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Central Maine business briefs: Kennebec Savings Bank, Kennebec Federal Savings merger approved
People & Places: Telemedicine focus of virtual forum Dec. 10 hosted by Mainebiz.
AUGUSTA — Kennebec Savings Bank President & CEO Andrew Silsby and Kennebec Federal Savings and Loan Association of Waterville President & CEO Allan Rancourt have announced that they have received regulatory approval to proceed with the merger of Kennebec Federal Savings with Kennebec Savings Bank.
The Maine Bureau of Financial Institutions approved KFS's application to convert to a Maine mutual financial institution for purposes of facilitating the merger. In addition, they approved Kennebec Savings Bank's application to merge with KFS. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation also approved Kennebec Savings Bank's application to merge with KFS. The conversion and merger are scheduled to occur simultaneously.
"This approval is another step forward in what is a lengthy merger process partly because the two organizations have different charters; KFS being Federal and KSB being State," said Silsby, according to a news release from Kennebec Savings Bank. "The process is moving ahead and these approvals are a strong indicator that we are on track to complete the merger in the March timeframe."
"We are pleased that the Bureau of Financial Institutions and the FDIC have provided their approvals," said Rancourt, according to the release. "We are excited to take the next step in joining these two banks together."
Completion of the transaction remains subject to the satisfaction or waiver of other closing conditions, including Kennebec Federal Savings member approval. KFS expects to hold a special meeting of its members in late December, and the transaction is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2021.
Telemedicine focus of virtual forum Dec. 10
PORTLAND — Mainebiz will host the Mainebiz Health Care virtual forum from 11 a.m. to noon Dec. 10 via Zoom, with a panel of local experts to discuss telemedicine, what it means for your business, and what health care savings it has for employees and the employer.
The panel of executive business leaders include Peter Hayes, president & CEO at Healthcare Purchaser Alliance of Maine; Pat Keran, vice president, product & innovation at UnitedHealthcare; Martin Wesolowski, DO, MBA, health plan medical director at Martin's Point Health Care; and moderated by Joanne Rawlings-Sekunda, director of the consumer health care division at the Maine Bureau of Insurance.
This event, sponsored by Pierce Atwood LLP and UnitedHealthcare, is free to attend. For more information or to register, visit mainebiz.biz/HealthCare.
UScellular champions the Next Generation of Heroes as The Future of Good
On Giving Tuesday, for the sixth consecutive year, UScellular kicked off The Future of Good program highlighting young people who are helping create positive change in their local communities. Through The Future of Good, UScellular champions many causes, including the fight against hunger and homelessness, the protection of the environment and expansion of education and literacy, according to a news release from UScellular.
Through Dec. 31, anyone older than 18 is encouraged to go to thefutureofgood.com to nominate youth between 6 to 17 years old who are making a positive impact in their communities. At the end of the nomination phase, UScellular will announce three winners. This year, UScellular will award each of the three young heroes with a $10,000 contribution to support their respective cause.
"For the past six years, UScellular has been committed to championing and supporting youth who have made a positive impact in their community," said Matt Kasper, director of sales for UScellular in New England. "These young heroes are all around us and UScellular is right there to showcase them, to invest in them and to support them to continue to do good."
When nominating a young person, describe the nominee's cause, how it is helping their community and how the nominee could use a cash award to continue to grow their efforts.
To see how past The Future of Good recipients have created positive change in their communities, visit youtube.com/watch?v=AVvU8o9TkiU&feature=youtu.be. For more information on eligibility and to view official program rules, go to thefutureofgood.com.
Camden National Bank celebrates five 2020 Leaders & Luminaries honorees
CAMDEN — Camden National Bank has announced its 2020 Leaders & Luminaries Awardees and provided $22,000 in grants for their respective organizations. The honorees include Doris Dennee from The Iris Network, Evelyn Kieltyka from Medical Care Development Inc., Jackie Studer from Classical Uprising, Ray Gerbi from the Pejepscot History Center, and Dr. Robert "Bob" Holmberg from Community Compass, according to a news release from the bank.
Since the recognition program launched in 2011, Camden National Bank has donated nearly $175,000 to 48 Maine nonprofits with Leaders & Luminaries Awards presented to outstanding board directors from across the state. Over the years, hundreds of board directors have been nominated by fellow board members and nonprofit staff, highlighting countless stories of volunteers going above and beyond as stewards for positive community change.
"This year especially, nonprofits have had to adapt and reprioritize, all at lightning speed. And effective board directors have been instrumental in helping their organizations navigate these unchartered waters, without losing sight of longer term goals," said Greg Dufour, president & CEO of Camden National Bank, according to the release. "It's an honor to shine a light on our 2020 awardees who have demonstrated innovative thinking and an outstanding commitment to community."
Camden National Bank's independent selection committee narrowed the pool of nominations down to four Leaders & Luminaries Award Winners, each receiving $5,000 grants, and a Spotlight Award Winner, receiving a $2,000 grant. Donations were funded through the bank's private charitable foundation, The Bank of Maine Foundation.
2020 Leaders & Luminaries award winners:
Doris Dennee, board treasurer, The Iris Network (Portland)
Doris Dennee Photo courtesy of Camden National Bank
Doris Dennee first became involved in The Iris Network from her work with Guiding Eyes for the Blind, where she trained puppies to support people who are visually impaired. She soon joined the board, first from 2002 to 2004, when she was instrumental in opening Iris Park Apartments, and again in 2017. She serves as treasurer and chairwoman of the Finance Committee, and she played a key role in supporting the organization's staff transition to a new finance lead. Her expertise as a CPA, most recently with Baker Newman Noyes before retirement, and her passion for the mission of The Iris Network made her a perfect person to help find, train, and work closely with the new accounting manager. During a challenging time, Dennee dedicated countless hours to stewarding a key transition and streamlining financial processes, all while raising spirits and keeping the board of directors and staff engaged.
Jackie Studer, board president, Classical Uprising (Portland)
Jackie Studer Photo courtesy of Camden National Bank
Jackie Studer first joined the board of a local nonprofit called the Portland Bach Experience in 2019, immediately bringing her business acumen as a corporate lawyer and her passion for performing arts. Seeing a clear synergy between the Portland Bach Experience and Oratorio Chorale (another local nonprofit), she led the two organizations and boards through a detailed exploration and eventual merger, forming Classical Uprising. Her leadership through the process preserved the identities of both organizations, while creating efficiencies and opportunities for greater impact and financial stability. Soon thereafter, the merged organization acquired a youth choir program, furthering its ability to meet its mission and thrive. Less than two years after joining the board of Portland Bach Experience, and after leading the merger process, Studer was elected as board president of Classical Uprising, which now serves 200 adult and youth singers and reaches more than 4,000 Mainers with concerts, events and educational programs. Her leadership and organizational vision helped transform the organization, achieve fundraising and membership goals, and reach new levels of stability and service.
Ray Gerbi, Board Treasurer, Pejepscot History Center (Brunswick)
Ray Gerbi Photo courtesy of Camden National Bank
Having retired in Maine and looking to give back in the community, Ray Gerbi began volunteering at the Pejepscot History Center. Eventually, his passion and professional experience in buildings and grounds work emerged, and no matter the job, from smaller "handyman" tasks to much larger, long-range construction projects, Gerbi was ready to help. After serving on the Buildings & Grounds Committee, he was elected to the board. In 2018, he became board treasurer as well as chairman of the strategic planning and facilities master plan committees. Bringing 30 years of experience leading facility and real estate strategy and operations at Concord Hospital in New Hampshire, his expertise was an incredible asset to the small team at PHC. Especially this year, when the historical society had to dramatically reduce the number of visitors and rely on alternative revenue streams, Gerbi was instrumental in helping chart a new path forward, balancing vision with practicality for long-term sustainability.
Dr. Robert "Bob" Holmberg, president & founder, Community Compass (Blue Hill)
Robert 'Bob' Holmberg Photo courtesy of Camden National Bank
Eight years ago, Dr. Robert "Bob" Holmberg, a retired pediatrician from Brooksville was inspired by a presentation on confronting poverty in the Blue Hill Peninsula. After researching programs and solutions across the nation, Holmberg founded Community Compass, fueled by his vision of focusing on today's children and youth to ensure that tomorrow's adults are prepared and empowered to thrive. In launching Community Compass, Holmberg formed an engaged, strong board of directors with experience across disciplines working to end poverty in the region. Together, they were able to secure significant funding while collaborating with local nonprofits to ensure no duplication of efforts or wasted resources in supporting local families. With an eye for long-range planning and fiscal responsibility, as well as a deep-seeded passion for the work, Holmberg's leadership has made Community Compass a vital community resource, providing emergency support, educational forums, a hub of information, scholarships, and more.
2020 Spotlight Award Winner:
Evelyn Kieltyka Photo courtesy of Camden National Bank
Evelyn Kieltyka, MSN, MS, FNP-BC, board chairwoman, Medical Care Development Inc. (Augusta)
Evelyn Kieltyka, a family nurse practitioner who serves as senior vice president of program services at Maine Family Planning, originally joined MCD's board to represent Maine's nursing community. Quickly, she became enamored with the organization's ability to offer creative solutions for health needs worldwide. As board chairwoman, she's guided MCD's 2017 restructuring to focus the Maine-based nonprofit exclusively on public health here in Maine, across the U.S., and in low- and middle-income countries overseas. She was instrumental in hiring the current executive director, diversifying and engaging the board, and facilitating a year-long strategic planning process. As MCD has worked to respond to the pandemic, Kieltyka has played a key role in developing a comprehensive contingency plan to enable MCD to expand and reorient its programmatic efforts to effectively help in COVID-19 response planning and mitigation efforts in the regions where MCD works. As a result of her leadership, MCD is well positioned to continue to fulfill its global mission of improving the health and wellbeing of people around the world.
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16 Target Workers Share the Craziest Thing They've Seen at Work
"This woman was just screaming until someone came to her to show her where the lightbulbs were."
By Kate Beckman Published: May 11, 2017
You hear crazy retail stories every Black Friday, but for employees at Target, calming down screaming customers or dealing with extreme couponers is all in a day's work. Cosmopolitan.com asked Target workers to share the craziest things they've ever seen customers do, and — spoiler — things get pretty weird.
1. "I was working checkout during Black Friday around 2 a.m. and a dad was buying a monster truck toy for his son. An old woman sees the monster truck and she goes, "Excuse me, young man, can I have that for my grandson?" He tells her that he's buying it. She says she'll pay for it because it's hers, and she starts pulling it from him in line, really subtly. He starts getting mad at her, but then security gets involved, and he seems like he was the one who was in the wrong, and they're telling him to calm down. The old woman buys the truck in self-checkout and leaves the store while this is happening. That truck was also the last one in the store, so the dad wasn't able to get another one."
2. "Someone brought in three full Target bags of groceries to return because they said their kids didn't like what they bought. It's the rules that we have to accept food to return if it's unopened, and then we usually throw them out or donate them to charity. But it was three full bags of different types of cereal, granola bars, and other foods like that. I wanted to ask how her kids didn't like a single thing she had bought, but sometimes it's best not to ask."
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3. "A lady came to my register with a huge stack of coupons. I think she could tell I was new and didn't know all of the rules about how many coupons you can use — there's a coupon limit per item and transaction. If the register said she used too many coupons, and she would ask me to override it. The entire transaction took about an hour and a half, and by the end of it, she only owed about $1 for $500 worth of stuff. But then she told me I must have missed a coupon, and she had her elderly mother with her, and I didn't want to fight it, so I scanned one more coupon and she walked away with two carts of stuff, completely for free."
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4. "There was an older guy that would show up at my Target, buy a large soda from the fast-food area, and sit in the back corner and people-watch for about four or five hours at a time. He was pretty nice, but people got a little freaked out because he was always there."
5. "I was working the Pizza Hut in Target, and a woman with six children comes up to the counter and asks for six pizzas. We can only do two at a time, so I told her it would take about 15 minutes. She got so mad at me, saying it was ridiculous she would have to wait that long. Then she asks her kids if they want to wait for the pizza, and one of the little girls starts crying and says she really wants pizza. Instead of ordering, she calls someone, and by the time she gets off the phone, the entire situation has already taken up 15 minutes. I ask her what she wants to do, and she says she can't wait and storms off with her children. The pizzas would have been done in the 15 minutes she was complaining."
6. "A woman came in at 10:30 at night completely drunk and tried to buy three bottles of alcohol. It's a law in Wisconsin, where I live, that you can't buy alcohol after 9 p.m. We tried explaining this to her but she freaked out. She slammed her fist into a display of soap near the register and knocked the entire thing over. Then she screamed as she was walking out of the store. My manager told her to have a good night, and then she screamed the C word at him."
7. "We had these teen girls come in one winter. They grabbed some bean bag chairs and sat in the middle of the aisle and started eating snow that they brought in from outside. They asked people who walked past where they could buy more snow and ice. They weren't bothering anyone, so we just let them stay there. They sat there for about an hour and then left."
8. "A woman was at self-checkout buying diapers and wet wipes for her kids. She was trying to get them for $20, which wasn't the price. She told me that they weren't ringing up correctly, and I told her that was the price. She made me get the price tag. She still didn't believe me so she asked me to get the manager. She asked my manager if she had kids and my manager said yes. Then the woman said my manager was a bad mom if she didn't let her have the diapers and wet wipes for the reduced price. My manager explained that she couldn't just make up a price and the woman told her again that she was a bad mom. She left the store without buying those things."
9. "During the five years I worked at Target, there was a guy who came in at least once a week and would buy $100 to $200 worth of toys and would be back the next week to return some of them. Once our store manager commented to him that he must be a great dad because of all the toys he bought, and he got sort of embarrassed and told us that he was selling them on eBay."
10. "A woman would come in every time there was a sale on Tide and would buy, like, 16 at a time. She also bought a lot of cleaning supplies. She would always use a lot of coupons, so she would get them for really cheap. One of my coworkers saw her reselling them in the neighborhood at a higher price. This same woman also posted in a local couponing Facebook group that I hated coupons, because I limited how many she could use once. She told the other couponers not to come to my register."
11. "There was a woman who always came into the store with her 3- or 4-year-old son on weekends when I was working. One weekend, she came in and was flirting with the guy who worked in electronics, and she asked another worker if that guy was single. Then she went to another part of the store. Soon after, her son jumped off a bench and hit his head on the ground, but she wasn't near him. We had to find his mom in the store because the paramedics were on their way to take the boy to the hospital. The crazy thing is she came back that same day, around 9 p.m., with her son. She acted like it didn't even happen and went back to electronics to hit on the same guy."
12. "I was working on a busy day, and all of a sudden we hear a woman screaming. I walk up to her like, 'How can I help you?' as she's still yelling. Then she asks me where the lightbulbs are. So this woman was just screaming until someone came to her to show her where the lightbulbs were."
13. "An old man came in who had clearly had an accident. None of us wanted to tell him that he had clearly pooped his pants, so we all just kept silent tabs on him as he walked through the store to make sure nothing else happened or he didn't sit down anywhere. We couldn't tell him to leave the store because he didn't do anything wrong so the employees just sort of tailed him until he left the store."
14. "I was scanning a woman's packaged beef and she got angry because I touched the clear film on the top of it. She said that if you touch the film, you touch the beef, and she called me an 'insipid human being' and threatened to go to another store. She still bought the beef."
15. "A woman buys one of our steamed cheese pretzels for her and her kid. She comes back when she's done shopping, and she tells me it was the worst pretzel she ever had, and she can't believe I served it to her. I ask if she wants me to talk to a manager and she says no, that she just wanted me to know. Then she just left."
16. "A lady was trying to buy a pair of boots for 50 percent off, except the promotion was only available through the Cartwheel app. I tried to explain this to her, but she didn't believe me. She left the line to get the sign that said 50 percent off. She brought it back to the line with her to show me. The whole thing took, like, 20 minutes, so I just gave her the discount."
These interviews have been edited and condensed.
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Three Canadian features land new U.S. and worldwide distribution deals while Bell Media kicks off an extended partnership with the CFL for its sports channels.
Babe Nation Films
Gravitas Ventures has picked up the U.S. distribution rights to Montreal-based filmmaker Aisling Chin-Yee's feature debut The Rest of Us (pictured). The film is produced by Babe Nation Films' Katie Bird Nolan and Lindsay Tapscott, as well as William Woods and Emma Fleury. Written by Alanna Francis, The Rest of Us tells the story of a single mother, played by Heather Graham, who welcomes her ex-husband's new family into her life after a tragedy occurs. The deal was brokered by Voltage Pictures, which holds the sales rights to the film. Gravitas Ventures will release the film in theatres and on demand in February 2020. LevelFILM holds the Canadian distribution rights.
We'll Be Over Here Productions
L.A.'s Glass House Distribution has picked up the U.S. rights to Canadian Strain. The Canadian comedy is written and directed by Geordie Sabbagh and produced by Ashleigh Rains, who co-founded We'll Be Over Here Productions with Sabbagh. It tells the story of a pot dealer whose source of income is thrown into jeopardy once marijuana becomes legal in Canada and stars Jess Salgueiro. Rains negotiated the deal with Glass House president Tom Malloy. Pacific Northwest Pictures recently picked up the Canadian distribution rights, with the film set to release in early 2020.
Highball.TV
Toronto-based VOD service Highball.TV has picked up the international distribution rights to Canadian drama Luba, directed by Caley Wilson. Vladimir Jon Cubrt wrote, produced and starred in the project, while Nicole Maroon also served as star and producer. It follows a single mother who reaches out to her recovering addict ex-husband for support for their son and faces the consequences when he spirals out of control. It won the people's choice award at the 2018 Canadian Film Fest. Luba will open in theatres in Toronto and Calgary on Jan. 10, 2020, before its worldwide release on Highball.TV that same month. Highball.TV's Melissa D'Agostino and Matthew Campagna negotiated the deal.
TSN and RDS have extended their long-term partnership with the CFL. The Bell Media-owned sports networks will continue to hold the exclusive broadcast and digital media rights to CFL pre-season and regular season games, as well as playoff games and the Grey Cup. TSN has aired CFL games since 1986, with the French-language RDS airing games since 1989 – just one year before 2019 Grey Cup champions the Winnipeg Blue Bombers won their last title. The networks picked up the exclusive broadcast rights in 2008. The 2019 CFL season leading up to the Grey Cup was one of the most-watched sports broadcasts on Canadian television, according to Bell Media, reaching more than 15 million viewers or 41% of Canadians.
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Home Investor Relations Board of Directors
The Rogers Board of Directors is elected by the shareholders to oversee the management of the company and to assure that shareholder interests are being served. The Board has delegated certain authority to a number of standing committees, including an Audit Committee, Compensation and Organization Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee.
The Board is mainly comprised of outside, independent directors. It regularly meets in executive session, without the presence of Rogers' management.
The Board and management both believe that managing the Company with a principal focus on long-term value generally promotes the best interest of shareholders, as well as other stakeholders and interested parties, including employees, customers, suppliers, Rogers' communities and the public at large.
Bruce D. Hoechner
Mr. Bruce D. Hoechner was elected as President and Chief Executive Officer by the Board of Directors and joined Rogers Corporation in October 2011, at which time he also became a member of the Company's Board of Directors.
Mr. Hoechner has many years of broad leadership experience across numerous geographies, businesses and functions in the specialty chemicals industry with particularly strong international business expertise. For over ten years of his career he lived and worked in Asia — Singapore, Thailand and most recently, Shanghai, China. His Asian assignments were first with Rohm and Haas Company, for whom he worked for 28 years, and then The Dow Chemical Company after its acquisition of Rohm and Haas in 2009. While in Shanghai, Mr. Hoechner was responsible for a variety of businesses, most recently as President, Asia Pacific Region, Dow Advanced Materials Division. He has also led a number of specialty chemical global business units with wide-ranging operations in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. Mr. Hoechner holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Penn State University and is a graduate of the Wharton Management Certificate Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Hoechner is also a director of Curtis Wright Corp.
Carol R. Jensen
Carol R. Jensen, PhD has been a Director of the Company since February of 2006. Ms. Jensen is currently President and Principal Partner in Lightning Ranch Group, a privately held group of companies in ranching, real estate, technology consulting, energy and aviation.
Ms. Jensen previously served as a director of the Microelectronic Computer Corporation and the American Chamber of Commerce - Denmark. She previously held positions at The Dow Chemical Company, as Vice President of Research & Development of Performance Chemicals from 2001-2004. At 3M Corporation, she served as Executive Director of Research & Development from 2000-2001, Managing Director of 3M Denmark from 1998-2000, and Technical Director of 3M's Electronic Products business from 1990-1998. She also worked for IBM Corporation, holding various positions in research, development, marketing and corporate strategy from 1979-1990. She was also an adjunct professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas, Austin from 1991-1994.
In these positions she gained experience in the electronics and Internet industries, the chemical and materials industry, and in research, marketing, development, manufacturing, sales, international business, governance and executive management. Her technical background and experience make Ms. Jensen a valuable member of the Company's Board of Directors and a great resource to its management.
Ganesh Moorthy
Ganesh Moorthy, has been a Director of the Company since July of 2013. In February 2016, Mr. Moorthy was named President of Microchip Technology Incorporated, adding that position to the post of Chief Operating Officer, a title he has held since 2009. Microchip Technology Incorporated is a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog, memory and Flash-IP solutions. He served as Executive Vice President of Microchip from October 2006 to June 2009. From November 2001 to October 2006, Mr. Moorthy served as Vice President of several Microchip divisions. From June of 2010 to October of 2014, he served as a member of the Board of Directors of Hua-Hong Grace Semiconductor in Shanghai, China. He is also a member of the University of Washington's Electrical Engineering Board of Advisors. Mr. Moorthy's extensive background in a number of Rogers' key industries and his global expertise in business and technology leadership made him an excellent addition to the Board.
Helene Simonet
Helene Simonet has been a Director of the Company since October of 2014. Ms. Simonet served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Coherent, Inc. from April 2002 through her retirement in December 2016. She served as Vice President of Finance of Coherent's former Medical Group and Vice President of Finance of its Photonics Division from 1999-2002.
Prior to joining Coherent, Ms. Simonet spent over twenty years in senior finance positions at Raychem Corporation's Division and Corporate organizations, including Vice President of Finance of Raynet Corporation. Ms. Simonet has both Master's and Bachelor degrees from the University of Leuven, Belgium.
Ms. Simonet is a well-rounded executive with broad experience in both executive and financial management of a global technology manufacturing company, international business, mergers and acquisitions and strategic planning. This experience and her expertise in areas important to Rogers make her an excellent addition to the Board.
Jeffrey J. Owens
Jeffrey J. Owens was appointed as a Director of the Company in August of 2017. Mr. Owens most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Delphi Automotive PLC, until his retirement in March 2017. During his over 40-year career at Delphi, Mr. Owens served in a variety of technology, engineering and operating leadership roles. He served as President of Delphi's Electronics and Safety Division, a position with international responsibilities.
Mr. Owens is also a director of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation of San Jose, California. Mr. Owens recently served as Chairman of the Kettering University Board of Trustees and is currently a trustee.
Mr. Owens' global experience and leadership roles in innovation and technology, particularly in the areas of Advanced Mobility and Advanced Connectivity, make him an excellent addition to the Board.
Keith L. Barnes
Keith L. Barnes has been a Director of the Company since October of 2015. Mr. Barnes is the CEO of Barnes Capital Management, a family investment office focused on technology investments in Silicon Valley and the Pacific Northwest.
In 2011, Mr. Barnes was Chairman of Verigy Pte Ltd, a leading manufacturer of semiconductor capital equipment, started within Hewlett Packard. Verigy was domiciled in Singapore and was acquired by Advantest of Japan in 2011. From 2006-2010, Mr. Barnes was CEO of Verigy. From 2003-2006, Mr. Barnes was Chairman and CEO of Electroglas, a leading manufacturer of semiconductor probing solutions. Mr. Barnes was Chairman and CEO of Integrated Measurement Systems from 1995-2001 when IMS was acquired by Credence.
Mr. Barnes is also a director of Knowles Corporation, Mentor Graphics Corporation, and Viavi Solutions.
Michael F. Barry
Michael F. Barry has been a Director of the Company since June of 2010. Since 2009, Mr. Barry has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Quaker Chemical Corporation. He joined the Quaker Board and became Quaker's President and Chief Executive Officer in 2008.
Mr. Barry had held a number of other positions with Quaker since 1998, including Chief Financial Officer, Vice President and Global Industry Leader – Industrial Metalworking and Coatings and Senior Vice President and Managing Director – North America. By serving in a variety of leadership and executive positions with Quaker, Mr. Barry has gained experience in accounting/finance, financial reporting, risk assessment, industrial marketing and services, organizational development, global organizations, governance, strategic planning, corporate development, research and development and manufacturing. This extensive and varied business experience is a valuable resource to the Rogers' Board of Directors and its management.
Peter C. Wallace
Peter Wallace joined the Rogers board of directors on June 15, 2010. Mr. Wallace served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Gardner Denver Inc., an industrial manufacturer of compressors, blowers, pumps and other fluid control products used in numerous global end markets until his retirement in January 2016.
He served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of Robbins & Myers, Inc. from 2004-2013, when the company was acquired by National Oilwell Varco, Inc. Prior to joining Robbins & Myers, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of IMI Norgren Group from 2001 to 2004.
Mr. Wallace is a director of Curtiss-Wright Corporation and a director and chairman of the board of Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc., both public companies. He also serves on the board of a private manufacturing firm engaged in packaging equipment and consulting services.
Mr. Wallace's career has included senior functional roles in application engineering, sales, marketing and international operations. He has also served as Chief Executive Officer at three multinational corporations. This broad and extensive leadership and board experience is valuable to Rogers' Board of Directors and to management.


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I make no apologies for posting this advice. If it helps just one person it's worth repeating it.
Do not rely on index searches and/or transcriptions – look at actual documents or digitised images of them;
Whenever possible use more than one genealogical dataset provider for any searches; and
When searching be flexible with spellings, dates, ages etc.
This was brought home to me yet again recently whilst doing my Aveyard One-Name Study.
Extracting all occurrences of the name from the 1851 census in England and Wales I used both Ancestry and Findmypast. Searching purely on Aveyard, and not including my variant surname searches, the totals were:
Ancestry: 206; and
Findmypast: 183.
Both providers had results not found by the other one.
I also looked at Haveyard. Ancestry had five results and Findmypast six.
I went through each result individually, checking against the original census images. Some proved not to be Aveyard entries at all. Even individual information within correct entries had discrepancies when checked against the image – ages, occupations, names and relationships incorrect for instance. And there was no correlation with the errors between the providers. As for the quality of images, that too varied. For some Findmypast was far superior; for others Ancestry proved more legible. And some were difficult on both.
In the end I came up with 211 genuine Aveyard/Haveyard entries. This total is purely coincidental in matching the Ancestry total. My 211 included some not found by either provider in the Aveyard/Haveyard searches, but based on my knowledge of names I knew should be there. And this total does not include the Halfyard spelling sometimes used.
To put it simply if I had used one provider for my search and not checked the images I would have replicated errors and had missing entries.
Even my 211 may be a hostage to fortune as I delve more into my Aveyard and wider ancestry, become more familiar with names which should feature based on results from other record sets, and look at broader wildcard searches.
I use this census search as an example. The same principles apply equally for any searches. Only today, finding someone in a 1939 Register search via Findmypast proved impossible. Switch to Ancestry and it was the first "hit."
Also just because you cannot find an expected result does not mean it isn't there. It could be simply mis-transcribed, the document could be damaged or pages may have been skipped in the digitisation process. So check the original document, especially if you are relying on one provider for your search. In fact I'd say always go through the document.
In recent weeks I've found burials which didn't come up with a normal search; ships passengers missed off the search indexes; incorrect dates even down to the wrong year; and even a 1912 birth entry on the General Register Office (GRO) website which had the mother's maiden name totally mangled. I went ahead and ordered the certificate, trusting my instincts (combined with reasoned searching and elimination). It proved the right call. The name was mis-transcribed on the main index, because the document itself had legibility issues and the name was highly unusual.
Another GRO example recently was using Findmypast marriage indexes for 1904. The page number was transcribed as 133 and their marriage finder hint came up with two suggested grooms. Looking at the image, the page number was actually 123. Using FreeBMD, a search on District, Date, Page and Volume sorted it and the correct groom was identified. Needless to say it wasn't either of the two suggested via the Findmypast search.
The moral of the story is do not rely on indexes, transcriptions and the search algorithms of online genealogy sites; use more than one provider as it is less likely the same transcription error will be repeated on all; always check the image if at all possible; be flexible with your spellings, do not rely on what you think is the established one; and don't accept negative search results without question.
So from one "old" genealogist, maybe by following these general principles you will have more chance of "meeting" your ancestors whilst you are alive, than in any afterlife!
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Attempted Murder in Halton? The Peverse Joy of Old Newspapers
I make no apologies to returning to newspapers again. They are a fantastic family history resource. This is another fabulous FindmyPast newspaper find[1] which relates to my family. It concerns my 4x great grandfather Francis Hill and his son William. Without newspapers I would have struggled to discover this story.
Francis Hill was born in Sherburn in Elmet in 1789. In 1811 he married Grace Pennington, from Halton in the parish of Whitkirk. This is where they settled and raised their family. By the late winter of 1841/2 William, aged around 27, was the couple's eldest son.
It is the unpleasant confrontation between father and son which the newspapers sensationally reported. The only witness to the events that dark February night was Grace. It appears the whole affair may have remained hidden if it had not come to the attention of the vicar of Whitkirk, Reverend Martineau, who passed the information on to the appropriate authorities. Thank goodness for Reverend Martineau, I say! Though I doubt that sentiment was shared by my ancestors.
Contradictory statements were given by father and son as to the cause of the quarrel. William, an unmarried coal miner, claimed he arrived home on the night of 16 February 1842 at about 11.30pm to find his father the worse for liquor, eating some bacon and bread with a pocket knife. Francis, a labourer, had been unemployed for some time and William remonstrated with him for dissipating his money in such a manner. On the other hand Francis claims William came home in an intoxicated state and he chastised his son for arriving home at such an hour and in that condition.
William's account was during the course of the argument he struck his father with, what the reports described as "a violent blow". This knocked Francis off his chair and onto the floor. Francis got up and William was about to hit him again when he slipped and fell onto the knife which his father was still holding. The blade plunged into William's left side resulting in the protrusion of a portion of his intestines.
William's account, provided the following day, corresponds in most details with the one given by his mother. She stated her son struck his father, knocking him out of the chair. He was about to continue the assault when Francis, in self-defence, struck out with his knife penetrating the left side of William's stomach, just below his heart.
This sounds more credible than the tale William told about slipping and falling onto a knife which his father had, rather improbably, retained hold of during the attack.
The statement of Mr Nunneley, the surgeon who attended William, concurs with Grace. He said it was impossible that falling onto the knife could have caused the wound. It was caused by a blow. The surgeon was doubtful whether William would ever recover.
Amusingly to 21st century readers Francis, who would have been aged 52 at the time, was described by the newspapers as "an old man". He was remanded to prison to await the result of his son's injury, charged with stabbing William in so serious a manner as to endanger his life.
He remained there for around a month. Not until 29 March 1842 was William recovered sufficiently to appear in front of the West Riding Magistrates. He refused to press charges against his father who was therefore discharged from custody.
William survived the injury and he married in April 1843. He continued to work as a coal miner.
So although not overjoyed at this unedifying depiction of my ancestors, I am thankful for the controversy because of the details it adds to my family history.
British Newspaper Archive: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
Day of the Week calculator: http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/dayofweek.html
FindMyPast – newspapers: http://www.findmypast.co.uk/ ("Leeds Intelligencer" 19 February 1842, "Leeds Mercury" 19 February 1842, "Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser" 26 February 1842, "Leeds Mercury" 2 April 1842).
Pixabay image of pocket knife (free for commercial use/no attribution required: https://pixabay.com/
[1] As OCR is not always the most accurate I also searched on the British Newspaper Archive site. Although I am not a subscriber, you can identify the paper and page number and then go back to FindMyPast armed with the newspaper details to check it out. Even this did not find all the results, including crucially the outcome of the case. I read through the papers to fill in the gaps.
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Shropshire, Staffordshire, Shrouds and Shoes – Part 1
Posted on June 2, 2015 | 13 comments
This is, I hope, going to be an on-going record of my progress in researching a family tree from scratch. This recurring section of my blog will record my research highs, lows, successes and failures, brick walls and hopefully their demolition. I have no set timetable to complete this, so there may be gaps of several weeks between updates. But finally I aim to piece together the history of my husband's family and write some individual stories. Part 1 describes the preliminary phase of my research.
This particular project is inspired by my mother-in-law. A few weeks ago she announced she had a family bible, complete with a record of a couple's marriage and the births and deaths of their children. There was also a series of non-conformist quarterly meeting cards. She was unclear exactly how they connected to her and so she loaned me the impressively weighty Victorian tome to see if I could discover more. Within days she added to this treasure, with the discovery of a totally unrelated bundle of documents containing assorted certificates, an apprentice indenture, baptism and burial documentation, and a will linking to various branches of her maternal and paternal line along with some others connected to my now deceased father-in-law's family.
19th century family bible
So a wealth of documents to get me started, far more than other families I have researched. I feel a bit like a kid in a sweet-shop – so many choices. But I am focussing on one branch at a time rather than adopting a scattergun approach. And I am being disciplined in recording my information sources, as well as any searches (both succesful and unsuccesful), far more so than when I started our researching my family tree. Hopefully this will save time as I progress.
With this in mind my first line of research is my mother-in-law's paternal line, starting with her father William John Haynes. The reason for starting here is that his is the most complete set of documents in the parcel of papers, with his birth, marriage and death certificates along with various other papers chronicling the key stages of his life. The bible does not relate to this branch of the family.
William Haynes' birth certificate states that he was born on 27 February 1904 at Elford Hill, Eccleshall, Staffordshire. He was the son of master wheelwright, Joseph Thomas Haynes and his wife Maria (neé Yates). By the time of William's marriage to Ada Eardley on 15 September 1929, William's father was described as a funeral undertaker. This information was a catalyst for a rather unusual memory for my mother-in-law. She recalled staying at her grandfather's house and sleeping in a bedroom full of shrouds! According to GRO indexes he died in 1958, in his early 90's.
A preliminary search revealed that J Haynes undertakers still exists at Eccleshall, with the website providing a brief resumé of the buisness.[1] So in my later research I intend exploring the life and business of Joseph Thomas Haynes.
However, based on the information provided by my mother-in-law, my first week or so's research has centred around the 1841-1911 census returns and the odd foray into parish records. Using this combination of online sources I have constucted a basic skeleton of a family tree. This is reproduced below.
Haynes Family Tree
The census search has proved fairly routine. No real difficulties tracking back to 1841. I used both the Ancestry and FindMyPast UK sites to do this. The only minor hurdle was finding William's great grandfather, James Haynes, in the 1851 census. Although he was there in the 1841 census and then from 1861-1871, there was no trace of him in 1851. At this point I consulted on-line parish registers available for Shropshire on FindMyPast. Through the censuses I had located seven possible children[2] for James Haynes and his wife Ann. I then identified their baptisms in the Parish Registers for the parishes of Edgmond, Longford and Church Aston in Shopshire. This provided the breakthrough. The youngest children bore the surname "Haynes Parker" or "Parker Haynes". Only the youngest child George was born post-GRO registration. His baptism in 1838 is under the name Haynes-Parker, his GRO registration surname is Parker with Haynes being listed as a middle name.[3] Eldest child, John, was baptised on 10 January 1824 at Edgmond Parish Church with the surname Parker and no mention of Haynes. From this information it was now easy to locate James in the 1851 census – recorded under the name Parker not Haynes.
It also proved a breakthrough in locating James' marriage. At the time of the 1851 census James' mother-in-law Ann Hamlet resided with the James and Ann. The Parish Register of Stoke on Tern, Shropshire has a marriage on 31 March 1823 between James Parker and Ann Hamlet. The Shropshire Parish Registers also provide a possible baptism for James in June 1797 at Lilleshall[4], illegitimate son of Ann Parker.
So if possible I would like to find out a little more about the reason behind this transistion of surname from Parker to Haynes, which took place during the late 1820's to the early 1860s.
James' son Joseph (1834) is the grandfather of William Haynes. Born in around 1834 the Shropshire Parish Registers show that he was married by licence at Aston in Edgmond on 10 February 1859. His bride was Mary Webb, daughter of William. My husband says there is a family story that they are somehow connected to Captain Matthew Webb, the first recorded person to swim the English Channel. As yet, even despite this now shared surname, I have found no evidence to support the anecdote. My husband's Webb Ancestry from the 1800's appears to be Staffordshire based, with pre-1800s possibly Shropshire. A preliminary look at Captain Webb shows he was born in Shropshire in 1848. But it is something else to explore.
Of more immediate interest is an occupational connection between William Webb and the Haynes male line. They were all wheelwrights. By the turn of the 19th century the Haynes family were diversifiying adding building, joinery, carpentry and undertaking to their trade skill set. In the late 1860's they moved from Shropshire to Stone, Staffordshire to ply their trade and appear to have been extremely succesful at it. I had a quick look at the image archive on the Staffordshire Past-Track website[5] and was amazed to find images of Haynes and Sons, Wheelwrights. This contains photographs of family events as well as ones of their business, including images of portable bandstands (one produced below)[6] manufactured by the family firm. So again this is another aspect of the family history I intend exploring.
12 May 1910: Proclamation of the Accession of George V, Stone read from the portable bandstand in Granville Square. The portable band stand seen here was the first of its kind and was manufactured by Haynes and Sons, wheelwrights, of Station Road, Stone, and was purchased by Stone Urban District Council. See Copyright footnote at [6]
Finally I quickly looked at the family details of William's mother Maria (neé Yates). Her father John was a shoemaker, born in around 1830 in Stone, Staffordshire. John's wife Ann and all his children were engaged in this trade. I traced John back to the 1841 census, living in the household of bricklayer James Thornhill and Ann. Other household members included George Yates (14) and Joseph Yates (7). From GRO indexes it appears that James Thornhill married Ann in 1838.[7] So this is a certificate I would like to obtain to see if Ann's name was Yates and to find out her background to see how this fits in with John.
I think the most satisfying aspect of researching my mother-in-law's tree is her sheer delight at each new discovery. Of late she has struggled with memory issues, but this research is rekindling long forgotten episodes in her life. It is an absolute joy for all concerned when some new find triggers the recollection of something buried deep in the recesses of her mind; or, because she knows I am working on her tree, she suddenly recalls some other fact or story. For example she thought her family routes were in Staffordshire, but when I identified a significant Shropshire connection she recalled her parents visiting family in that county. So this process is proving fascinating for me and an interest for her.
My next steps will be to try to flesh out the tree further with online parish records and the ordering of BMD certificates (oh, for that certificate price reduction, but sadly this research cannot wait!). Then to try to fill in the details of the individuals, their occupations and the times and areas in which they lived. I will return to this portion of my blog later in the summer.
Ancestry: http://home.ancestry.co.uk/
FindMyPast: http://www.findmypast.co.uk/
History of J Haynes, Funeral Directors, Eccleshall: http://www.robertnicholls.co.uk/our-history/7.html
Staffordshire Past-Track: http://www.staffspasttrack.org.uk/
[1] http://www.robertnicholls.co.uk/our-history/7.html
[2] I say possible because of the omission of family relationship details on the 1841 census.
[3] GRO Ref: Q3 1838 PARKER George Haynes Newport Vol 18 Pg 124
[4] The 1851 and 1861 censuses record his birthplace as Lilleshall, 1871 Woodcote,
[5] Staffordshire Past-Track website: http://www.staffspasttrack.og.uk/
[6] With thanks to Staffordshire Past-Track and Mr David Haynes for allowing me to use this image. Copyright is retained by David Haynes who has kindly made his collection available to Staffordshire Past-Track for non-commercial private study & educational use. Additional information about permitted uses of content and commercial enquiries is available via the Copyright statement Copyright Statement on Staffordshire Past-Track. Re-distribution of resources in any form is only permitted subject to strict adherence to the guidelines in the full Terms and Conditions statement.
[7] GRO Ref: Q3 1838 Stoke on Trent Vol 17 Page 147
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LANSING, Mich. (NEXSTAR) — Michigan election officials on Monday voted to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the battleground state, taking hours of public comment against the backdrop of President Donald Trump's unprecedented campaign to subvert the results of the election.
The vote passed with three of four canvassers approving the measure, with one abstaining.
Trump's efforts to stave off the inevitable — formal recognition of his defeat — faced increasingly stiff resistance from the courts and fellow Republicans with just three weeks to go until the Electoral College meets to certify Biden's victory. Time and again, Trump's challenges and baseless allegations of widespread conspiracy and fraud have been met with rejection as states move forward with confirming their results.
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Both Democratic members voted in favor of certifying, as did GOP canvasser Aaron Van Langevelde, with Norm Shinkle abstaining.
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I am in the process of working on a menu.
I know what kind of cake I want, just have to meet with the bakery for a tasting.
I have a photographer booked. The amazing Ashley at Ashfall Mixed Media.
I'm working on music, haven't figured that out yet.
I know the style of bouquet I want, and that will be the only flowers involved.
The venue is so beautiful, it doesn't need any decor or centerpieces.
I'm looking at some hotels for out-of-town guests.
I have found my invitations but am waiting on more details such as menu and ceremony time to order those.
I have figured out our favors, just have to order them when we get closer.
Honeymoon plans have begun, anyone know of a good travel agent?
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The bride and groom had their cattle brand made into a decorative over stable piece. love it!
They picked cotton to use in the aisle decor.
Saturday was crazy busy, super stressful, but resulted in a beautiful wedding that will be on "Say Yes To The Dress" in April 🙂 I'll let you know an exact date as soon as I know. Beautiful wedding, beautiful bride, beautiful dress!
After the wedding set up, I met Sweet Man and his dad and step mom back at our place where we started the celebration of our engagement 🙂 I was showered with love and gifts. I tried on my dress for them (not Matt), we talked wedding ideas and details, then they treated us to a wonderful dinner at Mitchell's Fish Market.
It was an amazing evening and the first time I felt relaxed and stress free in a week.
After dinner, we said our good byes to the family and went to Trader Joe's to pick up a few goodies. We got home around 8:30 Sunday night and changed directly into our jammies, poured a glass of wine and sunk blissfully into the couch.
It was back to busy, busy, busy Monday morning. I started a new workout routine in the gym before heading to work. So sore!!! (That's a good thing).
Next day off is Sunday. I'm lucky to get one day a week off during the busy wedding season;. Is it June yet??????


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Construction has to change and fast. Does LEGO provide some inspiration?
"We are now at a point we have never been at before. The industry is standing on a burning platform and all other options have gone. It simply has to change". Mark Farmer, UK Construction Week, Oct. 2017.
Over the last few years the construction industry has seen numerous reports, from Latham in 1994, through Egan in 1998, to the most recent one: The Farmer Report entitled "Modernise or Die" published last year. Although these reports drove some initiatives, the industry has failed to change at a scale necessary to make the slightest improvement to levels of productivity in 25 years. The ever-increasing skills gap, low margins and lack of innovation have been at the root cause of large losses for main contractors over the last few years.
So, is Mark Farmer is right? Is the industry now faced with an overwhelming set of factors that, in his words, place it on a burning platform where change is the only option to avoid the flames?And if he is right? What do we do to change? Well, Farmer believes that one of the keys to driving the right kind of change, is "manufacturer-led construction".
As I watched Farmer's presentation at UK construction week, I recalled a quote I had seen a few years ago:
"We are on a burning platform. We're running out of cash… [and] likely won't survive"
This was a quote from the newly appointed CEO of LEGO, Jørgen Vig Knudstorp in 2003, brought in to turn the company around following nearly a decade of declining sales, losses and failed new business models. For years, LEGO had been increasing their number of parts, developing more sets and diversifying. By 2003 they were making electronic toys, clothes and TV shows, they had even opened theme parks. They were haemorrhaging cash and needed to change.
When Knudstorp came in and they analysed this period of expensive and largely unsuccessful disruptive innovation, they discovered one consistent success; a construction toy called Bionicle. This was a typical LEGO construction toy that had numerous accessories that kids used to build different action heroes. The difference with Bionicle is that they had supported this toy with a string of ancillary innovations such as videos, merchandise, books and a video game.
They discovered that their core customers didn't want other toys, they wanted LEGO to produce bricks. They wanted to construct with LEGO.As a result, their parks were sold off and other toy production stopped. They analysed their sets, slashed the number of parts from 13,000 to 6,500 and focussed on producing sets based on themes that they could support with complimentary offerings.
They called their reduced set of parts, their "pallet" and, although they had no IP, they made it available to everyone, developed and released "Digital Designer" (a design tool) and encouraged their fan base to design new sets, the best of which would go in to production.
By 2015 they were more profitable than Apple.
So, what can we learn from this?
Well, by generating a standardised kit of parts and making it available to anyone, LEGO turned their fans in to designers, able to generate limitless constructions each one completely unique.
Is this not manufacturer-led construction?
Extending this to construction, should then manufacturers be providing a reduced, more standardised, pallet of products? A set of compatible products that fit together simply, quickly and easily. Do we, as Tata Steel, start working with window & door companies, sky light manufacturers, M&E installers to develop a click and fix system? By making this pallet available to the industry to design whatever they may choose, is this the future? Is this Farmer's manufacturer-led construction?
Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) has been around for some time with companies like Bryden Wood leading the charge. This is the modern construction sector's take on building from a kit of parts. So why hasn't it taken off? Well, mostly because there simply aren't enough standard parts out there to design from. Considerable fabrication and pre-assembly needs to be carried out to engineer a modular set of building elements. Although this is quicker on site, it isn't always cost effective especially if there isn't the upfront lead time to generate the assemblies. Economies of scale are needed for these systems to work as the parts are not standard products.
But it is clear that times are changing. Modern design tools enable companies to design buildings based on function and output and then work back to the products they would like to use to build it. This is leading to development of completely new products, ones that could form part of a new "pallet".This also offers the potential for construction products to be sold as the true solution to a circular economy (dismantle and re-use) adding huge value to building owners, developers and the wider environment. Extensions and building amendments are simplified too as the modular nature and standardised connections remove compatibility issues.
What do we need to do?
So, if Farmer is right and we need manufacturer-led construction to save us from the "burning platform", how much of a revolution is required?
It is fair to say that LEGO didn't succeed based on disruptive innovation, they cleverly used new digital tools to maximise the value from their existing, standardised, system. As we don't have that in the construction industry, some disruptive innovation is needed to generate that standardised system and associated digital tools. If you have ideas about how we could do this together, get in touch and let's talk. Then, perhaps one day, as in LEGOLAND, we too will be saying: "Everything is awesome".
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Free Agency Preview | Running Backs
With the start of the new league year approaching, Dolphins.com will preview the top free agents by position.
The Dolphins got contributions from several different sources at running back in 2018, including veteran Frank Gore, Kenyan Drake, Brandon Bolden and rookie fourth-round pick Kalen Ballage.
Gore led the team with 722 rushing yards before his season was cut short by a foot injury in the Nov. 25 game at Indianapolis; Drake led the team with nine touchdowns (four rushing, five receiving); Bolden had a 54-yard rushing touchdown run against his former team, New England; and Ballage had the team's longest run of the season with a 75-yard touchdown at Minnesota in Week 15.
There could be changes at this position in 2019 because Gore, Bolden and special teams specialist Senorise Perry all are scheduled to become unrestricted free agents.
Notable Free Agents at the Position
C.J. Anderson, Rams: He was a major pick-up for the Los Angeles Rams late in the 2018 season with 100-yard performances in the final two regular season games and the playoff victory against the Dallas Cowboys.
Le'Veon Bell, Steelers: What happens with Bell will be among the most fascinating stories of the offseason around the NFL considering he sat out all of 2018 after declining to sign his franchise tag. Bell has averaged more than 128 yards from scrimmage in his five NFL seasons, which comes out to more than 2,000 yards per season.
Tevin Coleman, Falcons: A third-round pick in 2015, Coleman will turn only 26 in April. He's been a solid two-way back for the Falcons, averaging 650 rushing yards and 30 catches the past three seasons while scoring 28 touchdowns.
Jeremy Hill, Bengals: Hill was a productive back for the Cincinnati Bengals in his first three NFL seasons, but injuries sidetracked him in 2017 and last season with New England.
Mark Ingram, Saints: The son of the former Dolphins wide receiver of the same name, Ingram spent his first eight seasons with the Saints, where he recently teamed with Alvin Kamara to give them one of the best tandems in the NFL. Ingram has 50 career rushing touchdowns, including a career-high 12 in 2017 when he was named to the Pro Bowl for the second time.
Latavius Murray, Vikings: Murray has averaged eight rushing touchdowns over the past four seasons and made the Pro Bowl in 2015 when he gained 1,066 rushing yards for Oakland.
Bilal Powell, Jets: He averaged a solid 4.4 yards per rushing attempt during eight seasons with the New York Jets and had seasons with 47 and 58 catches
T.J. Yeldon, Jaguars: Yeldon, who played with Drake at Alabama, was a major contributor in the Jacksonville passing game the past four seasons as he averaged 43 receptions.
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Stay Healthy at the Holidays
By Jessica Sparks
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MANY WOMEN WITH EARLY-STAGE BREAST CANCER CAN SKIP CHEMOTHERAPY, STUDY SAYS
A major national study has found that many women with early-stage, intermediate-level breast cancer don't need chemotherapy, and local doctors are examining its implications for breast cancer treatment.
The TAILORx trial, which stands for Trial Assigning Individualized Options for Treatment, enrolled more than 10,000 women with breast cancer who fit specific credentials, making it one of the largest precision medicine trials ever for breast cancer, and possibly all cancers.
The study's findings were released at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting in June in Chicago. The study began in 2006 and was paid for by the United States and Canadian governments, as well as philanthropic groups such as the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the U.S. Postal Service Stamp Program. Genetic testing company Genomic Health also contributed starting in 2016, according to a New York Times article.
The tumors of patients enrolled in the trial were analyzed using a molecular test. The women were assigned a risk score on a scale from 0 to 100 based on the odds their cancer would recur. In earlier trials, researchers found women in the lowest range, with scores of 0 to 10, would not benefit from chemotherapy so they received hormone therapy only. Women in the highest risk category, with scores of 26 and higher, were treated with both hormone therapy and chemotherapy.
The most recent results show that most women in the intermediary phase also did not benefit from chemotherapy, meaning about 70 percent of chemotherapy patients likely do not benefit from the treatment. The findings apply to about 60,000 women a year in the United States, Dr. Joseph A. Sparano of Montefiore Medical Center in New York told the New York Times. Sparano was the leader of the study.
Local experts confirmed that doctors struggled for years with making decisions about women with intermediate level breast cancer and are grateful that the study results will provide guidance.
"We didn't know what to do with those in the intermediate [group]," said Dr. Gary Thomas, medical director of South Carolina Cancer Specialists and director of St. Joseph/Candler Medical Center's chemotherapy programs in South Carolina.
He praised the patients who participated in the seven-year trial.
"It wouldn't have been possible without the women who agreed to go on this trial," he said.
The findings of the study mean that some patients will be able to avoid chemotherapy and its harsh side effects, which include hair loss and vomiting.
For affected patients and their physicians, this will come as welcome news.
"There's a lot of toxicity to chemotherapy," said Dr. William Burak, breast surgical oncologist at the Center for Breast Care at Memorial Health University Physicians. "Why give it when it's not going to help?"
Local cancer specialists routinely recommend genomic testing for women with estrogen-sensitive, HER2-negative tumors that are no larger than a centimeter and have not spread to more than three lymph nodes. The tests help oncologists assess a patient's risk of the cancer recurring and how likely she is to benefit from chemotherapy after breast cancer surgery.
"Unlike genetic testing for breast cancer, these tests analyze the genetic makeup of the tumor itself, allowing us to determine up front if it is likely to respond to chemotherapy," said Beaufort Memorial Hospital board-certified medical oncologist Dr. Marcus Newberry. "For women with a specific type of early-stage breast cancer, it can spare them from having to undergo chemotherapy if the test shows the drugs would be ineffective."
The results of the study most affect women with early-stage, HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer who are age 50 or older. Breast cancer most commonly affects women ages 60 and older; the median age of women diagnosed in the United States is 62.
However, evidence still indicates that chemo might have some benefit for women 50 and younger, even if gene testing results suggested otherwise, so doctors are not completely ruling out the treatment option.


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Christmas isn't normally a great time for horror fans, with family movies and big fantasy epics like The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey competing for your almighty box office dollar. This year is different though, with director Steven C. Miller's Silent Night currently available on Blu-ray and DVD after a limited theatrical run. Malcolm McDowell and Jaime King star as a sheriff and deputy trying to stop a murderous Santa Claus set loose in their sleepy town. We have a contest lined-up, where fans can take home the Blu-ray to add a dose of blood and gore to their holiday season. Read on for how you can win this gruesome slasher flick.
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In 1984, the slasher classic Silent Night, Deadly Night stunned audiences, was banned across America, and remains the most notorious Christmas movie in history. Now, Santa is back, and he's got a brand new bag of tricks. As their small Midwestern town prepares for its annual Christmas Eve parade, Sheriff (Malcolm McDowell) and his deputy (Jaime King) discover that a maniac in a Santa suit is murdering those he judges as "naughty." Their sins? Porn, adultery, greed... And he will make sure they rest in heavenly pieces. Donal Logue, Ellen Wong, Lisa Marie, and Brendan Fehr co-star in this brutal and darkly humorous tale of Christmas gone bad.
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