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HR professionals need to be compassionate and data literate: Industry leaders
Anjali Rao, Senior Director and Head of HR, Intel India, said, "To drive strategy, HR efficiencies and business, HR professionals must be data literate. This involves the ability to identify, comprehend and communicate relevant data to influence decision making. HR leaders of the future must possess these skills as well as sound business acumen to be able to seamlessly drive organisational culture transformation."
Updated: April 14, 2021, 09:10 IST
With the future of work being determined by technology and digitisation, the skills required for managing human resources in an organisation also require an upgrade.
By Chitrali Ghatak
HR as a function has evolved with time. Moreover, the pandemic has made leaders relook at the way HR processes function. With the future of work being determined by technology and digitisation, the skills required for managing human resources in an organisation also require an upgrade.
Industry leaders say that today there is an evolution in the way companies are implementing their strategies, more often than not, with an accelerated use of technology. Organisations are now becoming bolder in exploring new technologies and tools, such as automated processes, virtual engagements, and tools that make remote working easier and more efficient.
Acceleration in the use of technology
While maintaining that over the last one year, most organisations have adopted hybrid or remote working models, Anjali Rao, Senior Director and Head of HR, Intel India, said, "For HR, digitally transforming processes and systems has not only been about ensuring access and business continuity but also about maintaining engagement and camaraderie as teams work remotely."
"Innovations in HR technology have helped ease and accelerate this transition. From recruitment to performance management, compensation and benefits, employee engagement, learning and development, etc, technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) are already playing a vital role in almost every function of HR," she said.
Echoing the same, Protima Achaya, Director - HR, NetApp India, said, "With in-person interviews coming to a halt, there is a rising interest in AI to make the recruiting process more efficient and targeted. With AI-based algorithms, recruiters are now able to make data-driven decisions."
She added, "A distributed workforce has also increased the demand for cloud-based assessment services to track, monitor, and incentivize employee performances."
Skill sets for HR leaders
Speaking about the required skill sets for HR leaders, Piyush Mehta, CHRO, Genpact, said, "In this changing world, it's important to keep evolving as leaders. My simple fundamental is to learn, unlearn and relearn."
He further said, "Learn from those around you, unlearn things that are irrelevant and relearn to keep up with the workplace of the future. As leaders, we also need to empower teams to find new ways to lead, build resilience, connect across ecosystems, and adapt to a changing workforce environment."
Highlighting that working from home comes with its own set of challenges for employees to feel engaged, Mehta said, "This is where the criticality of driving a cohesive culture comes in and we believe it's at this juncture that supporting our remote teams and promoting culture among globally dispersed teams is vital. In these tough times, the ability to engage with people with compassion becomes a lot more important than ever before."
Rao from Intel, said, "To drive strategy, HR efficiencies and business, HR professionals must be data literate. This involves the ability to identify, comprehend and communicate relevant data to influence decision making. HR leaders of the future must possess these skills as well as sound business acumen to be able to seamlessly drive organisational culture transformation."
Future trends in HR
Achaya from NetApp pointed out that the ability to navigate complex and uncertain situations has proven to be highly valuable through the course of the pandemic.
"Therefore, a key aspect of leadership development in the coming years will be nurturing leaders who are resilient and adaptable, those who can collaborate across teams and be the problem-solvers in an increasingly volatile world," she said.
She also emphasized the importance of building a workplace that is not only diverse in race, gender, and age but also inclusive in thoughts to create a culture of belonging.
Mehta spoke about the prevailing trends which are positioning organisations for growth in a Covid-19 world, which includes enhanced employee experience by redefining processes and collaboration experiences; accelerated use of talent analytics; curiosity and continuous reskilling as the new KPIs; access to talent from anywhere in the world; and the focus on capturing real-time employee sentiment.
Rao asserted that HRs must continue to recruit and develop diverse talent to achieve gender parity to truly realize the innovation potential of their organisations.
She said, "Technology will be at the core of the HR practice in the years to come. From multi-cloud powered hybrid work models to AI-driven analysis and strategies, HR will continue to leverage emerging digital technologies to drive seamless employee experiences."
Moreover, "Training, upskilling and learning within the organisation to encourage internal mobility and retain talent will be another important focus area in the months to come," Rao concluded.
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the "18 inch balk line" which was a rule in billiards used in the last championship matches [MTHHR 311-4]. Note: The Harper's Jan. 1898 review was by Laurence Hutton.
January 7 Friday – Katharine I. Harrison wrote to Sam, replying to his Dec. 18 and Dec. 21 letters (neither extant). She sent "the Calcutta letter" to John Brusnahan (foreman at the NY Herald) and would report back what he said. She also clarified the statement she'd sent: Bainbridge Colby (attorney and assignee for Sam's debts) kept sending information and she had to update the statement three times; Mrs. Jesse Grant was paid "her 50%," leaving $1,471.55 owed her; and the Thomas Russell debt had been settled. She had rec'd the English version of FE (More Tramps Abroad ,) and "enjoyed it immensely." The new office (on the 11th floor) was in disorder with painters—"quite an improvement on the 4th floor." She ended by asking if he would tell Mrs. Clemens that she didn't want any pay for "the little" she had done, and was "only too glad to be able to do it for you both" [MTHHR 314-5].
A batch of letters of thanks from paid creditors of the C.L. Webster & Co. were forwarded by Katharine I. Harrison to Sam [MTHHR 323 and n1]. See also Feb. 25 from Harrison.
January 8 Saturday
January 9 Sunday – At the Hotel Metropole in Vienna, Livy wrote for Sam to Walter Bliss, replying to Bliss' Dec. 24 (not extant). Sam verified a quotation on p.619. Receipt of six books was acknowledged; the Clemenses were "very glad the sale of the book has been satisfactory" [MTP].
William Dean Howells wrote to Sam after receiving one of Sam's 50 printed "In Memoriam" poems with a large picture of Susy Clemens.
Two days ago came the beautiful picture of your Susie with her heavenly face and her eyes of angel innocence. They affect me as the eyes of Winny sometimes did: with the error and the wrong that every man's life seems to include, I am afraid to look in them, and think of what I am. …
All last summer I was meaning to write to you, but I stupidly hoped that some chance would bring us together, and we might talk out all that was in us, as we used to do in those glorious days when I went to Hartford or you came to Cambridge. But it did not happen, and now the ocean is between us again. …
Of course, I am tugging away at the old root. I have just finished one novel, and am starting another. I suppose neither will convulse the world….
We have all rejoiced in Clara's triumph; her gift I knew, and I am glad it has been recognized by the highest authority in her art.
I hear that your latest work is succeeding splendidly, and I have lately heard people talking proudly and gladly of your rehabilitation in the business line. …[MTHL 2: 667-9].
Notes: Howells and wife had spent July through October in Carlsbad, Germany and in traveling in Germany and Holland while the Clemenses were in Switzerland. Howells' latest novel was Ragged Lady, to be serialized in Harper's Bazar beginning on July 2; the one he was starting was Their Silver Wedding Journey (1899). Howells had been lecturing under James Pond's management. The congratulations for Clara referred to her being accepted as a pupil by Theodor Leschetizky. FE had quickly sold 30,000 copies [n1-9]. Sam replied on Jan 22.
January 10 Monday – At the Hotel Metropole in Vienna, Austria Livy wrote for Sam to Chatto & Windus, acknowledging receipt of a six months statement and check for £1095.9.10; they were "greatly pleased with the excellent showing of the statement and the consquent size of the check" [MTP]. Note: in the six-month period from July 1, 1897 to Jan. 1, 1898, Chatto printed 18,000 copies of FE [Welland 238]. On the bottom of the letter it is noted an answer was sent from Chatto on Jan. 13, 1898 (not extant).

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Roel Harsta is the chief executive officer and founder of Global Process Automation. GPA offers a full range of engineering services from complete project management to system maintenance. From a very early age, he envisioned his own version of success in a society where upward mobility is a possibility with a free-enterprise system. He is one of many who has pursued the American Dream.
Roel Harsta grew up in the Netherlands, where he graduated as an electrical engineer. Immediately after college, he joined an engineering firm that introduced him to the world of automation. At 22, Roel started his first business, a company called Stork Friesland, a manufacturing company of spray dryers and evaporators for the dairy industry.
During his travels all over the world, Roel gained an interest in entrepreneurship. Roel explains, "I traveled around the world installing and starting up these installations for different companies. While working on a project in Litchfield, Minnesota I began to see the advantages of the laws and regulations in the United States. It was during the Reagan presidency; I was amazed to learn of the favorable tax situation in the U.S. But the most fascinating thing was how one could go to city hall and pay $15 to start their own business! This was unheard of in Europe". He explains, "In Europe, one needs to be trained by the government in a lengthy program to understand the business you would like to start." In contrast to the complicated laws, high tax rates, and challenging labor laws of Europe, Roel was finding America to be the perfect climate for business.
He continues, "This is also the time GE/GM, a big American company, hired 90,000 employees. I simply could not believe that people would take a corporate job when you could purchase a business license for $15! As an outsider looking in, I was dumbfounded about how easy it was to start your own business and why in the world you would not pursue that opportunity".
Roel worked on automation projects for DuPont in Canada for 6 years before receiving a green card to the United States. Once he was a legal resident, he added to his extensive and impressive employment history, including; Pfizer and Bailey Controls. When he obtained the knowledge he needed he embarked on his very own American Dream and started Global Process Automation.
2017 marks the 21st year in business for Global Process Automation. Marking this anniversary Roel reflects, "I often remember the 23 years I spent in Holland and the excellent education I received, but living in a western European environment where government is overbearing and taxes are very high, there is no comparison with the business freedom and opportunities presented in the USA".


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Poetry and memory
Back in the late 1990s, a California poet named Gary Glazner obtained a modest grant from Poets and Writers magazine. His intent was to use poetry as a vehicle to engage people at an advanced stage of Alzheimer's disease. As Glazner recounted many years later in an interview with National Public Radio, "I got hooked on it when one day I was reading Longfellow's poem ["The Arrow and the Song"] and there was one man, he was pretty much out of it, he wasn't able to participate, his head was down. And I said, 'I shot an arrow in the air,' and he said, 'And where it land I knew not where'—the precise words of the poem's next line. Glazner described it as "a marvelous moment for me and the whole group."
Glazner went on to found the Alzheimer's Poetry Project, and the Brooklyn-based program has blossomed throughout the United States and beyond. There are now hundreds of "memory cafes"—venues, often in senior centers, that serve as meeting places for people with Alzheimer's, including those who are far down the road of this typically slow-moving disease. I plan to attend one of these sessions in the Boston area, but for now I'll settle for highlighting a few of the poems that are part of Sparking Memories: The Alzheimer's Poetry Project [www.alzpoetry.com].
There are fifty poems in all, starting with "The Tyger," by William Blake, the first of the great British Romantic poets. Here are the first five stanzas:
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forest of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
The poem, which opens like a nursery rhyme, appears to be a meditation on the introduction of malevolence into the world. Was it necessary to include vicious predators into the natural order? The poem is also about the Lamb of God (and Blake's creative interpretation of Christianity). But knowing this is not a prerequisite for appreciating the poem. Much of the pleasure is in its sharp images and rhyme scheme.
Here is another example, from Blake's younger contemporary William Wordsworth:
That floats on high over vales and hills,
A host of golden daffodils;
Along the margin of a bay;
Tossing their heads in a sprightly dance,
The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee.
In such jocund company!
I gazed, and gazed but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought;
In vacant or pensive mood,
A formal analysis of this poem would note its rhyme scheme: In the first four lines of each stanza, the last word or syllable of the first line rhymes, or almost rhymes, with the last word or syllable of the third line; the same is true for the fourth line. In the last two lines of each stanza, the rhyme is direct, as in: "And then my heart with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils." But a formal analysis only gets one so far. It's the music of the words that matters.
In deference to the holiday season, my next post will appear on New Year's Day.
A different kind of war movie
Back in 1998, two notable films about World War II were released within several months of each other. The first was Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, which grossed almost half a billion dollars in its first six months, and, for its depiction of the U.S. landing in Normandy, won plaudits as the most realistic battle scene ever produced. The second was The Thin Red Line, directed by Terrence Malick, his first movie in two decades.
The two films have little in common. Spielberg's movie is broken into distinct sections. Act One: the heroic securing of the beachhead. Act Two: A mission to locate a missing private whose three brothers have already died. Act Three: a firefight in a village in which the unit's heroic commander (Tom Hanks) is killed. The movie ends with an image of Private Ryan as an old man, weeping over the grave of the man who saved his life.
Malick's film, which is nominally about Guadalcanal, the pivotal battle in the war in the Pacific, is the visual equivalent of a tone poem. Time is disjointed. It appears that the film's central character, Private Witt, played by Jim Caviezel, has deserted and is living among the natives. Edenic images abound. Angelic children swim naked over coral reefs. Witt helps out with tribal tasks, such as basket-making. Sunshine slants through the jungle canopy. In a voice-over, Witt comments, "I asked my mother if she was afraid of dying, and she just shook her head. I wonder how it would be when I died… I just wonder if I can make my death mean something." When he sees his ship offshore, he hides.
Most war movies can be sorted as anti-war or pro-war, but this is not the case with The Thin Red Line. It is true that the Sean Penn character, a jaded, weary sergeant, remarks of the war, "It's all just real estate." And there is a good deal of cynicism among the soldiers, understandable given the circumstances. An ambitious colonel (in a manic performance by Nick Nolte) is more concerned about winning medals and advancement than sparing his men's lives. In a key scene, Witt refuses to obey orders, which the private correctly understands will lead to unneeded casualties.
The death scenes in the film–and there are many–are also notable, both among the Americans and their Japanese adversaries. You can hear the screams and confusion of the wounded and the dying. One solider vomits, and the Sean Penn character sharply admonishes him. In a convincing cameo role, Woody Harrelson plays a dying soldier who bares his teeth in rage and, to his horror, muses about not being able to "fuck anymore." (The wound is below the belt.) He dies staring blankly at the sky, in the arms of Witt. A much younger soldier, more a boy than a man, dies in a way that suggests Christian iconography, a beatific glow on his pale face.
Much later, Witt stares down at a dead Japanese soldier and then sees an apparition of the Buddha, posing the question: "Are you righteous and kind? Does your confidence lie in this? Are you loved by all? Know that, I was too. Do you imagine your sufferings will be less because you loved goodness?"
Good question. The movie also includes a number of flashbacks to Witt with his wife stateside, in foreplay. But these pleasant memories collide with a terrible letter: His wife has fallen in love with someone else, and demands a divorce. Presumably, the news is the final blow to Pvt. Witt's overburdened psyche. The logic of the movie demands that he will not survive.
An honest war movie is almost impossible without a clear-eyed understanding of the passions that combat releases, and Malick's film does not flinch from the brutality. The author of the novel on which the movie is based, James Jones, fought in the Guadalcanal campaign, and I suspect that the depiction in Malick's film of U.S. soldiers' treatment of malnourished Japanese prisoners is close to the historical truth.
But this is no anti-war movie. The comradeship among the soldiers feels more genuine than in any other film I have seen, including Saving Private Ryan. I regard The Thin Red Line as a work of existential philosophy, depicting complicated quandaries.
There is, of course, a reason that war films (and war literature, going back to antiquity) remain relevant: They depict the imminent threat of death. Most of us benefit from the luxury of time, whether we are conscious of this bounty or not.
A healthy skepticism
Last week my cousin Jackie, a retired schoolteacher, mailed me a copy of Life Extension magazine. The publication targets the Baby Boom generation, of which I am nominally a part. (Like Douglas Coupland, the Vancouver writer who coined the term Generation X, I was born in 1961.) Jackie, who noted that she receives Life Extension because her education association sends it to her, highlighted two articles, one about walnuts, the other about benfotiamine, a B1 vitamin. Under the magazine's monthly feature "Super Foods," walnuts are touted not just for reducing the risk of heart disease and some forms of cancer, but also for boosting cognitive function. According to the article, walnuts can limit vulnerability to "oxidative stress"—defined as an imbalance in the body's ability to detoxify or repair cellular damage.
The article notes that in a study involving young and old rats, researchers concluded that eating walnuts regularly may confer "protective effects" on an aging brain. The key word is may. The word appears again in the article a few paragraphs later. Michael Downey, who wrote the article, suggests that walnuts "may have a beneficial effect in reducing the risk, delay the onset of, or preventing" Alzheimer's disease.
My advice: If you like walnuts, and you can afford to buy them regularly—I just picked up a pound bag still in their shells at my discount supermarket for $4.50—eat them plentifully. But don't expect miracles.
In a separate article, Downey touted the B1 vitamin benfotiamine.
"When benfotiamine was used for treatment for eight weeks in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, researchers found that it reduced both amyloid plaque numbers and phosphorylated tau protein levels in the brain," Downey wrote. Backing up this assertion is a 2013 paper in the journal Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, noting that "Thiamine-dependent processes are highly correlated to the decline in clinical dementia rating scales. In animal models, thiamine deficiency exacerbates plaque formation, promotes phosphorylation of tau and impairs memory." (Phosphorylation can turn protein enzymes on and off, altering their function.)
The paper goes on to note that related mechanisms "may lead to reversal of plaque formations in animals. If so, the use of benfotiamine could provide a safe intervention to reverse biological and clinical processes" related to Alzheimer's.
This is encouraging, though Downey's conclusion to his magazine article strikes me as wildly optimistic: "In the process of helping neutralize the adverse impact of after-meal blood glucose," he writes, "benfotiamine can prevent Alzheimer's disease, vision impairment, cardiovascular disease—and possibly even aging itself!" [The italics are his.]
As I was reading this article, my mind drifted to Ernest Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, about a group of expat Americans and Britons in Paris and Spain in the 1920s. The book's narrator, Jake Barnes, has been rendered impotent by a war wound. Jake is in love with Brett Ashley, and Brett with him, but consummation is not possible. On the surface, the expatriate life is gay (in the now-defunct sense of the word). But several of the characters are miserable. Jake finds respite from his anguish in fishing in Spain, but he also drinks heavily and teeters on the edge of despair. The novel begins as it ends, with Jake and Brett in a taxi, discussing their plight.
"Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together."
Jake's reply: "Yes. Isn't it pretty to think so."


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Name of Bradley International Airport Will Not Change
Published on January 30, 2020 at 9:19 am
Connecticut Airport Authority
The largest airport in Connecticut will keep its name after a study found that there was no decisive benefit to making a change.
The Connecticut Airport Authority's board of directors accepted the recommendation Wednesday from the quasi-public agency's executive director, Kevin Dillon, to retain the Bradley International Airport name.
The authority's study found, among other things, that airports that changed their names did not see a resulting bump up in passenger traffic, the main motivation for adopting a new name.
Dillon told the Hartford Courant the issue may be revisited.
Tony Sheridan, the board's chairman, expressed disappointment. He wants the airport in Windsor Locks to be known as Connecticut International because that "provides Connecticut with an identity worldwide."
The airport is named for Lt. Eugene Bradley, an Army airman who in August 1941 died in a crash during a training exercise at the site, which was then a military base.


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Fans Must Vote To See Lil Wayne On 'I Ain't Sh*t Without You Tour'
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Lil Wayne, with the help of TIDAL, announced his 2019 'I Ain't Sh*t Without You Tour,' but in order to see Weezy at a...
Lil Wayne, with the help of TIDAL, announced his 2019 'I Ain't Sh*t Without You Tour,' but in order to see Weezy at a show, fans must vote for their city.
"This year has been amazing and I'm so grateful for all the love Tha Carter V has gotten," Wayne said. "There's no better way to wrap up 2018 than to spend it with the people who mean the most to me—my fans!"
Wayne hopes to see his biggest fans on this tour, so he is asking everyone to vote for the cities he should visit. Fans with a TIDAL account can vote for their city here. The four chosen cities will be announced on December 10. Those who are unable to attend a show can watch the livestream shows on TIDAL.
While he didn't go in to detail about the specifics of the shows, he noted that it's going to be an intimate setting, "some different shit."
"It's gonna be intimate but I'm still gonna go crazy, you might get to hear some shit you never heard, some shit people may never hear," he said.
Check out the full tour announcement below:
For more information regarding the tour and how to cast your vote, visit TIDAL.
Olivia Perreault Deputy Editor
Olivia Perreault is the Deputy Editor for TicketNews. She is a graduate of The University of Rhode Island and holds a BA in journalism. As an avid concert junkie, she's been to hundreds of concerts and freelances for multiple online publications, including her music blog, found at OliviaGPerreault.com. Reach Olivia via email at [email protected]


Have you ascertained from the tapes you've heard that Gene is an anointed counselor? I can personally testify that he is. He is a conduit of the LORD's grace and mercy and goodness to those in the Body of Christ who have been spiritually disabled through unforgiveness. The LORD helped me to become functional through Gene's counseling. I've seen how even our past failures are used by the LORD to make us suitable vessels of His mercy to others.


New Delhi: In a setback to the Andhra Pradesh government, the environmental go-ahead for a large multi-purpose dam has been set aside, two years after work had begun on the project.
The Polavaram dam, also known as the Indira Sagar project, is located in the northern part of the state and would straddle portions of the adjoining states of Chhattisgarh and Orissa.
In its order issued on Monday, the National Environment Appellate Authority, the statutory body that is empowered to hear appeals challenging environmental clearances, maintained that the clearance given by the Union environment ministry was done without giving an adequate hearing to all the people likely to be displaced, the largest in any similar project in the country. The order was passed by a bench comprising J.C Kala, I.V. Manivannan and Kaushlendra Prasad.
Under the Environment Protection Act, 1986, all major projects, in sectors such as hydroelectric, mega power and mining, have to get an environmental clearance, which is based on an environmental impact assessment.
The petition challenging the environment ministry clearance was filed by Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment, a non-profit agency based out of the Capital.
To revive the project, Andhra Pradesh will now have to get approval for a fresh assessment.
"It is now the state government's prerogative to decide future action. We had done the EIA and the management plan," said Dharma Reddy, project director, of the state's Agricultural Finance Corp. Ltd.
Conceived in 1982, the project, which requires the concurrence of Chhattisgarh and Orissa, both vehemently opposed to the project, languished until it was taken up in earnest in 2002 by the Telugu Desam-led state government. The environment ministry gave its clearance to the project in 2005.
The project cost, which was initially estimated at Rs9,000 crore, has since risen to Rs12,591 crore and involves the use of 3,834ha of forest area. It is designed to provide irrigation facility to 291,000ha, generate 960MW of hydro power, divert 80,000 million cubic feet (tmc) of water from the Godavari to the Krishna River and provide 23.44tmc of drinking water supply to Vizag city.
The project is estimated to affect about 195,000 people, substantially more than the 150,000 displaced by the building of the Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada river.
The authority observed that the environment ministry clearance was given without giving a public hearing to the people residing in the affected areas of Orissa and Chhattisgarh and therefore violated the "principles of natural justice."
"Neither did the affected persons have any access to the executive summary of the project in the notified place, nor did they have any opportunity to participate in the public hearings… the question here is not one of majority or minority but it relates to the issue of enabling all the affected people to express their views, whether they reside in one particular state or two or more states," the order stated.
According to Ritwick Dutta, counsel for the petitioner and coordinator of Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment, "This is the first instance in the 10 years of the working of the NEAA that an environmental clearance granted by the ministry has been quashed and, therefore, is truly a historic decision."
The fate of the multi-purpose dam has also been uncertain due to opposition from governments of Orissa and Chhattisgarh, who cited "zero benefits." They had also filed a suit in 2006 in the Supreme Court, petitioning that work on the project be stopped.
"This is very welcome news," said J.P. Agarwal, additional secretary, department of water resources, Orissa, on hearing about the order.
"The government of Orissa wants the whole plan and design to be reformulated in a manner that no land in Orissa is submerged. Most of the submergence area in Orissa is Naxal-affected and extremely sensitive. The original design was conceived in 1980s and it has lost its essence now."
"At the last meeting of the three states, it was decided that all three will conduct a new survey and investigation together," added a senior official in the Chhattisgarh water resources department, who did not wish to be identified.


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Formed in the summer of 2016, the New York Selects have won three championships in its three years of existence. (Photo courtesy of Sean Cenawood)
Sean Cenawood, an assistant coach of the New York Selects 12U travel team, has an interesting comparison in mind when talking about the team he helped form in the summer of 2016.
"The Selects are a loose, easy-going bunch," Cenawood wrote in recaps he put together for the team members and their families. "They're driven, and I've rarely seen a group of guys so determined to win but never melted under the pressure. It reminded me of the Oakland [Athletics] of the early 1970s."
There's more to the comparison, such as drawing parallels of his top pitcher on the Selects to Catfish Hunter and his top slugger on the team to Reggie Jackson. But, one of the main comparisons is that both teams had three championships in three years, which is hard to do when you are a traveling baseball team. Cenawood, who works under head coach Darin Shapiro, knows this team is athletic enough to compete whenever they play.
"I think every season we have high expectations," said Cenawood. "We got a good group of athletes. It doesn't always pan out, but we always expect it to be competitive. Our goal every season is to try to be one of the teams that makes it into the playoff rounds."
The team's first championship came in the summer of 2016, which happened to be their first season in the Travel League. The second championship came last year, in the fall of 2017, where they had a perfect season. Their third championship came this past fall, and it may have been the best season yet.
"It's quite a feat for these boys," said Cenawood. "This isn't Little League. This is a travel league, so you are going against better athletes. It takes a lot of talent and a little luck. And the key with this season was our pitching and defense."
The top pitcher on the team is Chaim Stark, whose accuracy and knowledge of the game made him the ace of the Selects this past season. James Cenawood, Sean's son, was the top slugger of a team full of high-powered hitters.
"James led in all the batting categories in the league," said Cenawood. "He's the engine that drives this offense. With Chaim, he's the one that pushes the pitching staff to be as great as it is. But it's really a team effort, because unlike a lot of teams we face there aren't any holes. I can go on about every player on the team."
This past season, the Selects took on the Whitestone Renegades in the championship game in a battle of great pitchers as Stark took on Sean Sweeney, who won a battle against Stark a few years ago in a 2-1 loss for the Selects. Revenge was in order for this team. In the semifinal, the team rested Stark against the Levittown Tigers in favor of Shakespeare Rodriguez, who had some strong relief games up to that point. After only pitching at the end of the game, Stark was now rested and ready to beat Sweeney once and for all.
"It's always such a challenge, because you want to make sure you make it to the championship game," said Cenawood. "On the other hand, you want to have your ace available in the championship game so there's the conflicting interest. Shakespeare's presence was huge, so we knew we could start Chaim and ride him for as long as we could."
The Selects shot out to a 1-0 lead at the bottom of the first, thanks to a third-base hit by Charlie Shapiro and James's running around the bases. In the second inning, Rodriguez was at bat with Daniel Stashower on third. After a quick pitch by Sweeney that got by the catcher, Stashower was able to notch another run for the team. Thanks to the brilliant pitching by Stark, including changing his pitching mechanics in the fifth inning to throw batters off, the team secured a 2-0 victory and its third championship.
"To watch these kids out there as a coach and as a parent, I see my kid and all his friends out there celebrating, and there's this moment of pure joy that never goes away and never changes," said Cenawood. "I took the moment in and enjoyed it because it's a big deal to them. It's their equivalent of winning the World Series. Not everyone gets to experience that. The fact that they were able to do this three years in a row is really impressive.
I imagine all of them will take these memories into adulthood."
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Taxonomy is a scientific discipline that has provided the universal naming and classification system of biodiversity for centuries and continues effectively to accommodate new knowledge. A recent publication by Garnett and Christidis [1] expressed concerns regarding the difficulty that taxonomic changes represent for conservation efforts and proposed the establishment of a system to govern taxonomic changes. Their proposal to "restrict the freedom of taxonomic action" through governing subcommittees that would "review taxonomic papers for compliance" and their assertion that "the scientific community's failure to govern taxonomy threatens the effectiveness of global efforts to halt biodiversity loss, damages the credibility of science, and is expensive to society" are flawed in many respects. They also assert that the lack of governance of taxonomy damages conservation efforts, harms the credibility of science, and is costly to society. Despite its fairly recent release, Garnett and Christidis' proposition has already been rejected by a number of colleagues [2,3,4,5,6,7,8]. Herein, we contribute to the conversation between taxonomists and conservation biologists aiming to clarify some misunderstandings and issues in the proposition by Garnett and Christidis.
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US tornado deaths peaked 90 years ago in 1925, the year the Tri-State tornado destroyed many towns in Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri. Since then, tornado deaths have plummeted to record lows.
2015 is currently on track to be the fourth consecutive year of record low tornado activity in the US.
Government experts say that weather is getting more extreme in the US, because their job is to promote the White House agenda – regardless of any actual facts.
Climate experts insist that Greenland is melting down, despite the fact that there is zero evidence to support that idea.
Greenland has gained nearly 500 billion tons of ice and snow over the past six months.
Scientists at the center of ice sheet are nearly buried in snow again this year, with temperatures still below minus 40 degrees.
And the coastal regions of Greenland are also having a difficult time keeping up with the massive amounts of snow.
Meanwhile, experts continue to lie about Greenland in peer-reviewed publications, and the press happily parrots their lies.
Let's pretend for a minute that their BS was true. What would be the consequence of a slowing Gulf Stream? It would mean less warm water transported to the Arctic, lower Arctic temperatures, less Greenland melt, and growth of Arctic ice.
They are shooting themselves in the foot with their own nonsense.
Kent Clizbe and I have been working for almost a year to get them to release their published monthly temperature data over the past couple of decades, which they overwrite in place in order to hide their ongoing manipulations.
The data should be kept in a simple file structure like the NOAA drought data, and it should require no more than 10 seconds for me to recover it online. Instead, they want a quarter of a million dollars, due on Monday.
We estimate that the cost to search for responsive records will be approximately $262,000.
There must be something very incriminating in that data.
It's been almost 2 years since Cook et al. (2013) Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature was published. If you're like me, you've lost track of the paper's flaws, there were just so many, and how it is misrepresented, which is most of the time. Richard Tol has published an excellent summary of Cook et al. (2013) in his blog post Global warming consensus claim does not stand up (author's cut). An edited version appeared in the Australian on March 24, 2015.
The press wildly exaggerated the story, and the big lie proceeds according to plan. All for the greater good.
Two years ago, Joe Romm announced the end of Great Lakes ice.
Two of the three highest ice years have occurred in the two years since Joe Romm announced the demise of Great Lakes ice.
It is becoming certain that fraudsters like Joe Romm are pushing an agenda.


"It's stable, visionary policy that's driving the market leaders to the top," said Marty Spitzer, Director of US Climate Policy for WWF.
China continues to lead the global clean energy technology manufacturing race, according to a new report commissioned by World Wildlife Fund.
The third edition of Clean Economy, Living Planet ranks 25 countries based on the 2011 sales of the clean energy technology products they manufacture, such as solar panels and wind turbines. It found that in terms of total sales value of clean energy technology, China had the largest market, followed by the United States and Germany.
Though the US ranks second to China in total sales, relative to the size of its economy the US is well behind leading countries including Denmark, China, Germany and Brazil.
US total clean technology manufacturing sales increased 17% from 2010 to 2011, a pace that has slowed from recent years (28% from 2008-2010).
The top five fastest growing markets for 2010-11 were Taiwan (+36%), China (+29%), India (+19%), South Korea (+19%) and the United States (+17%).
The US has the largest global market share in bioethanol (61%), largely because of strong federal incentives and a renewable fuels standard. In solar PV, US production rose 16%, capturing 16% of the global market.
The US has a strong market share in wind technology, but is still in fourth place with an 11% market share (a slight increase over last year's 9%), behind China, Germany and Denmark, who together have more than 60% of the global market. Despite a growth of 30% in US demand for wind turbines, wind turbine manufacturing in the United States grew by only 17% in 2011.
The US is a strong player in the global clean energy technology race, but compared to other leading countries, the US is currently under-investing in clean technology and there is a great deal of policy uncertainty, meaning it will likely lose market share in the long term.
Overall, the report found that in 2011, the global sales value of the clean technology sector increased by 10% to almost €200 billion (approximately $248.8 billion). However in comparison to 2010, the 2011 growth of that sales value is much more unevenly distributed across countries.
While sales from manufacturers in many countries in Asia and the Americas continued to increase, European manufactures have kept their sales stable or have even seen a decline in sales.
By 2015, the clean tech sector is expected to rival the oil and gas equipment market, when the forecasted market size will be between €240 and 290 billion, the report states. Countries that gain a strong position in clean technology manufacturing today have the best prospects to capitalize on the expected strong growth in the future.
"The long-term drivers behind growth in clean technology markets are not going away. Countries winning the clean technology manufacturing race see the growth opportunities and are going after them by building strong domestic markets through comprehensive policies," said Spitzer.
The Clean Economy, Living Planet report was prepared by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and commissioned by WWF, with support from Rabobank and De Lage Landen in the US.
Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, founded in 1967, is one of the world's leading strategy consultancies. With 2,500 employees working in 49 offices in 35 countries worldwide, we have successful operations in all major international markets. The strategy consultancy is an independent partnership exclusively owned by about 220 Partners.


Being the only game of its kind, the all encompassing Universal Combat game is in need of a makeover, and the sales of this DLC will hopefully make that happen.
Due to the massive scope of the game, we decided to improve on the game via DLC releases. This means more frequent updates in the months to come. For example, this first DLC, contains no new gameplay features. It focuses purely on bug fixes, tweaks, as well as UI, engine, art and visual improvements.
As these games are developed using a suite of custom game engines, they cannot be ported easily to third-party game engines (e.g. UE4, Unity, Lumberyard etc) without a LOT of work. So for this first 3.0 iteration, we're going to be porting it to use the more improved space and planetary terrain engine and art/model assets used in the All Aspects games.
If successful, we plan future DLC which may include multiplayer (like the original 2004 game), new features, content etc.
This DLC is a major upgrade to the Universal Combat CE v2.0 (2015) version. It is currently in development via Steam Early Access and can only be purchased on Steam at this time.
By purchasing it, you gain access to the current version as it goes through development. You can keep track of the game's progress via the Steam news and discussions pages.
You can keep track of the on-going development via the public Trello roadmap.


Congrats on the dt my friend!! You will be such an asset to Sue's team and she is blessed to have you.
Gorgeous and soft card!! Love your design!
Congrats, Amy!!!! They are very lucky to have you on their team! Merry Christmas, dear friend!
Merry Christmas! Hope you are enjoying this day with your family.
Congrats on the DT selection. Vintage themed images are right up your alley so I'm sure you'll find lots of inspiration.
I like the doily behind your image. Very pretty.
Beautiful card, Amy! I hope you had a wonderful holiday!
So pretty!! Love the softness of this and that doily behind is lovely =) Beautiful job!!
Hi Amy! Beautiful job on the latest BCA image! Love your awareness button too! Perfect touch! We are excited to have you joining us!!!


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A Colourful Life:Helen Peel
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by Edwina Cattanach
Helen Peel is a successful artist who is known for her sense of colour and dedication to her craft. Her life's canvas though, is painted with heartache, challenges and finding the strength to move forward as Edwina Cattanach discovers.
Helen Peel first discovered her passion for art whilst in secondary school, her pencil was her main tool and many sketches which she still has, were her works. From an early age she had an unstoppable need to pick up a pencil or a paintbrush and express how she saw the world – a world rich with colour and radiant light. During some of her difficult times, Helen said she would sketch at night as a way of quietening her mind.
As a young and married 20-year-old, Helen first began experimenting with what has become her lifelong passion, working with colour. Without knowing that her destiny of becoming a contemporary Australian artist was in her future, Helen started her work life as a hairdresser, initially to fund her desire to study a Fine Arts degree.
With a home renovation underway and long hours devoted to the hair salon that she now owned, Helen's drawing and painting took a back seat as she worked to support her then-husband's desire to attend university. Then tragedy struck with the loss of a child and was then diagnosed with bowel cancer.
Not long after, she received a 'goodbye' letter from her husband and with his departure came financial difficulties. Not one to give up, Helen worked five jobs to survive and fought like a warrior to overcome her health concerns; the loss of her son and her marriage and to be financially secure.
"I knew I had to sink or swim," she said. "My only choice was to swim and find the strength that comes from within."
Helen attributes her strength to her late father, Murray Mckenzie a well-known Geelong football player who was one of thirteen children and a war veteran who recognised through his own trauma the need to be strong and carry on.
Her determination paid off and after seven years of hard work, Helen was in a position to buy her own property. The house gave Helen yet another creative outlet and with her renovation and interior design skills she won an award for the 'Best House in Australia and New Zealand' and was inspired to study interior decorating.
Now in her late twenties, Helen headed off to Tate Modern Gallery in London to view works of her idol, Joseph Turner, an English Romantic landscape painter. This venture then took Helen to Florence where she would sketch the days away in between gallery visits. It was here that she discovered her strength in portraiture and village scenes from the people and places she saw throughout Europe, a common theme in her work today.
While in Florence, a skeptical Helen was encouraged to see a clairvoyant.
"She seemed attuned to my past and told me to learn as much as I could about Rembrandt. When she said 'you Helen Peel are going to be a great artist' I was surprised and delighted."
Skeptic or not, these words have rung true, although Helen wasn't finished with hairdressing as several years later, Helen was invited to join the Australian Hairdressing team at the World Hair Competition in Las Vegas. The team came 16th in the world and on their return, the Loreal team were involved in setting up hair and product salons at the Trump Towers in New York City.
"Gold, everything and I mean everything, was gold," Helen recalls.
For Helen, colouring hair provided excitement and gave this budding yet unknown artist her creative outlet. Never to sit and be satisfied, Helen took this creative flare into fashion and went on to launch her own personal styling business, helping men and women find their best colour palette to suit their skin and lifestyle.
Whilst work commitments kept her from using her artistic talent as little more than a hobby, Helen was always drawn to colour, dabbling in different techniques and subjects, including sculpture, life drawing, pottery and oil painting.
On retiring to Noosa, Helen travelled extensively and found the time for her passion to paint.
Working exclusively with oils, Helen is an accomplished realist, bringing stories to life with light, shade and movement, in exquisitely delicate brushwork and luminous, vibrant colours.
On each canvas she lays the foundation of a pencil drawing, likening her technique to building a house; layering for perspective and depth that leads to works of detailed architecture, vivid florals and luxurious fabrics, all conjured with a variety of brushes, palette knife or rags.
"It's an old renaissance technique, where you paint the background colour and start rubbing back," Helen explains.
Helen's love of portraiture reveals a talent for expressing a light in the eyes; a life in the lines, as each canvas conveys true character. But it is her use of the difficult rub-off technique that shows her intimate knowledge of light and detail.
Already in private collections throughout Australia and regarded as a contemporary artist, Helen had her first solo exhibition in 2010 with many of her works now hanging in private collections, both in Australia and overseas.
More than 50 years ago she sold her first piece of artwork to buyers who Helen still considers to be two of her very closest friends. The artwork still hangs in their lounge room; Helen is now happily married to David whom she met 24 years ago and feels blessed to have her soul mate and art, both bringing colour to her world.
Discover more of Helen's work at www.helenpeelartist.com; visit Helen in her studio at 31 Shorehaven Drive Noosa Waters as part of Noosa Open Studios 9-11 and 17-18 October from 10am-4pm.
Want more? Listen to Conversations in Noosa podcast for the full interview with Helen on all good podcast channels.
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Parents at the Best Places to Work Performed Better Through the Pandemic: Survey of 440,000 Working Parents
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"When companies are better for parents, the business enjoys greater innovation, productivity and retention of great talent. And their co-workers thrive too," says the report by Maven and Great Place to Work®.
Working parents have experienced a different kind of burnout in this pandemic. The pressures of work and childcare (compounded in an environment driven by anxiety) and a pandemic that has gone out of control have tremendously affected them. Workplaces that have tuned into these issues and helped working parents are likely to see better outcomes from their workforce than others.
For instance, identifying data from Best Places For Parents 2020, Parents at the Best Workplaces™ – The Largest-Ever Study of Working Parents (email required) finds that at these companies:
92% of employees are willing to put in more effort
92% would endorse the company
89% would work at the company for a longer time
The report published by Maven, a virtual health clinic for women and parents and, Great Place to Work®, the authority on workplace culture that publishes the best places to work list every year, covers data from over 440,000 parents on how their companies are supporting them through the COVID-19 pandemic in the past year.
Burnout Measures for Parents Must Acknowledge Intersectionality
That working moms have been bearing the brunt of an extended workload both personally and professionally, is known. But this study highlights a rather uncommon factor in addressing burnout – race. For example, 33% of Black mothers experience burnout – the highest compared to all other working parents. 25% of white mothers experience burnout.
It has also been established that women's workplace growth will stall without attention to workplace intersectionality. Mothers are 28% more likely to experience burnout than fathers are experiencing. There are 2.4 million estimated additional cases of burnout due to unequal demands of home and work. The drivers of burnout are different across different genders and races. And when companies aim to provide support to working parents, they will need to acknowledge and then address.
HR Technology News: Working Mothers Have High Stress Levels: The Mom Project's Report May Reveal Why
Parental Support in the Workplace Should Be a Lifelong Benefit
Just paid parental leave is not enough. Companies falling in the Best Workplaces list have done more than just this – for instance, Bank of America provides a fertility benefit to women to help them grow their families. 78% of companies offer childcare benefits, while 33% offer to subsidize childcare costs.
"With two million women dropping out of the workforce so far this year, we've rolled back decades of progress on gender diversity — a reality that has massive implications for businesses for years to come," said Kate Ryder, founder and CEO of Maven. "Employers need real, proven strategies and solutions, and they need them now. As this report makes clear, the best solutions are not perks. In fact, the pandemic has revealed how hollow much of that was. Instead, what stands out are real investments in stretched populations that help attract and retain diverse perspectives at all levels of a company, which is ultimately what drives innovation and growth."
HR Technology News: Working Parenthood Gets Support From a New Employer-Paid Benefit
Parents Can Be Supported Through a Range of Benefits
The report also highlights that companies that support working parents do so through a range of benefits: providing mental health support and childcare support, easing financial worries, and offering flexibility, among other support.
Among the 181 Best Workplaces for Parents finalists, 79% of companies say helping parents is their top priority, second to mental health and well-being.
Finally, this key finding can help companies identify why they need to support their working parents more and give them an environment to thrive in: "When working parents are free of burnout they are 35 times more likely to recommend their employer and 20 times more likely to stay."
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Sharing is no longer just about good manners. It has assumed a front row seat in the discussion about powerful leverage points at the intersection of content and influence. If you are a media company or consumer brand (and the difference between these two is shrinking in many respects), understanding how people engage with and share content is a critical skill.
And you won't be alone. 2010 may well be the year that brands and media companies spend as much time (if not more) looking at social sharing optimization as they do at search. The sheer volume of content (both good and bad) being added to the Web is outpacing people's ability to find what's interesting and relevant to them. This has been leading to a decline in the overall perceived value of content, along with companies' and individuals' abilities to make a living from creating and distributing it, as well as brands promoting around it.
"Abundance breaks more things than scarcity does."
But if you can build a system than increases the likelihood of providing the right content (informational or entertainment), at the right time, to the right people, there is the opportunity to reestablish value. Generating appropriate sharing is an essential element in this "value re-establishment chain." Sharing lifts content above the general noise level of the Web by the fact that it is deemed important by the users (both initiator and recipient of the share).
"With all the noise online. your social circle becomes a de facto filter, surfacing useful information because they know exactly what's interesting to you and what isn't. That piece is so important - it's the essence of influence."
"Publishers, meanwhile, are devising ways to persuade readers to share more, in much the same way they use "search engine optimization" strategies so search engines will rank them higher in search results. A personal recommendation, they say, can be just as powerful as a referral from Google."
If sharing is becoming that powerful a source of engaged traffic, then publishers and creators need to know how and why people share in order to develop and deliver viable strategies for maximizing share-generated traffic, ad revenue and engagement.
"If you ask a site manager, they'll know how much traffic they get from search. But when you ask about traffic from sharing activity, they can't tell you."
So how publishers incorporate sharing capabilities is becoming increasingly important, not only because of its impact on traffic, but that it also shows that they understand the interests of their audience and want to make it easy for them to share things of interest to their communities.
ShareThis has some interesting information on how different types of media companies have addressed sharing from both technology placement and design perspectives in a post called "The Art of the Share." They look at the question of where to place sharing widgets (beginning or end of post) and what share platforms to breakout specifically from the widget, and how this should differ depending on the audience and media type (eg entertainment v technology site).
In the near future, sharing data may influence how publishers look at content development, and how quickly they can respond to sharing trends with more new content. Sharing patterns may also let them know that they are not covering certain areas of content in ways the audience wants.
In addition to having the right tools to share and the appropriate design integration of that technology into the site, the content itself needs to be highly sharable from an editorial perspective.
Dan Zarrella conducted some recent research into sharing and his data contains some interesting insights into what, how and why people share content online. The complete details and TOC can be found at his site here.
Some highlights from his sample of "why people share" provide useful food for thought as to how publishers and creators might think about the editorial nature of their content.
In these models, people are treated as unique individuals vs members of a broader group. This type of customized programming can be monetized at the individual level, yet still maintain individual privacy.
As sharing becomes more than just a simple utility and moves toward being a core social action for Web users, existing social media companies are revamping their offerings and new ones are appearing, offering their sharing solutions to publishers and creators.
This Spring, Digg began revamping its strategy toward "social curation of all the world's content and the conversation around it ... shifting toward a personalization model, where the homepage will be based on ... a user's interests, location, who they follow not only on Digg but services like Twitter and Facebook ... and leaderboards for the infinite topic and vertical pages that will emerge, letting Digg users become trusted sources in a given niche."
The ShareThis Stream is a real-time view of sharing across the Web, enabling users to see what content their friends have been sharing, and the comments, tweets, etc related to that content.
Stickybits brings the physical and digital worlds together via barcode stickers and a SmartPhone app that unlocks access to audio, video, photo, and text messages associated with an object when its code is scanned. Individuals can tag physical objects with media (text, photos, video) by applying custom stickers or correlating existing product barcodes with content. They can also receive additional notification and media from others who scan the object and attach their content to the same barcode.
However interesting these initiatives are, the conversation needs to move from the "means of sharing" to "meaning enabled by sharing." Having technology in place is one piece of the equation; delivering a real user benefit and engaging experience is the other (and more meaningful) part. While you can have searchable real-time feeds and any number of ways to rate and comment on content, it remains a solution just for geeks if it is not matched with consideration for how people want to more broadly use and interact with content.
As the world of digital media continues to grow at a dizzying pace, without personally relevant methods of discovery and recommendation such as sharing, users will continue to be overwhelmed and miss relevant content, or simply give up looking for anything new out of sheer frustration.
I'd prefer to avoid that world described in the song by The Police called "Too Much Information."
So can the economics of digital publishing be changed by creating a market for revealing and promoting personally relevant influence (via sharing) across the Web? I say "yes." And that's why sharing matters.


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WASHINGTON – During the recently held Sanderson Farms' annual investor day meeting, chief executive Joe Sanderson told investors his company would like to move forward with plans to build a big-bird deboning plant in North Carolina – providing certain conditions are met, according to the Oct. 21 edition of the Washington Report from the National Chicken Council.
Before breaking ground on a new plant, Sanderson Farms plans to pay down debt. Also, it will be necessary for feed costs to come down and political wrangling concerning the location of the plant would need to be resolved, Sanderson said.
Fall 2012 is the earliest the company foresees beginning construction, Sanderson said. He added the Rocky Mount, NC, site is the first choice for building a second North Carolina plant. However, the company is considering alternative locations. Wilson County, which opposed construction of the plant, has filed an appeal challenging a court victory by Nash County that could take up to a year to be heard, he said.
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There are chrome trims on each model as well that complement their distinctive styling cues. For instance, the A8 sedan gets more chrome than the A7 and the A6. It also has curved chrome pieces along the tip of the bumper that sort of intertwine.
As anticipated, the Sportback has the least amount of chrome details to make room for darker color motif--- or merely to make it more aggressive. The slightly smaller sedan on the other hand comes with an L-shaped chrome on the bumper. Only, it doesn't have the interlocking design along the central fin like one we found on the full-sized sedan.
Considering all three are actually using the same design language, the chief designer affirms that each will have a very unique quality as well. This is to show the distinction between the A8, A7 or A6 even at first glance.
As we move along, we also noticed some varying arrangements for the new headlights. The Audi A8's headlights are placed closer to the grille while a moderately noticeable distance between the grille's edges and the headlights are seen on both the A7 and the A6 sedans. Every model also has its own specific LED daytime running light interpretation based on the drawing.
According to L'argus, it seems like Audi is looking to introduce the all-new A8 this summer. That means we can catch it at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show for its official premiere. The A6 and the A7 Sportback meanwhile will be launched sometime in 2018.


That 160 looks so awesome to me.
How was the cruise up to MPLS?
What was the turn out this year? Looks good!
Looks very cool guys. I am in awe, envy, and eternal shame for not yet making it your way.
Healthy crop of GT150s if nothing else? Way to go y'all!
Great pics guys, thanks for sharing!
I had 33 total, but Maggie may have a different official number. Some folks who were local just ended up beaching with all of us...I counted 30 on the beach + 3 who didn't make the trip due to 'technical' issues.
33 is awesome. Makes me excited to work on Rathbun again. I didn't get nearly enough on-water time this year.
Glad the turn out was there. I really checked the boards a lot this weekend.
Boy, I hope there are more pics then what is posted so far. I took zero but I think Joni got some.
On Sundays trip down to Prescott we stopped at the cove above the Red Wing lock and met the new owner of Brian's old CV16SS.
Had a GREAT time and thanks again to Maggie & Tim !
Here's what Amy got from our half-run Friday.
Good to see Brian Amberg made it ... looks like it's running strong.
Thanks for posting the pictures, guys.
Looks like a great time and nice turn out. Sorry i only made it Thursday. Looks like lots of fun was had.
Nice to see the CV23 from 2008 showed up again. I LOVE that color and would have really like to see it in person. It was not having problems was it?
Beautiful boat he said that it was a orange flake then he put a orange pearl on top of it.
He had a hole in one of his silicone exhaust tubes.
Thanks Vance! Too bad i was still breaking in the be drive or I would have thrown a little more water around!
Uh Oh! Duct tape time. Was it thru hull exhaust?
Yes, thru hull and when we saw water and steam coming from under the rear of the sun pad, we waved him down. He wasn't surprised as he has had it happen before. I think he'll be going with aluminum next time.
He said duct tape lasted about 30 seconds. He kept using it. It started to miss when the ignition got wet.
Very nice color on that 23.
Jason, with the amount you're able to get out, that drive will be broken in, in no time. Don't forget I took some pics Thursday on your camera.
25 boats in a row beached at Lake Pepin Saturday afternoon.
I hope Vance doesn't mind me posting his great videos here, guess I should ask?
Everybody's pictures are super. Laurie actually got one of my boat so I could prove I brought it down. Don't worry about the stackin Gregg, it got burnt.
AWESOME ACTION SHOTS Laurie !
You could fill 3 calendars with her pictures !
Ya know what I haven't seen yet? A pic of Gregg towing the sheriff. Or is it urban legend?
Welcome to the forum Mom !
Glad to see you Join Laurie!
Fantastic pictures and videos all, thanks for posting.
I really enjoyed how much time that last one had of the 160's. They look amazing. I'd sell the 150 for one.
Vance I have to thank you for the wonderful video you made for us Nebraskan's THANK YOU!
WOW! Awesome meet. One of these days I will make it.
Thanks Vance for all the nice video's.
Very great job on all the videos Vance Thanks very much for the great memories and thanks to everyone who was all there.
I don't think Vance comes here often ... Not even sure if he's a member ?
So ... if you go to his "You Tube" site and post "Thanks and comments" in comment section below video, that would be great !
This has to be the best picture of my boat that I have ever seen.
That's a good one, but I like the one where there's you boat and another one right behind you too.


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Classic evidence – Non evolution!
Classic evidence - Non evolution!
is blindly promoted as evidence of evolution!
the blade-like teeth of the species.
in the last 2 lines.
many scientists claim mass extinction of dinosaurs began.
dinosaurs, who then died leaving small mammals to evolve.
indicating the impact was not as great as currently believed.
approved of - saving species from extinction..."
direct good to my fellow creatures."
cause for years to come - Yea! Go for it Chris!


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FALL PRINT EDITION 2021
9/11: Witness to the Fall – Reporting on the Coming Dangers
Dazed, shaken, guided only by the purpose Don had bestowed on me, I joined the throng trudging up Centre Street.
by Alisa Solomon
André Souroujon / VV Archive
This article is part of a series—At 250, Who Will America Be?—reporting on threats to American democracy as we approach the nation's Semiquincentennial, on July 4, 2026.
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"Get up here. You're writing," Don Forst, the Voice's editor, commanded. I had called him after waiting in line to use a phone booth in Lower Manhattan to tell him what I had just seen: First, as I came up from the subway station at Chambers and Church, a flaming hole at the top of one of the World Trade Towers. And then, the second plane, gliding through a cerulean sky and piercing the other tower. I stood aghast with a small crowd of New Yorkers and wondered at the primal sound that streamed out of us, a collective gasping inhale and wailing exhale louder than the sirens that were already blaring nearby.
At first, Don said, "I know. We have the TV on. We'll do something next week." It was a Tuesday, and that week's issue was already at the printing press; it would be loaded onto trucks for distribution in a matter of hours.
Then I added, "I have the name and number of a guy with a digital camera who took pictures." He lived in the neighborhood and had been standing in that scrum on the corner; I had instinctively pulled a reporter's pad out of my bag and asked for his contact info. We were still half a dozen years away from the first iPhone. There was no such thing as social media. Don told me to hurry to the office.
Dazed, shaken, guided only by the purpose Don had bestowed on me, I joined the throng trudging up Centre Street, interviewing along the way some World Trade Center secretaries who hadn't quite made it in to work before the first plane hit. When I arrived at the Voice, at Cooper Square, Don insisted on pouring me a scotch — I looked ghostly, he said — then set me up at a terminal outside his office and instructed me to write what I saw and heard and felt. He tore out the page from my notebook with the number of the guy with the camera and left me alone. Maybe an hour later, he peered over my shoulder and picked up the phone on the desk where I was working, to call the plant. "Stop the presses," he told them.
When the Voice hit newsstands, its cover bore a photo of one tower spewing fire and debris, the other, a cloud of gray ash. (And a headline — "The Bastards!" — that I hated. "Don't even try arguing," Don said, cutting off my objection. "I'm not changing it.") My fevered account ran on the first inside page. In the meantime, my partner and I stood in line outside (the now departed) St. Vincent's Hospital with dozens of others hoping to give blood. None was needed; there were few survivors.
For a time, the city changed — or more accurately, its best qualities surged to the fore. New Yorkers became solicitous in that way Rebecca Solnit writes about in A Paradise Built in Hell, when, in the face of disaster, people recognize their common plight and caring purpose. Strangers on the subway asked after each other's well-being. Folks hailing cabs at the same time insisted that the others go first. Even Mayor Rudy Giuliani — locally reviled for his racist tough-on-crime campaign, efforts to ban protests and censor art, deployment of cops in schools, and gung-ho defense of police brutality (he had an approval rating of only 37 percent in April 2000) — gave voice to our shock and stoked our resilience. He was lauded as "America's Mayor," and as ludicrous as we knew that designation to be, we could take some comfort in his saying the right things. In the two decades since, what Giuliani has become stands as a perfect — and loathsome — emblem of our current national state, as our democracy faces an even graver threat than we confronted on that terribly beautiful September day in 2001. Calm and resolute as he strode north from the collapsing towers, coated in soot, then; sarcastic and whiny as he spouted conspiracy theories about election fraud in the parking lot of Philadelphia's Four Seasons Total Landscaping on another blazingly bright day last year.
To the late great Voice muckraker Wayne Barrett, those two scenes would not have appeared so far apart. His reporting on the mayor — and on the real estate mogul — includes a 1993 exposé showing how, in 1989, Giuliani, then U.S. Attorney, quashed a probe into the dodgy financing of Trump Tower, soon after which Trump co-chaired a fundraiser for Giuliani's first (failed) mayoral campaign. And in the book Grand Illusion: The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11, Barrett and co-author Dan Collins undo the myth of the 9/11 hero, chronicling ways that the mayor blundered in establishing security measures for the city — or ignored them altogether.
Voice photographer Cary Conover writes: "My 9/11 story is that my downstairs neighbor Gavin Creel (later nominated for a Tony), knocked on my door to tell me about the plane hitting the WTC he had just heard about on the radio (he had been in the shower, still had shaving cream on his face). We went up to the roof and not more than a few minutes later the second plane hit. It was the combined rooftops of 9 and 11 Stanton Street. The New Museum of Contemporary Art hadn't been built yet and so it was a relatively unobstructed view." Cary Conover
Meanwhile, many of us covered the developing War on Terror, whose excesses — whose very essence — abroad and at home also ended up helping to lay the path to our perilous circumstances today (as Spencer Ackerman argues in his new book, Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump). With unsuppressed alarm, we reported on the creation of the Department of Homeland Security; inflamed anti-immigrant animus and an exploding detention industry; the assault on civil liberties through expansive surveillance and arrest powers granted by laws like the USA Patriot Act (which passed speedily and almost unanimously); a hounding of Muslim and Arab New Yorkers (or those presumed to be Muslim or Arab) so severe that hordes fled the city to request asylum in Canada; a ramped-up rhetoric of jingoism that among other things led to harassment of academics, artists, writers, and others who raised questions about this disorder. The president's spokesperson warned that Americans should "watch what they say" and the attorney general huffed that anyone expressing concern about the Bill of Rights was engaging in "tactics [that] only aid terrorists." We followed, too, the militarization of the police, racial profiling as national policy, government monitoring of political and religious gatherings, "preventive detention," secret trials, the brazen use of torture. And, of course, the military invasion of Afghanistan, with its benighted rashness, and Iraq, based on bogus intelligence. All in the name of "national security."
But what did security mean? And who got to have it? The measures claiming to "preserve our freedoms" were curtailing them for untold numbers of people at home, while the civilian casualties abroad were fomenting fury and producing new enemies. Much of the U.S. tolerated such measures and even cheered them on — after all, they mostly didn't affect white people. It was easy enough to sacrifice someone else's rights and liberties.
This is an old story in the United States. You can find plenty of precedents in America's history for the nativism, polarization, suppression of dissent, Islamophobia, xenophobia, warmongering, and violent white supremacy that heaved up as the towers fell. The post-9/11 reaction didn't by itself produce Trumpism. The demise of the Fairness Doctrine, along with other Reagan-era deregulation, and, more recently, the lifting of restrictions on campaign spending the Supreme Court handed to corporations in Citizens United, and the Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act, to cite only a few major blows to democratic progress, also deserve a share of the blame. But, as Ackerman suggests, Trump "recognized that the 9/11 era's grotesque subtext — the perception of nonwhites as marauders, even as conquerors, from hostile foreign civilizations — was its engine," and he stepped on the gas. He cast himself as savior from the humiliations of the "forever wars," and made politics tribal.
While Solomon and a number of other Voice staffers disliked the front-page headline that was printed on 9/11—"The Bastards!"—the staff, and much of the city, loved the cover that hit the streets on the evening of September 18, 2001. Photographed by André Souroujon and art directed by Ted Keller. Photographed by André Souroujon; art direction by Ted Keller
The Trumpian tribe, as the Republicans have become, puts its faith in one unshakable idea, the same tenet that the War on Terror required: American innocence. The conservative American Council of Trustees and Alumni attacked universities as the "weak link" in America's response to 9/11, and in a report naming more than 40 professors who had made "anti-American" statements, condemned as seditious sentiments such as, "We need to understand the reasons behind the terrifying hatred directed against the U.S. and find ways to act that will not foment more hatred for generations to come." It's the same principle that has incited hysteria over a twisted idea of "critical race theory" — the U.S. need never examine its own injurious actions or goals, for it can never do any wrong.
Otherwise, the party has no political program or policy agenda. Its primary objective is to own the libs. Even if that means aggressive voter suppression and gerrymandering. Even at the expense of thousands of lives lost to the pandemic. Even at the cost of dire environmental calamity. The demolition of voting rights, the mutating coronavirus, and accelerating climate change are the urgent threats to American security today — those and one more: an armed base gunning for a fight that has bought into the falsehood that Biden illegitimately usurped the presidency. On January 6, they came much closer to destroying the seat of government than Flight 93 on 9/11, which had been aiming for the Capitol and crashed when passengers rushed the cockpit.
I will avoid the 9/11 commemorative hoopla this year. I have never been able to stand listening to the hyperventilating descriptions on the radio or watching the endless loops of disaster footage on TV on any anniversary. I will honor the day by lighting a candle for a friend lost in the rubble, the sweet-natured firefighter Pat Brown. And I will know that it is the homegrown terrorists who hate the rest of us for our freedom. ❖
Stop the G.O.P.! The Rise of the Counter-Constitution
by Paul Berman
Originally published January 20, 1987
9/11: The Horror Then, The Danger Now
by R.C. Baker
9/11: Trials And Triumphs Of The 'Tribute In Light'
by Christian Viveros-Fauné
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The man (for it usually is) waving the stick
by K Harman / Friday, 09 November 2012 / Published in Advice, Musiquity
The online music universe is buzzing with discussion about a piece penned by the associate principal trumpet of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Russell DeVuyst, regarding conductors and the "cult of charisma". (Check it out if only for the conductor joke at the end).
In it, Mr DeVuyst exposes the current mania for conductors as "personalities", using a recent review in the Montreal Gazette to illustrate some of the foolishness that goes on around conductors currently. I completely agree with Mr DeVuyst's points but I think it's interesting to delve into why this is happening.
I think there are two main reasons:
1. Certain personalities are attracted to conducting. To many people, the conductor is THE BOSS. S/he's in charge. But think about it, a conductor is a musician who presumes to stand up in front of a large group of equally or better qualified people and "tell" them what to do. That takes a certain amount of balls, or, sometimes, sheer arrogance. Conducting is also scary because not only is it relatively easy to mess things up, but the conductor also shoulders the blame if for any reason, it all goes wrong. Because of these factors, a proportion of conductors are, well, shall we say, showmen. Perhaps it's a useful way to cover up for the nerves or perhaps they really are just "larger than life". So, they perform, and the audience sees. Which brings me on to the second reason.
2. Concert goers are going to a show. It's easy to forget this when you're working as a musician, but the audience is made of people who go out to see things. They've taken some of their valuable leisure time, plonked their bottoms in a hopefully comfortable seat, and want to be entertained. Personally, I think watching the various sections of the orchestra do their things is fascinating but perhaps that's because I know more about what I'm seeing. The conductor, the person in the middle with the stick, who seems to be making magic, is the obvious focus for the concert goer. The "showman" conductor is much more visually interesting than the background conductor. The showman conductor practically acts the music out and signposts to the audience what is happening. For inexperienced concert-goers, this is tremendously helpful- "Ooh, it's getting mysterious now…now it's pompous" etc. Yes, we'd all prefer that concertgoers "see with their ears" but I think that's something that takes experience to grow.
So, we end up in the situation where critics think they "hear" conductors (see the linked article above) and wealthy patrons want the cute conductor with the curly hair. Where less showy conductors are criticised for displaying great musicianship and letting the orchestra shine. It's really just another manifestation of society's obsession with the thin opera stars, the authors with pearly white teeth, the identikit pop princesses, but probably everyone hoped that that sort of thinking didn't extend into the hallowed halls of classical music. But it does.
There's no actual solution to this, obviously. But, as I need to finish this post, I'll offer three suggestions. Firstly, the more introverted conductors unfortunately need to make more of an effort to engage with the audience, whether it's by speaking to them or by bigging things up a little bit. Secondly, this kind of debate needs to continue as do other efforts to educate concert-goers on what it is they should be looking for in a concert experience. Thirdly, perhaps everyone should just stop listening to certain critics. 🙂