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BEMO Helps SMBs Meet Their Complex IT Needs With Cybersecurity Tools, Cloud Solutions, and Managed Services
Written by: Jon McDonald
Jon McDonald
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TL; DR: BEMO is a cloud-based IT managed services provider (MSP) that caters to small businesses running Microsoft productivity applications and cloud-based services. The company provides expertise in cybersecurity, managed IT, and migrations from other productivity platforms. BEMO has been a Microsoft Certified Partner for more than a decade and recently received the software giant's Gold level security certification.
SMBs have been described as the lifeblood of the US economy. According to 2019 figures from The Office of Advocacy of the US Small Business Administration, SMBs create 66% of net new jobs and drive innovation and competition. Overall, SMBs account for about 44% of total US economic activity.
Yet as operational entities, SMBs have to grapple with large-scale challenges in provisioning IT requirements. And they often need high-grade IT to function and thrive.
SMBs have long faced a dilemma on the technology front because they typically can't afford a full-time in-house IT team. The traditional approach to this has been to either recruit a worker who also possesses IT skills and can deal with system administration or outsource standard applications to service solutions providers.
BEMO helps SMBs manage their IT and Microsoft productivity solutions.
Those approaches have become unwieldy and inadequate as IT requirements have gained importance and increased complexity. Meanwhile, taking their wares to digital markets gets more demanding by the week.
BEMO is a cloud-based managed IT MSP that caters to the needs of US SMBs. It bases its offerings around Microsoft productivity solutions and offers a focused range of services, including managed IT, cybersecurity, and migrations from other platforms (GoDaddy, Google Workspace) to Office 365.
It also provides value-added resale and support for Microsoft solutions, including Office 365, Azure, and Microsoft Managed Desktop. BEMO also runs cybersecurity training packages.
"BEMO can serve as, or augment, an SMB's IT team," said VP of Marketing, Steve Gershik. "We believe that our SMB customers deserve the same high level of IT services and support, security, and availability as larger enterprises enjoy. And that's what BEMO gives them."
SMBs are also increasingly subject to a succession of new regulatory burdens that add to their overhead. That requires special knowledge beyond the expertise of most C-level executives.
Requirements may be too demanding for in-house resources to run. That leaves up-market, multivendor MSPs that may prefer to focus on large enterprises with big IT outsourcing budgets rather than on serving SMBs.
BEMO brings those capabilities to small businesses to help them grow and keep capital to invest in their operations.
Filling the IT Services Gap for SMBs Overlooked by Other MSPs
Business IT strategies typically scaled no further than their employee head count until about a decade ago. Small and medium-sized businesses operate with appropriate systems and applications. That model has changed, and BEMO's recent experience indicates that SMB IT requirements have undergone a significant shift since 2018. And the COVID-19 pandemic has compounded and accelerated that shift.
"It starts with heightened expectations in regard to what IT must deliver," Steve said. "The diversity and complexity of IT has scaled up. There are now more companies out there, and they are mostly SMBs rather than larger enterprises. These factors combined have rapidly outgrown old notions of having in-house IT skills."
Having an IT generalist look after SMB operations full time was once common. But today's constrained resources can't cover all the technological bases, especially when companies use as-a-service hosting and applications.
Small businesses enjoy working with BEMO for its flexibility and service value.
Steve also told us how user organizations and SMBs have become more demanding.
"They have informed expectations and want IT to deliver more — and better."
That trend creates an expectation gap, but it has also opened a market opportunity for BEMO to fashion its value proposition.
"BEMO aims to mend that expectation gap," Steve said. "Cybersecurity is a good example. SMBs are never going to have the budgets to have their own security operations center."
But they may need one, Steve added, because SMBs are now subject to the same damaging cyberattacks as are large enterprises.
Customers Benefit from Deep Knowledge and Microsoft Solutions
BEMO's value proposition is based on its deep technical competence in the Microsoft solutions suite. The company is a Microsoft Gold Partner and a Microsoft Direct Cloud Solution Provider with an online store where customers can purchase Office 365 and other Microsoft products.
The company is also an accredited Microsoft US Government Cloud Authorized Reseller and a Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Security Elite Partner.
BEMO VP of Marketing Steve Gershik spoke with us about the company's commitment to helping businesses.
"We are Microsoft Licensing-ready with options for Enterprise Agreement, Cloud Solution Provider, Services Provider License Agreement, and Volume Licensing," said Steve. "Furthermore, we have unfettered access to Microsoft with Advanced Support for Partner, Partner Technical Services, and Advisory Services status. So our Microsoft expertise is ultimately assured."
Microsoft has two main selling points from BEMO's perspective. The first is that the range of Microsoft solutions — from productivity tools and applications to Azure cloud services — covers all of a typical SMB's IT requirements.
"We often find with customers that they are not aware of just how extensive Microsoft's range of solutions and services are," Steve said, "and they get more extensive all the time."
Another aspect SMBs enjoy is the reduced complexity that single-vendor IT sourcing brings.
"Of course, there are alternatives to Microsoft out there, but you are not necessarily improving your IT by working with multiple different vendors. You're introducing unnecessary diversity and added complication, not added value," said Steve.
"At BEMO, we prefer to know one vendor's offerings extremely well, rather than a dozen different vendors not very well."
Helping Customers Adjust to Post-Pandemic Business Models
The COVID-19 pandemic increased market opportunities for the Washington-based company, which has resulted in a near-doubling in revenue for the past two years.
"BEMO ended 2019 with revenues of about $1.1 million, and by the end of 2020 we'd reached $2.4 million in revenues. And last year, 2021, we reached $4.5 million," Steve said, "This year, we think we'll reach revenues of $7 million."
Much of that exponential growth is due to the additional support SMBs needed to adjust operations because of the pandemic.
"The revenue increases are also a reflection of the fact that BEMO is increasingly being called on to supply consultancy services on top of our standard MSP model," added Steve.
Many SMEs have not had to deal with those types of challenges before — at least, not at scale across a rapid timetable.
"So for BEMO, it's a whole new business consulting approach, as opposed to the technological competencies and support that we have been used to providing."
Massive technology shifts have made the digital environment more complex for the SMBs that drive the American economy. And BEMO is well-positioned to help them meet those challenges and continue growing.
Jon McDonald brings more than 15 years of writing and editing experience to the HostingAdvice audience. His articles have appeared in New York Times publications and numerous online media outlets. Jon likes to keep individuals and entrepreneurs informed on the data trends impacting their industries while keeping complex topics easy to understand. He enjoys covering industry segments, including cloud hosting, digital security, and mobile platforms, among many others, and he is always looking to share new technologies with readers.


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Let's Talk About The Nether Regions Series 1
Posted by Ian Symes	on 6th January 2022, 10:18
In a blaze of absolutely bugger all publicity, we're excited to note that the first full series of The Nether Regions starts tonight at 11pm on BBC Radio 4. Written by Rob Grant and Andrew Marshall of Quanderhorn fame (and I believe they may have had some involvement in other sitcoms too), it's a sketch show in the form of a Twilight Zone spoof, which is not only penned by everyone's favourite relatively-new-comedy-writing-partnership-comprised-of-people-previously-associated-with-other-writing-partnerships, but stars them too, alongside Helen Cripps, Edward Rowett and Holly Morgan. And as per Quanderhorn, it's produced by Hudzen 10 himself, the brilliant Gordon Kennedy.
If you missed the pilot way back in 2019, or need a refresher given that it's been approximately eighteen years since the heady days of 2019, it's been archived here. And don't worry if you're not awake and in the vicinity of a wireless during the prime time transmission slot tonight, as it will be available on BBC Sounds or the show's BBC programmes page immediately after broadcast. And when you've listened, let us know what you reckon on this very thread, which will serve as your Let's Talk About for the whole four-episode series.
Tags: Let's Talk About, rob grant, the nether regions
5 comments on "Let's Talk About The Nether Regions Series 1"
Spaceworm Jim says:
I liked a couple of the sketches, the last one was corny but probably the one I enjoyed the most to be honest. A lot of good ideas but execution was a bit off. A bit too much explaining-the-joke too, which isn't a good thing because it's bad.
I'll still listen to the next three though.
clem says:
I quite liked it but not as much as the pilot episode, which I listened to again this afternoon. Mostly decent ideas for sketches, just felt a bit light on good jokes. It's well performed. The whole "Nether Regions" conceit is tenuous and doesn't really add anything.
Stilianides says:
It's very nostalgic and old-fashioned, but that makes it an easy listen and quite relaxing to hear.
I think it's obvious that Rob is more of a writer than an actor and sometimes it sounds like he is reading the lines for the first time.
Flap Jack says:
OK, I've listened to episode 1.
I already knew what to expect because I listened to the pilot way back when, so to say I'm "disappointed" would perhaps be inaccurate. But it wasn't funny, outside of a few moments.
The sketches felt like a mix of "the concept is amusing, but nothing especially funny or surprising really happens as the sketch progresses", "the concept would be amusing, if I hadn't already seen/heard tons of sketches parodying the same thing", and "the concept isn't amusing".
A couple of other issues plagued the show for me: 1, they keep over-explaining the joke. Like, calling your dodgy legal company "Bogus Claims". I get it OK, spelling it out doesn't make it funnier. And 2, every time there was a character played by Rob Grant, him sounding like Rob Grant was just distracting to me. Love the guy, but he's not quite Rory Bremner.
Bonus 3rd issue that others have mentioned: the title and opening primes you for a show with some sort of paranormal throughline, where every sketch is a new Twilight Zoney bizarre situation, but what we get could be basically any sketch show ever made.
I enjoyed "English Batman", but even with that I couldn't escape the fact that none of the comedy actually derived from the characters being English, it's just "when you think about it, isn't Batman kind of silly?" that's been done so often it was the basis for one of the most popular TV series ever made, over 50 years ago. The 2 years since this same set up was in the pilot is nothing. And they ended the sketch with a fat joke…
So, never mind eh.
Any news on Quanderhorn 3?
This week's was quite a bit better I thought. The recurring sketches were all stronger than in episode 1, and there were some good new ones as well.
One of the trolls in the Points of View sketch was a simulant.
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Helping children at high risk for aggressive behavior found to have long-term benefits
A new longitudinal study that examined an intervention for children at high risk of developing behavior problems has found that teaching so-called soft skills was key to preventing criminal and delinquent problems later in life. Soft skills, such as self-control and social skills, are personality traits, attitudes, and motivations not included in traditional measures of intelligence.
The study was conducted at Duke University and appears in the journal Child Development.
Researchers looked at Fast Track, an intervention developed in the 1990s for children identified by their teachers and parents to be at high risk of developing serious aggressive behavioral problems.
"Fast Track's focus on teaching children how to control their emotions, solve problems, and respond to social situations was integral for preventing later crime and delinquency," notes Kenneth Dodge, William McDougall Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University, who was one of the study's authors. "Academic tutoring proved less valuable in the long term, except for slightly reducing students' mental health problems in adolescence."
Fast Track was introduced in Durham, NC, Nashville, TN, rural Pennsylvania, and Seattle, WA. Researchers screened 9,495 children, identifying those who scored highest in behavioral problems as reported by teachers and parents. Of these, 445 children were randomly assigned to the intervention and 446 were randomly assigned to a control group. About half the children were African American and almost 70 percent were male; the children came from primarily disadvantaged families (almost 60 percent lived in single-parent households and almost 30 percent had parents with less than a high school education).
In elementary school, the intervention featured a teacher-led curriculum aimed at helping children develop emotional concepts, social understanding, and self-control; parent training groups designed to promote positive family-school relationships and teach parents behavior-management skills; and home visits to help parents solve problems and manage situations at home. The program also featured social skill training groups for children and reading tutoring for children, and it paired children with peers to enhance their friendships in the classroom. When the children were adolescents, the intervention included curriculum-based parent and youth group meetings as well as individualized services for youth and their families.
Researchers measured children's academic, self-control, and social skills during elementary school (ages 6 to 11), as well as arrests, delinquency, and use of mental health services during adolescence and young adulthood (ages 12 to 20). This approach allowed the researchers to determine the effect of participating in Fast Track on outcomes in young adulthood and to pinpoint how important the types of skills learned during the intervention were for driving these long-term benefits.
Specific nonacademic capabilities (such as social skills and self-control) that children learned from ages 6 to 11 accounted for about a third of the program's ultimate effect in reducing juvenile arrests and more than half of the effect in reducing acts of delinquency, the study found. Training in self-control was relatively more effective in the long term for very high-risk children, while learning social skills was more effective for mid-risk children. (Risk levels were defined by parents' and teachers' reports of children's behavior problems in kindergarten, prior to the intervention.)
"Our findings are particularly important, given that the United States has the world's highest incarceration rate and the highest per-capita health-care expenditures," says Lucy Sorensen, a doctoral student at Duke, who led the study. "Our study suggests that programs emphasizing the early development of interpersonal and self-control skills are one way to reduce such adverse outcomes."
"As practitioners and researchers decide whether to replicate interventions such as Fast Track, our findings shine light on which kinds and components of interventions may hold the greatest long-term value for preventing problematic outcomes that are costly both to individuals and society," Sorensen adds.
Funding for the study came from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
Summarized from Child Development, How Does the Fast Track Intervention Prevent Adverse Outcomes in Young Adulthood? by Sorensen, LC, Dodge, KA (Duke University), and the Conduct Problems and Prevention Research Group. The Fast Track intervention was designed and implemented by the Conduct Problems and Prevention Research Group, a group of seven researchers at five institutions. Copyright 2015 The Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Q: How to compute flow direction and flow accumulation with Qgis? Any one who had made flow direction and flow accumulation on raster data for filled evaluation model i Qgis? Which tool and plugins are necessary, i haven't been able to find any guidelines on Google

A: 4 years later - if anyone stumbles across this while using QGIS 3.4, I found the simplest/most-robust solution was simply use the GRASS r.flow tool. The only real input is your DEM, and it outputs flow accumulation and associated data layers without having to do multiple steps. (for the gui:  processing --> toolbox --> GRASS --> Raster --> r.flow).
Make sure you are using a CRS that uses meters, not lat/long. You may need to reproject your DEM.
From there you can recategorize the flow accumulation to retain only zeroes, if you are looking for ridgelines, predict stream locations, etc. Both results (stream and ridge) matched pretty well our empirical data, using a NASA ASTGTM2 DEM.

A: FYI, in [2.0.1 Dufour] Sextante is now core functionality - no need to install the plugin.  Just go to the 'processing' menu and it's there!
...took me 3 days to work out why I couldn't install it as a plug-in ;-)

A: Your best bet is probably to use the SEXTANTE plugin.
Go: SEXTANTE->Geoalgorithms->Domain Specific->Hydrology
Here you will find a number of tools roughly analogous with some of the hydrology tools in ArcGIS.  This link on Hydrological Analysis and this one on Hydrology analysis with TauDEM from the Sextante Cookbook may prove useful.
EDIT
I forgot to mention 'Fill Sinks' which is in a different part of SEXTANTE.  It comes in 3 'flavours' and the 'Fill Sinks (Wang & Lui)' version will also output flow direction and watershed basins.
Go: SEXTANTE->Geoalgorithms->Domain Specific->Terrain Analysis and Geomorphology->Fill Sinks.

A: I have been able to obtain flow direction & flow accumulation but not with QGIS processing toolbox. I used Grass pluggin - and then since I loaded OSGeo4W - I repeated in GRASS 6.4.4.
Process - establish NewMapset - use Open Grass Tools - make sure DEM is in .asc format - that is the best image type that I got to work(I opened QGIS - Raster - conversion- translate) - r.fill.dir - (other formats never finished running this fill step) - r.watershed (this will give you flow direction & flow accumulation...I was told you could use the GRASS conmmands in the QGIS processing toolbox - however I was not able to get them to 'work' they produced outputs - but the output files did not match any other software outputs I had tested (ArcGIS - was one)....
See the image - the one on the left is from GRASS pluggin & the one on the right is from QGIS processing toolbar - to obtain stream order- I was not able to get a good/comparable output from the Processing Toolbox....  I am new and figuring this out - so watch you CELL SIZE - after editing my cell (SET REGION in GRASS) to the correct 30 m (.0027777778) cell size - this process takes a long time on my 1GIG sample area

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Q: My bot gets very slow when reading a message I have a problem, I have 3 commands that are always active, which detect when spam, links, or flood occurs on a server, but when activated the bot gets very slow and takes a long time to execute a command, what can I do?
commands in the main file
client.commands.get('spam').execute(message, keyv);
client.commands.get('links').execute(message, keyv);
client.commands.get('flood').execute(message, keyv);

spam.js
const Discord = require("discord.js")
module.exports = {
    name: 'spam',
    description: 'detecta spam',
    execute(message, keyv) {
         (async () => {
    if(message.author.bot) return;
    const serverid = message.guild.id;
    const channelid = message.channel.id;
    var affectbotsenadis = await keyv.get('spam' + "affectbots" + "enadis" + serverid);
    var delmsgenadis = await keyv.get('spam' + "delmsg" + "enadis" + serverid);
    var getsupsafeenadis = await keyv.get('supsafe' + "enadis" + serverid);
    var getenadis = await keyv.get('spamprotection' + "enadis" + channelid + serverid);
    if(message.content.includes("acaba") || message.content.includes("unio")) return;
    else if(message.content.includes("unanse") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Unanse") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNANSE") && message.content.includes("SERVER")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Únanse") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("únanse") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("ÚNANSE") && message.content.includes("SERVER")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("une") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Une") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNE") && message.content.includes("SERVER")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("una") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Una") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNA") && message.content.includes("SERVER")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("unir") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Unir") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNIR") && message.content.includes("SERVER")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("uniros") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Uniros") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNIROS") && message.content.includes("SERVER")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("unios") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Unios") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNIOS") && message.content.includes("SERVER")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Unanse") && message.content.includes("serv")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("unanse") && message.content.includes("serv")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNANSE") && message.content.includes("SERV")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Unete") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("unete") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNETE") && message.content.includes("SERVER")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("ÚNETE") && message.content.includes("SERVER")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Únete") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("únete") && message.content.includes("server")) avise();

    else if(message.content.includes("Unanse") && message.content.includes("servidor")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNANSE") && message.content.includes("SERVIDOR")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Únanse") && message.content.includes("servidor")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("únanse") && message.content.includes("servidor")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("ÚNANSE") && message.content.includes("SERVIDOR")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("une") && message.content.includes("servidor")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Une") && message.content.includes("servidor")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNE") && message.content.includes("SERVIDOR")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("unir") && message.content.includes("servidor")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Unir") && message.content.includes("servidor")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNIR") && message.content.includes("SERVIDOR")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("uniros") && message.content.includes("servidor")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Uniros") && message.content.includes("servidor")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNIROS") && message.content.includes("SERVIDOR")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("unios") && message.content.includes("servidor")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("Unios") && message.content.includes("servidor")) avise();
    else if(message.content.includes("UNIOS") && message.content.includes("SERVIDOR")) avise();

           function avise(){
             if(affectbotsenadis == "false"){
               if(message.author.bot) return;
             }
             if(getsupsafeenadis == "true"){
             if(message.member.hasPermission("MANAGE_MESSAGES")) return;
             }
             if(getenadis == "disable") return;
               if(delmsgenadis == "true"){
                 message.delete();
               }
               else{
                 message.react("⚠")
               }
             const embed = new Discord.RichEmbed()
               .setDescription(message.author + ", Cuidado con ese spam")
             .setColor("RED")
             message.channel.send(embed)
             }

        })();

        },
};

links.js
const Discord = require("discord.js")
module.exports = {
    name: 'links',
    description: 'molesta al bot',
    execute(message, keyv) {

    if(message.content.includes('discord.gg/'||'discordapp.com/invite/')) avise2();
    else if(message.content.includes("http://") && message.content.includes(".com")) avise2();
    else if(message.content.includes("https://") && message.content.includes(".com")) avise2();
    else if(message.content.includes("http://") && message.content.includes(".mx")) avise2();
    else if(message.content.includes("https://") && message.content.includes(".mx")) avise2();

           function avise2(){
                  (async () => {
             const serverid = message.guild.id;
    const channelid = message.channel.id;
    let affectbotsenadis = await keyv.get('links' + "affectbots" + "enadis" + serverid);
    let delmsgenadis = await keyv.get('links' + "delmsg" + "enadis" + serverid);
    let getsupsafeenadis = await keyv.get('supsafe' + "enadis" + serverid);
    let getenadis = await keyv.get('linksprotection' + "enadis" + channelid + serverid);

             if(affectbotsenadis == "false"){
               if(message.author.bot) return;
             }
             if(getsupsafeenadis == "true"){
             if(message.member.hasPermission("MANAGE_MESSAGES")) return;
             }
             if(getenadis == "disable") return;

               if(delmsgenadis == "true"){
                 message.delete();
               }
               else{
                 message.react("⚠")
               }

             const embed = new Discord.RichEmbed()
               .setDescription(message.author + ", Cuidado con ese link")
             .setColor("RED")
             message.channel.send(embed)
              })();
             }

        },
};

flood.js
const Discord = require("discord.js")
const  client = new Discord.Client();
module.exports = {
    name: 'flood',
    description: 'Ping!',
    execute(message, keyv){
     (async () => {
       if(message.author.bot) return;
    if(message.content.length >= 450){
    const serverid = message.guild.id;
    const channelid = message.channel.id;
    var getenadis = await keyv.get('floodprotection' + "enadis" + channelid + serverid);
    if(getenadis == "disable") return;
      message.react("⚠")
   const embed = new Discord.RichEmbed()
        .setDescription(message.author + ", Cuidado con ese flood")
      .setColor("RED")
      message.channel.send(embed)
    }
        })();
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I was introduced to the whisky made by the Virginia Distillery Co. at the 2018 Fredericksburg Brewfest. I had tagged along with a friend who was pouring samples at the company's table and it didn't take long to see that the spirit was a hit.
For every 10 people we served, other vendors had maybe one. And by 3 p.m. our line was out of hand, with prior visitors reappearing with friends, family members and newly met drinking buddies.
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Founded in Lovingston in 2011, Virginia Distillery released its first batch in November 2015. The port-finished whisky gained national attention with a 92-point rating in the Wine Enthusiast spirits guide. Since then, the company has won an incredible 21 awards – including best American single malt at the 2017 World Whiskies Awards. With more than 3,500 casks – about 1.5 million bottles – set aside for aging, it is now Virginia's largest distillery and America's biggest producer of single-malt whisky. Its products are available in 17 states and counting.
Astonishingly, the company nearly didn't happen. The distillery was originally meant to be a retirement project for George G. Moore, an Irish-born businessman who purchased the assets of a failed Nelson County distillery after selling his McLean-based tech company, TargusInfo, for a reported $650 million in 2011. But he died of a heart attack just 18 months later.
"Dad was in his early 60s, so we were blindsided," says Gareth Moore, VDC's 37-year-old CEO and co-owner. "Though he'd mentioned a Virginia-based 'distillery project,' that was essentially all I knew."
George had been a lifelong entrepreneur and had his hands in numerous startups, including a few Irish distilleries. Gareth, a partner in his father's Washington, D.C., angel investing firm, Ravensdale Capital, figured the Virginia project was business as usual.
At the urging of his mother, Angela, he visited the site in 2013. Situated in a rural hollow on 100 acres some 30 miles south of Charlottesville was a half-finished, 15,000-square-foot building. Inside was a collection of modern distilling equipment flanked by a pair of magnificent, hand-hammered, Scottish longneck copper pot stills dating to the 1920s.
"Clearly Dad had taken this seriously and intended to make huge amounts of whisky," Gareth says. The experience was emotional. "With the project barely under way, I didn't know whether we should sell or try to adopt this thing as our own."
An enthusiastic collector of single-malt whiskies, George had dreamed of establishing a world-class distillery in America – particularly in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Toward that end, he'd enlisted the help of two old friends, both industry titans. The now-late Jim Swan, who held a Ph.D. in chemistry and biological sciences and was known internationally as "the Einstein of Whisky," had agreed to advise about fermentation and maturational processes. Harry Cockburn, the former manager of the famed Bowmore Distillery, one of the oldest in Scotland, was signed on to engineer the distilling and production systems. Together they had nearly a century of experience working with the world's most prestigious single malt producers.
"I was astounded by their investiture," Gareth says. Like George, the men believed Virginia could birth a true, place-made single malt capable of competing with the industry's biggest names. "Their enthusiasm was incredible," he says. "And that piqued my interest."
Having published numerous scientific papers about the effects of climate on maturation, Swan was fascinated by the area's weather. Compared to Virginia, Scotland featured mild variations in temperature. High northern latitudes make for less distinct seasonal transitions and longer maturation times for whisky. Though the minimum aging period is three years, a premium Scotch typically matures in oak barrels for 12 to 18 years. The most coveted bottles age for 25, 50, even 100 years.
Swan said Nelson County's seasonality was ideal – the temperature swings from winter to summer would lead to greater expansion and contraction in the casks, thereby speeding and uniquely affecting maturation. But with smooth transitions and peak temperatures rarely reaching extremes, negative effects would be nominal. In theory, a 6-year-old whisky matured in Nelson could have the qualities of one aged for 18 years in Scotland, Ireland or England.
Of course, says Gareth, Swan's Scottish peers scoffed at the claims – there are no shortcuts to making world-class highland-style whisky, they grumbled. But Swan was, after all, one of the world's most highly regarded whisky experts. And he had apparently taken on the Virginia Distillery Co. as a pet project.
There were additional positive factors. Pristine spring water was available on-site. Not only did Virginia farmers have a rich history of growing barley – single malt's primary ingredient – but Virginia Tech housed the country's largest agricultural research program for malting varieties. And with the would-be distillery just miles from Route 151's winery and brewery corridor, customers were primed and waiting.
"I started thinking about my father's collection of single malts, by far the finest I'd ever seen," Gareth says. "I thought about how his vacations often entailed visiting the world's best distilleries. How he knew the industry's key players by name. And it dawned on me: What better way to memorialize his legacy than bring this dream to life?"
Gareth soon formed a partnership with Angela, his mother, and his wife, Maggie. Together they decided to give the business a go.
The goal all along was to create a brand that would become synonymous with Virginia whisky and in the process define American single malt as a category and help bring it to the world stage.
This is no easy thing. In fact, even naming a product is troublesome. VDC this summer settled a dispute with the Scotch Whisky Association that forced the company to eventually stop using the term "highland" for its liquor. The SWA felt the label was meant to trick people into thinking the product was from Scotland. VDC was, however, allowed to keep calling what it makes "whisky."
So, if making a label can create headaches, imagine trying to establish the official standard for American single malt. Unlike bourbon, rye and other whiskies, U.S. law doesn't recognize the category and therefore offers no regulatory definition. While competitions use standards established in Europe, U.S. makers don't have to. To create consumer confidence and compete at the international level, Maggie says, "we need exemplary products and a playbook similar to what they're using in Scotland or Ireland. Until we get both, (American single malts) won't be fully respected."
The pursuit began with constructing a premium production facility. Meanwhile, Cockburn and Swan trained a team of distillers and helpers that included current distillery director Ian Thomas, a degreed microbiologist who'd helped found Big River Distilling Co. in Memphis.
Next came getting products into the hands of consumers. "We wanted to make true Highland-style whisky, and that takes at least three years," Gareth says. Rather than rely on spirits like vodka or rum (which have quick turnarounds), the Moores contracted with a Scottish distiller. Like many newly opened bourbon makers, they imported aged whisky and finished it in oak port casks from Virginia's best wineries.
From top: Ian Thomas. Gareth H. Moore, Maggie Moore and Angela H. Moore.
"That let the climate put its stamp on the product and brought additional local flavors," Gareth says. The strategy was aimed at building brand recognition in the lead-up to this year's release of the distillery's first made-in-Virginia whiskies, Courage & Conviction.
A tasting room was added to attract visitors, and an on-site museum delivers interactive, whisky-centric history lessons. Offerings include the Cider Cask Finished, which ranked 13th on Whisky Advocate's 2018 list of world's best whiskies. All blend Scottish single malt with whisky made on-site.
Looking back, Gareth calls the past five years a whirlwind. On top of everything else, he and Maggie helped found the Virginia Distillers Association in 2016. Gareth became the group's first and current president. That same year, the couple helped launch the American Single Malt Whiskey Commission, which now boasts 117 member-distilleries.
The goal is to pass federal legislation defining American single malt as a category.
Maggie and Gareth envision a moment like the 1976 Judgment of Paris, when California wines first outmatched their French counterparts in a blind tasting. If that happened, the visitor center would become a world-renowned destination overnight.
"We're committed to being the standard-bearer for American single malts," Thomas says. "And I think we're well on the way to achieving that. From ingredients, to processes, to maturation, that goal has and will continue to inform every decision we make."
Like their Scottish precursors, the Moores imagine a day when patrons will enjoy 50- and 100-year Virginia Distillery reserves.
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Allen Stanford, the man convicted of fraud in a ponzi scheme that saw $7 billion dollars go down the drain, has been sentenced to 110 years in prison, Business Insider reports. The sentence comes down after a five week trial and four days of deliberation that found the ponzi schemer guilty on 13 counts, including conspiracy, mail and wire fraud, obstruction of justice, money laundering, etc.
On the plus side, he was was acquitted on one count of wire fraud that involved a gift of Super Bowl tickets to a banking regulator in Antigua. He was accused of offering the tickets and substantial bribery money to regulators in an attempt to reshape the country's banking regulations to better suit his endeavors. The acquittal wasn't enough to have the sentence reduced to a manageable figure.
According to CNBC, Stanford ran the ponzi scheme for 20-years, soliciting funds under false pretenses, failing to invest funds as promised and spending those funds for personal use. All told, prosecutors say he skimmed up to $2 billion in customer funds for himself.
Stanford was once listed as the 205th richest American and had accumulated a personal wealth of $2 billion before he was busted. He owned a fleet of private jets and yachts, and had several homes. He also attempted to personally popularize the game of cricket, by holding a $20 million tournament that was paid for with investor money.
Stanford had around 28,000 high end investors, all of whom have suffered substantial losses. Prosecutors have seized around $7 billion in assets along with 35 offshore bank accounts held in Stanford's name. So far the investors have only recovered pennies on the dollar for their original investments.
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It's what happens when a lying president who puts "making America 'great' again" makes deals with the corrupt as hell Saudis.
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So....your solution?? Ignore our intelligence agencies?
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Ulster Photographer's Afghanistan Images Feature In Major Canadian Exhibition
A powerful exhibition of photographs of military bases in Afghanistan by Magnum photographer and University of Ulster lecturer, Donovan Wylie, has opened at The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
The acclaimed showcase brings together recent images from Belfast-born, Wylie's 'Outposts' project and those of fellow Magnum photographer, Canadian, Larry Towell. The two men explore the consequences of the conflict in Afghanistan from different perspectives - Towell's black and white pictures reveal the devastating effects of war on the citizens, soldiers and landscapes of the country, while Wylie's colour photographs document operating bases built by the Canadian military for surveillance and defence.
Working with the Imperial War Museum (IWM), a major partner in the project, 'Outposts' was funded by the prestigious Bradford Fellowship (awarded to Wylie in 2010) and enabled him to spend six weeks of that same year in Kandahar Province embedded with the Canadian contingent of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
In doing so, he became the first Imperial War Museum official photographer to work in a war zone since the end of the First World War.
Throughout his career, Wylie has remained fascinated by the architecture of conflict. His earlier work was influenced by the impact of the Troubles and the theme of military and observation buildings can be seen in his photographs of the Maze prison ('The Maze', 2004) and military watchtowers in Northern Ireland ('British Watchtowers', 2007).
Wylie's first project for the Imperial War Museum was in 2007 and took him to the Green Zone - the heavily fortified administrative centre of Baghdad in Iraq, which had been under the control of the American occupying forces since the invasion in 2003.
Following this success, the IWM collaboration was extended to the conflict in Afghanistan.
Says Wylie: The idea for 'Outposts' began with 'British Watchtowers', but the actual reality of taking it on probably started about two-and-a-half years ago, and the researching took about a year-and-a-half.
"I was in the Kandahar province for six weeks over Christmas 2010 and worked with the Canadian military, who were wonderful in the way that they accommodated me and facilitated me."
Wylie's next project will be photographing outposts the Arctic which, along with 'Outposts' will be a feature of his solo exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, next year,
'Donovan Wylie, Larry Towell, Afghanistan' is at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada until July 8.
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Born in Belfast in 1971, Donovan Wylie discovered photography at an early age. He left school at 16, and embarked on a three-month journey around Ireland that resulted in the production of his first book, '32 Counties' (Secker and Warburg 1989), published while he was still a teenager.
In 1992, Wylie was invited to become a nominee of Magnum Photos and in 1998 he became a full member. Much of his work, often described as 'Archaeo-logies', has stemmed primarily to date from the political and social landscape of Northern Ireland.
His book 'The Maze' was published to international acclaim in 2004, as was 'British Watchtowers' in 2007.
In 2001 he won a BAFTA for his film 'The Train', and he has had solo exhibitions at the Photographers' Gallery, London, PhotoEspana, Madrid, and the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford, England.
He has participated in numerous group shows held at, among other venues, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
In 2010 Wylie was shortlisted for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize.
The Bradford Fellowship is a prestigious award, given to mid-career photographers or artists who have consistently achieved high standards in their work.


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Sara was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico to parents of Mexican and Irish-American descent. At 8 years old, her parents divorced and she went to live with her mother in Tierrasanta, San Diego, California. She had an interest in music, which caught her mother's attention and was sent to San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. When she was in high school, she started to act in stage productions produced by the school. She graduated from Juilliard School with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts (Dramatics).
In an interview in 2011, she revealed she has suffered from severe depression. At one point, she could barely get herself out of bed to film Grey's Anatomy.
On June 17, 2011, Ramirez and longtime partner, Ryan Debolt, a business analyst at TIMEC, got engaged in Paris, France. They were married on July 4, 2012 in a private beachside ceremony in New York.
She is also an activist for LGBT rights and came out as bisexual and queer during a speech at the #40ToNone Summit on October 8, 2016. She was awarded the Ally for Equality Award by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation in 2015.
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Book Review: White Birch
WHITE BIRCH by Paul Edmund Lessard is a literary novel with a classic feel. Check out what Alexandra Barbush has to say about this Atmosphere Press book.
Reviewed by Alexandra Barbush
Literary fiction with a classic feel, White Birch explores how far the hoity-toity of high society are willing to go to maintain their status.
The White Birch, both the name of the novel and the major setting, is an old-time luxury hotel in Tuffty Town. The hotel, like so many that attract a city's high society, is filled with not-so-secret secrets on every floor. Charming maitre-d's, eavesdropping maids, and international spies all converge in this captivating setting with intersecting stories and lives.
Henry Huvvy is the main protagonist of White Birch, spending considerable time dining and courting at the titular hotel. Curiously enough, most people at the hotel seem to know him. Your typical gentleman, Huvvy is neatly dressed and adorned of the normal high society type, which lets us know his station right away.
Parading around his hotel paradise, Huvvy lays eyes on an exquisite creature: Kate. He thinks of her suddenly and ardently, all but forgetting about her for a moment when he intersects with an old friend from school: Edward Silhouette.
The girl, of course, is engaged to his old pal Silhouette, and he chances on inviting them across town to one of his beloved seedy dives. When he reluctantly accepts, Huvvy goes on to attempt to seduce and steal ("they're not married yet!" he repeats to himself) Kate with some luck. He continues on with life as it is, with Kate in the back of his mind after they leave, making business deals and schemes with the hope of reconciliation and eventual togetherness.
At the same time that Huvvy is going around town with the latest and greatest, minor characters who have visited the hotel begin to emerge with their own stories. Most notably, a secret political group, Duma, who seeks to restore their former monarchy and Royal Family to their former glory, prior to the murder of seemingly all members.
Princess Penelope, the last remaining monarch, is secretly stowing away at a sanitarium in the countryside. When she meets a mysterious fellow patient and falls in love with him, she starts to discover the Duma's existence and their work at attempting to reinstate her and their nation's former monarchy. At the White Birch, friend and foe intersect inevitably, just as they do with the tangled parallel characters and stories of Lessard's novel.
I'd recommend this work to anyone interested in literary fiction with a classic feel as well as a bent for atmospheric language. The language suggests a setting of early 20th century England, possibly even London, but no for-sure references can be found. Most of the characters surrounding Huvvy speak in a great and grand British dialect, so much so that the reader should have a taste for the style if they're able to plow through the novel's density. The characters aren't exactly likable; you have to assume that high society has made them used to getting what they want. The secondary plot line of the Duma conflict with the revolutionaries strikes as Bolshevik, with the names suggesting a former Russian monarchy. None of these exact references exist, however, so the reader has to assume the realist approach to fiction doesn't extend to using actual people, places, or things.
The minor characters, like Huvvy's scoundrel friends across town, are lighthearted and add a flair of fun to what is primarily a serious novel. One should be prepared to reference back to earlier points of conflict to keep this dense novel straight. Just part one of a trilogy, White Birch sets the scene for a dramatic continuing story of intersecting characters.
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Title: Harold W. Hannah Papers, 1937-84
Acquired: 1/27/82 (see IWS)
Hannah, Harold W. (Harold Winford) (1911-)
Agricultural Programs, International
Animal Waste
Comparative Education
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Malaysia - Education
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Music -- India - Agriculture and Natural Resources
Music -- India - Education
Nigeria - Education
Pakistan - Agriculture and Natural Resources
Reserve Officers Training Corps
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Description: Papers of Harold W. Hannah (1911- ), Prof. of Agri. Econ. (1941-69), including vita (1952), photograph (1962), publications, correspondence ((1949-75), speeches (1946-71) & publications of Indian agricultural development (1953-73); minutes & report of the sub-committee to nominate candidates for the Agriculture Deanship (1951-52). Hannah served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (1972) to draft a policy blueprint for an agricultural university at Serdang in Malaysia, which with the Faculty of Agriculture in the University of Malaysia, would offer a two-tier program at degree & diploma levels. The functioning of the Malaysian Agricultural University (1972) & agriculture related publications from the University of Malaysia (1970), Malaysian Farmers' associations (1972), Malaysian Agricultural Research & Devel. Inst. (1971), UNESCO (1971) & corr. relating to a resource book & a book on the legal base for universities in developing countries (1964-72). The series include files on service as admin. advisor at Uttar Pradesh Agricultural University in India (1956-59), Ford Foundation agricultural consultant in Pakistan villages (1962-63), AAUP investigative committee at Southeast Louisiana State Coll. (1967-70), counsel for Prof. Frank Romack in a vet. med. tenure case (1972-73), hearing officer for Illinois' proposed Animal Waste Regulations (12/72-2/73); hearing officer for proposed livestock management facilities & livestock waste handling facilities regulations (1/4-2/6/74), hearing officer of Air Pollution Regulations for Grain Handling & Grain-Drying Operations (6/18-7/17/74) & teacher of an Agriculture honors seminar (1960-1967).


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Q: Одна атуентификация через токен на несколько приложений Есть два веб приложения со своим апи. У каждого приложения есть свои роли.
Есть простой сервис аутентификации, который возвращает токен.
Нужно ли внедрять в токен пользователя все его доступные роли для кажой программы или есть более лучший подход?
Если внедрять в него все роли, то как в приложении определять какие роли доступны конкретно для этого приложения?


The City of Lynchburg supports the preservation of real estate devoted to agricultural, horticultural and forest spaces by allowing eligible and qualified property owners to apply to the City Assessor for tax deferrals. The deferrals are effective starting on July 1st for the following tax year on the basis of the land's agricultural, horticultural and forest use.
The person(s) in whose name the eligible property is titled or a leasee of that property who is legally obligated to pay real estate taxes assessed against the property.
Agricultural Use -- at least 5 acres of land devoted to the bona fide production for sale of plants and animals useful to man under uniform standards prescribed by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services; or land devoted to and meeting the requirements and qualifications for payments or other compensation pursuant to a soil conservation program under an agreement with an agency of the federal government or for property used for recreational activities (for a profit or otherwise) as long as the recreational activities do not change the character of the property so that it does not meet the uniform standards prescribed by the Commissioner.
Horticultural Use -- at least 5 acres of land devoted to the bona fide production for sale of fruits of all kinds, including grapes, nuts and berries; vegetables; nursery and floral products under uniform standards prescribed by the Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services; or land devoted to and meeting the requirements and qualifications for payments or other compensation pursuant to a soil conservation program under an agreement with an agency of the federal government or for property used for recreational activities (for a profit or otherwise) as long as the recreational activities do not change the character of the property so that it does not meet the uniform standards prescribed by the Commissioner.
Forest Use -- at least 20 acres of land, including the standing timber and trees, devoted to tree growth in such quantity and so spaced and maintained as to constitute a forest area under standards prescribed by the State Forester; or for property used for recreational activities (for a profit or otherwise) as long as the recreational activities do not change the character of the property so that it no longer constitutes a forest area under standards prescribed by the State Forester.
In determining if a property meets the criteria for one of the above mentioned uses, the City Assessor will require documentation proving the land is being utilized in accordance with City and State definitions of land use. This documentation will be required annually. The City Assessor may also request an opinion from the Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce, the Director of the Department of Conservation and Economic Development or the Director of the Commission of Outdoor Recreation. If these parties refuse to issue an opinion or if they issue an unfavorable opinion which does not comply with the standards set forth by the respective director, the party aggrieved may seek relief from the Circuit Court for the City of Lynchburg.
Complete and submit a Virginia Department of Taxation application to the City Assessor for the classification, assessment and taxation of qualifying property. (Applications should be received by the City Assessor on or before May 1st of each year for the next succeeding tax year. In any year in which a general reassessment is being made, applications may be submitted until thirty (30) days have elapsed after the notice of increase in assessment is mailed or sixty (60) days preceding the tax year which begins July 1st, whichever is later.) Applications are available from the City Assessor's Office. An application should be submitted whenever the use or acreage of the land previously approved changes; provided that the property owner must revalidate annually with the City Assessor any applications previously approved. There is a non-refundable initial application fee of $40.00. A separate application must be submitted for each parcel on the land book.
First-time applicants must submit a recorded plat, in its entirety, for each parcel. The court house locality, deed book or instrument number reference and the date recorded must also be provided. Partial plats will not be accepted. Documentation supporting that the land to be accepted into qualified agricultural or horticultural use has been farmed for that use for the last five years must also be provided by first-time applicants.
The City Assessor will determine whether the property meets the criteria for eligibility. If it is decided that the property does meet the criteria, the City Assessor will determine the value of the property for its qualifying use, as well as its fair market value.
The use value and fair market value of all qualified property will be placed on the land book before delivery to the city collector and the tax for the next succeeding tax year will be extended from the use value.
A roll-back tax for the current year and the prior 5 years (with 10% interest) will be imposed upon any property as to which the use changes to a non-qualifying use or upon a property to which the owner has requested a zoning change not related to land-use.
Within sixty (60) days following a change in use, the owner must report the use change to the City Assessor, so that a determination and assessment of roll-back taxes can be made. This assessment should be paid to the city collector within thirty (30) days of the assessment. If the owner fails to report a use change within sixty (60) days of the change and/or fails to pay the roll-back tax within thirty (30) days of assessment, the owner will be liable for an additional penalty of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the roll-back tax and interest. In addition to the penalty, interest in the amount of one-half percent (½%) of the amount of the roll-back tax, interest and penalty will be collected for each month or fraction thereof during which the failure continues.


Congratulations to SBE graduate student Krista Slemmons on receiving a faculty position! Slemmons accepted a position at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point this fall semester where she is teaching biology courses, as well as conducting research and supervising biology student teachers during their teaching experience.
Slemmons received her undergraduate degree at Denison University with a B.S in Biology, and received her master's degree from Miami University in environmental science as well as Wright State University. Slemmons studied at the University of Maine to receive her Ph.D. in Ecology & Environmental Science.
During her time at the University of Maine, Slemmons research focused on artic & alpine lakes that were fed by glaciers using pale- ecological and modern techniques to do so. Her research focused on diatoms, an extremely temperature sensitive species of algae, and how they were affected through time as glaciers continue to recede. During a research project her first summer at the University of Maine, she preformed a lake experiment in the Bear tooth mountains located in Southern Montana. Using modern techniques, she used carbon-14 uptake experiments to measure the productivity of the algae in a glacier fed lakes and a "snow fed" lake. She also preformed nutrient enrichment experiments, in which she would add nutrients to both the glacier fed lakes and the snow fed lakes to see how the algae would respond. In order to compare changes that occur to the algae communities before and after, and how they change as the glaciers change, they looked at a core dated as far back as 3,000 years ago. She also had the opportunity to look at a 9,000-year-old core from East Greenland, a project that was in collaboration with the department of earth sciences.
Slemmons explained the monumental influences Umaine had on her career, and expressed a great appreciation for the climate change institute as well as the School of Biology and Ecology for giving her an interdisciplinary approach to science, as well as a broader interpretation of the world around her. "These programs opened up my mind and gave me new insight into how the world really works," says Slemmons.
During Slemmons' time here, she was a teaching assistant for Biology 100 & 200, received the Chase distinguished Research Assistantship, the Correll Fellowship, and a National Park Service Fellowship.
We wish Krista Slemmons and her family the best of luck in Wisconsin!