What happens to decades of knowledge when employees retire?
As Baby Boomers move into retirement, field service organizations scramble to transfer knowledge from seasoned pros to the next generation of workers. This is especially important as the hiring pool for field service organizations dwindles—The Manpower Group found that 40% of employers have difficulty filling roles, and skilled trade positions – electricians, carpenters, welders, etc. – are the hardest to fill.
Without a proper strategy to ensure that tribal knowledge is shared with younger generational workers, companies suffer from both a decrease in the number of workers and a decrease in the level of talent and expertise. To avoid this, companies are carrying out initiatives and investing in technology to ensure they successfully transfer knowledge to new hires before veteran workers retire or leave.
In the field service industry, seasoned technicians with years of job experience are the gatekeepers of their company's knowledge. When they turnover or retire, it can severely impact the business if a plan isn't in place to ensure their know-how is passed on to other employees.
These pain points translate to dollars lost—HBR found that the cost associated with losing subject matter experts could be estimated at up to 20 times higher than typical recruitment and training costs.
While capturing employee knowledge during offboarding should be part of the process, successful companies begin to transfer knowledge from expert technicians well before they give notice and get ready to depart. The following 5 ideas ensure that knowledge is captured and shared continuously throughout an employee's career.
In many field service organizations, technicians are spread across cities and states, always on the move to the next job. They don't get much face time with their coworkers and have no way to feel connected to the organization the way that office workers do. Connecting and empowering field service workforces with new technology is crucial on multiple levels. It gives your company an advantage when recruiting new hires who are naturally tech-savvy. It boosts engagement and retention levels, and it provides a mechanism for teams to share on-the-job knowledge and hacks.
Communication and collaboration technology plays a big role in field service today—giving teams a way to get work done and a way to socialize and get to know each other without needing to be face to face. These connections (that should be backed up with intermittent in-person meetings) are crucial in getting employees to feel comfortable with each other so that they are more likely to ask for help and advice on how to do something.
This can also be influenced by a culture of connectivity. When effective communication and collaboration is part of the job every day, employees will feel more of a responsibility to share knowledge. This is especially true when accountability is built into their communication app with read receipts.
Job shadowing is a popular onboarding technique that allows employees to learn the ropes from an experienced coworker. When executed well, job shadowing can set employees up for lasting success.
It's important to match new technicians with seasoned pros who are willing and excited to share what they've learned over the years and provide hands-on learning. Depending on the new hire's experience, job shadowing could last a few days or few weeks. Even if new technicians have previous experience, there are still new types of equipment to get familiar with, company processes and protocols to learn, managers and teammates to get to know, technology to learn, and so on.
Adding job shadowing to your company's formal onboarding process is a great way to transfer knowledge from the very get-go. The next step is to make this kind of learning available throughout your technicians' careers.
Setting up a formal mentoring program is a great way for different generations to learn from each other and ensure knowledge is continuously transferred from subject-matter experts to the next generation of workers.
Managers can match highly knowledgeable field engineers with newcomers and establish a schedule of regular 1:1s or on-the-job training. A successful mentor program hinges on finding experienced employees who want to join. Try to create hype around the program, perhaps frame it as an exciting opportunity for them to be teachers and mentors and get to know the team. It often turns out that relationships become reciprocal, with experienced employees learning just as much as the younger ones, particularly in terms of new technology.
The idea behind this is to send out surveys to veteran employees where they describe the most difficult situations they've ever encountered on the job, why they were so difficult, and what they did to resolve them. The answers can then be collated together into a document that is shared with all technicians. Additionally, insights from such survey results can be used to create new training curricula.
When technicians are on the job and run into a new issue, troubleshooting and expert hotline groups are a powerful way to get immediate answers and share pro tips. On the field team's communication app, there are a variety of ways to set up help groups.
One option is to have a designated help group, such as "Save My Bacon," where all field technicians are members and know that if a question comes through—say a customer is in jeopardy—it needs to be answered ASAP. And in conjunction, there could be a less urgent group such as "Pro Hacks" where technicians share tips and tricks about how they solve customer problems. For larger companies with thousands of field service workers, creating smaller groups specific to certain regions or products can be much more manageable.
Another option is to create even more targeted troubleshooting groups that are staffed by subject-matter experts where technicians can message in for help. These groups allow technicians to get 1:1 help from the person who has the right knowledge without needing to know who that person is beforehand. These conversations can be exported and collated into a document every quarter to generate improved training materials and increase the amount of captured tribal knowledge.
As your skilled workforce ages and begins to retire, it's imperative that their knowledge is transferred to the next generation of technicians, as well as is captured by the company and leveraged for improved training and onboarding.
Mobile-first communication technology, on-going programs and a culture that values and encourages peer-to-peer knowledge sharing are key to ensuring knowledge isn't lost as employees retire or turnover.
Interested in Supporting Employee Knowledge Sharing with New Technology?
Zinc's All Mode Communication Platform makes it easy to surface tribal knowledge. Purpose-built for field service, Zinc supports messaging, voice, video, content sharing, push to talk, and broadcasts in one easy-to-use app. Contact our team to schedule a demo of Zinc and see how you can drive results for your organization.


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A spacecraft accident leads you to an abandoned colony. What kind of mysteries does an unfriendly planet conceal? You have to descend to its deepest bowels, and then return to the surface to find the lost path to home. Descent is a dynamic Sci-Fi shooter with a large variety of enemies, different types of modern weapons, large-scale locations and with an unbridled drive that will be with you from the beginning to the end of the adventure.
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The game takes place on the planet Alekta-IV. This planet is remarkable in that it is one of the 6 known planets of the known Universe on which a highly developed biological lifeform was discovered. Moreover, the Alektic organisms have extremely interesting biological characteristics that are associated with the adaptation and regeneration of cells due to the features of the local ecosystem.
The planet has a very specific orbit and periodically comes close to a local star, whose radiation literally sterilizes the surface and whose magnetic storms deposit high metal content on the rocks in the direction of the currents of magnetic lines. Due to such a corrosive environment, local organisms have developed unique hibernation abilities and high radiation resistance.
All of these factors have made the planet an extremely interesting place to conduct research in various fields. However, since the discovery of the planet there has been one problem: the Alekta system is remote from the space that has been explored by mankind. The minimum flight time to the system from the nearest transport hub is about four years using available technologies. As a result, the cost of logistics to support the colony on Alekta-IV has reached astronomical values.
The only company that has been able to launch such a risky project is the Nakamura Corporation. Nakamura bought the rights to use the planet and began the construction of the colony 35 years before the beginning of the events in the game. Initially everything went very well, but after some time the corporation began to experience financial problems. Nakamura exploited the remoteness of Alekta and changed this factor from a minus to plus in its attempts to earn easy money.
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Colony: Code Red delivers the mother lode of thrills and excitement in the sci-fi-horror genre. We have done our best to create an intriguing and tense atmosphere and captivating gaming process.
Code Red forces you to switch between gaming styles: from exploring terrifying dark corners to pulling off extreme escapes from a chase in a gigantic rift valley. There won't be a boring moment, that's for sure!
We have created an adventure that is similar to an interactive movie. There are lots of subplots in the game, non-player characters, and, of course, an unexpected ending. Our game will definitely stir you emotions.
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import com.npatil.retrier.models.InternalQueue;
import com.npatil.retrier.models.RetryWorkflow;

import java.io.IOException;
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    /**
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    /**
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Q: Integration involving negative roots yields two answers? I have this problem that is driving me insane.
I am asked to evaluate:
$$\int^1_{-1} \sqrt[3]{t} -2 \ dt$$
Now I evaluate this correctly to
$$[\frac{3^{4/3}t}{4}-2t]^1_{-1}$$
From here I work this problem has follows:
$$[\frac{3(1)^{4/3}}{4}-2(1)]-[\frac{3(-1)^{4/3}}{4}-2(-1)]$$
$\Longrightarrow$ $$[\frac{3}{4}-2]-[\frac{3}{4}+2]$$
$\Longrightarrow$ $$-4$$
Now the answer I get on online calculators(Wolfram, http://www.wolframalpha.com/widgets/view.jsp?id=8ab70731b1553f17c11a3bbc87e0b605) is

When it comes to $(-1)^{4/3}$ it should equal to $1$, because $-1^4=1$ and$\sqrt[3]1=1$
and equivalent is the reasoning $\sqrt[3]-1=-1$ and $-1^4=1$
Is there something I am missing or another way to evaluate $(-1)^{4/3}$? And if so what makes that answer stronger than this one? In other words shouldn't both answers be valid? Thanks in advance.

A: Just notice that Wolfram Alpha reads $\sqrt[3]{\cdot}$ as the complex principal cubic root. Then, if you are working with a real valued function, your answer is right.

A: You are correct. The answer that Wolfram gives is not correct in the context.
Note that there are also two complex third roots of $-1$, they are $$\frac{1 + i \sqrt{3}}{2}, \frac{1 - i \sqrt{3}}{2}$$
Wolfram is using the first of these.

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Lobo 100 oz Hydration Pack is rated 4.3 out of 5 by 9.
Rated 5 out of 5 by CapoGreg from Great fast pack My first hydration pack and I've had it for about 6 months with plenty of use, so I've formed a pretty good opinion of it. The pack is the perfect size for up to half-day rides or hikes, carrying a few essentials and some food bars. The hydration bladder is easy to fill, use, and clean although the cleaning kit does make it a lot easier. The pack is very comfortable and easy to forget it's even there. The two gear pouches are small, but very usable and I can store an insulating layer into the pocket between them for cooler weather. The helmet clips are nice to have for off-bike excursions if you don't want to leave it behind. The only (small) issue I have is that I'm broad in the shoulders and chest, so the shoulder straps are let all the way out and it puts the magnetic hose clip right near my chin...would be nice if the shoulder straps were a little longer to move the drinking tube farther from my face when I'm not using it.
Rated 3 out of 5 by bob dobbs from left handed people .. beware. Got as xmas present.. mostly it is very nice and well made .. There is a problem, I'm left handed and would really like to have the option to put the magnetic retention on the left side.. but you can not as it is fixed to the right side only. I realize we are a minority but we are 10% of the population so please consider giving left handed people the option to move the retention system to the left side. Lower strap was not long enough to use with my waist size.. That said would recommend to a friend.. just not a left handed one..
Rated 2 out of 5 by TMac62 from Perfect Except for Terrible Cap Design I love the size and functionality of this pack. The propensity of the cap to cross thread and leak is, however, a major detractor. I have to gently tighten it two to three times every time I use it just to get the threads straight and keep it from leaking. I also have a 1.5 ltr. Hydrobak with the same issue. Even though these packs work wonderfully once sealed, this is absolutely the worst thread design in history. I cannot recommend any of these packs with a Crux bladder to anyone I know as a good or reliable product.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Jefferson from New and Improved I bought this to replace an older Lobo which I owned. I was happy to see the top pocket was bigger, the shoulder straps nicer and the bladder supply tube larger. The only thing I did not like was the angle of the mouth piece. I found it very awkward to drink from and it took a lot of effort. I ended up replacing the new one with my older mouth piece which is at a 90 degree angle. Problem solved.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Will from Bought a New Camelbak to Replace my Old One I needed to replace my older unit that was well over twenty years old. Yes that's right I said twenty plus years because they are made so well. The seal on the bladder where the water is poured finally gave out. I used it constantly and made plenty of memories using this product. They make the best hydration units on the market using the best materials. It's worth every penny because of this.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Deee from light weight hydration Bought for mountain biking this pack is perfect. Just big enough for the essential tools and H2O. When I am not on the bike there is a place to store my helmet. Thanks Camelbak!
Rated 5 out of 5 by Fixiemonkey from Very comfortable. Perfect amount of storage for All day rides and comfortable enough for even longer ones.
Rated 5 out of 5 by Stella from love this pack! Great pack, plenty of storage pockets, thin straps around the waist so not hot.


In a single generation, digital has revolutionized our lives: our personal, friendly, professional and economic relationships. More profoundly, it has changed our vision towards knowledge, history, the human body and death. It's difficult to measure the – enormous – consequences of this revolution that is unfolding in front of us.
To enlighten us, Alexandre Lacroix, writer and editor-in-chief of Philosophie Magazine, decided to monitor three men, whose approaches raise major issues for our time. His essay proceeds as an investigation.
In Silicon Valley, financed researchers, programmers and doctors among others – says billionaire philosopher Peter Thiel – are working on a new exciting and immeasurable project: connect the human body to a machine, and thus, expand the frontiers between life and death. Technophilic utopia or connection of salvation?
From his refuge in England, Julian Assange demonstrates that it is no longer possible to think about the state, the surveillance or citizens' freedom like yesterday. Broadcasts of confidential documents by sites like Wikileaks and revelations of whistleblowers have invalidated our benchmarks. How the political action will now be led?
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In Paraguay, a certain Philippe, who defines himself as a 'truther,' a term that somewhat translates as a 'conspirant theorist' reveals the existence of weapons and secret societies. With Philippe we ask ourselves how to disentangle, in the current history, facts from fiction, reality from fantasy.
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Established in 1977, Johnny's Marion Restaurant is truly a family restaurant. John and Georgia Andromidas immigrated to Canada from Greece with their family in 1972. After 5 years of hard work at a variety of jobs John and Georgia opened the Marion Restaurant. It began as a small 40 seat cafe with the Andromidas family not only all working in the restaurant regardless of their age but also living in the apartment attached to the building. A home was purchased in 1984 and the first expansion was under way. This expansion increased the seating capacity to 80 and allowed for Phil to join the business full time. Jimmy followed soon after as did another expansion in 2001 which brought Peter into the restaurant full time as well. Although John and Georgia now had their three sons running the business they could never quite keep out of the operation totally. It wasn't just the homemade, delicious food and the great prices that had people coming to the restaurant, John's exuberant personality had people coming by on a regular basis. Even though the restaurant never was officially called Johnny's it came to be known as that as people got to know John and the family over the years. John passed on in 2012 and it was evident just how many patrons were more than just customers to him and his family. He was honoured with many cards, flowers and visitors at his funeral. Georgia left to join John in the big kitchen in the sky in 2015 having taught her boys all she knew. Phil, Peter and Jim carry on the tradition of serving up delicious home cooked meals started by John and Georgia all those years ago.
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The global production of seafood, whether from capture or aquaculture fisheries, has expanded nearly eight times, from 20 million tonnes in 1950 to 158 million tonnes in 2012, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation. At a recent event hosted by Choose Right Today and Foodie, we invited chefs from restaurants around Hong Kong who are already championing the use of sustainable seafood to help us as consumers to choose better too.
Executive Chef Gerhard Passruger, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong
"If you look at the human population in the past 40 years, we have doubled. We are breeding like rabbits. So, if we look at eight billion people now, versus four billion people about 40 years ago, it is impossible to keep doing the things that we did back then. We need to rethink how we can get the resources from our planet, and it's not just seafood, it's all our food."
I would say, start thinking. Look around, inform yourself a little bit, know the food that you are eating. There is no straight answer because seafood itself is very complex, depending on where it comes from, how it's cooked. Just simply start caring about what you eat and start showing a bit of interest.
Favourite seafood dish?
I think people don't want to hear this, but I love bluefin toro. Unfortunately, I haven't had it in two years simply because it is the wrong thing to eat at the moment, so no more of that. Sea urchin is also good, which is also becoming questionable.
I think at the moment it's really scary to see what social media can do to discover a food trend. If we look at octopus, for example, it's heading to be an endangered species. Ten years ago, if you tried to put it on a menu as a chef, no one would take it. And now, suddenly, you go on Instagram and every second post is for octopus from Spain, and within half a year the species has become almost extinct.
Going back to my childhood – I'm from Austria – every freezer chest was filled with European codfish. About 25 years ago, it started disappearing. Before it was so easily available, and suddenly we realised, it's gone. Europe caught that just in time. They put bans on catching it for about, I believe, 10 years, then put it back on strict quotas, and actually a fish that was almost extinct had time to recover. I think it really showed us how a fish that seemed so abundant can suddenly disappear because of the volume of people [demanding this seafood].
Chef James Oakley, Alibi at Cordis, Hong Hong
"The average consumption of seafood per Hong Konger is [according to reports, 70kg per person per year]. There are 7.8 million people in Hong Kong. If we continue to eat seafood at this rate, irresponsibly by our unsustainable means, there will be no seafood left in the future. So, for me, to choose a sustainable seafood product and feature it on our menu, I feel it's my moral obligation to do so."
I think, quite simply, there are a lot of organisations out there that monitor fisheries and how sustainable they are. You can easily access the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) seafood guides online, but you can also see [these certifications] in all supermarkets across Hong Kong, be it at Taste, Wellcome, Market Place. Look for seafood that bears the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) or Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) logo as a good indication as to what's sustainable and what's not.
I have two. Prior to my understanding of the state of the world's oceans and seafood, my favourite was otoro bluefin tuna belly, which I no longer eat, as it's endangered and well overfished. I recommend that we all look for alternatives now so that we can secure the future of this species. My favourite now is black cod marinated with miso, from Alaska. The beauty with Alaskan black cod is the fishermen have to follow strict quotas of catch and size, meaning that they don't take juveniles; they allow the fish to grow to a size where they can reproduce and give the species a chance to reproduce. I want my children in the future to at least see what I have seen, and perhaps if we start acting more responsibly, we will be able to see more life in the ocean and see it begin to flourish again.
Executive Chef Pedro Samper, The Langham, Hong Kong
"If the oceans die, we die – there's no doubt about it. How are we going to preserve our oceans? That's the important question. The next 10 years is crucial for the survival of our seas. When we choose sustainable products, it is not just about quality. Fisheries are not [harvesting] the seas in a sustainable way. They are contaminating and polluting the oceans. [Editor's note: Unsustainable fisheries are destroying and polluting oceans through unsound methods and gear, as well as unregulated chemicals for aquaculture.] To prevent this is very important. It will take a lot of commitment. It will take a lot of people who can really explain to [everyone] what is going on with the oceans. If we are going to prevent [unsustainable practices], we need help from the big companies."
Since I was very young, I've loved going fishing, and you learn how important it is that you are fishing in a responsible way, not just fishing for fun and ending up altering the ecosystem of the ocean. Be sustainable and responsible, catch what you'll eat and, if you're not eating it, release it back to the sea. [Editor's note: This, however, is not the practice of many fisheries that catch non-targeted species with their all-or-nothing fishing method, which is also what makes them unsustainable.]
We don't need to go to a seafood restaurant every day. If we try to eat in a more responsible way, more of a plant-based diet, we can preserve a little bit of our oceans as well.
[Additionally,] cosmetic products that contain plastic "microbeads", used in toothpaste and exfoliating creams, cannot be absorbed by the ocean or sea plants and accumulate in the sea. The fish mistake this for food and end up eating it. One thing you can do is research your creams to make sure they are organic and make exfoliating creams with salt, sugar or cashews.
One of my favourite fish is cod; it's a local catch. [Editor's note: Chef Samper is from Spain.] The fishermen from my hometown used to go to Terranova and catch them and put them in salt so that we could preserve them. We put them in water for 24 hours to get the proper taste, and my mum used to cook them with pil-pil sauce, made with olive oil and the gelatin of the cod skin, and add a little bit of garlic and chilli to make the most magical sauce in the world. We would call it bacalao al pil-pil.
Shakib Pasha, co-founder of Foxglove
"We choose to use sustainable seafood because we believe, firstly, it does taste better. If you're farming or fishing sustainably, that usually means the company is also very ethical and you're probably really getting what they're advertising. It also means that it's very consistent, and even though it's slightly more expensive, we do feel that there's a right reason behind it."
Firstly, there's a lot of different certifications for sustainability, but the main one that you should look for is MSC. That certification means that [the seafood product] was fished or farmed ethically and [the fisheries] have sustainable practices. So look for [the MSC certification] when you're buying [seafood] at your local grocery.
My favourite is probably razor clams. They're only in season for a very short time, but when they are, they're extremely large and very juicy. [Editor's note: Choose Right Today recommends clams from Canada and Ireland.]
Steph Kudus, founder of Pololi
"In the beginning, we were only focused on making really good poké for everyone. After around six months, I realised that we were going through so much fish that I felt like something needed to be done. I'm an avid scuba diver, and I've been to sites two years apart and they look completely different, so this is the reason why I felt like it was my responsibility to find a sustainable tuna supplier, given that the majority of our poké is made with ahi [a Hawaiian word meaning yellowfin tuna]."
I believe that as consumers – and I am a consumer as well – everyone has the right to ask questions, and we need to be responsible eaters by choosing right. At Pololi, we've kind of done the hard part for you. So as a consumer, you just come in and buy a bowl and you know that all of our ahi is sustainable, so, you know, one bowl at a time. We all have the responsibility to ask questions and to know where our food is from because we want to be part of the world that we want to live in.
Obviously, poké is my favourite thing to eat. I eat poké every single day! However, I think what makes me happiest is when I eat something like freshly caught scallops or oysters from the shell; I could eat that all day without needing to mask it by cooking. I would say being able to taste the ocean in my mouth, that to me is the best thing in the world.
Chef Patrick Verhoeven, founder of 238 the grill
"I have children, and I think it's really important for everybody that they have fish in the future, and that's why we only do sustainable seafood in our restaurant. People have to focus more on the fact of what is going on in the world instead of only eating stuff and not caring about the environment. Some people think fish comes from a factory, and that, of course, is not a fact."
First of all, know what you're buying. Have a little bit of knowledge about seafood and where it's coming from. When you go to a restaurant, you can ask them if this is sustainable seafood or not. And when the customers ask for sustainable seafood, maybe the restaurants will think as well: we must do something because there is demand for it.
I love oysters and a seafood platter with crab and lobster, especially in Hong Kong with beer. That's amazing.
Larry Tang, founder of Locofama/Sohofama
"We understand the impact that consumers have. In Hong Kong, we have over 7.3 million people... So, where we spend our money actually impacts what kind of world we are building. Ninety per cent of our food right now is imported... [but] we consciously look at including some local sustainable seafood on our menus. I think today we can see that it's not just about saving the ocean anymore. I think it's about saving yourself, because plastic is already inside the stomachs of fish."
Honestly, I think it's very challenging for people to make better seafood choices, and I've never had anyone call up the restaurant and say, "Do you serve sustainable seafood? Otherwise we're not going to come." No one cares that much. For people who eat and cook at home, you go to the supermarket, you see live seafood. You go to the wet market, you see live seafood. [The importance of sustainable seafood] is really out of people's minds right now.
At Sohofama, the mud crab with sticky rice, which is like a healthier version of the very popular chilli crab, is my dad's favourite and the prawn dish with egg yolk fried together; we actually named it after my mum. Those two are definitely my favourites.
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R&B singer Omari "Omarion" Grandberry in a public service announcement urging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Ben Jaffe, creative director of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in New Orleans which was cofounded by his late mother, Sandra, who died on Dec. 27 at 83.
"He has a lot to be proud of. He was a constitutional patriot. He stood up for the Constitution."
U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, lauding former Vice President Mike Pence for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021.
"I have actually sent my art to Paris, France, and Milan, Italy, and I thought, 'Wow, there's someone in Paris, France, who has access to the best art in the world but they wanted my 'Star Wars' piece.'"
Pop artist Dave Sherrill of Canton
"I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation. I will allow no one to place a dagger at the throat of democracy."
President Joe Biden, speaking on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
"Out of the blue, he said he got shot, he got hit. I don't know where it came from. Nobody said anything. They didn't say, 'Police.' They didn't say, 'Freeze.' They didn't say, 'Drop your weapon.' They just shot him."
Marquetta Williams of Canton, who says police acted improperly in fatally shooting her husband, James, after he shot off an AR-15 to celebrate the New Year.
"Well, you didn't really work with her, you just had a good time. Carol (Burnett) called it 'playing in the sandbox,' and I think that's exactly what it was."
Actress-comedian Vicki Lawrence, on performing with the late Betty White.
"I am not even gonna lie, I want to be on the court with him. I think that will be an unbelievable moment."
LeBron James, on his wish to play in the NBA alongside his son, LeBron Jr., 17.
"For many people now, hope is a bad word. They think that hope is false hope; it is wishful thinking. But there are things to do — and we should be doing them."
Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist who's an evangelical Christian.
"I like what I do, and I'm all about it ... and then I think, in 10 years, do I want to run in circles and be here in the morning and at night? (But) it's part of me, this place, and I don't know what I'd be if like if I wasn't here."
Nick Margaritakis II, co-owner of Sparta Steak House & Lounge in downtown Canton.
"People are saying her death was related to getting a booster shot three days earlier, but that is not true. She died of natural causes. Her death should not be politicized — that is not the life she lived."
Jeff Witjas, refuting rumors about his client, Betty White, 99, who died from natural causes.
"What breaks my heart is the attacks I get from people who identify as Christians. When someone on Twitter has just called me a whore and I go to their profile and it says something about 'loving others' and 'so blessed,' it makes me feel so discouraged. I'm thinking, God, what are you doing?"
Katharine Hayhoe
"He raises the question: Does the Lord want you to have the vaccine? I don't know. But take Ron Johnson's advice, and you might have a chance to ask God face-to-face."
Comedian Stephen Colbert, responding to U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson's criticism of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Charita M. Goshay is a Canton Repository staff writer and a member of the editorial board. Reach her at 330-580-8313 or charita.goshay@cantonrep.com. On Twitter: @cgoshayREP


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When news isn't news but the real news isn't reported
One of the things that keeps your humble e-scribbler entertained during the drizzly, foggy nights of capelin weather is comparing news reports.
On Tuesday, there was Premier Danny Williams' opening remarks to the annual NOIA oil and gas conference in St. John's.
CBC was hyping the thing despite there being no concrete evidence whatsoever that Williams was even vaguely contemplating announcing the conclusion of Hebron deal. The reasons behind the hype-fest are as inscrutable as the real reasons for the whole Andy to the CNLOPB or Andy to the PUB thing.
CBC even gifted the Premier with 15 minutes of free province-wide airtime right before the 9:00 work whistle started so that he could deliver a yawner of a stock speech. He didn't ask for it; they gave it willingly and based on absolutely squat in the way of concrete information.
There were no hotel spaces booked for the launch. No sign of print work or any of the other things that would happen if there was going to be a major announcement of a final and binding agreement between the provincial energy company and the oil companies on Hebron.
And if the absence of all those usual indicators wasn't enough, and just to make it overwhelmingly clear, bear in mind that no less a personage than the Premier himself poured cold water over the whole idea of a Hebron announcement coming in his in his Tuesday remarks.
"I can't be overly optimistic that we will achieve it by next week," said Williams on Friday, but said a 25-per cent chance is a fair statement that an announcement will come next week. "I can tell you, though, that I'm extremely confident that this is going to get done in reasonable time frame.".
Williams said the confidentiality part of the agreement is the biggest hold up, especially now that the province owns an equity stake in Hebron.
That was the Telly version. Other media carried similar remarks either from the Premier or from his spokesperson who used, one must note the exact same words about the percentage chance of an announcement.
So then came the speech and the Premier's predictions were dead on.
With the Hebron speculation proven hollow, both CBC and the Telegram used the possibility of a new development application for Hibernia South to lede their stories on the speech. The timeline of that issue given by the Premier could be another post, but let's stick with Hebron.
In the scrum, the Premier was asked about the negotiations. He gave a slightly different version of the negotiations than we've heard before, saying that at one point he'd anticipated a deal by the first of April.
Well, when the memorandum of understanding was released, the final legal agreements were expected within a "few months." When the end of the year came, the deal date was moved to February.
April wasn't discussed publicly but at one point in the spring, the Premier said the whole thing was slow because the oil companies' approval processes weren't as swift as those of the provincial government.
The expected date for a deal was June. Now it's the first week of August. Anyone notice the "two months hence" pattern?
Note the comment in the scrum about about the current talks and what's being discussed on Hebron.
Confidentiality was dealt with "some time ago."
No news stories have mentioned that discrepancy and it isn't a small one. In fact, it leads you to the issues mentioned by the oil companies in a Financial Post story last week. They talked about questions about how much of the work would be done in Newfoundland and Labrador, how the province would pay for its share of the costs and how the oil companies will shift around their shares to give a few to the province's energy company.
No one in the local patch has questioned whether a Hebron deal would be finalized. They've known the deal would have to get done since the MOU was announced last August.
How much work gets done in this province - forget the GBS because that was a given before talks broke off in 2006 - is an issue that the local oil industry is extremely concerned about.
If you skip past the superficial comments and the hype and recognize the obvious disinformation about the confidentiality portion of the deal, you might start to wonder if the oil companies are concerned about whether the local labour market can handle the Hebron project what with most of the province's skilled tradesmen off in Alberta.
They wouldn't want to be tied to performance commitments the local labour market can't keep unless the provincial government was prepared to either relax the local benefits provisions or step in a share the increased costs of doing work locally and shipping in the workers to do it from Heaven knows where. After all, the oil companies want the job done quickly, cheaply and on time. If they have to meet political targets - versus business ones - they'd like to offload those on someone else and who better, in their minds, than the energy company owned by the people who are pushing for the political targets?
If that's what the hang-up in Hebron talks is really all about, that would be a significant conundrum for the provincial government and it would certainly cover off two of the three items the industry representatives mentioned to the Financial Post.
A deal will get done, but if that's the sort of thing that is currently holding things up, it's a major point of disagreement. We may not see a deal for a few months beyond August.
Overall, though, it's interesting to examine the news because sometimes what's reported as news isn't real news at all. There's was no likelihood of a Hebron deal this week and the Premier said so.
Sometimes, the real story is missed entirely even when it's right in front of everyone's face. It didn't make it into the first news cycle. As with the negotiations, let's see what tomorrow brings.
Some July 1st reading suggestions, and a twist
Change and Challenge: Chapter Three - Charting the...
Rideout quits
Commemoration Day 2008: "Harvard Man tells of War...
The value of public relations
Budget 2008: Surplus? What Surplus?
Change and Challenge: Chapter Two - The Challenges...
Refinery economics not subprime crisis affected NL...
Free speech wins: SCC backs Mair in defamation cas...
Fraser Institute survey ranks SK ahead of AL
10 Euros to cross the Atlantic
NLRC gets 30 days to sort out financials
Electricity prices to leap in NL on July 1
Fiscal bandwidth hog: the disproportionate growt...
The disproportionate growth of central agencies
George Carlin: checking out the heavy mysteries f...
Change and Challenge: Chapter One - The Changes
Bond Papers stands for smart rss blogging
Province plugging project
NLRC seeks bankruptcy protection
Change and Challenge: a strategic economic plan f...
Tube lawyers
Chief of Staff: "I can't recall"
"Fair use": an American cheat sheet
Associated Press, bloggers and the "fair use" conc...
Oh to be in the Gulf, now that the cash is in bloo...
When news isn't news but the real news isn't repor...
Resist the hype
Privatizing Hydro: a glance back
Russert moments
Cameron wins White Rose contract
It's all about control
What a difference a week makes: the latest Hebron...
Never forget to remember
CDS wins national PR award
From the G&M: "The broken chain of answerability"
Create wealth fund: OECD
Don't cut yourself on the edge...
CPRS-NL submission to the Cameron Inquiry
Legal roflmao of the week
From the Supreme Court of Canada
The elements of a good communications plan
And it isn't in code
To the crowd running Tammany Hall
Things that go up...
Rest in peace, Jack. You earned it.
Truer words
ECNL - Part 2 - Delayed
Energy Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador (P...


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In Act III Scene III, what techniques and dramatic devices are used by Shakespeare to show Iago's successful manipulation of Othello? How does Shakespeare show the Moors gradual succumbing to the spell Iago is casting?
"The Moor already changes with my poison, Dangerous conceits are in their nature's poisons." In Act III Scene III, what techniques and dramatic devices are used by Shakespeare to show Iago's successful manipulation of Othello? How does Shakespeare show the Moors gradual succumbing to the spell Iago is casting? Othello is a powerful, strong-minded, proud, warrior, who unfortunately sees things in 'black and white'. He truly loves his wife and is convinced of her honesty and faithfulness to him. However, Iago's insinuations of his wife's adultery soon transform Othello into a man driven by insanity and jealousy. Iago words act as poison to Othello and change him into the person he becomes "The Moor already changes with my poison/Dangerous conceits are in their nature's poisons". Iago has successfully destroyed Othello's mind by the end of the scene. Desdemona's persuasive methods in the beginning of the scene are very different to Iago's methods; she speaks without hesitation and is demanding. Her motives are genuine and honest as she's confident of her love for Othello and his love for her. Desdemona is energetic and childish in her persuasion of trying to make Othello speak to Cassio, she is seductive and playful but at the same time there is a note of urgency and also a whining tone to her voice. She nags him constantly "Why then tomorrow night, or Tuesday morn/On Tuesday noon or night, on Wednesday morn;" Desdemona is persistent to the point of nagging about Cassio and Iago later uses this against her. Shakespeare shows us Desdemona's persuasion methods so we can see the way in which she has power over Othello, but also so we can compare her to Iago. In the beginning of the scene Shakespeare uses dramatic irony to show how other characters perceive Iago at the moment. When Cassio, Desdemona and Emilia are alone, Emilia expresses her husbands concern for Cassio and Desdemona refers to Iago as "O, that's an honest fellow". ...read more.
Othello doubts his age, race and bed-side manner, in a way he compares himself to Cassio who is unlike Othello - young, white and knows how to talk i.e. to women. At the same time he degraded himself. Othello think that he's the way he is because he's a soldier - rough, uncivilized and violent. Othello tells the audience that he considers Desdemona a possession and that someone else is using her based on Iago's false accusations and what he'd rather be "I had rather be a toad/And live upon the vapour of a dungeon/Than keep a corner in the thing I love/For others uses". Othello also shows his vanity in this soliloquy "Yet tis the plague of great ones/Prerogratived are they less than base". At the moment Othello won't accept that he is to blame. At this point Desdemona returns with Emilia and Othello says "If she be false, o then heaven mocks itself". Othello considers Desdemona heaven and if she is false then heaven is a mockery. This soliloquy reveals how Iago has successfully manipulated Othello. When Desdemona returns the tension is unbearable because of dramatic irony. Desdemona thinks that Othello is unwell and offers him her handkerchief. The handkerchief is dropped and left here Shakespeare show a good use of props. The handkerchief is a loaded item and a dramatic device which is symbolic of Othello and Desdemona's love which Iago takes, twists and destroys. The fact that the handkerchief was dropped is lucky for Iago as he needs circumstantial evidence to show Othello of Desdemona's adultery. The handkerchief works so well as it was gift from Othello to Desdemona and Desdemona has never been without it until now. Emilia is left alone and picks the handkerchief up. Emilia's soliloquy has one importance, to move the play along. However, it shows how weak willed and easily manipulated Emilia is. It allows the audience to know the importance of the handkerchief to Iago, they catch on once Emilia tells them "My wayward husband hath a hundred times/Wooed me to steal it". ...read more.
Othello orders Cassio death " Within these three days let me hear thee say/That Cassio's not alive". Iago agrees and says that it is as good as done, he ask for Desdemona to be kept alive, however Othello refuses "I will withdraw/To furnish me with some swift means of death/For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant". Othello is going to find a quick and easy way to kill Desdemona. Iago has now been given the position he wanted which was Cassio's. Iago's response to this is "I am your own forever." This last line and Othello's earlier line ("I greet thy love") are things that lovers says to each other. They are so sickeningly effective as it is as though Iago has replaced Desdemona in this marriage. These last few lines show the audience that the deaths of both Cassio and Desdemona are secure. Othello in Act III scene III is responsible for most of the events that take place during and later on. Iago has simply just penetrated his mind with ill thoughts and jealousy. Othello dismissed Desdemona, ironically when she wanted to talk to him about her honest thoughts and opinions. When Iago mentioned the 'Green-eyed monster' of jealousy it was Othello who mentioned Desdemona. Othello is also partly responsible for the dropping of Desdemona's handkerchief which she offered him. Othello is the one who ordered Cassio's death and who kills Desdemona himself. The fact that before this scene Othello was happily married, trusted his wife, had everything and now has been reduced to an insane raging animal shows Iago's intelligence and sophistication of manipulating language. Shakespeare's techniques of sexual imagery, questioning, racism and animal imagery, and silence are successful as they make you think that Iago has managed to transform Othello into a hateful and vengeful man purely by the power and sophistication of his words. However Othello is only partly to blame, Iago is responsible for pushing Othello to the brink of destruction. ?? ?? ?? ?? Jessica Smith 11DAWG 11.1 English Mr Cookson 1 ...read more.
back significantly shows to the Jacobean/Elizabethan audience that Iago is the deceiving character. The opposition between honesty and deception is another which is very frequent in the play, and is mainly outlined by the character of Iago. He is only helping Roderigo, as he knows he can manipulate him rid of his money.
Iago has now entrapped all the main characters of the play, he has made them all victims.
Discuss the role of women in the play Othello.


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Kawardha case: CM Bhupesh Baghel compares RSS with Naxalites, replied to the letter written to the Governor
Raipur. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has given a big statement about RSS. He compared RSS with Naxalites.
Also read: Former MLA Devji Bhai Patel demanded from CM Bhupesh Baghel, go to Rajasthan and give compensation to the victims, also booked train tickets
He mentioned about the letter written to the Governor on the Kawardha case that in Chhattisgarh like the leader of Naxalites is in Andhra Pradesh, and from there their movement operates. Similarly, RSS has no capability of its own in Chhattisgarh, it runs from Nagpur. They don't have any issue.
Also read: BJP and Hindu organizations protest against police action in Kawardha, demand release of arrested activists
Published October 13, 2021 By Amit
Categorized as Raipur News in English Tagged Baghel, Bhupesh, case, compares, Governor, Kawardha, letter, Naxalites, replied, RSS, written
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It was like Scott and Mary Flanders had to earn the right to round Cape Horn. Aboard their Nordhavn 46, Egret, the couple white-knuckled through what Scott Flanders calls "four 12-hour maulings" in the South Atlantic on their way to the notorious cape.
The couple and their 30-ton trawler escaped the Argentine coast virtually unscathed. Some seawater entered the auxiliary engine's exhaust system, but the problem was easily fixed after they rounded the Horn — an event that was, well, uneventful by comparison. Known for strong winds and huge seas, Cape Horn was docile the day Egret passed by the voyager's equivalent of Mount Everest. In fact, the Flanderses completed the passage twice. They motored east to west, against prevailing winds and currents Jan. 21, 2007, and then west to east the following day.
Egret was the first Nordhavn to round the Horn, according to Nordhavn director of marketing Jennifer McCauley Stern. Another Nordhavn, a 57-footer, achieved the feat only three weeks after Egret. The two trawlers later rafted up and swapped stories in the Beagle Channel.
Crossing the Atlantic, exploring jungles in Brazil, anchoring in the fjords of Chile, dancing with icebergs in Argentina's Estero Fonque, eating roasted pig with locals in the Kingdom of Tonga — these are but a few courses in a feast of memorable experiences the couple documented in words and photographs.
Scott Flanders wrote a detailed captain's log that describes not only the Kodak moments, but the realities of cruising. "I didn't want to write about dolphins in the wake," he says. "I wanted to write about nuts and bolts. I wanted to write about what it's like to try and sleep in 30 knots of wind." His ultimate goal is to persuade others to leave life's worries and stresses behind and go long-distance voyaging.
They participated in the Nordhavn Atlantic Rally in 2004. Egret, along with 18 other passagemakers — mostly Nordhavns — made a 3,800-mile trans-Atlantic passage from Fort Lauderdale to Gibraltar, with stops in Bermuda and the Azores. The 40-day trip would serve as a warm-up for the couple's voyage two years later.
Scott and Mary Flanders began filing captain's logs as soon as they got under way Sept. 16, 2006. The logs are listed by month on the Nordhavn Web site (www.nordhavn.com), and each month includes multiple entries. At the beginning of each entry, Egret's position is noted, along with the weather conditions.
You can read about how they cruised down the west coast of Africa, crossed the Atlantic and made stops in La Gomera in the Canary Islands, Bahia de Salvador and Florianopolis in Brazil, and Mar del Plata.
They picked up a crewmember, Steve Lawrence, 62, of Deer River, Minn., in the Canary Islands. Lawrence met the Flanderses in Fort Lauderdale at the start of the Atlantic Rally. He met up with the couple again in Barcelona in the winter of 2005-06, when he dropped a few hints about crewing on Egret. He spent five months aboard the trawler. His main duties were washing dishes and standing watch from 1 to 5 a.m.
The Flanderses began calling Lawrence "The Master Angler" because he landed scores of fish during his time aboard Egret. Another job for Lawrence was to stand on deck with a sickle, ready to slash kelp that came up with the ground tackle. He also offered to help Mary Flanders with the anchoring duties, but she would have none of it. "Mary and Scott have a system down, so I just stayed out of the way," he says.
Lawrence did get involved when it was time to anchor in the fjords of Argentina and Chile. Using Egret's tender, he took stern lines ashore and tied them to rocks. The lines were fed through winches in the cockpit so they could be adjusted as necessary.
In a recent e-mail to Lawrence, the Flanderses extended an open-ended offer for Lawrence to join them in a year (after they leave New Zealand) for any future cruising legs.
Egret set sail again last spring and made stops in the Juan de Fernandez Islands, Easter Island, Pitcairn Island, the Gambier Islands, the Tuamotu Islands, Tahiti, American Samoa and Tonga before reaching New Zealand.
They'll spend 2009 exploring New Zealand and then head to Australia and Tasmania. They have become enamored with the simplicity of life Down Under. "You can go to the post office to get your title for your car," says Mary Flanders.
During their stay in Fort Lauderdale, Scott and Mary had a chance to visit with friends and family. Prior to cruising, Scott was in marine distribution and boatbuilding. He owned a boatbuilding company called Egret — hence, the name of the trawler — that produced small flats boats. Mary is a former physical therapist who worked with cerebral palsy patients. Both led busy, stressful lives.
This story originally appeared in the February 2009 issue.


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Anhui Medical University (AMU)
Introduction to Anhui Medical University
Anhui Medical University (AMU) is one of the oldest educational institutions in Hefei, Anhui province, which is located in the east of central China and honored as "the city with State Innovation of Science and Technology". Around the two campuses are some of the renowned universities and institutions, such as University of Science and Technology of China(USTC), Hefei Institutes of Physical Sciences of China Academy of Science (CASHIPS), and Hefei.
1) Introduction to Anhui Medical University
2) About AMU
3) Location
4) Campus
5) Life on Campus
About AMU
AMU, formerly Shanghai Southeast Medical College, was founded in Shanghai by a group of overseas students with M.D degree who returned from Japan in 1926. The idea of those pioneers was to create a medical university to save Chinese people suffering from diseases in a hard time.
Following several times of relocations from Shanghai to the inland of Anhui Province during the past decades, the university has grown significantly. The spectrum of subjects has steadily been extended and now has developed into a comprehensive medical university with 23 subjects covering nearly all of the medical fields including Clinical Medicine, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Health Management, Pharmacology, Dentistry, and Nursing, among those eight subjects have been qualified to offer a Ph.D. degree. The University consists of eight faculties, totally, 17 000 enrolled students, in which Medical Faculty predominates with over 6,000 students including clinical medicine, laboratory medicine, psychology, anesthesia, and medical imaging.
AMU insists on an important concept since its foundation to promote interdisciplinarity and combination of teaching and scientific research with clinical activities. An important step in combining the strength of medication and medical research was the realization of the necessity for expansion of the campus and establishment of additional affiliated hospitals for students practice and young scientists training. The Teaching and Research Building in the campus provides both domestic and returned overseas scientists with well-equipped laboratories and net access.
Anhui Medical University is located in the beautiful city of Hefei which is the capital and largest city of Anhui Province. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, and cultural center of Anhui.
The ancient Hefei City, with a long history of over 2,000 years, was also nicknamed 'Luzhou' or 'Luyang' because it was under the governance of Luzhou prefecture in the Ming (1368 – 1644) and Qing (1644 – 1911) dynasties.
It is a scientific and educational city and boasts of many talents both past and present, such as the famous upright officer Lord Bao in Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) along with the Nobel Prize for Physics winner, Yang Zhenning, whose hometown is Hefei. The University of Science and Technology of China and the Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences are both located here. There is no doubt that talented people in the city are foremost in China.
It is a beautiful city with good surroundings – the Huaihe River flows to its north, to its south is Yangtze River, and to its south-east lies the Chaohu Lake with its expansive blue waters. As is known, every city in China has a city tree and a city flower and, in the case of this city, the Yulan tree is its city tree and the sweet-scented osmanthus, pomegranate flower is its city flower.
The university consists of two campuses; the main campus and the southern campus. The total campus covers an area of 860000 square meters and with total floor space of about 700 thousand square meters. You can walk through the whole campus in 20 minutes. The campus is located on South No.1 Ring-Road of Hefei.
Food: There are not only Chinese restaurants on campus, but also Muslim restaurant especially for Muslim students. Besides Chinese and Muslim restaurants, there are also some other different restaurants available around the campus.
Sports: School has a gymnasium, swimming pool, various playgrounds, where students can play football, basketball, and other sports.
Internet: Internet service is available at the university library and international student dormitory.
Shopping: School has supermarkets and stores.
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HSM to Launch New Sleeper Sofa Mechanism & Mattress
HSM announced that it is targeting the upper-end upholstery market with a new domestically produced all-inclusive sofa-sleeper mechanism. Suitable for residential and hospitality furniture, The Resorter, will debut at the Home Furnishings Manufacturing Solutions Expo, July 17-18 at the Metro Convention Center in Hickory. This new mechanism is designed for long-term daily use and comes complete with an affixed mattress that can fit into the standard sleeper sofa frame used by virtually all furniture manufacturers.
Manufactured by HSM in Hickory, North Carolina, the units are produced by expert assemblers and are exempt from tariffs. With domestic assembly, Hickory Springs promises quick lead-times and more flexible order quantity requirements than full container orders often required for import purchases.
"We are thrilled to offer our customers a premium U.S.-made sleeper unit with domestically sourced raw materials," said Jason Porter, vice president of sales for furniture with HSM's Hickory Springs division.
"This is a game-changer. Not only does it offer our customers a high-quality, low-cost alternative to the imported units available in the industry today, it also allows for a more comfortable night's sleep than other mechanisms in the marketplace.
"We've eliminated the ubiquitous metal bar – and the discomfort that goes along with it – and have engineered a product that also prevents the sleeper mattresses from sagging," he continued. "Designed without the helical springs that can give the mattress a 'bouncy' feel, mattress sag is drastically reduced, resulting in a more comfortable, relaxing night's sleep that is more suitable for long-term use."
The mechanism is available with three mattress options: a premium version with high-density foam core and a top latex comfort layer, a deluxe version with gel-infused memory foam on top of foam core and a value-oriented model with high-density foam.
The unit will be on display in HSM's booth at the Home Furnishings Manufacturing Solutions Expo, in space 1315.
About HSM: HSM is a privately held company based in Hickory, North Carolina, with more than 30 manufacturing plants in 14 states. In addition to its core furniture and bedding markets, HSM also serves a growing range of customers in the transportation, packaging, healthcare, apparel and other industries. For more information, visit www.hsmsolutions.com.


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Boxee Announces A Major Update for Mac, Linux, Windows Coming this Fall
Posted by Doug Dobbins at 8:18 am on June 13, 2011
Boxee put focus back to the desktop on Monday with a promise of a major update for the Mac, Ubuntu Linux, and Windows versions of its media front-end app. The new version will bring the reworked browser and content options that have been present on the Boxee Box in recent months. The code would also be more closely in step with the dedicated box in the future.
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(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special English.
(MUSIC) On April ninth, eighteen sixty-five, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses Grant. Within weeks, America's Civil War would be over. When people in Washington learned of Lee's surrender, they hurried to the White House. They wanted to hear from President Abraham Lincoln. The crowd did not know that it would be one of his last speeches.
I'm Harry Monroe. Today, Kay Gallant and I tell the story of that tragic spring.
VOICE TWO: President Lincoln spoke several days after General Lee's surrender. The people expected a victory speech. But Lincoln gave them something else.
Already, he was moving forward from victory to the difficult times ahead. The southern rebellion was over. Now, he faced the task of re-building the Union. Lincoln did not want to punish the south. He wanted to re-join the ties that the Civil War had broken. So, when the people of the north expected a speech of victory, he gave them a speech of reconstruction, instead.
On the night of April eleventh, Lincoln appeared before a crowd outside the White House. He held a candle in one hand and his speech in the other.
VOICE ONE: "Fellow citizens," Lincoln said. "We meet this evening not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart. The surrender of the main army of the Confederacy gives hope of a righteous and speedy peace. The joy cannot be held back. By these recent successes, we have had pressed more closely upon us the question of reconstruction.
"We all agree," Lincoln continued, "that the so-called seceded states are out of their correct relation with the Union. We also agree that what the government is trying to do is get these states back into their correct relation.
"I believe it is not only possible, but in fact easier to do this without deciding the legal question of whether these states have ever been out of the Union. Finding themselves safely at home, it would be of no importance whether they had ever been away." VOICE TWO: There was cheering and applause when Pesident Lincoln finished, but less than when he began. The speech had been too long and too detailed to please the crowd. Lincoln, however, believed it a success. He hoped he had made the country understand one thing: the great need to forget hatred and bitterness in the difficult time of re-building that would follow the war.
The president continued to discuss his ideas on reconstruction over the next few days. On Friday, April fourteenth, he agreed to put this work aside for a while.
In the afternoon, he took his wife mary for a long drive away from the city. In the evening, they would go to the theater.
VOICE ONE: One of the popular plays of the time, called "Our American Cousin," was being performed at Ford's Theater, not far from the White House. The Secretary of War did not want the Lincolns to go alone. He ordered an army officer to go with them.
The President and Misses Lincoln sat in special seats at Ford's Theater. The presidential box was above and to one side of the stage. A guard always stood outside the door to the box. On this night, however, the guard did not remain. He left the box unprotected.
VOICE TWO: President Lincoln settled down in his seat to enjoy the play. As he did so, a man came to the door of the box. He carried a gun in one hand and a knife in the other. The man entered the presidential box quietly. He slowly raised the gun. He aimed it at the back of Lincoln's head. He fired.
Then the man jumped from the box to the stage three meters below. Many in the theater recognized him. He was an actor: John Wilkes Booth.
Booth broke his leg when he hit the stage floor. But he pulled himself up, shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!" -- 'Thus ever to tyrants!' -- and ran out the door. He got on a horse....and was gone.
VOICE ONE: The attack was so quick that the audience did not know what had happened. Then a woman shouted, "The president has been shot!" Lincoln had fallen forward in his seat, unconscious. Someone asked if it was possible to move him to the White House. A young army doctor said no. The president's wound was terrible. He would die long before reaching the White House.
So Lincoln was moved to a house across the street from Ford's Theater. A doctor tried to remove the bullet from the president's head. He could not. Nothing could be done, except wait. The end was only hours away.
VOICE TWO: Cabinet members began to arrive, while wild reports spread through the city: the Confederates had declared war again! There was fighting in the streets! An official of the War Department described the situation. "The extent of the plot was unknown. From so horrible a beginning, what might come next. How far would the bloody work go. The safety of Washington must be looked after. The people must be told. The assassin and his helpers must be captured." VOICE ONE: Early the next morning, April fifteenth, Abraham Lincoln died. A prayer was said over his body. His eyes were closed.
The news went out by telegraph to cities and towns across the country. People read the words, but could not believe them. To millions of Americans, Abraham Lincoln's death was a personal loss. They had come to think of him as more than the President of the United States. He was a trusted friend.
People hung black cloth on their doors in sorrow. Even the south mourned for Lincoln, its former enemy. Southern General Joe Johnston said: "Mr. Lincoln was the best friend we had. His death is the worst thing that could happen for the south." VOICE TWO: Messages of regret came from around the world.
British labor groups said they could never forget the things Lincoln had said about working people. Things such as: "The strongest tie of human sympathy should be one uniting all working people of all nations and tongues." A group representing hundreds of French students sent this message: "In President Lincoln we mourn a fellow citizen. There are no longer any countries shut up in narrow frontiers. Our country is everywhere where there are neither masters nor slaves. Wherever people live in liberty or fight for it. We look to the other side of the ocean to learn how a people which has known how to make itself free...knows how to preserve its freedom." The assassination of Abraham Lincoln touched the imagination of America's writers. Many tried to put their feelings into words. Walt Whitman wrote several poems of mourning. Here is part of one of them, "O Captain! My Captain!" Announcer: Here captain! Dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead. My captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will. The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult o shores, and ring o bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
VOICE TWO: Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in the spring. That is the time of year when lilac plants burst into flower throughout much of the United States. One of Walt Whitman's most beautiful poems in honor of Lincoln is called, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed." Here is part of that poem.
Announcer: When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love. . . Coffin that passes through lanes and streets, Through day and night with the great cloud darkening the land. . . With the countless torches lit, Wiith the silent sea of faces and the unbared heads. . . With the tolling, tolling bells' perpetual clang, here, coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac.
(MUSIC) VOICE TWO: You have been listening to the Special English program, THE MAKING OF A NATION. Your narrators were Harry Monroe and Kay Gallant. The poems were read by Shep O'Neal. Our program was written by Harold Berman and Frank Beardsley.
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THE GAME: The Dodgers scored three runs in the bottom of the ninth inning but came up short, losing 8-6 to the Texas Rangers Sunday afternoon at Camelback Ranch. The Dodgers are 6-3-1 after the first 10 games of Cactus League action.
PITCHING REPORT: Kenley Jansen made his third appearance of the spring and retired the side in order again. He has faced nine batters this spring, retired all nine and struck out six. … Lefty specialist Adam Kolarek faced six consecutive right-handed hitters in the fifth inning and gave up five consecutive singles before getting a double-play grounder. Left-handed hitting Rougned Odor then drove in the fourth run of the inning with another single. … Lefty Tyler Gilbert (acquired from the Phillies) gave up two home runs in his inning Sunday.
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Environmentalists are challenging in court an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plan to return jurisdiction over some waterways to the state of Florida.
The grant from EPA gives Florida the authority to issue permits under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, which regulates "fill for development" before building highways and other infrastructure such as dams and levees.
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler called the move a road map for other states who want to take over responsibility for issuing permits under the Clean Water Act.
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