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May 4, 2015 — By Rachel Quint
As Sarah Lucas wrote in her recent blog post, "April 2015: Five Headlines from a Big Month for the Data Revolution," one of the key "headlines" from April was an event hosted by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) during which the African Data Consensus was adopted. This post highlights the event, and is cross-posted from www.Post2015.org.
The Data Revolution for sustainable development has been a big topic of conversation here at the Hewlett Foundation for months now. And for at least that long, friends and colleagues have been asking me "What exactly is the Data Revolution?" and more importantly, "Who's leading it?" I tried to offer a definition last May, but the truth is that the Data Revolution continues to be a broad, loosely organized group of people working on improve the quality, quantity, and use of data for development. But a more specific vision for the data revolution, grounded in political and technical realities, hasn't really emerged yet.
That might be set to change. At the end of March, a group of African stakeholders got together to define and discuss the Data Revolution, and the outcome was an incredibly clear, concise, and politically viable summary of the purpose and needs of an (African) Data Revolution, titled the Africa Data Consensus. The Consensus was developed as part of an event called "Data Revolution in Africa: Setting the scene for a sustainable development agenda powered by Data Revolution in Africa."
Here are my four main takeaways from the discussion:
1. The Africa Data Consensus is revolutionary in its framing of the Data Revolution for better decision-making and better development outcomes. The purpose of the Data Revolution has been a challenge to articulate, and the Revolution itself a big tent, encompassing a wide range of data issues (the post2015.org data revolution blog series shows the great diversity of opinions about its purpose). The Africa Data Consensus succeeded in defining the data revolution in terms of its main purpose: "a shift in the way that data is harnessed to impact on development decision-making, with a particular emphasis on building a culture of usage." This framing (like the UN's Independent Expert Advisory Group on a Data revolution for Sustainable Development report) emphasizes that a successful data revolution will help development actors use data to make better decisions about development.
2. Demand-driven data is a major priority. In several of the data community discussions, participants emphasized the importance of an interactive data ecosystem. They noted that a wide variety of actors (beyond just government) should be involved at every stage of the process: driving decisions about what data to collect, gathering that data, and using the results. While many emphasized the importance of open data, this principle notes that the type of data that is available should be driven by those who will use it.
3. The role of National Statistical Offices (NSOs) is a complicated and political issue, and there are significant opportunities for development if they can modernize. For most of the so-called "data revolutionaries," especially in civil society, making sure the flow and use of data is open and dynamic is a major priority. However, representatives from NSOs continue to emphasize that NSOs should remain the center of national data system. The Consensus document reflects a careful balance: a call for new data sources and processes while still honoring the centrality and autonomy of NSOs.
Any effort to implement the data revolution at the country level will need to address the role of the NSO while still working to expand the definition of a broader statistical system. One recommendation made at the UNECA event was for countries to review the national legal frameworks to more broadly define the role of NSOs.
4. The Data Revolution should (and can) be led from the Global South. Developing countries stand to gain the most from the data revolution because data gaps are most significant in those countries. The participatory process led by the UNECA and the resulting Consensus Document illustrate that African institutions are already in the lead. Three major indicators of this are:
The development of the Africa Data Consensus represents greater conceptual clarity on the data revolution, as well as a chance for those who would be most affected by a data revolution to lead it. In other words, it's a big deal. Now we need to find out whether other regions will follow Africa's lead.
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November 14, 2014 — By Sarah Lucas and Rachel Quint
This is the second of two posts cross-posted from the Post-2015 Data Test site. -ed.
The preliminary findings of the Post-2015 Data Test, as described in Part 1 of this post, add up to an important action agenda – one with both technical and political ramifications. On the technical side, it is clear that many countries have a long way to go to meet the data needs to measure against the Post-2015 agenda. The missing or weak data inspire an action agenda around a need for increased data coverage, quality, consistency, disaggregation, timeliness, and so on.
On the political side, the lessons across the seven country studies revealed a lot of tricky questions. How can we have common sustainable development goals (SDGs) that are both a rallying cry at the global level, yet meaningful at the country level? If you set and measure against country specific targets to make them more meaningful at home, where is the global accountability? Is there value in having a "global minimum standard" for some goals, if these minimums are long surpassed by the richest countries and out of reach for the poorest? Should we include goals in new and important areas, even if we don't know how we'll measure them? Why aren't ministries of foreign affairs, who are leading negotiations, talking with national statistical offices who manage data? How do you build "demand" for solid data among policy makers and advocates? Who will pay to fill all the data gaps at the country and global level? This is a pretty complicated agenda, being hashed out in abstract through the UN process, and brought vividly to life by the data test country studies.
It's tempting, as one (rather prominent) speaker at the Data Test event suggested, to keep these technical and political agendas separate. Keep the technical side to the statisticians. Limit their job to telling us which goals are measureable, and gathering data when we need it. Leave the political questions to the negotiators, the high-level representatives of the 193 UN member states. Put differently, and very dramatically, by one participant, "our data cannot be more revolutionary than our societal goals."
However, the dichotomy of technical versus political misses an important point — these two parts of the agenda are deeply connected. The reason we have the data we have, and don't have the data we don't have, is all about politics. The politics of who decides what gets measured, who funds data collection in developing countries (hint: most often donors), what populations remain unmeasured and therefore officially invisible (hint: poor, minority, or remote communities). None of this is by accident. As Debapriya Bhattacharya of the Centre for Policy Dialogue in Bangladesh put it at the New York event, it is an "embedded social political relationship." Rather than waiting for our societal goals to get more inclusive before we push our data to be, let's use the gaps in data to inform how our societal goals need to shift!
To keep this dichotomy at bay, we need to proactively build bridges between the technical and the political sides. Who can do this well? We would argue that policy research centers – think tanks – in the global south are particularly well positioned to do this.
Think Tanks, like those involved in the Data Test and in the Southern Voice on Post-MDG International Development Goals network, naturally inhabit the in-between space between the technical and the political, bridging these worlds with research and policy engagement.
In fact, there are at least 5 bridges that southern think tanks can build to make the Post-2015 agenda more compelling at the global level and more meaningful at the country level.
Bridge #1 — Between using data to measure goals and achieve the goals. So far there has been much more focus on the data needed to measure the progress against the SDGs. But what about the data policy makers need to make decisions, target populations, set priorities and allocate budgets toward achieving the goals? Think tanks in many countries play a leading role in translating data into information policy makers can actually use to inform decisions.
Bridge #2 — Between what is currently measurable and what must be measured. In the broiling debates about how many goals we should have, it would be too easy to narrow the list of development goals by just taking off the ones that can't currently be measured. But this would leave us without any of the new and controversial topics like governance, human rights and environment. Rather, negotiators should have the courage to keep in goals that truly matter for development, and commit to finding new ways to measure them. Well-timed research from the domain of think tanks could play an important role in filling this gap.
Bridge #3 — Among government entities in a given country. Almost all the Data Test scholars lamented the poor communication among ministries of foreign affairs, line ministries, and national statistical offices. This creates challenges for setting goals that are meaningful and measurable at the country level, and will wreak havoc on any efforts to actually implement the goals. Think tanks have the power to help here too, simply by convening. Having spent over six years in the U.S. government, one of us can vouch for how different agency officials scramble to get on the same page if they have to appear together on a panel. This may seem like a blunt instrument, but it works!
Bridge #4 — Between the national and global. The bridge between a mobilizing global Post-2015 agenda and targets that are tailored enough to be meaningful at the country level will be hard to build, particularly in the abstract. It will be critical to have people and organizations – beyond official government negotiators – shuttling between the national and global priorities. Southern Voice provides a great platform for country-level think tanks to bring country-level priorities to the global stage, and to bring global-level accountability to national discussions about the Post-2015 agenda.
Bridge #5 — Between civil society and governments. Who will hold national government accountable for negotiating positions that reflect citizens' priorities, and for implementation against the globally-agreed goals? Civil society organizations will play a critical role here. Who will provide the data, research, and analysis, to make civil society's advocacy stronger, and government decision-making more evidence-based? You guessed it – policy research centers.
So, for all the statisticians and political negotiators alike, keep Southern Voice and other think tanks on your radar screen. They can be a critical actor in getting to a set of goals that are both ambitious and achievable, both aspirational and (eventually) measurable, and both agenda-setting and implementable!
November 14, 2014 — By Rachel Quint and Sarah Lucas
This is the first of two posts cross-posted from the Post-2015 Data Test site. -ed.
On October 14 in New York City, across the street from the hallowed halls of the United Nations, a group of scholars from Bangladesh, Canada, Peru, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Tanzania, and Turkey, came together to talk about data. Under the auspices of the Post-2015 Data Test, these scholars have spent the last year trying to answer one question — "How well prepared are these countries to measure progress on the Post-2015 development goals and targets?"
The Post-2015 Data Test - an initiative through which seven country teams are assessing the quality and availability of country-level data to measure progress on proposed post-2015 goals – held events in New York and Washington, D.C. to share the initial results from their work and to discuss implications for the Data Revolution and post-2015. Hosted by the UN Foundation in New York and the Center for Global Development in Washington D.C., the events brought together a wide range of stakeholders, including country team members, representatives from UN missions and agencies, civil society organizations, the private sector and the UN Secretary General's Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution.
Here are four interesting (but not all-encompassing) takeaways from the New York event:
1. Countries have a long way to go to meet the technical data needs. While on average the data availability and quality are best (but still not great in most countries) in closely-watched areas like poverty, education, growth and employment, they are much worse in areas that weren't in the Millennium Development Goals but are under negotiation for the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – governance, human rights, environment. They are worse yet when trying to understand the experiences of specific segments of the population in a given country – like women, ethnic minorities, geographical locations – rather than national experience as a whole. This inspires an action agenda around increased data coverage, quality, consistency, disaggregation, timeliness, and so on. This is part of what people talk about when they say we need a "data revolution."
2. A combination of global and local targets and indicators would be (very) complicated, but could work. The Post-2015 Data Test included a set of global targets for seven goal areas – poverty, education, employment and inclusive growth, energy and infrastructure, environment, governance, and global partnership – that all teams examined in their studies. Teams were also asked to select country-specific targets and indicators that resonated with country priorities. Once country teams selected their subset of metrics, they then investigated the availability of data for both the 'global' and 'national' level targets and indicators. Teams expressed enthusiasm for this global-local framing (and Special Advisor of the Secretary-General for Post-2015 Development Planning, Amina Mohammed cited this enthusiasm as "good news"), but the experience also revealed a lot of tricky questions about how we can have common goals that are both a rallying cry at the global level, yet meaningful at the country level.
3. A post-2015 architecture will need to take into account political incentives. In order for the post-2015 architecture to work, countries need resources to help achieve the goals they commit to, technical support to meet data requirements to measure progress, and a creative political design that creates incentives for accountability. Countries have to make bold post-2015 commitments at home and on the global stage, some of which they don't currently have the resources or capacity to meet. Debapriya Bhattacharya, one of the leads on the Data Test, described the three reasons why countries might take this risk. The first is the hope of predicable, additional funds to help them solve country-level challenges. The second is the potential for partnership to solve problems that no one country can solve alone, such as climate change. And the third is the chance to push for agreement by other countries to address issues over which developing countries have little control, such as limiting international financial shocks. Will these existing incentives be sufficient to keep countries "on-the-hook" for post-2015 commitments? Or will new incentives need to be built in to the post-2015 architecture?
4. Intra-governmental dynamics will significantly impact goal-setting and implementation. Observers of the Post-2015 process focus a lot on dynamics between country governments. But what about what happens withinthem? When discussing both the negotiation and implementation stages of the Post-2015 agenda, national representatives spoke about lack of coordination within governments to be a major challenge. For example, ministries of foreign affairs, who are leading negotiations, rarely talk with line ministries who have substantive leadership in many areas covered by the goals, or with national statistical offices who manage data necessary to measure them. Lack of communication between ministries and mismatched priorities between federal and local governments was cited as one of the barriers to designing a post-2015 architecture, and to implement the SDGs.
So, how can the global community address these issues in the next year as the Post-2015 agenda takes shape? In Part 2 of this blog, we outline the role that Southern think tanks can play in this.
June 5, 2014 — By Rachel Quint
Do countries have the data they need to measure progress against the proposed post-2015 development goals and targets? As Kristen Stelljes described in her recent blog post, a Post-2015 Data Test is underway to answer that very question in real time. Through this project, local think tanks and research institutions in countries across the world are investigating what data is available to measure proposed post-2015 targets. Check out the latest updates from Turkey, Bangladesh, Tanzania, and Senegal, and a blog update from Sierra Leone on strengthening data and statistics at the national level.
May 22, 2014 — By Rachel Quint
Meredy Talbot-Zorn of Save the Children, a Global Development and Population Program grantee, recently wrote about the learning crisis, and how the post-2015 development agenda can galvanize a commitment to ensuring access to education.
Writing at the Global Partnership For Education's blog, she argues that the post-2015 framework needs to finish the work started with the Millenium Development and Educations for All Goals fifteen years ago:
It must be bold, inspiring and ambitious, galvanizing the international community to take focused and coordinated action to get all children in school and learning, across all contexts, including in conflict and emergencies. The aim must be to ensure that every single child has the opportunity to thrive and reach their full potential in life.
It must be bold, inspiring and ambitious, galvanizing the international community to take focused and coordinated action to get all children in school and learning, across all contexts, including in conflict and emergencies. The aim must be to ensure that every single child has the opportunity to thrive and reach their full potential in life.
May 15, 2014 — By Rachel Quint
In her first Friday Note for the blog last fall, Ruth Levine wrote about the emerging data revolution. She described a "cacophony of voices, each with valid but distinct perspectives on the aims and methods of generating better data for development policy." Since then, these voices have only grown louder, and a healthy (yet often disorganized) debate continues. Like the political revolutions of recent years, much of the conversation about the data revolution has taken place on social media. Across the blogosphere, brave development specialists have provided suggestions, ideas, and warnings about the direction this revolution is headed.
The enthusiasm surrounding the data revolution is a testament to the need for a new approach to data. A successful revolution would mean more and better data about what is happening in developing countries and greater availability of that data. This could allow citizens to hold governments accountable for delivering on development promises.
What are these revolutionaries trying to achieve? The online conversations point to three main data challenges:
(1) Addressing data gaps—collecting more data (increasing the quantity of data) targeted for specific purposes, including the use of non-traditional data collection methods
Some, who view the data revolution as an element of the post-2015 development agenda, are recommending a large-scale survey to monitor countries' progress against the to-be-identified post-2015 framework goals, targets, and indicators. A large-scale data collection process would create comparable, nationally representative data for the indicators with enough detail in data collection to permit disaggregation by gender, and even geography, income, or disability. There are also calls to utilize technology to collect more data at a lower cost, including collection of big data (using methods that utilize secondary data, such as cell phone records or internet use, or crowdsourcing methods, such as SMS surveys).
(2) Improving data quality—recognizing chronic shortcomings in developing countries' data systems; improving data quality and the processes for collecting it
Improving data quality would come mainly through capacity support to national statistics offices, which are the institutions that collect the largest quantity of human development indicators. This could take the form of increased funding for national statistic offices and domestic civil societies who are already collecting data, but require capacity support, or greater support for the collection of civil registration and vital statistics (such as birth and death records).
(3) Optimizing and expanding use of data—ensuring that data is effectively used by those within and outside the official statistics infrastructure
Building on the momentum created by the Open Data Charter, which declares that government data is a public good, many are focused on access to data. They are also highlighting the role that data should play in government accountability, including providing financial and revenue data to citizens to curb corruption and increase the responsiveness to citizens' needs.
Who will lead the Revolution? The final piece of the puzzle is the design of a Global Partnership across institutions, countries, and civil society to support a successful Data Revolution. Molly Elgin-Cossart, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and one of the HLP report authors, has provided some excellent commentary on the potential structure and purpose of the Partnership. Elgin-Cossart suggests that the Partnership could take one of several structures, including: a single agency with a broad representative board; a network of partners supported by a small but nimble support team; a hub of thematic partnerships that focus on generating data for their specific subject-matter (e.g., education, food security); or a loose network united by common principles and objectives.
Adopting any of these formats for building a data revolution will be a considerable challenge. Clarity around the need for change, and even agreement about ultimate aims are no guarantee of success. But no one ever said that revolutionary change was easy.


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William Truly was ousted Tuesday as Canton mayor.
Arnel Bolden defeated incumbent Truly in the Democratic primary runoff. With all seven precincts reporting, Bolden had 1,568 votes to Truly's 987.
Bolden will move on to face Republican Chip Matthews in the June 4 general election.
In the Ward 5 Board of Aldermen race, Reuben Myers defeated fellow Democrat Toby Lacey. Myers had 177 votes to Lacey's 150.
In the Ward 7 alderman race, Democrat Andrew Grant had 266 votes to defeat Cobby Williams, who had 189 votes.

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The Rumble at the Reef featured exciting action with a show that mainly featured local fighters and several fighters from Canada who put on a great show to a sell out crowd!
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The fight was very close going into the final round when Walton stuck his face out and dared Pembroke to hit him. Well Pembroke hit him with no effect so Walton dared him to hit him again! Pembroke did but this time Walton was knocked out cold! A crazy finish to a crazy fight!
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The Rage at the Cage returned to a great crowd and a great night of fights! In the Main Event hometown favorite Taylor Parker won in dramatic fashion in the first round by submission over Stephan Taylor. The crowd was on their feet for several minutes after the fight cheering the very popular fighter.
The co-main event between Eric Ramsey and the rugged Mo Abed looked like a well matched fight and by all means it should of been a back and forth style of fight. However, Eric Ramsey did not care for any that and after a close and entertaining few moments of round 1 he caught Abed with a few hard shots and hurt him and then finished Abed off with a devastating KO in round 1 that also had the crowd on its feet.
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There was a time when Seven Feathers hosted boxing shows on a regular basis but it had been 3 years since the last boxing show. During that time the Casino held some very successful MMA events but decided to turn back the clock and see how boxing would do ? Well it was a great success and the Casino has already scheduled the next show for March 16, 2013.
Many experts thought the main event featuring Kevin Hand 3-2-0, 3 KO against top prospect Mike Gavronski 9-0-1, 7 KO would be a lopsided fight with Gavronski winning by KO. ...how wrong they were. This was a very entertaining and well fought super middleweight fight that saw Gavronski use his speed early in the fight to jump out to an early lead. However by the 4th round of this 6th round fight Hand was landing big punches and controlling the fight. He easily won the last 2 rounds with Gavronski fighting in spurts as he tired. Gavronski would win by decision but many thought Hand won the fight or at the very least it should of been a draw.
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Pechanga Resort Casino is always a great place for live boxing and on September 8, it was more of the same.....a great crowd and great fights! Ringside Ticket Inc and Oscar De Le Hoya's Golden Boy Promotions teamed up again to present Telefutura Solo Boxeo!
Ivan Morales, 18-0-0, 12 KO and the brother of the legendary Erik Morales, made his debut in the United States against tough veteran Luis Maldanado
38-9-1, 29 KO in the main event. We all know how this goes the top prospect easily defeats the old rugged veteran fighter ....right ? Not this time! Maldonado came out throwing punches from round 1 and through out the fight. He backed up the more calculated Morales throughout the fight. Morales tried to counter punch but it seemed he did not do it very effectively and not enough. By time the 10th round came it seemed like an upset was in the works but after an accidental head butt stopped the fight and the fight went to the score cards Morales was the winner by decision to the surprise of many.
Nevertheless it was an exciting fight and for the 20 year old Morales a great learning experience.
The best fight of the night may have been the opener between journeyman Juan Sandavol against the talented Aaron Acevado. This fight featured great back and forth action with the fight tested Sandavol getting the better of it on his way to a 4 round win by decision. the crowd was on their feet at the end of the fight cheering on the two fighters.
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WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. - The University of the Cumberlands (UC) Softball program will be teaming up with South Laurel High School in London, Kentucky to host their softball camp on Monday September 1st. This camp will focus on improving specific aspects of the players' development and is designed for athletes that have high school and collegiate aspirations.
The camp will be held for athletes in 4th grade through 12th grade. Camp activities will begin at 9 am and will run through 4 pm on that Monday. The cost is $50 with a UC t-shirt and lunch being provided to all campers. All campers are expected to bring their own equipment including glove, cleats, and proper workout attire including pants, tennis shoes, batting gloves, and catchers equipment (if applicable). This camp will be held at South Laurel High School's softball field and facilities.
The campers will be working with the staff of the University of the Cumberlands including Head Coach Angie Dean and Assistant Coach Kenly Lambert. The staff of South Laurel will also be instructing including Head Coach James Burns and Assistant Coaches Kenneth Fisher and James Finley. Emily Gaines, the 2010 Gatorade High School Player of the Year and 2010 KY Miss Softball, will also be a guest instructor throughout the day.
You can find the information and sign up form for the camp online at http://www.cumberlandspatriots.com/stats/2014-15/Softball/2014%20UC%20Softball%20Camp%20info.pdf.
For more information on the Patriot Softball program along with other Patriot athletics, please visit www.cumberlandspatriots.com.


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Germany's Minister for Research gives strong commitment to agribiotech
Berlin – Germany's Minister for Research Annette Schavan has clarified that agribiotechnology will be part of Germany's €2.4bn bioeconomy funding programme, which will be spread over the coming six years. "I am convinced that global nutrition can't be guaranteed without the help of agri-biotechnology," Schavan told the news magazine Der Spiegel. The statement came after Germany's Federal Constitutional Court last week confirmed the strict rules in Germany's Genetic Engineering Act. According to the act, GMO farmers must pay compensation to non-GMO farmers in cases of economic damage caused by GMO acreage. Additionally, they must publish the locations of all fields planted with GM crops in a registry accessible to all citizens. Also last week, representatives from the chemical industry called for the implementation of more supportive conditions for GMO acreage in Germany, arguing that agri-biotechnology is needed to satisfy demand for plant feeds for the bio-based production of fuels and chemical products. Schavan also criticised European Commission plans to allow national bans of GMO acreage.


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WASHINGTON — Student Veterans of America angrily blasted military plans to suspend tuition assistance programs, calling it a shortsighted move that will hurt troops and veterans for years to come.
"It is utterly unacceptable that the first casualties of Congress' inability to act are education benefits for servicemembers," Michael Dakduk, executive director of SVA, said in a statement. "The decisions of the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Army set a dangerous precedent that educating our nation's servicemembers and veterans is an expendable option.
"This is not, and should never be, the case."
Officials from the Army and Marine Corps this week announced they would end new enrollments to the tuition assistance program because of fiscal constraints and budget cuts mandated by sequestration.
Dakduk said he understood the fiscal realities facing the military, but said the programs are invaluable to keeping student servicemembers out of debt and preparing them for post-military careers.
The Air Force and Navy are also considering cuts to their education assistance programs.
UPDATE: The VFW isn't happy about the moves either. From their blog post this afternoon:
Military TA is a professional development tool designed to improve the quality of military leaders through higher education. ...Instead of the military offering resources to develop leaders, they are now asking service members to reach into their own pockets or use personal benefits to make the military better.


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Deputy Head of Business Development
- Recruiter
- Shelter
- Location
- London EC1
- Salary
- £37,509 pa
- Posted
- 04 Feb 2013
- Closes
- 18 Feb 2013
- Business Type
- In-house / Client-side
- Specialism
- Digital, Sales & Business Development
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Closing date: 18 February 2013
Shelter is looking for a commercially aware Deputy Head of Business Development with an impressive corporate fundraising background to join us in this new role.
Over the past year, we've been busy developing a fundraising strategy for the five years ahead. We have attracted considerable interest from corporate partners and have been successful in building long-term partnerships with British Gas, Fujitsu, Nationwide and KPMG. As a result, we've increased investment in our fundraising division and are expanding the Corporate Partnerships team to make sure we offer excellent support to and make the most of these partnerships. With the creation of these roles, our aim is simple – to work together with our partners to help more people. We are looking for energetic individuals who share our passion and vision to make this a reality.
Benefits include 30 days annual leave, flexible working and significant opportunities for learning and development.
Your key responsibilities:
- Securing strategic long term corporate partnerships
- Working with the Head of Business Development to assess synergies and the commercial advantage of organisations aligning with Shelter
- Proactively networking, sourcing senior contacts and identifying income opportunities
- Working cross-divisionally with research, policy and service colleagues to optimise our portfolio
- Developing and presenting creative propositions to a wide range of audiences
And what you'll need:
- Significant corporate fundraising/commercial sales and marketing experience
- A proven track record of negotiating at a high income level
- Experience of building a pipeline of income generating opportunities
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- A demonstrable ability to plan multi-year partnerships and cross-team projects
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St. Martha's Food Pantry
The St. Martha's Food pantry supplies emergency food to as many as 812 families each week. What makes this facility so special is that people are able to make their own selections of food choices, just like in the grocery store. When available, guests are given a choice of canned vegetables and can choose their favorite kind, or perhaps beef stew instead of spaghetti and meatballs. Choice is significant -- it raises the level of respect and dignity for an individual receiving food. The pantry is open on Wednesdays starting at 9:30 a.m. There is an indoor waiting area and guests are called by number to shop in the new facility.
St. Martha's Food Pantry Distribution
242 Hampshire Street (Formerly the Lebanese Social Club)
Lawrence, MA
Wednesdays 9:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
(978) 332-5013
During the week, bagged meals are given out at the Lazarus House Emergency Shelter in the evening for those who may have to work during the pantry hours, but still do not have enough money to buy meals.
Lazarus House Emergency Shelter Bagged Meal Distribution
48 Holly Street
Lawrence, MA
Daily, 7 days a week 9:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
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Small Is Dandy...Up To A Point
Handheld computers will do in a pinch, but Tolstoy would toss his
No doubt about it, the world is getting smaller. Consider that the article you're reading was written on a handheld computer small enough to fit inside a suit-jacket pocket. Just a gimmick? Not entirely: My deadline was looming, the laptop was back at home, and my only recourse on a recent flight was to start writing with the tool at hand: a Hewlett-Packard 360LX.
I found that getting started on handhelds is pretty simple. Microsoft Corp.'s stripped-down Windows CE operating system for so-called palmtops -- shipping now on devices made by HP as well as by Compaq, Sharp, Philips, and others -- looks like the familiar desktop Windows. Basic software is available in the form of "pocket" versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
There's a price to pay for convenience, however. It was difficult to type on the HP's cramped keyboard, a problem that makes it tough to write anything much longer than a brief memo on virtually all handhelds. Apple Computer Inc.'s solution for its Message Pad 2100 is to offer a detachable keyboard, which adds $70 to the list price of around $1,000. Of course, a bulky add-on compromises the convenience of a handheld.
So far, simpler is better in the lilliputian world. The best all-around device for executives on the go is 3Com's PalmPilot, which hits the sweet spot on affordability and convenience. For $249 to $369, you get basic organizer capabilities and 1 MB of memory in a 5.7-ounce device that fits easily in a shirt pocket. It also has the nifty feature of synchronizing information with a desktop at the touch of a button. "Talk about a device that works absolutely as advertised," says Michael K. Powell, the new FCC commissioner and an avid PalmPilot user. 3Com Corp.'s Palm Computing is adding features, such as a slick $169 device that turns any PalmPilot into a wireless pager. Just replace the small plastic serial-port cover on the back with a slightly thicker piece of plastic containing a pager's electronics.
Franklin shrinks that package even smaller with its promising Rex -- a credit-card-size device with a small screen that costs $129. The Rex plugs into the PCMCIA slot on a laptop computer, or into a $40 adapter for desktops, and lets you download your schedule and address lists for travel. "It fits next to my business card in my pocket," says Leon Navickas, CEO of Centra Software Inc.
The growing popularity of palmtops for fetching and sending E-mail on the go is spawning larger screens that will hit the market in the next few months. The Psion Series 5 sports a 6.7-inch screen and keys that look more like those on a laptop, though still considerably smaller. Geofox-One, due in December, pushes the screen slightly larger, to 6.8 inches, and adds a touchpad mouse controller to the keyboard.
Expect handheld screens to be jazzed up with color for the Christmas season. The new version of Windows CE supports color, and both Sharp and HP aim to have products using it by Christmas. But I'd suggest passing on these devices, at least for now. They add some $200 to the cost of handhelds and can dramatically cut battery life by up to one-third. Also, most business travelers don't use palmtops for color-critical tasks, like Web surfing. They want a calendar, address book, to-do list, E-mail, and a way to download files from their office PC while on the road.
With this season's added power and features, you can't beat these gizmos for E-mail and for toting contacts and files to review. But the one thing that doesn't get any smaller is the human fingertip. Until someone figures a way around that, handhelds will force users to keep it brief.
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A leaked copy of of President Obama's State of the Union address has revealed plans to declare the United States a socialist nation allied with Fidel Castro's Cuba.
The top-secret document outlines Obama's four-year plan to radically transform the country into a 'post-capitalist superpower' guided by the principles of Karl Marx, Saul Alinsky, and Hugo Chavez.
The plan begins with a series of executive orders banning firearms, outlawing Christianity, and putting a $150,000 cap on all private sector salaries.
It then proceeds to a complete overhaul of the tax code, which eliminates taxes on the poor and raises taxes on the rich to 80% of gross income.
The administration will also increase welfare payments to African-Americans by 350% and nix Social Security payments for whites.
Viva Obama
Although the United States has moved to the left in recent years - passing a universal health care law and allowing gays to serve in the military - some see a complete socialist revolution as a step too far.
But according to Obama's inner circle, there is a precedent for such a sweeping transformation.
"The example of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela shows us that socialism can work on a grand scale," the speech reads,"We no longer have to look to the failed experiment of the Soviet Union. Socialism is a 21st system that works."
"In Venezuela you don't have to work for a living. You can stay at home and have the government pay for everything. Doesn't that sound nice? Whycan't we have that kind of luxury in America?
"Rich people have so much money. Why can't they share so the rest of us can have free iPads and free gasoline for our cars?"
It is unclear if Obama has always been an hard-line socialist, or if he has had a recent change of heart. But reading the speech, it is clear his loyalties now like firmly in the Marxist-Leninist camp.
In the text, Obama also says he will unilaterally end the embargo of Casto's regime and will refuse to enforce all immigration laws - allowing anyone from anywhere in the world to settle in the United States.
He will also eliminate college tuition, forgive all outstanding student loan debt, and ban the practice of home schooling - forcing conservatives to be indoctrinated with liberal concepts such as human evolution and gravity.
Many liberals are disturbed by the extreme nature of the plan, but are perhaps most concerned by the fact that conservative paranoia about his intentions appears to have been justified.
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UPDATE: Suicidal man brings traffic in South Arlington to absolute standstill
I posted a blog here Saturday — primarily because I was personally affected by the event, too — about a man who tied up traffic for hours on two south Arlington highways while threatening to jump from an overpass.
You can click here to read the original post.
I wanted to pass on some pertinent information — the man was eventually arrested by police — but so many of you wanted to let the world know how upset you were with the would-be jumper, and how selfish you thought he was by holding you up from your appointed rounds. Sure, there were a few people sympathetic to the man's fate, but the vast majority of those who commented had no love for him.
We're not here to pass judgment either way. I'm just wondering what is the mindset of some folks who truly would rather see another human being die than be late to the hairdresser?
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Total Can't Get Enough of a Bad Investment
Stay with us here. This deal is a tad circular. SunPower today said it is buying solar-panel company Tenesol from Total, the French oil giant.
Total essentially is using the $165.4 million it is reaping from the Tenesol sale to buy…shares in SunPower at a 50% premium to Thursday's closing share price.
The stock purchase boosts Total's stake in SunPower to 66%. The French company in April agreed to acquire a controlling 60% stake in SunPower for $1.37 billion, and Total also agreed to extend the company $1 billion in credit.
The investment in SunPower has been a loser so far for Total. SunPower's stock price has shriveled by about two-thirds since Total bought into the solar-panel maker in April. Total just can't get enough of a bad thing, it seems.


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FDNY legend James Ellson has lost his long battle with cancer.
His wake is scheduled from 2:00pm-5:00pm and 7:00pm-9:00pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 and Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at Fredericks Funeral Home in Flushing.
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lol at the brits trying to make them selves feel better, I know you guys need something to look forward to after seeing your country get run over and your public servicees ruined by SCUM (like wazza, he wants to be british so him and his family dont get deported back to Pakistan).
Lol at everyone listing David Haye who is the biggest coward on earth, you guys have nothing and never will because U.K turned out to be a Leftist Liberal PANSY P.C State with big brother watching down on everyone and you cant do anything anymore while you watch your country being ruined by all the immigrants, the only thing britain has going for it in boxing is
1) Carl Frotch
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AK is a marathon runner with no chin who is an accident waiting to happen (dont worry they will never mach him up against someone like Maidana, it was too close and he got LUCKY running to a decision, Hmm so AK = No power, No Chin = GOOD COMBO the only reason he is populat is because hes a **** if he was white boy he would be hated on in UK but all the brownies like bcfc and wazaa are riding his cox because outside of cricket they dont know any other brown boxers they can slobber their precum on)
David Haye = hahahaha what a JOKE, in the USA im sure people would tell this guy the truth but in jolly good england where you cant hurt other peoples feelings because the immigrants might be offended or you might offend someone everyone also rides this coward pansy's cox, this "wanker" is going to get KTFO if they ever put him in against anyone who's not a cab driver.
The only decent things to happen to uk was
1) Joe Cal
2) Ricky Hattton
3) Lennox Lewis
4) all the scum going illegally under lorry's to UK/EU instead of ruining my nice country. Dont worry you guys will still pay them big cash while you watch them laugh in your countries face while working illegally and using up your public services while not learning the culture/language and crying about their "religious beliefs"
Yea UK, you guys are the best!
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yeah they are!... the birthplace of dental carries.
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It is actually a documented FACT that over 75% of people born outside of Great Britain wish they were English. And the country with the highest percentage?
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I thought they changed the name to North Pakistan?
How are those Muslim courts going for you guys?
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Overall I think the Brits did outstanding this past year, people can't hate on them (except maybe for Haye for that questionable last fight). What's good for British boxing is good for boxing in general.
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But seriously, bro, who really wants to be English? I sure as hell don't and would say that most people would agree. Next time they do a survey like that, they should make sure to look for people to question besides the ones waiting outside a British embassy.
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Idk where u got those facts from but i like our dental care way too much to **** around in britain..
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A Zombie-Slaying Actor Plays It Tough
When zombies are chopped, maimed and decapitated on the TV drama "The Walking Dead," there's often a crossbow-wielding New Yorker behind the carnage.
Norman Reedus, 43 years old, plays Daryl Dixon, a character frequently at odds with the band of survivors that AMC's hit show follows through a zombie apocalypse. His character is angry — someone who "just flipped over tables," as Reedus sees it — and finds humans as untrustworthy as the zombies.
Speaking in Café Roma near his Chinatown apartment ahead of the show's Sunday return, Reedus said his love of tough guy roles comes from his hard-as-nails mother, a former resident of Hell's Kitchen who now teaches in Kurdistan.
"My mom taught high school in the Bronx," he said. "She taught kindergarten in Harlem. So when this job came up in Kurdistan, she was like, 'I can handle Kurdistan.'"
Reedus's acting career bloomed late, beginning in 1997 with "Mimic." His obsession with acting, and with New York, came via celluloid.
"The first film I saw where it seemed like an art form — the editing worked, the music worked, the acting, the directing, the locations, the extras, it all came together as a film — was 'Midnight Cowboy,'" he said. "I was just fascinated with film after that."
After moving to New York 14 years ago with his then-girlfriend, the model Helena Christensen, he immersed himself in the local arts scene and set up a production company, Big Bald Head, to shoot short films.
Reedus also helped establish Collective Hardware, a five-floor arts space on the Bowery, which closed in 2010. "We had edit bays in there, we had a full-floor gallery, we had a special effects company called Ill Willed that were making giant saber-toothed tigers for the Discovery Channel," he recalled. "We had all the ingredients for make amazing art there."
The dark themes of his zombie-survivor role on "The Walking Dead" fit with his non-acting interests. He recently showed his photographs of roadkill and taxidermy, taken during breaks in filming the series, at the Wired store in Times Square.
Reedus said he tries to disconnect from the entertainment world when he's off the job. "When I come here, I'm with my son — I'm just daddy when I'm in New York," he said. "I know maybe two actors in all of New York … I know Willem Dafoe."
That association comes from their roles in the 1999 crime-drama "The Boondock Saints," which turned Reedus into a cult icon and helped him land his current TV gig.
"I knew as soon as Norman did his audition, it was immediately clear that he was the guy," said Robert Kirkman, executive producer on "The Walking Dead" and writer of the original comic book on which the show is based. "I know that he was a huge get because of his status in the fan community."
Reedus's newer status as a fan favorite on the zombie show — he claims to have 30 fan-made dolls of his Daryl character stashed in his Chinatown abode — has put his retreat from the limelight under mild threat.
He recalled being recognized recently while taking a cab from JFK Airport. "As soon as I get in the car, the guy's like, 'Man, that's messed up what happened to Sophia in that barn,'" Reedus said, referring to a grisly scene from the show's mid-season finale last year.
Another side of being famous for a TV show co-starring a cast of blood-thirsty corpses: Reedus is aware that his days are likely be numbered.
"I like that people are so into this," he mused. "But it is a zombie show. We never know who could get bitten."


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There's lots to do outside of Comic-Con
Need a break from the madness? Here's how to experience the area
From celebrity-spotting in Hall H to swag-hunting in the exhibition hall, most of Comic-Con occurs indoors.
But the Con occurs in midsummer, on the fringe of the Gaslamp Quarter, in a city fabled for blue skies and waters.
Why not embark on a Con-quest of outer spaces?
By foot
Slip on walking shoes and smear on sunscreen. An easy stroll from the convention center, a world awaits.
Superheroic people-watching: Grab an outdoor table at the Tin Fish (170 Sixth Ave.) if you're drinking and dining on a budget, or Lou & Mickey's (224 Fifth Ave.) if you're not. Both restaurants are opposite the convention center's main entrance, crossroads of the Con's costumed universe.
Diamond prospecting: The Padres are on the road, but Petco Park (100 Park Blvd.) is still performing. Morning and afternoon tours allow fans to enter the bullpen, roam the warning track, sit in a dugout and check the view from the press box. Tickets range from $7 to $11; order in advance from (619) 795-5011 or
Lost world: Downtown's Chinatown has mostly vanished, but the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum (404 Third Ave.) testifies to its former glories. Ancient relics, woodblock prints, calligraphy, a warlord's bed, a bridal gown — they're all here. And on a warm afternoon, linger in the shady Asian garden.
Cast a spell: The New Children's Museum (200 W. Island Ave.) is a nifty place to entertain your children or your own inner child. Art here is meant to be touched, pushed, clambered over. Still have energy to burn? The park on the museum's doorstep includes a shaded climbing structure.
Inspiration at your feet: The Martin Luther King Jr. Promenade is a broad, palm-lined walkway along the trolley tracks that border Harbor Drive. Every 50 yards or so, the path is marked by plaques engraved with the civil rights leader's reflections on history, freedom, life and other eternal truths.
By pedicab
Fares vary on these bicycle-powered rickshaws, but a trip into the Gaslamp or downtown should cost around $10 to $15 per passenger. Not all drivers speak fluent English; carry a map of downtown to indicate your destination.
Old Southwest: Enjoy timeless fare — a steak sandwich, say — at the Gaslamp's oldest bar, the 128-year-old Tivoli (505 Sixth Ave.). Or journey further back in time to the William Heath Davis House (410 Island Ave.), an 1850 residence reborn as a museum.
Brewed awakening: Many Gaslamp watering holes feature world-renowned San Diego beers. But for an ultra-fresh brew, cross the parking lot east of Petco to Mission Brewery (1441 L St.). The tasting bar pours several varieties, from gentle Mission Blonde to ferocious Shipwrecked Double IPA.
By ferry
Behind the Convention Center, ferries depart Fifth Avenue Landing for the Coronado Ferry Landing. For schedules, call (619) 234-4111 or visit
sdhe.com; one-way fare is $4.25.
Water works: The 15-minute voyage to Coronado offers views of San Diego's skyline and the bay's many faces: sleek megayachts, knockabout dinghies, burly warships and freighters unloading everything from bananas to cars.
By rail
The Convention Center trolley stop (Harbor Drive at Fifth Avenue) is a portal to many destinations. For information, call (619) 595-4949 or visit
sdmts.com; one-way fares start at $2.50; day pass is $5.
Time travel: Haven't had your costumed character fix? Ride north to the Old Town station (Green Line), where restored buildings and strolling interpreters re-create the San Diego of 1821-1872. Admission is free, but those 19th-century-looking shop- and tavernkeepers charge 21st-century prices.
Validation: No longer just kids' stuff, comics have been embraced by scholars. Need proof? San Diego State University's on-campus trolley stop (Green Line) is outside the main library, which houses an extensive collection of comic books, graphic novels and zines.
Beachin': The Convention Center sits on the bay yet is miles from any surf. One option: trolley over to the Santa Fe Depot (Green Line), transfer to the Coaster, then travel north to Solana Beach. That station is a five-minute walk from Fletcher Cove Park (111 S. Sierra Ave.), with showers, restrooms, a picnic area and — at last! — waves.
Carolina Gusman contributed to this report.


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Search for missing Tyler girl turns to Irving
The Irving area has become a focal point in the search for a missing and endangered 11-year-old girl from Tyler, after the car of a man police believe she is traveling with turned up in a hit-and-run crash there Tuesday evening.
Authorities say Julissa Rodriguez ran away from home Saturday night, leaving a note saying she would rather be dead or be in Mexico.
Tyler police say they have obtained an arrest warrant for the man they believe she is with. Enrique Vasquez, 23, (below) is wanted on a kidnapping charge. He was already on probation after committing a 2006 home burglary.
A turquoise Pontiac Firebird that police believed Vasquez was driving was involved in a three-vehicle collision in Irving about 6:20 p.m. Tuesday. The driver, whose description matched Vasquez's, ran from the scene.
Vasquez is described as 6 feet 1 and 210 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
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Editors Notes > Why is Rick Dyer dragging out this dead bigfoot story for month after month ? I proposed back in September that this was just deja vu like when he and Matt Whitton did the same thing in 2008 when they ran out that Bigfoot in the Freezer story for 4 months.
Why doesn't he do something like produce the receipt from the rental truck company that shows him renting the reefer truck on September 6th 2012 proving he transported something. Why hasn't Morgan Mathews been heard from in all this time all he would have to say is yes or no to Dyers claims. Why can Rick talk about the film at nauseam about killing a real bigfoot but no one from Minnow Films has been quoted at all in 8 months concerning the film or Dyer's accusations. There has to be a reason that he hasn't put forward any proof of his story. Think about all the people that work at the storage facility that is storing the creature not one person has seen or commented anonymously to a blog or forum about seeing this creature…Why ? All those homeless people at the San Antonio homeless camp hear 2 gun shots but no one sees ten men carrying a giant hairy body a quarter of a mile to a large reefer truck. Why ? Why hasn't anyone from the Minnow Films crew who were there or who have screened the film said one thing to back Dyer's claims to shooting a bigfoot in San Antonio …Why ? A month ago Rick Dyer offered Derek Randles to come and witness the dead bigfoot body, since then nothing has happened Derek is still waiting for his invitation to come to Las Vegas, why has this not happened ? If Rick Dyer truly wanted to end the controversy Derek would have been there 3 weeks ago because most of us who know Derek Randalls know he would not roll over for anyone and chance be involved in any type of hypocrisy. How did he get FB/FB guys to back him up ? What would the end game be that could pull in these people that are willing to give up their own hugely successful website to back the best known hoaxer of all time ? Why did Minnow films pick the three bigfoot researchers with the worst reputations in all the bigfoot community to do a movie about ? Because the movie was written from the outset to make a mockery of anyone who believes in bigfoot. If you wanted to push that agenda wouldn't you include Dallas & Wayne, Tom Biscardi and Rick Dyer ? Can you imagine the lunacy this film crew captured following these guys around ?
So what is the bottom line, we know as of yesterday that the film festival in Toronto, Canada that screened this movie as written a review saying:
I don't think an hour goes by in the day where I don't think about Sasquatch," divulges one aficionado. So begins Morgan Matthews' rollicking foray into the obsessive, hoax-filled cult of Sasquatch. Using the in-the-trenches style of The Blair Witch Project, the film allows us to accompany the adventures of three Sasquatch search parties: socially awkward "master tracker" Ric Dyer; crotchety old guys Dallas and Wayne; and Tom Biscotti, perhaps the most devoted of the bunch, who has hunted Sasquatch unabatedly for 37 years. The teams tramp through the wooded unknown with tracking equipment and ample conviction in hand, the bipedal ape-like creature they seek seemingly just around every bend. As truth and fact tip into malarkey, nighttime hunts devolve into farcical displays of voodoo and comic stretches of the human imagination. A humorous look at perception gone off the rails, Shooting Bigfoot is a no-holds-barred plummet into folkloric lunacy. Justin Mah
Rick Dyer has tried to fill the holes in his sinking ship with statements like "well you have to be a bigfooter to believe the shooting and killing of a bigfoot in this movie" . Now I don't know about you but if I can't tell if something is real using $300,000.00 movie cameras while filming the closeup wounded body of a 8 foot- 800 lbs creature then we all might as well throw in the towel now, because if you don't believe this evidence how would you ever believe anything some bigfoot researcher brings to the table using a $600.00 HD Sony camera. If Rick Dyer doesn't produce some evidence soon that this creature exists or have Derek Randall's down soon to witness the body and stop this insanity of stringing us along for some unknown date you plan on releasing this supposed body to the public.
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Who cares what rick says
I just want the guy to go away
Same here
The Justin Mah review has been removed form the site?
Rick only goes away after he sells the body.
Has anyone taken the time to research Bexar County Texas and a possible link to bigfoot activity. If this is a hoax so be it however it does not take away that this county in Texas does have bigfoot activity. I did a "goggle" search and came away with ten documented sightings dating back to 1973. The most recent happened near Heletos, Texas and can be found in the BFRO data bank. I'm a folower of David Paulides and apply his metod of research to validate my findings.
the derek randles trip was canceled because of the minnows release
i love what Rick is doing.
sounds like a combination of money maker bfro and tom Biscardi story…
If Rick had the body of a dead Bigfoot, he'd take it to Pawn Star's in Vegas and try to get Millions from Dwayne, Chum Lee, Big Hoss, The "Old Man" Old Man and Cheddar Crush!
He's making a big joke of Cryptozoology! I've lost my trust in FB/FB, and Charo…..
I like turtles.
I don't think anything, even a body will convince some skeptics. And even some self styled bigfoot believers seem to be more hellbent on character assassination of Dryer than bigfoot.
We don't have long to wait now, so we shall see soon enough.
The sands of time are running out for Rick Dyer.
I believe that you will be disappointed Anonymous. Dyer's character was assassinated with his first hoax. This one is just another lie put together with a little more money and he may have a backer to do just that. I believe he's simply taking his revenge on the research community for how they reacted to his first hoax. Dyer is no tracker. he's a joke.
He is waiting for the body to turn to dust. So no test can be done
The sands of time are running out for Rick Dyer!
Call in tomorrows show and ask your ?????????
Rick Dyer
As long as people talk about Dyer and give him attention…he will continue his lies and bullshit. This is simple,he hates the bigfoot community and is gonna do a movie that makes us all look like a bunch of raving idiots like Wayne,Dallas,Biscardi etc. Wayne and Dallas? Nuff said right there. I feel sorry for those guys and am not trashing their lack of intelligence/common sense,however,when you have guys that can see 25 sasquatch in every picture taken of a wooded area…well? What more could it be? Simple,this is being made to make a mockery of it all. The sad thing,everyone who has written about,talked about or conversed with Dyer has been a partner in this farce. I said all along "why are any real researchers giving this guy a second thought?" Why?? I have been amazed that he has garnered so much attention…absolutely amazed. Time to just ignore him,if we ALL ignore him then he will eventually fade into the sunset.
Why is it we're only seeing the back side of the body? If it were more than a suit we'd be seeing a lot more than the back side for proof. Rick Dyer is dishonoring everyone in the Bigfoot research community and his own name of Dyer. It will soon become synonymous with Liar.
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Patching and PCI Compliance
By Joel Weise on Oct 27, 2012
One of my friends and master of the security universe, Darren Moffat, pointed me to Dan Anderson's blog the other day. Dan went to Toorcon which is a security conference where he went to a talk on security patching titled, "Stop Patching, for Stronger PCI Compliance". I realize that often times speakers will use a headline grabbing title to create interest in their talk and this one certainly got my attention. I did not go to the conference and did not see the presentation, so I can only go by what is in the Toorcon agenda summary and on Dan's blog, but the general statement to stop patching for stronger PCI compliance seems a bit misleading to me. Clearly patching is important to all systems management and should be a part of any organization's security hygiene. Further, PCI does require the patching of systems to maintain compliance. So it's important to mention that organizations should not simply stop patching their systems; and I want to believe that was not the speakers intent.
So let's look at PCI requirement 6:
"Unscrupulous individuals use security vulnerabilities to gain privileged access to systems. Many of these vulnerabilities are fixed by vendor- provided security patches, which must be installed by the entities that manage the systems. All critical systems must have the most recently released, appropriate software patches to protect against exploitation and compromise of cardholder data by malicious individuals and malicious software."
Notice the word "appropriate" in the requirement. This is stated to give organizations some latitude and apply patches that make sense in their environment and that target the vulnerabilities in question. Haven't we all seen a vulnerability scanner throw a false positive and flag some module and point to a recommended patch, only to realize that the module doesn't exist on our system? Applying such a patch would obviously not be appropriate. This does not mean an organization can ignore the fact they need to apply security patches. It's pretty clear they must. Of course, organizations have other options in terms of compliance when it comes to patching. For example, they could remove a system from scope and make sure that system does not process or contain cardholder data. [This may or may not be a significant undertaking. I just wanted to point out that there are always options available.]
PCI DSS requirement 6.1 also includes the following note:
"Note: An organization may consider applying a risk-based approach to prioritize their patch installations. For example, by prioritizing critical infrastructure (for example, public-facing devices and systems, databases) higher than less-critical internal devices, to ensure high-priority systems and devices are addressed within one month, and addressing less critical devices and systems within three months."
Notice there is no mention to stop patching one's systems. And the note also states organization may apply a risk based approach. [A smart approach but also not mandated]. Such a risk based approach is not intended to remove the requirement to patch one's systems. It is meant, as stated, to allow one to prioritize their patch installations.
So what does this mean to an organization that must comply with PCI DSS and maintain some sanity around their patch management and overall operational readiness? I for one like to think that most organizations take a common sense and balanced approach to their business and security posture. If patching is becoming an unbearable task, review why that is the case and possibly look for means to improve operational efficiencies; but also recognize that security is important to maintaining the availability and integrity of one's systems. Likewise, whether we like it or not, the cyber-world we live in is getting more complex and threatening - and I dont think it's going to get better any time soon.


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A Perfect Day for Bananafish Theme of Madness
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" features a young man who has returned from his service in World War II and is experiencing what today we would call post-traumatic stress disorder. Back in the 1940s, however, this term hadn't even been coined, and people were far less informed about this sort of mental illness. The protagonist, then, is highly misunderstood by the adults around him, so he instead seeks refuge in the world of children, where his "madness" amounts to little more than joking banter. The story makes us wonder what really counts as "insane," even calling into question the "normal" conversations between "sane" adults.
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- How does Salinger let us know about Seymour's mental condition without directly spelling it out? What hints does he give us?
- Does Muriel care about Seymour's mental condition? Does she understand it? Does she take it seriously?
- What does Seymour's condition have to do with the war?
- How sympathetic is the world to Seymour's condition? Is this fair?
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CHARLESTON - Maggie Bell Quillin Rogers, 84, died at 11:30 p.m. Aug. 14, 2007, at her home.
Born Oct. 8, 1922, in Braggadocio, to the late William Butler and Nola Bell Ezelle Quillin, since 1956 she had lived in Charleston where she was a member of the First Baptist Church.
On Dec. 11, 1943, she married Willie Walter Rogers who preceded her in death on July 6, 1992.
Four brothers and two sisters also preceded her in death.
Survivors include: one son, Larry Wayne Rogers of Wyatt; six daughters, Margaret Grueninger of Marion, Ill., Addie Sims of East Prairie, Mary Sue Moore of Dyersburg, Tenn., Rosalee Rogers of Charleston, Sally Hodges of Wyatt and Dolly Ruiz of Cairo, Ill.; and nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
Visitation is from 5-8 p.m. today at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston where services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday. The Rev. Gerald Collier of Ironton will officiate.
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A cast of characters who could be counted on to raise a smile and make a tiresome day at work a little less tedious. Mario Miranda's strip on the office had a stellar run in The Economic Times. It was one of the first attempts made by a serious business paper to have a more lighthearted take on the workplace and the strange assortment of characters who populated it.


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Chancellor Angela Merkel said she will support President Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential campaign, reciprocating his electoral backing for her three years ago.
Merkel, who was asked after a European Union summit whether a Sarkozy defeat would knock Franco-German crisis measures off course, made reference to a 2009 campaign event at Berlin's Sony Center. There, Sarkozy campaigned for her along with youth members of her Christian Democratic Union.
"Nicolas Sarkozy supported me back then in an election campaign -- if you remember, in the Sony Center, the big event with the Young Union," Merkel told reporters in Brussels late yesterday. "So I'll give back to him what he offered to me in the same way. This has nothing to do with being concerned, it's simply a common practice between our two countries."
Socialist challenger Francois Hollande is leading Sarkozy in polls ahead of the two-round presidential elections in April and May. Asked whether she was concerned that France wouldn't be able to ratify new fiscal rules before an election could unseat the incumbent, Merkel said the EU functions best based on the principal of "continuity."
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