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A couple days ago we posted a brilliant idea for saving a troubled business venture that planned to turn The Norwegian Star cruise ship into a floating hotel for the B.C. Winter Olympics: Drop the nightly room price to the cost of a decent metal show ($20), keep the bars open 24-7, change the entertainment to non-stop live metal, and bill it as "The Immovable Fuck-the-Olympics Metal Cruise."
Well, those fuckheads promoting the floating hotel idea at "Newwest Special Projects" just wouldn't listen. From The New York Times, dateline February 2:
Vancouver's Floating Hotel Pulls the Plug
Hundreds of visitors to the Olympic games in Vancouver are scrambling to find alternative accommodations following the last minute cancellation of a plan to use a cruise ship as a floating hotel.
Newwest Special Projects, a subsidiary of a travel agency based in Edmonton, Alberta, said in a statement late Tuesday that it has abandoned its much publicized plan, "due to slower than expected sales along with expenses associated with the charter that were higher than anticipated." . . .
Exactly how many people are affected is not clear. Last year, Newwest said that the ship, the Norwegian Star, has 1,119 staterooms which it hoped to fill with 8,960 guests over the run of the Games. Some Canadian news reports indicated that about 1,000 people had made bookings. . . . The Toronto Star reported on Wednesday that the disappointed include 11 seriously ill children who were booked into the hotel by Make A Wish foundations in the United States, Canada and Australia. . . .
Because of a lack of space at Vancouver's cruise ship terminal, the plan was to dock the Norwegian Star at a commercial port across the Burrard Inlet in suburban North Vancouver, otherwise best known for holding large, yellow piles of sulfur.
We have no doubt that some really astute business whiz could have found a few flaws in our proposal for converting the floating-hotel-thing into an immovable extreme metal show. But really, how could it have been any worse than this reality? Docking the ship at a port best known for storing big piles of sulfur? Stranding 11 seriously ill children?
All together now, repeat after me. If we all say it at the same time and say it really loud, maybe the geniuses at Newwest Special Projects will hear us:
FUUUUUUCK YOOOUUUUUUU!!!
Posted by Islander at 7:19 am Tagged with: Newwest Special Projects, Norwegian Star, Olympics
Yesterday we imagined the questions we'll be asking when that disaster-waiting-to-happen, the 70,000 Tons of Metal Cruise, returns to port in late January 2011. And then what should greet our bloodshot eyes in this morning's Seattle Times but this story, excerpted as follows:
Plan to use cruise ship as Olympics hotel hits rough water
Despite sharply cutting prices, a Canadian tour company has been unable to entice customers to a cruise ship it planned to used as a floating hotel during the Winter Olympics, and is scrambling to keep the idea afloat.
Meanwhile, customers who already have booked rooms on the Norwegian Star are uncertain whether they'll need to look for other hard-to-find lodging in Vancouver. . . . A statement released by Newwest Special Projects said, "Our sales have not been what we had hoped for and our expenses have increased beyond what we ever expected." . . .
Rates aboard the 1,100-room ship, once planned to top $1,000 U.S. a night, dropped to $500 last fall and, as of Monday, were listed on the company's Web site as low as $275 a night, including meals and onboard entertainment. . . . One of Newwest's investors in Alberta, Abe Neufeld, told the CBC that negotiations over the ship's contracts are "tense" and a "tough struggle," but he remained hopeful the project would go ahead.
Those fuckheads at "Newwest Special Projects" didn't ask our advice, but we're giving it anyway: Drop the nightly room price to the cost of a decent metal show ($20), keep the bars open 24-7, change the entertainment to non-stop live metal, and bill it as "The Immovable Fuck-the-Olympics Metal Cruise." Why does this make sense? And why is it a big improvement over the 70,000 Tons of Metal Tour? Read on after the jump . . . Continue reading »

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Bill Sautter is a retired American soccer player who played professionally in the North American Soccer League, Major Indoor Soccer League, American Soccer League and United Soccer League.

Family
Bill Sautter Sr. has three children. His oldest son is named H. Sautter Jr. His only daughter is named Katherine Emma Sautter,. His youngest son is named Jimmy Sautter.

Soccer

Youth
In 1974, Sautter graduated from Abington High School where he was a 1973 All State soccer player.  He was inducted into the Abington High School Hall of Fame in 1992.  He then attended Temple University where he played on the men's soccer team from 1974 to 1977. He was a 1975 Honorable Mention (third team) and a 1976 and 1977 Second Team All American.

Professional
In 1978, he turned professional with the Tulsa Roughnecks of the North American Soccer League. He set a league record by scoring three goals in his first four shots on goal. In the fall of 1979, he moved to the Los Angeles Aztecs for the 1979–1980 NASL indoor season. In the spring of 1980, he moved to the San Jose Earthquakes, but was released early in the 1981 season. He then signed with the Pennsylvania Stoners of the American Soccer League.  In 1982, he joined the Oklahoma City Slickers of the American Soccer League.  In July 1983, the league indefinitely suspended him after he assaulted a referee who had just ejected him from a game against the Pennsylvania Stoners. In 1984, he played for the Oklahoma City Stampede in the United Soccer League.  In 1985, he played for the Tulsa Tornados.

Golf
Sautter began playing golf when he was 30. He now is the golf instructor at the Philadelphia Cricket Club and has played in a few Champions Tour events.

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Living people
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So, is creation club just paid mods?
I'm curious to see more. It looks like it could be something else, more like paid dlc, possibly? I wonder if this is a workaround for the PS4 mod issues?
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Hitesh Bharadwaj, Akshita Mudgal on their roles in 'Iss Mod...| MENAFN.COM
Hitesh Bharadwaj, Akshita Mudgal on their roles in 'Iss Mod Se Jaate Hain'
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Mumbai, Dec 3 (IANS) Hitesh Bharadwaj and Akshita Mudgal will be seen in for the upcoming show 'Iss Mod Se Jaate Hain'. The two actors have shared details about their characters they would be seen playing.
While Hitesh is all set to be seen as a hardworking personality, Akshita will be playing a successful woman in it. Hitesh and Akshita open about playing IAS aspirants and how well the show brings out the issue of gender disparity in the society.
Akshita shares about playing the female protagonist, Paragi Parashar, she said: 'In fact, as soon as I was approached, I felt that this part was meant for me.'
She added: 'I actually look up to IAS officers and being able to play one is really a proud moment. While my character is quite different from how I am in real life, one thing that is common between us is our firm belief in gender equality.'
Akshita added her perspective on gender differences that are present in the society and how women at one or other point are affected because of it.
'If men can prioritize their careers and be unapologetic about the same, why shouldn't women be accorded similar freedom? Why are women asked to focus on the personal front when they make strides at work and achieve more success than their husbands?'
She added: 'Do women not deserve to scale their fullest potential or do we need to curtail our growth to avoid denting the male pride? My character, through her graph, will question some of these age-old thought processes.'
On the other side, Hitesh says he is eager to play the character of Sanjay Pathak on-screen which he feels, will be admired by those watching the show.
He said: 'I am very eager to play the part of Sanjay Pathak as I see a lot of myself in him. He is a well-mannered, hardworking, respectful young man who believes in equal opportunity for all and how success needs to be merit-linked and earned the hard way.'
'He is extremely supportive of women pursuing their dreams and goals and isn't one to curb their growth. Other than that, his affable charm are likely to win the hearts of audiences as the story progresses.'
'Iss Mod Se Jaate Hain' will start from December 6 on Zee TV.
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Keeping an eye on efforts to protect the privacy and security of personal healthcare information
Clarity Needed in Breach Notification Rule
Gray Areas Need to be Eliminated Howard Anderson (ismg_editor) • September 13, 2010
I hope the final version states in the simplest possible terms that the federal law supersedes state laws, unless the state laws have tougher requirements.
And I also hope the so-called "harm standard" in the interim final version of the rule bites the dust. Several members of Congress, and some privacy advocates, already have called for its demise.
Write the rule in clear enough language that an organization doesn't need to hire a lawyer to decipher it.
The harm standard provision allows healthcare organizations and their business associates to conduct a risk assessment to determine whether a particular data security breach presents "significant risk" and thus needs to be reported to those affected.
The provision creates gray area in the law. It needs to be replaced by clear-cut, black-and-white guidance on what must be reported.
Regulators need to make it easier for an organization to figure out how to comply with the rule. Spell out when a breach needs to be reported. Spell out when federal regulations prevail over state regulations. Remove any room for interpretation. Write the rule in clear enough language that an organization doesn't need to hire a lawyer to decipher it.
The Department of Health and Human Services recently acknowledged that it had withdrawn its proposed final rule from administrative review by the Office of Management and Budget, the last step before a regulation becomes official.
HHS said it was making the move "to allow for further consideration, given the department's experience to date in administering the regulations." Let's hope that's code for "We know the interim final rule leaves too much room for interpretation, and we're going to make the final version more iron-clad."
A recent breach incident illustrates the need for clarity in the federal breach rule.
South Shore Hospital in South Weymouth, Mass., decided it didn't have to notify the 800,000 individuals who may have been affected by the loss of two boxes of backup tapes, citing a state law (Massachusetts General Law Chapter 93H).
The law allows organizations to forgo notifying individuals about a breach: "If the person or agency required to provide notice demonstrates that the cost of providing written notice will exceed $250,000, or that the affected class of Massachusetts residents to be notified exceeds 500,000 residents, or that the person or agency does not have sufficient contact information to provide notice."
But that law sure sounds like it's in direct conflict with the interim final version of the federal breach notification rule, which requires that breaches affecting 500 or more individuals must be reported to federal authorities, as well as all the individuals affected, within 60 days.
Plus, the federal rule pre-empts "contrary state law." It says a state law is contrary if "a covered entity could find it impossible to comply with both the state and federal requirements or if the state law stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of the breach notification provisions in the (HITECH) Act."
The Massachusetts Attorney General has objected to South Shore's notification strategy and has called for notification of each of the individuals potentially affected. Sounds to me like the attorney general thinks the federal rule requires such notification in this case and it supersedes the state law.
In its statement, South Shore Hospital also implied that because its investigation of the breach incident revealed that the risk of someone accessing and using the missing tapes for fraudulent purposes was so low, the need for personal notification was diminished. Sounds like the hospital is invoking that federal "harm standard" doesn't it?
In the meantime, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights, which enforces the federal breach rule, won't comment on the South Shore incident because it's an "open investigation." It will be interesting to watch whether the state, the feds, or both ultimately compel the hospital to mail letters to 800,000.
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Kathie Lynch. Yellowstone Wolf Update. Thanksgiving 2009 Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer Boasts about Buffalo Slaughter
WY "Sportsmen for Fish and Wildife" still donating hay
By Ralph Maughan On December 12, 2009 · 26 Comments · In Disease, Elk, Wildlife Disease
Despite brucellosis and chronic wasting disease, they can't seem to kick this bad habit-
Wyoming group donates hay to feed elk this winter. AP in the Billings Gazette.
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26 Responses to WY "Sportsmen for Fish and Wildife" still donating hay
ProWolf in WY says:
They may be putting their herds into more danger than by having wolves reintroduced.
Wyo Native says:
I am glad to see this.
Our elk herds would suffer greater losses at the hands of starvation due to habitat losses, than they would from brucellosis or CWD.
mikarooni says:
This is just one more situation that highlights the inherent consistency between conservation and the consumptive use of wildlife. When you're only interested in conserving wildlife in order to kill it, it's hard to keep straight which priority is your top priority, the conserving or the killing. This is why, when you take a hard objective look at actual outcomes, hook and bullet based conservation groups have such a murky track record on real conservation.
Ralph Maughan says:
The wolves and cougars are the only ones doing anything positive about chronic wasting disease. What an irony!
No the real problem is the loss of winter habitat that has occurred in the Jackson Hole Valley over the last twenty years.
Twenty years ago closing the feed grounds around Jackson Hole would have been a realistic option, but not today. The summer ranges are more than plentiful to sustain the current populations of elk, but the winter ranges in the valley are not. The biggest reason for the habitat loss is the construction of "Trophy" homes from people who only visit once or twice a year.
Perhaps the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance or the Greater Yellowstone Coalition should have purchased lands as they became available and returned them to wildife habitat, rather than some of their members building houses. Just a thought!
Bogo says:
Just maybe a concerted effort to get the land owners to let the land run natural to provide winter fodder for the herds is needed.
Bogo, I am not talking about people buying up ranches and then refusing to allow wildlife use during the winter months.
Jackson Hole valley has become one big ass subdivision from the airport, south to Jackson, west to Wilson, and north to Teton Village, just so some idiot can have a wonderful view of the Tetons while visiting a couple times a year.
We also have the subdivision development south of Jackson towards that extends all the way to Hoback Junction and Snake River Canyon. Hell it would go all the way to Alpine if the Forest Service would sell the land.
Bob Caesar says:
The elk "winter range" in Jackson Hole has not and was in fact NEVER, EVER able to sustain today's unnaturally large elk populations. Today's huge elk herds in the mountains only came to pass as us "whites" drove the elk into the remotest areas. Before we become involved most elk lived out on the grass lands. today's populations are simply NOT natural. They exist solely so hunters can "harvest" elk. After all back in them days the elk wintered in the Red Desert – not South Park.
This group brings in a few bales for one purpose only – to have more elk to kill next Fall. The second elk go on the endangered list is when they bring no more hay!
Well said mikarooni.
Bob Caesar is right.
Elk did not winter much in Jackson Hole before the presence of the town or the now, city of Jackson.
The feedlots have unnaturally held the elk in the high mountains in the winter.
bob jackson says:
When I first started patrolling the Thorofare in 1972 there were probably 1500-2000 – 2500 elk to be seen in the fall stockpiling up on the upper Yellowstone river bottoms. One literally could not sleep at night with all the bugling going on around the Thorofare Ranger Station. By the time of my last season (2003) the numbers were down to maybe 150 in the 6 mile stretch of the Yellowstone from Thorofare to Mountain Ck.
The elk I talk of migrated south to Jackson Hole area. Yellowstone also had large migrations of elk going behind the cabin, around the Trident and then up the Thorofare and down to the South fork of the Shoshone…Cody way.
The migration of elk…and bison….historically always had them going South over Two Ocean Pass towards Jackson Hole. John Colter went this way snowshoeing.
Now, where the bison and elk ended up for winter I do not know. I would have to assume it was elk and bison families spreading out to their own individual geographic winter homes…places they went back to every winter…turf summer guarded by very mature bulls from their families during the summer. "Home" would have been all wind blown slopes available and large enough to sustain 30 to 300 animals from that family for the winter. It would have been the same system as one sees with Yellowstone's indigenous 300 head extended family elk herd in the delta area of the SE arm of Yellowstone Lake.
I point this out above to say there were elk, and lots of them in the mountains prior to Whiteman. The Plains had a lot more elk than the Mountains, true. But the plains elk, simply put, just were eliminated. There is no way the displaced plains elk could have competed with already established Mt. acclimated and local food savvy elk.
If plains elk were "forced" into the Mt. it would have been for a very short life ….if the niche was already full.
Proof of elk being in the Mt….and in large numbers….I saw all the time in Yellowstones backcountry. I would ride the age old elk trails. To find Indian artifacts all one had to do was notice any rock ledge immediately above these trails. The hunters threw spears down from these spots 20 feet up above the trail to kill these elk. All kinds of broken tips were to be seen on the bare slopes below these trails…in hundreds of game trails like this. Tips, I'd take to Mammoth for dating….points made 1500-3000-6500—8000 years ago.
My methodology was to find the camps first (I found more Indian camps than all other camps reported for recorded Yellowstone archeological archive history) and then figure where the hunters from that camp would go from there. The color and types of stone chips in those camps would match those found on the hunter routes so one knew it wasn't hunters on a long journey.
It was like living 3000 years ago because it was one logical path of discovery after the other. The hollowed out talus slope blinds ten feet from an ELK trail (yes an elk trail is defineable from a sheep, deer or buffalo trail), the ledge tops where hunters chipped points waiting for elk to come below, the weird scatchings on soft rock…yes, elk were in the mts. …and in large numbers before Whiteman. The Plains elk, forced out or otherwise, could not compete with these resident elk.
My assessment of the Jackson hole wintering grounds is as elk lost their infrastructure, as the males were eliminated from the families, we were left with fractured "herds" who easily stayed and congregated in high artifical food areas.
Bob Ceasar, Bob Jackson, and Ralph,
Yes, historically a majority of elk did migrate out of the Jackson and southern Yellowstone regions towards the Green River Basin with a few even making the longer trip to the Red Desert. However feedgrounds were not the contributing factor that ended this migration. Nor do they artificially hold the elk there today.
Every historical record that I have read leads to the indication that the mere presence of settlements by the whites in the mid to late 1800's led to the fracturing of the of the migration routes. The introduction of cattle and sheep into the area along with the settlements of the upper Green River basin by far is largest contributing factors to the fracture. This was admitted in 1927 by the Commission on the Conservation of the Jackson Hole Elk.
The simple fact is the Jackson Hole and southern Yellowstone elk herds will never go back to traditional migration patterns. Not only do we still have the settlements which stopped the migration in the mid 1800's, we also have significantly increased the fracture with the addition of "Trophy" homes, highways, and more barbed wire fences than have ever been seen. Then add in the fact that natural instinct of the historical migration routes has evolved away from the herds, and you will see the conundrum these elk face.
On last thing on this subject. There are also historical accounts and interviews completed by the National Elk Refuge before it's conception. During the late 1800's after the fracturing of the migration routes the Jackson Hole Valley was successfully wintering between 35-40,000 elk without feedgrounds.
It was not until the early 1900's when cattle and sheep numbers were inflated to numbers that reduced forage for elk winter use, did we start to see conflicts between ranchers and elk that led to the conception of feedgrounds. The land in the valley was capable of supporting much higher numbers of elk in the winter than is even there now. Unfortunately we will never see it because this land has become better used for "Trophy" homes than for habitat.
Take away the fear…the hunting…and you have elk grazing IN settlements and around trophy homes. Not saying this is practical but without the fear it all can return…even with lots of people around.
vickif says:
Not to change the subject, but it never ceases to astound me how damn short sited these things get.
Whiners abound when-no matter how misguided their opinions may be- taht elk are vanishing from the land scape. Yet, the truth be told, the number of sportsmen who depend solely on wild elk to feed their families is minimal.
Where is this mentality for bringing bison numbers back to the number of historical signifigance? Millions? This is not an issue of environmental rightfulness…it is simply about a bucnh of egos and ignornaces being the guiding force behind a big mistake.
Interesting discussion. Considerable confusion as to what is fact and what is wishful thinking or sheer propaganda for keeping elk feedgrounds open.
1) SFW's hay day is an extraordinary example of ignorance and stupidity. The first hay day was organized several years ago to give hay to the National Elk Refuge; the Refuge manager refused to accept it but was overruled by his boss in Denver for political reasons so the hay was accepted, but not used for feeding elk, as elk are fed alfalfa pellets on the Refuge, because feeding hay has long since been recognized as contributing to elk diseases by keeping elk on feedlines in unsanitary conditions longer than does feeding pellets.
Aside from brucellosis, the greatest disease of concern from feeding hay is necrotic stomatitis, a bacterial disease that causes infections known as "lumpy jaw" and "foot rot" in elk. Elk eating hay get cuts in their mouths or on their feet and bacteria, which occur naturally in the soil, enter to cause infections, severely incapacitating the victims.
(Feeding pellets to elk does not altogether prevent necrotic stomatitis, but it does significantly lower its incidence. Interestingly, many of the elk killed by wolves on the NER had suffered from necrotic stomatitis, primarily lumpy jaw. I've seen the infected jaws attached to skulls of wolf killed elk in the NER biologist's office).
Necrotic stomatitis was a great concern to Refuge biologist Olaus Murie in the late 1930s and 1940s; his push to significantly reduce the number of elk on feed on the NER, contrary to the demands of the G&F Commission for more elk, to spread elk out and reduce the incidence of this disease was the main cause of the Red Desert trans migration experiment carried out by G&F in the 1940s that I will discuss below.
In any case, regarding Hay Day, eventually FWS biologists managed to talk the FWS bureaucrats into turning down the hay altogether as violation of the purposes of the national wildlife refuge system and the National Elk Refuge in particular. (The law creating the NER says nothing about feeding; the NER was created to provide winter range).
SFW then decided to donate hay to the Wyoming G&F Fish Department, which still uses hay on its feedgrounds, hay that is profitably provided by local ranchers. So, not only do feedgrounds benefit local ranchers by keeping elk away from range ranchers believe is devoted to cattle, but feedgrounds also provide a direct source of profit from hay sales for use by G&F on the feedgrounds. What a deal. Just another subsidy to the livestock industry.
2) There is no evidence whatsoever that Jackson Hole, with perhaps parts of southern JH and the Gros Ventre River Valley excepted, ever served as significant winter range for elk (or bison for that matter) of the Yellowstone Country prior to European settlement. It was too high and too snowed in to serve as good winter range. Instead, elk only retreated to JH after other migration routes and winter ranges were choked off.
You don't read, for example, of Natives or fur trappers wintering in JH, except for the occasional masochistic fur trapper. Both natives and fur trappers wintered where the animals were, for example, at the base of Snake River Canyon below JH, where Pallisades Reservoir is now located, or on the Wyoming Range eastern front down toward where Evanston is now located. (See Osborne Russells's Journal of a Trapper for more information on wintering habits of fur trappers). Natives and some trappers wintered in the Wind River Basin of course. Elk and bison certainly weren't in JH during the winter.
Old timers have testified to numerous elk trails running out of JH up the Gros Ventre or up the Hoback to the Upper Green River Basin down to the Red and Little Colorado Deserts, into the Upper Wind River Basin (where I live, known to the Shoshone as the "valley of warm winds," some of the best winter range in northwestern Wyoming), or down the Snake to the Snake River Plains.
The historical record is not clear, but it is likely that there are two main causes for elk being forced to winter in JH in the late 1800s and early 1900s: one) the occupation and eventual fencing (after the winter of 1886/1887) of old migration routes in the Upper Green and other river valleys coming out of the mountains by ranches and two) the deliberate slaughter of elk (bulls, cows, calves) to reduce competition with livestock as well as targeting of bulls to procure their ivory tusks for sale to jewelers (market hunting; several old timers testified that they were able to start their own ranches from the profits of selling tusks) .
As JH was generally the last area of western Wyoming to be settled, elk had nowhere else to go but JH. The last recorded migration of elk into the Red Desert was 1913, the same year the National Elk Refuge was created by Congress.
There is no good evidence about how many elk eventually retreated to/stayed in JH after their migrations out of the mountains to traditional winter ranges into the Upper Green, the Snake, and the Wind River were blocked, their social groups severely disrupted, and their overall numbers reduced. Wyo Native above talks about 35-40K elk in JH. I doubt this number, but there's no strong evidence one way or another. The Biological Survey's Edward Preble, in his 1911 report on JH elk, estimated 20-25K elk, and that is probably more accurate.
3) Wyo Native above states that feedgrounds do not "artificially hold elk" from migration and that "Jackson Hole and southern Yellowstone elk herds will never go back to traditional migration patterns." Neither statement is true, but both are frequently stated Wyo G&F/SFW propaganda. Makes me wonder if Wyo Native works for G&F.
I mentioned above the Wyo G&F Commission's Red Desert transmigration experiment of the 1940s. As a consequence of Olaus Murie's push to reduce the number of elk wintering on the NER and in JH, the Wyoming G&F Commission, under the direction of G&F Biologist Warren Allred, in 1943 began an experiment to restore the old pre-settlement migration routes to the Red and Little Colorado Deserts of the Upper Green. Elk were captured in JH, had tags stuck in their ears for identification, trucked to both desert areas, and turned loose. (The current well known Red Desert Elk Herd, which remains in the Desert year round, originated with this experiment).
To make a long story short, the experiment succeeded, as elk began to move back and forth between the mountains and the desert and were identified by their tags. Unfortunately, they also stopped in at ranchers' haystacks on the trip. Most of the feedgrounds now in the Upper Green date to the late 1940s and 1950s, and they were created to block the migrations that were just beginning to be restored merely because elk were getting into haystacks. Each of these feedgrounds is on the upland side of ranches. The experiment proved too successful, and G&F abandoned it in the face of rancher politics and its control over G&F. Allred quit G&F in 1950 and took a job with the FWS in New Mexico.
Nor is it true that the old migrations cannot be restored. Wyo Native implies that memory of the routes has been lost in the elk herds. However, the migrations do not depend upon memory, but upon weather and topography. Given the opportunity–that is, the closure of feedgrounds–elk would pick up the migrations again.
This was proven in 1995/1996 when G&F experimented with closing the high elevation, deep snow North Piney FG on the Wyoming Range eastern front to get elk to move down to a lower elevation, generally snow-blown Bench Corral feedground that also had good BLM winter range around it–30K acres worth of winter range. G&F ceased feeding elk on the North Piney FG and baited elk with hay down to Bench Corral. The experiment was enormously successful. Trouble is, local ranchers, especially in Cottonwood Creek, complained about the experiment–after all, they wanted that 30K acres of BLM winter range around the Bench Corral for their cattle, and G&F began moving hay back to North Piney to try and shortstop elk from moving down to Bench Corral. However, and this is where memory does kick in, elk have remembered the better snow conditions at Bench Corral and the open winter range around it, and simply blow right through North Piney FG after grabbing a hay snack and move down to Bench Corral.
As noted in the Western Ecosystems Technology, Inc. 2004 report, "Summary of Elk Feedgrounds Operated by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department," page 63, "The elk have voluntarily moved to Bench Corral each year since [1995-96], which has reduced feeding costs and increased the days that the elk free range. However, it is our understanding that because of concerns expressed by some elements of the public about overgrazing and their interest in reducing livestock grazing in the area, the livestock industry has asked that both feedgrounds be operated as they were prior to 1995-96 … [However] feed seasons in recent years have been unusually short because of elk moving off North Piney and onto Bench Corral."
In short, the North Piney FG closure experiment proves that if feedgrounds were closed, elk would continue to migrate down range as far as they go until blocked again. Elk would adapt to current conditions only if allowed to. But they aren't because the livestock industry is determined to keep the feedgrounds open to protect "their" grass.
JEFF E says:
SFW is as bad or worse than the livestock industry
Salle says:
RH,
You are a wealth of information! Thank you for that last comment. I had only heard portions of it and most of the info was from the ranching perspective that justified the feed grounds.
I always question human interference in wildlife's lifestyles. This is just another example of what a mistake it is to try and second guess the natural cycles of life which humans usually misunderstand and misinterpret for their own benefit. However, the joke's on the humans because they are so short-sighted that they do this to their own detriment in the long run and they can't see past the immediate gratification of "overlord-ness".
Salle and Jeff E
Thanks. I've been studying the history of wildlife, elk feedgrounds, and habitat in western Wyoming for over a decade. I know what we know about these topics and I also know what we don't know, which, unfortunately, is an awful lot.
Actually, SFW-Wyoming is a front for Wyoming's livestock and outfitting industries, supporting commercialization and privatization of wildlife contrary to the interests of the hunters it claims to represent. It has gotten a tremendous hunter membership nonetheless from beating the anti-predator drum and also falsely claiming that closing feedgrounds is an anti-hunter plot to kill off all the elk so there'll be no hunting. That's rather amusing, since I myself am an elk hunter, and one could hardly expect me to support something that would stop hunting elk.
Anyway, SFW claims that there's no winter range for elk and if feedgrounds are closed, 80% of the elk will die. Well, the fact is, and even G&F agrees, that there is adequate winter range for elk in the Upper Green and the Gros Ventre, if not in JH proper. The problem is, of course, is that that range is reserved for livestock. This means that a necessary prerequisite to closing feedgrounds is switching AUMS from livestock to elk and other wildlife.
Robert Hoskins,
For the record I do not work for the Game and Fish department. I am an electrical engineer and live in the Bridger Valley.
If you want to be accurate in the information you accept or state as fact, your statement of the last recorded migration occurring in 1913 is also subject to the historical record. No one knows for sure when the last migration occurred. Some accounts have it in 1905 while others have it as 1913. Neither can be verified as fact.
However it is well known that elk were wintering in the Jackson Hole valley well before either date. Whether it was 35-40k or the 20-25k that you mention really does not matter. Migration routes and numbers were being noticed and reported by Upper Green inhabitants and Jackson Hole residents well before the conception of the NER.
Fencing of the land, grazing of livestock, and human presence in the late 1800's all contributed to the eventual wintering in the Jackson Hole Valley. This occurred before the refuge and prior to feeding.
I also am aware of the Allred led experiment in 1943. However I am not naive enough to not realize that the migration routes are even more fractured today then they were in 1943. The number of homes, roads and fences have increased ten fold in the Jackson Hole Valley, through the Hoback and into the Upper Green. Even the development in the upper Wind River Valley where you live has significantly increased the fracturing of historic migration routes. Look at Dubois now compared to twenty years ago.
All of this fracturing of migration routes by homes, roads, fencing, and grazing and we have yet to discuss the Clinton administration's assault on Wyoming with the approval of leasing the Pinedale Anticline and Jonah Field.
Wyo Native
Pay attention. I said the last recorded migration was 1913. It's a fact that it was recorded. Whether it is indeed the last migration, who knows? By saying recorded, I was acknowledging that. I do know that elk began migrating back into the Upper Wind from JH during the deadly 1919/20 winter. However, above I was talking about the Upper Green.
Actually, elk migrations are pretty much complete in the Dubois area; the Dunoir segment of the Wiggins Fork Herd summers on the Buffalo Plateau with Jackson elk, migrates through the Dunoir in fall and spring along the Ramshorn Front to and from Spring Mountain north of Dubois.
You want to support feedgrounds, that's your business. But you're going to look awful foolish when CWD hits the feedgrounds. What do you propose doing then?
What is your source you cite as recorded history?
Let me ask you a couple of questions.
Has CWD spread in areas of Wyoming and Colorado without feedgrounds present?
Have brucellosis rates increased in elk herds in Wyoming that do not visit feedgrounds?
You are also making the assumption that I am for ALL feedrounds, when I am not. I would love to see every feedground in the Green River basin closed, as there is sufficient winter range to support the numbers of elk who frequent these areas from the Wyoming and Wind River Ranges. Case in point the North Piney case you earlier referenced.
However I fully do support the Jackson area feedgrounds because even with the threat of disease (which is still occurring in herds not using feedgrounds), because of different circumstances surrounding this area.
I suggest that folks who think that elk do not naturally congregate in large herds in close quarters with wolves present, take a drive from Kemmerer to Cokeville, or from my home in the Bridger Valley to Manila UT.
Just yesterday I was in Nugget Canyon up through Rock Creek (all BLM) and counted over 1500 elk. If I did not know any better I would have thought these elk were on a feedground as close as they were to each other.
That is going against what people in Idaho seem to be saying about no elk being around. Interesting.
josh sutherland says:
Prowolf,
Elk are very easy to locate in knee deep snow in the dead of winter.
Josh, I agree elk are easy to locate in snow, but I'm not following what you mean in regards to my comment.


Federal agencies are having a slow-go of evaluating their use of service contracts, Federal News Radio reports, and some may, in fact, end up missing the June 30 deadline.
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010 directed the Office of Management and Budget to issue guidance on agencies' use of service contractors. As part of the guidelines, agencies were also required to provide an inventory of those types of contracts.
According to a recent Government Accountability Office review of nine agencies, seven of them had begun their analyses, but most weren't that far along, Federal News Radio reports.
GAO also found "mixed opinions" from agency officials as to whether compiling an inventory of service contracts would actually be helpful.
Also uncertain is what role the inventories will play in further efforts to balance the workforce as the in-sourcing debate sees renewed interest. Some agency officials worry that the inventories will be used to restructure agency workforces, which could run into budgetary problems, Washington Technology reports.


For July and August, I'm pulling from "Spice Pirates," my long short story that I'd planned to have live on Amazon last week but it was a really busy week (I taught a high school enrichment class, plus with the water line to my house still not fixed and no AC with heat indexes 100+ degrees I spent more time trying not to be here) so my plan now is to have it uploaded to Amazon today and live by Monday, in which case I'll update this post.
"You're a pirate," she whispered, a gleam in her eyes and a big grin on her face.
"I'm—" He stopped. He wasn't, of course, but he wasn't a fool either, and if this girl respected pirates, if he could use her awe as a way to get something to eat, then he could be a pirate. "It's not something you walk around bragging about." There; he hadn't confirmed it, but he hadn't denied it either.
I agree that being a pirate isn't something to brag about – not with being perennial thieves and all. I hope Rosamaria won't regret meeting her new friend.
Lying will get you in trouble. But also makes for an interesting story!
Does this mean he's going to have to live up to pirate's reputation? And can he do it?


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web.Http;
using Microsoft.Owin.Security.OAuth;
using Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization;

namespace OdysseyCloud
{
    public static class WebApiConfig
    {
        public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
        {
            // Configuración y servicios de Web API
            // Configure Web API para usar solo la autenticación de token de portador.
            config.SuppressDefaultHostAuthentication();
            config.Filters.Add(new HostAuthenticationFilter(OAuthDefaults.AuthenticationType));

            // Rutas de Web API
            config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes();

            config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
                name: "DefaultApi",
                routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{id}",
                defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
            );
        }
    }
}

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```
cap ado uninstall bcrpuse
net install bcrpuse, from(https://github.com/sergiocorreia/bcrpuse/raw/master/source/)
```

## Usage

First, go [here](https://estadisticas.bcrp.gob.pe/estadisticas/series/mensuales) and pick a series (or up to 10). Then, run:

```stata
bcrpuse	PN00001MM, range(2001m1 2016m12)
```

## Advanced Usage

- Use a folder as cache, to avoid downloading the dataset every time: `bcrpuse	PN00001MM, range(2001m1 2016m12) cache(c:/somepath)`
- Can also manage different frequencies (daily, monthly, quarterly, annual).

## Issues: SSL Fix

As of Dec15, 2016, there is a bug in the website SSL auth, so you need a workaround. Download the `.pem` file, navigate to the Java security folder, and run:

```
..\..\bin\keytool -import -alias bcrp -keystore cacerts -file c:\Git\bcrpuse\source\bcrp.pem
```

Notes:

- Password is `changeit`
- More information in the help file


IndianShowBiz.com » Here are 5 reasons to watch Amazon Prime Original series, 'Mirzapur' this fall!
Pankaj Tripathi certainly has become one of the most Goggled artists after his succeeding appearances in the films like Fukrey Returns, Bareilly Ki Barfi, Stree, Newton to name a few. The actor will be now seen in a reformed avatar, with a changed diction and a version that's even fiercer. He will be playing a gangster for whom morality and goodness mean nothing.
The story is set against the backdrop of Purvanchal region, filled with sinners and death stories like never before. The plot knits the tale of gangsters and powerful men involved in the business of weapons and ammunition, illegally.
With such an enthralling series coming our way, we're sure that you wouldn't mind taking out time to watch Mirzapur this season on Amazon Prime Video.


Have you ever thought of having Mac N Cheese in a Kachori or a Pav Bhaji Pie? Sounds a bit weird but if you are a food lover you would be excited to try out the fusion of street and gourmet food. However that wasn't the case with popular Chef Saransh Goila when he tried to convince his friends to check out street food. Finally he was left on his own to try the street food and come up with something really weird but delicious.
Saransh goes out all alone on the streets to try the delicious street food of India. Armed with his Lenovo Yoga tablet he sets on a mission in the kitchen set up on a lovely beach. What happens thereafter is pure gastronomical delight. He prepares Mac N Cheese Kachori, Coconut cooler, Pav Bhaaji pie in 10 minutes flat for his friends. Isn't that a #GoodWeird creation from the chef who blends classy food with massy taste?
The video is part of the global campaign run by China-based Lenovo, the leader in PC brand worldwide. Lenovo had a 19.2% market share at the end of 2014, representing growth of 10.1% year over year, according to IDC.
The multi-year campaign from Lenovo is an attempt to tell the story of its most recognizable consumer products – YOGA convertibles, tabletop PCs and tablets – in a new marketing campaign, dubbed #Goodweird. Appropriately named, #Goodweird illustrates how YOGA products embrace unexpected design and functionality – design that's arguably weird, but in a good way because of the amazing things these products enable people to do.
With millennials in the mindset, about two years ago Lenovo started thinking on these lines and decided to focus on one key subset: design trendsetters. "Design trendsetters are the people in the social group who care what others think about them, and they buy products and get close with brands because those brands say something about them," Quinn said to Adage.
The company is directing a portion of its "Goodwerid" campaign spending to prominent YouTubers and Viners who are already creating videos catered around the theme.
India is a key market for Lenovo since the country is the second largest smartphone market dominated by youth. Lenovo's smartphone shipment market share increased 6% in the June quarter of 2015, becoming the fifth-largest smartphone maker in the country, according to data collated by researcher International Data Corp.
Naturally, the #Goodweird campaign was introduced in the country with Lenovo India creating three creative stories in association with Mumbai based digital agency Experience Commerce. "When we got the brief to capture stories of the three creative spirits via video, we tried a little different form of creative storytelling rather than the usual documentary approach," Sandip Maiti, Founder and CEO at Experience Commerce.
The second story is about Eina Ahluwalia, India's first conceptual jewellery artist who believes, "Good things come out of difficult situations." The video starts with a scared and surprised newlywed bride who finds a dagger like jewelry as a wedding gift presented by Eina.
The camera rolls back in the past and shows how Eina gets the inspiration of her jewelry design from the land of Durga – Kolkata. With very folky and zippy background music, Eina travels the city only to find her inspiration of her jewelry design in lord Durga. Then she creates the masterpiece armed with her creative brilliance and Lenovo Yoga tablet. The video ends with an unconventional but a #goodweird design complementing the beauty of today's strong and confident women.
"These are real influencers from different walks of life, while they do cool stuff they are also empowered by the Yoga tablet. These are genuine users of the product with real creations, who are inspired to create disruption by breaking norms," he added.
The final video is about the popular fashion designer Nikhil Thampi who has given new age quirkiness and original essence to fashion in India. The video begins with a challenge for Nikhil after his friend was refused entry to a club since she was wearing a saree. Then we see Nikhil reinventing the saree for the new age woman with the help of Yoga Tab.
Lenovo is re-inventing itself to be the brand of the new age customers – the millennials. This is a breed that is impatient to do something in life and challenge the norms of society. They don't get sold to boring ads that play on TV, they are sold to stories – stories of real people that inspire.
All the three stories shared by Lenovo India for the #Goodweird campaign are of real achievers who are challenging the norms to create something unique – the real disrupters of the society who never stand still and thrive for excellence.
The stories have also been told in a creative way and executed at par to match the protagonist of the stories.
The latest effort from Lenovo India comes right at a time when the brand recently created a crowdsourced dynamic logo to celebrate the maker spirit of India. This was part of Lenovo's Never Stand Still campaign launched at the company's Tech World event in Beijing as a new brand identity.
These three videos are a great local extension to the #GoodWeird global campaign. With such inspiring real stories it is difficult to ignore the tech brilliance imparted by Lenovo in its products.


The vitality of urban life meets the calm of a verdant, lush landscape at Green on Queensbury, Qualex Landmark's planned community in North Vancouver.
The vitality of urban life meets the calm of a verdant, lush landscape at Green on Queensbury, Qualex Landmark's planned community in North Vancouver. The two worlds also inspired Cristina Oberti, principal of Oberti Design, to create interiors with materials that at once reflect the surrounding nature and embrace the contemporary tastes of city dwellers.
Read the full article online at theprovince.com.


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Send firefighters to all industrial accidents, union urges, after man stuck in machine waits for help
Jon Woodward Reporter, CTV News Vancouver
@CTV_Jon Contact
Published Thursday, October 1, 2020 4:36PM PDT Last Updated Friday, October 2, 2020 8:52AM PDT
VANCOUVER -- Dispatching rules for B.C.'s 911 calls are under the microscope as CTV News has learned of two new cases where a patient may not have been given timely help.
In one case, a man with his hand stuck in an industrial machine waited almost 40 minutes before first responders arrived with the hydraulic tools to free him. He lost his thumb.
The Sept. 9 incident has his union demanding that firefighters be sent by default to industrial accidents where paramedics who want to help a victim might not be able to.
"Anyone trapped in a machine is a worst-case scenario," said Douglas Lea-Smith, president of ILWU Local 333, which represents workers at the Cargill terminal in North Vancouver.
"An industrial setting, particularly in a waterfront setting, all calls should be accompanied by the fire department," he said. "The potential for danger and hazard is very high."
Firefighters were also not called right away in a drowning death in Lynn Valley in August. In that case, dispatchers waited seven minutes for a caller to say where exactly he was in the water — about as long as it would have taken firefighters to get there and look directly.
All of this comes amid new scrutiny of dispatch protocols after a Coquitlam woman with a stroke waited three hours for paramedics, and then died.
BC Emergency Health Services brought in a new model for calls that cut firefighters from all but the most serious, life-threatening situations in 2018. The idea was to focus resources on more serious calls, and officials say broadly the system has worked and saved lives.
Over time, firefighters have been called back to fill unanticipated gaps in service, including in overdoses and when access to a patient might be difficult, such as the situation in the death of Tracey Gundersen. In that case in 2018, paramedics couldn't access her building's elevator.
The issue prompted a response from candidates from two parties.
"We need to get involved. We need to look at the situation," said James Robertson, the BC Liberal candidate for Port Moody-Coquitlam. "The government should lean in and look at it and do a full lessons-learned analysis,"
Health Minister and NDP Candidate for Vancouver-Kingsway, Adrian Dix, said his government added 119 new paramedics in 2018 to reduce wait times.
"Our paramedics, our dispatchers, do a great job," he said. "But every time there's a problem we need to review it and as these problems are brought to our attention we review them.
In the Sept. 9 incident, a 911 call at 11:56 a.m. was categorized by dispatch as "orange," meaning serious but not immediately life-threatening. The first paramedic crew arrived at 12:04 p.m.; another crew arrived at 12:25 p.m., and then called for firefighters at 12:27 p.m., who arrived at 12:34 p.m.
By that point, other millwrights were able to release the man's hand themselves, Lea-Smith said.
"He could have received a worse injury without their help," Lea-Smith said. "He lost his thumb and that could be a consequence of this."
In the Aug. 25 Lynn Valley case, E-Comm received a call for help at 4:29 p.m. At 4:33 p.m., BC EHS said dispatchers had it. It took until 4:40 p.m. for the caller to give location details, and firefighters were notified at 4:41 p.m., BCEHS logs show.
It would take about that long for the firefighters to get to the rough location of the drowning and search directly.
BC EHS says the established protocol is notifying fire departments of any calls that require technical expertise and equipment, including motor vehicle accidents, hazmat scenes, and potential drownings, or as requested by paramedics or someone on the scene.
However it does not have a policy that is specific to industrial sites.
The Cargill terminal in North Vancouver is seen on Oct. 1, 2020.
'She'd still be alive': B.C. family wants answers after ambulance takes 3 hours to arrive
Woman's death prompts changes to B.C.'s 911 system
Ambulance policies must change after woman waited 3 hours for help and died, B.C. mayor says


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Winger Koroibete named Australia's best player
FILE PHOTO: Rugby Union - Rugby World Cup 2019 - Quarter Final - England v Australia - Oita Stadium, Oita, Japan - October 19, 2019 Australia's Marika Koroibete scores their first try REUTERS/Peter Cziborra
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Wallabies winger Marika Koroibete capped his highly successful transition to rugby union when he was awarded the John Eales Medal as Australia's best player of 2019 late on Thursday.
The former rugby league international, who moved to the 15-man game in 2017, was Australia's best player in a Rugby World Cup campaign that ended in a quarter-final defeat to England last month.
The Fiji-born back's oustanding individual try in that loss was his fourth of the tournament and took his tally to 12 in 28 tests for Australia over the last two seasons.
George Smith, David Pocock and Israel Folau are among the previous winners of the award, which was established in 2002 and is the result of a ballot of the players.
"A lot of great players have won this award so it's a great honour and privilege," the hard-running 27-year-old said.
"It was always my dream growing up to play rugby (union) at the highest level. I don't know why they voted for me, I just go out there and play for the love of the game."
Women's captain Grace Hamilton was named Wallaroo of the Year, while Olympic champion Charlotte Caslick won the women's Sevens Players of the Year award.
Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Peter Rutherford


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Q: Ignore Duplicate Values on Index prevents FOREIGN KEY constraint Due to some architectural reasons I have to ignore duplicate values on the index. It works perfectly well - except, when I am inserting wrong data. I am trying to insert value to the FK column that is supposed to throw:

The INSERT statement conflicted with the FOREIGN KEY constraint "FK__constrainName".
  The conflict occurred in database, table "someTable", column 'FKColumn'.

Is there logic behind ignoring duplicate values that prevents insert statement from throwing this exception?

A: I assume you are talking about this kind of situation?
CREATE TABLE T2(T2_ID INT PRIMARY KEY)

INSERT INTO T2 VALUES (1),(2)

CREATE TABLE T1 (T1_ID INT, T2_ID INT REFERENCES T2)
CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX IX ON T1(T1_ID) WITH IGNORE_DUP_KEY

INSERT INTO T1 VALUES (1,2),(1,2),(2,3),(2,3)

/*FK Violation - No rows inserted*/
SELECT *
FROM T1

/*Duplicate key violation and potential FK Violation - one row inserted*/
INSERT INTO T1 VALUES (1,2),(1,2),(1,3),(1,3)

SELECT *
FROM T1

DROP TABLE T1
DROP TABLE T2

If a row is not inserted because it would cause a duplicate key violation then the FK constraint is not violated following the insert, hence no error.

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Caroline Barry served five straight points in the middle of game two as the Knights scrambled to tie the score. Maryssa Romano pounded out nine kills from the outside, and Sylwia Lewkowicz held her own in the middle with 12 kills.
Southington coaches shuffled underclassmen in and out of the lineup as the upperclassmen tried to hold off the top ranked Cheshire team in the Class LL quarterfinals. The Rams advanced with a 3-0 sweep, but the Knights went down swinging.
Coach Rich Heitz didn't know what to expect when Southington entered this season after a one-and-done effort last fall, but 2014 could be a remembered as a turning point—the year that Southington took the first step toward another state title.
Still, the defending Class LL champions proved too much to handle.
On the other hand, No. 8 Southington gave Cheshire just about as much as they could handle. Cheshire needed an 8-0 rally in game one to turn a 9-9 deadlock into a 25-15 win.
Southington battled back from a four point deficit to go point-for-point in game two, and the Knights led by as many as eight points in game three before the Rams battled back. Cheshire eked victories in both games, 25-20 and 25-21, to clinch the series, but the loss ended Southington's fall campaign.
Sylwia Lewkowicz powered the Knights in the middle with 12 kills and two blocks. Romano finished with nine kills, and Morgan McCarthy finished out her varsity career with 12 assists. Freshman setter Stephanie Zera distributed 14 assists down the stretch, and the junior class did the rest.
Lewkowicz led the way. Kelsea Allen scored five kills and two blocks. Michelle Stublarec added five kills, and Nicole Groll anchored the defense with 12 digs.
Heitz said it's a good sign for next year.
The Knights began their run at home on Monday with an easy 3-0 sweep of No. 25 Bristol Central. Lewkowicz (5 blocks) and Romano (7 digs) powered the attack with 15 kills apiece as Southington dismantled the Rams, 25-14, 25-18, and 25-19. McCarthy distributed 22 assists in the victory. Barry had six kills and Allen had five. Groll anchored the defense with nine digs.
Southington had five hitting errors in game one but finished with just 11 errors over the three game series.
Kateri Downes sparked the second round win over No. 9 Newtown with a pair of serving rallies in game one and game two. Downes (23-for-23, 4 aces) served a 12-0 run to cap the first game and scored a 9-0 rally in game two.
As a team, the Knights went 86.8 percent from the line as they swept past Newtown, 25-17, 25-17, and 25-18.
Romano paced the scoring with 14 kills. Lewkowicz finished with 10 kills and seven blocks. Emily Mankus anchored the defense with nine digs.
With the victory over Newtown, Southington earned its first quarterfinal berth since 2012. With the loss to Cheshire, Southington ended their fall campaign with a 17-6 record.
Maryssa Romano attacks the net during a 3-0 win over Bristol Central in the opening round of the Class LL tournament.


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2016 PAMLA Conference Creative Artist Spotlight: "Straight Out of … Venice, Korea Town, Leimert Park, East Hollywood, and Downtown L.A.: Los Angeles and the Poetry of its Neighborhoods"
Submitted by Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State University of Denver on September 7, 2016 - 9:53pm
On Friday, November 11, 2016, as a part of our PAMLA Conference at the Westin Pasadena, we will be holding a very special Creative Artist Spotlight event from 5-6 pm in the Madera room at the Westin Pasadena. The event is titled "Straight Out of … Venice, Korea Town, Leimert Park, East Hollywood, and Downtown L.A.: Los Angeles and the Poetry of its Neighborhoods." Please do try to attend, and feel free to invite your scholarly friends--this event is free and open to the public.
Los Angeles has given rise to poets of national fame, but has one of the world's great cities and the birthplace of The Movies produced its own style? Essays and books, including Lawrence Goldstein's Poetry Los Angeles: Reading the Essential Poems of the City, have explored the subject. This panel, however, will regard Los Angeles not as a unified entity but as a cluster of distinct neighborhoods, districts, each with its own history, and will consider the poetry that has been identified with each neighborhood of the city. As part of the discussion, panelists will present one of their own poems and one from a noted poet of their neighborhood.
Suzanne Lummis, renowned Los Angeles poet andour moderator and organizer for the event, will speak for Northeast L.A. and the Downtown East Hollywood area. Lummis won the Blue Lynx Poetry Award for Open 24 Hours (Lynx House Press, 2014). Her poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, The New Ohio Review, Ploughshares, The New Yorker and other magazines. In 2014 she received Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center's George Drury Smith Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry.
Jawanza Dumisani will speak for Leimert Park and Watts. Dumisani is the author of Black Raising Cane Over Red, a collection that chronicles the departure of his family from Mississippi to Detroit in the forties and his young life in Motown. His poetry is included in the anthology Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond. For years he was workshop director at the World Stage in Leimert Park.
Tanya Ko Hong, born and raised in South Korea, will speak for Korea Town and Rancho Palos Verdes. Ko Hong is a poet and translator who received her MFA at Antioch University. Her poetry collections are Generation One Point Five and Mother to Myself (in Korean), the last published by Purunsasang, 2015. Individual poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Two Hawks Quarterly, Rattle, Cultural Weekly, and Writers at Work.
Bill Mohr will speak for Venice. Mohr's books of poetry include a bilingual selection of poems, Pruebas Ocultas (Bonobos Editores, Mexico, 2015). He has edited or co-edited three anthologies of Los Angeles or West Coast poets and is the author of Holdouts: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance 1948-1992. He is a Professor of English at California State University, Long Beach.


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The Canadian auto industry enjoyed record-breaking sales last year, driven by consumers who bought SUVs, pickup trucks and high-end vehicles such as Jaguars and Porsches, DesRosiers Automotive Consultants said Wednesday.
Overall, there were 1.948 million sales of light vehicles last year, an increase of 2.7 per cent compared to 2015, the Richmond Hill, Ont.-based consulting firm said.
Ford took the top spot last year, with sales up 9.3 per cent to 304,445 vehicles. Fiat Chrysler was next, though its sales slipped by 5.3 per cent year-over-year to 277,445 vehicles, followed by General Motors with 267,341 vehicles sold, up 1.5 per cent.
Some of the most dramatic gains in sales were by luxury automakers, a trend that consulting firm president Dennis DesRosiers attributes to demand from baby boomers with disposable income.
Jaguar saw its sales jump 134.1 per cent to 3,034 in 2016, while Maserati sales grew by 33.5 per cent to 682 vehicles. Porsche sold 7,061 vehicles last year, up 10.1 per cent from 2015.
But the era of soaring auto sales — 2015 was also record year —may be coming to an end as interest rates are expected to rise, he said.
Sales of passenger cars declined 7.6 per cent from a year ago to 662,038, while light truck sales were up 8.8 per cent at 1,286,861.
For the month of December, sales decreased 2.6 per cent to 125,600 vehicles, down from 128,920 in December 2015.
U.S. sales of new vehicles — which set a record of 17.47 million in 2015 — could hit a new high in 2016. Consulting firm LMC Automotive and car-buying site Edmunds.com each predict sales will squeak past the old record and reach 17.5 million in 2016.
But after six straight years of sales gains — a string not seen since the 1920s — U.S. sales have reached a plateau. The National Automobile Dealers Association expects U.S. sales to drop to 17.1 million vehicles in 2017 as interest rates and vehicle prices rise. More buyers are also opting for longer loans, which means they won't be returning to dealerships anytime soon.
Low gas prices, rising employment and low interest rates kept buyers coming to car dealerships last year in the U.S.. There was also the lure of new technology — such as backup cameras, automatic emergency braking and Apple CarPlay — and new vehicles like the Chrysler Pacifica minivan, the Honda Civic and all-electric Chevrolet Bolt.
Rising incentives were also a factor, as automakers tried to boost demand with deals like zero-per cent financing.


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It's becoming clear that quality and speed are at the helm of content marketing. This is because Google is developing sophisticated algorithms that are better at detecting whether sites are publishing great content, or if they're creating news and blog articles solely for the sake of SEO. And mobile device adoption is changing the way consumers interact with digital content. When reading on the go, the faster the better.
The point is that all brand messaging is being scrutinized with new standards. Brands that can tailor their collateral accordingly will leave their competitors in the dust. Brafton recently caught up with Dave Hendricks, COO of LiveIntent, who offered his insights into the email marketing game right now and what will matter in the future.
Q: How has email marketing evolved and where does content marketing come into play?
Today, everybody is a publisher. If you're a brand, you're a publisher. If you're a retailer, you're a publisher. And content covers a lot of territory. It can be a tweet, a post on Facebook or Linkedin, an email newsletter, blog, website post or even a comment on Diqus.
You're not existing in the same landscape that you were 10 or 15 years ago. You need to get the best content out there, whether it's for your personal or business brand.
Q: Which content type is more effective: news or evergreen?
You need to send out content that matches up with audience's expectations. It's not either, or. It's how you mix it up so that it will surprise, delight and engage your readership. You can't choose between two poles.
Q: Where does promotional content fit in the fold?
Always think about your audience. You can talk about yourself for a little while, but listeners will get tired unless you ask them questions and integrate them into the conversations. They will get bored if the content doesn't apply to them, if it doesn't look custom, or if it's old.
You can talk about yourself for a little while, but listeners will get tired unless you ask them questions and integrate them into the conversations.
Q. How do the Gmail tabs that section off promotional content impact open rates?
People think of Google as search, and Gmail has turned email into a kind of sponsored search.
Now what they've done is created something that works for both parties – made opens much more valuable for retailers. When recipients click on the Promotions tab, they've already clicked an extra time to get into the message – which shows much more intent about what they're going to do.
Of course, better content has an impact on open rates. Google does scan for engagement. If the content isn't good, those messages might not even make it into the promotional tab.
Q: What does mobile mean for email marketers?
When we first launched this product, mobile open rates were in the 10 to 12 percent open range. Now it's in the 40 percent range. And the use of mobile devices provides new information. For example, people click more on iPhones and iPads than they do on Internet Explorer, etc.
If you notice that someone opens an email on an Apple device, you know to show apps for iOS devices. This additional context comes in many forms. One of the contextual things about mobile is that you don't have a full keyboard. You need to provide viewers with direct conversion pathways because they may not have a lot of time to read.
It's a highly engaged experience and you must match the content (ad) with audience. Someone in New York City on an iPhone will expect different results than someone in San Francisco on Internet Explorer. We're going to be looking at some of that stuff as we plan for the future.
Q: How do you respond to the idea that the value of email is declining?
Our business is about targeting email and email is growing dramatically.
Email applications are No.1 on desktop consumers and smartphones. More importantly, spam has largely been eliminated through technology, so people aren't receiving emails that aren't targeted to them or intended for them anymore.
We just care about what people open. People love getting mail. It gives them a serotonin rush. They get bored and they check their messages.
It's estimated that people receive 14 commercial messages per day per account. Somewhere in the order of 7 billion messages per day are sent in the U.S. alone.
Q: Where do you think email marketing will go in the future?
Have you noticed that every single thing you do requires an email address or username to login to? What's happening is all these publishers are starting to build ad exchanges behind login walls. It's the biggest thing to happen in advertising and ad tech. It's about the email address, which is an improvement to the cookie because you're advertising to known audiences.
More data must mean more personalization
We're living in an era defined by data, and smart marketers will tap into information about their content to advise their strategies in regard to email and beyond. You must be tracking open rates, measuring engagement and learning about your readers to continuously refine content to stay ahead of the curve.
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Lauren Kaye is a Marketing Editor at Brafton Inc. She studied creative and technical writing at Virginia Tech before pursuing the digital frontier and finding content marketing was the best place to put her passions to work. Lauren also writes creative short fiction, hikes in New England and appreciates a good book recommendation.
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Global Communication Association (GCA), a not-for-profit body of media and communication professionals, which holds international conferences from time to time around the world, is organizing its 14th international conference (www.gcaconference.com) of communication experts and specialists, in India, on 11-12 October 2018, in the historic 'Pink City' of Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Manipal University Jaipur (https://jaipur.manipal.edu/) is the academic partner, hosting this conference.
"In the two-day conference deliberations, about one hundred national and international scholars and subject speakers, representing top universities and corporate companies of the world (a few from the US and Europe), will sign up and arrive in Jaipur to participate in the two-day deliberations of this program. Another two hundred professional delegates from corporate houses, media universities, communication institutions, correlated professional service agencies, government bodies, and not-for-profit organizations would also be joining us locally in supporting and hosting this important, interactive forum. The purpose is to engage in key proceedings of the conference with an intrinsic aim to share information, promote cultural inclusion, scholarly research, inter-institutional collaboration, and global networking," says Mr. Krishna B. Mariyanka, Curator and Organising Secretary, 14th International Global Communication Association (GCA) Jaipur Conference, India.
GCA Jaipur 2018 conference focusing on 'Digital Inbound: Internet Communications and Beyond', has aroused keen interest amongst many participants from around the globe coming from different academic and industry backgrounds. Communication is experiencing a big change in this digital age. Presently, we stand at the intersection of digital and conventional communications. The revolution in the field of technology has changed the face of communication globally in recent years. From e-mails, social media, blogs to simulated way of communications by artificial intelligence, everything is digitized in this digital era. The digital revolution has enabled us to share a vast amount of data globally in a fraction of second. Undoubtedly, such developments have transformed business, politics, media, communication, culture, in fact, all spheres of our life. More so, new trends, features, and challenges are emerging in this digitalization process of communication rapidly.
'Pink City' Jaipur is gearing up to host the 14th International GCA Conference in India on 11th and 12th October 2018, and in fact, India has earned the honor of hosting this global mega-event for the fourth time in nine years, the first one being in 2009. Entry to the conference and all proceedings is by registration and official invitation only. Interested industry and academic professionals and students are welcome to register and participate as delegates at the conference at https://www.gcaconference.com/registration.html.


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As part of their commitment to the planet, Origins has established a partnership with Global ReLeaf to plant trees to help restore areas damaged by wildfire and help clean our air and water. For every product purchased within the A Perfect World™ franchise between 15th – 28th April 2012, Origins will plant a tree on the customer's behalf.
Also, for one day only on Saturday 21st April 2012, customers can bring in any empty skincare product (from any brand) and trade it in for a complimentary full size of either Starting Over™ Age-erasing Moisturizer with Mimosa value £36.00/€50.00 OR A Perfect World SPF25 Age-Defense Moisturizer with White Tea value £32.00/€45.00. Samples are on a first come, first serve basis with 5,000 available nationwide.
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I was rather surprised, though, because when they gave me my free product it was in an Origins bag with tissue paper. I told them to just give me the product to save the bag/unnecessary waste.


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Romain Claris
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Since 2000, Romain Claris has been directing short films, selected and awarded by a hundred international film festivals.
His last three short films made in 2022 are currently in the festival circuit.
"Black hole" is awarded Best experimental Art Film at the « Pure Magic International Film Festival » in Amsterdam. The short art film is made for "On the rocks" the upcoming Nicolas Claris & Romain Claris photography and video exhibition.
His short film "La danse" won the Best Art Film Award at the Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival and the Venus Community Award in Turquey.
"White Bear in Hippo Land" was awarded Best Animation Film at the Roma Short Film Festival.
He graduated from the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français in 2005.
He then became head of the video department of the advertising agency Claris Image Builder and produced more than 500 films since 2006.
In 2020, he co-founded and directed the Bordeaux Shorts Biennale. The second edition took place October 21 2022 at Cinema Utopia Bordeaux. 24 short films from 14 countries were screened.
He also signed several photography and video exhibitions with the photographer Nicolas Claris, including "Bangladesh" in 2013, "Rouge"" in 2017, "Noirs" in 2018, "Un peu de rouge, pourtant" in 2020.
Their next exhibition "Un ciel dans une fleur sauvage" will be shocased by the Galerie des Art'Gentiers from Friday January 20th to Saturday March 11th 2023.
Their exhibition "On the rocks" will be unveiled at the International Multihull Show from April 12 to 16, 2023.
He give classes several times as a professor in the context of educational film projects, in 2013 at the Lycée de Pauillac. In 2019 and again in 2022 at the Lycée Victor Louis in Talence.
In development: "Les comptes de la lune", the 15-minute creative documentary offers another history of the invention of numbers and calculation.
After a trip to Niger in 1995 where he attended the shooting of the feature film "Imûhar" in the middle of the Sahara, Romain Claris worked for several years in black and white and colour photography.
He bought his first camera by selling his collections of poems at the Bordeaux train station. He then began directing very short films in 2000 with "Infini" written and shot in Spain and "Real Trip" directed in New York in 2001.
He worked as cameraman on "Lisbon Project" by Irish artist James Coleman, produced by Les Films d'Ici in 2004.
Graduated with honours in 2005 from the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français at Paris, he then joined the communication and advertising agency Claris Image Builder in Bordeaux as head of the video department and is responsible for the production of around 500 films for the luxury industry: yachting, vineyards, architecture, culinary... including signature films such as Air Mer Bateaux Terre for CNB Yacht Builders.
In parallel to his agency work, he continues to make personal short films selected and awarded at international film festivals.
In 2007 his minute film "Two" won the Special Mention at the Lille Minute Film Festival.
His two films "Life Choice" and "Le temps mange la voix et les mots" were selected by the cultural program of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to be part of the French selection for the World One Minute.
His film-poem "Painting with the dragonfly " written and directed in the USA was selected by the Cinérail Festival in Paris in 2009.
In 2011, the short film " La robe" was awarded Best Experimental Film at the Disturb Awards in Paris.
He also directs several documentary portraits of creators: Bernard Varvat, marble sculptor in 2005, "Gilles Jonemann", jewel and object designer in 2009.
In 2011, the artistic director of the international dance troupe "United Dance Company", Alexandre Hoffmann, gave him a carte blanche: the production of a 45-minute documentary on the company's life.
In 2013 he directed a short documentary film for the presentation of the new collection of fashion designer Tomas Bagackas at the Lithuanian Embassy of Paris.
For its 9th edition, the international film festival Pêcheur du Monde has entrusted him with the presidency of the professional jury in 2017.
In 2018, his film minute "Les cousins des nuages" shot with a mobile phone was selected by about fifty international festivals and won five prizes, including that for best philosophy in animation at the Avalonia Festival in the USA.
He co-directed with Jacques Dubuisson in 2018 the medium-length film "Voici que la nuit", a very free adaptation on Yasunari Kawabata's novel "Sleeping beauties", selected at the Forum Experimental in Los Angeles and in Belgium at the Verbeke Foundation at the Wunderground Film Festival and received the Award for the best experimental medium-length film at the Five Continent International Film Festival.
In 2019, the NGO Watever initiated "Un trésor à la carte": a private sale, by auction, to the Lafayette Anticipation Foundation, the profits of which are donated to the sea rescue actors. Romain Claris participates by directing the very short film "Ici commence".
The film is then selected in Madrid by the EuropeNow festival and in Bilbao at the Bideodromo International Experimental Film Festival.
Directed in 2019, "L'eau de la terre" is a tale that offers several levels of reading with its metaphors and allegories. Freely inspired by some thirty paintings by great masters of painting such as Qi Baishi, Gao Xingjian, Shoda Koho, or Katsushika Hokusai, Chloé Guêze paints this tale of Oceania which tells the story of an ordinary little frog who wanted to become extraordinary.
L'eau de la terre is awarded Best Animation Short Film at the Varese International Short Film, as well as Best Screenplay Award at the Picasso Einstein Buddha International Film Festival.
The international film festival producer Jonathan Zsofi entrusted Romain Claris in 2020 with the creation and direction of Bordeaux Shorts Biennale the International Festival of 1 Minute films and Short Films of Bordeaux.
The festival offers a panel of short films from all over the world. From 1 minute, very short films of 1 to 4 minutes and short films of 4 to 15 minutes in the following genres: Fiction, Animation, Documentary, Experimental.
The second edition took place on October 21, 2022 at the Utopia cinema. 24 films from 14 countries were screened to the public.
He also signed several photography and video exhibitions with the photographer Nicolas Claris, including "Bangladesh"" in 2013, "Trois châteaux en hiver" in 2014, "Bateaux, Châteaux, Gâteaux" in 2016, "Rouge"" in 2017, "Noirs"" in 2018, "Un peu de rouge, pourtant" in 2020.
Their next exhibition Un ciel dans une fleur sauvage will be shocased by the Galerie des Art'Gentiersfrom Friday January 20th to Saturday March 11th 2023.
Their exhibition On the rocks will be unveiled at the International Multihull Show from April 12 to 16, 2023.
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Music Catch Up • New Releases from KAMI & Zona Man
Jake Krez February 14, 2018
It's Valentine's Day, but that doesn't mean the music stops. On this catch up awe have some new music from SaveMoney's KAMI and hometown FBG-affiliate Zona Man who impressed with a star-studded release. As always, get into the songs below here and catch them streaming 24/7 on our radio station, Mild Sauce Radio.
KAMI • From Me To You
If the last year is any indication, SaveMoney's KAMI just may emerge as the surprise release king of Chicago, after following up his Just Like The Movies.. and Superstar EP last year he's back with a trio of singles just in time for Valentine's Day appropriately titled, From Me To You. Here we get some sinewy, sing-song bars from KAMI that stay relatively light-hearted and similarly draped in vocal stylistics reminiscent of recent releases. Despite that, this one feels like a bit of a departure from where we last found him soaking up the 80s-era dance floor vibes alongside Knox Fortune and that could have something to do with the audible on production which comes from Super King, Andrew Luce and Harlan Silverman. The bread of this Valentine's Day sandwich happens to be two versions of the same song, "You're Mine", each of which takes the sentiment in a convincing different direction. It's that time of year and KAMI seems to be ready to set the mood for folks ahead of Joey Purp's Empty Bottle show tonight. Check it out below.
Zona Man • Bout Time
Late last Fall, while getting the legs under this site, I often found myself sharing an office with Zona Man's son, who often filled the time his Dad spent in the adjacent studio playing video games and watching TV as Zona hung out between takes. Unassuming, focused and immediately friendly, my first impression of Zona is similar to the perspective of his latest project, Bout Time. While the local FBG-signee has been quiet for some time, he flexed hard on this project, calling in a bevy of names including Future, Young Thug, Bump J and Tory Lanez for the features while C-Sick, D. Brooks, Southside and some fresh faces in Donn Robb and Oz lace the production side of things. Top-to-bottom, it's hard not to be excited at the prospect of this one, Zona certainly made sure he got the star power for this one, with plenty more on the way. If you weren't already paying attention it's, well, Bout Time.