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HomeIASIAS Officer Kannan Gopinathan Faced Show Cause Notice For "Misconduct"
IAS Officer Kannan Gopinathan Faced Show Cause Notice For "Misconduct"
IAS officer Kannan Gopinathan issued notice for indulging in various acts of "omission and commission"
Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Kannan Gopinathan, who quit from service in August over curbs in Jammu and Kashmir, was in fact issued a show cause notice in July by the Union Home Ministry.
He was issued this notice for indulging in various acts of "omission and commission", which constitute "misconduct" as well as "dereliction of duty".
Mr Gopinathan, 33, once lauded for his work during the 2018 Kerala floods, had quit the coveted government job on August 21, stating that he was "disturbed" over the restrictions imposed in Jammu and Kashmir since August 5.
Now, it has come to light that the IAS officer's move followed a show cause notice served on him on July 8, in which the Home Ministry had proposed for appropriate disciplinary action from the Union Territory of Daman and Diu, and Dadar and Nagar Haveli in his case.
The 2012-batch AGMUT cadre officer from Kerala was posted in Dadra and Nagar Haveli as Power and Non-Conventional Energy Secretary.
The Centre's notice was issued after the two Union Territories had brought it to the knowledge of the Ministry that Mr Gopinathan had been indulging in various acts of "omission and commission", which constitute misconduct within the meaning of the rule (3) of the All India Service (Conduct) Rules, 1968.
The Union Territories had informed the Ministry through a letter dated June 11, that Mr Gopinathan had been indulging in act of "insubordination, adoption of dilatory tactics and dereliction of duty".
The officer was charged for delay of nine months from his part in submitting a file to amend the policy regarding discontinuation of issue of permanent residence certificate, among other charges.
The officer was asked to get the work of underground electrical cabling and shifting of electric poles completed by May 2018 to enable early execution of projects of beautification of roads from Naroli to Saheed Chowk to Samarwani in Dadar and Nagar Haveli.
However, "the poles were not shifted till March 2019," the Home Ministry notice said.
Mr Gopinathan even bypassed the prescribed reporting channel, the notice said, adding three such instances dated June 26, 2018; July 16, 2018 and October 15, 2018 for appointment of Director on the board of DNH Power Distributikn Company Ltd were also there.
"Gopinathan had submitted files directly to the administrator without routing them through advisor to the administrator," the notice accessed by IANS mentions.
It is further observed that Mr Gopinathan visited Kerala in the wake of massive flood in the state in 2018 to meet the officers concerned and chalked out a plan as to how the Union Territory administration could help the flood victims.
"But he failed to submit any report on his return from tour," the notice further said.
"Mr Gopinathan was asked to prepare the nominations for Prime Minister's award under various categories for innovations in public administration. But he failed to comply with the said direction," the notice read.
"Whereas, Gopinathan is holding a responsible position in the government and therefore knowledge of extant rules and instructions, including that of All India Service (Conduct) Rules, 1968 can be safely attributed to him."
"And now thereof, Gopinathan is directed to show cause within 10 days from the date of receipt of this memorandum as to why disciplinary proceedings should not be initiated against him for the aforesaid acts of omission and commission," the notice said.
As per the notice, Mr Gopinathan was advised to submit his reply through the advisor to the administrator, Daman and Diu and Dadar and Nagar Haveli.
"The advisor to the administrator is requested to examine the reply or clarification of Gopinathan within 15 days thereafter and submit the recommendations of the Union Territory administration with the approval of the administrator to the Ministry of Home Affairs within the same period," the notice said.
Mr Gopinathan in his resignation letter though said there was denial of "fundamental rights" to lakhs of people in Jammu and Kashmir for weeks after the state lost its special status following the abrogation of Article 370.
"I joined civil service with the hope that I can be the voice of those who have been silenced. But here, I lost my own voice," Mr Gopinathan said after his resignation.
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By Marisa Donelan and Marisa Donelane |
FITCHBURG — An Oregon man will be arraigned Wednesday in Fitchburg District Court on charges of marijuana trafficking as state and federal officials intercepted him at the Fitchburg Municipal Airport Tuesday afternoon.
State police and federal agents stopped a single-engine plane and arrested Hoang Nguyen, 31, of Hillsborough, Ore., after finding three large duffle bags inside the aircraft containing about 74 pounds of marijuana.
Nguyen was booked at the Leominster State Police barracks.
"The investigation began yesterday when U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents and Homeland Security agents began monitoring the movements of the aircraft, occupied solely by one male, later identified as Nguyen, which had departed from Santa Monica, Calif. Investigators continued to track to the plane as it stopped at Morris County Airport in Grundy, Ill.," State Police spokesman David Procopio wrote in a press release.
Police are not describing why Nguyen's behavior raised suspicion for "tactical reasons and to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation."
State Troopers from the Leominster Barracks, the Worcester County State Police Detective Unit, the State Police K9 Section, and the State Police Troop C Community Action Team, and agents from Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, were waiting for the plane as it landed, Procopio wrote.
"During the subsequent search of the aircraft, troopers and agents found three large duffle bags containing approximately 74 pounds of marijuana, more than $77,000 in United States currency, maps, an iPad, and cellular phones," he wrote. "The approximate bulk worth of the marijuana is $5,000 per pound, or $370,000. Once that amount was broken down and re-sold at the street level, a dealer could expect to make close to double that per-pound amount."
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Ainsworth Game Technology: Result 2016
Improving international sales compensated for a dismal domestic performance.
By Jon Mills ·
25 Aug 2016 · 7 min read
Ainsworth Game Technology Limited - AGI
below 1.70
up to 3.50
above 3.50
HOLD at $2.33
$0.85 at 14:15 (27 January 2021)
Price at review
$2.33 at (25 August 2016)
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Share Price Risk
With international sales now representing 71% of total revenue (up from 24% in 2011), Ainsworth is in the minority of Australian companies that have successfully pursued international expansion (see Table 1).
Sales in North America were the highlight, rising 34% from $83m to $111m despite strong competition from the likes of Aristocrat Leisure and industry giants International Game Technology and Scientific Games. Sales of the company's popular A560SL cabinet increased 15% to 3,559 and Ainsworth maintained an average selling price of US$16,700 for its machines.
Higher margin machines 'on participation' – those rented to casinos in return for a share of the daily winnings – also increased but mainly due to the acquisition of Nova Technologies in January 2016. The company now has 2,792 machines on participation, up from 1,316 in 2015.
International sales the highlight
Australian sales dismal
Novomatic transaction still a concern
Initial signs from Nova are positive, with its 1,425 units on participation at acquisition rising to 1,511 at 30 June 2016, with around three-quarters of these being Class II machines and the remainder Class III machines. (See Ainsworth enters new market with Nova for the distinction between Class II and Class III but, despite the regulatory and technical differences, the cabinets and games in each class are very similar nowadays).
Average revenue per day (or 'yield') on machines under participation fell 27% from US$33 to US$24 per day due to Nova's machines having a lower yield and casinos purchasing higher-performing games previously on participation.
Latin America was also a standout, with revenue increasing 49% from $50m to $75m, with both the number of outright sales and machines on participation rising, by 32% and 37% respectively. The company was also able to increase its average selling price slightly, to US$15,500, while the average revenue per day on its machines on participation rose by an impressive 27% to US$19 per day.
Ainsworth and other gaming machine makers typically have to accept long payment terms and, as a result, a relatively high risk of bad debts: the company wrote off $2.2m owed by a troublesome debtor in 2016.
D for dismal
By contrast, the performance in Australia was dismal, with revenue declining 12% to $82m and the company selling only 958 machines in the second half of 2016, half what it sold in the first half of 2016. Clearly, the company's new A600 cabinet is struggling in a market dominated by Aristocrat's Helix cabinet and successful Lightning Link series of games, with the only bright spot being a 3% increase in average selling prices.
An 81% decline in foreign exchange gains due to a higher Australian dollar versus its US equivalent and 44% increase in depreciation from its new Nevada factory and increased machines on participation – which remain on Ainsworth's balance sheet – helped push net profit down 20%. However, after removing the impact of foreign exchange and one-offs such as due diligence costs on potential acquisitions, net profit was flat at around $52m or 16 cents per share.
Ainsworth's share of the North American Class III market stills pales in comparison to that of Aristocrat and IGT. It continues to obtain more licences, adding six across North America and in the Bahamas along with 37 new American Indian tribal licences. This should help it continue to grow sales in the region.
Table 1: Ainsworth result 2016
Year to 30 June
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Aust. revenue ($m) 82 93 (12)
Int. revenue ($m) 204 148 38
Total revenue ($m) 286 241 19
Forex gains ($m) 5 26 (81)
EBITDA ($m) 96 108 (11)
DA ($m) 23 16 44
EBIT ($m) 73 92 (21)
NPAT ($m) 56 70 (20)
EPS (c) 17 21 (19)
DPS (c) 10* 10 -
* 5c final div (no change), fully franked, ex date 30 Sep, DRP (no discount)
Its entry into the faster-growing Class II market via its Nova acquisition offers further growth opportunities. Competitor Aristocrat has increased the average revenue per day earned from the Class II machines owned by Video Game Technologies and we'd expect Ainsworth to do the same as it converts its existing popular games for use on its Class II fleet. The 45 titles currently available on Class II machines will expand to 70 in 2017.
While Australia now represents less than 30% of sales, the country is much less important than it used to be. We agree with chief executive Danny Gladstone who believes Ainsworth in Australia is 'only one game away from success' and so any recovery here will be a bonus. Access to Novomatic's game library and far greater research and development budget – Novomatic produces around 300 new games each year compared to around 50 for Ainsworth – along with the sourcing of games from third parties will help.
Yet Novomatic's purchase of around 53% of Ainsworth from Len Ainsworth looms large. While access to Novomatic's research expenditure, game library, its markets in Europe and potential cost synergies are positives, we opposed the acquisition because minority shareholders weren't offered the same terms.
We're also concerned that Novomatic might give its products precedence once Ainsworth begins distributing them. With Novomatic receiving almost all of the profits from its machines but only 53% of the profits from the sale of Ainsworth's machines, Ainsworth's products could be potentially discounted in favour of Novomatic machines, to the detriment of shareholders.
However, as access to the lucrative US market was the main driver behind Novomatic's purchase, that Novomatic will look to consolidate its US operations into Ainsworth somewhat counters that argument.
Moreover, after participating in the recently initiated dividend reinvestment plan (DRP), Len Ainsworth and his wife still own more than 10% of the company. There's only one reason Len would participate in the DRP and that is to ensure that he and his wife can prevent Novomatic compulsorily acquiring the rest of his company for a bargain price.
We note that Novomatic has committed to 'maintain its holding at around 53%' and not to rely on the 3% 'creep' provisions within the Corporations Act to increase its shareholding. However, these commitments expire on 31 Dec 18 or earlier if 'new information becomes available or as circumstances change' and, further, it can increase its holdings via the DRP.
Len's participation in the DRP, his wife's continuing stake and the short-term, conditional nature of Novomatic's intentions suggest it will move to full ownership at some stage. While a potential takeover is never a good enough reason to own a stock, it does provide some reassurance.
Of course, the $470m that the Ainsworths have already taken off the table, not to mention their considerable other wealth, mean that the $70m value of their remaining stake is merely a drop in a much larger ocean.
All in all, though, its still-low debt burden, good growth prospects and price-earnings ratio of 15 just about counter the concerns above. We're reinstating the price guide but are nudging our maximum recommended portfolio weighting down to 2%. With due consideration of the risks and the likely ongoing volatility in its share price, we continue to recommend that you HOLD.
Note: The Intelligent Investor Growth and Equity Income portfolios own shares in Ainsworth Game Technology. You can find out about investing directly in Intelligent Investor and InvestSMART portfolios by clicking here.
Disclosure: The author owns shares in Ainsworth Game Technology.
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It takes some effort believing that Dr Maggie Kigozi is another "typical" muganda—courtesy of Irish blood on her paternal side, or that she was ever famous for anything other than being the Executive Director and face of the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA).
Not only is she a bonafide member of the Ngeye clan born on July 5, 1950 in Fort Portal , she also represented Uganda at international sports events, was Uganda's national junior tennis champion between 1968-71, a champion motorcycle rider like her Blick brothers, and a physician to Members of Parliament between 1968-1994.
After 1994, she worked in relative anonymity as the Marketing Director for Crown Beverages. But, fame was her fate, and five years later, she became the cheerleader of UIA's effort to transform Uganda into a leading investment destination.
Pundits doubted her qualifications and experience were equal to the task of promoting and facilitating an entire nation's private sector investments. She quickly silenced them by becoming a fixture at investment conferences wherever they were held, personally touting the most favourable aspects of Uganda's investment climate.
Positive results naturally followed, with UIA winning the prestigious Corporate Location Prize for the best investment promotion agency in Africa and the Middle East in 2001.
Some of her other jobs as the Focal Point Officer for the Africa Asia Business Forum , and Patron of the Ugandan Diaspora Network with its "Home is Best" Diaspora Summits gave her extra involvement with especially Indian and Chinese investors, and Uganda investors based abroad.
Partly due to her efforts attracting them, UIA's annual reports kept showing improvements in Foreign Direct Investments (FDI's) and jobs they created. FDI's totaling Shs30t came to Uganda, growing from $200m(about Shs500b) in 2000 to $845m (over Shs2t) by 2010. Projections grew from 48,098 jobs in 2006 when Uganda was declared Africa's seventh fastest growing economy, to 55,690 jobs in 2007.
What reads like a minor success is still worth celebrating in Uganda where unemployment statistics provide much mileage to both social commentators and lip-service politicians.
As UIA's most visible deal-broker, it was Dr Kigozi that critics accused of bunching briefcase companies with bona fide investors. The extent of her involvement in UIA's offer of land to investors aroused much debate. The 2006 sale of the land Shimoni Demonstration School formerly occupied for Shs3.6b to Saudi investor, Prince Sheikh Alwaleed bin Talal, particularly soured her public image. Opinions ranged from her playing real-estate agent during the transfer of ownership from Sudhir Ruparelia, to always effecting such government directives before considering their non-economic cost.
But, departing from her usual compliance with orders on the land-for-industries scheme, in March 2007 she opposed the giveaway of land in Mabira to Sugar Corporation of Uganda Limited (SCOUL), citing environmental and eco-tourism reasons.
The UIA's project to establish 22 industrial parks countrywide also met with friction, the most infamous one being the Kampala Industrial and Business Park (KIBP) at Namanve. Accused of stalling the project, she maintained the only snag was infrastructure development and not procrastination on her side.
In 2010, Parliament's Committee on Commissions and Statutory Enterprises questioned her about awarding an Shs88b contract to build the Kampala Industrial Business Park at Namanve to Spencon Services Limited, a firm then being investigated for doing a shoddy job as a sub-contractor during construction of the Kampala Northern Bypass Highway.
Posterity will celebrate her either as midwife of the national blunders of 2007 that the Mabira and Shimoni sagas were, or as a visionary who soldiered on despite constant criticism to bring much-needed industrial investment to her country.
After she voluntarily retired from UIA on June 17, 2011, Dr Kigozi became a consultant for the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). Focusing on its Africa Investment Promotion Agency Network (AfrIPANet), her work involves promoting and facilitating mostly foreign direct investments into Africa.
There she continues to contribute to Uganda's quest to become a first choice for investors , and her link with the Uganda Export Promotion Board gives her good standing as an investment ambassador, both in deed and in name.
She also advocates the protection of intellectual property rights as a resource person for the World Intellectual Property Rights Office (WIPO) and the Uganda Performing Rights Society (UPRS), two of the several organisations supporting the campaign for police, legal practitioners and the public to help enforce the 2006 Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Act.
Speaking to senior police officers at a UPRS-organised workshop on February 22, at the National Theatre, she exhorted them thus; " Aside from rewarding hardworking artistes, Uganda can earn Shs9b in taxes and distribution annually if piracy didn't exist. Help us get it so we can better our situation as a nation".
• Born to Engineer George William Blick and Molly Blick.
• Married Engineer Engineer Daniel Serwano Kigozi in the 1990s (RIP).
• Attended Aga Khan Primary School, Gayaza High School, Kololo Secondary School.
• 1974 Graduate, degree of Bachelro of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) from Makerere University's School of Medicine.
• Voted Most Professional Woman in the New Vision's 2007 Annual Reader's Survey.
• Founder :Uganda Investment Authority Women Entrepreneurs Network.
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"Be careful what you set your heart upon, for you will surely have it."
While our friend Charlie was visiting from Alabama, we drove up to Madison County in Virginia to check out Graves Mountain Apple Harvest Festival. It was a beautiful day for a road trip (about 80 minutes from where we live). We eat a lot of apples in the Fall and Winter, so we buy them by the bushel since we can store them in our garage to refill our refrigerator bin.
They had many types of apples but most of them were not good picking. Many of the bins had rotten apples and lots of bruises and marks on them. We were disappointed. We had a very wet Spring and Summer, but Googling showed me that they did not have enough rain. The best looking apples were the York variety so we loaded our boxes with those.
November is the month of Thanks Giving. It's a nice focus for me as the days get colder and the sun sets so early in the day. I make a list of people I am thankful for which brightens the month realizing how very blessed I am to enjoy so many friends. It's a nice alternative celebration of life's relationships and memories.
I happened upon a tasty and healthy recipe for the holidays called Cabbage, Walnut and Cranberry Salad. Looks pretty good since I do like cabbage. It was interesting to look at the ingredients with 1/4 cup evoo as the first one listed. How many of you know what that is? I guess it could be a familiar term to those who hang out on recipe websites, but I've cooked for so long with whatever was already in the house that I rarely consider recipes.
On my last food order I ordered a case of Tofurky Roasts and we'll be having one of those on that day with vegetarian gravy and lots of vegetables. If you have a vegetarian in your family or may have an interest in saving the life of a turkey, you might want to consider the options that Tofurky has for holiday meals. I admit we've never had one of these although I've known about them for many years and heard nothing but rave reviews about them. Since we don't have family in the area, Thanksgiving isn't a big meal event, so we generally make something a bit different from our usual fare and enjoy having the holiday time off work.
If anybody lives near Chapel Hill, NC, there's an annual Vegan Thanksgiving Feast that is huge. This is their 15th consecutive year and it's an amazing event. We went a few years ago and it was truly gourmet and an incredible experience.
Speaking of North Carolina, I saw a house that would be very interesting to see in Kernersville, NC (near Winston-Salem), called Körner's Folly. The home has 22 rooms with three stories and seven levels (intriguing in itself). The ceiling heights go from 5-1/2 feet to 25 feet.
Jule Gilmer Körner began building in 1878. He was an interior and furniture designer, decorator and painter who wanted to showcase his talents to potential clients. He renovated constantly to show off his new creations. There are trap doors, cubby holes, and quirky corners. The neighbors were the ones who named it and they were invited to see it on Easter Day in 1880. Unusual artwork, murals, and opulence. No two doorways or windows are exactly alike.
I thought it was quite unique and certainly different from most historic homes. In 1897, Jule renovated Körner's Folly, turning his third floor billiards room into a theater space where children in the community ages 7-13 were invited to create, rehearse, and perform on-stage performances at Körner's Folly, directed by Polly Alice, his wife. The theater was adorned with cupid-themed murals painted by Caesar Milch. It is believed Cupid's Park Theater was the first private little theater in America. If you're ever in that area, it may be of interest to you to see it. Visit Körner's Folly Website.
One of my sweet friends I've come to know and love from The Nature In Us blog is Lynn Alford. She's sent me quite a few books over the years. She's a woman of God that sows good seed everywhere she goes and is one real treasure of a friend to many. The recent book I received that I am now reading is The Temple Within - Fellowship With an Indwelling Christ by Milt Rodriguez. The link to Amazon allows you to look inside and read portions of the book. Chewing on such nuggets of gold is a delight to my soul and spirit. I recommend checking it out, but this post has a few excerpts for you to ponder, which is what I've been doing as I slowly make my way from page to page.
You can also read an article I wrote with some excerpts from the book. It is titled, "Amazing Love in Christ." God seems to be surrounding me with deeper and deeper teaching on who I am in Christ. We will still be learning this when we arrive in Heaven. Who can comprehend a Living God within themselves? It can only be revealed by the Holy Spirit within us. It's certainly not a mental feat.
Being content with ourselves just the way we are is a big leap for so many. If we could fully comprehend how much God loves us just the way we are. He has no agenda for us but to love us. If you will receive His love and His acceptance and His adoration for you, you will find that you will change in areas of life that you thought you would never be able to turn from. Allow Him to love on you and stop condemning yourself. He literally adores you and just wants to be good to you. Accept His grace gift and you will do and become everything you ever desired to be.
Look in the mirror several times a day -- at least in the morning when you get up and in the evening when you go to bed. Look at yourself eyeball to eyeball and continue to tell yourself how much God loves you! Your brain needs to hear it before you will have the faith in it. We have been presented with a picture of an angry God, but why would an angry God sacrifice His Son on a cross? Why would He come to earth to pay the price for all of our sins (past, present and future)? For so great a love.
While Charlie was visiting we were having lunch on the screened porch and we thought we heard a sheep or goat bleating (characteristic cry of a goat or sheep). It only took a moment to see what was doing it, as a young deer was walking into our property. By young I mean it was past the fawn stage, but not full grown. I call them teenagers. There were no other deer around so I thought it had maybe "misplaced" its sibling since all the fawns we saw this year were twins. Seems to have been a good year for deer births in our area.
It was so cute and Randal kept telling me to take a video so we'd have the sound, but the camera was in the house and I just wanted to watch it. Actually I was quite concerned since we see deer very frequently on our property, but we've never had one doing this. I had heard the sound before in the back woods, but only a short call. This little one just kept crying as it walked. I found a very short video of a fawn bleating if you'd like to hear the sound.
Speaking of Charlie's visit, I was quite amazed at the obvious results of my brain detox programs (renewing/rewiring the mind to the obedience of Christ). Whenever I've had company throughout my entire life, I've been a bundle of energy before they ever arrived and made long To Do lists and schedules for things they might like to do. I also had menus planned out and everything so very detailed. Don't get me wrong, I still love details and I like to plan and schedule. However, when you're trying to "guess" what company is going to like, it was surely a stress event that I considered normal for having guests.
Two days before Charlie arrived I began wondering why I wasn't in gear and going on all the preparations for his being here. My mind said, "relax, it will all be okay." Then the day before I thought it was time to clean and put things into place and my mind said, "relax, you can do that tomorrow." It's like there was no way for me to get to the starting gate of getting anxious in any way. Then the day of arrival came and I thought I'd be out of bed before dawn, but I slept a little later than usual (totally amazing) and got up, had breakfast and took care of me first, and then began to clean. It was all totally odd to me and yet it was as if that's just who I was. But I remember it is NOT who I was. So it was a great example of what's going on with these brain detoxes. Read this article for details on how it works.
What I noticed was that Charlie enjoyed his time more with me not fussing over him and having everything so well planned. I would give him some options in the morning about meals for the day and he would generally like any of the above, so that was simple. As for entertainment, he'd rather to a fix-it project than anything else and Randal had a few of those on his list. This is the guy that has gifted us with creations from steel, such as the Butterfly Bench, Gong, Stand for 6' Wind Chimes and a Garden Hose Holder.
I've been focusing on the "joys of Winter." This year I asked God to help me focus on good things about Winter. I have never liked Winter or cold weather, but after having so much rheumatoid arthritis damage I surely liked it less. I praise God that I don't have the inflammatory pain of the disease any longer, but the damage that was done has not healed yet and that makes things a bit more difficult. We have ordered a humidifier and set it up so I'll be reporting on that in the next newsletter. Seems it's going to provide a lot of comfort this Winter.
One Winter blessing has been to see the White-throated Sparrows arrive. They come in near the end of October and sing their pretty song all Winter long. Seems there are some bird species that can't keep from counting their blessings also. They come down from Canada after a Summer of mating and raising babies. I guess they figure this is their Winter Wonderland time to be back on their own again.
There's always many things to feel blessed with every day. One of my joys is to dust since most of what needs to be dusted has special memories or were gifts from friends. I take a moment to reflect on the importance of relationships and to pray for the person who gave the gift.
The reason I "make" myself think about relationships is because I have always been a doer, delighting in getting something done more than time with people. As we age I suppose we realize that friends are very special. When we're done wiping baby bottoms and cleaning up spills, and our children are out and about with lives on their own, it's the friendships we've made that really count in life.
Until next time .... consider taking time to be thankful for the special people in your life .... and find time to give them a call or write them a note. It could make their Thanksgiving Holiday a real blessing. Holidays are a hard time for some people, so you never know what a few kind words will mean to them.
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Indian citizens demand release of Pakistani prisoners in Indian prisons
Aug 31, 2010In Humanity's Name, News0
News Desk Adds: Prominent Indian citizens on Aug 30 sent a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, copied to Home Minister P Chidambaram and Minister for External Affairs Mr. S M Krishna, urging a reciprocal release of Pakistani fishermen.
Signed by veteran journalist Kuldip Nayar, filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, former navy chief Admiral (R) L Ramdas, journalist Jatin Desai and grassroots activist Mazher Hussain, the letter requests Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to "look into the plight of Pakistani fishermen languishing in various Indian prisons. There are more than 120 Pakistani fishermen and out of that around 80 have completed their sentences."
"As you are aware that the Government of Sindh, Pakistan, Home Department vide its notification No. SO(PPT)HD/01-09/09 dated 28th August 2010 has issued orders for release and repatriation of release 442 Indian fishermen including 2 minors, to India. The release of these Indian fishermen is taking place in batches from today. This is a welcome gesture. We have been demanding the release of innocent fishermen for a long time. Both India and Pakistan have accepted that these fishermen are innocent. The gesture of Pakistan needs to be reciprocated," continues the letter.
The letter notes that Supreme Court of India bench consisting Justice Markandey Katju and Justice R M Lodha had given a significant ruling on 8th March 2010, directing the Union government to reptriate "16 Pakistani prisoners languishing in jails after completion of their sentence. Finally, they were sent back to Pakistan."
Highlighting "the good will gesture of Pakistan and a ruling of Indian Supreme Court", the letter urges the release of "all Pakistani fishermen, who have completed their sentences, before Eid. It will send a long message and strengthen the solidarity bond between common people of India and Pakistan. It will help in strengthening the peace process."
Prisoners of poor policies: India, Pakistan fishermen... Arrest, release, repeat 100 Indian fishermen freed from Malir jail


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German retail sales post surprise fall in March
AFP - [email protected] • 2 May, 2008 Updated Fri 2 May 2008 14:26 CEST
Price rises kept Germans away from the shops in March, retail sales data showed on Friday, in another sign that Europe's largest economy may be slowing.
Retail sales in March fell a real or inflation-adjusted 0.1 percent from February and slumped 6.3 percent compared with a year earlier, the statistics office said on Friday.
Economists were caught on the hop. They had expected a 0.5 percent rise in sales from February and a 1.3 percent increase over March last year.
A statement warned against excessive pessimism, saying the fall was due to a number of special factors including an early Easter holiday period meaning less shopping days, and a record performance in the year-earlier period.
Statistics agency Destatis also cautioned the March figures were provisional and could be adjusted as was the case for February, with the original gain of 1.6 percent being revised down to show a fall of 0.7 percent on Friday.
The drop was sharpest in sales of food, drinks and tobacco, which in March plunged a real 9.2 percent year-on-year. The amount spent at supermarkets and hypermarkets was also 9.2 percent less than in March 2007.
For everything that was not food, the picture was a little less gloomy, with sales falling 4.3 percent.
With a strong euro hitting German exporters, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government had been counting on consumer spending to keep the economy ticking over.
But price increases may be putting paid to such hopes.
Preliminary data on Monday showed that consumer prices fell 0.2 percent in April from March but were up 2.4 percent from April last year due to higher food and energy costs.
Although more moderate than the 3.1 percent recorded for March, inflation is still above the European Central Bank's preferred rate of just under 2.0 percent in annual terms.
Analysts also noted the outcome was also due in part to a shift in Easter holiday travel plans that would likely result in a correction next month.
"It is ... becoming clear that at present the best economic policy is to fight inflation. It is a long time since it was so important," Dekabank economist Andreas Scheuerle said on Friday.
The German economy had long seemed surprisingly resilient despite the slowdown in the United States, the international credit squeeze, a strong euro and rising prices.
But recent data and sentiment indicators have set alarm bells ringing, with the Ifo index of business giving clear evidence last week that German industry could be entering a period of weaker activity.
A better-than-expected reading in the GfK consumer confidence index on Monday gave grounds for optimism, however, with all three sub-categories in the index registering increases.
#Business #Economy #retail #ECB


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Gamasutra: E3 2019: The Cloud is Gaming's New Frontier
Rob Dagwell
Rob Dagwell from Bidstack's Commercial Development team, gave his views on cloud gaming and what E3 delivered at this year's event.
The details of Google's Stadia platform which were released ahead of this year's E3, set the scene for another instalment of gaming's biggest gathering. Alongside cameos from Hollywood A listers such as Keanu Reeves, Jack Black and entrepreneur Elon Musk, E3 2019 gave us all a brief glimpse into the future of the industry.
This year, we saw Fornite bring its Battle Royale to life – Battle Bus included – and cinematic trailers that had us salivating about the upcoming Avengers title, Halo Infinite, and the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 2 to name just a few. In addition to that there were the much vaunted announcements about new super-charged consoles and cross-platform cloud gaming.
The Bidstack team headed out to L.A. for this year's event and here are some of the key things we took away from the conference:
Bidstack News | October 8, 2019
Bidstack reaches new checkpoint with latest senior hires
Nina Mackie and Charlotte Cook join London HQ as Senior Director of Global Agency Partnerships and Account Director of Games London, UK, 08 October 2019: Bidstack, the in-game advertising platform is excited to announce two new appointments – Nina Mackie, Senior Director, Global Agency Partnerships and Charlotte Cook, Account Director, Games. In the sales...
AIThority: Bidstack's £10 Million Trade Deal Signals the Dawn of a New AD Category
AIThority reported that Bidstack has entered into a £10m trade deal that represents the first-ever major investment from an agency group into in-game advertising. Bidstack has been trailblazing the in-game ad category since it was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2018 becoming the first crowdfunded gaming company to go public. Since its arrival on...
In the Press | October 9, 2019
Mediatel: Marketers expect to see gaming become its own media channel
From next year, the ad industry may see gaming emerge as a new, independent media channel, industry experts have predicted. Kay Taylor, Global Innovation and Partnerships Manager at Mindshare, Peter Jacobs, Client Partner, global at Dentsu Aegis Network, Adam Lynch, Senior Manager Operations at F1 and Lewis Sherlock, VP Sales at Bidstack discussed this topic...


Milken Family Foundation Chairman and Co-Founder Lowell Milken talked to journalist Jane Stoddard Williams about his commitment to education and the importance of supporting and recognizing outstanding teachers. Williams is host of Bloomberg EDU, which launched in January 2011 and is a national radio program devoted to covering education in America.
During the interview (listen to it here) Lowell Milken spoke about the goals of the program, which honors top educators around the country with $25,000 unrestricted awards.
The Milken Family Foundation is currently touring the country awarding unsuspecting, and very deserving, educators. The names of Milken Educator Award recipients are kept secret until their names are announced at emotional all-school assemblies in front of cheering students and colleagues, their community and media.
Lowell Milken surprises Amy Stanislowski, a third-grade teacher at Dodge Literacy Magnet Elementary School in Wichita, Kansas, the prestigious Milken Educator Award on Feb. 3, 2015.
Wade Whitehead, a fourth-generation teacher and a winner of the 2000 Milken Educator Award from Roanoke, Virginia, recalled the day he heard his name called.
Wade Whitehead (center), winner of the 2000 Milken Educator Award, is a founder of Virginia Teachers of Promise, which recognizes the state's top educators-in-training.
Dr. Cindy Moss, a 2001 award winner, said the prestigious reward helped to propel her career. She's now the director of global STEM initiatives for Discovery Education in Silver Spring, Maryland.
2001 Milken Educator Award winner Dr. Cindy Moss (front) poses with her reward check and professional football legend Rosey Grier in this archive photo.
"Once you're a Milken Educator, people pay attention to what you have to say," she said during the roundtable interview with her two fellow recipients.
2003 Milken Educator Award winner Nader Twal from Long Beach, California, had planned to skip the assembly that was secretly being held in his honor—that is until his principal made it mandatory that he and his students attend. Twal said he felt teaching his students would be more beneficial for them than attending an assembly.
2003 Milken Educator Award winner Nader Twal is shown walking with his students in this archive photo.
"I not only ate my words, but I walked away inspired," Twal said. "It completely changed the way I understood the possibilities for the impact that a classroom teacher could have." Twal has gone on to lead innovation in one of the nation's largest districts, Long Beach Unified.
Listen to the entire inspirational interview on Education Week.


From the NYT: Vegan diets, non-vegan diets...is one always going to be healthier than the other?
Why don't women walk as much as men do? Sometimes it can be because of safety reasons.
This (from The Economist) is the best article about the gender pay gap that I've ever read. It really gets into why there isn't an actual pay gap, in the sense that women doing equal work are generally receiving equal pay, but there IS a disparity in overall salaries between the sexes.
From the NYT: Man helps kidnapped girl and then gives her the $7k reward money.
Oh hi, my mom wrote down my birth story on her blog.
This was just the saddest thing: a mother of six was killed by a possibly drunk driver on her way home from visiting her premature twins in the NICU.
SO. A three-year-old was forgotten at a corn maze overnight. And if you, like me, are wondering how that could even happen, here is the dad explaining the situation!
Syrians are divided on whether or not to support the national soccer team, which (I believe) just narrowly missed qualifying for the World Cup.
Oct 10 The cosy season!


Everyone has heard stories about robberies and violence. What will you do if you or aloved one faces such a threat one day? In order to help prepare you such trouble, we will be holding a beginner level self-defense seminar class here in NYC.
・Wisdom to avoid becoming a victim.
・The withdrawal method if you are grabbed.
・Gain insight on beneficial combat techniques.
・Wake up your dorment fighting potential.
・Japanease martial arts to train your mental strength.
International Self-defense Do-Jo "SD Tornado"Representative.
Born and raised in Japan.He was an instructor of Ashihara Karate and later established his own DoJo "SD Tornado".
・The meeting place is above the lawn on the back of the USS Maine monument.
・It will be held outdoors.


by JOHN STUART MILL, 1806-1873 Whenever legislation is proposed that limits our freedoms, someone will reach for Mill's On Liberty and point to the passage that says, 'The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.' What could be clearer? Except it isn't clear: it depends on what you mean by harm. Does hate speech harm minorities? Does sexist language harm women, by making them less credible in the eyes of society? Philosophical principles are like credit agreements: the headlines are convincing, but the small print catches you out.


The 11-year-old alliance between the BJP and the Biju Janata Dal snapped on Saturday. This could well be the game-changer, as CPM general secretary Prakash Karat put it.
For one, it makes the going for BJP tough and dims hopes for the NDA to come to power at the Centre. But, it has helped resurrect the idea of a Third Front.


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My Linnea Lund : Margot Rousseau & Louis Bompard
By Charlie Tiani
Each week we invite a member of the Linnea Lund community to share their views on fashion. Together we talk about their relationship to clothes, their wardrobe and how they like to mix and match our iconic cashmere pieces. And, of course, it's exciting and full of delicacy and love.
This time it's Margot Rousseau, fashion journalist, stylist and consultant, & Louis Bompard, head of communication for an accessories brand, who are the first #MyLinneaLund couple!
She worked for ten years for women's magazines before taking her freedom two years ago by becoming a freelance stylist and consultant for various brands. Inspired by this, Margot gave us the artistic direction for our latest Linnea Lund campaign, immortalized on the Emerald Coast.
He was also a journalist for a long time, but now he is the head of communications for an eyewear brand and plays with words.
Both of them have always had fun with fashion and its codes. She loves feminine and contrasting outfits, and does not hide her love for beautiful basics and our grass green. He has the art of wearing hats and assumes shirts with a hint of colour, nonchalantly half-open, which let you see his collection of necklaces and tattoos. They are accomplices, both of them freely cultivating their style, but the harmony of their looks is always there.
This beautiful balance can also be seen in their shared passion for second-hand furniture, which they love to hunt for together. Furniture, stoneware vases, ethnic statuettes and totem poles, the more an object has a story to tell, the more likely it is to find a place in their warm and multi-influenced 18th arrondissement flat.
It is in their Parisian nest, where they are about to welcome their first child, that they receive us to tell us about their wardrobe and the Linnea Lund pieces they love.
- How would you define your style?
Louis: When it comes to fashion, I take on everything I want. My style is tinged with the past, with references to other periods. I have an affinity for Dolce Vita looks: sunglasses with smoked glasses, open shirt over my necklaces, wide trousers and high waist.
Margot: My style is feminine, with a vintage twist, often bohemian. In general, I like contrasts: a man's blazer with big shoulder pads worn with a satin sleep dress, close to the body. Or the delicacy of a lace dress with big boots.
- What is your favourite colour from the Linnea Lund palette?
Louis: The colour jeans, as timeless and effective as real denim.
Margot: My heart is set on the colour Honey, which enhances a tan, and Grass (the name of the colour of the green dress she's wearing), which is a great alternative to khaki.
- How do you wear Linnea Lund cashmere?
Louis: For me, softness means comfort. I like to wear cashmere with basic pieces because it makes them chic.
Margot: I like to wear cashmere in an oversized way, like a comforting blanket.
- What objects do you think represent Sweden?
Louis: Tomas Brolin's right foot (a Swedish football player).
Margot: The clogs (and their distinctive clatter) that rarely leave my house in summer.


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The Divine Theory: A System of Divinity, Founded Wholly Upon Christ ..., Bind 2
Af Joshua Spalding
withority for the belief that the obeyer, the most perfectly obedient man under the law, was necessarily under the curse, whilst all things written in the whole volume of the book were not accomplished. See Gal. iii. 10....13. To be of the works of the law, and yet not be under the curse, is a distinction of which our apostle could not conceive. His whole argument, refered to above, rests upon its impossibility. The law itself, as held up every where in the scriptures, is the ministration of death.
14. The law of the ten commandments existed in substauce, in the earliest ages of the world. Obedience thereunto had been urged from the beginning, by all the promises and threatening of God; under which influence, some of every generation had obeyed, and shown the most genuine fruits of love to God and love to men; and had given the most undeniable proofs that this law of love was even written in their hearts. This therefore, could not be that law which is ever spoken of, as having come by Moses.
To surmount this objection, some have said, that though the moral code had existed, for substance, from the beginning, and its duties had been binding upon all intelligent creatures; yet it had not been written, and explicitly promulgated, until the time of Moses; and that this form of promulgation is all that is meant by its bearing the date of Moses. This supposition, however, is not made with much plausibility; for a new form of promulgating a law that had existed, and been extensively used for ages, is by no means a circumstance that ought to govern and abridge its date. Besides, of all laws. that have existed, the moral is the least capable of being affected by circumstances of promulga
But this supposition, were it otherwise unexceptionable, is wholly set aside by the pre
cise date given to the law. The Apostle to the Hebrews says, Chap. vii. ver. 11. The law was received under the Levitical priesthood; which priesthood was not instituted when all the words of the ten commandments were spoken, written and delivered to the people.
It appears, therefore, by superabundant evidence, that the moral code is not the subject intended by the law given at Mount Sinai; and that it was no peculiarity of that dispensation. The law was so extensive, and of such a peculiar nature, that it formed a distinct world, which, with propriety, may be called the Jenish world. It consisted of a system of ordinances that respected the people, the beasts, and the whole land with its fruits; which, for enforcement, were put into the hands of ministers possessing powers that may properly be considered as angelic. The peculiar frame of this world answered expressly to that of the sanctuary, or middle court of the house of God; every thing was embraced in a round of services, beginning with a solemn separation and ending at the altar of sacrifice; and the whole together was calculated to be a vehicle for the exhibition of Christ as in his mediate state. Some, who have been sensible of the error of considering this law as being particularly of a moral nature, have termed it a ceremonial law. This consideration is also very exceptionable; it is at best but a faint view of the subject; the term is too weak and indefinite to express the infinite extent and power of that fiery lan, commissioned from the right hand of Jehovah, to go forth, and to act like the sun upon the whole creation, particularly upon the wild plant of nature; and so, by ripening and bringing forth its mortal fruits, to give the knowledge of sin, that every moutk may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God; and which
will not fail in its flaming course, until all men be laid prostrate before it in the dust of death ; and even the heaven and the earth be dissolved, and made as ashes of the altar. The nature of the law cannot be expressed by better terms than those used by the apostle, viz. The ministration of death.
How different from all this is the subject of moral obligation, commonly called the moral law ? Moral obligation cannot admit of mediatorial intervention; it is in its nature iminediately and inseparably connected with the capacities and relations of intelligent agents. It is not an authority which, for any proper reason, may be covered by a veil, or shrouded in a cloud; or which could raise walls of partition to keep a trembling world at an humble distance from its awful seat. It does not bear a commission of death; the death warrant is not in the decalogue; a man may hear every moral precept, openly and immediately, and he may live. Whatever be our weakness or incompetency, perfect good will discharges our moral obligation; but, under the law, the altar must be fed, the fire must be kept burning, and the man for this service must be able bodied; a broken fool or a broken hand was a total disability; though to will were present with him, yet a man who had a blemish inust not tread on sanctuary ground. The law was a yoke under which the whole nation of Israel groaned, and which they were not able to bear ; but moral obligation was no more a yoke under that dispensation than it is under the present..... The law extended to the earth and waters, and to the beasts of the field. All nature was subject to its authority. The preacher smote with his hand, and stainped with his foot, and cried with a voice like a trumpet, saying, Earth! earth! carth! hear the word of the Lord; but moral
obligation can extend only to the rational mind.
The whole matter of moral duty consists in the integrity of the creature, and may be found in his deeds; but it is manifest, that the divine law looked to the integrity, or oneness, of the divine nature, and that it can be answered only by deeds wrought in God. We are taught that the law is fulfilled, and its works are finished, and that we are not under the law; but, in the nature of things, we must for ever remain under moral obligati
Duties of this nature must necessarily run parallel with our rational existence. The law commenced in the world, under the Levitical priesthood; but moral obligation commenced with the intelligent creation. Enough, I trust, has been said, to clear this important distinction.
The good moral preacher, when his text is the law, will hold up love to God and love to men, repentance and faith, and the whole system of moral duties; and when it is the gospel, his sermon is the same. And in this way, he forms two beautiful wax-work figures, which he calls Law and Gospel; which, on account of their resemblance of features, would not be known apart, but for their names; and which are as destitute of reality and life, as are our Franklin and Washington in the museum.
But there are other mistakes concerning the law which must be noticed. Whence came the idea that the curse was added to the law of works, as a penalty for its transgression ? The doctrine of the Bible is plainly this, that the law, necessarily involving the curse, was added to the ordinances of faith; or to the covenant of life and grace, because of the foregoing transgressions. See Gal. iii. 19. Heb. ix. 15. And the law being added, the whole formed one system of divine dispensation. What God joins together, none but God can put asunder. Hence, from the time of Moses, all that went before, and all that came by him, is summed up together in the so often repeated words of statutes, ordinances, judgments, &c. And as the services of the sanctuary took the lead in this economy, and the ministers of the altar were ordinarily the first heads of the of the people, the dispensation was particularly characterized from what was added, and the whole went under the general appellation of the lan.
But though the services of the first taberna cle, called the sanctuary, were now joined to the ordinances of faith, or such as related to the : promises ; and the whole dispensation took the name, and its subjects received, generally, the spirit of the law, still they were things of a very different nature, and ought ever to be viewed very distinctly. The nature of the duties of the sanctuary may be contemplated in the services appointed to Aaron and his sons, within that holy place. These adinitted of no variations in any case; they required ministers to be able bodied men, without any defect; for a certain work must be performed, and the will could not be accepted for the deed. But the services of the people without;-admitted of any variations consistent with good will to the work of the :sanctuary. Children and invalids might perform them, for proper expressions of love were all that was there required... Whilst, therefore, the men of the sanctuary were engaged in the most laborious services, under the incessant: blaze of a burning altar, the people, in their place, performed their duty by standing merely in a believing posture; hoping, praying, and waiting for the glorious result, which was the blessing out of the most holy place.
Before the dispensation of the law, the divine ordinances were inforced merely by promises to


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Q: cuBLAS argmin -- segfault if outputing to device memory? In cuBLAS, cublasIsamin() gives the argmin for a single-precision array.
Here's the full function declaration: cublasStatus_t cublasIsamin(cublasHandle_t handle, int n,
                            const float           *x, int incx, int *result)
The cuBLAS programmer guide provides this information about the cublasIsamin() parameters:

If I use host (CPU) memory for result, then cublasIsamin works properly. Here's an example:
void argmin_experiment_hostOutput(){
    float h_A[4] = {1, 2, 3, 4}; int N = 4;
    float* d_A = 0;
    CHECK_CUDART(cudaMalloc((void**)&d_A, N * sizeof(d_A[0])));
    CHECK_CUBLAS(cublasSetVector(N, sizeof(h_A[0]), h_A, 1, d_A, 1));
    cublasHandle_t handle; CHECK_CUBLAS(cublasCreate(&handle));

    int result; //host memory
    CHECK_CUBLAS(cublasIsamin(handle, N, d_A, 1, &result));
    printf("argmin = %d, min = %f \n", result, h_A[result]);

    CHECK_CUBLAS(cublasDestroy(handle));
}

However, if I use device (GPU) memory for result, then cublasIsamin segfaults. Here's an example that segfaults:
void argmin_experiment_deviceOutput(){
    float h_A[4] = {1, 2, 3, 4}; int N = 4;
    float* d_A = 0;
    CHECK_CUDART(cudaMalloc((void**)&d_A, N * sizeof(d_A[0])));
    CHECK_CUBLAS(cublasSetVector(N, sizeof(h_A[0]), h_A, 1, d_A, 1));
    cublasHandle_t handle; CHECK_CUBLAS(cublasCreate(&handle));

    int* d_result = 0;
    CHECK_CUDART(cudaMalloc((void**)&d_result, 1 * sizeof(d_result[0]))); //just enough device memory for 1 result
    CHECK_CUDART(cudaMemset(d_result, 0, 1 * sizeof(d_result[0])));
    CHECK_CUBLAS(cublasIsamin(handle, N, d_A, 1, d_result)); //SEGFAULT!

    CHECK_CUBLAS(cublasDestroy(handle));
}

The Nvidia guide says that `cublasIsamin()` can output to device memory. What am I doing wrong?

Motivation: I want to compute the argmin() of several vectors concurrently in multiple streams. Outputting to host memory requires CPU-GPU synchronization and seems to kill the multi-kernel concurrency. So, I want to output the argmin to device memory instead.

A: The CUBLAS V2 API does support writing scalar results to device memory. But it doesn't support this by default. As per Section 2.4 "Scalar parameters" of the documentation, you need to use cublasSetPointerMode() to make the API aware that scalar argument pointers will reside in device memory. Note this also makes these level 1 BLAS functions asynchronous, so you must ensure that the GPU has completed the kernel(s) before trying to access the result pointer.
See this answer for a complete working example.

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We have watched many business presentations over the past year. Some of the ideas are relevant to the existing business climate and could result in a sustainable business. We will call those ideas viable businesses. Some of the ideas are not viable because they are too late, too early or too immature. They are just impractical in the current business context. We will call those business models impractical.
There is sometimes a mismatch between receiving funding and the viability of the idea. Some of the impractical ideas receive funding and some of the viable ideas do not receive any funding.
There are a variety of reasons that impractical ideas get the attention and the money. Impractical models sometimes have founders with a track record and they also have connections. Sometimes it is related to the nature of the idea. For example, complex science and trendy technology-based models always draw attention because of the cool factor.
Communication is the key to obtaining funding regardless of whether the idea is viable or impractical. If you have a viable idea that is being ignored; you are not communicating your idea effectively. We have prepared some slides that will help you craft an interesting and unique presentation.
The pitching slides on Prepping and Delivery can be found here. The slides are adapted from Garr Reynolds, David Rose, Seth Godin, Mary Ann Rogers and others. Photos are from Flickr and are Creative Commons-licensed content and from NASA. It is a large file.
In the near future, we will present a set of slides that will focus on the business model content of the presentation.


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Update: Uber food delivery driver who killed customer turns himself in to police
by Evelyn Andrews February 19, 2018
A food delivery driver who shot and killed a man in the Peachtree Heights West neighborhood on Feb. 17 has turned himself in, according to the Atlanta Police Department.
Robert Bivines, 36, has been charged with the felony murder of Ryan Thornton, 30. Bivines, a driver for Uber Eats, allegedly shot the victim after a disagreement. Thornton was shot multiple times and died at Grady Memorial Hospital, police said.
"The victim went down to meet the driver, received his order and began walking away from the vehicle. As the victim was walking away, it appears words may have been exchanged between he and the delivery driver," police said in a written statement.
Bivines fled the scene after the shooting.
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I am writing in regard to the letter that you sent to the Attorney General's office concerning a rule proposed by the Indiana Psychology Board that would have restricted the use of psychological tests. Mr. Clawson, I believe I addressed your concerns in another response for the National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc. & Affiliates, but I wanted to respond to the letter sent by FACT was well.
The Board held a public meeting on April 20, 2001 and the rule was withdrawn.


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Having an entrepreneurial vision that imagines the future and defines every detail. Clear ideas, sacrifice, passion and a bond with your land: this is how the Bartolini's dream came true. Today, the family owns 5 restaurants and they don't want to stop. Here's the story of Stefano and Andrea Bartolini and the secrets of their success.
Stefano Bartolini, son of a fisherman and with a degree in Economy, opened his first restaurant, La Buca in Cesenatico, in 1985. He has always been firmly convinced that the quality of food, the Chefs' creativity or a good wine cart are not enough to gain success.
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Their local raw material is fish: by studying different, experimental ways of cooking and serving it, they created different stories to present in a dish. The knowledge and culture of the sea derive from grandfather Marcello, who was a fisherman and a perfect host.


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Panic at Twitter and by Left: All-out effort to stop Musk buyout
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Elon Musk has offered to buy Twitter
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, April 14, 2022
The Big Tech cartel that controls Twitter is reportedly going all out to stop Elon Musk from outright buying the platform.
Musk, who bought 9 percent of Twitter on April 4, has now offered to buy the rest of Twitter Inc. in a deal valuing the social-media platform at more than $43 billion.
Musk, the world's richest man, said he wants to take the company private to make it the online home for free speech.
"I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy," Musk wrote in a letter sent to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor and disclosed in a securities filing.
Twitter is reportedly "weighing a poison pill that would prevent Musk from increasing his stake in the company significantly," a person familiar with the situation told the Wall Street Journal.
The "poison pill" strategy, also called a shareholders rights plan, makes hostile takeovers more expensive and complicated for a buyer. They allow existing shareholders the right to purchase additional shares of the company at a discount, effectively diluting the ownership interest of a new, hostile party.
Twitter employees, who reportedly had a "day of rest" on Monday because they were "super stressed" to learn that Musk decided not to accept a seat on the company's board of directors because he would be free to criticize the platform, according to Bloomberg.
New CEO Parag Agrawal has said Twitter should "focus less on thinking about free speech, but thinking about how the times have changed."
Wikipedia co-founder and Internet theorist Larry Sanger slammed the comments: "So this is how he feels about free speech. Of course. Another Silicon Valley jerk engaging in doublespeak, using what should be an open public square for manipulation and indoctrination."
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald noted: "American liberals are obsessed with finding ways to silence and censor their adversaries. Every week, if not every day, they have new targets they want de-platformed, banned, silenced, and otherwise prevented from speaking or being heard (by 'liberals,' I mean the term of self-description used by the dominant wing of the Democratic Party).
"For years, their preferred censorship tactic was to expand and distort the concept of 'hate speech' to mean 'views that make us uncomfortable,' and then demand that such 'hateful' views be prohibited on that basis. For that reason, it is now common to hear Democrats assert, falsely, that the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech does not protect 'hate speech.' Their political culture has long inculcated them to believe that they can comfortably silence whatever views they arbitrarily place into this category without being guilty of censorship."
In a tweet, billionaire Mark Cuban said that Twitter is desperately seeking a "white knight" to make a competing offer or buy out Musk's position to save the company from his takeover.
"Every major tech company , Google, fb, et al is on the phone with their anti trust lawyers asking if they can buy Twitter and get it approved," Cuban said, adding in a follow-up tweet: "I think Twitter will do everything possible not to sell the company. They will try to get a friendly to come in and buy Elon's shares and get him out"
Musk said that he has a "Plan B" if his initial offer fails.
According to Musk, the social media company needs to go private because it can "neither thrive nor serve" free speech in its current state. "As a result, I am offering to buy 100% of Twitter for $54.20 per share in cash, a 54% premium over the day before I began investing in Twitter and a 38% premium over the day before my investment was publicly announced. My offer is my best and final offer and if it is not accepted, I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder."
Musk's Tesla stake is worth some $176 billion. He has options to acquire millions more shares of the car maker. He also is founder of SpaceX, one of the world's most valuable private companies.
Musk, who has more than 80 million followers on Twitter, has been one of its most vocal critics. A self-described "free speech absolutist," Musk has publicly encouraged the platform to allow a wide range of opinions.
"I am not playing the back-and-forth game," Musk said in what was described in the filing as a voice script. "I have moved straight to the end."
Musk's stake in the company was made public April 4, and plans for him to join the board were announced April 5. He then spent much of this past weekend tweeting criticisms, suggestions and apparent jokes about the company — before deciding not to join the board earlier this week.
Since he says he is "cash poor," Musk would have to borrow on his substantial holdings in Tesla and SpaceX, reports say.
The Wall Street Journal's Liz Hoffman noted: "It isn't clear whether a bank would even make a loan that big secured by a single stock, especially one as unpredictable as Tesla. In the past two months, the electric-vehicle maker has traded as high as $1,145 and as low as $764. Stocks that swing around wildly make for risky collateral because their value could drop quickly, leaving the bank with losses."
Greenwald pointed out that, during the failed campaign by leftists to force Spotify to remove Joe Rogan's podcast, "the real lesson from that tawdry episode was that the central religious belief of American liberals now is censorship. Silencing, deplatforming and otherwise preventing their adversaries from being heard is their paramount goal, their primary weapon."
But, as Twitter displays on a daily basis, leftists "are eager to silence a much broader range of voices than those they can credibly accuse of being hateful," Greenwald wrote. "That is why the newest, and now most popular, censorship framework is to claim that their targets are guilty of spreading 'misinformation' or 'disinformation.' These terms, by design, have no clear or concise meaning."
Greenwald added: "A series of ostensible crises — Russiagate, the 1/6 riot, the COVID pandemic and now this (Ukraine) war — have, in rapid succession, convinced not just liberals but increasingly large numbers of Westerners in many ideological camps not only to tolerate but to crave state/corporate censorship. They have somehow inverted history so that they now believe that it is not censorship that is the favored tool of fascists, tyrants and authoritarians — even though every fascist and despot in history used censorship as a key means for maintaining power — but instead believe that it is free speech, free discourse, and free thought that are the instruments of repression.
"Few events have revealed this twisted framework as vividly as the news that Elon Musk offered on Wednesday to buy Twitter and take it private. The fact that Musk has repeatedly denounced Twitter's increasingly heavy-handed and clearly ideological censorship regime does not mean he is earnest in his intention to restore free speech to the platform, but the mere possibility that he does intend to do so has sent censorship-dependent liberals into spasms of panic and hysteria. Before the morning was over, some were even comparing Musk's offer to . . . . . the rise of Nazism in the 1930s."
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Remembering Davis Police Officer Natalie Corona
January 14, 2019 12:00 am by Dr. Sunny Le
A Great Loss To Our Community
Natalie Corona, a 22 year old officer with the Davis Police Department, was slain on Thursday night in a senseless shooting. During that night, Corona responded to a traffic accident in Downtown Davis. While working on the traffic incident, Corona was ambushed from behind. Without warning, the gunman opened fire as well as fired in other directions and left the scene. Later, the shooter was identified as 48 year old Kevin Douglas Limbaugh. Limbaugh had walked home after the shooting and took his own life.
For nearly 60 years, this is first Davis Police Department officer that was killed in the line of duty since 1959. Over the past 17 years, over 71 officers have been slain in California by an assailant according to the Department of Justice.
Davis Police Chief Darren Pytel indicated that Natalie hadn't had her badge long but that she had a lasting impact on the department. "She was just an absolute star in the department and somebody that pretty much everybody in the department really looked to as a close friend, a sister. And I've heard her described by our officers tonight as our daughter and our friend and our sister that we all wanted. This is just an absolutely devastating loss to the police department."
Following Her Dreams
"Effortlessly beautiful, effortlessly brave and strong" is how Latasha Kelvin, a close friend, describes Corona in an ABC interview.
In her younger years, Natalie Corona grew up in Arbuckle in Colusa County. Corona dreamed of becoming an officer. Even more, her father José Merced Corona was her inspiration. She witnessed her father serve over 20 years in the Colusa County Sheriff's Office. Likewise, following in her father's footsteps, Corona set out to fulfill that dream.
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ABC interviewed Corona's father. "I would come home from lunch and dinner and she'd be waiting for me at the door and she would say "Dad, dad, can I go on a ride-a-long today?" and I told her, "No, Nan, not today. I'm too busy." "
After graduating high school, Corona began her involvement in helping the community by volunteering with the Davis Police Department. Additionally, she worked for a brief amount of time even after funding for her position was exhausted. Thus, she gained the respect and admiration of her peers by still showing up to work even after funding was cut. In July of 2018, Corona was sworn in as a Davis officer after she graduated from the Sacramento Police Academy.
Corona is survived by her father and mother, Merced and Lupe, and her three sisters, Jackie, Cathy, and Cindy.
Natalie's father spoke candidly. "I just want people to remember her. She didn't serve for very long, but she gave her life doing what she loved to do and we have to accept that."
In Honor of Natalie Corona
On Saturday evening in Davis, the community gathered together for a candlelight vigil in memory of Officer Corona. Over a thousand people gathered that evening at Davis Central Park. During the evening, individuals appeared one after another to show respect for the fallen hero. However, emotions were felt throughout the crowd as everyone listened to the stage speakers. Certainly, the loss of young life has affected many in the community, even those who never knew her in life. Above all, many seem sad to see a young life so full of promise tragically cut short.
On Facebook, Corona's page fills will messages of love and emotions from the community as well as the world.
Furthermore, a memorial service for Natalie Corona will be held on Friday, January 18th at 11 AM at the Activities & Recreation Center (ARC) on the UC Davis Campus. Important to note, the memorial service is open to the public. Officer Natalie Corona will be remembered as a hero, giving her life doing what she loved.
Rest in peace Officer Natalie Corona. We at Elk Grove Tribune extend our heartfelt condolences to Natalie's family, friends, and the Davis Police Department.
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The Slidell Greyhounds cut a 13-point deficit early in the second half to just two.
But the Greyhounds couldn't get any closer as Avinger held them off for the 79-67 victory in the Class A Region III quarterfinal at Honey Grove High School Monday.
The loss ends Slidell's season at 24-7 and wrapped up the careers of seniors Tyler Maynard and Khristian Talamantes.
Maynard poured in 35 points for the Greyhounds. He averaged 37.5 in the Greyhounds' two playoff games.
"It was a pretty successful year and the guys should be proud," McCormick said. "We had different guys that stepped up and figured out their roles, including Khristian and Tyler. Every year, the kids' roles have changed. Hopefully our younger kids are ready to step up.
Slidell got off to a slow start Monday, falling behind 7-0. It trailed 14-10 after the first quarter.
Avinger held a 24-20 edge on Slidell midway through the second quarter. Avinger then went on a 16-7 run to build a 40-27 lead.
Slidell fought back, hitting four 3-pointers to start the second half as part of a 20-9 run that got it within two, 49-47, with 2:09 left in the third.
Slidell couldn't continue the streak. Avinger mounted an 8-1 spurt of its own to end the third and take a 55-48 lead.
"We kept getting close and they'd make a run," McCormick said.
Avinger added to its advantage in the fourth, outscoring Slidell 24-19. Avinger hit its free throws down the stretch as Slidell tried to extend the game and send it to the free-throw line.
Colton Crane joined Maynard in double figures for Slidell with 11.


Peel the potatoes, wash, and cut them into 1 inch dice and make 2 cups.
Rinse the potato using colander in running water to remove starch.
Cut half onion into bite sized pieces.
Heat the pan and add 1-2 tbs olive oil and pour the potato into the pan.
Add 2 cloves of minced garlic and sauté it until the potato look a little translucent, then add the onion and keep stirring it.
Add half cup of water into the pan, 2 tbs – 2½ tbs soy sauce (depends on your taste), 1 tbs of sugar, 1 tbs of corn syrup and mix it and simmer it over medium heat for about 10 minutes until the liquid is evaporated.Tip: Keep checking and stirring not to burn it and to cook evenly, if it needs more water, add some.
When the potato is cooked, turn off the stove and add 1 tbs of sesame oil and sprinkle a pinch of sesame seeds.
You can use fresh or frozen cod. If it's frozen, thaw it out in the refrigerator.
Slice it thinly and put it in a bowl.
Sprinkle 1 ts of salt, 2 cloves of minced garlic, and 1 pinch of black pepper into the bowl of cod slices and gently mix it up by hand.
Beat 2 eggs in a small bowl and add a pinch of salt.
Add 1 chopped green onion and red chili pepper into the beaten eggs.
Heat a pan on the stove over medium high heat.
Add 1 tbs of olive oil or vegetable oil to the pan.
Piece by piece, dip your breaded cod into the beaten eggs, and then place the pieces onto the heated pan.
Lower the heat to medium and cook it.
Turn it over using a spatula or spoon.
Marulka, what other fish can be used instead of cod? For example will talapia or red snapper be OK?


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Corona del Mar High School
Super Cooper: Mitchell Cooper makes a splash
It's game day at Marian Bergeson Aquatic Center. Volunteers sell snacks to fans who slowly filter into the bleachers, waiting for the game to begin. Players stretch on the pool deck, snapping on their swim caps and sizing up the competition. When given the go-ahead, they jump in the pool for some warm-up laps. They…
Brooke Pauley
It's game day at Marian Bergeson Aquatic Center. Volunteers sell snacks to fans who slowly filter into the bleachers, waiting for the game to begin. Players stretch on the pool deck, snapping on their swim caps and sizing up the competition. When given the go-ahead, they jump in the pool for some warm-up laps. They focus on their legs, and then their shoulders. In groups of two to four, they practice passing. Finally, when the goal opens, they shoot.
With tanned, taut physiques and bleached-blonde hair, they can only be water polo players. And at the start of every game, Corona del Mar junior Mitchell Cooper is bound to be among them.
The first-year starter is entering his second year on varsity. Cooper has played water polo for eight years. He spends the majority of the year playing club with CdM polo; only two months are devoted to the high school season. Both teams have similar rosters and coaches.
Cooper plays on what is known as the 4-5 side, which is the right side of the offense. The 4-5 side is generally played by left-handers. Cooper, however, has distinguished himself as a uniquely valuable player by developing skills as a right-hander. On the defensive side, he guards the top-tier right-handers of the opposing team.
Win or lose, for Cooper, water polo is about the bonds he shares with his fellow teammates.
"We have a great camaraderie among us," he said. "They are all like a second family to me."
If the team is a family, then Head Coach Barry O'Dea is the inspiring father to all the boys.
"Coach O'Dea can really elevate the entire team's spirits before a big game. All it takes is ten minutes before the entire team's blood starts pumping," Cooper said.
And he rides that high from start to finish. "I love the adrenaline rush that comes after we score a goal in tight games," he said.
He admitted that the game is not without its challenges and that sometimes, "you will wake up at 5:00 a.m. for morning practice and realize that this is not what you want to be doing."
"Water polo requires an 'I want to be here' attitude," he explained, "even more so when it starts to hurt." That attitude is especially impressive given Cooper's rigorous class schedule, which includes Enhanced Math III and Advanced Placement courses in Biology, English, and Spanish. He is also heavily involved with Triton Tech, CdM's robotics club.
Though the days can be hard and long, Cooper says they are well worth it.
"Every time you leave the pool, make sure you go home, eat some cake, and take a nap," he advised. Somehow, this regimen leaves him with enough time and energy to practice parkour and freerunning and "a little bit of rock climbing."
Cooper credits his supportive parents with helping him juggle all the aspects of his life.
"My dad has inspired me to excel in and out of the water, and my mother has encouraged me out of the pool with school and other extracurricular activities," he said.
Cooper has learned many lessons over the course of his water polo career. He has formed lifelong friendships, built a strong work ethic, and proved a powerful addition to a solid team in a competitive program.
When asked if he had any more advice for young players, Cooper deadpanned, "And finally, don't do anything stupid."
So long as Cooper takes his own advice, there is no reason why he will not continue to dive to new depths and soar to new heights, in and out of the pool.