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'Reel in' great prizes in new Sea Angling 2012 surveys
Posted in News By nesa On August 11, 2012
Join thousands helping Sea Angling 2012 – the largest-ever survey of the sport in the UK – to show the value of the sport and the state of our fish stocks. All anglers, beginners and experts alike, are urged to go online at www.seaangling2012.org.uk to complete the new surveys that are now available. By doing so they will raise the profile of sea angling in government and give scientists more insights into the health of our fish stocks, as well as having a chance to bag some top-notch gear in prize draws.
The new online catch survey will show when and where anglers went fishing from boat or shore during April to June this year, what fish they caught, and how the fishing compared with previous years. Anglers are also urged to complete the online economic questionnaire, which is running throughout 2012, to show how much they spend on sea angling and the other benefits they get from the sport.
Headed up by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), along with social research co-operative Substance and the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), the project is using a variety of online surveys and direct interviews of anglers around the coast to obtain an accurate picture of sea angling in England. Substance is also conducting five regional case studies.
Project Manager, Cefas' Mike Armstrong, said: "We are carrying out these surveys to build a clear picture of sea angling activity and its economic and social benefits. Even if you are just a beginner, or don't catch much – we want to hear from you."
"It's really positive that thousands of sea anglers have already participated in the surveys", he continues, "and we believe they are convinced the results will give sea angling a bigger voice in the development of marine policy."
Adam Brown, Director of Substance, said: "It is vital that sea angling can demonstrate what it is worth – both economically and socially. The more anglers that contribute to this study, the more powerful that message will be."
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Hastings applauds new law increasing teacher minimum wage
SPRINGFIELD – Legislation to raise the minimum wage for teachers to $40,000 per year over the next five years was signed into law today.
State Senator Michael E. Hastings was a cosponsor on this initiative as it made its way through the Senate.
"Teachers deserve to earn a living wage regardless of where they live across our state. I personally know teachers that take money out of their own pockets to decorate classrooms and purchase supplies," Hastings (D-Tinley Park) said. "I'm proud to be able to say that we're acting on behalf of the selfless men and women who we are entrusting with our children's wellbeing."
Under House Bill 2078, the state will update the minimum mandated salary for teachers annually over four years, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year. The wage will be raised incrementally to:
$32,076 for the 2020-2021 school year;
$37,076 for the 2022-2023 school year; and
"With this legislation, we're sending a message to prospective teachers in and around our state that Illinois is ready to offer a stable living situation for these dedicated individuals," Hastings said. "It's long past the time to pay teachers what they are worth, and this legislation is a tremendous first step toward that goal."
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La finale du Grand Prix ISU est la dernière épreuve qui conclut chaque année le Grand Prix international de patinage artistique organisé par l'International Skating Union. Elle accueille des patineurs amateurs de niveau senior dans quatre catégories: simple messieurs, simple dames, couple artistique et danse sur glace.

Pour la saison 2011/2012, la finale est organisée du 7 au 11 décembre 2011 au Pavillon de la Jeunesse à Québec au Canada. Il s'agit de la  depuis la création du Grand Prix ISU en 1995.

Qualifications
Seuls les patineurs qui atteignent l'âge de 14 ans au  juillet 2011 peuvent participer aux épreuves du Grand Prix ISU 2011/2012. Les épreuves de qualifications sont successivement :
 le Skate America du 20 au 23 octobre 2011 à Ontario
 le Skate Canada du 27 au 30 octobre 2011 à Mississauga
 la Coupe de Chine du 3 au 6 novembre 2011 à Shanghai
 le Trophée NHK du 10 au 13 novembre 2011 à Sapporo
 le Trophée de France du 17 au 20 novembre 2011 à Paris
 la Coupe de Russie du 24 au 27 novembre 2011 à Moscou

Pour cette saison 2011/2012, les six meilleurs patineurs aux championnats du monde 2011 peuvent participer à trois grands-prix. Les autres patinent pour un ou deux grands-prix. Au cours des compétitions, ils accumulent des points et on ne prend en compte que les deux meilleurs résultats. Les six patineurs qui ont obtenu le plus de points sont qualifiés pour la finale et les trois patineurs suivants sont remplaçants.

Résultats

Messieurs

Dames

Mao Asada est forfait à cause du décès de sa mère le jour même du programme court.

Couples

Danse sur glace

Sources
  Résultats de la finale 2011/2012 du Grand Prix ISU sur le site de l'ISU
 Patinage Magazine N°130 (Mars/Avril 2012)

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'Descendants of the Sun' cinematographer admits product placement excessive
Published : Apr 19, 2016 - 13:11
Updated : Apr 19, 2016 - 13:11
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"Descendants of the Sun" director of photography admitted that the drama series contained excessive product placement throughout the series, but argued that there was no other choice due to the drama being fully produced before being aired.
He said on KBS 2TV's Web talk show "Got TV" that he opposed product placement in some scenes, but his opinion was overruled. The show was aired through the network's YouTube channel dedicated to entertainment and mobile apps.
"I strongly opposed the product placement during the kiss scene of the Song-Song couple," Kim Si-hyoung, the series' director of photography, said, referring to a dating scene of Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo in a coffee shop. The scene exposed the exterior sign of the coffee shop and the brand label on a cup.
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"But there was nothing I could do. I hoped viewers would tolerate the product placement," Kim added.
Kim also said it was "not right" to air a kiss scene between Jin Goo and Kim Ji-won in a driverless car.
But Kim argued that product placement was "essential," as he and other production staff found it hard to secure revenues from TV advertising.
"Advertisers doubted the series' success. No one could be sure if the series would be a success or failure," said Kim when asked about a scene where Yoo Si-jin orders a sandwich from a global sandwich chain.
He added that the team was not paid for a scene featuring a Choco Pie, one of the Koreans' favorite confectioneries.
The series' revenue from such product placement reached about 3 billion won ($2.5 million).
"Got TV" is the network TV broadcaster's first live streaming show hosted by TV personality Heo Jun and announcer Lee Jeong-min. The move to draw viewers through the online platform was launched in the first week of April.
By Son Ji-hyoung (json@heraldcorp.com)
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#BookRecommendation: Starry Eyes by @Jenn_Benn
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Title: Starry Eyes
Author: Jenn Bennett
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary
Pages: Hardcover, 421
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Synopsis: Ever since last year's homecoming dance, best friends-turned-best enemies Zorie and Lennon have made an art of avoiding each other. It doesn't hurt that their families are the modern-day Californian version of the Montagues and Capulets.
But when a group camping trip goes south, Zorie and Lennon find themselves stranded in the wilderness. Alone. Together.
With no one but each other for company, Zorie and Lennon have no choice but to hash out their issues via witty jabs and insults as they try to make their way to safety. But fighting each other while also fighting off the forces of nature makes getting out of the woods in one piece less and less likely.
And as the two travel deeper into Northern California's rugged backcountry, secrets and hidden feelings surface. But can Zorie and Lennon's rekindled connection survive out in the real world? Or was it just a result of the fresh forest air and the magic of the twinkling stars?
About the Author: Jenn Bennett is an artist and RITA-nominated author of the Arcadia Bell urban fantasy series; the Roaring Twenties romance series, including Bitter Spirits, which was chosen as one of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2014 and winner of RT Reviewers' Choice Paranormal Romance Book of the Year; and Grave Phantoms, which was awarded RT's May Seal of Excellence for 2015. She is also the author of The Anatomical Shape of a Heart (a.k.a. Night Owls in the UK); Alex, Approximately; Starry Eyes; and Serious Moonlight. She lives near Atlanta with one husband and two evil pugs.
Spontaneity is overrated. Movies and television shows would like us to believe that life is better for partygoers who dare to jump into pools with their clothes on. But behind the scenes, it's all carefully scripted. The water is the right temperature. Lighting and angles are carefully considered. Dialogue is memorized. And that's why it looks so appealing—because someone carefully planned it all. Once you realize this, life gets a whole lot simpler. Mine did.
I am a hard-core planner, and I don't care who knows it.
I believe in schedules, routines, washi-tape-covered calendars, bulleted lists in graph-paper journals, and best-laid plans. The kind of plans that don't go awry, because they're made with careful consideration of all possibilities and outcomes. No winging it, no playing things by ear. That's how disasters happen.
But not for me. I make blueprints for my life and stick to them. Take, for instance, summer break. School starts back in three weeks, and before I turn eighteen and embark on my senior year, this is my blueprint for the rest of the summer:
Plan one: Two mornings each week, work at my parents' business, Everhart Wellness Clinic. I fill in at the front desk for their normal receptionist, who's taking a summer course at UC Cal in Berkeley. My mom's an acupuncturist and my father is a massage therapist, and they own the clinic together. This means that instead of flipping burgers and being yelled at by random strangers outside a drive-through window, I get to work in a Zen-like reception area, where I can keep everything perfectly organized and know exactly which clients are scheduled to walk through the door. No surprises, no drama. Predictable, just the way I like it.
Plan two: Take photos of the upcoming Perseid meteor shower with my astronomy club. Astronomy is my holy grail. Stars, planets, moons, and all things space. Future NASA astrophysicist, right here.
Plan three: Avoid any and all contact with our neighbors, the Mackenzie family.
These three things all seemed perfectly possible until five minutes ago. Now my summer plans are standing on shaky ground, because my mom is trying to talk me into going camping.
Camping. Me.
Look, I know nothing about the Great Outdoors. I'm not even sure I like being outside. Seems to me, society has progressed far enough that we should be able to avoid things like fresh air and sunlight. If I want to see wild animals, I'll watch a documentary on TV.
Mom knows this. But right now she's trying really hard to sell me on some sort of Henry David Thoreau nature-is-good idealism while I'm sitting behind our wellness clinic's front desk. And sure, she's always preaching about the benefits of natural health and vegetarianism, but now she's waxing poetic about the majestic beauty of the great state of California, and what a "singular opportunity" it would be for me to experience the wilderness before school starts.
"Be honest. Can you really picture me camping?" I ask her, tucking dark corkscrew curls behind my ears.
"Not camping, Zorie," she says. "Mrs. Reid is inviting you to go glamping." Dressed in gray tunic scrubs embroidered with the clinic's logo, she leans across the front desk and talks in an excited, hushed voice about the wealthy client who's currently relaxing on an acupuncture table in the back rooms, enjoying the dated yet healing sounds of Enya, patron saint of alternative health clinics around the world.
"Glamping," I repeat, skeptical.
"Mrs. Reid says they have reservations for these luxury tents in the High Sierras, somewhere between Yosemite and King's Forest National Park," Mom explains. "Glamorous camping. Get it? Glamping."
"You keep saying that, but I still don't know what it means," I tell her. "How can a tent be luxurious? Aren't you sleeping on rocks?"
Mom leans closer to explain. "Mrs. Reid and her husband got a last-minute invitation to a colleague's chalet in Switzerland, so they have to cancel their camping trip. They have a reservation for a fancy tent. This glamping compound—"
"This isn't some weird hippie cult, is it?"
Mom groans dramatically. "Listen. They have a chef who prepares gourmet meals, an outdoor fire pit, hot showers—the works."
"Hot showers," I say with no small amount of sarcasm. "Thrill me, baby."
She ignores this. "The point is, you aren't actually roughing it, but you feel like it. The compound is so popular that they do a lottery for the tents a year in advance. Everything's already paid for, meals and lodging. Mrs. Reid said it would be shame to let it go to waste, which is why they are letting Reagan take some of her friends there for the week—a last-hurrah trip with the girls before senior year starts."
Mrs. Reid is the mother of Reagan Reid, star athlete, queen bee of my class, and my kind of, sort of friend. Actually, Reagan and I used to be good friends when we were younger. Then her parents came into money, and she started hanging out with other people. Plus, she was training constantly for the Olympics. Before I knew it, we just . . . grew apart.
Until last fall, when we started talking again during lunchtime at school.
"Would be good for you to spend some time outside," Mom says, fiddling with her dark hair as she continues to persuade me to go on this crazy camping trip.
"The Perseid meteor shower is happening next week," I remind her.
She knows I am a strict planner. Unexpected twists and surprises throw me off my game, and everything about this camping—sorry, glamping—trip is making me very, very anxious.
Mom makes a thoughtful noise. "You could bring your telescope to the glamping compound. Stars at night, hiking trails in the day."
Hiking sounds like something Reagan could be into. She has rock-hard thighs and washboard abs. I practically get winded walking two blocks to the coffee shop, a fact of which I'd like to remind Mom, but she switches gears and plays the guilt card.
"Mrs. Reid says Reagan's been having a really tough time this summer," she says. "She's worried about her. I think she's hoping this trip will help cheer her up after what happened at the trials in June."
Reagan fell (I'm talking splat, face-plant) and didn't place in the Olympic track trials. It was her big shot for moving forward. She basically has no chance at the next summer Olympics and will have to wait four more years. Her family was heartbroken. Even so, it surprises me to hear that her mother is worried about her.
Another thought crosses my mind. "Did Mrs. Reid ask me to go on this trip, or did you hustle her into inviting me?"
A sheepish smile lifts my mom's lips. "A little from column A, little from column B."
I quietly drop my head against the front desk.
"Come on," she says, shaking my shoulder slowly until I lift my head again. "She was surprised Reagan hadn't asked you already, so clearly they've discussed you coming along. And maybe you and Reagan both need this. She's struggling to get her mojo back. And you're always saying you feel like an outsider in her pack of friends, so here's your chance to spend some time with them out of school. You should be falling down at my feet," Mom teases. "How about a little, Thank you, coolest mom ever, for schmoozing me into the event of the summer. You're my hero, Joy Everhart?" She clasps her hands to her heart dramatically.
"You're so weird," I mumble, pretending to be apathetic.
She grins. "Aren't you lucky I am?"
Actually, yes. I know that she genuinely wants me to be happy and would do just about anything for me. Joy is actually my stepmom. My birth mother died unexpectedly of an aneurysm when I was eight, back when we lived across the Bay in San Francisco. Then my dad suddenly decided he wanted to be a massage therapist and spent all the life insurance money on getting licensed. He's impulsive like that. Anyway, he met Joy at an alternative medicine convention. They got hitched a few months later, and we all moved here to Melita Hills, where they rented out space for this clinic and an apartment next door.
Sure, at the ripe age of thirty-eight, Joy is several years younger than my father, and because she's Korean-American, I've had to deal with genius observations from bigoted people, pointing out the obvious: that she's not my real mom. As if I weren't aware that she's Asian and I'm so Western and pale, I'm rocking an actual vitamin D deficiency. To be honest, in my mind, Joy is my mom now. My memories of Life Before Joy are slippery. Over the years, I've grown far closer to her than I am to my dad. She's supportive and encouraging. I just wish she were a touch less granola and chipper.
But this time, as much as I hate to admit it, her enthusiasm about the glamping trip might be warranted. Spending quality time outside of school with Reagan's inner circle would definitely strengthen my social standing, which always feels as if it's in danger of collapsing when I'm hanging around people who have more money or popularity. I'd like to feel more comfortable around them. Around Reagan, too. I just wish she'd asked me to go camping herself, instead of her mother.
The clinic's front door swings open and my father breezes into the waiting room, freshly shaved and dark hair neatly slicked back. "Zorie, did Mr. Wiley call?"
"He canceled today's massage appointment," I inform him. "But he rescheduled for a half session on Thursday."
A half session is half an hour, and half an hour equals half the money, but my father quickly masks his disappointment. You could tell him his best friend just died, and he'd pivot toward a meet-up at the racquetball club without breaking a sweat. Diamond Dan, people call him. All sparkle and glitz.
"Did Mr. Wiley say why he couldn't make it?" he asks.
"An emergency at one of his restaurants," I report. "A TV chef is stopping by to film a segment."
Mr. Wiley is one my dad's best clients. Like most of the people who come here, he has money burning a hole in his wallet and can afford above-average prices for massage or acupuncture. Our wellness clinic is the best in Melita Hills, and my mom has even been written up in the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the Bay Area's top acupuncturists—"well worth a trip across the Bay Bridge." My parents charge clients accordingly.
It's just that the number of those clients has been slowly but surely dwindling over the last year. The primary cause of that dwindling, and the object of my dad's anger, is the business that set up shop in the adjoining space. To our shared mortification, we are now located next to a store that sells adult toys.
Yep, those kind of toys.
Kind of hard to ignore the giant vaginal-shaped sign out front. Our well-heeled customers sure haven't. Classy people usually don't want to park in front of a sex shop when they are heading to a massage therapy appointment. My parents found this out pretty quickly when longtime clients started canceling their weekly sessions. Those who haven't fled our desirable location near all the upscale boutique shops on Mission Street are too important to lose, as Dad reminds me every chance he gets.
And that's why I know he's upset by Mr. Wiley's cancellation—it was his only appointment today—but when he leaves the reception area and heads to his office so that he can stew about it in private, Mom remains calm.
"So," she says. "Should I tell Mrs. Reid you'll go glamping with Reagan?"
Like I'm going to give her a definitive answer on the spot without considering all the factors. At the same time, I hate to be the wet blanket on her sunny enthusiasm.
"Don't be cautious. Be careful," she reminds me. Cautious people are afraid of the unknown and avoid it. Careful people plan so that they're more confident when they face the unknown. She tells me this every time I'm resistant to a change in plans. "We'll research everything together."
"I'll consider it," I tell her diplomatically. "I guess you can tell Mrs. Reid that I'll text Reagan for the details and make up my mind later. But you did well, Dr. Pokenstein."
Her smile is victorious. "Speaking of, I better get back to her and take out the needles before she falls asleep on the slab. Oh, I almost forgot. Did FedEx come?"
"Nope. Just the regular mail."
She frowns. "I got an email notification that a package was delivered."
Crap on toast. I know what this means. We have a problem with misdelivered mail. Our mail carrier is constantly delivering our packages to the sex shop next door. And the sex shop next door is directly connected with item number three in my blueprint for a perfect summer: avoid any and all contact with the Mackenzies.
My mom sticks out her lower lip and makes her eyes big. "Pretty please," she pleads sweetly. "Can you run next door and ask them if they got my delivery?"
I groan.
"I would do it, but, you know. I've got Mrs. Reid full of needles," she argues, tugging her thumb toward the back rooms. "I'm balancing her life force, not torturing the woman. Can't leave her back there forever."
"Can't you go get it on your lunch break?" I've already made the trek into dildo land once this week, and that's my limit.
"I leave in an hour to meet your grandmother for lunch, remember?"
Right. Her mother, she means. Grandma Esther loathes tardiness, a sentiment I fully support. But that still doesn't change the fact that I'd rather have a tooth pulled than walk next door. "What's so important in this package anyway?"
"That's the thing," Mom says, winding her long, straight hair into a tight knot at the crown of her head. "The notification was sent by someone else. 'Catherine Beatty.' I don't know anyone by that name, and I haven't ordered anything. But the notification came to my work email, and our address is listed."
"A mystery package."
Her eyes twinkle. "Surprises are fun."
"Unless someone sent you a package full of spiders or a severed hand. Maybe you jabbed someone a little too hard."
"Or maybe I jabbed someone just right, and they are sending me chocolate." She steals a pen from the desk and stabs it into her hair to secure her new knot. "Please, Zorie. While your father is occupied."
She says this last bit in a hushed voice. My dad would throw a fit if he saw me next door.
"Fine. I'll go," I say, but I'm not happy.
Summer plans, how I knew and loved you.
Sticking a handmade AWAY FROM THE DESK. BE BACK IN A JIFF! sign on the counter, I drag myself through the front door into bright morning sunshine and brace for doom.
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Man killed in Taylorsville standoff was shot by police four years earlier
KSL Investigates
By DANIELLA RIVERA & ANNIE KNOX, KSL TV | December 2, 2021 at 4:36 pm
SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah man killed in a shootout with police Wednesday had been shot by an officer while a teenager just four years ago.
Anei Gabriel Joker first faced criminal charges in the juvenile system, then picked up subsequent robbery, assault and weapons convictions as an adult, bouncing in and out of the Salt Lake County Jail.
That violent history ended when Joker, 20, died in an exchange of gunfire that left two officers wounded.
The deadly shootout – and a string of Joker's crimes preceding it – raise questions about whether Utah's criminal justice system handled his prior cases appropriately.
A deadly shootout
Late Wednesday, officers from several police agencies had been looking for Joker in connection with a rape and robbery investigation. They located him at 9 p.m. at a 7-Eleven at 4110 S. Redwood Road.
Joker was inside an SUV with a 9-month-old child and other adults.
West Valley Police Chief Colleen Jacobs said Joker agreed to allow the officers to get the baby from the vehicle just before 10 p.m. Wednesday but refused to get out of the car. The others inside the SUV also eventually left leaving Joker by himself.
Roxanne Vainuku, spokeswoman for West Valley City police, said officers fired pepper balls at Joker about 10:29 p.m.
The first shots were fired one minute later, at 10:30 p.m.
"After a period of time, he did come out of the vehicle firing a weapon," Jacobs said.
A second ambulance and medical helicopter were called just three minutes later.
Joker was pronounced dead roughly a half-hour after he arrived at the hospital.
Suspect killed, 2 officers wounded in Taylorsville parking-lot shootout
One West Valley officer underwent surgery and was in serious but stable condition Thursday. A second officer with Unified police was recovering at home after being treated at a hospital.
Previous police shooting
Four years earlier, a Cottonwood Heights police sergeant attempted to pull Joker over on Interstate 15 near 1300 South on Sept. 3, 2017, according to court documents filed in juvenile court in Salt Lake County.
Utah Third District Juvenile Court Petition for Anei Joker (redacted) by LarryDCurtis on Scribd
After a 100-mph chase, Joker crashed into an off-ramp and ran away on foot before ultimately complying with police orders to sit on the ground, but continually moved his arms toward his waistband several times, police said.
Sergeant Chris McHugh told the teenager to stop moving his hand and yelled, "don't, don't, don't" before shooting Joker, the court filings say.
Body camera video shows an injured Anei Joker on Sept. 3, 2017, after he was shot by a Cottonwood Heights police sergeant. The shooting was ruled justified two months later.
Joker underwent surgery to treat a gunshot wound and was released a week later. At the hospital, medics found a loaded handgun in his underwear, court documents say.
Gill ruled the shooting legally justified within two months. Joker faced charges in the juvenile system, including unlawfully possessing a weapon and failing to respond to an officer's command, both third-degree felonies.
Pam Vickrey, executive director of Utah Juvenile Defender Attorneys, confirmed the charges in that case were later dismissed. She declined to give any specifics, saying her office hasn't represented Joker in over 3 ½ years.
"It's a difficult case, and our hearts go out to everyone involved," Vickrey said.
Joker's extensive record
Court records show Joker had an extensive criminal record as an adult. He was also known as Ramon Julima.
In 2019 Joker was arrested in connection with a shooting in West Valley City. Court documents state he was charged with fleeing from police. After officers stopped the vehicle, they found a man who had been shot inside the car.
He was convicted of aggravated robbery in June and received a suspended prison sentence – meaning he would not be incarcerated if he followed terms of supervised release – with credit for time served, and three years' probation.
Just before he was sentenced on that most recent case, Joker told a judge he wanted to change, saying, "If I mess up one time, send me away," according to court audio recordings.
"I just want to be able to be there for my family, my kids, to be able to take care of them," he said.
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill says his office pushed for prison time for Joker after extending a plea offer that retained the most critical charges across multiple cases.
"Even though the pre-sentence report recommended probation, we argued very aggressively for prison," Gill said.
But Third District Judge Matthew Bates ordered probation for Joker's convictions of assault, robbery and weapons charges.
Bates said prosecutors had made good points about the concerning quantity and violent nature of the charges against Joker, but he also considered Joker's age and the fact that he had not yet been sentenced to probation as an adult.
"I'm hoping that having you on supervised probation will help get you on the right track," Bates told Joker during his July sentencing hearing. "If it doesn't, then you've got consecutive prison sentences hanging over your head."
Sentencing in Utah
Adult Probation & Parole Director Dan Blanchard said his agents recommended supervised release instead of prison based on the state's sentencing guidelines. The guidelines don't consider still-pending cases – like one Joker had in California – that haven't resulted in a conviction yet.
Dan Strong, director of the Utah Sentencing Commission, said it's critical that all the players in the justice system — including law enforcers, defense attorneys and judges – have accurate and detailed information about a defendant.
"The fact that this happened shows that at some point, that assessment wasn't good enough, in this case," said Strong, director of the Utah Sentencing Commission. The office advises each branch of the state's government on sentencing and supervise release policy.
"In the very best criminal justice system on the planet, there will be gaps, and there will be cases — there will be terrible tragedies," Strong said. While cases like Joker's call for scrutiny of the system, he said, it's important not to assume that changes based on one example are a good solution for the state.
Joker was on probation in Orange County, California at the time of his death.
He pleaded guilty in September to misdemeanor charges of carrying a loaded, unregistered firearm in public and having a prohibited large-capacity magazine, California court documents say.
Calls to defense attorneys who have represented him in both states did not make themselves available Thursday.
Adult Probation and Parole is at work on its own review of how it handled Joker's cases, Blanchard said. He did not know whether the agency will release the review to the public.
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Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the Usa, 1975-1983
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Women have been kicking against the pricks of music patriarchy since Sister Rosetta Tharpe first played the guitar riffs that built rock-n-roll. The explosion of punk sent shockwaves of revolution to every girl who dreamed of being on stage. Punk godmothers Suzy Quatro, The Runaways, Patti Smith, Poison Ivy, Tina Weymouth, Debbie Harry, The Go-Gos, and Fanny's Millington sisters provided the template for thousands of girls and women throughout the United States to write and record their songs.
Hit Girls is the story local and regional bands whose legacy would be otherwise lost. Despite the modern narrative labeled women as anomalies in rock music, the truth is: women played important roles in punk and its related genres in every city, in every scene, all over the United States. The women and bands profiled by Jen B. share their experiences of sexism and racism as well as their joy and successes from their days on stage as they changed what it meant to be in a band. These pioneering women were more than novelty acts or pretty faces--they were fully contributing members and leaders of mixed-gender and all-female bands long before the call for "girls to the front."
The women of Hit Girls are now rightfully exalted to cult status where their collective achievement is recognized and inspiring to new generations of women rockers. Included are interviews with: Texacala Jones, Stoney Rivera, Mish Bondaj, Alice Bag, Nikki Corvette, Penelope Houston, and many more formidable and infamous women who made their voices heard over the screaming guitars.
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Home » Crime » Craigslist killer, Brady Oestrike, first transformed his home into a torture chamber before abducting and killing 8-month-pregnant Brooke Slocum
Craigslist killer, Brady Oestrike, first transformed his home into a torture chamber before abducting and killing 8-month-pregnant Brooke Slocum
Posted on November 7, 2016 by konniemoments in Crime, News // 0 Comments
Michigan police release footage of Osterik positioning torture implements – guns, chains, dog crate in his home
Oestrike tortured and strangled a pregnant Brooke Ann Slocum after he had decapitated her boyfriend Charles Oppenneer in July, 2014
Brady Oestrike, then 31, was tracked down via social media
Brooke Slocum, 18, and Charlie Oppenneer, 25, who met Oestrike on Craigslist, apparently planned to meet him for sex at Gezon Park
The Craigslist killer took his own life himself during a police chase weeks later
This video released by Michigan police shows Brady Oestrike transforming his home into a house suited for torture and murder
Police in Michigan released a haunting video showing Brady Oestrike, a "Craigslist killer," transforming his home into a house of horrors for the cruel murder of a pregnant 18-year-old, in July 2014.
Police say the victims, Brooke Slocum, 18, and Charles Oppenneer, 25, met Oestrike on Craigslist before the killings. The couple was apparently planning to meet Oestrike for sex at Gezon Park, according to investigators.
Brady Oestrik enjoyed inflicting pain
The disturbing video shows Oestrike gearing up for the eventual abduction, torture and murder. In the footage, the alleged killer prepares a torture chamber by setting up chains, cleaning a dog crate where he later placed his victim, Brooke Slocum, and readying a pulley system with ropes hanging from the ceiling.
Further, several hundred pages of documents and photos were released related to the 2014 case which also saw Slocum's 25-year-old boyfriend getting decapitated by the crazed killer.
FOX 17 reported that Michigan police released 300 pages of documents and 500 photographs that had been requested via the Freedom of Information Act, as well as several videos
The recently released documents outline investigators' pursuit of Oestrike, who was 31, after he was tracked down via email and Facebook.
On July 12, 2014, Oestrike abducted Slocum after decapitating her boyfriend, Charles Oppenneer. Slocum, who was eight months pregnant, was believed to have been tortured for days before being strangled to death and placed in the trunk of Oestrike's car. Her baby did not survive. The couple was believed to have been soliciting sex to Oestrike.
Torture chamber: Brady Oestrike cleans one of the rooms where he later held his pregnant victim, Brooke Slocum, captive.
Cops were tipped off in mid July, 2014, when a woman reported a man in a white mask peering into vehicles in the area of Gezon Park. Another person also returned Charlie Oppenneer's wallet after it was found on a dirt road near Gezon.
On July 13, police found Oppenneer's car in the area.
When the vehicle still hadn't been moved on two days later, police attempted to contact Oppenneer at his home in Rockford, as well as, his parents. Three days later, investigators searching the woods near the location of the car located Oppenneer's decapitated body. His head has still not been located.
Victim: Although Brooke Ann Slocum was pregnant, she exchanged emails with someone called "Hard Mike" and the two discussed meeting at the park for paid sex
The documents released detail how social media played a role in developing and tracing Oestrike as a suspect.
After Oppenneer's body was found, officials reviewed cell phone records for Slocum and Oppenneer. They also searched Slocum's residence in Grand Rapids. Analysis of the hard drives on the computers belonging to Slocum and her roommate revealed that Slocum and Oppenneer were posting Craigslist ads for "sex for cash". This fact was confirmed by her roommate
The investigators were further aided by the discovery of a July 12, 2014 conversation between Slocum and someone identifying themselves as "Hard Mike." The two discussed meeting at Gezon Park for paid sex, according to the documents.
"Hard Mike" was linked to a Gmail account that was linked to another Yahoo email account, according to the documents. Investigators say the Yahoo account led them to a Facebook user named "Joat Amos," which was linked to Brady Oestrike.
The Gmail account also linked back to Oestrike's phone number, enabling a trace to his most recent address in Wyoming.
First victim: Slocum's boyfriend Charles Gerard Oppenneer's decapitated body was discovered but his head was not.
Brady Oestrike: Outfitted his home for torture and murder before abducting his victims
Crime scene: Brady Oestrike's home
Police went to Oestrike's home the night of July 17 and say after a brief traffic stop, the suspect fled.
He led officers on a high-speed chase before crashing at the on a Highway ramp, Oestrike then killed himself by a gunshot to the head. Slocum's body was recovered from the trunk of his vehicle.
Investigators conducting a search of his home found a horrible torture chamber and several assault rifles. Police found restraints in part of the basement in a locale where they believe Slocum was held and tortured for days. They also found nooses with dolls hanging from them, bloody clothes, lingerie, Tasers, a machete and sex toys.


A Japanese proverb says that no man is stronger than a man with knowledge. Driven by desire for constant self-improvement, both personal and professional, a well-known therapist from Serbia, Peđa Filipović has recently found himself among a chosen few taking an international training course in moxibustion, an ancient method of Japanese and Chinese traditional medicine, which plays a significant role in prevention of diseases, but is also intended for therapeutic purposes.
– Literal translation of 'moxa' would be "lighting refined herbs over the skin" (sometimes on the skin) –Peđa Filipović says. He is the only certified Japanese moxibustion therapist in Serbia. – We use wormwood for moxa, and they say that the best quality wormwood grows in Japan, while the one from China and other parts of the world is of a lesser quality. In parts of the world where it's applied, moxa can be used in two ways, directly and indirectly.
Peđa Filipović has learnt both direct and indirect Japanese moxibustion from an acupuncturist Merilyn Yang who has even created special moxibustion for people suffering from tuberculosis in South Africa.
– With indirect moxibustion, refined wormwood is used in several different ways. Moxa stick looks like a Cuban cigar. The therapist lights it at a certain distance from the acupuncture points, tense muscles or sore spots, and heats it until pleasantly warm. Moxa treatment has an exceptional effect on people suffering from depression, anxiety, kidney problems, fluid retention etc.
One of the great ways to apply moxa treatment is through the use of sea salt. During the treatment, the salt serves as a foundation and is applied to the patient's bellybutton, and the accumulated heat reaches the body through that spot, meridians and acupuncture points.
– Ginger is cut into 4mm-thick slices, and then placed on the salt, in which there has been made an opening with a toothpick and then moxa sticks are placed on top in a pyramid shape and lit. Burning together with ginger and salt, they slowly heat the meridians, restoring the natural balance of the body. The therapist coordinates the treatment, removing ginger with the sticks and leaving salt for a longer while. This can be a wonderful introduction to shiatsu and other treatments. Tangerine skins can also be used; pieces of wormwood placed in them, lit them and applied to spots between the shoulder blades, where certain acupuncture points are located. This process relieves cough, breathing problems, pneumonia etc. Eye issues can be treated by placing moxa in a walnut shell, and having a trained therapist slowly heat it up. All over the world, moxa is used in a number of different combinations, including the one with garlic and miso paste.
– There are also wooden containers for applying moxa, and those can be placed on sore spots that need 'healing' – Peđa Filipović said, showing us one such container. – Moxa used in Japan is of better quality and is more refined. Fibres found on wormwood leaves are collected and dried, and only when they are fully dry they can be used on acupuncture points.
Wormwood is a source of many natural remedies. It grows in nature, and prefers the sandier soil. Moxa treatment isn't painful at all – Peđa emphasizes, stating that the patient feels the warmth, but with certain applications, one only feels the heat afterwards.
– Moxa treatments raise r leukocyte count, and are recommended to people undergoing chemotherapy. Wormwood contains healing substances: borneol, cineole, and tannin. Smoke produced by burning the plant purifies the air and has no adverse effects. Moxa can be used to relieve stress. When using moderate heat, lymphocyte count also rises. Neck, head and loin areas should be warmed up, thus stimulating the immune system. Moderate heat should be applied to the sacrum and the neck, which directly stimulates the immune system. It also helps raise the lymphocyte count and improve overall health.
While constantly developing his expertise, Peđa Filipović says that moxa will be a part of the wellness concept he's been working on for years.
– Moxa is cheaper and older than acupuncture. It can help people keep their health, Peđa tells us, revealing the point on the leg that Chinese and Japanese gurus claim to be capable of 'healing 3000 diseases'.
– It is the "zu san li" point – or the "stomach 36", and is also known as "the point of 3000 miles". When stimulated, it creates balance in the entire body. They say that it is crucial for longevity, and it also for grounds the life energy. The entire moxa healing system has to do with grounding. The 'stomach 36' point can be found if you place 4 fingers on the outer bend of the knee; where the pinkie finger lands you should feel pain and that means you have found the point in question .
Heating the meridians, thus eliminating the cold in the body, and moving the Qi energy through them, sets the circulation back in motion, increases the flow of Yang energy and supports the immune system – those are just a few of many moxa benefits. In Dalmatia, white sage is used instead of wormwood in such treatments. Peđa stresses that moxa treatments shouldn't be carried out on children under the age of 4, women up to 5 months pregnant, people suffering from diabetes or leukaemia, or people with pacemakers, and varicose veins.
– Moxa treatment is called 'kyū' in Japan, which means that someone is special and deserves respect. Moxa is of great importance over there. In the core of moxa stick, the heat may rise up to 500 degrees Celsius, but despite that Japanese moxa never burns skin.


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Save The Children Jumper Day 2020
We're taking part in Save the Children's Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 18 December! It doesn't matter where we are - at home, work or school – on Christmas Jumper Day all you need to do is get your silliest, most festive jumper on and donate to Save the Children.
By pulling on our Christmassy knits and donating, we'll be transforming the future for children. Every pound we raise will give children in the UK and around the world the chance to grow up healthy and happy, and change the future for good. Just £2 could pay for a bottle of hand sanitiser to help fight coronavirus in a Save the Children medical clinic, whilst £20 could pay for a back-to-school kit for a child in Indonesia.
Simply click the donate button above to give your £2 (or more if you're feeling generous...) and help us reach our team target. We've also got our own QR code - simply scan the code with your phone camera and donate directly to our team! Not sure how it works? Here's a link to the handy guide on using QR codes: https://claim.savethechildren.org.uk/guideFor more information on Save the Children's Christmas Jumper Day, please visit https://christmasjumperday.org
Donate to Save the Children
NHS Coffee Appeal
We donated a Capsule machine and a large number of capsules to our local NHS trust for the NHS Coffee Appeal. We are happy to see that we have played a small part in raising the morale during these tough times. (Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS foundation Trust, Head to Toe Charity) .
Thank you for the unfailing support that you have given Head to Toe Charity and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, for helping our NHS get through these challenging times, and for rallying the community around our staff and patients.
The last few months have been tough. Never has our National Health Service had to cope with, or respond to anything like the Covid-19 pandemic, and that response has been heroic; taking huge amounts of hard work and resolve.
But, that response is also on the back of the incredible morale boost from the businesses, community groups and organisations like yours, who have gone above and beyond to lift the spirits of our staff and the patients they care for. Thanks to your help, Head to Toe Charity has been able to distribute gifts, care packages and donations across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust – to demonstrate to our NHS staff just how much our wider community appreciates their hard work.
Head to Toe Charity Team
Hannah Wysocki – Charity Manager
Tom Petie – Community Fundraising Officer
Masteroast Sponsors Ketton Ladies Football Club
We're proud to announce that we have recently sponsored a local football team known as Ketton Ladies Football Club.
Ketton Ladies Football Club is a part of Ketton Football Club which consists of 2 male teams, a ladies' team and a new junior under 11 team. They play and train at Pit Lane in Ketton; matches start at 2pm on Sundays and the ladies have a training session every week on Thursday evenings between 7 and 8. The training takes place on a floodlit area at the edge of the Pit Lane facility.
The ladies play in the S-Tech Cambridgeshire Womens Premier League. The team has gradually improved over the last 3 years culminating with winning the Division 1 North title last season and only losing one league game. They are hoping this improvement will continue and have added new signings to the existing squad over the summer. Currently the squad consists of between 20 – 25 committed ladies ranging in age from 16 through to 40s. The ladies are supported by a manager and assistant manager who also coach them during the training sessions.
In the last year the team have made affiliations with a ladies' football club in Sweden and also took part in an international 7 a side tournament in Barcelona. They have travelled to Sweden in each of the last 2 years to play the team in a pre-season friendly. They are also looking to take part in the Barcelona tournament in 2020 as well.
Over the past couple of years finding a sponsor had been very difficult they say. They had approached several businesses in the Stamford area without success. They were very fortunate to find not one but two sponsors last season who have sponsored their kit and tracksuits. The tracksuits in particular are very beneficial to the team as they have always wanted to look more professional when they arrive at matches and training sessions. This was very evident when they made the trip to the Barcelona tournament as it gave the players an identity and belonging. It also made the team stand out and they were asked many questions about the tournament and where they were from.
The tracksuits have raised questions about the sponsor such as who they are and what they do. This provides exposure, positive advertisement and promotion. Without the support of sponsors such as Masteroast, the team would not be in as strong a position to attract new players.
Golf Day 2019 - East Anglia Air Ambulance
After the watery deluges of the week prior to the Masteroast Golf Day, we ended up being extremely lucky with the weather at Greetham Valley and the full house of 72 golfers teed off under some warm sunshine.
The bar staff in the clubhouse were kept busy as the 18 teams completed their rounds later on in the afternoon, before everyone spruced themselves up for a delicious dinner.
This year we were delighted to have a guest speaker join us in the form of Tim Stimpson, former Leicester Tiger, British Lion and England International rugby player. Tim's stories from his rugby days, humour and thought provoking life philosophies were a fantastic addition to proceedings. And of course our Chairman, Les Mills, provided us with more of his unique stand-up material!
This year's chosen charity was East Anglian Air Ambulance, a very popular choice amongst our guests who, through sponsorship of the day, cash donations and by purchasing raffle tickets, raised an incredible grand total of £3,375.00. A cheque was presented to a hugely thankful Tammy Swiderski, charity representative.
Sincere thanks as always to all those who donated money or bought raffle tickets, and of course a big thank you for the support from the companies who kindly sponsored our event and those that donated raffle prizes:
CTCS Green Coffee, Marco Beverage Systems, Bravilor Bonomat, Floryn Ltd, Caps Cases, RGS Labels, Lotus Bakeries UK, Goglio, Maxilla Packaging, Plasto-Sac UK, HSBC, MHA MacIntyre Hudson, Saffron Insurance, The Pallet Network (Anglia), InterAmerican Coffee, Quest Employment, Complete Coffee, TRC Speciality Commodities, DR Wakefield, Barry Callebaut, Birchall, Taylors of Harrogate, Greetham Valley, East Anglian Air Ambulance, Fine Foods International, Skoulikas Bedford.
Once again, the stalwart of the Masteroast Golf Days – Dennis "Big Mac" Macnamara – was on hand to announce and distribute the individual and team prizes.
For the men:
In 3rd place was Hallmark Vending's Ben Cooper. 2nd place went to Mark Ayling from Complete Coffee and this year's first prize went to rookie Peter Wardlaw from Plasto-Sac UK. Peter seemingly continuing what is somewhat of a Plasto-Sac tradition for those of you who remember Edward Whitehead who used to win at least two prizes each year!
For the ladies:
In 2nd place was Masteroast's Eve Mills and taking the 2019 top spot Penny Gilbert from The Pallet Network (Anglia).
Team prize:
The team prize was awarded to Team 13 (not so unlucky for them!) with a finishing score of 90 points. Team members Paul York – Fine Foods International, John Ferguson – A.V.S., Freddie Chambers – Lindum Group and Peter Wardlaw (there he is again!) – Plasto-Sac UK.
Prizes for Nearest the Pin and Longest Drive went to Ross Campbell (Plasto-Sac UK) and Michael Latchem (Café du Monde).
In a bid to emulate how the professionals do it we now also have a very dapper jacket to present. Ours however is made from hessian sacks (I think the lining is green…) and instead of giving it to the winner we are giving ours out as the Booby Prize each year. Well done to the Masteroast Chairman, Les Mills for being so kind as to have a bad enough round to receive the jacket in its inaugural year!
Congratulations to all those who won prizes and of course our heartfelt thanks to everyone for coming and making the event what it is.
See you all on the tee next year!
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I wanted to reach out and say thank you to you and your colleagues for the amazing donation you made at the end of 2018! It was great to see that our charity was supported alongside The Royal British Legions Poppy Appeal in commemoration of 100 years since the end of the First World War.
This donation will enable us to continue to support our members throughout their time with us, whether that is by providing them with tech to communicate with their families, equipment to aid their home life, activity days with fellow members as well as visits from our Community Support Workers and Rehabilitation staff.
Many thanks once again for your kindness and generosity.


As Spain has experienced unprecedented levels of immigration in the last few decades many researchers have investigated the various policies and practices regarding the language education of immigrant students. The literature indicates that in both monolingual and bilingual regions immigrant students are viewed as linguistically deficient and are often marginalised in classroom practices, which impedes their ability to integrate and contributes to their academic failure. Additionally, in regions like Madrid with little recent history of linguistic and cultural heterogeneity, the literature has found that monolingual and monocultural ideologies often underlie the policies and practices of language education. These ideologies are not restricted to the abstract institutional level, but have also been revealed to exist amongst Spanish teachers and administrators who discursively and interactionally rank immigrant students hierarchically based on their place of origin (Relaño Pastor, 2009; Martín Rojo, Relaño Pastor & Rasskin Gutman, 2010). The research that has highlighted these shortcomings in Spain's current educational system has focussed mainly on the examination of policy and classroom interaction and relied on the input of teachers, administrators, and immigrant students and their families, but has largely ignored native Spanish, or autochthonous, students. Are autochthonous students in a monolingual region guided by the same monolingual and monocultural ideologies as Spanish teachers and administrators when it comes to evaluating immigrant languages and those who speak them? Through a language attitudes survey, the current study provides the first look at autochthonous students' opinions and views about the some of the most common immigrant languages in Spain today—Romanian, Latin American Spanish, Arabic and Chinese. It also surveys the students' language attitudes towards English and French, their two curricular languages, and analyses the attitudes for four variables: grade level, gender, language curriculum the students study in and language(s) spoken in the home. It was found that students expressed neutral-to-favourable attitudes towards all six languages in the study and the most favourable opinions about English and English speakers and French and French speakers. Regarding the immigrant languages, students reported more favourable attitudes towards Latin American Spanish and its speakers than (in descending order) Chinese and Chinese speakers, Arabic and Arabic speakers and Romanian and Romanian speakers. The variables language reported as spoken in the home and gender account for significant variance, while grade level and CLIL curriculum do not.


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Zinke, Trump Cabinet member and Montana House candidate, lied: report
Ryan Zinke, the Republican nominee for Montana's new Dwelling seat, lied to the Inside Department's interior watchdog in the course of a probe of an tribal casino software although he led the office beneath then-President Donald Trump, according to an official report launched Wednesday.
Zinke and his main of staff members "made statements to [Interior's Office of the Inspector General] with the in general intent to mislead them," the OIG's report stated.
"We identified that both equally Secretary Zinke and the [chief of staff] made statements that offered an inaccurate version of the situations in which the [Interior Department] built key selections," the watchdog's report added.
"As a final result, we concluded that Secretary Zinke and the [chief of staff] did not comply with their responsibility of candor when questioned."
Zinke among Montana contenders for 2 House seats in primary
Zinke's alleged lies arrived in reaction to thoughts about his interactions with division attorneys and staff, a U.S. senator and lobbyists for MGM Resorts Worldwide. MGM, a on line casino operator, sought to block an application by two Native American tribes, the Mashantucket Pequots and the Mohegans, to jointly develop and run a on line casino in northern Connecticut.
Zinke disputed the report's findings. He unsuccessfully questioned the Inspector General's office to hold off publicly releasing the report until eventually following the November midterms, when he will be trying to get to depict the western area of Montana in its new next Residence seat.
In a assertion Wednesday, Zinke's lawyer known as the report and the timing of the release a "political smear."
The watchdog's results appear 6 months after a further Inspector General's business report identified the Residence hopeful misused his place as secretary to market a development undertaking in his Whitefish, Montana, hometown.
Wednesday's report explained the Inspector Normal referred the casino concern to the Justice Department in 2018, when Trump and his lawyer typical were being still in business office.
The Justice Division declined to prosecute in the on line casino lobbying episode past 12 months. It also chose not to prosecute in 2021 right after it obtained the report about the Montana advancement.
The freshly introduced report particulars how MGM Resorts Intercontinental actively opposed the Connecticut tribes' software in a lobbying effort concentrating on Zinke. MGM operates a on line casino just more than the border in Springfield, Massachusetts.
MGM's lobbyists exclusively pushed Zinke not to approve amendments to the tribes' current gaming agreements with the point out of Connecticut, the report stated. Connecticut expected individuals amendments in exchange for the state approving the on line casino, which would run on nontribal lands.
Zinke eventually sent the amendments back to the tribes without the need of getting motion, properly stalling their plan.
He later informed Inspector Normal investigators "more than 10 moments that he relied on the Associate Deputy Secretary [of Interior] and the [department's Office of the Solicitor's attorneys] in producing his conclusion to return the Tribes' amendments with out motion," the report said.
But those other persons did not corroborate Zinke's promises, in accordance to the report.
An unknown U.S. senator advised investigators that he questioned Zinke not to approve the tribes' amendments in a September 2017 mobile phone phone. Zinke informed investigators he did not remember the senator inquiring him to "get a particular stance," in accordance to the report.
"Based on our evaluation of Secretary Zinke's statements, we concluded that he supplied a misleading portrayal of the basis for his determination to return the Tribes' amendments," the report stated.
Zinke "continuously mentioned that he had not experienced discussions with anyone outside the house the agency —including the U.S. Senator or field lobbyists — who recommended him to take a different course of action," the report explained.
"Supplied the range and extent of communications with these outside personnel, merged with the absence of data that any individual — counsel or or else — inside the agency encouraged this course of motion, we uncover that Secretary Zinke's description of gatherings was not accurate," it additional.
In a assertion emailed to CNBC on Wednesday, Zinke's lawyer Danny Onorato claimed, "Extra than 4 years in the past, Secretary Zinke cooperated fully in a politically motivated investigation carried out by the Inside Department's Inspector Basic."
"Secretary Zinke regularly instructed the Inspector Standard that he was not matter to any impact in that matter since he lacked jurisdiction to act on the application," Onorato claimed. "That must have ended the inquiry. Instead, on the eve of an election, the IG has produced a misleading and inaccurate report that advised Secretary Zinke lacked candor in his interview with IG agents."
"That is mistaken," the law firm explained. "The record right here reveals that it was the IG's draft report that in the beginning concealed dispositive evidence and that a Federal Decide in Washington D.C. agreed that Secretary Zinke's place was legally seem. After Secretary Zinke objected to a draft report, the IG now acknowledges this important actuality in watered down fashion."
"Put basically, Secretary Zinke was absolutely candid in his interview and was lawfully vindicated by the Court's choice. The information of the IG report and the timing of its launch will be seen for what it is, another political smear," Onorato reported.
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A Look at Doe Deere's Routine
Doe Deere is a female entrepreneur, who was born in Russia and raised in New York. She is currently living in Los Angeles and is the founder, as well as, the CEO of Lime Crime Cosmetics. Lime Crime are certified vegan and cruelty free cosmetics. Doe was artistic and full of imagination as a child. She loved colors and is still hard core into colors today. Lime Crime started out on Ebay as a way for Doe to sell her DYI fashions. This opened the door for the cosmetic line.
Doe's "typical" day consists of going into the office around noon, having lunch and socializing with her team. She is in meetings up until 6pm, which is when she leaves the office most nights. Occasionally, she will have late nights and be there until midnight. She enjoys spending time with her two Persian cats, which she does before going to the office. Her daily routine, before she spends time with her Persians, starts at 8:30am. She doesn't need to set an alarm to wake up, she has an internal one. First thing she does when she wakes up is check her calendar on her phone and drink a glass of water to stay hydrated. She does stretches and eats a healthy breakfast that consists of: Grits, yogurt, fruit and orange juice. The orange juice is freshly squeezed from the oranges taken off her tree. During her morning routine she also checks her social media and email. After doing all of that she gets ready for work by applying her makeup and doing her hair. She takes anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour to do her makeup. The length of time depends on her schedule for that day. She enjoys taking her time and applying her makeup, it makes her feel free. While she is doing her makeup she listens to a group she is obsessed with; The Beatles. The Beatles remind her of fond childhood memories.
As she is listening to her favorite music she uses Glossier face wash to cleanse her face. She then uses Murad Hydro-Dynamic Quenching Essence moisturizer. Depending on how her day is going to end on which foundation she uses. She will use a powder to set her makeup before filling in her brows. She will then use blush and lipstick from the Matte Velvetine range to finish her look.
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Netflix is expanding its true crime slate. Critically praised true crime series The Staircase is heading to the internet TV network, along with four-part original docuseries Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist, executive produced by Mark and Jay Duplass. New episodes of the Staircase will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 28 before they launch on Netflix this summer alongside the original French TV miniseries, which aired on Canal+ and Sundance TV in 2004. Evil Genius, the story of the extraordinary criminal case known as the "pizza bomber heist" will launch globally May 11 on Netflix.
The Staircase, which hails from Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, follows the compelling story of Michael Peterson, a crime novelist accused of killing his wife Kathleen after she is found dead at the bottom of a staircase in their home, and the 16-year judicial battle that followed. De Lestrade was granted unusual access to the case immediately following Kathleen's death in 2001 in Durham, North Carolina. Her husband, Michael, a local public figure and successful novelist, quickly becomes the prime suspect.
De Lestrade captured every moment of the story from arrest to verdict, following in intimate detail Peterson's home, the family and his defense team as it considered its strategic options.
Evil Genius is written & directed by Barbara Schroeder, Trey Borzillieri is co-director and executive producer. Mark and Jay Duplass executive produce with Josh Braun and Dan Braun.


Always be learning, always be growing. For the small business owner it's easy to get caught up in the day-to-day grind of your niche and forget to look up and out. If you're wanting to grow a successful business, don't underestimate the value of learning through reading.
To help you cut through the clutter, below is a list of recommended business books based on what I've read, learned from, and enjoyed.
By the way, if you're not keen on reading, I highly recommend listening to audiobooks instead. It's a great way to pass the time when you're working out, driving, or doing chores around the house.
If you have any interest in the non-business books I'm reading, join me on Goodreads!
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I heard Daniel Pink speak at the Rainmaker Authority conference in 2015. He was the best speaker at the conference (IMHO) and I immediately dashed out and picked up his most popular title. Pink argues that everyone is in sales, regardless of our title (for example, any time we try to get someone on board with an idea, that's selling). The book teaches techniques for persuasiveness and gets into the psychology of selling.
This book was a recommendation from Pink's To Sell is Human. It's considered a definitive staple in the "sales psychology" category and is the result of a TON of study into the reasons why people comply with requests. I "listened" to this book and the performance was a little dry despite the content being quite fascinating. I'd recommend it as a physical or digital read.
Joe Pulizzi is a leading authority (or maybe THE leading authority) on content marketing and, after reading this book, it's not hard to see why. This read is CHOCK FULL of ideas to boost your content marketing efforts and to work smarter, not harder.
I'd like to consider myself somewhat savvy already when it comes to content marketing and social media (at least in theory, if not in practice), so this book wasn't full of a ton of AHA! moments. That said, it was a great reminder of solid strategies for creating great content. If your new to the idea "content marketing," most definitely pick this up.
Another definitive work in its category, Book Yourself Solid is a perfect (and practical!) read for those looking to hone in on their target market: exactly who they serve and what they're offering. This book isn't a quick read – there are lots of "exercises" to complete, but you'll be glad you did.
Of all my recommended business books, this one may be my favorite. It's a study of great companies and leaders and how they've managed tremendous success even when others had the same idea. Sinek credits this to their ability to articulate WHY they do what they do. That distinguishes them from others who can on speak to what their company does or how they do it. People who buy from these successful companies (or follow strong leaders) do so because the WHY resonates with them.
This book is full of down-to-earth marketing tips for small businesses. It's geared more toward brick-and-mortar businesses, but there are plenty of takeaways for online businesses as well. For more info, read my review.
I think this book is targeted toward people who have employees, but as solo owner-operator, I still had some great takeaways. Ramsey is no-nonsense and highly practical – there's some great tips on money management, decision-making, and coaching/leveling up others.
This is an updated edition of the original E-Myth book. The "E" stands for entrepreneurial and he highlights so well why most small businesses don't work. Most of us wear many hats in our business (it's the nature of entrepreneurship), but Gerber offers up some ways we can get out from under the weight of those tasks where we don't excel. Play to your strengths and grow your business.
This book could fit into the "motivational" category as well. If you've ever thought "I'd like to have my own business," but have no idea of how to transform that thought into reality, this book will inspire you and give you direction.
I can't say enough about this book – it's changed the way I plan for my business. In short, it's about ditching the "annual" mindset and in order to plan/execute on a quarterly basis. Shorter term, realistic goals, planned as if every week was an entire month. This could go under the Productivity heading below, but I put it here because I think it's a critical concept for any business owner/leader in terms of direction setting. Here's my review of 12 Week Year.
Hat tip to Chris Handy for this recommendation. Have you ever gone to a networking event where people just handed out business cards like candy, didn't really listen to anything you said, and then you went home with a stack of cards you dumped in the trash? Yeah, that's miserable. This book is a whole new look at networking and how to do it in a way that makes you a hero and gets results for your business.
Scott Adams is the creator of the Dilbert cartoon, so you know of the bat there's some great humor in this book. I highly recommend the audio version as it's read by Adams. This book is a familiar tale of how "overnight successes" are actually the result of a ton of failed efforts. Great read. It inspired me to write this post on finding value in your failures.
This book is so fun to read I've read it twice. It's a quick read (you could read it in the aisle of a Barnes and Noble). If you're feeling burnt out or stuck, this is a great bookto give you some fresh perspective. I'd definitely recommend this as a read over an audio book (and a physical book vs a digital book due to the use of artwork).
I didn't walk away from this book with any action items, which is why I put it in the "thought-provoking" category. It's a great challenge to look deeply at causal relationships – you may think that your sales increased due to that amazing Facebook ad you ran, but it may turn out there's a different cause altogether.
Like Freakonomics, this isn't necessarily a business book, but it's an interesting look at that special moment in time when something ordinary goes viral. He outlays the three rules of the tipping point: the law of the few, the stickiness factor, and the power of context. It's a high-energy read that'll get you mental juices flowing.
What good is to check a bunch of things off your to-d0 list if you didn't have the right things on your to-do list? This is a great book that delves into the difference between activity and true productivity. It's written from a Christian perspective, but if you're not, I still think there's some great practical takeaways.
The premise of this book is simple: Productivity is proportionate to our ability to relax. The most practical takeaway for me is the discipline of writing things down – don't try to juggle a million ideas in your head. Write it down, clear your mind, and focus on the task at hand. This is the quintessential book on productivity in business.
While this book can apply to anyone in an office environment, I think it's particularly great for those just starting to either work remotely or work for themselves. It's high on building routine, time-blocking, and mental focus. I listened to this as an audiobook, but due to the number of quotes and voices, I think it'd be a better physical or digital read.
This is another book that inspired a blog post. This book gives absolutely solid (and practical) advice when it comes to managing your business finances, eliminating debt, and, best of all, making a profit (regardless of how much or little you make).
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Every company, organisation, individual attending wants to maximise generating leads at events, so we have provided the folowing marketing activities to ensure you can focus on connecting and attracting new customers. We have sponsorship packages and a number of affordable, flexible ways available for businesses to showcase, promote & market their business to an audience of decision makers and professionals.
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The main advantages of State heat pumps over the conventional type electric water heaters are the ultra-efficient water heating, green technology and low operating costs.
The high energy factor of up to 2.75 is the reason why State heat pump is the only electric unit from the manufacturer that is Energy Star compliant and subjected to utility rebates.
According to the State manufacturer, the heat pump can save approximately $30 per month when compared to electric units, and the payback period can be 2-3 years.
Models review
State heat pumps are available in three sizes, 50, 60 and 80 gallons, and with the higher capacity, the unit operates in the maximum efficiency mode with greater performance. The footprint is almost the same as the conventional type water heaters, while these models are taller due to the addition of the heat pump. It is perfect for high demanding homes and families.
The model EPX 60 DHPT is the 60-gallon water heater while model EPX 80 DHPT is the 80-gallon unit. EPX 80 DHPT has the same footprint as the 60-gallon model but is taller by 14 inches (approx. 81 vs. 67") and heavier by 45 pounds. It has more capacity and better first-hour rating in all modes but slightly lower energy factor in two modes, while in the Hybrid mode energy factor (EF) is the same.
SPX 50 DHPT is the 50-gallon heat pump water heater that has the lowest first-hour rating of all three models, but the highest energy factor in all modes, where the hybrid mode gives the highest 2.75.
This model uses different temperature controller than other two models; it is larger, has bigger selection buttons, and utilizes the communication port that allows easy distant control and monitoring via smartphones, tablets, and computers, also a connection to utility saving programs. The temperature controller on the 60- and the 80-gallon water heater is smaller, but has a larger display and still easy temperature and mode selection and diagnostic tools.
All State heat pumps are equipped with more or fewer quality elements such as the long-lasting backup heating elements, protective sacrificial anode rod on the 50-gallon model and powered anode on 60- and 80-gallon models, 2" thick foam insulation, tamper-resistant brass drain valve and dry fire protection system.
Features review
This type of water heaters is coming from the Premier series and is also known as the hybrid because of the combined use of conventional electric-powered and heat pump technology. The implementation of these two technologies is what makes heat pumps unique and versatile. The unit uses the compressor, fan and external coil heat exchanger to extract the heat from surrounding warm air and transfer to water, while the electric heating elements are used as a backup when more power and faster recovery is needed.
Another great advantage is the advanced electronics that provides more options to the users; you can select the temperature between 95 F and 150 F, take advantage of the diagnostic system and choose one of the four operating modes depending on demand and needs for hot water.
Similar model: Rheem heat pump (sold on homedepot.com)
The Efficiency mode provides great savings since the heat pump is the only one used.
The Hybrid mode is used in applications where fast recovery is needed, and it combines the heat pump and electric heating elements depending on demand. This mode provides the highest energy efficiency.
In the Electric mode, the water heater utilizes the heating elements only, while in the Vacation mode, during the extended stay, for example, the unit maintains the tank temperature of 60 F as protection from freezing and up to 99 days in 50-gallon models.
The hybrid design allows installation in almost any region, while it works the best in milder climates. If you have the utility room with the furnace or any type of the appliance that emits the heat, the heat pump can take advantage as it will take that heat to heat the water and cool down the room air. The Premier heat pump is the most effective energy-efficient option for consumers who use electricity for water heating, as they can reduce the utility costs by up to 66% and provide payback in less than 3 years. State offers a warranty of 10 years on all models.
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