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Ministry of Science & Technology
Department of Science & Technology
SwarnaJayanti Fellowships 2016–17
Government of India had instituted a scheme titled 'SwarnaJayanti Fellowships' to commemorate India's 50th year of Independence. Under this scheme a selected number of young scientists, with excellent track record, are provided special assistance and support to enable them to pursue research in frontier areas of science and technology. The fellowship is scientist specific and not institution specific, very selective and has close academic monitoring.
Nature of support The support will cover all the requirements for performing the research and will include a fellowship of Rs 25,000 per month for five years. The fellowship will be provided in addition to the salary they draw from their parent institution. In addition to fellowship, grants for equipments, computational facilities, consumables, contingencies, national and international travel and other special requirements, if any, will be covered based on merit. Scientists selected for the award will be allowed to pursue unfettered research with a freedom and flexibility in terms of expenditure as approved in the research plan. The project should contain innovative research idea and it should have a potential of making impact on R&D in the discipline.
Duration The duration of the fellowship will be for a period not exceeding five years.
The applicant should possess Ph.D. in Science/Engineering/Medicine and should not be drawing fellowship from any other Scheme of GoI.
Scientists should be active in the frontier area of science and engineering with outstanding contributions in the form of research publications and/or patents, peer recognition from scientific community, awards, etc. in his/her area of research.
The fellowship is open to Indian nationals having a regular position in a recognized Indian academic/research organization.
The organization/institute should also undertake financial and other management responsibilities of the project throughout the five year term in case fellowship is awarded to the scientist.
Age eligibility
The fellowship is open to scientists between 30 and 40 years of age as on 31 December 2016. Applications from candidates who have completed 40 years of age as on or before 31 December 2016 will not be considered.
Selection The selection procedure will include consideration at various stages. The Department constitutes a Subject Committee which screens applications received and calls the screened in applicants for presentation. The candidates short-listed after presentation by the Subject Committees will have to make presentation to the National Core Committee of Experts which gives its final recommendations. An Empowered Committee of Secretaries will make the final selection based on the recommendation of National Core Committee. Scientists selected for the award should have accomplished innovative original research in frontier areas of science and technology.
Applications for the 'SwarnaJayanti Fellowships' are invited from eligible candidates in the format given below. The candidates may be required to submit further additional information as required and present the project idea before final selection. Only one hard copy duly forwarded and one softcopy of the complete application (to be sent over e-mail in pdf format as a single file without annexures) in the prescribed format along with the project document should be submitted to:
V. V. Jacob, Scientist, SJF Cell, Department of Science & Technology, Technology Bhawan, New Mehrauli Road, New Delhi 110 016, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
The last date for submission of applications is 15 April 2017.
This advertisement is also available on the internet at: http://www.dst.gov.in/scientific-programmes/scientific-engineering-research/human-resource-development-and-nurturing-young-talent-swarnajayanti-fellowships-scheme
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Pharmaceutical technology
Crystals of high qualityThe capacity to obtain high quality active ingredients in the crystalline form is crucial to ensure the technological and performance profile of the finished medicinal product. We discussed with the experts the main features of a good crystallisation process
Risk assessment becomes more stringentThe new EU guideline 2015/C 95/02 calls pharma companies to run by March 2016 a detailed analysis of the impact and risks expected by the use of the excipients in product development and manufacturing. We discussed the key points of the guideline with representatives of both the suppliers and the pharmaceutical industry
Clean room validation
A safe environment for safe drugsThe clear room validation is a critical point in the global validation of the production process for sterile drugs. Many factors should be considered, together with accurate risk analysis and process planning. Future might see different approaches to clean room validation
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There is no one cause of sore ligaments, joints and muscles. You may experience soreness as the result of working out, completing rigorous household chores or as the result of a medical condition such as arthritis.
Often times, sore ligaments, joint and muscles are the result of overuse or lack of physical activity. Soreness can often be treated at home with a few simple remedies that use items that you more than likely already have in your household.
- Rest. Avoid performing the activity that caused your pain. Take a few days to relax while the soreness in your ligaments, joints and muscles decreases.
- Ice your affected body parts. Place ice on the effected area of 20 minutes at a time, multiple times per day. Avoid icing one area for more than 20 minutes each hour. Wrap ice in a towel or use an ice pack -- never apply ice alone directly to your skin.
- Use an elastic bandage. Compression can help prevent swelling as well as eliminate soreness.
- Elevate the affected area. If your soreness occurs in an extremity, elevate your sore muscles, ligaments or joints above your heart as you rest. Use pillows to prop up the affected portion of your body.
- Take an over-the-counter ligament pain medications. Follow the directions on the bottle and do no exceed the recommended dosages per day.
- Stay hydrated. Drinking plenty of water can help replenish your muscles.
- Stretch. Light stretching can help to ease soreness in your ligaments, joint and muscles.
- Massage the affected areas. Make a gently, circular motion with the palm of your hand around the affected areas. This can help to ease your soreness as well as prevent stiffness in the affected ligaments, joints and muscles.
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Remember those sneaky snakes? Those hard-to-spot sneaky hidden-in-the-grass snakes?
I think perhaps it was the warmth of Monday's sun that encouraged them to wriggle from their hiding places…..
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On Wednesday 12 October, nestled in the heart of South Kensington, trustees and members of Oxford University based Academic Advisory Committee came together with friends, members, students and families to launch the Barakat's new website. With mouth watering canapes, guests previewed the new website and helped raised funds for some of the charity's future projects including an online digital archive, 'curated culture' package for children and how to get involved.
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What follows is a list of my professional career highlights.
[ 2018 in progress ]
- 12.20.18 – I was a guest on the Crowdcast, Pink Slips and P45s. Good times!
- 12.18.18 – Cited in Top Job Search Articles of 2018
- 12.2.18 – I was a guest on the "Business Infrastructure – Curing Back Office Blues" podcast, hosted by Alicia Butler Pierre.
- 11.29.18 – Cited in 10 Recruiting Podcasts You Should Subscribe to in 2019
- 11.18.18 – Cited in ESSENTIAL BOOKS FOR RECRUITERS AND ENTREPRENEURS
- 11.13.18-11.14.18 – Keynote speaker at Evolve Summit in Brno, Czech Republic. Topics I discussed: "Email, I love you. You're perfect! Now change," "The Perils and Progress of Workplace Efficiency" and a panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment
- 11.01.18 – Cited in "Recruiting Hassles You Won't Miss With AI"
- 10.28.18 – Jim Stroud explains why he dumped Google for DuckDuckGo – Watch at Brighteon.com
- 10.24.18 – Cited in "7 Things To Think About Before You Accept or Turn Down A Counteroffer"
- 10.15.2018 – Honored by SourceCon in the article – "Dropping the Bomb on Us Like Jim Stroud"
- 10.15.2018 – Cited among the "Top Recruitment Influencers of 2018"
- 9.28.2018 – Entrepreneur Magazine article: 'Ghosting' Is Unprofessional Regardless of Whether You're Taking or Submitting a Job Application'
- 9.24.18 – 9.26.18 – Co-Hosted SourceCon 2018 and presented on "The Next Big Recruiting Issue."
- 9.20.2018 – [RSR] HR Dive: applicants say ghosting employers is okay.
- 9.15.18 – Cited in "Applicants say it's OK for them to 'ghost' employers — but not the other way around"
- 9.5.18 – Cited in "The Only Recruitment Gurus You Need to Follow (And Their Blogs and Podcasts!)"
- 8.17.18 – Cited in Top 100 HR Influencers of 2018
- 8.13.18 – Are your applicants ghosting you?
- 8.13.18 – Presented "The Greatest Job Search Advice in the World!" to Roswell United Methodist Church in Atlanta, GA.
- 8.3.18 – Cited in Taco Bell beefs up recruiting efforts with hiring parties
- 7.23.18 – My video "Whatever happened to employee privacy" was featured on the popular news website – InfoWars.
- 7.19.18 – Quoted in "Are your applicants ghosting you?"
- 7.8.18 – Cited in The Best Recruitment Blogs of 2018
- 6.14.18 – Cited in Recruiting's holy grail: Improving both quantity and quality of applicants
- 6.13.18 – Presented virtually to The National Urban League's Digital Career Success Series: The Future Of Work
UP NEXT with @jimstroud #DCSS #ULSuccess pic.twitter.com/7MfoeGBkc0
— ULJobsNetwork (@ULJobsNetwork) June 12, 2018
- 6.12.18 – Presented in the Innovation Lab at the first SourceCon Europe conference in Budapest, Hungary.
- 6.05.18 – Cited in "3 Areas where AI is changing Recruitment Industry"
- 5.29.18 – I was cited in the book "The Recruiter's Handbook: A Complete Guide for Sourcing, Selecting, and Engaging the Best Talent" by Sharlyn Lauby
- 5.9.2018 – I was a guest on the Mac's List podcast discussing "3 Things You Must Do to Find a Job Faster"
- 5.7.2018 – Cited in the Economic Times article – Your employer could be snooping on you, in office and outside
- 4.21.2018 – Presented at the NPA Worldwide Conference in Tampa, FL
- 4.09.2018 – Presented at the Randstad Awards in Prague, Czech Republic
- 2.20.18 – Cited in the SourceCon podcast – Episode 1
- 2.12.18 – Cited in Increasing Candidate's Response Rates
- 1.22.2018 – Top 50 Twitter Accounts To Follow for Job Search 2018 | Career Sherpa
- [ 2017 ]
- 12.22.17 – Cited in "The best sourcing brains (people) I've met, and why you should know them"
- 12.18.17 – VOA: U.S. economy adding jobs, employers say skills gap is rising
- 12.14.2017 – Cited in "Top Job Search Articles of 2017"
- 12.13.2017 – Cited in "14 world class industry experts reveal 2018 HR trends"
- 12.11.17 – Cited in Bloomberg BNA article, "Desperately Short-Handed Employers Risk Costly Bad Hire" (Behind firewall)
- 12.9.2017 – Cited in the Voice of America news report – "US Economy Adding Jobs, But Employers Say Skills Gap is Rising"
- 11.9.2017 – Cited in Human Resources Executive magazine – Recruiting's Reinvention
- 11.1.2017 – Cited in "Top Recruitment Thought Leaders that you must follow in 2017-2018"
- 10.27.17 – Cited in "WHAT IMPACT WILL GENERATION Z HAVE ON THE WORKPLACE?"
- 10.22.17 – Cited in "32 Career Experts to Follow on Twitter"
- 10.16.2017 – Cited in the recap – Post Sourcecon Fall 2017 PT3
- 10.8.17 – Cited in The Economic Times article, "How artificial intelligence is reshaping recruitment, and what it means for the future of jobs"
- 9.26.2017 – Cited in the Bloomberg article – "Text Me Your Job Offer? Recruiters Turning to Text Messaging"
- 9.26.2017 – Cited in "Sector Report: Robots Take a Big Step in Staffing" a Workforce Magazine article.
- 9.25.2017 – Keynoted the 10th Anniversary of SourceCon. My topic was "Email, I love you! You're perfect! Now change."
- 9.14.2017 – Keynote speaker at the Nordic Recruitment Day Conference. My topic was "Musings of Man and Machine."
- 9.8.2017 – What Exactly Are Machines Learning? RecruitingLive w/ Jim Stroud
- 9.5.2017 – Quoted in "Chatbots are the New Phone Interview" – Wade & Wendy Official Blog
- 8.25.2017 – Featured Guest on RecruitingLive discussing civil liberties and the unintended consequences of machine learning.
- 8.23.2017 – Cited in "Finding Female Engineers on LinkedIn"
- 8.18.2017 – Cited in PayScale's VIP Blog Roundup
- 8.8.2017 – Cited in "One Tribe. A Story From The SourceCon Atlanta Meetup"
- 8.3.2017 – Cited in "Top 20 recruitment experts and influencers to follow on Twitter"
- 7.17.2017 – Cited in "Google Takes New Career Path With Google for Jobs" – Workforce Magazine
- 7.5.2017 – Cited in the ebook "The Essential Guide to Sourcing" by Hello Talent
- 6.26.2017 – Presented "The Tools of the Talent Advisor" at the HCI Conference in Boston, MA.
- 6.18.2017 – Cited in New to Sourcing? This Article Will Help.
- 6.7.2017 – Cited in 14 Experts on Taking Your Productivity Game from Slow to Pro
- 5.16.2017 – Cited in "The Unofficial (and totally non-scientific) History of HR Blogging"
- 5.12.2017 – Cited in the article "The Counteroffer Conundrum"
- 5.9.2017 – Cited in "14 Experts on Taking Your Productivity Game from Slow to Pro"
- 5.3.2017 – Talking Recruitment Sourcing with Jim Stroud
- 4.19.2017 – Presented "Musings of Man and Machine" at the 20th Annual Spacecoast HR Conference in Melbourne, FL.
Good times representing @Spherion + @RandstadSR_US at The Spacecoast HR Conference today! Topic: #Robots in the workplace and society. pic.twitter.com/ZvcJ5k71IC
— Jim Stroud (@jimstroud) April 20, 2017
- 4.5.2017 – Cited in Recruiter Roundup – Advice For New Recruiters | Talent Hero Media
- 4.4.2017 – Presented "Musings of Man and Machines" at the 2017 Randstad Awards in Budapest, Hungary (And had a ball!)
I was so privileged to present at the 2017 Randstad Awards in Budapest, Hungary. Wow! What a time. cc @RandstadSR_US @randstadSR pic.twitter.com/hFDLp7diai
— Jim Stroud (@jimstroud) April 10, 2017
- 4.4.2017 – Cited heavily in "The Stroudification of Artificial Intelligence – Engagement" (Wow!)
- 4.3.2017 – I was a guest on the Chad & Cheese Podcast discussing "The Robots are Coming!"
- 3.27.2017 – Joined the Toastmasters organization and won a Best Table Topic award on the same day. Whoohoo!
- 3.24.2017 – Cited in the press release – Brilent AI Outperforms Top Human Recruiters
- 3.21.2017 – My article, "Human Vs Machine: Who Sources Best? The Results Of The 2017 Grandmaster Competition," is posted on the SourceCon website.
- 3.16.2017 – Featured in the online magazine – Human Resources Magazine | Freewheeling conversation with sourcing expert, Jim Stroud
- 3.15.2017 – Presented Human vs Machine at SourceCon Spring 2017, a case study in how well recruiters operate better or worse than machines
- 3.9.2017 – I was a guest on the AirSource podcast discussing the Jobs on Facebook initiative.
- 2.26.2017 – Created my first chatbot for my Facebook page
- 1.28.2017 – Cited in the ebook, "The Wonderful World of Chrome Extensions – Volume 1" by Dean DaCosta
- 1.3.2017 – Featured in JobMob's ebook, "The Top Job Search Articles of 2016"
[ 2016 ]
- 12.1.2016 – Cited in Career Sherpa's "31 Experts Share Predictions for Job Search in 2017"
- 11.17.2016 – Presented "Accredited Webinar: How to Recruit in a World of Robots and Automation – the Future of Sourcing"
- 11.10.2016 – Presented sourcing hacks at #HRTX (HR Technology Experience), a mini-conference on HR related topics
- 11.08.2016 – Cited in the article "Jobjet – How to Email Candidates: Sourcing Candidates by Raising Response Rates
- 10.21.16 – Keynote speaker and workshop presenter at Recruiters Hub New Zealand 2016. Topics: "The Future of Recruiting and the Road Ahead" and "Headline Recruiting: Sourcing People from the News."
Are you ready for the global sourcing pioneers?! See you at #SOSUEU next week with @jimstroud and @VinceSzy pic.twitter.com/OxQXYlzDsI
— Sophie Rausch (@SophieRausch18) September 23, 2016
- 9.27.2016-9.29.2016 – Presented "TURNING YOUR PERSONAL BRAND INTO A SOURCING ADVANTAGE" and "FUTURE SOURCING – HOW TO RECRUIT IN A WORLD OF ROBOTS AND AUTOMATION" at Sourcing Summit Europe
- 9.25.2016 – I have seen the future of recruiting…and I am not in it
- 9.24.2016 – Lead a roundtable discussion on competitive intelligence at SourceCon
- 9.21.2016 – Cited in "The Ten Best HR and Recruiting Influencers to follow in 2016"
#HRFL16 @jimstroud very entertaining, interesting and engaging – Five Tips for unlocking Talent Success pic.twitter.com/FvvGb8jOKG
— William Cartier (@williamcarter82) August 31, 2016
- 8.31.2016 – Presented 5 Tips for Unlocking Talent Success at HR Florida State Council #SHRM
- 8.09.2016 – Cited in the ERE article, "Randstad To Acquire Monster for $429 Million"
- 7.13.2016- Presented "How To Recruit with YouTube" at the 2016 National Association for Healthcare Recruitment Image Conference in Las Vegas
- 6.23.2016 – Cited in the Betterteam article, "19 Recruiting Strategies to Make Hiring Your Top Growth Hack"
- 6.21.2016 – [RSR] outgoing employees influence your employer brand too
- 6.13.2016 – Featured in the Fast Company article, "Three Things Recruiters No Longer Look For (And Three They Still Do)"
- 6.10.2016 – Presented job search strategy presentation to "Hire Hope" at the Randstad Sourceright offices.
- 5.6.2016 – [RSR] Asia and the war to keep talent
- 5.4.2016 – Presented at Recruitment Marketing Machine Online Summit with Roy Ripper
- 4.15.2016 – Accepted SourceCon Advisory Committee seat
- 4.13.2016 – 4.14.2016 – Presented "Headline Recruiting," "Personal Branding as a Recruiting Advantage" and "sourcing Hacks" at the 2016 Sourcing Summit Asia conference in Singapore.
- 4.2016 – Presented to multiple Randstad Sourceright clients in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
- 3.21.2016 – Celebrating my second year work anniversary at Randstad Sourceright! Best job ever!
- 3.18.2016 – [RSR] layoffs are a recruiter's best friend
- 3.18.2016 – My job search book was cited in "10 Must-Buy Books for Job Seekers" Whoop-whoop!!!
- 2.26.2016 – Featured on the SourceCon blog – "How Facebook Could Destroy LinkedIn In a Year by @jimstroud"
- 2.25.2016 – Featured on the SocialTalent blog – 8 Podcasts Every Recruiter Should Listen To
- 2.16.2016 – Cited in "50 most game-changing influencers in recruitment"
- 2.5.2016 – I was featured in Human Resources Magazine, "the most read publication in Singapore and Malaysia." Wow! Click here for my article
- 1.15.2016 – I was a guest on "The Social Recruiting Show" discussing clever retention strategies and creative sourcing strategies.
[ 2015 ]
- 12.17.2015 – Cited in JobMob's "The Top Job Search Articles of 2015"
- 12.10.2015 – The 20 Best Recruiting Articles of 2015
- 12.9.2015 – YouTern's Top 50 Twitter Accounts Young Careerists MUST Follow 2015
- 12.1.2015 – Cited in the article – Top Recruitment Thought Leaders
- 11.18.2015 – Presented the webinar – HOW TO EXPAND YOUR REACH IN A GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT OF TALENT DIVERSITY for RecruitLoop
- 11.12.2015 – [RSR] A new path to an untapped talent pool
- 11.1.2015 – Featured in the HR Magazine article, "Sourcers Share Secrets for Recruiting the Perfect Hire" Click here for magazine view.
- 10.30.15 – Featured in the short film – The Sourcing Duel (part 2) produced by Randstad Sourceright
- 10.12.15 – Featured in the short film – The Sourcing Duel (part 1) produced by Randstad Sourceright
- 10.7.15 – Featured on the Voice of Jobseekers podcast discussing the job market and my latest book – The Number One Jobhunting Book in the World!
- Cited in "Why This Agency Recruiter is Now a SourceCon Fan by @BradleyinDallas"
- 9.23-24.15 – Keynote speaker at Sourcing Summit Europe 2015. Topics: A New Path to an Untapped Talent Pool, Headline Recruiting
- 9.17.15 – Featured on the RecruitLoop blog in the post "5 Innovative Talent Attraction Strategies"
- 9.9.15 – Featured in Ep 54 of the Workology Podcast – "The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Internet Sourcing"
- 8.31.15 – My article "The Seven Highly Effective Habits Of Sourcing" was featured on the SourceCon blog.
- 8.7.15 – Presented "Standing Out in Today's Crowded Job Marketplace: Tips for Employers & Professionals" at the ALPFA National Convention."
- 7.23.15 – Randstad Sourceright to Reveal Disruptive Social Recruiting Strategies at NCHRA Conference
- 7.16.2015 – Authored the Randstad Sourceright whitepaper – "the future of sourcing in APAC is innovation"
- 7.14.2015 – [RSR] hacking corporate culture for sourcing exceptional talent
- 7.14.2015 – [RSR] Whitepaper – the future of sourcing in APAC is innovation
- 7.13.2015 – I was interviewed on the podcast "Job Search Radio – The #1 Show About Job Hunting"
- 6.17.2015 – [RSR] it's time to take a bold and creative leap in sourcing
- 6.16.15 – I was cited in the press release "Randstad Sourceright to Spotlight Employer Brand Success at Upcoming HCI Conference"
- 6.16.2015 – I was interviewed on the Careercloud podcast: Jim Stroud and his Number One Job Hunting Book
- 6.12.15 – Featured on the HRD Singapore blog with "Five minutes with… Jim Stroud
- 6.5.15 – Keynote speaker at the International HRD Forum (CEOForum Group) Topic: "The Future of Sourcing: How The Best Global Companies are Leveraging Social Media, Talent & Technology to Win." | In Sydney, Australia
- 5.29.15 – I was featured in the Asian newspaper Hket.com. Wow! And… yay!
- 5.28.15 – And the Grand Winners at ARA Singapore are… | Asia Recruitment Awards 2015 Singapore
- 5.27.15 – Keynote speaker at the debut of Sourcing Summit Asia in Singapore
- 5.26.15 – Tight market calls for creative hiring strategies: HR expert
- 5.1.2015 – Contributing author to "Social Media Recruitment" by Andy Headworth
- 4.30.15 – Cited on "Hiring for Growth? 15 Twitter Accounts You Need to Follow Now"
- 4.23.2015 – Published "Search Strings for Recruiters Looking for Work," a free ebook for Randstad Sourceright
- 4.1.2015 – Cited in HR Magazine's article – "Expanding Employee Referrals into the Social Media World"
- 3.24.2015 – Sold my first copy of "The Number One Job Hunting Book in the World!"
- 3.23.2015 – Released my new book – "The Number One Job Hunting Book in the World!"
- 3.6.2015 – My podcast was featured on ERE – "Podcast: LinkedIn; Zappos; Personalized Career Sites; Job Boards, and More"
- 3.2.15 – I was featured on the 2015 Sourcing Summit Asia website.
- 2.12.15 – I was cited on Glassdoor's "2015 HR and Recruiting Thought Leaders to Follow" list!
- 2.02.15 – My image was updated on the company home page. Woot-woot!
- 1.29.15 – My article "The Free Lunch Is Over: How LinkedIn Just Changed the Game" was posted on ERE!
- 1.27.15 – Cited in the report – "The 100 Most Influential People in HR and Recruiting on Twitter"
- 1.21.15 – Cited in the ebook – Predictions and Trends for Data-Driven Hiring in 2015
- 01.20.15 – Cited in the Wall Street Journal article "Rebuilding Your Career After a Move to Quit"
[ 2014 In review ]
- 12.08.14 – My podcast was cited in the article "Speculation Continues That Amazon Is Eying the Recruiting Technology Field"
- 11.15.14 – Cited by HRO Today Magazine in the article "Socially Accepted."
- 11.14.14 – Cited in the article: Randstad Sourceright Analyst Day 2014: RPO In High Gear
- 11.13.14 – I was featured on the Randstad Sourceright website. Wow!
- 11.10.14 – Cited in "Copy – The Culture Recipe: What Values Attract Top Talent"
- 10.29.14 – Presented "The Future of Sourcing" (webinar)
- 10.17.14 – Guest on Talent Culture chat (#TChat) discussing company culture to attract candidates
- 10.16.14 – Cited in the article – "The Real Reason You Can't Get a Job May Be Particularly Disheartening"
#TChat Talks About Using Company Culture to Attract Candidates http://t.co/f7nxQScDk9 @Storify #socbiz #leadership
— TalentCulture (@TalentCulture) October 17, 2014
- 10.7.2014 – Using Company Culture to Attract In-Demand Candidates (Webinar)
- 9.24.14 – Quoted in the article – Too many qualified job seekers, or not enough?
- 9.23.14 – Keynote speaker at Sourcing Summit Europe 2014.
- 9.14.14 – Presented a public webinar – "Content is the New Sourcing" on behalf of Randstad Sourceright
- 9.3.14 – Featured in the article "7 Recruiters Whose Tweets You Can't Afford to Miss"
- 8.19.14 – The Top 15 Recruiting Experts to Follow on Twitter
- 8.1.14 – Quoted in the book "HIRED! Paths to Employment In The Social Media Era"
- 7.1.14 – Cited in "13 insightful HR insiders that you should be following on Twitter" http://buff.ly/1mUmcaY
- 6.26.14 – My comments were included in "14 Must-See Social Media Marketing Success Stories" on CIO.com. (Slide #2 and #15. Yay!
- 6.17.14 – Presented "I was for big data before I was against it" at a LinkedIn SourceIn event.
- 5.15.14 – Talent Acquisition Expert Jim Stroud and Employer Brand Expert James Foley Join Randstad Sourceright – Yahoo Finance http://buff.ly/1jM7ba9 / Also announced in the Staffing Industry Analyst
- 5.8.14 – Featured by ERE in the video, "Recruiting Leaders Share a Few Tips to Increase Candidate Engagement"
- 5.6.14 – Featured by SourceCon in the video – "Recruiting leaders share a few tips to increase candidate engagement"
- 4.22.14 – Blogging4Jobs acquires my blog – The Recruiters Lounge.
via @jmillermerrell Blogging4Jobs Adds The Recruiter's Lounge to Blog Family #ERE14 http://t.co/J7XrahZY84 #hr #shrm #work — Jessica Merrell (@blogging4jobs) April 22, 2014
- 4.11.14 – The Social Recruiter Podcast debuts
- 3.24.14 – All About the Brand: Recruiting Expert Jim Stroud on Creativity, Social Media, and Finding Talent" http://buff.ly/1jAb1of
- 3.23.14 – My book "Content Is The New Sourcing: Strategies for Attracting and Engaging Passive Candidates" debuts!
- 3.18.14 – First day at Randstad Sourceright as RPO Senior Director of Recruiting Strategies and Support. Yay!
- 2.21.2014 – Featured in "Employed for Life: 21st-Century Career Trends" by Dr. Tracey Wilen Daugenti & Dr. Courtney L. Vien w/ Gary Daugenti
Discussed "Headline Recruiting" at SourceCon 2014 in Atlanta
The Jim Stroud is teaching us how to source from news leads: BRILLIANT!!! #sourcecon pic.twitter.com/0Ge0MUoNQF — Sourcing Consultant (@SourcingRocks) February 19, 2014
- 1.28.2014 – My first article for Dice News posted – How To Automate Your Job Search
- 1.14.2014 – Cited by HR Marketer for being the "Face of Recruiting and Staffing."
- 1.15.2014 – Cited on YouTern's 4th annual "Top 50 Twitter Accounts Job Seekers MUST Follow"
- 1.14.2014 – Cited by Slideshare as being among the top 1% of most viewed Slideshare in 2013.
- 1.7.2014 – Featured on the popular Lifehacker blog – Find Unadvertised Job Openings with a Clever Google Search
- 12.12.2013 – Presented the webinar – I'M READY FOR MY CLOSEUP!: How To Find and Attract Passive Candidates with Photos for SourceCon.
- 12.5.2013 – Featured in the ebook Social Recruiting Predictions and Trends for 2014 published by Identified Recruit.
- 11.25.2013 – Featured on the Business2Community blog. Topic: What Drives Social Influence? Insights From Recruiting Circles.
- 10.30.2013 – Guest speaker at #Nextchat, a video interview series focused on workplace trends. My topic was "The Building Blocks of Social Recruiting."
- 9.12.2013 – Presented "YOU MUST ENGAGE: HOW BIG DATA, PRIVACY AND PERSONALISED SEARCH AFFECTS YOUR SOURCING STRATEGY NOW AND IN THE FUTURE" at Sourcing Summit Europe 2013 in Amsterdam
- 8.20.2013 – Cited as the #1 Recruitment channel on YouTube by Recruitment Buzz! Yay!
- 8.16.2013 – Quoted in Forbes Magazine concerning career-related issues.
- 8.7.2013 – Began the first in a series of career related blog posts for Glassdoor.
- 7.25.2013 – Served on a panel discussion at the 2013 National Urban League Conference – How To Play the Game at the Top
- 7.19.2013 – Cited by Perspectives by Better Weekdays for giving career advice to jobseekers
- 7.16.2013 – Presented a Social Media Boot Camp at the National Association of Healthcare Recruiters' 2013 IMAGE Conference
- 6.30.2013 – Cited by The Huffington Post as being among The Top 100 Most Social Human Resources Experts On Twitter
- 6.28.2013 – Cited by ERE as being among the top 25 industry media sources followed by recruiters and also, one of the most retweeted bloggers on Twitter.
- 6.24.2013 – My blog – The Recruiters Lounge was cited on the Top 100 Career Blogs to Follow in 2013 (#25)
- 6.17.2013 – Spoke at the National SHRM13 Conference. Topic: The Myth of the Passive Candidate. (Panel discussion)
- 6.10.2013 – Cited in the book – "Size Matters! How Big is Your Social Footprint?"
- 6.5.2013 – Interviewed by US News and World Report in the article "How To Look Like an Expert to Recruiters."
- 5.29.2013 – I was featured on the Black Enterprise website in the article, "Think Like a Recruiter to Land Your Dream Job."
- 5.7.2013 – Wowzers! I am pleased and grateful to be cited by LinkedIn as they celebrate their 10th year in business.
- 5.6.2013 – Resume Forensics v2 debuts. Yay!
- 4.27.2013 – Announced my new book – "Resume Forensics" was coming soon.
- 3.28.2013 – My presentation "Jobhunting and the Absence of Online Privacy" was among the most popular presentations on Slideshare.
- 3.14.2013 – I was featured in Guerilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0. Actually, on page 148. (yay!)
- 02.05.2013 – Featured speaker at the Recruiter Summit in Orlando, FL. Topic discussed was "What can recruiting expect in the year 2013?"
- 01.22.13 – Featured guest on CareerCloud Radio. I discussed Social Media Job Search Tips.
- 12.31.12 – Cited on Career Sherpa's list of 95 People to Follow On Twitter 2013
- 10.19.12 – Featured on Monster.com's video series "Inside HR"
- 10.02.12 – Season 5 of The Jim Stroud Show debuts.
- 9.14.22 – Served as emcee for mRecruitingCamp – The Mobile Recruiting Conference and had a great time doing it!!!
- 8.22.12 – My blog, The Recruiters Lounge, cited on Spark Hire's Top 25 Must Read Blogs for Recruiters
- 8.20.12 – Quoted on "The Network," Cisco's Technology News Site." Going Social: Digital Age Ushers New Era Of Recruiting.
- 8.8.12 – Quoted in the Forbes article, "What Should You Do When the Boss Begs You to Stay?"
- 8.8.12 – I released an ebook called "How to Find a Job Now (…and never have to look again!)"
- 7.28.12 – I spoke at the National Urban League Conference in New Orleans.
- 7.3.12 – Cited on 101 Career Experts all Job Hunters Should Follow on Twitter
- 6.29.12 – One of the most popular bloggers at the SHRM 2012 National Conference in Atlanta.
- 5.24.12 – Presented "How to Recruit with Niche Networks at the Social Recruiting Strategies Conference 2012 in Chicago, IL
- 5.9.12 – Presented "How to Recruit with Google Plus" at the Gulf Coast Symposium on HR Conference in Houston, TX
- 4.15.12 – Cited on Even Carmichaels' Top 100 Human Resources Experts to Follow on Twitter
- 4.10.12 – Presented the webinar – Finding Hidden Jobs Online for the National Urban League
- 3.15.12 – I appeared on Career Magazine TV discussing the topic "The Recruiter's Responsibility"
- 3.8.12 – Featured in the New York Times for winning their Pulp Fiction Writing Contest. (Yay!)
- 3.7.12 – Presenting "How To Recruit with Video" a free webinar for ERE.
- 2.24.12 – Surpassed 101,000 views on my YouTube Channel. Yay!
- 2.11.12 – Featured on Bullhorn Reach's blog in the post #SourceCon Reflections: a Discipline in Flux
- 2.10.12 – Interviewed by Totalpictureradio in the podcast, "You Don't Have Time for Social Marketing? Really?"
- 2.9.12 – Presented "Naked Prospects:How Personalized Search and the absence of privacy will help and hinder online recruiting now and in the future" at SourceCon 2012.
- 1.10.12 – Season Three of The Jim Stroud Show premieres with a focus on social tools.
- 12.15.11 – Featured on the popular HR Bartender Blog.
- 11.17.11 – JimStroud.com and The Recruiters Lounge were both cited on "The 50 Best Blogs for Recruiters" by Online MBA
- 10.27.11 – Season 2 of The Jim Stroud Show premieres with a focus on Social Recruiting
- 9.28.11 – Presented at The Talent Acquisition and Onboarding Summit in Atlanta, GA.
- 8.24.11 – Cited by HR Examiner as #10 on their list of top 25 online influencers in recruiting! (v4)
- 8.17.11 – 8.18.11 – I presented at the first annual Australasian Talent Conference: SourceEvent Finders Keepers" – Sourcing: The Ways to Survive and Thrive in Melbourne, Australia.
- 8.12.11 – Cited by Unbridled Talent as #12 on their list of Top 100 HR & Recruiting Industry Pros To Follow On Twitter (2011)
- 7.28.11 – Spoke at the 2011 National Urban League Conference in Boston
- 7.26.11 – Spoke at the Career Connection Employment Forum on social media as it relates to job hunting.
- 7.18.11 – Sold The Hidden Job Report to HiddenJobsApp.com for an undisclosed sum. It is the 3rd online property that I have created and sold. Yay!
- 7.4.11 – Bernard Hodes Group Strengthens National Digital Team with Addition of Jim Stroud
- 7.1.11 – Featured on the podcast – Views From the Top where I advised jobseekers on how to find work in tough economic times.
- 6.8.11 – Cited by US News and World Report – The Best Way to Take Control of Your Job Hunt
- 5.17.11 – Featured on Black Enterprise's blog – 6 Twitter Accounts To Follow To Get The Job
- 5.13.11 – Featured on local news station on KPLC discussing job search strategies
- 5.12.11 – Proud contributor to the book "Social Networking for Career Success" by Miriam Salpeter
- 4.27.11 – Cited by HR Examiner as #16 on their list of Top 25 Online Influencers in Recruiting v3
- 4.19.11 – My podcast series – "The Recruiters Lounge Podcast" was cited in "Smart Outsourcing from A to Z: How to Save Millions and Increase Growth for any Business in 90 days." by Joshua Keith Cook (pg 51)
- 4.6.11 – Selected to speak at the Australian Talent Conference – FindersKeepers, Sourcing: The Ways to Survive and Thrive
- 03.28.11 – My Twitter blog was cited by Entrepreneur Magazine in the article, "The Influencers: Five to Follow on Twitter for Hiring."
- 03.04.11 – The Recruiters Lounge was awarded HCI's Top 50 Blogs in Recruiting for 2011
- 03.03.11 – My PPT presentation – "How to Recruit with YouTube" was featured on the front page of Slideshare's "How To" section
- 03.02.11 – Presented "How To Recruit with YouTube" at the Recruit Atlanta 2 conference which was sponsored by DirectEmployers Association
- 01.27.11 – Participated in the first-ever – Position Accomplished Summit sponsored by TheLadders.com
- 01.11.11 – The Jim Stroud Show debuts
- 11.10.10 – I presented "The Social Media Game Show" at Social Media Atlanta and awarded cash prizes to those who participated.
- 10.01.10 – Accepted as a Job Search Technology Columnist for Job-Hunt.org.
- 09.14.10 – Co-founded The Hidden Job Report with Otis Collier. The Hidden Job Report reveals unadvertised jobs around the world.
- 08.16.10 – The Resume Bear comic strip debuts on ResumeBear.com
- 07.04.10 – Guest of The Rich Life radio show where Jim Stroud gave advice to job seekers.
- 05.18.10 – Presented the webinar "The Six Secrets of Boolean Search" to 900+ attendees
- 05.03.2010 – Cited in the book – The Executive Search Process: A step by step guide to finding the right candidate by Shireen DuPreez
- 04.24.10 – Posed in the Men of HR Calendar to benefit Haiti Relief and Orchid Cancer Appeal (Testicular Cancer)
- 04.07.10 – Cited as a Top 50 Blogger by Business Resource Master
- 03.24.10 – Nominated for "Blogger of the Year" by Chozen Awards
- 03.21.10 – The Recruiters Lounge relaunches under new management
- 03.14.10 – 03.15.10 – EmCee for SourceCon (3rd year in a row!)
- 02.17.10 – 2.19.10 – Track Leader at TRU London. (Wha-hoo!)
- 01.19.2010 – I was mentioned in the book "TWEET THIS! TWITTER FOR BUSINESS"
- 1.4.10 – Officially launched The Searchologist Magazine, a printed edition of TheSearchologist.com website featuring its most popular articles.
- 1.4.10 – Cited on Monster.com's list of Top 10 Employment Bloggers
- CAREER Magazine awarded me a "Who's Who in the Career Industry" trophy.
- "Blogging 4 Jobs" cited me as being among their Top 11 Besties of 2009
- Ranked #7 in the Top 25 HR Digital Influencers 2009 list by the HR Examiner
- Placed The Recruiters Lounge blog on hiatus so I can focus more on The Searchologist and its subscribers.
- Launched an iTunes channel for The Searchologist video series.
- Launched the video series – Searchology and received over 1000 views in its first week! (Later changed the name of the video series to The Searchologist)
- Cited as a Top 25 HR Blogger for The Recruiters Lounge
- Created a portfolio site showcasing my video production skills
- Launched The Searchologist, a blog focused on Online Generation and Resume Sourcing (July 2009)
- The Recruiters Lounge was cited among the Top 50 HR Blogs to Watch in 2009
- Quoted in The Wall Street Journal article – "Building Your Brand"
- Cited by Staffing Industry Analyst as being among the "Who's Who in Sourcing."
- Interviewed by US News and World Report – "How a College Grad Can Get Recruited."
- Contributing author to the new book – "Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 2.0"
- Produced the free webinar "Confessions of a Job Search Strategist"
- Cited by Management-Topics for outstanding work in a HR podcast series (Yay!)
- Granted a co-host position on The Friday Traffic Report
- Interviewed on The Friday Traffic Report
- The Recruiters Lounge was cited by US News and World Report
- Ranked#1 by The Talent Management Blog Power Rankings (a), (b)
- Presented a job hunting webinar for unemployed recruiters called – Confessions of a Job Search Strategist
- Released the beta version of the sourcing manual – Resume Forensics
- Rebranded JimStroud.com to "The Recruiters Lounge"
- Launched the consumer technology blog – I Live Online
- Invited back to MC the global sourcing conference – SourceCon 2008
- Launched The Job Search Strategist – a blog of jobhunting tips and strategies
- Nominated for a RecruitingBlogs.com's Blogging Award for The Recruiters Lounge
- Nominated for a HireAbility's 2007 Recruiter of the Year Award
- MC for SourceCon2007 – global premier conference for the Sourcing Community
- Relaunched "The Day In Recruiting" which now tracks 300+ blogs, podcasts and news stories
- Redesigned my comic strip "The Recruiting Life"
- Cited by The HR Capitalist as a Top HR Blog (The Recruiters Lounge)
- Cited by JobMatchbox as a Top Recruiting Blog (The Recruiters Lounge)
- Cited by Alexa as being among the Top 25 Recruiting Blogs (The Recruiters Lounge)
- Launched a podcast – "The Big Idea" on Kennedy Information's Recruiting Trends website
- Switched hosting companies due to the amount of traffic JimStroud.com was receiving.
- Released a series of training videos that explained how to reseach the internet for resumes, passive candidates and how to automate (some of) the sourcing process.
- Launched the video version of "The Recruters Lounge"
- Created multiple recruitment videos and podcasts to promote Microsoft opportunities
- Traveled to India to train recruiters how to source passive candidates from the internet
- Virtually trained multiple recruiting teams in Latin America and Asia Pacific countries on sourcing strategies and techniques
- My comic "The Recruiting Life" was nominated by Gnomz for "Best Ongoing Comic Series" and "Best Newcomer of 2006"
- Published my 100th comic strip of The Recruiting Life
- Published my 50th podcast episode of The Recruiters Lounge
- Launched the video edition of The Recruiters Lounge
- Produced multiple podcasts and videos for Microsoft's "Technical Careers at Microsoft Jobs Blog"
- The Recruiters Lounge was cited in Bullhorn's Research Report: Tools of The Trade 2007 as being among the best blogs on the recruiting industry (50,000 staffing and recruiting professionals were surveyed)
- Debuted the "2007 Resume Sourcing Survey," a free industry whitepaper.
- My "other site" TheDayInRecruiting.com was cited by Workforce Magazine
- Presented at Microsoft's Global Staffing Summit
- Launched video-on-demand training series – "The Recruiters Guide."
- My blog – "Jim Stroud 2.0″ was nominated for a "Best Blog Award" by Recruiting.com and was cited as being among the top 10 of all recruiting blogs.
- Launched – The Day In Recruiting, a one page guide to buzz in the recruitment industry.
- Received a best blog award from Chimby.
- My sourcing contest – "Can you find my doggy?" yields 13 winners and a LOT of buzz.
- ERE hosted one of my podcasts
- Quoted in Red Herring Magazine and Fast Company
- My podcast, "The Recruiters Lounge Podcast" was syndicated by the Radio Talent Zoo network.
- Sold my first blog – "Jobseekers Revenge" to CollegeRecruiter.com.
- Created "The Recruiting Life," the first comic strip dedicated to the recruiting industry.
- Interviewed and cited in the book "Happy About: Linked In For Recruiting."
- While at Google, staffing organization was ranked #18 out of a list of "Top 25 Companies in Recruiting and Talent" by the Electronic Recruiting Exchange (ERE).
- Left Google to Join Microsoft as a "Technical Sourcing Consultant."
- Regular blogger on Microsoft's Technical Careers Blog
- Launched "Digability," a series of training guides and blog coaching recruiters on how to best leverage the internet.
- Cited multiple times by Electronic Recruiting Exchange and Online Recruiting Magazine.
- Cited in a frontpage article of The Wall Street Journal
- Nominated for multiple blog awards by Recruiting.com. Won "Best Job Seeker Blog" and "Best Group Blog" due to his contributions on Microsoft's Technical Careers Blog
- 9.12.11 – Spoke at the RUMC Jobseeker Networking Group. My topic was "How To find Hidden Jobs."
- 8.17.11 – 8.18.11 – I presented at the first annual Australasian Talent Conference: SourceEvent Finders Keepers" – Sourcing: The Ways to Survive and Thrive in Melbourne, Australia.
- 7.28.11 – Spoke at the 2011 National Urban League Conference in Boston
- 7.26.11 – Spoke at the Career Connection Employment Forum on social media as it relates to job hunting.
- 03.02.11 – Presented "How To Recruit with YouTube" at the Recruit Atlanta 2 conference which was sponsored by DirectEmployers Association
- Spoke at the Direct Employers Annual Conference Meeting (October 2009)
- Spoke to the Technology Association of GA about Recruiting on YouTube (May 2009)
- Spoke to The National Association of Asian Professionals on Personal Branding (April 2009)
- MC for SourceCon 2008, the 2nd annual conference for the Sourcing Community (September 2008)
- RE: Focus on Careers – Confessions of a Job Search Strategist (2007)
- Panel Member: "Insight into Online Recruitment – The Bloggers perspective" during the OnRec 2007 Global Summit For Online Recruitment (2007)
- MC for SourceCon2007 – global premier conference for the Sourcing Community (2007)
- Collective Intelligence, Collaboration and User-Generated Content Atlanta Electronic Commerce Forum (2007)
- Current Tools & Trends in Internet Recruiting The Technology Association of Georgia – Recruiting Society (2007)
- How to Blog Your Way Into A Job (and make some money in the meantime!) Saint Catherine of Siena Career Ministry (2006)
- Resume Forensics: The CSI Approach to Recruiting The Atlanta Association of Heathcare Recruiters (2006)
- Trends in Blogging and Online Social Networking The Technology Association of Georgia (June 2005)
- How to Blog Your Way Into A Job Re:Focus On Careers (2005)
- The Future of You The WebChallenge 2005 KickOff Event (2005)
- All Sourcing, All the Time AIRS – Atlanta Sourcing Summit (2004)
- Wooing The Passive Candidate AutoTrader (2004)
- Your Career and The Global Economy Southern Center for International Studies (2004)
- Building Communities of Candidates Technlogy Association of GA (2004)
- Jobhunting Is A Team Sport CobbWorks! Career Assistance Network (2004)
- The Layoff Lounge (2004)
- Kettering Career Network (2004)
- Creating Your Jobsearch Strategy Saint Catherine of Siena Career Ministry (2004)
- How Do I Find A Job When The Economy Sucks? *Innovative jobsearch strategies for tough economic times. LEAP (2003) – Speaker Atlanta IT Alliance (2002) The Layoff Lounge (2002) GA Department Of Labor (2002)
- A Day In The Life Of Startups *The good, bad and the ugly of working for dot-com companies. University Of Ga (2001) Emory University (2001)
- Cited by HR Daily in Why you should use YouTube in recruiting (August 22, 2011)
- Cited by Recruitment Asia Pacific in Reflections on SourcEvent and the Australasian Sourcing Summit (August 24, 2011)
- Quoted in The Pittsburgh Post Gazette article "Clooney's movie stretches the truth on firings." (January 3, 2010)
- Jobs in Madison: Three Ways to Find a Job Faster Online (October 16, 2008)
- Atlanta Journal and Constitution: It takes more than a résumé (September 28, 2008)
- US News and World Report: How a College Grad Can Get Recruited (August 28, 2008)
- PR News Wire: CareerTV and CollegeRecruiter Sign a Partnership to Increase Services to College Students (October 2007)
- Globe and Mail: Musings That Matter: Blog To A Job (May 2007)
- Bullhorn's "2007 Tools of The Trade" Study Becomes Buzz of The Blogs (May 2007)
- Are Hacking Contests Good or Evil? (May 2007)
- Red Herring: Pay Per Job Referral (Oct 2006)
- Fast Company: Use Online Networks to Find Your Star Employee (May 2006)
- CollegeRecruiter.com Acquires Jobseekers Revenge from Microsoft Recruiter, Jim Stroud (May 2006)
- WSJ: Talent Search: Google's Growth Helps Ignite Silicon Valley Hiring Frenzy (Nov 2005)
- A Great Idea That Will Never Happen (Aug 2005)
- Why Social Networks don't work (July 2005)
- Lessons From Sourcing Leaders (2005)
- Dig Deeper to Uncover The Greatest Job Leads (2004)
- Job boards are only one small part of the job search (2003)
- Fresh ideas to make online job boards work for you (2003)
- Beware Jobseeker's Revenge! (2002)
- How To Do It (2001)


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World featherweight champion Carl Frampton has hinted that a rematch against Leo Santa Cruz could happen in December.
The undefeated Belfast man took the WBA belt from Santa Cruz in a Fight of the Year contender in New York on July 30.
Straight after that fight at the Barclays Centre Santa Cruz called for a rematch and it now seems he may get his wish.
"It is the fight people are talking about and potentially it is going to be the next one for me. There is to be a meeting next week," said Frampton.
"Santa Cruz is the fight I am keen for and I feel I can beat him anywhere in the world."
Frampton had hoped he would take on Santa Cruz in front of a Belfast audience next summer, but it know seems the rematch will take place in the USA.
"America is the most likely destination," he said.
"If it had been the summer we could have done outdoors in Belfast, but Windsor Park in December is not going to work."


text: We construct symplectic integrators for Lie-Poisson systems. The integrators are standard symplectic (partitioned) Runge-Kutta methods. Their phase space is a symplectic vector space equipped with a Hamiltonian action with momentum map J whose range is the target Lie-Poisson manifold, and their Hamiltonian is collective, that is, it is the target Hamiltonian pulled back by J. The method yields, for example, a symplectic midpoint rule expressed in 4 variables for arbitrary Hamiltonians on so(3)*. The method specializes in the case that a sufficiently large symmetry group acts on the fibres of J, and generalizes to the case that the vector space carries a bifoliation. Examples involving many classical groups are presented.


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After 10 seasons coaching the La Cañada High baseball team, Coach Dennis Ballard resigned Tuesday, citing personal reasons.
Under Ballard's guidance between 2003-12, the Spartans went 135-95 and 79-67 in the Rio Hondo League. The Spartans reached the playoffs six times and won the league championship in 2005.
Ballard said he yielded the position to spend more time with his family, though he will continue to teach physical education at the school. It's not clear who will succeed Ballard, though La Cañada Athletic Director Craig Franzen said he'd like to fill the job shortly.


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Lakeshore Learning ~ Visit a participating Lakeshore Learning location and kids (ages 3 and up) can make a free Pot O' Gold Bank on Saturday 3/13 from 11-3 pm.
Lowe's ~ Lowe's is offering a "Build and Grow Clinic" on Saturday, 3/13 from 10-11 a.m. This week, kids can make their own Tabletop basketball game. The first 50 kids to register and be present at the store at 10 a.m. will get a kit, aprons, and goggles. (Ages 5+ preferred)
Michael's – The Knack is a program sponsored by Michael's to help your kids explore their creativity using projects and crafts. They have fun in-store events for kids and families to enjoy. This week's event is: Free Birthday Party Preview & Wilton Brownie Make it and Take it – Saturday, 3/13 from 10 am-2 pm
Toys 'R Us ~ Participating Toys ' Us locations are hosting a Barbie Mermaid party on Saturday, 3/13 from noon-3 pm. "Make a splash and celebrate the release of Barbie in a Mermaid Tail with great activities and coloring fun!" While you're there, you can also pick up a Superstar Barbie for only $3 (while supplies last)! (Ages 3+)


text: KNOX -- Former State Sen. Nancy Dembowski, D-Knox, declared Wednesday her intent to run for the Indiana House seat in District 17. If elected, she would represent residents in LaPorte, Marshall and Starke counties. Dembowski, who also served as mayor of Knox and a Starke County Council member, said in her statement issued Wednesday, "We are going to run a positive race on the issues that really matter to those most affected by recent legislation." "I believe that my strong record in this district, combined with my commitment to those I have served in city, county, and state government, make me a reliable asset for representing District 17 in the Indiana House." "... We have lost a great portion of the important state funding we counted on in our classrooms while witnessing the greatest property tax hike in Indiana history," Dembowski continued in the release. "Property taxpayers cannot continue to have the state budget balanced by the collective pockets of this district. Most of us still do not know what time it is in northern Indiana and many areas are in different zones. Meanwhile, our greatest state assets, the Indiana Toll Roads (sic) have been sold to foreign corporations for 75 years -- all of this with our representative's full support." Dembowski also laid the time zone blame on the shoulders of state Rep. Steve Heim, R-Culver, saying Heim should have voted "no" on Gov. Mitch Daniels' time zone initiative when it was in committee, but when Heim did not, the result put residents of Marshall and Starke counties on different times. She also reminded her supporters that Heim voted in favor of leasing the Indiana Toll Road. Heim responded Wednesday afternoon, issuing the following statement: "My opponent wants to recycle the old, tired and failed policies of the past that took our state to the brink of bankruptcy, resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs, allowed property taxes to grow unchecked, and allowed our roads and bridges to crumble. Residents of District 17 want good-paying jobs, meaningful property tax relief, efficient and effective government, and quality schools. Accomplishing these goals requires a willingness to make tough decisions. This election is about the future of our state and I look forward to discussing with the voters the ideas and policies that will allow all of us to achieve our goals."


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'Tracking the Transition,' a book by writer Sai Wansai published by Mizzima Media Group, has just been released. It is examines a crucial juncture in the ongoing peace process in Myanmar. In the following commentary, Sai Wansai examines Myanmar's troubled drive for peace.
Recently, I was asked to give a short account on the end of the Union State and Development Party-Military (USDP-Military) era headed by Thein Sein and the start of the National League for Democracy-Military (NLD-Military) regime led by Aung San Suu Kyi for the period from March 2015 to April 2016. As my commentaries in Mizzima Weekly covered the said time-span, I thought it would be appropriate to go back a little further on how the Thein Sein government came to power and the ensuing peace process that still has an impact on Myanmar's political landscape.
Following the approval of the Military-drafted 2008 constitution, which was said to be endorsed by more than 90% according to the Military but rejected by many as being manipulated, multi-party nationwide elections took place at the end of 2010. The main Bamar opposition party the NLD and main ethnic nationality party Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) refused to take part. They argued that the military-drafted constitution would not usher in a democratic transition and the establishment of a federal union.
But after some months in power, the Thein Sein-led USDP-Military government made a deal that allowed the NLD into parliament through by-elections and participate in the multi-party parliamentary system. Accordingly, Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD in the by-elections of 2012, got elected in 43 of 44 seats it contested and entered parliament.
Thein Sein also started the peace negotiation process to end ethnic armed conflicts in 2011. His government reached out to all armed groups, offering first more flexible terms, including dropping the demand for the groups to become border guard forces, and then an unprecedented national conference to seek political solutions to ethnic divisions.
Against this backdrop, the period of 2015-2016 that led to the NLD taking power from the USDP administration has been documented by me weekly and the book "Tracking the Transition – The Path From Quasi-Civilian Rule To Fully Fledged Democracy" is all about what happened during this period.
A number of major issues occurred during this time. There was the Kokang conflict that pitted the Tatmadaw or Military against the Northern Alliance–Burma (NA-B) comprising of Kachin Independence Army (KIA), Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) or Kokang, Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) and Arakan Army (AA). There was also the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) meetings in Law Khee Lah and Panghsang. The Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) was signed by 8 EAOs. The period also saw inter-ethnic conflict between the TNLA and the Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) and Aung San Suu Kyi's national reconciliation process that has failed to satisfy the ethnic nationalities' aspirations.
Although during this time-span Suu Kyi has not revealed her plan on how she would go about circumventing paragraph 59(f) that barred her from becoming the president of the country, this formative year's challenging issues still encompass the woes of today. That is why no one should neglect this historical period if he or she would like to grasp the details of today's politics and the issues that need to be resolved.
Let us look into the issues a bit closer.
Kokang conflict that erupted in February 2015 is the product of the former Military government's Border Guard Force (BGF) scheme. In 2009, when Peng Jaisheng refused to become BFG the then Military government, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), sided with a faction of the Kokang and chased out Peng Jiasheng and his troops under the pretext of drug trafficking and producing war weapons. Consequently, his deputy chairman, Bai Suoqian, was installed as head of the Kokang Self- administered Zone. On February 9, 2015, six years later, the MNDAA reclaimed its authority, and the armed conflict continues to this day. Moreover, to add more confusion, the TNLA, KIA and AA fought alongside MNDAA, prompting the Military to reject the three EAOs – TNLA, AA and MNDAA – from participating in the peace process, unless they surrender their arms. Exceptionally, KIA is still accepted as a negotiation partner, as the Military said that it is an old organisation and not new ones like the said three EAOs that are excluded. This stalemate continues to this very day, and no solution to further the peace process is in sight.
Before the ratification of NCA, there were EAOs' gatherings in Law Khee Lah and Panghsang on how to go about it. The Law Khee Lah ethnic leadership meeting mostly made up of UNFC members was unable to agree whether to sign the NCA together. In the end, 7 UNFC members, together with RCSS which is not, signed the NCA on 15 October 2015 and the other seven stayed away, arguing that it is not all-inclusive. This partial-ceasefire agreement situation still goes on today with no positive development in the peace process.
The Panghsang meeting also couldn't decide to sign the NCA, as the host United Wa State Army (UWSA) that hosted the meeting was then of the opinion that it didn't need to sign as it had already signed the union-level ceasefire agreement and has never been in armed conflict with the Military since the fall of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB), of which the Wa were also a part. Thus, the Wa position then was to participate in the peace process without having to sign the NCA. The UWSA now under the banner of a seven-party alliance called Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative Committee (FPNCC) still holds this same position and no progress has been made, as the government insists that the NCA has to be signed as a pre-condition to participating in the peace process. Also, the government insisted it meets its members separately and not as a group as demanded by the alliance. Thus, no progress has been made.
Shortly after the signing of NCA in October 2015, the RCSS expanded its troop presence in the northern Shan State with hundreds of reinforcements, where the TNLA also operates. Armed conflict ensued between the two and until today no solution to the conflict has been made. The TNLA accused the RCSS of encroaching on its territories, while the RCSS maintained that it has always been there and has the duty to protect the Shan population, and said the TNLA has been riding roughshod over the Shan population.
The nationwide, multiparty elections in November 2015 ushered in the civilian, NLD administration to the dismay of the USDP. The Military bloc has counted on the USDP to do better, but the NLD was able to gather the absolute majority vote of some 80% from the contested 75% left over seats after the subtraction of 25% appointed seats, according to the military-drafted constitution, for the Military.
Many believed that the NLD received the tactical votes from the ethnic states as they were convinced that Suu Kyi's party could bring in a change from military to civilian rule.
Suu Kyi went about with her promised reconciliation by employing military personnel and ethnic individuals in forming her administration. She first installed key positions like president, house speakers and herself taking four cabinet portfolios of foreign affairs, education, electric power and energy, and head of the office of the president. Moreover, within days of taking office President Htin Kyaw, Suu Kyi's trusted childhood friend, signed a bill making Suu Kyi the "State Counsellor," a sort of prime minister-like position which holds the most powerful office in Myanmar.
To sum up, I sincerely hope that this book would serve as an archive for the said period and also instill a better understanding for those interested in the making of a new Burma or Myanmar that still has a long way to go.
Additionally, a second book which would cover the period of 2016-2017 probably under the name of "One Year After", meaning one year after NLD came to power is planned. The materialisation of the project would depend on many factors but keep your fingers crossed that this will happen sooner rather than later.
'Tracking the Transition,' a book by writer Sai Wansai published by Mizzima Media Group, has just been released. It is examines a crucial juncture in the ongoing peace process in Myanmar. In the following commentary, Sai Wansai examines Myanmar's troubled drive for peace.


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Gandhi's life now in a graphic novel
Documentary filmmaker Jahnavi Prasada and illustrator Girish Arora, a graduate of the National Institute for Design, have joined hands to create a graphic version of Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography 'The Story of My Experiments with Truth' — the first in the world. The graphic novel is in the final stages of review and is being vetted by Gandhian scholars.
"We chose the graphic novel form because it has a strong visual connect — the person in the autobiography is brought to life. This art form is the most poignant way of telling complex and important stories," says Prasada, who along with Arora, has been working on the project since the last 18 months. The graphic adaptation runs into more than 200 pages and tries to visually engage Gandhi with today's youth.
The book will capture Gandhi's principles in political life, the use of civil disobedience only to remind adversaries of their common humanity and also his quest for truth from childhood days till his death.
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From Denny: This new American Revolution, Occupy Wall Street, caught fire across America in less than one month of protests. OWS is spreading to 25 cities like an oozing peanut butter sandwich overflowing with jam - and is now international too. There is just something so appealing about this protest movement because of its common ground that cuts across the spectrum of race, gender, lifestyle, generations, education and economic class.
Occupy Wall Street Protests Mantra
Occupy Wall Street protesters have been smart in targeting the lynch pin of American society: the financial sector. It is the financial sector that buys the politicians to pass the laws to unleash business to have free rein and never enforce what laws are on the books.
It's the financial sector that buys the police force to intimidate ordinary citizens like those incidents of pepper sprayed women during the protests. Notice they didn't go after men who could pummel them; they went after women.
Media coverage of OWS
There are those in my fellow media who just plain whine this movement is supposedly difficult to cover because there is not one leader, a spokesman, for the cause. And why do you require one leader? So you can get those easy lobs over the net for the sound bites? I call that lazy journalism and just plain lame.
The more people you talk to the more you will find a pattern of attitude and beliefs. This is not difficult; it's called interviewing - and regularly. The Vietnam War protests began much like this and slowly built into a critical mass that finally ended the war. This is no different. When American citizens take to the streets then things have to be bad, really bad, just like it was during the 1930's and the Great Depression.
How our national leaders have failed America in both political parties
By culture Americans are a patient lot and give our politicians a chance. But now it is clearly evident our politicians are just not connected to the people. Nor are they doing anything significant about job loss. We have a president and a Congress that has thrown political food fights for three years - trying to get the next presidency - while ignoring the economy was melting down.
None of them did anything about disallowing Big Business to send jobs overseas by the millions, for decades now. Shedding jobs by the millions was bound to finally create an economic meltdown. Why no one with an ounce of common sense could not predict the obvious is beyond me.
GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt duplicitous about jobs creation by creating job loss
What's worse, the so-called Jobs Czar, GE's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, is the same corporation that made billions in America and paid absolutely no taxes into the American treasury. Yet, this is the guy Obama turns to for growing jobs in the economy? You have got to be kidding me. He just sent tens of thousands of jobs to China, moving the headquarters of his 115-year-old X-ray imaging business from Wisconsin to Beijing.
Obama has several of the same greedy CEOs on various councils advising him, the same Big Banks that throw people out of their homes and refuse to hire folks over the age of 40 or minorities or women. What's wrong with this picture? Plenty, say the folks in the OWS protests.
From Sen. Feingold (D-WI) about GE CEO's statement when interviewed on CBS The Early Show, "Well, Mr. Immelt is not recognizing thst you root for corporations when corporations are making sure your jobs stay here in the United States. His corporations has had more to do with shipping jobs overseas than almost any corporation in the world."
"And, so the deal here is, we root for corporations and we support them if they are fair to us. But these people who are protesting are recognizing that just about everything that has happened to working people has been unfair in recent years. you have the greed on Wall Street. You have the very wealthy insisting they not contribute at all to solving our deficit and our debt problems. You have corporations buying up the political process through secret donation. People have had it."
Is there truly a recession recovery - but is it for you or just the corporations?
For those who contend the OWS movement does not have a recurring theme, think again: "The 99 percent are taking action against the greed and corruption of the 1 percent."
The OWS - and most Americans - are fed up hearing about how we are "in a recession" or have "recovered from a recession." Who believes that? Then there's the usual political rhetoric about how great is the recovery of corporate America, most notably for Wall Street and the Big Banks. Yeah? So, where does that leave the average worker? Out in the cold, that's where and people are angry they are not able to participate in the so-called recovery.
Big Business and the politicians are busy running their media campaigns to counter the OWS perception before the rest of America - and the world - wakes up to the truth. Ol' Greedy Man Himself, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA), is accusing OWS of all sorts of sins.
The real sin is that Cantor, and plenty of his fellow politicians, laid Wall Street bets - buying shorts - when they were stonewalling Obama this summer. Basically, Cantor made money because of his stonewalling efforts - and that's legal? Insider trading, unethical, odious for starters. Observing this kind of profiteering off the woes of the country make Americans angry, now angry enough to take to the streets.
Check out fellow Republican, Herman Cain, accusing the unemployed of "being lazy."
New study bears out OWS protests assertions
But is there any study or data to back up the conclusions of the OWS protesters besides perhaps anecdotes? Well, yes, actually. A couple of former Census Bureau guys did a study about household incomes during this so-called economic recovery. It backs the OWS protesters.
Real median annual household income:
From June 2009 - June 2011: Income fell down 6.7 percent to $49,909
Check out how it breaks down:
* For a single parent or single person, their income fell by 7.3 percent, from $39,321 to $36,465
* For married-couple households, income fell 4.5 percent, from $76,783 to $73,324
* For unemployed, income fell by 18.4 percent, from $41,037 to $33,487
* For those looking for work that were head of household, income fell by 5.1 percent, from $72,104 to
* Blacks head of household income fell by 9.4 percent, from $35,072 to $31,784
* Whites head of household income fell by 4.7 percent, from $59,111 to $56,320
* Hispanics head of household income fell by 4.9 percent, from $41,945 to $39,901
During the recession from December 2007 - June 2009: Income fell down 3.2 percent to $53,518
From December 2007 - June 2011: Income declined by 9.8 percent. An income crush on this level signals a serious reduction in America's standard of living.
What about the corporations? How did they do during the economic recovery?
These statistics will make your blood boil and make you want to make your own sign and join the protests. Check it out: In the second quarter of 2009, when the recovery started, guess what happened to the corporate profits? It's astounding. They soared up to "88 percent growth in real national income while aggregate wages and salaries accounted for only slightly more than 1 percent." Most of that money just went into CEO pockets.
What's more obnoxious and odious is all that money those corporations earned - just during the recovery period - stayed within the company. The corporations refused to translate this sudden surge in wealth into higher wages or new jobs creation for the over 20 million jobless. As it is corporate America is sitting on a lot more than $2.2 trillion.
So, was this economic recovery really a recovery? Not from the point of view of American workers who didn't see a dime of it for it is considered a wageless recovery. From the point of view of corporate America it was time to wine and dine at the finest restaurants and celebrate with champagne while their fellow Americans were looking for employment.
And Wall Street has to scratch their heads and wonder why their fellow Americans are unhappy, out of work and taking to the streets to protest their greed?
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21st October 2017, Team Northumbria v Runcorn Linnets FC : 1-1
Michael Ellison came out of playing retirement for his first on-the-field appearance for 18 months to steer the Linnets' skeleton squad to a Buildbase FA Vase first round replay.
With suspensions, injuries and unavailability limiting the team to 12 players for selection, manager Ellison was forced to name himself, assistant Matt Cross and coach Danny Salt as substitutes.
Things weren't going to plan when the visitors promptly conceded to their hosts from the EBAC Northern League Division One – the league which has dominated this particular tournament in recent years.
A 10th-minute Scott Gunn goal followed by the loss midway through the first half of key striker Freddie Potter to a calf injury, left the Linnets up against it even more.
But after looking decidedly disjointed early on, largely due to the many enforced positional changes, Runcorn came out for the second half much more like themselves.
The Linnets soon saw strong penalty appeals for handball waved away but the referee then had no hesitation in pointing to the spot in the 65th minute.
Paul Shanley was sent sprawling by 'keeper Stefan Holden's challenge, after picking up Moore's expansive pass from defence to drive into the area.
However, Stuart Wellstead's initial attempt, not the worst penalty, was kept out by Holden – so too, equally agonisingly for the visitors, was Mitch Bryant's follow-up effort.
It continued to look as though it would be another case of so near, but yet so far in the North East – after Runcorn's 2-1 exit this time last year to the eventual winners, South Shields.
But in tough conditions, heavy rain adding to a very blustery wind, Linnets kept going - despite further near misses - to grab a thoroughly merited 76th-minute equaliser.
Sub Adam Jones' searching pass was picked up by Danny O'Brien, who wrongfooted a defender by turning inside the box to play a clever ball behind the North rearguard.
Wellstead fastened onto it and although his shot was blocked at the near post by the kind of last-ditch defending which was prevalent all afternoon, at both ends of the field, Mark Houghton was on hand to bundle the ball across the line.
Both sides looked tired – actually, more like out on their feet - in extra time, for which Ellison had introduced himself as Matt Atherton joined the casualty list after succumbing to a knock taken earlier.
But Paul Shanley, still fresh enough to produce a terrific burst of speed down the wing in the dying seconds, had come closest to snatching a winner in the second extra period.
A well-worked exchange of passes between Ellison and Bryant led to Shanley being set up to let fly from outside the box. But Holden leapt to spectacularly retain his side's interest in the competition, which has its final at Wembley.
As well as the Linnets played from the second half onwards, the standout feature of this performance was their sheer determination from the outset with backs to the wall.
Talk about putting their bodies on the line - Chris Lawton, newly re-signed from Northwich Vics, collided with a post when going for goal just before the interval in normal time.
His central defensive partner Jimmy Moore, likewise outstanding, was then hurt in making a match-saving block from a Harry Simpson header with virtually the last touch of the '90 minutes' (the game was by then deep into stoppage time).
Moore needed lengthy treatment while his team-mates prepared for the additional half hour in which Runcorn had a 'goal' disallowed.
Michael Simpson was, as the only recognised midfield player in their line-up, the driving force of Runcorn's recovery.
When Simmo's 115th-minute shot was saved, Wellstead turned away gleefully after tucking away the rebound but Runcorn's celebrations were cut short by a contentious offside flag against the 'scorer'.
With 'keeper Matt Holmes attending a wedding, Terry Smith had reclaimed the gloves but even his continued involvement looked in serious doubt early in the piece.
He damaged a hand in turning over a swerving first-half free-kick but physio Gemma Mooney's expert use of the proverbial 'magic sponge' meant the hometown player was eventually able to continue.
Smith went on to play his part in the earning of the replay with excellent saves at either end of he pitch - a full-length stop from a long-range strike, not long before Runcorn's leveller, and early in extra time a block with two North players bearing down on him.
After more than two hours of football in atrocious weather had failed to separate them, both sets of players were rightly applauded off the field by the sparse crowd (largely dominated by away followers) in the knowledge they will have another chance to progress this Tuesday, October 24th.
The replay, at The Millbank Linnets Stadium, kicks off at 7.45pm.
Runcorn Linnets: Terry Smith, Matt Atherton, Chris Lawton, Jimmy Moore, Danny O'Brien, Michael Simpson, Paul Shanley, Stuart Wellstead, Freddie Potter, Mitch Bryant, Mark Houghton (capt). Subs: Adam Jones, Michael Ellison. Not used: Matt Cross, Danny Salt.
Attendance: 88.
PS: Note to Left Side Ultras – when we said you had to take your shirts off to our lads for their efforts, we didn't mean literally!!
NB. The views expressed herein are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Runcorn Linnets FC or its Board.
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Granny was in her glory at the last Trojan season game against the Cadillac Vikings on October 23, 2015. In the picture above, I am the radiant one beaming next to Jacob. You probably can't see it given the distance but trust me it's true. Before the game, all the seniors were honored. Seniors and their families walked through the Trojan tunnel (which smelled like sweaty football players), and the announcer said their name, football position, family menbers with them, and their plans after high school. Jacob's plan was to play college football and pursue a surgeon career. Unfortunately, Mom Rachel was out of commission and could barely walk so she could not escort Jacob across the field. She was throughly bummed, and I felt so bad because I knew how much she wanted to participate. The fact she even made it to the stadium was a feat. She was not able to stay the entire game. As bad as I felt for Rachel, I could not cover the immense proud feelings for Jacob and all his accomplishments to reach his senior year. In the first journal entry, I noted how quickly the years have passed, and this last game of the season was yet another reminder of how true that sentiment is.
I decided not to write a blow by blow description of the game. Just a few highlights. THEY WON!!!!! Final score 42 to 13. A perfect season record and according to the paper the first time since 1988. However, the paper pointed out that 1988 was before the Traverse City schools split so actually, it was the first perfect season for T.C. Central. And Captain Jacob helped to make this auspicious history. I have been bragging about Jacob since I've know that boy, and in my defense, he continues to prove me correct. Lineman don't receive the press as the quarterbacks and ball carriers, but those players could not be successful without a strong line. And, Jacob was in peak performance. His blocking was stellar. Of course, I was thrilled to see the picture on the sports page which featured a John Pupel touchdown, and Jacob right behind him. He's the big guy with the number 78 on his jersey.
Last year Cadillac beat the Trojans but they did not stand a chance in this game. The Trojans quickly demonstrated their superior skills and easily racked up 42 points by half time to the Vikings 0. Similar to last week, Couch Schugars played his second string players in the second half, and Cadillac was able to score 2 touchdowns. However, the Trojans successfully blocked their first touchdown kick so the final score of the night was Trojans 42 to Cadillac 13, which proved to be an unlucky number for the Vikings. First year as head coach for Schugars and a pretty impressive record. The boys attempted to douse him in Gatorade near the end of the game but they missed and Schugars only had some splash hit him. Jacob came to the fence prior and told me to have my camera ready as something big was going to happen to Coach Schugars. So I turned my writing pad over to Bob to keep track of the plays on the field and headed down with my cell phone camera. I am sad to report that by the time I clicked my camera Coach Schugars was walking away so I did not get the actual moment. Sorry Jacob – unlike your perfect record Granny failed. But undaunted by lack of success, I did manage to snap some pics of Jacob sporting his new cap. All the players received caps with 9 -0 embroidered on the side. Obviously, these caps were not produced on the spot so someone felt confident they would have a perfect 9 win to 0 season! But then Granny knew that too so I don't think it was a huge leap to conclude that outcome.
On Saturday, they will announce the team that the Trojans will play in playoffs. Speculation is Muskegon which is a very tough team. The Trojans will host the first playoff game at home, and sadly Granny will not be there. I am most sad to miss this game, but our tickets to Arizona are purchased, and we fly out on Monday. I have already decided that if they make it to the final game, I will definitely fly home for that game. Until then Granny will have to be satisfied to listen to the game on the radio.
In other news, my grandson Elijah made the decision to move to Michigan in his efforts to pursue an apprenticeship in electrical. He will assist Randy until he can enter the program. He worked his final shift in Wisconsin Thursday night and then drove to Milwaukee to catch the ferry and then drive to Granny's house. He pretty much went 24 hours without sleep, but Granny poured him into her car to obtain a Michigan driver's license after arriving on Friday. It was the only opportunity I had to help him since the office is closed Saturday and Sunday, and I leave on Monday. Of course, we experienced a snafu. Silly "rules." Elijah had to have 2 pieces of verification documenting that he was a Michigan resident. We had a signed statement from Rachel indicating she was his landlord as he will be staying at her house. This document was debated but finally accepted, but the employment verification with Steelman Brothers Construction was not. Elijah and I drove to the Benzie Secretary of State office because the Traverse City office always involves a 2 plus hour wait. The Benzie office is about a 22 mile drive but faster because of the shorter wait time. But that meant driving back to Traverse City, and opening a checking and savings account at the Credit Union to establish residence. The Credit Union did not require any proof of residency. They were happy to take Elijah's word for it. Money talks! So with a print out from the Credit Union showing a Michigan residence, we drove back to the Benzie SOS office, and successfully secured a driver's license for Elijah. A very long day for Elijah, and after returning to Granny's house, he went to bed, and I have not seen him since. I guess I should check to make sure he is still with us!
Saturday is Zander's last game of the season and he plays at West Middle school against the Titans. The last time they played the Titans Zander's team lost but only because two Packer kicks were not successful so today's game should prove exciting.
For now, bragging Granny signing off!


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In addition, Ms. Gore was selected to serve as a 2013-2014 Fellow for the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials (NBC-LEO) Foundation. The Foundation was founded by the NBC-LEO, a constituency group within the National League of Cities (NLC). The highly competitive fellowship only selects two newly elected officials out of a nationwide pool to strengthen their governance expertise and leadership capabilities. She currently is appointed to serve as NBC-LEO's Deputy Director for Region 3 which includes KY, WV, VA, MD, DC, and DE. In 2014, Ms. Gore became the youngest appointee to the 2015 National Board of Directors for the National League of Cities (NLC), an organization that provides resources and advocates for more than 19,000 cities, villages/towns and 49 state municipal leagues. In this leadership role she serves as the only representative from the Commonwealth of Virginia which as earned her the opportunity to advocate for the City of Hopewell at the White House.
Before appointment to NLC's National Board of Directors, Ms. Gore served on the NLC's Finance, Administration & Intergovernmental Relations Committee and Virginia Municipal Leagues Finance and Community & Economic Development Committees.
In July, after Governor McAuliffe's 2014 Inauguration, Ms. Gore was tapped to serve on the Commonwealth of Virginia's Board of Medicine.
In 2015, Ms. Gore was noted to be the "Next Generation of Government" by the national elected official organization and selected as the Emerging Leader of the Year for a state party within Virginia.


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The Pottawattamie County Secondary Roads Department is responsible for all construction and maintenance on the county highway system. Pottawattamie County's road system is made up of 959 square miles, the second largest in the State of Iowa. The Secondary Roads Department has 251 paved two-lane miles and 1231 unpaved two-lane miles with 346 bridges, 1700+ culverts, and approximately 17,000 signs.
We have 64 employees and 10 maintenance shops:
Avoca, Caledonia, Carson, Central, Hancock, Honey Creek, Keg Creek, Lewis, Underwood, Walnut
Engineering & Secondary Roads Contacts:
|County Engineer's Office
|Underwood Shop
|Carson Shop
|Central Shop, primary
|Central Shop, secondary
|County Communications Center
|712.328.5737 (After Hours)
Current Projects:
Project Updates*Updated 6/27/2018*
Permit Forms:
One Stop Permit Application * Same day permit approval is not guaranteed.
Entrance Permit Application
Utility Permit Application
Other Useful Links:
Engineering/ Roads AVL Map
Service Request Form
Stop Signs Are Not Always The Answer *Released 1/26/2016*
Section Corner Search
Road Improvement Policy
Secondary Road Snow and Ice Policy