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Leather, automobiles, and sustainability are on the agenda of the Brazilian Leather Webinar Series
The automotive sector is the central issue of the next Brazilian Leather Webinar Series – Leather Business and Future Consumer, which will take place online, for free on November 6 (Friday), 2 p.m. (GMT). Stephen Jeske (GST AutoLeather, global supplier of leather components to the automotive industry) and Kim Sena (sustainability manager at JBS Couros) are the guests of this edition who will share their views on leather and sustainability, market trends, and business projections for the sector. Register at: webinarseries.cicb.org.br.
The Brazilian Leather Webinar Series is held by the Centre for the Brazilian Tanning Industry (CICB) with the support of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF).
This is the third and last edition of the series of webinars organized to address the most latent issues concerning sustainability, consumer demands, and environmental agenda, as well as land use and deforestation, and a possible overview of society after 2020. The first edition (directed to the fashion industry with panelists from Kering, Vert Shoes, Inspiramais, and Courovale) and the second one (focused on furniture with speakers from Natuzzi, Furf, and Minuano) presented strategies and novelties that may inspire business in the entire leather industry. The next webinar will be no different and promises an in-depth debate on one of the main markets for the tanning sector – the automotive, which has undergone several transformations in recent years.
See who the guests of the Brazilian Leather Webinar Series – Automotive and Sustainability Edition are. Simultaneous translation will be available.
Stephen Jeske (GST AutoLeather)
Jeske is responsible for the global marketing activities at GST AutoLeather, supporting sales efforts to customers. The company is a global leader in the supply of leather components to the automotive industry, with 13 units worldwide. The main automakers, such as Audi, GM, Honda, Ford, Toyota, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW, are among its clients.
Kim Sena (JBS Couros)
Sena works as a sustainability manager at JBS Couros. He focuses on eco-efficient solutions for the leather industry, from the optimization of processes to the evaluation of mechanisms to minimize the use of natural resources. Kim was one of those responsible for creating the Kind Leather product and the JBS360 traceability platform
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The following is a reflection from a participant in SEA-TRI-KAN, a cross-state bike tour that raised support for newly arrived families as they look for employment and begin a new life. NOTE: pardon the delay in posting the final day of blogging from the ride–the author took his sweet time catching up on sleep and restiing his sore legs!
Ride total: Seattle to Tri-Cities to Spokane—over 400 miles & 12,000 feet elevation gain!
The last day of SEA-TRI-KAN was Father's Day. Naturally, I spent a lot of the day thinking about fathers—both my own dad and refugee fathers seeking a safer future for their children. For me, it was a particularly memorable Father's Day for another reason: I am soon to be a dad myself!
The STK dads (and one dad-to-be) pose on Father's Day morning.
The day before Father's Day (June 20th), was World Refugee Day. One way we marked that day was to have each rider think about an individual refugee throughout the day as a way to reflect on the experience of refugees arriving to our community, and to stand in solidarity with them in one small, but hopefully meaningful way. Riding a bicycle all day long allows a lot of time for thinking. And thinking about one person, rather than trying to wrap one's mind around the plight of 20 million refugees worldwide, was a way to remember and connect to the cause in a more accessible way.
The person I thought about while riding 100+ miles on day 4 is a friend of mine from Bhutan who arrived to the Seattle area as a refugee in 2009. He is also a father of three. On World Refugee Day, I thought about some of the positive developments in his family (buying a home, getting a steady job) as well as some of the challenges (difficult work and childcare schedules, the busy-ness of life in America). It was good to reflect on and pray for my friend and his family.
On Father's Day/day 5 of the ride, I found myself continuing to think about my friend whose two oldest children were born in a refugee camp in Nepal. As I look forward to becoming a father myself, I can't imagine being in his shoes. To watch your children shiver in the cold wind blowing through the cracks of a refugee camp hut built from bamboo and tarps, or to not have adequate medical facilities available for your sick child must be excruciating for a father. It is a wonder that so many refugee families survive such harrowing experiences. I have been blessed to meet and learn from the wisdom and courage of many fathers and mothers who have brought their families through such hardships.
Luke and his dad, Gene, enjoying the little-traveled side roads south of Spokane.
I was also thinking about my own dad on Father's day because he was able to join us on the final day of the ride from Endicott to Spokane. It was a really fun day as we got to ride together through the beautiful rolling wheat fields and scattered pines and lakes of Eastern Washington. I realize that much of what led to my involvement with SEA-TRI-KAN in the first place is a legacy from my dad: love of travel and cultures was instilled at the dinner table and on family vacations; generosity was a value modeled by my parents as well. Thank you, Dad for coming along on the ride and for being the kind of dad who raises a son who thinks biking 400 miles to raise money and awareness for refugees is a fantastic way to spend 5 days. I hope I can pass along some of the same legacy to my children, and I hope to be in good enough shape at that point to ride alongside them, too!
This entry was posted in SEA TRI KAN on July 3, 2015 by World Relief Seattle.
Tri-Cities to Endicott: 100 miles to commemorate World Refugee Day.
Secretly, I hate it when people ask us this. Outwardly, in the interest of seeming nice, I smile and nod and then try to change the subject.
My wife Caitlin and I are riding Sea-Tri-Kan on a tandem bicycle. While it is true that some tandem teams can go noticeably faster than those riding solo, this is not true in our case. Our contraption is heavy, unwieldy, and cheaply made — a low-quality budget bike bought on sale from a big box store.
Even after upgrading every component conceivable, it handles poorly, delivers bumps in the road to its riders with bone-jarring efficiency, and climbs like a broken-down freight train. As my sister Shawna puts it, "it's like an oil rig masquerading as bicycle." Our tandem is much better suited for 4-mile trips to the grocery store – not 400-mile tours. It's why we've recently given it a well-deserved nickname: the Struggle Bus.
And then comes the answer. Today (June 20) is World Refugee Day – the day we commemorate those who are threatened because of their race, ethnicity, or beliefs, and must flee their home countries because it's not safe to stay. My soreness and fatigue is nothing compared to what so many others have gone through. I can move freely around my state, and return to a safe home. I may get funny looks when walking into a convenience store in cycling stretchy-pants, but even if I look a little different, I'm not in danger here.
In this light, riding the Struggle Bus with Caitlin and raising money to help refugees find jobs is a privilege, not a chore. I wear my soreness like a badge of honor, and I struggle happily, knowing that I am doing my own small part to help those whose struggles are much more real than my own.
This entry was posted in SEA TRI KAN on June 23, 2015 by World Relief Seattle.


Transmode has detailed its 100 Gigabit metro strategy based on a stackable rack, a concept borrowed from the datacom world.
The Swedish system vendor has adopted coherent detection technology for 100 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps) optical transmission, unlike other recent metro announcements from ADVA Optical Networking and MultiPhy based on 100Gbps direct-detection.
"Metro is a little bit diverse. You see different requirements that you have to adapt to."
MultiPhy has detailed its 100 Gigabit direct-detection receiver IC for use in a pluggable CFP optical module addressing the metro market.
The MP1100Q chip is being aimed at two cost-conscious metro networking requirements: 100 Gigabit point-to-point links and dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) metro networks.
High fives: 5 Terabit OTN switching and 500 Gig super-channels.
Infinera has announced a core network platform that combines Optical Transport Network (OTN) switching with dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) transport. "We are looking at a system that integrates two layers of the network," says Mike Capuano, vice president of corporate marketing at Infinera.
"This is 100Tbps of non-blocking switching, all functioning as one system. You just can't do that with merchant silicon."
Brandon Collings, JDS Uniphase's CTO for communications and commercial optical products, talks about fostering innovation and what is coming after 100 Gigabit optical transmission. Part II of a Q&A with Gazettabyte.
"What happens after 100 Gig is going to be very interesting"
In Part 2 of the Q&A, Steve Alexander, CTO of Ciena, shares his thoughts about the network and technology trends.
"The network must be a lot more dynamic and responsive"
Visiting Israeli start-up MultiPhy at its office in Ness Ziona, near Rehovot, involves dancing around boxes. "We are about to move," apologises Ronen Weinberg, director of product management at MultiPhy. But the company will not have to travel far. It is crossing buildings in the same Ness Ziona Science Park, moving in next to Finisar's Israeli headquarters.


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var mocha = require('mocha');
var assert = require('assert');
var HAProxyTemplate = require('./HAProxyTemplate.js');

describe("#constructor()", function () {
	it("should return an object with appropriate parameters initialized", function () {
		var template = HAProxyTemplate();
		assert.notStrictEqual(template.webAppAddresses, undefined);
		assert.strictEqual(template.webAppAddresses.length, 0);
		assert.notStrictEqual(template.tcpMaps, undefined);
		assert.strictEqual(template.tcpMaps.length, 0);
		assert.notStrictEqual(template.httpMaps, undefined);
		assert.strictEqual(template.httpMaps.length, 0);
	});
});

describe("#setMainPort()", function () {
	it("should set the mainPort parameter of the template", function () {
		var template = HAProxyTemplate();
		template.setMainPort(4000);
		assert.strictEqual(template.mainPort, 4000);
	});
});

describe("#addWebAppAddress()", function () {
	it("should add addresses to the template", function () {
		var template = HAProxyTemplate();
		template.addWebAppAddress("127.0.0.1");
		template.addWebAppAddress("127.0.0.2");
		assert.strictEqual(template.webAppAddresses[0], "127.0.0.1");
		assert.strictEqual(template.webAppAddresses[1], "127.0.0.2");
	});
});

describe("#addHttpRoute()", function () {
	it("should add an http route to the template", function () {
		var template = HAProxyTemplate();
		template.addHttpRoute("127.0.0.1", "asdf");
		template.addHttpRoute("127.0.0.2", "zxcv");
		assert.strictEqual(template.httpMaps[0].from, "127.0.0.1");
		assert.strictEqual(template.httpMaps[0].to, "asdf");
		assert.strictEqual(template.httpMaps[1].from, "127.0.0.2");
		assert.strictEqual(template.httpMaps[1].to, "zxcv");
	});
});

describe("#addTcpRoute()", function () {
	it("should add an http route to the template", function () {
		var template = HAProxyTemplate();
		template.addTcpRoute(1234, "asdf");
		template.addTcpRoute(2345, "zxcv");
		assert.strictEqual(template.tcpMaps[0].port, 1234);
		assert.strictEqual(template.tcpMaps[0].to, "asdf");
		assert.strictEqual(template.tcpMaps[1].port, 2345);
		assert.strictEqual(template.tcpMaps[1].to, "zxcv");
	});
});

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Train to Busan (Originaltitel: ) ist ein südkoreanischer Zombiefilm des Regisseurs Yeon Sang-ho. Der Film feierte seine Premiere auf den Internationalen Filmfestspielen von Cannes 2016 und kam am 20. Juli 2016 in die südkoreanischen Kinos, wo er knapp 11,6 Millionen Kinobesucher hatte.

In Deutschland wurde der Film zwischen dem 17. August und dem 18. September 2016 beim Fantasy Filmfest 2016 gezeigt. Außerdem wurde die synchronisierte Fassung am 2. und 3. Dezember in einigen deutschen Kinos vorgeführt. Die deutsche Distributionsrechte erwarb Splendid Film GmbH. Am 3. Februar 2017 erschien der Film auf Blu-ray, gebündelt mit dem Prequel Seoul Station.

Handlung

Der vielbeschäftigte Fondsmanager Seok-woo lässt sich von seiner Tochter Su-an überreden, für ihren Geburtstag nach Busan zu fahren, da dort ihre Mutter lebt, die sie seit der Scheidung ihrer Eltern kaum gesehen hat. Für ihre Reise nehmen sie den Hochgeschwindigkeitszug KTX von einer Bahnstation in Seoul. Als der Zug abfährt, sieht Su-an, wie auf dem Bahnsteig ein Bahnmitarbeiter angegriffen wird. Ihr Vater schläft bereits. Kurz zuvor konnte sich noch ein Mädchen, das starke Verletzungen aufweist, in den Zug retten. Su-an streift durch den Zug und sieht in einem anderen Abteil, wie das Mädchen eine Mitarbeiterin der Bahn angreift, die ihr zuvor helfen wollte. Diese verwandelt sich nach dem Biss in einen Zombie. In diesem Moment kommt auch ihr Vater, schnappt sich Su-an, sie flüchten in eines der vorderen Abteile, wo sie sich mit anderen verbarrikadieren.

Auf den Bildschirmen sieht man Nachrichtenmeldungen von Krawallen in Seoul und Seok-woos Mutter ruft ihn an, kurz bevor sie mutmaßlich verstirbt. In dem Abteil befinden sich auch noch Sang-hwa und seine hochschwangere Frau Sung-kyung, die Cheerleaderin Jin-hee, der Baseballspieler Young-gook und weitere Spieler sowie Yong-suk, der CEO eines großen Unternehmens, ein Obdachloser und die schon älteren Geschwister In-gil und Jong-gil. Der Zugführer kündigt an, entgegen der Forderung von Yong-suk, in Cheonan anzuhalten, wegen der Unruhen ohne Halt bis nach Daejeon durchzufahren, wo die Armee die Situation noch unter Kontrolle haben soll. Seok-woo ruft daraufhin einen seiner Privatkunden, der Leutnant beim Militär ist, an, der ihm sagt, dass alle dort Ankommenden sofort unter Quarantäne gestellt werden. Dies möchte Seok-woo vermeiden, woraufhin der Offizier ihn anweist, am Bahnhof den Ostausgang anstatt des Hauptausgangs zu nehmen.

Der Zug stoppt in Daejeon, auf den Bahnsteigen ist jedoch niemand zu sehen. Alle gehen zunächst gemeinsam zum Ausgang, Seok-woo und seine Tochter, gefolgt vom Obdachlosen, trennen sich von der Gruppe und nehmen einen anderen Weg. Dort bekommt er jedoch einen panischen Anruf von dem Leutnant; er könne seine Männer nicht mehr erreichen. Es stellt sich bald heraus, dass auch die Soldaten bereits infiziert sind, und diese greifen sofort die ankommenden Passagiere an. Einige von ihnen können sich wieder mit knapper Not zurück in den Zug flüchten. Dabei wird Seok-woos Tochter von Sang-hwa gerettet. Aufgrund der von überall heranstürmenden Zombies am Bahnsteig müssen sich die Passagiere in unterschiedliche Abteile flüchten. Jin-hee, Jong-gil und Yong-suk befinden sich mit den meisten anderen Passagieren sicher in Abteil 15. Sung-kyung, Su-an, der Obdachlose und In-gil, die nur knapp einer Gruppe Zombies im Waggon entkommen können, haben sich in einem Toilettenraum in Abteil 13 eingeschlossen. Seok-woo, Sang-hwa und Young-gook befinden sich in Abteil 9. Letztere erfahren durch einen Anruf von Su-ans und Sung-kyungs gefährlicher Lage, worauf sie beschließen, sie zu retten und zu ihnen zu gelangen. Young-gook erfährt durch Jin-hee, dass Abteil 15 sicher ist. So kämpfen sich die drei mühsam gegen die Zombies durch den Zug.

Dabei beobachten sie, dass die Zombies bei Dunkelheit, die bei Tunneldurchfahrten eintritt, nichts sehen können und dann nur auf Geräusche reagieren. Dies machen sie sich zunutze und erreichen so Abteil 13. Nachdem sie Su-an, Sung-kyung, In-gil und den Obdachlosen befreit haben, müssen sie nur noch durch Abteil 14 bis zum sicheren Abteil 15. Allerdings haben die anderen Überlebenden dort aus Angst vor Infizierten die Tür verbarrikadiert. Sang-hwa opfert sich bei dem Versuch, die Zombies hinter ihnen solange wie möglich aufzuhalten. Seine letzten Worte waren dabei an Sung-kyung gerichtet. Bevor die Tür zerbricht, nennt er den Namen des ungeborenen Mädchens. Nach diesem Satz bricht die Tür und die Zombies stürzen sich auf Sang-hwa. Die anderen schaffen es durch den Zeitgewinn, die verbarrikadierte Tür zu öffnen und entkommen. In-gil bleibt auch zurück, damit die anderen fliehen können. Aus Furcht vor einer Infektion werden die Neuankömmlinge aber von Yong-suk in ein getrenntes Abteil verbannt. Kurz darauf öffnet Jong-gil jedoch die Tür zu den Zombies, um wieder bei ihrer Schwester sein zu können. Die Zombies überrennen nun auch Abteil 15, nur Yong-suk kann sich noch mit einem Bahnmitarbeiter in einen Toilettenraum in Sicherheit bringen. Außer den beiden sind jetzt nur noch Seok-woo, Su-an, Sung-kyung, Young-gook, Jin-hee und der Obdachlose in Abteil 16 am Leben, ebenso der Zugführer.

In Daegu ist das Gleis durch umgestürzte Waggons versperrt, weshalb sich die Überlebenden einen neuen Zug suchen müssen. Eine brennende, führerlose heranrasende Lok prallt währenddessen auf die umgestürzten Waggons, die noch voller Zombies sind. Young-gook und Jin-hee können sich noch rechtzeitig vor dem umstürzenden Zug retten, während Seok-woo, Su-an, Sung-kyung und der Obdachlose eingeschlossen werden. Seok-woo schafft es herauszuschlüpfen, bevor ein schwerer Gegenstand die Öffnung wieder verschließt. Der Obdachlose opfert sich dabei, um Su-an und Sung-kyung vor den Zombies zu schützen, während sie von Seok-woo gerettet werden, und wird dabei gebissen. Auf der Suche nach einem neuen Zug kommt es zu einem Kampf von Yong-suk, Young-gook und Jin-hee gegen einen Zombie. Dabei wirft Yong-suk Jin-hee in die Arme des Zombies, wobei sie gebissen wird. Young-gook kämpft danach allein gegen den Zombie und wirft ihn vom Zug. Mit gebrochenem Herzen verbringt er Jin-hees letzte Sekunden mit ihr, bevor er von ihr gebissen wird. Der Zugführer findet eine andere Lok und fährt sie langsam aus dem Schuppen, wird aber von Zombies getötet, als er versucht, Yong-suk zu retten, die Lok fährt führerlos weiter. Seok-woo, Su-an und Sung-kyung schaffen es trotzdem auch auf die Lokomotive und finden im Führerstand den infizierten Yong-suk, der jedoch schon kurz vor der Wandlung zum Zombie steht. Seok-woo kämpft mit ihm, wird dabei aber gebissen, womit auch sein Schicksal besiegelt ist. Sich dessen bewusst, verabschiedet er sich von seiner Tochter. Während er sich verwandelt, denkt er an den Moment, als er Su-an zum ersten Mal in den Armen hielt, und lächelt, bevor er sich von der Lok fallen lässt, um damit wenigstens die zwei letzten Überlebenden zu retten.

Su-an und Sung-kyung schaffen es ohne Zwischenfälle bis zu einem blockierten Tunnel kurz vor Busan, wo sie die Lok anhalten, um den unbeleuchteten Tunnel zu Fuß zu durchqueren. Die Wachsoldaten am anderen Ende bekommen den Befehl, sie zu erschießen, da sie sich nicht sicher sind, ob es sich um Überlebende oder Zombies handelt. Als Su-an plötzlich tränenreich das für ihren Vater geübte Lied Aloha ʻOe zu singen beginnt, erkennen sie im letzten Moment ihren Irrtum. Die beiden werden schließlich durch die Soldaten gerettet.

Kritik
Der Film erhielt überwiegend positive Kritiken. Maggie Lee von der Variety lobte insbesondere den Schnitt, durch den die Spannung ins Unermessliche steige. Da ein Hochgeschwindigkeitszug der Hauptschauplatz des Films ist, verglich sie diesen mit Snowpiercer von Bong Joon-ho. Auch Leslie Felperin vom Hollywood Reporter zog diesen Vergleich.

Auszeichnungen
 Buil Film Awards 2016
 Auszeichnung in der Kategorie bester Nebendarsteller für Kim Ui-seong
 Auszeichnung in der Kategorie Yu Hyun-mok Film Arts Award für Yeon Sang-ho

 Blue Dragon Award 2016
 Auszeichnung in der Kategorie Technik für Kwak Tae-yong und Hwang Hyo-gyoon (Special Make-Up)
 Audience Choice Award for Most Popular Film

Nachfolger
Der Nachfolger wurde unter dem Titel Peninsula ( 'Halbinsel') angekündigt. Die Dreharbeiten fanden von Juni bis Oktober 2019 statt. Der Film wird die koreanische Halbinsel vier Jahre nach dem Zombieausbruch zeigen und sich auf neue Charaktere fokussieren. In den Hauptrollen werden Gang Dong-won und Lee Jung-hyun zu sehen sein.

Weblinks
 Offizielle deutsche Website

 Train to Busan auf HanCinema

Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 2016
Südkoreanischer Film
Endzeitfilm
Zombiefilm
Actionfilm
Thriller
Filmdrama
Schienenverkehr im Film

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Q: what is the difference between these two exection commands in c# Do you know the difference between these two conditions?
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A: Doing if/while or while/if is not necessary, since "while(reader.read())" will only return true when the reader has rows "hasrows()" and has a row to read "read()".  The extra nesting has no value.

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Underwater grasses, also known as submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), are one of the most important components of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem — whether it's the thin blades of eelgrass in the lower Bay or the green wild celery in the upper estuary.
SAV beds improve water quality in the Bay. They trap loose sediment in their roots and remove pollutants, such as excess nitrogen, from the water column.
These beds are home to spawning fish and crustaceans, including juvenile crabs.
Waterfowl feed on SAV throughout the year, while SAV seeds and tubers sustain populations of migratory waterfowl during the winter.
The decline of underwater grasses: During the 1960s and 1970s, as the amount of sediment washing into the Bay increased and algae blooms grew more severe, SAV began to disappear. These plants simply couldn't get the access to the sunlight they needed.
SAV beds were once so abundant that their mats of floating vegetation fouled propellers, stopping boats from navigating many of the Bay's shallower stretches. But now, these plants occupy only a fraction of their historic extent. Federal and state regulators have set a goal of increasing the extent of SAV in the estuary to 185,000 acres. The current coverage, however, falls far below that mark.
Despite these losses, there is still reason to hope for SAV on the Bay. Since the 1980s, federal and state agencies and their university partners have worked to restore SAV populations in the Chesapeake. These efforts include long-running aerial surveys of SAV beds and efforts to seed new stands of wild celery, redhead grass, coontail, and other plants.
Underwater grasses have also flourished in small pockets around the Bay, especially in the upper estuary. Maryland Sea Grant supports research and outreach to study, monitor, and restore the Bay's SAV populations.
"The Bay Grass Surprise," a feature article in Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's magazine. It tracks the astonishing recovery of underwater grasses near the mouth of the Susquehanna River.
Seeing The Big Picture: Monitoring the Bay from the Air, an issue of Chesapeake Quarterly. Read about a long-running effort to track the successes and failures of SAV around the Bay — by plane.
Underwater Grasses in Chesapeake Bay & Mid-Atlantic Coastal Waters, an 80-page, full-color guide. Discover how to identify and find the Bay's diverse underwater grasses. Available for purchase in our Bookstore.


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Hancock County's former election supervisor says she was fired unfairly.
Aretha Hill says three members of the county's Board of Elections and Registration filled out evaluations two days before she was fired. She says she never knew there were any problems.
A group of protesters including Hill's husband protested outside the temporary courthouse in Sparta Tuesday morning. They say another board employee, Robin Rhodes, was also fired unjustly. Hill says she was fired during an April 23rd meeting and board members told her she was rude to citizens and reprimanded board members. Hill says both are untrue. She says she just wants to know why she was fired.
"I haven't done anything wrong to deserve this, nothing but did my job," said Hill. "I think the citizens of Hancock County can vouch for that."
A Putnam County woman bonded out of jail after allegedly abusing one of her foster children.
56-year-old Lynn Smith is charged with two different cruelty to children charges and battery.
On Monday,the Putnam Sheriff's Office got both an anonymous call and an e-mail with a video that allegedly shows Smith forcing a small child's head in the toilet.
Putnam Sheriff Howard Sills says they contacted DFACS who removed five foster children from the Smiths' home.
FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. -- Authorities recovered the body of a man from Lake Lanier on Thursday night.
According to Forsyth County Fire Department spokesperson Jason Shivers, 35-year-old Canon Callender was swimming in the lake about 35 feet from the shore when he got into distress around 5 p.m. People on the shoreline heard him calling for help and dialed 911.
Dive and rescue teams found the man in about 10 feet of water around 6 p.m.
A Lawrenceville Police dispatcher confirmed Callender was an officer with the department for eight years. He was not on duty when he drowned.
Baldwin County authorities said they found the Sparta man they were looking for in connection with a burglary and vehicle theft.
Finding him "didn't prove to be too difficult," according to a Milledgeville police news release.
They found Ronald Hyman, 32, in the Wilkinson County jail.
Hyman is accused of breaking into Dollar General in Milledgeville on North Columbia Street on Monday.
On Wednesday, police said he stole a tire delivery truck from Kenny's Complete Auto Care on South Wayne Street.
Through their investigation and looking at surveillance video, police identified Hyman as their man.
He apparently had a run-in with law enforcement in the city of Ivy on unrelated charges and was arrested.
Hyman has several charges pending in Hancock and Baldwin counties and the city of Ivy.
A month after the unsolved murders of Russell and Shirley Dermond, the Putnam County sheriff says it may take "a significant monetary reward" to break the case.
Sheriff Howard Sills announced creation of a public reward fund and appealed for donations. He said Reynolds Plantation has pledged $30,000.
The FBI has already offered up to $20,000 for information about the murders.
The National Weather Service Doppler indicated a severe thunderstorm that could produce quarter-sized hail and damaging winds up to 60 m.p.h. The storm was located a Irwinton, moving south at 20 m.p.h.
These storms were located about ten miles northeast of Sparta to Devereux and moving southeast at about 25 m.p.h.


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I came across a blog awhile back that featured rye crackers. I have stoneground whole rye in the pantry and got it into my head to make crackers with it. While I respect his recipe, I wanted something different. I went online to foodpairing.com and did some research on what pairs well with rye flour. I made a list of the ingredients I wanted to use — cocoa nibs, apples, brown sugar, caraway, black olives, lard, mustard, olive oil — and went to work.
I went with three flavor pairings, the best being apple juice, cocoa nibs, butter, and dark brown sugar. You can probably intuit rye and apple, but consider the bitterness in cocoa and the heaviness of rye — they match, they match really well, too. I wanted the crackers to be crisp, so I used bakers ammonia. I wanted sweetness in the background and chose dark brown sugar. The dough smelled and tasted wonderful.
Baking them, they filled my home with a warm apple aroma. However, there is almost no apple flavor from the finished cracker. They are not sweet. The cocoa's bitterness balances the sweetness from the brown sugar and wakes up caramel flavors with butter in the background. I had a few with quince jam which made me think of apples bite after bite.
The later batches I added cocoa powder in place of the nibs, then with the nibs. I removed the apple juice, added pulp or dehydrated apples. I exchanged the butter for different fats. I used yeast, baking soda, baking powder. In the end, the formula I liked best is the following. You can still add apple juice for the fragrance, but it's not necessary. Cocoa and rye work really well together and that's what I waned to share.
Combine all the dry ingredients in a food processor. Turn on to mix then drop butter down the feeding tube until well mixed then begin to pour the apple juice. The dough should be moist and stick together. Place in a bowl with plastic wrap for at least 30 minutes then roll flat, cut into shapes and bake at 200 degrees Celsius for 20 – 30 minutes. The darker they are, the more savory.
It's hard to not eat food right away. And then you're like, "MAN, I forgot to take pictures!" Been there.
It looks like it turned out well!
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At a School Safety Conference, Sessions Spent a Lot of Time Defending Trump's Immigration Policies
On Monday, US attorney general Jeff Sessions doubled down on the Trump Administration's immigration policies during a speech to 1,000…
On Monday, US attorney general Jeff Sessions doubled down on the Trump Administration's immigration policies during a speech to 1,000 school cops at the annual National Association of School Resource Officers conference in Reno, Nevada. After he praised school resource officers involved in recent shootings and lauded his department's response to shootings, Sessions pivoted to focus on the administration's immigration policies in the face of growing outrage.
"Children have indeed borne much of the burden from our broken immigration system," Sessions said. "And the children you serve are too. They are watching as their friends and even their family members are getting involved in drugs and getting trapped in the funnel of addiction that is being fed by drug cartels taking advantage of our porous southern border."
Sessions told the audience that refusing to prosecute adults who enter the country illegally "would be a disservice to the people of this country" and "an insult to those who come here legally." He claimed that such a refusal would also "encourage more adults to bring more children illegally" and called the concept of having open borders "radical and dangerous." (Later Monday, US Customs and Border Protection commissioner Kevin McAleenan said he had instructed Border Patrol agents to temporarily stop sending migrant adults for prosecution.)
"The compassionate thing to do is to protect our children from drugs and violence, put criminals in jail, and secure our borders," Sessions told the crowd. By the end of his speech, Session received a standing ovation, according to a New York Times reporter in the room.
Although Sessions maintained that the administration would continue to prosecute adults who enter the country illegally, he said that the administration plans to "do everything in our power to avoid separating families." Last Wednesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end the administration's policy of separating children who enter the country from their families, backing down from his "zero tolerance" policy. Sessions did not clarify what will happen to the more than 2,300 children who have already been taken into custody. Last week, Trump also ordered agencies to reunite those children with their families, though the status of that process is unclear.
Hundreds of protesters rallied outside of the Peppermill Resort where the conference was held, chanting "Jeff Sessions you can't hide, Reno sees your ugly side!" In advance of Sessions' address, a coalition of progressive groups in Nevada called on the National Association of School Resource Officers to rescind Sessions' invitation. In a letter to NASRO, they wrote: "Rolling out the welcome mat to Sessions as your keynote speaker at this moment would demonstrate your complicity with his actions" in carrying out the administration's "zero tolerance" policy toward immigrants. NASRO's executive director Mo Canady told the Associated Press that Sessions, as the nation's top law enforcement, had an important message to share with school resource officers "in the wake of recent, tragic shootings at several of the nation's schools."
Sessions also used his speech to emphasize that Congress must "fix" the country's immigration system, referring to the Justice Department's recent attempt to change a federal precedent that prevents the government from detaining immigrant children for more than 20 days.
"To have true compassion for our children, we must restore lawfulness to our immigration system and keep them safe," Sessions told the crowd.
Sessions did at least begin his speech discussing school safety. He applauded the work of several school resource officers involved in school shootings this year and he praised the Justice Department's response to high-profile mass shootings.
Sessions, who is part of the Federal Commission on School Safety led by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, highlighted a recent hearing that featured conflicting testimony on the role of violent video games in school shootings. Sessions also pointed to the millions of dollars the Justice Department has allocated to firearm training for teachers, developing threat assessment systems for schools, and hiring more school resource officers as a point of pride. He congratulated Blaine Gaskill, a deputy who confronted a student who opened fire at a Maryland high school in March, and Mark Dallas, an officer in Dixon, Illinois credited with stopping a school shooting at his son's high school.
But Sessions did spend most of his time at the microphone on border issues and his law-and-order philosophy.
"We are going to continue to secure the border," Sessions said. "We are going to continue to 'back the blue' and invest in law enforcement. And that means that we are going to continue to invest in you."
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Crime and Justice – Mother Jones
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#TechForPlanet: BNP Paribas introduces Sunna Design
Where are we with our COP21 commitments?
BNP Paribas launches three initiatives to fight global warming
As a leader in building a low-carbon economy, BNP Paribas has launched three initiatives to fight global warming aimed at individuals, businesses, institutional investors and professionals.
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The Group is aware that working together is essential and is taking part in three international events on 11-12 December in Paris encouraging public and private players to act and innovate to speed up energy transition.
Our three most recent initiatives:
To support individual energy transition in France, BNP Paribas has announced a 1% Energy-Efficient Auto Loan for the purchase of any new vehicle eligible for the government environmental bonus.
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The high defense allocation for 2007 in the government budget presented last week was necessary in order to ensure national security, a top Sri Lanka Finance Ministry official said Monday.
P. B. Jayasundera, the secretary to the Finance Ministry, told a seminar here that the government did not want to compromise national security.
"There are law and order issues, drug trafficking, money laundering issues and crime," Jayasundera stressed.
In the budget presented last Thursday by President Mahinda Rajapakse, who is also the country's finance minister, the defense spending will rise to 139.56 billion rupees (about 1.29 billion U. S. dollars) from 108.67 billion rupees (about 1 billion dollars) in 2006.
Analysts say the high defense expenditure is necessitated by the escalating military conflict between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels.
The government early this month said that over 3000 people had been killed in the conflict between December 2005 and late October 2006.
The Tiger rebels and the government troops have been engaged in open confrontations for the first time since the Norwegian backed peace process began in February 2002.
Both sides accuse the other for the violence and say they act in self defense. Appeals by the international community to revive the peace process have been of no avail.


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Activist Demanding Justice For Murdered 8-Year-Old Arrested In Kashmir
Talib Hussain, an activist demanding justice for the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl has been arrested in Jammu and Kashmir. The police said the girl was kidnapped and held captive for a week before she was murdered. A 15-year-old has been arrested in the case
All India | Written by Nazir Masoodi | Updated: January 22, 2018 17:01 IST
Kashmir police said the 8-year-old was kidnapped and held captive for a week before being murdered.
Srinagar: An activist demanding justice for the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl has been arrested in Jammu and Kashmir.
The child, who belonged to a nomadic tribe, was found dead in a forest area in Kathua on Wednesday. A 15-year-old has been arrested, who, the police said, has confessed to the crime. The police said the teen had kidnapped the girl and held her captive inside a cowshed for a week before she was murdered.
Last evening, several members of the tribe, who were on a protest in Kathua, were injured in police lathicharge. Later, Talib Hussain, a prominent activist, was arrested.
Police said they arrested Mr Hussain as he blocked the Jammu-Pathankote national highway at Kathua. The opposition, however, said it was an attempt to silence any voice representing the minuscule nomad community in the area.
The Congress and the National Conference raised the issue in the assembly, accusing the government of a cover-up. "You have arrested the man who was fighting for justice," said GM Saroori, the Congress lawmaker from Inderwal.
The government said it will make a statement in the house.
On Saturday, the opposition didn't allow proceedings in the state assembly, demanding the suspension of the police officer responsible for the arrest. Heated exchanges to place between the ruling BJP and the opposition after a local BJP legislator, Rajiv Jasrotia, said someone from the child's family is responsible for the crime.
Pointing out that the government had said the arrested minor has confessed to the murder, the opposition said the BJP is "spreading lies".
The opposition has also alleged that the arrest is an attempt to hush up the case. "Influential people are involved in the crime and the government is protecting them," said Usman Majid, the Congress lawmaker from Bandipora.
He said it is not possible for a juvenile acting alone to kidnap a girl, rape her, hold her captive for a week inside a village and then dump her body 3 km away.
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12 Years a Slave May Sweep the Oscars
Jaap Buitendijk
MASTER VIOLINIST TO SLAVE: Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor) enjoys fine dining in New York before his enslavement in the South.
Alexander Davis, Staff Writer
From living the good life as a master violinist in New York to becoming enslaved and sold to a plantation in the South, one man never lost the will to live.
British film director Steve McQueen's "12 Years a Slave" follows the story of Solomon Northup, a freeman, kidnapped and forced into slavery.
"I don't want to survive; I want to live," says Northrup, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor ("American Gangster," 2007).
In pre-Civil War New York, Solomon is approached by two men who promise to pay him handsomely if he performs in their traveling musical show. While the men celebrate the deal with drinks, they drug Solomon. He awakens to find himself shackled at the wrists and ankles and confined to a holding cell.
After he is badly beaten in the makeshift jail, he is told that he is a runaway slave named Pratt who has been caught. He insists that he is a freeman named Solomon, but that only gets him another beating.
McQueen ("Shame," 2011) does an excellent job portraying the contrast between freedom and enslavement. Unlike other films that focus on slavery, such as Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained," McQueen's film does not rely on antics and unrealistic action scenes. The dialogue and body language of every character allows the film to draw the audience in with little action or music.
Arguably the strongest scene in the film comes after Solomon is sold to a cotton plantation. He openly disagrees with a slave overseer, who immediately decides to hang him. Solomon is left with a noose around his neck while standing on his tiptoes. He is left there for hours while other slaves work in the background, unwilling or unable to help him as he struggles for air.
The skills of cinematographer Sean Bobbit ("Hunger," 2008) are on full display in this scene and the film as a whole. While Solomon struggles for air, the camera stays fixed on him, the scene lasts for about two minutes without cutting. The angle of the camera allows the audience to see slaves working around Solomon, trying their best to ignore the horror happening in front of them.
Authenticity is a major factor in the success of the film. The scenery and costumes show an accurate representation of life on a slave plantation. More importantly, nothing seems staged.
There are numerous scenes in which slaves are whipped. The reactions of the characters are not overly dramatic, but their body language and facial expressions say more than enough.
Very little music is played throughout the film; however the slaves are often shown singing songs as they work in the fields. A capella style music provides the audience with an insight into the culture of slaves. They are forced to perform back-breaking labor and are routinely humiliated by the whites for entertainment purposes, but they still stay strong and stick together by joining each other in song.
The film features a number prominent actors, including Brad Pitt ("Inglourious Basterds," 2009) who plays a Canadian carpenter and abolitionist who befriends Solomon during a construction project despite Solomon's mistrust of white people, as they often earn his trust only to betray him.
Michael Fassbender's performance as a cruel slave master named Mr. Epps is worthy of an oscar nod for supporting actor. Fassbender ("Prometheus," 2012) plays a deeply troubled slave owner who drinks heavily and often beats Solomon and other slaves for little or no reason.
Sarah Paulson ("Serenity," 2005) delivers a solid performance as Mistress Epps,who is wildly jealous of a female slave name Patsey played by Lupita Nyong'o ("In my Genes," 2009) Mistress Epps believes that Patsey and Master Epps are having an affair, which causes her to treat the slave girl with cruelty.
The film is at times very hard to watch, as intense scenes of slaves being whipped and ridiculed by their masters' forces the audience to confront the evils of slavery.
The major accomplishment is that despite the graphic scenes, the audience is unable to turn away.
Rated R for violence, cruelty, some nudity and brief sexuality, and runs for 134 minutes.
Alexander Davis, Staff Reporter
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We invite you to join us as we work to restore
an important resting place of Mitchell County residents.
The Penland Cemetery, located in Bakersville, North Carolina, has been neglected, vandalized, and unvisited for years. It has been allowed to return to a wild and jumbled state demeaning the people buried there. A number of historically significant and prominent individuals including a physician, lawyer, and county leader are among the 43 people that are confirmed to have been buried there. It is impossible for local history and genealogical researchers to gather information there and for relatives, however distant in time, to pay proper respects to their families.
MCHS is committed to restore what was once a place of spiritual peace and historical importance by reclaiming it from near-total destruction caused by four wheeler vandals, the inevitable claiming of the land by nature, and the disrespect demonstrated for those resting there.
We invite you to join us in our work on this project.
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Penland Cemetery Significant Gravesites
Stephen M. Collis
Stephen Morgan Collis
One of the most well-known gravesites in the cemetery is the Reverend Steven Collis, who has been lauded as the catalyst for early Baptist church development in Mitchell County. He served as the first clerk of the Roan Mountain Baptist Association and also served as its moderator for 19 years, working to establish churches and spread the faith through the hills, valleys, and hollows of the region.
Collis served as a chaplain in the 13th Tennessee Calvary of the Union Army during the Civil War, where continued his work to spread the Gospel.
You can learn more about Collis in the MCHS article Joshua of the Mountains.
Other Gravesites in the Penland Cemetery
The first recorded interment was Beersheba "Basha" Collis first wife of Starling Buchanan who died at the age of 26 in 1867. She was the daughter of the legendary Stephen Morgan Collis, "Joshua of the Mountains," and Mary "Polly" Sparks Collis both of whom rest also in the cemetery. In addition to his many contributions to forming and supporting the Roan Mountain Baptist Association and Baptist Churches generally in the area, he served as pastor of the Bakersville Baptist Church in 1888-1889. Church member Helen Madeline Stewart Wilson was his GG Granddaughter.
Helen Wilson's parents, Charles Stewart and Blanche Elizabeth Buchanan Stewart and her brother, Charles Elmer Stewart also rest here. Charles was employed by the Government as a prohibition agent. One night he was riding on the side runners of one of the cars while in chase of some moonshiners, and there was an accident while in chase from which he died from complications. His sister, Sally became the bride of Joseph Baird Cragmiles the publisher of the Mitchell County Banner.
Mary Elmira Blalock Penland daughter of Tilmon and Sarah Wilson Blalock was next five other Penlands rest here including Margaret Penland Hyams.
Maude, Mamie, A. Earl, and an unnamed infant Berry rest there. These are the children of Archibald Ellison and Julia Ann Young Berry who passed early in their lives. The children are the sisters and brother of Walter C. Berry, noted local attorney and highly respected and recognized contributor to the Bakersville Baptist Church. His sister, Mary Helen married Woodrow Butt of Bakersville and was a grade school teacher for many years. They are buried in the Bakersville Memorial Cemetery.
Samuel Julian (JS) Black and his wife Ida Virginia Blackburn Black along with their young children, Lucy May and Ida Virginia rest here. JS was a local attorney with an office on the property of Southern Ridge Café which for years was also a barber shop in Bakersville. He was a stalwart member of the Bakersville Baptist Church providing land for the second Bakersville Baptist Church after the first was washed away in the 1901 flood. In addition, he served in many capacities until his death in 1933. His wife Ida was the first President of the Bakersville Baptist Church Women's Missionary Union, the first in Mitchell County, and then the first president of the Mitchell County WMU Association. Their son, Frank Adrian and his wife Minnie Greene Black continued the tradition of service to the Church. They are buried in the Bakersville Memorial Cemetery.
The Staffords, Elizabeth E. "Betty" Greene and Joseph M. rest here. She was a teacher and active in church affairs, especially related to forming and maintaining the WMU. He is apparently no relationship to the J M Stafford that worked with Stephen Morgan Green on the History of the Roan Mountain Association book in 1884. This may possibly be John Milton Stafford of the Grassy Creek community.
James W Taylor Quinn, his first wife Dorothy "Dolly" Mace Quinn and their infant son S.R. Quinn rest here. He was a harness maker and died at age 86.
Birdie Pritchard, wife of Frank T Pritchard and first wife of Dr. Robert Presswood along with her infant twin daughters by Presswood rest here.
Franklin Pierce and Naomi Young Slagle.
John S. and Sarah Cordelia Young Wilson and their 4 month old son
William A Ramsey, son of Hiram Robert & Elizabeth Womack Ramsey. His wife was Artamina Alice Felts and they were married around 1856.
Photo of the current condition of the Penland Cemetery
The cemetery is all but inaccessible except by walking through brambles and bushes up a steep hill on the northwest side of the hill or up as steep an incline from a resident's drive and parking area on the southeast side of the hill. The latter is untenable for a number of reasons which cannot be resolved. The damage caused several years ago by vandals riding four wheelers over the graves and pushing over headstones has been addressed by the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Mitchell County Historical Society, repairing and putting up as many markers as possible. However, additional repairs are necessary. Some markers are so heavy that a crane and lift will be necessary to raise others. Removal of invasive vegetation, which includes huge trees and undergrowth, will require special equipment to complete. All efforts to reclaim the cemetery appropriately will first require a road. This will allow genealogical researchers and those who wish to honor the deceased access to the cemetery to begin documenting the graves present there
The project is being implememented in several phases:
Phase I: Getting permission from the land owner to create access to the cemetery. This has been completed.
Phase II: Obtaining an easement to the land owner's property from a reasonably accessible location. This too has been completed.
Phase III: Obtain the necessary resources and construct a 10-12 foot wide road to the cemetery to include a small space for parking and turn around. This will require:
Heavy equipment and personnel capable of carving a roadway from a relatively difficult terrain. A primitive roadway was at one time obvious; however, weather and time have all but removed its presence making it impassable and unsuitable as a base for a new road. An entirely new road must be created. We have an individual who has volunteered to use his heavy equipment, expertise, time, and related equipment expenses to carve out this road including clearing the roadway, grading, soil removal as necessary, graveling, drainage, and reseeding. The cost for this donation is between $10,000 and $15,000 were a construction company to be engaged. The individual is bonded.
Consumables needed to operate the equipment such as fuel, oil, etc. $1,200*
Bed rock for the roadway and riprap for the drainage ditches 350 tons of crusher rock and (to be estimated) tons of rip rap @ : $6,000*
Drainage pipe 6 @ $210: $1,260*
Silt fence 10 @ $20: $200*
Grass seed and straw materials: $500*
Phase IV: Clearing the heavy timber at and near the cemetery: $3,000*
Phase V: Clearing the cemetery and repairing the damages to markers: $3,000 (indicates a cost that will be pursued with local businesses for mitigation or outright donation. Also, volunteer time will factor into Phase V).
Phase VI: Surround the cemetery proper with a sturdy fence: $2,000*
The Mitchell County Historical Society is seeking financial help with Phases III-VI of the project. We are working to raise approximately $20,000 to help with costs to restore the cemetery and provide access to it for the general public.
Won't you help us? A Donate button is available at the top of the page, and contributions are tax deductible to the extent of tax laws. MCHS is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, and all donations earmarked for the Penland Cemetery will go to the purchase of materials and labor to complete the project in a timely manner.
Feel free to send a comment or question about the Penland Cemetery project below.


Last Friday, I had the chance to sit down with several successful entrepreneurs over lunch. (Successful in this case being "happy" about their previous startups' outcomes either sold or otherwise while under their leadership.) Over the lunch, I remember introducing some of the entrepreneurs to each other, but after that, I feel as if I might have spoke too much. You ever get that feeling that you were a bit of a chatter box?
That evening before bed, I felt a bit guilty about it, and as I often do, reflected on my day's events — what happened, what did I like, what didn't I like, and what could I have done better. I realize now that I've come to this point where a cocktail of confidence, passion, and experiential exuberance mixed too strong can be interpreted as arrogance and rigidity. The experiential exuberance, in this case represents, is the energy I have from lessons learned through building a startup and other "wise" events through life. No one actually said I was arrogant, but I felt that I could have been interpreted that way — if that's my own feeling, then perhaps that's how it was perceived.
Too much of a good thing (like confidence, tenacity) can be a bad thing. Exercise patience and know it's okay to let others not only speak, but to share their thoughts and actually listen.
It's okay to say, "I don't know — I'll get back to you on that." No, seriously, get back to someone on that. I was recently on a call for one of my consulting projects, and I was asked a question to which I spent a minute on the call fumbling through documents on my end to figure it out. I should've just told the client I'd get back to them.
You have two ears and one mouth. Heard this saying before? If you've surrounded yourself with people smarter than you, you should do well to sit and listen to what they have to say.
Do speak up, and pass the baton. Obviously, sitting in a group means so little if you don't say anything at all. You still want to leave an impression, after all. Instead, just be sure to speak up, and pass the baton for others to talk.
Introduce others. If you're introducing new people, make sure they get a chance to converse with one another. Networking is more about how you connect others and less about how you connect with others.
Read the faces. As you talk to people in the group, be sure to gauge everyone's facial expressions. You may find others who are wanting to chime in, but may feel uncomfortable to do so. Similar to the above points, try to ease those people into the conversation. They'll feel thrilled that you'd help them in, and you'll feel great for getting them in.
It's clear to me that I still have a ways to go to be an inspiring and effective leader. Not just in groups, but I should start exercising humility even when I'm alone. Confidence can be a tricky thing, but as an entrepreneur, especially, I feel there is a more careful balancing act of being confident in your startup and your capabilities and knowing that there are still ways to better your product, your skills. Genuineness through humility can go a long way to not only communicating and inspiring others to follow your vision, but to buy your product, or simply have a friendly lunch.
At the end of the day, it's being able to call on all these different tools you gather through your journeys to more effectively communicate to the audience in front of you.
How have you negotiated the trapeze of confidence vs. over-confidence in communicating with others? What are some other tips when in groups of people that I didn't include?
Quartz isn't a publication that I'm well-versed in, however, I stumbled upon an article on qz.com by Drew Williams arguing some of the validity of marketing expenditures for startups – "$1 is too much for most startups to spend on marketing". Williams is an entrepreneur and a co-author of Feed the Startup Beast: A 7 Step Guide to Big, Hairy, Outrageous Sales Growth.
Now, the title slapped me in the face as one of those, "what?? $1?! Too much?!" And the exclamatory questions continued. But after reading the article, I fully get it, and now, his advice and this article is one of my favorites. The gist of the argument is that startups tend to spend a lot of money on marketing looking for growth when the real deal in achieving growth and sustainability is simply taking a closer inspection of the products and services provided by the companies.
Williams cites, "over half of all startups are gone within five years" and "only 30% ever make it to 10 years".
These are pretty scary numbers, but sharing an anecdote where a company was going spend lots of money with Williams and his marketing team on marketing services to drive sales, Williams uncovered a problem much deeper and far greater – existing customers weren't signing up for recurring services. So here, you have a business that is looking to grow when the momentum they're trying to build on wasn't actually momentum at all other than the initial spike because customers weren't in love with what they bought. There were problems including the payment processing that just scared customers from signing up for recurring services.
I can appreciate this deeply. One of the most exciting things you'll ever experience is the early sales after you've launched your business. You start with nothing, and build it into a product that people are actually buying. But what really discourages you and drives you to go nuts is watching user engagement fall after that initial excitement. In some ways, you want to say, "bah, they just don't get it… they aren't appreciating what we're doing", and it's "easy" to try to move on and try to make more sales. However, this is incredibly terrible thinking. As Williams points out, sales almost means nothing if you can't even ride on the success and recurring services from existing customers.
The companies that succeed (those that exist after years and years including those acquired), are those who listen to the customers. Successful products and services evolve as the market starts showing you what is lacking in your service or product offering. In our case with Body Boss, we've had to continually refine our app. It's a million times better than what we first launched it as. Getting insight from our customers is critical as we, too, have seen user engagement wane. And sometimes, it's hard to get our customers to open up with what needs to be simplified, fixed, or pursued otherwise.
DO YOUR RESEARCH – I don't mean to necessarily go to the library or Google and start researching market sizes, key words, etc. I mean doing real hands-on research vis-à-vis talking to your potential customers. They will tell you what people really want. But be careful to also not take just general "I like that" vs. what people will actually pay for.
Depending on the market you're trying to approach or if you're trying change actual PROCESSES of how a potential market currently operates, it may be critical to communicative first customers.
Those are obviously not the only two critical components to building a desirable product. However, as I read Williams' article, I thought more about my own experiences and others'. With the abundance of data thrown at you with marketing efforts, really your best marketing device is your product or service offering. Networking plays such a huge role in your business's growth in the form of simple word-of-mouth. So take care of your most important marketing engine before you plow money into the wrong area.
So what are your thoughts? Have you seen where marketing budget was just thrown at the business to boost sales when perhaps the problem was truly in the current product or service offering?
Going hand-in-hand with my most recent post about how everyone copies one another (How to Survive: Read the Market or Just Simply Read What's On Your R&D Presentation), I received this in my email as part of my newsletter subscription to Strategy+Business — the article is titled "The Value of Being Second" by Oded Shenkar (see article here).
In the article, I nod my head in agreement with every word. Shenkar cites a chapter from Eli Broad's The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking. I like to think I'm a thinker (else, why would I have a blog?), and I'm also a perceiver of the world. That is, I like to sit back — no wait, I lay in bed unable to sleep at night — and reflect on the world around me. And so I sit there and I think about how so many of the former companies of great stature, great products have just disappeared out of existence while new companies just take the world by storm. Again, going back to my previous article where I talk about the Xerox's and Best Buy's of the world, it's no longer needed or even desired to be the first kid on the block with a new product, service, or whatever else.
As an aspiring entrepreneur, too, being a Co-Founder of Body Boss Fitness, I get to network with other entrepreneurs and hear lectures and presentations from successful entrepreneurs like Charlie Goetz (a Professor at Emory University's Goizueta Business School), David Cummings (Founder and CEO of Pardot who just got acquired by ExactTarget for $95.5M after only a few years in existence!), etc. They all say the same message that Shenkar speaks of in his article and what Broad wrote in his book — the market is changing and no longer is innovation and first-movers necessary to be successful. Instead, it's the guys who follow the first-movers who capitalize on the first-movers' failures and mistakes, and they get to leverage the companies coming in second don't have to educate the market. Of course, second-movers come in with a new twist as the many entrepreneurs I've spoken to would say, including myself. I especially like the analogy Shenkar cites from Broad: it's like hiking. The guy in the front has to clear the brush and is getting cut up and does all the hardwork. However, he paves the way for the guy following who just simply walks the same path with less investment.
Of course, there are many benefits, too, of being the innovator and first to the market including brand name and access to the technology and more. And then there's me, whom I very much hope to be a builder of the future, and wouldn't mind being the guy at the front of the line hiking. I want my name out there because if done right, too, the first-mover can keep its place as number 1 in the market place. The key here is the need to also continually innovate. (I'm finally getting around to tying this post to my previous post.) If you can continually innovate, you'll keep ahead of the curve and you'll reap the rewards and leave second, third-, n-movers behind you. Don't be stagnant. Or be stagnant and be content to play second fiddle in the future (or no play at all).
And so in closing, I want you all to appreciate coming in second because when done right, coming in second just positions you for first place next year. But if you're willing to invest and keep innovation high and strong, keeping the pole position is certainly achievable. When I hike, yes, I like to lead. I may be the cut up by the brush and I have to be the one to clear it, but I like that. I like the challenge. I'm okay with paving the way for others to follow because in the end, it's for the good of the group. Do know, though, that while I'm in front, I'm running. So I'm keeping my place at the front. You'll just have to work that much harder to keep up.


Just a quick note to say thanks for a wonderful time up at Llyn Arenig today and could not have asked for better in what has to be one of the most stunning locations.
Good fishing with excellent hospitality and company made for a memorable day.
A thoroughly enjoyable day surrounded by stunning scenery, supplemented by a pleasant lunch in the elegant Pale Hall.
All in all, a gentle day's fishing for the Lady of the Stream in the company of a real gentleman.
Having won a photo competition run by Noel, I was looking forward to the prize...a day's fishing on Llyn Arenig Fawr. Having been cancelled a couple of time due to poor weather, we made it out and were met with clear blue skies and high temperatures, lovely weather but not ideal for wild brown trout fishing or so we thought...! The short walk to the lake flew by with Noel telling us stories and describing the lake. Arriving there we were surprised to see quite a few fish rising and quickly got set up. The fish were very hard won, but they were worth it, beautiful wild brown trout, with Phil catching the best fish of the day at around 10 inches. Noel was a brilliant host with refreshments and a BBQ lunch all organised.
A hugely enjoyable day I will remember for a very long time, great fishing, great company and great food, exactly how it should be!
Thank you for the photos which are a treasured reminder of an excellent day out - thank you again for all that you did for us. We both thoroughly enjoyed the day, despite the weather and lack of fish!
We are travelling up to Thurso next week to try our luck with the salmon. The trip to Snowdonia has been a good 'warm up'!
Thank you for a very well organised trip to Scotland after brownies. It was good to have our wives with us. We really enjoyed our stay in the charming old lodge.
I would just like to thank you for organising the 3/4 day salmon fishing trip to the Athol Estate, it was absolutely brilliant, well organised and a truly relaxing experience.


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Significance: Look south to Arundel, home of the Duke of Norfolk, premier Earl of England, and the Roman Catholic Cathedral. Ecumenism, loving brothers and sisters in Christ, begins where you are standing.
Declaration: We proclaim that wherever people seek the living God, made known in Jesus and experienced in the Spirit, God's love will be made known and all barriers will be removed.
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5.16-17
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