There's a war going on in the blogosphere, and it has definitely nothing to do with blog site authors dissing each other on their specific websites. The war describes handle of the blogosphere by a variety of wonderful, great deals of extraordinary, and great deals of terrible blogging platforms. The normal novice now has "a bargain of" options to pick from, and the secure blogging supremacy is hotter than ever.
At my website and blog site sites, I'm constantly asked the issue "Is WordPress far better than Blogger?". The action, definitely, is "Yes". To in fact understand why, it's necessary to take a look at both blogging platforms side-by-side and see which one you really need.
You similarly need to understand that there many variations of WordPress, the earliest now called as "WordPress" at WordPress.org, and the hosted variation just like Blogger now called "WordPress.com" which is naturally rapidly utilized WordPress.com. Simply the latter consists of complimentary hosting on a sub-domain account. We'll discuss this in Part 2.
Yes, it's a lot much easier to set-up a blog website with Blogspot.com and get your very own Bloggger account. There are similarly stacks of blog site author style templates provided for complimentary if you pick to consist of a designer's touch to your blog website website.
Putting up WordPress nevertheless can be a considerable headache if you do not comprehend precisely what you're doing. Thinking about that you're going to host it on your own account, you'll need to download the setup files, introduce them to your server, set-up a database, and run the setup script.
You can pick one with Cpanel consisted of if you comprehend which hosting account to get. With Cpanel, you can do a one-click setup, upgrade and removal of your WordPress platform.
With WordPress, not simply can you consist of categories, you can also expose each category in a various strategy on your main page. With the ideal plugins you can even turn your WordPress into a magazine-like site.
Publishing with Blogger can extremely furstrating. It can take absolutely to introduce brief posts, especially if you're making modifications to the entire website. With WordPress, publishing is much quicker, although if you fill your system with all kind of bells and whistles it can be just as dissuading.
With a Blogger account, you can get additional functions like "Shout Boxes" that boost interaction on your site. You can also get rather designs and sensible little tools that you can add to the core style template files. That's as far as you can choose Blogger.
With WordPress however, the sky is the limitation. As cliche as that may sound, not simply can you get designs, additional "plugins" and advanced tools, you can similarly extend WordPress to far beyond just a blogging platform.
The talk today connects with using WordPress as a basic, standard to utilize Content Management System or CMS. Unlike in-depth predecessors like PHPPostNuke, B2, Mambo or maybe Joomla, WordPress is standard to make usage of. Plus, the schedule of source codes in this open-source system coupled with a strong area makes it possible to make use of WordPress as a post management system, classifieds system, direct-selling site in addition to a paid membership site.
If they do not like precisely what you're blogging about, Google has the authority to shut down your account without care. With WordPress, you own the blog website and the domain website is hosted by yourself account.
With the self-hosted variation of WordPress (not WordPress.com), you're completely complimentary to go over anything you pick, and utilize the software application in any technique you want. Yes, Blogger allows you to present to your private domain, however they still own the database that holds your product! Constantly!
There's this propaganda that thought of that Google owns Blogger, they have the propensity to choose Blogger accounts. I will not specify that this is illogical, nevertheless from my experience, there's no such favoritism.
I've heard as great deals of stories of getting indexed rapidly and ranking high in online search engine from both WordPress and Blogger users. As long as the product prepares, the spiders will come.
When you release in Blogger, you can simply "ping" a limited amount of sites, whereas with WordPress on your own domain you can ping as great deals of blog website directory site sites as you pick, and start getting more traffic.
As a conclusion, I would explain that WordPress is simply rather ahead in problems to optimization for online search engine, and structure considerable amounts of traffic.
There's no doubt that it's much simpler to get started with Google Adsense if you have a Blogger account. You can now utilize for Adsense from within a Blogger account. Not absolutely unexpected considering that both are owned by the precise very same service.
With WordPress, it can get hard. This appears getting easier and there's even "Adsense revenues sharing" plugins around that allow you to share ad profits with other components and authors for your blog website website.
When you start using WordPress to establish your Adsense websites, you'll rapidly discover particularly precisely what I suggest. It's something you need to experience by yourself. I can notify you something though – when you go WordPress, you do not return.
At my website and blog site sites, I'm continuously asked the issue "Is WordPress much better than Blogger?". You similarly need to understand that there numerous variations of WordPress, the earliest now referred to as "WordPress" at WordPress.org, and the hosted variation similar to Blogger now called "WordPress.com" which is certainly rapidly offered WordPress.com.
You also need to understand that there are different variations of WordPress, the earliest now called as "WordPress" at WordPress.org, and the hosted variation similar to Blogger now called "WordPress.com" which is naturally rapidly utilized WordPress.com. You similarly need to understand that there are numerous variations of WordPress, the earliest now gone over as "WordPress" at WordPress.org, and the hosted variation equivalent to Blogger now called "WordPress.com" which is naturally rapidly supplied WordPress.com.
You similarly need to understand that there are lots of variations of WordPress, the earliest now called as "WordPress" at WordPress.org, and the hosted variation merely like Blogger now called "WordPress.com" which is naturally rapidly utilized WordPress.com. You similarly have to understand that there are different variations of WordPress, the earliest now called as "WordPress" at WordPress.org, and the hosted variation much like Blogger now called "WordPress.com" which is naturally rapidly offered WordPress.com.
At my website and blog site sites, I'm constantly asked the issue "Is WordPress far much better than Blogger?". You also have to understand that there many variations of WordPress, the earliest now called as "WordPress" at WordPress.org, and the hosted variation much like Blogger now called "WordPress.com" which is naturally rapidly utilized WordPress.com. You also need to understand that there are numerous variations of WordPress, the earliest now called as "WordPress" at WordPress.org, and the hosted variation merely like Blogger now called "WordPress.com" which is naturally rapidly utilized WordPress.com. You similarly have to understand that there are different variations of WordPress, the earliest now called as "WordPress" at WordPress.org, and the hosted variation much like Blogger now called "WordPress.com" which is naturally rapidly offered WordPress.com. You similarly need to understand that there are numerous variations of WordPress, the earliest now talked about as "WordPress" at WordPress.org, and the hosted variation equivalent to Blogger now called "WordPress.com" which is of course rapidly utilized WordPress.com.


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NTSB analyses passenger's iPhone video to determine the trajectory and speed of fatal DHC-3T accident
(a) Camera Orientation Estimation – Airplane Reference Points Aligned with Image
(b) Airplane Location and Orientation Estimation – Ground Reference Points
Aligned with Image (NTSB)
Investigators of the NTSB have analysed video footage of a fatal aircraft accident to determine the trajectory and speed. The video was taken by a passenger on board the plane.
On July 7, 2013, a de Havilland Canada DHC-3T Texas Turbine Otter was destroyed after a collision with terrain shortly after takeoff from Soldotna Airport, Alaska. All ten occupants were killed.
The NTSB found that a passenger had recorded a video on an iPhone 5 camera that was retrieved from the wreckage. Since there were no eyewitnesses to the entire accident sequence and since the airplane was not equipped with a flight data recorder, the video contained valuable data for the investigators.
The camera was hand-held by a passenger on the airplane who recorded the scene south of the runway through the fourth window on the left side of the airplane. The video included the taxiing, takeoff roll, takeoff and flight phases. The useful segment of the video ended when, shortly after takeoff, the airborne airplane rolled to the right and started losing altitude. After that time, the video no longer showed any ground reference features, making the estimation of its location and orientation impossible.
The analysis of this video posed unique challenges, the NTSB revealed, because the camera was hand-held as opposed to being fixed to the airplane. Consequently, it became necessary to first estimate the time-varying orientation of the camera with respect to the airplane and then, with the camera fixed to the airplane with that orientation, to estimate the location and orientation of the airplane with respect to the ground.
The analysis revealed that shortly after takeoff, flight speed started decreasing rapidly and angle of attack started increasing rapidly. Approximately 11 seconds after takeoff, flight speed and angle of attack reached levels corresponding to stall. The airplane developed a large right-wing-down roll angle and impacted ground several seconds later.
ASN Accident Description DHC-3T N93PC
NTSB Video Study (PDF)
Estimated Speed, Altitude and Pitch Angle (NTSB)
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"In Memory of Almeron son of Benjamin and Phebe Sackett, who departed this life February 4, 1801, in the 12th year of his age."
"Amherst Douglas Sackett, son of Calvin P. and Hannah Sackett, who died suddenly September 29, 1825, aged 17 years."
Benjamin Sackett (1752�26), Presbyterian Cemetery, Stephentown, NY.
In Memory of Mr. Benjamin Sackett who departed this life June 28, 1826, in the 73rd year of his age.
Mrs. Phoebe Sackett wife of Benjamin Sackett who departed this life October 12th, 1826, in the 72nd year of her age.
"Betsey Maria, daughter of Calvin and Hannah Sackett, who died December 16, 1830, in the 25th year of her age / May each like thee depart in peace / To be a shining guest / Where the wicked cease from troubling / And the weary are at rest."
"Sackett, Blair A, 1891�67. Myrtle Kissinger, wife, 1890�69"
"In Loving Memory of/ my beloved husband and our dear father/ George File Sackett/ died 22nd Sept 1927/ aged 64 years/ our loved mother/ Arabella Sackett/ called home 7th Aug 1958/ aged 94 years."
"Our Mother / Harriet A Sackett / Born Dec 19, 1804 / Died Nov 12, 1875"
Jennie C (Sackett) Peers (1838�96), Presbyterian Cemetery, Lynchburg, VA):CR:]"In memory of / Jennie C. Peers / wife of / Geo. T. Peers / and daughter of / B.F. & E.E. Sackett / born / Jan. 25, 1838 / died / Oct. 1, 1896."
"In Memory of / Joseph Sackett / who departed this life / in Peace the 17th day of / March Anno Domini / 1798 / Aged 82 years 1 month / and 9 days."
"In / memory of / Joseph Sackett / who departed this life / November 24th 1822 / In the 61st year / of his age"
"In / Memory of / Eleanor, / widow of / Joseph Sackett, / who departed this life / March 25th 1855 / In the 91st year of / her age"
"Sacred to the memory of Leonard Sackett / died May 19, 1917 / aged 48 years / At Rest / Also Martha Letitia Sackett / died 28th Sept 1962 / aged 88 years."
Greendale Cemetery, Meadville, PA, "Erected by the members of the Ancient Order of United Workmen in memory of Myron Ward Sackett who served the Order faithfully for thirty seven years as Supreme Recorder"
Stones to side are inscribed "� V Sackett 厲1926"; "Myron W Sackett 1841�16"
Ruth (Sacket) Gleason (1741�13), Old Benson Cemetery, Rutland County, Vermont, "in memory [of]/ Ruth wife [of]/ jacob gleason/ died March [?]/ 1813 in the/ 71st year/ of her/ age"
"In Memory of / Sarah the wife of / Joseph Sackett / who departed this life in peace / Sept the 11th day / Anno Domini 1796 / aged 70 years 1 month 16 days.


Animal welfare officials determined Thursday that a bird perched in the window of a former pet shop is in relatively good health despite a Facebook post alleging it was neglected.
FORT WALTON BEACH � Animal welfare officials determined Thursday that a bird perched in the window of a former pet shop is in relatively good health despite a Facebook post alleging it was neglected.
Woody, a green-winged macaw, did not appear to be in danger, and authorities say he will remain with his owner of more than three decades.
The macaw, who is 35 to 40 years old, has a skin tag under one eye, but it doesn�t impede his vision, Thompson said. The veterinarian did not recommend removing the tag because of the risk of putting the bird under anesthesia.
The veterinarian did recommend some dietary changes, including more produce.
Woody�s owner, Jim Timmie, runs a small dog grooming service in the back room of what was once his pet shop near the intersection of Racetrack Road and Mooney Road.
The macaw, who shares the front room with two other birds, has a two-word vocabulary, �hello� and �cracker,� which is what he calls Timmie.
�The bird obviously loves this man very, very much,� said Thompson, who added that PAWS donated a larger cage to Woody and his owner.


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I'm still searching for a way to describe my first experience at Burning Man. But, there are simply no words. Each year, over 65,000 people gather in Black Rock Desert for Burning Man. It is a temporary metropolis dedicated to community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance.
I first heard of the annual event in college and have been intrigued by the stories of the imaginative art and unique desert-dwelling subculture ever since. Now, I'm happy to say I'll be returning for my third burn this year.
I want to share my first experience at Burning Man with you!
Burning Man is not for everyone, but could be everything to a certain person. What's "weird" to one could be "life-changing" for another.
Quite simply put, Burning Man was my kind of weird.
To avoid misrepresenting "what" exactly Burning Man is, I've decided not to write about my experience. Instead, I'd like to show you. Take a peak through my perspective, from the art, to the parties and the people.


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Patti Peebles featured in virtual Jefferson Awards
Charlie Hall
Patti Peebles' volunteer work is near legendary during her decade-plus in New Bern.
Her name is a mainstay with nonprofits such as Religious Community Services, Empty Bowls, Habitat for Humanity, Craven Literacy Council and her home Centenary United Methodist Church.
Born and raised poor in Iowa, her community service efforts have always been geared toward helping the needy and the down-and-out help themselves.
Still, accolades do come for the deserving.
She is one of the featured recipients at the 2020 Jefferson Awards on Sept. 24 at 7:30 p.m.
The 48th Jefferson Awards were originally to have been June 18 in Washington, D.C., but COVID-19 forced it to change to a virtual event.
The public is invited to watch and share the link. To register your seat, go to http://zc.vg/6TLgU?m=0
Peebles was chosen as recipient of the Jefferson Award for Public Service earlier this year during the 52 Faces of Community Luncheon at the New Bern Convention Center. The luncheon recognized local residents who have appeared in the Sun Journal and on NewBernSJ.com as part of the newspaper's weekly 52 Faces feature, which recognizes individuals who have made a positive difference in the community.
The Jefferson Awards celebrates extraordinary service to others performed by youth, unsung heroes from around the country, and national figures.
"It's very humbling to be recognized," Peebles said this week.
Each of the honored unsung heroes from around the country will be featured in a video.
In her video, she enjoyed talking about the good her work has done rather than herself..
Peebles tells the story of a man named Will, who is a prime example of successful work done at RCS.
"I do what I do for people like Will." She said. "I talk about his story in the video. He sat eight months in jail because he couldn't post bail."
When Will finally got out, Peebles said he had no job, no money and nowhere to go. He was also depressed.
"Through RCS, he gets the mental health assistance he needs," she recounted. "He comes through the Craven Community College-RCS Boot Camp, gets some skills on how to get a job. He gets a job, starts improving himself, saves up enough money and finds a little place where he can live."
RCS, helps him with deposits through a grant program and Will is now functioning on his own.
Peebles will take a break and watch the virtual awards from home.
But, in the meantime, she is still in the midst of important volunteer work. Again she preferred to talk about the projects rather than herself.
She is excited as a co-chair working on another major local event – the 2021 Empty Bowls, which benefits RCS and the Craven Arts Council.
"We are re-envisioning it. We are going to do some things differently with it," she said. "Obviously, we don't think in February we will be able to have large groups inside."
The sponsorship brochures are nearing release, along with details on the 2021 plans.
She did say that while the event won't have its usual mass gathering at Temple Church, it will retain all the traditional and familiar elements – the preliminary Potters' Throwdown at the Harrison Center, soups from local chefs, hand-thrown bowls, wood products and, quilting items, along with a virtual auction. It will just be provided in a different format.
Peebles was among five featured Unsung Heroes recognized during the 52 Faces of Community luncheon. They were presented with a Jefferson Medallion for Volunteerism and highlighted with short videos featuring interviews and descriptions of their work. The 2019 52 Faces Unsung heroes included Danny Batten, Swiss Bear Economic Development Corporation board: the Rev. Robert Johnson, Duffyfield Phoenix Project; Peebles, Centenary United Methodist Church; Cassandra Crowder, National MS Society Greater Carolina; and Tyler Jones, Sudan Shriners Hospital, Greenville, S.C.
Writer Holly Desrosier was given a special award for her efforts in interviewing the 52 Faces subjects and writing the stories.
The awards ceremony was sponsored by CarolinaEast Medical Center and the Sun Journal in partnership with the Nonprofit Council from the New Bern Area Chamber of Commerce and the national Jefferson Awards.
Peebles expressed pride in the recent expansion of the RCS kitchen, dining and shelter areas.
"That's an area where we're reaching to be able to provide the resources for people to find their way. That's where RCS is heading," she said earlier. "Engage the community to empower people...that to me is what it's all about."
Charlie Hall can be reached at 252-635-5667 or 252-259-7585, or charlie.hall@newbernsj.com. Follow him on Facebook at Charlie Hall.


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Preston Byrne
Attorney @ Byrne & Storm, P.C.
Preston focuses on early-stage technology companies, including industrial cryptography, cryptocurrency and interactive computer services businesses, with complex cross-border legal issues.
Preston is an attorney at Byrne & Storm, P.C., where his practice focuses on early-stage technology companies, including industrial cryptography, cryptocurrency and interactive computer services businesses, with complex cross-border legal issues. In his free time he is a fellow of the ASI.
Previously, he was a securitization and derivatives lawyer with the London offices of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner and Norton Rose Fulbright, and after BigLaw, co-founder and COO of Monax. Monax built the first open-source permissioned blockchain client in 2014. The design has since evolved into the market-leading Hyperledger Burrow permissioned Ethereum blockchain node. Burrow is presently the Hyperledger Project's only Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), and is used by Intel and IBM's contributions to that project, respectively named Sawtooth Lake and Fabric, to run EVMs on those codebases.
Pei Chen
Director, Financial Services & FinTech @ ConsenSys
Prior to ConsenSys, Pei served as a Senior Product Manager at Goldman Sachs, leading a team of business architects and software developers to design and deploy strategic technology solutions for multiple business divisions across US and Europe.
Pei Chen holds a director role at ConsenSys, a blockchain venture production studio building and investing in decentralized applications. Her responsibilities include developing, communicating and executing strategic initiatives, as well as forging key business partnerships in the Financial Services and Fintech sector. Previously she was the Chief Operating Offer (COO) of Token Foundry, a business advisory and fundraising platform of ConsenSys that provides end-to-end solutions to promising blockchain projects.
Pei received a Master's degree in Quantitative Finance from Lehigh University and a Bachelors in Economics with a Minor in Technology Entrepreneurship from Zhejiang University.
Co-Founder @ Delphi Digital
Kevin brings a background in traditional equity research to Delphi Digital and is a former U.S. Equity Strategist.
Kevin brings a background in traditional equity research to Delphi Digital. In his prior role as a U.S. Equity Strategist, Kevin provided insight on global equity markets for a vast array of institutional clients and was often cited in financial journalism or discussing markets on financial media outlets (TV, radio, etc.). Kevin is also a CFA charterholder.
John Todaro
Head of Digital Currency Research @ TradeBlock
John constructs and distributes market commentary and research on the Blockchain space.
John Todaro is the head of digital currency research at TradeBlock, where he constructs and distributes market commentary and research on the space. Prior to joining TradeBlock, John traded mortgage backed securities and credit default swaps at Citigroup. John has been an active contributor in the digital currency space since 2013.
Alex Atallah
CTO @ OpenSea
Alex is the co-founder of OpenSea, the first and largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), including crypto collectibles, art projects, wallet names, and more.
Alex is the co-founder of OpenSea, the first and largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), including crypto collectibles, art projects, wallet names, and more. OpenSea went through the YCombinator W18 batch, raised funds from Founders Fund, Blockchain Capital, Coinbase, 1confirmation and several others, and now powers the marketplaces or sites for over 200 games and services.
Prior to OpenSea, Alex was the CTO of hostess.fm (sold to Beatport in 2014) and built cybersecurity products at Palantir for 2 years. Alex loves hackathons and bringing unusual prototypes to market.
Sonya Mann
Communications Manager @ Zcash Foundation
Sonya Mann runs communications at the Zcash Foundation, a privacy nonprofit focused on the cryptocurrency Zcash. Previously, she worked as a reporter covering the tech industry.
Mann covered the business side of technology with a focus on enterprise companies, the sharing economy, and marketplaces that empower informal entrepreneurship.
Before joining Inc. she freelanced, covering many of the same topics.
Zcash Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to building Internet payment and privacy infrastructure for the public good, primarily serving the users of the Zcash protocol and blockchain.
Carlos Vivas
Global Head of Enterprise Education @ Consensys
Carlos is a Nicaraguan computer science engineer, PhD in Innovation Economics and Global Head of Enterprise Education at ConsenSys, an Ethereum blockchain focused company and one of the main blockchain companies in the World.
Carlos is a Nicaraguan computer science engineer, PhD in Innovation Economics and Global Head of Enterprise Education at ConsenSys, an Ethereum blockchain focused company and one of the main blockchain companies in the World. He co-founded two startups, one that was purchased and the other was acquired by one of its shareholders. He lead the Academy Program of Opinno, a tech consultancy firm, and the Spanish editors of MIT Technology Review and Harvard Business Review. He's been involved in the Blockchain space since late 2014. He has worked as a Blockchain advisor for tier-1 and large corporations in Finance, Energy, Health, and Retail industries, he was awarded 2nd place in a national-level blockchain hackathon and he co-authored two Blockchain books with top experts from the space.
Stephen Inglis
CEO @ Inportal and AI Capital LLC
Stephen's approach to tokenization is founded from participation in and all forms of securities markets from hi-frequency trading to exchanging documents to effect a private placement.
Stephen Inglis is currently CEO of InPortal, an organization developing venues for security transactions via distributive ledger technologies.
He has had extensive experience within equity sales, investment banking, and economic development.
Ryan Yi
Investment & Research @ CoinFund
Ryan is a researcher focusing on early-stage diligence, liquid market analysis, and constructing investment strategies.
Ryan is a researcher focusing on early-stage diligence, liquid market analysis, and constructing investment strategies. He spends most of his time around understanding issues surrounding blockchain-specific products, structuring, technology, and market trends.
Coogan Brennan
Technical Trainer @ Consensys
Coogan Brennan is an American developer, researcher and technical trainer, American Head of Education at ConsenSys, an Ethereum blockchain focused company and one of the main blockchain companies in the world.
Coogan Brennan is an American developer, researcher, and technical trainer, American Head of Education at ConsenSys, an Ethereum blockchain focused company and one of the main blockchain companies in the world. Coogan discovered blockchain while working as a self-taught tailor in Charlottesville, Virginia at the start of the Bitcoin craze. Since then, he's fallen deeper into the world of cryptography, peer-to-peer networking, and distributed programming. Coogan has committed on the Go-Ethereum client codebase—one of the main blockchain networking programs—and develops blockchain curricula ranging from beginner to advanced.
Gregor Žavcer
CEO and Co-Founder @ Datafund, Founder of Fair Data Society
Gregor has broad experience in product, web and business development. He has been an entrepreneur as well as a startup mentor and advisor since 2005.
Gregor has broad experience in product, web and business development. He has been an entrepreneur as well as a startup mentor and advisor since 2005. In his bachelor thesis he was already studying decentralized business models and has been active in the Blockchain space since 2014. In 2017, he cofounded his new project Datafund with the mission to be an enabler for a fair data society.
John Peurifoy
Co-Founder @ Floating Point Group
John uses techniques from experimental physics and numerical analysis to solve hard problems in financial infrastructure and algorithms. He currently works on democratizing the cryptocurrency financial industry.
John was late to the digital asset world, but his interest in finance dates back to his first days at MIT. There, he first created an algorithmic trading platform that would allow anyone to run high-frequency trading strategies. John studied physics and electrical engineering, and comes from a strong background in machine learning and molecular physics. Favorite blockchain project: DAO, if security was done correctly.
David Noble
Director @ The Werth Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
David is a serial entrepreneur, educator, and a steward of both innovation and disruption
David Noble is a faculty member in the UCONN School of Business. David teaches courses on technology innovation and entrepreneurship. He was appointed the inaugural Director of the Werth Institute in January 2018, previously he served as the co-director of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Consortium and the xCITE Conference. David is an active mentor at UConn, and has recently founded the Blockchain Technology & Organizations Research Symposium.
Prior to UConn, David was a securities and corporate finance attorney, with experience representing startups from formation through the IPO process. He has extensive non-profit board experience. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Alabama, a J.D. from the University of Miami, a M.B.A. from the Elon University, and B.S. in Political Science from Northeastern University.
Bennett Moore
Digital Management Consulting @ RSM
Bennett Moore is one of RSM's National Lead Digital Asset Technical Resources and a senior associate in RSM's Blockchain and Digital Asset Management Consulting Practice.
Bennett Moore is one of RSM's National Lead Digital Asset Technical Resources and a senior associate in RSM's Blockchain
and Digital Asset Management Consulting Practice where he is involved in the creation of integrated client teams across all
LOBs to address multi-dimensional client needs, the education of the firm on digital assets and their impacts to our clients and
our firm, and consulting on complex technical projects related the use of digital assets.
Jeff Marinstein
Founding Principal @ Marinstein & Company
Marinstein and Co., is a management advisory focused on strategy at the intersection of business and technology and an author of the blog Blockchain for Grownups.
Jeff is the Founding Principal of Marinstein and Co., a management advisory focused on strategy at the intersection of business and technology and an author of the blog Blockchain for Grownups. He is an Instructor-in-Residence at the UConn School of Business. Jeff spent 18 years at IBM as the global head of strategy and M&A for a $1.5B technology services business. He was the founder of Contingency Planning Research, a research and advisory firm specializing in risk management and IT strategy.
Wesley Jamieson
Associate, Management Consulting @ RSM US LLP
Wesley is one of RSM's National Lead Blockchain Technical Resources and an associate in RSM's Blockchain and Digital Asset Management Consulting Practice.
Wes Jamieson is one of RSM's National Lead Blockchain Technical Resources and an associate in RSM's Blockchain and Digital Asset Management Consulting Practice. Wes is involved in the creation of integrated client teams across all lines of business to address multi-dimensional client needs, the education of the firm on blockchain systems and their impacts to our clients and our firm. He has provided tax-consulting services on digital asset taxation compliance considerations to high net worth individuals, cryptocurrency exchanges, investment companies, and hard forked blockchains.
Joshua Frank
Founder @ The TIE
After Graduating from McGill University, Joshua began his career working at SS&C Technologies in post-trade settlement technology.
After Graduating from McGill University, Joshua began his career working at SS&C Technologies in post-trade settlement technology. Identifying a lack of trusted and transparent data and technology for cryptocurrency, Joshua decided to leave his role at SS&C to build The TIE full-time in March of 2018. The TIE provides data, analytics, order-routing, and financial management tools to enable traders to make faster and smarter decisions and enterprises to overcome technological and regulatory challenges.
Vijay Rathna
Director of Enterprise Applications @ Chateux Software
Vijay has had vast experience in leading global teams to deliver production-ready blockchain solutions using Hyperledger Fabric. At Chateaux, he has played the role of architecting blockchain solutions for Energy, Media, and Financial Service Clients.
As passionate programmer, he has been creating solutions with cutting edge technologies for the past 15 years. He has been working on blockchain technologies since 2012 and trained on Hyperledger with the Fabric team at IBM Hursley-UK.
Previously, Mr. Rathna worked at Scientific Games creating and leading teams to build award-winning products. His areas of expertise are Blockchain Solutions, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Before working at Scientific Games, he was the technology head of a startup in Bangalore, India. A constant learner, Mr. Rathna is pursuing his Masters in Technology Management from Columbia University, New York.
Scott Gralnick
Scott Gralnick, Co Founder of Portis
Scott Gralnick - co-founder & CBOPublished author turned entrepreneur Scott started his first software company in 2011 when apps were just becoming popular.From creating software companies to consulting with a focus on raising capital, branding, and post customer success, Scott has always been focused on the human aspect of interpersonal communication.
BIO Scott Gralnick - co-founder & CBOPublished author turned entrepreneur Scott started his first software company in 2011 when apps were just becoming popular.From creating software companies to consulting with a focus on raising capital, branding, and post customer success, Scott has always been focused on the human aspect of interpersonal communication. In early 2017 Scott focused his time in early-stage investing into blockchain companies. Scott lives and breaths to solve problems through human connection, and Portis has become the perfect place to do that.
Jesse Karasin
Jesse Karasin, Sr Consultant @ Synpulse Management Consulting
Jesse currently works for Synpulse, a global management consulting firm specializing in financial services. Jesse works closely with fintechs in order to improve processes and innovate at large organizations. Jesse is also part of the global security token offerings team, building awareness of the benefits that come along with tokenizing private assets.
Previously Jesse worked as a consultant to multiple entrepreneurs focusing on strategy, structuring buyouts, and raising different forms of capital. Before that he was as an equities trader and has received his MBA from Baruch College in NYC.
Wilson Withiam
Wilson Withiam, Research Analyst @ Circle
Cameron Bale
UX and Product Designer @ NFT.Kred
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Company: Dickins & Jones Ltd
Models on the catwalk in evening gowns at the Helena Geffers fashion show held at Dickins and Jones in September 1951.
Models wearing bridal gown on the catwalk at a fashion show for Dickins and Jones, c.1960s.
Models wearing rain macs and knee high boots at a fashion show for Dickins and Jones, c.1960s.
Window display of beach-wear at Dickins and Jones, c.1960s.
Window display of ladies dresses at Dickins and Jones, c.1960s.
Window display of ladies evening dress complete with head dress at Dickins and Jones, c.1960s.
'A quiet afternoon' (1859). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909.
'A tennis party' (1889). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909.
'Between the dances' (1879). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909.
'Caught by a shower' (1829). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909.
'Christmas on the ice' (1869). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909.
'Five o'clock' (1896). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909.
'Love at first sight' (1809). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909.
'Music after dinner' (1819). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909.
'Supper at the Savoy' (1909). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909.
'The academy private view' (1849). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909.
'The manoevres of the aeroplane' (1909). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909.
'The wedding morning' (1839). 'Upwards of a Century'. Dickins and Jones catalogue illustrating 100 years of fashion, 1909.
Accessories counters at Dickins and Jones, c.1970s.
Back cover of Dickins & Jones Ltd Winter Sports catalogue
Back cover of the Dickins and Jones autumn show catalogue, c.1980s.
Cover of programme for Helena Geffers fashion show held at Dickins and Jones in September 1951.
Dickins and Jones in the progress of being built in London, 1921
Dickins and Jones shop front in London, 1902.
Front cover of Dickins & Jones Ltd Winter Sports catalogue, 1913
Front cover of Dickins & Jones Ltd Winter Sports catalogue. If you were shopping for a skiing gift in London in the 1920s, Dickens & Jones would have been your first stop.
Front cover of the Dickins and Jones winter sports season catalogue, 1926-27.
Helena Rubenstein make up promotion evening for Dickins and Jones, c.1970s.
Page 15 of Dickins & Jones "Upwards of a Century" catalogue, printed in 1909, depicting Christmas on the Ice in 1869.
Page 2 of Dickins & Jones Ltd Winter Sports catalogue.
Winter boots, skates and skis advert in the Dickins and Jones winter sports season catalogue, 1926-27, page 8
Registration number: 66575
Company name: Dickins & Jones Ltd
Type of business: department store retailers
Richmond, England
Milton Keynes, England
In 1900 Dickins & Jones Ltd incorporated as a limited liability company, with a share capital of GBP600,000. The firm had a long established history, tracing back to the linen drapery of Thomas Dickins and William Smith which had premises at 54 Oxford Street, London in 1803. In 1835, the company moved into their impressive premises in Regent Street, which were to remain their flagship store until its closure in 2006. The imposing facade, built by Samuel Baxter, featured four large columns and the golden lion brought from the Oxford Street premises. By this time, the company had built up extensive connections based on the sale of quality goods at reasonable prices. In 1856, the death of Thomas Dickins, senior, allowed the creation of Dickins & Jones with Charles John Dickins, Henry Francis Dickins and John Prichard Jones as partners.
By 1900, the company was enjoying considerable success. The Regent Street store had grown, incorporating premises in Argyll Street which served as a warehouse. The 1890s had seen the growth of the store's traditional linen lines to include the sale of lace, dresses, furs, mantles, wedding trousseaux, mourning apparel, underclothing, gloves, umbrellas and a huge variety of oriental and other giftware. An afternoon tea room had been opened in 1895. The staff numbered around 200, most of whom lived-in at the Argyll Street lodgings. With a remarkable reputation for the quality of its goods and services, the store supplied royalty and the aristocracy. Appointments to the Princess of Wales, the King of Spain, the Queen of the Netherlands and King Louis Philippe of France were all held. In addition to its store in Regent Street, the firm also operated one of the largest-mail order businesses in London, circulating catalogues and patterns post-free on application. Its growing postal department, which offered free delivery to central and suburban London was based in premises in Argyll Street.
With the incorporation in 1900 the vendors, Charles John Dickins, Henry Francis Dickins, John Prichard Jones, and their sons, Charles Thomas Dickins, Frederick Albert Dickins and Vernon William Dickins, all remained directors and retained a high proportion of the issued shares. The 1900s witnessed a new kind of growth as Dickins & Jones Ltd began to take over other successful London firms including Lewis & Allenby, silk mercers, Conduit Street; Balls & Flint, baby linen retailers, Regent Street; Redmayne, tailors, Bond Street; and George Hitchcock, silk mercers, St Paul's Churchyard. This spate of acquisitions, masterminded by John Prichard Jones, store manager, extended the activities of the company and introduced, in particular, a new emphasis on silk. By the 1910s it had become apparent that the Dickins family was not interested in carrying on the business and Harrod's Stores Ltd, encouraged by John Prichard Jones, acquired a controlling interest in Dickins & Jones Ltd in July 1914. Richard Burbidge, managing director of Harrods and an astute businessman, assumed control although the store continued to trade as a separate entity. The store was brought completely into the ownership of Harrods Ltd in June 1968.
Within weeks of the Harrod's take over Britain entered the 1914-1918 World War and the Government commandeered all the store's delivery horses and huge numbers of staff joined up, making it difficult to maintain standards of service. However, the store continued to invest and in 1919, the entire island site on Regent Street and Argyll Street was finally secured. Between 1920 and 1922 the old building was pulled down and work began on a new store designed by Henry Tanner. The cost of the redevelopment was enormous at a time when trade was difficult and the value of stocks was collapsing. In 1923, GBP1 million of mortgage debenture stock was issued, on the security of the company's property, in order to repay outstanding loans. The new store included a library, tea rooms and restaurant and comprised a total sales area of 167,000 square feet. Later, hairdressing and theatre ticket departments were opened together with a whole floor devoted to inexpensive fashion. The building was not, however, completed until 1939 when the Argyll Street extension was opened.
The outbreak of the 1939-1945 World War brought difficult trading conditions for the store. Many of the male staff were called up and, whilst the store escaped major bomb damage, public air-raid shelters and a canteen were opened in the sub-basement and the third floor was requisitioned by the post office for telecommunication purposes. The post-war years witnessed gradual modernisation of the store. Heavy wooden fittings were replaced by glass counters, and in 1952, after the introduction of new advertising agents, the 'Lady in the Rose' trade mark was adopted. In 1947, the Lincoln Room was created as an extension to the restaurant, and a 'Younger Londoner' department was opened to attract new customers. In 1953, the store employed around 1,000 staff.
The acquisition of Harrods Ltd by House of Fraser Ltd in 1959, had limited direct impact upon the store. It remained a predominantly ladies' fashion store until 1969 when menswear, china and glass departments were opened. In 1968, the restaurant was refurbished and renamed the 'Rose Restaurant'. The following year saw the opening of the first branch store opened in Richmond, Surrey, England. The purpose-built, five-storey premises were one third of the size of the Regent Street building. In 1975, the two basements were redeveloped to convert the lower ground area into a sales floor for household goods. The basement opened in 1976 and, at the same time, the ground floor was completely refurbished. In 1981, a second branch store, comprising 70,000 square feet on two floors, opened in a brand-new shopping centre in Milton Keynes, England. The 1980s saw efforts to create a younger image for the Regent Street store, with a complete refurbishment undertaken between 1986 and 1988.
In 2005, House of Fraser plc announced the closure of the Regent Street store. Trading ceased at the store in January 2006, with the branches at Epsom and Richmond contiuing to trade under the Dickins & Jones name. In 2007, the decision was taken to rebrand these stores as House of Fraser, with the Dickins & Jones name falling out of use.
Records held for Dickins & Jones Ltd:
Title: Childrens' catalogues
Date: c.1940s-1960s
Title: Minutes of meetings of annual general meetings of shareholders
Title: Balance sheet books
Title: Property account ledger
Title: Private ledgers
Title: Private expenses ledgers
Title: Private cash books
Title: Private journals
Title: Cash book, B account
Title: Cash book relating to re-building of main block
Title: Private sales journals
Title: Salary books, managers and buyers
Title: General staff register
Title: Annual report and accounts
Title: Scrapbook of presscuttings relating to Dickins & Jones' finances.
Title: Scrapbook of financial reports relating to Dickins & Jones finances
Title: Career guides
Date: 1960s-c.1975
Title: Staff guide books
Date: c.1950-1981
Title: Promotional material relating to opening of Richmond store
Title: Staff photographs
Title: Press releases
Title: Appointment of managing directors
Title: Stationary samples
Title: Letter from Office of Commissioners of Crown Land
Title: C.H. Bromhead Lectures
Title: Store photographs
Title: Letters from T.C. Summerhays
Title: Deed relating to Dickins & Jones' cumulative preference shareholders' reserve fund
Title: Trust deeds for securing debenture stock
Title: Correspondence and deeds relating to preference shareholders' reserve fund
Title: Notices to shareholders regards changes to share and stock holding options
Title: Registers of loose sheets
Title: Register of directors' holdings and interests
Title: Agreements with Keith Prowse & Co. Ltd
Title: Valuation of properties
Title: Legal file
Title: Store plans for Richmond store
Title: Advertising expenses
Title: Departmental results
Title: Capital expenditure ledger
Title: Expense registers
Title: Comparative figures
Title: Mortgage register
Title: Insurance registers
Title: Register of payments of leases
Title: General Ledger
Title: Salary book
Title: Annual return 1934
Title: Article relating to children's party costumes
Title: 150 Years in Regent Street
Title: Store system manual
Title: Restaurant menus
Title: Leaflet for Dickins & Jones budget account
Title: Invitations and promotional cards for new collections and previews
Title: Staff parties
Title: Terms of employment
Title: Dickins & Jones policy
Title: Christmas card
Date: c.1950s
Title: Mr Haynes' reminiscences
Corporation name: Dickins & Jones
Connection type: In 1900 Dickins & Jones Ltd incorporated as a limited liability company, with a share capital of GBP600,000.
Corporation name: Harrods Ltd
Connection type: Harrods Ltd acquired a controlling interest in Dickins & Jones Ltd in 1914. It was brought completely into the ownership of Harrods Ltd in June 1968.
Access points: Department stores - Retail trade - Drapers
Argyll Street Department stores Drapers England London Milton Keynes Regent Street Retail Trade Richmond


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Hospice Limfjord er et hospice beliggende i Skive. Det blev indviet i 2007 og har plads til 12 patienter med familie. Hospicet har til huse i en af Skives mest bevaringsværdige bygninger, den gamle epidemibygning fra 1918 tilknyttet Skive Sygehus. Bygningen blev opført af arkitekt Erik V. Lind, der ikke mindst er kendt for sine mange mejeri-byggerier, og har også haft kælenavnet "mejeribygningen".

Ud over at pleje døende tager Hospice Limfjord også imod skoleklasser og har dialog med børnene om døden som et led i skoleprojektet Skives DNA.

Historie

Tanken om et hospice i Skive opstod i 2004, hvor Fællesforum, en overbygning over Skive kommunes 10 lokalråd for ældreområdet, holdt et stormøde om hospicetanken. På det tidspunkt var der fire hospicer i Danmark, nemlig Sankt Lukas Stiftelsens Hospice i Hellerup, Sct. Maria Hospice Center i Vejle, Hospice Søholm i Aarhus og Kamillianer Gaardens Hospice i Aalborg, men ingen i det nordvestjyske område. Der var stor tilslutning blandt skibonitterne til tanken om hurtigst muligt at få et hospice i Nordvestjylland. I første omgang støttede man et projekt i Holstebro, hvor "Støtteforeningen for Sct. Jørgen Hospice" allerede var i gang med planer for et hospice i denne by. Disse blev imidlertid ikke reaiseret, og i efteråret 2004 besluttede en initiativgruppe at arbejde videre for at etablere et hospice i Skive. Kort efter fremsatte regeringen lovforslag om at etablere et hospice i hvert af de daværende amter, hvilket satte gang i et kapløb om placeringen af et hospice for Viborg Amt. I december 2004 sendte initiativtagerne i Skive et brev til Viborg Amts Sundhedsudvalg, der også blev underskrevet af de fire borgmestre i Skive og Salling. Det såkaldte borgmesterbrev var starten på initiativgruppens officielle kampagne for at stifte et hospice i byen.

I april 2005 blev der etableret en støtteforening for tanken om et hospice i Skive. Initiativtagerne havde bestilt et lokale til 100 personer til den stiftende generalforsamling, men der kom det dobbelte. Samtidig blev planerne konkretiseret. Det blev således besluttet at satse på den tidligere epidemibygning på Skive Sygehus, som var blevet overflødig på grund af nedlæggelse af afdelinger på sygehuset, og som amtet ønskede enten solgt eller nedrevet. På det politiske plan konkurrerede tre lokale hospiceplaner om amtets gunst. Foruden Skive arbejdede lokale borgere i Kjellerup og i Vestervig i Thy på at få et hospice. Planerne i Vestervig blev dog uaktuelle for amtet, da blev klart, at Thy efter den kommende kommunalreform skulle høre under Region Nordjylland. I august 2005 skulle amtsrådet derfor vælge mellem de to øvrige forslag. Med 14 stemmer for Skive, 11 for Kjellerup og to, der undlod at stemme, blev Skive sejrherren. Den 31. oktober 2005 blev den selvejende institution Skive Hospice en realitet, og sidst på året blev man enige med amtet om en driftsoverenskomst og fik tilsagn fra ministeriet om økonomisk støtte fra den afsatte hospicepulje. Dermed var oprettelsen sikret. I 2006 købte man det tidligere epidemisygehus af amtet og ansatte Birte Markfoged som leder af hospicet.

Hospice Limfjord blev indviet 30. maj 2007 som en selvejende institution, og havde fra start en driftsoverenskomst med Region Midtjylland. Der er 12 patientstuer på ca. 35 m2.

Bygningen: Den gamle epidemibygning

Hospicet har til huse i den tidligere epidemibygning ved Skive Sygehus. Bygningen er opført i 1918 og fik ved udarbejdelsen af Skive kommuneatlas i 1995 tildelt bedømmelsen "høj bevaringsværdi".

I starten af 1900-tallet var Skive-egnen såvel som hele landet ofte hjemsøgt af smitsomme sygdomme som tyfus, skarlagensfeber og difteritis, og for sygehusene var det et vigtigt element i deres beredskab at være forberedt på sådanne udbrud. På Skive Sygehus, der blev etableret i 1886, tjente den oprindelige østfløj i de første årtier som epidemibygning. Dens kapacitet var tilstrækkelig under normale omstændigheder, men bl.a. under en stor tyfusepidemi i 1909 blev hospitalet overbelastet, og der måtte oprettes et udendørs nødlazaret i telte i byparken "Anlægget". Da sygehuset allerede i 1912 igen ramte sin kapacitetsgrænse under en epidemi med skarlagensfeber i Nordsalling, begyndte sygehusets overlæge og de lokale politikere at drøfte opførelsen af en ny epidemibygning. I 1916 købte man en nabogrund til byggeriet. Det blev overdraget den lokale arkitekt Erik V. Lind at opføre den nye bygning. Han har opført en lang række markante bygninger i Skive, men er allermest kendt for sit speciale: mejeribygninger, som hans tegnestue tegnede 350 af. Han tog også udgangspunkt i sine mejerier, da han skulle tegne den nye epidemibygning for sygehuset. Bygningens arkitektur kan derfor minde lidt om et mejeri, og den har derfor også fået kælenavnet "mejeribygningen". Det var en rød murstensbygning på tre etager med plads til 26 patienter og mulighed for udvidelse til yderligere 40-50 personer i tilfælde af et større udbrud. Bygningen blev taget i brug 26. september 1918. Man kan sige, opførelsen skete på et heldigt tidspunkt, da den spanske syge netop havde begyndt sin hærgen. Det første dødsfald i Skive som følge af sygen fandt sted i august 1918, og fra oktober tog epidemien fat for alvor. Epidemien rasede i månedsvis, indtil den ebbede ud.

I de følgende årtier blev epidemihospitalet anvendt under en række epidemier og også til tuberkulosepatienter. I 1934 blev bygningen ombygget og udvidet. Blandt andet blev facaden forsynet med et stort glasparti, der gav bygningen endnu større lighed med et klassisk Erik V. Lind-mejeri. I 1930'erne var der flere epidemier af skarlagensfeber, difteritis og børnelammelse. I 1945 ankom et par tusinde tyske flygtninge til Skive-egnen. En del af dem var smittet med tyfus eller difteritis og blev indlagt på hospitalet. I efterkrigstiden skete der store fremskridt indenfor bekæmpelsen af epidemiske sygdomme, og bygningen blev efterhånden anvendt af sygehuset til andre formål end det oprindelige. I 1957-73 fandt en stor og langvarig ombygning af Skive Sygehus stedd. De oprindelige bygninger fra 1880'erne blev revet ned og erstattet af nye. Epidemibygningen blev dermed det ældste af de tilbageværende bygninger. Med ibrugtagningen af de sidste dele af det nye sygehusbyggeri i 1973 blev der imidlertid mindre brug for den. 1973-84 var der intensivafdeling i bygningen, men derefter stod den tom og forfaldt efterhånden. Der blev ikke investeret mange midler i at vedligeholde den, og man begyndte at tale om at rive den ned. I 2004 afsatte Viborg Amtsråd et millionbeløb til at rive bygningen ned. Det stødte dog på lokale protester, også næret af, at bygningen i mellemtiden var blevet erklæret af høj bevaringsværdi. Bygningen blev derpå reddet af planerne fra 2005 om at indrette hospice. Da den nye institutions eksistens var sikret, blev bygningen grundigt renoveret og samtidig ombygget til sin nye funktion.

Patienter

Hospicet har mellem 150 og 200 patienter indlagt i løbet af et år på de i alt 12 patientstuer. De fleste patienter, der indlægges, har en kræftdiagnose. Den gennemsnitlige indlæggelsestid er omkring 22 dage. De fleste patienter er mellem 60 og 80 år. Der er frit hospicevalg i Danmark, sådan at patienterne kan komme fra hele landet. De fleste vælger dog et hospice, der liggr tæt på deres hjemkommune, mens enkelte vælger hospice ud fra, hvor deres pårørende er bosat. Hospice Limfjord modtager flest patienter fra Viborg Kommune, næstflest fra Skive Kommune og også et anseeligt tal fra Holstebro, Struer, Silkeborg, Morsø og Thisted kommuner.

Blandt andre fodboldspilleren Hugo Strunge og chefkonditoren Gert Sørensen tilbragte deres sidste tid på hospicet.

Støtteforening
Støtteforeningen for Hospice Limfjord er en forening der støtter Hospice Limfjorden økonomisk og med frivilligt arbejde. Foreningen har 892 medlemmer i juni 2019.

Som det første hospice i Danmark har frivillige i juli 2018 åbnet en genbrugsbutik, der støtter et hospice.

Referencer

Eksterne henvisninger
 Hospice Limfjords websted

Bygninger, konstruktioner og anlæg i Skive
Hospicer i Danmark
Etableret i 2007

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Persone
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China made a lot of news this week: In addition to engineering a mini-financial crisis in an effort to get a grip on its teetering banking system, Beijing also helped engineer American exile Edward Snowden's departure from Hong Kong to Moscow. Yet buried beneath these high-profile stories, three Chinese astronauts returned from a 15-day mission aboard the Shenzhou-10 space craft yesterday and, in the tradition of everyone who puts in a stretch of hard work, took the opportunity to take a load off.


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As far as retro styling goes, it doesn't get any closer to the original real deal than Kawasaki's W800 – yes, it even out-retro's Triumph's super cool classic Bonneville range. Take one look at the W800's peashooter-style exhausts, solid aluminium switchgear and dated 'round' front brake master-cylinder… all these details underline the fact W800 has only really been updated to comply with rules and regs (clean air system), and obviously built with modern materials and running gear. Apart from this the W800 is faithful to the W650 it replaced, which itself mimicked British bikes of the 60s but was an acknowledgement to the W1, a bike Kawasaki built in 1966. Powered by an air-cooled parallel twin engine 773cc, it is beautifully smooth engine made better with the addition of fuel-injection. Without the damping properties of water-cooling, the engine feels alive; alive in the sense you can feel the pistons travelling up and down the 77mm cylinder bores, hear the mechanical rustle of spinning metals. The claimed output of 47bhp is enough for a W800 rider to tick along without a care in the world at 70mph no problem and is a brilliant tool for taking in the roads and scenery at a relaxed pace. With peak torque appearing 2,500rpm, the W800 is surprisingly nippy from the lights. The chassis is also perfect for the claimed power output. Kawasaki did a good job of kitting the bike with suspension that is adequate for the decrepit state of the UK's roads and good everywhere else. But everyone likes to have fun on any bike. Work the W800 hard in spirited fashion highlights the plush action of the suspension by getting a little floaty over bumps and loose feeling through sweeping bends. If speed and corner action is your preference then look at Moto Guzzi's retro V7 Racer as an alternative. Otherwise, if you want nostalgia by the barrow load from a pleasurable, dependable and good looking bike with charm then Kawasaki's W800 is the only bike that matters.


Being part of the huge phenomenon of health and fitness pages on Facebook I have come to the conclusion about when it's a person that has lost weight that runs the page.
There are two types of formerly obese people.
1. They want to help everyone and understand that different things work for different people. They might be a bit perky but are filled with amazing information!
I have had the displeasure of having people come to me and ask me why people that were formally obese were so mean. This formerly obese chick has no idea why some are....it's kind of like asking why any person is mean. I'm just assuming they totally forgot where they came from and how hard it was to start. Basically, they let success go to their head.
I look at the weight I gained as a blessing. It keeps me grounded and humble that if I'm not really paying attention I can go back to where I started. It also shows you that I'm not perfect. Things happen, life happens. It is just up to you to mentally shake yourself and say "This has got to stop!"
I am all about self acceptance and loving yourself *but* because of those things that you will truly want to make life long improvements. Ironically none of the type 2 pages are like that.
Girl, I feel the same way about my weight that I gained. I feel like it was karma putting me in that position so I would know just how difficult it is and how it feels to be in those shoes. Don't let the sucky people bring you down. You're doing a beautiful thing.


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Former 'Car Czar' Takes On Auto Bailout And Bain
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This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan.
Steven Rattner now finds himself in the middle of two debates that will be key parts of this presidential campaign. President Obama's former car czar dismissed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's claims about the auto bailout as complete fantasy. But Rattner is also among the Democrats who criticized the president's attacks against Romney and private equity as unfair.
If you have questions about the auto bailout and the role of private equity, give us a call: 800-989-8255. Email us: talk@npr.org. You can also join the conversation at our website. That's at npr.org, click on TALK OF THE NATION. Steven Rattner, former counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner where he helped advice the bailout of the auto industry. He's currently chairman of Willet Advisors and joins us now by phone from New York. And it's nice to have you on TALK OF THE NATION today.
STEVEN RATTNER: Excuse me. Thanks so much for having me.
CONAN: And I wanted to ask you a question, an allegation that Romney has come up with an ad today and that is that what the president has done by using tax dollars to invest in companies like Solyndra and other clean energy corporations - these were investments that did not necessarily work out so well, Solyndra went bankrupt - this amounted to public equity gambling with the public's money on Wall Street.
RATTNER: The program under which the investment in Solyndra was made was one that was passed by Congress, endorsed, I think, by two presidents, as a way to try to jumpstart some of our activity in the alternative energy area. I would not argue that every investment - obviously Solyndra was not perfect - was done perfectly, but I think it was all done with the best intentions, which is to develop our capability in these other important areas.
CONAN: Does it - is it the equivalent of private equity, Bain, for example?
RATTNER: I think it's more the equivalent of venture capital, which is the business of starting new companies that will create jobs and trying to encourage them, provide them with the capital they need to grow. My only point, there's nothing that - about Bain Capital that is immoral or illegal or unethical. It's simply not a business that was geared toward job creation. It was a business geared toward wealth creation. As I said, there's nothing wrong with wealth creation. But Mitt Romney has tried to put it forward as job creation, and that's not what Bain Capital's agenda was.
CONAN: Yet you were also critical of the Democratic attacks, or at least in the advertising against Bain Capital, as a - I think the word vampire was used.
RATTNER: I was concerned that people not throw out the baby with the bath water, so to speak, that in judging Mitt Romney's job creation record, which, as I said, he made fair game, I did not want - I did not think it was fair. And I think the president made very clear that he saw this the same way I do, that we were - nobody was trying to demonize private equity or make them out to be an illegal or immoral or unethical business.
CONAN: What's the difference between a venture capitalist, which is what we hear the Republican candidate describe himself as now, these days, and private equity?
RATTNER: Both are — both serve legitimate purposes helping our economy and our capital markets function. Venture capital is generally thought of as the business starting new companies, investing in young companies - like Facebook was not so very many years ago - and nurturing them. And it has a certain halo around it. I wouldn't deny that because people think of it as more of a job creation kind of business. Private equity is another name for - a broader name for what used to be called the leveraged buyout business, which is more typically the business of buying under managed companies, more mature companies, putting a fair amount of debt on them but then - often cutting costs in order to make them more profitable.
Both, as I said, are important functions of a capitalist society, but one has more of a patina on it, which is why Mitt Romney prefers to run around the country calling himself a venture capitalist, even though Bain's business model shifted over the years and, by the mid-'90s or so, was really much more of a private equity or leveraged buyout kind of strategy.
CONAN: And, well, you know, there are - we're going to be arguing about the numbers about job creation and that sort of thing and who did what and when Mitt Romney left Bain and what's a legitimate account and what is - that's going to be a running argument. But it's the question, I think, as the president put it, does Mitt Romney's experience at Bain qualify him to be president of United States?
RATTNER: I think business skills are a useful thing to have. I think they do teach you a number of things that are helpful in other professions. But I don't think it's a direct qualification to be president or particularly, more accurately, a direct argument for why you're qualified to create jobs. They're just very different sets of skills.
And again, there's nothing wrong with business. I have worked in business and on Wall Street for 30 years. I think it performs an important role in the country and in the world. And I do think you learn things in business that are useful and other things you might use. Certainly, my business experience was helpful when I went to Washington to work on the cars, but it's not - but I'm certainly not qualified to be president. And I wouldn't argue that my Wall Street experience did qualify me to be president.
CONAN: Let's get the auto bailout as well. That will be a central argument in this campaign, particularly in places like Michigan and Ohio, which are going to be very important states. Mitt Romney has said in the primaries and since that, in fact, well, he should take credit. He came up with the idea of letting the companies go bankrupt, managed bankruptcy.
RATTNER: And this is one of these places where Mitt Romney was for it before he was against it, before he was for it again. I have - I read, I believe, every word or close to as many words as I could find that Mitt Romney has written or said about the auto rescues. And over the period from the fall of 2008 when he wrote that famous New York Times op-ed piece until - as recently his last few days, he's been on every side of this issue. He has changed position multiple times. It's very hard to know exactly what he thought and when he thought it.
In the fall or 2008, he did say, let them go bankrupt, but he also said the government should stay out of it. When President Obama made the decision to rescue the companies in the spring of '09, he criticized it. Then, a couple months ago on The Detroit News, he tried to take credit for it, and also said that it would have been better if President Obama had never done anything, which is obviously not correct. So he said reversely everything you can say about this at different times that - and in different ways. But I don't think at the end of the day, he's really contributing anything positive to what happened with the autos. And I think President Obama will be pointing that out repeatedly during the campaign.
CONAN: Well, you are obviously there, and again, you were working for the president, so let's not forget that. But you were there at the time. One of the things Mitt Romney said was private equity, private funds would have been available to General Motors and to Chrysler. And that would've kept the government out of it and realize much the same result that we have today.
RATTNER: As you point out, I was there. I was working for the president. So I'm - I do have a dog in the fight, but I also was there, and I believe I was aware of every overture, every conversation, every threat of a possibility that existed to try to save these companies. Let me be really clear. Nobody from the president on down was dying to put government money in these companies. We all would've much, much preferred a private solution. If anyone had come forward with the capital and the willingness to take this on, we would have happily let them play the role that the government ended up playing. But there was nobody, and I was there and I know that.
And so it's a complete red herring, dead end, whatever you want to call it, for Mitt Romney or anybody else. And he's not the only one to suggest that there was private capital available to solve this problem. There simply was no private capital in the spring of 2009 when many of us thought that we were in some kind of a free fall.
CONAN: So if the government had not offered the money, what would have happened?
RATTNER: There's no question what wouldn't have happened. Chrysler and General Motors would have run out of cash as - just as they did at the end of 2008. They would have - without the government help, they would have closed their doors. They would have laid off all their workers. They would have stopped production, and they would have liquidated.
And that's why it was actually - people forget, it was actually President Bush in the very end of 2008 who made the initial decision to put money in these companies because he and his secretary of the treasury, Hank Paulson, perfectly understood this and recognized that the government had a responsibility if it made reasonable financial sense to help these companies. So you had two presidents who understood that there was no private capital available for these companies. So why Mitt Romney thinks he has some other source of wisdom or knowledge on this is frankly beyond me.
CONAN: Steven Rattner, former counselor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, the former - used to be known as car czar. 800-989-8255. Email: talk@npr.org. And David's on the line with us from Walnut Creek in California.
DAVID: Hi. Thanks for taking the call. Quick question. What happened to the bondholders of GM and Chrysler after the TARP money was put into them? And did that deny them their day in court thus usurping the authority of the third branch of government, the court system?
RATTNER: That's a perfectly reasonable question. I've obviously been asked that a number of times before. First of all, there were no bondholders in Chrysler. They were banks. GM had bondholders and banks. The GM bondholders and the Chrysler banks did take very significant haircuts as part of the restructuring the bankruptcies. That's the way capitalism works. If you make an investment or you make a loan and it doesn't work out, you take a haircut.
It was litigated first in the bankruptcy court, which is normal. But then it was appealed. The Chrysler decision was the first one. That was the one that was appealed all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Not a single court in any way contradicted or reprimanded us for anything that had happened in the restructuring. Everyone upheld the decisions. So the third branch of government absolutely had a full look at this, and the decisions by every court, as I said, all the way right up to the United States Supreme Court, was unequivocal, that this was done completely in accord with the law.
CONAN: David, thanks for the call. Let's see if we'd go next to Cherie(ph). Cherie is with us from Minneapolis.
CHERIE: Hi. All of the candidates are discussing job creation and who's better at it and so forth. But my question is: Is it even the government's role to be involved in job creation?
RATTNER: That's a good question. I think it is the government's role to be involved in job creation in the broad sense, that - I think perhaps the most important job of the president, apart from keeping us safe, is to keep us prosperous, to keep the economy growing. And part of the economy growing is more jobs. And so, yes, I do think that macroeconomic policy and running good policies that will lead to more jobs is an important part of the president's job.
But I don't think the government should be in the business of what some people call industrial policy or picking winners or creating make-work jobs and things like that. I think the government has a macro overall responsibility for job creation. But we are very proud of the private-sector emphasis on our economy versus certain other countries, for example, a number in Europe. And I - and that's where would I draw the line.
CONAN: Isn't investing in a clean energy company like Solyndra, isn't that picking winners?
RATTNER: I would concede to you it is a gray area, and it's something that is much debated. I'm - I have almost two minds myself on this. I can look back in history and give you many examples in the past of places where the government got involved in building transcontinental railroads, for example, providing incentives for that; interstate highways, things that without which we would be not the same country. But on the other hand, I do worry about the government playing the role of investor.
So I think it's a gray area. I think it's a fine line. I can't draw the line very, you know, completely in black and white, but I do worry that we have to make sure we respect that line, yeah.
CONAN: So there's a concern. People say, infrastructure, but, boy, that can get tricky. Power plants are infrastructure.
RATTNER: Well, you also - remember, we - if you look at our - one of the problems is that we live in a competitive world. And if you look at the countries against which we compete, China certainly being one that's on everybody's mind but even countries like Germany. Germany provides very, very heavy incentives for the development of alternative energies like solar. They don't pick - I don't even know, actually, whether they pick individual companies per se, but they certainly have policies to encourage these kinds of companies, excuse me, to start.
So we - to the extent we decide to stay off that playing field, we are potentially risking our competitive position. So these are tough decisions, and I can't give you blanket pronouncements that I'm for or against it. I think we have to work our way through this - as I've described to this gray area, piece by piece and try to arrive at some sensible approaches.
CONAN: Steven Rattner, thanks very much for your time.
RATTNER: Thanks for having me.
CONAN: Steve Rattner, chairman of Willett Advisors, author of, "Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry," with us by phone from New York. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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No. 917 - Retreat - Methodist Church - "A record year for Retreat"
Retreat is a district north west of Lebrina in North East Tasmania. A settlement at Retreat centred on the junction of Retreat and Security Roads. In the 1920s and 1930s the settlement had a school, post office and a Methodist church. Nothing now remains with area now covered with pine plantations.
Very little is know about the Retreat Methodist church which fell under the Lilydale Circuit. This included Methodist churches at nearby Tunnel and Lebrina. The Retreat church is not listed in Max Stansall's Tasmanian Methodism (1975) as the church had ceased operating by the mid 1930s.
A single photograph of the church exists which reveals that the church was probably a converted cottage. It is likely that the Retreat church and school are one and the same building. Only a handful of newspaper reports exist which provide little information about the church's origins or demise. One of these, published in the Launceston Examiner in 1928, provides a glimpse of Methodist life at Retreat:
"Harvest thanksgiving services were held last Sunday in connection with the Methodist Church at Retreat. There were large congregations. The services were conducted by Rev. E. Thompson. The church was decorated with farm products. On Monday evening a concert and sale of gifts were organised. Messers. C. Haas, A. Barrett, P. Farrelly, and R. Haas, journeyed from Tunnel to help make the evening a success. Items were rendered by Misses Harrison and Corbel, Mrs Harrison and Mr F. Kerkham, Councillor Haas from Tunnel, occupied the chair, and also was the auctioneer. Super was provided by the ladies. The Takings for Sunday and the evening amounted to £5 6s 1d, a record year for Retreat".
This article will be updated if further information about this church becomes available.
The Retreat Methodist Church (undated) Source: QVMAG Collection
The location of Retreat in Tasmania's North East
Examiner, Wednesday 14 March 1928, page 10
Examiner, Saturday 18 November 1933, page 5
Examiner, Friday 16 February 1934, page 5
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stamp with particle attributes March 12, 2014, 5 p.m.
You just found a bug. It seems the attributes created by the new POPs is causing the Copy SOP's stamp function some confusion.
If I use the old POP Network and create particles, your example works right away.
If you need this to work in the meantime, you can reference age with a point() function in the Stamp SOP.
Please submit a bug report through the Support > Submit Bugs and RFEs link above.
isolating particles from the dop network. Feb. 1, 2014, 6:35 p.m.
Ctrl+Click on the Location Particles shelf tool then jump into the "location_particles" object and check out the settings of the Dop I/O SOP.
Point instance procedural May 7, 2012, 7:30 p.m.
Nope. I'm having the same issue as you where I try to set it up like the Delayed Load Procedural.


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Diversity in The Workplace Begins With Diversity in Thought
It's critical to think about your entire board, their professions and the perspective they can bring to your business. Banks, for example, are commonly made up of attorneys and accountants. With a group of leaders, who have similar backgrounds, a company will continue to be stagnant in today's business climate. It's critical to incorporate diversity of backgrounds and variety of vantage points, enabling a company to make more well-rounded, dynamic decisions.
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As environmental consciousness continues to be a topic of focus (see global consumers seek companies that care about environmental issues), a University of Calgary study found that organizations that appoint women to their board of directors boost their environmental performance. Of the 857 firms analyzed, read why select companies outperformed their counterparts.
How to Improve Employee Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
The growing importance placed on employee diversity and inclusion is due to its increasingly well-documented relationship to business outcomes. If your organization is focused on diversity and inclusion going forward, they must be a top-to-bottom business strategy – not simply an HR initiative. This article analyzes statistics behind diversity and offers initiatives that will lead to an inclusive workforce.
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