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Still waters run deep - the drowning of film star Natalie Wood
As new revelations emerge about the drowning of film star Natalie Wood in 1981, our reporter examines the case that still has Hollywood fascinated all these years later, and looks back on her controlling mother - who pimped her out at age 15 to 38-year-old Frank Sinatra - and her complex relationship with Robert Wagner, the man she married twice
It was to be Natalie Wood's final scene. At 7.45am on November 29, 1981, the body of the triple-Oscar nominee - Love with the Proper Stranger, Splendor in the Grass, Rebel Without a Cause - was found in a dark and lonely cove off Santa Catalina Island.
The terrible irony of her death that night was that in 1980, Natalie had said in an interview: "I've always been terrified, still am, of water; dark water; sea water..."
There is an apocryphal story that a fortune teller had once told Natalie Wood's mother, Maria, that she would drown... and this fear of water had been passed on to her child.
The star who was called 'The Most Beautiful Teenager in the World' by LIFE magazine in 1956 was dead at 43 years of age - her body floating just beneath the surface of the water.
It remains one of Tinseltown's greatest mysteries.
It was from her 55-foot cruiser Splendour that Natalie Wood had vanished at 11pm the night before; with unconfirmed reports that there were shouts heard from the water that night. (Marilyn Wayne, a Los Angeles commodities broker, on a nearby boat to Splendour claimed to hear a voice screaming: "Help me, someone please help me!")
"This is the Splendour... need help," was how Wood's husband Robert Wagner notified the coast guard at 1.30am. (Author Suzanne Finstad noted: "The first call isn't made until 1:30 in the morning... That's two-and-a-half hours between the time that someone is heard screaming in the water.")
At around 11pm, Wood is believed to have left her cabin after a drunken row with Wagner, involving the actor Christopher Walken, who was also on the boat that night. (Walken was at the time making the movie Brainstorm with Wood.) The ship's captain Dennis Davern, gave a sworn statement to police alleging that Wagner shouted at Walken: "Do you want to f**k my wife? Is that what you want?"
So, were Wood and Walken involved in a dalliance of some description? Wagner wrote in his 2009 memoir, Pieces of My Heart: "The thought occurred that she was having an emotional affair." Was this what fuelled his alleged anger that night ? Please note: Wood's and Wagner's first marriage to each other broke up because of Wood's affair with Warren Beatty, on the set of Splendor in the Grass in 1961.
After allegedly accusing Walker of wanting to sleep with his wife, Wagner smashed a bottle of wine. Wood then disappeared to her cabin and was not seen again until her dead body (in a flannel nightgown, red down jacket, and blue wool socks) was discovered eight hours later by Roger Smith of the coast guard.
Wagner, in his memoir, saw the argument differently. "Chris [Walken] began talking about his 'total pursuit of a career', which he admitted was more important to him than his personal life. He clearly thought Natalie should live like that, too," Wagner wrote. "I got angry. 'Why don't you stay out of her career?' I said. 'She's got enough people telling her what to do without you'."
Wagner claimed Wood then left. "The last time I saw my wife, she was fixing her hair in the bathroom while I was arguing with Chris. I saw her shut the door. She was going to bed."
Born July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, Natasha Zakharenko, as she was then, was manipulated by her overbearing mother Maria with a mixture of ambition and fear. When she was only five years of age, Maria placed her on the lap of director Irving Pichel, who was shooting Happy Land and landed Wood a part in the film. (Years later, Wood said that her mother told her to "make Mr Pichel love you".) She grew up in front of the camera, literally from that age on.
"God made her," Maria told one reporter, letting her guard down for once, "I invented her."
Another tale that emerged was that Maria, "a pimp", arranged for her 15-year-old daughter to be seduced by a 38-year-old Frank Sinatra.
There is also an apocryphal story that Wood's mother stopped her teenage daughter from going to the police after a Hollywood producer allegedly raped Wood during an audition.
In 1947, eight-year-old Natalie starred in Miracle on 34th Street. Eight years later, she starred opposite James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. She was just sixteen.
Even a cursory skim of some of the books written about Natalie Wood leaves one with the unmistakable impression that she was insecure, if not unstable, all her adult life.
New York grand dame Liz Smith wrote that Wood's private life (the 'public' private life) was not as "messy" as Liz Taylor or Judy Garland's, yet her whole "life was an endless search to understand herself". Deprived, even robbed, of her childhood by her mother, Wood's state of mind as an adult was volatile, complicated, and reliant on her psychiatrist and her meds.
There is the story, impossible to verify, that in 1967 she turned down ex-lover Warren Beatty's offer to play opposite him in Bonnie and Clyde because she did not want to be apart from her shrink for a long period of time.
"I spent practically all my time in the company of adults," Wood said of her early years. "I was very withdrawn, very shy, I did what I was told and I tried not to disappoint anybody."
Wood's romantic relationships seemed typically dysfunctional and short-lived. She had flings with, among others, Warren Beatty, Elvis, Steve McQueen, Frank Sinatra, and American politician Jerry Brown (whose manhood she described as being "like a wand".)
Suzanne Finstad's notorious 2002 pot-boiler Natasha alleged that Wood was addicted to prescription medications as well as suffering from alcoholism and anorexia, quoting actor Robert Hyatt as saying: "Natalie would get up in the morning and take a dexie, then she would have a bowl of chicken noodle soup and white wine for breakfast."
Maybe some of the most poignant words about Natalie Wood - amid all the sordid sludge - were spoken by one of her friends, Tom Mankiewicz, after she died: "Studio life from an early age had cut Natalie off from so much, and she was eager to make up for it, but I often had the impression that she never knew exactly how to live her life.
"To stay on an even keel, Natalie needed all her cards, and she was very afraid of losing her beauty card." That card is at the bottom of the ocean now.
Natalie Wood married Robert Wagner, eight years her senior, for the second time, on July 16, 1972, aboard the yacht Ramblin' Rose. There had been a brief marriage to producer Richard Gregson in between (from May, 1969 to August, 1971), which she ended when she accused him of having an affair with his secretary and threw him out.
When Wood died, Wagner was to bring up his and Natalie's daughter, Courtney, as well as Natalie´s daughter Natasha from the marriage to Gregson.
From the beginning, Wagner and Wood's relationship seemed too fairytale - even for Hollywood - to last. Wood recorded their first date, arranged by the studio, thus: "Two lonely stars found their orbit - each other - and they were one."
Wagner himself was to write this melodramatic homage that would have made Mills & Boon blush: "At dinner, we both sensed things were different. I sent her flowers and the dates continued. I remember the instant I fell in love with her. One night on board a small boat I owned, she looked at me with love, her dark brown eyes lit by a table lantern. That moment changed my life."
Far more interesting reading, however, is what Wagner wrote many years later in his memoir: "There are only two possibilities: either she was trying to get away from the argument, or she was trying to tie the dinghy. But the bottom line is that nobody knows exactly what happened. Did I blame myself? If I had been there, I could have done something. But I wasn't there. I didn't see her."
It was dubbed the 'curse of Rebel Without a Cause', because Wood's two co-stars in the 1955 classic, James Dean and Sal Mineo, had both suffered tragic and untimely deaths: Dean, just 24 years of age, in a car accident on September 30, 1955, near Cholame, California; Mineo, aged 37, stabbed to death in the alley behind his apartment in Hollywood on February 12, 1976.
Fortune tellers' prophecies, Hollywood curses, foul play, or merely a drunken, tragic fall into the sea late at night, the tragedy of Natalie Wood's death still fascinates the world almost 35 years later.
Last month, author Marti Rulli wrote an open letter to Natasha Wood, the 45-year-old daughter by producer Richard Gregson, who was launching her perfume 'Natalie', denouncing her for keeping silent until "you have something to sell".
Rulli, the author of the 2009 book Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendor added, a tad hysterically: "You are a victim of your step-father's empire of lies and deceit. The empire would crumble if you cooperate with the law, and you cannot face it, or you do not want to face it."
In February of this year, Natalie Wood's sister Lana is alleged to have confronted Wagner in the lobby as he entered a reception and demanded that he tell the truth about that terrible night in 1981. In a video that was recently posted online by the Radar website, Wagner is heard responding: "Lana, why would you even bring up anything like that? I have talked to everybody. You have accused me! You have accused me of murdering her!"
Her death remains a mystery that has haunted Hollywood to this day. Why would Natalie Wood, who had an almost pathological dread of dark water and drowning (after having almost drowned during the filming of The Green Promise in 1949 when she was a 10-year-old), have attempted to get into a dinghy at midnight off the coast of California on that ill-fated Thanksgiving weekend? Did she fall in? Or was she pushed?
In 1985, Christopher Walken ended his silence to say this: "The people who are convinced that there was something more to it than what came out in the investigation will never be satisfied with the truth. Because the truth is, there is nothing more to it. It was an accident."
Heavily hinting at foul play of some description, Natalie's sister Lana told CNN in 2010: "My sister was not a swimmer and did not know how to swim. She would never go to another boat or to shore dressed in a nightgown and socks."
A few years ago, Joan Rivers said: "Nobody really believes that RJ [as Wagner was known to his friends] consciously had anything to do with Natalie's death. But something happened that night on that boat. It wasn't just a sweet, sad accident."
Vanity Fair magazine concluded that Wood's death was the "final act in a two-day drama of jealousy and rage, fuelled by round-the-clock drinking."
The coroner's report found that Natalie had drunk seven or eight glasses of wine (Pouilly-Fuissé and had also imbibed from two shared bottles of Champagne) before the incident, concluding that the cause of death was "accidental drowning".
In 2013, the Los Angeles County coroner's office changed the cause of death from "accidental drowning" to "drowning and other undetermined factors".
Last month, one of the last people to see Natalie Wood alive, boat captain Dennis Davern, wrote an open letter to the Los Angeles Police Department claiming Robert Wagner "deserves to be arrested" for Natalie Wood's death. He claims that when "detectives had me hooked up to their polygraph test equipment, when I was asked, 'Did Robert Wagner murder Natalie Wood?', I answered yes - and I passed the test!"
Davern said he only decided to speak publicly about this because Natalie Wood's daughter Natasha had said that those who believe Robert Wagner murdered her mother are "conspiracy theorists".
"The last expression I saw on her face [Wood's] was pure humiliation as she stormed off to her stateroom," Davern also alleged. Closer to the truth is that Dennis Davern appears to be as slippery as the deck of the Splendour on the night of November 29th, 1981. Rather than trying to uncover the real truth about what happened to Natalie Wood so that the actress may finally rest in peace, Davern's motivation seems somewhat more base.
He has been trying to hawk his part of the story to the highest bidder in tabloidland for years. There was a farcical appearance in February 1992 on Geraldo Rivera's Now It Can Be Told, when Davern was filmed without his knowledge with author Marti Rulli, with whom he was writing a book about Natalie Wood. Rulli is heard prompting Davern to tell Geraldo: "They were yelling and screaming at each other to get off the boat... "
Davern is heard to respond: "Oh God, I don't know if I can tell them that or not." Rulli angrily replies: "Ten years of this, Dennis! This needs to be cleared up! We have to say how she got in the water, Den." Rulli is heard suggesting to Davern to tell Geraldo: "Don't you tell them how she got into the water - we put that in the book and we'll make billions from it."
Perhaps the only victim in all of this is Natalie Wood's legacy. Her name has been dragged through the mud at the bottom of the ocean ever since she drowned. Everybody has been out to make a dime out of her, dead or alive. And not just Dennis Davern.
Thomas Noguchi, chief medical examiner in the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office, in his 1983 book Coroner, posed the question: "Wasn't it strange that the two men on the yacht didn't even know that she had left the boat? Why had she slipped out to the stern of the yacht in the middle of the night, climbed down a ladder, and untied the dinghy? What was she doing? And where was she going? And why?"
Suicide was even floated as a possible cause of her death (in 1966, Wood had allegedly attempted to take her own life with a drug overdose).
Wood drank heavily, was in an unhappy marriage - and almost as devastating for Natalie who had been a star since childhood, she was stuck in a rut of B-movies; her once-illustrious movie career was but a memory from the distant past.
There was a story that when Natalie heard that Meryl Streep had been cast as the lead in Sophie's Choice, a role she desperately wanted, she was inconsolable.
Added to this, Wood allegedly had a falling out with her publicist Kathie Berlin the month before she died over a feature in the 'Over-Forty' issue of Harper's Bazaar. "I thought she'd be thrilled," Berlin was reported to have said. "But she was furious and screamed at me, 'How dare you let them know I'm over 40?'. After that, she wouldn't talk to me."
Natalie Wood was not in a good place in her life, emotionally. But then, she rarely had been.
"Natalie," wrote Suzanne Finstad, "was always on the precipice of a crisis."
The last two entries in her private diary were "the undertow is very strong today" and, then, "this loneliness won't leave me alone". It seemed, just like Wood's life had come to embody her character, Judy, in Rebel Without a Cause, when she tells James Dean's misfit teen Jim Stark: "All this time I've been looking for somebody to love me."
Be that as it may, however, it was plain to see that the movie star was loved by the world. Upon her death, the tributes poured in. Rock Hudson, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier, Elia Kazan, Gregory Peck, David Niven and Fred Astaire carried Natalie's coffin on December 2, 1981, at her funeral in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Queen Elizabeth II sent Wagner her royal condolences by telegram.
A few months ago, 86-year-old Wagner, who wed actress Jill St. John in 1990, said of Wood's death in an interview with People magazine. "We were all so shattered by the loss, and we were all hanging on to each other. You just take it moment by moment and it gets better," he said.
In the same interview, Wood's daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner, who was just 11 when her mother died, spoke of before and after that fateful boat trip.
"I wanted her to stay home. I had a funny feeling. I don't know if it was just being a child who didn't want her mom to leave or what it was, but I didn't want her to go. I got the news [of her mother's death] when I was at a sleepover. It was like my life was in colour; and she died, and then it was black and white."
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Whitley's annual theatrical production showcases the many talents of Whitley students in acting, music and stage production.
It is directed and produced by students and is staged at one of the University of Melbourne's theatres.
Bat Boy: The Musical
This is a cast whose windows you can peek into from your room here at IH: our closest neighbours, Whitley, emerged from their donut brandishing a weird and terrifying musical. Don't confuse 'Batboy' with 'Batman' – this is not some superhero parody or coming of age musical with a happy ending. Comedic horror would be an accurate description; I spent the whole show either gaping at the events that unfolded before me or laughing my head off. I wasn't sure what to expect when I first sat down, but within the first five minutes I was transfixed. Whitley honestly exceeded my expectations: their cast was great (and huge! It looked like half their college!), the production elements were really well done and the actual musical was a great choice and really well written. Nothing disappointed me. I have to give a special mention to the actor of 'Batboy', the mother and the veterinarian father. They really shone, and managed to give a lot of depth and complexity to characters in a musical about a child who was half-bat, which is honestly an impressive feat. If you didn't go to this show, you missed out.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- Wal-Mart Stores here has been ordered by an Arkansas jury to pay $50 million in damages to three businessmen for allegedly taking their ideas on how to boost sales at Sam's Club without compensating them.
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Somerset hockey looking to plug leaks in its defense
In five of the 11 games this season, the Somerset boys hockey team has surrendered five or more goals. Four of those five games resulted in the team's losses as the Spartans end the 2016 portion of their schedule with a 7-4 record.
The Spartans lost two of their three games last week, giving up 15 goals over the three games.
The week started with a 6-0 loss at Onalaska last Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Spartans faced West Salem in a tournament at Menomonie. It didn't go well for the Spartans, who came away on the losing end of an 8-2 decision.
Things did begin to turn around on Thursday when the Spartans score a 4-1 win over Ashwaubenon in the second round of the Menomonie tournament.
Somerset coach Dan Gilkerson said the porous defensive play can no longer be overlooked.
"It was a big eye opener. You're not going to be able to outscore good teams. We've got to hold teams under three goals," he said.
In games where the Spartans have limited opponents to three goals or less, they're 5-1.
The Onalaska loss ranks among the most frustrating of the season. Somerset dominated control of the puck in the first period, yet came away trailing 1-0. Onalaska put the game away with four goals in the second period, including scoring twice out of a 5-on-3 situation.
The Spartans were outshot 27-25, though Somerset had many more scoring chances.
"We couldn't hit the net to save our lives," Gilkerson said. "I don't think our minds were really there last week."
Gilkerson said West Salem was a far better team than Onalaska and the Spartans put up a strong battle early in Wednesday's game. Hunter Hartwick scored the game's opening goal to give Somerset the lead 2:44 into Wednesday's game.
"Hunter was one player who had a really good week. You know what you get from him every game," Gilkerson said.
By the end of the opening period West Salem led 2-1 and West Salem put the game on ice by scoring five unanswered goals in the second period. Wyatt Schmit scored in the third period for the Spartans' second goal.
Ashwaubenon was a weaker opponent and the Spartans took quick advantage, outshooting the Jaguars 11-1 in the scoreless first period. Somerset got rolling when Dominic Abbott and Jack Lambert scored in the middle of the second period. Schmit and Hartwick scored in the third period.
This Thursday, the Spartans start a stretch where they play three home games in six days. Somerset will host River Falls on Thursday. That's followed by a 4 p.m. date on Saturday with Northland Pines from Eagle River. Next Tuesday, the Spartans host Middle Border Conference co-leader Baldwin-Woodville.


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Born on 1978 October in Singapore. Holding a Diploma in Manufacturing and currently working as an senior technician in the air force. Was introduced to the scuba diving world in the early 1999 and was deeply enchanted by the peacefulness and vibrancy of the underwater world.
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ShedShare is your chance to share and learn all kinds of skills from your community - for free! Come check out a random assortment of stations where people will be showing off everything from how to grow sprouts to how to Moonwalk.
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If you don't have the furniture in your child's room tethered to the wall, this video should shock you into getting it done.
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Esperanto Skrablo (Scrabble) Tiles that you can 3d print! I have provided the OpenSCAD template if you'd like to change the font. Hopefully i will finish the other letters soon.
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Decades before many physiologists were concerned with the close relationship between diet and health, Ellen G. White in her writings clearly pointed out the connection between the food we eat and our physical and spiritual welfare. In her discourses and writings from 1863 onward, she discussed frequently the importance of diet and adequate nutrition. Her counsels, as preserved in pamphlets and books, in the journals of the denomination, and in personal testimonies, have exerted a strong influence on the dietetic habits of Seventh-day Adventists, and indirectly have left their impress upon the general public.
Mrs. White's writings regarding foods and a healthful diet were drawn together in 1926 in a topically arranged work designed to serve primarily as a textbook for students of dietetics at the College of Medical Evangelists at Loma Linda. This initial printing, titled Testimony Studies on Diet and Foods, was soon exhausted.
A new and enlarged volume, titled Counsels on Diet and Foods, Appeared in 1938. It was referred to as a "second edition," and was prepared under the direction of the Board of Trustees of the Ellen G. White Estate. A third edition, printed in a smaller page size to conform to the requirements of the Christian Home Library series, was published in 1946. The present edition is the fourth, and involves no change in text or pagination.


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By JAMES E. CASTO
For The State Journal
Students and teachers are settling into Cabell County's newest school — the new $23 million Huntington East Middle School.
The ultramodern school welcomed its first students Jan. 8, and now is home to almost 800 sixth, seventh and eighth graders who previously attended Beverly Hills and Enslow middle schools.
The school, located between U.S. 60 East and Norway Avenue, near Walmart and the Huntington Detachment of the West Virginia State Police, will have an official ribbon cutting at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 18 in the school's gymnasium.
Jedd T. Flowers, communications director for the county school system, said public tours of the new school will be offered that night, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Flowers said the tours are being conducted in conjunction with a special Parent-Teacher Conference the same evening. Anyone who would like to see the new facility is invited to participate in the tours, he said.
The 104,000-square-foot facility was built through $19 million in funding from the West Virginia School Building Authority and a $4 million match from the school system.
Designed by ZMM Architects & Engineers of Charleston, the school has four wings. One wing includes the administrative offices, the gymnasium and the cafeteria, and the other three wings house classrooms and lockers. Each of the three wings is designated by grade.
According to ZMM Architects, the new school is the first in West Virginia to be certified as a "green school" by the U.S. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED program.
The school incorporates such green technologies as an on-site compost machine, large windows to maximize natural light, motion and daylight sensitive lighting and computer monitoring stations to show energy usage throughout the school.
A description of the school on the ZMM website notes that the monitoring stations will enable sixth, seventh and eighth grade teams to compete against each other in energy consumption and conservation. "Through on-line learning and technology systems throughout the facility, students will be able to also work with and compete with facilities throughout the world," the website says.
The school's compost system will not only consume kitchen waste but also all paper waste throughout the school. The students then will be able to take the product and provide compost for the school's vegetable gardens, which will provide produce for the school. The green technology even extends to the structure's roof, which is covered with a white rubber material designed to help reflect light and keep the school cooler in the warmer months.
The Huntington East Middle School was constructed on the hilltop site of the former West Virginia Colored Children's Home, which was demolished to make way for the new school.
Built in 1923, the old building was on the National Register of Historic Places but had long been vacant and was in poor repair. Local historian and preservationist Karen Nance and others unsuccessfully challenged the building's demolition. But the school system said its exhaustive study showed the Colored Children's Home site was the only one that would allow a new school to effectively serve the neighborhood.


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Defensiones duae, quibus D. Ioannis Sturmii rectoris Antipappis duobus respondetur, Maiori, & Epitomico. De charitate, et condemnatione Christiana, secunda. De libro concordiae, et de confessione ecclesiae Argentinensis, tertia.
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EU endocrine disruptors strategy takes a step forward
The EU strategy on endocrine-disrupting chemicals has taken a step forward with the release of two research studies reviewing chemicals on the European Commission's list of potential endocrine disruptors. Of nine industrial compounds reviewed in detail, only one instance of endocrine-disrupting effects was highlighted -thyroid disruption by resorcinol. But a wide-ranging study highlighted 93 more compounds of "exposure concern".
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Kirk Cheyfitz gives us the inside scoop on journalistic storytelling and the art of blending it with marketing to create effective stories that reach consumers. How adding a brand journalist to your team can help your business.
Kirk Cheyfitz is the co-CEO and chief storyteller at Story Worldwide. He is an award-winning journalist, author, editor, publisher and innovator in nontraditional marketing and custom-created content. He is a leading expert in the profitable use of content to extend brands, win customers, create loyalty and build sales. His career began in Detroit, where he was a PooL-IT-ZER Prize finalist for his investigative reporting at the Detroit Free Press and winner of the Society of Professional Journalists' prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Bronze Medallion for investigative reporting, along with many other national and regional journalism honors. He also has broad experience in regional magazines, having been the editor and/or president of five major titles, including Chicago magazine.
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"In a world where people have a lot of choices, the story may be the deciding factor." ~ Nick Morgan, a communications consultant and author of How to Tell Great Business Stories. Excerpt from an article by Adam Bluestein for inc.com.
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"It's always important to care about the brand wants but its so much more important to pay attention to what the audience wants and needs." ~Kirk Cheyfitz
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Transformation from print producers of content for brands to becoming a digital-first but not digital only, content-focused advertising agency for brands. Today have 110 people on board at Story Worldwide telling brand stories and distributing across multiple platforms.
Created The Story Brand Development Workshop.
Worked with General Mills using narrative advertising to tell stories and shape the development of the iconic character, The Green Giant.
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In 2006, Kirk echoed the mantra, "advertising is dead" but his company didn't have full brand control with his clients because his own company didn't look like a comprehensive brand agency. Find out how he transformed his company by using integration of the tools of advertising in order to create success and take charge of complete brand messaging for companies.
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- It takes a lifetime to master storytelling.
- Journalists must know both the storytelling and the tools of advertising.
- Brands should always hire journalists to help build brand newsrooms.
- The best thing you can do for a brand is tell authentic, transparent stories: the good, the bad. It helps attract consumers.
- Brands can't buy attention. The message must be interesting, engaging. The prize for that is consumers will share it with their friends for free.
- Social search (peer-to-peer shared content) is the most powerful way to reach consumers.
- Internet viewing eclipsed TV viewing. Pay attention to digital trends or risk becoming extinct.
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Setting sails for the first time. You are told to sit in the captain's seat and hold the tiller. You immediately feel the power of command for the ship. I was four years old and most of my childhood memories at that stage of my life are a blur. But the day I was told, "Skip come sail the boat," was as clear to me today as what I ate for breakfast this morning.
It was a beautiful June day on Pleasant Bay, Cape Cod Massachusetts. The sail boat was an O'Day sloop rigged ship. There was about ten knots of warm wind and I was at the helm. The first thing I was told was to turn my head so I felt the wind in my face. "This is where the front of the boat, the bow, cannot go." I felt a hand over mine on the tiller pulling the helm towards me. The warm summer breeze was creating my loud luffing sails to shake the rig of the boat. Once the boat fell away from the head of the wind, the sails silenced and immediately filled with air, as I felt the boat list and take off, I was sailing. I was directed to plot my coarse to a moored boat in the distance and I had my heading to my mark. I was in a position of a grown up and it felt invigorating. The smile on my face in the June wind dried my teeth and I found such happiness sailing that boat.
I found myself returning every summer to the Cape and out sailing on the Bay throughout my childhood. I was eventually able to sail by myself and experience independence at an early stage of my life, aboard a boat. As a child, we want to do things grownups do…cook, drive, walk around town alone. I yearned for that freedom to show the growups I could do that. If it were mowing a lawn, or cooking bacon, I always wanted to help. The wonderful thing about sailing, if you are a good Captain, you get your mates involved in helping aboard the ship. This creates such a good sense of teamwork and camaraderie and builds a feeling of contribution for plotting your course to a successful voyage.
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The German luxury auto and motorcycle manufacturer BMW said on Tuesday it would recall 122,000 motorcycles worldwide owing to brake problems.
A BMW spokesman told AFP the company had uncovered a risk of leaks in the K 1200 GT motorcycle's braking system.
The recall concerns models built between August 2006 and May 2009, some of which have already been checked, the spokesman told AFP.
"Over time it emerged that even corrected braking systems did not resolve the problem 100 per cent," he said.
Vibrations generated by the motorcycle's operation were found to cause leaks that affected the front brake, the company said.
BMW has not heard of accidents linked to the problem, but "would gladly have foregone having to make another recall," the spokesman said.
The group is the leading manufacturer of luxury cars in the world and also sold 87,306 motorcycles last year according to its annual report.


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New Delhi, Feb. 8: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today gave the go-ahead to the maiden offers in three public sector power companies to raise Rs 1,500 crore for the National Investment Fund.
The divestment exercise involves disposing of 10 per cent in Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) and 5 per cent each in Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) and National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC).
The government will be piggybacking on the maiden offers of REC, PGCIL and NHPC to raise Rs 1,500 crore, finance minister P. Chidambaram told journalists after the CCEA meeting.
Chidambaram said the three PSUs will actually raise Rs 2,400 crore, of which Rs 1,500 crore would go to the National Investment Fund. He added that the selloffs are based on the estimated current book value of these unlisted companies.
While REC would realise Rs 420 crore through the IPO, PGCIL and NHPC plan to raise Rs 971 crore and Rs 1,490 crore, respectively.
The proceeds from the divestment would go to the National Investment Fund as a corpus. Besides funding projects in the power sector, these proceeds would also be used to meet commitments in the social sector, particularly flagship programmes like the employment guarantee scheme and the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
Chidambaram said external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee had met the CPI-M leaders in January and told them that no money was flowing into the National Investment Fund.
Post-issue, the governments share in REC will come down to 81.22 per cent, while that in PGCIL and NHPC will be reduced to 86.36 per cent each, the minister said.
Chidambaram said the book-running lead managers would be appointed by the central public sector enterprise through competitive bidding.
However, the Left parties appeared to be against the move. CPM leader Nilotpal Basu said, These are profit making public sector companies and the Left parties are opposed to any divestment of their shares. We have not been consulted on the issue.''
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The CCEA today also allowed Bharat Earth Movers Limited (BEML) to raise funds through public issue of 49 lakh shares of Rs 10 each for its modernisation and expansion programme. Chidambaram said the price band would be decided by the board of directors on the written recommendation of the book-running lead manager.


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Today's role for a Christian woman takes many forms working together - mom, sister, wife, home maker, career women, and more. All of these relationships demand your time and attention. At iBelieve.com we want to help you grow in healthy relationships whether you're single and dating, newlyweds, married or widowed. Find encouragement and feel uplifted with the sharing of personal experiences from women in every walk of the Christian women's life.
If we are affected by someone's suffering, we will remember it, which is one of the great gifts that we give to each other.
A young man's father died, and his local church, as we would expect, loved him well—invitations to dinner, a high priority on everyone's prayer list, and warm e-mails, texts, and cards. After a week or two, the generous care began to taper off, also as we would expect. The few people who still asked the young man how he was doing stood out to him as unusually caring.
A year later, on the anniversary of the father's death, a friend from the church called and left a message: "I remember that your father died on this day last year. I just wanted you to know that I was thinking about you and prayed for you. I prayed that there will be times today when the memories you have of him bless you."
The young man was stunned. He was changed. He was comforted and encouraged, and he committed to keep others on his heart long term.
God's premiere self-description is "the compassionate and gracious God" (Ex. 34:6 NIV). This means that both our pain and our prayers affect him, and he has us on his heart. He takes our burden on himself and remembers us. As we imitate our Father, we want to feel the burdens of others too.
Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. (Gal. 6:2)
So we call, e-mail, track down the suffering at church. We have them on our heart, and we want them to know it.
Say something. Do something. Remember. That is the basic idea.
Yet the call to say something does not mean that everything we say is good and helpful. It's important to know what not to say. Sometimes we may be tempted to respond to someone's suffering with thoughtless platitudes. Here are three offenders.
Believe it or not, that is only the first half of a hideous comment, for example: "It could be worse—imagine if you broke both legs."
We have some odd ways of cheering each other up.
The comment is accurate—everything could be worse. We suffer and then, along with the suffering, have a comforter who says it could be worse.
Such a comment is utterly thoughtless. God himself would never say or sanction it. God does not compare our present suffering to anyone else's or to worst-case scenarios. Ever. If we hear friends do this in their own suffering, it does not give us the right to chime in. Instead, it might be a time to warn them.
"Yes, your suffering might not seem as severe as _______, but God doesn't compare your sufferings to others."
If we make such comparisons, we might be tempted not to speak of the suffering from our hearts to the Lord because we would consider it whining, which it certainly is not.
So even though things could be worse, that is never an appropriate thing to say to others or to let others say about their situation. God is not dismissive of our hardships, and neither should we be.
Those platitudes are biblical in that God does teach us in our suffering, and he is working all things together for good (Rom. 8:28). We agree with C. S. Lewis when he writes that pain is God's megaphone to arouse a deaf world. But these kinds of comments have hurt so many people; let's agree that we will never say them.
Consider a few of the possible problems with this and other poorly timed misuses of biblical passages:
In our attempts to help, we can over-interpret suffering. We search for clues to God's ways, as if suffering were a scavenger hunt. Get to the end, with the right answers, and God will take away the pain. Meanwhile, the quest for answers is misguided from the start and will end badly. Suffering is not an intellectual matter that needs answers; it is highly personal: Can I trust him? Does he hear? Suffering is a relational matter, and it is a time to speak honestly to the Lord and remember that the fullest revelation he gives of himself is through Jesus Christ, the suffering servant. Only when we look to Jesus can we know that God's love and our suffering can coexist.
This heads in a better direction; it is not quite a platitude. However, this common and kind comment reveals that we do not really know the person. Sufferers usually don't know what they want or need, and they won't call you. The comment is the equivalent of, "I've said something nice, now see ya later." It gives no real thought to the sufferer's needs and circumstances, and the suffering person knows it.
Instead we could ask, "What can I do to help?"
Or (better) we could consider what needs to be done and do it.
Wise friends buy more dog food, do the dishes, drop off a meal, cut the grass, babysit the kids, clean the house, give a ride to small group, drop off a note of encouragement and then another and another, help sort out medical bills, and so on.
Any such acts of love and service make life easier for the suffering person. And a meal is never just a meal; maid service is never merely a timesaver for those served. These acts say to the sufferer, "I remember you"; "I think about you often"; "You are not forgotten"; "You are on my heart"; "I love you." The time we give to creative strategizing is the power behind such acts. It is unmistakable love that mimics the strategic planning of the triune God's rescue mission. He planned and acted even before we knew our real needs.
The oddity of our clumsy and sometimes hurtful attempts to help is this: we have clear ideas from what has helped us in our suffering, but we do not adopt it when seeking to love others. We do not always speak to others in the way we would like to be spoken to.
Taken from Side by Side: Walking with Others in Wisdom and Love, by Edward T. Welch. Used by permission of Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers, Wheaton, Il 60187, www.crossway.org.


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text: Does anyone have experience with aftermarket stripe kits for toro grandstands? I can not get a grandstand to stripe nicely for the life of me. Despite that, the guy that mows for me can stripe a lawn perfectly on the same machine. I think it is a weight issue. He is a bigger guy, weighing probably around 240 whereas I weigh 150 on a fat day. I can't think of any other reason he can make stripes that I can't and it's driving me crazy. I once had a 52" toro ZTR that had a stripe kit which honestly didn't do anything for me so I'm uneasy to go blindly purchase another toro stripe kit. If anyone could offer some advice on this I would really appreciate it. I'm beginning to wonder if I should just drill through the riding platform and mount a piece of steel hanging from chains which would then drag on the lawn behind me.


text: Ranging from pre-1930s Europe to contemporary "Bollywood" musicals, this extensive guide to international film covers areas as diverse as New German, Australian, Indian, and South American cinema. A team of international contributors explains the key arguments and debates involved in the study of world cinema and also provides an overview of the avant-garde, the documentary, and recent technological developments. Featuring illustrations throughout, further reading recommendations, and chapter summaries, World Cinema: Critical Approaches serves as an exceptional text for courses in film and media studies.


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The U.S. military has formally shut down the war in Iraq, officially retiring the flag of U.S. Forces-Iraq. Troops lowered the flag and wrapped it in camouflage, formally "casing" it, according to Army tradition.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The 86-year-old Albuquerque man who lost his wife after a tragic wrong in the Arizona mountains is back home.
Lani Sexton, the daughter of Dana Davis, says her father got a warm welcome from his church community on their return to New Mexico Tuesday. She said the house was clean, refrigerator stocked and a Christmas tree up.
Drivers needed
Los Alamos Lions Club provides services to the community, including the HELP program. The program provides free transportation for medical treatment and appointments outside the county. Patients are transported to Española, Santa Fe and Albuquerque. If you would like to be a volunteer driver call Barbara Croley at 672-3618 or Lee Sullivan at 661-8037.
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Sombrillo Nursing and Rehabilitation Center is recruiting volunteers to help in the following areas: gardening, reading to individuals, leading a craft project, playing card or board games with residents, helping with bingo, playing music or leading a sing-along session. Call the activities director at 662-4300 for details.
This month's Juvenile Justice Advisory Board meeting features a panel of counselors who will discuss emerging trends and teen issues they are seeing in their work and how we as a community can address these challenges. The public is welcome to attend. The meeting is scheduled one week earlier than usual, at 6:15 p.m. in Building #1, Pajarito Cliffs Site, Camino Entrada. For more information, call 661-4097.
Chick Keller talks on "Global Warming: What we Know and What the Current Hot Topics Are," at 7 p.m. at PEEC, 3540 Orange Street. Free.
Los Alamos Public Schools will accept open enrollment applications for School Year 2012-13 starting at 7 a.m. Thursday.
The application is posted on laschools.net or one can be picked up from the district office receptionist.
Completed applications may be dropped off with the district office receptionist, faxed to 663-3247, or scanned and emailed to Gayla Romero at email@example.com.
Applications are put in order by date and time received, but parents who stand in line will have a priority over parents who fax or email their application.
The district office is open from 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and is located at 2075 Trinity Dr., across from Ashley Pond.
We would like to thank everyone in our community who contributed in creating a wonderful morning for the children of our community at the Children's Christmas Bazaar at Trinity on the Hill Episcopal Church during Winterfest on Dec. 3.
One hundred forty one children and their parents enjoyed this community event.
The Los Alamos Public Schools will lose a cog from its well-oiled machine, known more commonly as the Piñon Panthers.
Jose N. Martinez started working as a custodian for LAPS in 1976 and rounds out his career today, with a celebration of his life and work.
Martinez builds the assets of both students and staff by going out of his way to be a smiling presence. He starts out the day by making teachers and staff feel good, which is naturally passed on to the students. He can be found still smiling at the end of a long day, which is a sight also welcomed by staff.
Martinez commutes each day through all types of weather, which indicates his personal integrity and quiet dignity.
NEW YORK (AP) — "The Protester" has been named Time's "Person of the Year" for 2011.
The selection was announced Wednesday on NBC's "Today" show.
The magazine cited dissent across the Middle East that has spread to Europe and the United States, and says these protesters are reshaping global politics.
Last year, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg got the honor.
Time's "Person of the Year" is the person or thing that has most influenced the culture and the news during the past year for good or for ill. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke received the honor in 2009.
The 2008 winner was then-President-elect Barack Obama.
Despite the weather, construction activities continue at the site of the new municipal building on Central Avenue.
The last LA Apartment building has been demolished. Clearing and clean up work continue at the east end of the site, county officials said.
Site work for the new buildings -- which include the Municipal Building, Historic Archives and County Records Center -- along with its related infrastructure work on Iris Street continues.
Road work continues through December, impacting Iris, 15th and Central Avenue, with lane drops, full closures or partial closures necessary to complete installation of the utilities to the building site just east of the Bradbury Science Museum.
Santa Fe passport office reopens
SANTA FE — Santa Fe residents have a local passport office again.
U.S. Senator Tom Udall announced Tuesday that the Santa Fe Passport office has re-opened after a five-week closure.
Udall sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton two weeks ago urging the prompt re-opening of the office after he was notified of its closure by a constituent. He says he is pleased the passport office has reopened in a timely manner and at a time when families are preparing for holiday travel. While the office was closed, the closest passport services available for Santa Fe residents were at the Los Alamos office.
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Open-world games often share common design trends: a large area to explore freely, individuals or wildlife to interact with, and a lot of things to do. These are obvious, but there are less apparent tricks devs use to really help to develop the game world and give the player a sense of size and scale.
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GLP Worldwide has announced it is teaming up with the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) and the Taiwan Tourism Bureau (TTB). The partnership reflects its continuing strategy to form relationships with key tourism boards that reflect its focus on cultural, immersive and adventure related travel.
"We want to expand our presence and footprint with Canadian travel agents and this partnership with Hong Kong and Taiwan enhances our own marketing efforts and showcases the distinct itineraries that GLP Worldwide can offer to these destinations, " said Alan Law, GLP Worldwide director of sales and marketing.
GLP Worldwide, HKTB and TTB will partner on various marketing and promotional activities in order to increase the number of guests travelling to Hong Kong and Taiwan. Currently more than 50 flights connect Canada with Hong Kong and Taiwan with additional flights expected in the future. Taiwan is only a short 90-minute flight from Hong Kong. It is becoming increasingly popular for multi destination travel in Asia.
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My family stayed at this property on Nov 22 while traveling on vacation. This property must have made the minimum effort when Hampton Inn changed its look a few years ago. There is nothing deluxe about the rooms and they are not as "perfectly clean" as most Hampton Inns. Even the amenities in the bathroom are minimal, just shampoo and moisturizer (not even conditioner). I am a Diamond HHonors member and normally would be provided bottled water but none was provided. The hotel is also undergoing construction to expand its capacity so a section of the parking lot is closed. However, these problems were minor compared to the main point of irritation, an unresponsive staff that appeared to not be empowered by management and management that is unresponsive to complaints from guests.
When I told the front desk clerk that there was no bottled water or conditioner in my room, he replied that the hotel "never" provides conditioner, only shampoo. He also told me that the hotel was out of bottled water and added that "we don't provide mouthwash either..." I then went to a local store to buy both conditioner and bottled water. When I left the handicapped parking space in which I was parked (one of my children is severely disabled and wheelchair-bound), there were at least three open handicapped spaces. When I returned 20 minutes later, ALL of the parking lot spaces were taken including handicapped spaces. I noticed that a car with neither a handicap placard nor a handicap license plate was parked in one of the spaces designated for handicapped guests and reported it to the desk clerk. He explained that the construction made parking at the hotel tight. I asked that he have the car towed and that he report my dissatisfaction with that condition and the others stated above. He refused, restating the impact of construction on parking, and accused me of being condescending. If my family had not already fallen asleep, I would have left immediately.
This property is a dump compared to other Hampton Inns in which I've stayed. Clearly, the management does not care about either HHonors status (none of the advertised perks, not even a smooth check-in... the clerk had to hunt and peck to find my reservation and never even made a semi-cordial welcoming gesture) or adhering to the Americans with Disabilities Act. I was not satisfied and made my dissatisfaction known with no response from management. Bottom line: this property needs to go the way of other sub-standard Hampton Inns and become a Howard Johnson, Ramada, or Comfort Inn. It's an embarrassment to an otherwise reliable hotel chain.
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NATO Chief Auditor Yves Chandelon found dead in suspicious incident
Yves Chandelon, the chief auditor of NATO relating to terrorism financing and money laundering, has been found dead in his car in an incident that raises suspicions.
62-year-old Chandelon's death, resembling a suicide with a shot fired to his head, occurred on Dec. 16 and the body was found in his car the same day although the incident was largely kept away from the media. Belgian press started covering the incident on Dec. 21 as his family raised suspicions about his death.
Despite Chandelon being left-handed, a gun was found in his right hand, and the gun was not one of Chandelon's three registered guns. These details raised suspicions about an assassination rather than a suicide.
His body was found near the town of Andenne in Belgium's Ardennes region, some 140 kilometers away from his office at NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NPSA) in Capellen, Luxembourg and 100 kilometers away from his residence in the town of Tournai. He was reportedly visiting a friend.
Chandelon's death occurred three days before the murder of Russia's Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov in Ankara on Dec. 19. Another Russian diplomat, Petr Polshikov, was also found dead in his apartment in Moscow the same day.


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Family of man killed on building site demand answers
THE family of a workman killed in a building site fall have demanded to know how the tragedy could happen just hours after a similar incident at the same place.
Scott Harrower, 42, from Maddiston, in Falkirk, Stirlingshire, suffered fatal injuries after falling 25ft through the roof of an industrial unit that was being demolished in Stockport, near Manchester, last Tuesday.
He was the second of two men to fall from the same roof, on the same day, in two separate incidents.
Police and paramedics were called to the site at 9.15am on Tuesday, January 21, then again at 3.50pm that day.
The other man who fell, a 45-year-old workmate of Mr Harrower's who is also from Scotland, remains in a serious condition.
After serious industrial accidents, sites are often closed until the cause is determined by health and safety experts. But it is understood officials from the Health and Safety Executive had not been called to the scene by the time of the second fall, which proved fatal.
Mr Harrower was airlifted to hospital with serious head and body injuries, but died the following day, with his family, including his son Justin, 19, and daughter Robyn, 14, at his side.
His family have said that they are unable to start grieving for the father-of-two, who was also an organ donor, until they find out what happened that day.
And they revealed that, the day before the accident, he had told them of a "scare" he had had when colleagues had to pull him back up onto the roof.
We can't even think about things like the funeral until we get answers about what happened that day
Carla Cochrane, Mr Harrower's sister, said: "After that first fall, they should have closed things down and then done safety checks on everything before anyone went back up on that roof.
"We can't even think about things like the funeral until we get answers about what happened that day.
"My brother wasn't the type to make a fuss, but he would be the first to raise his concerns if he thought something wasn't right."
His son Justin said: "We were able to go in and see him before he died. They told me that my dad was badly injured and to be prepared for that, but there wasn't a mark on him."
Both men are understood to have been contracted to pull down two metal units previously occupied by a furnishings company.
The estate is believed to be managed by the Brookhouse Group on behalf of the owners.
It is understood that the firm then contracted the Rochdale-based C Smith and Sons company to carry out the work.
No one from C Smith and Sons was available to comment on the tragedy last night.
The Greater Manchester Police and Health and Safety Executive investigation continues.
After his death, Mr Harrowers' organs were used to give the chance of life to five people, including a baby.


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PANIC buying of bottled water broke out in Bathurst today after the citys water treatment plant broke down overnight.
The shelves of one Woolworths store were completely empty of bottled water by 5.30pm.
Bathurst Regional Council issued a warning on its Facebook page at 3pm, as did local police, eight hours after the problem was discovered.
Residents were told to boil tap water for a minute before drinking.
Panic buying of water in Bathurst. No bottled water available on shelves here at Woolworths in Bathurst. pic.twitter.com/7Z2aXHn49e— Brenden Wood (@BrendenWood) June 28, 2013
"Council does take this issue very seriously and has issued the boiled water message accordingly as a precautionary measure," Bathurst Regional Council General Manager David Sherley said.
"It is hoped the problem will be rectified within the next 48 hours.
Residents took to Facebook to vent their frustration: Gregthebogan Fitzgerald: Oh great, I've drank about 2 litres already today. Thought it seemed a bit off. Does this mean I can expect to be parked on the loo for a good portion of the evening?
Chrissie White: Why has it taken 6 hours to get the word out? As a parent of children that are not at daycare or school today, I am not impressed with the lack of communication. What about the other 20,000 residents in town that aren't in hospital, school or a daycare centre? My children have been drinking water all morning! Poor form Bathurst Regional Council.
Teesha Roberts: Have also only just seen this! My 22mth old and I have been drinking tap water all day! It's pretty bloody slack of the council to not have released this info when they found out this morning!! If it's not even safe for animals to consume then it's sounds like it's pretty damn serious then! They should have called every single household to let people know!
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The number of Green ICT conferences and workshops rebounded in 2016 after slumping the previous year. Europe continues to host more events than do other regions.
The original directory of upcoming and past Green IT conferences is now the Green ICT Conference Directory. We did this because of the increasing number that include or focus on sustainability in communications - the "C" in Green ICT
(The chart, based on our Green ICT conference directory, counts co-located events as one conference.)
We took a look at use of Twitter to promote GreenICT events during the six-month period running from Nov 2015 to Apr 2016. Only 1 in 14 — 7% — had an event-specific account or hashtag! We can speculate that this reflects the academic culture of the organizers for many of these events. The situation appears not to have improved during the remainder of 2016.


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We all knew that the downfall was coming, and now it's official, as Scheana Shay is filing for a divorce after only being married to her husband, Mike Shay, for two years.
Scheana reportedly started divorce proceedings on Wednesday, and had this to say to TMZ:
We might have failed at our marriage, but we are committed to succeeding as friends and will continue to support each other's personal happiness and professional success.
It was obvious that there was some major trouble in paradise when Mike decided to peace out in November, after reportedly cleaning out the couples' joint bank account.
Scheana, in ultra-dramatic fashion, was trying to say that she had no idea where Mike had went, and that she feared he was suffering from a relapse.
It was also revealed that Scheana was just lying in a desperate attempt to get some publicity, but apparently there really was some trouble going on in their marriage, and Scheana tried to capitalize on it for all that it's worth.
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Up to 1.5 million people visit Lake Roosevelt every year to enjoy its wide open spaces and almost limitless recreational opportunities. The unspoiled nature of the lake, however, is no accident…
While the roots of its scenic beauty date back to the ice age floods, the formation and management of the lake is distinctly modern. With the closing of Grand Coulee Dam's gates in 1942, the resulting reservoir (called Franklin D. Roosevelt or Lake Roosevelt for short) extends north over 150 miles and provides over 630 miles of shoreline. The shoreline within the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area is managed by the National Park Service. The shorelines within the Colville and Spokane reservations are managed by the respective tribes. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is also a managing partner at Lake Roosevelt. The managing partners work closely with other federal, state and county agencies.
The result is a continuous commitment to enhance and preserve the environment and cultural resources while developing strong, healthy communities.


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