Oklahoma.
Two major changes in my work also occurred this summer. A new class schedule was finalized that will add eight new courses to our curriculum over the two year period. One of the new classes is English Composition and I have been asked to teach that class in the first quarter, which begins August 3rd this year. I am currently working on the syllabus and class notes and schedule for that course. The other big change for me is that I have been asked to become the new Dean of Graduate Studies here at Bear Valley. It is a big job and a little intimidating (so I covet your prayers), but I'm excited about the opportunity, as well. I'll be sharing more details in future editions of this newsletter.
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Gold prices go up. Gold prices go down. But what does it mean to the person who's thinking of buying a piece of jewelry? Usually, not much - unless the commodity markets go wild - as they did in January 1980, when gold hit the $850-an-ounce mark briefly, enticing people to sell off their old gold rather than buy anything new. But once gold dropped below $600 an ounce, customers returned to the jewelry stores, and now. with gold selling at about $500, it's business as usual, retailers say.
''Jewelry is less subject to the vagaries of the economy than other industries,'' said Stephen L. Singer, president of Finlay, which operates jewelry departments in 400 stores. ''People are looking for something with a sense of permanency. They think gold may go up or down but it won't be valueless, it has lasting intrinsic value. People in this country are just learning the value of owning jewelry.''
How Consumers Are Affected
''Actually,'' he said, ''when the gold market goes down, retail prices are affected immediately because stores mark down what they have in stock. But when the market goes up, stores can't always be raising the prices of all their stock. They don't do that more than twice a year.
''When gold hit over $800, consumers got a bargain because there was no way the industry could reflect that price. It happened too fast. If the price had plateaued at that level the customer would eventually have had to pay.''
A Cartier spokesman said the store did have to raise its prices in February 1980. ''We make a lot of our own jewelry,'' she said, ''so we had to buy gold. But it was harder for us to sell at the higher prices. Then the market went down and we announced in April - at the same time Tiffany's did - that we were bringing our prices down 20 percent. Now the market has leveled off and people are buying again.''
After things settled, she said, many prices did end up higher than they had been at the beginning of last year. Cartier's famous ring of three twisted strands of white, yellow and pink gold went from $180 to $210. A decade ago, it was $75. The good news, she added, is that Cartier expects current prices to remain stable for the next six months.
The average price of gold in January 1979 was $227 an ounce on the world's commodity markets. A year later, the average was $674, ranging from a low of about $420 to that short-lived high of $850. Gold dropped below $500 at several points in March and April 1980 but was more than $600 for most of the year. Then, in December, gold started going down again, frequently to less than $500, averaging $499.76 for last month. This week it has been climbing slowly, reaching $541 in New York at the end of the trading day on Friday.
Amid these wide price fluctuations, it is sometimes difficult to remember that gold prices used to be fairly constant. What kept it constant was the establishment by the United States Government of an official price for gold, for many years at $35 an ounce and later, $42.22. The Government, at that time, stood ready either to buy or sell gold at these levels. And because of the pre-eminent position of the United States in the world currency markets, gold trading in other countries also tended to move closely around these prices. What finally set gold soaring was the Government's decision to cut loose the value of the dollar from gold in 1971 and to let gold trade freely.
Today, gold is traded 24 hours a day in markets around the world. The price varies freely from market to market. But for many industrial users, including jewelers, an easy reference point for the price is the daily gold ''fixings'' in London. At those fixings, five large gold dealers gather twice a day with orders from customers around the world. Based on their buy and sell orders, they arrive at a price which - for that moment - reflects the demand and supply.
In jewelry-making, gold is refered to in karats - the proportion of fine gold in an alloy. Fine, or pure gold, is 24 karat. This is generally considered too soft for making jewelry, so it is mixed or alloyed with other metals. Eighteen-karat gold is 18 parts gold, six parts other metal; 14-karat gold is 14 parts gold to 10 parts other metal. The higher the karatage, the more gold and hence, the higher the price of the jewelry. In this country, 14-karat gold is the most widely used.
''When gold is in the $600 area, it's difficult to sell heavy gold jewelry,'' said Marty Newman, Bloomingdale's jewelry buyer. ''So what happened last year was manufacturers started making lighter jewelry. Instead of casting earrings, they were stamping the gold to make it lighter. The finished product looks the same, but it's half the weight or less. And the price is half what it would be because in jewelry it's the gold you pay for. Labor doesn't effect the price of gold jewelry as much as the price of gold does.''
Bloomingdale's also carries neck chains made of hollow gold wire. These were introduced this season by Aurea, a division of Gori & Zucchi, one of the largest manufacturers of gold jewelry in the world. Again, the necklaces look exactly like chains made of solid gold wire but are 30 to 50 percent lighter, said Renato R. Bellu, sales manager of Aurea. Hollow Gold Chain Necklaces
''Stores have to have chains that sell for a certain price,'' Mr. Bellu explained. ''For less than $50, say. But we saw they were disappearing as gold went so high. So we worked for a year and a half to develop the technology to make the gold wires hollow. This reduces the prices.''
He held up two identical-looking chains, both of 14-karat gold. He placed one on a scale. It registered 7.3 grams. It would sell for about $240 in a store, he said. The other chain, which weighed four grams, would be about $90 retail. As Marty Newman put it: ''The customer is still buying gold and still getting the same look, but at a fraction of the price.''
And people still want gold, it seems. Mr. Singer of Finlay said: ''The consumer is very conscious of quality. A few years ago, our stores sold just as much costume jewelry as real jewelry. Today costume jewelry represents only about 14 to 18 percent of our sales.''


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John Siau received a BSEE from Syracuse University in 1980, and has 32 years of engineering design experience in audio, video and telecommunications systems. He holds two patents for video image stabilization systems. He has designed numerous A/D and D/A converters, low-jitter phase locked loops, digital signal processors, and FPGA cores. John is Vice President and an owner of Benchmark Media Systems. He designed all of Benchmark's converters and their two new microphone preamplifiers.
Benchmark has been providing leading-edge performance to broadcasters, recording studios, sound reinforcement contractors, and hi-fi enthusiasts since 1983 and their products have won numerous awards in both the professional and home audio industries. For over 25 years, all Benchmark products have been manufactured in Syracuse, NY. In 2008 Benchmark demonstrated its strong commitment to Central New York when it opened a new and expanded R&D and manufacturing facility in Syracuse.
John kindly shared his thoughts and opinions about the design issues around high quality audio conversion;
"For almost 30 years, Benchmark has been building audio equipment for applications that demand high transparency. Some well-respected audio manufacturers specialize in building equipment that is specifically designed to alter and color the audio. Both styles of equipment are equally important in the studio. Sometimes the recording engineer is striving for a true-to-life representation of a musical source, and at other times the engineer is artistically creating a sound. In both cases, the engineer must be familiar with the sonic characteristics of the gear he is using, and must have a monitoring chain that he can trust.
"The monitoring chain must be capable of accurately conveying every sonic nuance. Noise will obscure details. Distortion and frequency response variations will color the sound. Phase response problems will alter the stereo image. Jitter and other distortion artifacts that are specific to digital audio, may add harshness to the presentation. For these reasons, the monitoring chain is usually selected for maximum transparency. Benchmark's DAC1 D/A converters are specifically designed for transparency, and have gained tremendous popularity in the monitoring chains of recording studios and mastering rooms.
"In many ways, A/D and D/A converters are the most critical components in the digital chain. Converters can produce distortion that is very foreign to our analog world. Digital distortion mechanisms include quantization, aliasing, clock jitter, linearity errors, idle tones, and digital crosstalk. Each of these produce distortion that is inharmonic, non-musical, harsh, and unnatural. Fortunately, each form of digital distortion can be reduced to levels that are well below audibility. The required technologies have a cost, and it is not unusual to find products that take shortcuts. It is my opinion that many digital conversion products have enough digital distortion to explain audible differences."The distortion produced by digital systems should not be confused with the harmonic distortion produced by analog circuits. In many cases, analog circuits can produce a warmth and richness that contributes to the music. There are many analog products that are specifically designed to add harmonic distortion in order to create pleasing musical effects. In contrast, the artifacts produced by digital distortion tend to detract from the music. Therefore, it is important to understand, recognize, and eliminate the distortion mechanisms that can occur in a digital system.
"Quantization errors are amplitude errors that result from mapping an analog signal into a limited set of digital numbers. 16-bit systems give us 65,536 levels to quantize the analog signal. The 16-bit quantization error (due to rounding or truncation) is 1/65,536 or -96 dB. If we added only one bit, and created a 17-bit system, we would have 131,072 quantization levels, and a quantization error of 1/131,072 or -102 dB. Each added bit doubles the available quantization levels, and reduces the quantization error by 6.02 dB. At 24-bits, the quantization error is -144 dB, and is well below audibility.
"24-bit conversion is more than adequate to eliminate quantization errors. Noise from the microphone, the room , and the analog electronics, almost always exceeds the -144 dB noise contribution of the quantization errors. The analog noise at the input of a 24-bit A/D converter is always sufficient to fully dither the quantization errors. This dithering transforms the quantization errors into a random white noise at a level that is near -144 dBFS. If we examine analog systems at the atomic level, we discover that analog systems are quantized by the movement of individual electrons. Most 24-bit A/D and D/A converters have far more noise produced by the random motion of electrons (Johnson noise) than by the 24-bit quantization. Nothing is gained by increasing the converter word length beyond 24-bits. The amplitude response of a good 24-bit converter is entirely free of quantization steps.
"Dither randomizes quantization errors so that the error signal closely resembles a random noise signal. A properly dithered digital system is the equivalent of an analog system mixed with a noise signal. 1-bit DSD systems demonstrate how effective dithering can be. Quantization noise is -6 dB in a DSD system, but with proper dithering, the 1-bit digital system can produce a continuous amplitude response that rivals that of an analog system. The quantization noise in a 1-bit system is extremely high, and must be aggressively noise-shaped to frequencies above the limits of our hearing. DSD requires re-application of aggressive noise-shaping every time the DSD signal is processed. The 1-bit DSD audio signal degrades quickly with each processing step. For this reason DSD is always converted to PCM, in DSD processing systems. Benchmark strongly recommends avoiding 1-bit and 16-bit digital systems in a production environment. Every DSP processing step adds quantizing noise to the signal. Every bit that we add to our digital system quadruples the number of DSP processes that can be performed for a given amount of quantization noise. One 16-bit DSP operation generates as much noise as 65,536 24-bit DSP operations. For this reason, all processing in the studio should be done at a high bit depth (24 or more bits, never 16 or 1).
"Digital systems must be band-limited to 1/2 of the sample rate (also known as the Nyquist frequency). If any audio exceeding the Nyquist frequency is digitized, it will be aliased (frequency shifted) to a lower frequency. Modern oversampled A/D and D/A converters only exhibit small amounts of aliasing, and all of the alias tones that occur are very close to the Nyquist frequency. Converters running at 44.1 kHz will generally show some low-amplitude alias tones in the transition band between 20 kHz and 22.05 kHz. While these tones are probably inaudible, they are uncomfortably close to frequencies that we can hear. At 2X sample rates (88.2 kHz and 96 kHz) the transition band is moved above 40 kHz, and aliasing becomes a complete non-issue. There is no additional benefit to be gained by using 4X sample rates. Most converters actually provide better distortion and noise performance at 2X sample rates than at 4X rates. 4X rates are a product of marketing departments, and offer no sonic benefits. Benchmark supports 4X rates but recommends 2X rates."Converters can produce strange and unnatural distortion if digital codes do not have a linear mapping to analog voltage. Ideally, each digital step should represent exactly the same voltage change. Linearity errors resemble the crossover distortion that can occur in an analog class B output stage, except that the crossover errors occur at every major bit transition. Today's sigma-delta converters have near-perfect linearity to the 24-th bit, and have a true linear response. In contrast, ladder-network converters have linearity errors that produce significant levels of intermodulation distortion (IMD). In the early days of digital audio, all converters used ladder networks, and these early converters had significant linearity errors. Some ladder-network converters hide this defect by adding a slight DC offset. Ladder network A/D and D/A converters often have very low noise and outstanding dynamic range, but measure poorly on IMD tests. Benchmark does not use ladder-network converters because we believe that IMD problems can significantly reduce listening enjoyment.
"Clock jitter can create effects similar to wow and flutter, except that it usually occurs at much higher frequencies. Jitter usually produces a non-harmonic distortion effect that is non-musical. The peak amplitude of jitter-induced distortion increases when timing accuracy decreases. Jitter phase-modulates the audio, and creates distortion tones above and below each tone in the music. In theory, a perfect, noise-free, 24-bit converter would need a sampling clock timing accuracy of about +/- 1 pSec to keep jitter-induced distortion below -144 dBFS when digitizing a full-scale 20 kHz sine wave.
"To put this into perspective, light travels 1 foot in about 1000 pSec. Perfect 24-bit audio conversion would require remarkable clock accuracy. If we wish to keep jitter-induced distortion below -100 dBFS, we need a timing accuracy of about +/- 100 ps. Benchmark converters achieve a clock timing accuracy of better than +/- 8 pSec, a level that is sufficient to keep jitter induced distortion below -130 dBFS under all operating conditions. Jitter induced distortion is well below audible levels in Benchmark converters. Some converters omit expensive jitter attenuation circuits, and may produce audible jitter-induced sidebands. Unfortunately, external master clocks do very little to improve the jitter performance of these converters. Jitter must be attenuated inside the converter, just inches away from the converter sample and hold circuit.
"Fortunately, the technology exists to reduce all of these digital artifacts to inaudible levels, leaving a conversion system with an analog response. Nevertheless, many converters fail to reach their peak performance when operating in real-world conditions. The ideal operating conditions used to generate published specifications may not reflect typical conditions in a studio. To achieve digital transparency, a converter must be capable of rejecting jitter, power line interference, and radio interference. The converter should also be capable of driving heavy output loads over a range of input and output levels. Benchmark converters are designed to maintain peak performance over a wide range of operating conditions."
John Siau
Benchmark Media Systems, Inc.
26 March 2012
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Armed forces Day flag raising ceremony to be held in Great Yarmouth
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A flag-raising ceremony will be held at the front of Great Yarmouth Town Hall on Monday, June 18, at 10am, as part of celebrations ahead of Armed Forces Day.
Cllr Mary Coleman, the mayor of the Great Yarmouth borough, will hoist the Armed Forces flag in a short ceremony led by Rev Albert Cadmore.
Everyone in the borough is invited to attend to the event.
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Armed Forces Day, on Saturday, June 30, is an opportunity for people to show their support for the men and women who make up the Armed Forces community.
Celebrations begin on Monday, June 18 when the Armed Forces Day flag is raised on buildings and famous landmarks around the country.


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Disrupting Inequitable Access to Justice
Access to a fair and equitable justice system and humility go hand in hand. In this workshop, you will explore the ways in which justice professionals can be better advocates and mentors, including by exploring what Level is currently doing to drive change.
Brittany Twiss
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Brittany Twiss is a graduate from Queen's University and hold a J.D. with a specialization in Social Justice from the University of Ottawa. She volunteered and worked as a human rights advocate in Tanzania, Thailand, and the United Kingdom, with a focus on gender based violence, sexual exploitation and access to justice for women and children. Following law school, she joined a prominent family law litigation firm in Toronto, where she represented clients in high conflict cases at all levels of court in Canada.
Brittany has been involved with Level (formerly Canadian Lawyers Abroad) since 2009, and was appointed Executive Director in August 2013.
Level is committed to disrupting inequitable access to justice by cultivating innovation and empathy in the legal sector. Level's Indigenous Youth Outreach Program empowers youth to be leaders in their classrooms and communities through specialized justice education workshops. Level also advances human rights through innovative research, mentorship and advocacy initiatives.
Kenya-Jade is Level's Articling Student and Program Manager. During law school she participated in the Refugee Assistance Project as well as the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program, an flexed her written and oral advocacy skills in Buenos Aires, Argentina as co-counsel in the foreign Direct Investment Arbitration Moot. Kenya-Jade is also a documentary photographer who is passionate about using the power of law and photography to tell stories for social change. After 1L, on assignment with Photographers Without Borders, she photographed HIV/AIDS education initiatives in rural Uganda. She was then commissioned by the International Commission of Jurists in Nairobi to photograph the plight of Internally Displaced Peoples affected by post-election violence in a project titled, Not Yet Home.
Kenya-Jade is currently working with Level to illuminate the access to justice crisis in Canada.


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Another booksale, another haulPosted by donny on Jun 4, 2007 in Reading | 2 comments
Here's another happy outing. Hadn't even realized there was a sale going on – a quick stop over and voila! Booksale.
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Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Trial, Franz Kafka
The Man in the High Castle, Philip K Dick
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Long Good-bye, Raymond Chandler
Saturday, Ian McEwan
May 13, Kua Kia Soong
I've always been on the lookout for Raymond Chandler. Having sampled Dashiell Hammett, I wonder how Philip Marlowe can compare to Sam Spade, and I can't wait to see which one I like more.


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High School Basketball
Your guide to this year's 11th Region boys' basketball tournament
The boys' 11th Region basketball tournament hasn't produced a repeat winner since the 2009 season, when Lexington Catholic came out of the state's most brutal field for the second time in as many years.
That could change in 2018: Scott County, last year's 11th Region champ and the preseason No. 1 team in the state, has not lost to a Kentucky opponent this season and is 31-1 overall.
The Cardinals are currently ranked second statewide, are second in scoring at 79.2 points per game and are tops in scoring margin at 22.2 points a night. They'll put their state-best 23-game win streak on the line against Madison Southern in the first round Wednesday at Eastern Kentucky University's McBrayer Arena.
Michael Moreno, a 2019 Mr. Basketball challenger, leads Scott County in scoring (20.1) and rebounding (11.0). He has offers from Iowa, Eastern Kentucky University and Bradley.
Charlotte signee Cooper Robb, this year's Wah Wah Jones award winner, averages 14.1 points and shoots 40 percent from beyond the arc while junior Diablo Stewart, who transferred from Franklin County, averages 12.4 points and is even hotter from long range at 45.8 percent.
Scott County's next closest challengers appear to be Lexington Christian Academy and Madison Central, two top-10 programs that it couldn't meet until the finals. No. 5 LCA opens against Frankfort, whom it handled in the 11th Region All "A" Classic finals, and No. 3 Madison Central in the first round will play No. 13 Bryan Station, which defeated the Indians twice in the regular season.
Lexington Christian has won 18 of its last 19 games, and its only two losses in 2018 were to Lexington Catholic. The Eagles knocked off the Knights in the 43rd District semifinals before getting past Lafayette with ease in the 43rd District championship. The Eagles were this year's All "A" Classic state champions but are seeking their first berth to the Sweet Sixteen. A trio of big men — seniors Carter Hendricksen (19.1, 9.0 rebounds) and Austin Hall (16.5, 7.6) and junior Kyle Rode (15.2, 7.3) lead LCA in scoring and rebounding.
Frankfort had not lost in 41st District play until Woodford County defeated the Panthers, 54-40, for the 41st District championship. Junior star John Tillman (16.9 ppg, 10.8 rpg) leads the Panthers, who have won six of their previous eight games. Frankfort has lost 14 straight games to LCA, its last win in the series coming in 2003.
Of Madison Central's seven losses this season, six were to teams still playing in the postseason and all were to top-25 programs. Junior Isaiah Cozart has 415 career blocks, putting him 26 away from eclipsing the career record set by Paintsville's J.R. VanHoose in 1998. Cozart leads the Indians in rebounding (9.7) but senior Dustin Geralds isn't too far behind him at 9.2 per game. Geralds leads the team in scoring (16.3) while Cozart is second (13.0). Isaiah Minter (12.3 ppg) shoots 41.9 percent from three-point range for the Indians.
Bryan Station's wins over Madison Central were 20 days apart — the Defenders won an impromptu meeting, 77-69, in the Berea Invitational Tournament semifinals before defeating the Indians at home, 68-62, in January — and helped vault the team into the spotlight. Since then Station has lost to Scott County three times, most recently in the 42nd District finals, by a combined score of 242-170. It's also suffered double-digit losses to Lafayette (whom it beat earlier this season) and LCA in recent weeks.
Still, the Defenders have one of the state's best seniors — Mr. Basketball finalist Eric "Boss" Boone, a triple-double threat who's good for a double-double (20.0 ppg, 11.0 rpg) every night — and can point to multiple wins over top-20 teams (they defeated Henry Clay three times this season and won at Pulaski County in the penultimate week of the regular season) as evidence of their ability.
Lafayette is 4-4 over its last eight games, three of the losses coming against LCA and the other against Trinity, the Seventh Region favorite. The Generals, led by Eric Powell in scoring (13.5) and Cam King in three-point shooting (41.7 percent), are one of a handful of 11th Region teams that played Scott County within single digits this season. Lafayette lost 75-68 in the Toyota Classic in mid-January.
Woodford County, Lafayette's first-round opponent, played the Cardinals closer than any other team in the region; it fell 60-56 at home on Feb. 8, a couple weeks after the Cardinals cruised to an 87-45 win in the Toyota Classic. The Yellow Jackets have won only six of their 17 games since the new year but bring a three-game win streak into the tournament after winning the 41st District title. Brandon Cromwell (17.1) and Nicholas Smith (16.0) are among the tournament's leading scorers.
The Lafayette-Woodford winner will get the winner between Madison Southern and Scott County in the semifinals. Southern lost to Madison Central in the 44th District finals one season after ending the Indians' 21-year streak of championships. The Eagles are 3-7 against 11th Region competition this season and are 4-12 since January. Shawn Short, a senior, leads Madison Southern in scoring (14.2) and rebounding (5.0).
Scott County has won 15 region titles, its first 10 coming as a member of the Eighth Region. Lafayette has won the region 12 times, its last coming in 2001, when it won the Sweet Sixteen.
Frankfort has the next most with six. The Panthers won one title in the Eighth Region and four in the Seventh Region. Their last title came as an 11th Region school in 1935.
Bryan Station has won five titles, its last one coming in 1989. Madison Central has four, its most recent leading to a state championship in 2013. Woodford County won its only region title in 1986.
Madison Southern has never won a region title.
Josh Moore: 859-231-1307, @HLpreps
Boys' 11th Region Tournament
At Eastern Kentucky University
Wednesday: Lexington Christian (25-7) vs. Frankfort (16-13), 6:30; Madison Central (24-7) vs. Bryan Station (23-7), 8:15
Thursday: Scott County (31-1) vs. Madison Southern (12-19), 6:30; Woodford County (17-13) vs. Lafayette (20-9), 8:15
Saturday: Semifinals at 1:30 and 3:15 p.m.
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Service was restored by 2 p.m. across all areas in Kentucky, Keller said.
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Latest Jobs at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International, 8th Nov., 2018
Action Against Hunger works to save lives by combating hunger and diseases that threaten the lives of vulnerable communities, through nutrition, food security, water and sanitation, health and advocacy.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
Location: Monguno, Borno
Job Type: Full Time
Starting date: as soon as possible
Direct Line Manager: Deputy Monitoring and Evaluation Manager
Objective 1
- Support the operationalization of M&E systems on AAH projects to ensure compliance with donor and AAH M&E standards.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Develop and update/pre-test quality assurance checklist tools for M&E team in collaboration with M&E DPM and project staff.
- Provide support to the review and development of M&E systems for new projects, in collaboration with M&E DPM and projects teams at the field level.
- Support teams to pilot data collection tools and integrate the findings into the final tools.
- Facilitate project's use of mobile data collection by leading on the process and troubleshooting.
- Train and manage the M&E Field Assistants to carry out regular M&E functions, ensuring that all HR procedures and policies are respected.
- Conduct appraisals of M&E Field Assistants as required by AAH performance management guidelines.
Objective 2
- Ensure proper and timely implementation of AAH M&E tools, activities, and reporting.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Ensure timely and quality data collection, inclusive of needs assessments, household registration, baseline/endline surveys, PDMs, KAP surveys, and others.
- Ensure implementation of M&E plan through routine monitoring of activities at the field level.
- Support program team to ensure quantitative APRs are updated based on activities accomplished for the month.
- Lead on the implementation of qualitative and participatory tools, including focus group discussions and key informant interviews to collect data from various groups in the community.
- Ensure timely and quality data entry, analysis, and interpretation by working closely with the program, tech, and M&E teams.
- Undertake regular site visits and monitor the design and execution of surveys and other assessments, case studies, and accountability mechanisms to ensure that proper sampling and methodology are used.
- Perform data cleaning on all data collected and upload into the server.
- Perform data analysis of M&E data for different projects as needed through Excel or other statistical software.
- Provide training to program teams on program activity monitoring and reporting.
Objective 3
- Document and promote good practice from planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of activities.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Proactively identify good practices based on M&E findings and encourage utilization of data.
- Support M&E Deputy Manager to identify lessons learned and best practices, and produce case studies and human interest stories through collation and analysis of M&E information.
Objective 4
- Represent AAH externally in relevant forums and working groups at State level.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Represent AAH externally in issues related to monitoring, evaluation, accountability and reporting (consortia, alliances and clusters) as needed.
Objective 5
- Performance Management.
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- Communicate Action Against Hunger performance standards and expectations to team members which includes ; 10 minutes monthly conversation, 3 months/end of probation performance appraisal and annual/ end of contract appraisal.
- Establish performance objectives, provide feedback, identify strengths and areas for professional improvement.
- Contribute to the professional development and improvement of team members by providing support.
Objective 6
- Additional Responsibilities
Tasks & Responsibilities:
- This job description is not intended to be all inclusive and the employee will also perform other related tasks as required and is responsible for reporting and communication of progress and achievement of the specific assigned task.
- The employee should be flexible and adaptable with regards to the implementation of the daily work/activities.
- The employee is expected to conduct all duties in a professional manner following AAH Nigeria mission staff regulations and charter.
Internal & External Relationship
- Deputy Manager M&E: Technical hierarchical relationship – exchange of information, collaboration, coordination.
- Project Manager: Operational hierarchical relationship– exchange of information, reporting, collaboration, coordination.
- Project Officers: Ensure exchange of information, collaboration and coordination.
- M&E Field Assistants: Manage M&E Field Assistants to ensure exchange of information, collaboration and coordination.
- Other AAH M&E staff: exchange of information, collaboration and coordination.
- Governmental and non-governmental partners: exchange of information, coordination, training, supervision, influence on choice of technical options.
- Representatives of international aid organizations: exchange of information.
- Representatives of donors: exchange of information, technical discussions, project related exchanges.
- Degree in Economics, International Development, Statistics, Public Health, Demography or related subject, with previous experience working in humanitarian projects.
- Minimum of 2 years relevant work experience in a similar position.
Skills & Experience
- Demonstrated knowledge of M&E concepts and international humanitarian quality standards.
- Experience with mobile data collection (preferred).
- Excellent computer skills, particularly with Microsoft Excel, spreadsheets, Sphere standard, SPSS, SPHINX, or other statistical packages.
- Experience of data collection, collation, analysis, and report writing.
- Fluency in English and Hausa (both written and spoken skills).
- Professional, motivated, open, creative, mature, responsible, flexible and, culturally sensitive.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills, and ability to work under pressure.
- Excellent team, budget and project management and representation competencies.
- Commitment to and understanding of AAH aims, values and principles.
- Willing and able to be based and travel regularly within remote areas, where services are limited.
- Strong interpersonal and community norms understanding.
- Experience in community development programming, preferably in nutrition, food security, livelihoods or WASH.
- Experience with mobile data collection processes and platforms.
- Experience in statistical analysis.
- Experience with participatory fieldwork methodologies.
- Resident and familiar with the terrain in the Northeast Nigeria.
Deadline: 12th November, 2018.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Grants and Reporting Manager
Location: Maiduguri, Borno
About the Program
Action Against Hunger has been operational in Nigeria since 2010 responding to both chronic and acute needs through a multi-sector strategy where nutrition, Food Security and Livelihoods and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene activities are integrated to have a meaningful impact on people's resilience.
The main objectives of the country program are: To continue building on Action Against Hunger's reputation for nutritional expertise to deliver integrated nutrition, WASH and FSL assistance in the high caseload Northern Nigeria States and build evidence from out pilot projects to influence policy makers to find long lasting solutions to under nutrition and hunger; To respond to the dire humanitarian situation created by the devastating conflict on-going in the North East while applying, where possible, attempts to find durable solutions in line with the New ways of Working and Humanitarian Development Nexus.
With a central office in Abuja and 3 main field office across the North, Action Against Hunger runs intervention in 3 States of Northern Nigeria including two States affected by the on-going conflict. We have a country team of around 550 staff (45 international) and a budget for 2018 projected at 50 M US$. Our main donors and partners in Nigeria include USAID/OFDA & FFP, DFID, ECHO, EU EDF, AFD, UNICEF, SIDA, SDC and GAC.
You'll Contribute to Ending World Hunger By:
- leading the development of donor reports in line with the Action Against Hunger Nigeria Mission in Maiduguri.
Key Activities
To lead the development of donor reports in line with the Action Against Hunger Nigeria Mission and donor requirements:
- Responsible for the overall management of delegated donor reporting processes, especially narrative reporting. This will include ensuring narrative reports are timely, comprehensive, coherent and in line with donor requirements.
- Ensure in particular that reporting guidelines, formats, philosophy, deadlines for each project and donor is communicated clearly and standardized across the country for new and on-going projects.
- Maintain a reporting tracker, and ensure regular and timely sharing of formats and requirements with the relevant departments.
- Ensure that donor timelines and deadlines are monitored, managed, and met for project reporting;
- Development formats for, prepare, review, compile, provide feedback on, and finalize draft donor reports, editing for format, grammar, and content.
- Develop knowledge of Action Against Hunger internal policies, reporting and proposal guidelines for donor organizations funding Nigeria programs/projects;
To support the Grants & Compliance Co in the development of high quality funding proposals in line with the Action Against Hunger Nigeria Mission, international strategies as well as donor requirements:
- Maintain an in-depth knowledge of Action Against Hunger internal policies and proposal guidelines for donor organizations funding Nigeria programs/projects.
- Support the coordination between technical and operational teams to ensure that proposals and concept notes are developed with required input from all relevant departments and to ensure that the documents meet quality standards, and are prepared in compliance with donor requirements.
- Conduct secondary research in order to inform new opportunities and designs.
- Develop Action Against Hunger Nigeria concept notes and proposals, abiding by the guidelines set out by the donor and by Nigeria internal policies. This will involve developing proposal documents including narrative proposals, budget narrative, narrative, monitoring and evaluation documents, and other documents as necessary.
- Coordinate with staff from other Action Against Hunger Nigeria departments (technical sectors, finance, and field staff) to compile relevant information and documents to support proposal development.
- Coordinate any donor feedback and ensure timely submission of requested feedback and re-submission.
- Ensure that donor timelines and deadlines are monitored, managed, and met for proposal development.
- Maintain a proposal tracker, and ensure regular and timely sharing of formats and requirements with the relevant departments.
- Travel to the field sites as needed to support program reporting/grants management.
To support internal coordination and communication within the Action Against Hunger Nigeria mission:
- Support the Project managers in grant opening, review, and closing meetings, including attendance at meetings when possible.
- Minute regularly internal coordination meetings (weekly coordination meeting, monthly, coordination meetings, kick off meeting etc.).
- Assist with research on funding opportunities, and potential donors, partners, and their strategies.
- Facilitate the dissemination of specific information and documents, as and when required.
To assist communications and visibility activities of Action Against Hunger Nigeria:
- Develop communications and visibility documents, templates, presentations, videos and other materials in line with Action Against Hunger Nigeria mission strategy as requested.
- Edit case stories, success stories and photographs of beneficiaries for external sharing.
- Assist the Grants Coordinator in providing regular informal updates on projects, by sending pictures and articles on projects progress and/or specific events for Donors/Action Against Hunger Newsletter and Annual Report.
To support filing and archiving of grant documents:
- Ensure comprehensive grant files are maintained up to date and are available for use in both hard and soft copy (proposals, contracts, amendments, reports etc.).
Does this Description Fit You?
- You have University degree in relevant field (Fundraising, Public Relations, Communications, Development, Humanitarian Aid, International Relations); Masters degree preferred.
- You have at least 3 years of experience working in relief or development programs.
- You have previous successful experience developing projects and writing proposals and/or reports for public and/or private donors.
- You have knowledge of main donor regulations and priorities, including USAID, DFID, EU, UN and ECHO;
- You are fluent in English.
- You are Detail oriented, organized, and able to manage competing urgent requests and priorities.
- You are experienced in proposal writing and donor reporting.
- You have experience in project cycle management.
- You have the ability to work in a multicultural context and be a team player.
Our Core Values
In this position, you are expected to demonstrate Action Against Hunger-USA-USA's five core competencies:
- Respect- we work with compassion and dedication, treating everyone the same way we expect them to treat us.
- Integrity-we believe that being honest and fair is integral to every aspect of our work; conducting our work with a spirit of sincerity, truthfulness and transparency is imperative.
- Creativity-we encourage new ideas, embrace innovative solutions, and create opportunities for meaningful and exciting ways to do our jobs and provide solutions to address the needs of the populations we serve.
- Excellence- we strive to provide services that meet, and even exceed, the expectations of our stakeholders (populations in need, staff, communities and donors).
- Empowerment- we are committed to fostering an environment in which our staff, partners and communities where we work have the space to grow, develop and feel confident about participating.
Action Against Hunger values its employees and offers a comprehensive remuneration and benefits package. These include but are not limited to:
- Health Insurance
- R&R Breaks
- Paid annual leave (vacation)
- Training opportunities
- Child allowance.
Deadline: 4pm EAT; 15th November, 2018.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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(June 29, 2016)- A Cape Coral Police Detective has resigned following startling allegations of deceiving the Cape Coral Police Department.
Kordelle McKissack, resigned from the Cape Coral Police Department today. Information came to light during a court proceeding yesterday and was provided to the Cape Coral Police Department that McKissack allegedly lied during the employment process with the department 13 years ago. McKissack denied being under investigation on an official form during his application for employment with the Cape Coral Police Department. Information revealed in court yesterday showed that he was under investigation for an allegation of sexual battery at the time of his application with the Cape Coral Police Department in 2003.
"When we received the information yesterday, I immediately directed the Professional Standards Bureau to open an Internal Affairs investigation into this matter. I was informed today that Detective McKissack opted to resign from the department. In spite of this turn of events, the investigation will go forward to completion and the results will be forwarded to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission (CJSTC)," said Interim Chief Dave Newlan.
The Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission is the body that certifies police officers in the state of Florida. Moral character violations, such as lying or perjury, can be grounds for de-certification.
"We go to great lengths to vet potential police officers. Each applicant must complete pre-employment testing, go through a panel interview, satisfactorily complete a background check, and are subjected to a polygraph, drug screen, and psychological evaluation. Fewer than 10% of applicants make it through. In this case, the allegation of sexual battery was not disclosed by either Detective McKissack or his former employer," according to Newlan. The Internal Affairs investigation will show what occurred definitively.
Background investigators with the Cape Coral Police Department conduct extensive employment and reference checks on sworn and civilian employees as well as volunteers. This process can take several months to complete, especially if candidates or their references are out of the area. Interim Chief Newlan continued, "The Cape Coral Police Department was never provided with derogatory information pertaining to Kordelle McKissack, by his former employer, the Spring Hill Police Department in Spring Hill, Tennessee. In fact, their past Chief of Police, Reggie Pope, provided a very positive letter of recommendation. If the facts of the Internal Affairs investigation support what was alleged to have been happening at the time, this was patently deceptive on the part of Pope."
McKissack had been on administrative leave since March 7, 2016 pending the completion of a separate Internal Affairs investigation pertaining to allegations of untruthfulness as the affiant in a search warrant in a criminal investigation. This investigation is still pending and will be completed and forwarded to FDLE and the CJSTC as well.
"We hold ourselves to the highest standards of professional conduct here at the Cape Coral Police Department. We will continue to do everything necessary to maintain the public trust we have worked so hard to earn," Interim Chief Dave Newlan, Cape Coral Police Department.
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GRAHAM � Two Alamance County commissioners said this week they plan to oppose a 3.5-cent property tax rate increase recommended by County Manager Craig Honeycutt.
How their three counterparts will vote wasn�t clear.
Commissioners Tim Sutton and Bill Lashley said the county should find ways to fund its 2013-14 budget without raising taxes. A public hearing will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at Williams High School auditorium on Honeycutt�s recommended budget.
A 3.5-cent increase would raise the county�s property tax rate from 52 cents to 55.5 cents per $100 of assessed value. The increase would provide the county with an additional $4.2 million in 2013-14.
Honeycutt�s recommended budget also calls for a 5-percent raise for all county employees.
A 9-percent raise is slated for Alamance County Sheriff�s Office sworn employees and detention officers. The non-sworn employees with the sheriff�s office would receive a 5-percent raise. Sheriff Terry Johnson said he plans to fund those raises within his existing budget.
Commissioner Tim Sutton said Wednesday that he would not support any tax increases for 2013-14 and believes the county should do a better job with its finances.
�We are not as efficient as we can be,� Sutton said. �I will not support raising taxes in this economy.�
Sutton said he doesn�t believe the county should raise property taxes to pay for county employees� raises. The 5-percent raise would cost the county $1.7 million to implement.
The county�s current property tax rate was set in 2010 after the 2009 reevaluation. Sutton said some have criticized the county for setting the rate below revenue neutral.
�The truth is we don�t have to set the rate at revenue neutral,� Sutton said. �If we can�t run this county off 52 cents, there is something wrong.�
The county decreased the rate from 58 cents to 52 cents after its revaluation, a move that pushed the rate below revenue neutral. Since the revaluation in 2009, the county has lost $9,109,319 in revenue due to the rate being below revenue neutral.
Lashley said Wednesday he believes Honeycutt hasn�t done enough to cut employee positions to save money and he isn�t pleased with Honeycutt�s recommended budget.
�I am against increasing taxes,� Lashley said. �What we need to do is cut positions in inspections because we are way overstaffed.�
Commissioner David Smith said Wednesday a property tax rate increase may be inevitable.
�There�s probably going to have to be a tax increase,� Smith said. �The manager provided justification for that.�
Smith said if the county had adjusted its property tax rate four years ago after realizing that it was below revenue neutral then the county would be in better financial shape. He also offered other budget suggestions for 2013-14.
Smith would like to see the county purchase some new vehicles for the sheriff�s office by using $500,000 from the health department�s savings to buy them. Smith said the new vehicles are needed because some of the sheriff�s office�s current vehicles have more than 150,000 miles.
Smith suggested that the amount allocated toward the county�s fund balance at year-end be trimmed. Honeycutt recommended the county add $1.5 million to the fund balance by June 30, 2014. Smith said this amount could be cut in half to help offset expenses for 2013-14. Smith said some of these funds could be used to add another crew to the county EMS.
Commissioner Tom Manning said this week he will wait until the public hearing to decide whether to support a tax increase. Manning said he would also like to see a plan from Honeycutt on how the county could set aside funds for economic development.
Commissioner Linda Massey was not present during the May 20 board meeting when Honeycutt presented his recommended budget. Massey said on Thursday she had received a copy of the recommended budget and reviewed it but hadn�t decided whether to support the recommended property tax rate increase.
Overall, the recommended budget for the county in 2013-14 is for $146,311,539 in total appropriations. The recommended general fund is for $127,807,691.
The county received a request from the Alamance-Burlington School System for $34,520,907 for operations and $750,000 for repair and maintenance. Honeycutt�s recommended budget provides $32,655,000 to ABSS, which allocates $32,405,000 for operations and $250,000 for repairs and maintenance. The county provided ABSS with $31,155,000 in 2012-13 for operations.
Over the past few years, the county�s overall revenues have been sluggish.
Since fiscal year 2009, the county�s tax base has decreased by 0.92 percent or $115 million, to $12,353,452,768.
�All classes of property, real, personal and public service have experienced decreases,� Honeycutt�s recommended budget message stated. �The majority of this decrease has been through property value appeals. Now we are seeing a loss through the depreciation of motor vehicles.�
Honeycutt said sales tax revenues are slowly increasing. The recommended budget forecasts a 3.4-percent increase in sales tax revenue for the county in 2013-14.
The county is projected to receive $21,100,000 in sales tax revenue for 2013-14, compared to $20,400,000 projected for 2012-13. The county received $17,328,376 in sales tax revenue for 2011-12.
The county is projected to receive $66,648,793 in property taxes for 2013-14 with the 3.5-cent rate increase factored in the projection, as compared to $61,693,787 in property taxes in 2012-13. That represents an 8 percent increase in property tax revenues.


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- Chablis 2016 - James Suckling - February 2018 - 91/100
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Honey, apple, and flint flavors are the hallmarks of this white, which is round but has good cut. Long lime-and-stone finish. Drink now through 2021.
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John Woo's A Better Tomorrow by Karen Fang (Hong Kong University Press)
As I was walking to work the other day, I couldn't help but notice the poster for a forthcoming film that would soon be shown at my local theater, a Korean remake of a John Woo classic –A Better Tomorrow. Sometime in the mid to late 80s, a friend introduced me to the world of Hong Kong cinema. This was long before John Woo or Chow Yun Fat became popular in the United States, back when the only opportunity to see Hong Kong films was at small independent theaters that would have Hong Kong film festivals from time to time. This particular film was probably my first exposure to Hong Kong action movies and after one viewing I was hooked.
But this book isn't just a film review, it is a critical analysis of the New Hong Kong Cinema and its impact on the film industry at home and abroad. It explains its rise along with the globalization of film, which both occurred over the same period between the mid 80s and late 90s.
Before this movie was released, John Woo was known as a director of romantic comedies while Chow Yun Fat had the lead role in some movies but was known mostly for the TV soap operas he appeared in. However, with the release of this film, it became one of the highest-grossing the year of its release and shot John Woo and Chow Yun Fat to superstar fame. This film also sparked a new genre – the action/crime film, or yingxiong pian which translates to a "hero" movie, which the West described as "heroic bloodshed".
For those of you unfamiliar with the movie, the plot centers around three main characters – Sung Ji-Ho played by Ti Lung, Mark Gor, or Brother Mark, played by Chow Yun Fat, and Kit played by Leslie Cheung (a very popular pop idol at the time). Sung Ji-Ho is a successful criminal who built his empire upon counterfeiting. Brother Mark is his loyal partner. Kit is Ho's younger brother who is a cadet in the police academy and does not know that his older brother is involved in criminal activities. On a business trip to Taipei, Ho is framed for a crime he didn't commit. He eludes the police, however, in order to protect his younger brother and Mark, he decides to turn himself in but insists that a rookie member of his gang, Shing, should escape. The following day Mark makes a trip to Taipei to avenge Ho and kills most of those responsible but is shot and crippled in the leg.
Ho spends the next three years in prison with hardly any contact with Kit or Mark. Kit, who learns of his brother's criminal activities, trains even harder with the police force. When Ho is released and tries to reach out to Kit by telling his younger brother that he has gone straight, Kit shuns him. However, Mark is overjoyed at being reunited with his friend and suggests taking revenge on Shing, whom they have discovered was the one who betrayed them. They plan to do this by exposing Shing to the police and to help Kit advance in his career and to prove that Ho has indeed gone straight.
Everything goes as planned but comes at a really high cost. Mark is killed but before he dies, he chastises Kit for not recognizing the love Ho has for him. In the end, Kit goes against police regulations and lets his brother kill Shing. Ho wants to do right by his younger brother so he handcuffs himself to Kit and returns to police custody.
Getting back to the core of the book, Fang describes the different ways in which the film was received by its home audience and its global prominence as well. In Hong Kong when the film was first released in 1986, it became a record-breaking blockbuster. The original title in Mandarin is Yingxiong bense or in Cantonese Yinghuhng bunsik which translates to True Colors of Valor or The Essence of Heroes, suggesting that the plot is about chivalry, family ties, loyalty, and honor. However, with the international English title of A Better Tomorrow,the foreign press suggested that the movie was politically influenced by Hong Kong's forthcoming return to China.
However, I'm not one for analyzing movies in minute detail. If it entertains me, then the movie has served its purpose. After watching this film, I found myself becoming biased, feeling as if these yingxiong pian films made Hollywood action movies seem like Disney productions. If this film excites you as much as it did me, you will find yourself becoming a fan of John Woo's other Hong Kong action films which also star Chow Yun Fat such as Hard Boiled, The Killer, and Bullet in the Head.
I may have to make a trip to my local DVD rental store to watch these all over again. And of course I look forward to seeing the Korean remake as well.~Ernie Hoyt


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Commemorating the 25 years since French composer, poet, singer, painter and screenwriter Serge Gainsbourg last performed, Stefie Shock recreates the provocative,, satirical, and sensual style that is oh-so Gainsbourg. Known famously for his affairs with beautiful actresses of the day, he had a brief ardent affair with Brigitte Bardot. A year later he fell in love with much younger English singer and actress, Jane Birkin. Married many times in his lifetime, and in love many more, Gainsbourg leaves a legacy of life and music. Stefie Shock along with Pascale Buissiere, Fanny Bloom and Gaële recreate an evening of Gainsbourg's most passionate, sensual music.
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In the early hours of this morning, the box alarm was sounded for a reported house fire on Easy Street in Co1's first due of Owings, Maryland.
Engine 51 (6 personnel), Engine 52 (4 personnel), Truck 5 (5 personnel), Safety Officer, and the Fire Chief responded immediately.
NBVFD Chief 1A arrived first and reported a two story split foyer with fire showing from all four sides.
Truck 5 arrived directly behind NBVFD E11. Both Dunkirk engines arrived shortly thereafter and advanced attack lines to the house while the truck crew threw multiple ground ladders and started to ventilate in conjunction with the fire attack. An aggressive interior attack was mounted with crews from NBVFD, Huntingtown, and Dunkirk.
Crews operated for approximately 30 minutes before the fire was placed under control.
Engine 51 and Engine 52 operated attack lines on the second floor while the truck crew opened up and conducted the primary search.
Chief 5 was assigned Operations.
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Chief 1A had command.
The sole resident was treated and transported for precautionary medical evaluations.
Ambulance 58 was dispatched to fill the scene while the first due ambulance tended to the homeowner.
This incident is under investigation by the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office.