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~ WEEKLY FORECAST ~ JANUARY 9 – 16, 2022
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PREAMBLE:
ALL SIGNS: Avoid starting any new project or relationship before February 3. This is a Mercury retrograde period, but it's more complex than usual, because Venus, planet of love, is also retrograding most of January. Old flames are likely to show up for many of us, esp. Virgo, Taurus, Cancer, and Libra, Gemini and Leo.
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Evidently, the organizer of my Zoom broadcast Friday, Jan. 7, neglected to put the time of the broadcast on their website (Astrologer's Den.) It's 7:30 pm (ending 9 pm) — which will only benefit you if you happen to be reading this early. (The column is published the Thursday evening prior to the Sunday start date.)
To reserve a spot, go to the Astrologer's Den at:
https://astrologersden.com/2021/12/19/jan-07-2022-the-transits-o
I'll just be talking about the year ahead, and answering questions. (I won't be reading any birth charts.
WEEKLY FORECASTS:
ARIES: March 21-April 19
You start this week in high style, Aries. Your presence, charisma and energy are tops Sunday — but don't pirouette in front of a speeding garbage truck. Make the limbs you climb out on a bit shorter and sturdier. You're very favoured by higher-ups, VIPs, even court judges until early March. Present your findings, but don't put forth new proposals, as a period of indecision, confusion and "retracing steps" begins this were, and lasts to Feb. 3.
Start nothing important in any area during this time, including relationships and major purchases. (If you bought a new suit now, you'd hardly ever wear it.) Legal, travel, media, philosophical, intellectual and love concerns remain vibrant this week and next. Avoid lawsuits.
Your energy and charisma surge nicely Sunday to dawn Mon. (PST). Chase money, buy/sell, memorize lists Monday morn to Wed. eve. Monday goes fairly well, but Tuesday is filled with obstacles until night time when all goes well – Wednesday too. Errands, visits, communications and paperwork fill the time between Wed. eve and Saturday dawn.
You'll succeed until Friday pm, when confusion, indecision and delays enter. Keep your temper! Saturday's for home, kids, nature, nutrition and rest. You'll be happy just puttering.
TAURUS: April 20-May 20
The general accent remains on legal, international, media, intellectual and love matters, Taurus. This zone is generally favoured until early March. If you have a proposition to propose, wait until February or March to make it.
Until May, your social life should expand, as does your popularity. Groups you join now will benefit you for years, maybe decades. Your sex life and sexual magnetism are strong for two more weeks. Avoid tawdry situations.
Lie low, rest Sunday to pre-dawn (PST) Monday. Monday morning to Wednesday afternoon fills you with energy, charisma and clout. But before you charge ahead, realize that new projects are "out of favour" until Feb. 3. Chase money, buy/sell Wednesday eve through Friday. This is a good interval, but back off Friday p.m. when indecision and argument can occur. Casual friends, messages, short travel and paperwork fill Saturday.
GEMINI: May 21-June 20
Start nothing new before February 3, Gemini. Until then, work with ongoing projects or those you can revive from the past. This applies to relationships and purchases also. Relationships remain volatile, swinging from attraction to argument and back again.
Your investment and intimacy pictures look benign until early March — same period, a troublesome illness might refuse to go away. Your career and prestige expand in the few months ahead — don't miss an opportunity to impress others, esp. higher-ups.
Optimism, popularity and joy visit you Sunday to dawn Mon. Retreat to rest, contemplate and examine your life Monday morn to Wed. eve. Communicate with gov't, head office, and advisors, but be cautious Tues. (to mid-afternoon) — desires mingle with (self?) deception. Your energy, alertness and charisma rise smartly Wednesday eve to Sat. morning. Saturday's for shopping and a maybe a sensual hug.
CANCER: June 21-July 22
Start nothing new before February 3, Cancer. That includes projects, relationships and major purchases. Instead, stick with ongoing matters, or revive circumstances or projects from the past. An old flame or ex-spouse might return any time this month. Relationships in general are blessed now to early March. (In fact, Cancer's "wedding potential" stays high until mid-May.)
Work remains intense for 2 more weeks. For almost 5 months, your interest in foreign countries and other cultures, law, learning, media — and love — will remain not only strong, but adventurous and lucky. Chase these things, for good outcomes are almost certain.
Be ambitious Sunday, but back away this night (PST). Your popularity rises Monday morning to Wednesday eve. You'll feel optimistic, flirty —get together with a group. Careful Tues. before mid-afternoon, though — rejection can be as deep as a "romantic illusion" is strong.
Retreat Wednesday night to Sat. morning. Rest, contemplate, liaise with head office, institutions, gov't, charities, and advisors. Meditate, seek spirit. Don't make plans, though — circumstances are too changeable. Saturday, you shine with energy, charisma and hope — a workmate or someone in your field might become something more.
LEO: July 23-Aug, 22
Don't start any new projects nor relationships, nor significant purchases before February 3, Leo. Your romantic engine is still purring; and as soon as that ends (Jan. 24) a partnership/marriage vibe grows strong, into late Feb. Your sexual, intimate life is blessed now to mid-May.
These 5 months are also beneficial for investments, research, life-changing decisions and medical procedures. Beneficial is too weak a word — some Leos will become pregnant now; some will make a good little fortune in stocks or other investments. However, these are best plunged into after Feb. 3, not before. Work and workmates are pleasant, even affectionate, to early March, but don't start new work projects before Feb. 3.
Sunday's for pondering, for studying the big picture, in your own life and beyond it. You might mention love, but your timing must be right on; otherwise (10 am onward, PST) you might "create a refusal." Be ambitious dawn Monday to suppertime Wed. Again, start nothing new, but do put your shoulder to the wheel, esp. around higher-ups. But beware Tues. into the afternoon, when dejection, refusal, mix with an unrealistic but possibly "flaming" attraction.
Social visits, group affairs, popularity and optimism, flirts and friends fill Wednesday eve to Sat. morning. Saturday, take a breather, start a quiet, contemplative weekend. An old flame (or ex-spouse) might appear this late week to early Feb.
VIRGO: Aug. 23-Sept. 22
Start no new projects, relationships nor big purchases before Feb. 3, Virgo. If an old flame hasn't returned yet, he or she might do so before January ends. Friction at home should abate in 2 weeks. (If you're married, this might come from your wandering attention.) Romance is strong and bountiful now to early March, and your partnership prospects (in love and business) are also bountiful now to mid-May.
You face great luck, also, the same 5 months, in relocation and dealings with the public. At least 2 major opportunities will face you — grab them! However, you might be wise to wait until Feb. 3 onward to make that grab or start a good relationship. Before February, a former flame (or spouse) might appear — if so, prospects look good.
Sunday's sexy, but don't push it too far. (An investment might appear to you, but it's a chancy one.) Love's harmony, affectionate, wondering words and wandering thoughts fill Monday morning to Wednesday eve. A great interval, but skip Tues. before 3 pm (PST), when dejection and delusion make a poor pair. (These three days also trigger intellectual, legal, media or international issues.)
Be ambitious Wed. night to Saturday morning. Careful Friday, when desire and illusion form a tempting lure — but a disappointing one, as time evolves. Saturday is for friends, happy meetings, optimism and flirtations. You'll be happy!
LIBRA: Sept. 23-Oct. 22
Start nothing new before February 3, Libra. That includes relationships and major purchases. (Lemons abound.) Your home and property remain unusually affectionate, mildly fortunate to early March, but don't start any projects here before Feb. 3. A former tenant or child might return. Much busyness around errands, mail, calls, trips, paperwork, for two more weeks. In general, your workload is increasing, through May. Demand payment for extra work.
Sunday's for relationships, but don't expect too much. Monday morning to Wednesday eve brings secrets, big finances, lust. Dig deep for rewards, valuable information. Be careful Tuesday before mid-afternoon (PST) — do NOT invest, nor try to approach intimacy.
Intellectual, legal, cultural, media, far travel and International themes arise Wed. night to Saturday dawn. A good interval, but take care Friday pm, when deception, desire or opposition face you. Saturday's for ambition — a note to a higher-up might earn a nice reward.
SCORPIO: Oct.23-Nov. 21
Avoid all new starts, forming new relationships, or making major purchases before Feb. 3, Scorpio. Instead, focus on ongoing projects and save them from missed appointments, supply shortages, etc. or revive projects or relationships from the past. Extra money continues to flow your way for two more weeks, but try to bank it and avoid that subconscious urge to spend.
The big deal is romance (or a creative or inventive project) until May — great good luck here, but don't start major things (or relationships) before Feb. 3. (Though before then an old flame might appear — if so, no harm in pursuing.)
Tackle chores Sunday. Follow safety rules. Relationships, opportunities, public dealings and relocation themes fill Monday morn to Wed. eve. The interval flows well, and can bring exciting meetings or good allies/friends, but beware Tuesday, to 2 pm, when desires and ethics and romance seem tangled up in unrealistic ways. Deception quite possible.
Life's secrets, hidden byways, tantalizing sexual urges, major finances, research, maybe medical issues — these arise Wednesday night to Saturday morning. All good, but pull back Friday (esp. the pm) when again, desire and work and ethics and romance seem tangled in some tempting mire. Saturday's for calm reflection, big ideas, far travel, love, intellect, law, culture, philosophy. Romance, creative and sports projects get a thumb's up!
SAGITTARIUS: Nov. 22-Dec. 21
Start nothing new, projects, relationships or non-routine purchases, before Feb. 3, Sage. Meanwhile, protect ongoing projects from supply shortages, missing personnel, misunderstandings, etc. You might successfully resuscitate a venture you once left behind. A former way of making money might return. Communications can be stalled or lost. Your romantic magnetism remains intense, two more weeks.
Until early March, earnings are buoyant, fortunate, but avoid starting a new project — this has links to the past. Until mid-May, you have a once-in-12 year opportunity to improve your living standard — you'll find a better rental, or a great real estate deal. Use this winter/spring to establish a new "base," Sage.
Sunday's for romance, creative or speculative projects, but don't expect a lot. Tackle chores and protect your daily health Monday morning to Wednesday eve (PST). You'll accomplish a pleasing amount, but take care, don't force things Tuesday before mid-afternoon (PST)— confusion, follow safety rules.
Relationships fill the horizon Wednesday night to Saturday morning — a fairly smooth rise, but confusion or an unreal romantic urge could bother you Friday daytime. Saturday's for secrets and hidden "gems" — investigate!
CAPRICORN: Dec. 22-Jan. 20
Avoid starting any new, significant projects, purchases or relationships before Feb. 3, Cap. You are filled with both charisma and sweetness, energy and — unfortunately, indecision — until then. (Actually, the indecision disappears but the magnetism continues, right into March. You could attract romantic come-ons, favours, attention.)
Until Jan. 24, continue to avoid dark alleys and belligerent people. From the 24th to March 6, you will be "the dangerous one" — assertive, romantic, courageous and determined. Someone might fall madly in love with you — it might be mutual. Many emails, calls, errands, texts, paperwork chores and travel now to mid-May. Be curious, ask questions, esp. of gov't or management types.
Sunday's for home, kids, garden, etc. Don't go too "big." Romance, beauty, pleasure, creative and risk-taking urges visit you Monday morning to Wednesday eve. A great interval, except for the first 14 hours of Tues. (PST) — be cautious, things will not go your way, despite what your imagination tells you.
Tackle chores Wednesday night to Saturday morn. Eat and dress sensibly. Careful Friday — make sure instructions are clear, and follow safety regs. Saturday's for relationships and opportunities — good, perhaps very good ones, so leave your shyness at home — go forth and join with others.
AQUARIUS: Jan. 21-Feb. 18
Rest, recuperate, meditate, Aquarius. Start nothing new before Feb. 3 — no new projects, relationships nor major purchases. (E.g., groceries fine; a new suit bad — you'd never wear it.) Instead, use your energy to reprise past projects or relations, or to protect ongoing ones from scheduling confusions, supply shortages, second-thinking, etc.
Until early March, the government or a large corp, say an insurance company, might contact you — about something from the past, if before Jan. 28 – about something present if after that date. No fear — it's a good thing. (Also to early March: a great time for quiet healing, meditating, spiritual practice — visit a psychic after Feb. 3, not before.)
Your hopes still revolve around a man, perhaps a desired communication, until Jan. 24. Your income expands, now to mid-May. At work, seek a permanent raise instead of mere overtime, if you can.
Sunday's for messaging, short trips. Not much happening. Your home, family call you Monday morn to Wednesday eve — be there, hug the kids, upgrade security or make needed repairs (but NO renovations). Careful Tuesday before 2 pm (PST) — deception, dejection, could spark your ire. (This eve is sweet, tho.)
Romance arises Wednesday night to Saturday morning. Good, but remember your energy and charisma remain low (until late Jan.). Don't push anyone or any agenda Friday. Saturday's for chores. Eat, dress sensibly.
PISCES: Feb. 19-March 20
You're launched on an adventure, Pisces, even if you don't know it. (Mainly, now to May, an adventure of prestige, career, success.) Wishes can come true this week and next. Don't start any new projects nor relationships nor make major purchases before Feb. 3. Until then, focus on a past opportunity that you "dropped," or protect ongoing projects, relations, from misunderstandings, delays, etc.
A former "light" love or friendly lover might return anytime in January. Bosses remain grouchy, impatient until Jan. 24.
Pursue $, shop (routine items) Sunday — some "squeeze time" with your mate would be nice but seems oddly unattainable. Errands, calls, texts, travel, paperwork — these fill Monday morn to Wednesday eve. A good interval, but take care Tuesday before mid-afternoon (PST) when higher-ups seem particularly critical, or you might "fall prey" to very unrealistic love. Deception, wrong addresses, misunderstandings are possible.
Home and family call Wednesday night to Saturday morn — a good interval, but watch Friday, when again unrealistic love or simple misunderstandings (because someone's dreaming, inattentive) can occur. Saturday starts a weekend of romance, charming kids, creative and sports/games involvements — joy!
AFTERAMBLE:
Rec'd a lot of responses about my query: why does hot air rise and cold air fall? At least 3 scientists/researchers responded, all basically saying that cold air falls and hot air rises because cold air is more dense, and hot air much less dense. But I'll pursue this next column, I'm too tired right now.
The Symbol for infinity is usually written like this: a number 8, but usually on its side, like this: oo. We could envision this as a ribbon wrapped around two posts, which self-repeats and so "images" infinity for us. (Another image often used is a snake eating its own tail.) But think of this: what if there were not two posts for the ribbon to wrap around, but three, or four, or an infinite number of infinities? What worlds would accessing even one more post, what would this open up? But that must be eons away, for it involves universes and more.
Still, that might not mean an overwhelming or impossible stretch of time/patience, as our linear thinking expects. What seems physically impossible (i.e., us to traverse universes, or create and/or move them) might be accomplished by other means, non-physical means; or, if you like, supra-physical —supra-supra physical (next stop, immaterial).
Suns (solar beings if you like), though next to God, are not the only force in existence. But I don't mean dark forces; all force is essentially good. Evil is the decay of good. The first decay is pride and, growing with or upon it, arrogance. Evil essentially is narcissistic.
Arrogance tends to destroy understanding, insight. I see this all the time when I'm trying to predict stuff. When I'm feeling pretty hot and full of myself, I'll put out predictions that are almost always wrong. Then (mostly from shame) I grow more humble, and the predictions improve. I'm trying to cut out the pride stuff, but it's hard.
But to return: so we might find infinities spill upon infinities, if we can only locate that third "infinity post." But what is it? When we look to the first two posts 'round which the ribbon winds forever, what do they say? Are they a concept? An expression? Points formed by God? Miracles? Gaining knowledge in this broad area could advance many fields, esp. math.
The biggest journey here will be understanding the posts and their nature, if they have one. (I believe, personally, that everything does have a "nature" except, maybe, God.) The posts might be one and the same, quantum-ly, or siblings — or dynamically different in power, like north and south magnetic poles. Or non-existent, just a human symbol for infinity.
I argue against the last possibility (that it's just a human symbol) on one simple basis, perhaps one that needs a pinch of faith, too: almost everything in the universe is connected. Symbols might not arise from a vacuum; perhaps they are a reflection of an event or a reality we experienced or "saw" at one (no irony intended) time. The symbol we most commonly focus on, oo, rings true intellectually/logically, and "feels right." (Perhaps the reason it has replaced the self-consuming snake in some areas?).
Usually, to go trite, where there's smoke there's fire, and the smoky scent of logic hovering around this choice (oo) inclines me to believe it has a "phenomenal link" — that it reflects some reality beyond its "meaning," and not just a static reality, but a dynamic, progressing one (changing constantly on one level or another). If only we could get to and understand this world.
Biden has surrounded himself with unique individuals. Merrick Garland, Justice Minister, lies to Congress from start to finish — and suffers no consequences, as he is of the left, in a powerful position and with the political majority on his side [even if only situationally: i.e., forced into loyalty to sustain the left's narrative of self-innocence].)
Another, the Minister of Energy, knew nothing about energy, and could not answer the simplest of questions during a "presser," such as how many barrels of oil a day is the US consuming, or how many barrels are we importing? At these and all questions, she gave a perfectly likeable, long laugh, and nothing else. Not one answer.
Mayorkas, Biden's Homeland Security Minister, performed virtually identically before Congress: he has not one iota of knowledge (or claims not to have) about the border, immigrants, how many children are locked in cages, covid-19 among the immigrants, the $450,000 Biden has promised to give minors who crossed the border without their parents, or were separated from them. Nothing. "Sorry, I don't know that offhand. No, I don't have that information. Well, I don't want to guess… I can't remember."
Then there's Kamala, who, when confronted by a television journalist over the fact that she has not visited the border which is seething with illegal crossers, laughs and says, "Well, I haven't been to Europe, either…(pause)… So what's your point?" Kamala the heartless.
There's something eerie about this. It's not that they're lying with impunity, that's just politics. It's that they don't care what lies they tell, each one does/says whatever is opportune in the moment, with the insouciance of psychopaths.
These people are so advantage-oriented toward the present that their decisions seldom contain any long-range considerations. What is really weird is that it is possible that these 3 high-level ministers (and are there more?) DON'T know anything about their ministry, and spend their days playing cards, or virtual golf. Or doing whatever Kamala Harris does. And that they appear impervious to consequence.
Kamala completes the heartless four (though I suspect there is a lot of heart, that's been disappointed, and ultimately disappointed with herself, thus the nervous laughter. She tamps down her feelings, suppresses them, but for how long?) — these four make a fairly strong box around Joe Biden.
How this turns out is dependent on Biden. Let's forget everything else, all the other squares or oblongs surrounding him: Afghanistan, Hunter's jinx, pandemic, everything except this man standing before us.
First question: why has Biden surrounded himself with 4 (and quite possibly more) people to whom feelings mean nothing? 4 "vacuums." What does this say about Biden? If you were a person of feelings, of empathies and regrets, joys and sorrows, would you choose to surround yourself and have to deal with personalities who had no feelings?
But if you had few real human feelings yourself, if you were basically cold-hearted and without empathy, at least you and they would understand each other on a level of expediency: e.g., don't overthrow me because that's illegal and you'll be caught. — Okay. — In return I'll make you so-and-so. — Good, I support you.
As I write this (*) Biden has just finished a photo-op campaign-style appearance almost "next door" — I'm guessing an hour's drive? — to Waukesha, where a Black man plowed through a crowd with his SUV and killed or maimed 67 Whites— far more than the fool who drove his car into a Charlottesville march, killing and maiming about 25, I think. That was highly publicized as a major outrageous "white supremacist" crime.
This present (Waukesha) "murder by vehicle," though 40 bodies more tragic than the Charlottesville one, did not deserve Biden's attention. His Press Secretary, Jen Psaki, excused this cold-heartedness by mumbling that a presidential visit had to be carefully planned days in advance, "he couldn't just hop over there" (to give people a hug, I wish she'd added). Of course he could have. And what about the 5 days of "holidays" he enjoyed while Waukesha grieved? Could nothing have been arranged then?
(*) Note: I wrote this a month or two ago, but held it back because I was swearing off politics. But this was just too interesting to let go.
The real reason Biden would not visit the Waukesha county survivors was that a Black man killed and maimed 67 Whites. That is the reverse of the left's (Democratic Party's) narrative, that Blacks are good, Whites are bad. Leftists fill the airwaves like a swarm of bees when one Black man, George Floyd, is killed by a white cop. But when a Black man kills and maims 67 Whites, that is untouchable, because it directly contradicts the narrative.
(This "narrative," which the Democrats and leftist media — almost all the media — have embraced, not only promotes CRT, "wokeness," hatred and diminishment of parents (elevating government functionaries, i.e. teachers and school boards to the central parenting position) — it also claims diversity/equity, an excuse to segregate Blacks and Whites — often at Black requests, and to diminish and demean Whites.) Hence, the mainstream media virtually ignored the story of this massacre.
There are many facets to this "movement" we label "Democrat." But none of them can withstand the picture of a Black mowing down innocent White people and their toddler children. That would take the wind out of the sails on their racist yacht, the sails that have filled with the simple argument: you're racist because you're White. No other proof needed. You're racist because we say you are.
Now look at Joe. He has a terrific, warm smile, maybe the best smile in the business. A few facts: In 1967 while in law school, Joe was punished for plagiarizing. He did it again, when running for senator or prez, I forget which. Joe broke up his best friend's marriage, ruined his "friend's" life, and married the divorcee — Jill. He mocked East Indians for being poor, for their hard work at menial jobs. He "shook down" Ukraine with a billion $ threat.
He travelled the world with his son, cutting deals with China, Russia — I think about a dozen countries — that brought in millions of dollars. Were these bribes? I don't know. They certainly involved Biden's Washington presence. His parenting? One son is dead, another is a crack-sex addict, and his daughter has been in and out of rehab for addiction. But he has a grandfatherly gravitas, and a winning smile, and he became President. And he can tell you, with big, soulful eyes, that he has lost, too. But I think his children have lost much more.
Now we have Afghanistan, choked supplies, inflation, the border, anti-vaxxers, Ukraine, a plummeting approval rating, and Joe is grinning through it all. Just this week he lied and said he visited Israel during the Six Days War — in 1967, the year he was caught cheating in law school. There's a certain chilling irresponsibility running through this administration, from the "Chief of Uncaring" to his laughing Ministers — and Kamala, his "Prime Pick."
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Learned a lot from the lesson. The instructor was really patient with me.
Learned a lot! Will take more advanced lessons next time.


The executive committee of Altheimer & Gray on Friday recommended to wind down operations and eventually dissolve the 88-year-old Chicago-based law firm.
Partners at the firm are scheduled to vote on the matter Monday.
"For some period of time, we have explored every option for the firm's future," Managing Partner Jeffrey Smith said in a statement issued Friday afternoon. "This is a sad day, and a hard decision, but we are confident that this is the best way to position our staff to explore new opportunities and continue to provide exceptional services to their clients."
Altheimer employs 301 partners and associates in 11 cities worldwide; 132 are based in Chicago.
The move to liquidate comes in the wake of disagreement among the firm's leadership over its strategy, as the firm had been hammered by a downturn in business and wracked by the defections of high-ranking attorneys. For example, Louis Goldman, chairman of the firm's international practice resigned recently (Crain's, May 26).
The dissolution will mark the departure of a once clout-heavy firm that ranked 13th in Crain's list of the city's largest law firms.
The firm had benefited from the political connections of Chairman Gery Chico, the former chief of staff to Mayor Richard M. Daley who now is campaigning for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, and Jeremy Margolis, a lawyer for former Gov. George Ryan.
But the firm's political work has been eroded since Mr. Ryan left office and some key partners departed.
On top of this, the firm has suffered as two of its corporate practice's key niches, real estate and private equity, have been hammered in the sluggish economy.
With revenues flat, at best, the firm had been forced to slash jobs and salaries --through the eight months ended March 31 its Chicago office roster of lawyers dropped by 37 to 169--and search for a merger partner.
The company said it will hire an outplacement firm to help its employees, particularly its 600-person administrative staff and 253 associate lawyers, find new jobs.


I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Puppy love – Your legal guide to dog law and is located at https://www.rocketlawyer.co.uk/blog/puppy-love-your-legal-guide-to-dog-law/.
Dogs are the most popular pet owned in the UK with 26% of the population owning one. And it's easy to see why. They're loyal, affectionate, devoted – and are known to improve mental and physical well-being.
So what are some of the key laws you should know when owning a dog? What happens when you and your partner break-up? Who keeps the dog? Read this blog for your legal guide to dog law.
Failing to ensure these needs are met is a criminal offence, but they also risk causing suffering or stress.
Under this law it's also illegal to dock a dog's tail, in whole or part. The only exceptions to this rule are i) if it's for a medical reason, ii) if the dog is to be destined as a working dog (eg to be used in the armed forces), or iii) if the dog is less than 5 days old. In any case, docking a dog's tail can only be administered by a certified veterinarian.
If you own one of these types of dogs, a court can make a destruction order (in which case the dog will be euthanised), or if they are satisfied that you are a suitable owner and that your dog doesn't pose a risk to the general public, they can make a 'contingent destruction order'. This means your dog will be exempt and allowed to stay with you under strict conditions including neutering, microchipping, tattooing with a unique identifier, third party insurance and registration on the Index of Exempted Dogs. The dog will need to be muzzled in public and kept on a lead.
Failing to comply with these strict conditions could lead to seizure of your dog and prosecution.
Several key issues come under these laws. The main one is dog fouling. Dog fouling is the most prominent and complained about nuisance.
In general, you must pick up after your dog in public with some exceptions such as woodland or land used for the grazing of animals. Local authorities have the power to impose Public Space Protection Orders (PSPOs) to prevent dog fouling. These orders may force owners to pick up after their dog or require them to carry bags with them at all times. Owners can be issued with a fixed penalty notice and prosecuted.
Whilst this may seem like a minor issue, there can be general health concerns when dog faeces are not appropriately disposed of. Canine faeces are known to carry harmful bacteria and parasites which can spread. Some adverse effects of these parasites and bacteria can cause blindness in humans and pregnant cattle to miscarry.
The other key issue is nuisance barking. Barking is natural and instinctive for dogs. But when they bark over a long period of time, they can become a nuisance. However each case is determined on its own facts will depend on the volume of barking, duration of barking and the time of day it happens.
If a complaint is made to the Council, they will investigate the noise as a potential statutory nuisance. The Council may serve a Noise Abatement Notice and the dog owner has 21 days to appeal. If the barking continues then they may prosecute the dog owner and, if convicted, the offender may be ordered to pay an unlimited fine and the Court may impose a Criminal Behaviour Order.
From April 2016, the law requires all dogs in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to be microchipped, and the owner's details must be registered on one of the authorised databases (such as Petlog). This applies to all dogs and puppies over the age of eight weeks.
Exemptions can be available if a veterinarian believes that there is a valid health reason not to microchip a dog. An exemption certificate will be issued to the owner.
Owners are required to keep their dog's details up-to-date, and if the dog is given to a new owner, the new owner must be given the correct microchip paperwork. Owners caught not registering and microchipping their dog can be faced with a fine.
All dogs must have an appropriate collar and tag with the owner's name and address on it when in a public place, even if your dog is microchipped.
Who takes the dog on separation?
A common issue is what happens to the dog when a couple separates. These cases (known as 'tug-of-love' cases) can be protracted and emotionally stressful.
However these factors are only evidentiary support for ownership. These factors do not necessarily prove absolute ownership. It's now becoming more common for couples to create 'Pet-nup Agreements' which details what should happen to the pet on separation or breakdown of the relationship.
It's important to note that the courts do not have the power to order access to a dog.


Is It Time For Car Dealers To Provide Customers With Online Review Resources?
In my opinion, and based on what most automotive consumer research is showing, the single most important category of information that appears online which will impact the revenue and profits of car dealers in North America in 2013 and 2014 is User Generated Content (UGC). This user published information is in the form of automotive consumer generated reviews, ratings and commentary published about car dealerships.
On Sunday I responded to several comments on a blog posted by Rick Mosca. After spending a few minutes creating and posting my comment, I realized that the topics I described and recommendations made would make for a good ADM Forum discussion. Why? Because I know there are enough ADM Members who disagree with my recommendations to dealers in regards to Reputation Management Strategy and Tactics that a discussion of this topic will have value to the ADM Community... So, let me share what those recommendations are and please do post your comments below either agreeing with, or refuting my recommendations that follow... or simply adding to this very important discussion.
Please take two minutes to watch the video embedded below from the Cobalt/ADP Team titled "Be Smart - Own Your own Stars". The second half of this video is the important part. Last Friday I featured this video on ADM because it is the first time I have seen an organization as strict about their research data based recommendations to car dealers as Cobalt/ADP is, make statements supportive of components within the Reputation Management strategy I have been using with dealers for several years. Admittedly, Cobalt/ADP is recommending that dealers include customer testimonials and reviews within their primary dealership website.
It is more than just intellectually satisfying to agree with the recommendations made in the Cobalt/ADP Reputation Management video regarding dealers taking ownership of the customer reviews that result from their proactive efforts at getting customers to create them... There is a lot of evidence that this is a better approach to a dealer's reputation management strategy that simply relying on Google or any other third party review site... As she says, proactively posting customer reviews solicited by a dealership on Google+ is like buying a house built on rented land!
For several years I have been using the tools provided by DealerRater when a dealer participates in their Certification Program to publish customer reviews within a dealer's website, Facebook Page, Ning Network, Blog sites and everywhere that will take either an RSS feed or the embedding widget supplied by DealerRater. In addition to the great tools that DealerRater provides its Certified Dealers, a recommendation that both myself and many other consultants make is to use an independent dealership review site specifically set up for dealers to collect reviews from their customer while the customer is at the dealership.
The most successful Reputation Management strategy used by many car dealers offers convenience and ease of use to car buyers and service customers. This strategy focuses on encouraging customers to write and post reviews. From an implementation perspective, these dealers make it as easy as possible for each sales and service customer to post their reviews to the review site they feel most comfortable with, are a registered and active user of, or have an affinity with... HOWEVER, the very best Reputation Management dealers have created a customer review and ratings site that the dealership has control over and licenses the dealership to enable customers posting reviews while they are at the dealership.
Dealership Reviews posted by customers who are not physically present at the dealership. This includes customers posting their reviews and ratings from mobile devices, at work and while at home.
Dealership Reviews and customer experience surveys collected from customers while they are physically present at the dealership and the sales or service experience is fresh in their memory and top of mind.
I have seen many ways a dealership makes it super easy for customers who are not at the dealership to respond to an email requesting that they provide a review of their experience at the store. One of the most effective I have seen is the concept of "You Have A Voice" where the dealer or group provides a landing page which explains why reviews are so important for dealership customers to post, and provides easy single click access to the specific review form for that dealership on several review site platforms. This allows the customer to select the icon they are familiar with, or feel an affinity for. It is a great way to get reviews from customers who are active Yelp Community members.
Since Google Reviews first appeared I have frequently said that the one thing we can always count on Google for is to change their algorithms, products, policies and guidelines... They have consistently, since 2000, changed the way anything that is shown to their search engine user appears over and over and over again.
For a dealer to rely on Google as the primary review site they recommend to customers is ludicrous! It has been and has not changed, just more and more people are finally waking up to the reality that Google, more than any other online customer review resource is likely to change the way they display, or do not display customer reviews as an ongoing continuous improvement process... And, Google is seeking improvements that are most certainly NOT intended for the car dealer, but rather these changes are intended to improve their search engine user's experience.
I enjoy using many Google products and find them to be highly useful and effective, but one thing I have learned since I started working with Google over ten years ago... If you are not paying for it (and sometimes even when you are) you do not want to create a process or strategy that is dependent upon Google NOT CHANGING that application or web based resource. Heck, in general, unless a dealer has a PAID LICENSE or some form of fee based ownership, you do not want to place high value assets (such as reviews) in that application as part of your marketing strategy.
Encouraging customers to post reviews while they are in your dealership is reasonable and practical if you are providing them with an easy to use means of posting their reviews to a site the dealership owns or licenses (controls). Asking customers to post reviews while completing a customer experience survey is a business best practice. When those reviews appear on a dealership's website, Facebook Page, Blog site, etc. then that is a great way to get them indexed by Google and ensure maximum eyeballs are on them. I like both PrestoReviews and BusinessRater as tools designed to provide dealership customers with a review site that is independent of the dealer's own website, but which the dealer has licensed and controls. Plus, both dealer review site suppliers encourage "Point Of Sales" Customer Reviews as being the most accurate and timely... Which they are.
The benefits of being able to resolve a customer concern issue before the customer leaves the dealership is, in fact, a competitive advantage for dealers who implement such a process over those that do not.
Why not ask customers to evaluate and document their experience while still fresh in their minds? All the research in this area shows that the highest percentage of reviews per customers served, and the most accurate reviews are when customers are encouraged and supplied with the means of posting them as soon as possible after the goods or services are received... Including new and used cars, as well as repairs and maintenance.
If a site is valuable to consumer users of Google's search engine, then Google will ensure prominent placement of that site in their SERP.
Last August my friends at Rick case Honda in Davie Florida started taking control of their reputation management and switched from encouraging customers to post reviews to DealerRater, Google and Yelp after they left the dealership, to asking customers to complete a customer survey and rate their experience at the dealership using the dealership's new BusinessRater.com review site and account.
So... What do you recommend?
Do you agree with the concept that dealers should have control over the customer reviews they proactively seek from their customers?
Should dealers ask customers to answer a survey and review their experience while they are still at the dealership?
Should dealers send an email to customers with links to the major review sites and ask the customer to choose whichever review site they feel most comfortable using?
1. I agree that dealers should take control with a personally owned site. As a small dealer, is BusinessRater.com the best for that? Or would it be good to create a independent landing page like Lou Fusz?
2.I am OK with customers in the dealership as long as they go to a site that is OK with it....DealerRater is not.
3. We do send a link to a blind page on our website with instructions to fill out the review. I have a template that works pretty good after some tweaking...including giving them permission to NOT do a review if they aren't interested. We encourage Gmail users to use Google+ if they are an active user and non-gmail users to use Dealer Rater.
1. Both, you should create a hosted Wordpress based page like the LouFuszReviews.com site and you should sign up for the most basic of BusinessRater dealer packages. The enhanced packages are what i use for most dealers, but a small volume dealer will benefit from a good ROI by using the basic BusinessRater package. The key is to actually get the reviews posted by your customers!
2. True Statement, that is why both BusinessRater.com and PrestoReviews.com are a far better choice to use for generating both customer survey responses and online reviews for all dealers, regardless of size.
"If you are currently a Yelp registered member, we encourage you to use this link to Yelp and share your experience doing business at Hawkins with other Yelpers. Thank you."
One of the biggest eye openers for me over the past few years is that we have found that when a customer posts a review while they are at the dealership, they are 300% more likely to respond to the email sent to them asking for a review on a third party review site... It almost seems like since they already did a review, doing another one is easier, or maybe they just realize how important it is because we asked to do one at the dealership... I dunno what the psychological effect is, but i know that asking customers to do reviews while they are at the dealership creates far more customers who post additional content about the dealership online.
1. For the in-house reviews, would it be good to have an iPad for them to use? I would guess that the wi-fi one is good enough for this purpose.
2. With the hosted WordPress account, how do you get them to post there? You set up the blog and have them post directly or does the businessrater.com push them there? Just curious. Lou Fusz is just a referral page like mine.
Excellent information Ralph. Thank you.
Ralph - as always, you cover a compelling topic with great detail. In an era that sees customers inundated with multiple contacts from the salesperson, dealership, manufacturer, and often third party, pestering them for a positive review should probably be handled with kid gloves.
BIG *BUT* - dealers had better have a customer-centric mentality from the top down for EVERY interaction in the store to earn the right to ask. Even with my extensive experience at a top CSI store, we still made many mistakes in sales and service, but HOW we handled them - and trained AND empowered our people to both recognize and correct them made a world of difference and often earned more loyalty than just a great experience.
I have experienced so many dealerships paying hollow lip service to genuine guest care and using underpaid and burned out staff to serve high prices with a sub-par experience that none of these review strategies could even dent.
"Mrs. Rodriguez, thank you so very much for your business and congratulations on your new car. As we have mentioned several times during your visit today, the entire team here at Rick Case Honda is very focused on ensuring that we treat people well and are able to be your choice for a car dealership for many years to come. One of the tools we use which is so important to our efforts at always improving our customer service is a fairly short survey and a customer review system. I would like to ask you to take a few minutes to rate your experience today, while I get the documents prepared with our Business Manager so we can complete the process. You can use this iPad and I will leave you alone so you can feel free to answer all the questions as truthfully as possible. Our General Manager, my boss, will be reviewing your answers and comments so he can use your input in our continuous improvement mission. Thank you so very much, I will go get the paperwork prepared and if you have any questions about the survey or the review of your experience here today, you can ask Richard right over there at the manager desk. Thank you again for doing this, it really does help us give you better service."
I bet you already know where I'm going to disagree with you, but I want to say THANK YOU for continuing the discussion.
Last year at this time, the newly minted Reputation Management Experts, Ninjas and Gurus were all worked up over collecting as many Google Reviews as possible through any means necessary. Review Stations and Ipad collection strategies were touted as Best Practices. Some went so far as to literally buy reviews from a plethora of boosting companies that were here for a quick buck. The end result of implementing process to control the outcome was Aug of 2012 when those efforts earned the industry a black eye as Google singled out the automotive vertical for "Spammy Reviews." Fast forward to Jan. 2013... and we are still trying to control the consumer's behavior instead of creating experiences they can't help but share?
Let me be as blunt as possible. I think in Jan of 2014, if not a whole lot sooner, we'll be talking about how bad of an idea it was to try to pass content filtered through editorial privilege off as equivalent to a 3rd party review.
OWNED STARS are nothing more than ADVERTISING to your unsold prospects. Trust of advertising has declined according to Nielsen presumably with the rise of UGC. The sole reason that 3rd party reviews are effective is because they are 3rd party. It is obvious to the consumer that the property hosting the reviews is NOT the property the reviews are written about. True 3rd party reviews are "what the consumer says about me" and that simply can't be delivered on a site where you clearly own editorial privilege. The true cost of controlling the content is the consumer's perception of the credibility of the review. What you say about you doesn't impress them.
Imagine for a moment that OEM's stopped courting JD Powers for those coveted awards for Initial Quality. How do you suppose a consumer would react to Chevrolet giving the Malibu Best of Class and Highest in Initial Quality according to Chevrolet? "Trust us, we looked at all the rest of the models and this Malibu wins." Offering reviews you've collected and control to your customer as evidence they should do business with you is a lot like that. Of course the reviews of your business on your own website are going to be positive! So what happens when the consumer immediately ignores all that content as biased and checks some 3rd party review sites?
Put on your consumer hat for a minute here. What products or services do you buy because they tell you they are the best? Every industry has a 3rd party verification of claims because consumers demand them.
The control that a dealer has over their reviews is the product and service that they supply to the customer. Honestly, I think the industry has its eye on the wrong ball here. We are still trying to control an outcome instead of controlling our customer's experience with our brand.
I've never been a fan of in store collection. There is already a lot written about that here. I think it skews the content to focus on quantity over quality. 5 words and 5 stars isn't a review that an unsold prospect will find compelling. You don't need or want EVERY customer writing a review. You'll lose the truly impactful ones in the white noise you created.
Let me try to close this long post.
The key to Good Reviews will always be GREAT Service! In the end any process focused on an artificial result will fail. If they aren't as happy a week after the sale as they were before going into finance then I personally think you're fighting a losing battle for your reputation.
Ryan, I respect your opinion, but you already know that... The fact that we disagree on this issue of in-dealership executed reviews is a valid enough reason for dealers to consider both methodologies. If you are right about the future, I will stand corrected, but in the meantime the dealers that i see generating the most effective UGC enhanced reputation management results are, in fact, those dealers which have a customer centric perspective that showcases their process in obtaining the customer's perspective in the form of a survey and review of their experience at the dealership WHILE THE CUSTOMER IS PHYSICALLY PRESENT AT THE DEALERSHIP LOCATION. I am not ignorant of the potential for abuse or the requirement for proper execution, but when done correctly and in addition to the offsite reputation management tactics, such as using DealerRater, this combination is effective in generating business results and constructive, valid and relevant feedback to the dealership management team on the first day it is executed. Let's face reality, we work in a business vertical that has little patience for strategies or process that requires longer than 30 days for the ROI to be measurable.
In 1998 I experienced an overwhelming response to dealership reviews by using DealerRater Certification at Ford of Kirkland in WA... At the time, there were less than 100 total DealerRater Certified dealerships in North America. Today, I believe your certified dealerships are in the thousands. There is no doubt in my mind that DealerRater Certification should be part of a dealership's overall reputation management strategy. But, there are now more and more dealers, marketing practitioners and service providers (such as Cobalt) that have jumped on board the recommendation I have been making for several years... Dealers should OWN A WEBSITE WHERE THEIR REVIEWS AND TESTIMONIALS ARE WIDELY AVAILABLE AND CONTROLLED BY THE DEALERSHIP that I believe my recommendations around incorporating the review generation processes within the dealership's onsite engagement with customers will become more and more widely used over time. Why? Because it works!
To say that dealerships are not ethical enough or prudent enough to be responsible for in dealership review generation processes feels very insulting to me and I am sure to people who work in this business. The fact is that car dealerships are exactly the opposite of public perception. They are far more likely to do "the right thing" regardless of legal requirements and operate far more ethically than most retail business operations. The customer will be the ones to determine whether reviews collected at a dealership are valid or worthy of consideration, not you, me or anyone else on this side of the retail divide.
We will again agree to disagree on this one. I do think it is worth mentioning that dealers should fully read and comply with any 3rd party review site's TOS that they choose to target. For DealerRater to insure the authenticity of our content it is necessary to restrict the location. Please don't see that as a distrust of dealers, it actually has more to do with protecting the data from a single content contributor, whether negative or positive, that would skew the ratings. Often times that doesn't come up, but the policy serves to protect dealers from a single "crazy person" loading lots of negative content from a single location too. We don't delete any reviews that meet our TOS, never have, but that forces us to enforce our TOS reliably.
This may deserve its own post, but speaks to the idea of monitoring changes in TOS. Mike Blumenthal observed yet another change to Google's TOS today that prohibits contests and drawings as a means of review collection.
Here is a history or the guideline as it changed over time (relevant sentence in bold italics).
Original Guideline: Reviews are only valuable when they are honest and unbiased. Even if well-intentioned, a conflict of interest can undermine the trust in a review. In addition, we do not accept reviews written for money or other incentives. Please also do not post reviews on behalf of others or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with the place you are reviewing.
February of 2011 change: Reviews are only valuable when they are honest and unbiased. Even if well-intentioned, a conflict of interest can undermine the trust in a review. For instance, do not offer or accept money or product to write positive reviews about a business, or to write negative reviews about a competitor. Please also do not post reviews on behalf of others or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with the place you are reviewing.
Current guideline (date of change unsure but possibly at the same time as the review station prohibition): Reviews are only valuable when they are honest and unbiased. For instance, as a business owner or employee you should not review your own business or current place of work. Don't offer money or product to others to write reviews for your business or write negative reviews about a competitor. We also discourage specialized review stations or kiosks set up at your place of business for the sole purpose of soliciting reviews. As a reviewer, you should not accept money or product from a business to write a review about them. Additionally, don't feel compelled to review a certain way just because an employee of that business asked you to do so. Finally, don't post reviews on behalf of others or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with the place you are reviewing.
Ralph, this is a great article and I applaud you for encouraging dealers to be proactive on a subject that is so important. I love almost everything I see in this post except one. Like Ryan Leslie, I do not agree that dealers should have or should want to have control over their reviews.
I agree with Ryan that control turns the reviews into advertising rather than an objective third-party review customers are seeking. It erodes the trust we are attempting to build.
Numbers of reviews are important but only to a point. What's equally or more important are relevancy and whether your reviews are current. According to the Cobalt report you quoted, customers tend to stick to reviews that are less than 6 months old. And the want to read real stories about a customers experience.
iPads, in-house reviews... I won't go on because Ryan stated it very well on his own.
Tom, I understand your perspective and the point you are making... That is why i like BusinessRater.com because the amount of control a dealer has over the review moderation process is tempered and balanced by their automated processes which only allow a dealer a limited amount of "raising objections" to a negative review... Dealerships with a high percentage of negative reviews will not be able to prevent them from going live. This in turn provides the kind of credibility and incentive for dealers with systemic problems to fix those problems while allowing for the dealer to block the employee's ex-spouse, disgruntled former employees, the odd ball nut case that we all wish we had never sold a car to, etc.
I am not saying that such a process is perfect or that there is not room for improvement. I am certain there may be better ways to "won your own reviews", but I do agree with the idea that a dealer-focused 3rd party review site provider like PrestoReviews or BusinessRater is a great alternative to purely posting reviews that the dealer selects to appear on that dealer's website. Heck, even DealerRater filters which reviews go live on their widget application for display on the dealer's facebook page and websites to prevent negative reviews from appearing. So, unless that has changed, it seems somewhat disingenuous for anyone from DealerRater to object in principle to the concept of filtering reviews which appear on a dealer's owned websites.
DealerRater filters which reviews go live on their widget application for display on the dealer's facebook page and websites to prevent negative reviews from appearing. So, unless that has changed, it seems somewhat disingenuous for anyone from DealerRater to object in principle to the concept of filtering reviews which appear on a dealer's owned websites.
Agreed Ralph. What you market should be a relatively small portion of your total history of review content. We actually go a bit further than that, you need to be selective of the positive reviews you display through that feed too.Put your best foot forward.
...but when the customer chooses to dive deeper than just that small selection of reviews you are marketing on the source site they will expect to find more than just marketing.


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Stoneville is a town in Rockingham County, North Carolina, United States. Stoneville is part of the Greensboro–High Point metropolitan area of the Piedmont Triad. On March 20th, 1998, an EF-3 tornado touched down in neighboring Madison and Mayodan after the system had crossed into Rockingham County from Stokes County. Then, it strengthened into a EF-3 as it crossed Route 220 as it followed the train tracks to downtown Stoneville.

History
Settlers came to the ridge between the Mayo and Dan rivers in the northwest Piedmont region in the early 1800s. In 1827, the Deep Springs Plantation was built for James Madison Scales and his wife Elizabeth Lesuer in what is now Stoneville. In 1843 the R.H. Lewis Tobacco company was established in the south side of the land that was to become the town of Stoneville. In the late 1850s, brothers Thomas and Pinkney Stone bought land in the area. On March 5, 1877, the town was officially incorporated. A natural stop on the Norfolk-Western rail line, Stoneville became the trade hub for the surrounding localities and profited off of tobacco, cotton and grist-milling industries.

On March 20, 1998, Stoneville was struck by an F3 tornado. It caused severe damage to commercial structures in the town's main business district along Henry Street, destroyed the railway depot, and killed one person in the town. Several buildings in the downtown were completely removed, and most cleanup and repair work was done within a year. The town later built Friendship Park and painted a mural at the site of a destroyed store to commemorate the victim killed in the town and a farmer killed further west in the county.

Geography

Stoneville is located at  (36.465836, -79.906342).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land.

Demographics

2020 census

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 1,308 people, 474 households, and 374 families residing in the town.

2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 1,056 people, 469 households, and 292 families residing in the town. The population density was 820.4 people per square mile (317.1/km). There were 518 housing units at an average density of 424.1 per square mile (163.9/km). The racial makeup of the town was 77.64% White, 19.26% African American, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 2.10% from other races, and 0.90% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.59% of the population.

There were 469 households, out of which 20.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.3% were married couples living together, 11.9% had a female householder with no husband present, and 37.7% were non-families. 35.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 20.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.13 and the average family size was 2.73.

In the town, the population was spread out, with 20.0% under the age of 18, 5.8% from 18 to 24, 24.8% from 25 to 44, 25.9% from 45 to 64, and 23.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females, there were 83.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.0 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $28,313, and the median income for a family was $39,375. Males had a median income of $26,167 versus $21,354 for females. The per capita income for the town was $17,255. About 8.2% of families and 12.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 17.0% of those under age 18 and 20.9% of those age 65 or over.

Attractions
 Deep Springs Plantation
 Mulberry Island Plantation
 Rockingham County NC Shiloh Airport

Notable people
 Beth Mitchell (1972-1998), competitive shag dancer
 J.J. Webster (1898-1965) - farmer, businessman, politician
 Jeff Webster (born 1966) - checkers champion
 John Ray Webster (born 1942) - checkers champion
 T. Clarence Stone (1899–1969) - politician and businessman
 William F. Stone (1909-1973) - lawyer and politician
 Tabitha Brown (born 1979) - actress and social media personality

References

External links

 The Madison Messenger, the area's community newspaper
 Stoneville's devastating tornado of March 20, 1998

Towns in Rockingham County, North Carolina
Towns in North Carolina

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Money is a common worry, inside the open source community and out, but we often feel uncomfortable talking about it. This session will address those reservations and push past them.
We'll begin by placing this discussion of money in its psychological and cultural context. Why do we believe that paying people more might make them care less about their work? How does the ethos of "for the greater good" intersect with gender and other kinds of socialization? Who benefits from our taboos about money, and who is disadvantaged by them?
The heart of the talk will be a series of case studies based on research and interviews with project leaders and contributors. We'll go over various economic models for open source, including worker co-ops, grant-funded and academic projects, for-profit business models, crowdfunding campaigns, and all-volunteer projects. We'll explore benefits and disadvantages of each model, paying attention both to financial sustainability and to the way that projects deal with the psychological and cultural pressures outlined in the first part of the talk.
It'll take a lot more than a single conference presentation to address these issues in a meaningful way, but hopefully this talk will spark some discussion on this critical topic.


Today's song is "Say It" by Britt Nicole, which I think is very fitting for the new year.
How many times have you said "Tomorrow"? Or "Later"? And how many times has that "Tomorrow" or "Later" become next week, next month, next year?
Time to stop waiting. YOU have so much to discover, YOU have a hand that you could lend another, YOU have a word that could bring some healing. Open your eyes, see the beauty, let it move you.
Excuses die today, because before you know it, it's gonna be 2013, 2014, 2020, 2030... then it's gonna be too late.
I am seventeen years old, and I love your blog! Please let God continue to use you to help people find and grow close to God.
Have a blessed day and Happy New Years!


The Black Diamond Carbon Whippet lends a new level of packability.
It is common knowledge that walking poles are a great way to protect the knees and back when hiking. Weight can be transferred through the arms to the poles which offloads and shifts the center of mass away from tired joints. Walking poles are especially useful when hiking downhill with a heavy pack. The Black Diamond Whippet is a well constructed hiking pole, plus it features a miniature ice axe head in the handle. This pole was originally designed for backcountry skiers on steep descents, but we have found the Whippet to be equally as useful in sheep country. Whether it comes in handy stopping a slide after a fall or gives you that extra reach when climbing a cliff during a stalk the Whippet will always have your back.


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Shell Says It Will Cease Alaska Offshore Arctic Drilling
KNKX Public Radio | By The Associated Press
The oil drilling rig Polar Pioneer is towed toward a dock Thursday, May 14, 2015, in Elliott Bay in Seattle.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it's ceasing exploration in offshore Alaska for the foreseeable future.The company says an exploratory well drilled to 6,800 feet found oil and gas but not in sufficient quantities.
Shell USA President Marvin Odum says in an announcement early Monday in The Netherlands that it's a disappointing outcome for that part of the Chukchi Sea basin. Shell drilled in 150 feet of water about 80 miles off Alaska's northwest coast.The exploratory well was the first in the Chukchi in 24 years.
Environmental groups oppose Arctic offshore drilling and say industrial activity and more greenhouse gases will harm polar bears, walrus and ice seals.
Over the summer, protesters in kayaks unsuccessfully tried to block Arctic-bound Shell vessels in Seattle and Portland, Oregon.
Shell has spent about $7 billion on Arctic offshore development on the hope that there would be deposits worth pursuing.
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A couple days back we covered that ASUS was going to launch a new series of laptop in China under the "Adol" branding and so they did it today, at the starting price of 3499 Yuan, around $500.
The ASUS Adol laptops are available in three versions: with an Intel i3-8130U CPU, an Intel i5-8250U and the top variant with an Intel i7-8550U; all of them coupled with 8GB of LPDDR3 RAM, that is not expandable, and 256GB of SSD storage (M.2). The most surprising part is on the GPU side though. In fact, of the three models, only one of them comes with an Nvidia MX150 discrete GPU, the Intel i5-8250U powered version – yes, you read that correctly. Both the i3-8130U CPU and i7-8550U variants instead come with Intel's integrated UHD Graphics 620.
As we mentioned the other day, this new series comes with 13.3-inch screens sporting Full HD resolution and ultra-thin 4.3mm bezels around it, allowing the display to make up for 90% of the front panel. That comes with a drawback though because, as far as we can tell, laptops do not feature any webcam at all, either below the display or down on the keyboard; definitely a weird choice.
Other specs in the ASUS Adol series include full metal body for a total weight of 1.25kg and a thickness of 17.99mm. There's an "ErgoLift" system that lets the laptop rise up by 2.47 degrees when the lid is open, this will both provide a better typing experience as well as help dissipating more heat. We then find a backlit keyboard with 1.4mm key travel, a fingerprint scanner, SonicMaster speakers, two USB 2.0/3.0 ports, TYPE-C, HDMI, a 3.5mm audio jack and a Micro SD card reader.
Finally, battery life is expected to be around 12 hours, at least for the Intel i3-8130U, while they can charge to up to 60% in just 49 minutes.
So, we know that the i3 version is around $500, but what about the others? Well, the Intel i5-8250U + Nvidia MX150 variant is priced 4999 Yuan ($730), while the i7-8550U option (without discrete graphics) costs just a little more at 5299 Yuan, which is about $770.
All things considered, pricing isn't too bad as the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro with Intel i5-8250U + Nvidia MX150 currently sells for around $800 (at least for non China residents). What do you guys think?
Prices will be much higher for international customers, I would expect 900 USD+.
Exactly my thoughts, especially after my last ASUS laptop review… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P523zzforPI They are using a new brand for damage control just in case.
yeah, the pricing seems a little high despite the light weight and good battery life.
Then again, maybe they have better QA/testing or build quality? We usually don't get visibility into how long lasting a device is.
The build quality of my Jumper EZBook 3L Pro is not outstanding but it is ok. It's very lightweight for a 14 inch laptop and I have been using it daily for the past six months without any issues. Except for the screen, (TN panel) which is reasonably bright but not okay on its vertical viewing angles, I could not complain. I paid less than half the price of this Asus. Granted it is not a core i3, but internet browsing and office apps works reasonably well even though it's got only a SanDisk DF4064 eMMC. I bought this because of the positive review Chris and because of TechTablets. No regrets.
i3 version for 500 is too much in my opinion!
Competition is running fast, Xaomi have to make some move if they want to survive….
No new for an European launch ?


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19.11.2005 Regional News
Rekindle self-help spirit -DCE
By GNA
Brakwa (C/R), Nov. 19, GNA - The District Chief Executive for Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa, Mr Emmanuel Adjei Domson has urged people in the rural area to rekindle their self-help spirit to support government programmes to improve their living conditions. He said since the national cake is not adequate to meet the demands of the nation.
It is imperative that they mobilise resources from their respective communities to supplement the little the government can offer.
Mr. Domson was addressing chief, queenmothers, elders, stakeholders, teachers and pupil in Brakwa as part of his one week-long formalisation tour of the district to acquaint himself of the problems facing the communities.
He appeal to them to bury their differences and come together to help promote unity towards accelerated growth, adding that his good intentions for the district would help promote considerable socio-economic development to alleviate poverty among the people. He announced that the assembly have received an amount of 500 million cedis as its share of Poverty Alleviation fund adding, "the... amount will be used to support the youth to go into cassava and chillies farming as financial booster".
Mr Domson assured them of the assembly's preparedness to rehabilitate the market in the town to a modern status to increase income for the farmers and traders.
He presented three twenty-nine inch television sets and 1,200 exercise books to the school in the town to enhance the distance education programme initiated by the President and refuse container. Mr. Domson disclosed that the District Assembly has set aside an amount of seven million cedis to sponsor one person from the town to attend nursing training and come back to help in health care delivery. Mr Kwame Asiedu, the assemblyman of the area, who chaired the function, thanked the DCE for the visit and promised that he and the elders of the town, will monitor the use of the items given them to prolong their life span.
He appealed to the government to rehabilitate the road from Brakwa to Odoben to improve free movement of goods and services to the market centres.


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Complaint to Ofcom Regarding "The Great Global Warming Swindle"
Appendix C: Backgrounds of the Contributors to the Programme
Patrick Moore was billed as "Co-founder, Greenpeace". However, it was not mentioned that the other founders of Greenpeace dispute his claim, although, they say that he did go on the first Greenpeace voyage (see http://tinyurl.com/ 24upfo). His rather compromised credentials as an environmentalist were also not mentioned.
His current activities as a paid lobbyist for and consultant to, the nuclear energy, mining, biotechnology and logging industries were not disclosed by the Channel 4 programme.
Moore has dismissed concerns about the impacts of logging, mining and forest clearance for agriculture on the Amazonian rainforests (see http://tinyurl.com/ 2dtady).
In 1976, Moore called nuclear power plants "the most dangerous devices that man has ever created. Their construction and proliferation is the most irresponsible, in fact the most criminal, act ever to have taken place on this planet." In 2006, Moore became co-chair (with Christine Todd Whitman) of a new industry-funded initiative, the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, which supports increased use of nuclear energy (see http://tinyurl.com/ytxeyn).
See also http://tinyurl.com/2nlbet.
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Direct Corporate Funding
In 1991 he established a consultancy business, Greenspirit Enterprises, through which he has worked for the mining industry, the logging industry, PVC manufacturers and in defence of biotechnology (see http://tinyurl.com/ynmrrw).
Links to Corporate-funded Lobby Groups
In 1991 he became a member of the Board of Directors of the timber industry–created Forest Alliance of B.C. (see http://tinyurl.com/2dtady).
In 1991 Moore was appointed as Director of the British Columbia Forest Alliance which was described by O'Dwyer's PR Services Report, as "a Burson-Marsteller–created group, bankrolled by large timber companies, [which] is waging a PR war with environmentalists upset with the logging of rainforests in western Canada" (see http://tinyurl.com/2dtady).
Since 2006 he has been a consultant to the Nuclear Energy Institute front group, the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition. Moore is also listed as an honorary member of Environmentalists for Nuclear Power – USA and the Honorary Chair of Environmentalists for Nuclear Power – Canada. (see http://tinyurl.com/ 2cy3jv).
Nigel Calder
The programme relied extensively on interviews with Nigel Calder, a science journalist. The Channel 4 programme billed him as "former Editor, New Scientist", but this billing gives a very misleading impression: first because he was only editor between 1962 and 1966, more than 20 years before global warming became a major public issue; and also because the New Scientist is a popular magazine and not a peer-reviewed journal, a fact that viewers may not have been aware of. It should also have been mentioned that some of his press articles on climate change have been shown to be highly misleading by mainstream climatologists, e.g. see http://tinyurl.com/2klpu6.
Calder is not an active research scientist, and has had only one peer-reviewed scientific article on climate change, published, in 1974 (ISI WoS).
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FAILURE TO CLOSE THE DEAL!
In a world with digital this and digital that, people have become somewhat blinded by all the options they now have when it comes to not only jobs and careers but just about everything else in life that is offered in the digital realm. The digital realm has created in many cases a seamless process for researching and buying just about anything you could ever need without much human interaction. There are some exceptions to this and one of them is hiring. Employers traditionally won't ever hire anybody that they either haven't met face to face either through an in-person interview or through some type of video conference period! In 20 years I don't think I've ever seen a hire made without some type of face to face interaction taking place.
That being said if you meet with someone before you hire them, why does the trucking industry as a whole have such a low applicant to hire ratio? In most cases it is not your leads, the Driver shortage or a multitude of other things that you might think. When someone goes through the entire orientation process, passes backgrounds and you never hear from them again it is for one reason and only one reason, FAILURE TO CLOSE THE DEAL!
You might be thinking well "I'm not a salesman" so how does this apply to me? Well, it doesn't matter if you are a salesman or not, someone is always selling someone in this world. You are either selling the candidate on why he or she should come work for your company or he or she is selling you on why they won't! Which in this case means never hearing from them again after the initial process.
So, how do you spend more time closing hires and what are some steps you can take?
– Focus on bonding and connecting with the potential hire. People want to feel a sense of belonging and being a part of something, they want to feel "taken care of". If you can't accomplish this in the first 5 minutes of the interview, the interview is essentially over no matter what you might think.
– Back up words with actions in the second part of the interview, show the potential hire you mean what you say.
– Offer perks to seal the deal!
– Lastly and most important- Closing a deal simply is not allowing them to say no. Ask questions like, what do we need to do to get you started with us today? What do you need from me or what do you need to hear from me for you to join us? Once you get the commitment, let them know you are depending on them to start when they say they will and you look forward to having them join the team.
Now go out and close some hires!
Posted in Employer Recruitment & Retention and tagged class a truck driver jobs, hiring truck drivers, Trucking.


Loft Sitting Area—Perfect Retreat for Teens In Your Group!
Many Blue Ridge cabin rentals feature spectacular breath-taking views, comfortable rustic décor, close proximity to Blue Ridge, GA and adventurous activities, as well as luxurious amenities that you expect, but not all of them offer all those things plus the space to accommodate 10 guests. At Outlaw Ridge, a luxurious 5 bedroom/5.5 bath Toccoa River cabin rental in the North GA mountains, not only will you enjoy spacious accommodations, but the lofty views of the winding white waters of the Toccoa River against the backdrop of the Blue Ridge mountains will thrill and delight you. Perched high on a ridge, Outlaw Ridge boasts million dollar views of the North GA mountains and the Toccoa River below.
Accommodating 10 guests in 5 spacious bedrooms with private en suite bathrooms, this luxury Blue Ridge cabin rental is ideal for family reunions, business retreats, or even a romantic rendezvous for two. For those seeking peace and serenity or excitement and adventure, Outlaw Ridge is ideally situated in a private community just 9 miles from downtown Blue Ridge, GA and 30 minutes from the Ocoee Whitewater Center where you can enjoy hiking, biking, whitewater rafting, and more.
As you explore the grounds of this luxury Blue Ridge cabin above the Toccoa River, you will discover a 200-foot staircase or a private hiking/walking path that will take you all the way down the mountain to the railroad tracks so you can watch the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway go by, and then to the edge of the Toccoa River where you can enjoy 650 feet of river frontage property. Take a picnic down to the river and find a picnic table, a gazebo, and a fire pit. Enjoy trout fishing right where the Cherokee Indians built their rock fish trap. If you put a tube in at the property, you will float northward into McCaysville, GA where you can take out at any spot. It's an easy 10 minute drive into McCaysville for someone to pick you up, and while you're there, enjoy casual dining and outdoor cafes.
At the end of an exhilarating day of adventurous exploring, commune together in the kitchen and living area, sipping wine and preparing a delectable meal with open french doors to the fresh mountain air. Come together in the cathedral-ceiling living area w/ the two-story prow windows and massive stone wood-burning fireplace to relax with family and friends. Or step outside and keep the grill master company while sitting at a custom-made spool table w/ tall bar stools. The views are spectacular and memorable from this vantage point!
For evening entertainment head downstairs to the terrace level and enjoy a friendly game of ping pong, or sink into the leather reclining movie chairs and watch your favorite movie. For those who want to soak in the hot tub, just step outside, lose yourself in total relaxation, and savor the Blue Ridge mountain views.
When it's time to turn in for the night, you will find restful repose in your own private bedroom and en suite bath. Sinking into luxurious sheets and pillow-top mattresses, you will have the best sleep you've had in a long time.
Ideal for business retreats or family reunions, Outlaw Ridge is located next door to Riverview Lodge and down the hill to Fallen Timber Lodge, both offering the same floor plan. Less than ¼ mile down the road is Mayfly Lodge & Treehouse and A Rolling River Cabin.
Outlaw Ridge is sure to please even the most discerning vacationer with incomparable luxury and views that are truly awe-inspiring. No expense has been spared in this luxurious Toccoa River cabin rental, and we know that you will have found your home-away-from-home once you've stayed here.
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Home More News Anthony's Restaurants to Open Woody's Take-out Bar at the Port of Everett on May 4; Port Opens New Commodore Plaza in South Docks
Anthony's Restaurants to Open Woody's Take-out Bar at the Port of Everett on May 4; Port Opens New Commodore Plaza in South Docks
Everett, Wash. – A new dining option at the Port of Everett is making access to fresh seafood even better. On Saturday, May 4, Port tenant Anthony's Restaurants is opening Woody's, a walk-up window adjoining its Woodfire Grill location and the Port's new Commodore Plaza in the South Docks.
Woody's will serve up a select variety of quick bites to waterfront guests Friday – Sunday, 11:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. Crispy panko wild Alaska true cod 'n chips, Dungeness Crab and Oregon coast shrimp toast, smoked salmon chowder and Bering Sea cod burger are among the menu options. Click here to view the menu.
"What a welcome addition to the waterfront," Port of Everett Commissioner Tom Stiger said. "As a boater myself, it's nice to have an alternative to dining in when I want to grab something quick and get out on the water, but boater or not, this is something visitors have wanted for some time. And what better timing than with the opening of Commodore Plaza."
The walk-up feature was prompted by the Port's recent investment to create Commodore Plaza east of the restaurant. Plaza construction wrapped up in April, transforming the area into a community space with grassy areas and hardscapes. The open layout was designed to accommodate small gatherings and events. The Plaza, named to honor the Port's yachting and naval community, is one of three new public spaces recently completed by the Port as part of its Waterfront Place Central development. The other two projects include four new kite shelters; two at Boxcar Park in the Central Docks and two at Jetty Landing in the North Docks featuring colorful sail cloths over picnic tables at water's edge.
"We are so excited to be able to offer our guests and those in the nearby boating community another avenue to experience our fresh, Pacific Northwest fare through Woody's," said Dakin Wanquist, General Manager of Anthony's Woodfire Grill and Woody's. "We will plan on serving a number of our classic Anthony's Woodfire Grill items in quick, grab-and-go style to make it easy for those who are looking to take a picnic lunch down to the marina or to take back onto their boats for dinner! We are so grateful to the Port of Everett for all of their support and continued partnership throughout the years and are very excited to introduce Woody's to the residents in Everett!"
Anthony's Woodfire Grill is also undergoing renovation of its exterior deck that overlooks the Marina, anticipated for completion this spring. Last summer the restaurant interior got a refresh as well, including a menu re-design, new bar, updated dining room finishes and an additional dining room fireplace.


Gavin Kastner is no stranger to injury and the healing process. Sense his birth in 1986 he has broken five different bones; leg, forearm, wrist, neck, and collarbone. He has undergone two major surgeries, one that put a screw in his wrist and another the put nine screws and a metal plate on his collarbone. He has had issues with his knees dislocating and with instability and dislocation in his shoulders as well. All these different afflictions have given him the opportunity to become closely acquainted with the healing process, to experience the healing power of therapeutic touch, and of self care.
Gavin became certified in massage therapy from Apollo College in 2009. Over the next few years he continued to train with the Upledger institute in CranioSacral therapy. He finished a year long intuitive clairvoyant training in 2013. He uses this intuition to tune in to his clients so that he can more effectively offer them what they need.


Smoke the Cigars that were once smoked exclusively by Fidel Castro and high level Cuban communist party officials! After 1982, you no longer have to be a foreign diplomat to bring one of these babies back from Cuba. So go ahead! Smoke a pop-cult icon that is truly worthy of its fame!


Art and Other Tactics: Contemporary Craft by Artist Veterans is opening this weekend at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles. Art and Other Tactics is curated by Craft in America Center Director Emily Zaiden.
Curator and Craft in America Center Director Emily Zaiden will be giving a free exhibition walk through on Sunday, June 28, 2015, 3pm at the Craft and Folk Art Museum.
Mark your calendars for our Veterans History Project Workshop on June 20, 2015 at 10:30am. Learn how to record the stories of American war veterans for the Veterans History Project, a project of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.


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Top leader holds phone talks with new Secretary General of Lao People's Revolutionary Party Party General Secretary and State President Nguyễn Phú Trọng held phone talks with the newly-elected General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee Thongloun Sisoulith on January 16.
IBM appoints Phạm Thị Thu Diệp to lead IBM Vietnam IBM has appointed Phạm Thị Thu Diệp as Country General Manager of IBM Vietnam. Diệp is the first female leader to take over the senior leadership role in the subsidiary's 25 years in the country.
In the interview with Vietnam News Agency, Minister and Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tiến Dũng reflects on the work and challenges the Government has faced in the past five years ahead the National Party Conference as his current Government term comes to an end.
PVPower to divest entirely from eight affiliates PetroVietnam Power Corporation has announced plans to divest from several of its member units, including eight subsidiaries it wants to sell its entire stake in, according to a statement from the Board of Directors.
SSI sweeps Asiamoney Brokers Poll awards SSI Securities Corporation has won 31 out of 32 awards honouring organisations and individuals in the financial and securities sector in Việt Nam at the 2020 Asiamoney Brokers Poll Awards.
Agricultural exports set to join more global value chains as new FTAs take effect
Vietnamese farm produce exporters are expected to benefit from increased participation in global value chains as a result of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the UK-Việt Nam Free Trade Agreement (UKVFTA), speakers said yesterday at a conference in HCM City.
Exporters complain as cost for containers skyrockets During the last three months, the cost to hire a 40-foot container increased to US$8,000, even to $10,000 in certain cases, from less than $1,000 at the beginning of 2020. It has sharply driven up expenses for exporters and raised concerns over a lack of transparency and inadequate price management of containers, said businesses during a meeting in Hà Nội with the Vietnam Maritime Administration (VMA).
Việt Nam-India film about retired boxer opens nationwide today
The HCM City-based Ánh Sao Production today presents a new movie, Sám Hối (The Living Sandbag), a Việt Nam-India co-production, at cinemas across the country.
Ministry aims to secure stable electricity supply for 870,000 households in rural, mountainous, island areas The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) has announced ambitious plans to ensure 870,000 households in rural, mountainous and island areas have a stable electricity connection by 2025.
Market ends mixed, VN-Index recovers from morning loss The benchmark edged higher on Thursday on the back of banking and real estate stocks, recovering from the morning session loss, while the HXN-Index ended lower.
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