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Death Wish Author Brian Garfield Has Passed Away
We remember the prolific and versatile Edgar Award winner, who died on December 29, 2018.
Brian Garfield, the award-winning author best known for his novel Death Wish, passed away on December 29, 2018 in his Pasadena home. He was 79. His wife, Bina, confirmed he died of complications related to Parkinson's disease.
Brian Francis Wynne Garfield was born on January 26, 1939 to George and Frances—the latter of whom was a portrait artist and friend of Georgia O'Keeffe. Due to Brian's asthma, the family moved from Manhattan to Arizona, where he eventually received both his bachelor's and master's degrees in English.
Garfield was a widely popular novelist, having written more than 70 books that sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. He never limited himself to any one genre, frequently shifting from crime stories to war tales to nonfiction accounts. He launched his career with a western novel, Range Justice, when he was just 18 years old—though his biggest successes would come years later. In 1969, he published a study on Alaskan's "forgotten war," the Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians. Not long after, he wrote the Edgar Award-winning Hopscotch—a cynical espionage thriller he then adapted into the 1980 comedy film of the same name. Over fifteen movies and television productions are based on his works.
But of all Garfield's books, Death Wish is certainly his most enduring masterpiece. Published in 1972, it follows Paul Benjamin as he seeks revenge against the criminals who killed his wife and critically injured his daughter. Garfield was inspired to write the story after he and his wife became the victims of a theft, which led to the creation of Death Wish's protagonist and Garfield's strong opinions on the mentality of vigilantes.
The bestselling thriller has taken two journeys to the big screen—once in 1974 and, more recently, in a 2018 reiteration starring Bruce Willis. Garfield was vocal about his disapproval of the 1974 film, criticizing its glorification of Paul as a "cowboy hero" rather than portraying him as the violent "nut" he was in the book. In an attempt to right these wrongs, Garfield wrote a follow-up novel called Death Sentence, which sees Paul take his vigilantism to the next level.
Garfield's literary versatility set him apart from other authors and transferred to other parts of his career. In a telephone interview with The Boston Globe, his literary agent, Judy Coppage, praised him for being the only person to have served as president of both the Western Writers of America and the Mystery Writers of America. If anything, it's further proof that Garfield was a man of many talents, and one who will be sorely missed by readers everywhere.
Read some of Brian Garfield's best books!
By Brian Garfield
The Thousand-Mile War: World War II in Alaska and the Aleutians
Featured photo of Brian Garfield: Alchetron
Published on 09 Jan 2019


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Bossier shoppers react to impending closure of Bed, Bath & Beyond
By Tayler Davis and Daffney Dawson
Published: Sep. 21, 2022 at 3:43 PM CDT
BOSSIER CITY, La. (KSLA) - Bed, Bath & Beyond recently released an updated list of the stores that will be closing this year. Included on that list is the location in Bossier City.
Bed Bath & Beyond Store... by daffney dawson
The retailer announced at the end of August that they would be closing around 150 stores and lay off about 20% of its workers in an effort to improve the company's performance. They say a slump in sales and challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic led to the decision.
Many aren't thrilled with the removal of the store, and say they want to see more businesses in Bossier so they don't have to travel to Shreveport.
"I'm originally not from here, but I can see all the new expansion that they are doing in Bossier and on Airline. I think the people need stores that they can get here that is close enough without having to drive to Shreveport," said Verna Reddish.
As closeout deals begin, many are taking advantage of the last-minute deals.
"We came in to get the air fryer and everything else that is marked down. We couldn't help it but to shop," said Reddish.

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HAS THE LORD BROKEN YOU?
In Micah 2:13 we read a prophecy of the Lord Jesus Christ, a prophecy in which he is called "THE BREAKER." Has he broken you? I will tell you this - You will never know him as the Savior until you know him as the Breaker. Listen to Micah's words.
"The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the LORD on the head of them." Now, let me tell you what those words mean and how they apply to the Lord Jesus Christ.
This almighty Breaker is the Lord Jesus Christ. He came up as the Breaker from everlasting. In the council of peace, the divine decree was broken open and the Son of God stood forth as the Surety of God's elect. He it was who alone was found worthy to take the book of God's eternal purpose out of the hand of him that sat upon the throne. Christ alone, as the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world, is worthy and able to loose the seals of the book, break it open, and fulfill its decrees.
In the fulness of time our all-glorious Christ came up as a Breaker in this world, to break down the wall of separation between God and his chosen, to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself, and to open, by his precious shed blood, a new and living way by which sinners might draw near to God with full assurance of acceptance upon the basis of pardoned sin. Our Lord Jesus, by his one great sacrifice, forever put away all the sins of his people, forever silenced the accusations of Satan, forever freed us from the curse and penalty of God's holy law, and forever justified and sanctified every sinner for whom he bled and died. This great work he did by himself alone, when he who knew no sin was made to be sin for us.
After he lay in the grave for three days, the almighty Breaker came forth from the dead, bursting asunder the bars of death. Triumphant over death, hell, and the grave, he proved himself to be the Breaker spoken of by the prophet Micah, passing through the gate before us as our great Head, Representative, Lord, and King. It was not possible that death could hold him. His holy soul must not and could not see corruption. Therefore the almighty Breaker broke through all the obstacles before him as our Representative, ascended up on high, led captivity captive, and entered into heaven, having obtained eternal redemption for us! There he sat down upon his throne, took possession of heaven as our Forerunner, and ever lives to make intercession for us according to the will of God.
At the appointed time, in "the time of love" appointed by God the Father for the regeneration, effectual calling, and conversion of our souls, the Lord Jesus, by his sovereign Holy Spirit, came as the almighty Breaker, in all the glorious force and power of his irresistible grace into our hearts. He did not stand outside our hearts' doors and meekly knock, hoping and pleading that we might, by the mere exercise of our wills, let him in. Had he done so, we would yet be without life before God. This almighty, saving, gracious, effectual Breaker, broke into our hearts and took possession of our souls. When he came in, he brought his welcome with him, causing us to cry, "Come in! Come in Lord Jesus! Come, reign in me forever." Oh, may this great saving Breaker break into your soul this day by his all-saving power and grace!


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when the Pain sneaks out.
I got my blood drawn last week. It's the proudest I have been of myself in a long time. No drugs and no one but the nurse next to me to talk me through it. Just me-frazzled and disheveled, walking into an itty bitty clinic in Key Largo, welcomed with a smack in the face of two-thousand tons of panic.
Sometimes, pain sneaks out of us as unexpectedly and freely as joy does. Sitting in the middle of a meeting, the way someone says something suddenly reminds you of that time you asked your nieces to be your bridesmaids, and you're left fighting a swelling heart; hiding an unprofessionally beaming face behind your laptop screen. The sight of a passing toddler tugging at his mama's dress hem with such strength and excitement it nearly knocks her over as they topple to the beach fills you with such pure joy you're laughing out loud before even realizing it. I've realized: pain does this to us, too.
A couple of weeks before Christmas, Luke and I were decorating our little 4 foot tree in our little 786 square foot island home. Luke walked out of the room for a quick moment to grab another box of ornaments. My favorite bulb started to roll off the low coffee table. It crashed right in front of me. Luke came out and I was already in tears-to both of our surprise. Pre-tumor, pre-surgery, pre-spinal fusion, I would have very easily been able to quickly squat down and catch the falling bulb before it burst into a million pieces. Watching it happen and knowing all of this, I was struck with instant pain. Crying for a good 10 minutes, the tears spilling out of me freely and uncontrolled, I thought about this. It was like something giving me the giggles out of the blue; only the dark opposite.
Around this same time, my tumor took the reigns, as it often tries its hardest to do, and forced me to swallow my pride and take a sick day. Not one that has mastered the art of stillness, I FaceTimed into each meeting and responded to all needed emails all throughout the day to ensure Hamilton wasn't going to burden anyone else but me. The next day, when I returned to work, someone who is unaware of the tumor said to me, extremely condescendingly, "You certainly don't look sick. Hope you had a good "sick day"." Rolling their eyes, they walked out of my office. And just like that, pain snuck out of me; capturing everything like a jubilant belly laugh on the big drop of Splash Mountain.
I was never one to fear needles. I always made fun of my Luke for being so fearful of them. When I was in the hospital, all of that changed. My sister believes my body was clamping down in trauma and distress, causing my "good veins" to shut off their open flow. In the fuzziness of unexplainable pain and so much pain medication I still ponder how my body accepted, there are two instances that stick out as clear as the Key's shallows. Ever since then, every scan needing CT contrast fluid injections and every blood draw I have needed, I've been given anxiety medication to get through it. I will spare the details…maybe for another day. Let's just leave it at this: for now, needles and I are no longer friends. For now. I'm determined to get over it. I will get over it.
I was shaky all day leading up to the appointment. Flashbacks of the hospital moments kept intruding on my thoughts at work. When I walked into the clinic, greeted by the surgical white colors and fluorescent lighting of any medical building, panic gripped my chest and nearly took me down. I registered with the nurse, talking entirely too much in an attempt to distract myself (poor lady…I should send her a bottle of wine and a hug after listening to my ramblings. Looooordy.). In 5 minutes, I planned how I was going to excuse myself and reschedule the appointment a full 78 times. I sat down after finishing my registration. Crossing my legs. Uncrossing my legs. Breathing in. Breathing out. Shifting. Shuffling. Crossing my legs. Help me Jesus. Help me Jesus. Help me Jesus.
I think it's important to address and be OK with the moments when the pain sneaks out. Just like the times we address the moments the joy sneaks out. Tuesday night, I cried tears of joy during the opening credits of the new David Tutera wedding show. The opening. credits. y'all. Luke and I will laugh about that one for a while. Just like we find a way to laugh about and talk through the sneaky pain moments. The sneaky pain moments and the sneaky joy moments are exactly the same: always best when shared; judgement and shame free.
I wish you a weekend ahead of sneaky joy moments. And if you find yourself with a weekend of sneaky pain moments instead? I wish you the blessing of someone next to you to share it with; judgment and shame free.
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Continuing my tradition of posting on the night of the Chase Corporate Challenge (2005, 2006): Had a lovely run tonight, where I wasn't thinking about anything really besides running (fast), and finished in a personal-best-ever time of 33:15.
I also love the fact that there's a campaign to get her a World Fantasy Award! Copyeditors deserve all the recognition they can get.


USS Gualala was a Mettawee-class gasoline tanker launched on June 3, 1944. It was commissioned on August 25, the same year under Lt. Gerald T. Allworth's command with the hull number AOG-28 and it served in the US Navy for 2 years until it was decommissioned on March 29, 1946. During its activities, the ship carried a complement of 62 people onboard and had the main missions in New York, Guantanamo, Biak Island, Mios Woendi, Balikpapan, Saipan, San Francisco or New Guinea. After the decommissioning, the ship was struck from the Navy List on May 1, 1946 and sold to Brazil where it was renamed Rijo. For the services brought to the country during the World War II, USS Gualala received one battle star.


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Мухаж () — село в Польщі, у гміні Мухаж Вадовицького повіту Малопольського воєводства.
Населення —   (2011).

Легенди

Місцеві кажуть що в Мухажському костелі є замуровані відбитки ніг сатани.

Історія

У 1975-1998 роках село належало до Бельського воєводства, підпорядковувалося районній адміністрації у Вадовіцах.

Також в селі була спалена відьма.

Поблизу Мухажу в лісі є могила де поховали померлих від холери.

Географія

Село знаходиться в Малопольському  воєводству. Поблизу розташовується озеро Мухажське. Мухаж знаходиться в гміні Мухажській

Демографія
Демографічна структура станом на 31 березня 2011 року:

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Robots for People: A Humanist Reframing of Automated Labor
Imagining a Future of Excellent Jobs for Us
by Toby Bottorf
There's a lot of anxious chatter around the question, "Which jobs will robots take?" Please join me instead in a conversation that asks: "Given emerging technologies, how can we craft valuable, excellent jobs for people?" With the impressive advances in AI and machine learning, it would be a damned waste of a crisis if we didn't look at this massive transformation as a chance to re-design the whole thing. Instead of a defensive and fearful reaction—"First they came for the manufacturers…"—I propose an assertive and optimistic stand for the role of people in our business lives.
We need to find the right division of labor between people and "intelligent systems." To put human needs first, we need to ask: "What are people for?"
Given emerging technologies, how can we craft valuable, excellent jobs for people?
Think about your own interactions with big companies, and any frustrating time when all you wanted was a person, please! That is what people are for: the mixture of empathy and judgment it takes to resolve an ambiguous situation. Algorithms can't bend the rules or make someone feel special who feels he or she has been wronged.
The first, obvious point is that robots (for now) make terrible people. Robots are uncanny. The flip-side, which deserves more attention, is that people make terrible robots. And yet, we are often given robot jobs. Jobs for robots should be the ones we don't want, because they are mindless, meaningless, repetitive, or dangerous. Automation is eliminating jobs. It has the promise of eliminating the crap jobs first. Good riddance: These are jobs which aren't good for us and which we're not good at.
There are reasons for optimism about this transition, but they require that we assume something fundamental about people, especially those in customer-facing roles—that they can bring unique value to business if we ask them to. If we only treat people as a cost center, we will seek ways to automate away their jobs for the sake of savings, and probably tolerate a worse customer experience in the bargain. But if we think of the people on the front lines as creators of value—of revenue and customer loyalty—then we will look to define excellent jobs for them, supported by remarkable technologies. This will require vision and will. Smart, humanist companies will drive it.
In the short term, we can be optimistic because of demographic trends. The wave of baby boomers entering retirement comes at a good time. A huge number of older employees, those least equipped to navigate fundamental transformation in their jobs, are leaving work voluntarily and organically.
To put human needs first, we need to ask: "What are people for?"
We have spoken with and worked with companies in many industries who see the opportunity to ride a natural wave of attrition to a younger and slightly smaller workforce. On the other side of this shift will be digitally supported teams doing the jobs that we are now in the process of defining. EPAM Continuum helps big companies navigate these tectonic shifts, which are part of the broader "digital transformation."
We were able to help transform the call-center model for UnitedHealthcare, the nation's largest health insurer. We discovered untapped potential in calls to customer service and leveraged the call-center as a clinical resource to 24 million stressed patients. We integrated IT and IVR tools to enable call-center employees to deliver a great customer experience, using data to flip to a proactive model oriented around patients most probable needs. We changed the performance metrics to measure the value of compassionate, knowledgeable agents. Projects like this prove the tight connection between great customer experiences and re-designed jobs that are more fulfilling and impactful.
Longer term, the history of work suggests that technological advances will help create entirely new jobs. It has happened again and again. A century ago, one third of Americans worked on farms. Today that number is less than 2%. People found other, new jobs (like mine, and probably yours).
At EPAM Continuum, we're drawing a roadmap to a future of work that recognizes this important truth: As technology makes more customer touchpoints self-service or automated, the remaining human interactions come into higher contrast, and often are higher stakes.
Customers usually find they need a person after their frictionless self-service experience slams into a dead end. Systems fail, and people are for recovery. When things are going well, we can put technology in the hands of customers, and our goal is for things to feel magical. But when the experience starts to fall apart, our goal is for people to intervene and recover in a way that feels heroic. We need to equip frontline employees with the tools and information to appear to be heroic, without actually putting too heavy a burden on them.
In many jobs, heroism is an aspiration, but in some it explicitly is the job. No workers come to the rescue more heroically than first responders. EPAM Continuum worked with fire, police, and EMS to envision the future of first response. We proposed a model for the right way to integrate new technologies into these jobs—technologies for sensing and drawing data from the world, for processing that data and making it useful, and for supporting dynamic teamwork in dangerous settings. This work shows how we might augment first responders' awareness of dangers, their orientation to a chaotic situation, and their decision-making abilities.
The answer to the question "Robots or people?" is "Robots for people."
Teamwork is an essential part of work, so a well-designed job cannot be considered in isolation. A systems-view ethos considers the larger assembly of tasks and responsibilities. Today, that includes determining how people and computers can best work together. There are some encouraging and some cautionary examples. The authors of the book Prediction Machines point out that in the field of oncology, the highest accuracy rate in cancer detection comes when people and algorithms work together, higher than either working alone.
This example suggests that robots won't become the oncologists, but that because people and smart systems make different kinds of mistakes, they can be effective teammates. However, Nicholas Carr outlines persuasively in his book The Glass Cage, that sharing work, when done wrong, increases the rate of human mistakes. Citing the example of airline pilots, Carr explains that the wrong way to share work is to automate the everyday tasks and expect the human to intervene in case of emergencies. You can't give the everyday work to a robot and ask a human to take over in an emergency. Without the everyday practice, we're not prepared and our skills erode.
Rather than letting the automation of labor incrementally overtake us, companies should anticipate and envision a transformation of labor that includes the augmentation of human capacities, putting technical advances in the service of people. Our lighthouse should be a vision for the transformation—not the automation—of work. Shifting our thinking about employees from cost to value makes it easier to see the parallel shift of work from menial to meaningful. During a brainstorming session, I recently heard our client Heather Figallo, the head of innovation at Southwest Airlines, ask provocatively about the new job to be done by clinical family therapists in airports. When your flight is cancelled, a robot can re-route you. But if you are about to miss your father's funeral, that's just not good enough. Heather recognizes our current opportunity to create higher-value jobs.
This is advocacy, not prediction: The humanist future is one where robots assist in the emergence of excellent jobs. The answer to the question "Robots or people?" is "Robots for people."
Photo by Andy Kelly on Unsplash
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Toby Bottorf
VP, Service and Experience Design
Toby joined Continuum to establish a digital design capability, and is now a VP in service design, leading teams to design solutions for complex human and technical systems. His work builds on a career in UX and interface design.
Recent work includes Audi on demand, a premium mobility service; the design of a client communications tool for a financial services company; and the strategy and experience design of a digital coaching platform for a leading American health insurer.
Toby holds a master's degree in communications design from the Institute of Design (IIT) and a BA in art from Yale University.
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THEIR DEATH HAD HAPPENED (THINGS AND WORK)" is an installation by Milo Dlouhy of over forty small paintings from new and older bodies of work. Dlouhy will group his paintings on one wall while on the opposing wall he will install ten of his grandfather's woodcarvings with some of his won works. Dlouhy installs the paintings in groups to develop a dialogue about past and present histories that are symbolized by the objects. Each painting embodies a language that has been developed through a labor-intensive process of making. Dlouhy develops elaborate "doodles" on the wood surfaces through the repetition of shapes and images. As the artist states, "the work talks about the death of language;" how language is constantly in flex. Visually the paintings demonstrate this through multiple, meticulous layers of resin, polyurethane, enamel, varnish, paint, and images. The viewer is encouraged to read the objects and develop associative meanings for the works.
MILO DLOUHY attended the painting program at the Alberta College of Art and Design until 1994. Dlouhy has had several exhibitions with the Untitled Art Society, of which he was a founding member. In 1997, he was part of the group exhibition Tongue at Truck Gallery in Calgary.
THEIR DEATH HAD HAPPENED (THINGS AND WORK) is an installation by Milo Dlouhy of over forty small paintings from new and older bodies of work. Dlouhy will group his paintings on one wall while on the opposing wall he will install ten of his grandfather's woodcarvings with some of his won works. Dlouhy installs the paintings in groups to develop a dialogue about past and present histories that are symbolized by the objects. Each painting embodies a language that has been developed through a labor-intensive process of making. Dlouhy develops elaborate "doodles" on the wood surfaces through the repetition of shapes and images. As the artist states, "the work talks about the death of language;" how language is constantly in flex. Visually the paintings demonstrate this through multiple, meticulous layers of resin, polyurethane, enamel, varnish, paint, and images. The viewer is encouraged to read the objects and develop associative meanings for the works.


Engineering of structure in practice may require some specialized intervention to make the project more attractive and safe.
Seismic engineering is going through a lot of research and change in the practices have already started in advanced countries and we may hence check on ourselves for betterment of the profession as well as community as a whole.
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Crossed by Evelyn Blackwell
a review by Ant , in the genre(s) Science Fiction , Post Apocalyptic . Book published by Self Published in July 2015
Crossed is riding the heights of topical subjects, that of environment, ecology and global warming. In the very near future a cartoon is created that will ultimately change the world. It follows the adventures of a sea turtle who crosses the ocean and encounters other marine life struggling within a polluted ocean.
This sparks a wave of environmental awareness accross the worlds youth and some form a world-wide movement who call themselves "Crosses". Crosses believe that those most responsible for the damage to the environment should be eliminated. The movement draws millions of disillusioned youths and things escalate from there.
It's an interesting take on current trends, visible signs of global warming and human polution are growing and it has finally prompted world leaders to at least agree to act. At the moment though its still just a load of hot air and our world is increasingly tied to commercialism where profit goes above all else. What Blackwell proposes here isn't much of a step, we've already seen the ferver that the internet can help give rise to and media is more and more invasive. It isn't the first book to use the internet as a tool of social change but it is still in a very small group, not to mention a fine example.
The story is told in a series of audio logs, diary entries, legal documents and online chat logs, in a similiar vein to Robopocalypse and World War Z. This method of story telling can be difficult to get right, to keep the suspense and move the story forward. Blackwell totally nails it though, the writing is outstanding, impossible to put down and full of suspense.
Although it's a short book at only 120 pages there is little wasted space and plenty of ideas explored, the use of 21st century technology and media portals to spread social change, radicalism and terrorism along with modern politics to name a few.
Crossed is a sobering tale that feels all the more powerful for the fact that it isn't that big a leap. People do grasp onto fervor — you only have to look at the Nazi movement and more recently ISIS to see how easily people can be swayed to a cause regardless of it's merits.
Well written and neutral in it's arguments, its a fantastic piece of literature that really makes you think.
Written on 18th January 2016 by Ant.
Dreaming of Eden
Journal of the Plague Year
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My first attempt at a dual boot system. Running Windows 10 and OS X.
Gaming with a little bit of light photo and video editing.
Great build and easy to overclock!
Update 1: 10/18/2016 Just installed H100i V2... doesn't fit perfectly, but doing just fine!
Your HyperX Cloud II appears to be gunmetal, not red.
Nonetheless, nice build. More pictures would perhaps be nice.
Oh, didn't even notice the red/gunmetal difference. Will update. Pictures on the way!
I need to build a new PC for Games like Cities: Skylines, GTA V, Planet Coaster, and Fallout 4. How well does it run these, or similar games?
I've played city skylines and more recently, Battlefield 1 on ultra settings and average 100+ frames per second. I haven't played Grandtheft auto 5, but I imagine it would fare very well. I've had no issues with any of the games that are thrown at it.
How did you manage to get the GTX 1070 working on your hackintosh?
Only incoming messages seem to work, haven't played with the workarounds for iMessage yet as it wasn't a big priority to me.


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While multiple satellite radio companies have been started over the past decade, the only one currently operating is Sirius XM, based in the United States. Sirius XM had $## billion in revenue in 2015. The company has 29.6 million subscribers, and this is expected to grow, driven primarily by increasing sales of new cars. Three out of four new vehicles sold in the United States include a Sirius XM receiver and a free trial period, and ##% of those continue the service, becoming paying customers.
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Workers, businesses back proposal to stop wage theft
Workday Minnesota
Barb Kucera
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Workers and communities suffer – and businesses face unfair competition – when companies cheat their employees through wage theft, advocates said Wednesday at the state Capitol. They called on the Legislature to pass measures that would strengthen enforcement against this widespread problem.
"If you work for a living, you should get paid!" said Rep. Tim Mahoney, DFL-St. Paul, one of the authors of the anti-wage theft legislation. Several legislators, Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith and state Department of Labor and Industry Commissioner Ken Peterson listened as workers described how their paychecks have been stolen by unscrupulous employers.
One of the most egregious current examples is Lakeville Motor Express, a trucking company that allegedly changed its name and location to avoid paying thousands of dollars to its employees. The workers' union, Teamsters Local 120, is leading an effort to recoup what was lost.
"We are union strong and we are here to fight for our rights!" said Samuel Nunn, one of the 95 affected workers.
The Department of Labor and Industry has filed suit against Lakeville Motor Express for more than a half million dollars in unpaid wages. But the department lacks the resources to investigate half of the complaints it receives, Commissioner Peterson said.
An investigation by Workday Minnesota has found wage theft in Minnesota is larger and more widespread than most people realize – and the problem is growing. The department estimates that 39,000 Minnesota workers suffer from wage theft each year, resulting in $11.9 million in wages owed, and that's only what goes reported. Wage theft occurs when:
Employers refuse to pay their employees for work performed
Employers violate minimum wage, prevailing wage, and overtime protections
Employers make unlawful paycheck deductions
Employers coerce employees to work off the clock
Employers misclassify employees as an independent contractors to avoid paying workers' compensation and unemployment insurance
Businesses that follow the law face unfair competition from those that are cheating, said Shawn Larson of RTL Construction in Shakopee.
"They skirt laws in order to improve their bottom line," Larson said. "It's obviously bad for workers but it's also bad for businesses and it's bad for the state of Minnesota."
The Wage Theft Initiative proposes policy changes to give the Department of Labor and Industry more enforcement tools and an increased budget to hire four additional wage and hour investigators to do proactive outreach across the state. It would empower workers with more information and impose stiffer penalties for violators.
"I had to live out of my car and then a friend's house for several weeks because of the wage theft and the problems it created for me," said Gloria Rojo, a janitor who experienced wage theft while cleaning car dealerships and other buildings for a subcontractor of ROC Commercial Cleaning. Since then, she has become a leader in CTUL, a Minneapolis-based worker center that is challenging wage theft.
"Now, I'm fighting to win improved enforcement standards around this crisis. This law would create the necessary consequences for companies like ROC and their subcontractors and allow us to get paid for our dignified work like we deserve."


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Kirstie McPherson, Yampa Valley Electric Association board candidate, District 3
Kirstie McPherson
Bio: Kirstie McPherson is a Yampa Valley native, born and raised in Craig. She has a background in community and economic development in which she continues to use in her full-time consulting work with communities across the country, primarily focusing on industry transition needs. McPherson also works with many Touchstone Co-Op communities and knows the value electric co-ops have as a leader and provider within the communities they serve. She recently completed her master's degree in behavioral economics through the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. McPherson owns and operates several downtown businesses in Craig including The Find, Co. and 518 Wine Bar, with plans on developing several other experience-driven businesses. She serves as treasurer for Colorado Northwestern Community College and Moffat County Board of Control, president of Craig's Young Professional Network and she is involved with numerous groups such as the Arts Council, workforce initiatives and various community committees.
Q. Why do you want to serve on the YVEA board?
A. I'm running for the YVEA board, District 3, because I, as a community member, business leader and economic development professional, realize we have the capacity to be a leader and do so much more for our region based on our energy. How our energy is created, bought and stored is important now more than ever, and continually trying to improve our valley, where we all call home, is important to each of us. My experience with other electric co-ops, economic development and transitioning economies make me a strong candidate for this position.
Q. What past experience makes you the ideal candidate?
A. Working in economic development throughout the country over the last decade has provided first class experience for working with electric co-ops, including multiple Touchstone Co-Ops. With this experience I'm able to look at a higher picture to see what has worked and what hasn't worked for communities, regions and co-ops all over the country. Furthermore, I also work with communities who are typically transitioning economies, from one industry such as energy, to something new, this is a very relevant conversation for our region as well, one that I have direct experience with to be able to contribute to specific areas such as YVEA.
Q. What do you believe are the most pressing issues YVEA faces in the near and long term?
A. Preparing for what is coming and changes that are happening with how our energy is both produced and stored will be a pressing issue and conversation from now on. Ensuring that our communities are ready for this change as well as preparing necessary infrastructure is critical. In my opinion, the board has two major jobs to address: one, how we are operating today to provide safe, reliable and cost-appropriate electricity and services to members; and two, how we are able to ensure our decisions today are positively impacting the communities in 10 years, 20 years and beyond.
Members of the Yampa Valley Electric Association will be electing three members to the board of directors in a mail-in election. Debbie Cook is running unopposed for the District 2 seat. Candidates for the District 3 seat include Jean Stetson and Kirstie McPherson, and candidates for the District 6 seat are Tom Fox and Norm Weaver.
YVEA board election ballots were mailed to members and they should be mailed back by Sept. 10 to ensure they are received by the Sept. 17 deadline. Ballots can also be voted in person at YVEA's annual meeting, which will be held Sept. 22 at the Valley Community Center in Baggs, Wyoming. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m.
Q. How would you address these issues?
A. We know that times are changing; we know that there are very specific laws that are coming to fruition and regulations that will have a major impact on our energy future. Looking at both now and the future from an electricity standpoint, economic standpoint and technology standpoint are how decisions will need to be made. We also have to take a step back and see what can reasonably be done and produced from decisions that have been made in the past, to continue to do what has worked and change what has not worked.
Q. What are your views on renewable energy, considering the state is transitioning to a cleaner energy grid?
A. We have the upperhand in knowing the transition is coming. Where we purchase our energy and how we obtain that will be largely up to the contracts that we make in the future, as well as identifying areas in which we can produce our own energy. In terms of the grid, I think it is valuable for each member to fully recognize how much power from various sources is being put into this and what that looks like and what makes sense for our area. We've historically been a coal-reliant region with multiple mines and power plants are present in our valley. Changing to renewable energy beyond coal is inevitable, and ensuring that our energy continues to be reliable, safe and cost effective is a must.
Q. How would you either support or oppose local renewable energy production?
A. Technology is changing every day, it is our job to take a look at these areas and determine what works and doesn't work for our members – I fully support renewable energy production that is safe, affordable, and reliable, while also ensuring our other valuable resources such as our public lands and agriculture. Identifying the best resources for our valley will be a critical step in moving forward with our energy future, including renewable energy.
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As with the preexisting single sales factor formula, the new single sales factor formula does not have a throwback rule. Under the standard three-factor formula, Missouri requires taxpayers to throwback sales of tangible property either shipped from Missouri to a purchaser in a state in which the taxpayer is not taxable, or sold by a Missouri-based salesperson and shipped from a state other than Missouri to a purchaser in a state in which the taxpayer is not taxable. Accordingly, from an overall perspective, the new formula allows a taxpayer with substantial property and payroll to obtain the benefit of single sales factor sourcing (1) without the preexisting single sales factor requirement to include 50 percent of receipts from sales originating in Missouri with an out-of-state destination in the sales factor, and (2) without application of a three-factor style throwback rule.
However, HB 128 leaves a number of open issues. For example, the effective date of the revised apportionment election provisions leaves open the question of whether the new option applies to returns filed for tax years beginning on or after Aug. 28, 2013; returns filed for tax years ending on or after Aug. 28, 2013; or returns due on or after Aug. 28, 2013. Additionally, the legislation provides no guidance regarding how taxpayers that elect to utilize the new single sales factor formula must source receipts from sales other than sales of tangible property. The Missouri Department of Revenue has indicated that it intends to address all of these issues, but it has not done so as of the date of this alert. Accordingly, taxpayers should consider the benefits provided by the new option in light of these open issues when determining whether to make the election in the near term.


Microsoft's Skype has always been a contender for has-been app of the year. Starting as one of the market leaders in communications, it has since struggled to find its footing in a world where WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Apple's Messages app exist.
Last year, Microsoft made the choice to break Skype out of its rut with a new update. It was a bold, decisive change to the way Skype worked. The app was now styled like a modern messaging app. Microsoft had stripped presence indicators, they were redundant. The firm had made the app more minimal. Our new high-resolution smartphones would make the design pop. Snapchatesque Stories were added to it. Another attempt at a social platform. Phone calls took a backseat. Users could easily start those from contact cards or messaging threads, and so the new Skype radically rethought the way people would use the platform. Not as a phone replacement, but as a messaging platform in the same vein as WhatsApp and Messenger.
Microsoft walked back this update almost immediately. At first, a redesign was issued to bring the app's most familiar features back to users. Presence was reinstated, and the radical home screen change was tossed out for a more classic look. A few weeks ago, Microsoft jettisoned the last vestiges of this approach, and Skype reverted to — being Skype — albeit with a new coat of paint.
In principle, Microsoft's change of approach is unobjectionable. It is commendable that the firm is listening to its customers and giving them what they want. However, I find it somewhat frustrating. The new Skype was polarising not just because it was new, but also because of other issues that had to go beyond the skin deep. Skype still remains a deeply unreliable and inconsistent app when it comes to notifications, sending and receiving messages and so on. One wonders what the reception would have been if Microsoft had worked on a more reliable Skype alongside its redesign and delivered both simultaneously.
Another issue that Microsoft may have noticed is low user engagement with Skype's new features — and Skype in general. For many users, the service is simply a legacy app in the same vein as Yahoo Messenger and AOL Messenger were. When one needs to call Grandpa or Grandma, Facetime or WhatsApp Messenger will suffice. For friends, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Snapchat offer video calling solutions of their own. Gamers use Discord, others use Slack, and so on.
Those issues aren't fixed simply by reverting Skype back to the familiar app you know and (don't) love, they are simply shoved aside so that Microsoft can pat themselves on the back for delivering a meaningful update. Now that Skype is simpler and more familiar, is it any more reliable? Are more users actively engaging with the service? What is the uptake of the new features? How many users are using payments? How many users are even aware of payments? What is Microsoft's plan to fix this going forward, or does the firm simply plan to strip little-used features going forward?
Were Microsoft simply to listen to its users as per uservoice, then Skype was already 'perfect' and the firm need not do anything but make that horse faster. It follows then that any change, however slight, would be rejected by its base who simply want things to remain the same. Microsoft will then have to contend with trying to appeal to new and modern users with new features, and retaining its old users who simply don't want any change. The result? Constant rubber banding between one extreme and the other. Remember when Skype was going to be iMessage on Windows? The work on that was never completed, and Microsoft went back to basics. Remember the Skype Universal Windows app with SMS integration planned? The work on that was never completed because Microsoft changed strategy halfway and returned to the basics. How about the Skype Windows RT app? Same as last time.
This approach to development is not simply a waste of resources, but it speaks to a lack of imagination as well. Microsoft has overhauled its messaging app three times over the past year. Two of those updates have been aimed at bringing it back to square one. This isn't a unique weakness to the Skype team. Windows 10's development offers multiple examples of this with the Microsoft Store serving as one such example. Originally created a was a way for Microsoft to incentivize app developers to build new and exciting apps for Windows, it is now a revitalized and thriving app store for developers to dump apps built for yesteryear. It is thriving, that much can be said, but the problem of people not building apps for Windows hasn't been addressed so much as side-stepped.
As for generating more consumer engagement, that's a problem Microsoft will have to solve on its own.


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As the Head of Email Marketing you will be working closely with the Commercial Insights team to develop and deliver actionable customer insight improving global retention rates and delivering revenue and margin targets.
You will be tasked with setting and delivering all retention KPIs and metrics whilst owning and leading the development of the companies loyalty programme globally. Working across all departments to drive the customer experience and engagement with the programme alongside developing the customer communications and on-site experience requirements to increase awareness and interaction.
Develop and deliver all email communications across the group to achieve targets.
Accurately forecast email revenue across all websites.
Own the relationship with the ESP.
Deliver optimised broadcast and automation programmes.
Deliver personalisation across all email communications.
Ensure integrated and profitable email offer strategies with the Trading and Product teams.
Continuously monitor, improve and innovate email communications across the company.
Work with the UX, Tech, Customer Care, Marketing and Creative Services team to deliver optimised customer journeys.
Drive the use of data and segmentation across all email programmes.
Create seamless and strong communications and relationships with US and AU teams in the delivery of localised plans.
Demonstrable experience in an Email Marketing / eCRM management role.
Management or line manager experience ideally.
There is a competitive salary on offer of between £40-60k, however please still get in touch if your expectations are a touch higher.