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No matter how far my career and role has shifted, I will always view myself as a database administrator. I know this because when I fill out any form asking me what role I fulfill in IT, I still choose "DBA" from the list. No matter what claims the media and leading sources state, DBAs are an important role, even as technology shifts and traditional database tasks move to the cloud. Deeper relational database skills are still quite relevant when working in complex technical scenarios.
Companies work to ensure they hire the right technical specialists. They don't understand database and other deep technology, so they hire someone who does. The challenge arises when the technologist may fear responsibility for a problem or an incident, so decides to use the technical complexity to disqualify their technical area, such as a database, suspect.
I've begun to experience this more often since joining Microsoft. Its more often a scenario where I'm approached by exasperated peers who've been attempting to identify an issue in an environment that includes an Oracle database and as the Oracle DBA assumes the Microsoft folks won't know Oracle, the DBA create a less than truthful explanation of why its not the Oracle database. The answer they give is often incredibly complex, filled with proprietary jargon, so the Microsoft technologist(s) can do little more than thank the DBA for their time and move on to investigating other tiers in the environment.
The DBA may claim they've already cleared the database tier of any impact in the latency issue with their own research. They may refuse to investigate after stating a feature would make it impossible for the database to cause the issue or point fingers at the application or network layer to distract everyone. Often latency is caused by a combination of issues, (application code vs. database design or database code vs. network bandwidth) but at the center of it all is the database and a mature RDBMS has tools to diagnose a great many issues, no matter the culprit.
Now we all know its no fun when the technology we're responsible for is the source of contention, but it's preferable to identify the issue and correct it than to insinuate its not the problem and later on down the road, after significant time wasted, discover that it actually was. Even worse, what if the problem continues to grow and is never solved?
The technologist that creates these situations rarely realizes they've become a liability to resolving the issue or that they're the roadblock. Believing they have saved their technology from being pinpointed, such as an Oracle database in an Azure environment, by making incorrect claims that prove the database's innocence, really just delays the inevitable. This is commonly where the Azure team locates someone like me at Microsoft who does know Oracle, (quite well) and has the skills to call the individual's bluff.
So here's the deal- stop viewing the technology as a personal reflection on yourself and realize that it belongs to the company you work for. Its not worth the loss in trust, time and respect. I am undeniably persistent about performance data- reports, traces, so on and so forth, until I can definitively state the database isn't suspect. Its only a matter of time before you're going to have to explain yourself, play dumb or just look foolish.
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Smith Publicity Announces Winner of 2019 Book Marketing Scholarship
Smith Publicity has announced the winner of their 2019 Book Marketing Scholarship. Addie Harpold of Oak Point, TX has been awarded $1,000, which Smith Publicity will be applied to tuition costs at Texas Tech University where Harpold will be attending in the fall of 2019 as a freshman.
"We offer this scholarship every year to a high school or college student who submits the most compelling essay on persuasive writing including a comparative analysis of the art of persuasion through writing versus verbally," says Smith Publicity CEO DanSmith. "Persuasive writing is a core component of book marketing and our publicists pitch media everyday, typically beginning with a written pitch or press release."
Harpold's essay, titled "O.J. Simpson, a Kitten, and the Gutenberg Press- the Elements of Persuasive Writing," blended seemingly disparate topics into a compelling examination of the art of persuasive writing.
"I'm beyond excited to have won this scholarship because that means I was able to help myself through college doing something that I am very passionate about, and that is writing," says Harpold. "I was challenged to think outside the box for this essay prompt and I am always enthusiastic about experiences like that. Thank you Smith Publicity!"
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A fundamental component of the craft book marketing is writing. Our publicists must be skilled written communicators, able to succinctly convey compelling messages to media contacts. Whether it's press releases, pitches or writing byline articles for clients, powerful persuasive writing skills are paramount. To foster the craft of writing in book publicity and all professional fields, Smith Publicity offers a one-time, $1,000 academic scholarship to one high school or college/university student in the United States. The scholarship is awarded to the student who submits the best essay on persuasive writing.
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On Tuesday, 21 April, the eighth session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF8) convened at UN headquarters in New York. In the morning, delegates discussed forests in a changing environment, including a panel discussion on forests and biodiversity, climate change and desertification. In the afternoon, plenary addressed regional inputs to the UNFF, and heard a panel of invited speakers discuss the topic. Delegates then convened in two working groups (WG): WGI focused on forests in a changing environment; and WGII discussed means of implementation.
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If you still LOL at jokes online, you're behind the times. A study released by Facebook says users are ditching "laugh out loud" in favor of "haha," "hehe" and emojis.
Spurred by a New Yorker article about "e-laughter", researchers at the social media giant conducted the "The Not-So-Universal Language of Laughter" study by analyzing posts and comments on Facebook during the last week in May. The researchers did not have access to the names of the posters.
The researchers analyzed global shares, but restricted the study to predominantly English expressions of laughter and 13 "laughter" emojis.
According to to the report released last week, only 1.9 percent of users typed LOL in posts, whereas more than 50 percent employed some version of haha. Emojis were the second-most common type of e-laughter with almost 34 percent and hehe was used by 13.1 percent of users. (Tweet This).
Facebook's study also found that age, gender and geographic location affect how a user will laugh online. Emojis and haha were predominantly used by individuals in their early 20s and younger while hehe and LOL were preferred by older users.
Both men and women overwhelmingly used emojis and haha, although men tended toward haha and women preferred emoji.
Facebook researchers also looked at Internet laughter use by city. Users from Seattle, San Francisco, Phoenix and Boston are more likely to use haha, while those in Chicago and New York favored emojis.


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Last year I was privileged to be invited to Otago Polytech's pre-graduation ceremony for their BIT programme and I love attending this kind of event. The sense of achievement shimmers in the air and the opportunities for the young (and some not quite so young) fill me with an enduring happiness. I should mention too that I get to hear great stories about some of the students that will be joining us – always a buzz. ...
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I always feel a little smug when I'm reading a business book that resonates with my philosophy. Today's case in point is The Alliance – managing talent in the networked age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha and Chris Yeh. The thing, though, is that the business books articulate the concepts so, so, so much better than I do – I guess that's a good reason that I'm doing this stuff and blogging about it while the authors are, well, being authors! ...
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FAQ: Can I use the Office XP PIAs with Office 2003?
In my previous post I wrote this--but then removed it:
"Note that the Office XP PIAs will work against either Office XP or Office 2003. This is because the PIAs are backed by the COM object models of Office that are versioned in such a way that the OM of Office XP is a proper subset of the OM of Office 2003. In other words, if you use the Office XP PIAs, you get the benefit that your code will work against Office XP and Office 2003, but you don't get to use any of the cool new developer features of Office 2003 (like ListObject, XML Support, etc.)."
Although this should be true in theory, it turns out that in practice there are some areas where the XP PIAs will blow up when you use them against Office 2003. One example I've been told is that if you are an add-in and you call Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Application.Open() using the XP PIAs with Office 2003, you can crash Word.
So the current recommendation from Microsoft is not to use Office XP PIAs with Office 2003.


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DALLAS, TX, Jan. 10, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zenergy Brands, Inc. (OTCQB: ZNGY), the nation's leading next-generation utility operating in the emerging smart energy and energy conservation industries, announced today that it has officially started cleaning up its balance sheet.
This is consistent with the Company's business objectives for the first quarter of 2018 as communicated in its recent end of year Shareholder Newsletter. Alex Rodriguez, CEO of Zenergy Brands, Inc., said, "Cleaning up the balance sheet is one of three major objectives for us this quarter. I look forward to continuing to chip away at these types of debt obligations, while simultaneously introducing our company's products and services to the marketplace."
The Company made its first major step toward this objective by paying off over $100,000 of convertible loans before the debt is converted into shares of ZNGY common stock.
Rodriquez added, "As we grow and get healthier, we gain increased freedom and flexibility to fulfill more Zero Cost installations, which, of course, allows us to start achieving our revenue goals for this year."
Zenergy Brands, Inc. continues to work diligently to provide long-term value for the Company and its shareholders alike by increasing revenues and executing its clearly defined growth plan that would allow ZNGY to become the premier source of smart energy, sustainability, and micro-grid solutions for commercial, industrial, and municipal customers across North America.
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On Monday, Aug.21, a total eclipse of the sun will pass over the continental United States for the first time in 99 years.
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Official Report (Hansard)
Session: 2011/2012
Date: 23 May 2012
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Committee for Finance and Personnel
Equal Pay: Departmental Briefing
The Chairperson: You are very welcome. I remind witnesses that the session is being recorded and ask them to turn off electronic devices.
The Committee had requested stakeholder views on the Minister's letter that sets out the estimated cost of extending the settlement. Members have a copy of the stakeholder responses, which also refer to wider issues. Some of the responses appear to have legal documents attached. We are aware that some of these cases — we had the discussion in closed session before you came in — have been listed for hearing by the County Court, and we asked for some legal advice on that. We are aware that there is less of an element of danger of prejudice when it is being heard by a judge only, as is the case in the County Court. Nonetheless, we want to have as full and frank a discussion with you as possible. If, at any stage, you feel that you cannot answer because it may prejudice judicial proceedings, we are prepared to hold those questions and move into closed session to deal with them.
Mr Derek Baker (Department of Finance and Personnel): OK. Thank you, Chair.
The Chairperson: We want to go through all of it, or as much of it as possible, in open session because we feel that the people who have been in touch with us are entitled to hear the flavour of the discussions. However, if you are very clear that you cannot answer certain questions and members want some discussion on them, we can bank those, close the session and deal with them at the end in closed session.
I welcome Derek Baker and Mark Bailey, head of pay and policy. I ask you to make some opening remarks, and then we will try to work our way through this as best we can.
Mr Baker: Thank you, Chair. You mentioned that some of the cases are listed for hearing on Monday, so we may have to be circumspect in some things that we say. However, we will be as open as possible.
The Minister has written to the Committee with some estimates of the costs associated with the various groups that were excluded from the equal pay settlement. I could take you through those at this stage, explaining some nuances and throwing some shade and light on that, or, if you like, I will go straight into receiving questions from the Committee.
The Chairperson: Some of the questions might concern that, so it is better to deal with that information now.
Mr Baker: OK. I will say a little bit about the costs that have been estimated for each grouping. I will start with the staff who were formerly seconded to the PSNI, and I have an estimated figure of £22 million for that. That estimate has not been done by us or, more properly, by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA); we have taken that figure from PSNI documents. There had been a figure in the public domain of about £26 million, but a more recent figure in PSNI documents is £22 million, which, to the best of our knowledge, includes not only the lump sum compensation payments to the affected staff but the liability in respect of income tax and national insurance. The Committee may recall that, as part of the equal pay settlement, we made arrangements to pay HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) directly in respect of any liabilities associated with the lump sum payments. That still came out of the total cost of the equal pay settlement, but it meant that, when staff were given a figure, it was the net figure and they did not have to engage with HMRC.
The second figure relates to staff who were formerly seconded to the PSNI and who have come back into the Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS). They may have received some element of a lump sum in respect of service that we regarded as reckonable in NICS Departments, but we regarded service when they were in the PSNI as non-reckonable. We estimate that the additional cost of extending the settlement to those staff is £1 million. We have access to their staff records, but we do not currently have access to the records of the staff who now work in PSNI and who never came back to us. PSNI has those records, but NISRA does not have access to them. So, it is £1 million for those staff, and that includes an amount for income tax and national insurance liabilities.
The third group is staff who were seconded to the then Northern Ireland Office (NIO) in the affected groups, including staff who may have been seconded to the Northern Ireland Prison Service. Our estimate for that group of staff is £4 million in respect of the lump sum. I have to apologise to the Committee. The Minister wrote to the Committee and gave that figure; that was my fault, not the Minister's. That figure did not include an amount for tax and national insurance, and that was an oversight on my part, for which I apologise. We have to add about £1·5 million on to that £4 million for tax and national insurance liabilities, assuming that HMRC is content to apply the same kind of formula that it applied to the equal pay settlement.
There are still some ambiguities around the former NIO cases. We have a bit of a problem in respect of the NIO. The equal pay settlement that we eventually agreed with the trade unions included a payment to staff in the NICS Departments at the EO2 grade. Because of the exercise of its pay and grading delegation, the NIO did not have an EO2 grade. It had something called a grade C, and the closest analogy to that grade in the NICS is an amalgam of the EO2 grade and the EO1 grade. That presents us with a conundrum on whether and, if so, how any payment could be made to EO2 equivalents in the NIO given that the EO2 grade did not exist. I have not tried to work that one out or got my head around it or concluded what a court might decide on that issue. That £5·5 million figure would increase if we had to include something for the C grades. There is nothing in there in respect of EO2s or grade Cs at this stage.
Those amounts are probably the summation of the cases that are due to be heard next week in the County Court.
In addition to those issues, there is the position of retirees and leavers — staff who have left. We have a real difficulty in providing the Committee with what I would call robust estimates. The key variable is the frame of reference for the award. For the purposes of illustration and to help the Committee, we have included staff who left during the period that is covered by the settlement. That period is six years back from February 2009, which is the effective settlement date. Therefore, it goes back to February 2003. We would only know the precise costs when we would go into the service details of all those staff. At the outset, I say that I expect that, in the case of staff who have left, it would be quite difficult to validate that service history. It was difficult to do so even for the equal pay settlement that we did negotiate. The Committee will recall that we included people who had left back to August 2008. Mark and his team carried out that process, and Mark's experience is that it was quite difficult to track some people down, even though we had their addresses, which we had from our pension records and so forth. They just did not respond to us, even though we were telling them, remarkably, that they were entitled to a settlement. We could not get in touch with them, and those cases remain open. I imagine that it would be even more difficult if we were going back as far as 2003.
That aside, the figure is in your letter, and we estimate that the lump sum cost is about £17 million. That is a pretty crude estimate. It includes the tax and national insurance liability. It does not include any increased pension payments. A significant number of those people are in receipt of pensions and may well argue that implied higher salaries in previous years would mean that both their lump sum at the point at which they retired and their pension payments since the point at which they retired should have been higher. There is no calculation of that, and we would have to look at each and every individual case. So, that figure carries a health warning.
The figure of £17 million would reduce if we were to use a different frame of reference. We have gone back six years from February 2009. If we were to go back five years or four years or three years or two years, that £17 million figure would reduce commensurately, so it depends on which frame of reference you use.
That is all I want to say at this stage in providing clarification on the figures. Mark, have we covered most of the issues?
Mr Mark Bailey (Department of Finance and Personnel): Perhaps my only comment is that, with the last group that you mentioned in particular and, in fact, with all groups, we are not at all clear what a County Court might award if it were to make a judgement. We are not in a tribunal situation that we are clear on and which has case law on it. In a County Court, there is not case law on this, and it is not clear that it would necessarily declare a six-year compensation period. That adds more uncertainty around the figures.
The Chairperson: You have broken down the PSNI and the NIO secondees. Can you break down the estimate of £17 million between retirees and leavers?
Mr Baker: I cannot do that today, Chair. I do not have those figures.
Mr Bailey: I do not have them with me.
Mr Baker: Do you want us to try to come back to the Committee on that?
The Chairperson: It would be helpful if we had the breakdown between retirees and leavers. I am not keen to start differentiating between people and saying that certain people are entitled and some are not. That is a matter that will have to be resolved. It would be helpful to have the breakdown on what the difference is.
Was a case not put to us that, for anyone who has less than two years' service, there is no deferred pension element and no ongoing responsibility or liability on the Civil Service? Have you factored out of the figure the people who have less than two years' service?
Mr Bailey: Yes. Derek has commented on the uncertainty of some of the data, which has not been validated. However, to the best of our ability, based on the information that we have, we have gone through an exercise of removing those who we believed would not be entitled to the settlement. If they were casual staff or if they did not have two years' service, we have, to the best of our ability, removed them.
The Chairperson: OK. Fair enough.
I will open it up for some questions. Hopefully, we will be able to get through this.
Mr McLaughlin: I appreciate that, as well as there being a position to stand over, the passage of time adds significantly to the complexity of all this. I want to establish some information as a baseline for my own understanding. If we were to apply the terms and grades that were the outcome of the equal pay negotiation and settlement to records such as pension contributions, which would reflect, I imagine, any break in service, surely that approach would give us a reasonably accurate projection of the potential costs? The pension records would establish that the individuals or groups involved had a continuity of service. If there is no dispute about that, rather than precise or specific details of where they were at a given point in time because of secondments and movement within the Civil Service, it should be reasonably easy to establish that they had the necessary continuity of service at Civil Service or similar grades.
Mr Baker: Forgive me if I do not understand the question correctly. While pension records might give you information about continuity of service, I do not think that pension records of themselves would give you the kind of detailed information about the individual service and individual grade that someone was at during any given period in question that would allow us to calculate to the level of accuracy that we used in the equal pay settlement for each and every member of retired staff. Ultimately, if retirees were included in a settlement as a result of a legal judgement, we would mobilise ourselves to gather those staff records and do a calculation for each and every one of those members of staff, as we have done for those who were included in the original equal pay settlement.
In the original equal pay settlement, we engaged with each individual member of staff and asked them whether they were content with our understanding of their career history and whether they agreed with our calculation of what they were due. That was used as a quality-assurance mechanism. We would like to do that if we were going to extend this to any other group. The point that I was making is that it is going to be more difficult to have that engagement with retired people or with people whom you cannot contact. When you are dealing with members of staff, it is easier to set up IT systems, using your own internal IT network, to give staff electronic access to their records.
Mark, do you want to add to that? You went through the logistics of trying to establish the validation of records.
Mr Bailey: Certainly, we had problems with leavers and retirees — particularly with leavers because you do not have the same contact with them. You have more confidence that retirees' addresses are up to date, but we had significant problems with leavers, and there are still quite a few hundred who have not responded to the original letters that were sent out, presumably because they have moved house and moved on or whatever.
Mr McLaughlin: Sorry; we may come to that, but I am not addressing the anomalous situation that you have in having written to some people indicating that they could benefit from the settlement and they have not responded. I am trying to establish the basis on which certain groups were not included. I am also trying to address the difficulties of the calculations. If we were to take the broadest possible catchment by establishing that people were in the Civil Service as the result of their membership of the pension scheme, their contributions would reflect the pay levels in percentage terms for any given year within that record. That would allow us to establish, without dealing at this point — it may take a court decision to deal with it in any event — with people who were excluded, who was operating at particular grades and salary levels that were commensurate with those grades. The period over which they were making pension contributions to the Civil Service pension scheme would reflect, in contribution terms, the continuity of service — that is, the time span that we would have to calculate on. It would also establish where they were, whether they were secondees or retirees and at what point they became retirees. All that can be analysed and quantified.
We can then argue over — as we, obviously, are going to have to argue over — who was excluded and the reasons for excluding them. The Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP) had a very early position, and, from the evidence that we have heard from a wide range of opinion, it appears to be an anomalous position. The fact that the Social Security Agency was included in the negotiations but other groups were left out is probably something that you will have to consider your defence on. I can see an obvious area of challenge.
Just to deal with it: if we really wanted to quantify the real costs should the Department's initial position be successfully challenged, it is an important question to be established. It probably informed the original decision — whether that was a good decision or a bad decision. From the evidence that we have heard, it does not appear that anybody had taken either a forensic or a robust enough approach to work out the actual costs and the reasons, the logic or the rationale for including some groups and excluding others.
Mr Baker: I disagree with that. I think that a very robust approach was taken to decide which groups should be included and which groups should not be included in the settlement, and that was on the basis of legal advice that we took at the time. We did not take those decisions on a whim; they were explored very, very thoroughly.
In terms of calculating the potential costs of extending the settlement, so far as leavers and retirees are concerned, we have given an estimate of £17 million based on going back six years from February 2009. I accept that there is a health warning around that £17 million, but I think that it is a reasonably good figure. I am not sure that using pension records would give you a better handle on it. We can do a range of options from six years right down to two years, one year or whatever the number of months is, and we could give a range of options. That is probably as good as you would get at this stage, short of doing a full validation of each individual member or former member of staff's service record.
Before we did the validation of the almost 16,000 individuals who benefited from the equal pay settlement, we did an estimate of the costs. We came out within £2 million of the estimated figure of £140 million for the lump sum payment. We are currently sitting at about £138·5 million — I forget the exact figures.
Mr Bailey: We have paid out around £129 million for the settlement payment. The estimate had a broad range of about 10%, but, as regards the actual estimate, we were very close in the final amount. However, it is worth saying that these records are older and include leavers, some of whom, at this stage, left almost seven, eight or nine years ago. You can understand that the further back you go, the more hazy the records become or the more inaccurate they may be.
Mr McLaughlin: This is my last point, and it is in relation to that issue. In the context of the decision to open negotiations, which was, in itself, a protracted negotiation and not without its difficulties, the outcome was validated by the staff and those who were represented by the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA) on the staff side. Was a stop put on the destruction of personnel records, given the statutory timetable and programme for destroying documents? Have any of the employment records that could well turn out to be in dispute been lost in the time frame of the equal pay process?
Mr Baker: No. During the course of the process, we moved from one database to another, as the Committee knows. As part of that particular project — it was nothing to do with the equal pay issue — we archived the old records. So, hopefully, they are preserved for us. We would use those to track back the career history of any individual who might be included. I am hopeful. It will require a bit of work, but not so much for staff who are currently in employment — former PSNI or NIO secondees — because we have the processes in place. However, if a settlement were to be extended to retirees, and we are going back five, six or seven years, a very significant administrative effort would be involved. We would have to create a team to do that; it is not something that we could bolt onto the day job and hope to get by on a wing and a prayer. A team would probably have to be created to do that administration. None of those costs are in there. However, I hope that we could do that.
Mr D Bradley: I want to follow up on the point Mitchel made about the non-inclusion of the increased pension payments. Your figures are estimates.
Mr Baker: Yes.
Mr D Bradley: Is it not possible to estimate on an average basis what that cost might be?
Mr Baker: It might be so vague as to be meaningless. In the area of retirees, we are diving into the unknown. As Mark said, we have maintained the position that people beyond August 2008 should not have access to the equal pay settlement. That has not been successfully challenged in any court. If it were to be challenged, I have no idea what the nature of the court's decision would be. As Mark said, we have no precedent for that. We know what an industrial tribunal does, but we do not know what a court would do in respect of an equal pay settlement. We have no idea how far back a court might go, and we have no idea what remedy it might recommend. I have no idea — I say this honestly — whether there would be any increased pension liability arising out of an equal pay settlement. It may simply be that a court would say there should be some kind of lump sum payment but no increased pension liabilities. That is why we have not costed it. It may be totally nugatory work to try to do that. It may not be necessary at all.
Mark, do you have anything to add to that?
Mr Bailey: Again, I reinforce the point about the uncertainty around it. It is a balance as to how far you go with the level of work. To do this completely accurately, as you request, you would literally have to examine every record, for not only the potential difference in pay but the impact on someone's pension and the pension lump sum that may have been taken at the time of retirement. It really is extremely complex to get a totally accurate figure.
Mr D Bradley: You said that hundreds of people were non-contactable in relation to the settlement itself. Do you have a precise figure for that?
Mr Bailey: I do not have it with me, but I do know that it is in the low hundreds. It may be around 200 or 300, but I would need to check the exact figure. A substantial number of people have not responded at all. We have written to those people at their last known address on two occasions. We have no other way of getting in contact with them.
Mr D Bradley: Is there no other method of trying to track them down? Have you exhausted every means of contacting them?
Mr Baker: I would not say that we have exhausted every means; I do not know what every means of contacting a person we cannot find is. We have written twice to the last known address. I am sure that there are all kinds of other means that could be deployed to contact people who are not responding. I would not like to give the Committee an assurance that we have exhausted every means of tracking those people down. The cases remain open. We have not pulled the shutters down.
Mr D Bradley: Are there any other means open to you to contact them?
Mr Baker: I suspect that there are, but I cannot tell you what those means are. I would have to ask people who are expert in such matters and are used to trying to track down people whom they cannot contact. I am sure that many agencies have to go through those kinds of processes, such as banks dealing with dormant accounts, and so on. We could certainly look at whether there are any other means that we could reasonably deploy at a reasonable cost to try to track down those individuals.
Mr Cree: On that last point, I take it that all the pensioners get a BACS statement every month that shows the payment going into their account.
Mr Baker: Yes. Someone in receipt of a Civil Service pension probably gets that into their bank account by electronic transfer.
Mr Cree: Does the statement tell them what they got for a particular month?
Mr Baker: Yes.
Mr Cree: Have any statements been sent back again because they have been sent to the wrong address?
Mr Baker: We are talking more about leavers than retirees. Retirees are relatively easy to track down, because, as you say, provided that they are still getting a pension, we are paying them, and the money goes into a bank account. The issue is with people who left the service.
Mr Cree: I accept that.
On the overall figures, it looks like this could cost anything between £45·5 million and £50 million. Will that cover it all?
Mr Baker: Yes. That includes leavers and retirees.
Mr Cree: But it does not cover your legal costs.
Mr Baker: No, it does not.
Mr Cree: Do you have a handle on that?
Mr Baker: We have an estimate of legal costs from the Departmental Solicitor's Office, which engages counsel. Its current estimate of our legal costs is about £70,000. That is based on the work being done. We have engaged senior counsel and junior counsel on the cases that are due to go to the County Court next week. That estimate is based on the work being carried out to date and the work that might be involved in the County Court cases.
There is a health warning on that, too. The cases are listed for three days next week. If they last longer than that or go to appeal, the costs increase. If we lose those cases and have to pay the claimants' costs, those are additional costs. If we win the cases and the claimants have to pay our costs, the costs decrease. My personal view, based on previous cases — obviously, I have been involved in previous legal cases, particularly at the industrial tribunal — is that the costs are more likely to be in the region of £100,000 at the end of the day. That is the territory we are talking about.
Mr Cree: I have just one final point. You mentioned the County Court. I do not remember the figure, but there is a level at which the County Court is permitted to operate. Do you know what that figure is?
Mr Baker: I would not like to give you a figure, because I am sure that it would be wrong. I have a notion in the back of my head.
Mr Bailey: I do not know the precise figure, but I think that it is around £15,000. I am getting a nod, so I think that that is right.
Mr Cree: So it would not be competent to handle compensation or payments that are higher than that.
Mr Bailey: Again, I am not a legal person, but my understanding is that part of the reason why these cases are in the County Court is that, of all the claims, none individually exceeds the maximum for the County Court. Obviously, they exceed the maximum when they are all put together.
Mr McQuillan: I am looking for some clarification on the figure of £22 million for the PSNI staff. When they came here to give evidence, they told us that they had a budget of £22 million and that it was DFP that was holding up payment. Why is that?
Mr Baker: It is my understanding, too, that an amount of money has been ring-fenced to deal with any potential liabilities arising from, among other things, equal pay cases in the overall Department of Justice budget.
Mr McQuillan: When they were here, we talked about equal pay.
Mr Baker: I want to be clear on the point about DFP holding up payment. There is a bit of smoke and mirrors around this. To the best of my knowledge, the PSNI has never formally submitted a formal business case to DFP requesting payment of this. Quite some time ago, the PSNI submitted a draft business case, and we, in corporate HR, were asked to take a look at the legal arguments presented in that business case in respect of paying out an amount of money. We were asked specifically to express our view on whether the legal arguments stacked up and were in tune with the legal position that we have taken on the equal pay settlement. We said that we disagreed with the legal arguments presented in the case, because we were of the view — we maintained this position right throughout the equal pay negotiations with NIPSA — that there had been a pay delegation given to what was called the NIO pay group, which at that time included the Police Authority for Northern Ireland (PANI). That pay delegation had never been rescinded, and, because of that, the seconded staff to the NIO, PANI and, subsequently, the PSNI were not eligible. They were not entitled to the equal pay settlement, and we could not accept the arguments presented in that draft business case. That was the view we expressed back to the PSNI via the Department of Justice. I am not fully aware of whether a formal business case has been submitted by the PSNI, but, to the best of my knowledge, it has not been. If that is DFP holding up the payment of that, that is the origins of that statement.
The Chairperson: The PSNI has £26 million ring-fenced, as you say, if they were authorised to pay it out. If that does not come to pass, what happens to that £26 million? Can it be spent by the Department of Justice in other areas? Or, does it go back to the Treasury?
Mr Baker: I think that it would be spent by the Department of Justice in other areas. I am getting a little bit outside of my comfort zone in talking about finances, but my understanding is that there was a transfer of money for a variety of issues to the Northern Ireland Executive at the point of the devolution of policing and justice. Within that, an amount of money was ring-fenced for potential equal pay liabilities. If it is not spent on equal pay, I suspect that it will not go back to the Treasury. It could be redeployed on other issues by the Department of Justice.
The Chairperson: Would it be possible to confirm that in correspondence?
Mr Baker: I will try to confirm that. As I say, the finances of that issue is a little bit outside my direct area of responsibility.
The Chairperson: There are no more questions. Thank you for attending this morning's meeting.


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Larson International acquires Tilt-a-Whirl manufacturer
Plainview-based Larson International has added the fabled Tilt-a-Whirl to its growing line of amusement rides with the recent acquisition of Sellner Manufacturing of Faribault, Minn.
According to a release from Larson International president Jeff Novotny, the deal was completed Jan. 18 for an undisclosed sum.
Except for the building, Larson acquired everything from the Minnesota factory including ride plans, molds, computers, office furniture, equipment and machines, the release stated.
Novotny said today that Sellner's fiberglass operation will remain in Minnesota due to its staff of highly-skilled craftsmen, but the rest of the company's operation will eventually be coming to Plainview.
Sellner Manufacturing was founded by Herbert Sellner in 1923. Though the company produced a number of rides and attractions, it garnered worldwide attention with the introduction of the Tilt-a-Whirl in 1926. More than 900 units were produced during the company's 88-year history.
Larson also acquired the Sellner name and plans to keep it on the Sellner products.
"We are very excited about this," Novotny said. "It gives us wonderful opportunities. Out of respect for the long history of this company and the family, and because of wide industry recognition of the Sellner product, I intend to keep and use the Sellner name."
Novotny plans to have an exhibit at the International Independent Showmen Association's trade show in Gibsonton, Fla., on Feb. 8-12.
"We'll put up some Larson stuff and some Sellner stuff," he said. "I won't really be there to sell, but to communicate, to help everyone understand what this deal is all about."
He added that all Sellner equipment and parts can be ordered directly through Larson's spare parts division in the Plainview office.
The acquisition should eventually mean for jobs at the Plainview facility, although Novotny did not announce any figures. He said he did not anticipate any Sellner employees leaving Minnesota to relocate to Plainview.
Novotny specifically thanked HCSB and its staff for assisting Larson International with securing funding for the Sellner acquisition.
"We one of those rare companies that do business worldwide, but don't really have any customers local or regionally," he explained. "We bring new money into the local economy through our payroll and purchases of supplies and equipment."
According to the company Web site, Larson International, Inc., is an amusement ride manufacturer for theme parks and family entertainment centers. Among its rides are the Fire Ball, Star Dancer, Giant Loop, Flying Scooters, Mega Bounce and Super Shot.
According to Sellner's Web site, founder Herbert W. Sellner's first invention was the Sellner Water-Toboggan Slide in 1923. The Water-Toboggan Slide was an enormous wooden slide that was suspended over water. Riders climbed to the top of the slide, with their toboggan-like sleds, zoomed down the slide and glided up to 100 feet across the water. The water slides were installed at beaches around the world.
In 1926, Herbert invented an amusement ride to be used at carnivals. He developed a wooden platform that dipped and whirled nine wooden passenger cars. The ride was powered by a four-cylinder gasoline engine, and he called it the Tilt-A-Whirl. The ride was an instant success. Tilt-A-Whirls were shipped to hundreds of carnivals and amusement parks throughout the country.
Shortly after inventing the Tilt-A-Whirl, Herbert formed Sellner Manufacturing. The business became a family affair with Herbert's sons, Walter and Arthur, taking an active role. Bruce Sellner followed in the footsteps of his father, Arthur, and grandfather, Herbert, by becoming president of the company and even inventing a line of Spin Rides.
In 1987, Bruce Sellner invented the first Spin Ride called Spin-the-Apple. Four to six giant apples rotate in a circle while passengers control the spin of their individual apple. Four adults or five children can ride in each apple. Spin-the-Apple was so popular that Sellner introduced three additional Spin Rides with different themes - Berry-Go-Round, Barrel-Of-Fun and Bear Affair. All Spin Rides were designed in both portable and park units as well as single units.
Bruce Sellner served as president until 1995. He was succeeded by his daughter, Erin Sellner Ward, leading a company of more than 55 employees.
The Tilt-A-Whirl is Sellner's best selling amusement ride. However, the Tilt-A-Whirl of today is somewhat different than the original. The wood has been replaced with metal, and seven cars instead of nine now spin atop the platform. Fuchsia and white or purple and lime green are popular new color schemes.
The Windjammer is another ride produced by Sellner and is made up of six hang gliders that rotate in a circle and can be moved upward or downward by the patron.
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Larson International: http://www.larsonintl.com/
Sellner Manufacturing: http://www.whirlin.com/
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These shows will have you feeling empowered and badass in no time… More please!
A young woman claims: "Yes, I'm a feminist" and in response, a middle-aged man replies: "Oh, you must be a butch man-hating lesbian then." Sound familiar? There's a damaging stereotype around women who want to be seen and treated as equal to men, but TV is showing just how awesome women are.
So, we've put together a list of the most uplifting and empowering TV shows that every feminist needs to reminisce about or watch:
Powerpuff girls
Let's start at the beginning. Most people who watched this would've been too young to even understand gender – having said that, most adults don't even understand. But the saying goes that kids are like sponges, they suck up every piece of information they hear, see or feel without even realising it. The girls watching may be young, but seeing different representations of fellow girls is perhaps even more important for that age than as an adult. These are girls that are badass crime fighters saving the world. They have flaws, they fall out, Buttercup is hot-tempered, Bubbles is bratty and Blossom is bossy but that's what makes them normal and relatable.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
From kid to teen. Sabrina was the ultimate ordinary teenager. She may have been an awesome witch leading a very strange and exciting life, but her day-to-day is that of a normal teenager. She's not the coolest, she's not the prettiest, and she doesn't ace all her exams. She proves to teenagers that it's totally normal to get spots, it's perfectly okay to have a bad day – and also that you will get through it – but ultimately, being a teenage girl is really bloody hard, so it's nice to have some solidarity and relatability from a TV show.
Star Trek: The Original Series
There were lots of men, in particular white men. There were lots of aliens. There were lots of weird and wonderful worlds. So what on Earth is this show doing in a list about empowering women? Nyota Uhura. She was one of the first African American characters to be portrayed on a TV show as something other than a servant. She was also involved in one of the first ever inter-racial TV kisses, with Capitan James. T Kirk. The series may not have been hugely popular at the time, but it's looked at now as hugely influential, and that's massively to do with Uhura.
The 100
Ok, so this show is brilliant for so many reasons, including the cast predominantly being young and basically showing the older characters up most of the time, proving they thrive on their own. But the representation of women is one of the best that TV is offering right now. Not only is the leader a bisexual woman (Clarke), but the fiercest fighter is a woman of colour (Indra), and her protégé is yet another woman (Octavia). The main doctor is also a woman (Abigail) and not forgetting the Latinx rocket scientist, Raven who never lets her chronic pain stop her. Basically, girls rule and boys don't really do much.
A load of women with no place to go in the world after some fame. Stick them in a ring and make them wrestle. This is the hit new Netflix show from the same creators as Orange is the New Black. Women of colour, plus-sized women, British women, American women, the show is full of diverse and flawed characters, most of which are women. Some may say the lack of men was a risky decision, and some will call bullshit. The show works, it's entertaining, it's hilarious, it's sassy, it's fun, and most importantly, everyone will find at least one woman they relate to.


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Emily. What a doll!
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- GrandmaMarilyn said...
Going to have to watch her when she grows up. She is going to be a heartbreaker.
- June 28, 2008 at 8:21 PM
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President Obama's 2012 executive action, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), has provided temporary legal residence and work-permits to about 750,000 young adults that have applied for DACA as of March 2015. That is less than half of the 1.6 million unauthorized immigrants age 15 or older that the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) estimates are potentially eligible to apply1. Among these beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries are high school and college students, college graduates, and graduate students pursuing masters, doctoral, and other professional degrees.
While there is a growing body of research that describes the positive impact of DACA on higher education access and workforce opportunities, these studies often do not consider how unstable immigration status can be and that students can lose DACA at any moment. With the exception of naturalized citizenship, immigrants can lose their legal residence status for a variety of reasons including minor legal infractions and inability to pay for renewal fees. As of June 2015, 75 percent (377,767) of the DACA applicants eligible to renew their status had been approved or were in the process of being approved. However, that means that 95,111 (25 percent) of those that initially had received DACA in 2012-2013 have fallen out of status, including 32,140 that were denied renewal and 74,591 that had missed the window to apply for renewal.
The $465 application fee remains a barrier to DACA renewal. In families where there are multiple DACA grantees, renewal fees can be particularly burdensome. USCIS does not allow for DACA applicants to pay with credit cards and partial fee waivers are very limited. Although immigrant-serving organizations have taken steps to help make the renewal process more affordable for low-income applicants, creating microloan and application scholarship programs, the scale of these programs is limited.
Over the years there has been a steady increase of news stories about DACA-eligible young adults that have not been able to apply. For example, a news article published in vox.com in 2014 described the experiences of a young man from Houston, Oscar Hernandez, who wanted to go to the University of Texas but couldn't afford the DACA application fee. He's from a low-income family with two other siblings that are eligible for DACA but his mother could only afford to pay for one of them so she made the heartbreaking decision to pay for the oldest. Another article published by Generation Progress described the case of Pedro Garcia, a college student from southern Texas who was delayed in applying for DACA for financial reasons. Not only is it hard for him to find jobs to pay for school because he does not have a work permit, but when he went away for college he was not able to go back home to visit his family for three years even though he was only six hours away by car. There are multiple border patrol checkpoints on the highways between his school campus and his parents' home and without DACA he feared being stopped and deported. These two examples are not isolated cases. In a survey commissioned by United We Dream in 214, 40 percent of respondents who had DACA reported that they knew someone who's eligible but hadn't applied due to the inability to pay the $465 application fee.
For DACA recipients, falling out of status means becoming deportable again. The instability of "legality" can have a profound impact on the higher education access of undocumented students resulting in various educational trajectories from fewer educational obstacles for students with DACA to more educational obstacles for those that fall out of status, including an abrupt transition to the Mexican educational system and Mexican society for those that are deported or forced to return to Mexico due to parental deportation. In a study I conducted last year with the support of a Fulbright fellowship I surveyed and interview deportees and returnees in Mexico that had graduated from high school and/or started college in the U.S. Most were not able to continue their higher education studies in Mexico due to various bureaucratic hurdles. Even after years of trying, one young woman we interviewed stated, "I'm afraid to go to school here. I don't know the process. I haven't been in school for five years."
The consequences of not renewing within the requested timeframe can be significant—including expiration of recipients' Employment Authorization Document (EAD) and Social Security Number, as well as accrual of time in the U.S. without legal status referred to as "unlawful presence" under immigration law. Accrual of unlawful presence can trigger penalties that may prevent an individual from applying for permanent legal status if it becomes available to DACA grantees in the future.
In the short-term, falling out of status means that students are no longer able to work legally, renew driving licenses, seriously complicating college persistence and completion. More importantly, these barriers were never removed for the 850,000 eligible young adults that have not yet applied for DACA. Although progress has been made since the passage of DACA four years ago, far too many undocumented youth remain locked out of higher education. Institutions of higher education need to reframe the conversation to be inclusive of this silent majority of DACA-eligible young adults that have not applied, those that have fallen out of status, and those in danger of falling out of status. Institutional resources to support students should include access to legal services, and scholarships or short-term loans to pay for initial and renewal DACA application fees.
Author Biography
William Perez, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Education at Claremont Graduate University. His research focuses on the social and psychological processes associated with academic success and higher education access among immigrant Latino students. He is recognized as one of the nation's leading academic experts on undocumented students. In 2009, he received the 2009 Mildred Garcia Prize for Excellence in Research from the Association for the Study of Higher Education for his book, We ARE Americans: Undocumented Students Pursuing the American Dream. He has been interviewed or quoted as an academic expert in various media outlets including NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Time Magazine, the LA Times, Hispanic Magazine, and NPR's All Things Considered. He has received various awards for his research on immigration and education including the Stanford University Distinguished Scholar Alumni Award, the early career scholar award from the Hispanic Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association and the Fulbright Fellowship. His book, Americans by Heart: Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education, was selected for the 2013 Critics Choice Award by the American Educational Studies Association. For the past two years he has been selected for Education Week's annual ranking of the top 200 university-based scholars in the U.S. who are doing the most to influence educational policy and practice.


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8 Tips to Help Control Mosquitoes in Your YardSeptember 25, 2017
Best Practices for Mosquito Prevention
The mosquitoes are out in full force. They make life absolutely miserable unless you are proactive and take a number of steps to prevent mosquitoes from ruining your quality of life. Let's look at a few mosquito control tips to keep those pesky mosquitoes under control.
1. Remove Standing Water
Mosquitoes typically breed in or near areas of standing water. If you have bird baths, puddles or any other source of standing water on your property, eliminate it, at the first step to proper mosquito control. The mosquitoes will likely head to other areas where water is more prevalent.
2. Mosquito Prevention: Clean Those Gutters!
Even a clogged gutter can accumulate enough water to house hundreds of mosquitoes. Unclog those downspouts and clean off water on flat roofs to improve your mosquito control. Remember, they only need a thimble full of water to breed!
3. Be Careful Following a Storm
If a storm passes through, it might uproot trees and create soil depressions. These spaces can collect rainwater, attract mosquitoes and sabotage your mosquito control efforts. Even a minor indentation in your yard following the fall of an object during a storm can allow water to pool and create a mosquito breeding ground. Have these areas of your yard repaired as quickly as possible in the aftermath of any storms?
4. Fill Open Tree Holes for Optimal Mosquito Control
If your trees or stumps have any sort of holes, do not underestimate their ability to serve as a mosquito breeding grounds. These small holes should be filled with sealant or mortar so water does not accumulate. Though this might seem like a minor mosquito control method, it can pay big dividends. All it takes is a small hole in a tree or stump where water has collected to provide a breeding space that produces hundreds or even thousands of new mosquitoes.
5. Best Mosquito Prevention: Store Items in the Appropriate Manner
If you have buckets, cans, tires and other refuse around your home that has the potential to hold water, don't let it sit in your yard. Empty the water that has collected in these items and put them away in a safe storage space where they can't accumulate water.
6. Repair Outdoor Faucets Right Away
If your outdoor faucet is leaking, it will gradually form a puddle that brings in the mosquitoes and encourages them to breed. Have leaky faucets repaired as soon as possible? Even a seemingly minor leak from an air conditioner can form a puddle that attracts mosquitoes.
7. Add Some Mosquito-eating Fish to Your Ornamental Pool
If your yard has an ornamental pool, add some mosquito-eating fish as an alternative, natural mosquito control system. This might seem like an odd means of mosquito control yet it really works. Mosquito-eating fish probably won't eliminate all the mosquitoes in your yard but their contribution will certainly help. Furthermore, ornamental pools should be aerated. Aeration disturbs mosquitoes, sending them elsewhere to lay their eggs.
8. Be Careful When Watering Your Lawn
Do not water your lawn or garden in a haphazard manner. The last thing you need is for water to accumulate in these areas and bring in the mosquitoes. When in doubt, use a little less water to prevent the formation of puddles that attract mosquitoes.


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While nonprofit organizations, such as many colleges and universities, enjoy special favored tax status including property tax exemption on property used for the nonprofit purpose (details depend on jurisdiction), those same organizations may nonetheless elect to make various types of voluntary payments to their jurisdiction. Such a payment can be in recognition of the benefits derived in terms of municipal services provided by the jurisdiction, and also in recognition of the dependence of the nonprofit's operations on the vitality and sustainability of the community in which it is located. This latter issue has become increasingly salient as many municipalities encountered severe fiscal distress in the aftermath of the financial crisis. A recent piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education addresses an new 11-year voluntary agreement recently arrived at between Brown University and Providence, RI. A useful overview of "payments in lieu of taxes", or PILOTs, is offered by Kenyon and Langley (2011) at the Lincoln Institute. While not every voluntary agreement is officially labeled as a PILOT, it is a general term for a variety of types of monetary commitments from nonprofits to their host jurisdiction.
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"Three Cups of Tea" author and related nonprofit – class discussion
We spoke toward the beginning of this class briefly about a recent controversy surrounding financial matters in a nonprofit, the Central Asia Institute, and the exposé "Three Cups of Deceit" on the topic by author and former donor Jon Krakauer. Your classmate noticed this recent development in the situation covered in the Philanthropy News Digest as a settlement is reached in Montana after a year-long investigation. Note that not only Mortenson but also the CAI board came in for criticism. Here is an LA Times article which also touches on another recent American foreign-aid focused charity controversy.
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So I got to thinking tonight.
I know, that's a dangerous situation. I'm a pretty unpredictable guy. Sort of. I'm sure the people that know me best could pick what I might do with a relatively accurate percentage.
Overall I'm pretty all over the place. A lot of assumptions about me don't really ring true. I enjoy this.
I enjoy being unexpected. I enjoy being interesting. I enjoy being weird. I did happen to notice that this is a little strange for writing here.
See, sometimes I'm so unexpected, that I'm not sure what to say about myself. I'm not shy about a lot of things, but I may not think something is as important when it's not something someone else mentioned.
I tend to be a 'something like that happened to me once' or a 'Hey that reminds me' kind of guy. It goes along with the weird way my brain makes connections.
So since that's the case, I'll do a kind of 'ask me anything'. Feel free to leave a comment with a suggestion or question. If it's a quick answer I'll respond in the comments, but if I think it bear some explaining, I'll just respond in depth in a post! That way I know someone wanted to hear whatever it is that I'm babbling about.


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October 27 - October 29, 2017
First Floor Theatre | 74A E 4th Street; 1st Floor
Running Time: 55 Minutes
World Premiere
By Armitage Gone! Dance, New York City
Choreographed by Karole Armitage
Original Commissioned Music by Terry Dame
Music by DNA, Theoretical Girls, Wyclef Jean, Marilyn Manson, David Lang, Fats Waller
Tony Nominated Punk Ballerina Karole Armitage creates a gritty street influenced comedy on the delights of Halloween with her company, Armitage Gone! Dance. Designed to appeal to adults as well as to young people and their families, the dancers and puppets move to a musical cornucopia including NoWave New York punk, Wyclef Jean, Fats Waller, a Ray Bradbury text and original music by Terry Dame. Costumes and an installation are by fashion designer, Peter Speliopoulos with additional costumes by Jon Cos Coskunses, member of the Madame Secretary costume design team and artist Simone Duff. The production mixes influences from Disney's 1929 herky-jerky animation and the Haitian Carnival.
Tony winning choreographer Karole Armitage took time out from rehearsals for the show to answer our 6 Questions on the La MaMa Blog about her inspirations for the show, its musical influences and the film A Ghost Story.
Creative Team
Costumes and Installation:
Peter Speliopoulos
Cat, Bat, Owl, Witch, Deconstruct Skeletons:
Jon Can Coskunses
Mask and Prop Design:
Simone Duff
Lighting Design:
Clifton Taylor
Stage Manager:
Jessie Ksanzak
Wardrobe Manager:
Blythe Colombo
Armitage Gone! Dancers:
Edgar Clausse
Ahmaud Culver
Megumi Eda
Sierra French
Yusaku Komori
Cristian Laverde-Koenig
Performance Preview
Just in case you missed our Instagram Live on Friday here it is!! Sneak preview from "Halloween Unleashed!"Join us at La Mama Halloween Weekend Oct. 27, 28 & 29th for the full show!http://lamama.org/halloween_unleashed/Posted by Armitage Gone! Dance on Monday, October 16, 2017


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So what if that distant star in the sky that you love dies out?
And here we are, with grief thrust on us, numb-minded trying to make sense of the incomprehensible emotional torrent in our electric bags of fluids.
The only consolation perhaps is that I am not alone in this moment, yet everyone grieving this moment in their own private way. Probably that is how it is meant to be.
Everyone has their own journey of Bowie's music, as is the case with all greatness. And everyone is saying that it is his music what will live on.
I would not talk about how great David Bowie was an artist, as a singer and songwriter and an actor. That he was a genius showman and a renaissance man, as an artist should be. That there was probably no parallel of his talent and career. There are plenty of other tributes to make the case, but you can only talk about the fingerprints of an artist on your heart, and on your life.
I have never connected with most music the way I did with Outside, which has a curious theme, and some of the most mesmerizing tracks you would ever hear. With just the subtlety and darkness to give a voice to the passing moments of your life. Hours of mental miles covered in the mesmerizing, magical, warping wormhole of "I'm Deranged."
All this music coming from a man who understood that he had limited time, that we had limited time. Despite a career spanning five decades. What it meant to cease to exist, and to give up everything you have ever worked for, and everyone you ever loved. And that probably art is just one small but significant human effort to express existence in a senseless void.
A void that is only intensified by a sea of other souls.
So what do we miss about David Bowie?
He was pretty much reclusive for the final years of his life anyway, and was hardly seen in public events or media. It's not that we saw him on TV everyday.
However, we always had the hope of hearing more from him, and seeing more of him, as in Prestige (2006), if not as in Labyrinth (1986) as Jareth the Goblin King. There probably was so much more, decades of audio and visual art in that wonderful mind and we never thought it would ever end.
His latest album Blackstar (2015) is proof he never quit until his last breath. But probably it was meant to be like this, a final gift. A final goodbye.
That's what stars do. They shine for a while, and then fade away.
Thank you for the music, David Bowie.
Thank you for your life. RIP.
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The City of Annapolis offers many maps and data. Below is a collection of maps that are in various places across the City website. GiS Data Downloads provides GIS layers for users who wish to have direct access to shapefiles.
This Zoning Map allows users to lookup zoning classifications for areas in the City of Annapolis.
Bike Map - a PDF of the City's bike map. This map is from 2010.
Circulator Bus Route - The Circulator trolley loops through downtown from Westgate Circle to Memorial Circle. The Circulator trolley starts at the Westin Annapolis Hotel at Park Place, along West Street, making stops at Knighton garage, Gott's Garage, and the Hillman garage.
Bus Routes - a PDF of the City's bus routes. The Annapolis Transit service area is about 23 square miles including the City of Annapolis and surrounding Anne Arundel County areas of Edgewater and Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold.
Interactive Ward Map - a web map that allows users to look up representative by clicking on the map.
Parks Finder - The City of Annapolis Parks Finder allows users to explore the city parks by amenities or locations. Pictures of most parks are included as well.
Communicating critical government planning projects involving climate change to community members is always a challenge. The City's Weather it Together team, collaborated with the Planning Innovation Lab of Michael Baker International to developed an interactive resource that highlights the city's efforts to address the local impacts of climate change on cultural resources through proactive hazard mitigation planning. Using several ArcGIS online applications, the team developed a story map that illustrates and describes, in a dynamic, user-friendly format, the flooding threat to the historic downtown. Interactive maps, participatory GIS, surveys, photo crowdsourcing, and other elements were incorporated to provide a platform for resident and stakeholder involvement. The story map entitled Landmark at Risk: Protecting the Historic Seaport of Annapolis, Maryland hopes to become the go-to resource, not only for the citizens of Annapolis, but for other communities facing the challenges of climate change.
Art in Public Places Story Maps - a curated inventory of art in public places across the City and at the United States Naval Academy. More information and a full catalog can be found on the Art In Public Places Commission page.
Below is a list of resources for GIS information and data.


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As Christmas grows ever closer, I know that I find it extremely helpful to keep a wish list for friends and family who don't know what to get me. I don't really care about surprises when it comes to getting gifts. Better to get something I want off of a list I made than a ceramic elephant lamp that doesn't work because when you pull the trunk, the light doesn't go on. Way to go, Anthony Michael Hall!
The Amazon wish list feature is pretty incredible and insanely useful, but what if you find products on sites other than Amazon? It's possible, believe it or not. I know that many of you choose to buy everything from Amazon, including milk and underwear, but a whole world of delights await you on a myriad of other websites.
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There are other sites that allow users to add items to wish lists from virtually any website, but Wishlistr's interface and ease of use makes it my favorite.
Once you are signed up and logged in, a simple bookmark added to your toolbar or bookmarks list does all the heavy lifting. Find something you really want, like a kick ass Rush baseball jersey (only $100, mom!), visit the page where it is being sold and click the bookmark. Wishlistr does the rest. You can even import your Amazon wish list so you can keep all your items in one place.
Once you have some stuff added to the list, you can set up your page that is customizable with various templates you can change as the seasons or holidays change. You can even create a customized URL so the link you send to your family can be something awesome like wishlistr.com/monkeyanus. Nothing makes grandma smile like a note from her favorite grandchild, monkeyanus.
So, make it easy for your friends and family this year. Don't make them try to figure out that what you really want is a lighted bocce ball set so you can play the sport of kings with your vampire neighbors on their own. Just add it to Wishlistr and let nature take its course.


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A few months back I grabbed coffee with Ben Watson, Marketing Manager at HAP Investment Developers. We share a passion for marketing and design and connected over the fact that real estate has so many different dimensions and personalities. Roles like real estate marketing are often overlooked.
I thought our conversation would make a great blog, so I asked Ben if he'd be interested in guest posting. Ben suggested that we do a video interview instead. Just as I was hesitant to appear as a guest on podcasts, video was never a medium that interested me. However, if it's scary and uncomfortable, it's probably a good sign. Reluctantly, I agreed to meet Ben in HAP's midtown NYC office to conduct a video interview which can be viewed below. Lucky for you, Ben also typed up his notes and put more formal responses below in writing.
I want to thank Ben for his time, Zach for all his work on the video, and HAP for hosting me.
What interested you about real estate and how did you end up landing a role in real estate development?
My interest in real estate started at a young age, I grew up in a suburban environment and would often explore new housing developments being constructed. I developed a strong appreciation for architecture and design, and different uses of materials. The effect of layout and function of a structure and how that impacts either positively or negatively how people live fascinates me. I was offered my position at HAP Investments after working for Corcoran Sunshine for nearly two years. Corcoran Sunshine is the leading sales and marketing firm for new development in NYC and has also entered the Miami market. At Corcoran Sunshine I worked with the cities largest developers on some of the most influential projects in the city, but I wanted to be more involved in the overall development process and have a greater impact. The opportunity to work at HAP, a growing development firm and build their marketing department allows me to have creative direction of not only the firms branding but also its portfolio of buildings. HAP Investments has 12 active projects both condominium and rental totaling over 1000 apartment that will come to market in the next three years.
Walk us through a typical day?
I would not say in real estate development that you have a typical day, which is actually one of the more exciting aspects of working in the field. HAP is currently working on improving its brand and how it is perceived in the US. I am interviewing branding agencies that will redesign the firms website and create new investor marketing collateral. The marketing team sends regular reports to our investors and we create video content to show progress at the sites, and interview the project managers on the project. HAP is an Israeli company and many of our investors are not located in the US. It is important to visually show them progress on projects in which they are partnered with us. We create marketing tools to use by our sales teams in our Tel Aviv office, raising funds for our projects. I speak to that office everyday to make sure their needs are being met. A lot of my time is spent with our public relations firm, Rubenstein fielding questions and relaying information to the press for different types of media coverage. HAP is very active on social media platforms, and I work with that team to make sure our message is consistent. The only typical part of my day is that a large portion of it is spent in meetings pushing forward on all of HAP's marketing goals.
Can you discuss a recent project you worked on, your responsibilities and how it unfolded?
I recently produced a short promotional film for our tower project located at the Exchange Place PATH stop in Jersey City, NJ. HAP is raising funds for this project, a 42 story rental building designed by CetraRuddy. I hired the production team, the videographer, and a commercial drone operator to represent the views from 400 feet above the site. I was very involved in the creative direction of this video. I had specific needs on shots that had to be represented and the overall feeling the video had to create. The entire process took about two weeks and 8 hours were spent shooting scenes in lower Manhattan and around the project site. The final video, I was very pleased with and much of the success is that very talented people were hired to create the content. As the client, I must be very involved because the end result ultimate rest on my direction and instruction to the team. You can view the video here.
What types of people succeed in real estate marketing roles?
The successful people I have met and interacted with on the marketing side do have some similar characteristics. Maintaining creative control and being consistent with the branding of a project is very important. Keeping the message that your firm wishes to convey intact is another key aspect. I believe it is important to not loose focus on the product you are representing whether it is a rental or condo unit or commercial space. I find that a less is more approach is often very effective in real estate marketing. Understanding how an agent will sell or rent the product is also crucial in the creation of marketing campaign and strategy. If you do not understand how to sell to the consumer then you will be disadvantaged.
What are some career paths within real estate marketing?
There are several different career paths one could chose in working in real estate marketing. You could work for a new development sales and marketing firm on the brokerage side. One benefit to this is that you will be exposed to a wider variety of developers, architects, and designers as typically you are working on far more projects than if in house for a developer. Branding and Creative agencies that cater to new development is another career path especially if you are more of a design driven person. These firms create the actual marketing and sales tools for the projects under the direction of the sales and marketing firm and the developer. Working directly for a developer one should decide if they want a large or small firm. The cultural differences are very different between the two, and larger firms will have bigger marketing teams with various levels of structure and management. In all of these options being proficient in project management is a valuable career skill to develop as it overlaps in all of the job requirements.
What advice would you give to a young person looking to get into real estate marketing?
Advice I would recommend is to consider what aspects of real estate interest you. Do you enjoy residential, commercial, hotel, or retail? Do you wish to work on large towers with hundreds of units or small very detail specific buildings? The more a person can narrow their focus the easier it will be for them to identify the right job opportunities at a sales and marketing firm, branding and creative shop, or for a real estate developer. Look for internships that will allow you to explore your interest and think about the culture that you wish to work in.
Benjamin Watson joins HAP Investments from Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group where he served as Sales Operations Manager. In his new role, Benjamin will oversee HAP's project branding and marketing strategies, including the sales process for all developments. He is responsible for ensuring consistent, profitable growth in sales revenues, deployment and management of sales personnel, and identifying objectives, strategies and action plans to improve short- and long-term sales and earnings. Benjamin holds a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce from the University of Virginia with a concentration in Marketing and Management.
If you have any questions for Ben, feel free to leave them in the comment section.


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