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TCP 100 North America"s Largest Concrete Producers
A family-owned producer since 1959, when it was known as Escondido Ready Mix Concrete, it was renamed to reflect a commitment to superior service after expanding and acquiring businesses in southern California. Today, the producer supplies customers with concrete, aggregates, and asphalt from more than 20 plants. At its Hemet, Calif., location, the producer operates a construction supply yard including block, decorative rock, sand, tools, and building materials. www.superiorrm.com
Originally established in 1967 to make precast and prestressed concrete for the bridge, marine, and structural industries, this producer has expanded its product line to include platforms for the petrochemical industry, precast segmental sections for long-span bridges, and large diameter spun-cast cylinder pile for large foundation projects. It maintains 22 multi-project casting beds and a large concrete slab area for match-cast and precast items on its 70-acre site. An automated, twin-turbine central mix batch plant supplies concrete to the casting beds, with the capacity of producing 600 yards daily. www.gcprestress.com
This producer supplies ready-mix throughout Mississippi and southwestern Alabama. Subsidiaries include Jackson Ready-Mix, Tri State Ready-Mix, Americrete Ready-Mix, and Gulf States Ready-Mix. Since 1945, it has grown from a single location that produced 1000 yards of concrete a day to more than 30 locations, producing upwards of 1 million yards annually. The producer's commitment to customer service led it to develop the Delta Academy, an in-house training program for employees that includes a week of classroom training and a week of field training. www.delta-ind.com
Contrary to its name, this is not merely a pipe producer. Grand Junction offers precast, ready-mix, aggregates, and irrigation products to complement its extensive line of pipe. A major producer of precast products in Colorado and Utah, its precast is used for irrigation, drainage, and decorative applications. Its ready-mix operation serves the Grand Junction and Grand Valley areas in Colorado, and it owns and operates several gravel pits in the Grand Junction area. www.gjpipe.com
Cranesville has the distinction of being one of New York's largest ready-mix producers, as well as one of the state's original block and precast manufacturers. Its aggregate subsidiary, Cranesville Aggregate Co., operates 10 sites that provide sand and stone to the ready-mix operation. With 24 plants, three portable plants, and one portable wet plant, the producer serves an area from the southern edge of New York City, north to the Canadian border, and as far west as Rochester, N.Y. Cranesville has been operating since 1947. www.cranesville.com
Provides ready-mix and bulk material to Chicago and northwest Indiana from 27 locations. Chicago Cement, a wholly-owned subsidiary, coordinates the supply of all cementitious materials used by Ozinga's ready-mix operations. In 2008, Ozinga hired a vice president of green building, positioning itself to help meet the city of Chicago's commitment to become the most environmentally friendly city in the world. The Ozinga family is affiliated with a diverse mix of business ventures, including a marine terminal on the Calumet River, a catering company near Chicago, and a California handbag company. www.ozinga.com
Although this precast producer serves the building and agricultural trades with retaining walls and septic tanks, four of Suhor's five business units focus on the funeral services niche. Specialty products include concrete burial vaults, lawn crypts, and memorials. SI Funeral Services operates in 10 states, providing burial vaults, cremation services, cremation caskets, urns, urn vaults, grave digging, and graveside services. SI Construction Services installs lawn crypts, columbarium niches, and mausoleums. SI Memorials designs, manufactures, and installs monuments and memorials, and SI Veteran Memorials helps communities build tributes to honor those who have served our country. www.suhor.com
With three plants in Wisconsin and one in northern Illinois, this family-owned producer supplies precast for everything from buildings and bridges to monuments. President John Nagy credits his company's success to its involvement in diverse markets, such as green building and disaster relief projects. The producer is developing a new precast concrete truss building system designed to save time and money in the construction process. The Spancrete Studio, a corporate-sponsored course, teaches U.S. architectural students about precast concrete, fabrication, and construction. www.spancrete.com
Supplies concrete to the Las Vegas area with nine batch plants. The producer also provides sand and gravel from its Lone Mountain Gravel Pit at the base of the Spring Mountains in northwest Las Vegas. The quarry produces limestone and dolomite for the producer's own concrete, aggregate for public works and transportation projects, and sand for the city's finest golf courses. Since its incorporation in 1989, it has produced and placed more than 30 million yards of concrete and more than 22 million tons of aggregate in greater Las Vegas. www.nevadareadymix.com
The concrete, aggregates, and paint producer operates under the names Empresas Master, Master Paints & Chemical Corp., and Master Décor. In 2008, Empresas Master, the concrete and aggregates division, was ranked No. 101 on Caribbean Business newspaper's annual list of Puerto Rico's Top 400 locally owned companies. Master Décor manufactures expanded polystyrene (EPS) decorative moldings. Master Products employs 400 people. www.mastergroup-pr.com
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The Huskies (32-21), who finished second in the Pac-12, will face No. 2 seed UC Santa Barbara (37-18) in a noon PT matchup (ESPN3) on Friday. The Gauchos finished third in the Big West Conference this season at 13-11.
Utah batted around and scored five runs in four different innings to cruise to a 21-7 regular-season ending win over Washington in a winner-take-all game Sunday at Smith's Ballpark.
Utah scored seven times in the seventh inning to flip a three-run deficit into a four-run lead and went on to beat the visiting Huskies, 12-8, to even the series at a game apiece and earn at least a share of the Pac-12 Championship.
The Huskies watched a 4-0 lead disappear, but junior third baseman Chris Baker saved the day as he tripled home the winning run in the ninth inning to give Washington a bounce-back 5-4 win over Utah and move into a first-place tie atop the Pac-12 standings.
The scenario is simple this weekend in Salt Lake City between No. 15 Washington (31-19, 16-11 Pac-12) and host Utah (23-26, 17-10): the first team to win twice will be crowned the 2016 Pac-12 Champion.
Tuesday's non-conference game vs. Washington State at Yakima County Stadium has been called due to unsafe field conditions. The game will not be rescheduled.
Don't tell 15th-ranked Washington and Washington State that tonight's non-conference baseball game in Yakima is meaningless. When the two cross-state rivals meet at Yakima County Stadium at 6:30 p.m. the Huskies will have revenge on the mind and the Cougars will have a chance to cement bragging rights for the calendar year.
Washington junior infielder Chris Baker was named Pac-12 Player of the Week after hitting .588 (10 for 17) in four games last week for the Huskies. Baker (San Mateo, Calif.) had multiple hits in each game as the Huskies went 3-1 last week.
The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association has released the list of semifinalists for the 2016 Dick Howser Trophy, presented by Easton Foundations, and Washington senior pitcher Troy Rallings was among the candidates.
Four Husky pitchers combined to throw a two-hit shutout Sunday as Washington sent their six seniors out on a high note beating Stanford, 4-0, Sunday afternoon in the final regular-season home game at Husky Ballpark.
Stanford catcher Alex Dunlap hit a 12th inning home run to cap a 5 for 6 day and sent the visiting Cardinal to a wild, seesaw 8-7 win over Washington at Husky ballpark on Saturday.
**UPDATE**Due to rain, the start time of Saturday's game between Washington and Stanford at Husky Ballpark has been pushed back to 3:30 p.m.

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WASHINGTON - Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences. Today, the Supreme Court's nine fine minds will hear arguments about the meaning of "the" and "happen." What they decide could advance the reining in of rampant executive power.
"The president," says the Constitution, "shall have the power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate" (emphasis added). Monday's case concerns whether President Barack Obama made recess appointments when the Senate was not in recess, to fill vacancies that did not happen during a recess.
In 2012 the National Labor Relations Board rendered a decision adverse to a soft-drink bottler in Yakima, Wash. The bottler asked the court to declare the NLRB's intervention unlawful because it did not have a quorum, three members having been installed by Obama when the Senate was not in recess as the Framers understood this term.
Republicans, wanting to block some Obama nominations, used a practice Democrats used in 2007 when they controlled the Senate and wanted to block some George W. Bush nominees. Under a unanimous consent agreement - no Democrat objected - pro forma sessions occurred on Jan. 3 and Jan. 6 of 2012. Obama declared the Senate in recess Jan. 4 and made his NLRB appointments, thereby disregarding the Senate's determination of the rules of its proceedings, and the settled practice both parties have used to remain not in recess even when most senators are away. The administration argues that the word "happen" is a synonym for "exist." And it rejects the argument that an intra-session Senate break is a synonym for "adjournment," not "recess." This ignores the reasonable reading of the definite article: Recess appointments fill vacancies that "happen," meaning come about, during "the" recess of the Senate -the one break that occurs between sessions.
The first president made the first recess appointment in the first year of his first term, in 1789, when travel was slow and Congress was usually not in session. Obama contends that in today's world of instant communication and easy travel, he deserves almost unlimited recess appointment power.
His administration argues that "at least 14 presidents have, collectively, made at least 600 civilian appointments (and thousands of military ones) during intra-session recesses." But Obama's action is characteristic of his aggressive expansion of presidential power. He is the first president to make recess appointments when the Senate was convening pro forma sessions every three days, and he has articulated an anti-constitutional defense: "I refuse to take no for an answer. ⦠When Congress refuses to act ... I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them." If he really can refuse a "no" answer, then the Senate's role in the process is vitiated.
Now the court should apprise him of what he cannot do. Which means a Madisonian dialectic is occurring: The executive's usurpation of power has provoked the legislature, precipitating an overdue judicial intervention. The Constitution's text may be at odds with historical practice.
Because the ability to defeat by filibuster some nominees recently has been restricted, presidents will have less need to resort to recess appointments. Nevertheless, were the court to uphold Obama's action, two of the Senate's constitutional powers would be reduced -the power to "determine the rules of its proceedings," and to reject presidential nominees.
Many presidents have chafed against limits to their power, but in progressive presidents normal political ambition is alloyed with a validating ideology. Woodrow Wilson provided the progressive template by disparaging the separation of powers as an impediment to the presidential power requisite for the modern age.
Today's argument will be another manifestation of America's intermittent efforts to tame executive power: The Declaration of Independence is a menu of complaints against "the present King of Great Britain."
The present president's approach to statutes and the Constitution makes today's argument important.
GEORGE WILL writes for The Washington Post. email@example.com.
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Video and video game rental giant Blockbuster is not going to exist by the end of January 2014. Parent company Dish Network announced today that it will shut down its retail and by-mail rental distribution operations by early January 2014. The 300 remaining retail stores in the United States and distribution centers will also be closed.
"This is not an easy decision, yet consumer demand is clearly moving to digital distribution of video entertainment," Dish CEO Joseph P. Clayton said in a statement.
Dish does go on to say that the Blockbuster brand will live on through expanded digital offerings. Dish will retain licensing rights to the Blockbuster brand, which includes key assets like the company's "significant video library." Dish also plans to continue offering the Blockbuster @Home service to subscribers, and the Blockbuster On Demand program will live on indefinitely.
On a related note, Joystiq reports that Microsoft and Sony will honor pre-orders made through Blockbuster UK for their respective next-gen consoles..
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I was just wondering what the difference between say the A321-211 vs. -212 and the A321-231 vs. -232 were? I know that A321s with the -211 are CFM and -231 are IAE powered, but specifically, what is the difference between the -211 and -212/-214? Then what is the difference between the -231 and -232?
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Screen flicker when tapping harder than normal
So I got in my car and I tapped the screen a little harder than normal and the screen did this white flash kind of thing. I did it a couple other times and I could totally reproduce this. Would someone be willing to check this out in their ST ? Just tap the touch screen harder than you normally would and see if yours does this.
Just a quick observation, don't tap it like that. My computer screen will flicker under my finger tips if I push on it. So I don't do that.
that would be normal for a soft screen touch. try it on your phone and it won't do it.
Careful... or else you'll be buying a new screen
I cant completely believe that as my wifes navigation doesn't do that in her SUV
She probably has the harder glass screen.
What's your point? Is it the exact same navigation system as yours? Probably not, because if it was you wouldn't be asking.
my point is your response was a generalized statement based on my original post. your post clearly stereotyped all touch screen navigation units.
and if it was the same navigation system as mine I would be more likely to ask since it would appear that it shouldnt be happening.
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Why it pays to be a patient blogger
Nov 29th
I have a "healthy impatience." Most successful business people do. But that is not necessarily an ideal quality to have as a beginning blogger!
Blogging success does not arrive at your doorstep wrapped up in a pretty bow. You have to work hard and have A LOT of patience.
- Last month, I had more page views than in my entire first year of blogging. A lot more.
- Ari Herzog recently left the 25,000th comment on my blog. After my first year, I had less than 100. And most of them were mine : )
- Uber blogger Chris Brogan famously said that it took him three years to attract his first 100 blog subscribers.
The point is, the overnight success thing worked for Justin Bieber, but it probably won't work for you and your blog,
You. Must. Be. Patient.
Focus on creating the best possible content. Insanely great content.
When you get a reader, love them like crazy.
Help others, Support other new bloggers.
Take risks. Try it and see what happens.
Handle criticism with grace. It's a sign of success. A reason to smile, in fact.
Be yourself. Really yourself. That's your competitive advantage.
Be consistent. Just keep writing.
Have the courage to hit that publish button, even when you know it's not perfect.
And yes … be patient. It will happen. It will happen. It will happen.
3 steps to make the most of your eMail list
Nov 28th
By Neicole Crepeau, Contributing {grow} Columnist
You've got an email list and you're continually adding to it. But are you using your email list effectively? It's a fine balancing act leveraging your database to keep in front of leads and move them toward a sale, without turning them off and creating unsubscribes.
Here are three steps to use your email list to better facilitate the sale:
- Segment, nurture, and segment some more.
- Create a trigger to identify prospects.
- Give prospects content to engage other decision makers.
Segment, nurture, and segment some more
You've heard it before: to leverage your email list, it's best to segment so you can provide personalized emails and content to users. The more data you have about users, the better able you are to segment them. The one piece of data you can most easily gather is the original source of the user's email address.
If you are a B2B company, you probably get email addresses in a variety of ways. You might acquire lists, attend tradeshows, do talks or sponsorships, use content marketing with free downloads in exchange for an email address, etc. If you are using marketing automation software or a CRM, it will make it easier to track and store information about sourcing. Otherwise, you'll have to make the extra effort to structure your website, content, and activities to obtain the necessary information.
However you gather and store the addresses and lead gen source, you'll want to create one or more email campaigns to nurture these leads and qualify them. The campaign serves several purposes: staying top-of-mind, building a trust relationship, providing information about your business as appropriate, and moving the user closer to a sale. Based on how you obtained the lead, you'll want to deliver different content and messaging. Here are guidelines for some common scenarios:
|Data to Gather and Follow-Up
|Through your booth at a tradehow
|Record: Record whether the lead saw a demo or spoke with a sales person and, if possible, what products/services were they interested in.Follow-up: When you get leads from a show, create an email nurturing campaign to send a series of emails to users to stay top-of-mind and move them toward a sale. If the user saw you at a tradeshow, you can begin further down the sales funnel and message the user directly about your product/services.Take advantage of the information you recorded about whether they saw a demo or talked with someone, and the particular products/services they were interested in. Personalize the campaign to reference and highlight them, messaging different groups of users from the tradeshow based on their interest and activity at the show.
|An attendee at your
conference talk or webinar
|Record: Record what talk/webinar the user attended, i.e. what topic the user was interested in. Consider including a question or two in the webinar sign-up form (or post-talk assessment). Use questions that can help you better target the user post-webinar. For example, let the user select from a list of common business challenges that your product/service addresses, a list of technologies the customer uses, or the customers assessment of the skill level of the organization. Whatever will help you better message the customer.Follow-up: Based on the talk/webinar topic or the questions you asked, follow up with people who attended by providing useful content. Create emails and free content that adds value to attendees: a checklist, more details on the webinar topic, information they can use to immediately improve their business, etc. In this context, it's reasonable to include a fairly direct pitch of your products/services as well.
|Content marketing lead, such as someone downloading a free informational eBook or whitepaper
|Record: Record the topic of the free content the user downloaded.Follow-up: You know what the user is interested in, so give them more. Follow-up here requires a light touch, though. In most cases, content marketing involves providing valuable, general information to users. These users didn't come looking for your products or services. They were just looking for information. If you start off your relationship with them by sending a sales email, you have a higher chance of an unsubscribes.Instead, nurture the relationship with valuable content on the same or related topics to the one that originally garnered their email address. You can include soft sell information about your products/services in the content. If your automation software enables it, track which emails the user opens, and what content the user opens. Then segment the user again based on this data into a list that lets you send even more targeted emails and content.
Only after providing valuable, free content for some time should you attempt a more direct sales pitch. Try to personalize the pitch emails, too, leveraging the topics you know the user cares about to craft an email that covers the value your product/services provides in the context of that topic.
|Newsletter/blog sign-up
|Record: If possible, record the topic of the post or newsletter that caused the user to sign up.Follow-up: If you know what topics incented the user to sign up, use the same approach as content marketing above to nurture the user with valuable and free content. If you don't have that information, your job is to use the newsletter and other emails to try to determine what the user cares about: what business challenges he/she is struggling with that are relevant to your products or services, what communities or technologies the customers is engaged with , or whatever other information will help you to engage with and sell to this lead.When you have that information, you can provide messaging and content of value to the user, and use the same content marketing approach to build trust before making a sales pitch—again customized around the particular user's interests or needs.
Create a trigger to identify prospects
You've been nurturing your leads through email and some great, free content. Maybe you've given the user insight into your products or services. To keep leads moving to a sale, at some point you need to have a trigger or gate. The goal is to give the user the opportunity to move to the next stage and become a prospect: someone definitively interested in your product.
Offer the user something that, if accepted, will clearly indicate his or her interest. Examples of clear triggers might be a free evaluation or trial version of your product, a personal demo, a call from a sales representative, or a free analysis or consultation. A good trigger is something that requires a level of investment on the user's part and that demonstrates sincere interest, if not a commitment to, purchasing.
Less than optimal but still advantageous are triggers such as signing up for a webinar that is clearly a demo of the product, downloading specific product information, and similar actions that show the user wants more information about the product or services, specifically. Users who pass this gate may still need nurturing with informational content, but also are ready for explicit messaging about your company's products/services, special offers, etc.
Give prospects content to engage other decision makers
In a B2B sale, you need to keep in mind that your prospect may not be the only decision maker. The more costly your product or service, the more likely that others will have to approve the decision. Similarly, products or services that affect larger numbers of people in the organization or require changes to technology or processes are likely to require multiple approvers.
Here's where your email list can once again be useful. You have a contact within the organization in the form of your prospect. Hopefully, you've managed to turn your prospect into an advocate for your product or services. At this point, it's time to start providing ammunition for the prospect to use to inform and sway others in the organization.
If you haven't already done so, analyze your sales cycle to understand who in customer organization is generally involved in the buy decision and those peoples' concerns, barriers, and obstacles. If you don't have that information, talk directly to your sales people who probably do have those insights.
Based on the information you receive, develop email messaging and supporting content that you can provide via email. Think about direct and indirect content. You might include facts, dollar figures, and statistics that support the benefits a purchase can bring. You might provide very direct content, such as white papers with titles like "5 Reasons to Upgrade to xxx" or "What yyy Can Do for Your Bottom Line." Consider, also, creating webinars or events geared toward other decision-makers in the organization, such as the C-suite, and sending invites to your prospects that they can forward on at the correct time.
Leveraging your email list in this manner takes time and careful analysis. Depending upon the tools you're using, it can also be challenging to fully implement. On the other hand, if you follow these three steps, you'll be taking full advantage of your list, gathering more information about leads and prospects, and using that information to the best advantage to qualify leads and make sales.
Neicole Crepeau is the Senior Marketing Manager at Vizit Corporation, and blogs at Coherent Social Media. She's the creator of CurateXpress, a content curation tool. Connect with Neicole on Twitter at @neicolec
The kid who wanted a door for Christmas
Nov 27th
In the spirit of the holiday season, I would like to tell you a little Christmas story.
For the past three years, I've mentored a bright young boy named Elijah. Elijah is growing up in small, crowded house with his three brothers and a sister (all by different fathers — none of them are around). There is also an unrelated 12-month-old baby from another unwed mother being raised in this household.
I started working with Elijah through an organization called Amachi, which pairs adult role models with at-risk kids who have at least one parent in prison. Elijah's father was murdered when he was two. His mother was serving several years in a federal penitentiary when I became involved with the family.
Elijah is fortunate in many ways. He is being raised in a loving home by his grandmother. His clothes are always clean and he's never hungry. His grandmother Patsy suffers from a variety of health problems but manages to get those kids to school every day. She often works until 2 in the morning cooking and cleaning and is almost always exhausted. When I asked her where she would want to go on a vacation some day, she said it would not matter because all she would do is sleep. In my book, she is a true hero.
Sometimes it's frustrating to love Elijah so much because he is in such a challenging situation. Last year, the house next door to his was raided for drugs. Another day, he was telling me about a cousin who was stabbed 20 times and died. Last year a relative took him on "a walk" and then abandoned him alone in the middle of the city, five miles from his house (without money or a cell phone).
When I hear about these things, I feel helpless. Really the only thing I can do is support him and teach him how to make good decisions. When I started working with him when he was just seven, he asked me if I would teach him how to be a man. I think about that every single time I see him and I am determined to do that.
With Christmas approaching, he is excited like every other kid. When I asked him what he wanted for Christmas, he got shy and started drawing a square in the air. We often play little guessing games like this so I tried to guess what kind of a box he was making with his fingers.
"Is it a an X-Box?" I asked?
He shook his head no.
"A Playstation? Is it a special kind of racing game that comes in a box?"
Again, he shook his head no. Finally I had to give up. I had no idea what he was trying to tell me.
"It's a door," he said. "Just a door."
Now you might want to know why a 10-year-old kid would want a door for Christmas. With his house so jam-packed with people, Elijah is sleeping in a dining area next to a living room. Because the dining area has no door, he is awake all night from the sounds of the television and anything else that might be going on with the various adults who might be in the house. So he wants a door so he can go to sleep.
Well, obviously if he needs a door, I am going to get him a door. But here is where I would like to ask for your help.
There are so many other children in need who do not have a mentor to help them with their homework, teach them how to be a man (or woman), or install a door so an awesome child can get some sleep.
Here's what I want you to consider: I'm here for you every day. I've written almost 1,000 blog posts and have never asked for a single favor. If you love me, if you love this blog and this community, please donate a few dollars to Amachi today so this organization can keep doing the important work of matching caring people with children who desperately need a loving adult in their lives.
The door's on me. And here's what else I'll do. I'll match every penny the {grow} community donates to Amachi up to $1,000. This is a national charity that is turning lives around. Please help by sharing this post and considering a small donation (by pushing the button below) if your budget allows it. Thank you and Merry Christmas!
Update: If you are just stumbling on to this post, you can find out how this project went here: "The Results Are In: An Experiment in Social Influence. The final total raised was $5,900. but if you care to donate, I will leave this Donation button "on" and will pass 100% of all donations on to the Amachi Charity.
Also, when I delivered our first check to Amachi, Elijah and I visited the Amachi Office with the surprise donation. You can watch the video here: Amachi video.
Does it pay to be honest on Twitter?
Nov 25th
Does it pay to be honest on Twitter? Increasingly, the answer may be "no."
In the past, I've written a blog post about my life in social media each time I hit a milestone on Twitter. 10,000 followers, 20,000 followers, etc.
Last week I hit 50,000 followers so I thought I would reflect on one of the philosophical issues I'm dealing with. Maybe it will help and support you in your journey too.
I hit this milestone exactly one year after I hit 30,000 followers. If you do the math, that's 400 new followers every single week. And actually, it has been a lot more than that because I still cull all the spammers out of my stream (with the help of my wife). So, to the best of my knowledge, all 50,000 of those folks in my Twitter audience are real people.
I've gone back and forth about whether it is worth the effort to evaluate every Twitter follower. In the long run, who cares if I let spammers in the door? So far, I have taken some pride and comfort in knowing that there is nothing fake about my Twitter audience. It is real, it is organic, and it is a very engaging and supportive group. So if I follow you, it means something. I am not "automated."
But is worth it the time I put into it?
Why spammers help your business
This may sound counter-intuitive, but taking the time to cull spammers might actually be hurting my business and online reputation.
If I were not blocking spam Twitter accounts, I estimate I would be approaching 100,000 followers by now. I'm convinced that the social proof of numbers like "likes," "followers," and yes, even a Klout score matter in our online world. Few, if any, people are going to take the time to examine my career and accomplishments before deciding to follow me, read my blog, or even buy my books. But they may look at 100,000 Twitter followers and decide that I am an authority. It is just the way of the world.
I was recently introduced at a speech like this: "I'd like to introduce our keynote speaker Mark Schaefer. He is the author of Return On Influence, has more than 40,000 Twitter followers, and a Klout score of 72. Please welcome him." So, this idea of social proof even lends validation in the offline world!
Being honest. A fool's errand?
So, in review, I am probably wasting resources by cleansing my Twitter account. Nobody really knows or cares about it, I'm probably the only blogger doing it, and it might even be hurting my business in some way.
But I've decided to keep doing it.
Sometimes it doesn't matter what other people think or know. It matters what I think and know. I've come this far without "doping" my Twitter stream with fake accounts to inflate the numbers. I just can't quit now. If somebody asks me how many Twitter followers I have, I don't want a voice in the back of my head saying, "yeah, but most of them are not even real."
In 2009 I wrote a little manifesto called "Why I Block on Twitter." I still believe in this:
1) My Twitter Tribe matters. If I follow you, I choose to do so. No auto-follows, ever. Before I follow, I have read your bio, some of your tweets and probably clicked your link. I have a quality audience and it's staying that way.
2) I want an audience to be proud of. This probably sounds old-fashioned but I don't want to do anything in my life that I wouldn't be proud to disclose to my children. And if they examined my Twitter audience, I would not want them to see a bunch of nymphs peddling their videos. Anybody can see who you're following. What does your audience say about you?
3) I want to protect you. If I block the spamaholics I keep them from my tweets and I keep them, in a small way, from you. I see so many of these folks who copy "Follow Friday" lists trying to lure followers. No. Stay away from my friends dammit.
4) Because I just do not want to play that game. I'm not going to be passive and imply that what they're doing is OK.
Blocking sends a message. If we ALL blocked them, they would have to go away, right?
What do you think? Would you spend the time to go through 400 new Twitter followers every week?
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LEAP for Health
c/o HEEL Project Coordinator, University of Kentucky, 1 Quality St., Suite 692, Lexington, KY 40507, (859) 257-2968
By the time they enter preschool, many American toddlers are already eating a diet thats too high in saturated fat, sugar, and other unhealthy components. But as almost any parent can attest, simply putting a healthier alternative in front of them is not enough. The trick is to get them to actually eat it.
LEAP for Health tackles that challenge with the help of storybooks, crafts, and gentle persuasion. Developed by the University of Kentucky College of Agricultures Cooperative Extension Service, its a 10-part preschool curriculum that teaches children between the ages of 3 and 5 about staying healthy, being physically active, and eating more fruits and vegetables.
Each LEAP (Literacy, Eating and Activity for Preschoolers) lesson begins with the reading of a childrens book that addresses a topic related to food or exercise. Then the kids are encouragednot forced, lest they develop an aversion to carrots or turnips for lifeto taste a food mentioned in the book. The approach is based on research indicating that children are more likely to be willing to try a novel food after hearing a story in which a likable character has a positive experience with the same food.
Each lesson also includes a follow-up activity, which might be anything from a craft project to an exercise session. One day, the young learners may hear Count on Pablo by Barbara Derubertis and then try making their own salsa. On another day, they may follow Anne Rockwells One Bean by conducting a science experiment on beans or making a mosaic out of dried ones. Marc Browns D.W., the Picky Eater reassures them that lots of kids are choosy about what they eat, while the follow-up activity encourages them to have some fun with spinach by tossing a salad with it.
Though health education is the primary focus, the LEAP materials extend the learning into many other curriculum areas. Children learn letters, colors, and shapes; explore the life cycles of plants and butterflies; discover that different groups of people have their own special foods; practice counting and sorting; learn about nutrition; and more. And by basing each lesson on a book, the LEAP materials get children involved with readingone of the most important factors for long-term educational success.
Kids who attend LEAP lessons also take home a family newsletter with ideas for their parents on how to encourage healthier habits at home.
In just the first six months that the LEAP curriculum was in use, more than 140 people were trained to teach the lessons. Sessions have been held in child care centers, libraries, Head Start classrooms, churches, and even homes across the state.
LEAP is part of the larger Health Education through Extension Leadership (HEEL) initiative, which harnesses federal funds and the resources of the Cooperative Extension Service to address a variety of community health issues. HEELs offerings include publications, web sites, seminars, and participatory projects on topics ranging from understanding Medicare prescription drug benefits to fighting the spread of illegal drugs and from increasing your physical activity to improving your mental and emotional health.


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Books: Politics as usual
Books | Two tomes that will make you ask: Is this the best we can do?
In one of her typically scathing reviews, British critic Rosalind Miles wrote, "If you enjoy arrogance for an appetizer, muddle for the main course, dullness for dessert, and absurdity for afters, this is the dish for you." When I read that, I immediately thought of American politics. Perhaps it was my old cynical nature coming through, or perhaps it was simply the result of having just read two very disheartening books about our nation's Republican and Democratic duopoly.
Senator for Sale was written by an obviously disgruntled former aide to the presumptive Republican nominee for president, Bob Dole. Stanley Hilton was the Kansas senator's legal counsel for a few months more than a decade ago. Apparently, he has yet to get over the experience. The portrait he paints of his former boss is hardly becoming. The man who would be president is, he asserts, an arrogant, ruthless, and bitter opportunist whose startling lack of principle and integrity is more than compensated for by an overweening dependence upon special interest groups and shadowy financiers.
Mr. Hilton documents his charge that the senator is little more than a neo-Nixon or a nouveau-Jekyll-Hyde with a myriad of examples of political hijinks, shady deals, and skullduggery.
Obviously designed to skewer Sen. Dole, the exposé actually is more significantly an indictment of the entire political establishment-of which the senator is but one small part. It vividly illustrates the way things get done in Washington, and it is not a pretty picture. For all its personal attacks, sly innuendoes, and stinging accusations, Bob Dole comes off as simply a consummate insider, precisely what he's said he was all along.
Clinton-bashing books abound. Currently topping both the fiction and the nonfiction bestseller lists are books that portray the president in the most derogatory light imaginable. We're Right, They're Wrong by the president's brilliant political strategist, James Carville, is apparently intended to set the record straight. All it does is confirm our worst suspicions.
The book is cocky, profane, and wildly inaccurate. It is a brash assertion of the tired old liberal notion that louder and faster is a good substitute for wiser and better. It is simply an arrogant defense of tired old big government bromides and social welfare nostrums.
Combining smug ambition and lewd familiarity, Mr. Carville brilliantly captures the essence of the current administration's smarm and charm. I was horrified-though I was not surprised. Clearly, with friends like this, Mr. Clinton doesn't really need enemies.
It is rather telling that neither of these books had the effect on me that their authors actually intended-which may very well speak volumes about the effectiveness of most ideologically partisan tirades these days. Chalk them both up to politics as usual. If you're anything like me, reading such bombast will only leave you fitfully wondering, "Is this really the best we can do?"


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Stock Upgrades: Groupon Is Your Deal of the Day
Justin Sharon
Wall Street ratings agencies set the tone for today's stock market.
September has historically been the market's most punk month, but Henry
(NYSE:F) famously said, "History is bunk," and, with his stock surging 3.49% to post its best gain of 2013, who are we to argue? Car companies led equities higher, even as another road rage incident involving
defensive driver
" threatened to derail the rally. Among stocks on the move,
Apple Inc.
(NASDAQ:AAPL) advanced 2.07% as an
analyst established a $777 target on the tech titan
. The same symmetrical sell side researcher started the year by
cutting his prior $1,111 target to $888
, although $666 would surely have been a much better reflection of the equity's devilish action over subsequent months.
ratings reduction
saw Dublin's own
(NASDAQ:RYAAY) implode 8.90%. If such a horror show is enough to drive shareholders to drink hometown hero Guinness, better
hold that thought
. Elsewhere John Thain, whose toilet tastes ran more to
$35,000 commodes during the depths of the Great Recession
, can rest easy.
The Wall Street wrestler
likely owns some stock in
World Wrestling Entertainment
(NYSE:WWE), which jumped 3.03% on a
broker boost
Today in economics, consensus calls for a falloff in factory orders for July and August's Institute for Supply Management non-manufacturing index, each out at 10:00 a.m. Eastern. On the quarterly earnings front,
Smith & Wesson
(NASDAQ:SWHC), and
(NYSE:PAY) are all expected to release results.
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya
(NYSE:BBVA): The Bilbao-based bank is now Outperform from Neutral at Credit Suisse.
Endeavour Silver
(NYSE:EXK): BMO Capital Markets moves the commodity company to Market Perform from Underperform.
Extra Space Storage
(NYSE:EXR): Jefferies juices the industrial Real Estate Investment Trust to Buy from Hold.
Groupon Inc
(NASDAQ:GRPN): The online daily deals outfit is showing strength in today's pre-market trading after getting upgraded to Overweight from Equal-Weight at Morgan Stanley.
HSN, Inc.
(NASDAQ:HSNI): Citigroup hoists the owner of Home Shopping Network to Buy from Neutral.
InterContinental Hotels
(NYSE:IHG): A UBS increase from Buy to Neutral is sending the stock up overseas this morning. The recent precipitous share price decline provides compelling value, in the bank's estimation.
(NYSE:LPX): The building materials stock is lifted by both DA Davidson (Buy from Neutral, with the target taken to $20 from $18) and Deutsche Bank (Buy from Hold.) An accretive acquisition of Ainsworth Lumber is seen as a catalyst, and shares are surging ahead of the opening bell.
Marks & Spencer
(OTCMKTS:MAKSY): The iconic British retailer is rising in London trading today after being boosted to Overweight from Neutral by HSBC Securities.
Omnicom Group
(NYSE:OMC): Lazard upgrades the advertising giant to Buy from Neutral.
RRSat Global Communications
(NASDAQ:RRST): Shares are raised to Outperform from Perform with a $10 price objective at Oppenheimer, which cites this week's acquisition of European content management among its favorable factors.
(NYSE:SHW): The paint and coatings company is lifted to Buy from Neutral at Longbow.
(NYSEMKT:TGD): BMO Capital takes the small cap company to Outperform from Market Perform.
(NYSE:RIG): Credit Suisse takes the oil services outfit to Outperform from Neutral.
(NASDAQ:UFPI): Shares are now Buy from Neutral at DA Davidson, which notes that its exposure to residential construction is under 20% of total revenues.
(OTCMKTS:VIVEF): The French firm gets hoisted to Overweight from Equal-Weight at Morgan Stanley.
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2010 Annual Survey of violations of trade union rights - Ghana
|International Trade Union Confederation
|Publication Date
|9 June 2010
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|International Trade Union Confederation, 2010 Annual Survey of violations of trade union rights - Ghana, 9 June 2010, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4c4fec793d4.html [accessed 24 May 2016]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Population: 23,800,000
Capital: Accra
ILO Core Conventions Ratified: 29 – 87 – 98 – 100 – 105 – 111 – 182
Four workers were arrested and several wounded by rubber bullets when they were forcibly removed from their steel plant for starting a strike. The labour legislation does not sufficiently secure trade union rights, and the authorities retain some discretionary powers over unions.
Trade union rights in law
Although the Labour Act has been brought more into line with international labour standards, problematic areas remain. For starters, the Emergency Powers Act 1994 is still in force, and grants the authorities extensive powers to suspend any law and prohibit public meetings and processions. Many categories of workers are also excluded from the Labour Act, including managerial workers, the definition of whom is very broad. If there are multiple unions at a workplace, the "chief labour officer" has discretionary powers to decide which union will be awarded the collective bargaining "certificate" needed to negotiate with the employer. Albeit the right to strike is guaranteed in the Labour Act, it can be limited in private enterprises if the workers' services are deemed essential to the enterprise's survival, and in essential services, which includes many sectors that fall outside the ILO definition.
Trade union rights in practice and violations in 2009
Background: Strong gold and cocoa prices protected the country from the worst effects of the global economic crisis, but it was nonetheless affected by high food and fuel prices and an energy crisis. To help reduce its budget deficit, Ghana received a 600 million dollar three-year loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in July 2009.
Employers use court decision to undermine trade union rights: Although freedom of association is protected in law, in practice this is undermined by a 2008 decision of the Accra High Court concerning Ghana Telecommunications Limited (GT) to the effect that employers could hire and fire without giving any reasons for the termination of employment. Mr Kofi Asamoah, secretary general of the GTUC, warned at the 2009 May Day rally that some employers were using the ruling to get rid of so-called troublesome workers and unionists.
Persistent violations in export processing zones (EPZ): Some employers in the free zones have persistently resisted the unionisation of their employees, despite the protection provided by the 2003 Labour Act. Blue Skies Products (Gh) Ltd (a subsidiary of Blue Skies Holdings UK), an EPZ fruit processing company that employs over one thousand workers, has consistently refused to recognise its workers' union the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU), an affiliate of the Ghana Federation of Labour (GFL). The union organised the workers and was issued with the Collective Bargaining Certificate in February 2004, but has not been able to negotiate with the company.
Strikers assaulted and arrested during lock out: Over 600 workers of the Western Steel and Forging Limited at Kpone, near Tema, were locked out as management shut down the company indefinitely, after the workers embarked on strike on 6 May. The workers had been negotiating grievances with management, but began the strike when there was no response to their demands. These included the dismissal of Mr Kyeremeh Kofi Awuah, the company's human resource manager, who had ignored health and safety issues, leading to accidents. Grievances also concerned payment disparities and overtime payments that were not calculated in accordance with the collective agreement. One of the workers' leaders, Mr Michael Koompon, claimed that the police forcefully removed the workers from the company premises and that four of the workers were arrested for no cause while several others were assaulted and wounded with rubber bullets.


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NEW DELHI: State Bank of India came under pressure in afternoon trade on Friday after the public sector bank said its bad loans rose to 5.15 percent of its loan book at of the end of September quarter from 4.19 percent a year earlier.
SBI closed 3.79 per cent lower at Rs 2158.50. It has hit a low of Rs 2155 and a high of Rs 2269 in trade today. However most analysts are of the view that SBI is the only stock which stands out among its peers and can be bought on every decline.


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"3 Undiscovered Companies Leading The Green Movement" A Huge Success At SXSW Interactive 2011
Posted on March 15th, 2011 by Ben Lack
We are pleased to announce that the green panel that Ben Lack, CEO & Chief Conversationalist, hosted at SXSW Interactive was a huge success. The discussion included intriguing conversation with Ingrid Vanderveldt, CEO of Green Girl Energy Inc., Justin Miller, VP of Business Development for Xnergy, and Andy Kruse, Founder of Southwest Windpower. Ogilvy Media made "notes" of the session (pictured above) and our good friends at Howard, Merrell & Partners filmed the entire session. For those that attended and watched the session, we hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did.
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Peter Della
How do you explain that in double-blind scientific studies, religious people who ask God to heal them actually heal more quickly than non-religious people? (both groups have same diagnoses, same medical treatment, same level of disease, etc.)
You don't seem to understand what a "double blind" trial is - its not possible to conduct a proper one in this case, because the point of double-blind trials is to control for the "placebo" effect.
In a "double-blind" trial, there is a real treatment measured against a placebo (pretend) treatment. Neither the patient, nor the person directly administering the treatment knows which is which, hence "double blind".
This is necessary because patients who believe they're getting an effective treatment tend to experience some benefits even when they're not actually getting any treatment at all.
That explains why you can't double-blind trial the patients' own prayer - because you can hardly ask them to pray and not tell themselves that they're doing it.
It also explains why the religious people you mention experience some benefit, they believe they're getting an effective treatment. (Regardless of whether or not they actually are.) Placebo.
Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with a placebo - just because its fake medicine doesn't mean it can't have real effects.
Its a treatment that was actually often used before we questioned our doctors to the degree we do now. Back in the 50's it wasn't uncommon for British GPs to actually send someone to a pharmacist with a prescription for a placebo, and the pharmacist would dispense sugar pills.
Of course you can do a proper double blind trial where someone else prays on the patients' behalf. Its been done quite a few times, and shows that prayer has no effect.
How do you account for the fact that
God hates amputees
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Toshiba have been hit with an $87 million fine after they were found guilty of entering into an LCD panel price fixing ring between the years 1999 and 2006.
Sharp, Samsung and a handful of other AV companies were met with similar charges last December, culminating in a combined fine of $553 million. Toshiba are the latest company to be found guilty, with LG Display yet to settle their case. AU Optronics Corp were found guilty of LCD price fixing in March of this year, and are currently in the process of appealing the ruling.
Toshiba, however, continue to profess their innocence, denying the charges:
"While Toshiba appreciates the jury's time and effort, Toshiba believes that the jury's verdict is in error as to the finding of wrongdoing."
Richard Heimann, the co-lead counsel on the case, stated that he was "very pleased the jury found in favour of the plaintiffs and found that Toshiba violated the law."
Toshiba will be expected to fork out approximately $70 million to customers who purchased their televisions, and around $17 million to the manufacturers who built the TVs.
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Prosecutors brought criminal charges Monday against a Santa Rosa man who was arrested this month during a protest of the killing of 13-year-old Andy Lopez.
Ramon Armando Aguirre Cairo, 30, who police said assaulted an officer with a protest sign Dec. 10 as he tried to enter City Council chambers, was charged with a felony and two misdemeanors exposing him to up to seven years in prison.
Charging documents accuse Cairo of using threats or violence to deter and assault Sgt. Brad Conners and of resisting Conners and Officer Stephen Bussell in the performance of their duties.
Cairo, who was free on bond, faces a stiffer punishment because of previous convictions on gang, drug and burglary charges. Judge Rene Chouteau gave him until Thursday to post an increased bail of $45,000 or return to custody.
Cairo declined to comment as he left court but supporters said the charges were an attempt by District Attorney Jill Ravitch to silence critics of the investigation into the Lopez killing. The youth was shot by Dep. Erick Gelhaus on Oct. 22 as he walked along Moorland Avenue carrying a BB gun. Police said Gelhaus mistook the gun for an AK-47 assault rifle.
"They're trying to chill his First Amendment rights," Alicia Roman said outside Cairo's arraignment.
Assistant District Attorney Christine Cook said her office respects the right to demonstrate but based the charges against Cairo on his individual behavior.
The charges allege two prior prison convictions and a past strike offense.
Prosecutors are expected to charge another protester Tuesday.
David Douglass, 24 of Santa Rosa, was arrested in a Nov. 26 demonstration. He will be charged with with misdemeanor resisting an officer for allegedly refusing to get on the sidewalk during a march down Mendocino Avenue.
Court security was heightened at Monday's hearing in anticipation that up to 200 protesters would attend. But only about a dozen supporters showed up.
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Mumbai, Former Bollywood actress and designer Simple Kapadia died here on her 51st birthday after battling cancer for three years. Dimple Kapadia, her elder sister, was by her side when she took her last breath Tuesday.
She was cremated Wednesday. "Apart from her family members Dimple, Twinkle, Rinkie and Akshay Kumar, other friends like Sunny Deol, Sajid Khan, Honey Irani, Vipul Shah and Rahul Dholakia were also present at the funeral," said a source close to the family.
Simple, who debuted opposite then superstar and brother-in-law Rajesh Khanna in "Anurodh", worked in about 20 films. She will be remembered for her sensual dance number in "Lootmaar" and as a vamp in "Pyar Ke Do Pal".
The actress, who stayed single, bid adieu to movies in 1986 after "Pyar Ke Do Pal" but returned as a costume designer. She mainly designed for her sister and bagged National Award for best costume design for the film "Rudaali" in which Dimple played the lead.


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deerfeaild Augist 5
Honnored Father Sheldin
after duty presented these are
to let you now that of reseved
your letter; which we desiour to
bles you for it pray give my Love
with my wifes to sister mary
and to all ye rest of ye captive
I thought yt I wod com to boston
but I think not to com-- I pray
you to by for me a pare of
curtings and a Father beaid and
a graine Coverlid--and a neck
lace of amber--I shall
sende down 10 poun in mony
by unkel Beniahman Stabi
ns [Benjamin Stebbins] and if you do wont more
mony you shall have ye rest
win you do com hom and so
I Subscribe my Self your
dutifull Son John Sheldin
John Sheldon, Junior had been sleeping in his father's house with his wife, Hannah Chapin, that night in 1704 when the Deerfield Raid occured. They scrambled out their bedroom window as Indians hacked on the door, but in the process Hannah fell and injured her ankle. She urged her husband to go on without her, and although Sheldon stopped to bind her ankle he left her behind and ran to the nearest settlement for help. His wife along with three of his siblings were taken captive. She remained captive until 1705. Her return was negotiated by her father-in-law, John Sheldon who, travelled to Canada and then back to Boston and Deerfield a number of times in the years after 1704. The negotiations usually involved the exchange of expensive "gifts" for the captives like the items mentioned in this letter. This particular exchange was probably instrumental in the return of Sheldon's brothers Ebenezer and Rememberance and his sister Mary, all of whom were back to Deerfield by 1706.
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|Softball girls come up short at tourney
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Holyoke summer girls' softball teams had a rough outing at the Border League tournament to end the season in Haxtun Monday-Wednesday, June 30-July 2.
Neither team could secure a win as the younger girls lost both of their matches and the older girls were eliminated after one loss.
In the 9-12 age division, Holyoke entered the tournament as the fifth seed, facing No. 4 Oshkosh, Neb., in the first round Monday evening. Oshkosh sent Holyoke to the consolation bracket with a 6-3 victory.
The loss pitted the Holyoke girls against No. 6 Haxtun Tuesday night with fifth place on the line. Haxtun outscored Holyoke 15-8 to win the match.
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Cook County Board of Review Introduces Online Filing for Appeals
Cook County Board of Review Commissioners Larry Rogers, Jr., Michael Cabonargi, and Dan Patlak unveiled the first online filing system allowing taxpayers to appeal their property tax assessment via the Internet. The online system makes incredible strides in creating a more open and convenient appeal process for taxpayers. The new filing system was created in partnership with the Assessor's Office and the Cook County Bureau of Technology. The online system can be accessed atwww.cookcountyboardofreview.com.
"Thanks to inter-governmental co-operation between Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios' Office, President Preckwinkle's Bureau of Technology, and Board of Review Commissioners Cabonargi, Patlak and Rogers, CookCountyresidents have the ability to file Board of Review property assessment appeals on-line from their homes. This will provide access to a greater number of citizens seeking review of their property assessments. This project demonstrates the benefits the public can realize when government works together in an efficient and cost effective manner." said Commissioner Larry Rogers, Jr.
"By moving the appeal process online, the Board of Review is leveling the playing field for taxpayers, giving everyone the opportunity to voice their concerns and receive a fair assessment," said Commissioner Michael Cabonargi. "This project could not have happened without the hard work of the Assessor's office and the Bureau of Technology and they should be commended for their efforts."
The original Request for Proposal for an online filing system would have cost taxpayers $500,000. However, by working initially with the Assessor's Office and then the Bureau of Technology, this system will now be provided in-house. The system is one of the first steps in modernizing the Board and creating a more open and convenient process for taxpayers.
"I am pleased that my staff was able to assist the Board of Review so that taxpayers can begin filing appeals on-line with their office," Assessor Joseph Berrios said. "This intergovernmental cooperation is essential as we all work together to better serve the taxpayers of CookCounty."
"I want to commend the Board of Review and the Assessor's office for their work here. A key focus of our administration has been to change the culture ofCookCountygovernment by putting into place performance-based metrics that increase transparency and the level of service provided to our residents," said Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. "Collaborative efforts like this one are making theCookCountytax system more open and accessible to the tax payers, and that is a significant step forward."
The new online filing system will allow taxpayers to file appeals online and paperless, instead of requiring them to file either in person or via US Mail. "In the past, taxpayers were required to file assessment appeals in triplicate and to be delivered to the Board of Review," said Board of Review Commissioner Dan Patlak. "Now taxpayers will have their choice to either file online or the previous way on paper. Every taxpayer will still have the opportunity to attend a hearing at the Board of Review."
The Cook County Board of Review is a quasi-judicial agency responsible for adjudicating assessment appeals for all property in CookCounty. Last year the Board reviewed over 380,000 appeals of assessed value on property in CookCounty. Please contact the Board of Review at (312) 603-5542 with any questions or to view a full demonstration of the new system. For more information, please go towww.CookCountyBoardofReview.com.


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Discord over Planned WCC Meeting Site
The World Council of Churches has settled on Harare, Zimbabwe, as the site of its 50th-anniversary assembly in-1998, but a swirling controversy about homosexuality may undermine the site's potential as avenue for reconciliation. The controversy began just hours after the Zimbabwe capital was selected January 29 during the council's Central Committee meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa. Debate was sparked by reports of harassment of gays and lesbians by Zimbabwe police and comments by Zimbabwe church officials supporting such a crackdown.
A January 24 article in the Daily Gazette, a Harare independent newspaper, reported that police had moved to suppress homosexuality and that the country's interior minister, Dumiso Dabengwa, considers homosexuality a crime. The report quoted a woman from the Association of Gays and Lesbians in Zimbabwe as saying that police had broken into the homes of several association members and confiscated safe sex/AIDS prevention videos. Police, the report said, found the videos pornographic.
Journalists covering the World Council's Central Committee meeting in Johannesburg asked officials how the local church felt about the reported repression of gays and lesbians. Johath Siyachitema, president of the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, responded, "The church in Zimbabwe is very clear on this. Homosexuality is a sin, and the government is acting in accord with the law. The church won't change its mind on this. We don't think homosexuality is a right way of life." Some Central Committee members from Europe and the United States expressed concern about the reports, as did observers from a U.S.based gay and lesbian congregation attending a WCC meeting for the first time. …


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PJ Stadium was scheduled to undergo a facelift in August, but due to the failure in getting qualified contractors, upgrading works has been further delayed.
PLANS to upgrade the Petaling Jaya Stadium in Kelana Jaya have come to a halt as contractors who had bid for the tender are not qualified to take on the task.
This raises the possibility that the stadium will remain closed until early next year, thereby affecting the activities of many sports bodies.
Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) public relations officer Zainun Zakaria explained that those who had applied for the open tender for Phase 1 of the upgrading in June were found to be not credible.
"A re-tendering exercise took place on July 18.
"The selection process will take place before the end of this month during the Tender Committee meeting," Zainun said when met at MBPJ recently.
She, however, did not disclose the number of contractors who had bid for the job, but said the job scope remained the same.
Zainun said RM1mil had been allocated for Phase 1 of the upgrading, and work could start as early as September.
StarMetro had reported on June 5 that the PJ Stadium would be closed in early August to facilitate upgrading work.
Petaling Jaya deputy mayor Puasa Taib had said the facelift would involve repainting the building, upgrading of toilets, replacing the existing fire system, minor electrical work as well as termite control.
Puasa had said the stadium would be closed until the end of December, after which the cost for the second phase of upgrading work would be determined.
He said Phase 2 would involve major electrical work, including upgrading the stadium spotlights and calibrating the roof structure, as well as replacing the electronic scoreboard.
Football Association of Selangor (FAS) secretary Rosman Mohd Ibrahim said although the stadium was badly in need of an upgrade, he was concerned about any further delay in starting work.
"MBPJ should not extend the stadium's closure due to the delay in getting qualified contractors as this will affect sporting activities in the state.
"Although, FAS has been hosting matches at Stadium Shah Alam due to its capacity, the PJ Stadium in Kelana Jaya is a better option for training due to its central location.
"However, as the pitch has not been maintained over the years, we were forced to train at other grounds," said Rosman when contacted.
He strongly urged MBPJ to repair the stadium's pitch as soon as possible and said only a specialised contractor would be able to carry out such work.
Selangor Education Department sports unit head Noor Azli Abdul Rahman said the prolonged closure of the PJ Stadium would definitely affect its activities.
Although the 100m track at the PJ Stadium has not been well-maintained, the department had no other alternative but to continue using it.
"We have athletic development programmes for 10, 12 and 14 year-olds here.
"The possibility of an extension to the closure would mean they do not have a proper training ground.
"These athletes will have to train in their respective school fields," Noor Azli said, adding this may affect their performance.
He urged the city council to include the repair of the track as part of the upgrading work as most of the schools in the Petaling district use the PJ Stadium to host their sports activities.
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Yesterday I was talking to bent dealer about different types of bents. He brought up something I had not previously heard. When I told him that I was considering a high racer style bike such as the RANS Force 5 or Bacchetta Corsa he said that body positions on those bents could potentially cause knee and hip problems. He sells EasyRacer and Lightning and said that the body position on either of those bents put a lot less wear and tear on one's body. He said his source of information came from 20 years of experience from selling bents.
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Palm Leaf Crayon Sun Catcher
Take those old bits of green crayons and recycle them into a delightful Palm Sun Catcher in celebration of Palm Sunday. Make lots of them to hang from your window and let the sun shine through.
Waxed Paper
Two shades of bits of green crayons
Warm iron in the hands of an adult
Fishing wire
Place a piece of wax paper over Palm pattern. Sprinkle crayon shavings (sparingly!) on wax paper following the design on the download.
Place another piece of wax paper on top of shavings and a blank sheet of paper or a cloth over that. Gently press down with a warm iron. Crayon will melt quickly.
Staple wax paper outside of the design area and under the waxed paper and cut out.
String up in the window with a piece of fishing line or filament.
Editor's Note: I outlined the edges of the palm with permanent marker. It isn't necessary, but if you do you may have to go over it a couple of times.
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Dr. Cheryl Olson, co-author of Grand Theft Childhood, dropped GamePolitics a line to say that she and her husband/writing partner Dr. Lawrence Kutner will appear in an upcoming Penn & Teller: Bullshit! episode which examines the video game violence controversy.
As we reported last September, disbarred Miami attorney Jack Thompson was also interviewed for the show.
A Penn & Teller producer indicated that the game violence episode would likely air in the summer, but could not provide a specific date.
Penn Jillette twittered briefly about the filming of the episode earlier this week:
We're taping "Video Game Violence" BS. A first-person shooter game where you get to be BS "Penn". My Father-in-law got to get shot.
Olson also mentioned to GP that a Korean language version of Grand Theft Childhood is being published.


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May 31, 2016
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has declared two more Mississippi counties as disaster areas due to storms and tornadoes that pounded the state last Sunday.
Marion and Wayne counties were named disaster areas on Friday. Forrest and Lamar counties had already been given the designation.
Bryant says in a news release that the designation provides "important grants to families and individuals as they begin the difficult process of cleaning up from these storms."
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Global Communities began working in Iraq in June 2003, just two months after the end of Saddam Hussein's government. The Iraqi people were facing a host of challenges in rebuilding the political, social and economic institutions of their society in recovering from years of conflict.
With funding from USAID, Global Communities is implementing the Governance Strengthening Program (GSP) to help provincial and local governments be more responsive to community needs. The program focuses on institutional strengthening for targeted provincial and local governments, while promoting executive oversight to hold government ministries accountable for improved services. Based on our experience working in Iraq with Community Action Groups (CAGs), the program helps to ensure the involvement of local NGOs and community-based organizations, including a special focus on the participation of women.
Owners of small to medium-sized enterprises and home-owners had traditionally been excluded from mainstream loans and other services and had to turn to local moneylenders who often charged prohibitively high interest rates. With the aim of stimulating the Iraqi economy, Global Communities created the Access to Credit Services Initiative (ACSI), a major development finance program that provides loans to Iraqi entrepreneurs and home-owners to expand their businesses or improve their living conditions. Established in 2003, ACSI provides small, affordable loans to Iraqi individuals who do not otherwise have access to sufficient capital. Families use these loans for home improvement or to expand their small-businesses, thereby improving quality of life; enhancing their financial stability and personal safety, and improving local economies in hundreds of communities across Iraq. Operating in 11 governorates in Iraq – including the cities of Baghdad, Karbala, Najaf and Basra – ACSI has become the largest microfinance program in Iraq.
In 2004, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) saw a market gap in the finance industry in Iraq. Middle Market Enterprises – companies larger than small to medium enterprise (SME) – were also being excluded from traditional loans and were hitting a glass ceiling. As a result, CHF International and OPIC set up the Iraq Middle Market Development Foundation (IMMDF) to provide loans of up to $5,000,000 to growing enterprises that showed promise in the recovering Iraqi economy.
From 2003 - 2012, Global Communities worked in three governorates (provinces) in southern and central Iraq on the USAID-funded Community Action Program (CAP). The goal of CAP was to strengthen local governments so that they can more effectively prioritize, plan and implement projects based on the communities' needs. CAP directly engaged Iraqi community leaders and elected local councils in reconstructing essential infrastructure in their own cities and villages. CAP evolved, from its inception in 2003, from a predominately infrastructure-focused program to a holistic effort that helped build a foundation for democracy and grassroots advocacy mechanisms. To learn more, please read: Iraq – the CHF International Approach.
Global Communities was one of four NGO partners through which the US government provided assistance to Iraqi communities that suffered losses as a result of military operations. By partnering with Iraqi communities and community leaders, Global Communities provided economic and housing assistance through the Marla Ruzicka Iraqi War Victims Fund.


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Having just joined the Zimbra forums, I would like to express my sincere appreciation for the information available here. It got me through the intial difficulties in understanding some of the tricky/obscure issues related to getting Zimbra running smoothly and cleanly. It's now up and running well on CentOS under VMWare. My thanks to the members, and to the Zimbra employees who so generously offer their advice.
I have a question or two (or three...) related to spam training. Searching the forums has not produced anything I can use so far, but I may have overlooked something ... flames are ok, I'm still on the steep part of the learning curve
The folks I'm supporting are Outlook and Thunderbird users (me included) who wish to continue using those tools rather than switching to the Zimbra web interface. We all monitor multiple IMAP servers which the web client is not designed to do.
I'd like to make it as easy as possible for users to train the spam filter, so my current work-around is to create special folders in each user's mailbox clearly labeled for spam and ham training. The users simply drag messages into either of these folders, and a script runs each night to invoke 'zmtrainsa' against the folders. This seems like the most intuitive way to do it, involving the least effort on the part of the users and offering a relatively MUA-independent method.
However, there are problems with this. Whenever a user changes his/her password in Zimbra, I have to ask them for it and edit the training script. This exposes passwords not only in the script but also in the Zimbra log file, something I would really rather not do. Some trusted users have root privileges and are free to review log files.
The LDAP server stores these passwords in SSHA format, but of course fetchmail can't deal with them when passed in via the zmtrainsa script. Is there any possibility that future versions of zmtrainsa can be modified to query the LDAP database (if, and only if, run as userid 'zimbra') in order to avoid admin hassles with passwords? Can the password string sent to fetchmail be suppressed/obscured in the log files?
Failing this, other suggestions for making it trivially easy for Outlook/Thunderbird users to invoke spam/ham training would be most welcome. Forwarding spam or ham messages to the special training account mailboxes is not so intuitive, and most users would quickly tire of it. A button-click or drag-and-drop method is much preferred.
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Transportation Ministry warns of implications of High Court's decision to open road to Palestinian traffic, says drivers feeling unsafe may use Jerusalem-Tel Aviv route instead, causing heavy traffic jams. Army representative says State must ensure joint Israeli-Palestinian traffic
Amnon Meranda
Published: 01.10.10, 13:28 / Israel News
Amnon Meranda
"In the rush hour, not everyone working in Jerusalem will be able to reach the city. We checked what would happen if 20% of all vehicles move to Highway 1 due to a security fear. The meaning is a complete collapse of Highway 1."
Knesset Member Nissim Ze'ev (Shas)
agreed, noting that "if 20-30% of the volume of traffic moves from 443 to Highway 1, it will simply be unbearable." Modiin Mayor Haim Bibas said that Highway 1 has no capacity."
The officer, Brigadier-General Almoz of the Central Command, added that "physical maintenance of the route in the long run is a long-term security move which must be looked into." He said that "the name of the game is the level of security checks, how we will allow it and which activities we will conduct on the route and on the Palestinian route so as not to hurt the life fabric, on the one hand, but hold proper security checks, on the other hand."
Asked whether the army would be able to prepare within five months, as stated by the High Court judges, Brigadier-General Almoz replied, "It's hard to tell right now. This entails a thorough examination of the implications."
MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima)
said that the State must look for a proper alternative. According to the MK, "Those who don't understand the strategic importance of Route 443 and put it under a security banner only, are like a person who can only see with one eye. There are many aspects to this matter."


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July 26, 2014 United Way of Southwest Minnesota (UWSWMN) unites people and resources to improve lives in the area with a focus on education, income (financial stability), health, safety & well-being, and... more »»
A little of this, a little of that
July 26, 2014 Summer? What summer? That's the consensus of those you run into on campus as the focus zeroes in squarely on August 21, when incoming freshmen arrive for Gold Rush Days at Southwest Minnesota State... more »»
July 26, 2014 The summer flew by (doesn't it always?) and it's back to school time (what? already?). more »»
Late-summer activities
July 26, 2014 Hard to believe it's almost Sounds of Summer! Then school begins. Where did the summer go? The One Voice for Senior's is hosting a Blue Moon Revisited. It will be from 4-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. more »»
Driving with purpose
June 28, 2014 When you think about volunteering, what comes to mind? The food shelf? Soup kitchens? Big Buddies? Your church? These are all excellent places to explore options for volunteering, but there is also... more »»
Community Impact Grant awards
June 28, 2014 United Way of Southwest Minnesota (UWSWMN) unites people and resources to improve lives in the area with a focus on education, income (financial stability), health, safety and well-being, and hunger... more »»
Marshall schools in midst of exciting change
June 28, 2014 As we end the 2013-2014 school and fiscal years and transition to the 2014-2015 "new years" we also are transitioning from the end of a nine-and-a-half year tenure for Superintendent Klint Willert t... more »»
Looking ahead during a busy summer
June 28, 2014 Summer on the SMSU campus brings a new level of activity that one doesn't normally see during the academic year. more »»
Be careful around pesticides
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June 28, 2014 It's hard to believe we have passed the first day of summer. Even though the days are slowly shortening, so many events will take place before fall approaches. One is crazy Days on Thursday, July 17. more »»
Honoring our nurses
May 31, 2014 Each year, the March of Dimes encourages patients, families and colleagues to nominate area nurses for a special award program. more »»
1,000 books before kindergarten
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Marshall Head Start welcomes spring
May 31, 2014 Children at the Marshall Head Start classrooms have had a busy spring as we've wrapped up our 48th year. more »»
Honoring Brown vs. Board of Education 60 years later
May 31, 2014 Recently, our nation quietly celebrated a significant anniversary for public schools everywhere. May 14, 2014, marked the 60th anniversary of what is known as the Brown vs. Board of Education rulin. more »»
Preparing for Alzheimer's/dementia
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April 26, 2014 An important part of United Way of Southwest Minnesota's work is the annual review of local not-for-profit programs that seek affiliation and grant funding from United Way. more »»
A big month on campus
April 26, 2014 As I prepare this column, it is hard to believe that the final days of the spring semester will be upon us next week and our students will begin their preparation for finals. more »»
The boomer generation
April 26, 2014 Ahh, the Boomer Generation — it's a hot topic for those serving seniors and I am a Boomer. It was a key focus of a state conference in which I recently attende. more »»
Healthy babies top the bottom line
April 26, 2014 Hundreds of people will be marching for healthy babies May 3 at Marshall Middle Schoo. more »»
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What kind of performance could I expect from this wheelset if it were to be used for XC? I was comparing weight to the Rhynolite and these only weigh 40g's more. The actual rims that is.
I can only buy the front one as of right now and it's on special. So I'd probably get a rhyno lite on the rear or something else. Also I notice it has that 20mm thru axle possibility thing. Do you need a free ride fork to run this wheel set?


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OLD WASHINGTON - Brandon Farnsworth hit six 3-pointers on his way to 23 points and Eli Hurst added 21 as they led Shenandoah past Buckeye Trail.
Levi Reed added 11 for the Zeps.
Zach Roe's 17 points led Trail (5-1). Caleb Gray added 12 and Tyler Starr hit a pair of 3-pointers and finished with 10.


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Inspired by contemporary architecture, this stylish men's watch is water resistant to 50m. Specifications: case - stainless steel with white faceted ceramic elements, 42mm; dial - white with a date indicator; numbers - hand-applied clear crystal index markers; strap - white calfskin leather with embossed crocodile structure; movement - Swiss quartz.


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Watch Joshua Ledet Duet With Fantasia Barrino in the American Idol Finale on May 23, 2012
It's finale week on American Idol Season 11, and we'll soon find out who will be named the country's next big superstar! But before the big reveal, watch Joshua Ledet take the stage with Fantasia Barrino to perform Elton John's "Take Me To The Pilot."
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The 7th annual GWAR B Q Sat. Aug. 20th, 2016 in Richmond VA.
Note: All Sales are Final. This event will take place Rain or Shine. Be sure to read the entire agreement for rules and regulations. There are NO REFUNDS! Tickets purchased in advance or online must be printed and presented at the gate, day of the event for entry. Your limited edition Gwar B Q t-shirt can be picked up the day of the event at the Merchandise booth with the order confirmation number on your printed ticket. You must have appropriate printed ticket to claim t-shirt. No exceptions! T-shirt redemption does not apply to the $45 Standard Tickets.
By purchasing a ticket, you agree to the following...ticket purchaser and/or holder specifically forfeit, waive and acknowledge release of any and all claims of any nature whatsoever against the company, event promoters, employees, agents or assigns, including but not limited to claims for personal injury or property damage/loss arising out of or related to participation in or attendance at the event.
Each person attending event will need to have a ticket in hand to be scanned at door. Each ticket QR code is unique to that ticket entry per individual to distinguish entry type, etc. These ticket links for printout are in your ticket confirmation email which was sent to emails entered during ticket purchase.
If you purchased multiple tickets for you and different individuals -make sure that they have their unique ticket printouts with them. In some cases their names may be on the ticket, stating ticket type and shirt size if applicable – depending on what was entered during purchase. If you are the primary purchaser for your friends, your ticket alone will not get your friends in – they need their own ticket to be scanned.
If multiple tickets were purchased under one name and have all the same name on the ticket (ie. to give to your friends) – don't fret – just make sure that each individual ticket is printed out – and the attendees have in hand.
Again, each individual must have a ticket in hand to be scanned to check into event.
Official GWAR-B-Q 2016 t-shirts will be available for purchase at the event. There will also be raffle tickets available at the merch booth with your chance to win any number of a host of valuable prizes. There will be no weapons, pets, video cameras or glass allowed anywhere within Hadads, and backpacks and coolers will be checked by Hadad's security at the gate.
Remember GWAR fans, we are guests at Hadads, and if we want to continue this fine tradition we must respects the perfectly reasonable requests of our host…plus GWAR commands it!


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R&B has experienced a creative renaissance in the past year, with guys like The Weeknd, Frank Ocean and Miguel taking the genre in all sorts of different, exciting directions. Next up is inc., an LA-based duo who's debut album, no world, is a stunningly subtle, wonderfully cohesive collection of hazy, soothing songs which are so excellently produced and performed that it is incredibly easy to totally lose yourself in the music for the album's 40 minute runtime.
no world isn't released until February of next year, but for the time being you can enjoy the peaceful "5 days" and watch the nature-filled video for equally enjoyable album opener "the place" below.