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Club L Crochet 2-in-1 Maxi Dress
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Club L Crochet Top Maxi Dress
Getting you ready for all those summer parties this maxi dress by Club L is the perfect pick for taking you from chic daytime to glamorous evenings.
The crochet top is part lined with a scoop neck to the back playing a sultry game of peek-a-boo that's sure to catch the eye of many an admirer! Showing off the results of your trip to Marbs the coral hue works flawlessly with sun-smooched skin, while the skirt falls gorgeously to the floor.
Wear this maxi dress with a pair of block heeled sandals, a coral lip and cute clutch to complete your summertime party style.
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- Length: 57 inches
Love Label Lace Bodice Swing Dress
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Love Label Swing Dress with Lace Bodice
We've fallen head over heels for this gorgeous lace bodice swing dress by Love Label.
Every fashionista knows that the LDB is an essential and this pretty piece certainly fits the bill. The lace bodice livens up your look and adds a girly glam you'll love, while a plunging sweetheart neckline and spaghetti straps give your looks a flirty update showing off your sun-kissed shoulders. The nipped in waist and flared skirt have a fun charm that swings as you strut your stuff.
Wear this swing dress with Head Over Heels two part sandals and a statement necklace for total glamour.
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Definitions Zip Detail Pencil Skirt
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Definitions Animal Print Pencil Skirt
Cat couture makes a surprise appearance in the new season collection
This animal print pencil skirt by Definitions is fiercely feline pulling together your workwear and evening wardrobes effortlessly.
Featuring a leopard print to the fabric this skirt is all about making a statement this season. The print prowls across the fabric adding fearless attitude with every step. A gold side zip to the front mixes up the classic pencil shape with a contemporary, industrial twist that blends well against the golden hues.
Wear this pencil skirt with a Definitions cami top tucked in and a pair of patent peep toe platforms to lift your look to dizzying heights.
Whatever you do, do it in style
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Resort Split Front Maxi Skirt
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Elasticated back waist.Colour: Print. Polyester Machine washable.
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Resort Embellished Kaftan.Colours: Black, Coral, Turquoise, White. Polyester. Hand wash only.
Sorbet Panda Pyjamas
This cute legging PJ set features an all-over spot print legging with a dipped hem oversized tee. Features include an elasticated waist and a panda face on the top.Colour: Black/White. Cotton. Machine washable.
This beautiful shorts set is the perfect stylish nightwear, features include a draw string waist, and contrast print trims. ViscoseColour: Blue. Viscose. Machine washable.
Sorbet Rabbit Pants Pyjamas
This Rabbit PJ set features an all-over ditsy floral print on the pants with elasticated waist, rabbit print with an applique detail on the top.Colour: Floral. otton. Machine washable.
South Linen Trousers
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South Light Linen Trousers
With an elasticated waist these linen trousers are the perfect pick for warm days when you're in the mood for maximum comfort.
These trousers feature a drawstring fastening so that you can tailor the fit with ease. The lightweight fabric will quickly make them a favourite for balmy days. They are a great casual staple for holidays or everyday summer wear. The pockets to the front and back add a touch of detail while the cut really flatters for a relaxed day look packed with style.
Wear these South linen trousers with strappy sandals or gladiators. Wear with a scoop neck vest or a jersey tee.
Wearing length regular 30, long 32 inch.
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Savoir Sleeveless Embellished Neck Vest.Colours: Black, Jade. 95% viscose, 5% elastane. Machine washable.
South Strappy Vests
This pack of three vests is excellent value and promises a versatile casual piece that's perfect for wearing under tops, vests and light jumpers. This is also a great little vest for pairing with your favourite track bottoms for a stylish off-duty outfit.
These strappy vests boast a cotton rich fabric with a gentle stretch for added comfort. The straps are adjustable and promise a great fit that's comfortable and flattering. In a pack of three you'll have a vest for every outfit this season.
Pair these vests with a zip-through track top in lightweight cotton. Wear with track bottoms or your favourite comfy jeans.
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Berkertex Monochrome Panel Dress
This beautiful monochrome dress by Berkertex is perfect for weddings, especially for a mother-of-the-bride.
Contrasting monochrome panels work in the chalkboard trend that continues to impress this season, while the cut allows the fabric to sway out at the hem creating a beautifully fluid silhouette. Sleeveless in style this piece keeps you cool and confident on warm summer says, while the back zip fastening perfects the fit.
Wear this dress with a pair of peep toe court shoes, black clutch and sparkling jewellery for an elegantly coordinated outfit. Add a wrap for a touch of added flair.
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US Geoscientists Mark Your Calendars for the 7th Annual Geosciences Congressional Visits Days, September 16–17, 2014
July 31 –Decision makers need to hear from geoscientists! Plan now to be in Washington, DC for the annual Geosciences Congressional Visit Days (GEO-CVD) on September 16th and 17th. SSA is one of many geoscience societies that collaborates with the American Geological Institute (AGI) for this important event. [Read More]
SSA Announces 2014 Student Presentation Award Winners
July 3 – Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Student Presentation Award! These awards are given for an excellent poster presentation or talk at each Annual Meeting. For more information about these awards and links to the abstracts of all the winning presentations please visit the Student Presentation Awards page.
June 5 – Several galleries of photos taken at SSA's 2014 annual meeting in Anchorage, Alaska have been posted. Thanks to everyone who helped make the meeting a success. Hope to see you next year in Pasadena.
May 30 – One hundred sixty-eight slidecasts of oral presentations and one hundred forty-nine posters from the 2014 Annual Meeting in Anchorage are now available online for viewing by SSA members. Click here to view slidecasts and posters from thirty-nine technical sessions. Take this opportunity to see what you missed or share one of these sessions with a colleague.
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January 24 – The annual election of the Seismological Society of America was held on January 3, 2014. Votes of current members that were received by the deadline, 5 PM on that date, were tabulated and validated by Election America, Inc.
The following four nominees for Director were elected to three-year terms which begin in April 2014: Laurie G. Baise, Eric Calais, Christine A. Goulet and Andy Michael…
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October 27 – OpenGeoSci (http://opengeosci.org) is a free, public web application featuring a map-based discovery interface providing geographic searching for more than 300,000 maps, cross-sections, charts, tables, and other high-value content from GeoScienceWorld publications.
BSSA and SRL are included in GeoScienceWorld, an aggregation of 45 earth science journals. At launch, OpenGeoSci includes material published since 2000.
The goal of OpenGeoSci is to further aid researchers in discovery of relevant valuable assets for academic research. Using a combination of search terms, map locations, and a choice of filters, results take users directly to data within the displayed articles. OpenGeoSci speeds the research process and exposes a broad audience of earth scientists and other professionals to a variety vetted resources.
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October 5 – Readers of the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America (BSSA) no longer have to wait for the two months between issues of BSSA to read new articles. Beginning October 8th BSSA articles are being "Published Ahead of Print" (also known as "E-First" or "Pre-issue" publishing). As soon as an article has been reviewed, approved, copyedited, and formatted for publication, rather than being held until an entire issue is ready, it will be posted online. Every Tuesday BSSA articles which have been approved for publication in a future issue of BSSA will be made available to SSA members BSSA subscribers.
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On 3 January 2014 an accidental explosion of a 1350-kg World War II bomb in Euskirchen, Germany, killed one person and injured several others. The above-ground detonation created an air blast that was widely observed in the area northeast of the explosion site, and the illustrated map summarizes the seismological observations. The wind field at the time of the explosion is superimposed on a digital elevation map; red dots indicate the measured ground velocities of the air blast signal; crossed circles show that no signal was recorded; and the yellow star indicates the explosion site. Black circles show macroseismic intensities of 300 reports; the map's color indicates the population density. Hinzen (this issue) estimates the charge weight from the ground motion recorded at a distance of 7 km and interprets the directional spreading of the air blast.
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July 1 – Volume 85, Number 4, the July/August 2014 issue of Seismological Research Letters, is now available online. This issue features:
- An Opinion column, The Prediction Problems of Earthquake System Science by Thomas H. Jordan
- Three Electronic Seismologist columns:
- SEISMOTOOL: An Easy Way to See, Listen, and Analyze Seismograms by T. Chelidze, N. Zhukova, and T. Matcharashvili
- MSATSI: A MATLAB Package for Stress Inversion Combining Solid Classic Methodology, a New Simplified User-Handling, and a Visualization Tool by Patricia Martínez-Garzón, Grzegorz Kwiatek, Michèle Ickrath, and Marco Bohnhoff
- Pisces: A Practical Seismological Database Library in Python by Jonathan K. MacCarthy and Charlotte A. Rowe
- An Historical Seismologist column, Earthquake Damage and Repair: New Evidence from Jerusalem on the 1927 Jericho Earthquake by Motti Zohar, Rehav Rubin, and Amos Salamon
- An Eduquakes column, The Game of Curiosity: Using Videogames to Cultivate Future Scientists by Debi Kilb, Daniel Rohrlick, Alan Yang, Yerrie Choo, Logan Ma, and Roxanne Ruzic
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin wins narrow re-election
NEW ORLEANS May 20, 2006 (AP) Mayor Ray Nagin, whose shoot-from-the-hip style was both praised and scorned after Hurricane Katrina, narrowly won re-election over Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu on Saturday in the race to oversee one of the biggest rebuilding projects in U.S. history.
"I greet you all in the spirit of unity because if we are unified there is nothing we cannot do," Nagin said in a joyful victory speech that took on the tone of Sunday sermon.
" We are ready to take off. We have citizens around the country who want to come back to the city of New Orleans, and we're going to get them all back," he said. "It's time for us to stop the bickering. It's time for us to stop measuring things in black and white and yellow and Asian. It's time for us to be one New Orleans."
With all 442 precincts reporting, Nagin had 52.3 percent, or 59,460 votes, to Landrieu's 47.7 percent, or 54,131 votes.
Nagin, a former cable television executive first elected to public office in 2002, argued the city could ill-afford to change course just as rebuilding gathered steam. His second term begins a day before the June 1 start of the next hurricane season in a city where streets are still strewn with rusting, mud-covered cars and entire neighborhoods consist of homes that are empty shells.
With little disagreement on the major issues the right of residents to rebuild in all areas and the urgent need for federal aid for recovery and top-notch levees the race came down to a referendum on leadership styles.
Nagin, a janitor's son from a black, working-class neighborhood, is known for his improvisational, some say impulsive, rhetoric. After Katrina plunged his city into chaos, Nagin was both scorned and praised for a tearful plea for the federal government to "get off their (behinds) and do something" and his now-famous remark that God intended New Orleans to be a "chocolate" city.
In his concession speech, he reached out to his former enemies, thanking President Bush for keeping his commitment to rebuild New Orleans and Gov. Kathleen Blanco for "what she is getting ready to do."
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what a joke this guy is not what that poor city needs.........what were they thinking!!!!
05-21-06, 01:23 PM #4Originally Posted by LawEnforcementForums
Victory speech, they mean. At least he was honest in thanking Bush. Shows that he's not entirely self-interested, I guess.
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Quarterly Journal on Management
From the publishers of THE HINDU BUSINESS LINE
Vol. 2 :: Iss. 3 :: February 1999
Talking Point
A look at the use of IT in the insurance and finance sectors.
K. Nitya Kalyani
You don't just do disorganised business if you don't use information technology. In the skewered world of the Indian public sector, you can even be refused the 'privilege' of hiking your prices to ensure profitability.
Take the case of the general insurance industry in India which has been pottering around with computerisation since the mid-eighties and today has a patchy system.
This neglect has insurance companies where it hurts most as it has denied them remunerative pricing. One demon the general insurers have been fighting for a long time is the inordinate losses on motor third party insurance, working out to about three or four times the premium collected. This is eating into the profits from other classes of business too.
The price setting body for this industry is the Tariff Advisory Committee (TAC). But as far as the motor premiums are concerned, the actual go ahead comes from the Government, and the decision is a political one. Reason? The clout of the truckers. They don't want to pay more for insurance, so too bad if the insurance industry is making losses on this.
When things turned from bad to worse and the TAC proposed a premium hike in late 1997 citing unprofitable business, all hell broke loose, with the truckers going on strike.
The hike was phased out over three years, the first tranche taking effect early last year. The truckers were in no mood to let it go, and the matter was placed with the Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) for adjudication.
The IRA has placed the hike in abeyance, the major reason being, as the IRA Chairman puts it, that the insurance industry had no historical data to backup its position that it was bleeding to death due to high third party claims.
Behind that lacuna is the pathetic state of computerisation of the industry and the historical neglect of this vital infrastructure due to union pressure.
Ironic, because insurance is based on the law of large numbers, and here is an industry that has no clue about the numbers!
Manually, it may have been a nightmarish proposition to monitor all the motor policies and their claims experience. However, with a reasonably good computer system, it would have been a cinch.
Insurance companies the world over gather underwriting and claims data meticulously and guard them zealously. In their more evolved forms, insurance companies even pool data which is held by an external, neutral agency, for the privilege of having access to global data. Either way, they know who they have insured and who have come back with claims. They can access this information by age, profession, gender, ethnic background, or domicile of the vehicle owner, or even by the type of vehicles they own.
They have a framework of where to place a red-haired teenage white male who owns a sports car, for instance, and where to place a middle aged black doctor who owns a five year old coupe.
This framework really gives the insurer a value he can place on the chances of this customer having a car crash and coming up with a claim. Each of these, and other similar characteristics, is given a specific weightage and has its effect on the final premium that the company will charge a customer.
Typically the factors that will raise the premium rates would be youth, owning a sports car or having been ticketed for traffic offences (the last one alone can send the premium through the roof, and in cases of repeat offenders deny them insurance coverage in toto).
Being a married professional, driving a relatively sober, family type, car and having a blemish free driving record can all make your premiums lower.
So, given carefully chosen indicators, this system can place you in a more or less homogenous group with its own risk profile, and the result is a more equitable system where you pay the premium that reflects the level of risk that the insurance company takes when it insures you. And when your circumstances change - say, you move to a crowded city from a small town - that information goes to your insurer's computer system, and your risk profile and your premiums are suitably altered.
This level of fine rates is possible when a company maintains its own records electronically, but when all companies file the data with an industry common underwriting and claims data agency, as they are required to do in the US, the claims profiles relating to different factors emerge on a country wide basis rather than as restricted to one company, leading to better risk evaluation and premium quotations.
In India, however, there are very broad lines along which you pay premiums. Like whether the vehicle is being used for commercial purposes or personal transportation, or in terms of territory, whether you live in Mumbai or anywhere else in the country! You, with sober driving habits driving to office and back in a city will pay the same premium as any rash or incompetent driver whom you see on the roads.
With the spread of customer contact point computerisation, and the capacity to issue computer generated policies across the counter, all that it requires for building up a database is the capturing of this data at the underwriting point. And later adding claims data relating to this policy, if any.
This is just not done! No insurance company branch office will be able to tell you even, for instance, how many Maruti 800s are insured with them, much less how many claims can be expected from this category based on past experience. Hence the catch-all rate that tries to make a crude stab at a remunerative price.
If external reasons, and what a senior insurance executive calls 'extreme head-in-the-sand attitude' have prevented the industry from adopting and benefiting from information technology soon enough and sufficiently enough, realisation has set in slowly about IT's benefits. Combined with the general frenzy wrought by the magic words of bank computerisation, the insurance companies have also woken up.
According to various news reports, almost all branches of Indian insurance companies are to be equipped with computers in the next year or two. Connectivity, the lifeblood of information technology, is however another matter. That is likely to take a much longer time.
Where computers are more in evidence, and perhaps, slowly being used and appreciated, is in the offices of the top executives, though not by the executives themselves!
"I don't use the computers myself," says Mr G. Krishnamurthy, Chairman of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) but his support staff uses them extensively to supply him with the up-to-date data he demands. "I can make decisions more confidently," he reflects, thinking of the days when historical data meant that decisions had to be cautious and hedgy.
If the industry at the customer contact level is lacking in IT savvy and doesn't care, the regulator of the industry is taking particular care. The IRA is envisaging complete computerisation for itself, and will be demanding matching levels of information technology usage from those it regulates and hopes to get the industry to have and retrieve data efficiently.
The IRA is moving in the right direction. One of the most IT savvy industries the world over is the insurance industry with its long term contracts and investments. The volumes and the mass of personal data demand the use of IT which rewards the company with instant retrieval of asset and liability positions to put it at its simplest.
While insurance companies in the west were among the first businesses to computerise, the trend has a strange reflection in India too. Foreign insurers, who are waiting at representative offices in India to set up shop when the law of the land allows them to do so, are turning to IT as a lead-on activity.
Some of them have been recruiting IT professionals, setting up systems here, and handling the back office work for their companies in the US and elsewhere. As an offsite back office, India not only provides tha advantage of lower costs but can also provide a pool of the best software minds in the world.
Royal Guardian Exchange plc, which has an agreement with the Murugappa Group to start an insurance company, has been working on software development for its UK operations for some time now. Metlife of New York, one of the larger life insurance companies in the US and the first to computerise its operations there, has floated an IT subsidiary which will slowly take on back office work.
More has been heard about computerisation in banks, and less done in view of the size of the industry and the volumes of its records and transactions. Computerisation was brought in through a painful process of negotiation and at a price in an industry where the unions have been legendary opponents of computerisation.
The price was not only the computerisation allowance and increment that had to be paid to the staff and officers, but also in the delay in going electronic, losing out on various advances in technology that the industry could have progressively taken advantage of, and also in the huge reconciliation backlog that the industry is still sitting on while competitors have raced far, far ahead.
And now they have the Chief Vigilance Commissioner forcing them to jumpstart computerisation to cut out fraud and corruption!
Of the finance related fields, perhaps it is only the non banking finance companies that have exhibited open arms as far as IT is concerned. The irony here is that not many can afford it, especially in these hard times, but the pioneers got there several years ahead. Sundaram Finance, for instance, has been at it for well over a decade and are almost fully connected too. Of course, their network and volumes will not match that of any nationalised bank, but then neither is their staff strength to volume of transactions ratio! And for that, IT is almost entirely responsible.
The company first went in for computerisation in order to handle the volumes involved in handling fixed deposits, so that they could provide better service to their depositors - a class that the company has had a special relationship with ever since its inception.
And then IT has its so obvious benefits when it comes to its lending portfolio and monitoring its lease receivables that there was no looking back. Some of the other top NBFCs have also extensively used IT for their operations, and are constantly upgrading, while others have resource constraints.
The difference has been immense, as Mr T. T. Srinivasa Raghavan, Deputy Managing Director, Sundaram Finance recalls. "When we started out doing leases, we spent the better part of a day working out the lease rentals schedules for a single contract." Today, you can play around with the period, the rate or any other parameter and get a new deal structured at the touch of a button. "We can structure a deal that the customer wants, and not just dump him with the one and only lease deal worked out painstakingly in advance."
In other words, IThas provided the freedom to give the customer what he wants, rather than force him to take what the company has.


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Martin Scorsese virtually defined the state of modern American films during the 1970s and '80s.
The Aviator - Review
Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator," a biopic about the early years of Howard Hughes, legendary film producer, playboy, and aviator, is pure razzle-dazzle entertainment. Leonardo DiCaprio gives an Oscar worthy performance and Cate Blanchett is perhaps even more marvelous as the iconic Katherine Hepburn.


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Recently there's been a bunch of talk about 'type' and 'brand' in reference to the actor. As if we didn't have enough problems with our identity, now we have to know how we are perceived and can be marketed.
Being someone who looks like a million other people (at least half my acting friends are brunettes in the 26-35 age range, REPRESENT) the idea of branding myself makes me want to take a long walk off a short cliff. I just want to be an artist. I don't care about all the commercial, money making, Hollywood image, 'how do I fit in your box' bullshit. At least until my bank account says "screw you get a real job then." Ok you win.
So where to start? Unless you've got some crazy charisma and a look so fresh Will Smith be hittin you up, you have to get creative. And, let me be totally honest, I was not a cute kid. I wish I was joking. I had a horrible awkward stage where they thought I had Lupis, I tucked every shirt into my acid wash jeans (even sweathshirts), my feet grew before I did (I still feel cheated that I'm not 5'8 like the doc said), I was underweight and pale, and I had a fierce loyalty to the disabled kids. I also read a lot and my brother was my best friend. Grades 1 thru all of school sucked balls. So the idea of embracing a part of myself that's different is terrifying. Vomit inducing. And goes against every fiber of my adult being who's fought to be accepted.
I'm not in the bonnet. Best friends! My poor bro.
My wonderful acting coach, Steven Anderson, always encourages us to walk into fear. Have your little death and embrace what terrifies you. Well this scares the shit out of me. I can't even watch the playback on my films. I refuse to make judgement on myself and critique performance because once I break that seal I WILL NEVER BE HAPPY WITH THE OUTCOME. *Sidenote: all acting teachers who made us tape our work, I have never watched those tapes. Shame on me!
But something interesting happened to me this last week. I auditioned for a larger film and for a great supporting role. I was terrified. I was shaking. I was like 'WTF get your self together!' I really, really wanted this part. When I walked into the room, the casting director asked me how tall I was. Uh oh. I had on my 4 inch shoes and timidly looked down and mumbled "5'2 without shoes". I waited for the laugh. It didn't come. Instead she said, "That's perfect for this role. Take off your shoes." Uh excuse me? I kicked off my shoes and felt….liberated! I'm always the actress that needs the apple boxes, who's pants need to be hemmed, that people see barefoot and say 'oh you're so miniature!'. It was exciting to let that go.
What does all this mean? I have no idea I'm still processing over a glass of Cab. But I have started thinking of myself in terms of what makes me different and branding. And for once it doesn't make me throw up in my mouth. Progress!
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New Orleans, La.- The Fraternal Order of Police wants New Orleans police officers and firefighters to be exempt from the city's domicile ordinance.
The domicile ordinance which requires all city employees to live in Orleans Parish has been on hold since Hurricane Katrina. It was reinstated January first.
City Council President Stacy Head says city employees should have be pay taxes in Orleans Parish and live in the city if they're being paid with taxpayer dollars.
But the FOP is concerned the law will keep qualified applicants from seeking jobs with the NOPD.
FOP attorney Raymond Burkart, III addressed members of a council committee Monday morning saying
"The domicide ordinance unnecessarily limits the NOPD's applicant pool. We need to think bigger, we need to think better."
He says during a recent recruiting effort aimed at military personnel, twenty people declined to apply because of the residency requirement.
Stacy Head says current city employees will most likely be grandfathered in, meaning they can continue to live outside the parish.
The issue will be discussed at length at a later date by the full council.
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What's for dinner?Posted Friday, September 23, 2011, at 11:08 PM
Well, now that I have this great blog to share and get ideas back....I need help.
It seems as if my days are spent trying to think of what to cook for dinner. Along the way, I have come up with or found some pretty good recipes and ideas, but still get tired of the same ole, same ole.
So, I thought I'd share some of my quick dinner tricks that I've used to escape the normal beans and taters (although I LOVE beans and taters!) and am requesting you all give me some new ideas for dinner too, please.
I hope these ideas strike someone's interest and I am expecting some great ideas in return!
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One thing for sure it will be gluten free............
Any body have ideas to share on that or want suggestions?
-- Posted by wonderwhy on Sun, Oct 2, 2011, at 3:19 PM
Slice potatoes about 1/4 inch and dip in Italian dressing. Place on greased pan. Lightly sprinkle pepper, grated parmesan cheese and bake in oven. Gives that fried taste without the greasy taste.
-- Posted by cookie on Tue, Sep 27, 2011, at 8:49 AM
These are very interesting. I'm lactose intolerant & prefer to make dishes without a lot of cheese, milk, etc.
-- Posted by bettyhbrown on Mon, Sep 26, 2011, at 10:46 PM
Something quick and delicious: brown your choice of beef (I use beef tips like you would use for beef stew). While its browning, mix 1-16 oz tub of sour cream with 1 can Cream of Mushroom Soup on the stove until heated through and well blended. Remove beef from stove, pour soup mix over the beef. Serve and enjoy.
-- Posted by candasons07 on Mon, Sep 26, 2011, at 8:52 AM
Leftover Stew:
This is great when you have beef leftovers in the fridge and don't know what to do with them.
First brown about 1 lb of hamburger meat or leftover hamburger meat (meatloaf,etc) that already been cooked to warm it up.
In a pot, add one package of brown gravy mix to 4 cups of water into a pot. Add the hamburger/meat. Then add leftover vegetables (peas, corn, carrots, cubed potatoes,etc). Cook over Med-High for about 20-30 minutes. No seasoning is needed because the gravy mix already contains all of the seasoning in it.
You can also use this stew as a filler for homemade pot pies as well.
-- Posted by PrpleHze on Sun, Sep 25, 2011, at 10:52 PM
I like putting a spin on the fried potatoes.
For a helping enough for 5 people:
Pour olive oil or a similar oil into your pan. Cut up about 3 large potatoes into small cubes. Place them into your pan. Add about 1/2 tsp of salt. And about 1 tsp of ground black pepper. Finely chop and add 1 garlic clove and about a 1/2 cup finely chopped onion. Cook until starting to brown. Drain the oil and place a cover or tin foil over the top of the pan so the potatoes will finish cooking on the inside. When they are done. Pour them into a bowl and toss with about 1/2 cup of Parmesan cheese.
-- Posted by PrpleHze on Sun, Sep 25, 2011, at 10:45 PM
Browned sage sausage, med. sauteed bell peppers, and onion, and 1c. celery, 1c. uncooked minuet rice, small jar of chopped pimentos, two cans cream of whatever soup and a cup of mild cheddar cheese.....all pressed in a casserole and baked at 350 for almost an hour is one of my favorites....the rice cooks as the soup adds the liquid...did I mention to saute the left overs the next morning for breakfast, when just heated through it forms an omelet shape if pushed right!....Yum!
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Your Social Media profile is the face of your company online. You must customize your profile on all the social networking sites you use to make sure your followers, fans and friends recognize you, but also because it is an very strong tool for branding and optimizing your Social Media networks. On Twitter there are a few steps you should take to customize your profile. Have you customized your Twitter profile yet? No, then let's get to it. Here are some easy steps to customize your Twitter profile – fast and easy.
When you customize your Twitter profile you have to do it on two levels. First you customize the appearance on your Twitter profile page. Then you take care of the internal personalization of your Twitter profile.
The appearance of your Twitter profile relates to the background of your profile page, the image and photo and the text editing.
Customize your Twitter profile step 1: the Appearance
The first step to take when you customize your Twitter profile is to adjust the background. You have different possibilities to do this.
First your background and side bar should have your company's colors and be personalized to represent your company. Don't use the set background given by Twitter. Personalize your profile to brand your company. You can have your logo tile all over the page, which in most cases looks just horrible, or have your logo just once in left hand corner, or you can even have a photo representing your company (eg. if you sell a certain product with your company's name on it, a photo of that product would work too). If you do not use it as your background it is important to add your logo somewhere. For branding purposes you should make sure your logo always appears on your Twitter profile. However, to give your profile a personal touch, I would suggest to use an image of yourself for the profile picture and upload the logo on your page as part of the background image. Here is an example, how I did it on my MarketUrStartup profile on Twitter! While you are there, remember to follow us! You just need to make sure it is not too overwhelming and hard to read for your readers.
But how do you change the color of your Twitter background etc?
Just log into your account, go to Settings and click on Design. There you can upload a background image and also change the colors of your background, sidebar, links and font. I would suggest to copy the exact color of your logo or Corporate Identity to match exactly and not "hand pick" them. If you want to be very creative, different types of software are available to help you design your own background. There are however certain "rules" to follow to be able to upload your creative background. You can find a few technical tips here. But when being creative remember, you want your background to match your company, and the message you try to pass to your audience. So don't be overly creative and confuse your followers about who your Twitter profile really represents.
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Now there is more to your Twitter profile than just the look! Therefore you have more customization to work on. It is important for your audience, to keep its attention and to gain its trust that you show you have put time and effort to introduce your company through your Social Media site. It's important to share valuable information. Don't link back to your website or blog, but also to other interesting resources. Share what you are working on, communicate with customers etc. Here you can learn more about what your business should tweet about!
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When you create your Twitter profile it is important to not just create a profile representing a business entity, but also include the person behind the scene. Use your personal name as the Name of your Twitter profile, and use your company's name as the User name of your Twitter profile. This underline that a person, with , passion and attention is behind it all and is involved. Also use your picture as your profile picture. Readers like to know who they are talking to or who's tweets they are reading. It is important that you chose the same image for all your profiles though to show consistency but also so that readers recognize you. It is another way to strengthen your branding and your online presence.
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Twitter gives you the opportunity to present yourself and your company in the Bio section. Use it! What a better way to personalize you twitter profile than by telling your audience about who you are and what you do, and maybe what motivates you? Be concise but clear. Sell yourself but don't spam. You must inform your readers in a few words who you are and give them an insight on why they should follow you.
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All those previously mentioned steps are quite obvious. There is one more step that is essential in the customization process your Twitter profile, but unfortunately often overlooked. The personality of a person is more than his/her look, clothes, attitude… it is also the way he/she express him/herself. Customizing your Twitter profile to represent your company is like showing the personality of you and your business. Therefore, the way you express yourself through your tweets, how you interact with your followers and who you follow, is also part of the process of customizing your Twitter profile. You must show you are involved, that you are willing to interact with your audience and that you listen. You must prove your audience you are everything your profile setup says you are. Your tweets, your answers and your involvement will truly customize your Twitter profile, because they will show your personality, they will show the human side of your business.
Remember a well customized Twitter profile can help you gain attention, show dedication and help will give you a great first impression with your Twitter Followers. It is important to take advantage of all the tools available to you to make your Twitter profile an efficient Social Media Marketing tool to promote your company and develop your network.
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Russell County High School juniors' ACT test results for the spring of 2010 were released this past week by the Kentucky Department of Education and show a significant improvement from previous years, according to Darren Gossage, the principal at RCHS.
The school's overall composite score improved from 17.5 to 18.6, higher than any previous year since state law mandated that all juniors take the ACT.
"I am really impressed with the improvement of our scores," Gossage said. "I want to praise the teachers and students for all their hard work and say that I am very proud of them." The school's composite score is above the state's average score of 18.5 and is one of the highest ACT scores in the region, Gossage said. The school's increase is one of the largest gains in the area.
In addition to the higher composite score, the local high school juniors' ACT scores show improvement over many years' scores in all the individual content areas of English, Mathematics, Reading and Science.
The school's students scored above the state average in three of the four subject areas: English, Mathematics and Reading, Gossage said.
The students, 189 in all, scored 17.9 on the English portion of the ACT, 18.6 in math, 19 in reading and 18.4 in science. The highest score in any area prior to this year was 18.9 in reading two years ago.
State averages for this year are 17.8 for reading, 18.3 for math, 18.9 for reading and 18.7 for science.
The new Common Core State Standards recently adopted by the state have a strong correlation to college readiness standards and will help prepare students for ACT testing and taking college level courses, Gossage said.
The high school teachers have made several changes to improve student achievement and performance.
English Department Chair Sarah Stapp credits some of the improvement with the implementation of an ACT-like assessment given three times a year during a student's freshman year.
"The freshmen teachers analyze each of the three tests," Stapp said. "Then we use the data to help students create individual goals, and the teachers use the data to inform classroom instruction throughout the year."
Other teachers are reporting classroom changes as well.
Stacy Anderson, the Social Studies Department Chair at the high school, said she believes the school-wide focus on literacy has been a big boost to student achievement.
"Teachers are adding more timed content area reading and independent reading to classroom instruction," Anderson said. "Overall we have just had a more intentional focus on literacy in general."
Math Department Chair Pam Wilson also said that teachers have been more purposeful to focus on specific ACT-like skills, used diagnostic tests and results to drive instruction and the school has provided enrichment math and reading classes to students struggling in those areas.
RCHS Curriculum Specialist Beckie Wade said she credited the rise in test scores to the efforts of everyone working together. All the classroom changes that were made were created by teachers at the school level.
"Our school did not purchase any of the commercial programs that are currently being marketed; instead our teachers worked together to create their own resources to use in classrooms," Wade said. "Our teachers do an excellent job of keeping the focus on instruction and student learning and finding ways to give our students the very best education possible."
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The Halifax County Middle School football team came up with just enough offense and a timely defensive play when it needed it most. With the score tied at 22-22 and the ball in hand with 54 seconds left in Monday's non-conference game against Ben Franklin Middle School at Tuck Dillard Stadium, it appeared the two teams were going to have to settle for a deadlock.
That was before the Lions' Justin Logan took over.
With the ball at the Lions' 43-yard line, Logan ran for 12 yards and a first down before scooting out of bounds to stop the clock. On the next play, Logan began running another sweep to the outside, but he found a hole, cut back inside and broke free for a 45-yard touchdown run with 37.7 seconds left in the game to put the Lions up 28-22.
Later, with 18 seconds left on the clock, the Lions' Zack Carlson picked off a Ben Franklin Middle School pass and returned it to midfield to seal the win for the Lions.
"Justin is a heck of a runner," pointed out Halifax County Middle School Head Coach Frank Shealy.
"We had no timeouts and very little time left. He (Logan) did exactly what he was instructed to do on his first run, and ran out of bounds to stop the clock. The second play was another sweep to get him back outside. He scared me when he cut it back inside, but he made it."
Shealy also praised the effort of the team's defense, especially with the big stop at the end of the game with Carlson's interception.
"It was a good job on their (the defense's) part to pull through," he noted.
"They scuffled a little bit in the first half and early in the second half."
Monday's game was a see-saw affair that saw several momentum shifts.
Halifax County took the early lead with a touchdown run by Tyrus Pannell with 2:46 left in the first quarter. A pass from quarterback James Smith Jr. to Kelonte Gutrich for a two-point conversion put the Lions up 8-0.
Ben Franklin Middle School answered with a pair of scores, the second coming in the wake of a Lions fumble, to take a 16-8 lead with 5:06 left in the first half.
Halifax County Middle School scored first in the second half, with the score coming on a 49-yard touchdown run by Logan on the Lions' third play from scrimmage in the half.
Smith ran for the two-point conversion to tie the game at 16-16.
The Lions scored again before the third quarter ended, with Smith scoring on a 8-yard run with 1.8 seconds left in the period, to take a 22-16 lead after three quarters of action.
Ben Franklin Middle School posted its final score of the game on a 3-yard touchdown run with 5:03 left in the contest, setting the stage for the dramatic ending.
"It was a good comeback," Shealy said.
"We played a little flat, and that has been kind of our forte when it comes to playing on Mondays. We just happened to have the ball last. It was a good victory for this club."
The Lions have one more game remaining on their schedule, that coming Monday when they travel to South Hill to face Park View Middle School in a game that will determine the Southside Middle School Conference championship. Kickoff time is 5:30 p.m.


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Guygadbois sez, "Two years in the making, this one-of-a-kind mechanized miniature Main Street Electrical Parade runs nighttime shows from a display the size of a coffee table."
This guy is the poster child for Happy Mutantism. What a wonderful video. I want to grow up to be him.
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Kurt Benbenek says:
A friend of mine works in the high-end watch shop on Main Street – he does custom painted watch faces according to customer wants and needs. He's worked there about 20 years and along with doing his artistic job, he has to wear the costume and do the cornball Disney role-playing thing. His stories of nasty, demanding children and adults are priceless. He claims he wasn't sarcastic and bitter when he started at Disneyland but now he constantly feels the repressed need to lash out at both Disney staff and tourists. He's going to stick with it a couple of more years.
I know many grown adults who have an undying fascination with Disneyland. The last time I was there was at grad night for high school in the mid-1980s, when post-modern irony had yet to be invented (I ended up having to baby-sit three friends who'd taken either mushrooms or an elephant tranquilizer) – Prior to that, Orange County and places such as Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm (and much more entertaining places like the ALLIGATOR FARM and JAPANESE DEER PARK) were places to be avoided in favor of thrill-ride based parks like Magic Mountain and the then-new mega-thrill water parks further down off the 405 Freeway. In other words, Disneyland was for kids, but 10-story roller coasters were for real thrill-seekers
Benjamin Eugene NElson says:
There is a reason that Anaheim is a party town.
Gotta blow off that steam somehow.
Me? Last time I was there it was raining buckets and I still had to wait half an hour in line for every ride.
I would have been pissed if I had actually paid for the tickets..
Chanfan says:
Very amazing! As a Disneyland fan and a person with good memories of the Main Street Electrical Parade, I can only cheer on this amusing nerdery.
One could very easily imagine this being installed in one of the spots along Main Street, for that matter.
Richard Somers says:
Um, i hate to be an asshole (an unfortunate start to any sentence), but what is with all the Disney s*** lately? Are they donors? I love art and design as much as the next person, and studied classical animation, so have an appreciation for some Disney's design, but i f***ing hate Disney Corp, and how lowbrow, cheap, and tacky it all seems to me. So i cringe when i come to this excellent blog, and due to the volume of Disney related posts, seem to feel like Disney has their finger in this pie too.
Ryan_T_H says:
Cory has a long-standing soft spot for Disney. He has published an entire (and excellent) novel set in the park. So interesting Disney stuff is more likely than most things to show up on BoingBoing. Been this way for as long as the site has existed. The writers are free to scratch their own personal itches.
Richard Somers says:
Understandable, just a comment, this is a personal blog and it generally has mines some of the cooler corners of the web. Which is why the Disney thing seems kinda out of place; thematic consistency i understand and brings me here, but even if it is vintage retrospective it still seems shill-ie.
You must be new here.
Richard Somers says:
No, been mostly lurking for 2 years now.
>2 years
So to you, Boingboing has always had comments? Ah, the innocence of youth. Either you haven't been paying attention, or maybe the Disney stuff has been light lately (in the past two years) but you should know that that's pretty much a thing around here. A couple of redesigns ago, somebody made boingboinglite.com (long dead) to filter posts by author or content and Disney was a standard option. If you examine it carefully, you may notice that it doesn't really have the feel of true shilling; Cory never posts about the movies, he only likes the theme park. And then mostly the older aspects of it, unless the park is doing some sort of retro thing (Orange Bird).
Richard Somers says:
Probably older than you, son.
That is great that in the past there was a 'disney' option in a filter. But, that has no baring on my opinion. It does not matter if it is the movies, which i never stated was a focus of my comments, or the parks. This is still Disney Corp. A massive multinational, litigious, and creatively damaging company, which seems at odds with the ethos of the blog as a whole. Would you not agree?
Bad Juju says:
I'm right there with you, Richard.
Just hope you don't have anything against bananas, too..
Guest says:
1) no you don't. 2)Policies are over there —>
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cakewrecks says:
Gorgeous – I'd love to see this in person with the music playing!
Also, just had to chime in and say that I love posts like these, since Cory almost always finds content that even I – a former JC skipper & big Dizgeek – haven't seen before. So please, Boing Boing, keep 'em coming!
It's great, but I think it's missing something:
daneyul says:
That was fantastic! And what a personable, cool guy, too!
The Disney posts are some of my favorites by the way. I agree–keep 'em coming!
Jon says:
Love this. But how does the track chain bend in both directions? My experience with bike chain is than it couldn't make those tight elevation changes. And this chain looks much larger.
noggin says:
I thought collecting those miniatures was kind of an odd obsession, but then when I saw what he did with them, it goes from peculiar to cool. Funny how that works. And props to those involved in making the video. Nicely done.
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What are the programmable LED things called? I didn't quite catch it in the video. Blinkems or something like that?
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Kentucky's poet laureate will read from her new book in the Axton Reading Series at the University of Louisville tomorrow.
Morehead will read from her new collection of poems, "Late August Blues: the Daylily Poems," in U of L's Ekstrom Library, in the Chao Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Morehead is also the author of "In a Yellow Room," "Our Brothers' War," "A Sense of Time Left" and "The Melancholy Teacher." She teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Spalding University.
Since taking the office of poet laureate in April 2011, Morehead says she's logged about 30,000 miles on her car traveling around Kentucky to give readings and talks on literature and literacy.
"I've gotten to meet people all over the state who love literature. There are pockets of people everywhere. Last night there was a large audience at Northern Kentucky University," says Morehead.
"There have been audiences in Jackson, Kentucky; and Pippa Passes, Kentucky; and Paducah and Hopkinsville. It's been nice connecting with people who like what I do and who are doing it themselves, either teaching or writing or just reading," she adds.
Morehead's latest book is "Late August Blues: The Daylily Poems," a gently melancholy collection of persona poems in the vein of Edgar Lee Masters's "Spoon River Anthology."
The collection is illustrated by Carolyn Whitesel and published by Kentucky's Larkspur Press, which is owned and operated by celebrated letterpress publisher Gray Zeitz. Zeitz is the recipient of a 2012 Governor's Award in the Arts.
Morehead named the characters in her poems after different types of daylilies growing in her husband's garden. Daylily varieties carry human names, like James Marsh and Mary Todd, and Morehead took the inspiration for her human characters from the flowers' shapes and names.
"Because at the time I was writing the poems for (her previous collection) 'The Melancholy Teacher,' so many of these poems end up having to do with education, the people in education, the ideas in education," says Morehead.
Morehead's poet laureate term will continue through April, when the new poet laureate will be inaugurated. Nominations for the next poet laureate are being accepted by the Kentucky Arts Council through September 30.
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447. ZZ Top's 'Eliminator'
11 months, and 148 records ago, I considered closing up shop here at Vinyl in Alphabetical because I wasn't sure if I should spend time writing stuff about the records I just bought at the record store. I had completely caught up with my record collection, but ultimately, I decided to keep going, and being that I have a job with a bigger disposable income, I have somehow accrued nearly 150 records since then. I obviously found that I had things I could write about those albums; some more than others, obviously. But still; I was able to keep going for 11 months and 148 records.
As of this ZZ Top album, I have now, again, caught up with my record collection. I have nothing left to write about. Except for a quip about how the one guy in ZZ Top sans beard is named Frank Beard, and how ZZ Top fucking shred, I am not sure I even have much to write about here.
But! I am not quitting. I have plans to hit this incredible pawn store in the U.P. next week, a place that boasts literally 30,000 records for sale, and plan to walk out with arms full of shit. I am just going to take some time off from this blog. Maybe the rest of this month; I'm not really sure. I just realized I've written—or gotten my friends to help write—about 447 records in 23 months. That's 19 a month. That's too many.
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Susan Mills has a suggestion for those who think Republicans can't win elections. Use Tennessee and especially Blount County as an example for winning campaigns for Republican candidates, the new Blount County GOP chair said.
On March 26, 120 members of the executive committee of the Blount County Republicans Party reorganized and voted in new leadership for the organization, which included Mills as the group's first female chair.
Outgoing chair Dave Bennett said the meeting at the Blount County Public Library lasted 45 minutes. Executive committee members elected Mills as new chair, Ted Boyatt as male vice chair; Ruth Davis as female vice chair; Kenny Rudd as treasurer; and Tammy Harrington as secretary.
Mills said she was honored to be the first female ever elected chair of the Blount County Republican Party and that she would work hard to make Blount County proud. "This is my little piece of history," she said. "I'll be able to tell my grandchildren I was the first female chair of the Blount County Republican Party."
Mills grew up in Eastern North Carolina in a town called Deep Run. She and her husband, Daryl Mills, came to Blount County when his job at Oak Ridge brought him to the area more than 10 years ago. They have a son, Patrick, who is 20.
"I was pleased when several people encouraged me to run for chair, and I've been pleased at the amount of support I've received. People have been very encouraging, and I appreciate it very much," she said.
With Democrats in control on a federal level and the local Democratic party being more active in recent years, Mills said Republicans need to grow the GOP by reaching out to people. "There are a lot of conservatives moving to the area, and we have to give people a reason to support us, and let them know we're inclusive and open to all Republicans," she said. "We're the party of inclusion. We're open to all."
Bennett said Republicans in Blount County can't just assume their candidates will always win just because it is a traditionally Republican-leaning county. "We can not just sit back and say, 'Blount County has always been Republican. Republicans will always be elected.' It's our job to make sure we have qualified candidates that share our values and principles running for local, state and federal office," Bennett said. "When we do that, those candidates are going to be hard to defeat by someone who doesn't share those values."
Mills said the challenge facing the party is practicing the platform of smaller government, lower taxes, being pro-life and pro-family and supporting school choice.
"We need to get our message out on local, state and national level," she said. "We're going to give people a reason to support the party by offering the best candidates."
Mills said Blount County and Tennessee are in very good shape in terms of how Republicans have fared recently. "The rest of the nation is looking at Tennessee to see what we did right," she said. "The Republicans did very well here in Blount County and in Tennessee."
Bennett was term-limited after serving two consecutive two-year terms as chair of the Blount County Republican Party. "It's been a great time to be a Republican in Tennessee and in Blount County," he said.
The former chair said he is excited about the party's new leadership, especially Mills. "She's got sound conservative principles at her core, and she is a very strong woman and will be a terrific leader. This is the first woman to be elected chair in the Blount County Republican party ever. And Susan is not from Blount County," he said. "I think it shows that at the heart of the membership of our party is one of inclusion. We want people to come into the party, whether they're from here all their life or have been here three days. All that is required is you share our conservative values and the values of the Republican Party."
Bennett said the public should see that the Blount County Republican Party can't be called a "good ole boy" club.
"To have Susan, who is someone who didn't grow up here elected chair is proof positive the Blount County Republican Party is not the good ole boy club," he said. "It's the party of inclusion and the party of the people of Blount County."


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MANKATO, Minn. – Local motorists trying to shorten their trip to the new stretch of Hwy 14 near North Mankato are creating unsafe driving conditions on Hwy 14.
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August 31, 2011
On November 1, Denver voters will be asked to decide if businesses in the city should be mandated to provide a specified level of sick and safe time benefits for their employees – be they part-time, full-time or temporary.
Initiative 300 may sound innocuous – as many of you already provide sick time or have a paid time off plan in place, and state statute provides safe time for those impacted by domestic violence – but this measure is troubling and worthy of your serious review.
Here are some key points to take into consideration:
A government-mandated sick leave policy removes the ability of a business to be innovative in meeting the needs of both the company and its employees. If passed, this measure will put in place a one-size-fits-all approach that will be harmful particularly to small businesses, the backbone of our economy, by removing flexibility and adding to their labor costs. In fact, 98 percent of Colorado businesses have fewer than 100 employees.
The devil is always in the details, and this proposal is no different. Companies that provide benefit packages that meet or exceed the proposed 72 hours for businesses with 10 or more employees, or 40 hours for 10 employees or less, would still be required to meet additional record-keeping guidelines and be prepared to produce documents, if the city authority charged with monitoring the program wishes to check compliance. In addition, companies that have multiple business locations throughout the metro area would now have differing rules for their workers in Denver.
It doesn't stop there. If, by chance, you have a business that is outside of Denver, but you have employees who are in the city for a mere40 hours per year, you are required to comply with the law. Imagine the headache – and legal consequences – of implementing more generous leave policies for your employees who do some work in Denver versus those employees working anywhere else in the region, state or country.
We all know that no city is an island, but policies like Initiative 300 – which put one municipality (Denver in this instance) at a disadvantage with its neighbors by creating an unfriendly business climate – are measures the Chamber will not support.We have worked hard to create a regional economic development strategy. Ballot proposals from out-of-state groups, such as this one, hurt those efforts.
To add fuel to the fire, the City of Denver must administer and enforce this program. This requirement may very well be one of the reasons Mayor Hancock opposes this initiative: He's working right now to create a balanced budget for Denver, and this type of initiative only exacerbates his ability to deliver those critical city services during these difficult economic times.
For these reasons, the Denver Metro Chamber has taken a position to oppose Initiative 300 and is working to ensure its defeat. Keep Denver Competitive is the campaign entity established for this important effort. We urge you to go to the website to learn more, request a speaker to come talk to your organization, or contribute to the campaign. We need your help to ensure Denver voters understand the true impact of this proposal.
If you do business in Denver, or are a Denver resident, Keep Denver Competitive would like you to consider taking a brief survey regarding your knowledge on Initiative 300.
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Capt Heaton is a native of Sandy, UT. He entered active duty in 2007 after graduating from Utah State University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering, emphasis in aerospace. Capt Heaton's first assignment was to AFRL's Propulsion Directorate at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. He worked as the Ops Officer for Research Cell 18, a multi-million dollar SCRAM jet engine test facility. In this capacity he organized and assisted in the execution of test plans supporting a wide variety of hypersonic propulsion research programs to include the X-51A Hypersonic Propulsion Demonstrator Program. He also worked to update the DAQ (data acquisition) system of the research cell making real time diagnostics a reality. After 2 years in this capacity, Capt Heaton transitioned to the sister branch in the Aerospace Propulsion Division to be Deputy Branch Chief. In this position he mentored junior division personnel, tracked a $10M per year R&D budget, managed two Small Business Innovative Research programs on hypersonic combustion, and organized countless meetings and briefings for division staff.
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