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For the Ware clan, summer basketball is a family affair
By: Edward Moran
The Drew League's most famous family is teaming up in TBT 2019
One can argue that the Ware clan is California's most historic basketball family. In the 1970s, Long Beach-native Casper Ware Sr. starred in Los Angeles' famous Drew League, the biggest pro-am basketball league on the West Coast which in recent years has featured the likes of Metta World Peace, James Harden, and Kevin Durant. By the end of his playing career, Ware Sr. led his team, the L.A. Cheaters, to nine championships, and has been regarded as one of the five best players in Drew League history.
Now, some 40 years later, Ware Sr. is still balling, but has traded in his playing spot for a seat on the sidelines. This summer, Ware Sr. will be coaching the L.A. Cheaters in TBT 2019's Salt Lake Regional. It's a proud moment for the Cheaters head coach who, along with longtime family friend Ronald Scipio, will be coaching both of his sons, Casper Jr. and Ervin Ware. For Ervin, it's another TBT campaign playing under his father. For Casper Jr., it's his first, which means that the Ware men will unite in the pursuit of the ultimate $2M cash prize.
"To have two of your sons playing on (the LA Cheaters), it's big" said Ware Sr. "The competition's good and we just can't wait. It's something that we've been looking forward to and it seems like it's about that time. (TBT 2018) went by so fast and it's already here, so it's something that we're definitely looking forward to."
Despite playing together for the first time in TBT 2019, at least one member of the family has been on the cusp of a TBT title. Casper Jr. was a prominent player on the 2017 Team Challenge ALS squad which made it to the TBT Championship in Baltimore. Against the reigning three-time champions, Overseas Elite, Casper Jr. kept Team Challenge ALS in it, scoring a team-high 22 points and dishing out five assists. Even though they ultimately lost, 86-83, Casper Jr. showed he could lead a team to success in TBT. After Team Challenge ALS's disappointing quarterfinal finish in TBT 2018, Casper Sr. is looking forward to the challenge of having Casper Jr. join forces with him and Ervin.
"I mean, the last two years playing with (Team Challenge ALS) was tremendous," said Ware Sr. "We were watching the games and everything. We were screaming and yelling, rooting for them and it was just a competition and TBT was really strong. You win now, you deserve to win it and they were just that close."
"Any time that you are playing for a cause to try to make a difference and trying to raise money and awareness of the cause, it's always a wonderful thing," said Scipio. "There are so many things that are out here that affect us and if we don't stand for something, we'll fall for anything. I'm just glad that (Casper Jr.) was able to represent that and had a high character coach with Darren Collison, them being upfront. So, that was just awesome to see."
The last time that Casper Jr. and Ervin joined forces, onlookers could tell they were born with basketball in their blood. In the 2016 Drew League, the duo led their team, Basketball 4 Life, to an undefeated 15-0, only the second such record in the tournament's famed history. In the championship game, Casper Jr. capped off the perfect run with a 27-point third-quarter performance.
Despite their limited size – Casper Jr. stands at 5-foot-10, Ervin at 5-foot-9 – they dominate the competition in different ways. While Casper Jr.'s shooting stroke and handle has guided him to a short NBA stint, his childhood saw him relinquish the point-guard role to big brother. With Ervin as the floor general dishing it to Casper Jr. on the fast-break, years of courtyard basketball have culminated in a backcourt chemistry that could frustrate TBT 2019 teams.
"All Casper had to do is run the floor and Irvin would hit it, so that combination there is so tremendous" Casper Sr. added. "Ervin's like a coach on the floor. He's a very smart guard. He's like a coach on the floor. (Ervin and Casper Jr.), small as they are, they run back doors like they're 6' 5" and 6' 8". That's just how it is and it's hard for someone to stop that, because the chemistry they've been playing since they were kids, you don't know what they fixing to do."
The underdog mentality that Casper Sr.'s namesake plays with has continued into adulthood. As a guard at Long Beach State, Casper Jr. capped off his collegiate career with accolades the average player could only dream of. Two-time Big West Player of the Year. Three-time First-Team All-Big West. Two-time AP Honorable Mention All-American.
Despite his college success at Long Beach, Casper Jr.'s NBA dreams were tougher to seize. After going undrafted in the 2012 NBA Draft, he spent the first two years of his professional career in Italy. He began with A.S. Junior of the Italian 2nd Division and, following an MVP rookie season, moved to Virtus Bologna of the Serie A Basketball League.
It was only after Casper Jr.'s second stint in Italy that he received the offer he had long awaited: a 10-day contract from the Philadelphia 76ers. In his first 10-day contract, solid back-to-back performances against the Houston Rockets (7 points, 2 assists, 2 steals) and Detroit Pistons (8 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals) respectively earned him a second 10-day contract with the 76ers which eventually lasted until the end of the season.
Despite his achievements in college, his success in Italy, and proving his worth on an NBA roster, the 76ers traded Casper Jr. to the Brooklyn Nets in October 2014, only to immediately waive him. Almost five years later, after stints in Germany, China, France, and most recently Australia, people closest to him are flummoxed by why "Ware Jr." isn't appearing on the back of NBA jerseys.
'If you can play what you love doing, you're good. So, all you can do, wherever you at, wherever you go, you give it 110 (percent)," said Ware Sr. "I mean (Casper Jr.) really enjoyed going overseas. It wasn't what he wanted, but where he's at and what he's doing, he sacrifices things he has to do and he's doing a good job of it. It's not really like the end of the road or nothing like that, but he's enjoying it right now."
"Even though he didn't make the NBA, I think everywhere he's gone he's proven that he's NBA quality and NBA material" Scipio added. "He's doing everything he needs to do necessarily at his particular size and I think that it doesn't matter but, you know, the size of the heart is bigger than some of the seven-foot giants."
In a few weeks, the Ware trio will be under the roof of the Maverik Center at the TBT 2019 Salt Lake Regional. Off the court, Ervin and Casper Ware Jr. are both Drew League descendants and legends. This summer, they're gunning to cement their place in TBT folklore, and atone for everything this game has made them suffer through.
"They know how to motivate one another," said Scipio. "They know how to motivate players around them. And plus, they're so good at creating plays that that's why a lot of people like to play with them. A lot of people like to play with them instead of playing against them, because you know playing against them you're going to have a Pitbull and a Rottweiler on you all day long."


Eyebrows have remained steadily under the beauty spotlight in recent years, with fashion fearlessly favouring the bold and even the bushy over the thin and delicate brow. Models of the moment like blonde Cara Delevingne and pale Lily Collins sport strikingly dark, thick brows, and they join actors Megan Fox and Jaime King as objects of regular praise on social media and magazines for their "on fleek power brows" – well-groomed, yet strong, eyebrows.
For women with thin or very light eyebrows, using a dark make up pencil to achieve this look is a challenge and requires careful reapplication every few hours. Instead, the last few years have seen more and more women opting for a long term brow boost by undergoing an eyebrow transplant. A strip of hair is removed from the scalp under local anesthetic and around 200 to 400 hairs are added to the eyebrows. The procedure takes just a few hours and the newly-striking brow is usually healed back to normal in a matter of weeks.
A couple of years later, the Daily Mail reported there had been a 45% increase in inquiries for eyebrow implants between 2010 and 2014, with many of the callers looking to reverse damage done to their now-thin brows by previous over plucking.
Back in the UK, the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) recently identified an ongoing trend for British patients to desire a look that is "tweaked not tucked", which means opting for more sensible and minor beauty surgeries that still have a big overall visual impact, like eyebrow implants. Their latest stats suggest this "tweak not tuck" perspective continues to prevail.


Ever since the global banking crisis, financial institutions have remained under the spotlight in terms of behaviour. Scandals such as mis-selling and Libor have tarnished reputations further. Issues such as remuneration, product pricing, data privacy and the willingness to lend have meant that the sector remains under scrutiny when it comes to behaviour.
The economic environment remains challenging for financial services, nonetheless the Financial Conduct Authority remains committed to protecting the interests of consumers.
GoodCorporation has worked with financial institutions to measure how well current practices work, to benchmark them against other organisations and to put in place corrective actions where needed. We developed the auditing framework for the Banknote Ethics Initiative (BnEI), launched in 2013 to promote ethical business practices within the banknote sector and endorsed by over 30 banking institutions including the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Deutsche Bundesbank.
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In 336 B.C., Alexander ascended to the throne of the small kingdom of Macedon in Greece. Less than a decade later, he had conquered half of the known world, building an empire that stretched from Greece all the way to the northwestern corner of India. Poised to invade the Arabian peninsula, Alexander was struck down by a sudden illness (possibly poisoned) and died at the age of 32. His empire did not outlive him - after Alexander's death, his former generals grappled for power, splitting the empire into many smaller kingdoms.
While Alexander died in 323 B.C., the design used on coins struck during his lifetime continued to be used on coins throughout his former empire for centuries to come. The Alexandrian silver drachm and tetradrachm was a powerful symbol of legitimacy, and Alexander's successors sought to associate themselves with his reign by copying his coins. The tetradrachm was the largest silver coin produced for purposes of normal commerce in ancient Greece. The Alexandrian tetradrachm features a portrait of the god Hercules, helmed in the skin of the Nemean lion - the portrait was designed to incorporate Alexander's own facial features, elevating him to semi-divine status. The reverse of the coin features Zeus, the king of the gods, seated on his throne at Mt. Olympus. An eagle, the animal Zeus used as his personal messenger, is perched on his arm - perhaps listening to his latest instructions.
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Nine members of the Hope College faculty will retire at the conclusion of the 2018-19 school year.
The poetry collection "Saint Peter and the Goldfinch" by emeritus professor Jack Ridl of the Hope College English faculty has been published this month through the Made in Michigan Writers Series of Wayne State University Press.
Its title poem responding to the February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the poetry collection "Surreal Expulsion" by David James of the Hope College faculty invites the reader to consider the dynamics of life in an era of division, violence and injustice.


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An incident between one of its vehicles and a cyclist reinforced the decision by waste management company Simply Waste Solutions to fit its entire fleet of refuse vehicles with the latest hard disk recording camera equipment and cyclist safety technology.
Simply Waste Solutions carried out comprehensive trials of all the market leading equipment before making a final decision to choose the RX3 Hard Disk Recording system and Cyclear detection device from Innovative Safety Systems Ltd (ISS).
James Capel continued: "We tried a range of camera systems but we found the quality of footage just wasn't as good as the ISS equipment. Another great feature is that we can download the footage automatically and remotely by WiFi as the vehicles return to our depot so we don't have to send someone out to retrieve the hard-drive out of the cab. It's a seamless process.
A deciding factor for choosing Cyclear was the lack of false alarming, which is a common fault with other systems and causes drivers to ignore the warning signal.
Currently FORS (Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme) Bronze accredited, Simply Waste Solutions is aiming, with the help of the equipment from ISS, to achieve silver accreditation in 2017 and gold in 2018.
A leading vehicle safety technology company ISS designs, supplies and maintains vehicle safety and efficiency equipment, most of which is manufactured here in the UK. Its product range includes vehicle CCTV, Hard Disk Recording, Remote Footage Download Systems, reversing radar, fuel saving modules, vehicle-tracking systems, LED lighting and warning beacons.


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Q: Best way to query a SSAS tabular via powershell I'm very new about SSAS and MS in general. I want to ask you which is the best way to run a simple select query against a SSAS tabular model via powershell.
I have seen the Invoke-ASCmd using the TMSL, but i've not found an example for a simple select statement, so i m not sure is the right way.
Thanks
Giancarlo

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Just As They Are: Ending Conversion Therapy in Our Communities
Sat 10 AM | Landing
Carolyn Reyes
LGBTQ youth experience efforts to change their sexual orientation or gender identity as family rejection, resulting in negative health and mental health outcomes, including depression, substance abuse, and even suicide. But some mental health providers continue to subject young LGBTQ people to these practices — known as "conversion therapy" — even though they have been condemned by every major medical and mental health organization in the country. In this session, we will explore what is conversion therapy and how it manifests in our communities, the harms associated with conversion therapy, and what we can do to help put an end to these dangerous practices. We will also hear from a survivor about her journey from shame and trauma to freedom and healing.
Carolyn Reyes is Youth Policy Counsel at the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), where she coordinates the Born Perfect campaign to end conversion therapy. She is a national expert on issues related to LGBTQ youth in child welfare and juvenile justice who has spent over two decades working on behalf of marginalized children, youth and families in various capacities, including children's attorney, child welfare worker, children and family therapist, and school counselor. Carolyn received her J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law, her M.S.W. from San Francisco State University, her M.A. in Theology (Religion & Society) from Pacific School of Religion, and her B.A. from Wheaton College (IL).
http://www.nclrights.org/our-work/bornperfect/
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Lisbeth Meléndez Rivera
Lisbeth Meléndez Rivera is a 30+ year veteran of the LGBTQ and Labor movements. Lisbeth has extensive experience organizing and training at the intersections of sexual orientation, gender identity, and culture specifically as they relate to communities of color. Lisbeth has crisscrossed the country training workers and community leaders in organizing, leadership development, and community building strategies from a grassroots perspective. She has also done extensive work supporting LGBTQ leaders in America Latina.
Currently, Lisbeth, is the Director of Faith Outreach & Training at the Human Rights Campaign, where she works with people of faith across denominations to ensure we can be who we are, love who we love, and practice our faith free of judgement.
Lisbeth ia a biologist and sociologist by education, with a solid Jesuit and SND formation that makes her passions flare and her days move forward. Today Lisbeth lives in Hyattsville, Maryland, alongside her wife, Lisa Weiner- Mahfuz, and their chosen family, both human and furry!!
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Deb Cuny
Deb Cuny is a Restorative Justice Coach in the Oakland public school system working to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline. She is also an advisory member for the #BornPerfect Campaign to End Conversion Therapy. As a conversion therapy and "ex-gay ministries" survivor, Deb speaks out on behalf of the campaign appearing in national media outlets such as Huffington Post, The Guardian, VICE, New York Magazine's The Cut, and Mashable.
After years of rejection from parts of the church, Deb has returned to her faith tradition graduating with an MDiv. from the Graduate Theological Union. Deb invests her time helping others heal from conversion therapy and spiritual abuse.


Summary: Cadmium is a natural element in the earth's crust. It is usually found as a mineral combined with other elements such as oxygen (cadmium oxide), chlorine (cadmium chloride), or sulfur (cadmium sulfate, cadmium sulfide).
All soils and rocks, including coal and mineral fertilizers, contain some cadmium. Most cadmium used in the United States is extracted during the production of other metals like zinc, lead, and copper. Cadmium does not corrode easily and has many uses, including batteries, pigments, metal coatings, and plastics.


I believe that as we all grow up there are lies that living teaches us. Lies that turn into lessons that we hold fast to, even when we know that holding onto them isn't the way to true happiness. One of the most deeply rooted of these lies that I see in my life, and in the lives of those around me is the lie that I am on my own; that if I don't look out for myself, protect myself, then no one else will. Maybe most of us wouldn't come right out and say that we believe this lie, but I think that if we take a look at how we live our lives we'd find it rings more true than we want to admit.
I know in my own life, this lie lesson has been a determining factor for much of how I choose to live. Whenever a trying situation would be thrown my way my walls would go up and I would live on the defensive, believing I needed to protect myself from the possible pain and hurt to come; because if I didn't no one would.
But as I reflect on today's first reading I am reminded that this lie, that has shaped so much of my life, is not the reality. For, as we're told in Proverbs, "[God] is a shield to those who take refuge in him." As I meditate over and again on this verse, I feel almost as if a weight is being lifted off my shoulders. We are not in this alone. We do have to put up our walls and live our lives on the defensive, always trying to avoid the next moment of suffering, because our God is our shield and all we have to do is to seek refuge in him.
And so my challenge to you today is to offer to the Lord whatever it is that you feel the need to be defensive against and let him fight that battle for you. Pray again through the first two verses of that first reading, and as you do imagine the Lord removing the burden of unnecessary self-preservation from your shoulders. For as Moses said to the Israelites as they were escaping from the Egypt, Pharaoh and his men on their heels: "The Lord will fight for you; you have only to keep still." And then the parting of the Red Sea.
Surrender today your burdens to the Lord, for he is our refuge.
What burdens are weighing me down today?
What lies have I been believing?
Where in your life is the Lord with you and fighting for you?
"I take refuge in God."
I'm a stubborn person- no use in hiding it. From as early as I can remember, I always wanted to be the one to do things on my own. I can try to "blame" it on my Type-A personality that borders on perfectionism at times, or I can just chalk it up to how I was raised or conditioned as a young child to be independent and to do things on my own. But whatever the reason is, I've come to realize that it can be detrimental to my relationships with others, especially the Lord.
We read today in Proverbs that "all the ways of a man may be right in his own eyes, but it is the Lord who proves hearts." If you're anything like me, stubborn as all get-out, you look at this and it either makes you pause to think or you read it and just move on without taking it to heart. Today, it made me pause. Especially when I'm being stubborn, I like to think that all of my ways are right and no one can say anything to me to prove me wrong. I've found myself living in this way in basically every aspect of my life- trying to think that my way, my plans, my effort is all that matters. If I can figure out a plan and execute that plan, I'll be happy. What I so often struggle to remind myself of is that ultimately it is the Lord who proves a man's heart.
I think this is a poignant message from the Lord for everyone, stubborn and independent or not. No matter what, whenever we take our lives into our own hands and push the Lord aside we are failing to live as the Lord has called us and equipped us to live! We so often think that we are the ones that have to come up with the plan and the answers in our lives to lead us to happiness and fulfillment, but today the Lord reminds us that even when we think we can get it done it's ultimately up to Him to lead us to follow Him who is the Way.
Am I living like my ways are the right ways?
What role does the Lord have in my life when it comes to the decisions I make?
How is the Lord calling me to be more dependent on Him and less on myself?
"Help me trust you and not myself, Lord."
"Let me follow your Way."
"Today's prayer was prepared by Adam Smyth, the Life Teen Coordinator at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in the Woodlands, TX.
"For there is nothing hidden that will not become visible, and nothing secret that will not be known and come to the light."
In a lot of ways, that line in today's gospel is INTENSE. For people who have grown up in a world that is hyper focused on our individual freedoms and rights, the fact that Jesus is saying that literally everything we say or do will one day come to light is a pretty direct shot.
Why does Jesus say that?
Jesus is speaking in this gospel about the reality of what it means to live as a Christian. You and I, by the grace of our baptism, have been made heirs to salvation and become adopted sons and daughters of the Heavenly Father.
Based on that reality, as adopted children of the Father, you and I have been given grace, the very life of God which now lives inside of us. This is the light Jesus is talking about, meant not to be hidden but to shine forth. In a world that so often throughout all of history – with our time certainly not being an exception – has been a mess, this light is vital to God's love being poured forth into people's lives.
But what do we do with that light? We hide it. Specifically, we hide and obscure that light by thinking that as long as we're careful, as long as we hide our sin well, as long as nobody gets hurt (or at least not too many people), than a little sin here or there is okay. Yeah maybe I technically shouldn't do that thing or say that thing or think that thing, but nobody is getting hurt so it's fine.
It's not fine. And for you and I who are reading this reflection, those of us taking the time to pray, those of us who are the ones who have been given much and therefore will have much expected of us, it's even more important that we realize it's not fine. Nothing that we do is hidden because God our Father is with us in each moment, loving us, caring for us, and calling us to greater things.
When we became adopted children of the Father we had an eternal inheritance promised to us. Our job is to choose to accept that inheritance, not let the flame of love that brings us salvation die out in the darkness of our sin.
Return to confession. Return to the Lord. Let him love you, care for you, and re-ignite in you the fire of faith that you had when you first met him. Run the race well, seeking holiness not just when you're being seen but in each moment, for you were made to be holy, one set apart for a purpose.
"For there is nothing hidden that will not become visible, and nothing secret that will not be known and come to the light." What does Jesus want you to take from this Gospel?
How are you hiding the light of Christ?
When is the last time you made a good Confession? When can you go to confession?
"Lord, help me see the light."
"Where do I need your light?"
Several times in the Old Testament there is prefigurement of Jesus' suffering and death. Jesus refers to these passages to His disciples, and yet they still don't understand. It is not until the Resurrection that the Apostles' were no longer blind to what Jesus' plan was.
Questioning God to figure out more of the plan for your life is good. It's a way we get to know more deeply His plan for our lives, but we also spend time listening and getting to know God's voice and how he speaks to us. That way if/when we hear a prompting that we don't really like, we have a better understanding as to whether or not it is coming from God.
Discernment of big life decisions (such as what college to go to, what major to study, where to go after college, or our Vocation) is not easy. Sometimes the decisions we have to make will bring us quite a bit of suffering, and in the moment it will not always make sense. But if you spend a lot of time getting to know Jesus, getting to recognize His voice and understand the promptings of the Holy Spirit, then in those moments you will be given the strength you need.
In the Gospel today, the disciples knew it was Jesus talking to them and they still didn't believe what He was saying. But they knew who it was that was speaking (God) and even though they didn't understand it, they moved forward with Him. Not all decisions will have suffering (thank God!), and some decisions will be very easy to see how God is wanting us to move. When the time come when there is a decision that is hard to make, that is when we have to lean in and listen to what God is trying to tell us. And even when it is hard to hear, if we know Who it is coming from, we know that in the end that God will be with us.
What are some decisions in your life that you need to trust God with?
Do you ever question God? How can you turn this into a pray of trust rather than becoming full of fear?
How can you learn to hear the voice of God better in your life?


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The systems development company Advise Solutions were looking for a new brand identity. Something that would reflect who the company really are: passionate, hard-working and unpretentious, with a vision to be the best workplace for developers in Sweden. Advise Solutions emerged as Jelly Hive, ready to take on the world with a new name, new look and new website.
The new brand identity had an important job to do: bring the Jelly Hive values to life. Bold colours and a jaunty logo captured the company's playful spirit, while the new graphic guidelines gave the brand a unique yet consistent visual style.
Modern, clean and easy to navigate, the Jelly Hive website is designed as an interactive platform –a place where the company's employees can express themselves and demonstrate their skills in coding and system development. With its friendly tone and focus on teamwork, the website is more than an inviting digital home. It's an important asset to the Jelly Hive brand – and just what they need to stand out from the rest of the IT crowd.
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Update October 19, 2011: The San Diego Medical Examiner reports the body was a 65-year old man who died of smoke inhalation. His identity has not yet been released.
March 15, 2010 (Spring Valley) – Timing is everything, as an arsonist found out the hard way this morning. Shortly before 7:30 a.m., a San Miguel Fire battalion chief driving in the 3400 block of Sweetwater Springs noticed a man toss something at a boat parked in a home's front yard. An instant later, the 20-foot ski boat erupted into flames.


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Start date: October 2022
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Secondary supervisor(s): Dr Jennie Hancox / Professor Avril Drummond (University of Nottingham)
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Nicole completed a BSc in Psychology in 2017 and went on to complete an MSc in Psychology by Research in 2019 at the University of Buckingham, focusing on aspects of research excellence in academia and its relationship with academics' work life and pressures.
Having a strong interest in health and motivation, Nicole completed the MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Loughborough in 2021. As part of the ESRC studentship, Nicole completed the MSc in Social Science Research (Sport and Exercise) in 2022, providing her with a wide range of knowledge and skills to pursue a career in academia.
Research Title: Enhancing Motivation and Adherence to Exercise Rehabilitation in Stroke Survivors.
A lack of adherence to exercise programmes in rehabilitation risks people's recovery from stroke as well as the resources available within rehabilitation services. Nicole's research aims to provide clinicians and patients with theoretically grounded motivational strategies to support patients' recovery. This project will guide future research on the applicability of theoretical motivational principles in the context of stroke rehabilitation and aid theoretical development.
Nicole's research is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership.


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Alex Stein * | 31.05.2011
Tel Aviv - In June, I will be travelling to India for a year. Globalisation and vast changes in our concept of leisure have turned travel into an activity enjoyed by huge numbers of people, particularly in the West. For me, the act of travelling to India for such a long stretch of time will be an opportunity to ask questions and satisfy my curiosity.
For one, I wonder, how my journey might influence my understanding of my own country, Israel, particularly regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict?
Despite the vast and obvious differences, there are a number of uncanny parallels between Israel and India. Both countries became sovereign nations through partition in the late 1940s, their territories having been previously been part of the British Empire. Both countries were de facto one-party states for 30 years, with political competition concentrated within the (left-wing founding) party, rather than between parties. By the 1980s, a strong right-wing alternative, playing to religious nationalism and deriving from movements that had previously used violent tactics had emerged to become serious players in the government, seen in the Likud in Israel and the Bharatiya Janata Party in India. Both countries have fought a series of wars with their neighbours over land. Both have a Muslim minority of around 20 per cent. Both are modern states based on ancient civilisations seeking to renew themselves.
What Israel lacks, though, is a robust culture of pluralism, and it is this that India has in abundance. During my first visit to India, in the summer of 2008, I was struck by the country's religious diversity. I hiked with Sikhs to the pilgrimage site of Hemkund, sat with Muslims at the 13th century Sufi saint Nizamuddin Auliya's shrine in Delhi, and walked with Hindus through the famous temple town of Khajuraho. This diversity characterises the entire country, whether it be the language, the food or the literature. Even though the majority of Indians are Hindus, the way each group practices their religion is remarkably diverse and pluralistic – and all this in a country with a robustly secular constitution.
Of course, there are still major problems – communal violence, the Kashmir dispute, the conflict with Pakistan, corruption and widespread poverty. But there is much that we can learn from India, and I believe it offers a particularly interesting prism through which to consider the Israeli experience. Crucially, it has managed to create a proud and all-encompassing national culture without forcing its citizens to compromise on their other identities, including their religious identity. It has even done this without a shared language.
Both Israel and Palestine can gain from this. Solving the conflict is currently presented in unnecessarily black-and-white terms. People say: "either Israel or Palestine", "either Jewish or democratic" or "either viable or untenable." This is not constructive. The current state of affairs is not an either-or situation. There are shades of grey.
For example, if final-status negotiations focus solely on the zero-sum question of how to separate the two peoples, then this will be reflected in a future of fear and mistrust. But if agreement can be reached that both sides have national rights that can only be played out somewhere between the river and the sea, then there is the possibility of a more optimistic and pluralistic future. There may be some interesting models to find in India.
It is becoming increasingly clear that whether the solution is two states, one state or a federation, the one-state/two-states dichotomy is false. The unique nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires creativity and flexibility, and a willingness to learn from other countries' experiences.
The Indian experience demonstrates that pluralism needn't mean giving up on a nation's raison d'etre, and that there is nothing to fear from ensuring that minorities have full rights. There is no reason why Israeli nationalism has to come at the expense of Palestinian nationalism. There is no reason why Israeli Arabs cannot play a full part in the life of the Jewish state. We just have to be courageous enough to open ourselves to these possibilities.
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* Alex Stein lives in Tel Aviv and is an activist in Combatants for Peace. He blogs at www.falsedichotomies.com. This article is part of a series on globalisation and religious pluralism written for the Common Ground News Service (CGNews). Source: Common Ground News Service (CGNews), 17 May 2011, www.commongroundnews.org Copyright permission is granted.


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Racial inequality and the pain it has caused have existed far too long. The National Weather Association (NWA) stands with all those affected by its resulting violence and oppression, and we mourn those who have lost their lives to it, including George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others. We know actions speak louder than words. Recent events have us asking what we, the NWA, can do to be a part of the solution.
The NWA was founded on the principle of inclusion and it is a value we retain today. We are much wiser and stronger because of our diverse membership and inclusion. We continue our dedication to increasing our diversity, our understanding and acceptance of each other, and to providing equal opportunity.
We want to create a safe space for our members to hold discussions, even uncomfortable ones, so that we can all be more understanding of each other, become allies for change, and create an environment where we can focus on using our talents to serve others, in line with the Mission of our organization. To do this, the NWA Board is launching a plan of action.
What can we do to help? Please read President Todd Lericos' President's Message on Racism and Bias to learn steps the NWA is taking to act against racism and inequality, with the goal of being part of the solution.
NWA President Todd Lericos
The disgraceful murders of Ahmaud Arbery and, more recently, of George Floyd have spurred nationwide protests against decades of unnecessary repression and violence against people of color. This is leading to long-overdue discussions about race and racism. Personally, it has spurred many conversations with my friends and family and made me think more about the issues of race and where we are as a country.
This process of reflection has brought to mind a quote that I heard once a long time ago from the poet Oliver Goldsmith: "You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips". This quote can, of course, have many meanings to people depending on interpretation. It has relevance to me given current events. The takeaway for me is that it's not as much about what we say, but what we do that really matters.
Many organizations across the country are conveying support to the black community. This is a good thing. In thinking about how this organization should respond, I keep coming back to the meaning of the quote. It is not what the NWA says, it's about what we can do as an association.
The NWA was founded on the premise of inclusion and has taken major strides over the last few years to improve our diversity and inclusion. This has culminated in a series of activities that have brought difficult conversations forward. It has allowed our members to grow personally and professionally. Many of these conversations were needed and we rose to meet that challenge.
So today presents us with another challenge. While we want to convey support to our black members and black people across the country, we also want to do more. We want to act.
I and the NWA Board have made a decision to form an ad hoc team for the purpose of addressing race and race relations. This team will be responsible for developing a plan for a series of activities that will give our members a space to learn, dialog, and grow professionally and personally. Obviously the details will be forthcoming as the team does its work. However, there are already a few good ideas being discussed as a starting point for the team. I am excited to see what the team will come up with.
I have asked Board Member Tyra Brown Harris to lead this team. Aside from being an outstanding leader Tyra has many great ideas that can help us with this journey. I am enormously grateful for her willingness to take up this task. She will be forming this team in the coming weeks and getting started thereafter. They will have the full and unwavering support of NWA Headquarters and the Board. Feel free to contact Tyra at tyra.brown (at) nwas.org.
This Association is going to "preach a better sermon" by acting to start conversations and activities that lead to meaningful change. I hope you will join the efforts and participate in the activities that are to come. Until then take care of yourself and each other.
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by John Jensenius, Lightning Safety Specialist, National Lightning Safety Council
The 20th National Lightning Safety Awareness Week (NLSAW) occurs this year on June 21–27 followed by International Lightning Safety Day on June 28. When LSAW began in 2001, the United States averaged 55 deaths per year based on data from the previous 10 years. That average has now dropped to 26 deaths per year, despite an increasing U.S. population.
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The National Lightning Safety Council (NLSC) attributes this decrease in lightning deaths to increased awareness of the dangers of lightning, improved lightning safety policies and guidelines, and better medical attention for lightning victims. Many of you have contributed significantly to this effort by helping the public understand those dangers and knowing how and when to react to the threat.
While the decrease in lightning fatalities is encouraging, at least 626 people died from lightning strikes during the 19-year period 2001 to 2019. In most of these cases, the victims were only steps away from safety when they were struck. Unfortunately, they either failed to recognize the danger of a nearby thunderstorm or simply failed to respond soon enough to that threat.
Once again, NLSC is asking for your help to provide lightning safety information to the public during NLSAW, and throughout the year. To aid with this effort, there is a wealth of information on their website. The NLSAW webpage provides a topic for each day that you can use on social media and in presentations to educate your friends, family, co-workers, and others about how important it is to understand what to do when lightning threatens.
On the Lightning Fatalities webpage, you can find quite a bit of information on the fatal incidents, including fatality lists by state and by activity. Additional information about NLSC including a list of Council members, their backgrounds, and contact information is available on their website.
The NWS also has a Lightning Safety Tips and Resources website with information that can be used to supplement the topics during NLSAW.
As you can see, there is an abundance of information on lightning safety that you can use to educate yourself, your family, and your friends. And remember: Help us promote lightning safety and "When Thunder Roars, Go Indoors!"
Inspired as a child by a tornado event, Les went on to graduate from the University of Oklahoma in 1970. He then went on to work for the NOAA Commissioned Corp and National Severe Storms Laboratory. Les also worked extensively in the private sector and as consultant among a host of other positions throughout his 40+ year career. Most recently he was assisting the NWS Warning Decision Training Branch in Norman which is a training facility for NWS personnel.
Most are aware that Les is co-creator of the current conceptual model of a supercell and the co-discoverer of the TVS (or Tornado Vortex Signature) on Doppler radar output. The Lemon Technique for supercell interrogation using radar imagery is named after him. His contributions to the field are significant and in large part have enabled the advances made in tornado warnings over the last 20-30 years.
Les was very active in NWA as well. He served as President in 2001, Vice President in 1999, and was an NWA Councilor from 1997-1998. He was given the NWA Special Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 for his contributions to the field of operational meteorology.
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How likely is that chance of thunderstorms? A study of how National Weather Service forecast offices use words of estimative probability and what they mean to the public by Lenhardt, E. D., R. N. Cross, M. J. Krocak, J. T. Ripberger, S. R. Ernst, C. L. Silva, and H. C. Jenkins-Smith.
One of the challenges when communicating forecast information to the public is properly contextualizing uncertainty. No forecast is ever certain, as no meteorological phenomenon is guaranteed to occur. As such, the uncertainty in forecast information should be communicated in a way that makes sense to end users.
Previous studies of the communication of probabilistic information suggest that, although the general public are more apt to communicate uncertainty with words of estimative probability (WEPs), they prefer to receive uncertainty information numerically. Other work has suggested that a combination of numbers and WEPs is the best method for communicating probability, but fewer research studies have assessed the communication and interpretation of probabilistic meteorological information.
In this study, we code 8900 tweets from the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Offices (WFOs) and analyze them to find how forecasters communicate probabilistic forecast information to the public via Twitter. This analysis reveals that WFO messaging is dominated by WEPs, with few numerical descriptions of probability. These WEPs are generally vague, unqualified notions of probability that may impede the public's ability to interpret the information that forecasters are trying to communicate.
Based on this analysis, two publicly fielded surveys also are analyzed in order to understand how participants tend to interpret the most common qualified and unqualified WEPs that WFOs used on Twitter. Though participants generally interpret qualified WEPs more consistently than unqualified WEPs, both categories featured a wide range of interpretations that suggest both types of WEPs are vaguely defined for the general public.
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Shuttle Pod 37: Games? Did Someone Say Games?!
| June 14, 2017 | By: Shuttle Pod Crew 12 comments so far
Games have played an important part of the Star Trek universe, whether it's starting The Original Series with a game of 3D chess or ending TNG with a round of poker.
But what about games based on Star Trek properties? Following our review of the Star Trek: Bridge Crew simulator, Brian and Jared do a deep dive on Star Trek video and tabletop games, including the Decipher CCG, the new role-playing game, and the 25th anniversary point-and-click game.
But are any of these, perchance, a deadly game?!?
As a special bonus, we put together a short video examining why Star Trek fits better in some game genres more than others:
What's your favorite game based on Star Trek? Let us know in the comments below!
Games, Kelvin Universe
New Star Trek VR Game 'Star Trek: Dark Remnant' Arrives At Dave & Buster's
Calculon
You need to check out this documentary on Secret of Vulcan Fury https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiKKZAc0OL0&t=1s
B Kramer
Excellent, thanks.
Brian Drew
Very cool. Thanks for posting!
DenesHouse
I play Star Trek: Attack Wing regularly, and love it. As a family, we play Star Trek Panic and Star Trek Catan, which is even better than regular Catan, as a game, not just as Star Trek.
Adam David Collings
Ah so many memories.
25th Anniversary and Judgement Rites.
I cried when I learned that Secret of Vulcan Fury was canceled.
I absolutely loved A Final Unity.
Another one that you guys didn't mention was DS9 Harbinger. I really enjoyed that one too (although the second half was frustrating, full of difficult maze puzzles and "arcade sequences") A Final Unity made me feel like I was in an episode of TNG, whereas Harbinger made me feel like I was on the station.
Trektacular
So, here's the thing. Brian is right that the Star Trek 2013 was a total mess. I was excited to get it, but I held off after hearing/reading all of the terrible reviews.
So, fast forward six months after release, and I see it on sale for $8. I mean, it's $8. Why the heck not, right?
Know what? Remember all of those bugs that were the focus of the bad reviews? Well, they were all patched by then. I didn't encounter a single problem all the way through the game.
Now, are the graphics top notch? Heck no. They were probably five years behind cutting edge. And the one time you control the enterprise itself, it was a bit of an awkward mode. But I thought the rest of it was pretty fun. Granted, I haven't been much of a gamer since 2004 (so, it helped that the controls were a little more my speed and not hyperactive like a call of duty game where you get slaughtered right out of the gate why today's skilled players).
I thought the music was good (felt like a riff on the 2009 music, and in retrospect, doesn't into darkness and beyond feel like that too?). And the voice work included some (if not all) of the actual actors.
So, if you're a hardcore gamer or are picky about cutting edge graphics, then this game is not for you. But for those who passed on it because of the bad reviews, it may be worth a second look (if you can find it on the cheap, of course).
Anyway, just thought I'd pass that along.
Thanks for the good podcast as always!
Interesting. I still have my copy, even though my PS3 is now collecting dust. I may get it going again. Thanks for the heads up and for listening!
You got it! If you end up trying it out again, I'd be curious to know what you think the second time around.
Joong Cho
Where's Kayla in this podcast?
She's away at the moment. We mention that at the end of the show.
Oh. Thanks for that.
You forgot to cover Star Trek Timelines, which is available for smart phones, or weren't you going to cover this game.
I'm playing this game a lot and enjoying it a lot.
The only downside is, they bring out plenty of new crew every month or so for their special event missions when you only have a certain number of crew slots available.
Star Trek Timelines should have been mentioned.


The Itchen Valley brings together two connected landscapes, the chalk grassland of the South Downs and the wetlands, chalkstreams and fens of the River Itchen. Together they form a vital area of work for the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.
Chalk Rivers are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in Europe, and the Itchen is regarded as one of the 'jewels in the crown'. World renowned for its 'ginclear', mineral-rich water, stable river flows and temperate waters, it's home to a wide range of plants, and a rich, yet sensitive ecosystem including Atlantic salmon and brown trout.
The river is also intrinsically linked to the valley through which it flows. The fertile fen-grasslands were changed in the 17th century for irrigation, creating the Itchen's unique conditions for habitats and species.
Today however, the Itchen Valley faces immense challenges. Abstraction of water for public water supply and deteriorating water quality – notably as a result of septic tanks, watercress growing and fish farming along the river – are possibly the greatest impacts affecting its health.
The Trust has worked with landowners on the Itchen Valley for thirty years and has been at the forefront of efforts to conserve otter and the white-clawed crayfish. Working with Natural England, the Trust has provided a management 'service' to landowners, offering practical expertise for restoring the river and floodplain and returning to traditional livestock grazing.
The Trust is now involved in actively managing more than 20 sites in the Itchen Valley, including reinstating grazing by livestock. This helps maintain the unique open meadows and the wildlife that live in them, which would otherwise be lost to trees and scrub.
The Trust's herd of traditional breed British White cattle are helping us restore these grasslands to their former glory. Species like water avens, ragged robin and meadowsweet quickly appear, as well as waterfowl such as wigeon, mallard and gadwall.
Putting back the pieces of the jigsaw within the floodplain not only helps wildlife and habitats to thrive, but also helps the river and floodplain to function more naturally. This offers more natural flood protection and improved water quality - demonstrated perfectly at our Winnall Moors nature reserve during the 2013/14 winter floods. Using the Itchen's natural floodplain helped divert high flood waters away from Winchester city centre, preventing the kind of devastating urban flooding we saw elsewhere in the country.
Our vision is to restore the valley for wildlife, while also trying to improve flood protection, water quality, environments for fisheries and habitats for pollinators.
With a nod to the past we are restoring the valley for future generations and working hard to protect one of our most treasured natural assets.


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Four new CDs unearth soul/R&B that's as good as it is obscure. Plus, an anthology of Memphis music and new releases from NRBQ, the Super Saturated Sugar Strings, the Furious Seasons, and Kris Lager Band.
A five-CD, 50-year retrospective shows NRBQ to be among the most versatile acts in the history of rock.
The object of this challenge was to unearth the best (in my opinion) Beatles-influenced tracks from all eras that most people have never heard before.


"The United States' attack on the International Criminal Court is an attack on millions of victims and survivors who have experienced the most serious crimes under international law and undermines decades of groundbreaking work by the international community to advance justice.
"Rather than imposing sanctions, the United States should instead once and for all reaffirm its signature of the Rome Statute establishing the ICC, and support – not impede – its investigations.
Amnesty International has called on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and surrender him to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The ICC has issued arrest warrants for President Bashir for his alleged involvement in war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Darfur.
"The Democratic Republic of Congo should not shield President Omar al-Bashir from international justice," said Muthoni Wanyeki, Regional Director for East Africa at Amnesty International.
"His visit to the country is an opportunity to enforce the arrest warrants and send a message that justice must prevail."
If the DRC does not arrest President Bashir, it will violate its obligations under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
President Omar al-Bashir flew to Kinshasa this evening to take part in a meeting of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA).
Authorities in Côte d'Ivoire must transfer former militia leader Charles Blé Goudé, who is accused of crimes against humanity, to a legally recognized place of detention where his relatives and lawyers can visit him, Amnesty International said.
Charles Blé Goudé, a supporter of former president Laurent Gbagbo, has been detained unlawfully by the Ivorian Ministry of Interior for the past year on charges relating to the 2010-11 post election violence.
"Preventing Charles Blé Goudé from seeing his lawyers will not serve justice for the victims of the crimes he is accused of," said Gaëtan Mootoo, West Africa researcher at Amnesty International.
Member states of the United Nations General Assembly must demand that Sudan's President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir surrender to the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he faces charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, said Amnesty International.
President al-Bashir has reportedly applied to the United States Embassy in Sudan for a visa to enable him to travel to the 68th session of the UN General Assembly in New York before its general debate opens on 24 September.
The ICC has issued two arrest warrants against President al-Bashir accusing him of responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide committed by Sudanese forces and their allied Janjaweed militia in Darfur, Sudan.
"Despite the ICC arrest warrants against the President, two other government officials and an alleged Janjaweed militia leader, they are all being protected by the Sudanese government which is refusing to cooperate with the Court," said Tawanda Hondora, Deputy Director of Law and Policy at Amnesty International.


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The Steve Noeller Story – A Material Handling Autobiography
Posted on February 26, 2016 by Steve Noeller
It's not too often that young boys grow up saying; I want to sell lift trucks or design distribution centers when I grow up. That was the case for me too. As a young kid all I cared about was my buddies at school and whatever sport was in season. If I wasn't dreaming of becoming the next Super Bowl MVP, perhaps being a fighter pilot was an alternative choice for me.
Companies on the lookout for successful outside sales people in the business to business world look for energetic self-starters. They want passionate people responsible for their results and able to achieve goals regularly, combined with good listening skills and enthusiastic personalities also. Myself, do a Wikipedia search on generation X traits and characteristics and you might find my picture. Also known as the MTV generation, I can still name all of the original V-Jays from MTV. With both parents working hard jobs, I certainly was a latch key kid. I certainly fit the work hard/play hard motto, and certainly am a work to live rather than live to work kind of person. I can also say that I like a hands off style of management. Those traits seem to fit well with a material handling salesman!
Well, its 1985, high school is over and I did what most good high school students did, off to College at the University of Iowa. From the start I think I changed my major every semester, I didn't know what I wanted to study or what I wanted to do as a career choice at this point in time. Soon I started working at a full service Sinclair Gas Station which lasted until November 17, 1988. I remember the day as it was the "Great American Smoke out" day. Late that night I was held up at gun point, so I thought it was time for a career change. I landed a new job at Hawkeye Food Systems in the building maintenance department. My material handling career is now kick started. I worked all 7 days every week, but Hawkeye allowed me the flexibility of coming and going during the week to attend classes at the University. Weekdays I took out trash and swept floors, fixed what was broken, and did a variety of warehouse maintenance work. My pallet truck was a Prime Mover 12 volt resistor controlled rider pallet jack. Hawkeye had an old warehouse that used straddle trucks, a Yale, Shrek, Gregory and an Allis Chalmers counterbalanced stand up. The new warehouse was larger and more modern, used Crown Reach Trucks and Prime Mover pallet jacks.
Several times during the week you would get the ability to unload inbound trucks for cash. This was hard work but great cash for work; AKA "lumpers work". Truck drivers in the late 80's paid between $100 – $150 cash to have you unload the food onto pallets, 8 tie, 5 high or however the different SKU needed to be hand stacked, it would take 2 guys about 90 minutes for a typical load.
The primary forklift dealer who helped Hawkeye Foods was Liftruck Service Co., more to that later.
On Saturday's, I scrubbed the whole warehouse with an Advance Walk behind Sweeper/Scrubber. The day was done when the warehouse was clean. Sunday's were interesting, for three years I unloaded a produce truck inbound from California. My college roommate and I, Jim Belknap (still at HFS, now called US Foods) lumped the trailer and put away 40,000lbs of fresh produce and cleaned the dock when done, typically a 4-5 hour Sunday. I'd say I've stacked my share of Bud of California lettuce in my life. In December of 1990, I finally got my Bachelor's Degree from the U of I, time to get a real job.
My first sales job started in early March of 1991. I went to work as a Driver/Sales Rep or route sales with Paul Jerabek Wholesalers in Cedar Rapids, IA. This was the most typical work hard/play hard job in the world. Everybody loved the guys that brought the beer to them. I slimmed down to 158lbs my first year, lot of hard labor and sweat. My tool was my Valley Craft Two-Wheel Hand Cart.
We sold and distributed Stroh Brewery brands of beer. Old Milwaukee in the early 1990's was the #4 selling brand in the United States, and Old Milwaukee Light was #8, but also held the distinction of being the fastest growing brand of beer in the US. You loaded your own truck (bottlers tilt on the forklifts to load your bay trucks 16 bay tractor/trailer.) Sold, delivered, merchandised and got paid. Your day was done when all of your customers got their deliveries.
We had 8 routes, one swing driver, one supervisor, one sales manager, 2 office staff, and then the owner. Lean and mean, I missed just one day in 5 years for sick time, I threw my back out on Thanksgiving Day 1993. It was just a different era, we didn't' have anybody who could do your job, nobody ever or rarely missed work.
By the mid 1990's, the Stroh Brewery was making big mistakes. A large sexual harassment lawsuit hit them at their St. Paul, MN brewery. This combined with the Big 2 (Miller and Budweiser) flexing their muscles were the Stroh Brewery's demise.
Anheiser Busch launched massive national marketing campaigns with Busch and Busch Light popular priced brands while Miller High Life reintroduced Miller as a popular priced beer. At Old Milwaukee we lost tap handles, displays and ads, and cooler space at the convenience stores.
Like a flip of the switch, our beer volumes dropped like a lead balloon. I left Jerabek Wholesalers and my Valley Craft two wheel cart in 1996 after 5 really fun years. Paul Jerabek Wholesalers was out of business by the turn of the new Millennium.
The next chapter of my career is an interesting but short one. I spent one year as a DSR (driver sales rep) with Conway Central Express or CCX. Today they are known as Conway Transportation and part of the larger company, XPO Logistics, a big player in the supply chain. Our local Cedar Rapids branch (XCR) was connected to regional cross dock locations of Des Moines, IA, Quad Cities, IL, Aurora, IL, Des Plaines, IL, Gary, IN, and Minneapolis, MN. While on the docks, you hoped to get on a Toyota 5 Series, cushion tire forklift. Those were the good ones, young guys like me ended up on an old junk Komatsu diesel most times.
Do you ever wonder how your freight can get damaged? Spend a night at a large re-ship cross dock, you will leave wondering how any freight can ship and NOT be damaged. Some cross docks have over 200 dock doors, 50-70 drivers from within a 5 hour drive, all showing up by 11:00 p.m. breakdown trailers from each driver pulling "pups", 2 – 28' trailers and taking their own local freight back home.
CCX was the 2nd most profitable LTL (less than truckload) freight carrier in 1996 based out of Ann Arbor, MI. After a year I can tell you I was an expert forklift operator, you really learn how to handle all kinds of freight with the tires of an LP forklift but I was done with no seniority and working crazy hours driving a really big semi-truck.
By the spring of 1997, I had answered an ad from Liftruck Service Company looking for an outside sales rep for an Eastern Iowa territory. LTS was the Crown and Nissan forklift dealer and also the Yuasa-Exide motive power dealer based in Davenport, IA.
I was given 4 days of application training by my new boss, Bill Moomey. Bill had been at Prime Mover for 25 years (now the Raymond plant in Muscatine, IA) and was brought on to help generate better Crown sales in Iowa and Western Illinois. I was also trained at the Crown factory.
They have a 1 week product training school and I also went through Crown DPS Class, or Dimensions of Professional Selling. I went on plenty of ride-alongs. One with the Crown Regional Sales Manager; Ron Wade was my first. He went on to work for Lift Stak and Stor, eventually my major competitor. My second Crown RSM was Robert Montgomery; he is now running a Crown factory branch in the Carolinas. Early success came to me with Crown sales. Iowa Glass was buying 12 stock pickers per year and Hawkeye Foods was always buying trucks for Iowa City and Danville, IL. Cedar Rapids Gazette bought 20 new trucks for their new press location – Exide batteries, NEO Data in Clarion, IA and ADM Animal Health in Des Moines was where I sold Crown TSP Turret trucks.
In my second year, I was given a Major Account role, was working the whole state and in W. Illinois. I sold some new Crown sit down reach trucks that year to Experion in Mt. Pleasant, IA and also Firestone in Des Moines, IA, replacing an old Raymond sit down reach design that was like a dinosaur. I was starting to win battles against the Raymond rep, Jay Miller, at places like the Gazette, Centro, Crystal Cold Storage, and Amana, to name a few. Then one day at a Des Moines material handling show at Vets Memorial, I met Jay Miller from Allied Handling, The Raymond dealer in Iowa.
I started with Allied Handling on February 1, 1999 after Jay Miller and Dave LeMaster promised better days for me. Allied Handling's competitive advantage was their service department. LTS/Crown struggled in this area. Allied Handling had a Service Manager that also acted as their Branch Manager, Brian Dawson. They had great technicians and were very hard to unseat in accounts where Allied provided service. After about a couple of months, I was being sued on a breach of a non-compete agreement that I had signed when joining the Crown dealer. "It's not worth the weight of the paper it's written on", was what I heard, but on July 1, 1999, a judge in Linn County, IA enforced a 1 year sentence on me; I could not sell or call on any customer for 1 year that was located within LTS Company's area of coverage.
What to do? My new friend, Jay Miller, was up in Minnesota acting as Sales Manager, trying to get a new Raymond dealer going in the state, so I went to help him sell in Minnesota. As 1999 wore down and a new millennium broke in, I was a kid in a candy store. In a great economy and big market in the Twin Cities, sales for me were great. Onan (Cummins Power Generation) bought VNA and Drexel was out.
Department 56 was a great new DC in Rogers, MN and I even sold a SMARTi installation. (Systems Management and Recording Tool with intellidrive) It was telematics before its time and no, it really never worked right, but we sold it anyway.
At the end of 1999 and having lived in hotels and extended stay hotels, I hated my living experience in Minnesota. Over the holiday, I searched and found a furnished apartment in downtown Minneapolis. I wasn't happy about paying rent on top of a house payment for a house that I wasn't using in Cedar Rapids, but I wanted to make the most of my next 6 months and the hotel life wasn't going to cut it. By now another Sales Manager, Dan Bergren, was in place in Minnesota and we started selling beyond the lift truck. Dan taught me a lot in a short time. We sold deeper into customers like CNS (Breathe Rite), building everything inside their new Eden Prairie DC, sold an Eskay-Daifuku mini load system to Graco, lots of high tech picking technology to Simon Delivers (now Coborn's Delivers) and an engineering study to PM Holdings in Windom, MN. (How did that turn out?)
By the summer of 2000, my year of non-compete in Iowa is over and back home I go to do the job I was hired to do. To say we dominated the marketplace for the next few years in Iowa is an understatement. We hit 70% market share in our key Class II market share (narrow aisle) one year. Converting former Crown users to Raymond was also underway. My former employer, Hawkeye Food Systems, finally bought Raymond in Iowa City and a new warehouse full of trucks for a new Fairmont, MN location. Amana bought 2 EASi Reach Trucks as well as Crystal Cold. Old loyal Raymond users stayed loyal; Blooming Prairie, Martin Brothers, and CDS in both Wilton and Tipton were expanding and moving into VNA (very narrow aisle). Life was good, safe to say, our major competitor in Iowa wasn't even Crown, it was Hupp Electric, the Toyota dealer.
Fast forward to June 2002, I lost a close personal friend to a motorcycle accidental death. Kevin Reiter was only 28! My dealer Principle and CFO came to see me in the Quad Cities, wondering what is up. Another re-organization and they wanted me to be the Sales Manager, with a relocation package to move me back to Minnesota! The time was right for me this time, so on July 1, 2002, I started my position that I hold today; Sales Manager, overseeing Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa.
The first few years were rough going. Target was massively expanding their Distribution Center network, and buying only Crown. Associated has only been the Raymond Dealer since 1997, and they were struggling. I was the 4th Sales Manager in 5 years.
Our market share in Minnesota was only 13% in the key, Class II arena when the expectation back in this era was 38%. I got to take phone calls from Jim Malvaso and Jim Bennett from Raymond as well as my boss at the time, Dave LeMaster; "Hennepin County is one of the Top 5 Counties in the US of concern." What did I get myself into! The only thing that got me through 2002 was my beloved Iowa Hawkeye football team was 8-0; Big Ten Champs and a BCS trip to the Orange Bowl with my buddies was a good way to finish 2002!
Things were pretty much no fun for a few years. There was a lot of staff turnover and to get my mind off of work at night, I started a new hobby; running. This was a great way to exorcise the demons. I also changed the way I managed my staff. I really started much more of a Field Sales Management approach, helping out on calls and developing business. Things started turning around for us in Minnesota. Iowa had its ups and downs, but for the most part was still the main game in town. In February, 2006, we won the Ecolab business, thanks to my new relationship and friendship with Scott Wheeler who came to Ecolab from Edy's Ice Cream out of Fort Wayne, IN. It's a good thing I knew all about the late 70's New York Yankees because Scott was a huge fan. The Yankees were always the nemesis of my beloved Kansas City Royals from 1976-1978. Scott and I talked a lot of baseball and enjoyed a few games in the not so nice Metrodome.
In between 2005 and 2007, I went on Raymond factory visits with customers on 7 different occasions. Traveling on the Raymond corporate jet was a really cool experience for an aviation enthusiast like me. I even knew where the CEO kept his private scotch bottle; good thing scotch isn't my thing.
As it turns out, 2007 was quite a busy year on a lot of fronts. On New Years Eve 2006, I had my first date with Michele, who eventually became my wife. We were married on April 21, 2009 and still reside in Savage, MN today.
Also in 2007, about 1 week before my 40th birthday, I completed my first full marathon when I ran Grandma's Marathon from Two Harbor's, MN to Duluth along the North Shore of Lake Superior.
2007 hits and the economy starts tanking, the second economic downturn in my career. The post 9-11 downturn was quick to recover, and I succeeded during that time. This one was no different. New equipment sells fell 43% in 2008, but we had our best year ever during this span. Winning the Thomson-Reuters business in February 2008 helped pave the way during tough times.
It's a good thing to have strong sales members when one of the biggest economic set-backs sets in. You really understand just how competitive our industry is during these times. Instead of the traditional 1 or 2 major competitors involved with your deals, it wasn't unusual to see 5 or 6 people bidding on a typical 4 lift truck deal. So when the going gets tough, the tough get going. I am happy to say that neither the post 9.11 downturn nor the economic re-sets of 2007 and 2008 had a real major impact to us. We did lean up our staff, competed hard and survived into the recovery period where business led us into the record levels we are recording today.
To say all that we have accomplished is all my doing would not be correct at all. I have a great team around me. Gary Stitz started with Allied Handling about a year after I did. To say he has won some great customers over the years is an understatement. My favorite story with Gary is the Pure Fishing story. He asked me to join him for a Friday appointment with a new Operations Manager. This fellow came from Wal-Mart and for an hour told us how great Crown was. I shook Gary's hand in the parking lot after our meeting for my 4 hour drive home and said "Good luck winning this deal" And, like so many others, he won! Pure Fishing is still a Raymond customer today.
Andy Volz has had some great E & D success at John Deere and in recent years converted Flexsteel, a Crown user, to Raymond furniture pickers.
Dave Minikus, our longest tenured rep who has been with Associated since 1997, had a lot of early success at accounts like Sysco which never had Raymond and now has over 100 trucks in Mounds View, MN.
When Dick Knuth was nearing retirement, I had to source his replacement. I recruited a Caterpillar National Account Rep named Bob Anderson for 18 months. After stalking Bob long enough he left Citi Capital Leasing and has taken our National Accounts efforts to a whole new level. Many multiple truck (200+) years wasn't all, he has sold i-warehouse, fleet management, tons of motive power solutions, and some engineering and design solutions to his customers.
Newest staff members include Ryan LaFerriere and Jason Sheplee, each with their own material handling backgrounds. Ryan was our Used Equipment/Rental Manager for 7 years. Jason cut his teeth as a kid in his families' material handling business. You can check out Ryan's work at Polaris in Vermillion, SD; $1.2 million in rack! Check out the Rogers/Otsego area and chances are they are Jason's customers; this is one of the hottest industrial areas in the Twin Cities.
As good as 2014/2015 was, it wasn't without setbacks. Dick Knuth went fully into retirement and I lost Doug Larsen, Steve Wurst, and Andy Volz. Doug has proceeded to go into management and is now a Regional Warehouse Specialist with NACCO and Mr. Wurst is now selling Yale equipment. I lured Andy back after a short hiatus.
It's 2016 and where do we go from here? Onward and hopefully upward is the direction. I still keep my Class A unrestricted CDL up to date, complete with hazmat double, triple endorsements, just so I know what is there for me if I don't succeed in material handling sales!
It really is amazing to understand how huge the material handling industry really is. From all of the forklift dealers that exist, sales and service centers of all kinds in an industry that sells hundreds of thousands of forklifts each year to start with. Then add all of the small items from a wheel chock or trailer stands to ergonomic lifts, this industry gets really big really fast when you think about it. Then involve all of the consulting firms, automation people and implementation of professional services, massive becomes an understatement.
This industry is very mature, just look at how long some of these companies have been in business. It is also full of companies claiming to be pioneers, innovators, and my favorite you see mentioned all of the time; "an industry leader"!
The best companies will surround themselves with the best professionals that are in our industry. Give them the right tools and support to succeed, and I still believe people buy from people (B2B). Those with the best energized companies will strive moving forward.
As for us, coming off of a year where nearly 1,000 Raymond trucks were purchased out of our division, Engineering & Design solutions had strong results, telematics, fleet management and large Allied product sales, the sky can only be the limit.
This "create your own material handling career story" came from our marketing group right at the end of 2015. While marketing is always asking for stories from staff, this one I wanted to write as I knew my story was somewhat unique and fun, although crazy at times.
As I board a plane for Los Angeles on December 30, 2015, I drafted out my story, something to do on a 3 hour flight. Fact of the matter is 2015 was the best year ever both in my material handling career and also with the things I follow passionately. See back in 1985, my freshmen year at Iowa, their football team was really good, ranked #1 for 5 weeks. I was at the #1 Iowa v. #2 Michigan game, still my all-time best when Rob Houghtlin kicked a last second field goals, Iowa 12, Michigan 10. Jim Harbaugh was the Michigan quarterback, Chuck Long for Iowa. This year Iowa started 12-0, and went back to the Rose Bowl, first time since 1991. The 1985 and 2015 team both lost the Rose Bowl, shucks.
Prior to football, my Kansas City Royals won the World Series over the NY Mets in 5 games. Last World Series title prior, 1985. I remember watching game 7 in 1985 from my dorm room, eating a $5.00 Domino's pizza. It feels a lot like 1985 all over again.
Let's just hope it doesn't take another 30 years to have this much fun at work and at play again!
Steve Noeller
Posted on February 25, 2016 by Tanya Kiefer
Ever since I can remember, I dreamed of becoming an Engineer. Starting in 5th grade, I started mapping out my path to achieve my dream with my father. My father is an Engineer and, at one time, owned his own conveyor company. I really loved hearing about his projects and listening to his work calls, so he inspired me to learn about more about the career.
I chose to go a private high school to build a solid foundation and education for my studies. I would forego my spring breaks to travel to job sites to watch and learn new packaging lines being installed. After I graduated high school, I went to work for him at his Company for two summers. I remember teaching myself AutoCAD from scratch. I was in awe of how fun and powerful this tool was and have never stopped drawing to this day. I remember many sleepless nights in college studying the math and science classes needed to graduate with an Engineering degree. I knew when I stepped on the stage to receive my diploma that the best chapter of my life was about to begin.
My Supply Chain career has directly influenced my relationship with my father. Ever since high school and to this day, I have never missed attending ProMat with my father. We always walk the show and spend numerous hours discussing new and interesting technology emerging over the years. It is so great to share a knowledge and common interest in equipment and technology.
Throughout my career, I have also had many opportunities to give back to the Community. My passion is to educate middle school and high school children about Engineering and Supply Chain. I have spoken at work events, schools, and Career Day events. I have had many children come up to me and thank me for making a difference in their lives by inspiring them to pursue Engineering.
If feel as an Engineer and a Salesperson, I am able to reach many people to educate them on the importance of Supply Chain and the impact on their Organization. I think anyone who knows me, knows my enthusiasm and dedication to finding the best solution and resources for Customers and colleagues alike. If I can leave a meeting introducing new ways of thinking and offering "out of the box" solutions, then I feel like I have accomplished my mission in life. To me, in my daily dealings, I feel like it is important to leave a positive impression and open up a line of communication for years to come.
I have been in this industry for 20 years and, on a daily basis, make connections with friends, colleagues, and Customers whom I have had the pleasure to know over the years. I feel like Material Handling is a small and tight knit community and have always made sure to be a resource to others with no hesitation to reach out to them when I need help. I have watched various new trends and technologies emerge, and I can say that I strive to keep current and understand their impact on the future of the Supply Chain. I would be truly honored to say I could represent the face of Supply Chain.
Tanya Kiefer
Posted on February 24, 2016 by Lisa Everly
My initial exposure to the Supply Chain Industry and my earliest memories began when I was a little girl listening to my family talk "shop" at family gatherings. My family at one point or another, sometimes simultaneously worked in manufacturing, distribution and transportation. My fondest memories are of my Grandfather who worked for a small family owned Janitorial Supply Company delivering product to local customers. During the summer months I would spend a portion of my day riding along watching him interact with what appeared to be friends but in reality were customers. The time I spent with my Grandfather although I didn't know it at the time, taught me a great deal about respect for the customer, hard work, dedication and loyalty.
Many years later I became a member of a manufacturing company, little did I know at the time but my experiences and the lessons learned would result in a love for the industry and a lifelong passion and career. I am very fortunate to have spent time in manufacturing, working with people who were willing to share their knowledge which allowed me to grow with the company. There never seemed to be a limit to how much I wanted to learn or how much they were willing to teach. For me, being in manufacturing working with the tremendous talent never really felt like work, we were a family striving to make a difference. I recall vendors becoming friends and in some cases like family sharing in our annual Christmas Party, picnics and social events. These relationships taught me the value of team, never discounting another person's abilities. I often look back at my years in manufacturing and realize that from this one company I learned lessons which drives my work today.
Today, my career allows me to be in a position which helps bring positive change to our company, team and customers. My role allows me interactions with all levels of our organization gaining an understanding of their needs to provide our internal and external customers with the promised products and services. A unique aspect of my role allows me to be part of the interview process. My contribution provides hiring managers a look at the candidate from a cultural, team and customer "centric" point of view. My candidate review helps to ensure that all new team members share values similar to those of our existing members ultimately enriching the team.
The amazing thing about the Supply Chain Industry is that with all the innovation, automation and struggles faced today, the heart of the industry or its people remains the same as in year's past. Today, the men and women in the Supply Chain Industry all share the same drive, dedication and pride in a job well done as those who served the industry before them. The men and women today inspire those of us who serve the Industry to always put our best foot forward being proud to be a part of this team.
Lisa Everly