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Rosalie Wahl's Push for Libraries Spurred Law Career
By: Lori Sturdevant | June 28, 2014
Rosalie Wahl being sworn in as Minnesota's first female Supreme Court justice in 1977.
Credit: Wahl Papers, Minnesota Historical Society
(WOMENSENEWS)–In later years, Rosalie Wahl frequently described the feminist epiphany that came to her while sitting in frustration outside a closed meeting of the all-male Washington County Board in Stillwater, Minn. The year was 1960, give or take a few months, and the issue was libraries.
As a lonely child, Wahl loved the few books she had and craved the stories they told. Grandma owned a handful of books, but most weren't suitable for a grade-schooler. Birch Creek School had a meager few more. Wahl borrowed one, "Legends and Myths," over and over again.
Her children would not endure such scarcity, she vowed. The Wahl household had no television until the 1960s, but the young mother insisted that it would have books. Some Minnesota public libraries had provided bookmobiles to rural residents since the 1920s. Why shouldn't a bookmobile stop near the Wahl place? That was the question she asked not long after the Wahls–Ross and Rosalie Wahl and four children–moved in 1955 from Circle Pines in Anoka County to a former dairy farm atop a hill near Lake Elmo, east of St. Paul, in Washington County.
Washington's county seat was Stillwater, a historic riverside lumbering town whose 19th-century success made it a proud, charming and politically conservative location in the mid-20th century. The Stillwater Public Library was a handsome facility. Unlike its larger counterparts in Minneapolis and St. Paul, which had been dispatching bookmobiles into surrounding rural areas since World War I, the Stillwater library evinced no sense of duty to serve the rest of Washington County. Its governing board considered library services outside the city limits to be a county board responsibility, not theirs. One Stillwater library board member offended Wahl by asking scornfully, "Where are all these people in the county who want to read?"
We pay county taxes, Wahl retorted. We deserve at least a bookmobile stop.
Small Achievements
She convinced like-minded neighbor Jean Lundquist, a future Stillwater Board of Education member, to join her in asking questions of the right people. The Wahls offered the end of their driveway as a location for a converted school bus to make a regular stop. In relatively short order, the women succeeded. A bookmobile was established and a stop at the Wahl place was arranged–but only once each month.
That limited achievement only served to whet ambition for Wahl and other library-loving mothers in rural Washington County. The bookmobile ought to be considered a stopgap on the way to establishing a true county library system consisting of several branch libraries, housed in buildings, not buses, they argued. Wahl credited Stillwater librarians Vera Maunsell and Marvel Old with planting that idea in her mind and coaching her as she developed a plan.
Wahl shared it with a small network of friends who were willing to learn together how to petition their government for improved services. They rounded up allies and developed a formal proposal to take to the county board. It involved making the Stillwater library the central hub of a countywide system that shared materials and staff. The county budget was running a surplus that they reasoned was big enough to accommodate their plan without a tax increase. The library proponents talked their way onto the county board's agenda.
"We had people there from all over the county. We made a big presentation," Wahl remembers.
Shut Out
Then the advocates were ushered out of the meeting room. No state open meeting law had yet been enacted to compel the board to deliberate and act in public. The presenters were not allowed to hear the discussion or witness the vote. All they were told when the meeting was over was that their proposal had been rejected.
Later, Wahl heard that several commissioners who had promised her their votes reneged under pressure from a local foundation that feared an expanded library would be its rival for federal grant money under the county's control.
"It was after that I decided to go to law school," she would say later. "I was tired of sitting outside of doors, with the doors shut, and them deciding." Her anger ran deep enough to swell in her voice 50 years later.
It says much about Wahl that she would remember that moment as pivotal in her life. When she set a goal with the aim of benefiting others, she pursued it with intensity. She possessed a keen sense of democratic justice, and situations that offended that sense were highly motivating to her.
But like many epiphany stories, Wahl's seems incomplete. It does not explain fully why this mother of four in her mid-30s, a dozen years after moving to Minnesota, would think life-changing thoughts in response to local male functionaries doing what similar panels of men had been doing through her whole lifetime–closing the door on women and exercising power as they pleased.
Something about that time in both her life and the nation's history emboldened Wahl to head in a new, uncharted direction.
Excerpted with permission from "Her Honor: Rosalie Wahl and the Minnesota Women's Movement" by Lori Sturdevant with a foreword by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, published by Minnesota Historical Society Press.
Laurie Sturdevant, a Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist, has written and edited several books of Minnesota history, including "The Pillsburys of Minnesota."
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By: WeNews Staff | May 16, 2014
Minnesota's governor approved a package of bills aimed at improving conditions for women in the workplace. Also this week, a report shows that lesbian, bisexual and transgender women in some Asian countries are encountering abuse and discrimination without any protection of the state.
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Michelle Bachmann is warning her supporters about the extreme threat posed by her challenger Jim Graves in this Minnesota congressional race.
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user02856 on June 29, 2014 at 6:49 pm said:
Thank you for this story. Justice Wahl was truly one of the most generous and magnificent leaders to emerge in our lifetimes. Justice — the understanding of it — was in her cell structure, and she showed so many how to bring those qualities to the world in a meaningful way. I am thrilled to read about her on Women's eNews, to know about this book, and to see Justice Wahl get much deserved attention.

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Gregor III. Laham BS (, bürgerlich: Lutfi Laham; * 15. Dezember 1933 in Darayya) ist ein syrischer Geistlicher. Er ist Patriarch emeritus von Antiochien und dem Ganzen Orient, von Alexandrien und von Jerusalem und war von 2000 bis 2017 das Oberhaupt der melkitischen griechisch-katholischen Kirche, die mit der römisch-katholischen Kirche uniert ist.

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Gregor wurde unter dem Namen Lutfi Laham geboren. Von 1941 bis 1943 lebte er in einem Waisenhaus im Libanon. Von 1943 bis 1956 erhielt er im Seminar des Ordens der Basilianer vom Heiligsten Erlöser im Kloster Saint-Sauveur im Libanon seine schulische Grundausbildung und studierte Philosophie sowie Theologie. Am 15. August 1949 legte er seine zeitlichen Gelübde ab, am 20. Januar 1952 folgten die ewigen Gelübde. 1956 wurde das Mutterkloster Saint-Sauveur bei einem Erdbeben erheblich in Mitleidenschaft gezogen. Er ging 1956 zum Weiterstudium nach Rom. Die Priesterweihe empfing er am 15. Februar 1959 in Santa Maria di Grottaferrata. Seit 1959 pflegte er intensive Kontakt mit Deutschland und hatte einen Stützpunkt in München. Er wurde Mitglied von Pax Christi Deutschland. 1961 promovierte er in Orientalischer Theologie am Päpstlichen Orientalischen Institut in Rom. Von 1961 bis 1964 war er Regens am Priesterseminar St. Sauveur. Von 1966 bis 1969 hatte er die Leitung des Priesterseminars in Jeita, Beirut, inne, wo er auch als Dozent Theologie und Liturgie lehrte. 1969/70 hielt er sich ein ganzes Jahr in Deutschland auf um für seine vielen Aktivitäten (Waisenhaus, ökumenische Zeitschrift Al-Wahda, Freundeskreis Das Band etc.) Geld zu sammeln. Insbesondere arbeitete er mit Herta Figelius, der Generalleiterin des Christkönig-Institutes in Meitingen zusammen. 1972 wurde er Sekretär der ékumenischen und Liturgischen Kommission der griechisch-orthodoxen und katholischen Kirche von Antiochien.

1974 erfolgte durch Patriarch Maximos V. die Ernennung zunächst zum Administrator, dann zum Patriarchalvikar des Patriarchat von Jerusalem der Melkitischen Griechisch-Katholischen Kirche in Jerusalem. Es folgten zahlreiche Initiativen, wie die Gründung eines Zentrums für religiöse Ausbildung von Laien in Jerusalem an der Universität von Bethlehem, Gründung mehrerer mehrsprachiger Buchhandlungen, Kliniken, Pfarrzentren und weiteres.

1981 wurde er durch Patriarch Maximos V. Titularerzbischof von Tarsus geweiht. Weitere Initiativen setzte er um, wie die Errichtung eines Zentrums für orientalische Kirchen in Jerusalem. Von 1987 bis 1989 übernahm er zudem die Leitung des Priesterseminars St. Sauveur in Beit Sahour. 1997 erfolgte zudem die Ernennung zum Patriarchaladministrator in der Eparchie von Galiläa. 1999 war er Präsident des interreligiösen israelischen Verbandes und 2000 Leiter des Symposiums der orientalischen Bischöfe aus Osteuropa in Jerusalem.

Am 29. November 2000 wählte die Bischofssynode der Melkitischen Griechisch-Katholischen Kirche in Raboueh, Libanon, den amtierenden Patriarchalvikar von Jerusalem, Lufti Laham, zum Bischof von Damaskus und zum Oberhaupt der melkitisch-katholischen Kirche zum Patriarchen von Antiochien, dem ganzen Orient, von Alexandrien und Jerusalem. Er trägt seitdem den Namen Gregorios III. Wie die Kardinäle der katholischen Kirche hat auch Patriarch Gregorios III. in Rom seine eigene Titelkirche, Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

Gregor III. spricht Arabisch, Englisch, Spanisch, Französisch, Deutsch, Griechisch, Italienisch und Lateinisch. Er reist viel in der Welt herum, um auf die schwierige Situation der Christen in Syrien aufmerksam zu machen. Er plädiert auch für einen Dialog aller beteiligten Parteien in Syrien, um den Bürgerkrieg zu beenden. In einem Interview mit der Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung Anfang November 2015 kritisierte er die deutsche Flüchtlingspolitik. Im selben Interview verteidigte er Syriens Staatschef Baschar al-Assad. Er "könne die negative Sicht auf Assad nicht teilen". "'Ich weiß nicht, was die Leute gegen ihn haben', so der Patriarch wörtlich."

Papst Franziskus nahm am 6. Mai 2017 seinen Rücktritt als Patriarch an. Jean-Clément Jeanbart war als dienstältester Bischof Apostolischer Administrator bis zur Wahl des Nachfolgers Joseph I. Absi am 21. Juni 2017.

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)

 Die Chrysostomus-Liturgie: eine Hinführung und Erklärung. 2002, ISBN 3-933001-43-9.
 Einübung in den geistlichen Weg der Chrysostomus-Liturgie. 1999, ISBN 3-933001-36-6.
 Einführung in das geistliche Leben des Byzantinischen Ritus. 1990, arabisch.
 Al-Wahada Quarterly (1962–1981) (Einheit im Glauben, die erste ökumenische Zeitschrift in arabischer Sprache)
 vier Bände liturgische Gebete in arabischer Sprache
 Die Stimme des Hirten. Arabische Predigten.

Auszeichnungen
 2012: Muhammad-Nafi-Tschelebi-Preis

Weblinks

 Offizielle Seite des melkitischen griechisch-katholischen Patriarchats (englisch)
 Gianni Valente: Interview with the patriarch of Antioch Grégoire III Laham: We are the Church of Islam. 30giorni.it, 2005 (englisch)
 Gregor III. Laham auf der Seite des Orden des Heiligen Lazarus (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Melkitisch griechisch-katholischer Patriarch
Melkitisch griechisch-katholischer Bischof (20. Jahrhundert)
Melkitisch griechisch-katholischer Bischof (21. Jahrhundert)
Melkitischer Basilianer vom Heiligsten Erlöser
Syrer
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Evesham police: Men in credit card ring rammed cruiser
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EVESHAM – Four people allegedly connected to a New York credit card fraud ring were arrested early Friday morning after reportedly ramming a police car in the parking lot of a local store the night before and fleeing the scene at a high rate of speed.
Police were called to the Walmart on Route 70 about 9 p.m. Thursday for a report of four suspects who were identified by store security as being part of a credit card fraud ring that had been targeting Walmart stores in the area. The men had attempted to buy iPads with fraudulent credit cards but store staff turned them away, police said.
When the suspects, all from Brooklyn, New York, got into an SUV outside the store, officers positioned their vehicles behind the SUV and turned on their lights and sirens, according to a police report issued Monday.
The driver put the SUV in reverse and rammed a police cruiser before taking off.
Officers pursued the SUV, police said, but called off the pursuit a short time later because of the risk of injury to bystanders.
About six hours later, an officer stopped the SUV on Route 73 for a speeding violation.
The suspects were taken into custody without incident, police said.
• Danny Gonzalez, 21, was charged with second degree eluding, third degree aggravated assault by auto, third degree criminal attempt credit card fraud. He is being at the Burlington County Jail on $100,000 bail.
• Oreal Hart, 19, was charged with third degree aggravated assault and third degree criminal attempt credit card fraud and was being held at the Burlington County Jail on $20,000 bail.
• Jose Battle, 21, was charged with third degree aggravated assault by auto and third degree criminal attempt credit card fraud. He was also held in Burlington County Jail on $20,000 bail.
• A juvenile was charged with third degree aggravated assault by auto, and third degree criminal attempt credit card fraud. He was released to a parent.


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By Kara Foxx | March 17, 2017 at 1:11 PM EDT - Updated August 12 at 4:05 PM
Kings Island is looking for workers to fill several different positions for the 2017 season.
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Hey Bill. Thanks for taking the time out to talk to me about your new film, 'Olympus Has Fallen'.
Hey, no problem. I don't know if I'd call it "my" movie. My family calls it that but technically it's Antoine Fuqua's, Gerard Butler's and all the other movie stars' movie. I'm basically hamburger helper but it's my goal one day to be hamburger. The movie is terrorists attacking the White House. It's bad guys, bullets and Butler. I think I have to say "Gerard Butler" though because legally his name is to be spoken as one word. It's a shoot 'em up.
My dude is the Watch Officer in the Pentagon Crisis Room. He and his team basically run that room when something bad happens and coordinate with the other outside agencies to provide info to the decision makers at the big table so they can make…decisions. We were the dudes in the glass booth at the back of the room. It was myself, Hunter Burke, Ken Bradley and Robert the extra.
I originally auditioned with Glorioso Casting for the fighter pilot and a Secret Service role. Then I was booked for a sniper role but I had a conflict so I couldn't do it. I was bummed because I really wanted to be in this movie, especially with it being shot in Shreveport. A couple of weeks later I got a call from my agent that I booked as Watch Officer. I really have to thank those who believed in me.
The film stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Finley Jacobsen, Dylan McDermott, Rick Yune, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser and Phil Austin – with Antoine Fuqua onboard as director – what was it like working with the cast and crew on-set? Any good anecdotes?
I really only had contact with the actors in the Pentagon scenes. Antoine is a great guy to work for, straight forward and super cool. I got to watch the work of the great Morgan Freeman – (also to be said as one word), Angela Bassett is a genuinely nice person. Veteran actor Robert Forster was really engaging, he told us some great acting stories from back "in the day". Sean O'Brien was awesome, he was just fun to be around. The guys with me in the booth were really great, we had a lot of fun.
Anecdotes? There was this line, my first one in the movie. Not that I had that many. Well, I didn't know how to pronounce one of the words in that line. I mean, I had done my research, I knew exactly what it meant and how it applied to the plot and everything. I just didn't know how to pronounce it. So we're blocking out the scene. Morgan Freeman is sitting down at the head of the table, Antoine is standing beside him with the script and I am standing beside Antoine. I'm to come down from the booth and deliver the line to Mr. Freeman. After it's all figured out, Antoine asks, "Any questions?". I point to the line in the script he's holding and ask, "Could you just tell me how to pronounce this word". In unison, every actor at the table says, "Cerberus". Morgan Freeman looks up at me with this disdainful gaze, like I'm some idiot and says, in his Morgan Freeman voice, "Greek Mythology" and turns away shaking his head. I wanted to say, "I knew that!". I wanted to say, "I looked it up, I know what it means!" but what I said was, "Thank you". And I went back to my booth. Humility, everyone should have some.
Let's talk a bit about you Bill. What made you want to get into the acting industry in the first place?
I got involved in films by a fluke. I was shopping with my kids in Target, my oldest was with me and her sisters were somewhere else in the store. This guy approaches me and asks if he could speak to me. He had a couple of ID tags hanging around his neck. I thought he was store security and they had knocked over a TV or something. His name was Gavin, he was casting Kevin Costner's movie, 'The Guardian' and was looking for military types to work as extras. So I said sure. That's how it got started. About ten movies later I was working as an extra on 'Private Valentine'. Thanks to Sherri O'Terri picking me out of a crowd and director Steve Miner taking a chance on me I was bumped into my first speaking role. The acting was good for me. Being a pilot and in the military I was expected to act the way everyone wanted me to. I was a tiger in a cage. I was always the one who wouldn't behave. For me the whole thing is the creative outlet I need.
I don't really feel I'm in the position to be handing out advice. I've got a lot to learn myself. I would just say if you want to be an actor, take acting classes. Take…acting…classes! I don't know how many people I've met who seem to think they're naturals and no one can teach them anything. There may be some out there but I'm not one of them. Except for being a smartass, I've never been a natural at anything, I've had to work hard for the things I have. I think I will take acting classes forever. And, it's not a sprint, it's a marathon.
You've been in a number of different films and TV projects – which actors/actresses have been your favourites to work with and why? Any good stories?
I really haven't been in lot, I'm just getting started. I don't usually get to know anyone as a day player, I come in, do my job and leave. I don't get to hang out with the stars. I did sit in the waiting area with Patrick Duffy on 'Dallas'. He was beyond nice. And recently on my one day on '2 Guns', I met Robert Burke. We had a great talk, he's a fellow surfer and talked to me like I was human, which I appreciated. And sometimes they just put me in my trailer and lock the door from the outside.
My iPod? The Pogues, Jimmy Buffett, Nine Inch Nails, Michael Franti, Limp Bizkit, Bright Eyes, Chili Peppers, Toby Keith, The Wallflowers, Bare Naked Ladies, Rammstein, Kid Rock…geez! I think my iPod may be bipolar!
First of all, I don't know why anyone would have dinner with three dead guests. And I could have three really cool sounding picks but they could all turn out to be jerks and we'd end up fighting about how to split up the check. I know it's not what you want to hear but I'd have dinner with my family. I've missed a lot of time with them chasing my career(s). I don't think having an extra dinner together would be a wasted wish.
My favourite of 2012, that's a tough one. I see a lot of movies. I like to watch movies that are different in some way, away from the norm. Movies like 'The Green Mile', 'Forrest Gump', 'Home Fries', 'Drive', that kind of different. I voted for 'Silver Linings Playbook' in 2012. 'Talladega Nights' is still the best movie ever made so my bar is set high.
As for 2013 I'm going to keep going to class, keep auditioning and hope for the best! And learn French.
Previous Josh Wingate – (Dark Skies – 2013). Next Shyaam Karra – (The Host – 2013).


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Born into British aristocracy, the author's idyllic early childhood was interrupted by a wartime evacuation to North Oxford. The relocation had profound effects on her life, not the least of which was her education at a Catholic convent and her eventual conversion from the Protestant faith to Catholicism. Her memories of holidays spent at Dunsany Castle and Pakenham Hall, a stint as "Miss Tony" selling hats in a London department store, and her early days working in publishing are all told in her singular, irresistible voice.
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Q: error: invalid conversion from char to const char* I am getting the titular error in the following code.
rna_transcription_test.cpp
#include "rna_transcription.h"
#define BOOST_TEST_MAIN
#include <boost/test/unit_test.hpp>

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(transcribes_cytidine_to_guanosine)
{
    BOOST_REQUIRE_EQUAL('G', transcription::to_rna('C'));
}

#if defined(EXERCISM_RUN_ALL_TESTS)
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(transcribes_guanosine_to_cytidine)
{
BOOST_REQUIRE_EQUAL('C', transcription::to_rna('G'));
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(transcribes_adenosine_to_uracil)
{
    BOOST_REQUIRE_EQUAL('U', transcription::to_rna('A'));
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(transcribes_thymidine_to_adenosine)
{
    BOOST_REQUIRE_EQUAL('A', transcription::to_rna('T'));
}

BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE(transcribes_all_dna_nucleotides_to_their_rna_complements)
{
    BOOST_REQUIRE_EQUAL("UGCACCAGAAUU", transcription::to_rna("ACGTGGTCTTAA"));
}
#endif

rna_transcription.h
#include <string>

using namespace std;

class transcription
{
    public:
        static string to_rna(string input)
        {
            string returnValue;
            for(char& c:input)
            {
                if(c == 'A')
                {
                    returnValue.push_back('U');
                }
                else if(c == 'T')
                {
                    returnValue.push_back('A');
                }
                else if(c == 'G')
                {
                    returnValue.push_back('C');
                }
                else if(c == 'C')
                {
                    returnValue.push_back('G');
                }
            }
            return returnValue;
      };
};

I know I just posted this, but I have a feeling that the error is in rna_transcription_test.cpp because I got rna_transcription.h checked by stackoverflow and they said it was bug free. So can someone bugcheck both files, and make sure I got everything right?

A: std::string does NOT have a char constructor. If you want to build a string from a single char you'd have to say std::string(1, 'A')
It does not have a char constructor because char is an integer and integer arguments would auto-convert to characters, resulting in very strange bugs.
So change your calls from transcription::to_rna('A') to transcription::to_rna("A")
Also change your test comparisons to strings instead of characters.
Update:
According to legalize, the tests are perfect as they are. So the answer is not to change the tests but to change your code.
You will need to add another to_rna overload function that receives a single char. You would probably want to update your code so that your loop over the string calls the single char function for each character. That would reduce the duplication from writing the if/then series twice.

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Maui United Way Creates New Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Statement
Maui United Way brought together a diverse group of community members from Maui County and the state to develop a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion statement. Logo Courtesy: Maui United Way
Maui United Way, with funding support from Nuestro Futuro Foundation and facilitation by ʻAʻaliʻi Alliance, brought together a diverse group of community members from Maui, Molokaʻi, Lanaʻi and the state to develop a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion statement.
"With aloha at the center of our work, Maui United Way acknowledges the past and ongoing injustice here in these islands and works to set it right," the statement says. "Through this acknowledgment and action, we will find a Hawaiʻi where race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, class, disability status, geography, age and all other identities are embraced as assets that help to create beautiful contributions for the good of our communities."
This statement is a short version of a longer more detailed statement that can be found on the Maui United Way website: mauiunitedway.org/what-we-do.
Abigail Perrin, Executive Director of Nuestro Futuro Foundation in Haʻikū, shared "working to uproot deep-seated inequities with the intention to promote positive change is a prime tenet of Nuestro Futuro Foundation's work. We are proud to be in partnership with Maui United Way in this endeavor."
Summer Keli'ipio of ʻAʻaliʻi Alliance said: "ʻAʻaliʻi Alliance is honored to work with Maui United Way and the leaders in our communities who are actively working for justice and equity across the state. By first acknowledging current suffering and then putting in the hard work to transform from inequity to aloha, Hawaiʻi has a greater chance of meeting its potential and being a role model for the world."
Maui United Way President and CPO Nicholas Winfrey said: "We are proud to acknowledge the underlying causes of inequity in our community and will continue striving to lead by example in this space. In the near future, we'll be working with our local partners to help them develop their own unique DE&I statement."
Along with their new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion statement, Maui United Way's board of directors and staff have updated their existing Mission and Vision statements to reflect the new role it is playing within the community and the expansion of services and work they and their partnering nonprofits are providing for the community.
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The actress was born 28 July 1948, she appeared in 56 episodes of the series as Georgette - the love interest of anchorman Ted Baxter, played by Ted Knight.
Engel who was nominated for five Emmy Awards across her television career - including two nods for her performance in The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
The cause of her death is yet to be ascertained.
Engel was viewers darling and during her five years on the show, viewers saw Georgette and Ted marry and adopt a child before going on to have one of their own.
Engel's other acting credits included film appearances in Dr. Dolittle 2, The Sweetest Thing and TV shows such as The Office and Two And A Half Men.
Actress Valerie Bertinelli paid tribute to her Hot In Cleveland co-star on Twitter, saying: "Georgia Engel was the sweetest, kindest, dearest woman. And crazy talented."
Likewise, US screenwriter Phil Rosenthal, the creator of Everybody Loves Raymond, added: "To our dear sweet friend, we'll love and miss you and your brilliant talent always."


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Last week came bearing good news for the Asia-Pacific travel industry. The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) announced on Thursday that in the space of just one year, the number of international arrivals into Asia-Pacific destinations had increased by 10 per cent. This is a huge climb in such a short space of time, especially at a time when so many visitor countries are facing increased financial hardship and austerity measures.
While many developed countries continue to experience struggles in their respective tourism industries, the respite for the global travel and aviation industries lies with Asia, being the continent that is expected to bring in the most revenue this year. At the world's aviation summit in Beijing this year, Tony Tyler, chief executive of the International Air Transport Association, announced an expected profit for the global aviation indstury of just $3 billion. This is compared with figures of $7.1 billion in 2011. Asia is expected to bring in around $2 billion of this profit while Europe – on the other hand – would be contributing devastating losses of $1.1 billion.
All sub regions of Asia-Pacific reported a solid growth, with North America, the Pacific, South Asia and Southeast Asia showing double digit increases in arrivals. Northeast Asia also fared well, increasing by 8%.
Southeast Asia came out top as the fastest growing sub region in Asia-Pacific, reporting a large growth of 15% in international arrivals in March 2012. This amazing result included a 12% growth for Thailand; the first time in six months that the country had reported double digit growth. This is especially good news for a country that was affected so badly by the devastating floods of last summer, which took their toll on the local tourism industry. All other destinations in Southeast Asia that formed part of this report experienced healthy growth. The success of this sub region can be especially attributed to the emergence of countries such as China, Korea and Russia (the ROC market) and their growing importance to western economies such as the UK and the USA.
The second best-performing sub region of Asia-Pacific was South Asia, with year-on-year growths for March 2012 of 14%. All but one of the destinations that contributed towards this report experienced positive growth figures; the only destination with negative growth was the Maldives (5%). A particularly notable destination was Nepal, which has seen a year-on-year increase in international arrivals of 37%. Sri Lanka also performed remarkably, with a growth of 21%. These countries owe their successes to their increasing appeals as travel destinations for visitors from emerging countries, as well as their increasing accessibility. Major airline routes from countries such as the UK have been introduced in the past year, including a new route for Vietnam Airlines from London to Ho Chi Minh City (previously, visitors from the UK commonly travelled via Kuala Lumpur, adding several hours to journey times).
Third in line on PATA's report was the Pacific region, which reported a growth of 12%. However, the increase in the number of visitors to this region was extremely uneven, with countries such as the Marshall Islands reporting a huge decline of 39%, while others such as Vanuatu reported sky-high increases of 108%.
The success of the Asia-Pacific sub regions is also thanks to the development of several key tourism industries. One industry that could be particularly relevant to the success of the Pacific region, and which is booming on a global level, is that of passenger cruises. In Australia, for example, the International Cruise Council Australasia announced that in 2011, international passenger numbers reached a new high of 623,294 – a 34% annual increase that is "the largest recorded by any key world cruise market last year," according to ICCA General Manager, Brett Jardine. Visitors that wish to take a Southwestern Pacific cruise now find themselves with a lot more choice of trips as cruise liners increase services to cater for demand – and thus contributing to the overall increase in international visitors of the region.
Liv Raban is an experienced travel and business writer who is currently based in the UK. She has traveled (and lived in) numerous countries, including Thailand and Australia, and continues to live nomadically.


Missourian John Lewis Barkley was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for actions he took Oct. 7, 1918. This image of him is from a painting done by Howard Chandler Christy in 1930.
It's likely you've never heard of John Lewis Barkley.
The Missouri native fought in World War I, winning the Congressional Medal of Honor and later writing a book about his experience. Yet his book, "No Hard Feelings!" and his name remain in relative obscurity, even as the nation marks the 100th anniversary of World War I's end.
That surprises Steven Trout, who helped get the book reprinted under the title "Scarlet Fields" in 2014.
"I'm astonished, in fact, and I don't really know the reason," he told St. Louis Public Radio.
Trout is an English professor at the University of South Alabama who specializes in war literature.
He first learned of Barkley during visits to the National World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City. The museum's director asked Trout whether he'd read Barkley's book.
John Lewis Barkley was one of the most decorated soldiers in World War I, but both he and his memoir "No Hard Feelings!" remained in relative obscurity.
Barkley was born in 1895 and grew up on a farm near Holden in west central Missouri. He prided himself on being a woodsman and claimed to be a descendant of Daniel Boone.
While he knew how to handle a gun, Barkley had a bad stammer that made it difficult to pass the Army's medical examination, even after the U.S. entered the war. Once he was accepted to the military, his officers soon recognized his skills.
"He could hunt. He could trap. He was an excellent shot. So when he was sent to Camp Funston in 1917 the Army realized here was someone that could do this kind of intelligence work," Trout said.
Barkley would do dangerous reconnaissance work in wartime France; scouting ahead of American troops, observing the enemy and reporting back, as well as serving as a sniper. He excelled in the role.
His actions on Oct. 7, 1918 made him one of the most decorated soldiers of World War I.
That afternoon, he was sent ahead of the American lines near Cunel, France, to try to learn where the German force was located. Shortly after, his telephone wire back to camp was cut and Barkley saw German soldiers advancing. He quickly spotted a German machine gun nest and an abandoned French tank.
He grabbed a light machine gun, as much ammunition as he could carry and took cover in the tank.
"Probably to the tune of an hour and a half to two hours, he fended off a German force of several hundred enemy soldiers and did this single-handedly from this tank," Trout said.
Barkley would win the Congressional Medal of Honor, along with five medals for bravery from other Allied nations.
After the war Barkley returned to the farm in Missouri.
But the bottom fell out of the agriculture economy and Barkley soon was looking for a way to support his widowed mother and himself.
He decided to capitalize on the wave of books about what was then known as the Great War. Barkley would send notes to a military friend, Mike Mulcahy, who wrote the manuscript. After being turned down by several publishers the Cosmopolitan Book House in New York took on the project and had five editors fine tune the book.
Barkley was unapologetic about his wartime exploits and his recollections of the Great War were at odds with the time.
The book would barely sell.
Barkley had wanted to name it "Scarlet Fields," but the editors used an anecdote in the book to name it "No Hard Feelings," instead.
Today, a century after the war's end, Trout said Barkley's memoir provides a unique view of a World War I American intelligence platoon. Despite the fact that Barkley had a lot of help in telling his story, the story is truly his.
Trout said for a while, Barkley worked for a detective agency in Kansas City, but it didn't last. Eventually, he met and married Marguerite Mullen, who had grown up on a large dairy farm in Johnson County, Kansas, southwest of Kansas City.
The Mullen family owned quite a bit of land in an area that would become a city suburb.
Barkley worked as a park supervisor in Johnson County.
"He had a real passion for public parks and believed very strongly that people needed to experience the great outdoors and get out and have the kinds of experiences he had as a boy in Missouri," Trout said.
A park building and roadway in the Johnson County park system are named after Barkley.
He died in 1966 at the age of 70.
With poetry, red poppies and praise for peace, Kansas City on Veterans Day remembered soldiers from all wars as it commemorated the centennial anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I.
Of the 40 million people who died in World War I, only 441 were from around Kansas City. With so few casualties from this area, how did the national museum and memorial for this war end up here?
Mike Vietti, the museum's marketing director, hears this question a lot.
"This really was, in many respects, a crowdsourced National Museum and Memorial," Vietti says.
To understand why Kansas City was up to that challenge requires remembering what the city was like a hundred years ago.


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Hadley Wood (Parkway Station)
Mr. Stephen Twigg (Enfield, Southgate): I am delighted to have the opportunity to raise a major issue of local concern in my constituency, and one that raises questions of wider regional and national importance. I am especially pleased to have this, my first debate, in the new Westminster Hall. I am a member of the Modernisation Committee and a strong supporter of the experiment.
One of the reasons that the Committee proposed the Westminster Hall experiment was to provide increased opportunities for Back-Bench Members and Select Committees to have issues debated. The topic that I bring before the Chamber today is one that I have attempted to bring before the House for some time under the traditional Adjournment debate procedure. This is my second attempt to bring it to Westminster Hall, and I am delighted to have succeeded so speedily.
I am grateful to all those who assisted me in my preparations for today's debate, in particular the Hadley Wood Association, a number of whose members are present for the debate; the Council for the Protection of Rural England; the Railway Development Society; and several of the affected local authorities, most notably Hertfordshire, Hertsmere and Stevenage councils.
Transport is clearly a key policy challenge for our Parliament, Government and country. There is wide support in my constituency for the Government's transport policy objectives--to reduce congestion, to enhance the environment and reduce pollution, to foster a shift to greater use of public transport and to promote greater integration between different modes of transport, including between road and rail.
As part of this policy development, the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions published in July 1998 "The Future Strategy for the M25, which takes a strategic look at the future of that road. In that document, DETR states:
"Among the issues to be addressed . . . will be the scope for . . . park and ride facilities near the motorway.
I recognise, as do my constituents, that parkway stations can play a positive and productive part in transport policy, but that an overall view needs to be taken about proposed locations which considers the benefits as well as the drawbacks, in terms of both transport and the environment. Over the past year, new parkway stations have been opened at Luton airport and, last May, at Horwich in Bolton, and they have brought many benefits to those areas. Parkways can work where the location is appropriate.
Great North Eastern Railway has expressed a wish to create three new parkway stations--one north of London close to the M25, one close to Edinburgh and one in Doncaster.
Caroline Flint (Don Valley): I congratulate my hon. Friend on raising such an important matter on behalf of the residents of Hadley Wood. Does he agree that in transport planning, GNER must be sensitive to local residents and local circumstances? In my constituency a new parkway station is planned, which I believe will
bring enormous benefits to villages such as Rossington and Finningley, but it must be integrated into the local transport infrastructure. An area such as Doncaster could benefit tremendously, but GNER must be mindful of other partners to ensure the best outcome for all concerned.
Mr. Twigg: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for her intervention. Later in my speech, I shall deal with a more appropriate location for the proposed parkway north of London. I am well aware of the benefits that can be gained, but also of the great importance of proper public consultation and involvement.
My understanding is that GNER's preferred site for the parkway station north of London is on land immediately adjacent to Hadley Wood. According to GNER, the aim of the new station would be, first, to encourage north London residents to drive out to Hadley Wood, rather than going into central London to pick up their trains, and secondly, to encourage drivers in the area north-east of London and in Kent to drive around the M25 to Hadley Wood, rather than taking the train into central London and going to King's Cross by underground or other forms of public transport.
The proposed site is greenbelt land in the borough of Hertsmere, although most of the affected residents live in the borough of Enfield in my constituency. GNER has not submitted a formal planning application because it is awaiting the outcome of the process of renegotiation of franchises, and has stated that it will not submit such an application until that process is complete.
I am opposed to the siting of a parkway station in Hadley Wood for three main reasons--first, the effect on the green belt; secondly, the impact on the local infrastructure in my constituency; and thirdly, the wider consequences for transport policy in outer north London and Hertfordshire.
The green belt was one of the finest achievements of the post-war Labour Government. My right hon. Friend the Deputy Prime Minister has reaffirmed the Government's commitment to the green belt. Hadley Wood is an attractive residential area in the north-west of my Enfield, Southgate constituency. The threat to the green belt is a threat to the amenity and way of life not only of the residents of Hadley Wood, but of all my constituents and the residents of neighbouring constituencies. I am pleased to see my colleague the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Sir S. Chapman) in the Chamber. We have been working closely together on the matter, along with the hon. Member for Hertsmere (Mr. Clappison), in whose constituency the proposed development would take place.
I pay tribute to the excellent work done by the Hadley Wood Association in drawing the attention of local people to the matter and getting media coverage, and in doing work that has largely informed what I shall say in objection to the proposal.
The site is in the narrowest part of the green belt around London. It is less than two miles wide. The effect of a parkway station would be to extend the urbanised boundary of London beyond Potters Bar. The area is a community forest with two working farms, both of which would have to be closed, were the proposal to
proceed. They would be replaced by a 2,000-space car park. In other words, two farms would be replaced by an area the size of five Wembley football pitches for cars. That poses a disastrous threat to the green belt.
With regard to the local infrastructure, one effect of the GNER proposal would be to increase the use of roads in our area--the M25, obviously, and local roads as well. The stretch of the M25 between exits 23 and 25 is already heavily overloaded and is a well known bottleneck. It makes little sense to encourage more cars on to an already overloaded stretch of the M25.
Furthermore, like most of London and many other parts of the country, my constituency is increasingly plagued by traffic congestion. Since the opening of exit 24 on the M25, the A111 that passes through my constituency has undergone a heavy increase in traffic. The Hadley Wood Association commissioned a study by the leading traffic consultants, Messrs Colin Buchanan and Partners, in 1997, which demonstrated that during rush hour periods there were more than 1,000 vehicles per hour using that stretch of road. I am certain that there has been a further significant increase in traffic volume since that study was carried out. Buchanan and Partners estimated that a parkway station could add a further 500 cars per hour during peak times.
While one theoretical solution is to widen the roads, there would be substantial local opposition to that as there is little scope or capacity in the Cockfosters area for widening the road. Even were such a plan acceptable, it would be not be viable. In terms of the infrastructure in Cockfosters, Hadley Wood and the wider Enfield, Southgate area, the consequences of such a proposal would be to increase congestion and worsen the bottlenecks. That would contravene the wider objectives of Government policy on transport.
There is a wider argument against the proposal. I am worried about Railtrack's lack of overall planning to develop a coherent strategy for new parkway stations in our part of the country. The case against Hadley Wood is not simply a "not in my back yard reaction to a proposal to build on the green belt; there is a strong transport argument against it. Hertfordshire county council has clear, well-thought-out transport policies in which Stevenage is the key rail centre for the county. In the past few days, Hertfordshire county council told me that it had received no evidence from GNER or anyone else of special circumstances that would justify building on the green belt. That view is reinforced by Hertsmere borough council, which stated that
"no case has been made for the development. Last year, GNER tried to challenge Hertsmere's local plan to facilitate a possible parkway station, but it did not pursue the matter and the local plan stands.
Stevenage council shares Hertfordshire's view that Stevenage should remain the main focus for rail in the county. It goes further, and would like Stevenage to be the site of a parkway station. My hon. Friend the Member for Stevenage (Barbara Follett) shares that view. The council told me that there was space in Stevenage to build the necessary car parking facilities, that there is scope to expand the station to six platforms, that no greenbelt issues affect it and that traffic congestion is less significant because of Stevenage's
location as a relatively new town alongside the A1M. People in Stevenage and elsewhere in Hertfordshire are worried that a Hadley Wood parkway station would detract from Stevenage's position as the main rail focus for the county. Anxiety has been expressed that some trains might not stop at Stevenage because of the close proximity of the two centres.
I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister will tackle those anxieties in his response. I appreciate that, for the reasons that I outlined, there are no specific proposals from GNER. However, if GNER wins the franchise, it will want to move rapidly to effect its proposals for the three parkway stations, including Hadley Wood. That is why there is widespread anxiety in my constituency and beyond. While the residents of Hadley Wood form the focus of that anxiety, other people in the Enfield, Southgate area and colleagues in neighbouring constituencies are worried about the proposals.
Like my hon. Friend, I am a passionate supporter of public transport and a non-driver. I use public transport every day; I believe in the railways and I support a successful, thriving railway system for our country. There is a persuasive case for a parkway station north of London. However, Hadley Wood is a totally unsuitable location for it. If such a proposal were implemented, it would be a disaster for the green belt, exacerbate already appalling conditions and congestion on our local roads and threaten the future of Stevenage as a rail centre.
I hope that GNER or whoever wins the franchise will abandon the idea of a parkway station in Hadley Wood and pursue the sort of alternatives that I have outlined. I hope that the Minister will take account of my comments and offer some hope to my constituents.
Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet): I shall speak briefly to support everything that the hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate (Mr. Twigg) said in opposition to the GNER proposal. I want to make two points on behalf of my constituents. First, if the proposal goes ahead, it will constitute the most devastating blow to the metropolitan green belt in one of its most sensitive areas. The main objective in that area is to keep Potters Bar away from the metropolis. The thin strip of land has already been divided by the M25, so not only the proposed development but the attendant feeder roads would devastate the green belt in that area. I congratulate the hon. Gentleman not only on securing the debate but on the eloquence with which he put the case.
Perhaps I should declare a possible interest. For many years, I was president of the London Green Belt Council until I was appointed a Minister, when, quite properly, I had to give up that honorary position. The consolation for my friends is that my career has gone downwards ever since.
I want to underline the effect of the proposal on the local infrastructure. The roads are already overcrowded and the hon. Member for Enfield, Southgate was right to refer to the overloading of the M25 in that area. I disagree with one point that he made. He painted a rather rosy picture of the Government's commitment to conserving our green belt. He mentioned Stevenage,
which is a much better location for the proposed parkway station, but the Government have permitted a significant development to the west of Stevenage on the metropolitan green belt. Their action reinforces the case for a parkway station in Stevenage, not Hadley Wood.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Mr. Keith Hill): I begin, as is usual, by congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, Southgate (Mr. Twigg) on securing the debate. I am aware that the proposal by GNER for a new parkway station near the M25 north of London is a source of great concern to many of his constituents.
Since his general election triumph in 1997, my hon. Friend is proving himself, in this matter as in so many others, an extremely conscientious constituency Member of Parliament and an outstanding advocate on behalf of the interests of his constituents.
I also thank the hon. Member for Chipping Barnet (Sir S. Chapman) for his contribution to the debate. As a former resident of Chipping Barnet, who often walked in Hadley Wood, I know that he is also a most assiduous constituency Member of Parliament.
My hon. Friend the Member for Don Valley (Caroline Flint) is another highly effective constituency Member of Parliament. She also made proper representations on behalf of her constituents.
I want to make it perfectly clear at the outset that there is no firm proposal for a new parkway station near Hadley Wood and no final site has been identified. The station is one of three new parkway stations proposed as part of GNER's initial bid for a replacement franchise. The other proposed stations are near Edinburgh and the M18 in South Yorkshire.
However, it is still early days. No decision on whether to replace GNER's franchise has been taken. Even if GNER's bid were successful, careful consideration would need to be given to several important issues including planning, transport and wider environmental implications, before the parkway stations could be approved.
The Chamber knows that last September, the Deputy Prime Minister issued new instructions and guidance to the franchising director asking him to deliver improvements through renegotiation of the terms of franchise agreements. When considering any renegotiation requests, we have asked the franchising director to give due weight to commitments to current performance, customer services, innovation, investment and efficiency; new or earlier investment; securing better performance; initiatives to promote integrated transport; a willingness to give passengers a greater voice in the level and standard of services; and value for the taxpayer.
In November last year, the franchising director announced that the current GNER franchise would be one of the first three to be renegotiated or replaced. The GNER, Connex SouthCentral and Chiltern franchises were chosen because they are thought to offer great potential for improvements and developments which can be delivered in a relatively short time scale.
On 22 December, the franchising director announced that Sea Containers, which is the parent company of GNER and Virgin Rail, in conjunction with
Stagecoach, had pre-qualified to participate in further discussion of its franchise replacement proposals. They are now preparing their detailed proposals for discussion with the franchising director before final negotiations. It is hoped to conclude these negotiations in the spring.
However, it is important to remember that the franchising director is not committed to accepting either proposal. After careful consideration, he may decide instead to allow the existing GNER franchise to run its course until it expires in April 2003.
In considering any franchise replacement negotiations, the franchising director will consult, among others, local authorities, regional planning bodies, regional development agencies and rail users' consultative committees as appropriate. If the parkway station proposal were to be adopted as part of a franchise commitment, planning permission and full local consultation would be required.
I want to say a word about the Government's approach to parkway stations. We are keen to encourage integrated transport proposals that are designed to encourage people to travel by public transport and to reduce the need to travel by car. I understand that GNER's proposal is intended to encourage a modal shift from car and air travel to rail use and to allow a seamless transfer between transport modes. It believes that its proposed parkway stations would considerably reduce long-distance car usage, thereby reducing road and motorway congestion and associated pollution problems.
We are also keen to improve the quality of rail services and GNER believes that the parkway stations would make long-distance rail travel more accessible and attractive. The parkway stations would be served by GNER's planned new fleet of high-speed trains. I understand that stations would be airport style in design and built to accommodate the needs of passengers, including those with special needs. There is a measure of support for a new parkway station in the north London area and the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, for example, believes that the parkway station
"could prove the single most important lever for achieving a modal shift from road to rail for long distance journeys between London and the north east and Scotland. There are also clearly important planning implications for the scheme, however, and I am well aware that the proposed site for the parkway station lies within the metropolitan green belt. That has generated considerable local opposition and I know that organisations such as the London Green Belt Council, the Association of North Thames Amenity Societies, the Potters Bar Society and the Hadley Wood Association have expressed their concerns.
Obviously, a scheme for a parkway station would need to be the subject of a planning application. Under national planning policy guidance on green belts, which is known as PPG2, such a development would be inappropriate in the green belt. To justify approval being given, it would therefore be necessary for GNER to show that very special circumstances outweighed the
harm that would be done to the green belt. The land use planning merits of a station proposal would need to be considered against the statutory development plan, and careful regard would have to be paid to all other material considerations. Those might include, for example, the impact of the development on the environment and on residential amenity as well as the effect on the M25 and the local highway network. Should the local planning authority be minded to grant consent to a planning application, there remains the possibility that it might be called in by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions for his own determination should it be thought to raise matters of more than local importance.
Last October, we set out land use planning policy on transport, including park and ride, in our consultation draft PPG13 on transport. That emphasised the need for park-and-ride schemes to be introduced as an integral part of the overall planning and transport approach for an area. They should be in the local transport plan, and based on a thorough assessment of travel impacts, and should also be in the development plan and consistent with the strategic context of the regional transport strategy.
In his speech on 13 December, which set out the Government's vision for transport policy, my right hon. Friend explained that the final version of PPG13, which is due out this year, would give priority to well-designed and well-conceived park-and-ride schemes. We are currently examining the responses to our public consultation on PPG13 and aim to publish the final version in the summer.
We are keen that local authorities should consider allocating sites for interchange in their development plans, for example, park-and-ride schemes to town centres and at bus and rail stations. I am aware that GNER objected to the deposit draft of the Hertsmere local plan on the grounds that it failed to support proposals for improvements to passenger services on the east coast main line and, in particular, the provision of a parkway station on land to the north of Hadley Wood. A public inquiry into the local plan was held last year and the inspector's report is still awaited. When it is received, Hertsmere borough council will consider the inspector's recommendations and decide whether any modifications to the plan are required. Those will then be published and the public will have an opportunity to express their views on the merits of the proposed modifications.
I reiterate that GNER's proposal must be regarded for the present as an option, not a firm and agreed package that can be implemented without further consultation. There is a process still to be gone through in which the planning, transport and wider environmental implications would need to be thoroughly considered. I hope that my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield, Southgate is reassured that any decisions will be taken only after the most careful consideration.
Question put and agreed to.
Adjourned accordingly at four minutes to Two o'clock.
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Rivers Casino to Open in Early 2017
SCHENECTADY — Construction of the Rivers Casino & Resort at Mohawk Harbor in Schenectady is ahead of schedule. The casino is expected to open in early 2017, Rush Street Gaming CEO Greg Carlin said.
The casino will be open by March of next year and by the end of 2017 earn about $190 million, a little under Rush Street's third-year projected gaming revenues of $223 million, Carlin said.
"We're already under construction here," he said. "We wanted to open this facility as quickly as possible. Our expected opening date is the first quarter of 2017, assuming the weather cooperates with us. That's actually ahead of schedule."
Carlin joined other Rush Street Gaming officials — along with representatives from the Galesi Group, local officials and community leaders — for a ceremonial groundbreaking on the Mohawk Harbor site Wednesday morning.
Foundation work already is underway on the $330 million Rivers Casino — a joint venture between Rush Street and Galesi — on the 60-acre old Alco site off Erie Boulevard.
Mary Cheeks, general manager of the Rivers Casino, said the casino would feature 1,150 slot machines, 63 table games, 15 poker tables and an adjacent 163-room hotel. The casino hotel name has not yet been announced.
Viccaro, Haley. "Rivers Casino to Open in Early 2017." The Daily Gazette. N.p., 03 Feb. 2016. Web. 04 Feb. 2016.


I have to agree. Unfortunately, Doug Dobson has done a REALLY good job at brainwashing. At the very least, enable the OCP by default and allow the user to disable it. You can't really have a "hard switch" when there's no supervisor IC, but it can be programmed into the DSP which completely takes the place of the supervisor IC.
Personally, I completely dislike the "software control & monitoring features"... I find it pointless and imprecise, more so when you consider the added costs of it. I'd opt for hard-switches as well, for all the relevant DSP (added) functions, ignore monitoring all together, a cheap DMM does a better job anyway.
The AX-i unit's monitoring abilities should be good given the software is properly calibrated to the PSUs themselves though.
Since the AX1200i had Vsense lines running and a DSP to manage all of that.
But yes, the software monitoring is a gimmick at best.
As I undestand it, the unit has Vsense lines running back into the unit and thus into the DSP.
The DSP should be able to accurately read the voltages, at least enough for the end users purposes.
It may be a gimmick and only useful to those who like to obsessively check things; but I doubt it's so inaccurate to be completely useless.
I don't follow your reasoning, it doesn't report the correct nominal values and its deviation is not a standard offset, so you can't measure the actual drop/variation based on the offset.. so (to me) it is useless (just like the quasi-similar EVGA tool is). Your paying a premium for something that's outclassed by a 30$ DMM.
You could argue that the liberty/ability to modify the nominal value could/would help with some (rare) extreme OC scenarios, but even then it's more about myth than fact and it's certainly less useful than (lets say) a small digital clock and a potentiometer (it's not like you're gonna' play with Corsair Link in an extreme OC scenario where you're struggling to boot at a certain clock or complete a SuperPI run.
Voltage tweaking to the board in XOC can be very useful.
Has anyone actually tested Corsair's Link software for accuracy? If it's good enough to accurately report the drop then it would be very useful.
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Meet Zuora's New APAC General Manager
Marc Gagne joined Zuora as the General Manager of the company's Asia Pacific operations late last year. He has behind him 20 years of experience within some of the world's largest and best-known SaaS companies, including leadership positions at Omniture, Adobe and Salesforce. Most recently, he was Vice President for the Asia Pacific & Japan at PagerDuty, an operations platform provider whose global clients include Netflix, the BBC and American Express.
Hi Marc. It's great to have you at Zuora. What brought you to the company?
I've been working with subscription-based licensing models in software since 1998. In those 20 years, it evolved from a disruptive approach to a mainstay. I continue to see subscription management and billing as a growth category. In my view, over time nearly everything we consume will be as a service.
Zuora initially rose to my awareness as I realised a lot of the companies I worked for and partnered with were running on Zuora. As I looked deeper into Zuora's role, I realised Zuora was key in improving the customer experience. Zuora was helping my previous employers shift to self-service models, allowing them to easily experiment with new pricing structures and fully automate everything from billing to collections; revenue management to quoting.
And why do you think the model that Zuora supports works so well?
It's a win-win-win: for customer, vendor and end user, validated by the fact that the vast majority of major tech companies have gone from a transactional to recurring revenue model. The nature of a subscription model keeps the vendor and the customer in better alignment than the transactional model. Over time, it's proven that subscription offers better value for all parties.
Under the transactional licensing model, a company was motivated only to help a customer when an upgrade was required, but that's not the case with the subscription model. When structured correctly, subscriptions offer a clear, easy-to-understand model that's aligned with the customer objective.
"Clear and aligned" is key to making subscription models work. Furthermore, you structure your pricing around growing with your customer – as a vendor, you're incentivised and rewarded to add value. As your customer grows with you, you can ensure the required R&D, support, account management and infrastructure scale with your customers success. Subscription offers the opportunity for vendors and their customers to get on the same side of the table, to grow and evolve together, recommitting their vows every three to five years in the form of renewal.
Zuora talks a lot about the journey to usership being a crucial part of the Subscription Economy revolution. How do you think that journey is going for Australians?
I've worked in the United States and Australia, and I think Australians are leaning in on subscriptions differently to the rest of the world in some ways. Zuora's most recent global survey by Harris Poll validates this. It also says that the journey to usership is happening quickly in Australia.
It found that 78 percent of Australian adults have at least one subscription service, up from 67% in 2018. That's a very significant increase in just two years – it's actually the equal highest growth rate in subscription usage across the 12 countries surveyed.
The survey showed more than an increase in Australian subscribers, though. It also showed that Australians are becoming less and less concerned about possessing physical goods. They favour access over ownership. And the economy is adjusting to this shift; companies are transferring from sell-and-forget product models to recurring revenue models, such as pay-as-you-go. And these models, as I mentioned, are built around the customer. There's definitely no resting on the laurels of the initial sale in a subscription model. In order to win in subscriptions, vendors need to anticipate how customers needs will evolve over time and be positioned to meet them. The data produced in a subscription based relationship can facilitate this IF you devote resources to do the analysis.
We know everyone's getting tired of talking about it, but 2020 was an extraordinary year. What did you take out of it?
It was an extraordinary year. It was a year of great volatility. But one thing I noticed is that as so many businesses really struggled to deal with the economic consequences of the pandemic, subscription companies, for the most part, were resilient. Many actually grew.
The Zuora Subscription Economy Index is a piece of analysis that tracks the growth of subscription companies compared with their product-based counterparts. In the most recent version of the Index, we found that subscription businesses outperformed the S&P 500 in terms of growth by roughly 600 percent over the last decade. In 2020, subscription business actually grew revenues by an average of 12 percent while S&P 500 sales contracted by 2 percent.
And this analysis, as well as the Harris Poll research, reminds us that this isn't a business model just for media and software. Yes, when you think subscriptions, you might immediately think of Netflix or Adobe, but the world's biggest brands in manufacturing, entertainment, music and technology – from Caterpillar and Fender to Disney and Apple – have all had enormous success with digital subscriptions. And all of them have achieved long-term growth.
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Following positive leads, the Australian share market opened higher and has been trading flat in the first two hours of trade. Half of the sectors are trading in the red, with an overnight fall in the oil price dragging down the energy sector, which has largely put a cap on gains in the first two hours of trade.
Materials are mustering up, followed by strength in staples and utilities with the likes of Fortescue (ASX:FMG) tracking almost 2 per cent higher.
The S&P/ASX 200 index is 1 point up or 0.02 per cent higher at 5,672.
On the futures market the SPI is 11 points higher.
Japan's Nikkei has lost 0.3 per cent, Hong Kong's Hang Seng has added 0.2 per cent and the Shanghai Composite has gained 0.4 per cent.
The RBA advised housing, personal and business credit data month on month remained flat at 0.5 per cent. However, private sector credit slightly slipped year on year from 5.8 per cent in August 2016, to 5.5 per cent August 2017.
AFT Pharmaceuticals (ASX:AFP) has announced a pivotal clinical study for intravenous Maxigesic formulation has now been closed. The pharmaceuticals company says, it has been the most expensive study to date. The group also completed other studies on its Maxigesic oral liquid and dry powder stick. Shares in AFT Pharmaceuticals (ASX:AFP) last traded at $2.25.
Centuria Capital Group (ASX:CNI) has advised it is not permitted to make any further issue of securities under the ASX listing rule 7.1A until it has shareholder approval at its next AGM in October. In the meantime, the property fund manager advised the ASX that unless it gets shareholder approval it will not issue any more securities until December 20. Shares in Centuria Capital Group are trading 0.73 per cent higher at $1.38.
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Peter Dinklage Cast as a Bounty Hunter in a Crime Thriller, So All Is Right With the World
By Samantha Wilson · Published on September 23rd, 2014
The Thicket is the adaptation of a crime thriller by the same name from Joe Lansdale, and while it is infinitely badass that Peter Dinklage has, per The Hollywood Reporter, signed on to star as a bounty hunter in the film, it's just a bit too expected that he'll be portraying a character named Shorty. Stay close to the source material, of course. But is it possible to take a noted and respected and at times terrifying actor (in the greats of ways) and not condescend to his height. Shorty? Come on.
The story, set in East Texas in the early 20th century, centers on a young man who has seen his share of tragedy already. His parents were killed while he's a young child, leaving he and his sister in the care of their grandparents. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident shortly after his parents died, while his grandpa got murdered by a vicious band of bank robbers. This is where the story picks up. The same menaces who kill his grandfather kidnap his sister, and he enlists actually the best help he could ever hope for in tracking down her assailants and bringing her back. Shorty (Dinklage) is described as a "crafty" bounty hunter, a grave-digging alcoholic and the son of an ex-slave and a prostitute who knows her way around the streets – this guy isn't messing around here with who he's hiring, and Shorty is obviously not your normal gun for hire, either.
Though it's unclear what happens to the sister, or what becomes of the kidnappers, it seems safe to say that Shorty is going to have blood on his hands; he's not going to let any guilty parties get away without some hell to pay. Gianni Nunnari, who is developing the project under his Hollywood Gangis banner, is responsible for producing both Se7en and 300. Yeah, this isn't going to be a neat and tidy procedural. Shorty is "crafty" in the way that he butchers perps, correct? Does he…does he perhaps show any bad guys a box at any point that may contain something absolutely terrible?
Dinklage, who is also producing The Thicket, is an exceptional choice for the role. Fierce, gruff and demanding in his dramatic and serious roles – from Game of Thrones to X-Men: Days of Future Past and far beyond – and skilled in assimilating into the bounty of bizarre and comedic parts in his repertoire – Knights of Badassdom and both incarnations of Death at a Funeral come to mind – when he's faced with something like Shorty, a character who's equal parts violence and mayhem, and then a little too much ridiculousness to be taken that seriously.
The grave-digging alcoholic son of an ex-slave and a prostitute sounds like the role of a lifetime, but also just a touch like tough guy madlibs. And Dinklage is going to play the hell out of it.