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Minor League Football
We all know about Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and La Liga, but what about all the minor football leagues present around the world? On this site you will find information about minor football leagues, booth association football leagues (soccer) and american football leagues.
Minor leagues are sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in their sport. As a consequence, minor leagues are usually found playing on less elaborate venues and tend to have smaller budgets. Of course, the popularity of a sport will play a role here. For instance, a second tier association football league in Spain or Italy can have a considerably bigger budget and more folowers than a top tier league of a less popular sport. The Vaahteraliiga is the highest level of American football in Finland, but it is still not a very large or well-funded league since American football is not a commonly played sport in Finland. (The name Vaahteraliiga means Maple League and is derived from the name of the trophy Vaahteramalja, i.e. Maple Bowl, donated by the Canadian embassy.) Betting on Minor League football can be very profitable since bookies often does not have the best information when setting the odds. For the best betting tips on football, visit Betpal.
Promotion and demotion
In North America, there is a franchise system where the group of major league teams in each sport is fixed for long periods (between expansions and other adjustments). In many other parts of the world, there is instead a system of annual promotion or relegation, where teams can move up to a higher league if they perform well or be demoted to a lower league if they peform poorly during a season.
Below are just a few examples of minor football leagues from around the world. More information about minor football leagues can be found by browsing our site.
Association Football (Soccer)
Liga Adelante (Segunda División)
Segunda Divisón is the lower tier of the two professional association football leages in Spain. Since the summer of 2008, it is formally known as Liga Adelante.
This league was founded back in 1929 by the Royal Spanish Football Federation, and has been organized by Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (LFP) since 1983.
Liga Adelante is comprised of 22 teams. Each team plays every other team twice (one home game and one away) during a season. After each season, the two top teams are promoted to La Liga while the four bottom teams are demoted to Sugunda División B. A play-off then takes place between team number 3, 4, 5 and 6 (counting from the top) and the winner is also promoted to La Liga.
Hoofdklasse is a leage of amateur women's football in the Netherlands. It was created in 1973 as the top level league of the Netherlands, but has since then been replaced by the professional Eredivisie at the top level. It is now a third level league, under Eredivisie and Topklasse.
Hoofdklasse consists of a dozen teams from the entire country. Each team play each other team twice during the season. Hoofdklasse promotes teams to Topklasse and relegates teams to Eerste Klasse.
KNVB Beker voor Vrouwen (KNVB Women's Cup) is a cup competition established in 1980. Since 2007-08, the first round of this cup consists of a group stage for clubs from both Hoofdklasse and Eerste Klasse. Clubs from the Eredivisie join for the second round.
USL Professional Division (USL Pro)
The USL Professional Division (USL Pro) is a professional men's association football (soccer) league in the United States. It is a very new league, formed in 2010 as a result of the merger between United Soccer Leageus (USL) First and Second Divisions.
USL Pro is a Division III Professional League, sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation. In the hierarchy, you will find it below Major League Soccer (Division I) and the North American Soccer League (Division II).
In USL Pro, each team plays 24 games during a season, with a maximum of four games played against any single opponent. The playoffs include the top six finishers and all playoff rounds use a single-game knockout format.
American Football
Israel Football League
The Israel Football League was founded in 2005 and the first season was played in the fall that year, without any pads or any official governing body. In 2007, the players started using proper equipement and the league commenced play under the umbrella of American Football in Israel (AFI).
The Israel Football League consists of two divisions and the regular season is comprised of ten games. Each team playes twice against each team within its own division, plus two inter-division games.
The playoff culminates with the Israel Bowl at the Jerusalem Kraft Family Stadium. The trophy is named The Becker Trophy, in honour of Ofri Becker, one of the founders of the Israel Football League.
Ovens & King Football League
The Ovens & King Football League is a minor country Australian rules football league. Ovens & King Football Association was formed back in 1903 and changed its name to Ovens & King Football League efter the 1928 season. The name is derived from Ovens Valley and King Valley in Northeastern Victoria.
Ovens & King held their first matches in june 1903, a week after the founding of Ovens & King at The Bulls Head Hotel in Wangaratta.
The participating teams traditionally come from North Wangaratta, Benalla, Glenrowan, King Valley, Bright, Greta, Milawa, Whorouly, Moyhu and Tarrawingee, but in 2010 teams from Tatong, Goorambat, Swanpool and Bonnie Doon was added from the defunct Benall & District Football League.
Examples of famous players that started out in the Ovens & King Football League are Nigel Lappin, Matthew Lappin, Michael Newton, Brendan Fevola Carlton, Barry Hall and Mark Porter.


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Local Impact can deliver to businesses the advertising firepower needed for success
PUBLISHED: 14:00 22 September 2018 | UPDATED: 12:03 11 October 2018
We talk to hundreds of local business owners every day; we hear their concerns, understand their challenges and share in their successes.
One common conversation is that, in the digital age, advertising is complicated and it can be hard to see any return on investment.
Some concerning research shows that 46% of business owners don't actually know if their marketing strategies work – and that is a worrying point.
The ad industry has tried to solve this challenge by creating lots of new products.
The small business owner can now buy an ad in the newspaper, on a website, a newsletter and even an app for almost every newspaper that exists… but how does the business owner understand if any of it works?
It's as if the ad industry has become so inured to the idea of technology, tools and twiddly buttons that we have somewhat forgotten what 'advertising' and 'marketing' are for.
The fact that businesses want customers, and advertising that delivers measurable effect is a challenge that our industry is now coming to terms with.
Advertising is now at a sort of crossroads and the advertising industry is starting to take its head from the sand and choosing a direction.
Here at Archant we have launched Local Impact, created to deliver the small business owner insight into the digital and traditional advertising market, advice and support to build a marketing strategy and products and services designed to best enable a business to sell its product or service.
We aim to support the business owners with advice, practical help and products that deliver a measurable effect.
As Local Impact grows I will share what we are doing, how it is working and deliver as much practical advice and help as I can in 350 words.
If any of you have questions or topics that you would like discussed do get in touch.
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Could you please suggest resources which refute Dan Brown'sThe Da Vinci Code? I lead a Bible study which includes non-Christians, and need an answer quickly because I expect many in the study will ask me to respond to this Da Vinci nonsense.
One of the best things I can do is to refer you to a good website, http://www.thetruthaboutdavinci.com/, which has some very useful and reliable information.
In addition, there is a helpful book by James L. Garlow and Peter Jones called Cracking Da Vinci's Code (Victor, 2004). Also useful is the video The DaVinci Code Deception (Grizzly Adams, 2005), based on three books (including the one by Garlow and Jones).
Beyond that, I would point out that Brown has re-written church history in order to generate the plot of his novel. For example, the reality is that the deity of Christ was accepted in the Church universally from the beginning. The Council of Nicea was not to establish the deity of Jesus, but to define its nature: was he "of similar substance" with the Father, or "of the same substance" with the Father?
Another example of error in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is the fact that the church was worshiping on Sunday from the beginning as is evidenced not only by the New Testament, but by writings of the earliest Fathers.
I suggest you look through the material on the previously-mentioned website carefully, and if you have any more questions on specific issues, get back to us.
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FBI monitoring and tracking bomb threats at local schools
Police and school district hold meeting to discuss concerns regarding recent threats
The Van Buren Police Department and Van Buren School District held a meeting Thursday to address a series of bomb threats at schools in the area over the past month.
Police said the FBI has begun tracking and monitoring the seven fake bomb threats that have made over the past four weeks.
Police would not say anything else about the FBI investigations, as several fake bomb threat investigations are ongoing.
The police and school departments said they hope students understand how seriously these types of threats are taken.
"This is a serious thing," said Detective Jonathan Wear of the Van Buren Police Department. "This is not a joke. It never has been, it never will be."
Wear said students should be aware of the seriousness of the consequences that come when making a fake bomb threat.
"It's a felony any way that you look at it," said Wear. "When we find people responsible, we will hold them accountable."
Wear said of the seven bomb threats, four have ended in arrests of students, all who are minors. The four other threats are still under investigation.
Wear said bomb threats are not only dangerous, but cost the city money.
"When you call in extra help for things like such as K-9 dogs from other departments, you're looking at a cost that has to be paid for," said Wear. "We have to pay for that."
Kerry Schneider, the Van Buren deputy superintendent said students must spend 178 days in school. He says if students continue to be called out of class for fake bomb threats, they could have to attend classes into the summer months.
Schneider said on average, students spend at least one hour out of the classroom every time a bomb threat is made.
That's at least three hours of school time students from Van Buren High School have missed in the past month because of fake bomb threats.
"If we were to reach a scenario where a number of our schools were evacuated and we weren't able to complete a school day, there's a very real possibility that time or days could be added to the calendar," said Schneider.
Schneider said any student arrested for making a fake bomb threat could not only face felony charges, but could also be expelled from school.


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It's the type of stuff, that fits in well with any campaign's desire to tap in to a similar theme for the nation and its economy, which much like New Jersey, is in desperate need of a comeback. This is not to say that the ad is meant to establish the groundwork for a Chris Christie vice presidency. Afterall, regardless of national politics, Chris Christie does need to make sure that his image in New Jersey remains one that will be worthy of reelection come 2013.
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EA Offers Free Game to Early SimCity Adopters
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EA Offers Free Game to Early SimCity Adopters
EA stresses that it is trying its hardest to rectify the problems with SimCity servers, and offers gamers who buy the game before March 18 "something special for their troubles."
SimCity's launch was really bad. The servers issues became so terrible that Amazon refused to sell the game and EA had to turn off several features and eventually bow its head in defeat by telling people to stop advertising the game. Maxis general manager Lucy Bradshaw knows the hardships early adopters faced trying to play the game, and is extending an olive branch in the form of a free game.
"And to get us back in your good graces, we're going to offer you a free PC download game from the EA portfolio," Bradshaw said, after apologizing profusely for the game's server issues. "On March 18, SimCity players who have activated their game will receive an email telling them how to redeem their free game." Bradshaw offers no information on what the free game will be.
Bradshaw offers a bit of insight into how the whole house of cards came tumbling down in the first place, telling us that "The short answer is: a lot more people logged on than we expected. More people played and played in ways we never saw in the beta." Despite this, she says EA is committed to fixing the problem as quickly as possible. "In the last 48 hours we increased server capacity by 120 percent." She says that the server issues which began at launch have improved significantly since increasing their capacity.
Bradshaw wants all of you SimCity fans to hang in there, stressing that "The consensus among critics and players is that this is fundamentally a great game" and "we'll be providing more updates throughout the weekend." She hopes that the sever issues will be fully resolved by Monday.
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Free game: Sim City 4, so you have something to play offline!
Sorry EA, still not interested in your shitty game.
This comes from the Maxis gm, get someone directly from EA to say it >.>
Methinks this will cut into Maxis's cut, not EA's.
As long as you need to have "always online" as a part of your game, it will never, ever be anything but a game not worth your money. The simcity game on Facebook is a better investment.
There are rumors if you accept the free game, its means you are agreeing that you cant bring this to class action lawsuit status.
Which means not many people trust this.
Now they can get Sim city 4!
Seriously though, something seems off, EA may be a tad demonised on this site but there is reason behind it. I smell a trick.
Funny you should mention that. But this isn't how publishing works.
As I understand it, you have developers and publishers. In this case anyway, Maxis (The Devs) Are commissioned by EA (The Publisher) to make a game. They give the Devs a budget and this covers their living expenses. This is all money to hire people to do things right. Make sure people do things right. Because. You know it's not like they have to buy materials to make the game. Developers for big publishers rarely EVER see money from the game. The only money they get is if the game sells well enough to justify continuing investment into that Developer.
TLDR - Devs don't get money from game sales. They get a lump sum to make a game. And if it does well they get another lump sum to make another.
If you're going to offer a free game, tell people what it is. It's only common sense, but then so is getting enough servers to cope with demand and they sure ballsed that up.
Could be wore, could be the older Command and Conquer
I still have nightmares about it. I'd like to think that it will be something half-decent, but I'm not holding my breath.
The wording of her statement suggests that you'll get to choose your own game from EA's full library. But.. that seems a bit too good to be true?
Why did you have to remind me of that game??? Now i'm going to be in a bad mood all day
I never trust those "mystery prizes". If they don't want to tell you what it is, then it's probably crap.
They could've just removed the DRM by now, but they'd rather do everything to prove that it's a good idea.
This free game me thinks can be one of these options
- Their cheapest game (Or an old simcity game, they can't cost much now right?
- BF3, either the vanilla game or with the Back to karkland / Armored kill / Close quarters / Aftermath expansions
to get it you have to sign a NDA saying you waive the right to compensation :P
Well, since I am affected by it, and in germany there are no real class-action lawsuits like you have them in the USA, afaik. I will happily accept it, but I fear it is something I already own. Or something I don't like. EA released a lot of shit over the years, so they have much to choose from
"The consensus amount... players is that it's a great game"?
she hasn't looked at the metacritic user reviews, has she?
Or she's lying.
Yeah, gonna go with lying.
Lets see...
Abused beta as a publicity tool instead of using it to test - check
Wonder why fans are so mad, luckily I didnt pre-order nor am I a early adaptor as I am not a sheep like many unfortunates are.
I hope the lesson gets learnt THIS time : DO NOT PRE-ORDER!
I say this even if Valve announces HL 3 with a new HYPER SOURCE II SUPER ENGINE and free CS:SIISE for pre-orders with a AWP free even in the pistol round.
If you're in the US, it doesn't matter, you already waived your right to litigate when you clicked agree on the EULA and downloaded the game. EA have been doing that for a couple of years now.
If you're in Europe they can't do that, such stunts are illegal.
EULAs are easily dismissed when taken before a real court
You cant bring up one anyway if I recall rightly. Take a peak at your Origin smallprint.
The article says its from its catalogue, I'm assuming it'll be any similar priced title available on Origin.
Maybe try an open beta next time?
Someone, somewhere will find a way to break your game. Intentionally or otherwise.
People are obviously going to bomb that aren't they? Since when does anyone around here care what the fuck Metacritic scores are?
I've heard great things about the game from people who actually can play it.
It is a fun game when it works. I was a little frustrated that I wasn't able to figure out how to use the mines right away, but it really was a fun game. I was rather laid up after a car accident and surgery just before it came out, so I was able to play at odd hours, and it worked wonderfully for the most part. I look forward to them getting the rest of the game fixed up.
Why not just give users what they want and put in an offline mode? Would certainly make EA seem a little less like giant dickheads.
So their solution to the server problem, is to increase server traffic by allowing people a free game? I did not realize they had bandwidth to spare.
No EULA protects from broken, not working ,ineffective products, or false and misleading advertising. Put in front of a real court, they can easily fall apart. They are only ever going to be as good as the lawyer that is defending them.
I've just noticed that all of the Escapist articles on the SimCity debacle feature a city being torn apart by disasters.
Very clever!
Yeah, EA already did it to themselves.
I can't wait to find out what piece of crap/outdated game EA will be offering as 'compensation'. Maybe the 1983 classic Pinball Construction Set?
Thanks for the game, EA. But that's not sufficient. Fact is, your business decisions rendered the product you sold defective, and will certainly do so again for all such future products. You are at fault, and unrelated gifts don't fix the issue. There is just one way to fix it: Stop employing your broken business practices. Now. And permanently. Learn from Ubisoft's hubris, and mend your ways before your future sales suffer the consequences.
Talk about damage control.
Well from what I hear even with the severs back up and running the game has very little in the way of replay value with the small maps being filled up in less than an hour and entire regions getting full way too damn quick. It appears the "It's a great game when it works" argument may have been a bit off.
Given that mere months ago Diablo had a catastrophic launch with the same problems, this explanation gets zero sympathy or understanding from me. Towards EA, who would make the server-capacity preparations, I'd think, anyways. Maxis I have a lot of sympathy for having their reportedly-awesome game, and likely reputation, kneecapped by the ire drawn by EA, even moreso if its as has been suggested above, that the cut for this placation is coming out of Maxis' end.
I'm sure someone's going to point out how every corporation, not just games but other ones too, always low-ball server estimates due to the costs involved with operating them, but that doesn't change the fact its the consumer who's suffering for it and I can only hope the damage from this debacle is enough to scare EA and other launches off from underestimating their requirements.
Having been able to play the game I have to say that when you can play, its totally addictive, forget about the DRM and server issues, this is an awesome game. Me and a few friends have tons of projects to build regions and play together. And no I have not been payed to say that, its just my honest opinion as a long time player (since simcity the first like a lot others)
So about those server issues...I am in the it business and I can totally understand whats going on! No matter how well you plan and try to make your launch perfect its almost impossible to get sizing right when its a new game, new product. Yeah you can say "throw as many resources you can at it" but sometimes it just doesn't work. I have seen that happen and you struggle trying to find solutions and installing servers in hours instead of day.
Shitty servers? From the look if it they are using Amazon EC2 so they are totally into the cloud. Most likely the ones who have been cutting on the cost are upper management and now they are going back to their admins begging for them to solve the problem. Funny thing is, probably someone over there is saying "we told you".
**expecting a storm of throlling on my post**
Here's a thought. Instead of giving people a free game, how 'bout you ALLOW THEM TO RETURN THE BROKEN ONE. LIKE YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE FROM THE BEGINNING.
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Things continue to look up for Camille Grammer following a very rocky season on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, and you know, that whole being declared the most hated housewife thingy.
Following her cameo role on CBS sitcom $#*! My Dad Says, Camille, 42, has now been tapped by CNN to serve as a fashion commentator to help cover the Oscars' red carpet for CNN's live Oscar arrivals special, 'Showbiz Tonight: Road Gold.'
Yes, next Sunday on Feb. 27th, Camille will don a microphone alongside regular 'Showbiz Tonight' hosts AJ Hammer and Brooke Anderson, to candidly discuss the pre-ceremony parade of fashions.
"We can't wait to get Camille's unabashed take on Hollywood's biggest night," said a CNN exec producer of the network's broadcast.
In other BH news, following reports that Kim Richards is likely leaving the show, Bravo has been actively casting for her maybe replacement.
It now seems Bravo might not have to look too far as actress Denise Richards (no relation to Kim), who appeared on Watch What Happens Live a while back, is actually voicing her interest in joining the show.
When UsWeekly asked Denise, 40 (she's 40?), at a fashion show on Wednesday if she'd consider being a part of the Bravo cast, she answered, "Heck yeah I would! It's one of my favorite shows!"
In fact, Denise already has favorites on the cast. "I have two," said Denise. "I love Lisa [Vanderpump] and Kyle [Richards]."
Denise, who used to be married to Charlie Sheen and has two daughters with him, would definitely make great TV no? Here's to hoping the Bravo honchos are paying attention.
And finally, Kyle Richards is currently on vacation in Mexico with her family and BFF Faye Resnick. And yesterday, Kyle tweeted the bikini photo of herself below with the caption – "Disclaimer: Had to buy this bathing suit. Forgot mine. Yes, I need more sunblock."


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SnipSnap & Wizard of Oz Engineering
I still get asked every week how hard was it to build the machine that powers SnipSnap? How long did it take you to master OCR and image recognition and machine learning, which appear to make the instantaneous, magical scanning of coupons possible.
The truth is: a) I didn't build squat — that was all Kostas and our dev team. b) We actually didn't master any of these up front. We instead became masters of what is known to some startups as Wizard of Oz engineering. Peel back the curtain and, voila, you've got people pulling the levers.
We realized early on that it would take us months (maybe years) to get any kind of funtional auto-detection and parsing working. So we cobbled together a solution that leaned heavily on Amazon's mechnical turk. We've since gotten better and better at automating some pieces of the process, and have actually developed some innovative tech in the OCR space in the process. But the story of how we got our first prototype and V1 of the app to market is a useful tale of trial and error … and more error, that I hope at least one fellow entrepreneur out there will appreciate. I wrote it up for Fast Company. Here's the opening excerpt.
When my iOS app SnipSnap was accepted to DreamIt Venturestwo years ago, it was little more than a screencast and a high-fidelity prototype built on Keynote templates. Vaporwear. We were planning to build a fairly sophisticated OCR app for coupons and had zero technology. But we learned you can overpromise like this with early features–if you know your way around Amazon'sMechanical Turk service.
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Self-portraiture: on photography's reflexive surface
Elisavet Kalpaxi
This exposition deals with narcissism, narrativity, self-portraiture, and photography. It illustrates a practice-based research project instigated in 2007 that aims to decode and recover narcissism as a useful sense-making scenario or system. This approach can help make sense of photography and self-portraiture in the present, and can be employed in the development of visual strategies in photographic self-portraiture. Here I present the practical work that was produced and the theory that influenced my practice: namely, the revaluation of the relationship between self-portraiture and narcissism, and ideas from the semiotics of photography and narrative theory. The three main sections of the exposition illustrate the chronological development of my work, and each section is divided into two parts. The first part of each section presents the practical work, whereas the second part illustrates the theoretical aspect of this project, which stems from a wish to reflect on my own art practice and increase my understanding of self-portraiture, while also interrogating narrative codes and devices in photography, such as the double, mise en abyme, and mirroring structures, and their association with narcissism. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, semiotics, and narratology, I argue that narcissism in self-portraiture can simultaneously represent an imaginary withdrawal of the artist, a structure within the work, and a vehicle for narrativity. By eluding structured language systems, narcissism provides a vocabulary for narrativising procedures, as well as meeting the artist's/viewer's modes of engagement. These ideas informed the practical component of the research project and provided the basis for a number of visual strategies employed in the development of the photographic self-portraits that are presented in the second part of each section. In these sections, I also explain the different strategies adopted in producing my images: the role of codes, narrative devices, layering, and reframing for understanding the density of an image and its inherent narcissism. In the process I propose that narcissism should receive a much more central role in the consideration of images and the way they communicate with a contemporary audience.
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Colonial hospitality: rethinking curatorial and artistic responsibility
Danny Butt
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The recent enthusiasm for gestures of hospitality in contemporary art promises relief from the individualising forces of neoliberal capitalism and the professionalised hierarchies of the art world. Yet, Jacques Derrida describes the gesture of hospitality as paradoxically asserting a kind of sovereignty that underwrites the 'right to host', returning hospitality to the conditionality of the authorising institution. In settler-colonial territories, these institutionally underwritten gestures always sit uneasily atop indigenous sovereignties that have not been ceded, requiring the positive gestures of hospitality to remain open to their structuring fissures. This paper considers figurations of hospitality and responsibility in works by Derrida, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Raqs Media Collective in reading the art collective Local Time's research-driven practice that seeks to reconcile indigenous self-determination and settler gestures of hospitality.
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Mycological provisions
Christopher Lee Kennedy
This exposition considers the use of mycology and chance operation as a method and material for arts-based research. The exposition details a series of mushroom hunting excursions designed to engage four artist-teachers in collaborative dialogue about their practice and identity. As participant and researcher converse, the hunts unfold as dérive-like encounters with a landscape interrupted through chance and embodied experience. The project draws from the work of artist and composer John Cage, who used fungi and mushroom hunting as one of many devices for exploring sound and its relationship to environment. Contextual research and documentation offer a glimpse into this process, while considering unstructured, kinetic, and uncertain ways of knowing in qualitative and arts-based research. The aim is to explore mycology as a post-formal lens for understanding the pedagogical and creative practices of the artist-teacher as a networked, fluid, and relational system.
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The Fourth Wall of Architecture
Bart L. Decroos
This work is an attempt to combine the fields of architecture, critical theory, and literature. It deals with the question of how an architectural artefact develops its meaning within a larger discourse through its image, and how this relates to the everyday life of the physical space of the artefact. The work has been developed by translating certain theoretical ideas to a fictional setting in order to explore these ideas through the medium of literature. The theoretical starting point thus takes on the form of characters, dialogues, and events within a specific architectural environment in an attempt to relate these diverse ideas to one another and to the physical space. The resulting short stories have then been translated to images of physical spaces, which try to detect these theoretical ideas on the level of the space itself. The complete work comprises three short stories, each dealing with a different type of architecture: the single-family house, the hotel room, and the office space.
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Palestinian Wildlife Series: embodiment in images, critical abstraction
Rania Lee Khalil
The expanded cinema performance 'Palestinian Wildlife Series' parallels posthuman and postcolonial circumstance, using appropriated imagery of African animals shot directly from a television set in Palestine. Chronicling the experimentation and process that went into this work of 'animal-video choreography', the author interweaves research on Palestine, materialist film, and Afrofuturist thought. The exposition reflects on the impact upon Khalil's work of women performance artists and avant-garde jazz musician Sun Ra, presenting a journey from text-based and signifier-heavy early experiments to the wordless and open-ended cinematic outcome the author comes to defend. Drawing on her transition from live performance to moving image production, this exposition will interest those concerned with interdisciplinarity and embodiment in digital imagery. It examines alternative modes of art activism and political uses of abstraction and experimentalism in art, specifically where critical ethnic and postcolonial studies are concerned. It supports discussions of rights and representation within artistic research and beyond from a diasporic perspective.
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Notes on Red76's Occupy Yr. Home
Heath Schultz
Samuel Gould
'Place setting: notes on Red76's Occupy Yr. Home' is a collaborative piece of writing between Heath Schultz and Sam Gould, primary organiser of the artist group Red76. The piece doubles as a critical review of the Red76 project 'Occupy Yr. Home' – a facilitated conversation in a participant's home around the themes of occupation and the domestic sphere. The text explores problems that plague much participatory art and social practice. Unique to this piece of writing is a parallel conversation (played out in the footnotes) in which Sam responds to Heath's review, offering anecdotes, clarifications, and thoughts. The dialogue within the footnotes suggests divergent viewpoints from the 'authoritative text'. In this way, the experimental form of the piece struggles with the important question of how different experiences of the same event can texture and complicate discourses around participatory art.
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Small Schools, Small Class Size
Original post made by Ed Buff, Another Palo Alto neighborhood, on Sep 10, 2007
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a resident of Palo Verde
on Sep 10, 2007 at 9:02 am
It is all down to perspective. In a community where the school campuses were designed for 500+ students, where there is enough office space, multi purpose space, parking for more teachers, bigger play areas, etc. etc. then a child's well being is not impacted by the size of the school. In these very large schools, kindergarten rooms, for example, are positioned close to one another, with their own play area and their own bathrooms and they can feel like a school within a school and the overall school size is not a big factor.
But, and it is a big but, that is not the case in our schools. Too many of our elementary schools have not got these luxuries and it will impact our schools. Palo Verde, for example, is one of the smallest schools and it just doesn't have room to grow. There is limited parking for teachers and the teachers' lounge area and office space is being used already for various teaching purposes. The multi purpose room cannot fit one grade level with parents for any presentation in a comfortable manner. The playing field is often divided up so that certain grades get the opportunity to play on certain days. The play structure is all in one area and gets too crowded. The lunch tables for the classes in the portables are squashed together. Parents volunteer to provide noon art and noon board games to ease the crowding in the playground at lunch time. Traffic to and from the school is really only bad on Wednesdays as we have a unique early/late reading program on the other days, but traffic is a concern because there is no off road drop off point, just a wider lay by.
For these sort of reasons, our schools cannot grow. Does it affect the overall learning experience for the kids? Probably not. But a bigger school will affect the overall well being of the kids and their elementary experience will be impacted.
We need another elementary school in Palo Alto. We also need another middle and high school. Our school population is growing and showing no signs of stopping. Class size will not help the problem in the long term, so why do a short term solution to a long term problem?
Lets find a solution to this problem in a far sighted way and do some serious problem solving.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Sep 11, 2007 at 7:59 am
I must be simple minded, because I see no problem with adding second stories to the schools..then just staggering lunch and recess times so that k-2 takes recess and lunch at a different time from 3-5. Ta-da..no overcrowded lunch and recess time!
a resident of Meadow Park
on Sep 11, 2007 at 8:46 am
When my kids were at a PAUSD school, I suggested to the principal that we have staggered lunch times so that grades 1-2 were not getting stomped on the playground by the older kids, and playground monitors could better watch out for bullying, which was rampant. The principal's response was something to the effect of "blah blah blah teacher break blah blah infringe on teacher's rights blah blah not feasible blah blah too complicated."
Although other schools do it, so who knows if this was a complete lie or actually based on some agreement with the teachers' union.
a resident of Addison School
on Sep 11, 2007 at 8:52 am
Addison staggers their lunch schedule with some overlap - it makes a big difference on the playground. Duveneck does not stagger their schedule - try driving by at lunch time, it is really tough for the kids to have enough space to play.
a resident of Meadow Park
on Sep 11, 2007 at 8:54 am
As I suspected, a complete lie. This from a school that has spent thousands addressing and then readdressing the bullying problem with little success. Good grief. Glad we left.
a resident of Addison School
on Sep 11, 2007 at 9:03 am
Natasha - it probably was not truly a lie, but a reflection of the principal's philoshophy. Some put the kids needs first and some put the teachers first (the best balance the kids, teachers and parents).
a resident of Meadow Park
on Sep 11, 2007 at 10:04 am
Maybe. But since the principal told me she was NOT ALLOWED to do it, I think of it as a lie. I wish principals had more accountability around here.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Sep 11, 2007 at 10:08 am
Different schools round here have different clout with the unions (or the unions have different clout with different schools). I have discussed this with one principal who told me that his personal opinion was that the teachers should be able to integrate together with each other as colleagues at least once in the school day and he would not like staggered lunches for that reason, among others.
The other reasons were that often the field was taken up by pe classes and other outdoor teaching stations which would make scheduling difficult and others which I can't remember.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Sep 11, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I don't think you can just add a second story to most of the elementary schools here, so it would be new buildings.
At which point, why don't we just reopen one of the three elementary school buildings already in Palo Alto? I know the district is squawking about the money, but that must be the easiest solution long-term. I don't really see the population going down in the next 20 years.
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Mid-Atlantic suburbs can expect an early spring thanks to the heat of the big city
If you've been thinking our world is more green than frozen these days, you're right. A recent study has found that spring is indeed arriving earlier and autumn later in the suburbs of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The reason? The urban landscape traps heat in the summer and holds it throughout the winter, triggering leaves to turn green earlier in the spring and to stay green later into autumn. The result is a new, extended growing season.
Scientists used high-resolution satellite data collected over the past 25 years to look at the number days that trees have green leaves in the forests of the Mid-Atlantic. The study found that urban heat islands affected the growing season in areas within 20 miles of the city. As a result, gardeners may have more time to grow their vegetables and plant new varieties.
The longer growing season also has a profound impact on forests. Forests are, in effect, the world's air filters. Green leaves on trees turn carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas that traps heat in our atmosphere into oxygen. Carbon dioxide also helps trees grow since they use energy from the sun to convert the gas into plant matter. A longer growing season could change quickly forests grow and increase the amount of carbon dioxide taken out of the atmosphere.
"Everything changes when the leaves turn green," said the study's lead author Dr. Andrew Elmore of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. "Trees start pumping water into the atmosphere. They take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. They make sugars and build plant tissue. It's as if the entire landscape goes from exhaling to inhaling."
The study also pinpointed other factors that influence the timing of spring and autumn in areas outside the influence of urban heat islands, including the elevation of the landscape, proximity to tidal water, and cold air drainage in small valleys.
Not all forests are the same, however, and predicting which forests will grow faster during a longer growing season requires detailed satellite measurements. This study is the first to apply high-resolution satellite data to the problem. "We are trying to understand how forests function so we can understand how they might respond to global warming," said Dr. Elmore. "With more detailed data, we can do better job of predicting what might happen to a forest impacted by urbanization, for instance."
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Xbox One will come without Kinect later this year, Microsoft has announced. It will cost $399 USD on June 9. In Europe, that's £349 and 399 Euros.
This brings Xbox One's price to parity with PlayStation 4. This new Xbox One price and packaging comes as a result of user feedback. Microsoft is responding directly to those who want nothing more from their Xbox than using the machine with a controller. Kinect will be sold as a separate accessory for those who wish to adopt motion and voice controls in the future.
Just this past February, Microsoft stated it had no intention of removing the device from its new console.
"Kinect remains an important part of our vision," head of Xbox Phil Spencer said. "We will continue to innovate on Kinect, I think it's an important differentiator for us."
When Microsoft first announced the Xbox One, it was revealed that the console wouldn't function if Kinect was unplugged, leading some to worry about privacy. Since then, the company decided to reverse this policy.
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Carolyn Hax: How do parents with kids travel and entertain without stress?
Adapted from a recent online discussion.
Dear Carolyn:
I know a number of parents of toddlers, preschoolers and babies who travel frequently and entertain at home, and they use words like "fun" and "relaxing" to describe their experiences. I, on the other hand, end up feeling so stressed.
Entertaining at home, I'm conscious of how annoyed visitors can get sharing a dwelling with walking germ factories, having to observe nap-time quiet or curbing grown-up TV-watching. And at other people's homes I feel so drained making the best of an environment that may be far from child-friendly. What am I going to do, tell folks they can't navigate their own house?
I am so relieved when it's over. But I don't want to limit my kids' worlds by never leaving our house or inviting overnight guests. So what's the secret to these parents who travel, entertain and host with such happy abandon?
-- Kids in Tow
I think the answer is there in your question, if you sew the pieces together into a little quilt with crusty applesauce on it.
Hosting goes well when your guests buy into the limitations (and joys) of staying among little kids. Visiting goes well when your hosts buy in to the limitations (and joys) of hosting little kids. Both go better when you're game. And it can really, cosmically suck when you've got a guest or host who thinks everything should stay the way adults like it and little kids should need only to be told "no" once.
There are ways to make hostile environments less so that won't leave you stressed (which, as you probably already know, only exacerbates any discomfort you or your guests feel).
For hosting, I suggest you be as transparent as you can upfront: "Pookie gets over-excited when guests are here, so apologies in advance if there's a scene"; or, "Pookie needs about a half-hour to fall into a good sleep, but after that we don't need to tiptoe around."
Setting realistic expectations actually accomplishes two things: It sets your guests' expectations at a realistic level, and it also lets them know that you aren't under the illusion that everyone should be overjoyed to be around small kids.
I think that wears people down faster than anything -- the idea that they, your inconvenienced guests/hosts, are supposed to be just as enchanted as you are by your Pookie. Letting them know you get that can soften people toward cooperating.
As for visiting child-unfriendly places, I have basically a two-tiered suggestion: (1) When the environment is welcoming but not child-ready, BYO coping strategies: favorite foods, toys, media, safety gear (playpen, baby gates ... ). (2) When the environment is not welcoming, stay in a hotel -- locale and finances permitting, of course. They're largely kid-proof, plus they allow you and your host to take a deep breath between rounds of togetherness.
When in doubt, communicate: Ask what people expect and be clear about what you provide.
Re: Kids:
I think this deserves an additional "don't judge yourself by other people." Maybe it is easy for them, or maybe they are putting up a good front. But you don't have to like it if it doesn't work for you.
-- Anonymous
So true, thanks. There are too many variables for comparisons to work.


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Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's appointment of Steven Toprani, former district attorney of Washington County, follows the FBI's seizure of boxes of documents from police headquarters earlier this month. Officials said records involving secondary employment, training and travel were taken.
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Lowe's Companies, Inc. [MOORESVILLE, N.C.] (NYSE: LOW) announced that Marshall A. Croom has been promoted to the position of chief financial officer. Croom succeeds Robert F. (Bob) Hull Jr., who announced plans to retire after 17 years with the company. Croom joined Lowe's in 1997, following a successful 11-year career with Ernst & Young, including two years in the firm's national tax department.
Disney|ABC Television announced that Robert Langer has been named executive vice president and chief financial officer. Langer replaces Peter Seymour, who, after 20 successful years with the company, announced his plans to depart the group last November. Prior to this announcement, Robert Langer served as The Walt Disney Company's country manager for Germany, Switzerland & Austria (GSA). Langer joined Disney in 1999 as director, Business Development, Global Licensing. In 2007 he was appointed chief financial officer for the global Disney Consumer Products (DCP) division. He was appointed general manager for DCP EMEA in 2009, responsible for DCP's merchandise, publishing and The Disney Store's business in Europe. Previous positions within Disney include roles at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, where he served as chief financial officer, Disneyland Resort and chief financial officer, Global Segment Operations. Before coming to Disney, he worked at The Boston Consulting Group and ART Concerts Company, located in Munich, Germany.
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Jaunt Inc. [PALO ALTO, Calif.] announced that it has appointed Fabrice Cantou as Chief Financial Officer. Cantou was recently the CFO of Dailymotion.
Motif Bio plc [NEW YORK] (NASDAQ: MTFB) announced that Robert Dickey IV has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer. He replaces Pete Meyers, who is retiring. Prior to joining Motif Bio, he was CFO at Tyme Technologies Inc. Robert previously held senior leadership positions at NeoStem, Inc., Hemispherx Biopharma Inc., Stemcyte Inc., Locus Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Protarga Inc. Mr. Dickey began his career as an Investment Banker at Lehman Brothers and Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc.
Atmos Energy Corporation [DALLAS] (NYSE: ATO) announced that Christopher T. Forsythe, Vice President and Controller, has been promoted by the Board of Directors to Senior Vice President and CFO. He replaces Bret J. Eckert, who is retiring. Forsythe joined Atmos Energy in June 2003 and was promoted to Director of Financial Reporting in September 2003, having previously worked as a Senior Audit Manager for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He was promoted to his current position in 2009.
CSS Industries, Inc. [PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.] (NYSE: CSS) announced that John M. Roselli will join the organization as its new Chief Financial Officer. David F. McHugh, who has served as interim Chief Financial Officer, will return to his prior position as the Company's Vice President – Finance. Mr. Roselli has served in various senior financial positions with TE Connectivity and its former parent company Tyco International ("Tyco"), most recently serving as TE's Vice President of Finance/Chief Financial Officer for its global Sensor Solutions business unit. Prior to his most recent position, John had similar financial leadership roles for TE's Data Communications and Global Distribution business units. John began his tenure at Tyco as Director of Investor Relations and later served as TE's Vice President of Investor Relations following TE's spinoff from Tyco. Prior to Tyco/TE, John spent six years at Citigroup as an associate equity analyst.
HNI Corporation [MUSCATINE, Iowa] (NYSE: HNI) announced that Kurt A. Tjaden who has served as Chief Financial Officer of HNI Corporation since August 2008 has been appointed President, HNI International. Mr. Tjaden will continue as a Senior Vice President. Prior to joining HNI Corporation, Mr. Tjaden had significant experience working in Asia for Whirlpool, Gateway, and Procter & Gamble. Marshall H. Bridges has been appointed Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of HNI Corporation, reporting to Mr. Askren. Mr. Bridges joined HNI Corporation in 2001, and has served as Vice President Investor Relations and Treasurer, HNI Corporation; Vice President, Finance, Allsteel; and Vice President, Finance, Contract Furniture Group.
North State Bank [RALEIGH, N.C.] announced that Senior Vice President Stacy R. Reedy has been named chief financial officer, having most recently served as general auditor and chief risk officer. Reedy started her banking career in the mid-2000s as an audit manager for Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP.
JazzHR [PITTSBURGH] announced the appointment of Brit Hutchins to the role of chief financial officer. Hutchins is the former CFO of Boston-based CrowdComfort. Prior to CrowdComfort, Hutchins held similar positions at several other startups, including Aras Corporation and VISTAGY.
PPG [PITTSBURGH] (NYSE: PPG) announced that its board of directors has elected Vincent J. Morales to serve as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Morales is replacing Frank S. Sklarsky as CFO, who has announced his retirement. Morales will also join PPG's executive and operating committees. Morales joined PPG in 1985 and advanced through various finance roles of increasing responsibility in the company's Corporate Controller's function, shared financial service center, plants and business units.
BJ Services [TOMBALL, Texas] announced Evelyn M. Angelle has joined the Company as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Ms. Angelle spent 12 years at Halliburton working in various senior roles, including Senior Vice President of Global Supply Chain, Chief Accounting Officer and Vice President of Investor Relations. Before Halliburton, Ms. Angelle spent 15 years in Ernst & Young LLP's audit practice.
Old Point National Bank [HAMPTON, Va.] announced that Laurie Grabow, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer has stated her intent to retire in the summer of 2017. Laurie worked in different areas of the bank throughout her career, starting in 1986 as Assistant Vice President of Operations. In 1995, she was named Audit Director and in 2000, Chief Financial Officer. Laurie also serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Old Point Financial Corporation.
HYPERLOOP ONE [LOS ANGELES] announced the promotion of Brent Callinicos to Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of the company. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Callinicos served as the Chief Financial Officer at Uber Technologies from 2013 to 2015. Prior to Uber, Callinicos was VP, Treasurer and Chief Accountant at Google from 2007 to 2013. He also ran Google's green energy investment portfolio. He held various roles at Microsoft from 1992 to 2007, where most recently he was CFO of the Platforms and Services Division. He also served as Microsoft's Treasurer from 2000-2004. Callinicos also sits on the boards of Baidu, PVH and Rubicon Global.
ServiceMaster Global Holdings, Inc. [MEMPHIS, Tenn.] (NYSE: SERV) announced that Alan Haughie, its senior vice president and chief financial officer, will retire from the company in March. He'll be succeeded by Anthony (Tony) DiLucente. DiLucente comes to ServiceMaster from HDT Global, a comprehensive provider of mobility solutions for military and government applications, where he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer since 2011. DiLucente's background also includes executive positions with Honeywell International, Johns Manville and Masonite Inc.
ARC Group, Inc. [JACKSONVILLE, Fla.] (OTC: ARCK) announced that the Company's Board of Directors appointed Seenu G. Kasturi to serve as President and CFO, and as the Chairman of the Board of Directors. Kasturi replaces Daniel Slone as CFO, a position Slone has held since 2013. Kasturi has served as the President and CEO of Blue Victory Holdings, Inc. Prior to that, Kasturi founded K&L Investment Realty.
SmartZip Analytics, Inc. [PLEASANTON, Calif.] announced that Scott Baumgartner has joined the company as its first Chief Financial Officer. Baumgartner's career history includes a 14-year stint at CallidusCloud. Most recently, Baumgartner was the Vice President of Finance at Accela. He started his finance career at KPMG and has also held leadership roles at Read-Rite Corp and Merant Software.
FirstCare Health Plans [AUSTIN, Texas] announced the appointment of Jeff Rayl as the organization's new chief financial officer (CFO). He joined FirstCare in 2009.
iRobot Corp. [BEDFORD, Mass.] (NASDAQ: IRBT) announced the addition of Elisha Finney, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), to its board of directors. Ms. Finney's joined Varian in 1988 and was named vice president of finance and CFO in April, 1999. In January, 2005, she was promoted to senior vice president. Ms. Finney was named executive vice president of Varian in February, 2012. She recently announced her intention to retire from Varian when a successor is named, which is expected to occur during the fiscal year 2017. Ms. Finney also serves on the board of directors at ICU Medical and previously served as a board member at Altera Corporation, Thoratec and Laserscope.
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Royal Cup Coffee & Tea [BIRMINGHAM, Ala.] announced that William L. (Chip) Wann Jr. joined the company as chief financial officer. Wann most recently served as chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Mspark. Prior to his time at Mspark, he served as senior vice president of financial operations for the home health division of Amedisys, Inc. Wann also served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA). Prior to his time at SCA, Wann served as vice president and chief financial officer of Protective Life Corporation. Additionally, Wann previously served as vice president of investor relations and corporate finance for Protective Life. He started his career in the Birmingham office of Ernst & Young, LLP.
Servotronics, Inc. [ELMA, N.Y.] (NYSE MKT: SVT) announced the hiring of industry veteran Lisa Bencel as Chief Financial Officer. After leaving GE as a Manager of Finance, she held several executive positions with increasing financial leadership responsibilities including Business Controller at AlliedSignal (now Honeywell), Vice President of Finance, Business Planning & Control at Ericsson, Vice President of Finance at L-3 Communication's Space & Navigation division, and Controller at Raytheon Technical Services Company. Prior to joining Servotronics, Ms. Bencel was the Global Controller and Treasurer at the privately held information services company kgb.
Crestone Capital, LLC [BOULDER, Colo.] announced that Hull K. McKinnon has joined firm as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Partner. Mr. McKinnon joins Crestone from the venture capital firm Altira Group, where he served as General Partner and previously CFO. Mr. McKinnon assumes leadership of Crestone's CFO responsibilities from Doug Bonnette, who has spent the past 18 years at Crestone and is transitioning into retirement after a nearly 40-year career. Mr. Bonnette will join the Crestone board of advisors and will remain with Crestone in an Of Counsel role.
Lenox Park Solutions [NEW YORK] announced the hiring of Christopher L. Finley as its Chief of Finance & Operations. Prior to his new role at Lenox Park, Christopher was an investment banker at Deutsche Bank Securities and Morgan Stanley. He was also an analyst for Oaktree Capital Management's long-short Emerging Markets hedge fund. He was previously a member of Lenox Park's advisory board.
PagerDuty [SAN FRANCISCO] announced the appointment of Steven Gatoff as chief financial officer. Before joining PagerDuty, Gatoff led Rapid7. Gatoff also held financial executive roles at United Online, Sterling Commerce and VeriSign. He began his career in investment banking.
Bank of Hawaii [HONOLULU] announced that Kent T. Lucien, vice chair, currently Bank of Hawaii's chief financial officer, will become chief strategy officer. Dean Y. Shigemura, senior executive vice president, will be promoted from controller to chief financial officer, succeeding Kent T. Lucien. These appointments are effective March 1. Prior to joining Bank of Hawaii as a member of its Managing Committee as vice chair and chief financial officer in 2008, Lucien served on the bank's board of directors from 2006. Lucien's previous experience includes serving as chief executive officer of operations and chief financial officer at C. Brewer & Co. Ltd., a Hawaii corporation with operations in agriculture, food processing, industrial services and real estate. Lucien previously served on the board of Wailuku Water Co. and Maui Land & Pineapple Inc., where he served as Audit Committee Chair. Shigemura has been a member of Bank of Hawaii's Managing Committee since 2008. Shigemura began his career at Bank of Hawaii in 1999 as vice president and investments officer. He was promoted to senior vice president in 2002, and was named executive vice president and bank treasurer the following year. In 2014, Shigemura was promoted to controller. Prior to Bank of Hawaii, he worked as vice president and financial analyst for The Shidler Group.
Animal Supply Company (ASC) [IRVING, TX] welcomed Trisha Rosado as its new Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Trisha was CFO at Flavors Holding, Inc and held senior finance positions at Sara Lee and US Foods. She will work closely with, and support, Ken Fish, as he transitions from Chief Financial Officer to Executive Vice President Corporate Development.
Medicenna BioPharma Inc. [HOUSTON and VANCOUVER], a wholly owned subsidiary of Medicenna Therapeutics, Inc. announced that it has appointed Elizabeth Williams as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Medicenna, Ms. Williams was the Vice President of Finance and Administration at Aptose Biosciences Inc. (previously Lorus Therapeutics Inc.). While at Aptose, she held several positions, including Acting Chief Financial Officer.


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Here are the very first pictures of Robert Downey Jr. filming Sherlock Holmes on Friday, currently filming in Central London.
When asked what he could bring to a character portrayed countless times on film and television, RDJ has joked: "Clearly I'm going to do it better than it's ever been done. The more I read about it the more overwhelmed I was by the weight of it and the amount of people who will be watching to see if it's gotten right."
Check out the pictures below–it looks like RDJ and his stunt double are conferring with each other on how to jump off the building they're standing on. Also pictured: director Guy Ritchie.
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The BLM plays with fire in Oregon
Everyone here in Oregon loves our forests. These lands -- most in public ownership -- are the cornerstone for both the economic and ecological health of the state, and are central to our identity. Indeed, more and more of us are making our homes in the woods every year, in the so-called "wildlands-urban interface." And so, whether we are loggers, conservationists or vacation-home owners, we all share a common fear: fire. Uncontrolled, stand-replacing wildfire can destroy in a day all the forest values that took centuries to develop. Therefore, it's hard to believe that the Bureau of Land Management would propose to drastically increase the risk of wildfire on their forestlands in Oregon. Yet that is exactly what the agency is doing.
This burning secret is hidden deep within the BLM's recently-released Draft Environmental Impact statement for its Western Oregon Plan Revisions, or WOPR, pronounced "whopper" by just about everyone. Arising from an out-of-court settlement between the Bush administration and a timber industry group, the plan discards the present management framework governing 2.5 million acres of low-elevation forests throughout western Oregon and the Klamath Basin.
Current management includes an extensive network of reserves that were established to assure the survival of the threatened Northern Spotted Owl, and that are off-limits to commercial logging. The draft plan would eliminate those reserves, drastically reduce no-cut buffers along streams, and instead designate commercial logging as the "predominant" use.
BLM is promoting this change as a way to dramatically increase timber revenues. That prospect is very tempting to Oregon counties, which have financed public services for decades on their portion of federal-land timber receipts. Unfortunately, few county officials have apparently had the patience to read all the way to page 769 in the Draft Environmental Impact statement, to the section called "Fire severity, hazard, and resiliency in the south." There, the agency shows just how much the plan would cost Oregon in terms of fire.
BLM analyzes three "action alternatives" in comparison with continuation of present management, the "no action alternative." The data are clear: a continuation of present management would provide Oregon with the best fire future. What about the preferred second alternative? This is the very worst in terms of fire. For example, in southern Oregon's Medford District, where I live, it would result in approximately 200,000 more acres in the "high-fire severity" category than would continuation of present management.
But the bad news doesn't end there. What about "fire resiliency," the ability of a forest to survive a wildfire? Here again, BLM's preferred alternative offers Oregon the worst fire future. Alternative 2 would accomplish almost all its logging by clearcutting, creating even-aged plantations without any standing large trees. The draft plan acknowledges that these forests are the worst in every fire category: high fire severity, high fire hazard, and low fire resiliency. In my BLM district, the second alternative would reduce the acreage of fire-resilient forests by two-thirds compared to current management. That's well over half a million more acres without the ability to survive wildfire.
BLM's western Oregon forests are in a checkerboard ownership pattern, intermingled with private property. BLM's preferred alternative would be a catastrophe for this wildland-urban interface, exposing the residents of Oregon to drastically increased fire risk over the coming decades.
Finally, there is the very real possibility that BLM's plan may backfire, even in its stated goal of increasing timber revenues. Given the increased fire hazard and severity that would result from adoption of BLM's preferred alternative, Oregon forests may burn up before they can be logged. BLM's timber revenue projections fail to take this possibility into account. The draft plan also fails to analyze the impact of global warming over the hundred-year projections in the plan. This is indefensible, given the many studies predicting increasing fire severity throughout the West due to global warming.
The Bureau of Land Management knows very well that clearcut logging and reduction of stream buffers increase fire danger. They can't deny these truths, but they can bury them in the middle of their 1,300-page "whopper." It is up to us -- the owners of our public lands -- to insist that federal land managers reject management options that increase fire danger over the long term. This plan fails that fire test. If it is adopted, we will all get burned.
Pepper Trail is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a biologist and writer who lives in Ashland, Oregon.


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