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A muffler company drafts in the slipstream of the market leader, seemingly happy just to be in the race.
Ray Agostinelli	on November 10, 2016
First the facts, then the frustration: Meineke started in 1971 in Houston, TX, Midas in 1956 in Macon, GA. Both businesses became franchise operations very early, focusing on muffler repair and replacement. Since the mid-90s, both have marketed themselves as full service automotive repair facilities, expanding their offerings to include oil changes, brakes, shocks, batteries, the whole greasy checklist.
Meineke is named for its founder, Sam Meineke. We don't know whether the reference to the mythical Greek king was foremost in the mind of Nate Sherman, Midas's founder, or the "Muffler Installation Dealers' Associated Service" that it stood for at one point, but today the acronymic meaning is cited rarely as the company battles public misperception that they are niche muffler market players.
Early on, Meineke differentiated itself from Midas on price, even including "Discount" in it's official name, but they've steered away from that strategy as they've moved towards the full-service operation and indeed seem to have lost any desire to differentiate themselves at all (see below.)
Meineke has around a thousand franchises, Midas over twice that amount. Meineke's parent company, Driven Brands, also owns Econo Lube and Maaco; Midas's corporate siblings include Big O Tires and SpeeDee Oil Change.
Midas had a huge head start in this space and Meineke can be commended for staring at their receding backsides and deciding to join the race at all. But that's about all we can commend them for. This is an also-ran that seems perfectly happy with second place.
Let us concede for the moment that this is an industry of tight margins where any success at all depends on operational efficiency, quality training of high-turnover staff, and innovative up-sells to customers wary when their $20 oil change somehow grows to include a CV joint replacement and wheel realignment. (Yeah, she signed off on it, but only because the guy in coveralls made it sound like the right rear tire was going to fall off on the way home if she didn't.)
We also recognize that brand loyalty counts for little in this sector. While it is true that a close personal relationship with your mechanic counts for a huge amount, in general, positive feelings don't extend too far into these particular brands. Your local Meineke guy could be superb but if you break down on the road you are probably as likely to go to Midas if they can get you in sooner. In fact, the associations you have with either of these brands tend to transfer to the other.
And that's the heart of the lesson here – there is little to no differentiation. It's not clear where the blame ultimately lies, but we are going to place it on Meineke, because around here we expect more from an also-ran. We want to see a spark of innovation, some fight, in our underdogs. We want to see them come snarling out of the gate, splashing spit left and right, closing ground fast, nipping at heels, chomping an exposed ankle. The front-runner is tiring, he's big and fat, bring him down, Underdog, bring him down!
But all the evidence here points to a complacent organization satisfied to draft in the slipstream of the pace car, truly driving nothing (despite the name of that corporate parent), mainly focused on finding plum light industrial corner lots to lease while they bank the vig off their franchisees.
Get to work, Meineke! Here are two ideas, off the top of our heads: 1) Get a visual rebranding, stat. The yellow and black color scheme, the gently tilted logotype, the whole friggin' website, truth be told – explicitly echo Midas's. If that corporate branding was not consciously designed to mimic Midas's, the guys who designed it were unconscious at the time. 2) Get a slogan. Okay, it doesn't count for that much, but there's room to innovate here, if nowhere else in this commoditized business. Midas has had "Trust the Midas Touch" for generations. Attack that! How about pointing out that King Midas, after inadvertently transforming his food – not to mention his daughter, whoops – into gold asked Dionysus to rescind the stupid superpower he thought he wanted. Slogan: "Even King Midas Hated the Midas Touch."
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How Effective Are Non-Drug and Non-Diet Therapies In Lowering Blood Pressure?
By Alexandra Sifferlin @acsifferlinApril 23, 2013
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Meditation, yoga, aerobic exercise and strength training are popular ways to lower blood pressure, so the latest study compared their effectiveness against common drug and diet treatments.
About 26% of people worldwide have high blood pressure, and hypertension is responsible for half of strokes and heart disease. But recommendations urging patients to change their eating habits — by reducing the amount of salt and fat they consume — and to exercise more aren't easy to follow. Drug treatments are effective, but some patients do not respond well to standard medications, making alternative treatment options an important part of their care. Yet it's not clear how effective these strategies are in lowering blood pressure and eventually helping people to avoid stroke or heart disease.
So a panel of researchers convened by the American Heart Association, led by Dr. Robert Book, a professor of medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, reviewed data from recent studies to come up with a scientific statement evaluating alternative therapies for people with blood pressure higher than 120/80 mm Hg.
(MORE: Walk, or Run, to Lower Heart Disease Risk: Benefits Are Similar)
The panel researchers reviewed 1,000 studies, published between 2006 and 2011, that investigated three alternative remedy categories. The first involved exercise regimens, the second included behavioral therapies like mediation and the final therapy category assessed non-invasive procedures like acupuncture or devices that helped patients slow their breathing. Although none of the therapies caused serious adverse effects, the benefits recorded by these studies were small.
For instance, when the researchers looked at the three types of exercise regimens — aerobic, resistance or weight training and isometric exercises — they found that all three regimens lowered blood pressure. But isometric hand grip exercises were associated with the greatest improvements in blood pressure — a 10% drop in systolic and diastolic blood pressure. The decline was greater than that recorded among those who walked regularly. the reason, say the researchers could have something to do with the fact that those who walked in the study were not exercising at an intense enough levels; some studies showed that walking had more of a beneficial effect on blood pressure if participants used a faster pace or exercised more frequently, such as walking over 35 minutes more than four days a week.
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Behavioral therapies like transcendental mediation, which helps to lower stress, only lowered blood pressure slightly, and there was little evidence that other types of meditation provided benefit either. Although some studies have linked yoga to a lower risk of some specific heart disorders, the researchers concluded that the data wasn't strong enough to recommend yoga and other relaxation techniques to lower blood pressure.
Finally, device-guided slow breathing showed some promise in lowering blood pressure when patients used it for 15 minute sessions for three to four times in a day. One such device, RESPeRATE, involved a belt around the thorax to monitor breathing. The device fed real-time data on respiration rate into a small battery-operated controller box that played back musical tones into the wearer's headphones to guide them toward more relaxed and controlled breathing to help to lower blood pressure.
However, studies did not support the benefits of another popular therapy for treating blood pressure — acupuncture — in treating hypertension.
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So are any of the alternative therapies worth trying, especially for people whose blood pressure remains high on pharmaceutical medications or who can't tolerate the side effects of these drugs? Brock said in a statement that most of the alternative approaches the panel evaluated lowered blood pressure by 2-10 mm Hg, while prescription medications resulted in a 10-15 mm Hg decline in systolic pressure on average. But the panel found that the alternative options can't hurt, since the evidence did not reveal serious harms, so the strategies should be used in addition to, and not replace well-established approaches to managing blood pressure. These include exercising, eating a low-sodium diet, managing weight and avoiding smoking and excessive drinking. And for those who can tolerate them, taking the appropriate medications.
Considering a combination of strategies to find the right doses and appropriate mix of options for each patient, say the researchers, may be the best way to take advantage of the variety of blood pressure-lowering strategies that are available.
The study is published in the journal Hypertension.
Alexandra Sifferlin @acsifferlin
Alexandra Sifferlin is a writer and producer for TIME Healthland. She is a graduate from the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism.

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In Our Own Words: John Welker, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre
Gail O'Neill August 20, 2020
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John Welker became a professional dancer at age 16, and performed with Atlanta Ballet for more than two decades. He is a founding artist, artistic and executive director of Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre. He has a B.A. in dance and an M.B.A. from Kennesaw State University. He lives in Decatur with his wife, Christine, and their 7-year-old son, Lucas. (Photo by Felipe Barral)
Growing up in the inner city of Columbus, Ohio, I was exposed to a wide variety of people and cultures, and my parents were very intentional about hosting a revolving door of visitors from all over the world at our dinner table. My only experience with intolerance came from my eighth-grade soccer coach. After I told him I had to give up being team captain to pursue ballet more seriously, he assembled the entire team. He made me share my plans with them, ridiculed ballet in front of the group and humiliated me. It was a painful experience. But it fueled my competitive streak and taught me to never make another person feel the way my coach made me feel that day.
As a husband, father and artist, I am no stranger to reflection. But the Covid-19 crisis and killing of George Floyd has forced me to go deeper. Blatant acts of racism and hate seem to be amplified by our isolation. There is so much pain and emotional fatigue. It seems nothing has changed . . . yet so much has changed. And the heightened pitch and sense of urgency feels different — on a personal and societal level.
While talking recently to my 7-year-old son about racism and the importance of feeling comfortable in his own skin, it suddenly hit me that what amounted to a choice for me is a necessity for Black and Brown parents. They don't have the luxury of not talking about bigotry, racism and the value of self-esteem with their children because the stakes are so much higher. Not only in terms of protecting the child's physical safety and emotional well-being, but in preserving the child's life.
We are all, in some way, re-examining our values. There is a mounting tension nationwide around a conflicting need to assert ourselves, our values and our experiences with a broader need to feel like we are part of a whole. Titles, positions, professional accolades, wealth and fame don't seem to hold the same social currency they once did. There is so much cultural flux, it's hard to make any sense of it all. By the same token, difficult conversations are being had. If I've learned anything from these past few months, it's to trust that humility and faith in others will keep me learning and growing. And this gives me hope.
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Arkansas Endodontist Offers Action Plan For Tooth Injuries "They Can Happen To Anyone"
Tooth injuries can happen to anyone, and often do. Whether it's sports gone wrong, a fall in a hospital or at home or just chewing on hard food, teeth can become chipped or partially to completely dislodged. Dr. Amir Mehrabi, an endodontist in Little Rock, spoke with Arkansas Public Media about the causes and cures of tooth injury.
DR. MEHRABI: You know, one of the things I like to encourage people to do is to first of all, have a relationship with their dentist, their family dentist. Often times, when for example my boys are signing up for football or whatever, they have to go get a physical. But that physical doesn't involve a dental physical, which is as important as any other type of physical that we need to get. And having done that, once you're established with a dentist, they can make the child, or the person who is active and involved in sports, a custom mouthpiece -- a mouthguard -- which can tremendously reduce the incidence of injured teeth.
ANN KENDA, ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA: Tooth injuries can also happen in a fall, or just from chewing.
DR. MEHRABI: We have seen those most frequently in adult patients, that already have a tooth that perhaps has a large filling in there. Although we've also seen it in a tooth that had never been restored before. Where they bit down, they were having lunch, chicken salad and there was a piece of bone in there, and they bit down on it just right and sheered off or broke off a cusp. Now, again, some of those injuries are not as critcal, or perhaps they are not going to involve the nerve of the tooth. Whereas some of those contact sports and whatnot, it could injure the pulp or that essence of the tooth.
ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA: There are things you can do immediately after a tooth injury.
DR. MEHRABI: For example, if the tooth completely comes out, what they need to do is just get that tooth - make sure it's clean - and just put it back. Just put it back in the socket. You know where it is, you can kind of figure out the orientation, just put it in and get to your dentist as soon as possible. Another thing to consider is that the tooth is out and you don't want to put it in or for whatever reason, you need to keep that tooth in some sort of physiological medium or some kind of solution.
ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA: A small cup of milk will work for that. As with most injuries, time is of the essence.
DR. MEHRABI: What determines the outcome of this type of injuries, for better or for worse, is the time. The sooner we get that tooth in there, the better the prognosis, the better the chances of that tooth staying for a long time, as opposed to if it's been out. And that sweet spot is about thirty minutes. So you want to get somewhere, if the tooth has been out, within that timeframe.
ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA: Sometmes patients decide to just live with a chipped tooth and not make an appointment. But Dr. Mehrabi says that's not for the best.
DR. MEHRABI: If we find a small problem, it's a lot easier and a lot cheaper to fix than if it's ignored. And then it becomes a bigger problem and the pain gets involved and the cost and everything else. So we understand the phobia that's out there, and unfortunately, as a child I did not have a great experience with my dentist. But now, that's not an issue - most dentists are friendly and patient and they want to help their patients. So don't ignore it. Don't ignore it.
A neurosurgeon with the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences is helping with a study on a high-frequency device similar to a pacemaker that can help ease amputation pain.
The study is part of clinical trials at up to 25 sites nationally. Dr. Erika Petersen, a neurosurgeon and researcher, will lead the local study for UAMS. Amputees will undergo surgery to be implanted with the device, which they can then activate for pain relief on an as-needed basis.


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Home › News › BC Community Living Action Group marks 7th anniversary of Christy Clarks move to create CLBC, as unfulfilled promises leave vulnerable families, adults waiting
BC Community Living Action Group marks 7th anniversary of Christy Clarks move to create CLBC, as unfulfilled promises leave vulnerable families, adults waiting
Seven years ago, BC's Deputy Premier and Minister for Children & Families, Christy Clark, introduced legislation to establish Community Living BC, promising that the new authority would change the lives of people with developmental disabilities and their families for the better.
Today, BC Community Living Action Group is speaking up on behalf of families across the province to note that her 2004 promises remain unfulfilled, with fewer options and opportunities, cuts, denial of support and growing alarm over the safety, health and quality of life of vulnerable adults and families.
On May 19, 2004, then Deputy Premier Clark promised the BC Legislature:
-I'm pleased to introduce Bill 45, the Community Living Authority Act. This bill introduces groundbreaking legislation which will transform how community living services are provided to individuals with developmental disabilities in British Columbia... This legislation gives British Columbians with developmental disabilities and their families better options and more opportunities in their communities. They'll be able to look forward to a safer, healthier and better quality of life."
... Debates of the Legislative Assembly (Hansard) May 19, 2004
The anniversary coincides with Ms. Clarks mandate to return to the Legislature as British Columbias new Premier and MLA for Vancouver Point Grey. To mark the event, BC Community Living Action Group (BC CLAG) partners will visit the Legislature on May 18 to remind Premier Clark that families are waiting for her promises to be honoured.
Community living stakeholders came together in an unprecedented consensus to form BC CLAG in 2010, prompted by growing concerns about cuts to and erosion of services and supports. In April, BC CLAG issued a report explaining the serious challenges in community living and offering practical solutions. Our group reached out and invited Premier Clark and her new Minister for Community Living, Harry Bloy, to work with us to ensure their promises to BC families would be honoured.
Minister Bloy has dismissed the concerns and recommendations shared by families and stakeholders through BC CLAG. Our request to meet remains unanswered. So BC CLAG is reaching out again to stress that families are still waiting and will continue to urge Premier Clark and Minister Bloy to honour the promises made seven years ago.
About BC-CLAG: The BC Community Living Action Group (BC-CLAG) is a network of self-advocates, families, support staff and agencies who support adults with disabilities. The Health Sciences Association is a member of BC-CLAG. More info: http://communitylivingaction.org/
Or contact the following BC CLAG representatives:
· Faith Bodnar, BC Association for Community Living, 604 777-9100
· Dawn Steele, Moms on the Move, (604) 874-1416 / 778 848-9932 (Cel)
· James Cavaluzzo, BC Government and Service Employees Union, 250 507-8492 (Cel)
· Jane Dyson, BC Coalition of People with Disabilities, 604-875-0188
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Death in the water tank: nightmarish case remains unsolved 10 years later
Updated Mar 29, 2019; Posted Feb 08, 2015
Geetha Angara's Death Still a Myster
Gallery: Geetha Angara's Death Still a Myster
By Mark Mueller | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
It was ink-black in the vast underground water tank. And biting cold. The only escape, a panel in the ceiling, loomed 5 feet above the water level, far too high to reach. Worse, there was no ladder.
In that frigid subterranean cavern at the Passaic Valley Water Commission in Totowa, Geetha Angara — scientist, wife and mother of three — met her horrible death 10 years ago today.
Someone — probably a male co-worker — had wrapped his hands around the chemist's throat in a dank hallway above and squeezed until she passed out, then forced her through the hatch into the murk, authorities said at the time. In 36-degree water, she drowned.
The Feb. 8, 2005, death drew attention far beyond the borders of New Jersey. It wasn't only that Angara died in nightmarish fashion or that it was a mystery detectives struggled to solve.
Just four years removed from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the incident raised broader concerns among residents and lawmakers about lax security in treatment plants and the safety of the nation's water supply.
Gradually, press coverage tailed off. So did the investigation, with one detective voicing the opinion that Angara must have died accidentally.
Now, with the 10th anniversary at hand, the Holmdel woman's family members have called for the case to be re-examined, and they have found an ally in state Sen. Joe Kyrillos, who told NJ Advance Media last week he will ask the state Attorney General's Office to take a fresh look at evidence, witnesses and suspects.
Geetha Angara died on Feb. 8, 2005, at the Passaic Valley Water Commission's treatment plant in Totowa.
"It was a horrible, horrible case," said Kyrillos (R-Monmouth), who, along with other lawmakers, persuaded the state to review the investigation once before, in 2007.
"A decade has now gone by since the murder, and I'm happy to help put a spotlight on this," Kyrillos said. "So I'll be asking acting Attorney General John Hoffman to review this case, to find a way for his office to re-engage."
A spokesman for Hoffman said Friday his office had not yet heard from Kyrillos. The spokesman, Peter Aseltine, declined further comment, saying the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office remains the lead investigative agency.
For the moment, that agency is no longer looking into Angara's death.
Michael DeMarco, chief assistant prosecutor of the major crimes unit in Passaic County, described the probe as open but inactive.
"If we were to discover any new evidence or have new information provided to us, of course we would make it an active investigation and pursue any leads," DeMarco said.
He said he empathizes with the Angara family, adding that law enforcement officials want nothing more than to provide relatives with the answers they seek.
"When a family does not have that arrest, that closure through the criminal justice system — through a trial or plea — it's very difficult, and we understand that," DeMarco said. "We share in that frustration when we have an unsolved homicide."
Angara's oldest daughter, Pavithra, was 19 when her mother died at age 43. Now a state deputy attorney general in the division of law, she argues it makes sense for investigators to revisit the case.
"How do you get new information if you don't ask questions?" she said during an interview at the family's home. "Maybe once in a while you need to shake something to see what falls out. Things have changed at the plant over the years. Maybe someone who was scared to talk before is willing to talk now. I think it would be your due diligence to continue asking questions."
'Hostile' Work Environment
A native of Chennai, India, near the subcontinent's southeast coast, Geetha Angara earned a doctorate in organic chemistry at New York University before finding work at the water commission, an enormous industrial complex that provides drinking water to more than 800,000 people in 17 northern New Jersey communities.
It was Angara's job to ensure the water was clean and safe, and she took it seriously, former co-workers and family members said. In 2004, she was promoted to the position of senior chemist, charged with overseeing the plant's transformation into a cutting-edge facility that would eventually dispense with chlorine treatments in favor of an ozone disinfection system.
"It was a very exciting time for her," said her husband, Jaya, a banker. "The ozone technology was just coming up at the time, and she was taking the initiative in implementing it. She'd been promoted and had gotten her license to operate a plant. She was very happy."
Despite her personal satisfaction, Geetha Angara told her husband some employees in the facility were resentful of her promotion and disagreed with the decision to switch to the ozone cleansing process.
In the weeks before his wife's death, Jaya Angara said, another employee blamed her when a pinkish material — seemingly associated with the ozone system — was discovered in treated water.
"My wife told me the atmosphere was very hostile at the time," he said. "There was friction."
On the morning of Feb. 8, Geetha Angara vanished.
In this 1996 file photo, workers walk through a tunnel at the Passaic Valley Water Commission's treatment plant in Totowa. The tunnel is similar to the one where Geetha Angara disappeared in 2005. Her body was later found in an underground tank.
She had last been seen around 10:30 a.m., descending to the plant's lower level, a warren of narrow passages lined with large pipes. She carried a clipboard and a glass beaker. A two-way radio was either in her pocket or clipped to her clothing. She was planning to calibrate instruments, a task she had conducted countless times, co-workers told investigators.
Beneath her, interconnected tanks held 9 million gallons of purified water 35 feet deep. Those tanks had only one way in or out: rectangular 4-foot metal access plates, each weighing 50 pounds, set in the concrete floor.
It would be 12 hours before anyone noticed she was gone. A night-shift worker had spotted Angara's coat in her office, an uneaten sandwich on her desk. Three employees who had left for the day returned to the plant to search for her.
In a lower-level passage, investigators would later say, one of those employees discovered broken glass on the floor, adjacent to an access panel that was slightly askew. The worker swept up the shards and discarded them in the trash. Eventually, the employees called police.
Divers discovered Angara's body 30 hours after she disappeared. It had migrated from one tank containing 1 million gallons of water into another. Below the hatch found askew, the divers found the remains of the beaker and Angara's radio.
Had she fallen through the access hole while walking, perhaps distracted? There was a problem with that theory.
The panel was nearly closed. There was no way, investigators said, Angara could have fit through.
A String of Dead Ends
It was a difficult investigation from the start.
There were no cameras on the lower level to record what happened. The crime scene had been contaminated first by plant employees, then by police officers and firefighters who aided in the search.
Immersed in corrosive chlorine for more than a day, Angara's body yielded no trace evidence, no DNA and no fingerprints, authorities said.
Former Passaic County Prosecutor James Avigliano discusses the death of Geetha Angara in a 2005 interview with The Star-Ledger. (File Photo)
But the body told a story nonetheless. An autopsy revealed deep bruises around Angara's neck. The medical examiner found more bruising on Angara's waist and on one of her elbows, suggesting she fought as someone grabbed her, then throttled her into unconsciousness.
In the weeks afterward, former Passaic County Prosecutor James Avigliano said he believed Angara's attacker then pried open the access panel, pushed Angara through the hole and sealed her inside, replacing the panel haphazardly in a rush.
Jaya Angara said he tries not to think of his wife's final moments. They have haunted him for a decade already.
"It was a brutal murder," he said. "A horrible incident."
Detectives interviewed every one of the plant's 85 employees and obtained DNA samples from the 50 who were at work that morning.
Three employees gave investigators enough pause to be considered suspects, Avigliano said at the time.
John Latoracca, the former chief assistant prosecutor in Passaic County and now a criminal defense attorney in Rutherford, said detectives worked the suspects exhaustively.
"There were a couple of people who raised their (investigators') antennas," Latoracca said. "But when push came to shove, we looked into the additional things that became areas of concern in interviewing these folks, and based on that, we thought that while there were reasons they came across as hinky, we ultimately didn't believe they actively killed her."
On the one-year anniversary of Geetha Angara's death, mourners attend a candlelight vigil at the entrance to the Passaic Valley Water Commission's treatment plant in Totowa. Angara's 2005 death at the facility remains unsolved. The slain chemist's husband, Jaya Angara, is seen second from left. (File photo)
To make sure they hadn't missed anything, authorities asked the Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Environmental Protection to examine the plant's records for any anomaly. They found nothing.
In 2006, an EPA dive team spent hours in the tank where Angara died, searching the floor for evidence that might have escaped the attention of the divers looking for Angara a year earlier. Again, nothing.
Avigliano, the former prosecutor, even asked his team to look into a 37-year-old murder — the vicious slaying of a secretary at the Hoffman-La Roche plant in Clifton — because like Angara's killing, it was committed in isolation, on a weekend when the office was empty. Avigliano wanted to see if he could learn from that investigation.
There was also the remote chance that someone who worked on the Hoffman-La Roche campus in 1968 later became an employee of the water commission.
Like every lead, it came to a dead end.
Frustrated, the Angara family pushed for the Attorney General's Office to take over the investigation, enlisting the help of Kyrillos and other legislators, including former Rep. Rush Holt (D-12th Dist.) and Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula (D-Somerset).
In 2007, the state agreed to review the case, though it did not re-investigate every aspect, Latoracca said. That probe, too, went silent.
A year later, the retired lead investigator for the prosecutor's office, Lt. James Wood, told The Star-Ledger he had come to believe Angara's death, while tragic, was an accident.
"There's absolutely no question in my mind," he said, citing the work of a Scottish pathologist who found that in certain cold-water drownings, bruising around the neck is similar to the injuries found in strangulation.
Latoracca has his own nagging doubt, but he won't go that far. Five pathologists reviewed Angara's autopsy report. All concluded it was a homicide.
"It wasn't just one medical examiner. It was multiple medical examiners," Latoracca said. "Who am I to say these folks are wrong about a field I don't know a heck of a lot about?"
At the same time, he said, "I can certainly see why Lt. Wood and most of the other guys on the job thought it was an accident."
At the very least, he said, someone sealed Angara inside that tank.
"Somebody in that place has some kind of responsibility," the former prosecutor said. "Either someone committed a homicide or someone forgot to replace that plate after opening it and now has this woman's death on their hands by negligence."
No one, he said, admitted moving the panel back atop the hole.
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Jaya Angara contends authorities must go all in one way or the other. Either persuade the pathologists they made a mistake, he said, or investigate in the certainty it was a homicide.
Pavithra Angara rejects the idea that it was an accident outright. She called her mother an exceedingly careful woman. Moreover, she said, it would be nearly impossible to miss a black, 4-foot hole in the ground.
"I think you would have to ignore a lot of facts to believe it was an accident," she said.
In the years since her mother's death, she has come to fill the role Geetha Angara once played, helping to care for her brother, Vivek, 23, and younger sister, Priya, 19, a sophomore at Rutgers University.
Pavithra Angara said it was her mother who planted the seed that she pursue a legal career, a first in a family filled with medical professionals.
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It is justice, she says, that she wants for her mother.
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White River Amphitheatre is a Live Nation managed concert venue, located  east of Auburn, Washington and  west of Enumclaw, Washington on the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation. It is  northeast of Tacoma and  southeast of Seattle. The capacity is 16,000, with 9,000 covered seats. Completed in 2003, the 98-acre (40 ha) project cost more than $30 million and hosts musical events under an acoustically treated metal roof; it features two 30-by-40-foot (9x12 m) video screens on either side of the stage.

History
White River Amphitheater opened on June 14, 2003. Home-town stars Heart were the opening act. Although ground had been broken eight years earlier, the project had been delayed due to the environmental impact statement and traffic concerns.

The Army Corps of Engineers signed off on construction in September 2002. In February 2003, the Washington State Department of Transportation "issued a permit allowing access from crowded, two-lane state Route 164."

When it opened, the venue was operated by the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Clear Channel Entertainment and Bill Graham Presents. Today it is operated by Live Nation; they reduced capacity from 20,000 to 16,000 in 2015. To mitigate traffic, the venue offers shuttles from (and to) the Auburn Super Mall, which was renamed The Outlet Collection Seattle for some concerts. Shuttles depart after they are filled, with 42 people per shuttle.

Notable concerts
Jimmy Buffett released a CD of his September 16, 2003 performance, called Live in Auburn, WA.

Heavy metal band Iron Maiden has also performed here on their last few tours including Eddie Rips Up The World Tour, The Somewhere Back In Time World Tour, and The Final Frontier World Tour. During the show on June 22, 2010, Frontman Bruce Dickinson stated that the pit was the only one at 100% capacity on the tour so far. Iron Maiden performed here during their Maiden England World Tour on 30 July 2012.

Sting performed during his Symphonicities Tour on June 6, 2010, along with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Rancid performed on September 2, 2011.

The amphitheatre has played host to music festivals, including  Crüe Fest and Crüe Fest 2,  Farm Aid, The Gigantour, The Mayhem Festival,  Projekt Revolution, Ozzfest, and The Uproar Festival. Since 2010, the KISW Pain in the Grass festival has been held here. It hosted the Vans Warped Tour for two years straight, hosting Warped Tour 2012 and Warped Tour 2013.

See also
List of contemporary amphitheatres

References

External links

Amphitheaters in the United States
Buildings and structures in Auburn, Washington
Music venues in Washington (state)
Tourist attractions in King County, Washington
2003 establishments in Washington (state)

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I have created a new TFS Group that I want to provide restricted access to. Group is called "Co-op Developer".
I was users within this group to be able to contribute to code; that is commit code to GIT branches. However, I do not want users within this group to be able to Merge Pull Requests.
As far as I can tell, in order for users in this group to be able to access and modify code I need to enable the Contribute access control for the repositories, as shown in this screenshot.

However, by doing so the user is able to merge pull requests.
How can i set this user up to be able to commit code to the repositories, but not allow these users to be able to perform a merge on a pull request.
Further to this question, I would also like to force a code review for any code committed by these users if possible

A: Pull requests let your team give feedback on changes in feature branches before merging the code into the master branch. There is not a distinctly pull request related in the GIT permission  list.
However, you could use branch policy to achieve what you need.

force a code review for any code committed by these users

After you set up a branch policy, you cannot directly push changes to the branch. Changes to the branch are only made through pull requests.
To require teams to review their changes before completing a pull request, select Require a minimum number of approvals before completing pull request under Code review requirements.

set this user up to be able to commit code to the repositories, but
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The owner cannot review and approve their own changes if Allow users to approve their own changes is not selected. Without the code review completed, then the user is not able to commit/merge changes in pull request.
More details about the branch policy please refer this tutorial: Improve code quality with branch policies

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Aviation training consumes vast quantities of time and resources, yet it's questionable if sound educational practices or quality learning experiences are considered when delivering this training. This paper hopes to stimulate debate as to how educational practitioners might contribute to an improved learning experience within the aviation industry.
The aviation industry is noted for the quality of training available to licenced professionals, however for staff based in Operations, Continuing Airworthiness, Safety or Compliance there are few recognisable qualifications or career paths(Global Aviation Information Network, 2004). Having experienced numerous training courses, few have provided a quality learning experience, often little more than box ticking exercises toward regulation compliance.
Being expected to contribute toward and work within complex management and safety systems; requires thinking beyond simply knowing the regulation backgrounds or system descriptions offered in some training sessions.
This paper focuses on an educational programme introduced by myself whilst working towards an MSc in Aircraft Maintenance Management at City University; involving junior staff at the author's organisation using live data during flight planning and maintenance management.
My project looked at Dynamic Risk Assessment, exposure and decision logs adapted from industries outside of aviation; aiming to provide staff with tools needed to explore the systems in which they operate, manipulating them to best advantage and developing thinking required to capture data for safety reporting and building case studies guaranteeing them a stake in the Safety Management System.
The programme continued during 2016, resulting in two members of staff having Form 4s accepted by the UK CAA in Safety Management and Ground Operations on condition they continue to work under the supervision of programme mentors.
Highlight the need for learning within industries providing high quality training for licenced professional and management, but overlook learning experiences for all levels of staff working within safety and management systems.
Suggest if training rather than learning is taking place, 'training providers' identify and convey threshold concepts, whilst removing troublesome knowledge, focusing on what knowledge is important to transfer.
Discuss the means of delivering the tools and concepts needed by workers to contribute to the systems in which they are expected to operate within.
Is aviation biased heavily toward training as opposed to learning?
Aviation is a complex world of regulation, compliance and systems, deemed vital to flight safety, yet any training to use or benefit from these systems is seen as secondary and structured learning opportunities rarely appear.
Does the industry need 'aviation educationalists'?
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Boud, D., and G. Feletti (Eds.). (1991) 'The Challenge of Problem-Based Learning'.
Global Aviation Information Network (GAIN) (2004) A roadmap to a just culture: Enhancing the Safety Environment. 1st Edition, Working group E.
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) (1998)Part D-3 Flight Operations Officers/Flight Dispatchers. 2ND Edition .
Meyer, J. & R. Land (2003) 'Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: linkages to ways of thinking and practising within the disciplines.' OCSLD, Oxford.


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Beware of Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle, DG Agriculture
Five thousand households in the SHEFA Province could be affected if communities and villages around Efate do not take proactive measures to help the Department of Agriculture eradicate the spread of Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle (CRB).
The Biosecurity Office has reported an outbreak of CRB, a rare type of beetle that has been found on Efate and could pose a threat to coconut trees and coconut plantations. This rare Pacific beetle was also found in the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea.
Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr Moses Amos in a press conference this morning told the media that coconut trees could be at high risk if we do not act now and take necessary steps to stop the spread of CRB.
"This is a very dangerous pest that attacks and feeds on the fronds and leaves of a coconut tree, even to the extent of destroying young coconut fruits and if we don't mobilize our communities to take action to stop and eradicate the spread of this pest, we may lose our coconut trees," he stressed.
DG Amos calls on the SHEFA Provincial authority, the Area Councils, community leaders, chiefs and the people of Efate and offshore islands to work together with the Department of Agriculture to help minimize the spread of this insect before they destroy coconut plantations and spread to other areas.
"This is a very dangerous pest and because of its seriousness, we must make it everybody's business to help eradicate them before they multiply and grow out of hand," he stressed.
The Coconut Production Sector for the country is estimated at around 195 VT (Agriculture Census 2007). Vanuatu farmers rely heavily on coconut farming where more households rely on coconut with 5,091 households compared to Kava with 1,257 (Agriculture census).
According to the Principal Biosecurity Officer of the Department of Biosecurity, Ms Touasi Tiwok, CRP was first sighted in Mangaliliu on 20th May and while her office could not confirm how the pests entered the island of Efate, it is believed they may have entered the country through the yachts.
"The Biosecurity office is monitoring movements of people who came through yachts and other entry points to avoid further spread of this insect," she said.
Ms Tiwok said during the first sighting of the CRB, Biosecurity officers have collected specimens from the affected area and sent images to SPC (Secretariat of the Pacific Community) Plant Health Team who confirmed the morphology of beetles as Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle and recommended the specimens be sent to New Zealand where it was later confirmed on 24th May by the NZ Landcare Research LAB to be of the same species.
She said Biosecurity Vanuatu has also engaged the technical expertise of the Pacific Community in providing both the technical experts as well as the in-country support to assist the country with surveillance and emergency response.
As an emergency response Biosecurity Vanuatu has established a CRB Response Taskforce Team to manage the CRB Incursion on Efate and prevent its spread to adjacent communities and islands, as well as other provinces (e.g. Sanma, Malampa, Torba, and Penama).
She said Biosecurity Vanuatu sighted significant damage to coconut palms within an approximate 12km radius from the original sighting at Mangaliliu. On 8th June a suspected finding of juvenile beetles was detected near Eton village whose specimens are again being sent to New Zealand Lab for continued identification.
"With this suspected finding at Eton village, it represents a significant range extension," she stressed.
Her office has been doing the best they can by fully engaging their technical teams for emergency and surveillance response where they have deployed 40 bucket traps with pheromone lure to assist with the surveillance, community awareness activities ongoing at Mangaliliu and other areas to improve community cooperation in detecting and reporting signs of CRB damage, destruction of breeding sites both with the use of chainsaws and burning, and 20 artificial breeding sites deployed to capture adult beetles.
Describing the pest, Ms Tiwok said the difference between CRP and any normal rhinoceros beetle is that it has long orange hairs which can be identified from the normal beetles and it takes around 95 days to grow from eggs to a fully grown size insect. It eats and destroys coconut fronds and leave a V shape on the leaves. It can fly for up to 4 kilometers.
She said her office is awaiting a Council of Ministers decision to release funds of around VT40 million for her office to carry out the eradication program given the seriousness of the outbreak of this pest.
Meanwhile, she is appealing to the market vendors especially women coming from these affected areas and other villages and offshore islands of Efate to ensure they de-husks their coconuts before they bring them to the markets to sell them.
"Coconut husks, coconut seedlings, coconut branches, and even in rotten wood, they form very good breeding grounds for CRB, so if you discover them in these areas, burn them to avoid the spread of the insects," she stressed.
Both Directors of Agriculture and Livestock emphasized the importance of engaging communities and villages to be involved in the control measures to help eradicate this insect.
"Our communities must be informed of the dangers this insect pose to our coconut trees, we must all cooperate and work together in a collective effort to combat this insect, Pastors need to make announcements on Sabbaths or Sundays to inform our people of the seriousness of this outbreak," said Director Bong.
Area Secretaries attending the press conference also voice concerns stating the important role of media on the dangers of the outbreak.
The CRB team is advising all communities throughout Shefa as well as nearby islands to restrict the movement of risk materials that can spread CRB from affected areas – these include animal manure for gardens, soil, firewood, coconut husks, palm fronds.
The team also prohibit the movement of coconut husks, sucks of cocoa, coconut seedlings, pandanus fronds, oriental palms, host plants which include cocoa, banana shoots and young pandanus. Source: Ministry of Agriculture
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All sports disciplines included in Team Vanuatu that will represent the country at the Pacific Games in Samoa will be introduced to the government and to public at large tomorrow in the capital. The introduction of Team...
MSG Secretariat participates in 11th EDF Training on Financial and Contractual Procedures
Two Melanesian Spearhead Group Secretariat staff are currently participating in the Training on Financial and Contractual Procedures in the framework of the 11th EDF workshop at the Novotel in Suva, Fiji. Representing...
Vanuatu recruits nurses from the Solomons
Vanuatu's Ministry of Health is to recruit its first batch of Solomon Islands nurses next month, if their contracts are approved by the Public Service Commission. The Director General of Health, George Taleo, told...