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Victory Lane or victory lane?

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Bulldog Smoltz, Jun 10, 2011.

  1. Lately, I've noticed many AP auto racing stories, particularly from NASCAR, have gone with Victory Lane. Is this AP style now? If so, why? We don't capitalize end zone.
  2. Cubbiebum

    Cubbiebum Member

    Probably because Victory Lane is a separate place from the track and the end zone is just part of the field. Then again so is the Pit or pit.
  3. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Every racing writer I've known insists on going upstyle with it. Myself, I think upstyle on it is tacky-looking.
  4. Keystone

    Keystone Member

    I've always been told to uppercase it. As a racing writer, that's what I did. Many tracks also insisted you add the sponsor's name in your copy, which I usually ignored.

    At my old stop the minor league baseball beat writer insisted we uppercase "opening day." My reply was that I'd do it if the paper paid us time-and-a-half to work that day. He ended up having a meeting with the sports editor and had the company style book changed.
  5. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Victory Lane is a branded name. Gatorade Victory Lane. So we don't use the sponsors, but it is a proper name.
  6. Mark McGwire

    Mark McGwire Member

  7. murphyc

    murphyc Well-Known Member

    I've also noticed Victory Lane in AP stories. I'd say victory lane unless referring to a formal name, i.e. Gatorade Victory Lane.
    Same way I refer to city hall, unless we're talking Podunk City Hall.
  8. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    From AP's Ask the Editor:

    Q. I've seen it multiple ways: What is AP's style on the casing of victory lane? Victory Lane? victory lane?– from Denver on Sat, Jun 11, 2011
    A. In NASCAR, IndyCar and NHRA races covered by AP, Victory Lane is capped.
  9. Clerk Typist

    Clerk Typist Guest

    AP isn't right just because it's AP. This one makes no sense.

    Besides, there is no victory lane at the NHRA tracks I've been to. There's a spot at the runoff area where the TV guys waits for the winner.

    Some places call it victory circle. Indianapolis did at one point before the Pagoda was built.

    Maybe we should write around it. Call him/her the winner and let it go at that.
  10. Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously Active Member

    This thread feels like a walk down memory lane.
  11. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Memory Lane.
  12. Clerk Typist

    Clerk Typist Guest

    Memory Lane®.
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Apps and Web Services for Workflow

Great Apps for Workflow

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Favorite productivity tool logos: Evernote, Trello, Github.

If you have ever caught yourself wondering “why would I use that web app when I already have spreadsheets/word processing/pen and paper?” then today I’ll tell you some compelling reasons to make the shift.

Protect Your Data – Off Computer Storage

“It’s In The Cloud”, anyone?

When I was a kid growing up in the infancy of word processing programs (and Lotus Notes was a house hold name) one of the most tragic things that could befall you during your homework was writing up your work and having it all lost because you didn’t hit save. Oh, the humanity! The horror! You would think we would have learned and started saving every five minutes, but really we did not. Now there are Auto Save functions to try and mitigate the damage, but losing your data is still a catastrophe to avoid.

Here’s the thing, you can autosave until your heart’s content, but what happens when your laptop gets stolen? Or your hard drive goes bad and suddenly you can’t boot up any more? What if your computer gets bricked because (God Forbid) you lost power during an update or something like that?

On a lighter but still very annoying note, what if you’ve been doing work on your laptop and the power cord craps out on you? I’ll tell you what happens, you are suddenly in a race against the clock to pull off everything you need to keep working until the replacement arrives. Well either that or plunk down the exorbitant amount of money that Best Buy wants for the cable ($100 for a $6 cable, really? I don’t think so!).

When you enlist some of these online services to help manage your data (and this is for insensitive data only), you are ensuring that if your office burned down or you had to go buy a new computer tomorrow, you could soon get back to work and avoid that data loss. You can also share that data with your smartphone, if you are so inclined.

Make Use of Smarter Tools and Sleeker Interfaces

I am so very familiar and partial to the saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Truly, I swing towards this approach with almost every chance I get. So when I’m telling you that you really can improve your process by opening up to third party apps and services, you have got to believe me.

For the occasion I will even take off the tinfoil hat that I sometimes joke about. Privacy is very important, but not more than getting things done. This I have learned the hard way, resisting all the advances going on around me for the “simpler ways”, but not so much any more.

Apps And Services That I Use

Here are a few tools that I’ve opened my heart to (again for insensitive data only) and I think you will like:

You can make TODO lists, Kanban boards, Agile boards, and all kinds of things with Trello which is a great “sticky notes on steroids” web service. You’ve probably heard of many project management services like Basecamp and Jira, but if you are a small operation or just want to dip your toe in the waters, this one is free and a great way to get started. I can’t tell you how refreshing it is to just open my Trello boards and know that all my TODO list type records aren’t inside some archaic desktop program or on real pieces of paper. They are constantly adding new functionality, two favorites are Unsplash Backgrounds (pretty boards) and Stickers (yes! A girl loves her stickers!).

This one has been around for ages but it still works a treat. I have little notes and long running notes. You can star the important ones and view them in a handy short list. They also have a great search feature which is a lot nicer than doing a search on your computer, and they do allow you to add formatting and images to the notes. Notes are sorted into notebooks which is great, and I have an entire notebook for drawing up project estimates where I list out in detail and save the deliverables, costs, and objectives for each website. It’s really wonderful having it all in one place. My most often used note is probably “Linux commands I forget a lot” which is so much better than paper cheatsheets hanging on the wall.

Bitbucket or Github

I love Github’s progress calendar (it is a bit like a heat map that shows how much you were getting done on each day) but Bitbucket had me at Free Private Repositories. These are services where you can store your project code in all its different versions, and easily compare what has changed between them. Though there is a learning curve to get started with Git (which is software) and also Github and Bitbucket (which are services) and it’s programmeresque to say the least, these can also be used very successfully by authors and anyone else who revises written word umpteen times before it’s ready. You can basically step back in time through the versions and see each leg of progress. Never losing your code to the Data Loss Monster? Priceless.

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User Group Marketing

By Ryan Adams, 2013/03/11

I blogged about this back in September of 2010, but technology changes so it’s time to revisit this again.  Now I’m not anything even close to a marketing expert, but I’ve been the Director of Logistics and Communications for the North Texas SQL Server User Group for the past 2 years (I just started a new 2 year term as the Director of Programs).  I’ve also been the Director of Marketing for the PASS Performance Virtual Chapter for the last year until becoming the President this year.  Since I started those positions, NTSSUG’s average has gone from around 50 to around 80 (in fact, we had 87 last month), and the virtual chapter went from 40 in January to 235 last month.  Now that’s what I call exciting.  I’ve helped put on a SQLRally, several SQLSaturdays, an all-day virtual training event, and currently serve as a PASS Regional Mentor for the South Central region.  So I’m not a marketing expert, but I have gained some experience with all my volunteer activities.

Here are the things that I have learned and work for both local user groups as well as virtual ones.  Remember that every group and area can be different and what works in one place might not in another, so your mileage may vary.

You’ll notice that I don’t have Facebook listed.  The reason is that I have only seen one group say that worked for them.  The main reason is that most professionals use Facebook for personal stuff and keep their professional life on LinkedIn.  This just goes to show that not every method works for every group or part of the country.  Go try it out and see if it works for you.  If it doesn’t work; just delete it.  Go try other things, and if you find one that really works then make sure to let me know.

I hope this post comes in handy and helps some folks out with growing their groups.  It takes time to see the benefits and it certainly takes time to do this every single month (I know, I did it for 2 chapters at the same time).  If your group grows as a result of these ideas then let me know.  Any time we have successes in the community I love to hear about it; it’s just encouraging.

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( December 3, 2012, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) From the creator of the zeitgeist film series, Peter Joseph, comes the worst reality show of all time: the real one. This opening show addresses the coming 2012 US Presidential Election and the subject of what we perceive as “Democracy” in the world today.

The well known advocate of the scientific thought Carl Sagan once invited the question: If we are visited by a superior species from another part of the galaxy and forced to explain to them our stewardship of our planet, not to mention the state of the human affairs today, would we be proud of what we describe?

How do we frame our explanation that almost half of the world, over 3 billion people, are either barely surviving in abject poverty and sickness, or are simply dying off unnecessarily at a rate of about one person every couple of seconds, all occurring in the wake of an advanced technological realities.

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| by Osita Ebiem

( January 01, 2013, New York City, Sri Lanka Guardian) For forty something years Chinua Achebe’s 2012 book, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, remained in the works. It took him this long to write because the story is too personal and too painful to write. Biafra Genocide took place from 1966 against the Igbo and other Southeasterners (Biafrans); while the war started in 1967 and ended in 1970. Achebe finished writing about it in 2012, forty two years after the war ended or forty six years since the 1966 genocide.

Achebe’s Biafra did not need five hundred years to succeed as many Nigerianists have always argued that what is needed for Nigeria to work is time. One year was enough for Achebe and the rest of his people to make Biafra work. There was no need and luxury of time for them to wait.

The story is compacted into 334 pages. And through the author’s mastery the story is easy and gripping to read. It’s easy to read because the writer’s style is lucid and without any hint of guiles. But difficult because of the pain and missed opportunities the author and his loved ones had to and still go through. Since it is a personal narrative the writer would not bog the reader down with too many details. That, in itself, is one source of the pain of the writer.

What would he include and what would be excluded and still satisfy his conscience? So many incidents and details which are equally important crowd the author’s memory. To keep the sage from being overwhelmed, he must suspend the writing for another day.... This is how the writing got delayed for more than forty years. But finally the story is written and the world is richer as a result. And a grateful world salutes Achebe’s courage.

Biafra story is one of the most painful of all stories in history and to write from the inside is even more excruciating. Children, women and men were deliberately starved to death by the deliberate, vicious actions of federal government of Nigeria under the direction of Yakubu Gowon and Obafemi Awolowo.

Television had just become popular among households around the world and Biafra became the first TV war and what the people saw was too heartbreaking and frightening and gave the world a rude prediction of what is to come if it would do nothing to change it. Skeleton-like children and others with distended stomachs and with questioning eyes held the gaze, discomfortingly, of a spectating world in the comfort of their living quarters. The children and their parents were dying in Biafra from Harold Wilson’s Disease or kwashiorkor.

Achebe’s There was a Country is one of those very necessary stories ever written. Achebe and the rest of his gallant fellow compatriots worked tirelessly to establish his Biafran country. He played a pivotal part in that country and those of us who benefit directly from those sacrifices are forever grateful. Because of great minds, men and women of sterling character whose sinews seemed to be made of steel, Achebe’s country of Biafra worked in the face of daunting challenges and pain. But then a temporary wedge was put on the path of Achebe’s country’s march to true greatness by the combined forces of Nigeria, Great Britain, Russia (former USSR), Egypt and the Arab League. The wedge serves to delay and prolong the wistfulness of Citizen Achebe but eventually his country that was, and will still be.

Partly, Achebe waited so long to write his memoir because he was waiting for Nigeria. After the defeat of Biafra Achebe wanted Nigeria to succeed and so he waited and waited. Forty two years after he would not wait no more. Nigeria is hopeless. As soon as Achebe wrote the last word of his memoir, the last death nail was driven into the heart of Nigerian country. On that day Achebe finally carried out the last wishes of his friend and fellow citizen of Biafra, Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo. Okigbo had specifically requested in one of his poems that Achebe and others should wake him up near the sacrificial altar when the various fragments and aspects of unjust wounds inflicted on him and his fellow Biafran compatriots by Nigeria’s hatred and intolerance are counted and stitched together so that collectively the beautiful and unassailable Biafra poem would be finished. With the public showing of Achebe’s personal narrative of the Biafran story, the stars have aligned and the last rituals for Okigbo’s and the other heroes of Biafra’s final passage to glory begin.

On few occasions Achebe stated that the trouble with Nigeria is mostly bad leadership. Achebe is one of the brightest minds and greatest thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Achebe lived through Nigeria, Biafra and then Nigeria and knows the truth. Achebe is bold and tough as nail but on those occasions Achebe the infallible god inadvertently massaged the ego of the Nigerian country by trying to be politically correct as mere mortals do. But Achebe has transcended the elemental foibles of mere mortals. Achebe since had ascended that realm in his native Igbo culture, where after someone has washed his tongue, he cannot lie. So in his usually clear and mesmerizing language as he told his personal story in his book, There Was a Country he redeemed himself. Achebe knows the truth which is that the real trouble with Nigeria is because it is a badly structured country. The trouble with Nigeria is the terrible incongruent cultural mixture of peoples without common interests and aspiration. Achebe knows that his Biafran country succeeded not because of the type of leadership for Nigeria that he spoke about on those occasions. Achebe’s Biafra succeeded because of the structural make up of that country which in turn produced the excellent leadership that Achebe and his fellow Biafrans witnessed and participated in.

When we talk about how to build a successful country we are thankfully not subjected to the difficult dilemma of trying to prove if the egg came before the chicken or the chicken before the egg. In a succeeding country, a good structure most of the time gives birth to good leadership. A bad structure or system has always produced bad leadership. This is the trouble with Nigeria.

Achebe’s Biafra did not need five hundred years to succeed as many Nigerianists have always argued that what is needed for Nigeria to work is time. One year was enough for Achebe and the rest of his people to make Biafra work. There was no need and luxury of time for them to wait. Achebe’s Biafra either worked or did not work in a space of one year. In Achebe’s Biafra they had a common aspiration and dreamed together. But in Nigeria there are too many dreams and everyone is dreaming to the exclusion of their neighbor. So, Achebe’s Biafra remains the only alternative that will still be.

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe in his blog, www.rethinkingafrica.com calls Obafemi Awolowo’s edifices “a fast crumbling edifice” in his answer to the irrational Awoist critics of Achebe’s recent memoir. Obafemi Awolowo left behind an enormous and tremendous edifice. Awolowo was a great Nigerian who gave the country the best he got. Because of Awolowo’s gallant efforts and those of others like Yakubu Gowon Nigeria survived the first threat by Biafra to divide it. Partly thanks to Awolowo, Nigeria still stands today as a united country. On the whole Awolowo built up huge personal and national edifices but Ekwe-Ekwe describes those intimidating edifices as fast crumbling in the space of very little time, why? Many critical analysts of Awolowo and Nigeria have concluded that this is so because Awolowo’s and Nigeria’s edifices were built on falsehood and genocides and they cannot stand, as a result. Nigeria is already a collapsed house of cards and the debris will need to be cleaned out to enable the new Achebe’s country to be.

Biafra was a republic; a democratic country. Decisions were taken collectively. Even the decision to declare the country as free and independent from Nigeria was taken after so many consultations and the unanimous agreement by all the provinces that were in the old Eastern Region. This is why Emeka Ojukwu the then head of state of Biafra is never synonymous with Biafra. Biafra was the entire people of Eastern Region and Ojukwu was just an individual who played creditably his own part. The people that ran Biafra were the best minds and Achebe is preeminent among them. In the midst of fire and great tribulations they created Biafra and made it work. This is why Nigeria’s failure pains Achebe especially. In Achebe’s heart of hearts he knows that Nigeria would have worked if. . .

Yes, there was a country and will still be the Biafran country. As always Achebe wrote honestly and sincerely and wrote only facts and truth. But would there be no detractors just because Achebe belongs in the category of great men and women of character and integrity of all time? That will be unrealistic to contemplate. Detractors who envy and with passion attack Achebe viciously for his audacity to choose freedom and independence over slavery, human indignity and crime against humanity as visited on him and his people, abound. They are many that attack without countering the facts of Achebe’s testaments on Obafemi Awolowo’s, Anthony Enahoro’s, Yakubu Gowon’s and Britain’s Harold Wilson’s genocidal devastations of Biafra. Like court jesters the attackers risk self-ridicule in the face of incontestable facts. But what difference does that make, anyway? Achebe was in the Biafra of the 1960s and sacrificially dodged bullets and endured the hunger for a better tomorrow for the next generation of his people. Achebe in horror witnessed and endured the pain of losing two Achebes, friends like Okigbo and a host of others to Nigeria’s extreme hatred, intolerance and genocide.

Though very painful but Achebe and others never regretted those sacrifices; they gave their lives for the generation of Achebe’s children and those after them. For Biafrans of Achebe’s era no sacrifice was too much.

Some of Achebe’s Nigerian critics have called him a Biafran in Nigerian cloak. How apt and true. No one that experienced Achebe’s Biafra, even for a day, ever renounced their citizenship of that country. In fact, every one of Achebe’s people ceased from being Nigerians and renounced their citizenship of Nigeria forever, since May 30, 1967. The late poet and dramatist Esiaba Irobi said it even better when he described himself as a Biafran citizen on exile in Nigeria.

Achebe has been through very hot crucibles defending and working his Biafran country. Even if they were throwing flames, Achebe will not be bothered with the present puny egg-throwers in their desperate attempt to soil his sparkling image. Achebe’s position as the eagle on the peak of the tallest iroko around is secured and Lilliputians at the foot of the tree can try every antic in their bag of tricks.

The bottom line is: For Achebe and the rest of his people, they know that there was genocide and there was a Biafran country. Achebe is the most credible narrator and he has clearly and emphatically said that, in part, because there was genocide then his people were compelled to work towards establishing their own country from 1967.

Now, to the consternation of Achebe’s critics the world finally accepts, from the testimony of a most dependable witness, that there was genocide in Biafra and there was a Biafran country. That is the first step. The next one is to call the perpetrators of Achebe’s people killers to the tribunal so that the world, our world can be made safer through the execution of remedial justice and the process of collective global accountability. That has been done before.

( Osita Ebiem is a Biafran citizen and the Sri Lanka Guardian's special correspondent on Nigeria.)

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2. You went on a picnic along with your friends. But the place selected by you is occupied by some other group. You …..
3. You are taking an exam. In the exam hall, while the invigilator is not looking, your dearest friend sitting next to you asks you to help her with a problem, lest she may fail in the exam. You ….
4.You are traveling from Delhi to Chennai. On the way you discover that you have lost your ticket as well as your purse. You …..
5. When you are in a crowded cinema hall, the hall catches fire. You ….
6. The friend whom you had helped him financially and also in studies had teamed up with your opponent in the college elections. You …..
7. During NCC camp, your batch of cadets declared a strike because of rude behavior of a senior Instructor. You …..
8.Two days before final of Tennis tournament, your mixed doubles partner was called home as her mother was seriously ill. You…..
9. You are going for a walk in the morning. You saw a boy drowning in the stream. You do not know swimming. You …
10. During floods in your village, you found that the people have moved away with their belongings leaving the animals behind. You …..

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  1. 1. Raise alarm,gather all cadets and get prepare for defence.
    2. Meet wid new group,introduce wid dem nd enjoy d picnic along wid dem.
    3. Help her wid problem nd later guide her to study hard n prepare in advance.
    4. Inform to family nd tell RPF nd TT abt d stolen purse.Later took help frm frnds nd relatives on reaching chennai.
    5. Switch off electric supply nd putoff fire wid xtinguisher and evacuate hall in disciplind manner.
    6. Enquire nd clarify misundetstanding wid frnd and contest the elections nd later win dat.
    7.Pacify cadets nd convince dem not to go to strike and discuss matter with senior officer.
    8. Continue practice nd after winning the finals go along wid him to see her mother.
    9. Raise alarm and save him wid rope,branch or piece of cloth and send sumone to call for help.
    10. Untie all the animals and along wid other villagers take them to higher place to save dem.

  2. @vignesh sir ... Plz reply nd rectiy mah mistakes if dere. ¡¡

    1. 1.Raised alarm, fought and overpowered dacoits along with the team.
      2.Referred map, found good spot nearby, enjoyed picnic with the friends
      3.Motivated her to give her best by own, helped her in studies to prepare in advance and she did well in next exams
      4.Lodged FIR to the nearest police station, continued journey.
      5.Pacified people, evacuated them, put-off fire along with the authority using fire extinguisher.
      6.Appreciated him, fought and won the election.
      7.Arranged a meeting between friends and senior instructor, sovled matter with alternate solution satisfying both.
      8.Took substitute, practiced to make coordination with him, played the match.
      9.Opened clothes, tied like rope, threw and pulled him out of stream.
      10.Moved animals to safer place along with the group of friends.

    2. 1. I will inform the head secirity first and then speak with the dacoits to know their problem

      2. If the other group is behaving nicely then we will share the place with them, else I will inform the concerned authorities regarding their action

      3. I will ask her to relax and try whatever she can. If she still forces me I will inform the invigilator

      4. I will register a complaint in the nearest police station, then I will call my friends to ge ttheir help

      5. I Will find out the nearest fire exist and assist others to exit through that way

      6. I will make him understand why we should not support the opponent team.

      7. I will ask the team to cancel the strike and register a complaint against the rude officer

      8. I will ask her to go home and take care of her mother

      9. I will shout for help and search for some things like stick or rope nearby to help him

      10. I will tell them that saving the animals is more important than saving our belongings.

  3. @vignesh sir....waitin for ur reply.

  4. 1.Blown the whistle's and tell another guard to switch on all the lights .

    2.We all have introduction with them, mingled in short time and have great fun together.

    3.will help her and tell her about the right approach to prepare for exams.

    4.Will call my father to lodge FIR and borrow the money from the person sitting next to me.

    5.with the help of guards will open all the emergency exits and use fire extinguishers after switching off all electric supply.

    6.give your best in election campaigns , wnn and the elections.

    7.Relax the cadets against strike and take the matter under CO's observation. will motivate your friend ,had practice with safe hand player and won the match.

    9.will break strong,long branch of tree and pull him out with .

    10.will untie them and will make move towards higher height area.

  5. @vignesh,
    Dear Vignesh,
    Go by your instinct. And you shall succeed, if you have it you.

  6. 1.alert my mates to take a better point where we can do a crossfire if possible
    2.we have to go to other place.
    3.that i cant help because i also too late to complete he know value of education and dont do a such thing again
    4.i try to manage from passengers because doing a report doesnt give me my purse and ticket.
    5.i alert all the person and stand near exit gate so the visitor dont seem overcrowded.
    6.i make a more strong party.
    7.i would clarify the matter between senior and junior.
    8.i will said him that to take care of his mother by other family member.
    9.many fit and professional comkes daily on morning walk.i call them.they are quick easy to get.
    10.untie them.they know swimming by birth

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Georgetown Chamber voices concern over granting of licence to China TV

Pressure continues to build on the Guyana Government over the granting of a broadcast licence to China Central TV with the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) being the latest to voice concern on the matter,

Thus far, the private sector had been silent on the granting earlier this month of a 24-hour broadcasting licence to CCTV on dubious grounds.

The transmission building for the CCTV station in the compound of NCN (GINA photo)
The transmission building for the CCTV station in the compound of NCN (GINA photo)

In a statement today, the GCCI expressed “considerable concerns” over the process that led to the granting of a television licence and broadcast spectrum frequency to the Chinese Government. The Chamber said that the process utilised appears to have been conducted without the necessary regulatory requirements and principles that should be followed in the issuance of such a licence.

“While the Chamber acknowledges that China is a very important development partner, the government of Guyana should ensure that due process is followed and the laws of Guyana (are) observed when brokering agreements with domestic and foreign entities. Moreover, the government has to guarantee that equitable, fair and transparent procedures are applicable to all applying for statutory licenses. Our private sector companies are all expected to follow such statutory guidelines”, the Chamber asserted.

It argued that the National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU) has the responsibility of efficiently and effectively managing the electromagnetic frequency spectrum and receiving and processing applications for licenses for broadcast services.

It also noted that the recently formed Guyana National Broadcasting Authority (GNBA) under the Broadcast Act of 2011 has responsibility for the granting of television licences.

The Chamber said that from the statements coming from the Government on the granting of the Chinese Broadcast Licence, “it appears that none of these agencies were involved in the processing of the approved license. This represents a worrying development and one that the Chamber admonishes if it is proved that the statutory procedures were not followed.”

The Chamber said it would welcome statements from both the NFMU and the GNBA on this issue.

Broadcast expert Kit Nascimento and veteran broadcaster Enrico Woolford have queried the grounds on which the licence has been granted. Nascimento has raised the question of how, what are propaganda broadcasts from a foreign country could serve Guyana’s interests and what mechanisms are in place for content regulation among other issues. Woolford has questioned how the finite electromagnetic spectrum could be accessed by a foreign government when many locals have applied for licences and have not been granted.

Though the Act creating the GNBA has been pilloried, critics have noted that even they had been bypassed in the delivering of a licence to CCTV. This bypassing has been underscored by Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr Roger Luncheon who asked rhetorically at a press conference on Thursday  “…But obviously if they’re instructed what do you think they would do? If you were the managing director of NFMU and the HPS called you and said we’ve just agreed with the People’s Republic of China to broadcast the signals and…, they have selected a channel to do so, could you please go ahead and assign a channel, you think he’s [the Head of NFMU] going to tell me [Luncheon] that you got to apply and all of those things? I doubt it.“

Nascimento later decried this as an admission by the government that it had broken the law in relation to the CCTV licence.

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PERTH, Australia,  CMC – West Indies speedster Kemar Roach saved his best for last, producing a superb spell to help propel Brisbane Heat to the capture of the Australian Big Bash title here today.

The right-armer finished with three for 18 from four accurate overs as Brisbane successfully defended 167, to snatch a 34-run win in the final of the tournament at the WACA Ground.

Choosing to bat first, Brisbane were led by Joe Burns who struck 43 from 27 balls with four fours and two sixes, while opener Luke Pomersbach and Daniel Christian both weighed in with 37 apiece.

Pomersbach and Burns laid the foundation for the innings with a 56-run second wicket stand off 47 balls, as Brisbane finished on 167 for five from their 20 overs.

In reply, Perth got 49 off 32 balls from Adam Voges with Marcus North chipping in with 24 from 23 deliveries, as they climbed to within sight of victory at 97 for four in the 14th over.

Roach had endured an ordinary run in the Big Bash with just two wickets in his previous seven games but roared to life when it mattered most.

He plucked out opener Marcus Stoinis (1) cheaply in the second over to a catch by Nathan Hauritz at third man, to leave Perth on five for one.

Pulled from the attack after two overs, Roach returned to snap up two more wickets late in the game as Perth lost five wickets for five runs in the space of 14 deliveries, to slide to defeat.

With Perth needing 44 runs from 18 balls, Roach grabbed two wickets in the 18th over that yielded just three runs.

He had Simon Katich caught at deep cover without scoring off a slower ball and then removed danger man Voges to a catch at deep mid-wicket two balls later.

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If the cost of a bunch bananas at the local supermarket seems to have shot up recently, you're not wrong.

Fyffes, Europe's second largest banana importer, today admitted it is pushing up prices for its tropical fruit after pre-tax slumped 28.8% in the first half of the year to 13.3 million.

The Irish-based company blamed higher fuel costs, the weaker euro and bad weather at the start of the year, which meant consumers stayed away from supermarkets in western Europe and open-air markets on the east of the continent.

Fyffes also said it forced to slash prices because it suffered from an excess of supply as it could not ship some of its bananas to Russia by sea because of unexpectedly frozen waters in the Baltics.

Chairman David McCann said trading conditions have returned to normal during the summer and the group should still hit its full-year profit targets after putting up prices and slashing costs.

According to the Office for National Statistics, the average retail price of a kilo of bananas rose from 95p in January to 109p in June.

While Fyffes struggled with bananas, its smaller operations in other tropical fruit held up better.

Profits in the pineapples division were flat on a year earlier while US winter melon was up.
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South African President Thabo Mbeki is today under enormous pressure to act decisively against Aids after Nelson Mandela revealed his son had died from the disease.

Mr Mbeki has presided over a huge spread of HIV/Aids through the country's population to the extent that one in nine people now suffers from the

condition - the world's highest infection rate. He has also repeatedly refused to acknowledge the link between HIV infection and Aids and resisted demands to make anti-retroviral drugs, which stabilise the condition, available until two years ago.

But Mr Mandela's announcement yesterday that his 54-year-old son Makgatho had just died in a Johannesburg clinic from Aids-related complications threatens to explode the conspiracy of silence.

At a press conference called within hours of his son's death, the 86-year-old Nobel Peace laureate said: "For more than three years, I have been saying let us give publicity to HIV/Aids and not hide it, because the only way of making it appear to be a normal illness is to come out and say somebody has died because of HIV."

It is also thought Mr Mandela impressed the urgent need for action on Mr Mbeki in person when the leader paid a condolence visit to the family home.


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She can transform even the dowdiest room with a few stylish touches, but Martha Stewart is not amused by suggestions that her talents might soon be put to good use on a prison cell.

"I'm afraid to be incarcerated. It's a lack of freedom. My freedom is taken away," she said.

Moments later she recovered her composure, saying she planned to write a "how to" book about being tried in court. "It's going to be a big best-seller," she said.

The exclusive interview on American television was the first time the the 6 3 - year- old domestic diva has spoken about the prospect of going to prison after her conviction last week for lying about her share dealings.

Stewart is currently free on bail while her lawyers prepare an appeal, but some Wall Street observers have said it would be better for her business empire to get the sentence out the way quickly.

Looking tense and tired the multi-millionaire, who has been a role model for millions of American women, admitted she had not yet made up her mind about whether to launch an appeal.

"There's a conundrum. My company needs me. I would like to get back to work. I would like this to be over. There has been a long, drawn-out process.

"On the one hand business, Wall Street, would like to see an end to all this."

But, she added: "I, as a person with rights, with a belief in the judicial system and fairness, think that an appeal is the way forward. So what do I do?"

The businesswoman also spoke of her shame at the prison sentence: "It is shameful, it is shameful to me," she confessed.

She also attacked her critics, claiming she was being punished for who she is rather than what she has done. "Many people have said it is because I am a woman. Many people have said it is because I am a successful business person. I don't know for sure." She added: "If I were a man, no-one would say I was arrogant."

Defending the single-minded way she built her half-billiondollar publishing and TV empire from scratch, Stewart hit back: "I wish I were perfect. I wish I were the nicest, nicest, nicest person on earth. But I'm a businesspersonin addition to a creatorof domestic arts.

In the hour-long interview, Stewart spoke openly for the first time about the two-and-a-half-year ordeal that began when she sold shares in drug company ImClone.

Prosecutors claimed she had been tipped off by ImClone's chief executive, Sam Waksal - an old friend - but stopped short of charging her for insider dealing because the evidence was too weak.

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Since the turn of the year Boro have won just one of their nine Premiership matches.

McClaren said: "We have 10 players injured. We would like to rest some players but they are having to play every week."

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Carlo Cracco is a leader of the new generation of progressive Italian cuisine. He has garnered worldwide attention at his restaurant in Milan for creative takes on classic Italian foods: pasta made of cuttlefish and pureed salad encrusted in caramelized sugar.

Cracco was born in 1965 in Vicenza, Italy. He attended hotel management school in nearby Recoaro Terme, and began professional career in 1986 in the kitchen of Gualtiero Marchesi in Milan, the first Italian restaurant to be awarded 3 Michelin stars and the home of Italian nouvelle cuisine. In 1988, he joined Relais & Châteaux-La Meridiana in Garlenda for a year, before gaining further experience at the “temples” of French gastronomy – Alain Ducasse at the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo and Alain Sanderens at the Lucas Carton in Paris. Returning to his native Italy in 1991, he took up the position as head chef at L’Enoteca Pinchiorri in Florence, which earned 3 Michelin stars in 1993/94 under his exacting management.

That same year he was approached by his former employer and friend Marchesi, who asked if he would help him open a new restaurant, L’Albereta, in Erbusco. After three successful years working alongside Marchesi, Cracco finally decided to open his own restaurant, Le Clivie, in Piobesi D’Alba in 1996. The restaurant was awarded its first Michelin star a year later.

In 2000, the Stoppani family – owners of the famous Peck delicatessen in Milan – approached Cracco and offered him the opportunity of a new joint venture, restaurant Cracco-Peck. The following year the restaurant opened to great critical acclaim and within three years it had obtained 2 Michelin stars. In July 2007, Cracco took over the restaurant and renamed it simply, Ristorante Cracco. That same year it was voted onto Restaurant Magazine’s “World’s 50 Best Restaurants” list and obtained 2 Michelin stars.


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Members of the board want to see a long-term solution for an overcrowded Wrightsville Beach Elementary School.

Members of the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen want to see a long-term solution for an overcrowded Wrightsville Beach Elementary School – and on Thursday, they decided supporting a potential bond referendum would be the best way to do that.
The aldermen heard a presentation from New Hanover County Schools officials about the district’s long-term plan for the school at a special-called meeting Thursday. Those more permanent plans revolve around a potential bond referendum that would add to and renovate the county’s schools. Led by Wrightsville Beach Mayor Pro Tem William Sisson, the aldermen passed a resolution asking the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners to put that referendum before voters no later than fall 2013.
“I think the school board feels very strongly that it’s important to get this thing before the people before memories of what’s going on right now fade into the woodwork,” Sisson said.
Under the bond referendum plan, Wrightsville Beach Elementary would get a new, permanent addition to house the students currently in the school’s seven mobile units, which would be eliminated completely.
That addition would keep the school’s capacity at about 282 students, said Eddie Anderson, director of planning for the school district. About 350 students are currently enrolled at Wrightsville Beach Elementary, so the school would have to be redistricted even if the bond referendum passed, said schools Superintendent Tim Markley.
Last month, school district officials introduced proposals to the board of education that would move 64 students from Wrightsville Beach Elementary School to Bradley Creek Elementary School. The goal of that proposal was to alleviate significant overcrowding at the school, which had 100 more students than it could hold when the 2012-13 school year began.
School officials initially used space at Wrightsville Beach Baptist Church and planned to put more mobile classrooms at the school to handle the overflow. But members of the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen put time limits on that, asking for the school board to come up with a more long-range plan.
The school board’s first option was to move some Wrightsville Beach Elementary students who live in the Airlie Road area to Bradley Creek Elementary. But an overwhelming number of parents requested more options, and district officials presented seven different choices at the March 5 school board meeting.
Several of those options rehashed earlier plans, including placing mobile units at Wrightsville Beach Elementary and moving Airlie Road students to Bradley Creek Elementary.
Other options looked at different ideas. District officials proposed moving a different group of Wrightsville Beach Elementary students to Bradley Creek or redistricting incoming Wrightsville Beach Elementary kindergartners to different schools. One option included delaying the plan completely, keeping students at Wrightsville Beach Baptist Church for another year.
The school board will decide on short-term solutions at its March 19 work session. One of those solutions will include renting space at Wrightsville Beach Baptist Church for another year, Markley said.

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One of the most vocal opponents of the proposed PolyMet copper-nickel mine in northern Minnesota charged Tuesday that the company may lack the deep pockets necessary to protect taxpayers from bearing environmental clean-up costs years from now when the mine closes.

Paula Maccabee, an attorney for Water Legacy, issued a report saying PolyMet's own financial statements reveal it may not have adequate insurance to protect against risks that are typical in the mining industry. While such disclosures are routine for companies seeking investors, PolyMet's financial partner in the project, the giant global commodities company Glencore, has a troubling environmental track record that makes adequate financial assurances critical, she said.

"There is a lot of work to make sure financial assurance is done, and the time to do that is now," she said.

PolyMet declined to respond to questions Tuesday but said in an e-mail that it would provide all the financial assurances required by state law.

The issue could become critical in coming months as state and federal environmental regulators decide whether to let the $600 million open-pit mining project proceed.

But a top state regulator said Tuesday the question may be put off until much later in the approval process -- despite the urging of both environmental groups and the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address it now.

Last year, in a highly critical review of the government's first assessment of the project, the EPA recommended that the second environmental impact statement that is now underway include a thorough review of how much PolyMet needs to provide in financial assurance.

"If post-closure care measures are significantly underfunded, contamination of surface water and ground water may not be controlled," the EPA wrote.

Larry Kramka, director of the lands and minerals division for the state Department of Natural Resources, said the decision on when to address it has not been made.

"We have not determined the level of treatment that it will get within the environmental impact statement," he said. State law requires it be provided as part of the permit for construction and operation of the mine -- a process that may come months after the environmental review is completed this summer.

Financial assurances are an increasingly common regulatory tool in mining. In essence, it's an insurance policy -- a guaranteed fund that can total hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with unforeseen problems or to pay for clean-up once the mine has played out.

"If you do financial assurance right, you create a powerful incentive for companies to do what they need to do for the environment," said Scott Strand, executive director of the non-profit Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy. But it is also critical to address it during the environmental impact phase because that's when regulators consider alternatives and mitigation steps that are key to reducing impact on water.

"It's not one of those cans you can kick down the road and get it right," he said. Kramka said the EPA is one of many agencies and organizations that commented on the process, but that state and federal agencies responsible for the current environmental review have an enormous number of issues to address.

"We get all sorts of advice on what we should and shouldn't do," he said. "The EPA is one." He added, however, that financial assurance has been part of the discussion about PolyMet "since day one, and it will continue through permitting."

Maccabee also raised questions about whether Glencore, a huge privately held Swiss-based commodities company that owns 9.3 percent of PolyMet, is a safe bet for the financial and environmental assurance the state might require.

It was founded in 1974 by Marc Rich, a commodities trader who was charged by the U.S. Justice Department with tax evasion and later pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2001.

Since then Glencore and its subsidiaries have been involved with mining operations around the world. In 2003 it failed to provide $400 million in clean-up money for a French copper processing foundry in France. It also runs a copper mine in Zambia responsible for serious environmental hazards related to its use of sulfuric acid, Maccabee said.

But that may be immaterial to establishing financial assurance, Kramka said. If PolyMet or Glencore don't provide the necessary, guaranteed funds, the permit won't be issued.

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A disappointing turn of events for Minneapolis’ North Loop neighborhood is offset by encouraging news for Duluth.

Last June, Fitger’s Brewhouse co-owners Rod Raymond and Tim Nelson announced their intention to convert the long-shuttered Trocaderos nightclub and restaurant (107 3rd Av. N.) into a brewpub and music venue. Those plans have been scuttled.

“We had a purchase agreement, but in the end we’ve decided not to exercise it,” said Brad Nelson, spokesman for Fitger's parent company, Just Take Action. One reason: The building’s enormous footprint. “That made the scope of the project really big,” said Nelson. “Being out of town only made the project more difficult for us.”

Another reason: The company is adding another venue to its growing list of Duluth enterprises (which includes Burrito Union restaurant and Red Star nightclub). It just acquired, in a city-run auction, the historic Endion Station building in Canal Park, Duluth’s tourism epicenter. The price? $300,000.

Plans for the building -- an 1899 Richardsonian Romanesque landmark -- aren’t entirely clear, but, pending city approval, Nelson said the hope is to reprogram the former train depot into a seasonal destination for beer lovers, catering to the many pedestrians and bikers who pass by the building on the popular Lakewalk. A limited food menu is also a possibility. Nelson said the target opening is set for sometime next spring.

There’s a bit of critical mass in play, too: It’s two doors down from the soon-to-open Canal Park Brewing Co., an ambitious craft beer operation and restaurant scheduled to open this month.

Just Take Action has a taste for historic buildings. Fitger's fortress-like lakeside pile hails from the 1880s, and portions of the Minneapolis property dated to 1892. Last month, the Preservation Alliance of Minnesota's Adaptive Reuse award went to the company for its scrupulous conversion of Duluth's former 1899 city hall into Tycoons Alehouse & Eatery, located a few blocks west of Fitger's and a brief walk from Endion Station.

In 1986, Endion Station (pictured, above, in a photograph from the city of Duluth), was moved from its original east Duluth location to its present lakefront site. After serving as the home of an advertising agency, a tourism bureau and a retailer, the two-story sandstone beauty has been crying out for a food-and-drink tenant. "It will be an incredible spot to enjoy Duluth," said Nelson.

That’s not all. The company has big plans for a building that it owns on the ever-improving E. Superior St., across from the soon-to-be-renovated NorShor Theatre. The sprawling structure (206 E. Superior St.) was a former Nash automobile showroom, but contemporaries will recognize it for its most recent tenant, Big Lake Books. It has sat empty for several years. But that’s about to change.

The building’s generous floor plates -- 18,000 square feet on three levels -- “are ideal for a brewery,” said Nelson. What a coincidence: Fitger’s brewmaster Dave Hoops and his crew could use the extra real estate.

“We’re out of capacity to expand at Fitger’s,” said Nelson. “We just can’t keep up with supply, beer-wise, and that’s a good problem to have.”

The plan is to convert the building’s street level into a production facility for Fitger’s most popular mainstay brews -- its El Nino IPA, Lighthouse blonde ale and Big Boat oatmeal stout , among others-- a strategy that would open up opportunities at the cramped Fitger’s Brewhouse for more esoteric small-batch brews.

The building’s second floor, with its Lake Superior views, could be converted into special events space. Nothing is set in stone, but “We will have a full implementation plan in place by April and construction will happen in 2013,” said Nelson.

Given all that activity, it’s not a surprise that Fitger’s is bowing out of its Minneapolis plans.

“We don’t want to spread ourselves too thin,” said Nelson. “We’ve decided that it’s best to regroup and focus on what we’re doing here in Duluth.”

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Last season was a strong bounce-back year for the Gophers. But it was not that long that performances like they had on Friday in a 3-2 loss to Nebraska Omaha were pretty typical.

Remember until last season they had a four year stretch during which they finished seventh, fifth, seventh and fifth in the WCHA. There's a lot of losses in there.

At times, they showed little spark at home. Hopefully, that team is not back again.

But Saturday's game should tell us something about the Gophers. Can they bounce back well? Can they make adjustments? Can they beat a tough foe? Both the Gophers and the Mavericks have played two of the softest schedules in the country until this series.

One team knew it had to pick up its intensity for this series. Maybe the other has learned that.

The Gophers' shots against UND, 10-4-7--21. The Mavericks had 27 shots, 11 in the third period.

UNO was 1x3 on the power play, the Gophers 0x4.

The stars of the game were:

* First star: Josh Archibald, a UNO forward from Brainerd. He had a goal and two assists. He had five shots on goal.

* Second: Ryan Walters, the left wing on Archibald's line. Walters had five shots on goals and two assists. He went to St. Thomas Academy, then left his junior season to play in the USHL. At one time, he had committed to the U, but changed his mind when the Gophers asked him to play a third year in the USHL.

* Third: Nate Schmidt, the Gophers defenseman.

UNO's record is now almost identical to the Gophers. The Mavericks are 9-3-1 and in second in the WCHA with 11 points, the Gophers are 9-3-2 and tied for third with 10.

* Visitors were 3-2-1 on Friday. ... In this week's WCHA picking contest, I had 5-1/2 games right, 1/2 wrong (ties count as a half point) and so did blogger Matthew Semisch from Omaha.

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Meeting date: June 13, 2014
Meeting venue: University of Hamburg
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Hamburg, Germany
Workshop: Visualization of Statistical Data Using Stata
by Ulrich Kohler
June 12, 2014
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We would like to announce the 12th German Stata Users Group meeting to be held at the University of Hamburg on Friday, June 13, 2014. There will also be an optional workshop on June 12. We invite everybody from anywhere who is interested in using Stata to attend this meeting.

The conference language will be English because of the international nature of the meeting and the participation of non-German guest speakers.

Friday, June 13

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Erik T. Parner
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David Drukker
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Ulrich Kohler
University of Potsdam, Germany
Klaudia Erhardt
DIW Berlin, Germany
Ralf Künster
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Heinz Leitgöb
University of Linz, Austria
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StataCorp LP
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StataCorp LP
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University of Bern, Switzerland
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Town hall in Hamburg, Germany

Participants are asked to travel at their own expense. There will be a small conference fee to cover costs for refreshments and lunch. There will also be an optional informal meal at a restaurant in Hamburg on Friday evening at additional cost. Details will be given at the conference.

You can enroll by completing the online registration form.

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Address: 413 8th Street
Hoquiam, Washington  98550
Phone: (800) 540-7364
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Old Billopp House, Tottenville, S.I. (Erected 1668)

WTD 3024 D

A Christmas and New Year postcard with a colorized photograph, taken by William J. Grimshaw, of the Conference House (also sometimes called the Billopp House) which is located in Conference House Park at the end of Hylan Boulevard in Tottenville, Staten Island.  The photograph is framed by Christmas Holly.

Artist: William J. Grimshaw (1854 - 1931)

Medium: Postcard

Dates: 1912

Dimensions: 3.5" H x 5.5" W

Signature/Inscription: Front: A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Old Billopp House built 1668 as it appeared May, 1912 occupied by Lord Howe during Revolutionary War. Tottenville, Staten Island, N.Y. Publ. by W.J. Grimshaw; Reverse: Merry Christmas' & a 'Happy New Year' from Mrs. Hacker. I think the printed card is nice. Thank you for sending it to show me. Miss Bessie Davis 146 Stuyvesant Pl. New Brighton, S.I. St. George.

Accession Number: WTD 3024 D

Credit: Gift of William T. Davis

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The Perine House. Dongan Hills. S.I.

WTD 3000 (A)

A postcard with a photo, taken by Percy Loomis Sperr in 1924 or 1925, of the Billiou-Stillwell-Perine House located at 1476 Richmond Road in Dongan Hills, Staten Island.  The Duth Colonial house, which is owned by Historic Richmond Town, is the oldest house on Staten Island.  It is the 4th oldest in New York State.  The original section of the house was built around 1662.  It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The reverse side of the card says: "The Perine House, 1476 Richmond Road, is preserved by the Staten Island Historical Society as an example of the early colonial homes. A portion of the building was erected about 1680 and is probably the oldest structure on the island. The property has been held in the prominent families of Holmes, Dongan, Britton, Stillwell and Billiou, passing to the Perines in 1749. During the Revolution the house was used by British officers, and it has furnished the setting for romantic stories of fiction. (Copyright 1925 P.L. Sperr) Lumitone Press Photo-Print, New York-Made in U.S.A"

Artist: Percy Loomis Sperr (1889 - 1964)

Medium: Postcard

Dates: 1924 or 1925

Dimensions: 3.5" H x 5.5" W

Signature/Inscription: The Perine House. Dongan Hills. S.I. William T. Davis handwritten note, "1924"; ; Front

Accession Number: WTD 3000 (A)

Credit: Gift of William T. Davis

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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Let's Bring Back Stationery

And nice letterpress cards,

but without the hassle.

Which is where Nicely Noted (who has no idea I'm writing this) comes in. Every month they send me 3 beautiful cards along with postage, so I can send thank-you notes, birthday wishes, and friendship messages in style.

Maybe a last-minute gift? Or a gift for yourself?

Let's bring back stationery, shall we?

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It's stationery :)

I correct you with love for the stationery world. Stationary means staying in place, stationery means paper products.

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Steve’s Agile Life: Work Complete

(This column is posted at, and Steve’s Tumblr)

So more on my “Agile Life” experiment where I use the Agile techniques in Scrum for a more productive, less-stressful life.  This is all about getting things done – so let’s talk about something we don’t often think of, limiting how much we complete in a day or a time period.

Remember when I talked about WIP, work in progress? That’s measuring “what’s not yet done,” and reducing it usually helps productivity and reveals problems.  But I found something related you want to pay attention to.

How much work gets completed in a day and over time.

I began noticing sometimes I’d deliver regular amounts of work, sometimes huge lumps. I came to realize that monitoring how much you get done in a time period – often a day – helps you improve your agility and your work.

Here’s what it can reveal:

It Can Reveal Overload

I’m going Agile and it means I’m getting more done.  That makes sense; I’m clear on what to do and what’s next, I can adapt to change, and because of all this I feel less pressure.  Yet, at times, I’m feeling kind of stressed despite improvements.

I realize now that this is because I kept looking for the next thing to do.  The productivity had become habitual and addictive, and I kept trying to move more to “done” – bringing more stress back to a process that’s supposed to reduce it.

This can be worse if you have well-defined stories and tasks. You can blaze through them relatively easily. You can get them to “done” pretty quick. I had a day “off” where I got a lot of work done as I had it broken down well – and then realized “hey, I am tired.” That spike in my cumulative flow was a reminder to go play some Overwatch.

It Can Reveal Bottlenecks

Those sudden droughts and onslaughts of completed work can reveal bottlenecks in your work and your plans.  This is usually heralded by a block of Work In Progress, but isn’t always.

Let’s say you’ve had to write three articles for three websites, sending them each out to editors, each at a different time. You’re getting work done while you wait, maybe keeping your Work In Progress from getting too high – then bang, all the articles come back at once.  Turns out they’re all great, you just have to sign off, but that’s stressful.  It shows your editors may be a bottleneck and you need consistent response time.

Also that sudden onslaught of “done” can be disruptive and jarring – context switching.

It Can Reveal Poor Breakdown

You’re working on all sorts of tasks, from painting a table to writing a book, but it seems they get done in huge lumps.  This might be a sign of poor breakdown – you’re delivering enormous “chunks” of work as you’ve got it set up to be worked on in enormous chunks.  Maybe your stories can be broken down into smaller pieces of value to do.

This can happen in “Agile Life” pretty easy as we may not think of breaking down tasks we’re used to – or lump similar ones into one pile.

It Can Reveal Forgotten Work

This happened to me a great deal in my first “Month Sprint” of April 2017. I noticed some of my erratic delivery and then, when asking myself what I did that day, realizing I’d done a lot of tasks that probably should have been in my backlog. If you see erratic delivery of work, it may mean you should be capturing more work.

This was a real revelation to me – because once I started capturing this work (a mix of social events, obligations, and my cooking schedule), my stress dropped. I was more aware of my goals and time commitment and could plan better and be more agile.

So beyond workload and work in progress, keep an eye on how much is getting “done” each day. It may reveal some problems in your plans and give you new ways to improve.

This recalls The 8th Agile Principle the value of a good, sustainable, pace of work.

– Steve


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Elements | Deborah Poe

Deborah Poe's Elements lyrically enacts structures and histories of 39 elements. Poe's experimental tactics bring "Phosphorus (P)" and "Calcium (C)" alive with the rigor of a scholar and the precision of a musician. Her visual play is as captivating as the politics of extraction she examines. We meet newborns, labor leaders, lovers and scientists. Poe satisfies our need for story, for discovery, for protest. We also encounter linguistic spaces which thwart narrative expectations: information is presented fragmentarily, out of order or elided completely. Through poems such as "Potassium (K)," "Titanium (Ti)," and "Ununtrium (Uut)," the language of science collides with the language of art, and we watch a literary "between space" emerge: earthquake syntax of / language and the mind" merge in "thought-flock constellations." We experience hypnosis in the nerve net // hybridization / a closer experience / with the geological body. A continual catalyst between worlds, Poe's poems push beyond the materials and materiality that initiate them.

Praise for Elements

Deborah Poe’s brilliant poems, grounded in 39 of our elements, catch us off balance in ways that create new balance. Her voices are humorous, prophetic, weird, and familiar: “4 empty green chairs by the ungoing hair fire heave, / wear her fire fire burning bright the half poison night.” Elements is a huge, strange, necessary book that takes us sometimes where we would not go. I think she’s a terrific poet.

Jean Valentine, author of Little Boat and Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965-2003

In Deborah Poe’s Elements we find the rare combination of rigorous intelligence and deep passion. The title Elements conjures Euclid and perhaps also Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table this is a book that aims to get to the bottom of things, to the essentials of our lives. And it does. These poems shift in form and language as the content shifts, and they’re willing to take responsibility for the full range of human experience. This book is full of knowledge and wisdom, reason and pleasure. Open it, enjoy, and learn.

Ed Smallfield, author of The Pleasures of C and coeditor of Apogee Press

Poe helps us celebrate the joyous tragedy of living in a physical world, a physico-chemical world in which our deepest feelings can turn on the flip of a molecule. Her verbal web is shot through with glimpses of narrative, learned etymologies, fanciful analyses of the demotic sex-charged entitlements of the body right now. How we are made. All through these smart poems, a persistent lyricism holds all things together?where together is a kind of woven thing, things held at their proper distances from one another?some near, some far, all arresting. A shockingly lovely book.

Robert Kelly, author of Fire Exit and The Logic of the World

Excerpts from Tom Holmes' review at THE LINE BREAK: http://thelinebreak.wordpress.com/

to appear in the next issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics at

Deborah Poe’s Elements (Stockport Flats, 2010) is all over the place in a good way. The lines in the poems are short, long, jagged, breath driven, faded, bolded, italicized, rectangular, and once are even laid out so you have to turn the book ninety degrees clockwise to read the poem. Yes, Elements is all over tha place just like the elements that make up the universe – and hooray for both, for the natural elements give us life and the book Elements explores that life....

"Phosphorous (P)" is a good example of this, except the stanzas move the way I hope a line will move. The poem’s movement is quite similar to a haiku’s movement if you think of each section as a line in a haiku. There’s an image in the first section, the leap to another image is in the second section, and then the haiku leap jumping with sensation into the third section. The third section, like the third line in a haiku, immediately makes connections that seem foreign yet sensical. Also, the syntax, if that is the correct word, changes. The first section works with the actions of “minerals” with “give,” “flashes,” and “stroked.” The section also has an action as ”the glow of the ocean” “catches fire” – the action being catches fire. The action, the something doing, is the parallel that holds those two sections together during the leap. (The leap from line 1 to line 2 in a haiku still has a connecting element in the lines, and in this poem, the connecting element for sections 1 and 2 is that there is an action, not to mention the long Os.)
But the third section is a statement, a definition. It’s also a big leap. The poem moves like image math – (image 1) + (image 2) = (image 3); however, image 3 is unexpected and larger than the sum of the images.....

Another example of a poem connecting to something human occurs in “Copper (Cu),” which is the poem that you have to turn the book ninety degrees clockwise to read. In this poem, copper is used as symbol of the labor movement. In this case, a parallel is drawn with the IWW member Frank Little, who was lynched for defending the rights of the copper mine workers in Butte, Montana, in 1917, and whose lynch mob pinned a sign to him that read, “Others take notice. First and last warning. 3-7-77. L. D. C. S. S. W. T.” (He’s also the same Frank Little who was once arrested for reading The Declaration of Independence on a street corner.) This poem also sings with the voices of Allen Ginsberg and Ed Sanders – a chant moving down the page like a labor movement in a march for its rights.

Tom Holmes, Redactions: Poetry & Poetics

photo credit: Jonathan Cohen

DEBORAH POE is the author of Elements, Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008) and several chapbooks--most recently The Sensual Infrastructure (also published with Stockport Flats Press in 2006). Her writing has recently appeared in journals such as Colorado Review, Sidebrow, Ploughshares, Filter Literary Journal, Denver Quarterly and Copper Nickel as well as in the anthologies A Sing Economy (Flim Forum 2008) and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS From the Black Diaspora (Third World Press 2007). Deborah is assistant professor of English at Pace University and fiction editor of the international online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat.

Elements is

"a wedding feast of chemistry, architecture, form, speculation, inquiry, prosody and metaphysics."

-- Djelloul Marbrook

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A-A Middle School students selected for JH Honor Choir, Honor Band and All-State

Friday, November 2, 2012

Alta-Aurelia Middle School band and choir students will represent the school this week at the Junior High Honor Choir and Honor Band Festivals.

The Honor Band Festival will be held Saturday, Nov. 3 at the SLHS. Approximately 300 seventh and eighth grade musicians from 40 Northwest Iowa schools auditionedOct. 13 for places in one of two equal bands. These two honor bands will rehearse during the day Nov. 3 and present a concert at 6 p.m. in the SLHS gym. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for students.

Guest conductors for the honor band festival will be Dr. Gary Reeves of Vermillion, SD and David Rutt of Forest City.

The honor choir festival will be held in Storm Lake on Tuesday, Nov. 6. Each participating school in northwest Iowa was asked to select eight students to sing in this choir. These students prepare the festival music and join with the students from the other schools for an all-day rehearsal with their guest director, Gerard Krupke. The students will share their performance with the public at 6 p.m. in the SLHS gym. Concert admission is $4for adults and $2 for students.


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On Location Children’s Photography Shoot

Or – Oh be still my beating heart!

OMG!!! I just spent the morning with three of the MOST fantastic children in the UNIVERSE.  Listen people, I’ve been doing this for more than 20 years.  When I say a kid is great….trust me, I DO know the difference.  This is actually my second time playing er…working with this family.  What a joy.  Great parents with the ‘just right’ mix of allowing their children freedom, yet raising good citizens.

I also have to tell you all I am loving my Nikon D700.  I did this entire shoot with natural light, and that bathroom the little girl was photographed in was DARK.  Dark for photography, that is.  But it was no problem with the higher ISOs provided by my new ‘favorite’ tool and a fast lens.  I decided to post process this with an ‘infrared’ look, so it has emphasized the ‘grain’.

I couldn’t resist sharing.  Mom and Dad haven’t even seen these yet…..shhhhhhh….this is just a lil’ sneak peek……Oh my, how I do love being a working photographer!

If you would like to read more, check out these articles:

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Starbucks Strategy & Internal Intiatives to Teturn to Profitable Growth

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Case Study C: CASE 21: Starbucks Strategy & Internal Initiatives to return to Profitable Growth

CASE 21: Starbucks Strategy & Internal Initiatives to return to Profitable Growth can be found on pages C326-C360 in your textbook, Thompson, A. A., Peteraf, M.A., Gamble, J.E., Strickland, A.J. (2012). Crafting and Executing Strategy: Concepts and Cases: Global Edition, NY, U.S.A

Instructions for the Oral Presentation and Written Assignment:

Working in a Team of 3-4, Howard Schultz has hired you as a consultant and asked you to critique the organisation’s strategy and make recommendations. In doing so, please address the (10) assignment questions below.

Assignment Questions:

1.What was Howard Schultz’s original strategic vision for Starbucks? Is his 2010 strategic vision for Starbucks different from the one he had in the 1980s? How many times has his strategic vision changed? Is his present strategic vision likely to undergo further evolution? 2.Has Starbuck’s strategy evolved as the strategic vision has evolved? 3.Which one of the five generic competitive strategies discussed in Chapter 5 most closely approximates the competitive approach that Starbucks is employing? 4.What are the key policies, practices, business principles, and procedures that underlie how Howard Schultz and Starbucks’ management have implemented and executed the company’s strategy? 5.What “values” does Starbucks have? How well do they connect to the strategy and to the manner in which the company conducts its business? 6.What is your evaluation of Starbucks social responsibility strategy? Is it sincere or just something the company does and talks about to create a good public image? 7.What is your assessment of Starbucks’ financial performance during fiscal years 2005-2009? 8.What is your evaluation of Howard Schultz’s transformation agenda for Starbucks during 2008-2010 (see pages C-362 and C-363)? Has Schultz done a good job since his return as Starbucks’ CEO?...
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In D.H. Lawrence’s The Rocking-Horse Winner and the Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery are different stories about different topics but have a similar ending. Each story teaches a lesson. If everyone where to sit down and read both of these short stories in a critical manner people’s lives would be changed for the better. The Lottery is a short story, third-person, objective. In short the citizens of this New England village gather at 10:00 AM on June 27 in the town square where the surrounding gives us a sense of a nonchalant attitude with children playing and adults chatting. Mr. Summers arrives with the black wooden box. He calls each family and the person chosen for that family goes to the front to draw a folded paper out of the box. When everyone is called and has their paper then everyone can open the paper. The picker with the black dot then takes their family and each family member chooses a paper out of the box. Again when each has their slip of paper the papers one opens it. The person with the black dot on their paper wins the Lottery. The irony comes when the lottery winner gets their prize of being stoned to death. This short story has at least two different themes associated with it. The first theme is the fact that people are reluctant to disband tradition. Most people don’t want to change from tradition because of change being scary. This has been seen thought out time. In 1776 we used this theme in order to keep with slavery. Then again in 1960’s it is used to allow racial segregation. It was used until 1919 to inhibit women from voting. This theme is not something that has just come about, it is has been part of our history longer than we can remember. Some people say another theme that can be found with in this short story is how “society wrongfully designates scapegoats to bear the sins of the community,” (The Lottery, 2012). This sacrificial offering has been used even in biblical times....
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International Business 401
Integration and Reflection
Saniya Solis
24 April 2010

This course has improved my knowledge, skills and abilities about International Business to a point where I feel not only can I use what I’ve learned at work but also in my personal life as an author. Before this course, I had no knowledge of International Business and the elements involved. I just thought as long as you have money you could run a business. Now that I understand and know more about it, I feel I can make smart business decisions. I also feel my skill has not only risen but become sharper because I have learned the tools necessary to accomplish the goal in mind, which in return, can make for a great business market.

My first essay, I can honestly say that I didn’t fully understand the concept. I’ve never had a business course before so everything was new to me. When I was able to read my professors’ feedback and his explanation, I took a deeper look into my essays. I went online and did further research on the topic of discussion. Once I finally understood and learned some of the terms used in business, I was able to express myself better in my following essay. I think all my essays expressed what was asked of the students. I read the articles, then read the question and did as much research to support my essays. I believe doing this helped me to understand the course while learning more about international business. I think more examples on simpler terms would help to understand better. Sometimes simple is best; too much technical jargon is confusing to a beginner.

Ways I would measure the future effects of what I have learned in this course would be the way I can use what I learned in class for my publishing company; not only on an international level but on a domestic level as well. I feel I now know what it takes to have a successful...
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No bidders for dealers' seized home

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NO DEAL: This Picton home failed to attract any bids at auction after the Ministry of Justice seized the property.

GUILTY: Owner Gary Tittleton was convicted on drug charges.

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No bids have been made at an auction on a Picton property seized from a convicted drug dealer.

The former owner of the house, Gary Tittleton, 67, was one of 14 people who turned up for the auction, held at Bayleys Blenheim at noon today.

Tittleton was ordered to forfeit 50 per cent of the value of his home after he was convicted in 2009 for cultivating cannabis and possession of cannabis for supply.

The room was silent when auctioneer and Bayleys Blenheim director Glenn Dick called for a starting bid.

He started the bidding at $150,000, before upping it to $200,000. No bids were made.

The Wellington St property has a land value of $116,000 and an improvement value of $139,000, with a capital value of $255,000. A reserve price had been set but was not revealed.

Dick set the property aside after the audience failed to bid.

''The auction is concluded,'' he said. ''Thank you all for coming along and watching this event.''

Receiving no bids at an auction happened regularly, he said. He would seek instruction from lawyers acting for the crown on the next step.

Tittleton said he was not surprised that no one bid as the property had only been on the market for three weeks. He was ''well over'' the idea of losing his home and just came along to see if it would sell, he said.

A couple at the auction said they were interested in the property, but wanted to see if someone else bid first.

Tittleton, who has remained in the house since his conviction, would be moving into a rental home in Picton on July 1.

Police found 1.64 kilograms of dried cannabis head and eight cannabis plants during a raid on his home in 2009. Cultivation and harvesting equipment was also found under his house.

The estimated street value of the cannabis was between $32,000 and $41,000.

In 2011, Tittleton was sentenced to forfeit 50 per cent of the value of his home, in the first time the Criminal Proceeds (Recovery) Act 2009 had been used to seize a house in Marlborough.

The property was valued at $377,000 in January 2010. Two years later, it decreased to $332,000.

Tittleton, who owned the house outright and has lived there for 17 years, lost a High Court appeal in 2012 against the sentence.

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