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"Father of modern country drumming"
Buddy Harman dies
By PETER COOPER • Staff Writer • Friday August 22, 2008
Buddy Harman, the percussion heartbeat of Music Row and Nashville's best-known and most-recorded drummer, died Thursday evening. He was 79, and suffered from congestive heart failure.
A native Nashvillian born Murrey Mizell Harman Jr., Mr. Harman played drums on more than 18,000 recordings, including Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman," Patsy Cline's "Crazy," Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire," Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man," Ray Price's "Crazy Arms" and Elvis Presley's "Little Sister." He was the first staff drummer on the Grand Ole Opry and the first prominent drummer in country music history, and his work helped secure country's place as a viable, popular and modern art form.
"Buddy Harman set the standard, both quantitatively and qualitatively, for what a great country drummer should be," wrote David Cantwell in Heartaches By The Number: Country Music's Greatest Singles. "The mind boggles at the number of musically distinctive and emotionally fitting ways Harman found to lay down a beat."
Mr. Harman was a master of the country shuffle (which he helped invent during the "Crazy Arms" session), and he was enough of a musical chameleon to play pounding rock 'n' roll on "Pretty Woman," stately, restrained pop on "I'm Sorry," graceful swing on Roger Miller's "King of the Road" and straight-ahead country on Loretta Lynn's "Coal Miner's Daughter."
"He's Nashville's all-around drummer, and he's the best drummer I ever worked with," said Harold Bradley, who played on thousands of sessions with Mr. Harman.
WSM air personality and country music historian Eddie Stubbs said of Mr. Harman, "If anybody could be called the father of modern country drumming, it would be Buddy. He defined the role of the drums in country music. No matter the song, he knew what to play. More importantly, he knew what not to play. Always."
Mr. Harman is survived by wife Marsha Marvell Irby; daughters Autumn Harman of Nashville and Summer Harman of Mt. Juliet; and sons Mark Harman of Franklin, Stanley Harman of Nashville and Murrey M. Harman III of Nashville; by six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, and by brothers Bob Higley and Richard Higley, both of Jacksonville, Fla.
Details concerning a memorial service are not yet available.
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"Music Row loses its heartbeat after Buddy Harman dies"
Drummer kept time to classic tunes
By PETER COOPER • Staff Writer • August 23, 2008
BUDDY HARMAN — 1928-2008
Buddy Harman, the percussion heartbeat of Music Row and Nashville's best-known and most-recorded drummer, died Thursday evening in hospice care. He was 79, and suffered from congestive heart failure.
A native Nashvillian born Murrey Mizell Harman Jr., Mr. Harman played drums on more than 18,000 recordings, including Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman," Patsy Cline's "Crazy," Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire," Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man," Ray Price's "Crazy Arms" and Elvis Presley's "Little Sister." He was the first staff drummer on the Grand Ole Opry and the first prominent drummer in country music history, and his work helped secure country's place as a viable, popular and modern art form.
Mr. Harman was a master of the hard-driving country shuffle (which he helped invent during the "Crazy Arms" session), and he was enough of a musical chameleon to play pounding rock 'n' roll on "Pretty Woman"; stately, restrained pop on "I'm Sorry"; graceful swing on Roger Miller's "King of the Road"; and straight-ahead country on Loretta Lynn's "Coal Miner's Daughter."
"He's Nashville's all-around drummer, and he's the best drummer I ever worked with," said Harold Bradley, who played on thousands of records with Mr. Harman.
WSM air personality and country music historian Eddie Stubbs said of Mr. Harman: "If anybody could be called the father of modern country drumming, it would be Buddy. He defined the role of the drums in country music. No matter the song, he knew what to play. More importantly, he knew what not to play. Always."
A schooled player
Both of Mr. Harman's parents played music, and his mother was a drummer. He grew up fascinated by the instrument, and he attended the Roy Knapp School of Percussion in Chicago. He took the nickname "Buddy" in honor of his hero, jazz drummer Buddy Rich.
Nashville session guitar ace Grady Martin was an early supporter, and Martin saw to it that Mr. Harman got a chance to play on a Moon Mullican session in September 1951, when Mr. Harman was 21. The session produced no hits, but Mr. Harman demonstrated his ability to lock in with other players, and he soon found himself in demand at a time when Nashville began to assert itself as a recording capital.
In the early 1950s, drums were, at best, an afterthought in Nashville music. Sometimes they were actually forbidden. Mr. Harman joined Carl Smith's band, and when Smith played the Opry,the show's management didn't allow Mr. Harman to so much as bring a snare drum on stage. Instead, Mr. Harman used brush sticks to play a "drum head" that was affixed to an upright bass. It was, Mr. Harman admitted, "very silly looking."
By the late 1950s, in part because of the ascent of the rhythmic terror known as rock 'n' roll, drums became more accepted and Mr. Harman took a job as the Opry's first staff drummer. In the studio, he proved himself able to move easily between country sessions and rock recordings.
"He's the example for us all to follow," said Eddie Bayers, who followed Mr. Harman as one of Nashville's in-demand drummers. "With a great musician, you feel the soul and the spirit, not the genre."
Jerry Carrigan played drums on Southern soul classics recorded in Muscle Shoals, and in the mid-1960s he headed to Nashville. In Music City, Carrigan looked to Mr. Harman as a mentor.
"He was the cat," Carrigan said. "I remember him with red pants, red shirt with the collar turned up, a black belt and black boots. He always had the coolest car and the coolest drums. And he was the consummate studio musician."
While the driving rock drum parts Mr. Harman played in the 1950s and '60s compel many listeners, Carrigan said his most impressive talent might have been the ability to play at low volumes and still bring a groove to the song.
"Most people can't play soft with any feel," Carrigan said. "Buddy was articulate at any dynamic or tempo. Anybody that says they didn't copy Buddy is a liar. He was an innovator. I'm telling you, man, the guy was unbelievable."
'A beautiful guy'
Bass player Bob Moore, who joined with Mr. Harman to complete the rhythm section on thousands of records, credits Mr. Harman not only with musical virtuosity but also with an emotional intelligence that helped sessions feel comfortable and friendly.
"He had such a great musical mind, but he was also such a kind, nice person," Moore said. "Buddy was funny in the studio, and he kept everybody feeling good."
Mr. Harman's temperament was a key element in his ability to mix with musicians of different stripes, in potentially exhausting work conditions. In the 1960s, Nashville's first-call session players often worked on three sessions a day. The men would get their hair cut at the studio, because there was no time to drive to an appointment.
In the studio, Mr. Harman also sought new ways to produce percussion sounds. On the Everly Brothers' "Till I Kissed You," he tuned his drums to produce a resonant, ringing "answer" to the vocals. On another session, he made a clicking sound by lightly striking a guitar neck with his drumsticks. Many times, he played brush sticks against a cardboard box.
"I asked him once what the strangest thing he played was," Bayers said. "He said, 'a spare tire.' I said, 'Two-ply or four-ply?' "
Mr. Harman continued playing numerous sessions into the 1980s, when he and Moore joined Jerry Lee Lewis' touring band. He also worked for the Nashville Association of Musicians, tracking down royalties for players whose work was used in television and movies. Mr. Harman also worked the Opry, drumming there regularly through the 1990s and into the new century, and sharing his experiences and expertise with younger acolytes.
"He was the biggest inspiration to me," Bayers said. "And in spite of how great he was, he didn't have a pretentious bone in his body. He was a beautiful guy."
Mr. Harman is survived by his wife, Marsha Harman; daughters Autumn Harman of Nashville and Summer Harman of Mt. Juliet; sons Mark Harman of Franklin, Stanley Harman of Nashville and Murrey M. Harman III of Nashville; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; and brothers Bob Higley and Richard Higley, both of Jacksonville, Fla. Son Richard Harman preceded Mr. Harman in death.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Alive Hospice, 1718 Patterson St., Nashville, TN 37203.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, with visitation one hour before service time at Brentwood-Roesch-Patton Funeral Home, 9010 Church St. E., Brentwood, TN 37027. 615-373-3040.
New York TIMES:
Buddy Harman, 79, Busy Nashville Drummer, Is Dead
By BILL FRISKICS-WARREN
Buddy Harman, a prolific and influential drummer whose rhythmic signature can be heard on thousands of recordings by the likes of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline and Simon and Garfunkel, died on Thursday at his home in Nashville. He was 79.
He had been suffering from congestive heart failure, said his daughter Summer Harman, who confirmed his death.
Mr. Harman played on an estimated 18,000 recordings, many of them major hits, in a career of more than five decades. He worked most sessions with the celebrated "A Team" of studio musicians who shaped the Nashville Sound of the 1950s and '60s, performing on Cash's "Ring of Fire," Roger Miller's "King of the Road" and Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man," along with scores of hits by Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Dolly Parton, Ray Price and others.
Mr. Harman also made his mark on the pop charts, making distinctive contributions to records like the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love," Presley's "Little Sister," Simon and Garfunkel's "Boxer" (as a percussionist) and Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." He played — bass, not drums — on Ringo Starr's 1970 country album, "Beaucoups of Blues."
Versatility and imagination were among Mr. Harman's great strengths as a musician. He could play everything from big-beat rock 'n' roll, as demonstrated by his pile-driving 4/4 on Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman," to intimate cocktail jazz, as heard on his empathetic brushwork on Cline's "Crazy."
Drums were not commonly used in country music when Mr. Harman started working sessions in Nashville in the early 1950s. Later that decade, when he became the first house drummer for the Grand Ole Opry, he had to play behind a curtain because drums were not allowed on the show's stage at the time. Before long, though, Mr. Harman had established his instrument as an integral voice in modern country music.
Murrey Mizell Harman Jr. was born Dec. 23, 1928, in Nashville. His mother, who played drums in the family band, was an early musical inspiration, along with jazz players like Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich.
Mr. Harman began drumming while in his early teens and went on to perform in bands while serving in the Navy. Later, after two years of college in Nashville, he enrolled in the Roy Knapp School of Percussion in Chicago. On returning to Nashville in 1952 he played in the band of Carl Smith, a future member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, and began doing studio work. By the mid-'50s, Mr. Harman had become the first-call drummer for recording sessions that were being booked on what became known as Nashville's Music Row.
He was less active in the studio as the 1970s gave way to the '80s. He eventually resumed work at the Opry, while also serving as the business agent for the Nashville chapter of the American Federation of Musicians.
Besides his daughter Summer, of Mount Juliet, Tenn., Mr. Harman is survived by his wife of more than 40 years, Marsha Harman; his sons Mark, of Franklin, Tenn., and Stanley and Murrey M. III, both of Nashville; another daughter, Autumn, also of Nashville; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Another son, Richard, died in 2007.
"I just went into Dad's room," Summer Harman said in a telephone conversation in June, when her father's health had been declining, "and he was playing drums in his sleep. He had a smile on his face and was tapping on his chest."
From the old buddyharman.com:
Buddy Harman, one of Nashville's outstanding session drummers, has played his solid, driving beat on over 18,000 recording sessions in the last 40 years.
Harman, along with only a handful of top musicians, is recognized by the Hall of Fame for creating the "Nashville Sound." This unique musical sound helped Nashville to become known as one of the top music meccas in the world.
Besides being acknowledged by the country music community, Buddy Harman is recognized for contributing to the rock-and-roll era with his performance on many recordings including the Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown" and being a mainstay on Elvis Presley's soundtrack recordings both in Nashville and Los Angeles. He also played on many recordings by Roy Orbison and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Harman has played drums on countless records with a variety of recording artists that reads like a page out of "Who's Who." These artists include: Elvis Presley, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Brenda Lee, Tammy Wynette, Loretta Lynn, Roy Orbison, Connie Francis, Chet Atkins, Marty Robbins, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Lynn Anderson, George Jones, Kenny Rogers, Perry Como, Merle Haggard, Charlie Rich, Roger Miller, Jimmy Dean, Simon & Garfunkel, Ann Margret, Nancy Sinatra, O.C. Smith, George Burns, Reba McEntire and many others.
Besides being the first staff drummer on the Grand Old Opry, some of Harman's accolades include: "Drummer of the Year" in 1981 from the Academy of Country Music, "Super Picker" award for drums on the most #1 recordings from the Nashville NARAS chapter in 1975 and 1976, and the Nashville Super Picker nomination for "Best Country Instrumental Performance" in 1979 for the Live From Austin City Limits album.
"One of the highlights of my career was having the privilege of performing for four of our nation's presidents," Harman says. These presidents were John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.
Buddy Harman, an accomplished musician, exemplifies the qualities of a true professional in the recording business.
Harman has played on some of the biggest hits of Opry stars: Charlie Walker, Billy Walker, Jeannie Seeley, Hank Snow, Jim & Jesse, Roy Acuff, Roy Clark, Justin Tubb, Roy Drusky, The Carlisles, Mac Wiseman, Skeeter Davis, Vic Willis Trio, Wilburn Brothers, Jimmy Dickens, Osborne Brothers, Louvin Brothers, Jim Ed Brown, Wilma Lee & Stoney Cooper, Ray Pillow, Jimmy C. Newman, Jack Greene, Del Reeves, Johnny Russell, Stonewall Jackson, Porter Wagoner and Bill Anderson. He has played on numerous jingles, TV and radio shows and movie soundtracks.
Harman has played on several European Tours with various artists including The Nashville Superpicker Band and Jerry Lee Lewis.
As of May 1991, Harman is again the staff drummer at the Grand Ole Opry, in Nashville, Tennessee.
All Music Guide Bio:
Nashville-born session drummer Buddy Harman has been around country music so long that he actually pre-dates the time when drums were even used on country records. In fact, it was Harman who formed the foundation from which subsequent Nashville drummers built upon. The longtime studio ace is recognized by the Country Music Hall of Fame as being among the small handful of musicians who pioneered the "Nashville Sound."
Following in his mother's foot steps, Harman took up the drums before his teens and, after a stint in the military, studied percussion in Chicago under Roy Knapp. Upon his return to Nashville Harman learned that, contrary to what was protocol before his departure, artists were now asking for drums on their records. Splitting his time between session work and drumming in a strip joint, Harman played on early recordings by Patsy Cline (including "Crazy" and "Walking After Midnight") and Marty Robbins. Whereas Harman had first taken to using only a snare drum and brushes, by the early '60s he was utilizing a full kit for artists such as the Everly Brothers and Elvis.
Because he was there from the beginning, and in many aspects actually pioneered country drumming within a studio context, Harman has played on several legendary sessions, Roger Miller's "King of the Road," Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire," Tammy Wynette's "Stand By Your Man" and Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" being just a small list. In 1991 Harman returned to the stool of house drummer at the Grand Ole Opry, a position he originated in 1959. A walking history book of the evolution of Nashville and country music, Harman has played on over 18,000 sessions making him arguably the most recorded drummer ever. ~ Steve Kurutz, All Music Guide
R. Stevie Moore's tribute follows:
Oh MURREY!!!!!
My whole life is flashing by my eyes. Buddy and Dad were like brothers in the studio, but mainly close personal friends only during the 50s and 60s, when all the musicians and wives/families would socialize, usually boating out on old hickory lake. Buddy and Dee + Bob and Betty. I usedta play with their son Stan when I was a real young boy.
I even did many record sessions with Buddy too, even though I was only bassing on the cheap demo sessions. Buddy was quiet but very very nice & unassuming. He was like Ringo before Ringo, not just solid playing but the similar beatnik look.
He played left handed.
That's him rocking all the important Elvis 60s sessions, some even doubling with D.J. Fontana.
In June of 1958, while Elvis was on two weeks leave from the Army before shipping overseas to Germany, RCA scheduled what would be Elvis' final recording session of the 1950s. It was at their new facility on 16th Ave South (Music Row) in Nashville. It was his final session until he came back from the Army and the first (aside from "Love Me Tender") to use "mainly" studio musicians. It was becoming the norm in Nashville and elsewhere that, in the studio, recording was done with the "house band", not the "touring band". The last sessions with the original band, aside from DJ Fontana, had been at Radio Recorders in February. The band put together by Chet Atkins consisted of Nashville A-Teamers Hank Garland on guitar, Bob Moore on bass, Floyd Cramer on piano and Buddy Harman along with DJ on drums. The Jordanaires were brought in on vocals with newcomer Ray Walker replacing Hugh Jarrett as the new bass singer with the group from then on. Scotty Moore and Bill Black were not participants.
The last time I saw him was August 1984, when Dad flew me out to see them backing Jerry Lee Lewis at The Palomino Club in Los Angeles. We hugged.
Man I'm so deeply affected this morning.... he meant SO much to RSM for decades.
RSM's BH photo album
5-minute audio documentary: lostandsound.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/drummer-buddy-harman-shaping-the-nashville-sound/
www.nashvillesound.net/current/buddy_harman.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Harman
Jerry Lee Lewis, Berlin 1985 video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2EdXXaVoqk
A-Team Reunion CD: www.cdbaby.com/cd/ateam
Son Ric Harman: www.thatdevilmusic.com/2007/06/ric-harman-wrong-band-remembered.html
Richard's obit: www.outandaboutnewspaper.com/article.php?id=1652
BOB MOORE pages

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Headlines from China: 'Saturday Fiction' Cancels December 7 Release
'Saturday Fiction' Cancels December 7 Release
Chinese drama film Saturday Fiction, which is directed by Lou Ye and stars Gong Li, announced on Weibo that the film's December 7 release has been cancelled. The post was published on December 7, the day when the film was previously scheduled to open. In the post, it's also mentioned that the film team decided to "adjust the original release date" and the new date is yet to be determined. Saturday Fiction also stars Mark Chao, Zhang Songwen, Japanese actor Joe Odagiri, and German actor Tom Wlaschiha. Earlier this year, the film premiered at Venice International Film Festival and entered its main competition section. Read more on cnBeta
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Hainan Film Festival Announces Winners of First Competition Section
The 2nd edition of The Hainan Island International Film Festival (HIIFF) closed on December 8th and announced winners of its inaugural Golden Coconut Awards. According to the festival, a total of 1495 films from 80+ countries and regions were submitted to compete for the awards, which includes 10 categories. The Best Picture went to Pema Tseden's latest film Balloon. The film's female lead, Tibetan actress Sonam Wangmo, also crowned Best Actress for her performance. Sami Bouajila from France and Ryuhei Matsuda from Japan shared the award for Best Actor. Chinese film A First Farewell's helmer Wang Lina won the Best Director. In addition, HIIFF's project market H!Action crowned five projects with cash prizes from RMB500, 000 to RMB3 million, including Fate, Run Bai Run, Climb on My Old Suffering, My Father Is A Policeman, and Assassin and Postcards. Read more on HIIFF
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'Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon' Scores China Release
Produced by Aardman Animations, the 2019 British stop-motion animated film Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon has been confirmed to release in China on December 28. In 2015, the first movie of the franchise Shaun the Sheep Movie also got a theatrical release in China and received positive reviews from the local audience. Directed by Will Becher and Richard Phelan, the sequel follows Shaun and the flock who embark a new adventure to help an alien find a way to return her home planet. Read more on Mtime
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Not a few people outside this country have a negative view of Chinese wines whether they have tried them or not. Given this, a Chinese wine that scores "above average" on Robert Parker's website might be seen as a victory for the local scene.
80-89: A barely above average to very good wine displaying various degrees of finesse and flavor as well as character with no noticeable flaws.
70-79: An average wine with little distinction except that it is a soundly made. In essence, a straightforward, innocuous wine.
The math is simple enough: Perrotti-Brown scored 18 of 20 Chinese wines as average or better. Those kind of figures don't match my six years of tasting in China. Then again, Grace and Silver Heights are regarded as among the best in the country whereas I have been trying a lot of wines from less professional and/or dodgier makers.


i've been reading these Ford forums (mostly Fiesta and Focus) for a long time and don't ever recall seeing this mentioned before.
Expansion bottle going brittle and failing.
Turbo issue with coolent (nylon pipe failing) suppose to help by idling the car after a hard drive or long run for 20 - 30 seconds suppose to help avoid this.
Well that's not quite what happens lol, but yes the oil pumps are a known failure on the 1.0. The lack of lubrication then kills the engine.
What would people say is the preventative measure on this then? Replace pump every 20k?
What's the cost of a new pump these days?
The oil light does usually come on but people seem to think it's not urgent and they can still drive it home... It often starts by just flickering on and off a few times as well.
The strainer on the oil pump tends to block up over time rather than sudden & total mechanical failure of the pump.
Regular oil changes with decent oil are the best preventative maintenance you can do.
The pumps on these are variable and semi electronically controlled so I can't see them being cheap but can't seem to find the right one online myself.
"The oil light does usually come on but people seem to think it's not urgent and they can still drive it home... "
I know what you mean - people I know who don't understand how an engine works don't understand how critical oil pressure is and how important the light is.
If the oil pressure light comes on when the engine is running it means it is causing damage right now, right this very second and every second the engine is left running is doing more damage.
For 30 years I have been telling my wife that if that oil light ever comes on with the engine running then stop the engine and don't drive it. I bet if it happened today she will still drive home though and then tell me later.
these engine were on BBC watchdog (inside the last year) regarding coolant loss due to a cracked waterway into the exhaust port of the cylinder head....(with coolant thus leaking from cyl head into the exhaust, without any visual clues under the bonnet - other than coolant bottle going empty), I can imagine running hot will tend to cook the engine oil till its far more likely to clog stuff up but its a bit late anyway?


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"What did you want to be growing up? ... A Girl!"
Forty years ago, Maggie was born a boy. She grew up within a dysfunctional family in Irvine, CA. Her parents eventually divorced when she was a small child, around the time she started feeling she should have been born a girl. As it pertains to her transition, Maggie explains that she kept it within herself for about 30 years. She finally came out and told her family when she was 35, and was soon exiled and left with no support system. "Coming out was the most emotional moment in my life", she explained. As Maggie became her new person, she lost everything. "Imagine a life where you have zero support." Today, Maggie has regained a support system and community at the LGBT Center on 4th in Downtown Santa Ana. Every Tuesday she spends time with Ray, a volunteer at the community center. He is considered a dear friend to Maggie. Despite her past, Maggie finds joy and laughter in the little things. She vows to "Let the past be the past" so that she's free to find happiness in things like the word "fart" and time spent with domesticated possums she's raised on the streets.
Maggie's two rules in life are, "Be nice to people", and "Get up just one more time when you fall." She hopes to have her transitional surgery this year and aims to become an advocate for the LGBT community. When I met Maggie, I knew she was going to stretch my creativity. She asked me to "barf colors", so that her painting was the most colorful piece I've ever done. As I began her piece, a strong connection starting building between me and her story. I found myself second-guessing many of my color choices and brush strokes as I aimed to capture her beauty. I quickly became frustrated, but breakthrough was around the corner. My heart then began to build empathy as I meditated on these feelings. I reasoned, Maggie must have felt this same frustration for the 30 years spent alone in her thoughts before coming out. It made my painting irritations seem minuscule at best. But I used it to connect with Maggie's emotions. The piece stretched me as an artist. Forever grateful for Maggie's heart and friendship.


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Canada's highest-paid CEOs will earn what the average worker makes in a year by lunchtime today
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The wage gap at the top means that, on average, men earn about $950,000 more annually than women in similar executive positions.Getty Images files
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The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives calculates that of the more than 1,200 named executive officers, or NEOs, at 249 publicly traded companies in Canada, women earn about 68 cents for every dollar made by their male counterparts.
The study says the gap closes to 86 cents when looking at the wages of women and men in senior manager roles, almost in line with the country's overall pay gap of 87 cents based on Statistics Canada calculations.
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"This is certainly about executives — that's what we're looking at — but I think it's reflective of what's happening throughout corporate Canada and the difficulties that women face in getting a fair shake even if they do have the qualifications," said David Macdonald, the centre's senior economist.
The findings are attached to the left-leaning centre's annual report on the salaries of Canada's highest-paid CEOs, who are estimated to earn what an average worker makes in a year by the time lunch rolls around Wednesday.
A review of corporate filings of publicly traded companies shows the top CEOs earned an average of $10 million in 2017, the most recent year available, or about 197 times more than the average worker.
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Interviews with about a dozen executives revealed a range of reasons.
They told The Canadian Press about how companies rely on the "old boys' club" for executive searches. They also spoke about how outdated — and unchallenged — corporate culture in some companies leave women out of top jobs or fail to provide workplace support. The executives also mentioned a lack of confidence and risk-taking among women, an issue highlighted in academic research on executive pay.
Macdonald's report zeros in on three issues.
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Second, "performance pay" given to top executives — stock, stock options or cash rewards based on how a company performs — is predominantly higher for men than women. Eliminating bonus pay from the equation shrinks the gap to 82 cents, or almost the gap in the wider workforce.
Finally, companies that have more women in their executive ranks tend to be smaller organizations, and therefore pay less than their larger counterparts, Macdonald said.
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Dowson: We've got to hit the ground running this week
Monday 26 May, 2014
In lifting the Amlin Challenge Cup, the Saints ensured that the season would finish with a trophy for the first time since 2010. But the campaign is not over, and Dowson knows that nothing short of top form will be needed against the team that finished top of the Aviva Premiership table.
"The atmosphere that was incredible at Franklin's Gardens for the Leicester match carried on in Cardiff," he told SaintsTV. "To feel that and to hear the crowd was fantastic, right from the welcome off the bus.
"We've got one more game and we can't go over the top. The bigger picture is that we have to sacrifice partying for recovery and hitting the ground running on Monday to prepare for Saracens, because we know that they're going to be doing the same.
"It's going to be a hugely physical game but at the same time Saracens have got a big squad with loads of quality and depth. So they're going to put a side out at Twickenham that's full of class and that will be hungry for success."


Marketers in healthcare systems juggle a myriad of brand assets across an array of media. From patient relations to internal signage to external communications, your logos, font and color systems, messaging, and content really are just that – an asset that holds and conveys the organization's value.
As such, the way you manage your brand assets helps to build efficiencies across the organization. The right digital asset management system can streamline content production and delivery, build credibility with current and prospective consumers, and strengthen your organization's culture from within.
Cost savings and culture building become especially important during a merger. Brand assets in transition require additional oversight; further, research has found that about 75 percent of M&A deals fail to deliver their expected value, often as a result of cultural onboarding issues. In addition, research by Adobe in 2017 found that 29 percent of healthcare organizations plan to prioritize content marketing in the next few years.
Clearly, finding and utilizing the best-fit brand asset management system can create a significant positive impact during a merger – even more so if you're also ramping up content marketing efforts at the same time.
While digital asset management is a strong player in brand management, it often has limitations in the breadth of content management it offers. For instance, DAM systems don't always tie to printed output or offer ecommerce for ordering warehoused inventory – capabilities that are critical to rebranding and mergers.
One early and still reliable form of digital asset management is marketing resource management (MRM), offering organizations a platform built on a centralized database from which assets can be created and managed in house. MRM systems can handle large amounts of content and a customized platform for the specific needs of a single organization. Such systems are particularly well suited to consolidating the diverse data and resources that come together in a merger.
The core advantage of marketing resource management is that it facilitates the comprehensive management of branded assets. Combined with a user-friendly interface, MRM allows content managers to maintain brand control, stay in compliance, increase production and distribution speed, and reduce waste.
Additional tools, such as MarCom On Demand, empower marketers throughout a given network to access content they need while still enabling managers to maintain brand quality and consistency. When you minimize miscommunications; reduce waste of time, effort, and money; and maximize transparency and freedom, you not only improve your marcomm operation – you make a huge contribution to your merged brand's credibility and culture.
Designed to support outbound patient communications, customer communications management (CCM) systems (such as the one Strata Company provides) enable healthcare organizations to automate the creation of brand-specific communications. Among its many capabilities, a CCM solution can, for instance, capture patient data, create unique profiles, and build one-to-one communications in real time. This allows you to streamline, simplify, and accelerate effective branded communications on a very large scale. Further, CCM enables you to meet deadlines more easily, minimize error, and ensure regulatory compliance.
Strata Company offers MarCom On Demand and Corspon to enable marketers to exceed expectations and overcome challenges involved in healthcare mergers and other complex transitions. We offer dynamic templates, 24/7 cloud-based secure access, tracking and reporting, and more. Contact us to learn more.


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/*exported should*/
var exec = require('child_process').execSync;
var should = require('should');
var fs = require('fs');

describe('index', function () {
  var baseCommand, deployObject;
  beforeEach(function (done) {
    baseCommand = 'node index ';
    deployObject = {
      svnPath: 'https://svn.com/',
      deployPath: 'https://github.com',
      svnUser: 'test',
      svnPassword: 'pw',
      gitUser: 'test',
      gitPassword: 'pw'
    };
    fs.writeFile('./good.json', JSON.stringify(deployObject), function (err) {
      should(err).equal(null);
      done();
    });
  });

  it('should throw an error if a deploy.json file is not present in the root directory', function (done) {

    exec
      .bind(null, baseCommand)
      .should.throw(/Please create a deploy\.json/g);

    done();
  });

  it('should throw an error if the json path provided does not exist', function (done) {
    exec
      .bind(null, baseCommand + ' ./deploy.json')
      .should.throw(/Please create a deploy\.json/g);

    done();
  });

  it('should throw an error if the json provided is invalid by syntax', function (done) {
    fs.writeFile('./syntaxError.json', 'test', function (err) {
      should(err).equal(null);

      exec
        .bind(null, baseCommand + './syntaxError.json')
        .should.throw(/Deploy JSON invalid/g);

      fs.unlink('./syntaxError.json', function (err) {
        should(err).equal(null);
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  it('should throw an error if the json provided is invalid by content', function (done) {
    fs.writeFile('./bad.json', '"test"', function (err) {
      should(err).equal(null);

      exec
        .bind(null, baseCommand + './bad.json')
        .should.throw(/Deploy JSON invalid/g);

      fs.unlink('./bad.json', function (err) {
        should(err).equal(null);
        done();
      });
    });
  });

  it('should throw an error if the svn path | deploy path | svn credentials | git credentials provided in json is missing', function (done) {
    fs.writeFile('./noInfo.json', JSON.stringify({}), function (err) {
      should(err).equal(null);

      exec
        .bind(null, baseCommand + './noInfo.json')
        .should.throw(/\[Missing svnPath\]\[Missing deployPath\]\[Missing svnUser\]\[Missing svnPassword\]\[Missing gitUser\]\[Missing gitPassword\]/g);

      fs.unlink('./noInfo.json', function () {
        should(err).equal(null);
        done();
      });
    });
  });

});

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Nancy Tellem, Former CBS TV Executive, Heading to Microsoft Studios
Posted by Doug Dobbins at 5:05 pm on September 18, 2012
According the sources familiar with the matter,Microsoft has hired Nancy Tellem, a former CBS television executive. Her role at Microsoft is expected to be oversight of original video content to be delivered to the Xbox 360 game console. Ms. Tellem will supervise a Los Angeles-based production studio that will generate both conventional television-like shows as well as interactive content that fuses television and game content.
Tellem will report to Phil Spencer, the vice president of Microsoft Studios, the division Microsoft that oversees matters related to the Xbox console and brand. "Our early discussions with Nancy around what television could mean on the Xbox platform went well and it became clear her expertise from the television industry could accelerate the strategy we were pursuing," Said Spencer. "We have always known the goal for Xbox is to be a platform for all forms of content."
"What's so exciting about this opportunity is we're looking at the next iteration of television," Tellem said. "We're starting from scratch and we'll be looking at linear and interactive content, both longer-form, like television, and shorter form."
While the hiring is a new report to the technical industry, Tellem has been rumored to be headed to Microsoft for months in the entertainment industry press. Tellem's hiring by Microsoft came from talks that started earlier this year when she met with Microsoft while working as advisor to CBS chief executive Les Moonves.
During her time at CBS, including a stint as president for a time, she drove the migration to digital media, and oversaw the development of CBS.com. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and has received a National Association of Television Program Executives' Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award, which recognizes television professionals who exhibit extraordinary passion, leadership, independence and vision in the process of creating TV programming.


It isn't exactly Christmas-in-May, but for some Henry County consumers, a valuable present they weren't expecting will show up this month. The surprise gift will arrive in the form of a boost to their all-important credit score. The newly minted credit scores could be improved by as much as 30 points—enough of a jump that some Henry County recipients could find themselves newly eligible for home loans with lower rates. That will happen if the increase promotes them from one credit score "band" to the next.
The windfall comes as a result of a revision in the way the three major credit bureaus—Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion—deal with tax records (the negative ones, that is). Up until mid-April, any tax lien that appeared in Henry County consumers' credit records resulted in significant dings to their credit scores. An overdue tax bill of any kind was scored as a major no-no—and until mid-April, that was a black mark that marred more than 5 ½ million U.S. citizens' credit scores.
This was true even though the reporting agencies had already removed almost all civil judgment data from consumer records last July—including about half of existing tax liens. The reason then was the same as the reason now: scads of incorrect identifying information. It seems that simple mistakes like same-name cross-ups or bureaucratic updating failures had become so common that the histories could no longer be considered reliable. That put the credit agencies in legal jeopardy—a situation that could only be remedied by striking all of the tax lien records.
For consumers with Henry County credit scores that had been affected, the impact on their home loan prospects will vary. If they are already in a superior rating band, the result will be a ho-hum. But for those with lower scores, the boost might be decisive.
Credit scores are one area where it pays to be vigilant when it comes time to buy and finance a home. Another is in selecting the right experienced Henry County real estate agent. That's where I come in: I hope you'll give me the nod!


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Jeroen Piket (Leiden, Països Baixos 27 de gener de 1969) és un jugador d'escacs neerlandès, actualment retirat de la competició, que té el títol de Gran Mestre des de 1989.

Tot i que ha romàs inactiu des d'octubre de 2003, a la llista d'Elo de la FIDE de novembre de 2011, hi tenia un Elo de 2624 punts, cosa que en feia el jugador número 6 dels Països Baixos. El seu màxim Elo va ser de 2670 punts, a la llista de gener de 1995 (posició 12 al rànquing mundial).

Resultats destacats en competició
Piket va guanyar quatre cops el Campionat d'escacs dels Països Baixos, els anys 1990, 1991, 1992, i 1994. Entre altres notables resultats, en destaca una victòria al fort torneig Dortmund Sparkassen el 1994, i un segon lloc al Torneig Hoogovens de 1997. El 1999 guanyà el fort Torneig Magistral del Festival d'escacs de Biel, a Suïssa.

Va empatar un matx contra Anatoli Kàrpov, celebrat entre el 21 de febrer i el 2 de març de 1999 a Mònaco, pel marcador de 4–4 (totes vuit partides foren taules). L'any següent, va guanyar un torneig per internet organitzat per kasparovchess.com, tot vencent en Garri Kaspàrov a la final. El 2000 va jugar un matx a Canes contra Vladislav Tkatxov, amb el resultat de 4-4 (+2 =4 -2). El 2001 guanyà el torneig de Vlissingen.

Altres activitats
Piket va col·laborar amb Lev Polugaievski en l'edició del llibre Sicilian Love - Lev Polugaevsky Chess Tournament 1994 (Buenos Aires), the New in Chess Editorial team, 1995, 240 p.,

Piket es va retirar el 2001 dels escacs actius, per esdevenir el secretari personal de l'home de negocis neerlandès Joop van Oosterom. Pocs anys més tard, el 2005, Van Oosterom va guanyar el Campionat del Món d'escacs per correspondència, un fet que va provocar que Tim Krabbé escrigués: "El Turc era conduït per William Schlumberger, Mephisto era conduït per Isidore Gunsberg, Ajeeb era conduït per Harry Pillsbury i Joop van Oosterom és conduït per Jeroen Piket."

Referències

Enllaços externs

  [Consulta: 18 d'abril de 2011]
 Partides de Jeroen Piket a

 Posició al rànquing mundial i evolució Elo de Jeroen Piket
 Estimació Elo de Jeroen Piket a
 Fitxa de Jeroen Piket a OlimpBase

Esportistes de Leiden
Grans Mestres d'escacs neerlandesos
Jugadors d'escacs neerlandesos de la dècada del 1980
Jugadors d'escacs neerlandesos de la dècada del 1990
Jugadors d'escacs neerlandesos de la dècada del 2000
Competidors en les olimpíades d'escacs representant els Països Baixos

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Meet Me at the Beach: A Review
Posted by pedometergeek in book review, Meet Me at the Beach, pedometer geek, romance novel, V.K. Sykes
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An autographed copy of V.K. Sykes' Meet Me at the Beach was the latest Shelf Awareness Book Buzz giveaway this pedometer geek read. It's a contemporary romance, and this is the extended review.
By V.K. Sykes
Published by Forever, 2015
A division of the Hatchette Book Group
Meet Me at the Beach is written by V.K. Sykes, the husband and wife team of Randall Sykes and Vanessa Kelly, respectively. Previously, this pedometer geek read and enjoyed some of Vanessa Kelly's historical romances, but this novel is categorized as a contemporary romance.
What this writing pair brings to romance tales is that there are distinct differences in the voices of the male and female characters. The narrative of the story goes back and forth between the perspectives of the two main characters of Lily Doyle and Aiden Flynn. When the story is being described through Lily's eyes, thoughts, and feelings, it is obviously written from a woman's perspective. So, too, is there a man's perspective when it is Aiden's thoughts, etc. being told. In particular, the language of each of these two characters sounds realistic for whichever one of them is speaking or (in particular) thinking.
Briefly, Aiden Flynn is a major league outfielder, who is returning home after being cut from his team, the Philadelphia Phillies. Ostensibly, he is home to deal with some family issues with his father Sean and brother Bram. When he left his island home of Seashell Bay years ago, he never looked back. His only regret: leaving Lily Doyle.
Following in her family's footsteps, Lily Doyle is a lobster fisherman in this town off the coast of Maine. Unfortunately for her, she is working single-handed and barely getting by. The unspoiled community of Seashell Bay is comprised mainly of lobster fishermen including the Flynn family with whom her family has a long-standing feud. Adding to that feud is a possible land deal that will destroy the community's livelihood.
Lily and Aiden have a history together despite their family feud. When he left, she was heartbroken. When he returns, all their history plus his vital role in the island controversy make for a spicy contemporary romance that is fraught with tension.
Overall, Meet Me at the Beach is a twist on the classic story of star-crossed lovers. Fortunately, this one is not a tragedy; it is a love story and an enjoyable one at that. This is the first of the Seashell Bay novel series, and its sequel, Summer at the Shore, has been recently published. This reader looks forward to reading that one as well.
Yes, like most novels, there are the usual What-the-tuck trends like Lily's green eyes and hair being tucked behind an ear, but it is generally free of typos (always a positive!). Some of the erotic scenes are a bit graphic, and there is a smattering of profanity, but neither is pervasive. Mostly, it is about the slow building of the couple's relationship. One minor quibble for this reader was the title, which doesn't seem to fit with the story-line, as there was only one brief scene with the couple on a beach. This reader suspects that the title has more to do with connecting the titles into a coherent group for the series.
Behold A Rainbow: A Review (or two)
Posted by pedometergeek in book blog, book review, mainstream fiction, novels, pedometer geek, women's fiction
Behold a Rainbow, book review, Krisscross Press, novels, pedometer geek, Susan Brace Lovell, Susan Lovell, The Sandpiper, women's fiction
Several months ago, this pedometer geek reader was fortunate to receive a personalized autographed copy of Behold A Rainbow as a Shelf Awareness Book Buzz giveaway. Susan Lovell, the author, indicated that it was the second book, the first being The Sandpiper. Thus, while the review that follows is, for the most part, about Behold A Rainbow, both will be extensively reviewed here. Having tried to read the one without the other, there were enough veiled references from the first that only left this reader confused (and wanting to know the whole story).
Behold A Rainbow
By Susan Lovell
Published by KRisSCroSS Press, 2015
ISBN: 97800-9892874-1-8
Lovell's The Sandpiper and Behold A Rainbow are two novels that are all about the lives of the three Cameron women: Ellie, Kate, and Jamie. One is an alcoholic; one is a perfectionist; one is a widowed single mother. In addition there is Nina Judd, who figures prominently in both novels as well.
Both of these novels are all about family relationships: that of mother-daughter, between siblings, and with extended family. They are also about secrets kept and secrets released, all in the name of love.
In The Sandpiper, sisters Kate and Jamie deal with issues stemming from their past which intrude into their present. Big sister Kate has protected her younger sister Jamie since birth. So much has gone on in their lives that Kate has become a perfectionist succeeding in all she attempts except for the one thing she desires most: to have a baby with her husband Peter, an orthopedic surgeon. Infertility plagues the pair, but no one knows; to the couple, particularly Kate, it is a shameful secret that must be kept a secret.
Jamie is the screw-up in the family. She is an alcoholic, albeit a recovering alcoholic and addict, who has recently returned home to care for her dying aunt. For her, it is truly 'one day at a time' as she spends some of each day at AA meetings with her sponsor Gloria. Added to her screw-up status, she is also pregnant and is looking for options, options that wouldn't necessarily please her family; thus another secret.
Ellie, as their mother, has had her own issues over the years. Losing the love of her life when Kate was very young as well as being pregnant with Jamie at the time has made her life difficult. Yet her adoption by the resilient English teacher, Nina Judd, has given her and her daughters stability. Forging a new family of sorts, the two women have a friendship that transcends DNA. Nina becomes a guardian angel, an aunt, a sister, and a sounding board for them all.
In the end, choices and events plague all four of these women, but together, with love, they can accomplish just about anything.
Picking up five years after its predecessor, Behold A Rainbow continues the story of the Cameron women (and the people in their lives). Ellie, Kate, and Jamie still have problems. (Hey, it's life…and life is not always rosy.) Some are ongoing problems while others are new.
Jamie is still dealing with her recovery, but now has become an addiction counselor in her own right. She is also the single mother of a precocious daughter, Nina, who calls herself Minka.
Kate and Pete still are dealing with infertility issues. While each new IVF treatment brings hope, there is always the looming reality that a pregnancy won't occur. And if pregnancy doesn't produce a baby, what next for the couple.
Ellie has finally had some financial easing, but dealing with a diagnosis of breast cancer brings to the forefront how fragile happiness can be. Still, each of these women of Spring Port, Michigan (on the coast of Lake Michigan) looks for the rainbow after the rain. They remain optimistic, feeling the influence of Nina, despite all that life throws at them.
Poignant and heartwarming, both books are women's fiction. Each made this reader smile, weep, and root for all of the characters, especially Jamie, Kate, Ellie, and Nina. The stories are a realistic look about overcoming the various stumbling blocks of life as well as celebrating the victories, both small and large, that occur along the way.
While it would be possible to read the second novel without having read the first, it would be more difficult to understand. The author reminds the reader by referencing past events, but it would not be nearly as satisfying as reading them both, and in the order written. Overall, these two are worth reading, and either or both would also make great choices for a women's book club.
It should be noted that there were some small editing issues (missed quotation marks, missed periods, misspellings), but nothing that caused a difficulty in understanding the story.
By the way, to this reader's recollection, there were no green-eyed characters or other obvious What-the-tuck trends except for, perhaps, Ellie tucking her grand-daughter's hair behind her hair.
Although given a copy of the novel Behold a Rainbow, that in no way affected this review; in fact, in order to read The Sandpiper, this reader purchased a Kindle copy through Amazon.
Seduced by Innocence: A Review
Posted by pedometergeek in Alex Lux, book review, Karpov Kinrade, novel, pedometer geek, romance, The Seduced Saga
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The latest Goodreads giveaway ARC, Seduced by Innocence, this pedometer geek read was written by the husband and wife team of Kimberly Kinrade and Dmytry Karpov. Writing under Karpov Kinrade (or in some versions Alex Lux–as it has recently changed, but I digress), this is the first in The Seduced Saga, a paranormal romance series. Here's the extended review.
Seduced by Innocence
By Karpov Kinrade
Published by Daring Books, 2015
This is the first of three books that make up this paranormal romance. This one is based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and it is told through the perspective of three characters: Rose, Derek, and Blake, a young man in love with Rose. Rose and Derek are featured as the star-crossed lovers. Rose is a witch, the daughter of the leader of her coven; Derek is a shape-shifting Druid. Like the aforementioned play, unbeknownst to them, there is some sort of feud between their families.
It becomes an all-out war when Derek's younger brother, Dean, is destroyed by the powerful touch of Rose. Despite the fact that this event happened as a protective response to his attack on her mother, Rose is still shaken as she fears the power of her touch, the power to destroy, the power to kill.
Just as Rose is shaken, so too is Derek. After several years away, because of the attack, he regretfully returns home, back to his family's fold. Yet, there is a continued streak of independence in him, and he returns to his old job as a martial arts trainer rather than go into the family business.
There he meets Rose and her friend Ocean. After the attack on their coven, both young women wish to learn how to defend themselves. When they meet, however, there is an instant connection between Rose and Derek that can't be denied.
Going against her mother's wishes, Rose agrees to see Derek again. With Ocean's help, they secretly meet. While their love may be innocent, the behind-the-scenes machinations of her (and his) family and friends is anything but, and this could be their downfall.
Like all of Shakespeare's tragedies, there is strong emotion and betrayals throughout the tale. Each chapter title is based on from a quote from the play, which is fully attributed.
Although the story can stand on its own, there is a cliff-hanger ending that begs to complete the story of the young lovers, leaving this reader wondering what next for these lovers and their respective families.
A few typos and misused words can be found in the text, but overall, for those who enjoy paranormal romances, they should be able to overlook them. A teaser chapter of the next book in the series, Seduced by Pain, was included. If the author remains true to the pattern set in Seduced by Innocence, from the chapter title and its quote, this one will be based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer's Night Dream.
Perhaps this reader needs to brush up on her Shakespeare.


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Meet Senator Ed McBroom
State Sen. Ed McBroom serves the people of the 38th Senate District in the Upper Peninsula and is Senate Republicans' Caucus Dean.
He previously chaired the Senate Natural Resources and Oversight committees.
McBroom is a fourth-generation dairy farmer, and operates his family's 100-year-old farm, which in addition to raising Holsteins, also grows corn, wheat, and hay. He previously served a full three terms in the state House of Representatives from 2011 to 2016.
He is active in the community, serving on the U.P. State Fair Authority, as dairy superintendent of the Dickinson County Fair, and director of the Norway City Band. He also directs music at the First Baptist Church of Norway.
McBroom holds bachelor's degrees in music education and social studies secondary education from Northern Michigan University.
Ed and his wife Sarah have five children and they reside in Waucedah.


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alugha classics January 14, 2020
Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Careless Suffragette
The Case of the Careless Suffragette is the 20th episode of the 1954-1955 TV series Sherlock Holmes starring Ronald Howard as Sherlock Holmes and Howard Marion-Crawford as Dr. Watson. Aired on 28 february 1955 on MPTV (USA). Black & White. 27 min. Holmes gets involved with a persistent suffragette, and an anarchist makes a bomb, which kills Pimpleton, a parliament official. Scotland Yard, guided by Holmes, finds the murderer. More here: https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=The_Case_of_the_Careless_Suffragette
LicensePublic Domain
It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas, family fantasy, drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet The Greatest Gift, which Philip Van Doren Stern self-published in 1943 and is in turn loosely based on the Charles Dickens novel "A Christmas Caro
alugha classics
Riders of Destiny
Riders of Destiny is a 1933 pre-Code Western musical film starring 26-year-old John Wayne as Singin' Sandy Saunders, the screen's second singing cowboy (the first being Ken Maynard in the 1929 film The Wagon Master). It was the first of a series of sixteen Lone Star Westerns made for Monogram Pictur
Horror Express (1972)
In 1906, in China, a British anthropologist discovers a frozen prehistoric creature and must transport it to Europe by train.


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Casual Legal: Restrictive Covenants 101
By Jeff Daniels
Reynolds Mirth Richards Farmer LLP
Alberta Municipalities Casual Legal Service Provider
Restrictive covenants are frequently used by municipalities, developers, and landowners to ensure land is developed in a manner that maintains or enhances the value of neighbouring properties.
A restrictive covenant must meet the following requirements for it to attach to land and bind future owners:
The covenant must be a negative obligation, meaning it prevents a certain activity
There must be a servient tenement (property that is subject to the restriction) and a dominant tenement (property that benefits from the restriction) identified in the covenant
The covenant must "touch or concern" the land, meaning the restriction must benefit or enhance the value of the dominant tenement in some way
The covenant must be attached to the land, which is accomplished by registering the restrictive covenant against title
The instrument granting the restrictive covenant must be signed by the owner of the servient tenement.
If a restrictive covenant meets the above requirements, it runs with the land, meaning future owners of the servient tenement are bound to observe the restrictions and future owners of the dominant tenement can enforce the restrictive covenant if there is a breach. If a restrictive covenant does not meet the above requirements, it will be considered a personal obligation and will be unenforceable after the servient tenement is transferred to a new owner.
Under section 651.1(1) of the Municipal Government Act, municipalities have a unique statutory power to register restrictive covenants. A municipality may register a caveat "in respect of any restrictive covenant granted by a registered owner of a parcel of land to the municipality for land that is under the direction, control and management of the municipality whether or not the municipality has been issued a certificate of title to that land". While the requirements for the covenant to run with land still apply, municipalities do not need to own a titled parcel which benefits from the restriction; the dominant tenement can be municipally controlled roadways adjacent to or nearby the servient tenement.
Section 651.1(1) gives municipalities considerable leeway to register restrictive covenants, which can be an excellent tool to control or restrict future development. If properly prepared and registered, a restrictive covenant will attach to the land and be enforceable against future owners.
To access Alberta Municipalities Casual Legal Helpline, Alberta Municipalities members can call toll-free to 1-800-661-7673 or send an casuallegal [at] abmunis.ca (email) to reach the municipal legal experts at Reynolds Mirth Richards and Farmer LLP. For more information on the Casual Legal Service, please call 310-MUNI (6864) or send an riskcontrol [at] abmunis.ca (email) to speak to Alberta Municipalities Risk Management staff. Any Regular or Associate member of Alberta Municipalities can access the Casual Legal Service.
DISCLAIMER: This article is meant to provide information only and is not intended to provide legal advice. You should seek the advice of legal counsel to address your specific set of circumstances. Although every effort has been made to provide current and accurate information, changes to the law may cause the information in this article to be outdated.


Industrial Doctorate meetup: What is going on in Digital Cities?
EIT Digital Doctoral School meetup.
On February 8, the Doctoral School is hosting its first meetup with industrial doctorate students and the industry to showcase what is being done and how it is being done. The first meetup is about the topic Digital Cities and is held in Trento in Italy.
Six PhD candidates from all over Europe are presenting the status of their research on Digital Cities. In slots of 30 packed minutes they will present their research and answer questions from the audience. Also, the industry partner Engineering shares his vision on Digital Cities to the audience and EIT Digital will extract its Digital Cities strategy for the next years.
The meetup will be inspiring, educational and above all interesting.
The Trento meetup is the first in a series of industrial doctorates meetups in Europe. Here is an overview of upcoming meetups. Stay tuned for the exact dates and programmes.
The meetups are meant for all PhD students in the EIT Digital Doctoral School, industry and partners of EIT Digital. The meetups are open to external participants as well. If you are interested to join the meetup in Trento and learn about what is going on in Digital Cities, please send an email to irene.preti@eitdigital.eu.


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Combating climate change: A study of embodied carbon
By Clark Brockman & Lindsey Naganuma
Image courtesy of Nic Lehoux
For more than 20 years, the building design and construction industry has worked to reduce the amount of energy buildings use — this has been our primary contribution to combating global warming.
Buildings generate nearly 40 percent of the world's carbon emissions, so this is unquestionably an important effort, and through a combination of passive design strategies (building siting, shading devices) and improved engineering options for greater water and electrical efficiency, the industry has achieved big improvements. Our new projects, on average, have much smaller carbon footprints than they used to.
But buildings actually generate carbon emissions in two ways, and improvements in operational efficiency only address one part of the issue — maybe not even the most important part.
Operational carbon emissions come from energy use — either direct emissions from natural gas equipment and appliances or from electricity used by the building that was generated from fossil fuel sources (drawn from a power plant that runs on coal or natural gas).
Embodied carbon emissions, on the other hand, come from the building's construction. This includes the carbon released via extraction, fabrication and transportation of building materials, as well as the emissions directly associated with the process of building construction (fossil fuel-powered equipment and project electricity).
Our industry must turn its attention to embodied carbon, without losing our focus on operational carbon. Why? Two reasons:
Every time we build a building, the planet incurs a spike of new embodied carbon emissions today, and these emissions can't be reduced by increasing building efficiency or through net-zero operations. Unlike operational carbon, which occurs progressively over the life of the building, embodied carbon emissions are incurred all at once and cannot be reduced through later upgrades of the building's systems. These spikes in emissions undercut our efforts to reach the critical 2030 climate goals established at the Paris Agreement.
Operational carbon emissions are beginning to shrink for all buildings as our electrical grids get cleaner. Our energy sector is rapidly undergoing a structural shift, and this trend will be magnified by the growing movement to "electrify everything," which includes eliminating natural gas and using increasingly clean electricity.
So, if embodied carbon has always been a big — but overlooked — component in the overall carbon emissions impact of buildings, and if operational emissions are starting to be reduced through improvements to our power grid, then our industry urgently needs to turn our focus to the carbon impacts of construction.
First, we must minimize each and every project's embodied carbon emissions through thoughtful construction practices and careful material selection.
Second, instead of defaulting to new construction, we must strive to repurpose and update buildings that already exist. Studies indicate that reusing a building avoids 50-75 percent of the embodied carbon emissions that an identical new building would generate.
These findings were confirmed in SERA Architects' recent retrospective study of the modernization of Portland, Oregon's iconic Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building (EGWW), owned by the General Services Association (GSA). Originally built in 1974, EGWW's mechanical, electrical, data, and fire and life safety systems were outdated and worn out.
The $139 million modernization project of the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt federal building was part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Image courtesy of Nic Lehoux
The $139 million EGWW modernization project was part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which included a $5.5 billion commitment to building a more sustainable national infrastructure to reduce energy and water consumption and increase the federal government's use of clean and renewable sources of energy.
The LEED Platinum project preserved the existing structure and optimized the building's sustainability with a variety of structures and features including a 25,000-square-foot canopy, 170,000-gallon rainwater collection tank, 13,000-square-feet of photovoltaics, a dedicated outside air system that provides 100 percent fresh air and recovers exhaust air heat and façade shading devices to minimize heat gain during summer months. The design by SERA and Cutler Anderson Architects transformed the building into a modern office environment for federal agencies.
The retrospective EGWW study compared the embodied carbon emissions of the actual scenario of building reuse to constructing a comparable new building. (The only difference between the modernized EGWW and the theoretical new building was an increased floor-to-floor height to better represent high-performance building norms for 2010.) The findings showed that by reusing the concrete foundations and superstructure of the original EGWW building, 53 percent of the new construction embodied carbon emissions were avoided.
Studies indicate that reusing a building avoids 50-75% of the embodied carbon emissions that an identical new building would generate.
By reusing and adapting a building for future use, the existing emissions from initial construction can be applied to the reuse scenario as embodied carbon emissions avoided. The retained foundations and superstructure avoid the initial embodied carbon emissions from full building demolition and construction of a new building. These avoided impacts represent a large portion of the building's overall embodied carbon footprint, which is extremely important as we think about strategies to make buildings "net positive" for carbon emissions.
EGWW is just one mid-century building in one city, yet there are thousands of such buildings in hundreds of cities across the United States. Consider this national commercial building data from the Energy Information Administration's Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey Database:
Buildings larger than 50,000 square feet (such as EGWW) comprise about 50 percent of the commercial building stock in area but only 6 percent by number of buildings.
The median age of buildings larger than 50,000 square feet is about 30 years (similar to EGWW).
In the U.S., buildings emit about 1/3 of all greenhouse gases.
The office-building-heavy commercial cores of cities in the U.S. emit about 50 percent of all building sector greenhouse gases.
Taken together, these statistics suggest that by retrofitting about 350,000 large-scale modern-era buildings, the U.S. could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by about 10 percent, with each retrofit avoiding 50-75 percent embodied carbon emissions over building replacement scenarios. Our industry and our policymakers need to recognize this opportunity and drive the market towards increasing all kinds of energy-efficient building reuse in the coming decade.
As the industry continues to develop a better understanding of energy consumption in buildings, the need for efforts in the built environment to reduce embodied carbon emissions should be prioritized.
Reusing and adapting a building for future use has the potential to avoid 50 percent or more of the embodied carbon emissions of an identical new building. While it is still important to continue looking for ways to reduce both the embodied and operational carbon emissions of new buildings, building adaptation should be thoroughly considered before demolishing a building for a new construction project.
Clark Brockman
Principal, Sustainability
SERA Architects
Lindsey Naganuma
Architectural and Sustainability Project Assistant
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Limyaael's Rant #13: Handling Angst
…an entry that has nothing to do with OoTP! *grin*
1. Let the character react to the angst in a way that involves that character's unique history. Most of us probably would burst into tears if we saw our entire family murdered in front of us, but how long our shock lasted, how violent the grief was, and what we did next would depend entirely on us. It also depends on things like age, how the family died, how close the survivor is to the individuals who died, and so on. One thing that troubles me about books (like a lot of fantasies) that start with a Dramatic Incident to Give the Character Angst (TM) is how many of the characters react exactly the same way. Vilalge girl who sees her village slaughtered by Orcs, a city boy who comes back to find his family murdered by a robber, a royal heir growing up as a peasant who gets his or her family murdered by Dark agents- it doesn't matter. They scream and cry and then think about how they're going to miss their family for the rest of their lives. All the time. Grief in real life is usually a little more complex than that. Develop the angst in accordance with your own character's situation and personality.
2. Go for angst that isn't related to murder or rape or abuse, perhaps, just to see what will happen. I know that I've angsted about plenty of things that involved none of those. A bitter argument can drive people apart and cause quite enough pain without one angry character offering violence to the other, of any kind. Overuse of rape and death just numbs your audience; look at the way most people react to the evening news. Viciousness of other kinds may have the impact of freshness.
3. Don't make your character react to the traumatic event in clichéd ways- for example, don't let your character's rape turn her into a lesbian, or the scene of family-slaughter make her have screaming nightmares every night. A lot of people know about these clichés and yet fall into them anyway. It doesn't always help to try to follow real-world psychology, either, since that is based on case studies and none of those may match your individual character. See point 1.
4. Consider markings of the trauma that are actually debilitating. Even abuse victims seem to get bruises that fade in a few days, or attractive scars (gag). What about a mark- especially pertinent if the character is a prisoner, a slave, or otherwise in a situation where no one has a reason to treat her well- that covers half her face, or wounds that interfere with her ability to move when healed, or a broken bone that's set badly so she can never really use her arm again? It's amazing how seldom these show up- and, if they do, they get excused with a platitude from the character's true love about "You're beautiful to me anyway." Too often, the suffering seems temporary, and that cheapens it. Do research on what burns or torture might do to someone, both physically and mentally. And read books of your genre that deal with it, both for what's been done (and thus what you want to avoid) and for good examples of it. One of the best examples in fantasy is Lois McMaster Bujold's The Curse of Chalion, featuring a protagonist, Cazaril, who's been a galley slave. He has a lot of trouble moving because of his lesions, the scars make everyone think he's a criminal, and he's prone to weeping at the sight of a comfortable room when he first gets back to civilzation.
5. Accept the fact that healing takes some time. If your whole story is about healing from the angst, of course, that's one thing. But the trauma often gets thrown off in the course of an afternoon, or even a few hours- especially in novels/stories/fanfic where the romance is central to the plot. Then the character's Twoo Wuv makes it All Better. Blech. Take some time and show us how your character recovers, not just a two-bit cardboard cutout.
6. Accept the fact that not everyone will react with sympathy to the character's angst. Does she complain about it all the time? Probably some people are going to start rolling their eyes, or at least taking her less seriously after they find out. Does she cry, weep, scream hysterically? People will get pretty tired of that, too. Does she insist on trying to do things she can't do, like moving fast when she's just healed, and then slow everybody up? That could put others' lives in danger. Always remember that, while your character may be the center of the story, she should not be the center of your story's universe. Consider what bad things might have happened to the other characters, not only to give them their own angst, but also to show up how they might react to your main character, and why.
It saddens me when trauma is played for cheap romance or sympathy.


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On the off chance that you might want to see chimpanzees in the wild, Gombe Stream, considered one of Tanzania's lesser-known parks, may be the best alternative. However be mindful that a large portion of this elusive untamed life bargain more hard to search out versus gorillas of Rwanda or Zaire. An alternate chimpanzee territory you'll wish to look at could be the Tanzania's Mahale Mountains National Park. An energized whoop emits from profound in the woods, supported quickly by twelve different voices, climbing in volume and rhythm and pitch to a furious screeching crescendo. It is the acclaimed 'gasp hoot' call: a holding custom that permits the members to distinguish one another through their individual vocal stylizations. To the human audience, strolling through the antiquated backwoods of Gombe Stream, this spine-chilling upheaval is likewise a marker of unavoidable visual contact with man's closest hereditary relative: the chimpanzee.
Location and Size Gombe Stream National Park
Gombe Stream National Park is found in western Kigoma Expanse, Tanzania, 20 km (10 miles) north of Kigoma, the capital of Kigoma Region. Created in 1968, Gombe is the most diminutive national park in Tanzania, with just 20 square miles (52 km2) of woods running along the slopes of the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. Steep valleys recognize the landscape, and the woodland vegetation ranges from prairie to elevated bamboo to tropical rainforest. Open just by watercraft, the park is most famous as an area where Jane Goodall spearheaded her behavioral exploration led on the chimpanzee populaces. The Kasakela chimpanzee group emphasized in a few books, and documentaries exist in Gombe Stream National Park.
Special Features Gombe Stream National Park
Gombe is the most diminutive of Tanzania's national parks: a delicate piece of chimpanzee environment straddling the lofty waterway and slopes valleys that fix in the covered in dust northern shoreline of Lake Tanganyika. Its chimpanzees – habituated to human guests – were made renowned by the spearheading work of Jane Goodall, who in 1960 established a behavioral exploration program that now remains as the longest-running investigation of its kind on the planet. The female authority Fifi, the last surviving part of the first group, just three years of age when Goodall first alived in Gombe, is still routinely seen by guests.
Chimpanzees form around 98% of their qualities to people, and no exploratory attitude is obliged to recognize the individual collections of jeans, hoots and shouts that characterize the VIPs, the powerbrokers, and the supporting characters. Maybe you will see a gleam of comprehension when you investigate a chimp's eyes, evaluating you in exchange – a look of evident distinguished over the narrowest of species boundaries.
The most obvious of Gombe's different warm-blooded animals are likewise primates. A troop of drifter olive primates, under study since the 1960s, is astoundingly habituated, while red-tailed and red colobus monkeys – the recent consistently chased by chimps – stick to the timberland covering.
The park's 200-odd fowl species range from the notable fish hawk to the gem-like Peter's twin spots that jump tamely around the guests' middle.
After sunset, an amazing night sky is supplemented by the lamps of many little wooden pontoons, swaying on the lake like a sprawling city.
Why go there Gombe Stream National Park
Gombe Stream National Park is the best place for Chimpanzee following, Hiking, Swimming and snorkeling; Photography, Walking safaris and Bird viewing. Gombe is on the shore of Lake Tanganyika. The timberland is productive and separated by 13 streams that run down the ledge to the sandy shoreline. To swim out and think once more at the way the forested slants scale the precarious slope is an extraordinary experience.
When To Go/ Weather Gombe Stream National Park
The chimps do not meander as far in the wet season. Amid the blustery seasons (February to June, November to mid-December) the chimpanzees may be simpler to discover as they do not meander far. However, drier months (July to October and late December to February) are better for shooting.
The landscape is excellent; there are many primates and different monkeys, and the woods is right by Lake Tanganyika. This is likewise how you achieve the park: by pontoon from Kigoma.. This takes you up to the park in around 3 hours, frequently ceasing at towns along the shore. This is most likely an extraordinary (neighborhood) experience, and It would be suggested taking one of those!
There are two spots for the convenience in the park itself. Outdoors is not permitted, so there is no other alternative than that. There are a backwoods hotel and a (kind of) motel. Since there are not that numerous guests in the park you can take your risks and only go, however in the event that you need to make certain you can book in advance. In case you're for instance staying in Kigoma in Nzimano Hotel (very suggested: flawless staff, extraordinary neighborhood sustenance, peaceful and tranquil, ignoring Kigoma narrows), the staff there will have the capacity to help you with bookings.
The populaces of the Gombe range have a place mostly for the Ha tribe, relatives of the Bantu people groups who came here numerous hundreds of years back from West Africa. They existed here remote from the outside world, until Arab merchants from Zanzibar started in the early nineteenth century to visit Ujiji (naturally south of Kigoma) to gather slaves. Their legacy is still unmistakable today, for Islam is still the fundamental religion in the range and the mango tree that the Arabs foreign, gives shade and products of the soil in every town. After the Arabs came the British explorers Burton and Speke, in quest for the wellspring of the Nile. Burton was persuaded Lake Tanganyika was the source, after the slave course from Zanzibar; they were the first Europeans to achieve Lake Tanganyika in 1858. Speke figured the lake lay excessively small to be the source and suspected it ought to be Lake Victoria.
Kigoma can be arrived at via plane, yet there is additionally a train going from Kigoma to Dar Es Salaam twice a week, which is well worth the outing. I can all that much prescribe taking the train in Tanzania. Incredible experience!
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