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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge on Tuesday ordered three U.S.-born children to be reunited with their deported Mexican father, a move toward resolving a 2-year legal fight that has drawn international attention.
Social services officials in rural Alleghany County had sought to terminate the parental rights of Felipe Montes, who crossed the border illegally in 2003 to work on Christmas tree farms near the mountain town of Sparta. Montes later married a U.S. citizen and the couple had three sons.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Montes in 2010 after he was repeatedly ticketed for driving without a license, which he was barred from getting under North Carolina law without a valid Social Security number.
Montes was deported to Mexico and the boys were placed in state custody after social workers determined his wife, Marie Montes, was unable to properly care for them on her own. Marie Montes collects federal disability payments for a mental illness.
The two older boys, now ages 3 and 5, were sent to live with one foster family, while the youngest, a toddler, was placed with another. Those families have since sought to adopt the children.
District Court Judge Michael Duncan's ruling, which came after a week-long hearing, could clear the way for the children to live with their father in El Encino, a small village in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
"I love my kids and I will do whatever I need to do to be with them," Montes, 32, said Tuesday by phone from Sparta. "I grew up without my mother and father. I didn't want my kids to grow up and face the same thing. I didn't want them to say some day I did not fight for them."
Montes was allowed to return to the U.S. temporarily in August on a humanitarian parole so that he could attend court. He has been attending parenting classes in the hope of regaining full custody of his children.
Immigration reform activists call Montes' plight an example of how deported parents are often permanently separated from their American children.
A 2011 report from the Applied Research Center, a New York-based racial justice think tank, found about 5,100 children in 22 states were in foster care after their parents were either detained or deported. The federal government doesn't compile national numbers on such separations.
Though immigration officials say it is not their intent to break up families, there's no uniform policy to ensure parents undergoing deportation can arrange for their children's care.
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Postdoctoral Scholar Appointment Type
Click HERE to see the Postdoctoral Scholar appointment type summary.
Contact the Postdoctoral office if you have questions about Postdoc appointments.
Initiating the Hire
Click on each of the steps below for further details on how to hire a Postdoc Researcher.
Recruiting postdoctoral scholars is the responsibility of the individual faculty member or research group. Before recruiting a postdoctoral fellow, the faculty member who will be providing the training needs to ensure that:
- Sufficient financial support for the PDF is available for the duration of the position. For information on external fellowship opportunities click here.
- There is appropriate research/office space and resources available to complete the training
- The prospective PDF fits within the definition of a PDF as outlined in the University of Calgary postdoctoral policy. Individuals can only be appointed as postdoctoral scholars to the end of their 5th year post-PhD (10 years of post-completion of an MD, DDS, DVM or equivalent)
- The prospective PDF provides the following documentation:
- Official documents indicating that s/he has (or will have) completed all the requirements for a doctoral degree from a recognized university
- Letters of recommendation.
Advertising a Position
If you wish, you may post your postdoctoral position on the Postdoctoral Career Opportunities website by emailing the ad to the postdoctoral administrator at email@example.com. Each posting will remain on the Postdoctoral Career Opportunities website for six months or until notice is received that the position has been filled.
Many societies provide placement services on their web sites or at their annual meetings. These meetings can be effective recruiting tools, particularly when prospective candidates and supervisors can meet.
Negotiating a Verbal Offer
Once you've selected a candidate for a Postdoc position you will first negotiate a verbal offer in preparation for producing a formal offer letter. Prior to negotiating a verbal offer consult the Verbal Offer Checklist. This checklist was designed to help guide your verbal negotiation and to ensure the offer your are making meets both university and funding agency rules and guidelines.
Now that you have negotiated a verbal offer with a prospective Postdoctoral candidate you can
- Send your prospective Postdoc an email that:
- outlines details of the offer, including a short blurb on the research they will be doing and indicating a start and end date of their initial appointment; and
- Includes a link to the Personal Information Request form requesting that the Postdoc to complete and submit the form in order to prepare a formal letter of offer.
Once the offer has been accepted the Postdoc Administrator will process the hire paperwork via the Template-Based Hire form in Human Resources PeopleSoft. The online TBH form will automatically flow to all applicable approvers. Once all approvals are received, the hire is processed by Human Resources and an automatic hire notification is sent to the Postdoc's reporting manager.
For international hires, TBH forms will be submitted prior to receipt of work permit and Social Insurance Number (SIN). Those hires will be pre-approved and sitting in a ready to process status. Once the immigration documentation is received the job will be processed immediately.
Once the Postdoc job has been hired in the system, the Postdoc Administrator will initiate onboarding activities, including notifying the Postdoc, the PI, and the faculty or department onboarding coordinator that the hire has been processed and directing them to initiate their onboarding checklists. These checklists can be used to ensure that your new Postdoc is given an IT account, a university email address, and is set up in other systems required to support their research work, including IRISS registration, and enrolment in any required training.
Onboarding Checklists
Postdoc Onboarding Checklist – This checklist directs the new Postdoc on applying for IT account access, enrolling in IRISS for ethics approval, and completing enrolment forms for Plan C benefits.
Faculty/Department Onboarding Coordinator Checklist – Postdoc Scholar – This checklist directs the departmental onboarding coordinator in all those activities that have to happen at the departmental level including, setting up work space, getting a university ID Card, and ensuring Postdoc is given access to labs and other research space.
Supervisor (PI) Checklist for a Postdoctoral Scholar – This Checklist direct the Principal Investigator on those activities that they are responsible for including, organizing the new Postdocs first day, making introductions, and arranging access required to begin research activities on day one.
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Guy's not sure if this has been posted before, today my depute rector told me he gave the local admin password to a computing teacher "who knows erm ... shall we say flip all about computers" and with his little knowledge he is a pain in the ass.
So i searched the net for hours and came across this freeware tool. When logged on to a machine with the local admin account i installed this tool and re-set the local admin password for every machine in the school that was turned on!
Avian Waves : Tech : Tools : XS BAP < Hope you find this usefull, especialy those who like me tried doing this with login scripts and gpo's.
Which one did you use (that presumably worked nicely)? v1 or the v2 beta?
I used v1 and it work perfectly! Even thought "this is too good to be true" and went to several rooms and got "wrong username or password" when trying to log in with the old account password. works a treat!
If you want to do it with a startup script then this works:
- it will set a 20 character, random password (mix of chars from ASCII 32 to ASCII 126)Code:set oShell=createobject("wscript.shell") sPassword="" for i=1 to 20 sPassword=sPassword & chr(rnd()*96+32) next sCmd="net user administrator " & sPassword oShell.run sCmd
If you actually need to log on as local admin and you still have domain access then from another machine you can reset the password (eg with psexec
or you can just use a password reset disc if the machine has lost domain accessCode:psexec \\computername net user administrator NewSecretPassword
You could extend the script above so that it writes the password it chose to a database somewhere but how often do you actually need local admin access?
I need local admin access quite a bit, still setting up a new school so everyday I log in as local admin at some time.
Thankyou very much one of the things on my todo list was changing all the local passwords was about to write a script todo it :P
Just as a heads-up, you can do this with Group Policy Preferences too. Possibly the most useful thing to come out of Vista/Server 2008 and amusingly it was something Microsoft bought in...
joe90bass (18th December 2008)
ahh thanks for that AngryTech although some of us arn't on server 2008 yet.... although hopefully wont be long although i'll admit the test run i did of 2008 got abit annoyed at allot of bits but thats just me being anti vista
The nicest bit is that you don't need to be running 2008 or Vista on your domain to use GPP.
Once you have the CSE installed on your clients (there is a CSE for XP and 2003, and it deploys through Windows Update/WSUS), all you need is a single Vista or 2008 machine to configure the preferences. I've used it in an entirely 2003-controlled domain by configuring it from my Vista laptop - which isn't joined to the domain.
Yep, found out that GPP issupported on XP on a 2008 AD course I went on recently. I'm actually planning on pushing the CSE out via WSUS tomorrow
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Spansion Inc. (NYSE: CODE), a global leader in embedded systems, today added 96 new products to the Spansion® FM4 Family of flexible microcontrollers (MCUs). Based on the ARM® Cortex®-M4F core, the new MCUs boast a 200 MHz operating frequency and support a diverse set of on-chip peripherals for enhanced human machine interfaces (HMIs) and machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. The rich set of periphera...
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Insiderslab.com has issued insider trading reports and equity research for the following companies: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY), Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX), Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), and America Movil (NYSE:AMX).
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Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC): Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC) announced on November 19 that company President and CEO Paul Otellini will retire in May 2013. During the Interview held on November 19, Andy Bryant, company Chairman of the Board, said that he hoped Paul Otellini could stay one more year as CEO of the company. Insiderslab.com believes that it is a clever way to check if insiders like CEOs, CFOs, and Directors in Intel are starting to buy more company shares. See insider trade report for INTC here.
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Sales Kickoff: A Strategic Approach
Explore key areas to consider as you plan your Sales Kickoff meeting. We'll also share research around best practices in preparation and planning for sales meetings and ideas around motivating salespeople.
Extending a Learning Event: Best Practices for Sales Managers
Discuss the value of extending a learning event and the key attributes of successfully delivering the extended learning.
Register to join our webcast 5 November.
Sales Compensation Plan Designs That Improve Profitability – 3 Case Studies
Discover effective incentive compensation strategies for driving profitable sales. Three case study plans are presented, and best practice design considerations.
Building Sales Manager Bench Strength
This panel features a discussion on how organizations are identifying and developing rosters of high-quality manager candidates, and supporting new manager effectiveness through bench-building programs.
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Operationalizing Sales Force Enablement
This webinar will focus on how organizations can design an enablement services plan to capitalize on the situational fluency of their sales professionals.
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WebcastPreparing the Sales Plan: Best Practice Approaches from High Performing Sales Forces
October 29, 2014
It's planning season for sales organizations – a whirlwind of activity that includes reviewing performance, assessing forecasts, assigning growth targets, building budgets, aligning territories, and allocating quotas. Unfortunately, many sales plans don't produce what the sales organization most needs: insight into what changes are required to meet performance expectation, and to align with company strategy. This webcast details how the best sales plans provide insight and alignment, and offers best practice guidance on sales planning practices from leading sales organizations.
New research from Aberdeen Group shows that the leading goal among today's sales leaders is not merely to sell more product, but to do so profitably. This represents a significant shift from traditional sales initiatives, which focused purely on gross revenue. Join Aberdeen's Peter Ostrow and Ron Baden, Vice President of Services from Host Analytics, in this webinar to learn how the most successful Sales Operations teams leverage big data, predictive analytics, and intelligent forecasting to turn their line of business into…a real business.
Topics addressed include:
- Eliminating inefficient planning and forecasting processes
- Reducing planning cycle times
- Providing an integrated view to key stakeholders, including executive leadership and Finance
- Leveraging technology to improve planning speed and quality
- Applying analytics to generate management insight
WebcastEscaping the Horrors of Sales Compensation
October 29, 2014
There are few things more critical to a company's top and bottom line results than sales compensation. Businesses can't survive without sales, and sales compensation is the primary vehicle to inspire motivation and track and reward sales success.
Yet even as businesses turn to enterprise systems to streamline key processes and achieve better results, when it comes to managing variable compensation, most continue to rely heavily on time-consuming manual-based spreadsheets. Not only is creating and maintaining sales compensation plans time-consuming in spreadsheets, but paying your reps on-time and accurately can be exponentially more stressful.
In this webinar you will learn:
- How to optimize a sales incentive compensation plan, avoiding the pitfalls and navigating the trade-offs.
- How to attain the highest levels of employee motivation.
- How to avoid risky accelerators that can wipe out your profits.
WebcastBuilding a Smart Sales Plan
October 09, 2014
A recent Aberdeen report on sales performance effectiveness reveals that there's a large gap between best-in class firms and the rest of the pack when it comes to meeting quotas. While 84% of the best-in-class companies met quota, only 55% of average and 15% of laggard companies reported hitting their targets. This significant gap underscores the shortcomings in the typical sales planning process. While best in class sales organizations execute flawlessly on their plans, many others struggle to meet their targets, delivering consistently underwhelming results.
So what's going wrong?
Effective sales plans rely on alignment across a wide range of parameters: segmentation strategy, territory and quota assignments, channel management, performance targets, compensation strategies, revenue and expense forecasts, deal execution, etc. This alignment is not an easy task, thanks to the multiple inputs and decision points, from corporate levels all the way down to the account level.
In this webinar, we'll discuss how to effectively integrate full data sets on rep coverage, quota, accounts, product mix, territories, overlays, and channel partners to create data centric plans.
Attend this session and learn from industry experts how to:
- Spot and adapt to sales disruptions such as attrition, churn, and coverage gaps early in your sales cycles
- Combine disparate data streams in real-time to create and operationalize data-driven sales plans
- Improve sales productivity and effectiveness by aligning all the moving parts of your process
- Leverage on-the-ground expertise of your territory managers and collaboratively align top-down and bottoms-up inputs
WebcastHow to Avoid the 5 Most Common Mistakes with Sales Incentive Systems
October 08, 2014
By now, most companies have put in place an Incentive Compensation Management system to automate incentive calculations. Discover the 5 most common things that are holding back these companies from truly realizing the promise of Sales Performance Management systems. From poorly designed dashboards to ineffective use of data, most firms can be doing much more to get a better ROI out of their sales incentive systems - and more importantly get a leg up on their competition.
Topics include:
- Examples of common practices of IBM's most successful clients
- Suggested tactics and strategies for your firm
- Where is SPM going, and how can you be ready for it?
WebcastRefocusing Sales Enablement Investments – On Sales Enablement
October 06, 2014
Sales enablement solutions – even successfully implemented ones – don't always improve salesperson effectiveness. Instead, they improve Marketing's ability to reliably deliver content into the hands of prospects and customers. Along the way, actual selling activity often gets lost.
Today's savvy buyers have heightened expectations of your reps, often giving them just minutes to demonstrate value. Yet nearly 1/3 of enterprise sales reps – even those with extensive market and product training – arrive at sales calls unprepared to apply the information and context needed to drive buying decisions.
So how do firms properly enable that, and successfully apply their investments to actually influence reps' behavior? This webinar helps sales enablement pros move beyond content management processes and share new approaches for knowledge reinforcement and behavior changes that are proven to enhance sales performance.
WebcastCompensating Sales Managers
October 02, 2014
Management spends plenty of effort designing salesperson incentive compensation plans, but the first-line sales manager pay plan is often an afterthought. This webcast reviews essential plan design principles important for first line sales managers; explores common plan design pitfalls; and takes a close look at three commonly-used manager pay plans.
WebcastDriving Sales Profitability through Incentive Compensation
September 25, 2014
Sales organizations must do more than simply grow the top line – they must grow revenue profitably. And most firms empower salespeople with enough decision-making authority to impact profitability. Decisions that involve pricing, product mix, solution development, and customer expense management can all profoundly affect profits as well as sales.
How should sales organizations manage performance across two opposing objectives – growing top line, while managing the bottom line? Incentive compensation represents an essential component of any firm's approach to appropriately directing salespeople to profitably grow revenue. This webcast outlines effective incentive compensation strategies for driving profitable sales.
WebcastSocial Selling: From Cold to Close
September 02, 2014
Social selling - a trendy, yet ill-defined phrase. How many business-to-business salespeople are actually using social media to sell – and how? In this session we introduce a framework for leveraging social media to improve sales productivity, and share examples of sales organizations who have unlocked the power of social for their direct sales force. This presentation address the following questions:
- What is "social selling?"
- How do we move social selling beyond networking to cultivate and expand key relationships?
- How can I improve sales productivity by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of reps' social media skills?
- How can our reps use social to "listen" more effectively to their buyers?
- How do we ensure that our reps online presences aligns to the offline presence we strive for?
WebcastThree Best Practices for Modernizing Lead-to-Money Processes
August 22, 2014
Smart devices, cloud platforms, and mobile applications promise productivity increases for sales organizations. By 2020, 450 billion business transactions will take place on the Internet daily, and already mobile device sales are out-pacing those of PCs. But some sales organizations may find themselves scrambling to keep pace with these changes, while transitioning away from spreadsheet and paper-based processes.
This webcast presents three best-practice approaches for modernizing sales processes essential for converting leads to revenue.
Specific topics addressed include:
- How to shorten the sales cycle through electronic workflows and approval processes
- How technology can help you reduce errors in contract, product selection and pricing
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The most crucial connection in an organization seeking to grow is between sales and strategy. US companies, for example, spend more than 3x on sales efforts than they spend on all media advertising and 20x more than the total spent on digital marketing. Yet, research indicates that, on average, companies deliver only about 50-60% of the financial performance their strategies promise. That's a lot of wasted money and managerial effort.
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Dr. Bruce L. Tetirick Jr has been practicing medicine for 36 years. Dr. Tetirick Jr graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1978. He practices medicine in Cincinnati, OH and 1 other location and specializes in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Dr. Tetirick Jr is affiliated with Bethesda North Hospital and Good Samaritan Hospital. He speaks English and Spanish.
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To begin with, and most importantly, Americans need to know their rights when it comes to interactions with the police, bearing in mind that many law enforcement officials are largely ignorant of the law themselves.
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The release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier this month on disc and download reminds of what a terrific film it is. With some competition from its delightful Marvel Studios sibling, Guardians of the Galaxy, it's the best pop movie of the year.
Forty years in, the war on drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surve...
As a matter of faith, some people believe that God can see and hear everything. But as a matter of fact, the U.S. government now has the kind of surveillance powers formerly attributed only to a supreme being.
This country is being held hostage by a group of monsters masquerading as members of congress and senators from the Republican Party. Nothing is too big to destroy if it is spearheaded by Barack Obama; and that goes double for America.
You've been drafted into the American national security state. That much is evident from Edward Snowden's revelations. Your smartphone? It's a perfect tracking device if the government needs to find you. Your computer? Hackable and trackable. Your server? It's at their service, not yours.
Reviewers are wondering about the film's title, pointing out that the titular 'Winter Soldier' doesn't figure as prominently as the title might suggest. Au contraire. I'll explain what the 'Winter Soldier' of the title really means.
It's one thing to acknowledge, as Obama did from the beginning, that his goal of nuclear abolition was very blue sky, something that would not be accomplished in his lifetime. Frankly, I'd bet that it never happens. That it seems unrealistic does not mean that it is not a righteous goal.
"All of this stuff was classified. Not just classified; it was classified at the highest level. These were the secrets that the government said were most critical to keep. But what kind of democracy would we be if the public had never learned of this information?"
Few people have direct contact with outfits like Booz Allen Hamilton or Lockheed Martin. But every day, Amazon is depending on millions of customers to go online and buy products from its sites. As more people learn about its CIA ties, Amazon could -- and should -- suffer the consequences.
The NSA depends on huge computers that guzzle electricity in the service of the surveillance state. For the NSA's top executives, maintaining a vast flow of juice is essential -- and any interference with that flow is unthinkable. But interference isn't unthinkable. And in fact, it may be doable.
The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon is under contract to keep them. Amazon has a new $600 million "cloud" computing deal with the CIA. The situation is unprecedented.
In a truly free society, the only censorship we really need to worry about is governmental censorship that is bound with legal ramifications. Certainly, the Holy Grail here is the First Amendment.
For journalists, and for the rest of us, silence is not neutrality; it ends up as acceptance of autocratic rule, a present festooned with pretty-sounding names like "anti-terrorism" and "national security."
What if Edward Snowden was made to disappear? No, I'm not suggesting some future CIA rendition effort or a who-killed-Snowden conspiracy theory of a disappearance, but a more ominous kind.
We've called on an old and knowledgeable friend, Colonel Manners (ret.). His assignment: to answer letters from Americans puzzled by the etiquette, manners, and language of the arcane national security world of Washington.
Sometimes, the world sends you back to school. These last months have offered us a crash course in how Washington, enveloped in a penumbra of extreme secrecy, went to work creating a global surveillance state on a scale almost beyond the imagination.
The X-Files, like the conspiracy thrillers of the '70s, worked because there was a general atmosphere of paranoia and mistrust engendered by real-world events. What should be obvious now is that we live in a culture in which a show like The X-Files would flourish once again.
Despite repeated leaks showing the NSA programs routinely violated the privacy of ordinary Americans, including a series of revelations Wednesday that confirmed the practice was even broader than anyone had previously suggested, the White House is sticking to its story.
"Chal" was Chalmers Johnson, who died in November 2010. I've regularly wished that I could just pick up the phone and get his mordant take on the vast global surveillance state Washington is building, another instance of what he called "military Keynesianism" run amok.
The Green Shadow Cabinet calls on President Obama to pardon Bradley Manning for his courageous work exposing U.S. war crimes and State Department deception
The crises just keep on coming for the Obama Administration. Egypt, Syria, Snowden, Russia, Afghanistan, boom boom boom. But the Asia-Pacific Pivot -- from over-engagement with the Islamic world of the Middle East and Central Asia to the rising Asia-Pacific region -- keeps moving forward.
The technology used is state of the art; the impulse, it turns out, is nothing new. For well over a century, what might be called "surveillance blowback" from America's wars has ensured the creation of an ever more massive and omnipresent internal security and surveillance apparatus.
How do Americans feel about the fast-emerging world of which the Snowden revelations -- involving overly busy human analysts who might look at their personal data -- are only a part? Hard to say. After all, few know about it yet.
Treason is a word that dictators love to hurl at dissidents, and when both Cheney and Feinstein bring it back into favor, you know that courageous whistle-blowers like Snowden are not the enemy.
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Apple Leisure Group Signs Deal for First Dreams Resort & Spa in Playa Mujeres
Dreams Playa Mujeres Golf & Spa Resort Expands ALG's Footprint in Mexico as Part of Company's Aggressive Growth Plans
PHILADELPHIA, PA (October 24, 2014) — Apple Leisure Group®'s subsidiary, AMResorts®, is growing its footprint in the popular destination of Playa Mujeres with the announcement of Dreams® Playa Mujeres Golf & Spa Resort. This is the fifth deal closed by the leading hospitality company in 2014, which has grown 20 percent in the past year.
Apple Leisure Group Announces Strategic Development Team Promotions
Team talent leveraged to accelerate ALG's brand awareness and international growth
PHILADELPHIA, PA (Sept. 17, 2014)— Apple Leisure Group (ALG) announced the promotion of Antonio Fungairino to vice president of development, Cristobal Enriquez to vice president of business development and Tammy Stone to marketing manager. In their respective roles, each development team member will help drive the company's footprint expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean, while continuing to boost ALG's brand recognition within the United States.
Apple Leisure Group Announces Key Addition to Executive Team
New Vice President of Development to Drive Company's Aggressive Expansion Plans in Caribbean and Latin America
PHILADELPHIA, PA (July 28, 2014)— Today Apple Leisure Group (ALG) announced the addition of Fernando Fernandez to its executive team as part of the company's growth strategy. As Vice President of Development, Fernandez will focus on increasing AMResorts' brand management footprint in the Caribbean and Latin America by securing partnerships with hotel owners and developers in these high-demand markets.
AMResorts to Open Dreams Sands Cancun Resort & Spa in September 2014
PHILADELPHIA, PA (May 5, 2014) — AMResorts has added to the company footprint in the popular Mexican destination of Cancun with the signing of Dreams Sands Cancun Resort & Spa. This will be the 12th property for the award-winning Dreams Resorts & Spas brand, and marks another chapter in the rapid expansion of AMResorts' portfolio, which has grown by 20 percent in the past year alone.
Apple Leisure Group Enters Panama and Expands its AMResorts Portfolio with Milestone 40th Contract
New Dreams® Resort & Spa development in Panama highlights an exceptional year of growth
PHILADELPHIA, PA (March 3, 2014) — In a milestone move, AMResorts signed its 40th contract this week, paving the way for the hospitality powerhouse's entrance into Panama.
AMResorts Earns Eight Award Wins in U.S. News & World Report's Best Hotels Rankings
PHILADELPHIA, PA (February 14, 2014) — AMResorts was honored with eight 2014 U.S. News & World Report Best Hotels Awards. Properties under AMResorts' Zoëtry Wellness & Spas Resorts, and Secrets and Dreams Resorts & Spas brands were recognized in the following categories:
Apple Leisure Group CEO Honored with 2014 International Star Diamond Achievement Award
Alejandro Zozaya Recognized by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences for Excellence in Hospitality
PHILADELPHIA, PA (February 11, 2014) — CEO of Apple Leisure Group (ALG), Alejandro Zozaya, was recognized by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences (AAHS) with the 2014 Achievement Award during the organization's annual International Star Diamond Awards ceremony.
Secrets Maroma Beach Riviera Cancun Celebrates AAA Five Diamond Award Recognition (2)
PHILADELPHIA, PA (December 19, 2013) — In celebration of their first AAA Five Diamond Award, Secrets Maroma Beach Riviera Cancun hosted an exciting cocktail reception on property. Joining the entire executive committee of Secrets Maroma Beach was AAA Regional Manager Tony Perrone, who personally presented the award plaque to the resort's General Manager Gino Autiero.
Secrets Resorts & Spas Debuts New Property in Los Cabos
AMResorts Ends 2013 with the Opening of its 34th Resort, Secrets Puerto Los Cabos Golf & Spa Resort
PHILADELPHIA, PA (December 16, 2013) — On December 15, AMResorts opened its 34th luxury property: Secrets Puerto Los Cabos Golf & Spa Resort. The newly built, adults-only resort joins three other AMResorts properties in the destination and is Secrets Resorts & Spas' 12th property overall.
AMResorts Breaks Ground on Secrets Playa Mujeres Resort & Spa
Company Will Invest $130 Million in the New 438-Suite Adults-Only Resort
PHILADELPHIA, PA (November 20, 2013) — AMResorts officially broke ground for Secrets Playa Mujeres Resort & Spa, a new adults-only resort. The Unlimited-Luxury® property will be located in the exclusive Playa Mujeres Resort complex, just north of Cancun. The company is investing $130 million USD in the development. Hermes Group, a leading Mexican construction and development group, has been hired for the project.


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Organist nominated for Proud Of Barnsley award
Friday 9th May 2014
THE organist at a Royston Church has been nominated for a Proud of Barnsley award for 50 years of service.
THE organist at a Royston Church has been nominated for a Proud of Barnsley award for 50 years of service.
Peter Arblaster has played every Sunday without fail and will celebrate the milestone achievement in September.
He has been nominated by his friend Joyce Hotchkiss, of Meadow Crescent, Royston, who said he travels to the church every Sunday and has never had a break, except for holidays and illness - he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Peter played the organ at Joyce's wedding 45 years ago and is still going strong.
She said he was also a valued member of the church had was also on the Parochial Church Council.
"He has battled through prostate cancer and other problems but always comes back fighting. He is a lovely man with a lovely family and we are all proud to know him."
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Telephone: 01226 204409www.peoples-sport.com
People's Sport in Barnsley is an exciting new project which aims to tell the story of the many thousands of people who have participated in sport in Barnsley over the years.
The project is focused particularly on Shaw Lane, which has been a centre for amateur sport since its completion in 1864 and has proven a popular venue for cricket, rugby, football, tennis, athletics, squash and several other sports.
The project's aims are to establish a collection of memories and artefacts which can be used to preserve the sporting history of the site.
A website, www.peoples-sport.com, has already been launched and further memories, images and stories will be posted online.
Patrons for the organisation are MPs Dan Jarvis, Michael Dugher and Angela Smith, while Reds footballer Bobby Hassell and retired cricket umpire Dickie Bird are ambassadors.
Co-ordinator Dave Clayton said: "It's an exciting project, and what's particularly amazing is how much we're discovering each week as we delve into the archives.
"There are so many people who have participated in sport in Barnsley and we want to celebrate that and record it in history.
"We're privileged to sponsor the sports team category in the Proud of Barnsley awards. It means that as well as celebrating the great sporting history of this town, we can also honour what is happening in today's generation."
People's Sport in Barnsley has been funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and work in close co-operation with Experience Barnsley.
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CHICAGO (CBS) – Truman College, located on the city's North Side, was evacuated for nearly two hours Monday afternoon after receiving a bomb threat.
The school, located at 1145 W. Wilson Av., was evacuated at about 1:15 p.m., according to a spokesperson for the City Colleges of Chicago.
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Profession of allegiance to Christ and renunciation of the devil as the enemy of Christ, made at baptism by the person being baptized or by the sponsor. It implies the resolution to resist the devil's attempts to seduce the followers of Christ, to live in humility (contrary to Satan's pride), in obedience (contrary to Satan's disobedience), and in holiness (contrary to Satan's total estrangement from God).
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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Hollis man sentenced for murdering wife
Gary Marchand was originally charged with first-degree murder in the beating death of his wife Phyllis, 45, after her body was discovered in the bathtub of the couple's Hollis home in September 2009.
On Monday Marchand pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of second-degree murder at Hillsborough County Superior Court in Nashua and was sentenced to 25 years to life in New Hampshire State Prison. The state reduced the charge and recommended the sentence in return for the guilty plea.
Before sentencing, Judge Diane Nicolosi commented on Marchand's apparent lack of remorse.
"I don't think I have ever taken a plea in a case such as this without some kind of apology to the people who suffered such a great loss," Nicolosi said.
Calling it a brutal murder with a defense that included efforts to tarnish the victim, Nicolosi said she didn't see much in the record that would ever warrant the type of rage shown.
Taking into consideration Marchand's history of depression and the fact that he initially raised an insanity defense, Nicolosi pressed to make sure he understood all aspects of the plea bargain.
"Are you resolved that this is in your best interest?" Nicolosi asked.
After a long pause Marchand said he has not been able to deal with his psychological issues during his 3½-year incarceration and still doesn't understand his feelings. But, Marchand said, he has weighed the issues and all possible outcomes before taking the plea bargain.
Attorney Sarah Newhall said her client understood and was comfortable with his decision.
"I just feel that going through with the trial would be more abuse to me than what I could cope with," Marchand said.
Relatives of Phyllis Marchand, displaying anger and grief, said the sentence was not long enough. Patricia Simpson tearfully described her sister as a kind woman who went out of her way to help others.
"Ever since her brutal murder, the hardest thing is for me to get out of bed every day and face another day," Simpson said.
Younger brother Thomas Simpson said his sister was a small woman with little hope of defending herself against the much larger Marchand. His children lost the opportunity to have their Aunt Phyllis in their lives, Simpson said.
"Her kindness killed her," Simpson said. "We all told her to stay away from him, but she wanted to make sure that everything that needed to be taken care of was taken care of."
Simpson read a statement from his wife, Krista, describing Phyllis as a woman who brought joy to everyone. Calling the murder a devastating loss for the entire family, Simpson wrote that Marchand should never be allowed out of prison.
"It is beyond my comprehension how a person could do this to another person," Simpson wrote.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Janice Rundles said that a 25-year sentence was at the low end of the scale but given the defendant's age she felt it was acceptable. She requested and received a no-contact order preventing Marchand from trying to communicate with any member of the victim's family.
"I think it is clear that we consider this to be a quintessential example of an abusive marriage," Rundles said.
Prosecutors said the victim was an abused wife who returned to the home she shared with Marchand after leaving him to help prepare the property for sale and to assist Marchand with finances, resume writing and other chores.
Had the trial gone forward, prosecutors said they would have presented evidence that on Sept. 25, 2009, Marchand asked a friend for a ride to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center to treat some cuts on his arm. Phyllis Marchand did not live in the home at the time but the friend noticed her car was in the driveway as it was the day before. The friend contacted police after Marchand admitted that he had killed Phyllis three days earlier, Prosecutors said.
Two Hollis police officers found blood and footprints in the kitchen and blood in the hallway leading to the bath where they found Phyllis Marchand's bound, beaten and cut body in the tub covered with a shower curtain. Prosecutors said she died of asphyxiation.
The scene showed signs of a cleanup attempt, prosecutors said.
The state also said it had security photos of Marchand purchasing bleach, surveillance video of him getting cash at an ATM, and a Walmart receipt for a cash box. The box and over $4,000 cash was later turned over to police by the friend who said Marchand gave it to him with instructions to take care of Marchand's mother.
Evidence would show that Marchand's sneakers matched the prints in the kitchen and that the victim's blood was found on men's jeans and sneakers in the house and on a knife in the kitchen, Prosecutors said.
Defense attorneys agreed with the manner of death and that it resulted from Marchand's actions but had a different characterization of the marriage.
"It was apparent early on that the two probably should not have been together," Defense Attorney Caroline Smith in a prepared statement read in court.
The couple unsuccessfully sought counseling, Smith said. After purchasing a larger home finances went downhill and Phyllis began selling items online to help meet the mortgage, Smith said. Stress affected Gary's work performance and he lost his job. After Phyllis left him, Marchand realized that several of his items had been sold. On the day of the murder Marchand was suicidal but projected his despair on his estranged wife, Smith said.
"It became a rage. It became an explosion and it caused her death," Smith said.
While there is no excuse and her client is responsible for what he did, many factors contributed to his actions, Smith said.
Initially Marchand claimed to be insane at the time of the killing but said he would not produce an expert witness as to his insanity. He instead planned to provide testimony from five physicians who provided psychiatric treatment for him prior to the murder.
Marchand's claim that requiring a psychological evaluation by the state's expert violated his right against self-incrimination was upheld by a lower court ruling that requiring the exam was unconstitutional.
In August 2012, a Supreme Court ruling overturned the lower court's decision but stipulated that prosecutors could only use the exam results to rebut the insanity claim, not as proof that he committed the crime.
As part of the plea deal, Marchand will reimburse the Victims Compensation Fund $4,268 for funeral expenses. Money from the confiscated cash box paid a majority of the debt with the remaining $985 coming from Marchand's Fidelity account.
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"This whole upload thing just seems like a significant barrier to wide consumer adoption, because even with broadband it just takes a long time" to upload, said David Pakman, who invests in digital media start-ups for the venture capital firm Venrock, and helped found a similar music service, Myplay, in 1999.
But Amazon forced Google's hand, he said. "If you're faced with another six months of brutal negotiations and your competitor just launched this, you just get in the market and get a lot of users."
Now, Google's Music Beta will store up to 20,000 songs for free, while Amazon's only does 1,000. Apple's apparently got something in the works too, after building a data center that could store users' music in North Carolina. But despite the increasing pace in the technological race for domination of our mode of music "consumption," what has yet to be seen is how many people will start using either Amazon or Google's new toys. The cloud-players don't necessarily affect the population of esoteric vinyl hold-outs out there, nor the grunge-loving cassette-clingers. And can the cloud-players ever really replace the value of lovingly sharpie-scrawled song titles on a mix CD?
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FAIRFAX, Va. — The National Pest Management Association announced the results of its annual board elections. Ray Johnson (Johnson Pest Control, Sevierville, Tenn.) has been elected to serve as President. Laura Simpson (Dugas Pest Control of Baton Rouge, Inc., Baton Rouge, La.) will serve as Vice President. Kevin Pass (Action Pest Control, Evansville, Ind.) will serve as Treasurer and William Tesh (Pest Management Systems, Inc., Greensboro, N.C.) has been elected to serve as Secretary.
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NPMA is delighted to welcome our newly elected Board and Executive Committee," says Rob Lederer, NPMA Executive Vice President. "We are fortunate to have excellent leaders who will work together to encourage high levels of competence, knowledge and performance in the industry.
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Miller also played up using shock rocker Ted Nugent as his campaign treasurer. That gave his candidacy a star power that challenger Tommy Merritt couldn't match.
Miller served in the Texas House for more than a decade before losing his West Texas seat two years ago. Perry made few endorsements this GOP primary season but threw his support behind Miller earlier this month.
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GAO found that: (1) there are several available options for maintaining the 12-carrier force at less cost than projected in the BUR and the Navy Recapitalization Plan; (2) the least expensive option maintains employment levels at or above minimum levels, authorizes building the proposed nuclear carrier in fiscal year 1995, switches to construction of conventionally powered carriers in later years, and would cost 25 percent less than the BUR and Navy Recapitalization Plan options; (3) options to build CVN-76 in fiscal year 1995 would stop the downward trend in employment at about the minimum sustaining employment level of 10,000 employees, require building carriers sooner than they are needed for force structure purposes, and incur expenses sooner than necessary; (4) options to delay building the carrier would result in a continuing decline in employment to about 7,500 employees; (5) in the long term the employment levels in the BUR and the Navy Recapitalization Plan also fall below 10,000 employees; (6) the option to build nuclear carriers at the historical rate of one every 3 years maintains stable employment levels but costs about 40 percent more than the options in the BUR and the Navy Recapitalization Plan; (7) options for using carriers for their full service lives are less expensive than those in the BUR and Navy Recapitalization Plan, but in the near term the employment levels fall below the minimum sustaining level; (8) a transition to constructing conventionally powered carriers would save the largest amount of investment resources; and (9) criteria for comparing nuclear and conventional carriers include affordability, operational effectiveness, potential utilization, availability of homeports and shipyards for maintenance, and supporting infrastructure such as training and disposal of nuclear materials.
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