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During the last ice age, approximately 12,000 years ago the Laurentide ice sheet separates in two, providing an access route from Beringia (the land exposed at the bottom of the Bering Sea) to the North American continent for peoples moving in from Asia.
The ice does not separate, and people can not make their way from Asia.
Due to the American continents being unpopulated, the majority of the mega-fauna survives until historical times.
In the year 1001 A.D., Norseman Lief Ericson and some Norse colonists settle in Vinland (North Eastern Canada in reality) due to no local populations to compete with the settlement grows rapidly and settlements are set up along the east coast of Vinland by 1015.
Mastodon and Mammoth ivory makes its way back to Europe, and is found to be far superior to Elephant ivory for carving.
By 1150, the population of Vinland is estimated to be over 10,000 and growing rapidly, and vast areas of fertile land have been discovered to the south (reality Virginia down south to Georgia)


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Written by ALI WINTER | Illustrated by MICKAËL EL FATHI
What does peace mean to you? This illustrated collection of inspirational ideas about peace is based on the lives of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates of the 20th and 21st centuries, among them Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa and Malala Yousafzai. A must for anyone interested in exploring this essential issue of our times, this child-friendly exploration of what peace means to you and me is a book for every bookshelf.
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The Settlers 7
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Might and Magic: Heroes VI
→ CH MM:H6 Review
Kalah offers the final review of the sixth instalment of the Heroes series, looking at the campaigns, gameplay, graphics and much more.
The Timing
Unlike reviewers like Gamespot, who had to do their work with what they had, I have the cheat sheet. I have the benefit of hindsight, having had the game for a year rather than just a couple of days. However, I have always believed that reviews should be based on what a game is, not what it has the potential to be. Therefore, the fact that game reviewers are forced to write reviews of games before they're released is far from ideal.
Here, then, is the review of the game based on what can be regarded as a final version. Our final review.
4/6 Really not bad, but nothing legendary.
The story is really good. Murder, intrigue, betrayal, a civil war and family feuds above it all, a greater threat looming on the horizon and long-term plans designed to face it. So where does it fall short? Well, the dialogue is one thing. It's ... not good. Do I have to say more? All right, I will: The writing is like it was done by a twelve-year-old. Or, if I'm being serious for a moment, by a non-English speaker... which is ironic, since the writing of the DLC, which was, is better. It's also quite out of place: a campaign series in which you can choose which part/faction to play first needs to base its dialogue around this fact. As it is, many things just don't make sense. There are also inconsistencies based on character developments. One of the exciting bits of this game is the blood/tear system, but the actions of the characters don't necessarily reflect which such school you belong to.
For a game placing such emphasis on the campaigns, I had expected more. I must admit I never played all of them. You may criticize, but the thing is: I would have played them all if they were good enough. You may say that I shouldn't make up my mind about them until I have completed them all, but really ... are the rest so good that they'll completely convince me? If that is so, I would submit that as a distinct weakness in itself. The fact that I only completed two thirds of the campaigns before moving house might have something to do with my never finishing the lot, but the fact remains that if they were really enticing, I would have wanted to keep playing. Instead, I started up a new round of Football Manager. What does that tell you?
1/6 a powerful, useless tool.
When the game was announced and we were offered the chance to give advice on its features, I told Ubisoft from the very start, just as I have been banging on ever since: "Use us. Use the Community." Elaborating, I wanted the producers to use the various gaming sites for everything from news releases to information gathering and suggestions. In short, UbiHole decided to ignore this advice and I believe this contributed to many of the problems we have been experiencing.
For instance, the Community sites were unanimous in their request that the map editor should be prioritized. Ubisoft and the original developers chose to ignore this advice. This has yielded the result that the current state of the editor is so poor and the code so complex that the current developers are lamenting the fact that they can do little to correct it.
The Community of M&M fans are what drives the franchise forwards. The reason people still play (and buy) old Heroes games is the fact that the players have hundreds of maps at their disposal also that it is possible to create mods. When H6 was made, work seems to have been put into creating ready-made campaigns for story line play, not build the game in such a way that players could develop their own maps and stories. The editor was designed as a powerful tool for developers, but is too hard to use for most people.
That's a problem. The Heroes series is based on longevity. A long life-span. People don't buy them just because they want to play the campaigns. They don't buy the expansions for the continuation of a story arch, but for the extra factions, units and artefacts added to the already well-functioning game. Heroes VI has the longevity of your average fruit fly. The choices made when designing the editor; the lack of user-friendliness, the lack of an RMG and campaign editor are to blame. The developers never understood despite Communities screaming it at them that we don't just want to play these games; we also want to add things to them.
Creative Director Erwan le Breton himself said that there are many players (a "silent community") who buy and play the game without actually playing a big part in the Communities. This is true. However, what kind of player is more likely to contribute to the quality of the series; someone who buys it because it's been well-advertised, plays the campaigns and then puts it on a shelf before moving on to something else, or someone who enters the forums with his/her opinions and wishes for improvement? Sadly, Ubisoft have made a game to suit the casual players, not those who want to spend more time developing the series. It took a steady storm of complaints to get the town screens changed. This was no doubt a change for the better, but who were responsible for getting it done? The "silent mass"?
2/6 In some ways mysteriously enjoyable, but bugged, unbalanced and suffering from poor infrastructure for online play.
I have to say that once I got started with H6 a while after its release, I found it fairly enjoyable. I found it much better than H5; it ran better on my PC and the graphics and videos were a lot better. So why only a grade of 2? Frankly, the game places too much emphasis on the campaigns and the online experience. There should be more than that. The game should be such that you can start up a single-player game and play different maps when you want, but because the game was built around the campaigns, not much was done to ensure that players had the chance to do this. The game was also made with giving players an extra online experience in mind. The fact that this experience has been full of interruptions, such as servers going down (usually during the weekend), must be considered a huge drawback. Just as Gamespy concluded in their review: "the horrendous UPlay system's draconian requirement that you be connected to the internet at all times to play" became more of a liability to the game than the "added bonus" it was supposed to be. It gave the fans a reason to stay away from the game altogether, rather than encourage them to play it online. The Dynasty weapons too were malfunctioning.
The Conflux was coined a revolutionary move upon release. It turned out to be a fallacy. Not because the concept in itself is flawed, but because the infrastructure offered by Ubisoft failed to support it just as I predicted last year. What I said back then was that Ubisoft had a poor track record in supporting online features, and that the Conflux was a good idea since it also meant you could play offline. That turned out to be wrong: the lack of online/offline savegame compatibility meant you couldn't really jump between the two at all. The Conflux sounded like a good idea ... but in the end, it failed to work in practice. It failed. Abysmally.
Also, the game was not properly balanced when released. Of course, that's to be expected. Even the great Master of Orion II was out of balance when released. It, however, was fixed. Heroes VI, after a year of patching, still is not. That's not good. It may not be noticed by the casual players, but for those who take it seriously and want to compete, it certainly is. When an amateur player like yours truly notices during simple campaign play, I'd expect that most people do.
Then there are the bugs, of which there were a lot: critical bugs in the Dynasty system; spells and special abilities (especially for creatures) not working; alt-tabbing and saving games causing the game to crash; campaign bugs; hotkeys not working ... the number of patches (8!) released so far and their respective sizes should be an indication of how big a problem this has been.
The AI is not much to speak of either. Stories abound on the AI not using its potential in battle, not flagging mines and cheating on the adventure maps. To most players, a mediocre AI is enough if you just want to play the game for its story and not have too many problems finishing it; it's a bit like playing on a low difficulty. For the more experienced player, however, a proper challenge is wanted. Given the lacklustre AI, most such players would rather play online against human players ... but given the lack of balance, that the online system doesn't work very well and due to the lack of maps to play, they can't.
5/6 Excellent.
I was really upset that the previous game never gave us value for money in this department. They introduced 3D, yes, but the resource requirements were so high that you could never really run it at 100% without ending up with a choppy game. I ended up really annoyed with this and eventually stopped playing altogether, wishing they had dropped the 3D thing so the game would run better. This time, I have no such problems, despite playing on the same PC.
Great landscape, beautiful creatures and scenery, good-looking artefacts and very nice animations are just some of the words I can use to describe the feel I get when looking at the screen with H6 in the drive. A slight drawback is (just as in H5) the cutscenes, which are rubbish. The less said about them, the better.
I just have to mention that I also have Tom Salta's "An Ancient Storm is Rising" on my stereo and I always find myself humming along when it gets to the middle theme.
The Conclusion
Rating: 3/6
The developers said back in June that the game has a lot of potential. However, it is not reasonable that a game's potential should be released a year after its original release. Seeing as the game is still suffering from serious flaws, I expect that this "potential" will in fact never be released.
To be fair, there are good points. The graphics are excellent, the music is good, the story not bad at all. The interface was poor but has been changed for the better and (as I said before) I judge the game as it is now, not as it was. In the end, though, the game's lack of balance, horrible online features and a complete absence of replayability became its downfall.
In short, Heroes VI was a game that could have been, but never made it because of poor design decisions, a lack of support and a refusal to involve the fans in anything important. The game's broken features, the lack of a functioning online system and lack of a good editor and random map generator ... are simply too much to ignore.
What I'd really like to see is a "What I love about HoMM VI" article as contrast to all the moaning. And if you can't do that then how can you call yourselves a "fan" site??!
Okay, fair arguments. I don't see arrogance in Ubisoft though, I just see close-mindedness. These are different things.
I have no intent to offend you and some of my remarks are more general and not specific to you (you can see which is which). But you're not a paying customer Jeff, you just WERE. It's your right not to buy any game, surely. However, your criticism of games you have not bought cannot be reliable.
You are basing your argument on the fact that I think there's arrogance in the statement "have given UBI two tries to continue the series" because it implies that Ubisoft is liable to work for you. These are your words, in quotes, not mine.
And although you know you are a no-market audience, you still base all your criticism on how Ubisoft neglects you as target audience. There are mutually exclusive.
First of all, I am not bashing out on Kalah, whose opinion I respect. But honestly, Jeff, many of you act like you own the series. Really? You have given Ubisoft the chance to prove their worthiness to you? Is the franchise yours? Was it ever? I understand what the term "fan" means and how much would you like the copyright owner to give you something you will love again, but they don't owe you that. And they're not scums if they don't. They're not even the ones who are at fault for NWC's demise, so you can blame them for destroying the series. If anything, they have tried to revive it and it could very well be in the trash if they didn't buy the rights back when 3DO went bankrupt.
Of course Ubisoft didn't try and revive the series because of their kind heart. But they are a company, mind you, just like any other. They care to make a good product because this will bring them money. Thus, anyone complaining about intentions and how much the company cares about the series, is really complaining about something that doesn't exist.
This doesn't change the fact that no game can be geared towards you, because you are a very specific customer who mostly cares about making maps, not playing the actual game. Hence, you are not inside the target audience and the company would be ill-advised to develop a game with you in mind.
Surely, everyone wants a good editor, but I myself am satisfied also if the company provides me with their own maps at regular intervals. You must understand that these game editors have become too complex mainly because of 3D. For the company to spend time creating a more user friendly editor means spending money which is debatable if its going to count towards their revenue from the game's sales.
This community is wallowing in its own self-righteous despair. Nobody here wansts Ubi to make a good HoMM game, because that would actually make them happy.
Okay, so what you're actually saying is that he should have marked the game even lower? Otherwise he is "working" for Ubisoft? Have we all gone mad? If the game is so rubbish that you all lost interest completely, what in the name are you still doing in here?
>>>A strategy game without dragons and titans should not be sold under the license of the Heroes franchise!
>>>Does anyone remember who published (...) Nuclear War? Are these guys in business anymore?
The Heroes series is based on longevity
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Panionios announced Aaron Miles
Aaron Miles(1.86-PG) was earlier this season a target of Virtus Bologna and Cajasol. He was also trying to obtain a european passport but he was unsuccessful. Today Panionios announced Aaron Miles via their official website and he will be their 2nd foreign player for the next season alongside Lonny Baxter.
Miles is a pass-first point guard that puts emphasis in passing the ball in every way possible. He didn't manage to settle in the NBA with the Golden State Warriors and came over to Europe and played for the Pau Orthez in the Euroleague 06-07. Next season he played for Cajasol in the ACB. He is the 7th leading player in assists of all time in the NCAA and was the 6th leading player in assists in the regular reason of the 2006-2007 Euroleague.
He averaged 9.3 points 3.5 assists and 1.1 steals in 34 games in the ACB playing for Cajasol.
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An ex-Marine Corps reservist accused of shooting a gun at the Pentagon and other military targets will remain behind bars.
Yonathan Melaku, 23, of Alexandria, Va., appeared in court Thursday. Melaku waived a probable cause hearing, but his lawyer asked that Melaku be allowed to remain under home confinement with an ankle bracelet.
The court found that there were no conditions to ensure that Melaku would not be a danger to the community, so the judge said he must remain in custody pending further court hearings.
Melaku is accused of a series of overnight shootings in October and November of 2010. Among the targets: The Pentagon, The Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, and a Marine recruiting station in Chantilly.
Melaku was arrested in June after he was found carrying a backpack with amonium nitrate in Arlington National Cemetery. He also had a notebook containing arabic references to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida.
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An innovative road monitoring unit is currently being trialled by 200 of Manchester's most avid cyclists, to help record and resolve road safety issues that bike users face daily. This is the first time a bike light and road condition tracking unit has been trialled in Britain, and will provide useful data and information on cyclist riding conditions.
The aim of the trial is to examine what road issues cyclists encounter the most, using bike light sensors to monitor road surface conditions. The intelligent Northern Ireland developers at See.Sense are responsible for inventing this brilliant modern cycling technology, which will not only change the way we monitor cyclists, but also use the results to identify which problems affect cyclists travelling on busy roads every day.
So, what will the new bike light sensor technology do?
- Record surface conditions of roads, cycle lanes and paths
- Use bike's USB battery to save data to mobile storage 'cloud', which will be available to analyse for improvements
- Help pinpoint dangerous city routes so that key road safety issues can be targeted in the future
- Transmit data via a BT hub, which will then be studied and analysed by Manchester's smart city demonstrator, CityVerve.
Cyclists are the most vulnerable road users. Therefore, this new technology will help protect them on busy roads, by recording important safety issues such as dangers involved in approaching junctions and roundabouts, being overtaken by cars and hazards caused by road surfaces and cycle routes and paths.


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When the Defense Department asked 1,410 security researchers who had registered for the Hack the Pentagon bug bounty program, it got what it was hoping for.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter declared the program a success: Ultimately, 252 hackers submitted at least one vulnerability each, and 117 received payouts. The Pentagon promptly fixed all the uncovered bugs.
"Through this pilot, we found a cost-effective way to supplement and support what our dedicated people do every day to defend our systems and networks, and we've done it securely, and we've done it effectively," Carter said at a June event announcing the results of the program.
It went so well that DOD asked its IT managers to examine all the other areas that could benefit from a bug bounty security checkup. Officials also plan to change DOD contracts to require vendors to submit their products to bug bounty security checks in some instances. And officials will issue a responsible bug disclosure policy to enable security researchers to report bugs without fear of prosecution.
In addition, DOD announced on Oct. 20 that it had contracted with HackerOne, a bug bounty management company, and Synack, a firm that provides crowdsourced security testing and intelligence, to enable DOD components to easily launch their own versions of Hack the Pentagon-style challenges. The Army launched its bug bounty program Nov. 11.
Crowdsourcing a security checkup sounds fairly straightforward, but two of the architects of DOD's program said a lot of organizational work is involved.
"It's not just a matter of throwing up an email online and seeing what happens," said Katie Moussouris, founder and CEO of Luta Security. She created Microsoft's first bug bounty program and helped set up DOD's Hack the Pentagon program. "You have to prepare, and most organizations are not prepared."
1. Get outside help
Agencies must consider the resources they have before they embark on a similar program, said Lisa Wiswell, the Defense Digital Service's digital security lead.
Those with mission-critical public-facing websites should consider adding bug bounty programs to their existing security and penetration testing procedures, but they should also consider hiring a contractor to manage the process. Among other things, that approach frees up internal technology staffers to focus on squashing the bugs.
For example, DOD received 1,189 bug reports in the Hack the Pentagon pilot, of which only 138 qualified for payouts. Someone had to cull through those reports and verify which ones were valid and which were duplicates.
"The amount of work that people would have had to do to cull through that, to make sure that those reports were robust and to make sure that we could act on them would have created more [of a problematic workload] than would have helped," Wiswell said. "By paying a contractor, you've outsourced a tremendous amount of the work, and you've allowed the people who know the code base to focus on remediating the vulnerability."
The other advantage to using the services of the emerging class of companies -- which includes HackerOne, Synack, Bugcrowd and several others -- is that they have created platforms where security researchers congregate. Furthermore, the companies have established reputations, expertise in managing what can be an unwieldy process and experience in specifying the parameters of a bug bounty contest. They also know how to triage and assign priorities to the order in which bugs should be fixed.
And figuring out who is responsible for fixing a bug can be complex, Moussouris said.
"I started Microsoft vulnerability research, and one of our big missions was doing multivendor coordination," she said. "Someone would report an issue with the [Internet Explorer] browser, for example, but when researching it, we found that it actually was a Flash issue. So we would pass it on to Adobe."
Organizations pay companies like HackerOne to manage the process, and they pay for the vulnerabilities that are discovered. With traditional penetration testing, consultants receive flat fees whether one bug is discovered or 100.
"Instead of paying for the almost 1,200 reports that came in, we paid for the 130 or so bugs that we could act on," Wiswell said. "We paid for those where we could say: 'You've given us enough of an explanation, and we know how to fix this, and we're going to go ahead and fix it.'"
2. Provide crystal-clear instructions
Spelling out the rules as precisely as possible is essential, Wiswell said. "We spent a tremendous amount of time with our legal team and all of the stakeholders across the departments to make sure that we defined our rules and restrictions down to a T," she said. "You have to make sure that you tell folks what they can do and, almost even more importantly, what they cannot do."
DOD officials spelled out the terms and conditions under which the activities could be conducted and explicitly stated that hackers would not be prosecuted if they stayed within the given parameters.
Many companies that run bug bounty programs provide lists of dos and don'ts. GitHub, for instance, asks researchers not to access its users' accounts or data, not to launch denial-of-service attacks and not to publicly disclose bugs until they are fixed, among other things.
A glance through the community-curated listings of bug bounties and disclosure policies at Bugsheet.com reveals some commonalities among companies when it comes to disclosure policies (i.e., don't publicly disclose the problem until it has been fixed), but the level of detail provided in the policies varies widely. For example, Uber's bug bounty policy explicitly states that payout amounts are not pinned to the vulnerability itself but to the severity of the potential impact.
"This means, for example, that we will issue a relatively high reward for a vulnerability that has the potential to leak sensitive user data, but that we will issue little to no reward for a vulnerability that allows an attacker to deface a microsite," the company's policy document states. "When we have our reward meetings, we always ask one question: If a malicious attacker abuses this, how bad off are we? We assume the worst and pay out the bug accordingly."
Although every organization operates in its own way, the International Organization for Standardization and the International Electrotechnical Commission offer a comprehensive policy document (with input from Moussouris) that serves as a valuable reference point for vulnerability disclosure processes and policies. The document is numbered ISO/IEC 29147.
3. Quickly analyze and remediate
The beauty of bug bounty challenges is that they shorten the bug discovery and fixing cycle from months or even years to a few days or weeks, Wiswell said.
But the key is fixing the problems quickly and not potentially exacerbating the security lapse by failing to act on a discovery in a timely fashion, she added. It's also helpful to keep researchers updated on what is being done with their discoveries -- whether and when the problem will be fixed or whether the problem is already known.
At DOD, officials see bug bounty programs as an efficient way to go after low-hanging fruit -- common vulnerabilities lurking in its millions of lines of code that probably shouldn't have existed in the first place.
In the Aug. 9 request for proposals that led to the new contracts for bug bounty services, one of the requirements was that vendors be able to sort through and prioritize vulnerability reports within 48 hours of receipt.
That seems like an appropriate level of urgency. According to a September 2015 DOD memo, the Pentagon's networks were attacked 30 million times from September 2014 to June 2015.
"Less than 0.1 percent of the 30 million known malicious intrusions...compromised a cyber system," the memo states, but that still means hackers were able to break into DOD systems as many as 30,000 times over a 10-month span.
Furthermore, "the growing number of cyber intrusions across the department is costing tens of millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours to remediate," the memo states. And about 80 percent of the incidents "can be traced to three factors: poor user practices, poor network and data management practices, and poor implementation of network architecture.
4. Think it all the way through
Until more agencies try bug bounties question will remain about the extent to which they can work well in government. For example, what happens if white hat hackers find so many bugs in a project that the assigned pot of bounty money is emptied before a designated challenge period ends?
That was a question posed in a document attached to one of DOD's RFPs for a bug bounty service. There was no clear answer from DOD officials, other than stating that the department would not consider a suspension of the challenge under those circumstances as an incompletion of the task at hand as long as DOD program managers were fully aware of the rules and payout structures from the outset.
Despite such open questions, security experts agree that well-run bug bounty programs with vetted participants are a welcome addition to the existing portfolio of penetration testing and network monitoring programs that federal agencies currently use. For one thing, many traditional penetration testing companies have gotten sloppy, said John Pescatore, director of emerging security trends at the SANS Institute.
Craig Arendt, a security consultant at Stratum Security who participated in Hack the Pentagon, agreed. "Bug bounties can leverage a broad spectrum of talented researcher experience that might not otherwise be available to government," he said. And a well-run program "provides incentives that encourage responsible disclosure."
A longer version of this article first appeared in FCW, a sister site to GCN.
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About Paula Powell
Prior to leading Animal Services, Paula spent 24 years serving the City of El Paso in various operational positions. Before that, Paula served as a 1st Lt in the US Army and was stationed at Fort Bliss. She began her college education at the United States Military Academy and culminated it with her master's in public administration at the University of Texas at El Paso. She received her certification in Shelter Management in 2018 and continues to look for new ways to learn and grow in order to save more of the lives that need us most.
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Family law and practice, interviewing and counseling
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- Professional Experience: Attorney, Three Rivers Legal Services (1988-96); Law Clerk, Florida Fifth District Court of Appeals Judge Joe Cowart Jr. (1985-1988). Certified by the Florida Supreme Court in family and county court mediation (1995).
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The Shaman Group is one of the largest automobile dealers in Mumbai. Based on their rich experience in the field of automobiles the group commenced its dealership of the premium range of luxury cars and set up Shaman Wheels Pvt. Ltd. - A Mercedes-Benz Franchise.
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ALRB pushes fake UFW line about the employer it targeted
The California Agricultural Labor Relations Board is pushing a fake UFW line to attack a company and its workers.
The state agency, known as ALRB, lied in claiming that Gerawan Farming "refused to provide" accurate contact information for its thousands of workers, so that the UFW could organize.
In a three-year campaign to prevent Gerawan farmworkers from voting to de-certify the UFW, the ALRB made the allegation in three separate complaints. However, the ALRB flip-flopped by saying that the company:
- "failed to provide,"
- "refused to provide," and
- "did not correct or has not corrected" the information.
Those are big differences. But the ALRB's position has allowed its favored union, the UFW, to push the false line that the big Central Valley employer broke the law by "refusing" to provide accurate addresses.
Facts show that ALRB-UFW are wrong
The facts show that the ALRB-UFW position is a fabrication. ALRB acknowledged that Gerawan Farming provided the original lists between November, 2012, and January, 2013. ALRB also acknowledged that the employer responded publicly in February, 2013. ALRB also recognized that the company provided a new list for direct-hire employees in July, 2013 (while ALRB-UFW organizer Silas Shawver was trying to suppress the workers from voting to decertify UFW). A quick review:
- November 2012: ALRB stated that UFW organizers had begun to visit farmworkers at the addresses Gerawan Farming provided. Later, in January, 2013, ALRB-UFW would allegedly document more than 2,000 employee address as being inaccurate.
- December 2012: UFW National Vice President Armando Elenes publicly boasted that the UFW was receiving "tremendous" support from the "vast majority" of workers. Elenes had no complain about not being able to reach Gerawan employees with the lists provided. Instead, he said in Despierta Ya Campesino, "the UFW was receiving a tremendous reception by the vast majority and getting a tremendous response."
- January 2013: UFW's Elenes again boasted about "receiving a tremendous response" beyond his wildest expectations. In Elenes' words, "best of all, we are receiving a tremendous response, a response I hadn't even imagined." Again, Elenes did not complain about not being able to reach the workers.
- July 2013: Gerawan Farming provides the UFW with a new list of addresses, reportedly because a large percentage were incorrect due to many workers' having no fixed address. Workers receive weekly pay. As with most employers, an employee's workplace address is considered valid until the employer is told otherwise.
- August 2013: UFW again says that Gerawan workers had decided to "flock" to the UFW. The union's general counsel, Mario Martinez, said during an oral argument before Judge Black, that Gerawan "workers have decided, instead, to flock in support of negotiating an agreement that will improve their working conditions. There has been so much support that the union has had to turn away workers who are interested in being on the negotiating committee because it's just not feasible to bring in 'hundreds of workers' to the negotiation session."
UFW activist Silas Shawver was behind the discrepancy
Key to this whole problem is Silas Shawver, a committed UFW activist lawyer who was the ALRB's Regional Director in Visalia at the time.
Many workers were not at their addresses of record, because they had changed locations or moved elsewhere for other seasonal jobs.
It is up to the ALRB Regional Director – in this case, Shawver – to determine whether or not an employee list is accurate. According to the rules, the Regional Director must state the reasons for determining inaccuracies.
Shawver gave no reasons why he claimed that more than 1,100 addresses supposedly were incorrect or invalid. He merely made the declaration for his friends in the UFW.
Pattern of collusion and deception
Shawver shows a pattern of colluding with the UFW and using the ALRB to force a UFW contract on Gerawan farmworkers:
- A California Superior Court judge found Shawver and the ALRB to be "in cahoots" with the UFW in 2013.
- Shawver tried to suppress the Gerawan workers from voting to de-certify the UFW in 2013.
- When public pressure forced ALRB to allow the workers to vote, the ALRB overruled Shawver and instructed the voting to proceed.
- Shawver then took physical possession of the ballots the workers cast in November, 2013.
- In 2014, Shawver admitted he had the ballots locked up and had no plan to count them; later that year he disregarded the petitions of hundreds of Gerawan workers to count their stolen ballots.
- A whistleblower scandal within ALRB forced Shawver to leave ALRB in disgrace in the summer of 2015.
- ALRB secretly re-hired Shawver in 2016, for a higher post as deputy general counsel.
- To hide his re-hiring, ALRB concealed Shawver's name from its publicly available staff list. This fits an established ALRB pattern of deception to conceal inconvenient facts from the public.
UFW falsely claimed thousands of workers as UFW members
The UFW falsely claimed that Gerawan Farmworkers were willing UFW members. In fact, the UFW never negotiated a contract after Gerawan workers had voted to join the union in the 1990s, and abandoned those workers for 17 years – until the ALRB stepped in to force the workers to submit to a UFW contract.
UFW now claims that Gerawan Farming has agreed "to a bilateral settlement with the United Farm Workers and the Agricultural Labor Relations Board to resolve charges it broke the the law in 2013. The charges were filed after the giant company 'refused to provide accurate worker contact information to the UFW," which the UFW still claims "'is the exclusive collective bargaining representative' of Gerawan's workers."
About the ALRB
The Agricultural Labor Relations Board is run by three officials appointed by the governor: William B. Gould IV, Chairman; Genevieve Shiroma; and Cathryn Rivera-Hernandez.


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SEO is such an important factor in online marketing today that good SEO features are an absolutely crucial part of any website. When building an online store, you need to be sure that your eCommerce platform supports all the features that will let you implement SEO best practices. But what makes an eCommerce platform great for SEO? We reached out to 5 SEO professionals for their input.
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Find a platform that allows you to add whatever you want to the HEAD section of each individual page, and you've got much more control of your search listings.
— Dave Hermansen, CEO at Store Coach – Boise, Idaho
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— Lindsay Kavanagh, Digital Coordinator at seoplus+ – Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Because a search on an eCommerce site will pull up dynamic URLs with the same content, your shopping platform must support this ability, 100x points if it's automated.
Why is it important to use an eCommerce platform built for SEO? Beyond the ease of product management, it's about online visibility. Most business owners are so consumed and concerned with how the solution will be for them on a day-to-day basis that they forget to realize it's about online visibility that makes the business even worth it. When the eCommerce world online is dominated by Amazon, Google Shopping, Walmart and more, you need to do everything you can to give yourself the greatest chances of ranking online.
— Scott Romney, VP of Sales and Operations at LoSoMo Inc – Boca Raton, Florida
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The most important SEO feature that an eCommerce platform should offer is "index control". Online shops often have a lot of product pages with different variances, like a t-shirt that's available in different colors. But for SEO you don't want all of these pages to be indexed by Google because they're too similar. This is considered "duplicate content" and can lead to substantial SEO problems. Therefore, a good eCommerce platform can give webmasters control over what's being indexed and what not by providing a so-called "canonical tag".
The two other most important requirements are content and meta-data. If you are free to add as much content as you like to any category or product page it's much easier for you to attract a lot of organic traffic. Not only does content make a page more relevant to search engines, but it can also serve as "online customer service" and answer many questions users have. That also positively impacts conversion rates. Meta-data is important because titles have become a strong ranking factor over the last years. At the same time, descriptions impact the click-through rate, which is also an important ranking factor in 2017.
The impact of having an SEO unfriendly eCommerce platform is devastating. For most online shops, SEO is the number one marketing channel because it scales, comes basically for free and has pre-qualified users.
— Kevin Indig, SEO Consultant at Kevin-Indig.com and SEO Manager at Atlassian – International
5. Mobile Optimization
In my opinion the number one SEO feature that any eCommerce platform should offer right now is mobile optimization for a desktop website. An ever-growing number of consumers is turning to their mobile phone to make purchases online, and not having a website that is optimized for this device can turn away a great deal of customers due to slow processes and frustrating interfaces.
Selecting the right eCommerce platform can be the difference between your business failing or succeeding. If you own an online store you need to make sure that your products can be easily found on search engines such as Google, and a fitting eCommerce platform can help you do just that.
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For what seems like ions, we as Mothers have been taught to always change our baby's diapers quickly and to use a dash of baby powder to keep bottoms fresh. Women have also utilized the age old powder to maintain clean feminine hygiene for years upon years; until now.
Studies have apparently been performed since the 1980's {unbeknownst to the general public} regarding the correlation between the coveted baby powder and ovarian cancer. Have your attention yet? Most of us ladies have our own beauty routines, and most of which is usually gets handed down to us from our teen years via our Mothers; with baby powder being a "safe" product to incorporate into the daily routine. Never would most women ever assume shaking that product on their baby's bottoms or in their undergarments would ever result in a horrifying case of cancer years down the road.
Let's get some statistical data on the table to digest provided by Salon.com ; 14,000 women die each year as a result of a battle with ovarian cancer. It affects 20,000, which equates to 1 female in every 70. Those women that made talc powder a part of their daily routines have a higher chance of developing the cancer by 35%! That's pretty significant when cancer is on the table. Since the first finding of talc powder and its correlation to ovarian cancer was founded, some 700 cancer patients (or the families of those that have passed away) are pointing the finger at talc powder use. Some companies involved in these lawsuits are Johnson & Johnson, Imerys Talc America, Inc, and Personal Care Products Council.
Women who have suffered from their personal battles with ovarian cancer are very curious as to why this issue hasn't been made public ad of yet. Why are there no warnings about the powders to use essentially "at your own risk" at this point? The businesses mentioned in all of the cases report the statistical associations between their product and ovarian cancer are "weak", and that there is no proof that the powder can travel through the genital area into the ovaries. The trials are set to kick off in 2016, and you can expect to hear a lot of news about the cases no doubt via social media, but until a definitive picture has been displayed based on facts and medical evidence the choice is yours whether or not to continue using the powder products on your own opinion.


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People who are seeking a great place to live with a strong community will discover that Summit, New Jersey, is the place to live. There are terrific Summit NJ Homes for sale that are ideal for families, couples and individuals. If you are interested in joining the Summit New Jersey Community we would be happy to assist in providing valuable community information as well of a list of the current homes for sale in the Summit area! Do not hesitate to contact us!
Summit, originally settled by Native Americans, has a long and interesting history. There have been a number of names that the community has been called. Names include "Turkey Hill and "Heights over Springfield." Eventually, it received the name it has today. Originally a farming community, people from New York City began to move into the area, and they built Summit Homes. The Rahway Valley Railroad connected Summit with other parts of the surrounding countryside. In the past one of the towns most important companies was was the Summit Silk Company. The Summit Silk Company was at the center of Summit's economic commerce and is responsible for much of the towns historic growth.
A interested Summit Home Buyer will have plenty of parks to visit. Residents may enjoy time outdoors at one of the many parks in the area. Many of the parks feature playgrounds for children and some parks have pavilions that are ideal for activities or barbeques.
Youth and children have plenty of athletic activities to join, as do adults. An excellent center for activities is the local Recreation Center. Other recreational opportunities for people of various ages are found here.
People who are considering Homes for sale in Summit have many attractions to visit. The Greenwood Gardens has some of the most beautiful flowers and shrubbery in the surrounding area. It is a fantastic place to spend a few hours and enjoy the great outdoors.
Shoppers will enjoy a visit to downtown Summit, where there is something for everyone. Clothing stores, restaurants and many activities to enjoy.
Summit has many events to be enjoyed for those of all ages!
One of the biggest annual events is the Cars & Croissants, which is a celebration of Father's Day. During this event families are invited to visit Summit Farms Market for local produce and goods from the area.Just following, people can go across the street to visit over 100 vintage cars.
Stephanie Mallios is a great source of information concerning Summit Homes for sale! People can find homes that will fit into any budget! Summit is a wonderful place to live and has much to offer everyone


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— By Andrew Johnson, Editor
If you walk into a sporting goods store, the sheer number of duck and goose calls can be overwhelming. It's been that way for decades, as waterfowl call innovation continues to push the envelope with new makes and models fashioned from a variety of materials. From good old-fashioned wood to high-end acrylic and polymer calls, it seems as though the options, as well as the price points, are limitless.
Still, all the duck calls in the world weren't enough for Kendall Dosch.
"Back in high school some friends and I were huge waterfowlers," said Dosch, who graduated from Aberdeen Central in 2014. "We had the idea one day at the lunch table that we were going to make our own duck call. We had a little wood lathe, so we bought some dowels of wood from Menards and learned how to turn them."
And that's how DZ Calls, a waterfowl call company based in Aberdeen, was born, Dosch said, admitting that turning both body parts of a handmade call was easier said than done. He said the first few he made squeaked and that was about it. He said it felt like forever before one of the hand-turned duck calls actually quacked.
"Turning the bottom part of the call, or what we call the barrel, isn't very hard, but making the insert, the narrow part that holds the reed, and filing that by hand to fit perfectly was really hard and time consuming," he said. "You'd have imperfections in the wood or plastic or whatever you were working with, and it would just take forever to get the insert to fit just right."
Hobby to Business
Throughout high school Dosch said he continued to make duck calls by hand, improving his skills and progressing from wood to different materials in an effort to find what combination worked and sounded best. At the same time, he was able to acquire basic machinist skills through classes offered through the Hub Area Technical School.
After graduating from high school, Dosch enrolled at Northern State University and got a job at Prairie Tool in Aberdeen where he was able to further his understanding of the machining process.
"I found the job at Prairie Tool really interesting, but it became boring sitting in the shop every day," said Dosch, now 22 years old. "My family was raised on farms, and I always loved agriculture and farming, so I decided to go to Lake Area Tech for my ag degree and was hired on by Wheat Growers, which is now called Agtegra."
Throughout all of this, Dosch continued to turn out handmade duck calls one at a time. However, he said the experience and knowledge he gained at Prairie Tool were instrumental in helping him develop a mold to make duck calls more efficiently.
"In just under the year I worked there, I was exposed to the process and worked with everybody there on the mold to make duck calls," he said. "We laid everything out and designed it, and that's basically how I learned about the injection-mold process."
Making the mold wasn't an overnight process, Dosch said. Rather, it took thousands of dollars and a few years to perfect, right on down to the last half-thousandth of an inch.
"It's not like you can go out and buy a mold," he said. "Anything I could do on my own I was doing to save money. My paychecks went toward bills and the mold, nothing else, and all the sales from the calls went right back into the business. Once I had $1,500 saved in the account, I'd go back and put $1,500 into the mold."
Not only did it take time and patience to perfect the mold, but it also took over two and a half years to get the trademark for DZ Calls registered, Dosch said. The acronym DZ stands for drop zone, referring to the landing area hunters leave for waterfowl in a spread of decoys.
Up and Running
Dosch said the mold was finally good to go this spring and that there are about 1,000 of DZ Calls' single-reed mallard calls currently on order. He said he inspects each one the mold spits out and gives it a test run to ensure it's in working order.
"The whole point of developing the mold was to chase the commercial sale," he said. "With hand-turning calls, I just couldn't keep up. That's why I jumped into molding, to get it out there and hopefully get it into stores like Cabela's and Runnings."
In addition to the polycarbonate body, which Dosch chose over other materials due to its strength and stability, DZ Calls come complete with several other features.
With some calls, the insert slides firmly into place into the barrel with no help, but Dosch said his calls employ the use of rubber O-rings that act almost like a gasket to firmly hold the insert in place. He said the calls also incorporate rubber wedges to securely hold the reed in place.
"With those O-rings you're less likely to lose your insert, but at the same time it's still really easy to pull out and clean. A lot of guys like to take them out, play with the reed and tune it themselves," he said. "Some calls have cork wedges, but they can dry up or shrink on you. The O-rings and rubber keep the call tight and less likely that something can get stuck in the call or can vibrate loose."
In the long run, Dosch said he simply wanted to put a quality call in the hands of hunters who might otherwise be overwhelmed at the variety of calls in today's market.
"I've duck hunted all my life and gone through thousands of dollars on calls," he said. "It's been a lot of trial and error on my own, and there were little details, like an insert falling out or cork drying up, that I wanted to avoid. Basically, it's $25 for a quality molded call that we kind of doctored up."


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Something I wrote many, many moons ago…it makes me laugh.
Monster Rocket
My jewelry box is full of your lockets
So don't talk to me about your deep pockets
And your so called monster rocket
Your words ring…..out like trumpets
As you're draggin' me 'round town
Baby you're only missing a crown
Monster Rocket
Monster Rocket
Moster Rocket
Lift me from the ground
Stop talkin' to me about your regrets
Do you even remember when we met?
Way before….your private jet
So stop talkin' to me about your deep pockets
And your so called monster rocket
Because I don't care about your boat
….or where you dock it
Natalie resides in Peoria, Arizona, with her husband, two children, and two dogs. Her artistic journey has taken many twists and turns but photography and writing have become the primary outlets for her artistic expression. She is an artist at Offset.com. Her work/photography has been published by Lensbaby, Beyond the Wanderlust, and has been licensed for ads by Samsung and other companies for advertisements. Her best days are filled with trying to guide and raise up her offspring and pups, music, reading, creating photographs and writings, hiking, yoga, cooking, and sky-gazing. In the social media world, she can be found on Instagram @natalie_a_wheeler, and as a moderator for @theechoesinside, a hub for self-portraiture.


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- Bot Framework that will allow for creation of chat bots, skype bots that can broker interactions between you and bots of other companies to book hotels, order pizza.
- Update to Skype apps today to give access to chat bots
Day 1 (today) will be about Win 10 and devices, like HoloLens, Xbox, and 'conversations as a platform' (NUI) and AI/bots
Day 2 will be about Azure, IoT, data platform with @scottgu. And Qi Lu will talk about O365 as a platform, Office/MS Graph
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There was a very good turn out for our annual chess tournament, held at 43rd Oxford HQ on Saturday 7 December. We had nine Cubs taking part, split over three teams - a total of 14 teams participated, from ten different Packs.
Our teams each played six other teams, selected at random. Scoring one point for a win and half a point for a draw, the totals were tallied up to give a maximum score of 18 points. The winners were 3rd Oxford, with an impressive 15.5 points, with 10th Oxford in second (14 points) and 43rd Oxford A in third (13.5 points). Our highest scorers (Ollie, Dan and Ruby) got 8.5 points, finishing in seventh place.
The chess competition provides an excellent opportunity for beginners to get involved - many Cubs learn to play so that they can take part in the tournament - and is always good fun. Particular thanks go to our adjudicators, without whom we wouldn't be able to run the competition, as quite a few of the Cubs leaders don't know the rules!
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We all know that knowledge prices are increasing, and the revenue (ROI) is not so clear. Levels, they say, used to guarantee a job, and now tasks that used to only need a bachelors level need a masters, and so on. This implies that the ROI has reduced, and that college is going through rising prices. Technical changes, moreover, are removing midlevel service tasks.
The first and most essential parameter for selecting an on the internet masters level system is education and career certification. If the university you earn your level from does not have legitimate certification, then all your time and effort will come to nothing.
Second, create sure the education and career you choose has positive job perspective for the next few years. If the current or estimated job leads don't look amazing, you could very well be reaching a dead-end after finishing your graduate student level system.
Third, graduate student university can be expensive; it needs to be handled as an financial commitment expected to generate good profits. To increase your chances of success, consider an on the internet graduate student level system that results in greater starting incomes.
The first step in the coaching process is to evaluate individuals and determine whether such coaching would be beneficial to them. For this purpose, there are various spoken and non-verbal assessments.
On the basis of these assessments and certain findings, a student is approved in the correct type of education and career course. The present level of capabilities is determined and an individual academic system (IEP) is ready with a set of goals. This plan is a system to train and learning for the particular student. Methodical academic content is ready and elaborated into a program depending on the Those with Problems Education Act.
Life based profession knowledge allows community to address the needs of the actually or psychologically pushed section of population. The primary elements of this coaching are daily life abilities, personal-social abilities, work-related assistance and planning.
Education and career is a very essential part of lifestyle based profession knowledge. It includes various evaluation devices along with the requirements for examining. Overall, lifestyle based profession knowledge reveals up opportunities for growth and self respect to the individuals who get involved in these programs.
You may be someone who has sensed a certain interest in the claims that can be made by outfits, and now that you are in a position to be choosing your profession you may be considering style. From shoes to caps and everything in between, the world of style is vast and never stands still to suit the needs of the customer. People often transform themselves many times throughout their lives, which indicates that clothing symbolizes much more than a way to protect us from the elements.
As a style major, you will be planning to enter a competitive industry that always has room for new thoughts as well as traditional preferences. Having an eye for style as well as the ability to understand the development of a piece will be necessary in this field. Designers create choices about materials, complex details, and overall style while considering the target market of their product.
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Health Minister David Clark has let DHB deficits blow out to a billion dollars putting the sustainability of New Zealand's health services in crisis, National's Health spokesperson Michael Woodhouse says.
"National has been predicting this colossal increase in DHB deficits since January. This was entirely foreseeable and Dr Clark should have taken steps to avoid it rather than let DHBs get into such a precarious financial situation.
"Instead, deficits have been rapidly increasing over the past year and health services are in crisis. Dr Clark has let deficits balloon to record highs because the Government has neither provided the funding they claimed they would nor set expectations for continued fiscal discipline.
"New Zealanders are suffering increased wait times and a measles outbreak as the Government has let vaccine stocks run low, scrapped health targets and delayed elective surgeries.
"The sustainability of New Zealand's public health system is at critical risk and the Government needs to immediately provide reassurances to New Zealanders that they will be able to access the care they need.
"Dr Clark has let DHBs' finances get completely out of control."


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May 1, 2012 from 2pm to 7pm – Brown Theatre Palm Beach Dramaworks and the Dreyfoos School of Arts Theatre Department have joined forces to present the Third Annual Emerging Artists Showcase May 1, 2012 at 2:00 and 7:00pm in the Don & Ann… Organized by Mary Kate Leming | Type: theater
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