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Growing problem
I am concerned about the growing problem of suicide. About 3,600 people die by suicide in Canada each year — about 10 suicides per day.
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I say "growing" problem because suicide rates have increased by 60 per cent worldwide in the last 45 years. For every suicide death, there are an estimated 20 to 25 attempts.
The best thing we can do to support people with suicidal tendencies is to be aware of the signs and to listen to those who might come to us for help. People thinking of suicide find ways to invite help from others. This support can be as simple as asking, "Are you OK?" followed by reporting what you hear to someone who can help.
We have many supports for people and families who have been affected by suicide. However, I believe people are afraid to speak up due to the stigma associated with suicide. For this reason I feel it would be beneficial if we educated people to be more suicide aware.
More prevention
We should focus more on suicide prevention. The more we focus on this topic, the more lives will be saved.
Multiple things can lead to suicide: depression, bullying, abuse, low self-esteem and lack of confidence.
In Canada suicide is one of the top-10 causes of death. There is no reason a person should take their own life no matter how bad their situation may be. We are losing countless lives every year due to suicide.
Although we cannot necessarily change how these individuals are feeling, we can make an effort to help them see the good in life by making more programs available for youth and adults who are struggling with the thought of taking their own lives.
People need to be more aware of how common suicide is in the 21st century, and that every person who takes their life is someone's daughter or son, husband or wife, sister or brother.
Suicide is real and it's sad and it needs to be stopped.
Bullying at root
Suicide is a word that some people are reluctant to say or think due to the impact it has made in the world.
Thousands of kids and teens have to face bullying, blackmailing and mental disorders. In the 21st century, society revolves around social media, which would mean the youth of our community could become aware of unrealistic expectations and standards. These unrealistic standards pressure teens and can cause health problems.
I believe a large portion of bullying is due to the LGBTQ+ youth not being accepted by other youth and family, eventually evolving into mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression.
In Canada, 396 youths die from suicide from ages 10 to 24 each year. The LGBTQ+ community is the most common group affected by suicide.
I have sadly known multiple people who have died by suicide or are struggling with severe suicidal thoughts due to lack of therapists and guidance counsellors.
We could set up extra grief and guidance counsellors in schools, have campaigns and organizations to raise awareness and most importantly, spread the word about youth suicide in schools and the news.
Social media a part
Hundreds of teens are dying by suicide due to bullying, harassment, blackmailing, abuse, etc. Suicide is the third leading cause of death in teens. Each year families suffer a loss of a loved one, which then leads to anxiety and depression.
I believe social media play a big role in suicide. Instagram and Twitter can be a platform for bullying. Kids get cyber-bullied daily and soon they have suicidal thoughts.
If we don't prevent suicide from occurring it can have a big impact on our society. "Suicide doesn't take away the pain; it gives it to someone else."
There is a solution. We can make an organization to help the teens who are having suicidal thoughts.
I personally have never lost a family member to suicide, but I do know it is a traumatic and devastating experience. So let's start our journey and make a difference.
Talk to teens
I believe suicide is a huge issue for teens because sometimes they feel like they have nobody to talk to. Imagine having to bottle up all of your emotions.
As a community we can slowly change the way teens think and show them they have people to talk to.
One way we can help teens is by encouraging them to talk to you. Sometimes they will blow you off, but you have to keep trying. Teenagers will try their best to block you out, but deep down inside they will want to talk. Try asking someone how their day was, try not to get something more than the basic answer of "good." You can tell them about rough patches in your life to show them they're not alone.
If you don't have a child, you can donate to a teen help-line. The person on the other end of the line won't judge them for what they have to say.
Nowadays there are lots of teens coming out as gay or lesbian or transgender. If you have a child, raise them to be kind to anybody no matter their sexuality. Tell them that love is love and when they're older they can love anybody they want to. Usually when teenagers come out in high school, there will be somebody making fun of them, so when we teach our children that's OK when they're growing up they will be less likely to be bullied or made fun of.
Problem is urgent
About one in five youth and children in Ontario will experience some form of mental health problem. Five out of six of these kids will not receive the treatment and counselling they need, which can lead to them attempting to harm themselves, or worse.
These disturbing statistics help make suicide the third leading cause of death for youth ages 15 to 24.
The main causes for suicide today in adolescents are mental disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder, and alcohol and drug abuse.
While we cannot control if someone has a mental illness, we can help them get the help and support they need and deserve. Sadly, a great number of young people don't receive this help in time or even at all.
Just last year, in Woodstock, there was a suicide crisis involving five high school students who killed themselves. This led to a significant number of suicide attempts in the community. This should tell us we need to do something to prevent this from reoccurring.
Solving this issue is an urgent matter. As Ontarians, it should be our duty to encourage our government officials to help make more mental health services available.
If a young person is having thoughts about hurting themselves, then talking to a therapist months later will not help them.
Wait for therapy takes too long
The people of Ontario should be concerned with how long the wait is to see a therapist for mental health and suicidal reasons. One in 10 patients are waiting for over a year just to be assessed.
We need to increase the amount of mental health therapists in Ontario.
Together, we need to support young people and shorten the amount of time people spend waiting. Lives are at stake. We need to act now.


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Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
I read with great interest your story "Design Contracts for New Schools Snag Over Rights'' (Oct. 28, 1992). I have had a successful career with technology-based companies, both large and entrepreneurial. I was also involved with one of the non-winning New American Schools Development Corporation teams.
Education is unique among the amenities of our society. It has the weakest research base, the lowest productivity, smallest investment ratios in employee training, minimal adoption of technology-based delivery systems, and the smallest commercial support industry. If I were designing a system to stymie innovation, it would be difficult to improve on education.
Our federal government supports $6 billion of research for health and human-service research, versus $130 million for education. Johnson and Johnson's $11 billion in medical revenues swamps the $200 million of the Jostens Learning Corporation. Recent studies--"Research and the Renewal of Education'' by the National Academy of Education and "Research and Education Reform'' by the National Academy of Sciences--attest to this appalling condition.
Last fall, I attempted to convince the NASDC management to follow a new path taken by the U.S. departments of Defense and Energy, and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This path is to promote economic development by providing companies with the commercial rights to their government-sponsored research. Technology transfer of research into commercial firms is many more times effective than putting it into the public domain.
If educators and students are to benefit from new low-cost, effective solutions that are delivered with quality, training, and enhancements, then the commercial routes are the only channel.
NASDC has an opportunity to play a major role in transforming the engine that drives innovation in education. It needs to start by doing everything within its power to tranfer technology and methods created by the NASDC research to the commercial champions who will deliver it to the schools. We do not need another 11 reports sitting unused in ERIC.
Theodore C. Kraver
Learning/Research/Enterprise Inc.
Phoenix, Ariz.
To the Editor:
I was disturbed in reading your recent interview on Total Quality Management ("Researcher Discusses Shortcomings of 'Total Quality Movement,' '' Focus On, Oct. 21, 1992), that the research being discussed was not cited more specifically.
We in Idaho are just coming to know of W. Edwards Deming's concepts in management and are trying to figure it into the scheme of education, teaching, and reform. I for one am extremely interested in the process and am learning more each day of the positive effects Total Quality Management practices can have.
Clearly, Mr. Deming's process does not call for turning control of the company--in this case the school--over to employees. But it does call for input into management decisions from all employees and customers--in this case teachers, parents, and students. This idea of empowering those involved to give voice to concerns, innovative ideas, and suggestions simply makes good sense.
For several years, administrators, teachers, parents, and patrons of schools have been bombarded with ideas for reform and restructuring. Workshops abound. Jargon is rampant. Nothing changes but the dialogue. With Total Quality Management practices comes the opportunity for real change for the better.
Certainly, there are questions to be answered and clarifications to be made as to the implementation of the Deming program. I hope you will publish some success stories and possibly more information on where one might receive further training in T.Q.M. as it relates to schools.
Michael B. Sessions
Central Elementary School
Sugar City, Idaho
Editor's Note: Education Week looked in depth at T.Q.M. in the schools in the March 11 and March 18, 1992, issues.
To the Editor:
The article "One Parent's Odyssey'' (Commentary, Oct. 7, 1992) is a handbook of How Not To Do It for those who want to improve the schools. Following impeccable bureaucratic processes is precisely the reverse of what needs to be done. School administration should be skilled in resisting external interests, however well intended and well thought out.
What is needed is an illustration, an example, a mini-school that illustrates to the administration what might be better. Rather than reason with the administration, show them what life for students might be. Construct a program, let's say, called Every Student Is Gifted. Have a week's program, a mini-school, in the summer staffed and run by parents. Use the school facility, and demonstrate how it might be, however amateur.
The administration and the teachers might see how they could use that idea, even if only a small part of it.
Henry Bissex
Montpelier, Vt.
To the Editor:
I was impressed with the significant arguments presented on both sides of the voucher question in your article "New Approaches Blurring the Line Between Public and Private Schools'' (Oct. 7, 1992).
There is a great need for improving public education as well as private education in America today. A voucher system may provide an incentive for restructuring education in a way that creates an active learning environment for all students through choice.
Parents have the right to choose a school that best suits the needs of their children. A voucher system empowers them to do that.
Choice fosters healthy competition and accountability in both the private and public sectors. It challenges educators to examine every aspect of the school environment. Such examination raises the level of awareness, which leads to critical evaluation, which leads to positive changes.
Christopher Whittle's idea to "create schools so powerful and innovative that they will have a real influence on the structure of public education'' through the Edison Project is commendable. To start from "the ground up'' to make fundamental changes is a good approach for restructuring the school system, if there is money to do so.
I disagree with the statement that "vouchers are an incentive to abandon the public schools.'' A voucher system merely provides a choice to parents. That choice may be a private or a public school.
From an educator's point of view, a voucher system may serve as an incentive for improvement of public education, compelling restructuring, where it is needed, to produce a better educational environment. Public schools have a very important place in American society. Their position and influence may be enhanced through a voucher system.
Sister M. Lynn Lester, B.V.M.
San Francisco, Calif.
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As we look back on 2015, we're very happy and honored at what happened this year. We have grown in our knowledge of bees, our product offerings, our number of hives, and in the number of great customers and friends that we've made this year. The greatest honor has been our community recognizing our efforts in chemical-free beekeeping, which led to our nomination as a finalist in the Farmer's Market Vendor category of edible Houston's Local Hero 2015 survey. Please take a minute to vote for us and help us spread the word about our leadership in the local food movement. Here, we'll try to summarize our year in review.
The year 2015 began with a very tough Winter for bees. January and February were unusually warm, causing our bees to begin preparations for Spring early. As the populations in our hives grew and some colonies began producing drones for Spring mating, reality set in and we had a hard freeze in March. Some of our hives had created populations that outgrew their stores, so we began with fewer hives than 2014. Also, while the nectar-rich Chinese Tallow Trees were blooming, the Houston area was drenched in rain for 3 weeks, so we did not get the typical Spring harvest to which we're accustomed. Honey is a seasonal product and bees depend on a variety of factors to produce a surplus of honey to harvest.
We quickly rebounded from that setback. In mid-March, we received our first phone call of the year about a swarm of bees and promptly hived and relocated them. We captured swarms that were looking for homes, swarms that recently settled into a new home, and established colonies in structures. Over the course of the year, we relocated 25 feral colonies into our managed yards. We have created a portfolio of those swarms that you can access via this link.
Our queen rearing program matured this year, providing us with a steady source of healthy, productive queens. When one of our relocated swarms needed a new gentle queen, we had one. When a queen died unexpectedly, we were able to replace her instead of letting the colony raise a substandard emergency replacement. When we needed to split a colony to stop it from swarming, we had a new queen ready to go. Our ability to have queens in reserve enabled us to grow exponentially this year.
We expanded the area where our bees forage by creating new partner yards this year. After our success at Plants for All Seasons in 2014, we created new yards in 2015 at The Arbor Gate, Jane and John Dough Bakery, Verdant Tree Farm, and the Tomball Community Garden. We led two Bee Forums with Angela Chandler at the The Arbor Gate and were guests on Green Thumb Gardening on 700 AM KSEV. We also taught a mini bee class for kids at Jane and John Dough Bakery on Earth Day!
Based on our honey production, we supported 15 market days in 2015, up from 4 in 2014. We now sell our local honey at the Tomball Farmer's Market and The Farmer's Market at Bridgeland and can honestly say we have bees close enough to fly to those markets. We also began selling honey through our partners at The Arbor Gate and Plants For All Seasons. We were thrilled at the responses from our customers and partners. We thoroughly enjoyed explaining why honey harvests change color throughout the year and taste different based on locale and loved giving someone their first taste of truly local honey!
We increased our product offerings this year. To minimize any waste from our honey operations, we began rendering our capping wax in a solar melter and produced pure beeswax candles. We also began offering our honey in stick form. To support local backyard gardeners, we provide pollination services in the NW Houston area and offer classes and services to local beekeepers.
We look forward to another great year in 2016 and hope to see you soon!
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The official Sziget Facebook page says that new names are set to be announced tomorrow, which should be pretty great news.
On the other hand, Campfire winners will be announced later today, too.
We're looking forward to tomorrow's announcement, which should probably include Leningrad, too (which we've known about for a few days now).


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Ness Academy dental technician courses use our proven learning systems to help new and existing technicians quickly improve their technical ability to prepare for the demands of the new market place. These courses are unique as technicians will not only increase their productivity and quality of work, but they also return with reference materials and tools to reinforce what they have learned.
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Holy Patriarchal And Stavropegic Monastery Of Saint Irene Chrysovalantou In Astoria, New York
This Holy Monastery was brought under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1998.
It belongs spiritually and administratively to the Ecumenical Patriarchate, subject to the Article 2, Paragraph 15 of the Law about Religious Legal Entities of the State of New York, and to its own legal entity and constitution no 727181 of Queens' District, New York City, as well as to the special Constitution of Holy Metochia, which was published by the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Its effect started on 11 April 1998, in parallel with the rules that came out of it.
Administration of the Monastery
The monastery is managed by the Abbot, who is elected by the Brotherhood of the Monastery. His election is confirmed by His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch and his blessing is given with an appropriate Patriarchal letter. The top governing body is considered to be the Abbot council of the Holy Monastery, the members of which are elected every 5 years by the Brotherhood. The election is confirmed by His All Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
Acting Abbot: His Grace Ilias of Filomelion.
According to the Law of the State of New York regarding Religious Legal Entities, there must be three trustees. These are:
* His Eminence Theoliptos of Iconium, President.
Address: Sacred Patriarchal and Stavropegic Orthodox Monastery of St. Irene Chrysovalantou, 36-04 23rd Avenue, Astoria, N.Y. 11105-1916.
Tel. +1-718-626.6225. fax: +1-718-626.7669.
Feasts: 28 July, St Irene Chysovalantou, and 30 November, Holy Apostle Andrew the First-called, protector and founder of the Church of Constantinople.
1. Catholicon of the Monastery. St Irene Chrysovalantou. Address: 36-07 23rd Avenue Astoria, NY 11105. Tel. (718) 626-6225. fax:: (718) 626-7669.
Holy Metochia:
2. Μother of God the Liberator Monastery.
Address: 42-11 Ditmars Boulevard Astoria, NY 11105-1433, tel.: (718) 932-9292.
3. Ηoly Theotokos Monastery.
Address: 111 Εvergreen road, north Fort Myers, FL 33903-3830, tel. (941) 997-2846. fax:: (941) 997-2046.
4. St Nektarios.
Address: 340 67th Street. Brooklyn, NY 11220-5301, tel. (718) 748.7667, fax: (718) 748-4114.
5. St Nicholas.
Address: 1822 65th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11204-1901, tel. (718) 232-7358. Presbyter Charalambos.
6. Ss Anargyroi Taxiarchis and Gerasimos. Greek Orthodox Church.
Address: Μain Street, Greenport,NY 11944, tel. (631) 477-1801. Presbyter Gerasimos.
7. Holy Transfiguration. Greek Orthodox Church.
Address: 802 Ν. Orange Street, Wilmington, DE 19801-1710, tel. (302) 836-3959. Presbyter Raphael.
8. Ss Athanasios and John. Greek Orthodox Church.
Address: 4200 Ν. Κeeler Avenue, Chicago, IL 60641-2298, tel. (773) 286-3735. fax: (773) 286-3753. Presbyter Emmanuel.
9. Holy Ascension. Greek Orthodox Church.
Address: 1440 Ν.Laura Street Clearwater, FL 33775-5221. Tel. (727) 469-89826, fax: (727) 469-8816. Archmandrite Dorotheos.
10. St John, Orthodox Mission.
Address: R.R. 1, Smith Road, Parksville, NY 12768-9801, tel. (914) 583-5845. Protopresbyter Iakovos.
11. St Michael, Orthodox Mission.
Address: 30-32 Μacaw Avenue, Belmopan, Belize, tel. (501) 9-22382, (501) 8-23284. fax: (501) 8-23633.
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Here's a question for the Education Establishment. If smart, educated parents hate what you're doing, why won't you listen?
A Facebook page called Parents Against Everyday Math gives a poignant look at the misery spread across the country by dysfunctional math programs. Parents left these comments:
"I HATE this!!!"
"Yes, I do believe where I can see that this really makes sense NOT!"
"You are bringing back nightmares with this post. Utterly inefficient."
"The problem I have with Everyday Math is it discourages the kids, and destroys their self-esteem. Any educator that doesn't recognize that shouldn't be in education."
"This was on my 3rd grader's EM test yesterday. The teacher and I are in disagreement about the answer and the kids' ability to solve this: 'James built a rectangular prism out of base-10 blocks. He used 30 cm cubes to make the base. He put 4 more layers of cubes on top of that. What is the volume of the prism he built?' (sic)
Then you have 25 grown-ups screaming they have no idea what the answer is supposed to be.
At this point, with only this evidence, we should suspect that the people behind Everyday Math do not seriously want kids to learn arithmetic.
Reform Math consists of 12 more or less identical curricula that suffer from the same design flaws: spiraling mindlessly from topic to topic, children never allowed to master anything except perhaps a calculator, constructivism (aka Discovery) often required, cooperative or team learning usually required.
The people behind this quackery have built in lots of sinkholes–something with five minute's worth of content but it can keep children baffled for hours.
Here are four examples of bad pedagogy found in virtually all Reform Math curricula: confusing statistical terms; inefficient methods; verbose word problems; and a waste of time called "order of operations."
STATISTICAL TERMS: Statistics was once considered a college-level course. New Math (circa 1965) started the practice of teaching advanced math to children: matrices, boolean algebra, symbolic logic, et al. New and Reform Math like to throw around complex terms, probably to bamboozle parents. Furthermore, statistical terms aren't a foundation for something that everybody should know. Mastering them would be appropriate in an MBA program. So why do Reform Math programs waste time on this specialized niche? Even worse, these programs seem to have gone out of their way to pick nomenclature that will be difficult for students to remember and keep straight: Mean, Median, Mode, and Range.
Years ago, the word "average" was used to mean what "mean" now means. Meanwhile, "mean" had a different meaning, a very useful one, but that meaning has been appropriated by "median." It's all very confusing, and a good way to make sure children avoid math.
Here is what one education site says: "The mode is probably the least common way of finding the average, and in most cases is the least useful. To find the mode, just look for the number that occurs the most. There can be more than one mode, or none at all."
Pick a set of explanations at random; you will likely be struck by the unhelpful jargon.
Recall the Batman characters–the Joker and the Riddler–and how they delighted in perverse puzzles.
WEIRD METHODS: Reform Math curricula disdain or entirely prohibit the familiar algorithms. Children are forced to learn more awkward methods to multiply and divide. This has two immediate results: the learning curve is slow; and parents cannot help.
"An Inconvenient Truth," a famous video on YouTube, explains (if you can stand it) two of these painfully cumbersome methods: lattice method and partial products. There are others, all of them unwieldy. The geniuses behind Reform Math dug up the graveyard of forgotten failures, and now force them on today's children.
WORDS INSTEAD OF NUMBERS: a common feature in math courses these days is the word problem. Instead of learning to solve arithmetic problems, as was traditional for centuries, children are made to deal with the same questions expressed in lots of words.
So instead of 1 + 2 equals ?, we have: "One weekend in November, Josephine, a famous athlete, baked one cherry pie while Mary Ellen, a business executive, baked two lemon meringue pies. How many pies do Josephine and Mary Ellen have?"
What is the benefit of all this verbiage? But there's something even sicker going on here. It's well known that many children don't learn to read fluently. Some of those children may be good at math. If you give them a number problem, these kids might be able to shine, and feel good about school. So we see a double whammy: teach kids to read in a way that doesn't work very well, and then assault their brains with arithmetic expressed in unnecessarily long sentences.
The whole point of math is to be spare and elegant. You can't beat the beauty of 1 + 2 = 3.
ORDER OF OPERATIONS: probably most college graduates, unless they are programmers, never hear this phrase. For K-12 students it's another new and unnecessary field of math, a sinkhole.
We do not usually encounter mathematical expression unless they are correct. Otherwise it's like a newspaper reporting: "Move the now cat unusual a victory."
Where would you see this: 8 – 4 x 6 + 3 x 5 – 2? No book intended for adults, or real students of math, would go to press with such nonsense included.
Children are given dozens of illegitimate equations, also known as "number sentences." The children must use PEMDAS, which stands for Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract, to rationalize the equations. A lot of time is spent mastering math that never seems to be part of anyone's reality.
Wikipedia sketches the confusion: "The original order of operations in most countries was BODMAS which stood for Brackets, Over, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction. This mnemonic was used until exponentials were added into the mnemonic. These mnemonics may be misleading when written this way, especially if the user is not aware that multiplication and division are of equal precedence, as are addition and subtraction. Using any of the above rules in the order "addition first, subtraction afterward" would also give the wrong answer to the problem."
So you madden children with this stuff, and at the end they have learned nothing important or permanent. If order of operations is a legitimate subject, that would be for advanced students who want to become editors of math texts.
All of Reform Math (like New Math before it) is an Ikea project where the instructions have 50 steps, but two steps have been left out and several others have been flipped. Then they put you in a room and wait for you to go insane.
There is something so counterintuitive about Reform Math that finally you are sure this instruction was never intended to work. Rather, it was concocted by Pavlovian technicians using the latest Russian research on what will most quickly put a person into shock.
Math is pure, serene, elegant, transparent. Reform Math is like a crippled cruise ship adrift at sea for a month.
All across the country, people are fighting against the adoption of Common Core curriculum. One good way you know the Common Core is undesirable is that it blandly perpetuates Reform Math.
What to do? Almost everyone agrees that Saxon Math and Singapore Math are outstanding.
Bruce Deitrick Price explains theories and methods on his site Improve-Education.org.


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Apart from aggressive marketing campaign and ads placements in website pages, competitions are another common promotional tool to attract potential customers to products and services. As a general rule, contests do not have to be difficult or overly challenging because it tends to reduce attractiveness. It has to be very easy instead with some simple trivia questions or demonstrations of talents. With the help of social media, such contest can be an efficient part of the entire marketing campaign yet very affordable even for startups. As a marketing tool, contest offers the following benefits.
Almost Free Promotional Event
The main idea behind having a contest is to get the products or brands known by the public. In an online contest, a company also has the chance to quickly build potential customers base via social media, blog, or newsletters subscribers. We have to be realistic that the number of people who take part in the contest is not the only statistical data to measure whether a marketing campaign is success or a flop, but it can be good metric to measure how attractive the contest is. In some cases, a sweepstake that requires almost no action on the participants' parts is good alternative to contest. This is not an entirely free marketing tool because there should be a quite interesting prize offered to attract more people.
Easy Research
Contests gives you a perfect opportunity to conduct a little bit of market research. It can work on social media or for brick & mortar retailers using fill-out forms. When participants answer some questions in the forms, they give enough data for you to start an analysis. The questions can include their favorite features from certain products, what they want to see in the next products, customer satisfaction rating, etc. A company uses such data to design new products or improve an existing service.
Broader circle
Some contests help you interact with existing customers and effectively engage with the potential ones. Take UGC (user generated content) promotion for example; participants must upload photos or videos to demonstrate their talents or unique ideas. There is a strong sense of competitions in that especially if the prize is something quite valuable. When participants use personal contents (photos, videos, stories, etc), each of them also takes part in your marketing campaign.
It is a common practice in social websites, because they are indeed the easiest media to communicate with your customers. Another benefit is the indirect campaign in which participants help spread the words about your brands and products or services. This is free effective marketing that lets you engage with new potential customers previously unreachable.
Depending on the prize, a contest or sweepstake can be either costly or inexpensive. More attractive prizes such as cash, handmade items, or the latest products you have, are more likely to attract more people but it comes at a price. Prizes such as coupons for discounts can be inexpensive, but the cost adds up as you give more coupons to multiple customers.


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New crab species goes viral
NUS zoologists discover a new species of marine crab and give it a catchy name.
Two zoologists from the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM), Dr Jose Christopher E. MENDOZA and Prof Peter K. L. NG, have recently discovered and described a new genus and new species of marine crab from the coral reefs of Guam, published in the journal, ZooKeys (published by Pensoft). The crab's two-part scientific name, Harryplax severus, was primarily intended by the authors to honour the person who first collected the crabs (Harry T. CONLEY), and also as a reference to how difficult and challenging it was to find them. The name, however, has made the crab species an internet sensation for a different reason. Dr Mendoza says, "We decided to be a bit cheeky about this naming business and inserted a double meaning into the name, making it also a nod to two very important characters of the much-loved Harry Potter book and film series: Harry himself, and Severus Snape. The fans went wild over that." After the publisher, Pensoft, released the news of the discovery, the story was picked up by online news outlets, such as National Geographic, BBC, Time, and The Guardian, as well as several common interest sites.
However, the Harryplax crab is not just about celebrity namesakes. It is the latest of a series of new species discoveries from coral rubble beds, a type of reef habitat dominated by dead and broken corals. Most of the species that live there are small, rare and hard to find. They live out of sight, in the cavities formed amongst the coral fragments, rocks, and boulders. Oftentimes, they have physical adaptations similar to animals found living deep in caves, such as small eyes, pale colouration and long, slender legs. The research of Prof Ng and Dr Mendoza, spanning almost 20 years, has shown that rubble beds do harbour a rich and unique community. This has implications on conservation planning and the management of marine habitats, and seeks to correct misperceptions that seemingly "dead" and species-poor habitats can be sacrificed for development.
Figure shows the type specimens used to describe Harryplax severus, now deposited in the Zoological Reference Collection of the LKCNHM. The female holotype is above, and beneath it is the male paratype. [Image credit: Dr J.C.E. Mendoza].
Mendoza JCE*; Ng PKL, "Harryplax severus, a new genus and species of an unusual coral rubble-inhabiting crab from Guam (Crustacea, Brachyura, Christmaplacidae)" ZOOKEYS Issue: 647 Pages: 23-35 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.647.11455 Published: 2017.


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Celebrity chef Mario Batali's planned Fort Point restaurant is definitely not happening.
After a recent vague tweet last weekend by Batali, the acclaimed chef posted a more detailed update online Monday night.
"B&B Hospitality Group is saddened to announce that the project called Babbo Pizzeria and Enoteca originally slated for a fourth quarter open date in the exciting Fort Point district in Boston will not come to fruition," the update said.
Batali has been working on opening an Italian eatery on Summer Street for months and the tweet was disappointing news for many fans.
On Saturday, in response to a Twitter inquiry from a fan, Batali said the restaurant was "not looking good right now" and that he'd keep people posted.
But Batali's most recent update allows for some hope.
"We will continue to look for the perfect location to serve the exciting and vibrant Boston community," the update said.
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The city of Norwich has become the sixth part of the UK to switch from council Local Land Charges to digital searches handled by HM Land Registry - but the programme overall is running behind schedule.
Warwick, Liverpool, Blackpool and the Isles of Scilly are four councils already on the scheme, along with the City of London Corporation.
"Some of our local land charges data was computerised but most was held in paper records, some going back to the 1950s. By updating and digitising all our local land charges data, we are providing confidence in the accuracy of the data and helping to improve the efficiency of buying and selling property in the Norwich area" according to Laura McGillivray, chief executive officer at Norwich council.
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Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2019, 16(6): 6454-6466. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2019323.
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Skeletal bone age assessments for young children based on regression convolutional neural networks
1 College of Computer Science & Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China
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Keywords: bone age assessment; carpal bones extraction; regression convolutional neural network
Citation: Pengyi Hao, Sharon Chokuwa, Xuhang Xie, Fuli Wu, Jian Wu, Cong Bai. Skeletal bone age assessments for young children based on regression convolutional neural networks. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2019, 16(6): 6454-6466. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2019323
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The White House has struggled to clearly define a unifying message after two grand juries failed to indict police officers in the deaths of black men. WSJ's Carol Lee explains. Photo: AP
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Curses, Foiled Again
A man buying a box of bullets at a gun store in Kansas City, Mo., handed $40 to the owner, who was ringing up the sale, when the man pointed a gun at him and demanded money. The owner said he noticed the gun wasn't loaded and pulled his own gun, chasing off the robber, who left behind the bullets and his $40. (Kansas City's KMBC-TV)
• Two men entered a convenience store in La Mirada, Calif., picked up an 18-pack of beer and assorted snack items and ran out the door without paying. Four uniformed sheriff deputies standing inside the store drinking coffee chased after them and arrested Jacob Wallace, 29, and Robert Martin, 19. Los Angeles County sheriff's Capt. Patrick Maxwell noted that the suspects also failed to notice the deputies' two marked patrol cars parked outside the store before they entered. (San Gabriel Valley's SGV Tribune)
Scare Care
Police arrested ex-veterinarian Stephen Mahnken for dressing like a doctor and entering patients' rooms at a hospital in South Charleston, W.Va., while the patients slept. One male patient awoke to find a bandaged stuffed monkey hanging from the ceiling, a bandaged teddy bear, notes around the room about castration, and cotton balls placed on his private parts. "The guy (Mahnken) had a big bag of ketchup with him. I don't know if he was going to play a joke, you know, put ketchup down there and make him think that something had happened," Assistant Police Chief Robert Houck said, adding that patients "were just freaked out about it." (West Virginia's WSAZ-TV)
Trial Separation
British authorities reported that when a woman visited family in Pakistan, her husband, an immigration officer with access to security databases, added her name to a list of terrorist suspects banned from boarding flights into Britain. As a result, the woman was stranded in Pakistan for three years without being told why. The husband's action went undetected until he applied for a promotion with the U.K. Border Agency. During the vetting process, his wife's name was discovered on the suspects list. When questioned, the officer admitted what he'd done and was fired for gross misconduct. (Britain's Daily Mail)
Power Outage
When German Defense Minister Theodor zu Guttenberg, 39, resigned after being accused of plagiarizing his doctoral dissertation, he got to choose the music for the transfer-of-power ceremony. He asked the military band to play something by rockers AC/DC. The band's head conductor declared that such a request "just totally breaks the mold of our music styles" and substituted Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water." (The New York Times)
Animated Appeal
Sex offender John Jacques, 60, appealed his conviction, arguing that the arresting officer, posing as a 13-year-old girl during Internet chats, used animated emoticons that constituted entrapment. Jacques said that prosecutors at his trial in La Crosse, Wis., showed the jury transcripts of the conversations but inserted static blushing smiley-face emoticons to represent the actual animated ones, which Jacques insisted would have provided "clear evidence of enticement." (La Crosse Tribune)
Kool-Aid's off the Menu
A restaurant chain in South Bend, Ind., pulled its billboard ads that made reference to People's Temple leader Jim Jones and to the mass suicide he orchestrated in 1978. After coming up with the theme "You belong," leaders at Hacienda brainstormed ways to show how clubs, teams and restaurants can develop cult followings of like-minded people. Using Jones's cult "went the wrong direction," admitted Jeff Leslie, Hacienda's vice president of sales and marketing. "We lose the core message." (South Bend Tribune)
Reasonable Explanations
The lawyer for former art dealer Kurt Lidtke, 44, who pleaded guilty to masterminding the theft of 13 paintings and a sculpture from a Seattle home, blamed the burglary on his client's addiction to cough syrup. "His brand of choice was Robitussin," attorney Ralph Hurvitz said. "By the time of his arrest, his consumption level was between three and four bottles per day." (Seattle Weekly)
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The Agnes Irwin School invites nominations and applications for the position of Director of Marketing and Communications.
Since the School's founding in 1869, The Agnes Irwin School had dedicated itself to providing an exceptional and empowering education for girls. Rooted in academic excellence, scholarship, community, and collaboration, AIS consistently tailors its programs to the distinctive and individual needs of girls, always holding fast to the principle that a girl's educational journey from childhood through graduation should be joyful, challenging, creative, and inspirational. The School is located on a beautiful campus in Philadelphia's Main Line suburbs, allowing AIS students and faculty to benefit from access to the comprehensive cultural, educational, environmental, and industry resources that the Philadelphia area provides.
Enrolling 570 girls in pre-kindergarten through grade 12, The Agnes Irwin School is a leader in all-girls education, using research-based practices to provide the best possible experience for students. A student to faculty ration of 7:1 ensures that each girl is known within a community prioritizing leadership development, character, and respect.
Reporting to Head of School Sally Keidel, the Director of Marketing and Communications will provide experienced, strategic, and creative leadership to a centralized marketing and communications department serving as an in-house agency working to advance the mission of the School. The next Director will create, implement, and assess comprehensive communications, marketing, and public relations strategies and programs that support the School's position as a leading independent educational institution. The most qualified candidate will demonstrate a commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives; possess deep knowledge of print, internet, digital, and social media communications; be a compelling public speaker with the ability to communicate with a range of constituents; and possess strong management skills with independent school, university, or nonprofit experience. She/He/They will be committed to joyfully supporting the mission of a leading, independent, girls school.
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I adore Easter. Such a beautiful time of year to spend with family and friends.
And let's not even get started on all the delicious treats.
Hot Cross buns. Easter Eggs.
And of course, Easter baking.
I recently made an Easter version of my Bill Granger Rainbow Cookies by simply adding a Cadbury Mini Egg on top of the cookies before baking – instant Easter Cookies! Too easy.
If you're not a big fan of baking, these are super fast and easy. Ten minutes prep time, ten minutes in the oven and you can enjoy your Easter Cookies within half an hour.
You can even get the kids to help! Ava loves helping measure, mix and roll these yummy cookies.
I also love cupcake baking and decorating this time of year.
It's a fun Easter activity for the kids, set up a bowl of icing along with bowls of yummy Easter treats and let the kids go crazy!
Here are a couple of fun decorating ideas:
A Mini Malteser Bunny: I love this, it looks like the bunny has jumped 'WEEEEEEE!' and landed in the icing. Super cute and delicious.
Cadbury Mini Egg nest: Simply add a few colourful Cadbury Mini Eggs on top of the icing.
Cadbury Mini Egg with Toasted Coconut: This looks like a cute little birds nest. I toasted the shredded coconut in a non stick fry pan until it was golden brown. YUM!
Cadbury Mini Eggs with a Cadbury Flake Nest: I was always a fan of the good old Cadbury flake, and this is another delicious decorating idea.
Happy Easter baking and cupcake decorating lovelies!
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Want to learn more about the murals you see around town? You can now quickly access the history behind the mural. We have installed QR codes on each mural. Just scan the code with your smartphone or tablet and you're taken directly to that mural's information and the history it depicts. It's that easy. TRY IT next time you're in town. Find out even more by attending one of our Classes or Tour. Just go to the CLASSES & TOURS tab at the top of our page.Read More


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You will find that this is the most useful real estate website in the area, with advanced search technologies that allow you to view listings in the MLS, or to ensure your own home is sold in reasonable time and for top dollar.
Please consider this your website, your one-stop resource for your online real estate research. I am eager to share with you my knowledge of our local market for homes, both resale and new construction, as well as condos or whatever fits your needs. It is my pleasure to get to know my clients as I assist them in both home sales and searching for their next home. I delight in helping people succeed in this market, and when my clients come out of the transaction breathing that big sigh of relief, I know that I have done my very best for them.
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Counseling is not eligible for reimbursement with a dependent care flexible spending account (DFSA) or limited care flexible spending account (LCFSA).
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In the event of a major medical diagnosis, patients will lean on the expertise of their doctors, medical team and loved ones for support, but for many, the mental stress that is associated with the contraction of a specific illness is yet another obstacle for them to overcome during the recovery process. In light of these many emotional and practical concerns that are associated with a positive diagnosis, patients have the option of pursuing a wide variety of medical counseling options that can play a pivotal role in helping them manage the many facets of their illness (National Center for Biotechnology Information).
Medical counseling options are designed to take a full spectrum approach to disease management, and they are available for both patients and their families in a variety of different contexts. Social workers will cover a wide array of topics in relation to an individual's illness, including:
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Almack's
ALMACK'S, formerly the name of a famous London club and assembly rooms. The founder, known as William Almack, is usually said to have been one Macall, or McCaul, of which name Almack is an anagram. In 1764 he founded a gentleman's club in Pall Mall, where the present Marlborough Club stands. It was famous for its high play. In 1778 it was taken over by one Brooks, and established as Brooks's Club in St James's Street, where it still exists. In 1765 Almack built a suite of assembly rooms in King's Street, St James's. Here for a ten-guinea subscription a series of weekly balls was given for twelve weeks. They were managed by a committee of ladies of rank, and admission was exceedingly difficult. At Almack's death in 1781 they were left to his niece Mrs Willis. As "Willis's Rooms" they lasted till 1890, when they became a restaurant, but as "Almack's" they ceased in 1863. Several clubs, including a mixed club for ladies and gentlemen, held meetings at Almack's during the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. A new London social club (1904) has also adopted the name of Almack's.


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Successful expats have to be flexible, always ready to adapt to new etiquette rules worldwide. We will help you master the transition to Hong Kong business culture. Our guide below covers the key aspects of Hong Kong business etiquette, from greetings over meetings and dinners to gift-giving.
Hong Kong Business Etiquette: Entertaining
If your business contacts send you an invitation for dining in Hong Kong, it is considered very impolite just to refuse. In case that you can't make it, suggest a more convenient date, but do try to find the time. According to Hong Kong business etiquette, most invitations only extend to you without including your spouse or partner. If spouses should be present, business is rarely discussed.
During meals, you should pay attention to Hong Kong business etiquette regarding seating. The guest of honor usually sits opposite the host, with the second and third most important guest to his or her left and right. At the same time, the guest of honor is seated furthest away from the entrance while the host sits near the entrance. If in doubt, ask your host politely where to sit or wait for them to offer you a seat.
A business meal may also be an opportunity for your host to make a toast in your honor. Accept it graciously by smiling, raising your glass, taking a sip, and thanking everyone present. In case you are asked for a toast, rise from your seat and express your sincere hope for a successful cooperation or something along these lines.
During the meal itself, your host may keep refilling your empty plate: Hong Kong business etiquette dictates that a guest should always have enough to eat. So make sure to leave a small rest on your plate once you're full. Don't eat too much rice because it's regarded as filler which you eat if you don't like the food or think there isn't enough.
And no matter whether you have mastered the art of handling chopsticks, you should avoid sticking them in a bowl of rice: This gesture is reserved for offerings at ancestral altars.
Hong Kong Business Etiquette: Gift-Giving
Gift-giving is an important part of Hong Kong business etiquette. It is a good way to establish and maintain important business relationships. The best time for gift-giving is on Christmas or around the Chinese New Year, two of the most important Hong Kong holidays. For non-government staff and children, the most common New Year gift is an even amount of money in a red envelope.
However, you will also make and receive gifts at other times of the year. Don't be surprised if your gift is refused politely at first. Simply continue to offer it just as politely. The recipient will probably accept it after the second or third refusal because he or she doesn't want to appear greedy.
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That is the trophy they are all competing for. The serious business kicks up a level on FFA Cup 2019 Round of 32 opening night.
Teams from all corners of the country entered and the cream of the member federations has risen to the top. The best 22 remain and they are joined by those 10 Hyundai A-League giants in the mother of all Australian knockout competitions.
On Wednesday 24 July, it's the National Premier Leagues' turn to take centre stage. Twelve of the NPL's finest, from across five states and territories, go head-to-head in our opening night extravaganza.
HOW TO WATCH: Opening night of the Round of 32
We have matches live from Darwin, Mackay, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide, featuring teams contending for their fairytale moment on the national stage.
Competitive football is back. Let's do this.
Brisbane Olympic v Bayswater City
Wednesday's Round of 32 action gets off to a flyer on Fox Sports at 7.30pm AEST, with WA club Bayswater City making a 4,300km journey to Queensland to face Brisbane Olympic.
With 77 goals scored from just 22 matches, Olympic have been the NPL QLD entertainers in 2019 and possess a bona fide goalscoring weapon in Chris Lucas.
The former Bentleigh Greens star, and the likes of ex-Hyundai A-League midfielder Alex Smith and Jez Lofthouse, must be marshalled closely by the visiting Bayswater defence.
Bayswater were beaten 2-1 by Floreat Athena in the WA BeltUp State Cup Final on the weekend and will need to bounce back swiftly or risk being sent packing.
OLYMPIC FC ULTIMATE GUIDE: Queensland juggernaut ready to shine
BAYSWATER CITY GUIDE: Riding the crest of a wave
Darwin Olympic v Edgeworth
Darwin Olympic are aiming to become the first-ever club from the Northern Territory to reach the Round of 16 when they welcome Edgeworth to the Top End.
As the NT's first-ever national round competitors in 2015, Olympic are used to the big stage and will be fancy their chances at eliminating an Edgeworth side missing several key players.
Defenders Josh Evans and Mitch Dobson are among the absences the hosts will try to exploit, with veteran forward Michael Tsounias and strike partner Tega Adjeke primed to capitalise.
However, the Eagles are seasoned FFA Cup competitors and will be entering the clash high on confidence after securing a 3-1 win over Maitland on the weekend, a result which maintained the club's ascendancy at the Northern NSW summit.
DARWIN OLYMPIC ULTIMATE GUIDE: Top End club looking to make FFA Cup history
EDGEWORTH ULTIMATE GUIDE: Vintage Mariners connection still ready to fire for Eagles
Mount Druitt Town Rangers v Manly United
History will be created at the end of this all-NSW affair between Mount Druitt Town Rangers and Manly United.
Either the Rangers will secure a Round of 16 ticket at the very first attempt, or United will make it past the Round of 32 stage at the third time of asking.
There's already very little to separate these two, who have each registered a win apiece and played out a draw in their three 2019 meetings so far.
Although Manly arguably boast greater X-factor with the likes of Brendan Cholakian and Dejan Pandurevic, Aidan Desmond's Rangers are no easy-beats, highlighted by the fact they knocked out NPL NSW premiers-elect Wollongong Wolves to book their national round appearance.
MT DRUITT TOWN RANGERS ULTIMATE GUIDE: NSW club out for more FFA Cup shocks
MANLY UNITED ULTIMATE GUIDE: Boys from the beaches ready to make their mark
Bulleen Lions v Moreland Zebras
It will be an NPL Victoria derby steeped in Australian national football league history when Bulleen Lions host Moreland Zebras.
These two famous clubs merged with each other in 1997 to become Bulleen Inter Kings, and there's bound to be plenty more 'coming together' at David Barro Stadium.
Fireworks will be guaranteed with the likes of experienced Bulleen marksman Ben Everson and Moreland striker Thomas Barforosh supplying their ammunition.
BULLEEN LIONS ULTIMATE GUIDE: Historic clash on the horizon
MORELAND ULTIMATE GUIDE: Former Aussie champs set to shine on national stage
Adelaide Olympic v Floreat Athena
After securing the 2019 BeltUp State Up Final in a come from behind win over Bayswater City at the weekend, Floreat Athena already have the taste for silverware.
Next up for the WA club is a trip to the City of Churches to tackle NPL SA giants Adelaide Olympic, who are entering the Round of 32 stage for the first time in their history.
35-cap Albania international Kristi Vangjeli has shared the football pitch with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi before and will be a key man if Adelaide is to prevent Floreat captain Dean Evans and top striker Robert Petkov returning west with a Round of 16 date teed up.
ADELAIDE OLYMPIC ULTIMATE GUIDE: Debutants ready to make an impression
FLOREAT ATHENA ULTIMATE GUIDE: WA club could throw an FFA Cup surprise
Magpies Crusaders v Coomera Colts
Two FFA Cup debutants lock horns when the competition's youngest club Magpies Crusaders entertain Gold Coast minnows Coomera Colts.
The team from Mackay might be in 12th position on the NPL Queensland ladder, but it appears the Crusaders are well set up for the cut-throat nature of Cup football.
But they'll be wary of a potential banana skin in Coomera who have upset all the odds in making it to the Round of 32 stage.
Look out for the pace and skillset of Colts winger Ferdinand Annor, while Nottingham-born forward Michael Lyall is one to watch in Crusaders colours.
MAGPIES CRUSADERS ULTIMATE GUIDE: Young QLD club enjoying FFA Cup crusade
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C. Robert Kidder, 64 years old when appointed Chairman of the Board of the future Chrysler Group, has been CEO of Duracell and Borden, and is still CEO of private equity fund 3Stone Advisors. He was a founding partner of Borden Capital Management Partners, lead director of Morgan Stanley, director of Microvi Biotech, a board member of Schering Plough (pharmaceuticals), Ohio University, and the Columbus Children's Hospital, and president of the Wexner Center Foundation.
Before joining the ranks of the corporate aristocracy, Kidder worked with high-end consulting firm McKinsey & Company, naming Ford as one of his clients. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a BS degree in industrial engineering, and from Iowa State with an MS in industrial economics; from college he joined the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps, where he wrote the Navy's policy on capital-project and cost-benefit justification.
From the Navy, Kidder moved to McKinsey, then became the Senior Vice President, Planning and Development for Dart Industries, working on strategic planning, merger and acquisitions and capital budgeting. Dart Industries acquired Duracell in 1978, and merged with Kraft in 1980, the same year he moved up to Vice President of Planning and Development for Duracell; in 1981, he became Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Duracell. Kidder became president of Duracell USA in 1982, and president of Duracell, Inc., in 1984.
In 1988, as CEO, Kidder and his management team led a leveraged buyout of Duracell from Kraft, the parent company, with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. Three years afterwards, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Kidder took the company public. His performance as CEO of Duracell appears to have resulted in large profits and cash flow, with lower debt. Duracell was, in the mid-1990s, the largest maker of alkaline batteries, dominating the U.S. market.
In 1995, Kidder stepped down from his CEO role and remained the board chairman, working on planning. The Times quoted an analyst as saying that Kidder was "personable, driven, hard working." He intended to retire in Santa Barbara with his wife, Mary. However, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts, & Company, which had taken over Borden, asked twice for Kidder to take over. Desribed by the New York Times as "an aggressive marketer" and "longtime consumer-products executive," Kidder took over Borden after years of losses and restructurings, and stayed until 2003.
Kidder led Borden to split into new companies, each carrying its own board, structure, and policies; all but Borden Chemical and Elmer's Products were eventually sold off.
Kidder became a principal of Stonehenge Partners, a private investment firm, in 2004, and stayed until 2006, when he became CEO of 3Stone Advisors. He has also been a director of Dean Witter, General Signal, and Electronic Data Systems.
Kidder was selected by the U.S. Treasury Department to be on Chrysler's board; he will help select other board members of the future Chrysler Group LLC.
Kidder's past salaries were reported by Forbes. In 2008, he was paid $229,500 for his part-time work at Schering-Plough and $375,000 for his part-time work at Morgan Stanley. In 2007, he gave $2,000 to Republican Congressman Tiberi; he and his wife gave large donations to the Republican Pioneer PAC (a fundraising committee for Congressman David Hobson, R-OH; Hobson was named Citizens Against Government Waste "Porker of the Month" for earmarking around $2 million for a public restroom and gas station.)
Kidder was a member of George W. Bush for President and Bob Ney for Congress. Republican Congressman Bob Ney eventually took a plea bargain, admitting to fraud, bribery, and violating lobbying restrictions, serving 27 months after his term in Congress ended.
As for hobbies, Kidder collects contemporary art, listens to David Bowie, Alanis Morissette, and Peter Gabriel, and plays with electronics including a PC, Mac, and Blackberry.
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