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Police are offering a reward of £20,000 to anyone who can provide information to help find a suspect in the assault of a heavily pregnant woman in south east London. Malorie Bantala, 21, lost her unborn baby when she was eight months pregnant after she was repeatedly kicked and stamped on by two men in Peckham on 15 June.
The two men, both wearing crash helmets, then ran away from the scene at Talfourd Place in the direction of Denman Road. One suspect, Kevin Wilson, 20, from Bermondsey, has already been charged in connection with the incident. Metropolitan Police are now offering the "substantial sum" to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the second suspect involved.
Detective Inspector David Suddick, from the Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: "Although one man has been charged, we have yet to identify the second person involved in this horrific attack. The victim has recovered physically from her ordeal but naturally remains devastated at the loss of her baby. Somewhere out there is a very violent individual and we hope the offer of this reward may encourage someone to come forward. If you have any information, please contact us."
Wilson, Bantala's former boyfriend, is to stand trial in November accused of "intent to destroy the life of a child capable of being born alive, by a wilful act, namely kicking and stamping on the stomach of the 32 weeks pregnant mother, causing the child to die before it had any existence independent of its mother" and "unlawfully and maliciously" causing grievous bodily harm to Bantala with intent.
Anyone who can help is asked to contact the incident room on 020 8345 3985 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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Donald Trump is the best friend Progressives in the US have ever had. As you will see, he has just managed to radicalize nine percent of the population -- and while that may not seem much at first glance -- it means change for the rest of us.
Hillary, if elected, would have been a continuation of Obama, a conservative in liberal's fleece (to mix a metaphor) – no less right wing than any TeaBugger -- and no less dangerous to human rights, the environment or world peace – not to mention toxic for progressives – because she was someone the sheeple -- a majority of voters at least -- called their own. How fortunate that we do not live in a democracy and she wasn't voted in.
|Liberal = Conservative
For a majority of people, leadership is all about appearances.
Obama was a handsome man with cute kids. He looked Black – so he must be liberal, right? Because blacks are…well…blacks. – even the white ones.
Hillary is a woman and wears pink pant suits so she must be liberal, too because women are…well…women, even the ones with balls.
Yet both Hillary and the Obummer were pretty much the same as Trump.
No, sheep are not actually stupid. But they are programmed to follow anything white and wooley. Sheeple.? Baaaaaaaaaaah…. You too -- right over the cliff.
|Are you next in line?
It is not for nothing that we about "fleecing" a mark. The public is a flock -- born to sheared and eaten.
Now, Trump is ever so WYSIWYG.
Paint-on tan. Bad dyed hair. A man who is proud of how little he has read, who twitters and tweets and thinks in phrases of thre words, rather than sentences. He is superficial and greedy. Bad?
No Good. Appearances, remember. The Donald looks authentic.
Which….wait for it! ... makes him one of Us!
You are the Donald. Because you think you are authentic. Come on -- 'fess up -- you think you are real -- all indications to the contrary.
Oh, oh…. the pain of contradiction.
That is why we have "Liberal Moderation", which is a way of reducing conflict.
It is a sort of dinner time politics thing that accepts all sides of an argument --politely-- in order to move on to dessert, no matter what the actual content. Back in the Reich.... "Shall we gas the Jews?" "Please pass the butter". "That might be a little extreme". "Maybe gas the Slavs instead". "Would you like some bread?"
A few people throw up after dinner.
Cognitive dissonance is like really, really bad indigestion. It puts things in perspective.
This is why "Nice'" people pretend not to be interested in politics, which we all know is not 'nice': throwing up is icky.
They don't talk about politics over dinner. They also often don't vote, which makes talking a side, even though, as we have seen, the "sides" are often the same, and the real choices -- Jill Stein, for example, are not seen as choices at all. If they voted, it might come up at dinner, which might mean something else coming up all over the floor later. You get the idea.
Now, Trump has politicized a minority of people.
This happens when the family is eating spam & beans most nights because Daddy lost his job and Mommy is working minimum wage at a coffee shop. This affects dinner time conversation.
He campaigned on "change" just as Obama did. So a lot of people voted for that. (When will we learn that "change" for a politician means "whatever is best for me and mine"?)
But Trump did the unthinkable -- he delivered. It was an accident -- an unintended consequence -- and not exactly the change promised or wanted-- but change anyway.
He didn't have the money. He didn't have the media on his side. He didn't even have the votes finally. But he won. It is the death of politics as we know it. He killed the GOP . He killed the DNP. He didn't kill American democracy -- just clarified our lack of one.
He also did not kill the military, State, the NSA, the CIA and the One Percent (to which he belongs) which are stronger than ever – although now we can more clearly see their hairy butts shitting all over us.
The change that Trump has wrought no doubt means that the public as a whole are getting the shitty end of the stick – but, yes, things are now much more out in the open. Still a pay-toilet, America is now a toilet with no door.
Suddenly we don't even have the illusion of choice.
And how have most people responded? A few asked "Why do we have to pay to shit if there is no door?" A problem since spam and beans produces a lot of excrement.
To continue this metaphor, the Democratic Party hunched down on their mistakes – straining to give us even more shit than before. Constipative Dissonance. Naturally, the Dems blame the Other -- Aliens. The Russians. The Venezuelans. Aliens from Outer Space.
|WikiLeaks? Nah. The Aliens!
And the GOP? Hahahaha.
Oh, when have they not been history? They haven't even got around to noticing that the Tea Party have their balls in a jar. Gopsters are jumping around for joy at the notion they can take the US back to the Golden Age -- the Middle Ages with all those fun medieval tortures.
Goppy people also like blaming Aliens. Aliens from Muslim countries, Aliens from Mexico. Aliens in China.
You are probably asking why we --left and right -- have such a "thing" about Aliens.
But it is a momentary thought -- and then you go back to a video game about...um...killing aliens.
I digress....as is my want.... That is the nature of this blog. Not "regressive" left but digressive left.
In any case, whatever Trump has done -- or will do -- 90 percent of people don't (won't) get it. They will bitch about the spam and beans -- but after a while they will get used to it, like all the other shit they put in their mouths. Shit in / shit out.
And anyway, they still have Netflix.
A majority of Americans, for example, applauded that recent war crime against Syria – where we bombed a airfield and maybe a nearby village, to tell Bashir Assad not to use chemicals on his people, which he didn't do and we had no reason to believe he had done. This was a crime even under American law. "Hooyah!" said just about everyone.
70 percent of Americans cheered when Trump dropped the "Mother of All Bombs" in Afghanistan despite the fact that:
• It probably wasn't that effective militarily
• It recent history is any indication, it killed more civilians than combatants
• It just royally pissed off the Afghans who will just fight harder
As the French philosopher Baudrillard has written: we no longer care about reality -- only about the Spectacle.
The Taliban responded with a successful attack on an Afghan military base, which was barely noted in the American Media.
The One Percent were happy. They profit from the idiocy of the 90 percent. Replacing those spent tomahawks and MotherFucker bombs just keeps the money flowing upwards out of your pockets into theirs. War = $$$$$.
So. in summary, were are fucked by ninety percent plus one percent.... That's a fuck rate of ninety one percent.
The remaining 9 percent of the population are pissed .....
And that is the Good News. Nine is the Magic Number
History (and statistics) teach us all you need to effect social change is a committed minority of 9 to 10 percent, --given 90 percent don't really care -- and one percent are too busy counting pennies.
This 9 percent, however, have to be ordinary people radicalized to become zealots, rejecting compromise and consensus and getting angrier with the day.
The radicalization part is important because if you were born a zealot, you are probably psychotic or religious (almost the same) -- which tends to result in things turning out badly.
What we need are Grannies with guns.
|The Digressive Left
Now, the Death of American politics and the Rise of Trump more or less guarantees radicalization of a significant number of people.
This Nine Percent will stick to their (pardon the pun) guns, as long as the situation does not improve -- which -- under Trump -- will be the case. They will also not compromise with the "Moderate Majority"., the "Center", the "Middle", the Flab Class. Why compromise with or seek consensus with idiots? That is not democracy --but idiocracy.
Trump's nine percent are, as I have said, ordinary people who do care about ideological abstractions --"capitalism" or "free markets" "education" "freedom" or "democracy" or "justice" all ambiguous terms which mean different things to different people at different times.
The Radical Nine are motivated by present reality -- Trump -- not what they learned in High School. They also hate spam and beans every night.
They may have their mythological or religious fantasies, but the pressure of reality is too great for panaceas when you are just really, really pissed and steak for dinner and a toilet with a door.
Of course, radicalization has its dangers. As we mentioned, some people are born zealots. A few are twisted by experience.
ISIS, for example, was born in Iraqi prisons.
In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, contemporaries of al-Baghdadi describe him in his youth as being shy, unimpressive, a religious scholar, and a man who eschewed violence. For more than a decade, until 2004, he lived in a room attached to a small local mosque in Tobchi, a poor neighbourhood on the western fringes of Baghdad, inhabited by both Shia and Sunni Muslims.The Americans created Al- Badhdadi.
Hitler was not quite an ordinary man -- he was a limited artist who could draw landscapes and buildings but not people, lived on the street, sold postcards to Jews and loved Jewish singers, he bought into conspiracy theories -- Jews, Communists and so on. He was radicalized by poverty, failure, and finally WWI. As time went on his zealotry grew and intensified. Failure, prison, and repression did not matter. He was going to make a difference.
After years and years, he managed to sway first 9 percent -- that magic number -- and finally the mass of Germans, offering prosperity and social programs that benefited people in concrete ways -- and were retained and even developed further by the postwar German state.
Hitler's antisemitism and Aryanism came from his culture -- unconscious ideologies. We have our own versions of such things.
But try to imagine a Hitler without the Aryan mythology -- without the antisemitism, racism, and the other viciousness that resonated so well with the German Public Id. That Hitler -- the vegetarian who liked animals so much he passed laws to protect them -- might very well have created a thousand year Reich!
As mentioned, many of his programs live on today in Merkel's Germany and the EU.
In the UK, the most significant nine percent were socialists. They suffered for 70 years -- but did not compromise.
Their Trump was Hitler. And after WWII, they led the 90 percent to reform the UK offering advances in education and healthcare that led to Cool Britannia in the 70s. With Tony Blair however came compromise -- and the Labour Party died until (perhaps) resurrected by Jeremy Corbyn.
As Yoda says, we must eschew the Dark Side. Even if it means living in a swamp for years and years.
This should be a lesson for American progressives. Stay grounded. But do not compromise.
The focus needs to be on basic humanity and the community, empathy and cooperation, a sense of fairness and balance -- from these things flow the opportunity American culture purports to offer but never delivers. Follow Yoda -- not Darth Vader.
Trump has provided the moment.
Americans can hear that giant sucking sound (as Ross Perot famously called it) – in this case, resources, wealth and rights and privileges being vacuumed upwards to be hoarded by a few people at the Top, who haven't the faintest idea of what to do with it. They can hear an equally giant flushing sound. That's your children and their future being disposed of.
The issues here are not "redistribution" or "capitalism" or any of these things often used as code words in ideological discussions and which mean different things to different people. Rather the issues are "hoarding" and sharing -- not to mention the right to live your life your own way. Police violence and racism and gender discrimination are not issues -- bullying and standing up to bullies is. These are all things that even chimpanzees understand. So why not Americans?
Plain language. Plain thinking. You have heard the expression, "Think globally, act locally". Nonsense. Think locally. Act locally. "Global will look after itself". It all starts at the community level.
Take single payer health insurance in Canada. It began in Saskatchewan under the Tommy Douglas's CCP socialist party in 1962 and was at first bitterly opposed. The CCP stuck to its principles and the plan proved so successful -- and saved so much money -- that everyone everywhere in Canada wanted it.
But you need that committed minority to stick to their guns.
You need the nine percent.
The 90 percent won't do anything themselves. As mentioned, many don't even vote. They are a huge aggregate in which inclusion dilutes the power of each individual. Aggregation means passivity, a mindless mob.
The one percent have money and power – but they are very few – which ironically they think amplifies their power.
The 9 percent are many – but not so many that their rage can be diminished by numbers. Unified by commitment, aware that they are the minority – their power is amplified. If they do not give up.
A committed minority must be an ethical minority.
Power = intensity x time.
Of course, this assumes the "committed minority" wants to sway the majority and is not led astray by impractical belief systems or mythologies. The Tea Party, for example, is simply reactionary and lost in abstractions, more cultish than "committed".
Ten percent of the US population is three million or so people. If they are all of one mind, focused on just a few things they want, inflexible and uncompromising and willing to do what it takes, even – if necessary – violence in defense of person. Then, you have a revolution. The 90 percent go with the flow. The one percent get their heads lopped off.
Can't happen?
The American Revolution ?

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• "I think there's a world market for about 5 computers."
( Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM, circa 1948 )
• "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
( Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977 )
• "Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become
a practical proposition."
( Dennis Gabor, British physicist and author of Inventing the Future, 1962 )
• "There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States."
( T. Craven, FCC Commissioner, 1961
(the first commercial communications satellite went into service in 1965)
• Space travel is bunk."
( Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of the UK, 1957
(two weeks later Sputnik orbited the Earth)
• "To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth--all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances."
( Lee deForest, American radio pioneer and inventor of the vacuum tube, 1957 )
• Space travel is utter bilge."
( Dr. Richard van der Reit Wooley, UK space advisor to the government, 1956
(Sputnik orbited the Earth the following year)
• "Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at
a plywood box every night."
( Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946 )
• "That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done [research on]... The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives."
( William D. Leahy, U.S. Admiral, advising President Truman on atomic weaponry, 1944 )
• "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
( H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, maker of silent movies, 1927 )
• "The radio craze will die out in time."
( Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1922 )
• "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools."
( New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work, 1921
(note that the day after Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969, the New York
Times printed a short boxed item on page 2. It read in full:
"Errata: It has now been conclusively demonstrated that a rocket ship can
travel through the vacuum of space. The Times sincerely regrets the error.")
• "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
( Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre, 1904(?)
• "The horse is here to stay, the automobile is only a fad."
( Advice of President of Michigan Savings Bank to Horace Rackham, lawyer for
Henry Ford, 1903
(Rackham ignored the advice and invested $5000 in Ford stock, selling it later
for $12.5 million)
• "Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever."
( Thomas Edison, American inventor, 1889
(Edison often ridiculed the arguments of competitor George Westinghouse for AC power)
• "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."
( Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil, 1859 )
• "What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you, excuse me, I have not the time to listen to such nonsense."
( Napoleon Bonaparte, when told of Robert Fulton's steamboat, 1800s )


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Those Guys (Previously unofficially referred to as the Basement Monsters) known as That Guy and The Other Guy (The Piderman lookalike and Baman lookalike, frequency) are two antagonists/protagonists who debuted in Guess Da Number.
Those Guys are creatures who live in Piderman's basement with Pizza Head. They can be seen as both antagonists and protagonists; in their first appearance, they carve Pumkin, (possibly trying to make a jack - o - lantern as this was a halloween episode). After this everyone was afraid of them in Hab Da Sleepover and even taped closed the basement door, trying to trap Those Guys. They eventually escaped out of the basement to make a cookie pie using blood, which they share with Baman and Piderman. Since Baman and Piderman seem excited to tell the them a joke in Tell Da Joke, it is unknown if they are good or bad. Although they appear to be badly-behaved (they carved Pumkin, stole half of Piderman's couch and were shown making a mess in Piderman's house in Happy Winter Friends (Part 2)), Pumkin is the only one that is still afraid of them, as Baman and Piderman appear to enjoy their company. Those Guys can be seen as mysterious and wise. In Tell Da Joke, they are shown hiding what resembles a pizza pie. In Happy Winter Friends (Part 1), they use the pie to help Baman and Piderman begin their journey to save Pumkin. Those Guys seem to have a strange relation to Tuba's Dad (which he doesn't want people to know). They helped him kidnap Baman so he could take his finger, for reasons still unknown, and started posing as Baman through a diguise. As Impostor Baman they even got a job with Bug, but couldn't understand it. Their "normal" behavior blew their cover, as Baman is known to move around in a weird form. At the end of the series they watched the Best Fwend Band concert, but The Other Guy seemed to be bored by it, falling asleep. They also seem to like to use blood for cooking, too.
Those Guys have lower, slowed down voices, and can be zombie-like at some points. They resemble Baman and Piderman, however the monster that looks like each has the clothing pattern of the opposite. Their outfits seem to resemble the photo negative version of Baman's and Piderman's outfits. They appear bad, but no one is really afraid of them after a while. They always appear together, the only times where just one of them was seen being as a cameo of That Guy in Happy Winter Friends (Part 1) and when it showed The Other Guy in Drawing Song.
Episode AppearancesEdit
- Guess Da Number
- Hab Da Sleepover
- Happy Winter Friends (Part 1)
- Fimd Da Jobs
- Revealations (Part 1) as Impostor Baman
- In Da Basement
- Drink Da Tee
- Tell Da Joke
- Happy Winter Friends (Part 2)
- Frow the Party
- Dis is Season 2 Opener
- Weirdy Feeling
- Ghost Night
- Best of Dose Guys
- That Guy: "It's time."
- That Guy: "We need to borrow an ingredient."
The Other Guy: "We are making a cookie pie."
Baman: "That's not scary. What do you want?"
The Other Guy: "Blooood!"
- That Guy: "I'm That Guy!"
The Other Guy: "I'm The Other Guy!"
That Guy: "We came from da basement!"
Both: "We're These Guys!"
- The Other Guy: Tea party is my favorite, the best thing you can do, but only when we share it all, with you and you and you, be sure to have the proper stuff like blood and tea, and stew.
Baman: What kind of stew?
That Guy: Blood stew!


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HOVE, England, CMC – Batsman Marlon Samuels is expected to finally link up with the West Indies touring party today.
The Jamaican has been one of three players yet to join the squad which arrived here last Wednesday, with batsmen Narsingh Deonarine and Assad Fudadin still stuck in Jamaica waiting on United Kingdom visas.
CMC Sports understands, however, that Samuels will join his teammates in Northampton where West Indies are due to play their second tour match, a four-day fixture against England Lions starting Thursday.
West Indies are due to leave for Northampton this morning. Samuels has been campaigning in the Indian Premier League over the last month but team management had appeared unsure at the weekend over his actual arrival date.
His absence, and that of the two Guyanese left-handers, meant West Indies faced Sussex in the opening three-day match with just 11 available players.
Fast bowler Fidel Edwards sat out the game injured.
The Windies were able to get just 34 overs out of the game as rain wrecked the encounter at the Probiz County Ground.
Only 16 overs were possible on yesterday's last day as rain ended play before lunch with West Indies on 90 for three in their first innings.
It has been a bumpy start to the tour for the Windies with wintry weather and the late arrival of players marring their preparation.
The first Test bowls off in ten days at Lord's.


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Love. It's something we all want, but when you consider that there are over 300 million people in the country and 7 billion people on the planet, it's amazing that two people in love would have had the chance to meet, let alone connect.
Finding someone - the right someone - can seem daunting with so many people out there, but what if you could crunch the numbers to figure the odds of finding that perfect someone for you? And then what if you could maximize the chances of meeting him or her?
Well, it's all been done and we'll show you how, on today's Just Explain It.
After considering things like looks and personality, age and location, and intangibles like chemistry, the chances of finding Mister or Miss Right can seem statistically impossible.
[Related: Dating Dealbreakers: 8 Danger Signs We All Overlook]
Well, hopefully you will find some measure of comfort in the story of Peter Backus.
In 2008, after three years of not having a girlfriend, Peter Backus, then- a London graduate student, wanted to find out how many potential girlfriends he had. So, he wrote a short research paper, appropriately titled, "Why I Don't Have A Girlfriend."
The basis of his tongue-in-cheek paper was the Drake equation, developed by astronomer Dr. Frank Drake in 1961 to calculate the probability of finding extraterrestrial life in our galaxy that can communicate with Earth. But instead of looking for life on another planet, Backus was looking for love in London.
So, using statistics and some guesswork, Backus started off with the population of the United Kingdom and began multiplying it by the fraction of women in the country, the fraction of women who live in London, who are age-appropriate, and have a college degree. He estimated the number of college-educated women in London he might find physically attractive and who would find him attractive, who are single, and with whom he might get along.
After crunching the numbers, he found he had a 1-in-285,000 chance of meeting a potential girlfriend suited to his tastes. That was only 26 women in all of the United Kingdom! Well, it seems he found one of those 26, or eased up on some of the criteria. Shortly after writing the paper, Backus met a girlfriend and they will be getting married this week!
Let's say you want to figure out the odds for yourself. First, take a look at the U.S. Census website, the state or local government website in your community that compiles statistics, as well as surveys that are conducted on the characteristics important to you, like location, gender, and age.
Next, factor in other things that may be significant to you such as a college degree or owning a pet. Put all those numbers in the equation, and Voila! You have your love-match probability.
[Related: 5 Newest Dating Apps People Are Talking About]
After you figure out your chances, get the most out of them no matter what they are. Michael Kaplan, co-author of "Chances Are" a book about probability and unlikely occurrences, says your actions can increase or decrease the probability of a rare event like finding true love. Just like driving safely can decrease your chances of getting into an accident, while driving recklessly can increase it, Kaplan says putting yourself in situations where you're likely to meet someone will increase the likelihood that you'll find true love. So, instead of staying home and sitting on the couch every night, go out and try to meet someone!
It's not rocket science, even if some have looked to outer space to make sense of the odds.
So, tell us, did you learn something? What do you think your chances are of finding mate? Do you have a love story that beat the odds? Give us your feedback in the comments section below, or on Twitter using #JustExplainItNews.


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Blood Red Road (Dustlands 1)
by Moira Young
Rating: 4.5 /5
Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as long as her beloved twin brother Lugh is around. But when four cloaked horsemen capture Lugh, Saba's world is shattered, and she embarks on a quest to get him back.
Suddenly thrown into the lawless, ugly reality of the outside world, Saba discovers she is a fierce fighter, an unbeatable survivor, and a cunning opponent. Teamed up with a handsome daredevil named Jack and a gang of girl revolutionaries called the Free Hawks, Saba's unrelenting search for Lugh stages a showdown that will change the course of her own civilization.
My Review:
I don't know what it is about this cover but as soon as I saw it at the store I was drawn to it and I picked it up only to have it sit on the shelf at home for a while, Finally being given the chance when my monthly challenge called for books starting with B,K or T and it caught my eye all over again and I am glad it did. I would have given this a full 5 stars as the story was really fantastic but the writing style really threw me off, there were no quotation marks and the spelling was awful to prove I guess that the characters were in another place and time, it had me struggling at first but when the story took off I was able to overlook it and really enjoy the story.
There were lots of great characters in this book. Saba strong and determined to find her brother is so reluctant to let anyone help her that she almost misses out on the great friends she finds in the free hawks and almost pushes Jack away, good thing no one including Emmi (Saba's sister) was willing to give up on her and all had a hand in helping her through the journey to find her brother.
I thought I had the whole story figured out and then the Pinches arrived and everything changed. I thought the Collosseum was an awesome addition to the story it brought lots of excitement and struggle and well as new characters and new information. I was sad Saba and Emmi had to go through it but I think they both needed to be hardened a bit before going out on the road.
The journey to freedom fields was very well done, a lot of obstacles to overcome and even enough time for Saba to realize Emmi isn't all that bad and bring her and Jack closer together which I think was done very well. I can't mention Jack and Saba without saying the song that Jack sang to Saba was my favorite part of the whole book, it was funny and heartfelt at the same time and if he sang it to me I would be putty in his hands lol.
I can't wait to see what adventures they will go on next. Overall fantastic story with terrible grammar.
Happy Reading Friends!!!!


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Palatine Library allows its cardholders to check out free passes to the Brookfield Zoo, as well as other local attractions. These passes are valid for seven days, but they must be picked up in person and the library is unable to keep the passes on hold.
The Palatine Public Library District has three locations. The main library is located at 700 N. North Court,
Palatine, IL. The North Hoffman location is at the Willow Recreation Center, 3600 Lexington Drive, Hoffman Estates, IL. The address of the Rand Road location is Palatine Opportunity Center, 1585 Rand Road, Palatine, IL. The Brookfield Zoo is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 365 days a year.


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4U Drew Car Show
Here's what its all about guys, friends supporting friends, and making the "scene" more open to the public. Sean is putting together a car show/benifit for the 4Udrew foundation. Check out the flyer for information. Will be a great time, sign up for the show. Some great prizes and giveaways!


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Pet Fod Bank
The pet food bank is a distribution program started by Sherrie, one of our former residents, assisting area pet owners in need. We have established a number of donation bins throughout the community to make contributing easy.
- Pet Supplies Plus
- The Humane Society of South Coastal Georgia
- Pet Exchange
- Winn-Dixie
- Harris Teeter
- Island Animal Hospital
Pet owners in need of assistance are encouraged to call our adoption and community center 912.264.6246.


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Morek UAB (Lithuania) became nominant for Gazelle 2017* awards. Congratulations to Team Lithuania and thank you to the customers for being with us!
* A Gazelle is a rapidly growing company that has increased its turnover and profit margin by at least 20 per cent in the past three years. Award is nominated by local leading business letter "Verslo Zinios".
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Yesterday I red from Helsingin Sanomat (Helsinki Daily Newspaper), that Finnish police patrol had made a home search at suspected persons home - without telling him that they will be do such thing. In Finland police must give a chance for the person to be at home when they are suspecting the person and want to search his/her home.
They went to this mans home while he wasn't at home. They search the place and.. now comes the funny part: they left a handwritten message in this mans home in you know.. those squared papers, which are used in offices and schools..
So funny! Polices are sooo funny!! I pay taxes and police buy printers and computers with those money. And they use squared paper. C'mon!
I want my tax money back!
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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 8, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GTX Corp. (OTCBB:GTXO), a leading provider of wearable monitoring and tracking solutions using GPS, Cellular and BLE technology, announced signing an agreement with Telefónica Germany. Under this agreement GTX Corp will leverage Telefónica's global Smart M2M platform and relationships across Europe. The Smart M2M (SM2M) agreement enables GTX Corp's patented GPS SmartSole and other innovative GPS and cellular tracking and monitoring solutions to be deployed across the globe using one SIM card and provisioning backend platform, complimenting Telefonica's telematics portfolio of novel products and solutions.
Helmut Schnierle, Head of M2M Sales at Telefonica Germany commented, "Our Smart M2M is a perfect ready-to-use solution that will enable GTX Corp to manage their global connectivity processes without having to invest in M2M development and IT infrastructure. With Our API, GTX will be able to easily integrate their backend with our Smart M2M platform. The SmartSoles received a lot of attention at our 2015 Innovation Conference and we were pleased to host the GTX management team at our annual conference and look forward to working with them to plan our go to market strategy."
"We are excited to be launching the GPS SmartSole in cooperation with Telefónica Germany to address the rapidly growing demand in Germany which has approximately 1.6 million people afflicted with dementia as well as other memory disorders associated with wandering such as autism and TBI," stated Andrew Duncan Director of Business Development for GTX Corp.
GTX Corp's flagship product, the GPS SmartSoles are a stigma free, safety and security unobtrusive monitoring and tracking solution for those who suffer from Alzheimer's, dementia, autism, TBI and other memory disorders and have a tendency to wander. The patented GPS SmartSoles, which were featured in AARP's 2015 technology gear guide and came in 2nd place, runner up to Microsoft 1st and Samsung taking 3rd place, in the 2015 Wearables, Health, Fitness & Wellness category at CTIA's Hot for the Holidays Awards competition, are placed in the wearer's shoes and contain a high accuracy miniaturized GPS tracking chip connected through a cellular network that sends a signal to the GTX Corp proprietary IoT platform monitoring website or smart phone app, showing the exact location of the individual wearing them. The SmartSoles come in 2 trim to fit sizes and will initially be available for sale in Germany at way4net.
Patrick Bertagna GTX Corp CEO stated, "The wearables market for health, wellness and personal safety is on the edge of a significant stride forward thanks to new and innovative technologies that provide the means to collect and manage vital data in a more convenient and automated fashion. Our partnership with Telefonica is significant because unlike other M2M devices once the SmartSoles are made there is no physical access to the SIM card and hence having a partner that can support our connectivity requirements and pricing demands from our customers is paramount to our global go to market strategy."
GTX Corp is committed to pioneering, creating and delivering Smart, Mobile and Wearable IoT Technology. Empowering the global community and keeping you connected to who and what matters most with GPS tracking and recovery location based services!
GTX Corp (GTXO) is a pioneer in wearable technology and enterprise GPS real-time personal location based services. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with distributors in over 13 countries, GTX is known for its game-changing and award-winning patented GPS Smart Shoe, blockbuster Smartphone GPS Tracking App, and innovative GPS SmartSole, GTX provides solutions that answer the "where" question: where is my mother, child, employee, vehicle, drone and high value assets. Through a robust global enterprise monitoring IoT platform and licensing subscription business model, the Company offers a complete end to end solution of hardware, middleware, apps, connectivity and professional services. Letting you know where or how someone or something is at the touch of a button, delivering security and peace of mind in an instant. GTX Corp also owns and operates LOCiMOBILE, Inc which develops applications for smart phones and tablets and Code Amber Alertag. The Company has a comprehensive intellectual property strategy and owns an extensive portfolio of patents, patents pending, registered trademarks, copy rights and URL's and was recently featured in a 38 page research piece which outlines the value proposition of the Company's IP portfolio.
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A best-selling line at Carina is artist Al Pisano's rustic Piazza Pisano and Country Carver plaques. These charming plaques are hand made of durable resin, wood and marble fillers, handpainted and stained to a lustrous finish for years of enjoyment. The plaques are suitable for indoor or outdoor use in the kitchen, dining room, or patio.
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Cherry Hill, N.J., Mar 9, 2016 - Subaru of America, Inc. announced today that the 2016 Outback won U.S. News & World Report's Best SUV for Families as part of their 2016 Best Cars for Families awards.
U.S. News & World Report, a nationally recognized publisher of consumer advice and information, evaluated 256 vehicles and named winners in 21 categories. The award recipients have the best combination of safety and reliability ratings, excellent reviews from professional automotive critics, and the space and features that keep the entire family happy.
The 2016 Outback was recognized for its "go anywhere" capability, spacious cabin, generous cargo space, and numerous achievements in safety and reliability.
The core technology of the Outback is the Subaru Symmetrical All-Wheel Drive system that sends power to all wheels simultaneously for maximum traction. And in slippery conditions, it instinctively sends power to the wheels with the best traction, helping the driver stay on the road and on course.
The heart of the Outback is the SUBARU BOXER® engine. The horizontal layout of the engine allows for a low center of gravity for improved balance which contributes to responsive handling and steering.
The engine is fitted with Subaru's Continuously Variable Transmission (CVT). The CVT provides a smooth linear transfer of engine power and torque by eliminating the up and down shift feeling of a conventional automatic transmission.
The Outback offers over 104 cu. ft. of cabin space for passengers. The cargo area behind the rear seats provides 35.5 cu. ft. of storage and can open up to 73.3 cu. ft. with the standard 60/40 split fold-down rear seatbacks folded. The load floor is nearly flat, and rear seatback release levers in the cargo area enhance convenience.
Subaru's renowned safety engineering excels in all crash tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). 2016 Outback, equipped with the optional EyeSight® Driver Assist Technology, earned the 2016 TOP SAFETY PICK award and the 2016 TOP SAFETY PICK+ award from IIHS.
The Outback also features SUBARU STARLINK™ in-vehicle platform that provides hands-free connectivity and entertainment services. SUBARU STARLINK is designed to work seamlessly with the in-car head unit to provide smartphone integration and tap into nearly unlimited entertainment sources through apps.
In 2015, Subaru achieved seven consecutive years of record sales and exceeded 580,000 annual sales – a first in company history. The Outback is a deft blend of confident design, standard symmetrical all-wheel drive, spacious interior, award-winning safety technology, and exemplary fuel efficiency. This proven combination helped push the Outback to new sales records.
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I like to think that I'm organized. That I'm an efficient person and school leader. Every single day I feel a sense of purpose. I love my work.
And I struggle.
At the end of the day, I often look back and wonder if I accomplished anything at all. According to my FitBit, I average 13,000 steps at work. I'm going places. I'm in classrooms. I'm connecting with kids and families and teachers.
But am I getting anything done? My to-do list is the bane of my existence. I've moved it to the Google tasks calendar. I'm checking off things here and there but it grows faster than a California wildfire.
This week, the number 3 is calling my name. I'm inspired to do three things.
His idea was simple, yet brilliant. What three things do I want to accomplish at the end of the day so that I can feel good about my day?
Then, last week, in another Voxer group focused on finding balance in life and work, Jen Duston shared her strategy for getting things done each day. Her idea, also simple and brilliant:
- Identify three things to get done.
- Allocate a 45 minute chunk of time for each item.
- If you finish early, fill the remaining time with something awesome.
For me, the spirit of "three things" starts tomorrow.
Here are my three things for each day:
- Prioritize three things to complete and do them in 45 minute chunks of time.
- Show appreciation in writing.
- Take 10 minutes each day to eat lunch and have a quiet moment.*
Every day, I put kids first. I get into classrooms. I'm out and about in my school. I like to think I'm good at what I do.
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Red Bull Bar Bahr to host quad bike and Jet Ski
Combining two sports, quad bike and Jet Ski, Red Bull Bar Bahr will be held on 11 November, at the Marina Crescent Arabian Gulf Street at 2pm.
Quad race is conducted on a tailor-made track with challenging obstacles, the riders have to go through (mud, water, bumps and curves).
The first quad racer to cross the line will hand his teammate the key to the jet-ski in order to start racing on water.
For more information: Visit, www.redbull.com.
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Remember when engines were measured in cubic inches? Remember when cars had chrome kissers that looked like psycho sharks? And when you flashed your headlights, the gum-popping carhop would come take your order — grudgingly, as if she had better things to do?
I do. Or did I just dream all that?
Well, this dream sequence lives on at Bob's Big Boy in Burbank, near Warner Bros. How to describe this buzzy, retro scene? It goes back forever, or a few years before.
On a recent Friday night, Beach Boy Brian Wilson shows up to take in the weekly car show, full of the little deuce coupes he used to write about.
The stuff of song, this place. Even the Beatles hung out here back in the day, in the big booth in the corner (look for the plaque).
Yep, stars come and stars go at Bob's Big Boy, a living tribute to a SoCal lifestyle of fries and flirting.


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Automotive recyclers gathered at the ARA 72nd Annual Convention & Expo resolved together to push through the tough challenges facing it. "Let's make auto recycling great again," encouraged Incoming President Mike Swift as a call to unite. If the positive energy at the event is any gauge, this industry will see its way through.
By Caryn Smith
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A successful gathering of professional automotive recyclers can only be judged by what attendees have to say regarding the event. In the case of the 72nd Annual Automotive Recyclers Association Convention & Expo, the results are in. Close to 1,000 attendees from as far and wide as the United States, Canada, UK, China, Japan, Ireland, Lithuania, Australia, Germany, and Spain converged upon Charlotte, North Carolina, in October 2015. The sessions and social events were robustly attended, and the Exhibition boasted the most vendors in recent ARA history, with 109 exhibiting companies.
"I was impressed with the number of vendors," says Leland Boone, Vice President of Operations, Intermountain Auto Recycling, Inc. in Rigby, Idaho. "We talked with many of them at the last show and was glad to see them again to take advantage of the opportunity." Intermountain Auto Recycling, owned by five of the Boone brothers (two more are working to enter the business), first attended the 2009 ARA Convention in Kentucky. They were impressed and it kept these progressive ARA members coming back for more.
With five owners, running a family business can be challenging, yet Boone says each brother has their own area of expertise. When attending the convention, he says, "I have more say in my area, which is dismantling, so I look for ideas and services to improve it. Intermountain is CAR certified, and "looking to be Gold Seal certified very soon. We thought we were efficient, then we found we were light years behind," he says. "My favorite part of the convention experience is networking. I enjoy talking to people who've done it better or longer in order to get ideas to improve."
"Thank you all for inviting me to your organization and to the ARA Convention in Charlotte," says Dalius Rimsa, Euro Impex Utena, Lithuania. "These few days made my world wider in an educational and professional sense. I can tell you, indeed, I have not seen a organization so strong, active, workable, educational, and like a family, uniting people from an industry that is almost impossible to unite in other countries. I enjoyed my time of being there."
When asked what they enjoyed most, John Grant and Jennifer Godinez, Carolina Salvage, Rock Hill, SC say, "Everything's impactful. The recall and liability sessions were very good."
Even the ARA staff commented on the convention buzz. "The Educational Sessions were excellent with many members discussing worthwhile take-aways. And the Expo was the best ever, with high energy exhibitors," noted Delanne Bernier, ARA Director of Policy and Political Affairs. ARA Director of Member Services Kelly Badillo says, "The buzz seemed very positive." It was tough for her to choose a highlight, but says, "Matlock's was really something to see."
Artsy Yard Tour
The Convention began with a popular social event – the Yard Tour and BBQ. Hosted by Jeff Matlock and his team at Matlock's Used Cars & Parts, Inc., in Claremont, NC, a Gold Seal facility. The guests first noticed the car made into a ladybug on the roof – what Matlock's calls "car part art." Another auto with figures of "car part art" people greeted guests near the office entrance. Inside, a vintage wood teller's window filled the length of the room, along with a display of smaller art created by the Matlock's team. Guests knew they were in for something unusual.
The tour continued into a museum of repurposed treasures. "I love repurposing things and giving them a new life," Jeff Matlock said as he showed guests around the room.
A few rooms into the facility, a display of floor-to-ceiling glass cases were filled with heart-shaped boxes. This facility was once the largest maker of candy heart boxes; therefore, even the building itself has been proudly repurposed.
Auto recyclers enjoyed viewing the organized shelving units filled with car parts in the huge warehouse facility, and the vast acres of neatly rowed cars. Many enjoyed an evening walk among the cars, a landscape that was a sight to see. The night of food and friendships, with an interesting backdrop was a great success.
The next day, attendees were ready to get down to business.
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The members of the ARA Educational Foundation Board, hosted by ARAEF President Roger Schroder, Car-Part.com, and Ginny Whelan, the Foundation's Director, discussed their new platform and exciting new offerings for 2016.
The Foundation has enlisted the help of a new technology company that is already specializing in automotive training with automotive dealerships, OEMs, auto service, and equipment, truck and RV dealers (Read the article in November-December 2015 magazine). This new partnership with KPA Online allows ARA University to have more training options in environmental health & safety, employee training, human resources, and even sales & finance compliance. There will be more customized training offered to enhance the current training. As of March 1, 2016, subscription rates to ARAUniversity.org are $110 a month for non-ARA Members and $55 month for ARA members.
Also, ARA University will be reviewing how to incorporate the ARA Airbag Pro Protocol. "We need to compass that," says Whelan. "It contains recall tracking capabilities and I'd like to explore how it might help members." In any case, it is a good time to re-evaluate the whole airbag program to benefit the industry.
This year was the first that the ARA University had its own dedicated exposition booth. "We were very pleased with the traffic and interest in ARA University from attendees," Whelan said. "Everyone was excited at the possibilities for new and improved training. In fact, we enrolled twelve new companies at the booth."
The Certified Auto Recycler (CAR) committee, chaired by Shannon Nordstrom, Nordstrom's Automotive Inc., Sioux Falls, SD, reported on their new logo launch that marries the Green Recycled Parts® brand with the CAR logo. "More than just a logo," Nordstrom says, "it's a way of doing business." The committee also made a splash at the convention by providing "Join the Green Team" t-shirts to CAR members to wear, and proudly revealing the "new" award that will be given to CAR Award Winners (see page 35 for a photo of the award).
Doug Reinert, Chuck's Auto Salvage, Douglassville, PA, reported as Safety Committee Chair that the committee continues to be a source of information to keep workers safe at automotive recycling facilities. They published the Safety Checklist, sponsored by Wells Fargo and available from ARA headquarters, that keeps a facility OSHA-compliant.
Legislative Talk
The hallways were buzzing with talk of recalls and parts numbers.
Peter Muhic, Partner, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP, the legal representative for professional automotive recyclers in the lawsuit against Takata Airbags, and ARA CEO Michael Wilson conducted a session to discuss the legal action.
This is the only suit of the 108 filed that represents professional automotive recyclers," Muhic says. He emphasized how large the problems are. "The 17 million vehicles they thought once were affected is actually 34 million," he affirms. "We are confident in our claims. We expect the judge to be most fair in his decision."
"It is very important that we end up on the right side of this at the end of the day," Wilson says. "We don't want consumers worried about what is in your inventory."
Since the convention, the U.S. District Judge in Miami, Federico Moreno, who is overseeing all the Takata airbag class action lawsuits, recently ruled against a motion filed by the Honda Motor Company and Takata Corporation to toss out a class action lawsuit by millions of vehicle owners, including the suit filed on behalf of ARA against Takata. The lawsuit, initiated by vehicle owners, alleges that Takata and automakers violated anti-racketeering laws and, as a result of these violations, the owners' vehicles have lost significant value. Other suits alleging death claims are quietly being settled by Honda. It is reported in the trade press that four of the six U.S. death claims have been resolved with the families of those killed by the defective airbags.
In reference to this session, Steve Levetan, Executive Vice President, Pull-A-Part, LLC says, "This is a great opportunity for auto recyclers to get educated on the issue. Education is the first step to solutions. The first priority is recalls; getting the ability to identify parts recalled in order to comply with federal law that requires us to do so."
ARA reports on lawsuit progress can be read in the bi-weekly Automotive Recycling E-Newsletter.
Motivational Insights
An ARA Convention always offers motivational moments and this year keynote speaker Jon O'Malley, founder of YouProfit business coaching, was the source. Since 2006, Jon has helped hundreds of small business owners increase revenue and profits, and regain their time, something Jon has lived out in his own professional career.
One downfall for many business owners, he noted first, "Your expertise can hold you back. It can be a handicap." Often 'experts' chase the wrong things or fail to maximize the right thing. "You can't change the results unless you change part of the equation."
He led the attendees through a Profit/Conversion table to illustrate how changing variables in the equation affected the net profit bottom line. "Often, we chase the total instead of focusing the things that drive them." He gave attendees seven drivers for success and suggested that focusing on changing one or more of the drivers, instead of focusing on bottom line, can lead to new net profits. (Read his article on page 47.)
He then suggested three areas of focus to increase the bottom line:
• Put more effort into gaining referrals.
"It's the best lead you can get."
• Use a script.
"Companies that use scripts convert at a higher rate."
• Increase current client activity.
"On average, it costs 700% more to get a new customer than to have an old customer buy again." In their session, Robert and Chad Counts encouraged managing the "Cost of Sales" when looking at the yearly sales. "Inventory has a 90-day cycle," says Chad. "Expenses can outpace sales when you don't manage cost of sales in certain months." His suggestion, "Commit to a purchasing of at least five months. It doesn't help to spend a lot in one month and nothing the next month. You need to be consistent." (Read Dashboard, November/December 2015, for the start of a three-part series.)
Jeff Schroder, Car-Part.com, led a discussion on Collision Advice, emphasizing the need to be customer service-minded as a one-stop shop. "The buyer would prefer to buy all eight parts they need from one place; it makes it easier if there is a problem with the order or if they need a last-minute piece. They'll call you for it since you just sold them the parts." He suggests, "Do you want to miss a sale because you don't have three of the parts? Consider the use of quality aftermarket parts. Selling more parts is the simplest way to make more dollars."
Emphasizing workplace safety, Paul D'Adamo's session, "Developing a Safety Culture," made the case for staying ahead of compliance. "Do you know how much an eye injury costs you?," he warns. "Your employees are your most valuable asset. Protect them." When choosing the company's safety gear, consider what the employees will actually wear. On those clunky old-style safety goggles, he said, "If you wouldn't wear it, why expect your people to wear it." In fact, he advised to keep them invested in safety, "Have the really cool safety glasses as prizes each month for employees who go above and beyond. Or, reward employees with food, cash, or other safety gear."
The Ladies of the Automotive Recyclers Association (LARA) Breakfast was well-attended with old friends and new faces. Caryn Smith, Editor, Automotive Recycling magazine, spoke to the group on "Finding Purpose in Your Work, And How That Is Good For Business." To have an inspired work and life, she encouraged attendees to be invigorated by their choices and roles, not depleted, suggesting they delegate, say "no" more often, and develop a personal mission statement to guide all decisions.
Smith found it beneficial to get involved in the community. "I was able to see the need in my area, find where I fit in, and have the time to help. I believe we should always give more and before you expect to receive. This outreach helped to associate my business to community leadership; it is great public relations. And it feeds my soul."
Other helpful sessions included discussion on social media (see page 39), illegal operators, cores, Internet sales, IT, parts numbers, and shipping.
Presidential Night
The ARA Awards Dinner and Gavel Passing, with a Winner's Circle checkered flag theme had attendees dressed in black and white to pay tribute to members who have excelled (see award recipients on page 35).
Receiving the highest honor presented, Gary Beagell, Gary's U-Pull-It, Inc., Binghamton, NY and Paul Davis, A-Plus Parts & Salvage, Inc., Wichita, KS, both became ARA Lifetime Honorary Members.
In a fun turn of events, Chair Shannon Nordstrom presented a new CAR award to ARA CAR Member of the Year, Michael Carcone, Carcone's Auto Recycling, Aurora, Ontario in Canada. The new award is an embellished rotor, inspired by the late Past President Randy Reitman who had a strong vision for the CAR program. The recipient will hold the award for one year, and then present it to the next recipient at the next convention, and so on.
Closing the evening, 2014-15 ARA President Ricky Young, Young's Auto Center & Salvage, made his final remarks, noting that he thoroughly enjoyed his year at the helm, and would miss the experience, stating it was a highlight of his professional career.
Incoming President Mike Swift, Swift's Trails End Auto and Truck Salvage, Inc., remarked, "It is such an honor to be elected as your next President. To be the third representative from the State of Iowa is truly an honor. This is a responsibility that I do not take lightly, and I will endeavor to represent the ARA with the utmost transparency. Traveling through the U.S. these past years on behalf of the ARA have enabled me to meet with auto recyclers who are truly passionate about our industry. This is one of the most crucial times to be a member of the Association. The support that we can give to each other is never more important than in these times."
Memorial Moments
Swift pointed out the absence of four important people to the ARA.
"We have lost some special people this past year that I would like to recognize," Swift continued. "They are all great supporters and very helpful to both myself and the organization. Please recognize Mark Buessing – to whom the word 'no' was not an answer when he was out fundraising for ARA – Randy Reitman, Bob Phelps, and Jeff Kantor. They will all be missed." All four men were great leaders within the industry. Interestingly, Mark Buessing, President of the ARA Scholarship Foundation for 10 years, tirelessly raised money to fund these memorial scholarships for others.
The most touching portion of the evening came when the families of the fallen ARA members each received a plaque to honor their loved one. Newly-established funds are the Mark Buessing Memorial Scholarship, Randy Reitman Memorial Scholarship and Billy Standridge Memorial Scholarship. The Jeff Kantor Memorial Scholarship was established in 2014. The respect and admiration was thick in room.
"It's truly an honor to have scholarships established in memory of these gentlemen," says Badillo, ARA liaison to the Scholarship Foundation. "It's a testament to the type of people they were known to be. I hope between the hugs from friends, the pictures displayed, and the success of the fundraiser, and more, that these families really felt the love for those they lost."
Super Donations
Raising money for the ARA Foundations (Scholarship and Educational on alternate years) is an important part of each convention. Larry DeMik of Supershear supports both foundation raffles year after year. DeMik is one vendor that has not missed a contribution in 11 years. Thus far, he has donated over $50,000 in equipment to help raise money for educating the children of auto recyclers and training automotive recyclers.
"I purchased Supershear in 2004, and became an ARA member and exhibitor at the trade show every year since. We've been donating a Supershear machine since 2005," he notes. "I've been blessed. I have a great wife, great family, and a great business. I try to give, as all I have has been given to me by God to use while I live on this earth."
The results of the ARA Scholarship Foundation efforts are in: Generous ARA members pulled together to raise $73,534 for post-secondary scholarships that go to children of the auto recycling facility workforce.
Doing Trade
The Exposition is a highpoint for many, as it is the only time to meet so many vendors face to face and see new products and services to improve operations. Vendors enjoy the chance to meet new people and solidify current business relationships.
"This year's exposition is really good," says JJ Feregino, We Buy Key Fobs. "We have already seen seven to eight different guaranteed future clients. We are very happy with the turn-out."
ARA University's new technology partner, Eric Schmitz from KPA, says, "The buzz around the new ARAU has been strong. The openness of the quality people and owners walking around the show floor is great. They are engaged and open to new solutions."
With record numbers of cores companies on the expo floor, Jeff Stolberg, A&A Midwest owner, says, "More and more people are looking for a core program than we've ever seen." It is important to ask the right questions, he stressed, when choosing a vendor. Asking when loads will be picked up, if they will honor price lists versus what the auto recycler is holding, and things of that nature.
Dave Stout of Just Packaging, Inc., a new exhibitor, raved that his booth encounters were "phenomenal." He talked about the importance of uniform, branded packaging, and that many he spoke with needed a better source in order to compete in the marketplace.
Supporting Your Convention
The Diamond Sponsors of the ARA Convention partner with ARA for a reason.
"The show has been the best traffic – really good for me," says Bill Velin, Wells Fargo Business Solutions, Diamond Sponsor. "It is brand building, coming to the show sustains my business relationships." He mentioned that not attending is not an option for him, "You are conspicuous by your absence here."
"The convention is one of Brock Supply's opportunities to revisit current relationships and create new ones. We always find value in the collaborative and engaging atmosphere of the Auto Recycling Industry. ARA is where it all comes together," says Jerry Brock, Chairman of the Board, and Diamond Sponsor. They have attended every trade show since 1968.
"Hollander is pleased to once again partner with the ARA as a Diamond sponsor. The meeting & expo provide us a great opportunity to highlight our new innovative solutions, network with our clients and support the industry," says Chris Budion, Director Sales.
The Future of Cars
Keynote Speaker Tanvir Arfi, President, Service Maintenance and Repair Platform at Solera Holdings, Inc., had the standing-room-only crowd riveted with his discussion of the next generation of cars and customers of the not-so-distant future.
He opened with some Gen Y facts: Their spending power is currently at 1.7 billion strong – they will soon the be the big spenders of our society with boomers/genXers spending winding down; at roughly 72 million, Gen Y is the most educated, diverse, tech-proficient, and soon-to-be largest American generation ever; they are not brand loyal, rather they are brand agnostic (brand doesn't matter; what matters is peer reviews); and interestingly enough, 10% of Gen Y checks their smart phone every 10 minutes. By 2020, he noted Gen Y will be 50% of the population; by 2030, 75%. Welcome to your industry's future customer.
With the audience processing all that data, Arfi gave them more on the state of vehicle design. Automated Driverless Vehicles are here now; apparently Google and Uber are building prototypes. By 2020 to 2030, he estimates "drivers" will be reading newspapers as their car drives them to work.
In today's vehicle, he notes that the technology is already evident: 360º Cameras, 360º sensors, and adaptive cruise control with lane departure assistant technology opens a new set of parts categories in yard management software.
A significant number of U.S. vehicles -- about 12.1 million between 2013-2018 -- are coming equipped with tele-diagnostics, "OE Gateway Technology." This reports diagnostic details of an accident or mechanical failure to manufacturers and/or repair shops before the car owner calls for a repair appointment. Welcome to your industry's future inventory.
Arfi concluded that in the U.S., most adults own two devices that are connected to the Internet. Anyone over 2-years-old is on the Internet. He strongly suggested, "Have a mobile strategy!" There are 800,000 "car parts" searches monthly. Do what you need to capture that business: accuracy of part description, images, data details, all equals a sale. Watch for "new" parts categories to appear to take advantage of profits.
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ARA's Convention and Event Planner Kim Glasscock says, "The upbeat attitude and camaraderie shared among recyclers was evident throughout the week. Many commented on how they enjoyed the 'family atmosphere' of the event. Even in a tough market, the ARA family comes together and shares ideas, reinforces business practices, and provides the continuing education and network support necessary to survive."
There is no rest – the conclusion of one convention is the start of another. "The Inner Harbor of Baltimore will be an exciting city for ARA to visit October 26-29, 2016," says Steve Holland, Brandon Auto Services, Inc., and ARA Events Advisory Committee Chair. "Attendees will experience an area that they are really going to enjoy. We have plans for some outstanding speakers, seminar topics, vendor exhibition, and off-site activities. Make plans now to come learn and build relationships for the future."
"Baltimore brings us to the Northeast – where, as an organization, we haven't been before," Glasscock comments. "The Inner Harbor is beautiful with plenty to do and see within walking distance. The hotels and convention center will be conducive to incredible networking and great educational sessions."
Check out Baltimore.org to see the sights like the National Aquarium, the award-winning crab cakes of Phillips Seafood restaurant, and the history of Fort McHenry, B&O Railroad Museum, Seton House, Mount Vernon, Charles Street, and more.
Check araexpo.org regularly for updated details.
Caryn Smith is the editor of Automotive Recycling magazine.
The ARA Annual Awards Dinner and Gavel Passing Ceremony is a time when attendees come together to honor ARA Members who have impacted the industry through their excellence and service to the industry. Awards were presented to the following:
Outgoing Regional Directors' Plaques
Paul Davis, Terry Stenglein, Martin Bright, Lawrie Beacham
Outgoing Committee Chair
Martin Bright, Regional Directors
Star Awards
ARA Member of the Year
Shannon Nordstrom, Nordstrom's Automotive, Inc.,
Garretson, SD
ARA Regional Director of the Year
Scott Robertson, Jr., Robertson's Auto Salvage, Inc.,
Wareham, MA
ARA Affiliate Chapter of the Year
Auto and Truck Recyclers Association of New Hampshire
ARA CAR Member of the Year
Carcone's Auto Recycling, Aurora, ON Canada
President's Award
Bill Tolpa, Tolpa's Auto Parts, Remsen, NY
Lifetime Honorary Members
Gary Beagell, Gary's U-Pull-It, Inc., Binghamton, NY
Paul Davis, A-Plus Parts & Salvage, Inc., Wichita, KS
Outgoing President
Ricky Young, Young's Auto Center & Salvage/Car Crushers,
Benson, NC
Incoming President
Mike Swift, Swift's Trails End Auto Recycling, Des Moines, IA
Facility Tour
Matlock's Used Cars & Parts, Inc., Cleveland, NC
Scholarship Foundation Plaques Awarded to the Families of:
Mark Buessing, Memorial Scholarship
Randy Reitman, Memorial Scholarship
Billy Standridge, Memorial Scholarship
Educational Foundation Award
Billy Roberts, Roberts Salvage, Moffett, OK
ARA Educational Foundation Apple Award
Roger Schroder, Foreign Auto Salvage, Ft. Wright, KY
Jeff Kantor (posthumous)
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CPG Retail Activation Product Specialist (Audience Manager)
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: October 04, 2016
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CPG Retail Activation Product Specialist
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The Oracle Data Cloud (ODC), formerly Datalogix, helps advertisers and digital media and ad tech companies succeed by connecting their media to the world's largest platform of 1:1 offline purchasing data. Only ODC leverages over $2 trillion in consumer spending to address and measure the effectiveness of digital advertising across all key verticals, including Retail, CPG, Automotive, Telecom and Financial Services.
In the past several years, the CPG vertical of ODC has created some of the industry's biggest advancements in digital targeting and measurement and is recognized as the industry standard for accuracy and accountability. The CPG vertical is focused on serving CPG advertisers - both brands and CPG retailers (grocery, drug, mass, club & convenience stores). Solutions include, segmentation, insights, targeting, media activation and measurement.
Job Description:
Role will be responsible for product strategy, definition, delivery specifications, pricing, packaging and supporting documentation and promotional materials. With changing market dynamics, unique use cases for retailers and an ever-changing competitive landscape, this position will need to develop, drive and evangelize the audience strategy to internal stakeholders as well as external constituents. You will also be expected to work across teams, collaborating with the enterprise audience, CPG manufacturing and Specialty Retail audience teams to align on standards and innovation will be a critical component to success. This position reports to the Head of CPG Retail Product Strategy and will be part of a small yet highly impactful team focused on bringing the DLX CPG Retail vertical to its full potential. Position is based In Westminster, CO - light travel required.
Primary responsibilities include:
Develop and implement product strategy for a portfolio of products.
Bring CPG Retail products to market in support of Datalogix's CPG Retail product strategy and roadmap.
Work cross organizationally with analytics, data teams, technology and other product groups to further develop the CPG Retail products - leveraging cross-company development work & plans.
Ensure product operations and processes are in place to support delivery of your products.
Align, Energize, and Engage with the rest of the Datalogix team to bring products to market and drive massive adoption. Support the sales teams through sales training, providing sales support materials and input to inform proposals.
Develop a deep understanding of DLX products including go-to-market pricing and positioning across a series of end consumers, focusing primarily on CPG Retailers and their media partners.
Support the Sales & Solutions teams in scoping and delivery of custom client inquiries. Provide pricing for these requests & ensure development work is prioritized to be able to deliver them.
Actively collaborate with client solutions in proposal phase to find the highest value solution for client requests and ensure client understanding.
Collaborate with broader DLX ROI teams, strategic vertical teams and CPG data partnership leads to define product pricing, margins and promotion and ensure product is well-positioned.
Act as subject matter expert on the vertical products and support the go-to-market teams in client meetings and on client calls.
Work w/ Marketing team to create marketing collateral that communicates the Datalogix' Value Proposition and empowers our Sales and Account Management Teams to drive products into new markets as well as into our existing client base, where appropriate.
Skills and Qualifications
Bachelors Degree from accredited university. Graduate degree a plus.
5 - 10 years experience in CPG/Retail analytics, audience products or ad tech role
Background in online advertising and/or CPG Retail marketing is desirable
Strong understanding of ad tech landscape.
Proficiency in products and solutions.
An entrepreneurial outlook and team-based work ethic
Experience in Consumer Products and/or Digital Advertising industry preferred
Demonstrated experience delivering results in roles with progressively increased responsibility
Key Attributes:
Strategic Thinker - manages complexity, understands business, innovative
Self Motivation - High Energy and Drive, results orientated, manages through problems
Operating Skills - focused, organized, creates leverage, manages processes
Strong Interpersonal Skills - builds relationships, open, receptive, flexible
Has "Edge" - willing and able to make tough calls when necessary with minimal fallout
Strong analytical, problem-solving and strategic thinking skills
Solid verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills with the ability to make executive level presentations
Demonstrated ability to self-motivate, work in teams and be flexible within a fast-paced and changing environment
An entrepreneurial outlook and team-based work ethic
Ability to travel occasionally
Our Benefits
We offer competitive compensation, incentive and bonus plans with unlimited upside, and stock options for all DLX employees. Our benefits include quality medical, dental, flexible spending, and life insurance, effective the day you join the team, and a 401k plan. We also provide DLX Recharge, our unique and flexible no-tracking time off philosophy that allows us to take time off when we need it to "recharge".
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Provides direction and specialist knowledge in applying the technology/application to client business. Facilitation of customer product/application understanding through presentations demonstrations and benchmarks; provision of support throughout the sell.
As a Senior Sales Consultant you will be responsible for providing presales technical / functional support to prospective clients and customers while ensuring customer satisfaction with minimal supervision. Acts as a technical resource for less experienced Sales Consultants. Develop and deliver high quality standard Oracle presentations and demonstrations. Present and articulate advanced product features and benefits, product future direction and overall Oracle solutions. Design, validate, and present Oracle software solutions to include advanced product concepts, future direction, and 3rd party complimentary products. Develop and manage reference sites through high quality technical, professional client relationships.
Job duties are varied and complex, needing independent judgment. May have project lead role. 5 years vendor (sales and marketing) experience. 5 years relevant computer applications or database/tools. Demonstrated proficiency in one multi-user operating system. Through knowledge of system and application design. Strong verbal and written communication skills: needs analysis, positioning, business justification, closing techniques. Demonstrated ability to solve complex technical problems with accounts in complex technical environments. Ability to travel as needed. BS degree or equivalent; advanced degree desirable.
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This, by Michael Ignatief in the FT does a good job of capturing how I feel about 'country'. I didn't spend much of my childhood in the UK and although Les Alluets Le Roi is closer to London than Carlisle is, anything 'English' had to be imported. So my mother stocked up with Marmite, Golden Syrup, mango pickle and porridge to the bemusement of her French friends, while I embraced a romanticised view of England fuelled by Enid Blyton, CS Forester, PG Wodehouse, Kipling and Roy of the Rovers, made by Airfix. But while I might have been a starry-eyed patriot in the playground in the 1960s, it took very little time before I was also 'European'. The only regret is that the range of places you could get to on a train in Europe in the 70's and 80's was so pathetically small compared to what anyone with time to spare can do now. Hop on the overnight train to Berlin and catch one in the morning to Warsaw. No visas, no hassle. Of course air travel has made it all easier, even if it's less romantic, but if you're 21 and have time on your hands there's a world of places, ideas and people to see, read and meet, just on your doorstep.
Unfortunately, that's just not what Europe as a political entity is about now. I was in favour of a single currency in the 1990s because the ERM was ludicrously flawed and because I'd learnt as a student that there was a cost to dividing my allowance between francs, guilders, marks and pounds. And it's equally clear that once there is a single currency, then along with a single central bank there needs to be closer fiscal union.
The single currency is no longer necessary. I can already use an app on my phone to buy coffee in New York at an exchange rate that is so much better than I am ever offered by a bureau de change, that I could scream. There's only a cartel or two standing in the way of fair exchange rates for using ATMs and credit cards internationally, and at that point the benefits from a single currency are suddenly much reduced for most people. The inflation, competitive devaluation and volatility of the 1970s can be avoided without currency union. But back in the early days of the ERM, no one realised that technology would do any of things it has and here is Europe, with the Euro and with the need to focus its political energy on building much sounder economic foundations on which to support it. Even if anyone in Brussels wishes that they had never invented the Euro, they don't want to go back and doing so would be devastating. So onwards it must be and the Federalists must win. And as they win, so the anti-Federalists in the UK moan.
And it is a shame, because I don't want to choose between a Federal Europe and an isolated, irrelevant economically-challenged England. I don't want either of these things. I want to do what I'm doing tomorrow morning - get on a plane, fly to Athens and sit in a bar discussing the world with people whose perspective is different from mine and from whom I can't fail to learn a great deal. But for what it's worth, if I can't have a single market with free movement of goods, capital, people and ideas, I'll vote for Europe, however I have to take it.


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