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Monday Top News Executive Summary
Media Editors: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen will be stepping aside and Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan will be taking over at DHS. Nielsen stated, "I have agreed to stay on as Secretary through Wednesday, April 10th to assist with an orderly transition and ensure that key DHS missions are not impacted." According to CBS News, "Her departure is a part of a massive DHS overhaul engineered and directed by top Trump adviser Stephen Miller… It's unclear whether Nielsen is deciding to leave voluntarily, or whether she has been pressured to resign."
The Washington Post says, "Trump said Friday that he wants someone 'tougher' to lead the country's top immigration enforcement agency, unexpectedly dumping his own nominee for the job." U.S. Border Patrol veteran Ronald Vitiello had been slated to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But "Trump had vacillated on Vitiello for several months after hearing complaints from senior adviser Stephen Miller, ICE union boss Chris Crane and others."
Taking advantage of the nuclear option: "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will be able to get judges and executive branch appointees confirmed much faster now," the Washington Examiner reports. "The Kentucky Republican wasted no time in advancing his first batch. … Before adjourning the Senate on Thursday, McConnell lined up votes on four district court nominees, a sub-Cabinet pick, and the president's designee to serve as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. And he plans to bring up more nominations Monday."
The Examiner also reports that Rep. Devin Nunes this week will be sending the Justice Department eight criminal referrals pertaining to the Democrats' Russian-collusion witch hunt. According to Nunes, the grounds for the referrals vary from "lying to Congress, misleading Congress, leaking classified information," "conspiracy to lie to the FISA Court," and "conspiracy … involving manipulation of intelligence." He added, "There are about a dozen highly sensitive classified information leaks that were given to only a few reporters over the last two and a half-plus years, so we don't know if there's actually been any leak investigations that have been open, but we do believe that we've got pretty good information and a pretty good idea of who could be behind these leaks." As the Examiner notes, "Nunes said … that the people ensnared in his eight-person referral 'may not be all of them.'"
"Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told 'Fox News Sunday' … that Democrats will 'never' see President Trump's tax returns, days after a House Democrat committee chairman made the unprecedented demand that the IRS provide the documents," according to Fox News. As Mulvaney put it, "That's an issue that was already litigated during the election. Voters knew the president could have given his tax returns. They knew that he didn't and they elected him anyway. … If [Democrats] don't get what they want in the dirty cop-Mueller report, they're going to ask for the taxes. If they don't get what they want in the taxes, they're going to ask for something else."
According to the Des Moines Register, "Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders said people convicted of felonies should never lose access to the ballot box in the first place." commie-Sanders opined, "You're paying a price, you committed a crime, you're in jail. That's bad. But you're still living in American society and you have a right to vote." Remember, some prisoners are murderers who took away another person's right to vote.
"A former House Democratic staffer pleaded guilty Friday to five federal offenses related to posting online the personal information of five Republican senators, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, during hearings for then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. … He is scheduled to be sentenced in Washington on June 13. He could face between two and five years in prison." (Fox News)
The Daily Caller reveals that "Twitter appears to be one of the only big tech companies to back out of an alliance with the Southern Poverty Law Center after the group's long-time president was fired for unspecified conduct reasons." A Twitter employee explained, "The SPLC is not a member of Twitter's Trust and Safety Council or a partner the company has worked with recently," though the Caller says the source "did not disclose when Twitter distanced itself from the SPLC." A conservative bloc wants other tech giants to follow suit.
"The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed another setback to gun rights advocates challenging President Donald Trump's ban on 'bump stock' devices that enable semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly," Reuters reports. "With two conservative justices dissenting, the court refused to temporarily exempt from the ban a group of plaintiffs including the Firearms Policy Foundation while their legal challenge continues to be litigated in Washington."
"President Trump said Friday he will skip this year's White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner and hold a rally instead. 'The dinner is boring and so negative that we're going to hold a very positive rally,' Trump told reporters as he left the White House for a trip to the southern border. … The commander in chief has yet to attend the annual event during his presidency, bucking tradition and instead opting to hold campaign rallies the same night as the dinner." (The Hill)
Humor: loose lips-Joe Biden appointed as head of TSA (The Babylon Bee)
Policy: Campuses are broken because of what we teach (Washington Examiner)
Policy: The private sector must lead the way to 5G (National Review)
~The Patriot Post
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The Origin of The Feces – President Trump Smartly Draws Attention to Beginning of Russian Conspiracy Effort
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ In a series of tweets today President Trump smartly directs attention to the origin of the operation to create the Russian Collusion-Conspiracy narrative, calling it a "con job",. and "made up fraud"… Calling attention to the origin of the fraud avoids the justification trap we have previously discussed. Additionally, focusing on the beginning of the corrupt operation helps contrast the pending conclusions as released by AG Bill Barr and the dirty cop-Mueller report findings. The Trump-Russia investigation was based on a fraudulent premise, purposed for use by a weaponized and politicized intelligence apparatus including the CIA, DoS, DOJ and FBI. It is also the origin of the feces that holds the greatest risk to those who constructed the surveillance operation.President Trump avoids the issues surrounding how President scumbag/liar-nObama and high-ranking intelligence officials scumbag-Comey, scumbag-Clapper, scumbag/commie-Brennan, liar-Yates, intentionally lied and misrepresented themselves to Trump and the transition team, and instead focuses directly on the origin of their fraud... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/04/06/the-origin-of-the-feces-president-trump-smartly-draws-attention-to-beginning-of-russian-conspiracy-effort/
Liberal Dark Money Group to Receive Private Briefing From House Dem scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler
by Brent Scher and Joe Schoffstall
{ freebeacon.com } ~ The largest donors on the left will be given a private briefing on investigations into President Donald Trump by House Judiciary Committee chairman scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.)… during a secretive Texas gathering this week, according to documents obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon. The Democracy Alliance, a group of millionaire and billionaire funders of the liberal movement, is holding its Spring Partner Retreat and Strategy Conference at the Four Seasons hoteli n Austin, where security has been patrolling the meeting areas since Wednesday. As always at the group's secretive meetings, all programming is off the record and closed to members of the media. scumbag liar-Nadler, who has made headlines by leading the charge to investigate Trump in the House, was a late addition to the conference program, which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon and can be viewed in full below. scumbag liar-Nadler will join the donors via live video to lead a discussion titled, "After the dirty cop-Mueller Report: What's Next?" "Given the events of the last few days, we added a special discussion, After the dirty cop-Mueller Report: What's Next?" says a flyer distributed with programming updates for the donor retreat… https://freebeacon.com/politics/liberal-dark-money-group-to-receive-private-briefing-from-house-dem-jerrold-nadler/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2aa14fa879-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_05_05_42_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2aa14fa879-45611665
Feds warn: China sending 'thousands' of spies to US colleges
by Joel Gehrke
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Chinese intelligence services have sent "thousands" of people to U.S. colleges under the guise of college students and professors, federal officials said… "We want to encourage people to come here and study," Andrew Lelling, the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, told reporters Friday. "This isn't about targeting everyone who's a Chinese national. But there are thousands who are directly linked to a state-sponsored effort to steal intellectual property." That warning underscores the scope of China's "economic espionage," as the Justice Department terms it, as a tool for national security and economic threat. That threat is part of a broader effort by Beijing to take advantage of American colleges and universities, which provoked a backlash among U.S. officials. "The message to all the schools is: One, be aware that you are a target," John Demers, the assistant attorney general at the Justice Department, said during the briefing. "Universities also have a lot of people coming in and out: students, visiting professors who are here for a year … You may not know the folks there as well as you do maybe in a company." According to the most recent State Department data, more than 363,000 Chinese students studied in the U.S. in 2017-2018, nearly a third of all international students enrolled at U.S. institutions. FBI Director Christopher Wray warned last year that China was using "nontraditional" intelligence collectors to launch a "whole-of-society" threat against the U.S. Those worries found an echo among lawmakers who worry that Chinese educational programs are platforms for propaganda and influence operations, while Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has been warning European allies that Chinese tech giants such as Huawei and ZTE are also being used as spy… https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/feds-warn-china-sending-thousands-of-spies-to-us-colleges?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_04/06/2019&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News
Satellite Photos Show Chinese Anti-Satellite Laser Base
by Bill Gertz
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Commercial satellite images have provided the first photographs of a secret Chinese anti-satellite laser base in western Xinjiang province, along with other high-technology weapons facilities… The laser facility is located near a lake and is about 145 miles south of the Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang. The facility was discovered by retired Indian Army Col. Vinayak Bhat, a satellite imagery analyst who specializes on China. China is using its satellite tracking stations located throughout the country as a means of identifying and targeting satellites. "Once the accurate satellite path and other data is known, directed energy weapons located at five different places can take over the task," Bhat said. The Xinjiang base is one of those laser bases that include four main buildings with sliding roofs that Bhat assesses contain high-powered chemical lasers powered by neodymium. Bhat estimates that the smaller shed with the sliding roof is a laser tracker. Taken together, the Chinese can fire one to three of the lasers against an orbiting satellite that China is seeking to disrupt. The Defense Intelligence Agency stated in a report made public in February that China is set to deploy a ground based laser cannon next year. The report said Beijing "possibly already has a limited capability to employ laser systems against satellite sensors."… https://freebeacon.com/national-security/satellite-photos-show-chinese-anti-satellite-laser-base/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2aa14fa879-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_04_05_05_42_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2aa14fa879-45611665
This Tiny Guillotine Decapitates Mosquitoes to Flight Malaria
by Matt Simon
{ wired.com } ~ The idea behind the guillotine is this: If you're going to execute someone, you may as well do it efficiently and humanely, at least by 18th-century standards… Decapitating the condemned with an ax or sword may take a few swings—unacceptable for carrying out justice in a "civilized" society. The guillotine, on the other hand, is downright surgical, a perversely methodical way to end a life. Now mosquitoes are getting the same treatment in the pursuit of a vaccine for malaria, a disease that killed 440,000 people in 2016. To produce a vaccine for mass deployment, biotech firm Sanaria has to decapitate and dissect out the salivary glands, which hold the malaria-causing parasite, for each individual mosquito—by hand. To speed up this painstaking process, they've partnered with medical roboticists from Johns Hopkins University to engineer a mosquito guillotine that technicians can use to decapitate 30 insects at a time. It's a first step toward an eventual goal of a fully automated robotic guillotine, which could help Sanaria produce that elusive mass-produced, effective malaria vaccine. Despite decades of work, a malaria vaccine is still not widely available. The first reason is the complex life cycle of the microbe that causes malaria, Plasmodium falciparum. Unlike a bacteria or virus, which tend to have relatively simple life cycles, this protozoan parasite develops both in mosquitoes and in humans. In particular, the challenge is targeting the parasite in one particular cell type before it invades another—say, from the liver to red blood cells—because each stage is brief… https://www.wired.com/story/tiny-guillotine-decapitates-mosquitoes-to-fight-malaria/
Blacks Blind to Their Own Cultural Enslavement
by Erik Rush
{ wnd.com } ~ Considering the media firestorm surrounding actor Jussie Smollett being charged and subsequently released for perpetrating a potentially dangerous hate crime hoax, I thought it would be appropriate to weigh in with some race-related reality to give some context.
Jussie Smollett is probably too young to understand how his actions dishonored those who sacrificed in the cause of racial equality over the course of our nation's existence. In school, I imagine he wasn't taught anything remotely resembling reality on the subject of history, particularly in this area. Factor in Smollett having been raised in the entertainment industry from childhood, and we can see how unlikely it is that any sense of moral obligation he might have harbored could have survived.
As distasteful as it is for me, I occasionally engage in "media slumming," meaning that I expose myself to media that I would never watch for enjoyment in order to remain informed as to what's going on in media venues. I don't have broadcast television, nor do I participate in the ripoff of cable TV, but I do have streaming services through which I can glean a fairly decent representation of what's afoot in broadcast TV.
Similar to the inescapability of superfluous homo-erotica, pro-LGBTQ messages and anti-Trump snark pervading TV and films these days, the America-as-an-institutionally-racist-nation message has also taken on new life over the last couple of years. Case in point: In just the last year, I've viewed more TV dramas than I can count in which characters bemoan Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and a host of other real-life black Americans being murdered by racist cops.
Such laments are abject mythology, but when one is in that passive mode of being plugged into the brain-sucker box for entertainment purposes, the ensuing effects can be quite insidious.
I was having a discussion with some people on social media the other day on the topic of how the genres of hip-hop and rap debase black people, particularly black women. I offered that while I certainly concur with this assessment, it's only a small part of the ongoing campaign of the left – and to some extent, our government – to keep blacks culturally enslaved. This is actually a theory I began developing in my teens, when I saw the music being marketed to blacks becoming less mainstream and increasingly geared toward hedonistic and narcissistic themes. Perhaps I noticed this because I'm a lifelong musician, as opposed to being remarkably intuitive.
I paused bemusedly after having employed the phrase "cultural enslavement." I don't know If I coined it then and there, and I don't need the credit, but it's bloody brilliant regardless.
Cultural enslavement is essentially what the political left has imposed upon blacks since the Civil Rights Movement. I have written previously about some of the federal government's efforts to keep blacks on the proverbial plantation as popular sentiment around the existing racial inequities in America began to change; these included FDR and Harry Truman conspiring with unions to use entitlement programs to keep black men from taking union jobs, and of course the deleterious effects entitlement programs have had on black families in general.
It's been said that prior to the Civil Rights Movement, blacks were probably one of the most socially conservative groups in America. Occasionally, someone will point out how stable black communities and families were prior to this period, when wholesale government intervention into race-related issues and the explosion of entitlement programs took place. This is certainly accurate, despite leftists being quick to offer catty little mincing retorts in these cases: So, are you saying that blacks were better off under Jim Crow and segregation – hmm?
I often proffer the argument that America is not an institutionally racist nation in the sense that black activists and liberals maintain it is. America is indeed an institutionally racist nation, however, in the sense that since the Civil Rights Movement which I'm using as a temporal landmark, not a cause, blacks' identity has been dictated by liberal whites and their black lackeys, and this has been actualized largely through the entertainment industry. I went into great detail on this topic in my book, "Negrophilia: From Slave Block to Pedestal – America's Racial Obsession."
In short, since the late 1960s, blacks in America have learned how to behave and who to be from TV sitcoms, films and the music industry.
Of even more significance is the fact that blacks have learned from these media sources how to relate to other racial groups and how other racial groups relate to them. The worldview they adopted as a result has been extremely disadvantageous to them and was predicated upon the desire of influential liberals to influence how blacks relate to just about everything.
More recently, young blacks have been indoctrinated en masse into the sociopathic culture of the lowest-of-the-low in the black community: criminals. In addition to the gratuitous use of profanity, more often than not the themes of rap and hip-hop purveyors are narcissistic in the extreme, antisocial, anti-authority, misogynistic and racist. The attitudes represented within these themes have been adopted by young blacks in the same manner in which young whites assume the attitudes of their music idols.
Unlike Mötley Cruë, however, which promoted the abstract if morally ambiguous "sex, drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll" lifestyle, in their lyrics, rappers routinely showcase their disdain for authority, multiple baby mamas, dealing drugs and killing people – even police.
The cure? As simplistic as it may sound, like so many of the threats we face from the hard left, it's going to come down to people waking up to the reality of what's going on. In the case of black Americans, with so many remaining mired in the orthodoxy of the left and the Democratic Party, I see this as being a particularly difficult if not an extremely unlikely proposition.
https://www.wnd.com/2019/04/blacks-blind-to-their-own-cultural-enslavement/
Rudy Tirre
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Gary Sweet (1957 - ) Australian actor.
Gary Sweet is an Australian actor, famous for his role as a detective on the gritty cop drama Stingers.
Born on May 22, 1957 in Melbourne, Sweet grew up in Adelaide and attended teacher's college before taking up drama.
His first role was in the low-budget horror film Nightmares in 1980.
Sweet's first major role was in the Australian period drama The Sullivans, where he had an ongoing and popular role as Leslie 'Magpie' Maddern.
In 1984, he played Donald Bradman in the Bodyline television miniseries.
Between 1990 and 1994, he played a police officer in the Police Rescue series and won two AFI awards for this role.
He first played Inspector Luke Harris in Stingers in 2002 and stayed on the show until it was cancelled in 2004.
More recently, Sweet appeared as a contestant on Dancing With The Stars.
He has been married three times and has four children.
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George E. Hagen (July 1, 1878 – November 11, 1940) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Halifax West in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1933 to 1940. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.

Born in 1878 at Hunt's Point, Nova Scotia, Hagen was a plumbing and heating contractor by career. He married Della Dobson. He served as president of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party. Hagen entered provincial politics in the 1933 election, winning the Halifax West riding. He was re-elected in 1937. He served in the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Industry. In July 1940, Hagen announced he was resigning from politics, but later changed his mind and was re-nominated as the Liberal candidate for Halifax West. He won the byelection on October 28 by acclamation. Hagen died in office on November 11, 1940.

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Restaurant Design Associates (RDA) was recently called in by Restaurant Associates – the boutique fine dining arm of Compass Group UK & Ireland – to transform and evolve the catering function of its prestigious client, a Canary Wharf-based law firm.
With a brief to create a flexible and stylish restaurant, bar, deli and kitchen upgrade to meet increased customer demand, RDA developed a unique 'pop-up' solution after analysing how the existing space was used by diners.
Nick Bradley, Director at RDA, said: "As Restaurant Associates is constantly evolving its menus on a daily basis, our team appreciated that fixed counters would just not work in this unique space. Therefore, the solution offers complete flexibility.
Inside the kitchen, RDA's expert team consulted with the chefs and kitchen personnel during the design process to ensure delivery of outstanding dishes and first-class service. More space was provided for preparation, with new environmentally friendly, state-of-the-art cooking equipment installed.
Part of the brief was to create a new space that had the ability to function as a sophisticated bar for staff entertainment in the evening but also had the flexibility to function as a 'pop-up' food service facility allowing Restaurant Associates to deliver modern street food concepts to the bar clientele, or a more substantial food offer as required. It was also envisaged that the space would be a relaxing lounge area during the day.


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Connecting with customers is a crucial part of success for any small business—but simply making a connection isn't enough. You have to make sure you make the right connection, and then use it to drive innovation that keeps your customers coming back.
Small business owners often experience their biggest ah-ha moments during one-on-one interactions with their customers. Spending time with customers and prospects, learning what matters to them, and then testing your hypotheses can create a continuous feedback circle that both delights customers and powers your business forward.
You can make those customer connections and gain insights in a variety of ways. Here are a few of my favorites—from making one-on-one interactions really work to ways that you can use tech tools and data to help you keep your business thriving and innovating.
Don't just ask customers what they like about your product or service; put something in front of them and watch what they do.
Say for example that you're marketing a food product. Make five versions of it, and then go to your local farmer's market and see how people react. Let them taste it. Which version sells out? How much of the under-performer do you end up taking home?
Talk to your customers as they buy. Was it the flavor combination? Would a price tweak make the whole line appealing, or is one SKU a total bomb? Testing in small batches is a terrific way to keep from scaling a product too soon and risking an expensive flop.
Understanding as much as possible about your customer's overall life will deliver real insight into how you can make your product or service better.
Don't simply listen to what people say, because sometimes they say things they think you want to hear just to be polite.
Instead of investing heavily in same-day cleaning, create a test environment by offering the service for a week—even if that means taking a few orders to a dry cleaner in another neighborhood to turn it around for you. You save yourself an expensive build-out, and you'll know whether or not people actually embrace the new service.
Small businesses differentiate with personalized service, and your business data can help you build on that personal advantage. Here's the key: use your data to get to know and remember your customers on an intimate level, and then focus on delivering value.
Back in the old days, a florist might keep an index card box full of handwritten customer data—birthdays, anniversaries, a list of extended family members. Today you can automate all that. An email marketing tool—combined with your customer spreadsheet and what's in your own head—can be an effective mix for sending out reminders for important gift-buying dates.
In this case you want to identify a customer's recurring need and figure out how to note it in your system. The benefits are two-fold; it makes shopping easier for your customers, and it drives more purchases for your business.
A small pet-store owner might use business data to create an automated pick-up service that understands what a customer ordered last time, what she might want to add on, and keeps her credit card info on file. All that customer needs to do is pick up her phone—or better yet, send a text—saying "fulfill my usual order for pickup at 5 p.m. today." That kind of slam-dunk customer service fuels sales.
A three-question survey can produce something called a Net Promoter Score that provides canny insight into how many customers love your product or service enough to be your champion.
1. On a scale of zero to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product or service to a friend or colleague?
3. Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?
People who answer the first question with a nine or 10 are your word-of-mouth promoters. Folks who reply with zero to six are your detractors. Those who respond with sevens and eights don't move the needle for you. Adding up the number of nines and 10s and subtracting the detractors yields your Net Promoter Score.
You can conduct this survey using either physical post cards or an easy online software tool like SurveyMonkey. Either way you'll achieve meaningful, actionable insights.
Years of experience with this type of survey has shown me time and again that it is the nines and 10s who help drive your business. Your goal is to acquire more of them. So, learn from the word-of-mouth promoters you already have, listen to customers who aren't your top promoters, apply the feedback they share about your products or services, and you will be well on your way to a strong base of happy, repeat customers.
Customer-driven innovation will keep your business moving forward, and your customers will ultimately determine whether you succeed. Make your connections count by engaging in authentic one-on-ones and by using data—and your own observations—to get to know your customers as real people.
Senior Vice President Karen Peacock oversees Intuit's small business offerings including QuickBooks, Payments, and Payroll. She believes in giving small business owners and entrepreneurs the support they need to focus on their customers, their products, and their craft.
This article first appeared on SmallBusinessComputing.com. Republished with permission.


TORRENTIAL downpours hit South Lakeland today, causing disruptive localised flooding.
The remnants of Tropical Storm Laura hit the west of Britain after becoming caught up in the high-altitude jet stream, which dragged the weather system eastwards.
The worst flooding appeared to be in Glebe Road, Windermere, which was closed both ways this afternoon.
The A65 close to Lupton Tower and the road between Old Hutton and Kirkby Lonsdale also suffered localised flooding, bringing traffic to a crawl, as the already saturated ground and overworked surface drains were unable to take the excess rainwater. Meanwhile, traffic was hampered on the M6 because of the hazardous driving conditions and poor visibility.
The stormy conditions, with gale force winds, were caused as the remains of Laura, in the form of hot, humid tropical air, clashed with the cold air over the Atlantic.
The Met Office warned people in the North West to prepare for up to 30mm of rain, although the Environment Agency did not issue any flood warnings for the weekend.


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Ships, aircraft search Philippine Sea for 3 missing in crash
The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier arrives in Hong Kong. A US Navy C-2 Greyhound plane carrying 11 crew and passengers crashed into the Pacific Ocean on November 22, while on the way to the USS Ronald Reagan, the Navy said. (Vincent Yu, AP file)
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Tokyo — US and Japanese ships and aircraft were searching in the Philippine Sea on Thursday for three sailors missing since a US Navy aircraft crashed a day earlier.
Eight people were rescued about 40 minutes after the crash of the C-2 "Greyhound" transport aircraft on Wednesday afternoon, the Navy said.
They were taken aboard the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and were in good condition.
The C-2A twin-propeller plane came down about 925km southeast of Okinawa as it was bringing passengers and cargo from Japan to the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, the Navy said in a statement.
The cause wasn't clear but the crash would be investigated, the Navy said.
The Reagan was participating in a joint exercise with Japan's Maritime Self-Defence Force when the plane crashed.
The aircraft carrier was leading the search and rescue efforts along with Japan's naval forces.
The ships and aircraft had searched more than 320 nautical miles as of Thursday morning, the Navy said.
Japan's Defence Ministry said the crash site is about 150km northwest of Okinotorishima, a Japanese atoll.
The Navy said it had notified next of kin that the three sailors were "whereabouts unknown" but it would delay releasing their identities publicly for three days due to policy.
In Washington, the White House said President Donald Trump had been briefed on the crash. Trump said in a tweet: "We are monitoring the situation. Prayers for all involved."
The @USNavy is conducting search and rescue following aircraft crash. We are monitoring the situation. Prayers for all involved. https://t.co/1AxmegKqvu
The November 16-26 joint exercise in waters off Okinawa has been described by the Navy as the "premier training event" between the US and Japanese navies, designed to increase defensive readiness and interoperability in air and sea operations.
The Navy's Japan-based 7th Fleet has had two fatal accidents in Asian waters this year, leaving 17 sailors dead and prompting the removal of eight top Navy officers from their posts, including the 7th Fleet commander.
The USS John S McCain and an oil tanker collided near Singapore in August, leaving 10 US sailors dead.
Seven sailors died in June when the USS Fitzgerald and a container ship collided off Japan.
The Navy has concluded that the collisions were avoidable and resulted from widespread failures by the crews and commanders, who didn't quickly recognise and respond to unfolding emergencies.
A Navy report recommended numerous changes to address the problems, ranging from improved training to increasing sleep and stress management for sailors.
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TALLINN (BNS) - A military ammunition depot in Voru, where anti-tank mines are kept, has residents and soldiers alike living in fear of an explosion, but the defense forces have no safe depots to keep their explosives.
The depot lies on the outskirts of the southeastern city of Voru, with some 16,000 inhabitants, on the perimeter line of the Kuperjanov Infantry Battalion and within 200-300 meters of a gas station and barracks. There the military stores ammunition, including anti-tank mines, each of which contains nearly 6 kilograms of TNT, the daily Postimees reported.
"Yes, it is dangerous," battalion commander Captain Aivar Voronov admitted. "I would naturally sleep more peacefully if some of the things kept in the depot were stored somewhere else, but we do not have such a place now."
But the municipal authorities' worries concerning a potential disaster in the depot are stronger than those of the military. When a fireworks depot blew up in Enschede in the Netherlands this spring, killing 60 and injuring 200 people, municipal leaders opened talks with officers of the Kuperjanov Battalion.
Mayor Tonu Jogi said anyone could make an error, including the military, and an ammunition depot error could lead to disaster.
Voru's leaders have asked the Defense Ministry to install proper electric wiring in the territory of a now-abandoned Soviet military unit, furnish it with an alarm system, build a guard house and set up an ammunition depot in its large hangars.
According to next year's budget bill, the Defense Ministry will receive more than 119 million kroons ($6.6 million) for the reconstruction and refurbishment of premises.
Acting defense forces commander Lt. Col. Aarne Ermus has promised that the risk will be lowered next year and the most dangerous ammunition, including anti-tank mines, will be taken away from the depot.
Defense Ministry public relations director Madis Mikko also admits the ammunition depot poses a threat to Voru.
"We admit there are problems with it," said Mikko, adding that the Voru leaders' plan to transfer the anti-tank mines and ammunition to a former Soviet military unit could be feasible. "We'll consult with the general staff and find money for the investment."
Several Estonian politicians have recently expressed the opinion that it is difficult for the military to ensure sensible spending of the defense budget, which will grow by nearly 20 percent to 1.8 percent of the expected gross domestic product in next year's state budget bill.


For as long as I remember I've always liked to draw and I've always been interested in art. Then with time I discovered that there are things that are more interesting and that being an artist wouldn't be fulfilling for me. Architecture was the best choice to connect my artistic and scientific interests. Now, I know I made the best decision and I wouldn't change it for anything else.
I would rather say that Sweden chose me. After working for 2 years in Warsaw I decided to change my job. The country wasn't my main concern. I was looking for an interesting and challenging work and the place didn't matter. So, one day I found an interesting job advert on the one of the design web sides, had an interview and here I am now.
Every project that I am involved in is my dream project. What I mean by that, is that at the beginning of the design process I like to have some ideal picture for the project, something that will make it unique. Then with time the project becomes more realistic and even if not everything I was thinking of at the beginning is possible to realise it's still great to keep the initial idea in the design.
Who is Ewa, and what do you do in your spare time?
Besides work, I like to walk around the city and read books. Now, when I am in Uppsala biking is also nice way of spending time.
It's impossible to choose the best part. I see my job as a process that leads to certain effect. I like to be a part of design process, that I can see how the project develops from concept to the construction part, how it changes through all stages. For me it's one of the best things – to see how the ideas becomes reality.


I'm hot. I'm sweaty. And as I type this I have little speckles of white paint all over my hands and arms.
A day in the life, as they say.
I have to make dinner...then go back to paint a few more brushstrokes...but that, my friends, is going to have to wait.
I am glued to my monitor and about fell out of my chair.
And with hard work, salvaged materials, thrift store finds and only $3,000...yes I said only three-thousand-dollars, she created a magnificent retreat in the mountains of New York.
Ok, no more words. The photos will speak for themselves.
If you want to read the story behind Ms. Foster and her little cottage, click here.
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2027 Canada Winter Games bidding process launched in Whitehorse, Yukon
The following is distributed jointly by the Government of Yukon, the City of Whitehorse and the Canada Games Council
WHITEHORSE, YT, September 22, 2021 / CNW / – The Canada Games Council, alongside the City of Whitehorse and the government of Yukon, today officially launched the bid process for the 2027 Canada Winter Games. This national event is the largest amateur multisport event in Canada, bringing together over 2,000 of the best young able-bodied athletes and athletes with physical and intellectual disabilities every two years.
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Bid launch for the 2027 Canada Winter Games in Whitehorse, Yukon. Photo: Sarah Lewis (CNW Group / Canada Games Council)
The City of Whitehorse and the government of Yukon will now undertake a 13-month process to build their candidacy to co-host the 2027 Canada Winter Games to White horse.
The Canada The 2027 Games Bid Evaluation Committee and the Games Council Technical Review Committee will assess the bid in two phases. A technical review will be carried out in February 2022, and a full review will be conducted in October 2022. The final decision to award the 2027 Canada Winter Games will be made by the Canada Board of Directors of the Games Council with a public announcement scheduled for November 2022.
Nomination launch event at Mount McIntyre Recreation Center in White horse, on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta'an Kwäch'än Council, featured dignitaries, community stakeholders and distinguished guests.
Speakers included Yukon Premier Sandy Silver, Kwanlin Dün First Nation Councilor Jessie Dawson, Council of Yukon First Nations Grand Chief Peter Johnston, Minister of Community Services Richard mostyn, Mayor of Whitehorse Dan Curtis, Canada Director of the Board of Directors of the Games Council and Chairman of the 2027 Bid Evaluation Committee Anthony Everett, Chair of the 2027 Canada Winter Games Bid Committee McDonald Pier, and three times Canada Games Alum for Team Yukon David Greer.
The Canada Games strengthen the fabric of Canada through the power of sport and create a lasting legacy that transforms communities from coast to coast. The 2027 Canada Winter Games would see the exhilarating spectacle of Canadian sport and spirit return to the Yukon 20 years after the Games were held in White horse in 2007.
Each Canada The Games feature two weeks of competition, between 16 and 19 sports, approximately 4,600 participants in the summer and up to 3,600 participants in the winter (athletes, coaches and managers) and more than 5,000 volunteers.
The Canada Winter Games can be expected to generate approximately $ 80 to $ 110 million in economic spending in the host province or territory.
"Yukoners demonstrated to Canadians across the country that we have the passion, pride and ability to host a national multisport event when we hosted the Canada Winter Games in White horse in 2007. We are delighted to have the opportunity to bid again for these Games and we look forward to submitting a bid which will see the Yukon and White horse welcome to all Canada back in 2027! "
The Honorable Sandy Silver, Premier of Yukon
"We look forward to the work to come with the City and the presentation of the Canada Games Council with a compelling and comprehensive nomination for next year. The Canada Games can advance the from the yukon sports programming and infrastructure, contribute millions to our economy and raise the profile of our territory across the country. Most importantly, this is an opportunity to reach people from all over Canada to celebrate sport, culture and community. "
The Honorable Richard Mostyn, Minister of Community Services
"The City of Whitehorse is honored to have the opportunity to participate in the bid process to co-host the 2027 Canada Winter Games with the Government of Yukon. White horse has a proven track record of hosting national games of this magnitude, as evidenced by the 2007 Canada Winter Games, and our dedicated and passionate volunteer base is more than ready to deliver. this task. I have no doubts that our wide array of world-class venues and our experienced bid committee place us in an excellent position as the ideal location to host the 2027 Canada Winter Games. If we are successful, we are eager to show. that White horse and the Yukon has to offer, which includes unique First Nations arts and culture, extraordinary diversity and beauty, and a multitude of talented athletes. "
His Honor, Dan Curtis, mayor, City of Whitehorse
"We are delighted to officially launch the journey to the 2027 Canada Winter Games and to once again see the next generation of Canadian champions and leaders shine brightly in the Yukon. We look forward to guiding the City of Whitehorse and the government of Yukon throughout the bid development process as they strive to host Games that will transform the land and spark greatness through Canada. "
Anthony Everett, Chairman of the 2027 Canada Games Candidature Evaluation Committee
There is nothing that brings Canadians together like the Canada Games. As the bid committee begins to develop plans for the 2027 Canada Winter Games in White horse, people are excited about what this will mean for our community, for the North and for the country as a whole.
McDonald Pier, Chair of the 2027 Canada Winter Games Bid Committee
The last Canada Winter Games which White horse hosting in 2007 was a monumental experience for me and in many ways shaped my cross-country skiing career. Hosting the Games again in 2027 will provide incredible opportunities for our next generation of athletes. I am very excited to participate and look forward to witnessing the great experiences it will provide for athletes and our community.
David Greer, Canada Games Alum for Team Yukon, Cross Country Skiing (2011, 2007) and Cycling (2005)
About Canada Games Council
The Canada Games Council, a private, non-profit organization, is the governing body of the Canada Games. Organized once every two years, alternating between winter and summer, the Canada The Games represent the highest level of national competition for up-and-coming Canadian athletes. The Games have been held in each province at least once since their inception in Quebec city during from Canada Centenary in 1967. The Games are proud of their contribution to from Canada sport development system, in addition to their enduring legacy of sport facilities, community pride and national unity. The organization of the Canada The Games are made possible by the tireless dedication of local host societies and the contribution and support of host federal, provincial / territorial and municipal governments.
The office is located at Ottawa, Ontario, on the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinabek people.
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This week, Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen Group, and Konstantinos Fragogiannis, Greek Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy and Openness, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the transformation of the transport and energy sector on the Mediterranean island of Astypalea. By implementing the plan, the island should become a model for electric mobility and the use of renewable energy.
In six years, through the joint efforts of the #volkswagen group and the Government of Greece, the entire energy system of the island will be converted to the generation and use of exclusively clean electricity from wind generators and solar panels, and all transport on the island, from a scooter to a private car and public transport, will also become exclusively environmentally friendly. neutral, that is, electrical. A developed and affordable charging infrastructure will be created, as well as rental services, from the micromobile level of electric scooters and scooters to electric vehicles. These services will be available 24/7 throughout the island.
The micromobility component of this plan will be implemented with the participation of the SEAT brand, which will provide SEAT MÓ eScooter 125 electric scooters, as well as # SEAT M eKickScooter 65 and SEAT MÓ eKickScooter 25 electric scooters. seat Minimó. The SEAT Minimó is, in fact, a competitor to Renault Twizy, and for the Mediterranean island it is not quite a natural mode of transport.
The electromobility component will be represented mainly by VW # id.3 and the VW # id.4 SUV. Naturally, within the framework of the project, the electronic vehicle will be the entire island transport — commercial vehicles of local enterprises, trucks, police, emergency vehicles and the public sector vehicle fleet. That is, there will not be a single segment left where an internal combustion engine-car or motorcycle could «hide». Well, just what if some strange islander hides such a car in his garage, and even stocks up on cans of gasoline and diesel fuel. But it will be really weird and creepy.
The charging infrastructure will be represented by branded chargers from Volkswagen —
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Aristotle once said, «It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.»
Now, when the world is immersed in a crisis, when wars flare up again in many parts of the world, it is necessary to show humanity and the world an example of what the world can and should become. And there is no need to say that this is a utopia, and it is impossible. This is possible, and the Astypalea project is just that example, and the light in the dark, which will help to demonstrate the future to which we must strive.
astipalea is located in the southern part of the Aegean Sea, its area is approximately 97 km². About 1300 people live here permanently, and the tourist flow is about 72,000 people a year. Public transport is now represented by two diesel buses. But soon everything will change.
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Past & Curious: Brando, 'Pet Sematary,' Trebek & More!
Links from the past with relevance today:
Great actor, and could've coasted on his looks! (Image via movie still)
GR8ERDAYS (PLEASE FOLLOW): Brando was born 95 years ago this week. He's already been gone 15 years!
Pet out (GIF via Paramount)
L.A. TIMES: Director Mary Lambert, 67, reminsces about her struggle to get female-centered movies made, directing Pet Sematary (1989) and working with Madonna on her iconic "Like a Prayer" music video (1989).
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DO YOU REMEMBER?: Meet the woman who survived the sinking of the Titanic — and then never set foot near a body of water again.
The Hole thing (Image by Harold Sweet for Paper Magazine)
BOY CULTURE: As Courtney Love, 54, prepares to hit the big screen again in J.T. LeRoy, check out this vintage interview with her from when she was a 1980s up-and-coming actress — pre-Hole!
EXTRATV: Film legend Robert De Niro, 75, takes on the college admission scandal: "You can't do that."
DECIDER: Sadly, it seems the producers of Jeopardy are "accelerating the search" for someone to replace Alex Trebek, 78, who has stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
I really hope he beats this. (GIF via GIPHY)
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Mason City Tent & Awning CO Mason City, IA - 50401
Mason City Tent & Awning CO is categorized under Awnings and Canopies Manufacturers in Mason City, IA and active since 1985.
Mason City Tent & Awning CO was established in 1985, and today employs 1 to 4, earning $500.000 to $999.999 per year. This is a Awnings and Canopies Manufacturers business, which does work in the B2B market, and is classified as a Awnings and Canopies Manufacturers, under code number 3149101 by the NAICS.
If you are seeking more information, feel free to contact Russalyn Davis, Manager Full Name Report at the company's single location by writing to 408 South Federal Avenue, Mason City, Iowa IA 50401 or by phoning (641) 423-0044 Full Phone Report. You can also visit this business on Facebook by going to their profile page at Facebook or on find them on Twitter.
Business Name: Mason City Tent & Awning CO
Contact Person: Russalyn Davis, Manager Full Name Report
Address: 408 South Federal Avenue, Mason City, Iowa 50401
Website Address: ripflag.com
Annual Revenue (USD): $500.000 to $999.999
Employee Number: 1 to 4
Business Type: B2B (Business to Business)
Business Category: Awnings and Canopies Manufacturers
Mason City Tent & Awning CO was started in 1985 to provide professional Awnings and Canopies Manufacturers under the SIC code 2394 and NAICS code 3149101. Since its inception, the company has gone on to take a total of 1 to 4 personnel under its employment and has achieved earnings of $500.000 to $999.999 per annum.
Feel free to contact Russalyn Davis, Manager Full Name Report for inquiries that concern Mason City Tent & Awning CO by calling the company number (641) 423-0044 Full Phone Report, as your correspondence is most welcome. Additionally, the physical location of the single location of Mason City Tent & Awning CO can be found at the coordinates 43.14765,-93.20116 as well as the street address 408 South Federal Avenue in Mason City, Iowa 50401.
For its online presence, you may visit Mason City Tent & Awning CO's website at ripflag.com and engage with its social media outlets through on Twitter and on Facebook.
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Sustainability , Technology – May 3, 2012
Electric Car Range Anxiety
Margaret Larson has felt "range anxiety." If you buy an electric vehicle in the near future, you will feel it, too.
Larson is the electric vehicle specialist for the state Energy Office and was driving the state's Nissan Leaf electric car back from an event on the North Shore along H-1. Just as she passed the Likelike Highway exit, an automated voice chimed, "Low battery charge. You have six miles left on your battery."
The state's EV specialist was close to suffering the electric equivalent of running out of gas on the way to her downtown office, without a filling station in sight. "I was white knuckling the wheel just praying we didn't run out," Larson says.
"Range anxiety" – the fear of running down your battery – is always on the back of electric-car drivers' minds, unless they have a Chevy Volt or other electric car with a backup gasoline engine. Though Larson made it back to the office, the close call highlights the need for public charging stations to serve the growing number of electric cars on the road.
Another thing is clear: When you pull up to a public charging station, it will be a very different experience from visits to your local gas station.
Take the Sheraton Waikiki, where state-subsidized charging stations opened to the public in November.
"Anyone that brings in an electric vehicle, we encourage them to valet park. That way they can just drop off their car and go straight into the restaurant or hotel room," says Jason Ito, director of administration and planning at Kyo-Ya Management Co. "The valet takes the car up to the charge spot. When the car is fully charged, we can move it so the next vehicle can come in."
So far, few people have taken advantage of the service. "The demand is not there yet," says Ito. "But we needed to come up with a way that is convenient for the customer and easy for us as well." The biggest users are two Chevy Volts owned by the Sheraton.
The Sheraton knows it's ahead of the curve, but also that the charging station is part of what customers want, even if they don't need it yet.
"So much of it is valued as just the right thing to do, and you can't really put a dollar amount on that, but it's the wave of the future and our customers are demanding that we look at reducing our footprint, energywise," Ito says.
The three chargers installed at the Sheraton were funded by the state's EV Ready Program. As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the state received $2.6 million dollars to fund grants for EV charger installations. The state Energy Office announced March 29 that there were 200 electric vehicle-charging stations at over 80 locations statewide, and more were being built.
Hawaii's first public charging station is located at the Green Energy Outlet on Cooke Street. "We installed the station about two and a half years ago," says Greg Kartes, a sales associate at GEO. "Since then, we've gotten about three to four vehicles a week on average using the charging station."
GEO utilizes its position as an outlet store for green energy and building products to promote the use of electric vehicles. "Some customers take advantage of our café and Wi-Fi" during the charging, which takes about an hour, Kartes says.
"The customer will use a prepaid card to pay for the charge," says Kartes. "There is also an 800 number they can call to pay with their credit or debit card." It costs $4 per hour and $2.50 per half hour.
Like most public charging stations, the GEO station is a level II unit, which charges much faster than the level I home units. According to the U.S. Department of Energy Plug-In Electric Vehicle Handbook, there are three types of charging stations for everyday electric cars:
• Level I: These residential units provide charging through a 120-volt AC plug. The cords will typically have a standard three-prong plug that fits into common household outlets. They add two to five miles of range per hour of charging time.
• Level II: These residential and public chargers provide charging through a 240-volt AC plug, which requires installation of more robust charging equipment, including a dedicated circuit. These chargers can add about 10 to 20 miles of range per hour of charging time or fully charge a car overnight.
• DC fast chargers: These chargers are strictly for public use, and enable rapid charging with a 480-volt plug. These are used in heavy-traffic areas and some other public charging stations. They can add an astonishing 60 to 80 miles of range to an EV in 20 to 30 minutes. The state Energy Office says there are six fast-charging stations in Hawaii.
For an online list of publicly available EV charging stations in Hawaii, go totinyurl.com/hbcharge.
RANGE ANXIETY
The federal Enviromental Protection Agency says the driving range of a Nissan Leaf electric car is 73 miles. Here's about where that range can take you in Hawaii:
Oahu:
Round trip from downtown at King and Bishop streets to Ehukai Beach Park, site of the Banzai Pipeline.
Maui:
One way from Lahaina to Hana, via the Hana Highway.
Hawaii Island:
One way from downtown Kailua-Kona to Hilo, via Hawaii Island's Saddle Road, your battery would die about 13 miles from Hilo.
Kauai:
One way from Barking Sands all the way around the island to Haena State Park, at the end of Kuhio Highway.
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Gene Clark was the greatest underrated singer/songwriter to emerge from the '60s rock explosion, and deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Neil Young. This album, his debut as a duo with virtuoso banjoist/guitarist Doug Dillard, is perhaps his most brilliant recording.
Out of the ashes of the Byrds and a brilliant false start of a solo career (the excellent Echoes album), the 1968 Dillard & Clark project found Clark collecting some of his finest material (basically the entire album) and putting it in the familiar context of bluegrass and country, a good year before these elements became vogue in the pop world. But Gene Clark was always ahead of his time.
Bookended by two exquisite autobiographical explorations into consciousness -- "Out on the Side" and "Something's Wrong" -- the album's other tracks run from mournful ballad statements such as "Radio Song" to joyous celebrations like "With Care from Someone." There is also a very hot cover of the gospel number "Git It on Brother," which features Chris Hillman on mandolin. Doug Dillard's playing on the record is uniformly excellent. Not only a virtuoso musician, Dillard is a truly smart player who never gets in the way of the songs. Graceful, spellbinding, and tasteful all at the same time.
Combined together, these 20 songs are an essential addition to any country-rock collection and are also indispensible to fans of the Byrds or the Flying Burrito Brothers. The duo's two albums are combined on one CD, making for more than an hour of great listening. Mastered in state-of-the-art sound that still holds up years later, this is the version of the two albums to get.
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The expert of record for all things meetings tech for more than 20 years, Corbin Ball—owner of Corbin Ball & Co.—has ingrained himself in the meetings industry on a global level.
An inveterate traveler—he spends about a third of his time on the road every year, traveling throughout the world to spread the meetings technology gospel as a speaker—Ball recently received the highest honor in the industry after being inducted into the Events Industry Council's (EIC) Hall of Leaders.
The ceremony took place during IMEX America 2018.
"It's been the highlight of my career. I feel tremendously honored and happy to be on this list," Ball said. "I look at the people who I've been inducted with and many of them have been my mentors and my friends. It's kind of like the Academy Awards of the events industry.
"My whole goal when I went out to form my own business was to give back to the industry, and this has been an acknowledgement that I've been able to do that," he added.
Like most people involved in the meetings and events industry, Ball didn't chart out a career path at the beginning to find himself where he is today.
"I was working as the director of educational media for [Bellingham, Washington's] Western Washington University in the audiovisual, television and graphics department," he said.
"In 1979 a small association moved into Bellingham in the area of optics—optics has been at the center of much technology," he added. "We caught the wave together.
"I ran their first meeting in 1979, and then they hired me full time in 1981 as one of two people in their meetings and exhibitions department," Ball continued about his foray into the meetings industry with SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics. "I was their meetings manager.
In 1988 Ball received his email address and in 1993 worked in the development of the first association website—for SPIE—when there were only about 130 websites in existence at the start of 1993.
As it goes for many other meeting professionals, joining MPI and earning the CMP designation were actions that were revelatory to Ball, and forged the connection between meetings and technology.
"It really opened my eyes that there's this big community of event professionals out there," Ball said. "I saw this passion on how technology can improve lives and also the passion in the events and tradeshow industry. I was the first person to do it and it's been a wild ride ever since.
"It's been a labor of love because I really feel passionate about the events industry," he added.
Ball sees standardization of data analytics and management as perhaps the most significant meetings technology advancement that will manifest in the next few years.
"Some of the big trends are integration-related, such as using APIs (application programming interfaces)," Ball said. "Programs will be able to work much easier to share data, and because of that you have the increased area of data analytics.
"There's been an explosion of data sources at events, from mobile event apps to beacons, and [so on]," he added. "The challenge is how do you assimilate all that data into one source and then bring it back into the attendee/customer record to better provide service on an individual basis.
"And [then you have to apply the data] on a collective basis to run better events," he concluded.
Augmented and virtual reality is another area of technology that has large ramifications for the meetings experience, Ball said, but the cost of hardware needs to decrease before it is adopted on a wider scale.
"Right now there's a lack of standards and the costs are high," Ball said, adding that smartphone technology will figure large in the adoption rate. "The prices are going to have to come down and the technology will have to be widely accepted in the consumer model before the meetings and events model. If you look at these expensive goggles they have, you're never going to get widespread adoption at $3,000 or $4,000 per headset.
Other meetings tech advances to watch, according to Ball, include wayfinding technology and the continuing march of data analytics assimilation.
"We're at that stage right now," Ball said. "I have talked all along about the digitization of the events process—we're pretty much there. We have thousands of applications and they're able to integrate. So we're at a stage right now where we don't see as much novel innovations, but more integration of existing technology.
While technology carries with it the promise of highly efficient workflows, real-time connectivity on a global scale and experiential environments that keep getting deeper and more immersive, the unstoppable exponential advancement of technology also brings with it the potential for abuses of privacy the levels of which even experts can't truly fathom—something that is certainly not lost on Ball while traveling the world.
"I think that the number of hackers has increased in number and sophistication," Ball said. "We've seen huge data hacks over the last few years. We need to protect ourselves with data security and data privacy. We're living in a whole new world—a social media world.
The threat of facial recognition adoption and advances is especially worrying on an international level.
"I think that we really need to have a conversation about how governments manage facial recognition," Ball said. "It's a whole different level of potential for personalization—a person walks into a hotel and is recognized, is a valuable repeat customer and here's their history, etc.—but on the other hand you could be tracked by the government. That's something that's sort of a nebulous threat, but it's happening in China now."
"Facial recognition has been used in airports for people checking in to actually make sure they're who they are, but your image is being tracked everywhere you go by an outside source," he added.
"To me that is a significant privacy problem," Ball concluded.
While speaking gigs and analyzing technology trends in the meetings industry is his bread and butter, Ball's passion still remains the meetings and events industry as a whole.
Giving back to the industry that helped him succeed is what drives his professional life.
An ambassador of all things meetings tech, Corbin Ball travels the globe to illuminate audiences on the latest and greatest events technology that is disrupting the landscape.
"I always say my job feeds my travel habit," said Ball, who estimated he travels more than 100 days per year to speak and consult. "And for the significant trips, often my fiancé comes with me.
"It's a good way to see the world," he added.
Following are a few of Ball's snapshots from his 2018 travelogue.


The first thing that hits you at Acreage, before a single sip of their glorious cider parts your lips, is the unbelievable scenery. Lafayette has a vista (did you know?) with a downright majestic view of the town and of the Flatirons, and Acreage is sitting right on it.
Acreage, the first culinary venture by Stem Ciders, is a collaboration of Stem, Chef Daniel Asher, and Kelly Whitaker's Id Est Hospitality Group. They broke ground on the 12-acre parcel in January 2017. When all the landscaping and preparations on the ground are finished over the coming year, Acreage will boast an apple orchard, a 20,000-square foot food plot, and live music on a regular basis.
Fans of Stem Ciders in Denver's River North Art District (RiNo) didn't blink an eye at driving to Lafayette on Acreage's opening day, Feb. 24th. In fact, when the doors opened at 5 p.m. that day, the crowd was out the door and around the side of the building. By 5:15, the house was full. And it's been a steady stream of zealous cider and food fans ever since. Perspective: Acreage does more business on Mondays than they originally forecasted for Saturdays!
Eric Foster and Phil Kao founded Stem Ciders in 2013 with the intention to revive the cider tradition. Quality, style, and tradition are Stem's guiding principles, and the founders' love of craft has led to critical acclaim and awards at both the local and national level. It had been clear for a while that Stem had outgrown its diminutive yet bustling RiNo taproom, but options for another location in Denver fell flat. So when Eric heard about an opportunity to bring the urban cider house experience to the countryside, he was intrigued. And he knew within minutes of walking the property in Lafayette that not only would they open a cidery and move their full production facility to Lafayette, but they'd also get into the restaurant business.
"Acreage takes its inspiration from Basque cider houses," says Foster. "We use local ingredients that are presented very simply. Food is cooked over an open fire. Many people who walk through our door are foodies or at least folks who are mindful to what they're eating and drinking. And they may want or need gluten-free options, which our cider is, naturally."
The restaurant opened with a substantial raw bar and has since made some menu changes that point back to the Basque inspiration. Elegance through simplicity. Cider, not surprisingly, plays a unique role in several of the dishes. For example, Saltspring mussels are served with Stem's Hopped Apple Cider, coconut milk, and miso. And if you've got a sweet tooth, try a delectable cider donut glazed with Stem's Pear Cider. Acreage doesn't mind pushing consumers a little to expand their tastes, and so far that philosophy has been unbelievably successful.
Acreage is tending to its farm plot this summer with hopes of planting for a first harvest in 2019. When it's up and running, staff will be having the important conversation with its customers about where our food is coming from. Same goes for the forthcoming apple orchard and the question of why apples are in fact so important to cider. Acreage is eager to demonstrate good farming practices to its patrons.
Acreage has been such a huge hit in Lafayette that it's hard to believe it only opened four months ago. "In the beginning, we were getting crushed on weekends," says Marketing Director Courtney O'Rourke.
"People were waiting 30 minutes to get in the door. We've streamlined that and now the weekends are like a festival around here. Families are hanging out on blankets on the grass in the cider garden and just enjoying the atmosphere and the view."
The restaurant serves brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, which is an awesome time - especially now that it's summer - to score some brunch exclusive menu add-ons and chill with a cider.
Speaking of cider, let's dispel a myth right now that they're all created equal. Some people imagine that the process is as simple as fermenting some apples and adding a dash of this or that and... voila... you have cider! Eric is eager to set the record straight about why Stem has been such a hit and what distinguishes its ciders from mass market beverages: "We're by no means the biggest cider producer out there, we're not using a ton of ingredients from concentrate and adding essences to bring out more flavor. We use simply made and simply blended quality ingredients. That's it. The fruit does the talking, and I think that's why people appreciate and enjoy Stem. They're careful about what they put into their bodies, and they respect the simplicity of our product."
The world's largest annual cider competition is the Great Lakes International Cider & Perry Competition (GLINTCAP), held in Grand Rapids, Mich. Ciders are judged to a style, and Stem had a great showing this year with their Pommeau, a fortified cider aged in port barrels for 30 months, taking Second Place Best in Show.
Despite the awards and accolades, with such a crowded market of craft breweries, distilleries, and cideries competing for drinkers, how does Stem or any cidery rise above? Could it be an iffy time to be making and distributing cider in Colorado? Foster thinks not. He explains that the market here is in "middle maturity." Cider's not new but the market for it isn't fully mature, either. There are 16 cider makers in the Centennial state, five of which, including Stem, are heavily distributed statewide. "Nationally speaking, the cider industry is young," he says. "The bigger issue is access to market distribution. We've seen saturation with breweries and places going out of business, but that's not happening as much with cideries."
"Hard-working" and "dedicated" are too often cliche adjectives, but in this case that's the truest way to describe the team of 65 individuals who make Acreage by Stem Ciders the incredible cidery and restaurant that it is. They've worked their butts off, honestly, to give Lafayette not only a new perspective from its gorgeous vista, but a cider experience unlike any other, and a place to gather with family and friends while hickory smoke wafts and the sun goes down.
There's no place like it in all of Boulder County.
Acreage is kicking up the cider garden with a cookout, games, all the cider merriment, and a special show from the awesomely talented Lonesome Days with opening act Bonnie and Taylor Simms, all leading up to the multiple fireworks shows from across the Front Range. Bring your blanket and chairs! Noon to fireworks, with music starting at 5 p.m.


"I have no words to thank the whole Penguins team for this event. The feedback I received from the team and our guests is just mind blowing. Richard (our president) said that this was the best party he attended in the past 8-9 years. In case you wonder, he does attend a lot of company parties. I can only give myself credit for allowing Mark to meet me and introduce Penguins' services to me a couple of months ago. Probably one of the best decisions in my career so far!"
Penguins were asked to organise a launch party to announce the opening of a UK digital marketing company. Founded in the US, this exciting new UK start-up were keen to make a noise in the UK digital market with a fun opening event that would create instant impact among London's leading marketing and media agencies.
The venue chosen was Adam Street Private Members' Club set in amazing vaults beneath The Strand – right in the heart of agency land.
Penguins delivered a full service launch communications strategy which appealed to all the senses. A brand was created especially for the party which appeared on all pre-event marketing communications, registration badges and party stands. Clever coloured lighting projected the corporate logo onto the walls of the vaults. A vodka ice luge, bespoke cupcakes and carpets featuring the corporate logo created the perfect party brand.
The client managed the initial invitation communication (on and offline) with a mix of funky corporate shaped invites, which were sent to a few thousand contacts. Guests pre-registered on a party site and everyone was then entered into a prize draw. On the night, guests were greeted by the Penguins team with a warm welcome, branded name badges and pre-drink photo. Guests enjoyed bespoke coloured cocktails and finger bowl food whilst being entertained with some amazing moves from a Contortionist on a plinth and a crystal Ball manipulator.
Chill out background music filled the air until 9.30pm when the party went into full swing with a unique mix of DJ, percussion from "Bongo Dave" and a saxophonist. Throughout the night, photos of guests on the dance floor were projected onto huge video screens intermixed with brand messaging and music videos – much to the delight of the media crowd.
After the party, a link allowed the client's party goers to relive the evening all over again.