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News of David Stern's exit from the NBA was known for a year and a half. Stern made the announcement publicly and stated he would be helping Adam Silver transition as the new commissioner. Time passed and his exit came swiftly. Silver has came in and dealt with a whirlwind situation with the Clippers and has done a few other things to win over NBA personnel.
What matters to fans is what the product represents on a night in and night out basis. In baseball there is lousy attendance throughout the franchises. The prime reason is because of the product on the field and the duration of the season. In football there are only eight regular season home games so teams primarily do well because it's on a limited exposure basis. Sure there are some teams that draw blackouts every week but the ticket sales for those games pale in comparison to some numbers drawn in MLB and the NBA.
The product on the NBA court right now just does not suffice an 82 game season. It started to wane in 2000 and became noticeable on a nightly basis in the mid 2000s. Structure of the game has fled. Teams do not seem as focused on a nightly basis. Maybe it was the influence of higher paychecks. Surely there are several factors that have caused the decline in solid basketball.
Lets just run through the Eastern Conference as an indicator of how poor basketball is right now. We saw Miami turn into a shell of itself and literally get to the Finals as a one-man show in LeBron James. Indiana was considered a favorite to win the NBA title at one point last year. Months later they were getting beat by the poorest of teams on a night in and night out basis. Now they'll be without Paul George and Lance Stephenson.
Chicago has been a steady team largely because of their head coach, but watching them play in the regular season can turn into a yawn fest. Pick out of a hat and you can go on and on about the nightmares of watching teams from the Eastern Conference play. The Knicks were a scrimmage style defensive team with one on one intentions on the offensive end of the floor. Atlanta and Toronto played with energy but lacked synergy and direction.
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I recently finished watching the anime series(well, except for the two OVA episodes) K-ON! about a group of girls who make up the light music club at their high school. Apparently light music is a real genre of music, but the club doesn't seem to be too strict when it comes to following the norms of said genre, with the current members playing perky girly pop-rock – which arguably is pretty light – and with some previous members of the club having dabbled in heavy rock.
It was a fun enough series, but when you compare it to other classics in the slice of life school girl comedy genre – like Azumanga Daioh!, Lucky Star and Ichigo Mashimaro – it fails to stand out. If you're into the genre though, and particularly if you wish more school girls would play perky girly pop-rock, it's worth looking into.
The music itself is pretty okay. Sort of what you'd expect from perky Japanese girly pop-rock. The opening song and sequence is pretty decent, and I'm impressed by the fact that it looks as if the girls are actually playing their instruments and not just hammering away. The musical highlight for me was probably their second live performance, in the student assembly hall, where they perform a song called "Watashi No Koi Wa Hotch Kiss", aka. "My Love Is A Stapler" in English. While it sounds like a typical nonsensical J-pop title, the idea behind it is actually half-clever: a girl writing down her feelings for her love on paper sheets, the pile growing, and using a stapler to staple the sheets together. Some is probably lost in translation, but in the hands of a competent lyrics I'm sure it could've made for a half-clever – perhaps even full-on clever – English pop song.
They've released over a dozen CDs in relation to the show so far. This includes the double-CD release Hokago Tea Time, where they collect all of the songs the girls performed through the show, with one CD having studio versions of the songs and the other CD having live versions of them. (The live versions were, of course, also recorded in a studio, but were made so as to sound like they're performed live, like they sounded in the anime.) So this week's pick is the above mentioned song, "Watashi No Koi Wa Hotch Kiss", in its live incarnation.
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Tuesday, August 28 2018
At the start of this century, the rate of twins born in the United States was on a rapid rise. Monmouth College can vouch for that increase, and then some. Among its 280 new students, the College welcomed seven sets of twins – or, to be more accurate, six sets of twins, and two sisters from a set of triplets. More.
Tuesday, August 28 2018
The Davidson College Symphony Orchestra (DCSO) has been awarded the 2018 American Prize in Orchestral Performance in the college orchestra division. The American Prize is a series of new, non-profit competitions designed to recognize and reward the best performing artists, ensembles and composers in the United States based on submitted recordings. More.
Tuesday, August 28 2018
For the second year, Davis & Elkins College hosted a 'Rise Against Hunger' meal packaging event. More than 400 students and community members worked at various stations to package 20,000 meals for shipment to communities in need. More.
Monday, August 27 2018
College of the Ozarks will host Amy Grant, Grammy-winning singer and songwriter, as the speaker for the Leonard B. and Edith Gittinger Community Convocation on Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. Through the evening, Grant will share her testimony and classic songs from her four-decade career. More.
Sunday, August 26 2018
For Maryville College students, finding classmates with common interests is easier than ever this year, as three residence halls feature "themed living" for the first time.For example,tThe trademarked "Fit. Green. Happy." program that can be found across campus also now has a home in Gibson Hall, where about 100 students have chosen to live with others interested in wellness and environmental sustainability. More.
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Friday, August 24 2018
Johnson C. Smith University has received $325,000 from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina to expand the school's campus gardens so it can produce food to sell at local markets year-round. JCSU's Sustainability Village currently has one greenhouse, a facility for tilapia and a hydroponics garden. The new funding will pay for two additional greenhouses and an aquaponics facility. More
Friday, August 24 2018
Rocky Mountain College recently celebrated the opening of the new Dr. Charles Morledge Science Building ahead of the college's 140th anniversary celebration next month.The multi-story building will support a variety of scientific fields including biology, biochemistry, microbiology, chemistry, and anatomy and physiology. More.
Thursday, August 23 2018
Haley Goranson Jacob had planned to study medicine, but some Bible classes at Crown College set her on an academic path that ultimately resulted her being named one of the top new female theologians by Christianity Today magazine. Jacob, an assistant professor at Whitworth University, is featured in the June article "10 New or Lesser-Known Female Theologians Worth Knowing." More.
Wednesday, August 22 2018
For two years, Trinity University associate professor of geosciences Ben Surpless has been bringing students to southern Utah to study the Sevier fault system. This past trip, he tried something new: He and his students mapped the rock outcroppings with drones. More.
Tuesday, August 21 2018
University of the Ozarks has launched a campus-wide digital learning initiative that will support and enhance teaching and learning by providing every student and faculty member with an Apple iPad. As part of the initiative, the University has collaborated with Apple to distribute nearly 1,000 Apple iPad devices, Apple pencils and smart keyboards to its students and faculty. More.
Saturday, August 18 2018
Faculty, students, and alumni from Belhaven's Creative Writing Department are earning awards, opportunities, and staying active in the creative writing community. The University of the South recently invited Dr. Randy Smith, chair of creative writing at Belhaven, to its prestigious Sewanee Writers Conference. Only a handful of America's top writers and faculty receive invitations to this premier event. More.
Tuesday, August 14 2018
The 11th Sport Festival for Vietnamese Students in Korea (SFVSAK11-2018) took place at Hannam University in the Republic of Korea on August 11-12. The event attracted 800 Vietnamese students studying in universities across the RoK, who competed in football, table tennis, badminton, tug of war, and chess and a sport beauty queen contest. More.
Saturday, August 11 2018
For nearly 90 years, the two marble markers stood on the campus of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, passed largely unnoticed each day by students, faculty and staff. But after a series of events that began a year ago in Charlottesville, Va., when a counter-protester was killed at a white nationalists' rally, those two markers and their fate have sparked a discussion at Agnes Scott. More.
Saturday, August 11 2018
Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri is pleased to announce it has received a $3.88 million bequest from Californian and former trustee, the late Ronald J. Kostich, '63 from Upland, CA. These funds will be added to the college's endowment for scholarships, the National Churchill Museum and the Sigma Chi fraternity. More.
Thursday, August 02 2018
Three out of ten new classroom teachers in Arkansas are leaving the profession within five years, a disturbing trend that the University of the Ozarks' Pat Walker Teacher Education Program is working to help change. More.
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January 1, 2020: A note to readers
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Back on October 22, 2002, I caved in to the request of Comicality and tried my hand at telling a story that was bugging me as a constant dream. I had no idea just what this entailed, and really only planned to write a couple of chapters to say I did it. Fast forward to today, December 31, 2019. Not only is that same story still running, but I have side stories that run with it, and have had the honor of working with some awesome authors who thought my idea could use the additional support of their own ideas.
A recent email chastised me for not spending all of my free time writing. This was brought on after I decided to share some of the resources that I used prior to releasing the chapter that they were used to write. I released them so the reader could see what I was seeing, and I developed them to ensure I could maintain continuity in the future.
Since that slow start back in 2002, I have written around one and a half millon words, and over 145 chapters. There are well over 800 characters that I am either directly or indirectly responsible for creating or developing. I have spent time writing after working a 12 hour day just because I had an idea come to me of where to go next, and in the past year I managed to still put words down while in the middle of moving with no help.
Once a project has reached the proportions of Memories and the stories surrounding it, continuity becomes a very real concern. You can't just count on notes, sometimes you have to go back and re-read what you've written before to ensure things are right. It takes less time to draw a house once than it does to continually have to go back and look up which side of the stairs a bedroom is on. It takes less time to develop a graphical family tree and then update it than it does to have to search for family members. Every single character in my stories is there for a reason, even if I do not make that reason obvious for ten or twenty chapters; part of the glue that holds everything together is getting those characters right.
I am proud of the detail and continuity that the CSU authors as a group have managed while creating a universe that is staggering in its proportions. To be told that a tool that I shared for the benefit of the readers is "cute" but that I really should be writing instead is an insult at so many levels that I really can't describe it. I could easily crank out less detailed chapters at a frantic pace; my recent Thanksgiving and New Years stories were both written in a matter of hours. I will NOT do that with any of my CSU stories; I have over 17 years invested in this project, and no matter what anyone says, I will NOT reduce their quality just to meet some random deadline. I don't release the chapter unless I am happy with it, if that means re-writing a scene ten times, then so be it.
The next time you think a serial author is screwing off, think back to what was said here. It takes a LOT of dedication and control to pull off a believable serial story, and in the background there is a lot more necessary to do than just toss words on paper. Sometimes it is just a web search, sometimes it means developing a supporting document to put there vision into something they can refer to to put the words on paper, and sometimes it means a LOT of re-reading of stories to make sure that you remember things right. After all of that, the author re-reads the story to make sure it is right, and most also then have to wait for a also-unpaid editor to have time to go through it with a fine-toothed comb to catch the errors an author never sees himself.
Before I get off of my soapbox, I have one more thing to say... I have seen some great authors hang up their keyboards because of readers demanding they write faster or telling them how the story has to progress. Before hitting that 'SEND' button, really think about this: do you really want to be the one who is the last straw, the one who is the reason that an author leaves a story eternally unfinished? If the answer is yes, delete the email and never go back to the story; if the answer is no, then find a way to express your concerns in a positive way.


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So what do you do when you've seen Luxembourg City in one day? Make a plan to use the country's fab public transport system and get out and about!
We throw open our apartment blinds – to drizzle and grey skies. This is not how we imagined a summer break in a landlocked country in central Europe. Still, we gamely throw on a couple of layers and make the ten minute walk from our apartment to Gare de Luxembourg.
Getting around in Luxembourg: The public transport system in Luxembourg is efficient and cheap. An all-day combination ticket valid on buses and trains costs just 4,00€ meaning it's simple to hop on and hop off. Tickets can be brought from bus drivers, or ticket machines at many bus stops and at the train station. There is a reduced service on a Sunday, so make sure you plan your journey and any connecting journeys carefully.
Getting from Luxembourg City to Vianden: First task. Purchase a ticket. This should be done from the CFL machines or from the man in the CFL kiosk. Do not try to use any other type of machine. We almost used an international train company machine for the short journey to Ettelbruck which would have set us back 50,00€ rather than the CFL ticket total of 8,00€. Travel fail.
The train from Luxembourg to Ettelbruck runs every 30 minutes and takes around half an hour. We didn't spend any time in the town itself, but because of it's central location and transport hub it's probably a good base for exploring Luxembourg. From Ettelbruck station, the 570 bus stop is on the right of the station, and this half-hourly bus takes about 25 minutes to reach Vianden. We disembarked at Vianden Gare, but could have got off a stop later right in the centre of the village.
Vianden: This is something of a tourist hotspot, a pretty village, with the Our River running through it, surrounded by hiking trails with a pretty spectacular castle looking down over the surrounding valley. Interesting Fact No 1: Victor Hugo spent time here during his political exile from France. Interesting Fact No 2: this was the last place in Luxembourg to be liberated in World War II. We stop for a quick drink in Café Dupont which gives us a chance to dry off from the incessant drizzle that has left us feeling a bit soggy and damp. And then we go off, back into the drizzle, to find the chairlift which will take us to the castle on the hill.
We take the chairlift one way only (3,90 €) although the better views are probably on the way down rather than up. There's not much to do once you get to the top, although there is a cafe up there, so we start making our way down the kilometre to the castle. It's a bit slippy underfoot with all the rain this morning, but I'm still happy we're going down and not climbing up.
We get to the castle but decide not to visit. After all that effort, it now seems a shame that we didn't. But our tummies are rumbling so we continue down the steep cobbled streets towards the village. We end up at Ancien Cinema for lunch, a quirky coffee shop-cafe-cinema, with a classic James Bond martini quote on the wall, film quizzes as placemats and Tom & Jerry playing on loop on the huge screen out back.
Vianden is a pretty town, and definitely worth a visit – we were very unlucky with the weather and we would have stayed much longer had we been able to pleasantly stroll along the riverside or follow one of the trails at the top of Montée du Château. And the castle's no Neuschwanstein but it's still an impressive sight.
It's a little less drizzly on our last morning, but there's still nothing positive to say about the weather. We pack up our suitcases, clean up the apartment and check out at 11am as promised. Our flight is not for another 10 hours. We already know we've exhausted Luxembourg City's options so it's back to the station (via left luggage this time; more on this later…) for another trip out.
Getting from Luxembourg City to Esch-sur-Sûre: De-ja-vu. Purchase ticket (from CFL machine not international machine – we are now ticket machine experts). Train to Ettelbruck. This time we take a left at the train station to the bus stop for the 535 Bus. Buses run on this route every two hours on a Sunday so we're careful to plan our travel times beforehand. It takes about half an hour to reach Esch-sur-Sûre. (Our bus driver appears to be playing Clean Bandit's "Symphony" on loop, which is a new low for our Luxembourg experience.) If you're not sure which stop to get off, my theory is always to get off the last one, as you know how far you have to walk back. In this case, it's a 2km walk back to town from the Esch-sur-Sûre dam. Luckily it's downhill. Travel Fail No 2.
Esch-sur-Sûre. Another cute little fairytale town with a castle, although this one is in ruins (the castle, not the town). The original 8m tall tower still stands on a giant cliffside, and the town is almost completely encircled by the winding Sûre River. There's a big bike theme going on, and it doesn't take us long to realise that the Tour de France is travelling through this very town tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow it will be a hive of activity with the world's best cyclists whizzing through, but today, there's a handful of tourists, a handful of locals and not much else. It's a good job we took that 2km walk from the dam along the riverside to kill some time. We walk around the village in 10 minutes, and it's still 90 minutes til our two-hourly bus is due. It's threatening to rain – and we've left our coats in the left luggage back in Luxembourg City – so we seek shelter and victuals in Café des Rochers Sàrl.
We have an hour or so to kill back in Luxembourg City. The temperature has dropped considerably and leaden sky is threatening rain at any moment. We meet our second jobsworth of the day in the left luggage office.
"Bon jour, monsieur! Could we take our manteau from the top of our valise, s'il vous plaît?"
"Oui monsieur, that will be 5 euros each"
"Non monsieur, we don't want to take our valise, just our manteau – because it's cold and it's starting to rain and we don't have a handy parapluie"
"Oui, monsieur et madam, that will be 5 euros each, and then 5 euros when you return to pick up your valise"
We emerge back into cold grey drizzly Luxembourg sans manteau. I fake shiver violently outside the left luggage office hoping Monsieur Jobsworth is watching and takes pity. He doesn't. After a brief walk, we return to pick up our manteau and valise. I tell Mr Fletche I am going to open my suitcase on the floor of the left luggage office and put on all my warm clothes there and then. I also tell Mr Fletche that I am going to ask Monsieur Jobsworth his name because I'd like to feature him in a blog I'm writing about the customer service in Luxembourg. I don't do either of these things but I am very happy to be reunited with my coat.
There's no doubt that Luxembourg City is a lovely place to visit, but three nights is too long unless you're planning on getting out and about. We found it surprisingly pricey, almost on London/Paris/Copenhagen levels. I had a lovely g&t at Urban which came in at an eye-watering 13€. Simple meals, such as burgers, were around 15-20€. We did have a lovely meal at l'Entracte on Saturday night which was reasonably priced.
I can imagine it being a good city to live in as there is a vibrant nightlife scene, a cheap and efficient public transport service both in the capital and nationally, and beautiful surrounding countryside. Microsoft, Amazon, Skype and KPMG all have European HQs in Luxembourg City and there are new sparkly buildings popping up in Kirchberg, the business district of the city.
It's easily reachable from destinations in North-Eastern France such as Metz or Nancy, south-western German cities such as Trier. There are also direct trains to other European capitals such as Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam. Luxembourg City would certainly be a good overnight destination should you be travelling through this part of Europe. Of course, our opinion was slightly influenced by the weather and we may have had an altogether different trip had it been as pleasant as we may have expected at this time of year…
We flew direct from Birmingham International with Flybe for £77 each (carry-on only).
We stayed in this well located AirB&B, a brand new apartment 10 minutes walk to Luxembourg Gare Centrale and fifteen minutes walk to the Old Town.
Have you been to Luxembourg? Are there any other sights we should have seen? Thank you for reading!
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Awesome post! Your pictures are fabulous and really bring it to life. Loving you 'pin' photo makes me want to step straight into that street
Thanks Mel.. I'm now obsessed with Canva for pinnable images!
Too bad the weather was so unpleasant to experience but the overcast days were the backdrop for some great photos. I always think the colors are more vivid when not competing with the sun and your photos are indeed lovely.
Thank you Molly, it's amazing what a bit of editing can do 🙂
Always enjoy a travel post. Good to know about local transit as I think sometimes people are afraid to use it. Loved the pictures and your descriptions.
I always try to research transit options before I go anywhere so it's helpful to give back! Thanks for reading and commenting 🙂
Another place I'd like to visit! you should get commission from the tourist boards with round ups like this 🙂
Thanks Gary…I'm not sure they'd always appreciate my brutally honest approach though 🙂
Maybe not, but they should! Nothing worse than buying anything because of postive reviews to find they were loaded with false bias 😊
Oh, those castles. I am drooling! Wonderful blog and pictures (I'll never find you in the BigUp blog thread but shared this in a bunch of places)
Thanks Ruth x
You have convinced me that I need to go for a visit. Yes, I too love your pin photo. Enjoyable post, Em.
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Your support and contributions will enable us to meet our goals. Your generous donation will fund our mission. Click the PayPal button below to contribute to this year's campaign.
For over 25 years Holiday Outreach has provided children and families in need with support and we are proud of the work that we have done in our community. It would have been impossible to have provided the services we have without the help of our many volunteers and donors. We look forward to many more years of working with the community to make sure that children and families aren't forgotten at the holiday time and during difficult times throughout the year. We have provided more than 8,000 children with toys and gifts over the years and through our work with area food cupboards and soup kitchens, have provided more than 5,000 meals to families in need for
Thanksgiving and the December holiday season.
We are looking forward to many more years of providing the kind of support that we have in our community.
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We want to thank all of you who have donated to and/or participated in our events this year. We have had quite a year. We supplied more than 600 children with gifts this holiday. We also provided meals/food supplies to area food cupboards and soup kitchens to feed several hundred families in need throughout the year. It never ceases to amaze us how a small group of dedicated volunteers can do to help families in need.
The Urlaub family and Rohrbach's for their continued generous support
U-Haul of Western NY for the vehicles
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Van Bortel Ford for the vehicles we used to deliver toys
Rob Murphy and his family
Jim Murphy and his family
The Foster Family
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Monroe #1 BOCES for allowing us to store
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All of the wrappers (65+ of you) that came out to help us wrap over 1,500 toys
The December 23rd and 24th delivery crews
There is no way for us to do what we do without the help of all of those that volunteer at all of our events. We look forward to next year and hope that we can provide even more support than we did this year. We will need your help to do that. Happy New Year!
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December 4, 2018, 10:00 AM - December 21, 2019, 5:00 PM @ Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
One section of the Seaton Gallery will highlight the back-and-forth exchange of aesthetics and ideas between East and West through objects in the museum's permanent collection, made by artists who traveled between the two regions. This project collaboration between curator Aileen June Wang and University of Kansas art history professors Sherry Fowler and Maki Kaneko.
April 2, 2019, 10:00 AM - November 30, 2019, 5:00 PM @ Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
Apollo 11 mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969. Exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing by Americans and complements Manhattan Public Library's summer reading theme, "A Universe of Stories."
August 6, 2019, 10:00 AM - December 9, 2019, 5:00 PM @ Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art
2019 Friends of the Beach Museum of Art Gift Print Artist introduces Jeremiah Ariaz. Black Trail Riding Clubs have their roots in Creole culture formed in Southwest Louisiana in the eighteenth century. Trail rides are an opportunity for generations from rural parts of the state to gather and celebrate. These trail riders form a distinctive yet little known Louisiana subculture.Ariaz is a Great Bend product and associate professor of art at Louisiana State University who has captured these equestrian clubs in a series of photographs selected for this exhibition. One image chosen as 2019 Friends of Beach Museum of Art Gift Print.
August 23, 2019, 5:00 PM - October 26, 2019, 7:00 PM @ Strecker Nelson West Gallery
Please join Strecker Nelson West Gallery for the opening of the next exhibit, The Land of the Living. This show will feature figurative and architectural work mostly, and will be on display until October 26th. Please join the reception to enjoy some drinks and hors d'oeurves, and meet the artists!
August 21, 2019, 10:36 AM - September 6, 2019, 8:30 PM @ K-State Gardens
September Stroll at the K-State Gardens
Bring your friends and family to the "Friends of the K-State Gardens" September Stroll on Friday, September 6, 2019 from 6:30-8:30 pm. Stroll through the various garden beds and collections. Chat with Friends of the Gardens board members and The Gardens' volunteers. Master gardeners and a few K-State horticulture students will be available to answer questions. Enjoy the music, play a game of cornhole, or try a scavenger hunt to top off the evening.
The event and nearby parking are free. The K-State Gardens are at 1500 Denison, Manhattan, KS. For more information call 785-532-3271.
August 23, 2019, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM @ Manhattan Regional Airport
Please join Manhattan Regional Airport for a cake cutting ceremony to celebrate 10 years of American Airlines service on August 23, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. inside the terminal.
August 23, 2019, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM @ Westview Christian Church
Westview Community Church & Saint Francis Ministries are teaming up to offer fun movies -- Finding Nemo and Instant Family -- and inspire conversation and education about foster care and adoption. The event is free, and childcare is available for ages 0 to 3 years. Please register for childcare by calling 785-537-7173.
August 23, 2019, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM @ Midwest Dream Car Collection
Join as they reveal the newest addition to their Exhibit, the Golden-Anniversary COPO Camaro. Be there as they celebrate Production Number Five of only 69 Copo's that were made to commemorate this anniversary.
Event Details: They will be closing the museum at 4pm to prepare. A Members Only cocktail reception will begin at 5:30pm and at 6:30pm they will open the doors to the general public at standard admission pricing. The event will conclude at 8pm.
**You may purchase annual memberships at the front desk or on our website before the 23rd to attend the 5:30pm Members Reception.
***General Admission Tickets will NOT be honored until 6:30pm
August 23, 2019, 7:00 PM @ The Hat
Come see Randy Rogers featuring Kyle Park!
August 23, 2019, 7:30 PM - August 25, 2019 @ The Columbian Theatre
Put on your cowboy boots and mosey on down to The Columbian Theatre stompin' grounds for the 15th Anniversary of Hoo Haw!
Excellent live music and performers. Mediocre comedy. Veteran actor and director Troy Hemphill leads the annual favorite with new skits, songs, and jokes and has made this show a Columbian institution and a hoot to experience. Come see Drew Horton, Shelley Rickstrew, Mindy Thierolf, Mark Portel and other familiar faces take the Columbian stage! This fun-loving cast always packs the house!
Get your tickets now! Performances are August 16-18, 23-25. You can get tickets at columbiantheatre.com or call our box office at (785) 456-2029. If you are interested in attending opening night on August 16th to benefit the Wamego Public Library and Friends of the Library, go to columbiantheatre.com and select the August 16th show.
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May 25, 2019, 10:00 AM - September 8, 2019, 5:00 PM @ Flint Hills Discovery Center
Artist. Inventor. Scientist. Genius. Leonardo Da Vinci was a true Renassaince Man. One of the greatest painters yet he only completed a few works. Da Vinci was a dreamer and inventor, and his love for math, science and art are highlighted through this fascinating interactive exhibition. Catapults, parachutes and a hang glider are just some of the inventions Da Vinci incorporated to explore the art of science.In an accompanying exhibit in the Mezzanine Gallery, AIB Food First; learn how AIB helps companies bring safe, high-quality food to the world, and play baker for the day on the Discovery Center's second floor gallery.


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text: Opinion Jumping on the bitcoin bandwagon underestimates new technology's long-term potential From blockchain to AI, 2017 was the year companies fully embraced jumping on the shiny new tech bandwagon. Bohemia's Alex Connell considers how our tendency to run before we can walk is affecting businesses. January 8, 2018 10:38 by ALEX CONNELL We're currently living through a time where an ice tea manufacturer can add blockchain to their name and increase their share price 200%, an asset with no perceived value other than market confidence increases its share price from $500 – $18,000 in a year, and supposedly everyone from your local grocer to Amazon is using AI despite not really knowing what it means.There is no denying it's a bizarre time not only to be in business but to be alive. So what's driving this? Amara's law says we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.ADVERTISEMENT Moreover, this current short term disillusionment is by virtue of the current blurry digital age where we haven't made sense of a lot of things just yet largely driven by mass internet usage only being 20+ years old. We have augmented the old analogue world with the current digital world, now posing questions such as 'is TV viewing the device you view it on or the content you consume?'It took 45 years for the vacuum cleaner and 23 years for the dishwasher to make sense by reaching mass adoption, despite the benefits being clearly visible nowadays. The pace of change has never been faster, and with better access to global markets than ever before and ability to scale intellectual property via technology, pretty much every business in every market is being disrupted. However, for every Uber, AirBnb, Tesla, Amazon, there are many more superficial responses to this disruption and confusion continuing to transpire.Recently New York-based beverage maker Long Island Iced Tea changed its name to "Long Blockchain Corp" and sent the share price up 200%. Burger King Russia also introduced a cryptocurrency-based loyalty scheme called 'Whopperchoin' despite not having any logical reason to do so. Perhaps it's too kind to look at these 'innovations' this way but we can they can be looked at through the lens of 'sustaining innovation'. Clayton Christensen famously introduced the 'sustaining innovation' concept in his 1997 book The Innovator's Dilemma to describe how businesses focus their efforts at the higher tiers of markets on what has historically helped them succeed – charging the highest price to the most demanding and sophisticated customers at the top of the market to achieve greatest profitability. However, it's often the initial bottom up approach where innovative disruption comes from: lower gross margins, smaller target markets, and simpler products or services that may not appear as attractive as existing solutions when compared against traditional business performance metrics. Because these lower tiers of the market offer lower gross margins, they are unattractive to other firms moving or trying to move upward in the market, creating space at the bottom of the market for new disruptive competitors to emerge, leading to 'disruptive innovation'. Blockbuster ignoring Netflix by thinking consumers weren't ready to watch feature length films online is an example of this. The canvas of opportunity and the tools to execute have never been greater, but too often it's brands looking for a quick win with a flashy PR release that taking the headlines and not those willing to undertake vast organisational effort in effort to reimagine what's possible and want can be solved with the power of technology. It's easy to see why some big business exist in the way they are, and also easy to understand why smaller start-ups are riper for real adaptation and change. But are explanations enough, or is it a case of adapt, rebuild or die?Alex Connell is digital manager at Bohemia Group. topics aialex connellBlockchainBohemia Share Tweet Share Got a tip? Send Mumbrella your thoughts or provide us with more information by filling out this form. Any tips or comments will go straight to the Mumbrella editorial team. You don't need to include your details, but if you want us to reply, please include a valid email address. NameEmail Message*CAPTCHACommentsThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Comments: 4 Disappointing... 8 Jan 18 Alex, This article is classic click-bait garb lacking any real substance on the subject matters of BTC, blockchain or innovation. Instead you have used the term bitcoin as bait to seemingly prove you have read the very old, but classic 'The Innovator's dilemma'. If you haven't already, I suggest you read the Stratechery blog by Ben Thompson who provides excellent extension and counter-points via his 'aggregation theory' to the term 'innovative disruption'. 'Disruption' as Clay defines it from the bottom-up does not always hold true in the modern age (e.g. Uber) (nb. which makes sense given the book was written in 1997). Further, if you do intend to write another piece on 'bitcoin' or 'blockchain', can you do some actual research and provide some real substance on the matter. ps. If you are going to write an opinion piece on innovation, please provide us a unique take, not concepts regurgitated from a book Reply Alex Connell 9 Jan 18 Hi Disappointing… 1) Sometimes headlines are written by an editor as this one was. I agree it's quite click-baity. 2) This was never intended to be a thorough analysis into BTC, blockchain or innovation but more to try and give some simple reasoning into why these terms seem to be increasingly used by businesses who don't really need to be experimenting with new tech. 3) If you're after an interesting take on innovation, I'd recommend reading Tom Goodwin's theory of the paradigm leap. It also completely contradicts the Christensen theory, which I agree definitely has holes given the innovations that have happened post 1997. Reply SJA 9 Jan 18 hey "Mr/Ms Disappointing" did you miss having a holiday? Why don't you write something of substance as you suggest Alex does rather then shooting someone who's taken the time to put together a thoughtful read on a current hot topic. Reply Sam G 9 Jan 18 "The canvas of opportunity and the tools to execute have never been greater, but too often it's brands looking for a quick win with a flashy PR release that taking the headlines and not those willing to undertake vast organisational effort in effort to reimagine what's possible and want can be solved with the power of technology." Is this post about advertising? Very vague and hard to pinpoint what you are actually saying. Reply ADVERTISEMENT Most Discussed No Comments Hardhat and ACMN Marketing and Advertising assigned to promote Moulin Rouge! 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SAN DIEGO—(May 4, 2015)—San Diego Padres first baseman Yonder Alonso and pro golfer Phil Mickelson topped the list of four professionals and 17 overall Stars of the Month for April as selected by the San Diego Hall of Champions.
Alonso was among the top 10 hitters in the National League when he batted .354 with 22 hits, 8 RBI and another 8 runs scored.
Mickelson fired a 14-under par 274 at The Masters, including a fine 67 on the final day, to finish in a tie for second at Augusta National.
Longtime drag racer Ron Capps of Carlsbad captured his second Funny Car win of the season in Baytown, Texas, for his 44th career victory overall—second on the all-time list. He was joined by Cal State University San Marcos grad James Dykstra who pitched a no-hitter for Winston-Salem in the High Single A minors.
Amateur standouts for the month included tennis player Taylor Fritz who won the ASICS Easter Bowl ITF Boys 18 singles championship, skier Rachel DesRochers who annexed the FIS Spring Series downhill competition, SDSU golfer Mila Chaves who guided the Aztecs to their first Mountain West Conference Championship, USD softball player Kailey Hill, UCSD water polo goalie Courtney Hills, Cal State University San Marcos golfer Vanessa Chap, and Point Loma Nazarene baseball player Ryan Garcia.
High school honorees were baseball players Mickey Moniak of La Costa Canyon and Dillon Paulson of Santa Fe Christian, softball pitchers Kourtney Ross of Poway and Kellie White of Mater Dei Catholic and track weight event competitors Laulauga Tausaga of Mount Miguel and Charles Lenford of Oceanside.


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As a school enrollment consultant, I have had the opportunity to work with dozens of schools who recognized that they need to improve their
marketing and enrollment. The questions I'm asked most often is: What is the silver bullet that will improve my enrollment numbers?
Unfortunately, there is not a single home-run idea that will guarantee full enrollment. A successful school enrollment plan is about doing a
number of small things consistently over time.
The schools that I have seen that are successful in their marketing all do these five things right:
The schools that I have seen that do this right have a dedicated person who oversees their marketing. This is not a principal that does it
in his/her free time (because there isn't any), but rather somebody whose sole job is to ensure constant enrollment. They have a written school marketing plan that they execute consistently over the year and they have a dedicated budget. If your marketing is done
right, it is an investment in bringing in more students and ultimately more revenue that you can deploy into the classroom experience.
These schools have gone through the process of building customer personas for their school. I have covered this in a previous blog post
which I encourage you to read, but once you have your personas built, you now know the best channel and message to use that will resonate
with your potential parents.
For example, I worked with a school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana that primarily attracted people from the neighborhood where moms were
primarily the decision makers. We purchased shopping cart advertising in the 10 grocery stores within an 8-mile radius of the school. This
allowed us to have a constant message in front of our target market with a low-cost investment.
These schools also regularly survey their parents to judge satisfaction levels. It is a lot easier (and cheaper) to keep an existing
parent than to attract a new one, so understanding how your parents feel about your school allows you to make the improvements to your
school to satisfy your current base. Good satisfaction surveys also allow you to identify issues that a large group of your parents
has, rather than just the one parent that is constantly in your office complaining about something.
Schools will spend a lot of time pouring over academic data. Using the same method of analyzing data can inform the right marketing efforts.
There are simple things that you can gather like:
• How did parents hear about you?
• Why did they choose you over your competition?
• What percentage of your leads ultimately tour the school?
• What percentage of your parents who tour, ultimately enroll?
• What is your cost to acquire a student and is that different based upon how they heard about you?
If you just spend a little bit of time analyzing your data, you can make much better decisions.
When you talk to your parents about your innovative curriculum, are you using academic jargon? Is your website at a reading level that your
parents can understand? The average American reads at a 6th-grade level. As educators, you make sure that the books your students use are
grade-level appropriate. Have you run a Flesch-Kincaid test on your website to make sure that your parents understand your school? Most common
word processing programs
can do this for you. Make sure you are not speaking "educationalese"
to a lay audience.
When was the last time that you tried to Google your school without using the name of the school? How easy is it for a parent who doesn't
know you to find you? When you pull up your school's website on a mobile device, how is the experience? In 2014, mobile passed desktop as
the preferred means of accessing
the internet.
If your website is not mobile optimized, you are giving them a bad experience.
How easy is it to find enrollment information on your website? Is there a clear description of what makes you different? Unique? Do you give
parents the opportunity to request information or do you force them to call you for more information?
When was the last time you had a mystery shopper analysis of your tour? Is your tour engaging? Does it answer all of a parent's
questions? Are you too close to it to really see the gaps?
Running a good school enrollment program can be challenging. But the schools that are successful are the ones who have implemented these 5
simple things. Let me know if I can help you implement a strong marketing program at your school.
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A fantasy drama set in a world of legendary heroes and mythical creatures. Far from home and desperate for answers, Jason washes up on the shores of an ancient land. A mysterious place; a world of bull leaping, of snake haired goddesses and of palaces so vast it was said they were built by giants - this is the city of Atlantis. Aided by his two new friends, Pythagoras and Hercules, Jason embarks on a voyage of discovery, and salvation, which sees him brush shoulders with Medusa, come face to face with the Minotaur and even do battle with the dead.
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STOCKBRIDGE — It's 1956, and three of America's great songwriters, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen and Jimmy Van Heusen, are at a crossroads in their lives, seeing that their careers could be over. At the time, rock 'n' roll had become the king of tunes, and the King himself, Elvis, was an overnight sensation.
Put that story in the hands of an Emmy award-winning playwright and a Tony-nominated director and you get an alluring story — with great music — resulting in Berkshire Theatre Group's world premiere of "Coming Back Like a Song!," a new play by Lee Kalcheim and directed by Gregg Edelman.
The play opens today and will run through July 21 on BTG's Fitzpatrick Main Stage in Stockbridge.
In the play, the three old friends — Berlin, Arlen and Van Heusen — get together to hash out the possible end of their musical usefulness, at Berlin's apartment on Christmas Eve in New York City. There, they end up drinking, fighting and singing.
Kalcheim said that Berlin, Arlen and Van Heusen have an impressive opus to back up their fame: Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek" and "Always;" Arlen's "Over the Rainbow" and "The Man That Got Away;" Van Heusen's "Swingin' On a Star" and "All the Way."
Parts of 37 of their songs, some whole and others just a line or two, make an appearance in the play.
"This is really not a musical and really not a play, but something in between, where music is at the heart of everything between these friends," Kalcheim said. "They are older, a new type of music taken over, and it's fair for them to say: `It's finished, our careers are over, we can't write that stuff anymore!'"
The idea for the play, Kalcheim continued, was based on history but had a bit of whimsy added to it. The three songwriters were known to meet at Berlin's apartment.
"For my research, I bought various memoirs and biographies of those three, and I read about their lives, and they were fabulously different characters," Kalcheim said. "Berlin was an icon, Jimmy Van Heusen was part of Sinatra's Rat Pack and was tremendously successful as many of those great Sinatra albums of the '50s and '60s were full of his songs. Harold Arlen was a superbly talented songwriter, but also lived a very difficult life, much of which is at the heart of this play."
In working with such rich biographical material, Kalcheim said he asked himself a single question: "What would it be like if it's 1956, and rock 'n' roll is taking the world by storm and then I bring these three men together to confront that idea?"
Considering the playwright's above prompt, Edelman, who has been directing at BTG for three years, replied that it would be a "deeply human and creative tale of three of the 20th century's great American musical talents, played by three outstanding actors."
"Coming Back Like a Song!" features Tony Award-nominated David Garrison as Irving Berlin, Philip Hoffman as Harold Arlen and David Rasche as Jimmy Van Heusen.
Edelman added that, along with playing such legendary entertainment industry figures, the actors must also be able to sing well, and have a sense of timing that complements so many parts of so many songs included throughout the script.
"Musicality is so important to these actors, and it's hard to fake musicality" Edeleman said. "We started with parts of 37 songs in this show, and just recently we had to trim a few out in the interest of a scene's flow, and the emotion we want to capture there."
The director explained how his actors were the right fit for such an ambitious world premiere.
"David Rasche is a tremendous talent, who not only sings brilliantly, but also plays the piano, which is a very important thing to bring to the stage," Edelman said. "David Garrison, I've worked with before, and I knew he'd be perfect for playing Irvin Berlin. And it turns out Philip Hoffman had done one of Lee's shows in a reading at a music festival, and I also knew him and admired his work. He's the perfect actor to bring out the complicated nature of Harold Arlen's life."
With the cast rehearsing intensely, Edelman concluded by saying that audiences will take right away to the fruits of his actors' labor.
"We've had to layer this in just like an oil painting and be very patient with the process," Edelman said. "The audience will feel like they actually met these three men. This is a rare opportunity to be a fly on the wall and witness three of the greatest songwriters of the last century, who also had a complicated relationship. At the end of the night, the audience will know they've seen three really talented artists, but also very interesting and remarkable human beings."


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One of the new additions in this ECU Off Campus Student Housing company portfolio is 1201-B E. 2nd Street house. It has a price of 500.00 dollars per month for a 1 or 2 year lease. Having the upstairs section as a bedroom in itself, this house is just three streets away from ECU. The house has a bathroom and a shower, as well as a fully equipped kitchen that comes with a refrigerator and a stove. It is a beautiful one bedroom house and it comes with off street parking space outside the front entrance.
Another house promoted by this Greenville NC Apartments company is on 407C S. Holly Street. With a price of 600.00 dollars per month for a 1 or 2 year lease, this home brings with it a fully renovated kitchen and rooms that have everything, from new cupboards and dishwashers to stove and new countertops. This is a great choice for one or two people, as it has a bathroom, a large bedroom and an upstairs unit that would satisfy any tastes. This house is a fantastic place to stay, as it is at a distance of 3 houses from ECU and Fifth Street, while the downtown is only 2 blocks away.
With a price of 600.00 dollars per month for a 1 or 2-year lease, the 1407-B E. fourth Street house is a great choice for you and your roommates. The Greenville NC Apartments company made sure that this house comes together with a washer and a drier, as well as a refrigerator and a stove. The kitchen is fully functional and has all the necessary equipment. Being on Fourth Street, the propriety is just one block away from ECU. It also comes with a private off-street parking lot for you.Â
The 407B S. Holly Street house is an amazing option for you. It has a lease of 600.00 dollars per month for 1 or 2 years. This house comes with large windows that ensure that a vast amount of light comes in throughout the day. Alongside with a large bedroom and a spacious living room, this house brings with it a fully functional kitchen that has new appliances and eat-at bar space, together with new countertops and cupboards that look amazing. The house comes with a shower and a bathroom that has a stylish look due to the tile floor. This house is just two blocks away from downtown and 3 houses away from ECU, and it comes with both air conditioning and central heat systems.
A fantastic choice for you would also be the 503#7 E. third Street house that the company provides. It has 600.00 dollars per month lease for 1 or 2 years. Fully equipped with a new kitchen and cabinets, this beautiful fully renovated, one bedroom propriety is just three streets away from ECU. It comes with a laundry room that has a fully functional washer and drier, as well as new appliances and a new bathroom.
Resource Box: From these examples, you can easily see why this https://pirateplaces.com/ ECU Off Campus Student Housing company and its services would be of great help for you. Being one of the best company in the https://pirateplaces.com/ Greenville NC Apartments industry, this is a great place to start if you are an ECU student or you simply want to enjoy life in Greenville.
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With the continuous advancement of our touchscreen technology, RM8601K offers precise positioning to guarantee a streamlined and ultra-smooth handwriting experience that can effectively enhance class interaction and student participation.
* EZWrite supports up to 15 pages
RM8601K comes with dual pens that allow two users to write or draw with different colors simultaneously, making it ideal for lively classroom activities. Additionally, teachers can now create a more engaging learning experience by using two pens to write and highlight with two different colors, eliminating the need to change colors in a traditional classroom scenario.
The advanced touchscreen (IR touch) technology equips RM8601K with the capability of naturally displaying different stroke thickness based on different types of tools used to write or draw on the screen, offering educators and students a more natural writing experience. RM8601K is capable of detecting strokes created with fingers, the IFP stylus, watercolor brush or even pencil. This unique feature makes RM8601K ideal for drawing or artistic creation in art classes.
EZWrite's built-in Floating Tool empowers teachers to write on top of any app, video, website, document, or image. Whether using Windows, Mac, Chrome, or Android, a teacher can take notes on top of any on-screen content and save them. With screen capture, it allows users to capture all – or just part – of the screen within two fingers at both hands. The Floating Tool also offers a smooth writing experience when used with HDMI, VGA, and other signal sources, ensuring maximum flexibility.
X-Sign Broadcast is a wireless broadcast system that can push alerts, messages and announcements during class. Unlike traditional classroom messaging systems, X-Sign Broadcast ensures immediate message delivery as well as group notification. Serving as a next-generation information center, X-Sign Broadcast lets you manage class time content and broadcast enriching material from any device. Creating an engaging learning environment has never been easier.
With its grouping function, X-Sign Broadcast can send messages to a selected group of screens, a single classroom or the whole school. The grouping function helps ensure information is only sent to the recipients for whom it's intended, while also reducing the time and labor required to send messages to multiple people.
.Smart grouping by class or attributes
.Messages can be sent to multiple recipients simultaneously
BenQ's new education IFPs fine-tune handwriting experience with an advanced fine IR touch that further reduces the gap between actual landing point and the point displayed on the screen. Additionally, the new series also allows teachers to create a more natural handwriting as the new touch frame recognizes a smaller radius. To avoid creating cursive handwriting by accident, the new series reduces the pre-touch distance to offer a better touch and writing experience.
Blue light emissions from displays may cause adverse health effects such as macular degeneration or disrupted melatonin secretion. BenQ's Low Blue Light technology minimizes blue light exposure and allows for healthier time spent in front of the display, helping you create the best and most comfortable viewing experience for you and your students.
Flickering, which is the main cause for eye strain and visual fatigue, is the result of rapid change of bright backlight, a common phenomenon in most displays using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) that turns the backlight on and off quickly in order to control the display's level of backlight brightness. BenQ's Flicker-Free technology is meticulously designed to remove LED backlight flickering while providing a zero-flicker viewing experience. This effectively reduces CVS-related eye problems and alleviates discomfort caused by looking at the screen all day.
Screen glare can cause reflected images on the screen, making it challenging for students to see, take notes, and remain focused. The RM8601K's anti-glare glass surface can effectively reduce reflections, freeing students from excessive squinting with more legible text and clearer images, avoiding eye strain and facilitating more effective instruction.
InstaShare is the software designed for seamless wireless presentation and collaboration during lectures. It allows the smooth streaming of visual, audio files and Full HD quality videos. Users can also mirror content from mobile devices, and invite up to 16 participants for seamless collaboration.
RM8601K repositions the 20W audio speakers to the front, offering better sound transmission that elevates the level of audiovisual enjoyment during classes. Additionally, RM8601K comes with a Mic-In port that allows teachers to connect external microphones, further facilitating an impactful and effective learning experience for students.
With cloud features, BenQ DMS combined Device Info and Management, Apps Management and OTA (Over-the-Air) Update to provide you an ultimate device management solution for your productivity.
DMS Local is a Device Info and Management software based on windows OS. For users who would like to control your displays remotely via LAN, you can download DMS Local software for your operation.
For users who would like to control your displays remotely via RS232, you can download MDA software for your operation.


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The Remote Management Unit (RMU) enables you to remotely configure and monitor a specific headend installation. This drastically reduces on-site maintenance, saving you time and money.
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- I installed the system, but all TV's remain black (no images)
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- I don't have my EPG data, and I did enable the EPG option
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- I was configuring a certain module, then disconnected the cable and connected another module, but I cannot access that module
- I have lip sync issues
- For my encoded channels, I have a green lock symbol in the webGUI (or UUI), but still I have no image:
- The LNB's are not powered
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A federal judge has dismissed two lawsuits against Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on July 6, 2020, decisively ending the legal attack on the voter-approved constitutional amendment that established the Michigan's Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. Benson can now move forward with preparations for implementing the commission...
At a Glance
Michigan voters approved a constitutional amendment to create an independent redistricting commission to redraw the state's voting districts. Two groups of plaintiffs sued to block its implementation. CLC serves as co-counsel for the Defendant Voters Not Politicians, a nonpartisan, citizen-led organization that worked to pass the constitutional amendment, and is defending its constitutionality.Back to top
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Fed up with partisan gerrymandering in Michigan's state legislative and congressional districts, Voters Not Politicians (VNP) proposed a ballot initiative in Michigan that would create an independent redistricting commission (IRC), passing it overwhelmingly in November 2018. After volunteers collected over 425,000 signatures from Michigan voters in every one of the state's counties, submitted the initiative to be put on the general election ballot in November, and survived several legal challenges, Proposal 2 was put on the ballot in the midterm election. On November 6, 2018, 61% (over 2.5 million) of Michigan voters passed Proposal 2, amending the Michigan Constitution to establish an IRC. Michigan voters of both major political parties supported the amendment, including voters in 67 of Michigan's 83 counties.
IRCs take the power of redistricting out of the hands of partisan legislators, who have proven that they will use the process to gain power when given the opportunity to do so. IRCs instead give the power to the citizens to choose their representatives and create a more fair and transparent process for redrawing districts. Michigan's IRC as approved by the voters will first be in place in the 2020 redistricting cycle. The commission will consist of 13 registered voters, four of whom are Republicans, four of whom are Democrats, and five who self-identify as unaffiliated with either of the two major political parties. The process will allow for public input, public hearings, and public access to all the data, documents, and software used by the commission. The constitutional amendment also established redistricting criteria for the commissioners to follow to ensure fairer maps, including:
- complying with the federal Voting Rights Act
- not disproportionately favoring any political party or incumbent
- respecting communities of interest
- respecting county, city, and township lines
- geographic compactness
- contiguity
- equal population
Finally, the amendment established certain eligibility requirements for citizens applying for the role of a commissioner, in order to prevent conflicts of interest. These include prohibiting partisan officeholders and candidates, their paid employees, certain relatives, officers or leaders of a political party and lobbyists from serving as commissioners. Any citizen who cannot participate as a commissioner can still participate in the redistricting process, whether by participating at public hearings or submitting proposed maps.
On July 30, 2019, a group of 15 plaintiffs that identify as Republicans sued Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, alleging that the commission's eligibility requirements are unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. Plaintiffs also argue that the allegedly unconstitutional eligibility requirements are not severable from the rest of the amendment, meaning the whole amendment must be struck down. The plaintiffs requested a temporary delay to prevent Secretary Benson from implementing or preparing to select commissioners to serve on the commission.
On August 22, 2019, the Michigan Republican Party and several affiliated individuals also sued Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, alleging that the commission's eligibility requirements are unconstitutional under the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The plaintiffs requested an injunction and declaratory order to prevent Secretary Benson from implementing or preparing to select commissioners to serve on the commission.
CLC represents VNP as a Proposed Intervenor-Defendant in both cases. VNP moved to intervene in the lawsuit shortly after it was filed, in order to offer its expertise and insights as the drafter and sponsor of the constitutional amendment at issue and defend the constitutionality of the eligibility requirements for commissioners and the amendment.
On September 11, 2019, Michigan Republican Party v. Benson was consolidated with Daunt v. Benson. The consolidated cases will proceed under the name of the Lead Case, Daunt v. Benson.


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Discussion on the state of cloud computing and open source software that helps build, manage, and deliver everything-as-a-service.
The Most Interesting Man in the Cloud - Peder Ulander
Peder Ulander (the former CMO at Cloud.com) and a key player on helping to make CloudStack an open source project was a recent guest on the popular cloud podcast, The CloudCast with Joe Onisick.
To get a good history of the CloudStack and how it's evolved listen to the Episode #15 - The Most Interesting Man in the Cloud.
Here's a little overview:
Our guest this week has 20yr old Pappy VanWinkle on tap in his office, buys his BBQ by the pig and in 2008 was off getting the Cloud.com< domain while the rest of you were off collateralizing your debt obligations. He is the most interesting man in the cloud, Peder Ulander, Vice President of Cloud Marketing at Citrix and the former CMO at Cloud.com.


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Good Saturday. While you read this article, i'll be with Ale for a coffè, and a moment to rest. I did not think I had to deal with so many things before departure, but, as they say, fortune favors the brave. I hope it is true!
And in this moment of relaxation, it occurs to me that shopping is an excellent therapy to relax, as well as staying with friends. If we combine these two, the mix is really winning.
A dear friend of mine was recently in London, and if you really want to go shopping without ruining your credit card, the place where you need to go is one: Primark.
As I am curious by nature (tell me what woman is not curious, at least a little), I walked around on the internet and I found some pictures of the collection spring summer 2014.
A perfect combination of sporty and casual-chic style. The collection runs between transparencies, lace, colorful prints, vibrant and bright colors, like the pink and the blinding white, stripes and polka dots mixed together.
There is boldness in each piece, simple but effective because it captures the attention, simply because you can mix it and offer it in the style that is best suited to you, given by the versatility of each piece.
Heeled sandals low or very high, boots, sneakers, messenger bags and huge bags to carry by hand, straw hats and fabric hats, jewelry "flashy" are endless possibilities this collection offers, confident that everything takes the mind and the spirit that touch of spring that everyone likes.
Personally, I like the outfit that absolute is that of the second image below: eclectic, versatile, damn glam, I would like to finish with a big black straw hat, a small shoulder bag patent leather red and big sunglasses. Spring, here I am!