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My wife and I paid a visit to Singapore for a family reunion with our three sons and stayed there for the whole month of April. As our elder sons go to work and the youngest one goes to school to Ngee Ann Polytechnic early in the morning , we had to stay at home in the apartment on the Sengkang East Road.
My wife was kept busy using facebook while I enjoyed reading the Straits Times; a copy of the paper was provided as a sort of introduction on my trip to the city-state by the Singapore Airline. Through the paper , I happened to know more about the outside world as well as the inside stories of Singapore. I appreciated the news reports by relatively young but experienced correspondents in big cities from around the world.
As far as I know Singapore is about 26 miles long and about 10 miles wide(277.6 sq.mile in 2015 after reclamations), meaning it is smaller the Greater Yangon of Myanmar. It has a population of over 5million and the Singapore Strait is 190km long and links Asia to the Middle East and Europe and carries about 40 per cent of the world' trade with more than 1000 ships daily. With the help of the Changi Airport,
Singapore has become the most attractive place to do business in Southeast Asia.
As a matter of fact, Singapore and Lee Kuan Yew are inseparable: he built Singapore from a poor British outpost to a modern developed city-state which enjoyed GDP per capita income of US$ 56,284 which was higher than that of the United States in 2014. Indeed. Lee Kuan Yew was an exceptional leader who balanced authoritarianism with pragmatism. As the saying " you reap what you sow' goes, Singaporeans today keep enjoying the benefits what Lee Kuan Yew built during his time of service in government.
Politically today young leaders never hesitate to get involved with issues with local or international whatever it maybe ;it means they have a voice. In this connection, it can be seen vividly. Minister for Home Affairs and law K. Shanmugam said at the United Nations meeting that Singapore would not soften its drug policies. He did not even mince words in his rebuttal to the European Union and the United States at the UN General Assembly in New York. Again Foreign Affairs Minister Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan said Singapore could not accept 'might is right', expressing his great interest in seeing territorial disputes in the South China Sea settled peacefully. And Singapore's Ambassador-at-large accused China of meddling in internal affairs of Asean countries after the second economic power signed an agreement with Laos. Cambodia and Brunei.
Economically infrastructure is excellent: air, rail and road. Changi Airport, one of the best in the world, handles the landings and takeoffs of almost two thousand aircraft daily and in 2015 it played an important role to attract almost 55 million tourists to a tiny state of over 5 million population. Just imagine how could it handle efficiently the tourist arrivals, the ten times higher than its population. MRT,LRT ,cars and buses load and unload passengers respectively, sending locals and foreigners alike to their destinations in a relatively short time. Owning a car is never easy for there are fewer parking spaces and higher parking fees. On a sultry afternoon my sons took us to the East Coast to enjoy the evening breeze. Wow! There are thousands of lights flickering from ships anchored which brightened up the surface of the sea. At the same time, minute by minute a plane shoots up from Changi Airport just like a firefly.
In the morning I went out for a walk together with my wife along the LRT warehouse to a riverfront in the Sengkang East area. We walked side by side as usual; we were irritated by ringing bells from uni-, bi-, pedaled and powered cycles on the pavements which are virtually meant for pedestrians. Very few birds—sparrows, pigeons, doves,mynahs and other strange birds—are seen among the grass and in trees and people are allowed to feed them, my sons told me. But I am unhappy when I read an article in which the writer regarded the Javan Mynahs as pests and wanted to eradicate them by putting them in soups in restaurants because of their numbers and their intrusion into the food courts in the city-state. Can you imagine a forest without birds; there are relatively few birds. They beautify forests and they should be spared. I feel fine to find Singapore free of mosquitoes, flies ,stray dogs. Last but not least, I would like to point out prices are higher and higher on many items such as alcohol and cigarettes; a good policy should be implemented as Singapore has no resources and is buying water from Malaysia.
I would like to conclude my article by quoting Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's remarks on his visit to Israel: Israel's identity is as a Jewish state; Singapore's identity is emphatically not a Chinese nation, but a multi-racial, multi-religious society. That was the reason for Singapore' existence. Singapore is strategically located on the 190km long Singapore Strait and therefore it happens to be a business hub for the world. And I sincerely believe it will thrive for many years to come because of the strong foundation laid down by its founder Lee Kuan Yew.
Singapore: small but strong
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My wife and I paid a visit to Singapore for a family reunion with our three sons and stayed there for the whole month of April. As our elder sons go to work and the youngest one goes to school to Ngee Ann Polytechnic early in the morning , we had to stay at home in the apartment on the Sengkang East Road.


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ICT Jobs in PNG : ICT & Technology Development Superintendent
ICT in the management and control of the company's ICT needs for internal operations from the infrastructure to PC and networks. This role includes the management of the internet and the mail server operation.
In Vehicle Management Systems (IVMS) and Fuel Management Systems (FMS) firmware development and stability in keeping all existing systems up to date and operational as well as functional across all projects and clients.
Web Site control, maintenance and content editing of the Company Web Site.
New system development across all technology platforms.
Skill Set:
ICT Systems in Hardware, software and networking
Processor based firmware management and configuration
Maintaining user protocols across all user platforms from PC to IVMS and FMS hardware systems
Hardware installation: Auto Electrical to Micro Processor to PC and Network
Strong Internet server usage and configuration skills
TCPIP connectivity and configuration skills, WIFI systems, CCTV Systems
Man management
Project Planning and Management
Job Functions
ICT System
MasterSystems is essentially totally dependent on ICT systems to deliver our product to our customers. The entire operation depends on Internet based servers accessed for data to provide the product. The Cor is PC (Laptop) access by our staff to the servers from where data is processed into reporting for our clients. This link needs to be maintained, optimised and controlled. This includes from housekeeping to trouble shooting and optimising and improving the systems the whole time. A strong contingent here is the disciplined control of security and usage to avoid system abuse and or damage. Adequate controls from firewalls to white paging and virus/malware protection is an essential part of this.
The company runs a fairly unsophisticated network and main frame server for data storage and backups. This includes accounting and payroll system which needs to be supported and maintained.
IVMS systems
The back bone of MST is its IVMS/GPS platform currently exclusively Mix Telematics at this stage. This is a GPS hardware structure that is configured and installed to customer vehicles to provide MST to market Fleet Management Products to clients. This whole process is managed by a principal (MIX Telematics) internet-based server from which the entire process is run from installation configuration to data storage and harvesting. IVMS GPS system models and makes determine basic database selections and setup configuration. Databases are continually updates from a principle perspective which need to be distributed to our operations. Technical staff doing installations continually depend on database integrity and training in these updates in the field.
Server Database management extends from the daily usage to secure management and administration of the over 3000 connections for smooth orderly operation. This includes smooth client operations to accurate account and billing data.
IVMS System Development
The IVMS structure at MST in always developing for new client applications and to cater for new technology developments. In this MST is always looking at new products to meet new markets and clients needs. This usually commences with finding appropriate products; Researching the products; acquiring test units; lab testing; field testing; Market development; client trials; launch to market; continued development. This process always includes a strong relationship development with the principal of the product for commissioning and trial process through to application solution. The conclusion of this process is the acceptance of the product with ordering for stock and the training of staff (Technical and operational) and clients for the use of the product.
Fuel Management Systems
Fuel management forms a critical part of our service delivery to the IVMS client base as well as as a unique system offer. Again the system is totally internet server based and requires the same diligent management and administration. The process includes FMS hardware panels/controllers deployed to sites to conduct remote issuance and inventory functions and post the data from this to the web hosted server for MST to package and sell to the clients in a Service Level Agreement product package.
Hardware platforms need to be configured onto the server database for installation to client sites to perform the designated remote control and data gathering and communication.
Fuel Management is generally a bureau based service with MST control centres monitoring and gathering data for communication to clients and to basically manage the fuel process for the client from demand planning ordering receiving and issuing accurately as well as reconciling and accounting the product.
CCTV: Access Control and Security Systems
This is becoming an expanding part of the MST customer offer and needs to be developed from customer need to supplier interface; installation; maintenance and backup support. This is also an expanding monitored service application for our control rooms to monitor camera performance as well as event monitoring such as break in or other events on camera. This market sector is unique in technology and hardware application and has need for a separated dedicated team.
Man Management
The staff structure controlled will include the whole of the ICT department to include officers controlling the internal needs of IT systems and processes and the CCTV team. For the GPS and FMS requirements there will be a staff of clerks for system administration and record keeping. Interface to the technical teams will be as a service at this stage form technical data and support and training documentation. In the longer term this position will assume line functional control of all installation and support staff.
A critical part of this position will be to develop an organisational structure of support staff justified to management to carry out this function effectively and to support the process to recruit and fill these positions
Applicants should forward their CV and references to us prior to being invited for an interview.
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Rare is the book that receives an official response from the U.S. government. This past summer, the Central Intelligence Agency angrily greeted the publication of Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes with a lengthy press release fashioned on taxpayer-funded time. Through "selective citations, sweeping assertions, and a fascination with the negative," the CIA complained, "Weiner overlooks, minimizes, or distorts agency achievements." That the agency devoted personnel resources to write its own review is a testament not only to the reputation and accomplishments of the book's author, a New York Times reporter who has covered the American intelligence community for two decades, but also to the intense scrutiny that community has endured in the years since September 11, 2001. In fact, the CIA's conspicuously defensive stance is fully in keeping with its entire history.
Many attentive people may think that the CIA was vastly more successful and skillful in the 1950s and '60s than it has been over the past quarter-century, but Weiner proves otherwise in this impressively comprehensive history, which relies on more than 300 interviews with CIA officers and veterans as well as a sizable trove of recently declassified material. Right from its creation in 1947, the CIA spawned one disaster after another: first sending literally "thousands of foreign agents to their deaths" in ill-planned efforts to insert anticommunists behind Soviet lines in the early years of the Cold War, then failing to foresee both the outbreak in 1950 of the Korean War and, soon after, a sudden Chinese onslaught across the China-Korea border that inflicted massive U.S. casualties. Not one of the 200 CIA officers stationed in Seoul during the war spoke Korean.
Agency-sponsored coups in 1953 and '54 that overthrew the governments of Iran and Guatemala are among the CIA's most storied exploits, but Weiner persuasively contends that neither adventure redounded to America's advantage because both countries quickly fell under the rule of repressive regimes. Nonetheless, the two coups "created the legend that the CIA was a silver bullet in the arsenal of democracy," Weiner writes. As former U.S. ambassador to South Korea Donald Gregg explained, "The agency had a terrible record in its early days—a great reputation and a terrible record."
The 1961 Bay of Pigs fiasco, in which CIA-trained Cuban exiles botched an invasion of their homeland, revealed the agency's ineptitude at its worst, and on October 4 the following year, at the onset of the Cuban Missile Crisis, "99 Soviet nuclear warheads came into Cuba undetected." Those disasters did not dissuade John and Robert Kennedy from dispatching CIA covert operators hither and yon, especially in other futile efforts to oust Fidel Castro, and in the aftermath of John Kennedy's assassination the agency "hid much of what it knew" about the Kennedys' anti-Castro plots from new president Lyndon Johnson.
If the CIA's covert paramilitary record was abysmal, its anti-Soviet espionage efforts were no better. "Over the whole course of the Cold War," Weiner recounts, the agency "controlled precisely three agents who were able to provide secrets of lasting value on the Soviet military threat," and all were exposed and executed as a result of sloppy tradecraft and Soviet penetrations of U.S. intelligence. The CIA could not duplicate our enemies' success at infiltration: During the Vietnam War, for example, it failed to penetrate the North Vietnamese government in any fashion. And because it refused to deliver bad news to the Johnson White House, which had a pronounced distaste for such reports, the agency's war analyses became politically debased.
Weiner does credit an atypical 1966 CIA report, The Vietnamese Communists' Will to Persist, with greatly influencing Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to turn away from rosy expectations of U.S. triumph in Vietnam. This is just one of many particulars related in the book that belie the CIA's charge that Weiner's "bias overwhelms his scholarship." But the politicization of the agency's analytical reporting continued apace throughout the 1970s and '80s, particularly in its wildly overstated estimates of Soviet economic strength and the size of Moscow's nuclear arsenal.
The agency's problems got even worse when William Casey took the reins under President Ronald Reagan in 1981. The Iran-Contra weapons-for-hostages scandal reflected what Weiner calls "a culture of deceit and self-deception at the CIA," a disease that metastasized in the late 1980s and early '90s, when the CIA knowingly passed to the White House reports whose sources were Moscow controlled but that it used nonetheless—and "deliberately concealed that fact." The CIA had no advance clue whatsoever about the decline and implosion of the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991, and the sudden end of the Cold War left the agency without a clear agenda for the following decade. It was embarrassingly slow to grasp the growing danger of Islamic terrorism. In the mid-1990s, Weiner reports, "a total of three people in the American intelligence community had the linguistic ability to understand excited Muslims talking to each other."
Legacy of Ashes thus demonstrates that the two infamous intelligence tragedies of this decade—the failure to prevent the 9/11 attacks and the false reports of Iraqi biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons programs—were not idiosyncratic or exceptional errors. Instead, they were wholly in keeping with the CIA's history. On Iraq, Weiner emphasizes, the CIA delivered bad information not for "political reasons" involving a desire to curry favor with Bush administration leaders, but because of sheer incompetence: "The CIA had based its conclusions on Iraqi biological weapons on one source," an Iraqi defector bent on Saddam Hussein's ouster, and its findings about chemical weapons on "misinterpreted pictures of Iraqi tanker trucks." Contradictory information from a French intelligence source (Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri) "that Saddam did not have an active nuclear or biological weapons program" was brushed aside.
Reform efforts since 2001, including the creation of the post of "intelligence czar" for oversight of the nation's 16 intelligence agencies (formerly a function of the CIA director), actually represent "continuity masquerading as change," Weiner argues. Today, despite huge budget increases, the agency has "the weakest cadre of spies and analysts in the history of the CIA," and many of its traditional clandestine activities have been usurped by the Pentagon, whose own intelligence capabilities have mushroomed since the 1991 Gulf War. In the years since, the agency has been downgraded to a "second-echelon field office for the Pentagon," tasked with fulfilling Defense Department information requests.
But in another new book, Amy Zegart, a political scientist at UCLA, argues that any meaningful improvement in U.S. intelligence coordination and effectiveness will require the president and Congress to take on the Defense Department rather than accede to its dominance. That would be no small job. So as to maintain the independence of the Defense Department's intelligence operations, "Pentagon officials and their turf-conscious congressional supporters have been torpedoing intelligence reform forever," Zegart bluntly complained in The Washington Post this summer.
Spying Blind is a thorough examination of those reform failures. In it, Zegart sifts through hundreds of intelligence recommendations in a dozen reports between 1991 and 2001, and findings by the 9/11 Commission and congressional committees in the years since. She concludes that not only was 9/11 insufficient "to jolt U.S. intelligence agencies out of their Cold War past," but also that "future adaptation—to terrorism or any other threat—is unlikely." Her pessimism is rooted in both the military's understandable desire to focus intelligence resources on short-term tactical needs, rather than longterm strategic analysis, and the Pentagon's political stranglehold on reform efforts.
The 2004 law that created the so-called intelligence czar, Zegart explains, "triggered a scramble for turf that has left the secretary of defense with greater power, the director of national intelligence with little, and the intelligence community even more disjointed" than it was before 9/11. The new position simply adds one more bureaucratic layer to the existing multiplicity of separate entities. The government's continuing inability to impose centralized management on the entire intelligence community, she believes, is "disastrous."
Zegart deplores the consensus view that lays the failures of September 11 at the feet of individuals in both the CIA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. If success and failure hung on individual leaders, she says, fixing intelligence agencies would be easy. The real causes of failure are organizational. For example, Zegart credits the FBI with realizing, before 9/11, that its internal information sharing and case coordination needed dramatic improvement. But, as she cogently recapitulates, the Bureau failed to act on clues various agents had identified that pointed to the impending attacks.
Neither Spying Blind nor Legacy of Ashes devotes as much attention as it might to what, currently, is perhaps the most pressing and widely overlooked intelligence policy issue: the increasingly common outsourcing of thousands of traditional government jobs to private companies headed by recent retirees from the CIA and other agencies. (The Spy Who Billed Me, a blog by political scientist R. J. Hillhouse, is a most instructive source on this trend.) Weiner does remark that "patriotism for profit" has become such a growth industry that the CIA in effect has "two workforces," and corporate employees are far better paid than public ones. "Jumping ship in the middle of a war to make a killing" is so appealing, he asserts, that the CIA faces "an ever-accelerating brain drain."
If the privatization of government intelligence work is so grave a problem, congressional inquiry and prompt policy change appear imperative. Yet though Legacy of Ashes and Spying Blind demonstrate that the U.S. intelligence community remains embarrassingly substandard, both books also make plain that the chances for meaningful improvement are virtually nil.
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David J. Garrow is a senior fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge University, and the author of The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr. (1981), among other books.
Reviewed: "Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA" by Tim Weiner, Doubleday, 2007.
"Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11" by Amy B. Zegart, Princeton University Press, 2007.
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Dungeons and Dragons Dungeons & Dragons – Mousling Wizard, Bard, Monk and Fighter (Reaper Miniatures)
I've been buying quite a few Mousling miniatures as I think they are super fun. But I haven't had a reason to put them into our current D&D campaign War of the Triplets , which meant I haven't had a real reason to paint them.
However, for my Christmas 2018 oneshot, I wanted to give my players a completely different set of characters, giving them a chance to play something else. And it's been interesting to see who chose what:
- Our Ranger chose Fighter
- Our Sorcerer chose Monk
- Our Rouge chose Warlock
- Our Barbarian chose Bard
I even think this class mix is a stronger than that of their main characters.


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Kiss-and-tell matinee idol's conquests: True stories or tall tales? MOST READ Jake says relationship with Shaina 'goes beyond physical attraction' Coco's house rules on 'Probinsyano' set Photo from Fiba.comChot Reyes makes the final three cuts in his 15-man pool Thursday on the eve of Gilas Pilipinas' first round clash with Japan in the Fiba Asia World Cup Qualifying series at Komazawa Olympic gym in Tokyo.Team Philippines has been in the Japanese capital since Tuesday as Reyes and his staff continue to figure out which best 12-man team can compete with the hosts that will be bannered by naturalized player Ira Brown and talented center Joji Takeuchi.ADVERTISEMENT SEA Games 2019: No surprises as Gilas Pilipinas cruises to basketball gold PLAY LIST 06:27SEA Games 2019: No surprises as Gilas Pilipinas cruises to basketball gold01:45Explosive Gilas Pilipinas not yet at its best, says Tim Cone00:50Trending Articles02:14Carpio hits red carpet treatment for China Coast Guard02:56NCRPO pledges to donate P3.5 million to victims of Taal eruption00:56Heavy rain brings some relief in Australia02:37Calm moments allow Taal folks some respite03:23Negosyo sa Tagaytay City, bagsak sa pag-aalboroto ng Bulkang Taal01:13Christian Standhardinger wins PBA Best Player award Margot Robbie talks about filming 'Bombshell's' disturbing sexual harassment scene Jo Koy: My brain always wants to think funny It's too early to present Duterte's 'legacy' – Lacson Andray Blatche, June Mar Fajardo, Japeth Aguilar and Calvin Abueva will lead Reyes' frontline against Japan, which is also tall and agile because of Takeuchi and Brown.Reyes would have to decide on whether or not to include Kevin Alas on the roster since the other guard he has in the pool, Kiefer Ravena, seems to be a shoo-in owing to very impressive showings ever since making the Gilas team in the Jones Cup last July.Jayson Castro, twice voted as Asia's best point guard, could slide into the No. 2 spot, which also gives Reyes the option to include Alas in the team as a back-up to Ravena.After the Friday game, Team PH returns home the following day and will play Chinese-Taipei on Monday at Smart Araneta Coliseum.The Philippines is shooting for no less than a sweep of its first two games for the momentum heading into a clash with world power Australia in February.ADVERTISEMENT Jake says relationship with Shaina 'goes beyond physical attraction' GALLERY: Askren, Aoki face off for ONE: Immortal Pursuit The match against the Japanese is set at 7 p.m. (6 p.m. in Manila), and the Philippines will be playing that game without its leading scorer in the last Fiba Asia Cup, Terrence Romeo.Romeo did not make the trip because of a nagging leg injury, and Reyes would have to find the right combination that would come up with the 17.8-point average that the 5-foot-10 point guard churned out in Lebanon.FEATURED STORIESSPORTSRedemption is sweet for Ginebra, Scottie ThompsonSPORTSMayweather beats Pacquiao, Canelo for 'Fighter of the Decade'SPORTSBack on the throne"Not yet, we're still deciding," Reyes said in a text message to the Inquirer Wednesday afternoon, one day ahead of the Fiba deadline.The team managers' meeting, slated Thursday afternoon, is the final day for both teams to decide as Japan will also trim down a 14-man pool. OSG plea to revoke ABS-CBN franchise 'a duplicitous move' – Lacson LATEST STORIES That game will be played Down Under, and so will the return match against the Taiwanese also in February.Sports Related Videospowered by AdSparcRead Next Steam emission over Taal's main crater 'steady' for past 24 hours Don't miss out on the latest news and information. View comments


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Paxton donor sues to limit payments to his prosecutors
Real estate developer says payment to special prosecutors should be lower
AUSTIN - North Texas real estate developer Jeffory Blackard has filed a lawsuit to block payment to the three Houston attorneys prosecuting Attorney General Ken Paxton's felony securities case.
Blackard, who has donated to Paxton and written letters to local officials about the case, claims the fees promised to the attorneys break local rules regarding how much special prosecutors may be paid.
"This lawsuit seeks to halt a threatened expenditure of public funds that would unlawfully serve to enrich private attorneys at the expense of taxpayers in Collin County," states the suit, filed Tuesday in Collin County district court. "(The prosecutors) have sought or will soon seek payment for their services that is both premature and far exceeds the compensation permitted for an attorney pro tem under Texas law."
Blackard filed the lawsuit against the presiding judge in Paxton's fraud case, County Auditor Jeff May and the five county commissioners.
Earlier this week, Paxton's legal team echoed earlier attempts by the commissioners to limit the pre-trial fees to be paid to the three prosecutors. Upon their appointment, the attorneys were promised $300 an hour.
The three have worked several hundred hours resisting Paxton's many attempts to have his three felony indictments thrown out, according to special prosecutor Brian Wice, but Paxton wants to limit their pre-trial fees to $1,000 each.
Dan Cogdell, one of Paxton's defense attorneys, said the attorney general had no knowledge of or involvement in the Blackard lawsuit: "To be double dog clear, not only did we not have anything to do with the filing of it, we have nothing to do with it whatsoever. Zero."
The special prosecutors declined to comment.
Blackard has made just three political donations in the past decade, all to Paxton, according to the Texas Ethics Commission.
Collin County commissioners voted to budget $100,000 for the prosecution, an amount County Judge Keith Self - another Paxton donor - hopes is slashed to the amount suggested by Blackard.
A Collin County grand jury in July indicted Paxton on three felony charges of violating state securities laws.
In his two first-degree felony charges, he is accused of encouraging investment in a McKinney-based tech firm without disclosing he was being compensated by the company. He is also accused of soliciting clients for a friend's investment firm without being registered with the state, a third-degree felony charge.
Earlier this month, presiding Judge George Gallagher denied Paxton's initial attempts to have his indictments thrown out. Paxton's lawyers have not decided whether to appeal


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Follow the California Early Start Neighborhood on Twitter!
The Early Start Neighborhood is now on Twitter!
Join us in the Early Start Neighborhood conversation and keep up to date on the latest events, new resources, and more at Twitter handle @esneighbors.
The Early Start Neighborhood is an online community for parents and professionals who are part of the California Early Start program, designed to improve outcomes for infants and toddlers with or at risk for developmental disabilities and their families. The Early Start Neighborhood includes information on training, technical assistance, and resources on early intervention Part C requirements, implementation, and evidence-based practices.
The Neighborhood is funded by the Department of Developmental Services and maintained by WestEd's Center for Prevention & Early Intervention under the Comprehensive System of Personnel Development (a required component of a state's early intervention system under Part C of IDEA).
Follow the Early Start Neighborhood on Twitter and visit the website to learn more about us, how we can help you, and our resources.
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Finding the right word isn't always easy – whether or not a translation is involved. Yet the difference between the right word and wrong word could be the difference between a successful business venture, and one that flops. When translating your business message to an international audience, finding that right work could be just about the most challenging thing you have to do.
Most businesses realize this and look toward translation and localization experts to help them avoid costly and embarrassing mistakes. Sadly, however, many businesses continue to "go it alone" by either using online translation tools, or their bilingual coworker or cousin to get the job done.
As a result, there's never any shortage of translation errors that pop on online. And while many of these translation errors are humorous to read, keep in mind that most of them aren't as funny to the businesses who made the error to begin with. Often times, these errors cost thousands of dollars to remedy, and possibly lost customers for life.
1. Cannibalization in marketing - The KFC slogan "Finger Lickin' Good" was translated into Chinese as "Eat Your Fingers Off".
2. Sound advice - A sign in a Chinese Subway Line Advises Passengers What to Do in Case of an Emergency: "If you are stolen, please call the police at once."
3. More than you asked to see - A Bangkok Dry Cleaning Service featured the sign: "Drop your trousers here for the best results."
4. Talk about ladies night out - A Norway nightclub featured this: "Ladies are requested not to have children at the bar."
5. Umm, waiter, there's something in my drink – A cafe in Narita International Airport offered "Flesh Juice" as part of its breakfast menu.
6. Is it really a warning sign if no one understands it? A restaurant in Mexico tests the theory: "We thank him to discover their head before entering to this enclosure."
7. Wait a minute (read it twice if you have to understand the mistake) -"This hotel is renowned for its peace and solitude. In fact, crowds from all over the world flock here to enjoy its solitude."
8. The animals have finally revolted! - A sign on the wall of a fur shop in Sweden informed customers that "Fur coats are made for ladies from their own skin".
9. Grammar does matter! A sign on a Safari Park in Kenya posted the following: "Elephants please stay in your car."
10. The Magical Powers of Pepsi - In Taiwan, the Pepsi slogan "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" was mistakenly translated as "Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead!"
Yes, these translation errors are funny, but …
Translation blunders and errors cost you valuable business. Even the misplacement of a comma, or the literal translation of a word (when the literal translation is unneeded) can send a completely different message from what you intended.
How, then, can you ensure that your translated messages hit their mark?
Only a trained and professional language translator will ensure your every word is understood in the manner of its intent, by everyone in your international audience. This includes:
- Documents
- Contracts
- Marketing materials
- Social media postings
- Email messages
- Court documents
- Financial statements
- Web content/pages
- Video/audio records
- And much more
A professional translation agency will help you convert your message, not in the textbook-form of a language, but in the language that's actually used by your target population. Language evolves thanks to culture, political climate, and more. When you hire a professional translator, you work with a person who is not only expert in your desired language, but in the culture and way of thinking of your target region.


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Location: Moberly, MO
Our Company, Your Opportunity:
Plumrose USA is a company with an 80-year history of providing high quality, great tasting sliced meats, bacon, ham and ribs. Plumrose was recently acquired by JBS, the world's leading provider of beef, chicken and pork, with a vision of building the company into a leader in Protein Centric Prepared Foods. This is a unique opportunity to be in a start-up environment, with the backing of a Global CPG Powerhouse. This is a role for someone who is looking for an entrepreneurial challenge in a company with aspirations to be leaders within the CPG world. The position will have both strategic and tactical elements and the person may wear different hats. This is an opportunity for people who want to think Big, dream Big and work to make Big ideas a reality.
Our Mission:
To be THE BEST in all we do. We are completely focused on our business, ensuring the BEST products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers and profitability for our shareholders. All this, we do to provide an opportunity for a better future for all of our TEAM MEMBERS.
Determination, Discipline, Availability, Sincerity, Simplicity, Humility, Ownership
Scope of Position:
The Plant Controller is responsible for managing and directing all finance efforts of the plant as well as support other administrative plant functions, as needed. Accountable for all financial aspects of the plant in collaboration with plant management, while ensuring compliance with company policies. You will be instrumental in bringing analytical analyses to leadership team to enable decisions that directly impact business performance and outcomes.
- Assist management with monthly/quarterly/annual reporting package.
- Perform P&L explanation for key variances in Price, Mix, Volume and Cost drivers.
- Analyzing current and past financial data and performance.
- Preparing reports and projections based on this analysis.
- Establishing and evaluating profit plans.
- Identifying trends in financial performance and providing recommendations for improvement.
- Providing financial models and forecasting.
- Prepare budgeting and forecasts including ZBB (zero based budgeting).
- Maintains accounting procedures and documentation. Maintains internal finance systems and drives performance measurements from a financial view and monitors key accounts.
- Responsible for providing the organization and its management with appropriate financial and operating information. This individual and the accounting staff are expected to work with other department groups on problems involving financial reporting, controls and performance.
- Prepares annual budget in accordance with corporate process and manages the budget and estimates monthly through the year.
- Work with plant manager and procurement team to reduce the inventory balance at plant level
- Leads the effort to identify cost savings improvement ideas for plant. Tracks the actual performances of these savings, while partnering with local plant management and divisional team for cost savings ideas. Will participate in continuous improvement teams to help drive improvement and positive change.
- Conduct plant audits to review inventories of fixed assets, finished product, work in process, raw materials, packaging and spare parts in the storeroom.
- Review/update and create standard cost for each SKU for finished goods or WIP.
- Ensures all plant personnel and supervisors are adequately trained in all required accounting procedures, audit and review as needed.
- Reviews the storeroom to ensure cycle counts are complete and inventory is accurate – assist in full physical inventory as needed.
- First line approver in the procurement process on all plant requisitions. Responsible for making sure that the proper general ledger account and cost centers are correctly being used. This includes classification of plant and capital expenditures.
- Prepares all Capital Expenditure requests in AFETS for routing approvals and ensures all proper supporting documents are attached.
- Ensure all accounts payable and supplier inquiries are responded to in a timely fashion and effective corrective action occurs.
- Coordinate with quality to ensure all non-conforming material is properly placed and released from Quality Hold and dispositioned correctly.
- Perform month-end reconciliation and accounting close processes.
- Heavy focus on internal controls. Identify financial risks and develop appropriate action plans.
- Supervise and motivate staff and ensure successful completion of accounting duties and reports.
- Monitor performance of direct reports. Review direct reports and approve performance appraisals
- Minimum Education requirement: BA or BS in Accounting.
- Five to seven years of manufacturing experience in senior level finance or accounting position, and solid understanding of standard cost accounting.
- Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements and projections. Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles.
- MS Office proficiency, SAP proficiency strongly preferred
- Excellent professional communication -both written and verbal. Strong interpersonal skills.
- Collaboration skills
- A team player with a positive, can do attitude and agility to flex multiple work streams fluidly
Physical Demands/Work Environment:
- Frequently required to sit; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear.
- Specific vision abilities required include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
- Office and plant setting: the plant environment will include wet or humid conditions (non-weather related), extreme cold (non-weather related), and working near moving mechanical parts
- Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud when in the production area.
If interested, please apply at jbssa.com/careers We offer a full range of benefits including health care, life insurance, and a 401 (K) plan. Plumrose USA is an equal opportunity employer.


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Portland officials said they deny obstruction charges in a developer's lawsuit about a failed project in the city's Bayside neighborhood.
The Portland Press Herald reports the city is still reviewing the 78-page complaint filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Portland, but a spokesperson said Portland "steadfastly denies all of the claims" asserted in it.
The lawsuit, filed by Florida-based Federated Cos., concerns a development called the Midtown project that would have brought 450 housing units and almost 100,000 square feet of retail space to a neighborhood just outside Portland's downtown.
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The complaint accuses the city of failure to abide by relevant contractual obligations, failure to pay "sums rightfully due under said agreements" and denial of Federated's building permit application, among other charges.
In the court document, Federated Cos. said it "spent nearly a decade and millions upon millions of dollars in vain developing and pursuing plans for a vibrant mixed-use development project" consistent Portland's comprehensive plan for the Bayside neighborhood.
The first phase of the project was approved by the Portland Planning Board in January 2014, but Federated Cos. scaled back the development later that year after opponents filed a lawsuit in Cumberland County Superior Court to block it. The Planning Board approved the revised proposal at a meeting in March 2015.
But "[a]s the project shrunk in size, the City's support for it correspondingly lessened, and the
temper of the City's interactions with Federated noticeably changed," the complaint reads.
"In what would become a significantly detrimental pattern of 'bait and switch' … the City ultimately abandoned Federated, its longstanding partner, and left the developer in the lurch," the complaint reads.
The complaint alleges that the city inflicted millions of dollars of damage upon the developer
"through its years-long pattern of imprudence and obstruction. … The results have been nothing short of catastrophic for Federated and, equally and unfortunately, the public at large."
The Press Herald reports that the developer waited until February 2018 to file for a building permit to begin construction of the first phase of the project. But the city denied the building permit after Federated allegedly failed to pay more than $80,000 in traffic mitigation and other costs and did not post a required performance guarantee, the Portland newspaper reports.
The complaint asks for breach-of-contract damages exceeding $75,000, as well as attorneys fees and other costs, but a spokeswoman for the developer told the Press Herald that its actual damages are estimated to be in the "eight figures."
BDN writer Christopher Burns contributed to this report.


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Interview with Sheffield Live 93.2 FM
On Monday I was invited into Sheffield Live for a ten minute interview with Kevin Resley on the Communities Live programme.
Thanks to Kevin's skill and enthusiasm I soon felt at ease with him and we had a lively interchange about all things script related. I've attached a link to the podcast below, my interview starts 30 minutes in.
It is particularly useful for anyone who wants to know more about my particular approach to screenwriting and considering attending a workshop or working with me on a face to face level.
Posted on March 5, 2014, in Script Consultancy. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.


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What's the Plan, Stan? Newsletter 1 [1]
What's the Plan, Stan? Newsletter #1 for Teachers
Tēnā koutou Andrew here,
Welcome to What's the Plan, Stan?. This Virtual Field Trip gets under way on 17 October 2017. This field trip is supported by EQC [2] and the Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management [3].
Things to do from this newsletter:
- View the What's the Plan, Stan? web site [4] for student preparation
- Take part in the free teacher-only PLD webinar [5] for this field trip
- Book a web conference [6] by emailing email@example.com [7]
- Email firstname.lastname@example.com [7] with your content requests for this year's What's the Plan, Stan? field trip
- Prepare [8] your students for their field trip
- Check out the Resources [9] section with useful links
- Sign up an ambassador [10] to join us on the field trip
- Follow Andrew on Twitter @andrewpenny01 [11] [11] [12]
Key dates
- Tuesday 17 October - The What's the Plan, Stan? Virtual Field Trip gets under way!
- Friday 6 October - Last day for web conference bookings with Andrew - email@example.com [7]
- Thursday 12 October - Web conference questions due with Andrew - firstname.lastname@example.com [7]
- Friday 13 October - Deadline for Ambassadors to arrive at Andrew's home office ($35 payment to be sent to the CORE Education office).
1. Free teacher-only PLD webinar
- At 3.30pm on Wednesday 27 September take part in the free teacher-only PLD webinar for this field trip at http://www.learnz.org.nz/support/pld-and-webinars [5].
- PLD webinars are designed to help you and your students get the most out of a Virtual Field Trip experience.
2. Enrol ALL your classes
- Please enrol all the classes you are taking on this field trip through your MyLEARNZ [13] control panel. This enables us to report accurately to our supporters, continue to offer LEARNZ free of charge and it helps us to support you and your students.
3. Web conferences
- Personalise the field trip for your students by taking part in a live web conference [6]. During web conferences students will be able to put questions to experts who are on location.
- One web conference will be held each day on 17-19 October, divided into a formal first part and an informal second part.
- Details about connecting to web conferences are in your MyLEARNZ [14] control panel.
- Check the web conference topics on the timetable [6] and book your web conference now by emailing email@example.com [7].
- Running alongside the 15-20 minute formal, structured live web conference is the associated visual support like web cam view, photos and summaries of answers in the LEARNZ Adobe Connect room [15]. This will run for an extra 5-15 minutes after the formal part of the web conference to enable you and your students to post extra questions in the chat pod and have them answered, live. The platform is easy to use and is the same as for the LEARNZ PD sessions [5].
4. Your suggestions
- Do you have suggestions for the What's the Plan, Stan? field trip website?
- Email firstname.lastname@example.com [7] if you have a request for content such as field trip videos or photos.
5. Ambassadors
- Schools are invited to send an ambassador [10] on this field trip.
- Sign up your ambassador through your MyLEARNZ [14] control panel.
- Your ambassador must arrive no later than Friday 13 October.
6. Pre-test self-assessment
- The pre-test [16] is an opportunity to find out more about what your students know before the What's the Plan, Stan? field trip.
- The link for the post test will be available after the field trip. Email email@example.com [17] to request your class results.
7. Encouraging Parental Involvement: Home-School partnerships
- Teachers, you can communicate with parents about supporting your students' learning during this field trip. Find out how [18] and get the text for a letter or email home [19].
8. Connect with the field trip via Twitter
- Follow Andrew on Twitter @andrewpenny01 [11] #learnztrip for links to new information leading up to the field trip, as well as live updates once the field trip gets under way.
- More on using Twitter with LEARNZ here: http://www.learnz.org.nz/support/twitter [20]
9. For teachers who are new to LEARNZ:
- There is no prescribed way of using a LEARNZ virtual field trip.
- Curriculum [21]links are available for you to check and see how the field trip relates to your class programme.
- Use your teacher access login (username and password) if you use the site for planning purposes.
- Give the class login (username and password you set up for them in MyLEARNZ [14]) to your students to use in class and at home.
- For help with registration and login procedures see login explained [22] and/or email firstname.lastname@example.com [17].
- There is a planning sequence in the Resources [23]section. This short-term lesson sequence makes use of all field trip components for a 3-day virtual field trip.
- The Prepare Students [24]section of the What's the Plan, Stan? site ensures your students are ready when the field trip gets under way.
- The background readings [25] give an overall idea of the topic and can be used to generate further inquiry. The activities [26]consolidate new learning and encourage deeper thinking.
- During the field trip your class can follow the action in my daily diary [27], watch the videos [28], and ask questions or listen during live web conferences [6] with our experts. Combined with the background readings [25] and activities [29], these components are powerful mediums for inquiry learning.
Ka kite anō and I will catch up with you all again soon,


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Algoa Brick – Mandela Day Clean-up
As part of their Mandela Day Centennial 67 hours of service, staff from Algoa Brick once again partnered with Zwartkops Conservancy and the Department of Water and Sanitation at a clean-up of the Motherwell Stormwater Canal. After an exhausting day of picking up litter and removing plastic bags, the canal was restored to the way Mother Nature intended. Amazing job everyone, and thank you for your service to the community - Mandela would have been proud!
"We are proud to have partnered and participated in this initiative in making a difference in the Swartkops Estuary and commemorating Madiba," says Algoa MD Nico Mienie.


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Our Mission
The Cordell Institute's mission is to pioneer an ethical data-driven future, promote health and protect people.
Protecting People. Leading the Future of Healthcare.
In 2015, at the dawn of the Era of Precision Medicine, two leaders of the Schools of Law and Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis recognized an opportunity to build something unique—a first-of-its-kind collaboration combining world-leading expertise in the science of human genomics and legal expertise in privacy and ethical management of human information to guide the timely and ethically responsible emergence of data-driven healthcare.
Nancy Staudt, Howard & Caroline Cayne Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Law School, and Timothy Eberlein, Spencer T. & Ann Olin Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the School of Medicine, co-authored a proposal to establish a new WU institute that would be grounded in four founding principles:
Founding Principles
The Leadership Team
To guide their new institute, Dean Staudt and Dr. Eberlein turned to accomplished faculty in their respective schools who shared a vision for charting a path for sensible, ethical, evidence-based policies that garner as many of the benefits of human information technologies as possible while minimizing their dangers.
From the School of Law, Neil Richards, the Thomas & Karole Green Professor of Law, is an internationally renowned expert in privacy law, information law, civil liberties and freedom of expression.
Jonathan Heusel, Professor of Pathology and of Genetics at the School of Medicine, is an expert in molecular medicine and the development of clinical diagnostics who also directs Clinical and Translational Genomics for the Department of Pathology & Immunology.
Building Partnerships
The new Joseph and Yvonne Cordell Institute of Policy in Medicine & Law (Cordell Institute) Directors hosted an inaugural Planning Symposium in September 2017 as a means to focus the early work of the Cordell Institute in areas of greatest immediate need, and to build partnerships within Washington University and with outside groups working in parallel on these problems with a view toward global solutions. Internally, the Cordell Institutes's founding partnership is with the Siteman Cancer Center, for which Dr. Eberlein serves as Director, representing a clinical area where genomic medicine is already a major healthcare tool in the diagnosis and management of cancer patients and their families.
Other Washington University partners include the Institute for Informatics, directed by Philip Payne, who also is one of the Cordell Institutes's Senior Fellows, and the McDonnell Genome Institute, a global leader in genomics research and whose pioneering investigators have demonstrated the utility of genome-scale DNA sequencing in understanding the genetic blueprint of a number of cancer types and contributing valuable genomics analysis tools and databases along the way. These partnerships will facilitate the emergence of Precision Medicine at Washington University and the Barnes-Jewish Hospital system, since this will require harmonization of large human genomic data sets, new informatics modules to assist in the integration and analysis of genomic and other healthcare data, and the ability to rapidly share this sensitive information efficiently and securely across multiple hospitals and clinics, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
With this global perspective, the Cordell Institute also is forging partnerships that will allow their research and policy solutions to be tested across the world. Initially, the Cordell Institute will be working with the Precisional Medicine Project of the World Economic Forum's Center for the 4th Industrial Revolution and a major global technology company to develop robust policies governing cross-border data flows involving countries in Europe and Africa. We will seek additional corporate partners with aligned altruistic vision to reduce the bureaucratic friction of sharing important information as rapidly and securely as possible, with the benefit and privacy of patients and their families as the highest priority.


text: TV Comcast CFO on Why Sky Is More Than a "Satellite Business" 12:11 PM PST 3/5/2018 by Etan Vlessing FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Courtesy of Comcast Michael Cavanagh Michael Cavanagh told an investor conference that the European pay TV giant has far more growth prospects against streaming rivals than U.S. satellite operators. Don't tell Comcast CFO Michael Cavanagh that taking a $31 billion run at British pay TV operator Sky will land the U.S. cable powerhouse with a European satellite distributor that faces the same challenges that U.S. satellite TV services have been dealing with when competing against Netflix and YouTube. "We don't see [Sky] as a satellite platform," Cavanagh on Monday defiantly told the Deutsche Bank Media & Telecom Conference in Palm Beach, Florida, during a presentation that was webcast. "We look at [Sky] being very distinct from what we see from some of the legacy satellite players in markets that we know," the exec argued with an eye to U.S. players like DirecTV or Dish Network. Comcast last week unveiled its big play for Sky to expand the company's international reach and revenue abroad, beyond the maturing U.S. market. Sky operates in the U.K., Ireland, Italy, Germany and Austria, plus has a new over-the-top service in Spain. But Comcast's bid for Sky comes as global streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime are challenging traditional cable and satellite TV players. Wall Street watchers last week questioned why Comcast would bid for a satellite platform without two-way interactivity with subscribers. Cavanagh countered that skepticism by arguing Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky could secure synergies in programming, especially in sports and film content, and in technological innovation. He also pointed to Sky's Q box as having synergies with Comcast's X1 set-top box, and the British pay TV operator being a content aggregator that can be combined with broadband and mobile packages. "We don't see it [Sky] as a satellite business, but much more as an enabling technology that, as they invest in new technology, there will be other ways for people to experience that video content," Cavanagh told investors. The Comcast CFO did not address the prospect of a bidding war between itself and Fox over Sky, or possibly topping Walt Disney's bid for most of the assets of 21st Century Fox. Comcast in December pulled a $60 billion offer for 21st Century Fox over antitrust concerns just before Walt Disney unveiled its $52.4 billion deal for the Fox assets, which remain in play. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Etan Vlessing firstname.lastname@example.com etanvlessing


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How Russian Retailers Can Prepare Today for Tomorrow's Gains
By Ilona Lepp, Retail Services Director, Nielsen Russia and Northeast Europe
The double digit growth rates Russian retailers achieved last decade have not returned since the end of the recession, but demographic and economic trends suggest there will still be plenty of opportunity in the years ahead. Retailers should prepare today to capitalize on the opportunities of tomorrow.
Two areas where Russian retailers can realize significant upside sales potential are with fresh food offerings and private label products.
Russians spend about half of their household grocery budgets on fresh foods like meats, produce, and dairy. But, only about 20 percent of grocery retailers' revenue currently comes from fresh food categories, as Russian consumers continue to purchase many of their fresh products from traditional vendors. By contrast, in most other European markets, the bulk of fresh food spending has shifted to modern grocery stores. Russian retailers are missing out on these sales, and should improve their fresh food offerings and services to capture a larger share of overall food budgets.
Similarly, sales of private label products in Russia are far lower than in most other European markets. In part, this is because retailers only began launching private label goods in 2000. Since then, these store brands have grown to nearly nine percent of the total fast-moving consumer goods market. But, this is far below private label sales levels in much of Europe, where the average can reach 25-30 percent of the market—Russian retailers have an opportunity to improve. To do so, they'll need to invest resources to produce a quality line of products that are aligned with the Russian shopper's fondness for brands.


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Officer Who Killed Tamir Rice Terminated From Force
Hat tip to Crustyolemothman
On Nov. 22, 2014, 12-year old Tamir Rice was in a park in Cleveland, Ohio with a toy gun. A person called 911 and told the dispatcher that the person was "probably a juvenile" and the gun was "probably fake." The dispatcher did not relay that information over the radio.
Officers Frank Garmback and Rookie Timothy Loehmann arrived and Loehmann shot Tamir Rice, who later died from the gunshot wound.
The Cleveland police dispatcher who failed to relay all of the information was suspended for eight days.
There were filings in court where a judge found probable cause to arrest Garmback and Loehmann, however, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty did not charge the officers and a grand jury did not indict.
Tamir's estate filed a federal lawsuit and the City of Cleveland settled for $6 million.
The Cleveland Police Union has filed suit against manufacturers of toy guns seeking to have them redesigned.
Today, May 30, 2017, Timothy Loehmann was fired from the Cleveland Police Department. His termination was for violations he committed in the course of his hiring process.
National Public Radio reports:
"Loehmann failed to disclose the full circumstances of how his time at a previous police department ended:
Loehmann was allowed to resign from the Independence department after six months following a series of incidents where supervisors determined he was unfit to be a police officer.
"The disciplinary letter cites a letter in Loehmann's personnel file from Independence that says he was emotionally immature and had 'an inability to emotionally function.' The letter also cites an emotional breakdown Loehmann had on the gun range in Independence."
Frank Garmback, the officer with Loehmann when Tamir was killed, was suspended for 10 days for administrative rule violations. He is required to take a tactical training course.
Posted on 05/30/2017, in Cases, Tamir Rice and tagged Cleveland, Frank Garmback, Ohio, Tamir Rice, termination, Timothy J. McGinty, Timothy Loehmann. Bookmark the permalink. 25 Comments.