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Saint Joseph's Catholic Church
Lankin, Walsh, ND
"Walsh Heritage" Vol 2, pg 1034-1035
In 1905 the Soo Line Railway went through the Lankin territory and the village was founded. The company offered two lots there to the religious community which would build the first church. The Catholics were the first to take advantage of this opportunity and founded a parish in 1906. Clement Zeman and John Courtney were the first trustees.
A church was built in the north part of Lankin. Father Frank Just from Pisek visited the parish and said Mass. In 1909, the parish bought five acres of land for a cemetery. A young priest, Father Alois Gajdusek, was appointed resident pastor. The congregation started to build a parish house. Lots were bought from Clement Zeman in the eastern part of Lankin. The Zeman family donated four lots which made the property 13 acres.
In April of 1911, Father Thomas Rabsteinek came to Lankin and called a parish meeting so that the congregation could decide if it wanted to remain independent. The conogregation decided to get better organized. Father Venceslaus F. Mikolasek arrived in Lankin May 26, 1911. With the help of some parishioners and the Ladies' Altar Society he collected money to pay for finishing the parish house and the cemetery.
The church was sold for taxes. With the help of the county commissioners, taxes were cancelled and the church was returned to the parish. In 1913, Bishop James O'Reilly approved the intention of Father Mikolasek to move the church next to the parish house. The moving started August 11, 1913. The church was not yet finished. Joe Matejcek, Sr., took collections for a new steeple. In 1915, John Matejcek, Sr., recruited donors for the church stained-glass windows. (See following article). In 1920 a bronze cemetery cross, which cost $700, was raised in the cemetery. The family of Joseph Kuchar donated a woven wire fence around the cemetery.
In 1943 a grotto was built between the church and parish house. It was built by Joseph Vitek of Lomice with the help of parishioners. Father Mikolasek remained pastor of St. Joseph's Church until his death in 1950. He is buried at Bechyne. He was also pastor of St. Peter and Paul's Church at Bechyne, a mission church southwest of Lankin. (See following article).
Father Jaroslav Tomanek followed Msgr. V. F. Mikolasek, serving the parish from July 1950 to July 1962. Father L. F. Sventinsky was sent to Lankin as pastor of St. Joseph's Ch
REV. VACLAV F. MIKOLASEK
Father Mikolasek was born in Tenesvar County, Pisek (now Czech Republic), on September 14, 1878. He entered the priest seminary in Budejovice (Budweis) and was ordained a priest on July 21, 1901. He came to the United States September 8, 1904, and went on to Vodnany, South Dakota, remaining there until July of 1909, when he took over the parish for two years at Dante, South Dakota. He was then invited to come to North Dakota, where some Czech parishes needed a Czech priest.
Bishop O'Reilly of Fargo sent him to the parish at Lankin. Father Mikolasek arrived in Lankin May 26, 1911, then served the parish for 39 years. He served the mission church at Bechyne, and later the mission church at Lomice. His holiness, Pope Pius the XII, rewarded him by elevating him to Monsignor. The investiture took place in St. Joseph Church at Lankin on July 21, 1948.
It might be well to mention that Msgr. Mikolasek was a journalist for seven years prior to serving in Lankin. He was editor of a monthly paper, "Hospodarske Listy," (Farmers Paper), printed in Chicago. He also had many articles published in "Hlas" and "Narod," Czech papers. Father Mikolasek was interested in political affairs of Czech Catholics in his old country as well as in America.
Msgr. Mikolasek died July 15, 1950, and is buried in the Bechyne Cemetery, about 7 miles southwest of Lankin.
St. Joseph's Stained Glass Windows
Heritage Village, Grafton, North Dakota
The windows located on the east wall of the Theater Building were donated by the R.F. "Pete" Matejoek family in 1988. These windows were originally purchased and installed into the first St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Lankin, North Dakota.
A parish meeting was called on March 7, 1915. John Matejoek, Sr., volunteered to raise funds for windows to be installed in the church. The large windows cost $23 each, and the smaller windows cost $20 each. The families of C. Zeman, Charles Novak and Mrs. Machart each donated one window. The following families donated two to each window: John Matejoek and Ad. Solbolk, Mrs. C. Ruzicka and James Seidal, Joseph and Anton Matejoek, Joseph and John Novak, J. H. Vorachek and F. Helt. Other families and individials donated one window each: Witasek Brothers, S. Rinde, Mayers Brothers, H. Altendorf, F. Tackman, J. Gerstner, A. Novak and The Bachelors. The tower window was donated by Dr. F. Weed and F. Trenda. 1
The St. Joseph's Catholic Church building was utilized until 1967. Due to the prohibitive cost of updating the original building it was decided to build a new church. Leo Bosh bought the original building for one dollar and donated the cost of moving the building to an empty pasture where it stood for many years. In the following years Leo Bosh held an auction and items from the church, including these windows, were sold. After the items were removed the building was burned. Construction of present-day St. Joseph's Catholic church was started in October of 1957 and was completed in January of 1968.2
John Matejoek was the first postmaster in Lankin and a prominent citizen of that city. Joseph and Anton Matejoek were John's brothers. The present day spelling of their surname is "Matejcek." Ad. Solbolk was a grain buyer for the local elevator. The present-day spelling of his surname is "Sobolik."
Souvenir of the Golden Jubilee of SS Peter and Paul Parish, with the History of St. Joseph's Parish, and the New Mission of St. Catherine. (n.d.)
"Walsh Heriatage", Vol. 4, pg 966 and pg 1543 (1981).


What are the storage yard hour of operation and days of the week?
Each storage yard is different. Most of them however work Mon-Fri 8AM – 4:30PM. You would have to contact a particular yard for more details.
The English version differs from the translated versions – Spanish, Russian, Polish, German, etc.. Which is correct?
Can I buy it salvage car during my visit to the USA?
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In May 2013 we published everything that we had learned about outlets which included the results of the survey taken at the start of the year on our blog. I also met with several schools in the southern suburbs of Cape Town to introduce Paperight to them and discuss the possibility of Paperight-edition publications being made available at the schools. I attended the Africa Print Expo at the CTICC to gain a better understanding of the equipment that outlets use.
Juta, a very popular publisher and bookseller, was based just two floors below our office. I had a meeting with Charmaine at Juta to discuss the possibility of Juta's bookstores becoming Paperight outlets. They were specifically interested in selling our past exam papers via their bookstores. The following month they registered several of their stores nationwide.


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Party Name: Harry CONNICK, Individually and in His Capacity as District Attorney, etc., Petitioner, v. Sheila MYERS.
Former assistant district attorney brought civil rights action in which she contended that her employment was terminated because she exercised her constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech. The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Jack M. Gordon, J., 507 F.Supp. 752, held that attorney was entitled to reinstatement, back pay, and compensatory damages, and appeal was taken. The Court of Appeals, in an unpublished opinion, 654 F.2d 719, affirmed, and certiorari was granted. The Supreme Court, Justice White, held that discharge of former assistant district attorney did not violate attorney's constitutionally protected right of free speech.
Justice Brennan filed a dissenting opinion in which Justices Marshall, Blackmun and Stevens joined.
Respondent was employed as an Assistant District Attorney in New Orleans with the responsibility of trying criminal cases. When petitioner District Attorney proposed to transfer respondent to prosecute cases in a different section of the criminal court, she strongly opposed the transfer, expressing her view to several of her supervisors, including petitioner. Shortly thereafter, she prepared a questionnaire that she distributed to the other Assistant District Attorneys in the office concerning office transfer policy, office morale, the need for a grievance committee, the level of confidence in supervisors, and whether employees felt pressured to work in political campaigns. Petitioner then informed respondent that she was being terminated for refusal to accept the transfer, and also told her that her distribution of the questionnaire was considered an act of insubordination. Respondent filed suit in Federal District Court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1976 ed., Supp. IV), alleging that she was wrongfully discharged because she had exercised her constitutionally protected right of free speech. The District Court agreed, ordered her reinstated, and awarded backpay, damages, and attorney's fees. Finding that the questionnaire, not the refusal to accept the transfer, was the real reason for respondent's termination, the court held that the questionnaire involved matters of public concern and that the State had not "clearly demonstrated" that the questionnaire interfered with the operation of the District Attorney's office. The Court of Appeals affirmed.
Held: Respondent's discharge did not offend the First Amendment. Pp. 1687-1693.
(a) In determining a public employee's rights of free speech, the problem is to arrive "at a balance between the interests of the [employee], as a citizen, in commenting on matters of public concern and the interest of the State, as an employer, in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees." Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 U.S. 563, 568, 88 S.Ct. 1731, 1734, 20 L.Ed.2d 811. P. 1687.
the appropriate forum in which to review the wisdom of a personnel decision taken by a public agency allegedly in reaction [103 S.Ct. 1686] to the employee's behavior. Here, except for the question in respondent's questionnaire regarding pressure upon employees to work in political campaigns, the questions posed do not fall under the rubric of matters of "public concern." Pp. 1687-1691.
(c) The District Court erred in imposing an unduly onerous burden on the State to justify respondent's discharge by requiring it to "clearly demonstrate" that the speech involved "substantially interfered" with the operation of the office. The State's burden in justifying a particular discharge varies depending upon the nature of the employee's expression. P. 1691.
(d) The limited First Amendment interest involved here did not require petitioner to tolerate action that he reasonably believed would disrupt the office, undermine his authority, and destroy the close working relationships within the office. The question on the questionnaire regarding the level of confidence in supervisors was a statement that carried the clear potential for undermining office relations. Also, the fact that respondent exercised her rights to speech at the office supports petitioner's fears that the function of his office was endangered. And the fact that the questionnaire emerged immediately after a dispute between respondent and petitioner and his deputies, requires that additional weight be given to petitioner's view that respondent threatened his authority to run the office. Pp. 1691-1693.
654 F.2d 719 (CA5 1981), reversed.
William F. Wessel argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the brief wasVictoria Lennox Bartels.
* Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance were filed by Mark C. Rosenblum, Nadine Strossen, and Charles S. Sims for the American Civil Liberties Union et al.; and by Robert H. Chanin, Laurence Gold, and Marsha S. Berzon for the National Education Association et al.
William F. Wessel, New Orleans, La., for petitioner.
George M. Strickler, Jr., New Orleans, La., for respondent.
In Pickering v. Board of Education, 391 U.S. 563, 88 S.Ct. 1731, 20 L.Ed.2d 811 (1968), we stated that a public employee does not relinquish First Amendment rights to comment on matters of public interest by virtue of government employment. We also recognized that the State's interests as an employer in regulating the speech of its employees "differ significantly from those it possesses in connection with regulation of the speech of the citizenry in general." Id., at 568, 88 S.Ct., at 1734. The problem, we thought, was arriving "at a balance between the interests of the [employee], as a citizen, in commenting upon matters of public concern and the interest of the State, as an employer, in promoting the efficiency of the public services it performs through its employees." Ibid. We return to this problem today and consider whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments prevent the discharge of a state employee for circulating a questionnaire concerning internal office affairs.
In the early part of October, 1980, Myers was informed that she would be transferred to prosecute cases in a different section of the criminal court. Myers was strongly opposed to the proposed transfer1 and expressed her view to several of her supervisors, including Connick. Despite her objections, on October 6 Myers was notified that she was being transferred.
Myers again spoke with Dennis Waldron, one of the first assistant district attorneys, expressing her reluctance to accept the transfer. A number of other office matters were [103 S.Ct. 1687] discussed and Myers later testified that, in response to Waldron's suggestion that her concerns were not shared by others in the office, she informed him that she would do some research on the matter.


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Q: MySQL - Key Column Doesn't Exist in Table I'm having what I hope is a simple problem - in running a Select statement to join multiple tables together, I'm getting the following error: 'Key column 'id' doesn't exist in table'
Very rarely the query will successfully complete as a preview, but fails each time it's run as a job. I'm easing into SQL for analysis, so I apologize if I'm overlooking something blindingly obvious.
SELECT `itse_blossom_applications_view`.`id` AS 'Blossom CI'
, `itse_blossom_applications_view`.`name` AS 'Blossom Name'
, `itse_blossom_applications_view`.`regulatory_impact` AS 'Compliance Obligation'
, `GCPID`
, `GCP_CI`
, `GCP_App`
, `GCP_Project`
, `GCP_Instance`
, `TAP Name`
, `TAP_CI`
, `Cluster0Environ`
, `Cluster1Environ`
, `OpenStack CI`
, `OpenStack Name`
, `OpenStack UUID`
, `instances.0.display_name`
, `VMAAS Name`
, `VMAAS CI`
, `VMAAS Environ`
, `VMAAS Owner`
FROM `itse_blossom_applications_view`
  LEFT JOIN `gcp_normalized` ON `gcp_normalized`.`GCP_CI` = `itse_blossom_applications_view`.`id`
  LEFT JOIN `tap_cleaned_inventory` ON `tap_cleaned_inventory`.`TAP_CI` = `itse_blossom_applications_view`.`id`
  LEFT JOIN `openstack_renamed_inventory` ON `openstack_renamed_inventory`.`OpenStack CI` = `itse_blossom_applications_view`.`id`
  LEFT JOIN `vmaas_normalized` ON `vmaas_normalized`.`VMAAS CI` = `itse_blossom_applications_view`.`id`
WHERE
  `GCP_CI` IS NOT NULL
  OR `TAP_CI` IS NOT NULL
  OR `OpenStack CI` IS NOT NULL
  OR `VMAAS CI` IS NOT NULL

GROUP BY `TAP Name`
, `GCPID`
, `OpenStack Name`
, `VMAAS Name`

The source data are relatively small tables (2k - 20k rows) which are normalized (Capitalizing/Trimming/Removing Nulls/Empties on certain columns) prior to being ingested into the MYSQL database.

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Marlo Lewis: Why The Senate Should Help Trump Repudiate The Paris Climate Agreement
Marlo Lewis, Fox News
The election of Donald J. Trump to be the next president will soon enable congressional advocates of pro-growth energy policy to go on the offense for the first time in eight years—and they should, for the sake of our Constitution, among other things.
During the Obama presidency, the U.S. House of Representatives passed numerous bills to rein in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), protect consumers from regulation-induced energy price increases, and clear the path for job creators to produce, transport, and utilize America's fossil fuel resources. Those bills could not get past President Obama's actual or threatened veto.
With the election, the political balance of power has shifted dramatically in favor of pro-growth energy policies The Competitive Enterprise Institute, for one,urges Congress to defund the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan, oppose carbon taxes, and amend the Clean Air Act to clarify that Congress in 1970 did not authorize the EPA to legislate national policy on climate change.
But most critical is that the Senate should work with President Trump to repudiate the Paris Agreement on climate change.
In addition to withdrawing formally from the Agreement pursuant to its provisions, Trump should submit the treaty to the Senate for review, for two key reasons. First, it will dramatically reaffirm the Senate's shared power in treaty making, which was bypassed in the Obama Administration's endorsement of the accord. Second, it will put the entire U.S. Government on record, not just the Trump Administration, as rejecting the Paris Agreement.
The Paris Agreement, which entered into force on November 4th, is designed to put the U.S. energy sector in an ever-tightening straight jacket. It is a clever strategy to mobilize global political pressure on each Congress and administration, every five years, to pledge increasingly aggressive reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions—the inescapable byproduct of the carbon-based (fossil) fuels that supply 82 percent of U.S. energy—and to pony up billions dollars annually in "green" foreign aid.
Both our emission-reduction pledges and our alleged duty to subsidize renewable-energy projects overseas will be debated in countless U.N.-sponsored meetings where countries eager to hold back U.S. industry and pick the pockets of U.S. taxpayers will comprise the majority.
In addition to jeopardizing our prosperity and sovereignty, however, the Paris Agreement endangers the constitutional separation of powers.
The Agreement , is clearly a treaty given its potential costs and risks, its "ambition" compared to previous climate treaties, and longstanding U.S. diplomatic practice. Yet President Obama refused to send the Agreement to the Senate for its "advice and consent" pursuant to Article II Sec. 2 of the U.S. Constitution.
Why? Because he knew that even when Democrats were the majority party, there was no chance the Senate would approve a new international climate treaty. The Senate, after all, had refused even to consider similar domestic legislation in 2010, when the Obama Administration was on the ascendant.
Unless forthrightly challenged, Obama's unilateral adoption of the Paris Agreement could set a perilous precedent whereby the President can evade Senate review of major international commitments simply by calling them non-treaties. Congressional leaders should encourage President Trump to submit the Agreement to the Senate, where it would likely fail to obtain the requisite approval of "two-thirds of the Senators present."
To be sure, President Trump will have the authority to cancel America's participation in the Paris Agreement on his own. Under the Constitution, the president needs the Senate's consent to ratify a treaty, not to withdraw from it.
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Q: T4 output filename How can i use generated file's name in template?
I'd like to something like this:
// This file: <#= OutputFileName #> was autogenerated

How can i do that in T4 or in T4Toolbox?

A: This seemed like something that should be as simple as reading a property but after reflecting over the Host variable and disassembling the text generator code I think the simplest way of doing this is:
<#@ template language="C#" hostspecific="true"  #>
<#@ import namespace="System.IO"                #>

// <#=Path.ChangeExtension (Host.TemplateFile, "cs")#>

A: It better to define it as a directive
for example for a xaml file
<#@ output extension="xaml" #>

or for txt
<#@ output extension=".txt" #>


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# zwitch

[![Build][build-badge]][build]
[![Coverage][coverage-badge]][coverage]
[![Downloads][downloads-badge]][downloads]
[![Size][size-badge]][size]

Handle values based on a property.

## Install

This package is ESM only: Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be `import`ed
instead of `require`d.

[npm][]:

```sh
npm install zwitch
```

## Use

```js
import {zwitch} from 'zwitch'

var handle = zwitch('type', {invalid, unknown, handlers: {alpha: handleAlpha}})

handle({type: 'alpha'})

function handleAlpha() { /* … */ }
```

Or, with a `switch` statement:

```js
var field = 'type'

function handle(value) {
  var fn

  if (!value || typeof value !== 'object' || !(field in value)) {
    fn = invalid
  } else {
    switch (value[field]) {
      case 'alpha':
        fn = handleAlpha
        break
      default:
        fn = unknown
        break
    }
  }

  return fn.apply(this, arguments)
}

handle({type: 'alpha'})

function handleAlpha() { /* … */ }
```

## API

This package exports the following identifiers: `zwitch`.
There is no default export.

### `zwitch(key[, options])`

Create a functional switch, based on a `key` (`string`).

###### `options`

Options can be omitted and added later to `one`.

*   `handlers` (`Object.<Function>`, optional)
    — Object mapping values to handle, stored on `one.handlers`
*   `invalid` (`Function`, optional)
    — Handle values without `key`, stored on `one.invalid`
*   `unknown` (`Function`, optional)
    — Handle values with an unhandled `key`, stored on `one.unknown`

###### Returns

`Function` — See [`one`][one].

#### `one(value[, rest…])`

Handle one value.
Based on the bound `key`, a respective handler will be called.
If `value` is not an object, or doesn't have a `key` property, the special
"invalid" handler will be called.
If `value` has an unknown `key`, the special "unknown" handler will be called.

All arguments, and the context object, are passed through to the [handler][],
and it's result is returned.

#### `one.handlers`

Map of [handler][]s (`Object.<string, Function>`).

#### `one.invalid`

Special [`handler`][handler] called if a value doesn't have a `key` property.
If not set, `undefined` is returned for invalid values.

#### `one.unknown`

Special [`handler`][handler] called if a value does not have a matching
handler.
If not set, `undefined` is returned for unknown values.

### `function handler(value[, rest…])`

Handle one value.

## Related

*   [`mapz`](https://github.com/wooorm/mapz)
    — Functional map

## License

[MIT][license] © [Titus Wormer][author]

<!-- Definitions -->

[build-badge]: https://github.com/wooorm/zwitch/workflows/main/badge.svg

[build]: https://github.com/wooorm/zwitch/actions

[coverage-badge]: https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/wooorm/zwitch.svg

[coverage]: https://codecov.io/github/wooorm/zwitch

[downloads-badge]: https://img.shields.io/npm/dm/zwitch.svg

[downloads]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/zwitch

[size-badge]: https://img.shields.io/bundlephobia/minzip/zwitch.svg

[size]: https://bundlephobia.com/result?p=zwitch

[npm]: https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/install

[license]: license

[author]: https://wooorm.com

[one]: #onevalue-rest

[handler]: #function-handlervalue-rest


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2020 State of the Bed Bug Control Market: Revenue Slowly Expected to Normalize
2020 State of the Bed Bug Control Market
According to the PCT 2020 State of the Bed Bug Control Market survey, 42 percent PMPs said revenue from bed bug control service would increase next year. That's down from 59 percent who felt this way last year.
Much depends on the pandemic's end. "If this ends and we go back to normal, I think my bed bug work will go back to normal," said Tom Sieminski, Team Pest Control. He said he thinks a return to normal travel, recreation and entertainment levels may take a while. "The trepidation and the uncertainty are really paramount in people's heads right now," he said.
Daniel Conrad of Pro-Tech Termite and Pest Control said he expects the number and scope of bed bug jobs to increase. "I think the call volume will go up and I think the infestation levels are going to be higher because (people) have put off calling someone to come into their house," he said.
"I'm pretty happy with the bed bug market right now," added Conrad. "I'll be ready to go out there next time it really picks up again."
The PCT 2020 State of the Bed Bug Control Market survey was sponsored by Bayer and compiled by Readex Research, a privately held research firm in Stillwater, Minn.
A sample of 4,258 pest control company owners, operators, executives and technical directors was systematically selected from the PCT database. Data was collected from 223 respondents — a 5 percent response rate — via online survey from Aug. 4-17. The margin of error is plus or minus 6.5 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level. Charts may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding.
2020 State of the Bed Bug Control Market: Calls Dwindle Due to COVID-19
2020 State of the Bed Bug Control Market: Treatments: Not One-Size-Fits All


Leduc RCMP wishes to advise the community of an increase in break and enters in the City.
Leduc, Alberta – Leduc RCMP wishes to advise the community of an increase in break and enters in the City. Year to date comparison statistics from January 1, 2015, to November 30, 2015, identify an increase from 113 to 162, an increase of 43% over the year previous. Business break and enters appear to have seen the greatest increase, going from 44 to 66, with the great majority of break and enters in the downtown and North industrial areas of the City. The increase noted is not necessarily related to a greater crime trend in Leduc. Persons crimes, for example, have deceased from 562 to 469 in the same period. Additionally, disturbances of the peace are also down significantly from last year. Prevention strategies can be the greatest tool to decreasing break and enters. This can include ensuring that our facilities are secure, reporting suspicious activities, putting valuable out of sight, i.e. display cases, knowing your neighbours, having people watch property or homes while you are away, and reporting known offenders to police. Research has also shown that having an alarm system is the greatest deterrent of break and enters. The RCMP will be responding with additional patrols in the target areas, and will be assisted by the City`s Nighthawk program.
The Nighthawks are a volunteer organization that assist the RCMP by being an extra set of "Eyes and Ears`in the community. They have the support of the City of Leduc and the RCMP. They have been working more recently with the RCMP on a proactive project aimed reducing thefts from motor vehicles. The Nighthawks have been conducting `Lock it or Lose it"checks in and around Leduc neighborhoods. The Nighthawks are in high visible coats or vests. With multiple members, they use flashlights to check and make sure vehicles are locked and valuable are out of sight. With this most recent initiative, the Nighthawks do not touch the vehicles or door handles, and if there is something of value left unsecure they will contact the RCMP. The checks are completed at all hours of the day and night. The Nighthawks will leave a small card stating the time, date, identification number of the Nighthawks who completed the check and if it was secure or unsecure. The Nighthawks will not check vehicles in driveways or on private property. The Nighthawks program has operated in Leduc for more than 15 years. They have helped with incidents, including impaired driving, break & enters, mischief to property and other criminal activities. The Nighthawks are always looking for more dedicated, trustworthy, and caring citizens of our community. If you want more information please contact nighthawks.president@gmail.com.


Joe Flowers of the National Association of Dental Plans has a MUST READ post up: Why I won't renew with ASAE in 2011.
I was going to excerpt from some of the many comments – both pro- and con- association membership – but I think it's worth reading the whole conversation. I hope SocialFish readers will add your thoughts.
We have been talking about these issues for years, at this point. ASAE, what are you going to do about it? What can any association do about this? Do we just say "we can't win 'em all" and keep swimming against the tide? Joe doesn't represent everyone. Plenty of people will renew as long as their bosses will pay. The traditional value of associations can last quite a long time… even playing catch up can keep us going for a few years yet. But one day – will we wake up and realize we no longer have a future?
I don't want that to happen – and I'm a huge proponent of change. I have no interest in throwing the baby out with the bathwater, but Joe's post makes me feel sad. As a member since 2005 and a staunch supporter of ASAE, I want to be able to change his mind. But you (ASAE) don't make it easy for me. I make excuses for you every day. None of the arguments in my head hold water, especially when I struggle with similar issues myself, particularly from the individual cost to value ratio angle. So what can I do? I am willing to take responsibility for the view that my association makes me a better professional and pushes my industry forward. I'm willing to stick my neck out for you, and I'm certainly not the only one. But are you going to help me help you? What are you, ASAE, doing to address these issues?


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Effectiveness of Performance Appraisals Gets Mixed Reviews from HR Professionals in New SHRM Survey
Organizations that make performance management a priority gave their companies an effectiveness grade of either A or B
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — More than one-half (53 percent) of surveyed human resources professionals gave their organizations a grade between B to C+ for effectively managing performance reviews, according to a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey released today.
Another one-fifth (21 percent) gave their organizations a C in performance management, while only 2 percent gave their organizations an A, according to the survey, which was commissioned by and completed in collaboration with the National Center for the Middle Market (NCMM).
However, HR professionals who worked for companies that view performance management as a priority were more likely to give their organizations a higher performance appraisal effectiveness grade of either an A or B.
"Performance reviews are an effective tool when utilized correctly," said Bettina Deynes, vice president of HR at SHRM. "But in order for them to be effective, there needs to be support from the leadership team and sufficient training for managers."
When HR professionals were asked about the biggest obstacles keeping organizations from getting an "A" in performance management, common answers included lack of managerial time, insufficient training, higher business priorities, inconsistent evaluation standards, and lack of training.
"The findings also show that it pays off when companies make performance reviews a priority," said Evren Esen, director of SHRM's survey programs. "Because companies are putting less emphasis on blanket merit salary increases and instead moving toward incentive programs for high performing employees, performance management is becoming a key component of compensation reviews."
Nearly one-third (30 percent) of HR professionals reported that performance management will be a top priority at their organizations in the coming year. Two-thirds (65 percent) indicated that some attention and resources would be given to performance management, though other business issues were a higher priority.
Almost three-quarters of organizations (72 percent) conduct performance reviews annually and 16 percent conduct reviews semi-annually, or twice a year. Only 3 percent of organizations do not conduct performance reviews.
SHRM surveyed 391 of its randomly selected SHRM members throughout the United States.
The full survey is available online at http://www.shrm.org/research/surveyfindings/articles/pages/2014-Performance-Management.aspx.
NCMM did additional research on performance reviews, which can be found at http://middlemarketcenter.org/research-reports/its-about-people.
For more surveys/poll findings, visit shrm.org/surveys. Follow SHRM Research on Twitter @SHRM_Research.
Media: For more information or to request an interview, contact Vanessa Gray at 703-535-6072 and Vanessa.Gray@shrm.org or Kate Kennedy of SHRM Public Affairs at 703-535-6260 and Kate.Kennedy@shrm.org.
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Is innovation really that risky?
In a recent article, a professor suggested that in many case Boards of Directors, although preaching the innovation gospel to staff, are in fact reluctant to actually do it because it's so risky.
I found this comment somewhat unusual because it surely does not apply to all innovations. Indeed one wonders if here we have a problem of understanding what innovation really is, as distinct from perhaps research or "blue sky" thinking.
If we embrace the true definition of innovation as "Change that adds Value" and apply this approach to an already successful product, then risk can be mitigated if not entirely removed.
For example, consider the famous Rubik's Cube, a true market success, then apply some opportunistic thinking, by use of the "Opportunity Matrix", we might discover that unsighted people can't use this product, no doubt to their great disappointment. With that knowledge, we can then innovate the typical Rubik's Cube to provide a Braille version. Such a product could be sold with absolutely no market risk and more to the point, the likely market size could be accurately determined with little more than a few phone calls.
Another example may be that of the car intermittent windscreen wiper, again a fabulously successful invention that ultimately made its developer many millions of dollars. With the worldwide success of that product, two obvious no risk innovations can follow, variable speed intermittency and even rain-sensing wipers that start when rain is detected on the windscreen.
The dual blade men's shaver is yet another example and of course the triple blade that followed and so on.
When it comes to industrial and commercial applications where the financial benefits are clear, innovation can be entirely risk free. Consider for example the innovation to add winglets to the ends of aircraft wings to improve wing efficiency and thus improve fuel economy; or the move from 12 volt to 18 volt then 36 volts for battery power tools giving much more power and longer run time.
Of course the critics will say these are trivial incremental innovations. This may be so but they are risk free and in many cases the outcomes of such "trivia" can lead to massive disruption, but more about that in the next article.
Is it time to "re-question" nuclear energy?


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