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Rounds-Favored Northern Beef Packers Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
SDRC exec Joop Bollen and former Governor M. Michael Rounds
An eager reader alerts us to worse news from Aberdeen: after failing to pay its workers on time last week, Northern Beef Packers has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
This big business failure is brought to you by Joop Bollen and M. Michael Rounds, the latter of whom was counting on NBP as a last-minute legacy builder. As recently as this month, Senate candidate Rounds asserted that Northern Beef Packers would play a key role in supporting his abortive South Dakota Certified Beef program. Seriously, Mike? Smart businessman like you couldn't see bankruptcy coming? And you want us to trust you to write a federal budget?
If you hurry, you can still see NBP listed as one of the big projects of SDRC, Inc., the (strangely) private corporation created by Joop Bollen to handle the state's efforts to lure foreign investors with EB-5 visa assistance. Northern Beef Packers will likely soon disappear from that SDRC listing, as did the EB-5-visa-backed Veblen dairies after Rick Millner took them belly up.
Ken Santema says the failure of Rounds's big beef promotion shows the need for a Libertarian governor who doesn't waste taxpayer dollars trying to pick winners in the free market. I would suggest Ken start beating the bushes for a Libertarian Senate candidate as well to keep Rounds from taking his crony capitalism to Washington... or just join me in supporting Rick Weiland to achieve the same end.
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M. Michael Rounds
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James Snyder 2013.07.22
Really? because they file for bankruptcy you blame Rounds or hint to it? Pathetic.
Where's your article about Obama and the failed "alternative energy" companies then?
caheidelberger Post author | 2013.07.22
Hey, James, are you paying attention? This is a South Dakota blog. Mike Rounds was a South Dakota governor who was instrumental in promoting NBP, a South Dakota company. Rounds is running for Senate. Rounds will want to run on his legacy as governor, but the failure of NBP and of the closely connected SD Certified Beef program are important elements of the overarching story that Rounds has no legacy on which to run.
Solyndra is irrelevant here. Obama is irrelevant except to the extent that he allows the EB-5 visa program to continue. "Pathetic" better describes the effort to distract voters from Mike Rounds's political failures.
Kevin J. Weiland 2013.07.22
Cory, you need a "LIKE" button at the end of your post.
DB 2013.07.22
How many business does Weiland own and operate? How many businesses has he tried to run? What real world experience does he have? If rounds isn't a smart businessman, than that must make Weiland close to being an elementary student on the topic. We have enough know-nothing, do-nothing career gov't employees. We don't need Weiland adding to the bunch.
Rick 2013.07.22
That's not hard to look up, DB, if you had bothered to try.
Weiland and his immediate family members are presently involved in running two restaurants that are successful and considered highly esteemed in Sioux Falls.
He was very successful as CEO of International Code Council for nearly 10 years, taking it from its merger days of America's three major building code organizations and expanding its scope and reach as America's premier building and fire-life safety codes company with four national offices and business relationships in virtually every state and several foreign nations. It's a very impressive company and building and fire code officials in every South Dakota city that enforces building codes are members.
Prior to that he ran the Region 8 FEMA office in Denver and proved himself very resourceful to Gov. Bill Janklow in times of storm disasters, especially the F4 tornado that wiped out much of Spencer, South Dakota. This was a complex and very challenging position in which Weiland excelled and set an excellent example of managing employees, maneuvering federal government resources and working with businesses, local governments and state governments to get communities back on their feet.
I'm not going to take away anything from Mike Rounds' success as an insurance salesman and his firm's success in real estate in Pierre and Fort Pierre. But Weiland doesn't have to apologize for any lack of meaningful and valuable experience to strongly represent the best interests of all South Dakotans.
Gee, sounds like Rick (not Weiland!) answered DB's questions pretty well. With all that successful executive experience, maybe we should ask Weiland to pivot to tackle Daugaard in 2014? :-)
"know-nothing do-nothing career gov't employees"? That seems to be an apt description of Mike Rounds's tenure as our employee in the governor's mansion. But Rick Weiland knows a lot and did a lot when he worked for the government back in the late 1990s. He hasn't worked for government since then, has he?
Jerry 2013.07.22
It seems to this reader that Rounds did not start a business, he was born into it. Kind of like Romney, not a real businessman, but one that started at the top. Rounds success was inherited, the only thing he is selling is snake oil.
http://www.fischerrounds.com/aboutus/history/
So Weiland has little to no experience as a businessman besides what his family has done. Nice. Looks like another lifelong gov't employee. Wonder if he is a part of the 90% or 10%?
Owen Reitzel 2013.07.22
"So Weiland has little to no experience as a businessman besides what his family has done."
Neither does Rounds DB. Or should I say what he's done has failed
"It seems to this reader that Rounds did not start a business, he was born into it. "
Your link proves nothing of that sort. Try again.
"Neither does Rounds DB. Or should I say what he's done has failed"
This is funny. Almost laughable really.
interested party 2013.07.22
what business did bill janklow run? john thune? stace nelson?
When all else fails, interject irrelevant people to the conversation.
so we agree that we can't think of three more irrelevant people than the aforementioned?
DB, you seem to be confusing the non-profit organizations AARP and International Code Council with government. Are you trying to argue that only people who have run for-profit businesses for more than five years are eligible to run for office?
Here's the hard fact: Weiland has valuable executive experience in the public sector, the private non-profit sector, and the private for-profit sector. He has a broader résumeacute; than anyone in this conversation.
And Larry's point is keenly relevant. If there were any merit to DB's assertion that government employees are know-nothing do-nothings unworthy of public trust, then Bill Janklow, John Thune, and Stace Nelson would all be bigger know/do-nothings than Rick Weiland.
"so we agree that we can't think of three more irrelevant people than the aforementioned?"
As it pertains to this discussion, other than yourself, Cory, and Owen......no.
And let's not forget, whatever business experience Mike Rounds had did not keep him from throwing tax dollars behind a failed beef promotion program and roping foreign investors into gambling on a now-bankrupt beef plant. How does any of that speak in Mike Rounds's favor?
Larry's point is not relevant at all. When citing Rounds is worse than Weiland due to one of his business failures, I fail to see how anyone else is relevant.
"Are you trying to argue that only people who have run for-profit businesses for more than five years are eligible to run for office?"
I'm saying they are more capable and more in touch with the real world. I've never met more incompetent people than gov't employees and professors. They sure know their theory but they have no idea how to apply it. Most buffalo their way to the top.
Bill Dithmer 2013.07.22
Do we really Mike Rounds representing us in one of the most important offices in our state? Look here.
http://www.sddp.org/2012/11/merry-go-rounds/
With state spending that increased a stunning 53 percent during Rounds' tenure
Mike was a good old boy, and it showed in his practice of conducting state business through the use of no-bid contracts to his friends and political cronies. It was estimated at the time that we could have saved at least ten million bucks by bidding those contracts, WTF.
Under Rounds the number of state employees mushroomed by 1,500 in eight years.
Rounds hired a lobbyist for DC at the price of a hundred thousand dollars a year. Our people in DC never saw this man, whoever he was.
"Rounds was such a big spender in state government that seven of the eight budgets Rounds' submitted were in deficit including the largest budget deficits in state history."
Rounds was involved in the screwing of your kids to. He saw to it that spending was cut from 39 percent to 31 percent. That is a cut of almost one fourth what it was before he took office eight years before and helped to push us into last place among the states in education.
"On Rounds' watch, South Dakota fell to the bottom and ranked last in wages of all states in America."
Mike made it possible for SD to rank number one in the category of people having to hold two or more jobs to make ends meet.
College debt, again we're number one compliments of Mike rounds where tuition debt rose fifty percent under his guidance. More dropouts in the first two years then anywhere else, Why?
At last count Mike took over three hundred million from the federal governments stimulus package and put it into the general fund. He didn't use if for what it was intended.
Do I really need to continue? I don't like Mike Rounds any better then I liked the convict governor Wild Bill Junklow. At least Junklow did some things for this state, Rounds hasn't done a damn thing except spend our money on his friends. His campaign theme song should be.
http://grooveshark.com/s/Pissin+In+The+Wind/1QnckT?src=5
He's going to get em wet one way or another.
The Blindman
Non-profit...another term for standing around acting like they accomplish something while utilizing tax breaks and lining their pockets.
Knock off the profit idolatray, DB. Teachers, charity organizers, and the executive of the International Code Council work just as hard as you and Darin Namken and anyone else sitting in an office.
And speaking of irrelevant, Rick Weiland hasn't been a government employee for over a decade. Mike Rounds was a government employee as recently as four years ago. The only candidate in the Senate race who has been anything like a professor is Annette Bosworth. Stop spewing your simplistic memes and deal with the candidates as they are.
Now remind me, how does Mike Rounds's promotion of the failed beef and EB-5 policies speak in his favor?
Cory, you make a good point about Weiland's depth of experience and insight to serve South Dakota best in the U.S. Senate. Life has served him well in shaping him for this important job at a time when South Dakota needs an articulate leader for farmers, retired citizens, young families, veterans and rural communities who are ready to grow and prosper. Fate has opened an opportunity in 2014 for South Dakota. I think people are going to discover that Weiland is the right leader whose moment has arrived.
Douglas Wiken 2013.07.22
Wasn't Rounds old man a lobbyist for the REA or similar organization?
Rounds is so smart, he practically built a house under water.
I really love how you drop names like Larry as if it is relevant. You really show how much of an asshat you really are.
Rhoden? Gabriel? Long? Piersol?
Troy 2013.07.22
Mike Rounds inherited nothing. His former teacher, coach father who ultimately went to work for a trade association and his stay at home mother raised I think ten kids.
Wieland and Rounds are both good and successful businessmen. I don't know if Weiland inherited anything, but the Round's family idea of a luxury was only two brothers as roommates, three squares, and only wearing hand-me-downs that were only worn by one brother.
Let's confine the discussion to what matters: The issues where they disagree and not the personal attacks.
larry dietrich and i went to catholic school together.
Jim 2013.07.22
Good point Troy. So when do the personal attacks stop over at the SD Water Closet?
Personal attacks? DB is the one using the word "asshat" instead of explaining how Mike Rounds did good for South Dakota with his failed beef and EB-5 visa programs.
Troy, to what personal attacks are you referring?
Earl Hanson 2013.07.22
I tried for a year and a half, to no avail, to find out how much Governor Rounds gave Northern Beef in the form of a grant. This was at the same time that he was cutting state aid to education. Up until now, I have failed to find a legislator who can give me the dollar figure of the grant. Is there anyone out there who knows the exact amount of that grant? It was the taxpayer's money, why the secret?
Earl, I can't speak to grants from the governor's Future Fund, but I can tell you that as of last September, NBP had received $803K in construction tax refunds from the state.
Tomy Thomas 2013.07.22
time for you to remove yourself from under stacy nelson desk. dont want you to hit your head, you are a complete joke. someone attacks you, you bitch and moan, but thats all you do on this blog. Pathetic Hypocrite.
Points of clarification, TT:
(1) Whom are you saying is "under stacy nelson desk"?
(2) What exactly does that mean?
(3) Why does that bother you?
(4) What part of declaring the NBP bankruptcy a sign of Mike Rounds's legacy of failure constitutes a "joke" or "pathetic hypocrisy"?
Wayne Gilbert 2013.07.22
I was reading this thread with fascination until I ran into the moronic: "Non-profit...another term for standing around acting like they accomplish something while utilizing tax breaks and lining their pockets." Really? That's the best you got?
I share your dismay, Wayne. It sounds like DB has a bad case of insecurity, having to denigrate other people's chosen professions to make himself feel superior in his chosen profession. Either that, or he's on a mission to ensure that any discussion of Mike Rounds's policy failures is immediately derailed into a shouting match about something, anything else.
To play into DB's hands, aren't all workers citizens? Don't all citizens from all types of work (public or private, profit or non-profit) bring valuable experiences to discussions of public policy?
Or to approach the question from another angle, does DB make that comment to whoever comes to his office looking for donations to the local United Way?
For what it's worth, in his interview with the Madville Times last week, Weiland pointed out that in his position as ICC exec, he was responsible for making sure his organization made payroll for at times over 400 employees. Evidently he always did... which suggests he's a better executive than whatever Friends of Mike are running Northern Beef Packers. (I will keep this thread on its original track. Focus, people! Rounds! Beef! Visas!)
troy: reach out with your mind.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6MRRMgeOZqs&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6MRRMgeOZqs
The press wants us to believe this race for an open Senate seat is over. Hmmm. If that is so, why does the "front runner" have challenges from within his own party? Could it be that Republicans know something Democrats can't see? That Mike Rounds spent eight years in the Governor's office and did nothing ... except to dump a debt on Denny Daugaard's lap?
South Dakotans do not send people to Congress to do nothing. They send them to Congress to make sure South Dakota gets its fair share of that federal pie. Doc Farber used to tell us that.
Jana 2013.07.22
Tomy, me thinks you protest too much.
But you might have a point you want to make that is a little more transparent.
The former governor might do well to bring this discussion to an end. Disclose what he did, why he did it and who profited. Then put it behind him. This is a long campaign and this won't be the first or last he has to deal with.
Rick, does Kristi Noem put a dent in Doc Farber's theory? (Dang, there I go veering off topic again! Rounds! Beef! Visas!)
Stories like NBP should start waking the press up to the fact that we have an open race here. I wonder when Rounds starts revving the Dick Wadhams attack machine to distract us (wait: isn't that what DB was doing? Hmm...).
By the way, have I mentioned that I really appreciate Troy's dropping in to knock down DB's distraction and focus the discussion on what matters? Rounds! Beef! Visas!
Jana has a point: there is something to be said for learning from one's mistakes. If some enterprising journalist asks candidate Rounds about his involvement with NBP, Rounds's best response would be a frank discussion of what he did, why it didn't work, and what policy changes he might recommend to keep the state from boosting another business that causes 277 creditors (including the taxpayers) to lose millions of dollars.
Nick Nemec 2013.07.22
Another thing to remember about Mike Rounds is that he's in the hip pocket of the oil industry. His old man was a long time lobbyist for the South Dakota Petroleum Marketers, an oil industry front group. Young Mike was a willing carrier of water for the industry and was no friend of ethanol and bu extension no friend of farmers.
I know, I know, "Rounds, beef, visas", but there is so much crony capitalism going on it's hard not to shout "Rounds, back scratching buddies, good old boys".
Darn you, Nick, for complicating the story! Now I'll have to do a whole nother post on the trouble Rounds will have winning the votes of farmers because of his oil-over-ethanol policies. (I invite guest columns... Nick? Nick! :-) )
gail 2013.07.22
I only have one question. How much of our hard-earned money is going to be given to this packing plant, as grants to try pull it though again. And why would it work this time. And haven't enough millions been poured into a losing business. But then, this state thinks big ag is success. How many lawsuits against the beef plant? How many lawsuits from the foreign investors on the EB-5? I don't know if anyone can answer those questions either.
Mercer had a story today about hidden reserves and money moving around in Pierre which would add about $20 million to the millions already sitting around.
Donald Pay 2013.07.22
I haven't been in SD for 12 years, but this is one of the reasons I left. It seems even ideas that are good to start with go bust for some reason or other.
I kind of get tired of people being negative about everything, which may sound funny coming from someone who the powers that be accused of being negative about everything. I'm thinking that this is a project that is worthy of some state effort. It at least had a tie in to the largest SD industry that otherwise was shipping product out of state at considerable cost to be processed. Most economic development efforts go to the usual suspects or some out-of-state outfit that's supposed to save the day. I thought this is more home grown, but maybe I'm wrong about that.
Reading the history of the project, it had quite a lot of difficulty getting off the ground. I'm just wondering what excuse was given. It couldn't have been the standard "environmentalist" excuse.
It is far better than other Rounds economic development efforts, and if it went belly up, why did that happen, and can it revived?
Funny how Troy holds up Don Round's public service as a virtue. Much like he has great pride in his own families public service.
I guess the irony is in how the same public service of the last generation was seen as honorable and compensated well, including a fair benefits package, is now seen by the GOP as a pariah by the same people who benefited so much.
For the 2nd and 3rd generation of public servants in Pierre, I only ask why you think that those that serve today are worth less than when public service was a pathway to a solid and secure middle/working class wage that could support a family is now a bad thing.
I don't know the answer, but how many years of Mike Rounds life were supported by taxpayer dollars? I guess the other question is how much of his success came from being associated with power in Pierre?
Troy, the Rounds family history is great.
My question is, could they afford to have that many kids and still have a stay at home mom in the world of the GOP's current view of public service? Let alone how we value the service of state employees?
Would Mike Rounds life have been different given today's prevailing politics?
I know, these are different times, but you have to admit it's a valid question given the GOP's antagonism towards those that teach, coach and serve.
I don't know a lot about the Weilands, but I do know that they have been instrumental in giving both money and time to restoring the old state theater in Sioux Falls.
Guess I don't know how Rounds has given back to his community? Has it always been with others people's money that he leveraged to his own benefit? Or has he given back to the community that gave him his start?
Jenny 2013.07.23
Apparently over at the SD War College asking about the failed NBP is irrelevant according Mr Powers.
http://www.aberdeennews.com/news/aan-list-of-beef-plants-20-largest-creditors-20130722,0,2865083.story
You expected rational, open discourse from DWC. That was your first mistake, Jenny.
I suspect those 277 creditors who are out between $10 million and $50 million don't find that question irrelevant.
Don't forget the workers that didn't get their paychecks last week, most of whom probably need them badly to provide for their families. Sigh....only in a GOP Leaders Can Do No Wrong State would this not be considered newsworthy. Thanks Cory, for bringing out the real South Dakota news. The NBP fiasco is ironic considered SD was just voted number one as the best state to do business.
"Personal attacks? DB is the one using the word "asshat" instead of explaining how Mike Rounds did good for South Dakota with his failed beef and EB-5 visa programs."
Name drop to shed a bad light on me or someone else who has nothing to do with this.......and then act like it wasn't personal. Asshat is the least personal I could get.
Typical bully: crying when the victim fights back. How conservative.
That coming from Larry is hilarious.
So can you clarify for me? Unless the company is successful it should equate to a negative outcome for a former Governor like Rounds? Is that the bar we set? It's no wonder this world is the way it is. YOUR blog is just another example of what is wrong with politics in this country. The minority party in this state has no ideas, its just the party of against the Majority. Your blog represents the same thing. Be part of the solution, not the problem.
When the Right assails a President for similar choices it is perfectly legitimate to remind voters that politics is a tough game: if you can't stand the heat don't fry your eggs on the sidewalk.
The minority party has plenty of good ideas, one recent one is to raise the minimum wage. Your opinion is what is right with this blog, in that we can agree to disagree and put that out on the table in a logical way so everyone can see where we are coming from. In your case, that is sometimes debatable, but nonetheless, entertaining. Did I clarify that enough for you Mr. Snyder?
Everything I have heard about the Wieland family is positive. Everything I know about the Rounds family is positive. There are many pressing issues to debate. I'm at a loss to understand why our ideological differences would cause us to translate it into personal attacks against not only the candidates but their parents.
Ask ANYONE in Pierre (regardless of party) and they will only have kind and respectful things to say about Don Rounds. That was a home open to every stray "dog" in town. I ate there many times because I just happened to be in the neighborhood at dinner time. If people think half of me what everyone thinks of Don Rounds, I'll consider my life to be a success.
James Snyder must be trying to make a point of something.
But, blogs that give people the opportunity to post useful information and challenge conventional "wisdom" are valuable and not what is wrong with South Dakota.
If politicians want to take credit for business success, they should also be willing to accept blame for the failure of their pet businesses heavily funded at taxpayer expense.
Robin Page 2013.07.26
How about we elect a Senator who has strong ties to the REAL PEOPLE and REAL ISSUES of South Dakota? Seems to me that neither candidate is in touch with the people of our state.
Longhorn Steer 2013.07.30
In the words of Clara Peller "Where's the Beef ?!!!"


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Common Name: Caddisflies
Greek Origins of Name: Trichoptera, derived from the Greek words "trichos" meaning hair and "ptera" meaning wings, refers to the long, silky hairs that cover most of the body and wings.
Spot ID Key Characters:
Wings held tent-like over the body
Wing membranes covered with tiny hairs (setae)
Reduced or vestigial mouthparts
Classification & Distribution
Life History & Ecology
Economic Importance
Major Families
Development: Holometabola, i.e. complete metamorphosis (egg, larva, pupa, adult)
Distribution: Common worldwide. Larvae are aquatic and may be abundant in some cool, fresh water habitats. Adults are less conspicuous, usually nocturnal. Approximately 18 family and 1,261 species in North America and 43 family and >7,000 species worldwide
The order Trichoptera (caddisflies) is another likely descendant of the Mecopteran lineage. Adults are mostly nocturnal, weak-flying insects that are often attracted to lights. During the day, they hide in cool, moist environments such as the vegetation along river banks. The body and wings are clothed with long silky hairs (setae) — a distinctive characteristic of the order. In flight, the hind wings are coupled to the front wings by specially curved hairs. At rest the wings are held tent-like over the abdomen. Many caddisflies have reduced or vestigal mouthparts. Few species have actually been observed feeding, and most adults are relatively short-lived.
All caddisfly larvae live in aquatic environments; they may be herbivores, scavengers, or predators. In most cases, the predatory species are free-living or spin silken structures in the water (webs or tunnels) to entrap prey. The scavengers and herbivores live within protective "cases" which they build from their own silk and stones, twigs, leaf fragments, or other natural materials. Case design and construction is distinctive for each family or genus of caddisfly. The case is usually portable, dragged around like a snail shell as the insect moves, and held in place by a pair of hooked prolegs at the tip of the abdomen. Most species have thread-like abdominal gills and get oxygen from water that circulates inside the case. All larval growth and development (including pupation) occurs within the case.
Appearance of Immatures:
Eruciform (caterpillar-like) body; abdomen usually enclosed in a case made of stones, leaves, twigs, or other natural materials.
Head capsule well-developed with chewing mouthparts
Thread-like abdominal gills usually present in case-makers
One pair of hooked prolegs often present at tip of abdomen
Appearance of Adults:
Filiform antennae
Mouthparts reduced or vestigal
Two pairs of wings clothed with long hairs
Wings held tent-like over the abdomen
Caddisfly larvae may serve as food for fish and other aquatic vertebrates. Fishermen often gather them for use as bait for trout and other game fish. Although a few species have been recorded as pests in rice paddies, most caddisflies have very little economic importance.
Hydropsychidae — Most larvae are filter feeders. They build silk nets in swift water to snare food particles. A few species are predatory.
Hydroptilidae — Larvae make purse-like cases of silk, often with small stones attached.
Limnephilidae — Larvae build tubular cases from a variety of natural materials.
Phryganeidae — Larvae construct tubular cases with plant fragments arranged in a spiral orientation.
Many species of Trichoptera are very similar in appearance, both as larvae and as adults. It is often easier to identify a species by the structure of its case than by the features of its body.
While still in their pupal case, caddisfly adults have sharp mandibles used for cutting through the pupal case. Once they emerge, their mandibles degenerate and become nonfunctional. From this time on they do not feed (or ingest food only in liquid form).
Trichoptera Stamp:
Aquatic insects were the theme for a series of six postage stamps issued by Poland on July 16, 1999. Immature and adult stages in the life cycle of a caddisfly (Limnophilus sp.) are depicted on this stamp.

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Performer: Judith Hill
First Released: 23 March 2015 - Back In Time Live Nation email download
Album(s): Back In Time
Writer(s): Judith Hill and Stefan Skarbek
Producer(s): Prince
Live Appearances
First and last live appearance:
This track is not believed to have been performed live by Prince or Judith Hill
Performed regularly on tour:
Performed occasionally in shows:
Cure is the fifth track on Judith Hill's debut album Back In Time, which was first made available as a free download on 23 March 2015. No writing credits were given for the track initially, but it is written by Judith Hill and Stefan Skarbek. Prince appears as a producer and musician on the track.
While specific recording dates are not known, it is assumed to have been recorded in January 2015, at Paisley Park Studios in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
Recording Information
January 2015 (assumed) Paisley Park Studios, Chanhassen, MN, USA Basic tracking
Recording Personnel
Judith Hill - lead and background vocals
Prince - guitar and bass guitar
John Blackwell - drums
Andrew Gouché - bass guitar
Xavier Taplin - keyboards
Marcus Anderson - saxophone
Adrian Crutchfield - saxophone
BK Jackson - saxophone
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Election Night Blog
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Today on TAP: When the left fails to deliver, the far right fills the gap.
by Robert Kuttner
Gregorio Borgia/AP Photo
Brothers of Italy's Giorgia Meloni attends the center-right coalition closing rally in Rome, September 22, 2022.
PARIS – The election of a far-right coalition in Italy with a neofascist, Giorgia Meloni, as likely prime minister is even more alarming for what it portends for the rest of Europe. Meloni's three-party alliance, which includes Matteo Salvini's far-right League and what remains of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, is projected to gain about 44 percent of the vote and a majority of seats in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
Four years ago, Meloni's party, Brothers of Italy, won just 4 percent of the vote. This time, they gained 26 percent.
The center-left Democratic Party, whose technocratic prime minister Mario Draghi ran a competent national unity government for 18 months, lost badly. The center-left coalition is expected to have just 78 seats in the new lower house compared to 238 for the far right.
Italian politics are famously unstable, but what caused this earthquake? In the short term, personal and partisan rivalry was at work. But long-term, in Italy as elsewhere, the economy is not serving ordinary people.
More from Robert Kuttner
The center-left has led the Italian government for much of the past decade but has not been able to deliver fundamental change. Its per capita GDP has not grown for more than 20 years. Immigration and nationalist resentment, combined with more recent privations caused by Russia's energy boycott and the European Central Bank's austerity policies, pour oil on the flames.
In Sweden, where the far-right Sweden Democrats led the right-wing coalition to a very narrow victory over the center-left two weeks ago, similar dynamics were at work. The difference is that in Sweden, other parties agree that the far right must not serve in the Cabinet, so the traditional center-right party, the Moderates, will lead the government, but with the tacit support and unsavory influence of the Sweden Democrats.
The most alarming shock waves may be felt here in France, where serious people now believe that the far-right leader Marine Le Pen could well win the next presidential election. Granted, it's a long way to 2027, but it's hard to see how the lot of the average French citizen will improve much over that time, and even harder to see how an electable left party will arise from the dead. The inept regime of former President François Holland (2012 to 2017) all but wiped out the once proud French Socialist Party.
In the 2022 election, when Le Pen made the runoff, the technocratic incumbent Emmanuel Macron defeated her, but only by 58.5 to 41.5 percent. Macron's approval rating has been running below Biden's.
At the level of solidarity with Ukraine, the EU has been doing well. It has also promoted a common emergency energy policy. But on the economy, the EU functions as a kind of neoliberal straitjacket, preventing dramatic change.
The far right is in danger of emerging as the prime opposition to a resented status quo. The democratic left had better learn how to compete.
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Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, and professor at Brandeis University's Heller School.
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Mead High starts inclusive percussion class
BEST1 MEAD, CO – OCTOBER 3:Kylee Mendez, center, points out a classmate during a dancing game in class at Mead High School on Oct. 3, 2019. Mead has started the St. Vrain Valley School Districts first Unified Percussion Ensemble. (Photo by Matthew Jonas/Staff Photographer)
The band program is becoming more inclusive and accessible at Mead High School with the creation of a unified percussion class for students with special needs.
The class is based on the St. Vrain Valley School District's unified sports program. New this fall, the district also started a high school unified bowling league.
Mead's percussion class, created and taught by band director Chad Lemons, enrolls six students with special needs and five band student mentors.
Their first performance was Wednesday at the school district's annual band night. The percussion students performed with Mead's full marching band for the event.
"They nailed it," said junior Tyler Bare, a student mentor who plays quad drums in the marching band. "We had them practice with the full marching band so they knew what it would be like."
He said he signed up for the class based on the positive experiences of friends who help in the unified sports programs and to share his love for percussion.
"I really wanted to be a teacher, especially for these kids," he said. "They have so much to offer that a lot of people don't see. Seeing how happy they are when they play music, it's really fulfilling."
One of the students in the class, senior Natalie Hansis, said this is her first time playing drums.
"It's fun," she said. "I can get my frustrations out."
She said she "had a little stage fright" before her first performance, but it got better as she played.
"I didn't mess up at all," she said.
The student mentors help teach and play along in class, but generally don't participate in performances. Catherine Cook, a senior, described the mentors as "support people" for the students.
"They can come to us if they need anything," she said.
She added that other high schools should start similar classes.
"We don't have many classes where we're together with the students with special needs," she said. "It's just a really good way to unify the student body."
Lemons said he spent the past school year developing the class after a school presentation on Special Olympics sparked the idea.
"This was an opportunity to build something that doesn't exist in the district," he said. "The performance aspect was the key element for me when we created the class. They really are their own ensemble."
To create the curriculum, he said, he drew on his previous experience teaching beginning sixth grade band students. He also worked with the special education coordinator at the school and with music therapy professors.
"This class is the highlight of my semester," he said. "The kids are working really hard."
Parents are just as enthusiastic.
Parent Jamie Mendez said her daughter, Kylee Mendez, tried drumming when she was younger, but didn't really like it. Now, she said, "she absolutely loves it."
"Before, it was more just making noise," she said. "At Mead, the class is actually teaching her music. She comes home every night and practices writing her music notes."
She added that her daughter tends to be motivated by what others are doing, so having typical kids as part of the class has made her even more excited about drumming. Playing with the marching band for their first performance was another bonus.
"They have the entire band behind them," she said.
Parent Kristin Parsons said her son, Cole Smith, is a music lover who had already played drums through a Longmont program for a couple of years.
"Music speaks to him," she said. "We were just super thrilled to have this opportunity. This class is amazing."
For the band night performance, she added, Cole "had a smile plastered on his face the whole time."
"You could just see the pride was bursting through him," she said. "It was so cool. The whole school has embraced these kids."


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Bride and groom share a laugh together.
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Analysis: Pakistan peace agreement cedes ground to the Taliban
By Bill Roggio | February 18, 2009 | [email protected] | @billroggio
Pakistan's political and military leaders have endorsed a peace agreement that allows for the imposition of sharia, or Islamic law in a large portion of the Northwest Frontier Province and ends the government's military operation in Swat. The agreement will lead to a further deterioration of the situation in Pakistan and is a direct threat to the security of the Pakistani state.
The agreement, known as the Malakand Accord, was reached between the provincial government and Sufi Mohammed, the spiritual leader of the outlawed Movement for the Implementation of Mohammad's Sharia Law, on Feb. 15. The next day the peace agreement was made official, and the Taliban forces under the command of Mullah Fazlullah, Sufi's son-in-law, agreed to a 10-day cease fire.
Sufi Mohammed claims to have eschewed violence after being released from prison last year as a condition of a similar failed peace agreement in Swat. Sufi led more than 10,000 Pakistanis into Afghanistan after the US invasion in 2001. Sufi recently said he hates democracy, sought to impose Islamic rule throughout the world, and said the Afghan Taliban were "an ideal example" for other countries to follow.
"From the very beginning, I have viewed democracy as a system imposed on us by the infidels. Islam does not allow democracy or elections," Sufi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur just days before the Malakand Accord was signed. "I believe the Taliban government formed a complete Islamic state, which was an ideal example for other Muslim countries."
Fazlullah is the deputy of Baitullah Mehsud's Tehrik-e-Taliban and has waged a two-year campaign of suicide attacks as well as bombings of schools and much of Swat's infrastructure. Fazlullah broadcasts radical sermons on his illegal FM radio station, where he lauds Osama bin Laden and preaches against polio vaccination, which he claims is a Western plot to infect the Pashtun people with the AIDS virus.
Government endorses Malakand Accord
Pakistani government officials are denying that the agreement cedes a large swath of territory to the Taliban or is a sign that the government has lost its writ in the Northwest Frontier Province. Several leaders rose to the defense of the Malakand Accord, saying the agreement was part of Pakistan's enhanced counterinsurgency program that has been designed to defeat al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said the peace agreement "will be beneficial for the country." He claimed the Malakand Accord is part of the "three Ds" strategy of dialogue, development and deterrence, and the agreement is intended to defeat the rise of Islamist extremism in the insurgency-infested northwest.
President Zardari said the Malakand Accord was part of Pakistan's counterterrorism strategy and the government is "coming up with the special package" to help defeat extremism and restore peace. Zardari also said the final agreement will not be signed until peace is restored in the northwest. Zardari's statements are 180 degrees from last week, when he said the Taliban must be defeated through military means.
Sherry Rehman, the Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, was on the defensive, clearly concerned the agreement will reflect poorly on the government.
"It is in no way a sign of the state's weakness," Rehman said.
"The public will of the population of the Swat region is at the centre of all efforts and it should be taken into account while debating the merits of this agreement," Rehman insisted. The decision to implement sharia "will bring speedy justice at the doorstep of the common man." In a later interview, Rehman said the Malakand Accord was part of the government's policy of development and deterrence.
Afrasiyab Khattak, a leader of the Awami National Party, which administers the Northwest Frontier Province, denied that the imposition of sharia law would herald a Taliban-like regime, but instead he insisted the agreement will improve the legal standings of the citizens of Malakand.
The Pakistani Army has also signed off on the agreement and said it would honor the 10-day ceasefire. The military was also consulted prior to the peace agreement, Inter-Service Public Relations spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said. But it is unclear if the military was involved in negotiations, as it has in the past peace agreements.
Malakand Accord similar to past peace deals
While the Pakistani government has rushed to defend the Malakand Accord, the agreement mirrors past peace deals that collapsed shortly after they were signed. Like the past agreements, the current one is likely to fail. But the government's willingness to negotiate with the Taliban is eroding the viability of the Pakistani state.
Since winning the election last spring, the Zardari-Gilani government has entered a series of peace agreements with the Taliban throughout the tribal areas and the settled districts of the Northwest Frontier Province. Between March and July of 2008, the government negotiated seven agreements with the Taliban in North Waziristan, Swat, Dir, Bajaur, Malakand, Mohmand, Khyber, Orakzai, and Hangu. Negotiations were also underway in South Waziristan, Kohat, and Mardan before fighting in Swat and Bajaur broke out, effectively ending the talks.
The past peace agreements, which were started under former President Pervez Musharraf's regime in 2004, have served only to grant the Taliban the time it needed to regroup from fighting with the Pakistani military. While the military has been unable or unwilling to dislodge the Taliban from its safe havens, the Taliban had little time to recoup losses and coordinate efforts. The peace agreements gave the Taliban the respite needed to reorganize.
During the "peace periods" the Taliban would use the time granted to add new recruits, rest and re-arm its forces, and consolidate control over the new-found territory. The peace agreements also served to embolden and restore the morale of the Taliban while demoralizing those who fought against the Taliban and live in the regions. The Taliban would conduct ruthless purges of anyone expected of supporting the government. Hundreds of tribal leaders and others have been murdered and often were mutilated. Almost all would have notes labeling them as "US spies" pinned to their chests.
Despite the government's objections to criticism of the current agreement, the current Malakand Accord has granted the Taliban control over a region that encompasses more than 1/3 of the Northwest Front Province, effectively cementing the Taliban's control over most of the province and the tribal areas.
The Taliban's recruiting base has almost doubled, as has its taxation base. The Malakand Division, which is made up of the districts of Malakand, Swat, Shangla, Buner, Dir, and Chitral, has a population of more that 4.3 million, according to the 1998 census. The Taliban effectively control the tribal areas (population estimated at 6.5 million in 1998) and many of the bordering districts with millions more. The Taliban also have a strong presence or influence in nearly all of the other districts in the province.
A senior US military intelligence official who has tracked the situation in Pakistan's tribal areas described the Malakand Accord as "a major win for the bad guys."
The Taliban have been in effective control of Swat and most of the surrounding regions, the official told The Long War Journal, noting that the Pakistanis living in the region have lived under Fazlullah's brand of sharia since 2007. "The government has simply declined to stop contesting the matter," the official said.
"What is happening there is a microcosm for what Tehrik-e-Taliban plans to do to the whole of Pakistan," the official said, referring to Baituallah Mehsud's Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.
There is evidence the Taliban is beginning to branch out beyond the Northwest Frontier Province as well as from areas in Baluchistan that have remained quietly under Taliban control. The Taliban have stepped up attacks in the Punjab districts of Dera Ghazi Khan and Mianwali over the past several weeks. The attacks have prompted the Punjab provincial government to consider closing down its borders with the two provinces.
Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.
Tags: Pakistan
Deja vu.
Render says:
I wonder if this is what Dianne Feinstein (D) had in mind…
SPIT,
I would debate whether she had much of anything in her mind when she blurted out sensitive information. Good team player there, blurt things out and let everyone else deal with the consequences.
trac says:
Is it the beginning of the end for the "moderate" Pak government OR are their true colors showing?
What's sad is that the Army and civilian leaders are intelligent, sophisticated people. They know this is going to be a disaster, yet they don't have the stomach for what they would have to do otherwise. So they pretend to trust Fazlullah, and they will be shocked – shocked when it turns out that he won't keep his word. Meanwhile the Taliban will use this respite to rest and rearm, and get ready to move on the next phase of their plan to take over Pakistan. Unless the Army wakes up, grabs its balls, and fights, eventually "Pakistan" will consist of islands of government control around Lahore, Islamabad-Rawalpindi, and Karachi (and hopefully the nuclear weapons complexes). The rest of the country will be in the hands of the Taliban.
At least that will simplify things – anywhere the government of Pakistan cedes its authority to the militants can become a free-fire zone for Coalition forces.
Paulie says:
Deep down you knew that it was going to end this way.
Bangash Khan says:
A temporary arrangement to re-draw strategy by govt of Pakistan.


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package com.lightcrafts.media.jai.codec;

/**
 * An instance of ImageDecodeParam for decoding images in
 * the JPEG format.
 *
 *
 This class allows for the specification of whether to decode the
 * JPEG data into an image having a SampleModel which is a
 * ComponentSampleModel or a subclass thereof.  By default
 * data are decoded into an image having a ComponentSampleModel.
 *
 *
 This class is not a committed part of the JAI API.  It may
 * be removed or changed in future releases of JAI.
 */
public class JPEGDecodeParam implements ImageDecodeParam {

    /**
     * Flag indicating whether to decode the data into an image with
     * a ComponentSampleModel.
     */
    private boolean decodeToCSM = true;

    /**
     * Constructs a JPEGDecodeParam object with default
     * parameter values.
     */
    public JPEGDecodeParam() {
    }

    /**
     * Sets the data formatting flag to the value of the supplied parameter.
     * If true the data will be decoded into an image which has
     * a SampleModel which is a ComponentSampleModel.
     * The default setting of this flag is true.  If the flag is
     * set to false then memory may be saved during decoding but
     * the resulting image is not in that case guaranteed to have a
     * ComponentSampleModel.
     *
     * @param decodeToCSM true if a
     * ComponentSampleModel layout is preferred for the
     * decoded image.
     */
    public void setDecodeToCSM(boolean decodeToCSM) {
        this.decodeToCSM = decodeToCSM;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the value of the ComponentSampleModel flag
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Cursive is believed to be a faster way of writing although I do not think many will agree with this.
Internet plagiarism has increased with the use of computers and the ability to copy and paste, so traditional teachers are preferring the in-class writing assignments.
A 2010 study by the Carnegie Corporation of New York reported that reading skills can improve faster when children write the words they are learning to read.
Now let's review the con's. Like calligraphy, we are past cursive writing and things can be done easily and quicker on computers.
Writing is more a functional exercise so students should be able to do it the way they choose and not be told the style of writing to follow.
Many students take a longer time writing in cursive and this only adds more frustration to the endless amount of homework they already have.
We need to prepare children for the future which is using technology and curve is not necessarily anything useful other than reading old documents.


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Festa Italiana 2023 (2)
Rest in Peace Robert Amato
Rest in Peace Americo "Mitty" Carpenito
March 11, 1929 - November 21, 2022 (age 93)
Rest In Peace Ramona Murphy
Rest In Peace Caterina Evangelista
September 11, 1940 - October 1, 2022
Rest In Peace Leanne Santa-Donato
Rest In Peace Pasqualina Cavallaro
Rest In Peace Concezia "Connie" DiGiacomo
September 1, 1925 - September 8, 2022
Rest In Peace Raffaele Carnetto
Rest In Peace Angelina Russo
Rest In Peace Ralph Stolecki
October 15, 1936 - August 28, 2022
Rest In Peace Josephine Sinistori
March 9, 1921 - August 24, 2022
Rest In Peace Marie DiStefano
Rest In Peace Louise Frances (DiFrisco)Termini
November 30, 1927 - August 16, 2022
Rest In Peace Paul Dunning
Rest In Peace Marianna Zarola
Friday, January 29th, 1926 – Thursday, August 11th, 2022
Rest In Peace Mercedes Leis
June 11, 1929 - August 9, 2022
Rest In Peace Fr. Peter Scaramuzzo
Monday, August 14th, 1939 - Friday, July 29th, 2022
Rest In Peace Norma Downer
March 31, 1932 - July 31, 2022
Rest In Peace Anna E. Maloney


"A township is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.
Creating a successful township brand is much like creating a product or personal brand. You've got to go through a discovery stage to determine what your township can offer. If you find you don't have some of the elements needed to attract your desired audience, devise a plan to develop them. From there, show audience members what your township brand feels like and what they can experience. - Romeo Malepe Founder and Creative Director of Sharpeville Food Festival.
Products and people are brands. Why can't the same be true for a historical township like Sharpeville? Romeo Malepe, founder of Sharpeville Food Festival® realised the value of creating a brand image for Sharpeville to attract businesses, residents, and tourists. Malepe has even moved on to overhauling its logo to help stimulate growth and investment. While you may know Sharpeville as The Cradle for Human Rights, it envisions being known for more than the 21 March 1960 massacre which occurred when the PAC (Pan Africanist Congress) organised a protest in which black South Africans attempted to hand in to police their "Dompass" which restricted them from entering into certain areas.
We have been working toward implementing the Sharpeville re-branding strategy. The goal is to create a brand image around innovation, unpretentiousness, and openness. Community efforts, many of which have been catalysed by the township, have created an environment in recent years that connects talent with the appropriate resources while providing entrepreneurial hubs. Sharpeville is becoming recognised as an emerging township for business startups on a national scale. With a low cost of living, friendly people, and access to leaders, as well as world-class technology and facilities. Sharpeville is a great buy for innovative thinkers and startups and an ideal location for growth.
On 28 October 2017, Sharpeville Food Festival®, a one day food, music, and arts festival in the township's George Thabe Stadium campaign directed at raising awareness about how the township benefits entrepreneurs. The campaign began with a content hub on sharpeville.co.za which included a weekly newsletter to drive online traffic, daily social media posts and paid promoted content appeared on Facebook and Instagram. For example, a series of Sharpeville Food Festival® videos and photos featuring different entrepreneurs and organisations have earned thousands of views. The campaign also used tactics such as search engine marketing, digital advertising, and content marketing.
To reach entrepreneurs around the country, the Sharpeville Corporation team have come up with relevant initiatives. These include Sharpeville Art Gallery, Sharpeville Brand Clothing, Shavas Water and Sharpeville Barbecue. Sharpeville Corporation has launched Sharpeville.co.za online magazine and issued press releases to commercial magazine and newspapers when they launched the country's first township based food festival.
The Daily Sun and NDS Chef Academy became event collaborators. Also Emfuleni Municipality were our partners. Sharpeville's re-branding campaign has garnered thousands of impressions to date. Sharpeville Corporation plans to continue the campaign across its various channels because of the positive response.
A recent development supporting the re-branding effort is the launch of the Sharpeville Barbecue in the heart of downtown Sharpeville, an upmarket grill restaurant which is aimed to be the live-work-play space for the township's movers and shakers. Opening in 2019 just across Human Rights Precinct, which is also part of the innovative hub that will continue to see more infrastructure build-out to support the ecosystem — gives students, entrepreneurs, hobbyists, and small businesses access to high-tech infrastructure. The infrastructure includes applications for woodworking, metal and machine shops, electronics fabrication, robotics, laser and vinyl cutting, 3D printing, and screen printing.
Sharpeville Corporation is striving for Sharpeville City® to become a tech hub, thanks to Sharpeville Corporation's focus on drawing investors and working with local companies to create the right environment for startups and entrepreneurs.
The partnership with local companies is directed at building out smart energy, hoping to gather the brightest minds in energy technology to create tomorrow's innovations in the industry. Involved in these efforts is South African Airways that understands the value of establishing a startup ecosystem as the framework for rebranding Sharpeville as a modern, sustainable township. Fueled by a new wave of investors, accelerators, and incubators. And with the possibility of becoming a second township besides Soweto as one of the most innovative, forward-thinking townships in the country.
As with Soweto, the Sharpeville Corporation and Emfuleni Municipality are very active in helping Sharpeville reinvent its image. This includes redeveloping many parts of the township to make it more attractive to and affordable for tech startups. This invites more investors and tech companies to migrate to Sharpeville. In addition, sharpeville.co.za online content illustrates the opportunities, growth, and entrepreneurial spirit throughout the township.
Creating a successful township brand is much like creating a product or personal brand. You've got to go through a discovery stage to determine what your township can offer. If you find you don't have some of the elements needed to attract your desired audience, devise a plan to develop them. From there, show audience members what your township brand feels like and what they can experience.
Sharpeville Brand has done that through multiple channels. They have used strategic partnerships that the community and state governments, universities, companies, and entrepreneurial minds to create environments where innovation can thrive.


Backstage in MS PROJECT 2010! What do we have here?
Hi, in Backstage View in Microsoft Project 2010 you can setup many parameters for using MS PROJECT 2010. I will cover some of them, because if I want to cover them all, this Post will be very, very long.
You can put some additional information about your Project.
If you click on the Recent Part of the backstage you will get your recent opened file, so you can choose which one do you want to reopen.
Print, Save and Send, and Help part are self explanatory so I will not cover them here.
In General part you can choose Default Color Scheme, how do you want do display Screen tips, what is your Default View. when you open new Project, and default Date format. When you change something here, you should exit from your MS PROJECT 2010 and run it again before those changes are applied. Be aware, that if you change Default View, it will be default only for brand new Projects. What does it means? For example, in the Picture above you can see that default View is Gantt with Timeline. When you create brand new Project, this is the View you will get. But, if you change the View in your Project (for instance in the Task Usage View), and save the Project, next time, when you open this particular Project again, you will get the Task Usage, not the Gant with Timeline View!
I strongly suggest that you leave all options in Show Indicators and options buttons for checked, because those will help you to make a decision when you change some fields, and you will have to make decision upon that changes!
In Calendar for this project I can choose do I want to setup some stuff for Particular (e.g. Open Project), or for all Projects! You are already familiar with those Parameters because I wrote couple of Posts about them so I will not explain them again.
In Scheduling options for this project I can choose do I want to setup some stuff for Particular (e.g. Open Project), or for all Projects! In New Task created you can choose between Manually or Auto scheduled task. If you want to make a schedule from Project Start date leave the field Auto Scheduled task scheduled on as is, or change it to current date if you want that new tasks starts fro current date!
Another 3 fields are self explanatory, so I will not cover them here.
New Task are effort driven. What is this? Suppose that you have Task: Painting the wall, and you have assign John to that Task, and the Duration is 2 days! No suppose that you assign Peter on the same Task! If this Task is effort driven that means that John and Peter will finish the job sooner (More hand, light work rule). But now suppose that you have Read the book Task, and again you have John assigned to that Task, and the Duration is 2 days. Can John finish his reading sooner if you give a copy of book to Peter, and assign him to the same Task? No, it can not. In such case you should turn off this field!
Keep all other fields as is instead the Default fixed cost accrual. You can choose between: Prorated, Start or End, and that means "when will your Project be charged with Tasks which have Fixed Cost?".
Those settings are just part of all available! If you want to learn more about them, you should examine them one by one and see what will going on when you change each of them.
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Three-dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography for Mitral Valve Repair Surgery: A case report.
Korean Journal of Anesthesiology 2008;54(6):685-688.
2Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Konkuk University Hospital, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
3Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Gangneung Asan Hospital, Ulsan University School of Medicine, Gangneung, Korea.
Although several reports have showed the application of 3-dimensional (3D) echocardiography, it is hard to find a report regarding the intraoperative use of real time 3D transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in mitral valve repair surgery. In the present case, real time 3D TEE the one from the one TEE probe position as well as their rotated and cropped images showed detailed spatial images enough for immediate assessment of the mitral valve deformity and the characteristics of mitral regurgitation flow. Under cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) employing moderate hypothermia, the prolapsed mital leaflet was excised, the ruptured cord was repaired and an annuloplasty ring was inserted to reinforce the mitral valve and to close up the defect. The 2D and 3D TEE images after CPB showed effective repair providing complete closure of the mitral leaflets and absence of residual regurgitation flow. Considering that the conventional 2D TEE requires examiner's ability to gather the various 2D TEE images and experience essential for intergrating the 2D images for full understanding of spatial structure of valvular deformity and dysfunction, 3D TEE's ability for making a comprehensive spatial image from a limited number of 2D images seems to have an additional clinical efficacy in intraoperative TEE monitoring for cardiac value surgery.


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Wolters Kluwer's CT Corporation Wins Two Business Innovator Awards
(September 24, 2019)
Wolters Kluwer's CT Corporation announced today it was named Best Multi-Sector Software & Services Provider and Most Innovative Lien Document Filing Solution by Corporate Vision magazine's 2019 Business Innovator Awards. The awards recognize UCC Filing Hub, an intuitive Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) filing tool that simplifies law firm professional's deal workflows, hCue, a centralized platform that enables the efficient and secure handling of all legal entity data at the local, state, national and global level, and Business License Hub, a secure web application that allows tracking and maintenance of business license data.
"We are honored to be recognized by Corporate Vision for our dedication to developing innovative solutions that exceed the evolving compliance and due diligence needs of businesses around the world," said John Weber, President and CEO of Wolters Kluwer's CT Corporation. "Our entity management, business license and UCC platforms enable companies and law firms to more efficiently manage complex deals and maintain compliance."
The CV Business Innovator Awards reward the hard work and dedication of a wide range of truly innovative businesses. Whether they are starting out or have been in business for several years, the CV Business Innovator Awards honor the ingenuity and creativity of companies around the world. Discussing the success of their winners, Steve Simpson, Awards Coordinator commented: "Over the years we have seen many outstanding firms take part in the program. I am phenomenally proud of this year's winners and would like to wish them the best of luck for the future."
So far in 2019, Wolters Kluwer's CT Corporation has won a series of awards including: a SIAA CODiE Award for UCC Filing Hub; a Gold Customer Service Training Team of the Year in the 6th Annual 2019 Customer Sales and Service World Awards; Best Entity Management System from The Recorder; Best of New England's Business Formation Services Provider of the Year; a Stevie Award from the American Business Awards, also for UCC Filing Hub; and a Business Excellence Award for Best Global Compliance Managed Services Provider.
For over 125 years, CT Corporation has been the leading provider of registered agent services, incorporation services, and legal compliance. With a global reach into over 190 countries, more than 75 percent of Fortune 500 companies, 95 percent of AmLaw 100 law firms, and 350,000 small businesses trust CT to handle their compliance needs.
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Don Fencl , he started playing the drums when he was 10 years old & also played guitar and keyboard. He has been in several bands over the years that have played a wide variety of music at weddings, anniversaries, & conventions. His favorite music, though, is from the 60s & 70s and he will be greatly missed by RetroActive and our followers.
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FDA Drug Safety Podcast: FDA warns about rare but serious allergic reactions with the skin antiseptic chlorhexidine gluconate
Welcome to FDA Drug Safety Podcasts for health care professionals. This is Lesley Navin, Advanced Practice Nurse from the Division of Drug Information.
On February 2, 2017, the FDA announced it is warning that rare but serious allergic reactions have been reported with the widely used skin antiseptic products containing chlorhexidine gluconate. Although rare, the number of reports of serious allergic reactions to these products has increased over the last several years. As a result, we are requesting the manufacturers of over-the-counter (or OTC) antiseptic products containing chlorhexidine gluconate to add a warning about this risk to the Drug Facts labels. Prescription chlorhexidine gluconate mouthwashes and oral chips used for gum disease already contain a warning about the possibility of serious allergic reactions in their labels.
Health care professionals should ask patients if they have ever had an allergic reaction to any antiseptic before recommending or prescribing a chlorhexidine gluconate product. Advise patients to seek immediate medical attention if they experience allergic reaction symptoms. Consider using alternative antiseptics such as povidone-iodine, alcohols, benzalkonium chloride, benzethonium chloride, or parachlorometaxylenol (PCMX) when any previous allergy to chlorhexidine gluconate is documented or suspected.
In 1998, we issued a Public Health Notice warning health care professionals about the risk of serious allergic reactions with medical devices such as dressings and intravenous lines that contain chlorhexidine gluconate.
We identified 52 cases of anaphylaxis, with the use of chlorhexidine gluconate products applied to the skin. Between January 1969 and early June 2015, FDA received reports of 43 cases worldwide. More than half were reported after 2010 and after our 1998 Public Health Notice. This number includes only reports submitted to FDA, so there are likely additional cases about which we are unaware. The serious allergic reaction cases reported outcomes that required emergency department visits or hospitalizations for medical treatment. These allergic reactions resulted in two deaths. Eight additional cases of anaphylaxis were published in the medical literature between 1971 and 2015, and one case was identified in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-Cooperative Adverse Drug Event Surveillance (NEISS-CADES) database between 2004 and 2013.
Side effects involving chlorhexidine gluconate should be reported to FDA's MedWatch program at www.fda.gov/medwatch.
A link to the full communication detailing information for health care professionals and the Data Summary can be found at www.fda.gov/DrugSafetyCommunications. If you have drug questions, you can reach us at druginfo@fda.hhs.gov.
Thank you for listening.
FDA Drug Safety Communication: FDA warns about rare but serious allergic reactions with the skin antiseptic chlorhexidine gluconate


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5 things to do this weekend in Sheboygan
Looking for something to do this weekend in Sheboygan? We've got you covered.
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Sheboygan Press Media Published 4:00 a.m. CT Feb. 13, 2015
The Mill Street Guild will present "Love is an Open Door," a special two-night-only cabaret-style concert in celebration of love-inspired music on Friday and Saturday at the Plymouth Arts Center.(Photo: Submitted)
Here's a sampling of events and activities in the Sheboygan area this weekend:
•The Plymouth Arts Center and Mill Street Guild will present "Love is an Open Door," a special two-night-only cabaret-style concert in celebration of love-inspired music on Friday and Saturday. The Mill Street Guild and other guests will be performing love songs spanning the decades, including a repertoire of well-known standards, contemporary and Broadway classics. The shows, which will raise funds for the arts center, will be held at 7:30 p.m. on both days at the Plymouth Arts Center, 520 E. Mill St., Plymouth. Tickets for reserved table seating are $12 in advance, or $15 at the door. For reservations, call 920-892-8409 or visit www.plymoutharts.org.
•The Chicago tribute band Transit Authority will be performing at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available online at www.weillcenter.com, in person at the ticket office or by calling 920-208-3243. The ticket office is open noon to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information and to watch a clip of the performers, visit www.weillcenter.com.
•The Sheboygan County Historical Research Center will highlight Wisconsin's Amish community during its Second Saturdays-Journeys into Local History program on Saturday. The program will be led by Mark Louden, who's co-director of the Max Kade Institute and professor of German linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Louden is a fluent speaker of Pennsylvania Dutch and an expert on Amish faith and culture. The event, which is free and open to the public, will take place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Plymouth Arts Center, 520 E. Mill St., Plymouth. The presentation is appropriate for adults and students age 10 and older. No reservations are needed. For more information, call 920-467-4667.
•Lakeshore Chorale will present "Where is Love?," an evening of love songs and sweets to celebrate Valentine's Day at 7 p.m. on Saturday at Grace Episcopal Church, 630 Ontario Ave., Sheboygan. Tickets cost $20 and can be purchased at www.lakeshorechorale.org, or from any Lakeshore Chorale member. Tickets will not be available at the door. For more information, call 920-451-1863.
•The Songs of the Seasons Concert Choir will present a choral concert of sacred music at 2 p.m. Sunday at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1121 Georgia Ave., Sheboygan. The 40-person choir is made up of experienced singers from the area. They'll be accompanied by a hand-bell choir and 20 orchestral instrumentalists. Although there is no cost for the concert, a free-will offering will be collected to help defray expenses.
For more activities and local arts and entertainment coverage, visit www.sheboyganpress.com/go-920/.
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11 Interesting Facts About The Millennium Bridge
By Zoe Craig Last edited 44 months ago
Zoe Craig 11 Interesting Facts About The Millennium Bridge
The Millennium Bridge. Photo by Richard Watkins LRPS.
It's one of the most striking of the Thames bridges, and definitely one of our favourites. Here's everything you need to know about the Millennium Bridge.
1. It's a winner
The Millennium Bridge was the result of a 1996 competition held by Southwark Council in conjunction with the Financial Times and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
The call, for a new bridge across the Thames, was won by the 'blade of light' design envisioned by Arup (engineers), Foster and Partners (architects) and Sir Anthony Caro (sculptor).
The bridge as seen from St Paul's Cathedral. Photo via wikicommons.
2. It's pretty unique
The Millennium Bridge was the first new bridge to be built over the Thames in London for more than 100 years. Usually, all new bridges across the Thames require an Act of Parliament to be passed.
For the Millennium Bridge, that need was avoided: instead the Port of London Authority granted a licence for the structure, obtaining planning permissions from the City of London and London Borough of Southwark.
3. Vital statistics
The bridge has two river piers and is made of three main sections of 81 metres (266ft), 144 metres (472ft) and 108 metres (354ft) (north to south) with a total structure length of 325 metres (1,066ft).
Underneath the Millennium Bridge. Photo via wikicommons.
The aluminium deck is four metres (13ft) wide.
4. It's had not one, but two openings
The Millennium Bridge officially opened by the Queen on 10 June 2000, two months later than originally planned. Two days later, on 12 June 2000, it was closed again. It then reopened - this time for good - on 27 February 2002.
5. It was nicknamed the Wobbly Bridge, and here's the science behind why
Its official title is the London Millennium Footbridge. But no-one calls it that. Instead, it'll probably always be called the Wobbly Bridge.
Built using 'lateral suspension', an engineering innovation allowing suspension bridges to be built without tall supporting columns, the Thames' newest crossing was hit by a phenomenon called Synchronous Lateral Excitation when loads of people flooded over its shiny new deck.
Around 80,000 people crossed the bridge on its opening day, with around 2,000 on the bridge at any one time.
Those on the southern and central spans felt the bridge begin to sway and twist in regular oscillations. Feeling unsteady, the pedestrians altered their gait to the same lateral rhythm as the bridge. The adjusted footsteps just magnified the motion: the more it happened, the more people responded to the movement; and the worse it got.
While there was no chance that the bridge actually would fall down, engineers felt that the wobble needed to be stopped. In the end, the problem was fixed with two different types of damper: viscous dampers (like car shock absorbers); and tuned mass dampers: a large mass stiffened by springs, sometimes used in buildings in earthquake zones.
The tuned mass dampers absorb vertical movement. Photo via wikicommons.
You can read more about this here.
The Millennium Bridge is far from being London's first wobbly bridge: the 1873 Albert Bridge is nicknamed the Trembling Lady, with a notice that troops must 'break step' when crossing to prevent these vibrations from becoming too pronounced.
6. It was pretty pricey
Constructing the Millennium Bridge is said to have cost £18.2 million; £2.2 million over budget. It was primarily paid for by the Millennium Commission and the London Bridge Trust.
The Millennium Bridge is perfectly aligned to create a terminating vista of the south facade of St Paul's Cathedral.
Photo by Nigel Hopes.
When you walk across, the cathedral is beautifully framed by the bridge supports.
8. It was once closed due to bad weather
In 2007, the bridge was closed during the unusually violent storm, Kyrill. It was thought that there was a risk of pedestrians being blown off the bridge. That's some storm.
9. Its covered in 400 works of art
There are around 400 tiny works of art on the Millennium Bridge.
The work of street artist The Chewing Gum Man (real name, Ben Wilson), these minuscule masterpieces are painted onto a unique canvas: the chewing gum dropped by other people.
Wilson paints tiny scenes, shapes and figures on the bits of trodden-down gum, using layers of acrylic paint to build up brightly coloured, jewel-like blobs on the urban landscape.
Photo © Kevin Davis / WikiCommons
10. It's one of several Millennium Bridges around the world
Ahh, the millennium. It was a boom time for bridge building, and London's Millennium Bridge is one of several Y2K (as we used to call it) projects.
There's are six other Millennium Bridges in the UK alone: in Gateshead, Lancaster, Glasgow, Salford, Stockton-on-Tees, and York — and there are plenty of others around the world.
We rather like this one from Chicago:
The BP Pedestrian Bridge by Frank Gehry, in Chicago, built for the Millennium.
11. Millennium Bridge: Film Star
Despite being less than 20 years old, the bridge has already appeared in various films and music videos.
As well as featuring in films Guardians of the Galaxy, Run Fat Boy Run and Namaste London, it also appears in the video to the Olly Murs song Heart on My Sleeve.
It's Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince where the bridge gets its best cinema-screen action:
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[I]f it wasn't McConnell launching the filibusters, it'd be someone else. They might be better on television or more collegial in front of the cameras, but they'd still be filing objections and wasting time and holding their members together. In part, that's because the various interest groups and grass-roots organizations that power the Republican Party do not want to see compromises on liberal agenda items. But the larger truth is that obstruction just makes sense: If you can only win the next campaign if the public considers the governing party a failure, and if it's in your power to make the governing party fail, well, you can finish the thought.
I don't agree, and I think this analysis glosses over several important things. First, Obama was extraordinarily popular when he took office, the country was very much still in crisis, and Republicans had just been reduced to a rump minority. The Tea Party was in its infancy. Getting a bunch of craven, despondent senators to pursue a strategy of obstruction wasn't nearly as easy as Klein makes it out to be. Sure, interest groups are powerful. But voters are more powerful, and they'd resoundingly rejected Republicans for the second cycle in a row.
The second point is that holding together a minority of 41 is a difficult feat. There's no margin for error, and lots of distance between Jim DeMint and Olympia Snowe. Liberals often imagine that Republicans operate in lockstep like that army from "I, Robot." But in many cases Snowe and others were sympathetic to White House policy, wanted to pass legislation, felt pressure to do so from back home, but were ultimately persuaded to abstain. People on Capitol Hill sometimes jokingly wonder what power McConnell holds over Snowe, Collins, etc. The answer, or part of it, is that he consistently appealed to them on mundane issues of process--to stick with him when, for example, Harry Reid would "fill the tree" and disallowed Republican amendments--thereby short-circuiting the possibility of any deal before policy issues ever came up. There's a reason why McConnell is universally regarded as a more effective leader than, say, Bill Frist was. Not everyone can do that.
Klein doesn't take issue with the other thing I think McConnell excels at, which is framing public affairs in a way that is maximally advantageous to his party and certainly influenced the last election. Whether you admire or deplore McConnell for all this, I'd argue that he adds up to a pretty compelling figure, and one who--because he doesn't make eight-minute Facebook videos--tends to glide beneath most people's radar.
Anyway, you can read the piece and Klein's response and decide for yourself. And while you're at it, check out these responses from Jon Chait, Matt Yglesias, and Ed Morrissey, all of which are well worth reading...and none of which invokes blood libel!