1. Sport. The final lap of a track and field or velodrome cycling competition. This bell signifies the final, highly strategic, approach to the finish line - the pinnacle of the event.
2. Business. A firm based in Portland, Oregon delivering strategic and financial advisory services to small and lower mid-market active lifestyle and outdoor industry businesses. Helping clients grow enterprise value and perform Mergers and Acquisitions.
Bell Lap Advisors help founders, families, and leaders take their brands to the next level.
Bell Lap Advisors is a team of former entrepreneurs, executives, operators, investment bankers, and problem solvers. We understand the unique stresses and values of an entrepreneur. We are driven to help our clients maximize their enterprise value, and reach their optimal potential by offering strategic advisory service for growth, financing, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Recognizing a gap in the market for emerging small and lower mid-market consumer brands to obtain these high-level services, Bell Lap brings an agile team of passionate professionals and an innovative business model to create valued partnerships to support this stage of business in the active lifestyle and outdoor industries.
We believe in optimizing the experience in life, and strive for healthy balance for ourselves and the clients we advise. We use modern technology for maximizing flexibility in scheduling, travel, and mobility for a virtual workspace.
Trust is earned through knowledge, judgment, integrity, and discretion. We understand that without earning our clients' trust, we cannot be effective advisors.
By using whole-brain thinking, we explore all options for problem-solving, understanding nuances, value drivers, and brand. We structure transactions with creativity to achieve optimal results for our clients.
We work in the athletic and outdoor space because this is our passion, and this is our community. We aim to be a positive impact on this community and the values it represents.
While we have experience and bring perspective from many industries (including technology, health and wellness, and food/bev), our primary focus at Bell Lap Advisors is in the active lifestyle and outdoor industries. Why? Because this is our passion. It's where we spend our lives, both in work and play. We feel that devotion and passion helps us to understand the industry at the highest level.


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Anthony Masciotra
Junior Mechanical Engineer at Delstar Energie
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
D.E.C, Computer Science
Delstar Energy May 2009 - Present
Renaldi Construction, Inc May 2008 - August 2008
Nuance June 2006 - June 2007
Macro, HTML, XML, Matlab, PHP, Catia, Programming, MySQL, Java, Visual Basic, AutoCAD, Assembly Language, Inventor, C++, Control Systems Design
Anthony Masella
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychology
DEC, Health Sciences
Scotiabank 2013 - Present
HSBC Securities July 2012 - February 2013
HSBC July 2008 - July 2012
Anthony Mentor
Trader at Pointus Partners
Bachelor of Commerce (BComm), Major in Finance, Minor in International Business
DEC, Commerce
ScotiaMcLeod February 2012 - October 2013
ScotiaMcLeod May 2008 - February 2012
RBC Dominion Securities October 2004 - May 2008
RBC Royal Bank 2002 - 2004
Anthony Moniz
Cote Saint-Luc, Quebec, Canada
Behaviour Interactive January 2014 - April 2014
EA Mobile November 2011 - November 2012
Eclipse, Quality Assurance, Computer Games, C++, Teamwork, Video Games, Testing, SQL, Java
Anthony Morgante
Financial Analyst at JONES DesLauriers Blevins
MSc, Mathematics
BSc, Mathematics
JONES DesLauriers Blevins November 2014 - Present
Benecaid Health Benefit Solutions August 2011 - October 2014
Great-West Life June 2009 - July 2011
Disability Insurance, Underwriting, Sales, Leadership, Employee Benefits, Life Insurance, Customer Service, Insurance, Marketing, Financial Planning
Anthony Morin
Analyste at SYNTELL Inc.
ICS International
supérieur d'informatique
Wanted Technologies May 2011 - August 2011
Bombardier Transport June 2006 - September 2010
Dassault Systems Inc January 2000 - January 2006
Predictive Maintenance Corp January 1993 - January 1999
PL/SQL, Oracle SQL, Team Management, Integration, XP, Unix, SQL, Documentation, Perl, Oracle, Windows, Deployment, Administration, System Administration, Databases, Troubleshooting, Microsoft Office, MySQL, Linux, Problem Solving, Database Administration
Anthony O'Connor
Team Leader Supervisor at WestJet Airlines
WestJet May 2007 - Present
WestJet February 2005 - February 2006
WestJet September 2004 - February 2005
Adecco Employment Services August 2001 - May 2003
Coaching Staff, Team Management, Sabre, Recruiting, Microsoft Excel, Training Facilitation, Guest Recovery, Outlook Express, Microsoft Office, Customer Service, Bilingual, Management, Microsoft Word, Employee Engagement
Anthony Pacella
Student at Vanier College
Anthony Plescia
IT Resource Manager at Veritaaq
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General
lauren hill academy 2000 — 2005
Veritaaq May 2014 - Present
Aerotek January 2013 - May 2014
CIBC November 2011 - December 2012
Motivation, Teamwork, Human Resources, French, Talent Acquisition, Networking, Leadership, Customer Service, Management, english, Microsoft Office 2007, Staffing Services, learning agility, PowerPoint, Technical Recruiting, English, Recruiting, Exceptionally well..., Temporary Placement, Microsoft Excel, Time Management, Consulting, italian, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word
Anthony Prosty
Account Executive at TJ5 Technologies
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Business Administration and Management, General
Alcatel-Lucent January 2014 - Present
TJ5 Technologies January 2014 - Present
Alcatel-Lucent February 2009 - February 2013
JDSU 2000 - 2009
Invoicing, Exceptional at..., SAP, IP, Management, Self-motivated, great..., Program Management, Highly proficient at..., I am able spot process..., Cross-functional Team..., Operations Management, Wireless, LTE, Team Leadership, Unified Communications, VoIP, Vendor Management, Telecommunications, Ethernet, Coaching, Customer Service, Process Improvement, Sales, Training, Excellent communication..., Time Management, Product Management, Integration
Anthony Racanelli
Mechanical Engineering COOP Student at Concordia University
DEC, Pure and Applied Sciences
Loyola High School 2007 — 2012
RAX Enterprises Inc. December 2012 - Present
Conspiracy Comics October 2011 - Present
Jaguar Land Rover Laval May 2014 - July 2014
AutoCAD, Problem Solving, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Blender, Programming, Game Development, Visual Studio, Java, Automobile, PowerPoint, Sales, Unity, C#, C++, Microsoft Excel, Photoshop
Anthony Rossi
Director Strategy and Business Development at Pratt & Whitney Canada
Darden Business School 2011 — 2011
Executive Leadership Program, Organizational Leadership
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Strategy
Bachelor of Commerce, Management Information Systems
Pratt & Whitney Canada May 2014 - Present
Pratt & Whitney Canada January 2012 - May 2014
Pratt & Whitney Canada January 2010 - August 2012
Pratt & Whitney Canada January 2006 - December 2009
Lean Manufacturing, Change Management, Strategic Sourcing, MRP, Business Strategy, Procurement, Six Sigma, Operations Management, Kaizen, Operational Excellence, Continuous Improvement, Aerospace, Sales Management, Manufacturing, Aviation, Process Improvement, Supply Chain Management, Supply Management, Logistics, Aircraft, Value Stream Mapping, Program Management, Supply Chain
Anthony Sandiford
L'Ile-Perrot, Quebec, Canada
avionic technician at AJW TECHNIQUE
AJW TECHNIQUE
Aerospace, Microsoft Office, Airlines, Flights, Commercial Aviation, Aircraft Maintenance, Customer Service, Aircraft, Aviation, Avionics
Anthony Sarno
Entry Into Service Project Manager at Bombardier Aerospace
Montréal College 2014 — 2014
CATIA V5 80 hr Certification, CAD/CADD Drafting and/or Design Technology/Technician
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Mechanical Engineering
Diploma of Collegial Studies, Pure and Applied Sciences
Bombardier Aerospace June 2013 - Present
Ingenia Technologies September 2010 - May 2013
Pizzeria Bottega April 2010 - September 2010
Opus Hotel 2009 - 2009
IKEA Direct 2004 - 2008
Engineering, Microsoft Excel, C++, Creativity, Solidworks, Catia, Matlab, Organization, Simulink, Interpersonal Skill, Time Management, Problem Solving, Multi Tasking, Microsoft Word, Lotus Suspension..., Microsoft Office, Project Management, Customer Service, Team Leadership, CATIA, CarSim, AutoCAD, PowerPoint
Anthony Sarracco
Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada
Director/ DP/ Filmmaker
Philip Bloom Documentary Storytelling (NYC) 2015 — 2015
Shane Hurlbut - Illumination Experience 2014 — 2014
Director of Photography - Hollywood Lighting and Camera Movement
Philip Bloom Master Class (Miami, Florida) 2014 — 2014
Documentary Production
Trebas Institute 2007 — 2009
AEC Film & Television, Film and Television Production
DEC, Social Sciences
Centennial Academy 1994 — 1999
Telelatino Network Inc. September 2013 - Present
Rebellion Films, Inc. January 2009 - Present
Video Quotient February 2014 - June 2014
Marrone Video September 2009 - September 2013
Aéroports de Montréal May 2003 - May 2007
Canadian Bonded Credits Limited May 2001 - May 2003
Globe Express June 2000 - September 2002
Photoshop, Adobe PremiereCC, Digital Marketing, Broadcast, HD Video, Film Production, Video Editing, Microsoft Excel, Videography, Apple Numbers, Screenwriter, Canon C500, Video Production, Television, Microsoft Word, Final Cut Pro, Adobe PhotoshopCC, After Effects, Commercials, Feature Films, Customer Service, Producing, Keynote, Music Videos, Editing, Film, SonyA7s, Canon C300, Post Production, Final Draft, Adobe Creative Suite, Independent Film, Adobe After EffectsCC, Directing, Canon DSLR, RED Epic Dragon Camera, Corporate Commercials, Canon Cameras, Video, Avid, Final Cut Studio, Television Commercials, Short Films, sony fs700, Movi M5, PowerPoint, Screenwriting, Storytelling, Red Camera, Documentaries
Anthony Simard
Night Auditor at Holiday Inn Montreal CentreVille (IHG)
Bachelor's Degree, Playwriting and Screenwriting
Bachelor's Degree, English Language and Literature, General
Holiday Inn Montreal (IHG) March 2015 - Present
Holiday Inn Select Montreal (IHG) July 2014 - February 2015
Hôtel Le Voyageur March 2012 - November 2013
Playwriting, English, French, Writing, Literature, Theatre, England, Ireland
Anthony Tavormina
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), International Business
Champlain College Saint-Lambert 2008 — 2011
DEC, Business Management
Customer Service, Banquet Operations, Project Management, Direct Sales, Microsoft Excel, Trade Shows, Team Leadership, Time Management, Food Service, Photoshop, Research, Teamwork, Leadership, Event Planning, Restaurant Management
Anthony Tortorici
DEC, Civil Engineering Technology
Vincent Masset Collegiate 1999 — 2004
Construction Ramsol 2007 - Present
Le Groupe Vespo 2006 - 2007
Geotechnical Engineering, AutoCAD, Pile Foundations, Excavation, Civil Engineering, Project Management
Anthony Vannelli
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Professor and Dean at University of Guelph
University of Waterloo 1980 — 1983
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical Engineering
Master of Science (MSc), Applied Mathematics
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Applied Mathematics
University of Guelph January 2007 - Present
University of Waterloo November 1987 - December 2006
University of Toronto November 1984 - October 1987
Algorithms, Mathematical Modeling, Circuit Design, Manufacturing, Physics, Simulations, Signal Processing, Operations Management, C, Theory, Science, Analysis, University Teaching, Statistics, Contract Negotiation, Artificial Intelligence, LaTeX, Optimizations, Programming, Optimization, Computer Science, C++, Leadership, Matlab
Anthony Villeneuve
Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Commis at TPM
Urban Studies/Affairs
Cégep Limoilou 2012 — 2015
Technique en technologie de la géomatique, Geomatics
mont-saint-sacrement 2007 — 2011
Ville de Quebec May 2013 - Present
TPM September 2010 - Present
Microsoft Office, ArcGIS, GPS, Geomatics, AutoCAD, Surveying, GIS, MicroStation, Microsoft Word, English, Cartography
Anthony Wilson-Smith
President and CEO with leadership experience in large and small organizations in public, private and nonprofit sectors
Historica Canada (formerly Historica-Dominion Institute) August 2012 - Present
Manulife Financial 2010 - 2012
Canada Post 2005 - 2010
Maclean's Magazine, Rogers Media 2001 - 2005
Maclean's Magazine 1990 - 2001
Montreal Gazette 1981 - 1984
Sponsorship, Radio, Event Planning, Analysis, Government, Strategic Planning, Television, Fundraising, Leadership, Strategic Communications, Media Relations, Public Relations, Marketing, Publications, Press Releases, Corporate Communications, Speech Writing, Storytelling, Event Management, French, Community Development, Reputation Management, Magazines, Journalism, Policy, Publicity, Feature Articles, Blogging, Public Policy, Policy Analysis, Newsletters, Web Content, Internal Communications, Communications Planning, New Media, Broadcast, Editorial, Copywriting, Advertising, Public Affairs, Marketing Communications, Public Speaking, Politics, Social Media, Communication Training, Crisis Communications, Editing, Integrated Marketing, Spokesperson, Management
Anthony Zara
Marketing and Business Development at Accent Impression Inc.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science
Panoram Italia Magazine May 2013 - Present
Accent Impression May 2012 - Present
Zara Media October 2014 - Present
Selling, Customer Satisfaction, Client Relations Skills, Account Management, Strategic Planning, Digital Printing, Research, Microsoft Office, Marketing, Customer Acquisition, Marketing Communications, Offset Printing, Media, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Leadership, Team Leadership, Management, Advertising, Interactive..., Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Language Skills, Sales, Customer Service
Antoine Audet-Fortin
Verdun, Quebec, Canada
Étudiant(e) (Concordia University)
Antoine Benoit
Freelance Translator Traducteur Pigiste
Translation and Localization
Cégep du Vieux-Montréal 2009 — 2011
DEC, Arts et Lettres: Profil Langues
Collège Jean-Eudes 2001 — 2006
Self Employed October 2009 - Present
Crest Realties July 2013 - December 2013
J.C. Savard Consultants April 2009 - May 2013
Le SuperClub Vidéotron December 2006 - March 2009
Linguistics, Proofreading, 5S, Continuous Improvement, Syntax, Lean Manufacturing, Grammar, Kaizen
Antoine Bergeron
Candiac, Quebec, Canada
Antoine Damiens
Teacher Assistant at Concordia University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Film/Cinema/Video Studies, 4.18
non degree, Visual Studies / Culture and Theory, 4.00
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Lyon 2008 — 2013
Master of Arts (M.A.), culture et communication / cultural studies, 15.1
University of California, Riverside 2010 — 2011
non degree EAP, Cultural Studies/Critical Theory and Analysis, 3.974
Diplôme Universitaire DUMEOC, Asian Studies/Civilization, assez bien
Institut d'Etudes politiques de Lille 2007 — 2008
Mission Egalité des Chances, Préparation IEPEI
Image+Nation November 2014 - Present
Queer Palm May 2014 - Present
Festival Ecrans Mixtes October 2011 - Present
Concordia University January 2015 - May 2015
Concordia University December 2013 - May 2014
Concordia University September 2013 - May 2014
Concordia University August 2013 - December 2013
Ville de Cannes May 2009 - June 2010
Ville de Cannes August 2008 - September 2008
Research, Gender Studies, queer studies, Museum Studies, Association Management, Sociology, Political Science, Surveys, Cultural Studies, Public Speaking, French, Cultural Awareness, Fluent English, Informatics, Media Studies, Film Studies, Film Festivals, Intermediate Japanese, Qualitative Research, Subtitling
Antoine Dion-Ortega
Freelance Mining Journalist
Diploma, Journalism
Master's degree, Literature
Freelance Mining Journalist September 2011 - Present
Guide de Montréal-Nord July 2010 - September 2011
Editing, Copy Editing, Magazines, Social Media, Video Editing, Research, Newspapers, Copywriting, Storytelling, Journalism, Creative Writing, Editorial, News Writing
Antoine Dufour-Blain
Microsoft Word, Photography, Event Planning, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office
Antoine Gaudreau Simard
Business Analyst at Multidev Technologies Inc.
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Management and Business Technology Management
Yokohama International School 2002 — 2006
High School & International Baccalaureate
Multidev Technologies Inc. November 2013 - Present
Qualité Étudiants January 2013 - July 2013
Qualité Étudiants January 2010 - September 2012
Microbytes Lasalle September 2009 - August 2010
Pharmacie Jean-Coutu 2007 - 2009
Ben & Jerry's May 2008 - September 2008
Ben & Jerry's April 2007 - September 2007
Maxi June 2006 - September 2006
Délégation Générale du Québec À Tokyo April 2006 - July 2006
Délégation Générale du Québec à Tokyo June 2005 - August 2005
Customer Service, Open Office, Linux Desktop, Efficient, Project Management, Adept problem-solver, Sales, Perseverant, Microsoft Office, Autonomous
Antoine Houde-Caron
Hockey Player at Shawinigan Cataractes, Lewiston Maineiacs, University of New Brunswick and Concordia University
Master of Arts (MA), Department of Economics
Bachelor in Business Administration, Finance, General
Shawinigan Cataractes, Lewiston Maineiacs, University of New Brunswick and Concordia University August 2007 - Present
Banque Laurentienne May 2014 - August 2014
Banque Laurentienne April 2012 - August 2013
Leadership, Bilingual, Finance, Ice Hockey, Teamwork, Economics
Antoine Lacombe
Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada
Banking Specialist, Trader
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), Finance
BMO Financial Group April 2015 - Present
Portfolio Management, Microsoft Excel, Equities, Investments, Finance, Financial Analysis, Entrepreneurship, Financial Modeling, Sales, Risk Management
Antoine Martel, CIM, Pl. Fin.
Financial Advisor at Scotia Private Client Group
B.A.A., Finance
B.A., Western Society & Culture
Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf 1987 — 1994
Scotia Private Client Group January 2015 - Present
Scotia Private Client Group June 2012 - December 2014
Scotiabank July 2010 - June 2012
RBC Royal Bank January 2008 - July 2010
Desjardins June 2006 - January 2008
Investors Group May 2002 - May 2004
Financial Planners, Pension Plans, Strategic Financial..., Investment Strategies, Tax Planning, Financial Planning, Financial Advisory, Equities, Credit, Mutual Funds, Securities, Investment Advisory, Retirement Planning, Pension Funds, Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management
Antoine S. Bonetto
Consultant en design
Baccalauréat, design de l'environnement
Art multidisciplinaire
antoine s.bonetto 1991 - Present
Héritage Mtl 2015 - 2015
Centre hospitalier de St. Mary 2009 - 2011
ALDO Group 2000 - 2002
Huot et Papineau, architectes 1989 - 1989
Formation, Gestion de projet, Design urbain, Leadership, Parler en public, Design de produits, Design Architectural, Gestion de compte, Gestion de la..., Design intérieur..., Recherche en design, Gestion d'équipe, Design de concept, Gestion des contrats
Antoine Trieu-Chao
Coop Accounting Student at Concordia University
Marianopolis College 2012 — 2014
Social Science, Accounting
College Regina Assumpta 2009 — 2012
Teamwork, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, English, Strategic Planning, Management, Social Media, Public Speaking, Research, Microsoft Office, Customer Service
Antoine Zammit
Anjou, Quebec, Canada
All industries interest me at LOoking to start a new company
Certificat, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
Dec en sciences humaines, Social science
Ville de Montréal June 2015 - Present
Zammit Cookiez January 2014 - Present
Parti libéral du Québec September 2011 - August 2014
Kohl & Frisch Limited May 2013 - March 2014
Dic Ann's September 2004 - October 2012
Ville de Montréal May 2007 - August 2010
Team Leadership, Training, Customer Satisfaction, Sales, Deposits, Branch Banking, Public Speaking, Telephone Skills, Customer Service, Social Media, Time Management, Politics, Banking, Restaurants, Entrepreneurship, Microsoft Word
Antoinette Marie
Intern at Les Architectes CVZ + IAD
Urban Planning & Sustainability Studies, Arts & Science
Les Architectes CVZ + IAD May 2015 - Present
District 3 March 2015 - April 2015
Arts & Science Federation of Associations May 2014 - December 2014
Shiraz Events 2012 - 2013
Spot Sports 2010 - 2011
Social Media, Event Management, InDesign, Urban Planning, Public Relations, Illustrator, Photoshop, Leadership, Research, Management, Teamwork, Public Speaking, Event Planning, Microsoft Office, Customer Service
Anton Antonov
Analyst at Demers Beaulne S.E.N.C.R.L.
Lund University 2013 — 2013
CÉGEP André-Laurendeau 2009 — 2011
DEC, Social Sciences, Administration
Demers Beaulne S.E.N.C.R.L. May 2015 - Present
Groupe St-Hubert 2012 - April 2015
Lucky's resto-bar 2011 - 2014
La Crémière 2011 - 2011
Teamwork, Mac OS, Microsoft Office, Financial Reporting, Accounting, Microsoft Excel, Customer Service, Time Management, Critical Thinking, Team Leadership
Anton Eric Perera, PEng, MEng (Elec)
Supv. Engr, Utility Communications at ENMAX
M.Eng., Electrical Engineering
B.Eng., Electrical Engineering
ENMAX July 2013 - Present
ATCO Electric October 2010 - July 2013
Emerson Electric Canada Ltd. August 2007 - February 2009
Codan US, Inc. April 2007 - June 2007
Self-employed August 2004 - March 2007
Teleglobe Canada ULC June 1990 - June 2004
Electronics, Proposal Writing, Leadership, Wireless, Procurement, Testing, IP, RF, Project Management, Project Engineering, Manufacturing, Engineering, Troubleshooting, Training, Telecommunications, Microwave, Business Development, Satellite Communications, Transmission, Commissioning, Budgets, Satellite, Quality Assurance, Integration, Technical Writing, RFP, Project Planning
Anton Kalinin
Anton Pieries
Sainte-Sophie, Quebec, Canada
Retired High School Teacher
TESL Certificate, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor
Université du Québec à Montréal / UQAM 1971 — 1976
Bachelor's degree, Humanities/Humanistic Studies
Commission Scolaire de laval September 1971 - June 2002
Network Marketing, Fitness, Supplements, Home Based Business, Small Business, Coaching, Beauty Industry, Personal Development, Skin Care, Wellness, Business Networking, Nutrition, Business Development, Entrepreneurship
Anton Tanev, MBA
Product Manager at Scotia iTRADE
RSM Erasmus University 2008 — 2010
MBA, Finance and Marketing
Bachelor of Commerce, Finance
American University of Paris 1999 — 2000
Northeastern University 1997 — 1999
Finance and Management Information Systems
Sentry Investments November 2010 - July 2013
Venta JSC. November 2009 - August 2010
ScotiaMcLeod December 2003 - July 2008
Procter & Gamble June 1999 - December 1999
Economics, Bloomberg, Alternative Investments, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Cross-functional Team..., Business Development, Investment Strategies, Portfolio Management, Mutual Funds, CRM, Competitive Analysis, Financial Modeling, Business Strategy, Hedge Funds, Financial Markets, Leadership, Strategic Financial..., Equities, Banking, Trading, Private Equity, ETFs, Strategic Planning, Risk Management, Investment Advisory, Market Analysis, Valuation, Fixed Income, Negotiation, Financial Services, Asset Allocation, Strategy, Business Analysis, Options, Financial Analysis, Investments, Bonds, Finance, Investment Banking, Corporate Finance, Product Management, Securities, Equity Research, Derivatives, Marketing, Market Research, Capital Markets
Antonella Del Greco
Bachelor of Arts (with Honors), Human Relations
Diplôme d'Études Collégiales
Le Creuset April 2015 - Present
Le Creuset May 2014 - April 2015
Coca-Cola Refreshments October 2012 - May 2014
Coca-Cola Refreshments May 2010 - September 2012
IBM June 2009 - April 2010
Marketing Strategy, Business Development, Retail, CRM, Sales, Sales Management, Advertising, Marketing, Management, Sales Operations, Customer Service, Pricing, Merchandising, Forecasting, excellent customer..., organized,..., Leadership, Account Management, Negotiation, perfectly bilingual &...
Antonella Ferraro
Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS)
Westmount Public Library May 2011 - Present
Westmount Public Library May 2007 - June 2011
Team Leadership, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Supervisory Skills, Customer Service, Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Data Entry
Antonella Fuoco
Coordonnatrice des activités bénévoles
Diplôme 2ieme cycle, Gérontologie
Diplôme 2ieme cycle en administration, Administration publique
Baccalauréat, Sciences humaines
CIUSSS de l'Est-de-l'île-de-Montréal 2001 - Present
Antonella Gargano
Technical Support Specialist at 2020 Technologies
Bachelor's Degree, English Language and Literature, General, In Progress
2020 Technologies April 2014 - Present
ALDO Group September 2012 - March 2014
Air Canada Vacations June 2009 - September 2012
École de langues Shakespeare January 2008 - July 2008
Ecole Prematernelle L'Apprenti-sage August 2005 - December 2006
ESL, Technical Writing, Editing, Event Planning, Tourism, Social Media Marketing, Employee Training, Teamwork, Text Editing, Travel, Microsoft Word, Data Analysis, PowerPoint, CRM, E-commerce, Language Teaching, Public Speaking, Cruises, Sales, Troubleshooting, Microsoft Excel, Professional Writing, Technical Support, Customer Service, Proofreading, Microsoft Office
Antonella Mercurio, CPA Auditor, CA, CFE
Senior Manager AntiCorruption Compliance Monitoring at Walmart Canada
ACFE 2013 — 2014
Graduate Diploma, Chartered Accountancy
Walmart Canada September 2015 - Present
EY September 2013 - September 2015
Collins Barrow January 2010 - August 2013
Walmart Canada January 2008 - December 2009
Walmart Canada October 2001 - December 2004
Tax Returns, GAAP, Multilingual, Auditing, CPA, Internal Controls, Tax Preparation, External Audit, Variance Analysis, Bookkeeping, Assurance, Certified Fraud Examiner, Forensic Analysis, Forensic Accounting, Staff Management, Financial Statements, Tax, Fraud, Corporate Tax, Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, QuickBooks, Income Tax
Antonella Palmieri
Manager, Group Disability Claims at Sun Life Financial
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.), E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce
Sun Life Financial October 2012 - Present
Sun Life Financial April 2007 - October 2012
Sun Life Financial March 1997 - 2000
Sun Life Financial September 1996 - March 1997
Change Management, Performance Management, Customer Service, Training, Management, Insurance, Leadership, Employee Benefits, Life Insurance, Employee Engagement, Process Improvement, Coaching, Employee Relations, Disability Management, Retirement, Fixed Annuities, Risk Management, Assurance, Actuarial Science, Policy, Claims Management, Claim, Succession Planning, Disability Insurance, Pensions, Health Insurance, Interpersonal Skill, Operations Management, Benefits Administration
Antonella Vaccaro
Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition at Roche
Bachelor's Degree, Human Resources
Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Team-oriented, Applicant Tracking..., Employee Engagement, Recruiting, Corporate Recruiting, Interviews, HR Policies, English, Sourcing, Recruitment Process..., Performance Management, Human Resources, French, Taleo, Technical Recruiting, Interviewing Skills
Antonello Fiore
Nurse's Aide/ Préposé aux Bénéficiaires at L' Agence
Writer's Digest University 2014 — 2014
Copywritng
Bachelor's degree, Theology/Theological Studies
DEC, Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
L'Agence May 2011 - Present
L' Agence 2011 - Present
Jardin D'Enfants Duvernay Inc. August 2009 - March 2010
Centre de Quilles Sur Le Lac January 2008 - June 2009
Nursing Care, Elder Care, Mission Work, Public Speaking, PowerPoint, Copywriting, Church Music, Nonprofits, Church Growth, Event Planning, Social Media, Acoustic Guitar, Teaching, Church Services, Music, Creative Writing, Freelance Writing, Volunteering, Electric Guitar, Home Care, Catechesis, Editing, Writing, Social Media Marketing, Strategic Planning, Community Outreach, Blogging
Antoni Forgues
LDI Specialist
BA, Actuarial Mathematics
CEGEP Ahuntsic 1995 — 1998
DEC, Industrial Engineering Technology
Fiera Capital - Institutional Asset Management May 2014 - Present
Legal & General Investment Management April 2012 - July 2013
Mazars UK March 2012 - March 2012
Phoenix Group Ltd March 2011 - February 2012
Legal & General Investment Management May 2008 - January 2011
Redington Partners September 2007 - March 2008
Aon Hewitt March 2006 - August 2007
Towers Watson September 2002 - February 2006
Excel, Financial Services, Insurance, Derivatives, Fixed Income, Swaps, Solvency II, Financial Risk, Defined Benefit, ALM, Employee Benefits, Pensions, Pension Funds, Risk Management, Actuarial, Risk, Actuarial Science, Investment Strategies, Retirement, Financial Reporting, Investments, Investment Management, Asset Allocation, Hedging
Antonina Kolesnyk
Office Assistant at Roman Driving School
Graduate Diploma, Information Technology
courses, HTML, DHTML, CSS, Javascript
Roman Driving School February 2015 - Present
Predictive Maintenance Corporation October 2012 - December 2014
Roman Driving School January 2012 - October 2012
Cinemaria HV Inc. 2011 - 2012
Administration, Management, Fax, Outlook, Customer Service, Spreadsheets, Microsoft Word, QuickBooks, Administrative..., PowerPoint, Data Entry, Microsoft Excel, Invoicing, Microsoft Office, Office Management
Antonino Mendolia
Lachenaie, Quebec, Canada
Mortgage Specialist at RBC Financial Group.
RBC Royal Bank April 2006 - Present
Scotiabank April 2005 - April 2006
Scotiabank January 2002 - April 2005
Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Customer Service, Strategic Planning, Microsoft Excel, Risk Management, Banking, Loans, Credit, Financial Analysis, Project Management, Residential Mortgages
Antonino Morello
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Human Resources Management
Rockaberry Langelier October 2006 - Present
Management, Training, Team Leadership, Human Resources, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Office, Teamwork, Marketing, Customer Service
Real Estate Broker at Remax Alliance Inc.
Self-employed Real Estate BrokerRemax Alliance Inc.January 2001 - Present
Antonio (Tony) Buttino
Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada
Business Development/OnLine Marketing/Brand Development Specialist
Bachelor of Commerce (B.COMM.), Marketing (Advertising)/Management
Business Marketing Association
Certified Business Communicator (CBC), Advertising & Marketing
UDUCAT.COM Corporation January 2007 - Present
Franmore Communications September 1996 - December 2006
Rogers Media 1994 - 1996
Digital Media, E-commerce, Account Management, Email Marketing, Product Development, Web Analytics, Leadership, Webinars, Integrated Marketing, Online Marketing, B2B, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Online Advertising, Social Media, Direct Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Newsletters, Customer Relations, Advertising, Website Development, Marketing Strategy, Customer Service, Sales, Product Marketing, Web Design, Online Publishing, Marketing Management, Lead Generation, Promotions, Brand Management, Business Strategy, Creative Direction, Digital Marketing, CRM, Trade Shows, Marketing Communications, Brand Development, SEM, Brand Awareness, SEO, SaaS, Key Account Management, Management, New Business Development, Strategy, Sales Management, Mobile Marketing, Marketing, Digital Strategy
Antonio (Tony) Ruggieri, P. Eng., MBA
President & CEO, Alberta Engineering Ltd
Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary 2011 — 2013
B.Eng, Engineering, Geotechnical, Structural
Technical DEC, Civil Engineering Technology
Alberta Engineering Ltd January 2011 - Present
Process Improvement, Project Management, Engineering, Energy, Project Planning, Renovation, Change Management, Business Planning, Budgets, Contractors, Business Strategy, Team Leadership, Strategic Planning, Marketing Strategy, Operations Management, Program Management, Construction Management, Contract Negotiation, Construction, Contract Management, Residential Homes
Antonio Bavaro
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Theatre & Development
Grant Macewan College 2005 — 2007
Theatre Arts Diploma, Musical Theatre
VMC November 2013 - Present
Fort Edmonton Park 2006 - 2009
Citadel Theatre 2007 - 2008
Acting Training, Heritage Tourism, Acting, Cultural History, History, Improvisation, Community Development, Drag, Physical Theatre, Tourism, Community Journalism, Video Games, Creative Arts, Theatre, English, Forum Theatre, French, Italian, Live Event Producer, Script-writing, Voice Acting, Community Theatre, Stage, Theatre History, Business Theatre, Dance, Musical Theatre, Workshop Development, Modeling, Heritage Buildings, Promotional, Box Office, Theatre of the Oppressed, Italian languages, Creative Writer, Workshop Facilitation, Front of House, Versatility, Script Analysis, Cultural Heritage, Script Consultation, Singing, Travel, Teaching Acting, Critique, Street Theatre, Interpretation
Antonio Bucci
Saint-Hippolyte, Quebec, Canada
Comptable chez plastigroulx
plastigroulx August 2014 - Present
Entreprise Bucci & fils August 2008 - September 2013
Qualipal Inc May 1999 - July 2008
Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Microsoft Word, Accounting, Budgets, Project Management, Microsoft Office, Management, Strategic Planning
Antonio COLLANTE
System Analyst at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)
Associate's Degree, Project Management, Project Management
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering
Université de Montréal / University of Montreal 2010 — 2011
Certificat en informatique appliquée
Universidad del Norte 1996 — 2002
Engineer's degree, Computer Engineering
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) February 2015 - Present
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) September 2009 - Present
METROTEL June 2006 - August 2008
Batelsa February 2005 - June 2006
Colombia Telecomunicaciones June 2004 - October 2004
Procecon February 2002 - May 2004
Eclipse, Microsoft Word, Software Project..., JSP, Web Development, Visual Basic, C#, Web Applications, Visual Studio, Strategic Planning, ASP.NET MVC, CSS, UML, French, Databases, .NET, SQL, Design Patterns, Java pattern, Java, Software Design Patterns, Microsoft Excel, ASP.NET, Microsoft Project, Software Testing Life..., C, Software Architectural..., OOP, Microsoft SQL Server, XML, jQuery, Web Services, Database Design, AJAX, PowerPoint, PHP, JavaScript, Access 2007, VB.NET
Antonio D'Agostino
VicePresident Solutions Specialisees Quebec, Intact Assurances
B.Comm, Marketing
FRM, Fellow in Risk Management
Intact December 2013 - Present
Intact Assurances September 2011 - December 2013
AXA Assurances November 2008 - September 2011
Underwriting, Property, Insurance, Assurance commerciale, General Insurance, Assurance, Commercial Insurance
Antonio D'Andrea
Procurement Shared Services and Strategic Sourcing Manager Canadian Mills
Master's Degree, Business Administration, Management and Operations
Bachelor's Degree, Industrial Engineering
Mechanical Engineering/Mechanical Technology/Technician
Resolute Forest Products January 2014 - Present
Resolute Forest Products May 2012 - December 2013
Proceco Ltd. May 2004 - January 2012
Supply Chain, Process Improvement, Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Process Engineering, Procurement, Operations Management, Continuous Improvement, Lean Manufacturing, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Management, 5S
Antonio Fabrizio
Lasalle, Quebec, Canada
Small Business Advisor at TD
TD May 2015 - Present
TD March 2014 - Present
TD September 2009 - May 2013
TD December 2007 - September 2009
Lines Of Credit, Financial Services, Insurance, Small Business Lending, Microsoft Office, Small Business, Banking, Credit, Mortgage Lending, Customer Service, Commercial Lending, Loans, Risk Management, Financial Analysis, Retail Banking, Consumer Lending
Antonio Gajardo González
Master's degree, Aerospace Engineering, GPA: 3.76
Bachelor's degree, Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering
Study Abroad Programms, CATIA, MSC Nastran, Inglés, Trabajo en equipo, MSC Patran, Matlab, Industria aeroespacial, SolidWorks, Aeronáutica, ANSYS Fluent, English, Social Skills
Antonio Gentili
Sainte-Therese, Quebec, Canada
Attorney at AGML Conseillers juridiques inc.
Université de Sherbrooke 1990 — 1993
AGML conseillers juridiques inc. May 1995 - Present
Trials, Administrative Law, Arbitration, Legal Advice, Corporate Governance, Real Estate, Personal Injury, Employment Law, Construction Law, Dispute Resolution, Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation
Antonio Lanni
Dorval, Quebec, Canada
Bachelor's Degree, Business/Commerce, General
Tigris Corporate Sports Gatherings February 2015 - Present
Marketing Strategy, Leadership, New Business Development, Team Building, Strategic Planning, Management, Sales Management, Negotiation, Budgets, Marketing
Antonio Lizza
District Sales Manager at Sun Chemical
The Gap Partnership 2014 — 2014
The Complete Negotiator
Managing a Sales Team
Mechanical Engineering Program
Mechanical Engineering Technology
CHAMPLAIN REGIONAL COLLEGE 1988 — 1990
Pure & Applied Science
WILLIAM HINGSTON COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL 1983 — 1988
Sun Chemical January 2015 - Present
SunChemical January 2012 - December 2014
CMRSUMMIT Technologies April 1995 - December 2011
Process Improvement, Product Development, Project Management, Manufacturing, Sales Management, New Business Development, Sales, Six Sigma, Management, Cross-functional Team..., Selling, Product Management, Continuous Improvement, Supply Chain Management, Key Account Management, Account Management, Electronics, International Sales
Antonio Mastropietro
Antonio Me
Antonio Monaco
COE at ResoluteFP
Bachelor of Computer Science, Information Technology
Resolute Forest Products August 2012 - Present
Canadian National February 2009 - August 2012
Deloitte 2006 - February 2009
Tommy Hilfiger Canada 2008 - 2009
Ecolab 2007 - 2008
Domtar 2006 - 2007
Peerless Clothing Inc 1999 - 2006
SAP R/3, SAP Implementation, ECC, SAP MM, WM modules, IDoc, ABAP, SAP MM, Consulting, Materials Management, Integration, SD, SAP ERP, IDOC, Master Data Management, Business Process, SAP, Business Analysis, ERP, Warehouse Management
Antonio Peccia
Repentigny, Quebec, Canada
Antonio Roti
Engineer Poyry Montreal
bachelor, Mechanical option Controls
Poyry Montreal January 2012 - 2014
Qatar Gas Transport Company (NAKILAT) November 2007 - December 2011
Daewoo 2009 - 2010
Vortex Aquatic Structures International 2005 - 2007
Techmire Ltd.-Die Casting Machine Manufacture 2004 - 2005
Pneutech Rousseau 1995 - 2004
Modicon, Microsoft Office, MS Office Suite, Construction, Electricians, AutoCAD, Solidworks, Gas, Procurement, Project Engineering, Ladder Logic, Function Block, Project Control, Omron, Project Management, Engineering, MS Project
Antonio Vilardi
Courier at Fedex
Package/Freight Delivery
Fedex March 2004 - Present
Island Gourmet, Cozumel, Mexico 1997 - 2003

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Run websites, check. Run background processing, check. Store structured and unstructured data, check. Run my build environmnt? Absolutely. Often cloud compute power is described as a way to offload computing tasks, or quickly scale out production work loads, but it also has a big role to play in building software develepment environments.
Azure cloud has specific features and characteristics that make it applicable to the software development lifecycle. All dev environmnets need test and certification environments that match the production environment. This is very difficult to provide and often this is skirted. In azure creating multiple parallel environments is easy…and these deployments can be made identical save one thing: public URL or domain address. Development environments also need to be able to test the current release, as well as future releases and perhaps multiple branches. Owning and configuring your own hardware to support this can be expensive. Azure allows us to spin up as many deployments as we like, run them only for the duration of the test period, and spin them back down again. Think flexibility. Finally, all agile focused development environments need one or more build servers. In this post I'll show you how to run a Jenkins build server within the Azure cloud.
1. Create a virtual machine to host your Jenkins instance.
On the left menu select virtual machines. If this is your first time the console will indicate that you have no virtual machines and invite you to create one. You instance will be given a subdomain of your choosing. The passwords are for Remote Desktop which we'll use later. I chose extra small, however, you can choose among 5 sizes of VM. When you choose done Azure will begin creating your VM…it will also create a storage account to host your disks, and create a disk to hold the OS for you. What's new in this Azure launch is that these disks are persistent and will keep all changes you made between system resets. They are persistent. You see the status change from provisioning to Stopped, to Running.
Also note that a storage account was created. This hosts your OS disk, and potentially any data disks we create later.
2. Using IE, download and install Jenkins.
Win2008 servers have extremely high browsing security turned on, so you'll either need to disable enhanced security, or add the domains you are accessing. The download for the Windows installer for Jenkins is http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/windows/latest . Download and expand the zip file, then run setup.
Now you'll notice that Jenkins is running after performing the install. Each time this VM is restarted, Jenkins will also be run as a service. What you may also not is that you cannot access the server externally. For this you need to either create a public port entry or a VIP. I'll cover private networking in a follow-up post. To make an HTTP server visible from outside select "Virtual Machines" and click on the VM we've just created, then "Enpoints". The public port can be anything, I recommend port 80, and the default private port Jenkins uses is port 8080.
It'll take a few minutes, once ready you can click on the domain name of your VM and bring up the Jenkins opening screen. Clearly this isn't ideal as we'll need to protect our build environment so stay tuned and we'll look more closely at Virtual Private networking with Azure.
Published at DZone with permission of Taylor Cowan , DZone MVB. See the original article here.


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sarah ramey
Full Will
Molly and Nancy on a Dime
Sarah Levitt Ramey is a choreographer, performer and teacher based in Columbus, OH with a particular focus on community building through dance making. From 2007-2013, she was a Resident Artist with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Washington, DC, where she originated roles in Liz Lerman's The Matter of Origins (2010), Cassie Meador's Drift (2009) and How To Lose a Mountain (2013) and toured extensively with the company to perform, teach, and develop new work. Highlights include residencies at the Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI), Harvard University, and St Elizabeth's Hospital (DC). Her work has been presented at Dance Place (DC), Baltimore Theatre Project, University of Maryland, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Bealtaine Festival (Ireland), Ten Tiny Dances (OH), Columbus Dance Theatre, and the OhioDance Festival. Sarah was awarded the Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Choreography (2009) and Solo Performance (2010), a 2012 Metro DC Dance Award for Emerging Choreographer, and a 2015 Columbus Dances Fellowship. In 2015, with funding from an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, she began a dance program for adults over 50 called In Motion, which she continues to teach this year. Sarah received her BA in Dance from the University of Maryland, College Park, and her MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University. She lives in Clintonville with her husband, Steve.


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Latest Technology News » Uploading pictures in Facebook with a Snapchat air
Uploading pictures in Facebook with a Snapchat air
Facebook decided to go with a slightly different way of uploading pictures, when using devices with either iOS or Android operating system.
The new way that Facebook suggests to upload pictures reminds the users of Snapchat in many ways. For instance, when a picture is uploaded, the user can add text, filters, stickers and emoji that can vary in size. According to Digital Trends, the new features of Facebook are already being tested on devices that run with iOS.
At this point it is worth noting that Facebook had tried buying Snapchat in the past, but eventually the proposal was denied by Snapchat, a company whose owners stated at that point, that their ultimate goal is not to make some easy and quick money, but to make an actual change to the way people share and receive news. And just for the record, it is something that they seem to live up to so far, especially after they collaboration that was signed between the company and major news agencies all around the world.
Ever since, Facebook has been trying to add to its interface clued that can be found on Snapchat. There many who talk about Facebook copying Snapchat on too many features, like Mashable, which concludes that this is the reason the big social network didn't make a fuss about its new feature. According to Mashable, perhaps Facebook hoped that by keeping things silent no one would notice.
ON the left corner of the interface of Facebook's pics uploading app, there is an icon with a magic wand, that opens the menu of all the individual editing options, while with swipe one can crop the image.
Despite Facebook ambitions, the fact that the great social network has been copying Snapchat on various features, has not gone unnoticed as you can see. So now we expect to see Snapchat's move against Facebook. Maybe Snapchat will prefer to do nothing for its own reasons (perhaps the company stands to lose more than it has to gain) or maybe we'll witness anew dispute opening up and two more companies becoming enemies like so many others (Microsoft-Apple, Samsung-Apple, etc.). Stay tuned to read all the latest news about this and many other hot topics!
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Austen portrait sells for £135k
A famous portrait of Jane Austen has sold at auction today for £135,000. will be sold at auction today. The painting was expected to fetch between £150,000 and £200,000 at Sotheby's in London.
10 December 2013 at 4:03pm
Jane Austen portrait sold for £135,000
The painting by James Andrew was expected to fetch between £150,000 and £200,000 Credit: ITV News Meridian
A portrait of Jane Austen has been auctioned for £135,000.
The painting by James Andrews was sold at Sotheby's in London and was expected to fetch between £150,000 and £200,000.
The watercolour portrait is the image that will appear on the new £10 not from 2017.
Last updated Tue 10 Dec 2013
Fancy a walk like this? The plans to create a continuous coastal path in Kent
A continuous 33-mile walking route around the Isle of Sheppey in Kent could be created.
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CCTV captured the incident on Appleford Drive just after 1am on Tuesday January 7.
Philippa has the latest weather for the east
Rediscovered Francis Bacon self-portraits to go on display in London
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Robert Mattatall, Mark Granberry Presented Kirk L. Brimley Distinguished Service Awards
Robert Mattatall, founder and consultant of Mattatall Signs Ltd. in Dartmouth, NS, and Mark Granberry, president and CEO of GSG in Dallas, have each been presented the Kirk L. Brimley Distinguished Service Award. The award is the highest honor of the sign, graphics and visual communications industry.
Mattatall was named the 2021 recipient while Granberry was presented the award for 2022. With the International Sign Association's ISA Sign Expo returning to an in-person event, both men were honored at a reception Thursday night in Atlanta.
John Yarger, ISA board chairman in 2021, recognized Mattatall as a "tireless advocate for the sign industry and industry associations for decades." Mattatall served on the Sign Association of Canada's board and on the ISA board, including a stint as board chair. He founded Mattatall Signs Ltd. in 1979 and recently passed the company on to the next generation, who also have committed to serving the industry through association work.
"It's a humbling experience," Mattatall said of learning he would receive the award. "I feel that there are a lot of other people more deserving. I'm still gobsmacked that my name was put forward and the committee decided to bless me with the award. It's a nice recognition, and it coming from the peers means that much more."
Michael Hage, ISA board chairman in 2022, presented Granberry with his award, noting his ability to "see around corners," which has helped drive technological innovations within the industry. Granberry also helped ISA prepare for the future during his tenure as ISA board chair. Granberry has served in a variety of positions in regional affiliated associations.
"I thought I'd been punked," Granberry said of receiving the award. "I enjoyed my time on the ISA board and think I did a lot of good work. But so did a lot of people. It's pretty humbling to have your industry peers decide that you deserve this."
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package com.redhat.ceylon.test.maven.test;

import java.io.File;
import java.net.URL;

import com.redhat.ceylon.cmr.api.Repository;
import com.redhat.ceylon.cmr.impl.CMRJULLogger;
import com.redhat.ceylon.cmr.maven.AetherRepository;
import com.redhat.ceylon.common.log.Logger;

/**
 * Abstract Aether tests.
 *
 * @author Ales Justin
 */
public abstract class AbstractAetherTest {
    protected static final Logger log = new CMRJULLogger();

    protected Repository createAetherRepository() throws Exception {
        return createAetherRepository(false);
    }

    protected Repository createAetherRepository(boolean useOverrides) throws Exception {
        URL settingsURL = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("maven-settings/settings.xml");
        String settingsXml = new File(settingsURL.toURI()).getPath();
        if (useOverrides) {
            URL overridessURL = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("maven-settings/overrides.xml");
            String overridesXml = new File(overridessURL.toURI()).getPath();
            return AetherRepository.createRepository(log, settingsXml, overridesXml, false, 60000);
        } else {
            return AetherRepository.createRepository(log, settingsXml, false, 60000);
        }
    }
}

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Delivering plants and seeds and rototillers to Inupiaq Eskimo gardeners.
It's midnight in Kotzebue, the evening chilling down, and my assistant, Linnea, and I are still working, rushing in and out of my shed and nearby greenhouse, sorting trays of cabbage and lettuce, zucchini, pansies, and other plants, to pack into boxes to fly in the morning to Kobuk and Shungnak. A lone ice pan floats on the lagoon—the last sign of an early breakup—and the calm water reflects bright blue sky. In the north the sun shines, relentless.
Inside my shed, heaps of trowels and watering cans are strewn about. The floor is gritty with fertilizer and bonemeal. Shovels and rakes lean against the walls. In the greenhouse there is even less room to maneuver, the ground lined with trays of the tiny plants. Out on the road, occasional trucks roll past, and in the distance four-wheelers rev across town. It's broad daylight; people are out and about, but Kotzebue has begun to quiet for the night. Nowadays many residents have "real jobs" after all.
"Real" jobs weren't part of my upbringing. Most villagers lived semi-subsistence lifestyles, and my family, too, lived off the land—25 miles downriver from Ambler, along the Kobuk River, hunting and trapping and gathering. We ate mostly meat and fish, and fed our few dogs the same. We picked berries, and the plants we ate were wild—willow leaves, fireweed, bluebells, lousewort, and others—augmented with sprouted seeds, too: alfalfa, radish, and buckwheat.
When my brother, Kole, and I were seven or eight, we asked my mom if we could plant a potato. She warned us that the soil had to be loosened, and the roots removed. We were barefoot boys, tough, grubby, bug-bitten, and willing to gnaw and sample whatever we found on the tundra. We chopped roses aside on the hill and went after the bigger roots with a Pulaski ax. Kole cut his toe and we rubbed dirt in it to make it stop bleeding. Quickly, we gathered moose turds and fish guts to mix in the soil. Just under the surface, we each planted one small valuable chunk of potato.
Daily, we watered the ground, slapped mosquitoes, and peered close, watching for our plants to grow. One morning stocky green leaves had popped out of the ground. It was exciting, a little bit magic—like Jack and the Beanstalk.
In the fall, caribou were migrating through and cranberries ripe—normal stuff—and our plants added a new dimension to gathering, to dig in the dark dirt for potatoes, each one a bright surprise. We got a pot full—five pounds from one plant and a bit more from the other. "Can we grow potatoes next year?" we begged.
By the time Kole and I were teenagers, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Experimental Farm was sending us a dozen varieties of potatoes each spring to test-grow above the Arctic Circle. Upriver in Ambler, the Cleveland sisters—Katherine, Mercy, and Eleanor—and others grew turnips and cabbages, and my parents, too, had gotten into gardening for food. My dad still shot caribou for meat, but now he was equally excited to haul home the gut piles and scoop blood out of the chest cavities into coffee cans for fertilizer. He made compost piles, bought an Amish scythe to cut grass, and even put fish bones, goose feathers, and the hair slipped from moose hides into the piles.
We planted big gardens, and in July loaded family and dogs in the boat and headed to the coast to live in a canvas wall tent and commercial-fish for salmon. In late August we boated back up the Kobuk. Arriving home after two days of travel, we'd release the dogs and wade through the tall grass, racing straight for the gardens to see what had grown and what had died. Lettuce had gone to seed, a few peppers had dried up, and a broccoli or two had bolted—five feet tall with yellow flowers. But fat pea pods hung over fences, and rows of carrots were sweet and tempting. The purple tops of turnips showed, and under leaves, dark zucchini lurked, big and round as young otters. Up the hill, rhubarb stalks were thick, glowing red, ready for pies.
Gardening back then meant a more varied diet out on the land: greens in the summer, and potatoes, carrots, turnips, and cabbage to eat with caribou and fish into early winter. It was in the late 1970s that the Maniilaq Garden Project started (a much bigger operation than today) run by a woman named Sue Cohn, with a crew of workers. They offered tillers and tools, fertilizers and fencing, plants and seeds, and even greenhouses to folks in the villages.
I was raised to live off the land—to avoid careers and things that led to money traps and mortgages, but I remember thinking: If I ever have a real job, I want one like Sue has.
While we work, I'm picturing Kobuk, where we'll land first: the village sleepy and hot, HUD houses high up on pilings, snow machines abandoned here and there when the snow melted, and wild rhubarb knee-high, leafy and green along the shore. Under the canopy of birches is Nina Harvey's garden and nearby her screen tent, where she plants tomatoes, potatoes, and other plants in washtubs and pots and even old plastic kiddie sleds. Sitting in there, she and her sister Mildred, both in their 80s, make birch-bark baskets and reminisce beside the growing vegetables.ow, Linnea and I trade quirky commentary and a razor knife back and forth. We attack a heap of cardboard boxes, slashing the tops—leaving flaps to protect our young plants and for visibility so whoever packs them in the Cessna mail plane will know to be kind to our baggage. Each holds 144 vegetable starters, and we carry the unwieldy boxes back inside to stay warm for the night.
Linnea and I are past 300 plants for Kobuk, 700 for Shungnak, when I straighten up to rest my back and take stock. Shovels! I hurry to tie two bundles of shovels and rakes. "Where oh where do all our shovels go each year?" I comment to myself.
Linnea mumbles a reply. (She's a natural mumbler, and I've spent so much time alone on the tundra that I'm talented at talking to myself.) She's taping cardboard over the tines of her broadfork.
Our joking is constant, and fun, but under the surface there's something more. We are longtime friends—basically extended family—and both enjoy growing food in the villages and assisting elders and young people who over the years have grown to be friends.
The plants, too, are like hundreds of children, needing attention, and for a few weeks we're consumed with this intense job—but we can't help questioning the contradictions: so many shovels lost and replaced each year, the freight costs for shipping plants from Fairbanks, the fuel burnt each day as we ride the sky delivering such basic yet costly cargo. Gardening here was once simple. It was subsistence. But like so many things from our by-hand past, that has changed, and now Linnea and I tease ourselves relentlessly to cover an uneasiness with this strange intertwining of two things that we believe to be better left antithetical—gardening and money.
"Time to rock and roll, Garden Girl." I'm running by the time I go down the steps; we load the truck in two minutes, a mountain of boxes.7:18 my alarm goes off. Sunshine is bouncing all over the house—it didn't sleep—and now groggy and confused I wonder why we bothered. I roll off the couch, stumble into my jeans, hurry past my coffee grinder. Linnea is coming down the hall, her hair a wild swirl; I grab my ball cap to cover my unruly curls.
In truth, our program no longer even has a truck. Over the years the budget has been cut to bare bones. I make it work by collecting a paycheck for only a few weeks, a few times a year; Linnea works only 20 days each June, paid by Arctic Access, a state entity that aids disabled persons and the elderly.
At Ravn Airlines, we stride into the terminal with load after load: rakes and shovels, 13 boxes with open tops, bags of fertilizer, seeds and supplies, and heavy awkward tools. The station manager, Nettie Tabor, greets us. Alice Sheldon and Darilyn Nelson rush in, setting down coffees, sliding into their chairs, already staring at their computer screens. "Kobuk?" Darilyn says.
"Do you have any flowers?" Nettie asks.
I nod, and inhale. "Kobuk, yes. But half our plants need to be dropped in Shungnak, this morning. Then we need to be picked up there, afternoon flight—we'll boat down. I hope. We need to be back here by evening—Oh, yeah, book us to Ambler for tomorrow, please. Return here tonight. I mean from Shungnak." I trail off, wishing there somehow had been time for coffee.
Folks I know from the old days will ask about my parents, and I announce on VHF that the Garden Project is here in town. Outside, giant orange heavy equipment will rumble past—the multimillion-dollar runway upgrade in progress—while everyone respectfully waits for the oldest gardener in the village, Eleanor. Eleanor will work slowly up the worn steps, half blind, feeling her way with a heavy cane made from a branch or a small tree—perfect for prying a path through the crowd. Her old hands will grip one of the tables, grabbing anxiously at cabbage starts and seed packets. "Turnip? This one turnip? Where's potato?" And that will be the signal for the frenzy to begin.
Seth Kantner is the author of the best-selling novel Ordinary Wolves, and most recently Swallowed by the Great Land. He lives in northwest Alaska and can be reached at sethkantner.com.


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Q: Slider ocupando mais do que 100vh Estou com um problema, adicionei um slider ao meu header mas acontece que ele ocupa mais do que os 100vh que eu dei, ocupa ainda um pouco da seccao abaixo do header. Acima dessa seccao que ele ocupa eu tinha um "before" que fazia aparecer um divisor de seccao, mas esse divisor tambem nao aparece...
Já agora, podem me dizer se estou a fazer esse "divisor" de seccao da forma correta?
E já agora, aproveitando, gostaria tambem de fazer um efeito de gradiente tipo filtro por cima das imagens do slider, tem como?
Gostaria também mudar a animação da transição, em vez de ser fade, gostaria de um swipe left.
Codigo html:

    <input type="radio" id="i1" name="images" checked />
    <input type="radio" id="i2" name="images" />
    <input type="radio" id="i3" name="images" />

SEARCH YOUR VIBE

1

SEARCH WITH ONE OF THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS

2

THEN THE PAGE WILL SWIPE LEFT AND A BUNCH OF VIBES WILL APPEAR

                <input class="search-field" type="text" id="artist" placeholder="ARTIST NAME" value="">

                <input class="search-field" type="text" id="artist" placeholder="ARTIST NAME" value="">

                <input class="search-field" type="text" id="artist" placeholder="ARTIST NAME" value="">

             <button class="search-btn" type="submeter" name="submeter">SEARCH</button>

CSS:
/* slider */

#i1, #i2, #i3{ display: none;}

    .container .slide_img{
        position: absolute;
        width: 100%;;
        height: 100vh;
    }
    .container .slide_img img{
        width: 100%;
        height: 100vh;
    }

    /* .prev, .next{
        width: 12%;
        height: inherit;
        position: absolute;
        top:0;
        background-color: rgba(116, 200, 210, 0);
        color:rgba(244, 244, 244,.9);
        z-index: 99;
        transition: .45s;
        cursor: pointer;
        text-align: center;
    } */

    /*.next{right:0;}
    .prev{left:0;} */

    label span{
        position: absolute;
        font-size: 100pt;
        top: 50%;
        transform: translateY(-50%);
    }

    /*.prev:hover, .next:hover{
        transition: .3s;
        background-color: rgba(88, 88, 89,.8);
        color: #ffffff;
    } */

.container #nav_slide{
    width: 100%;
    bottom: 12%;
    height: 11px;
    position: absolute;
    text-align: center;
    z-index: -5;
    cursor: default;
}

#nav_slide .dots{
    top: -5px;
    width: 18px;
    height: 18px;
    margin: 0 4px;
    position: relative;
    border-radius: 100%;
    display: inline-block;
    background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);
    transition: .4s;
}

#nav_slide .dots:hover {
    cursor: pointer;
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    margin-top: -10%;
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    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    overflow: hidden;
    z-index: 100;
}

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    background-color: white;
    opacity: 80%;
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}

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}

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}

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    text-align: left;
    margin-top: 5px;
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}

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    color: white;
    background-color: #000;
    display: inline-block;
    border-radius: 50%;
    height: 50px;
    width: 50px;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 5px;
    float: left;
    font-size: 150%;
    margin-right: 25px;
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}

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Desde já, muito obrigado!

A: Tente colocar valor zero nos atributos margin e padding do "slider":
nota: supondo que .slide_img seja o slider.
.container .slide_img{
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100vh;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}
.container .slide_img img{
    width: 100%;
    height: 100vh;
    margin: 0px;
    padding: 0px;
}

Já sobre o divisor ficou meio confuso do que se trata. Não consegui indentificá-lo no código.

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text:
HomeNEWSNigeria facing new Boko Haram threat – Buhari
Nigeria facing new Boko Haram threat – Buhari
Adebanjo Shegun August 03, 2019
President Buhari raised an alarm over the new Boko Haram threat the country is facing in his address at the graduation ceremony of the National Defence College Course 27 on Friday August 2.
The President further revealed that the Boko Haram insurgents lost their insurgency campaign, became factionalised and mutated into a new form of terrorist threat.
Buhari said, "This occasion affords me another opportunity to briefly reflect on the state of the Nigerian nation, particularly regarding national security. At the inception of our first tenure in 2015, Nigeria was at a critical crossroads. The Boko Haram group was at the height of its infamy and virtually held Nigeria hostage. It constituted a clear and present danger to our corporate existence as a nation.
"After four years of gruelling work, I can report the progress that we have made in tackling the security challenges, with the combined efforts of our regional coalition partners, the Armed Forces of Nigeria and other security agencies.
"In spite of the progress, the Nigerian state is still beset with some existential and fundamental challenges. The Boko Haram for instance, having lost their insurgency campaign, now factionalised and mutated into a new form of terrorist threat."
He added, "Banditry and vandalism, kidnapping, pastoralists and farmers' conflicts, cultism and political violence have become the new threats. Other crimes such as proliferation of small arms and light weapons, drug trafficking, drug and substance abuse and communal conflict, all add up to the security mix.
"The state of education, the youth bulge, unemployment, socio-political and ethno-religious divisions, fake news and hate speech all compound the security challenges.
"I'm committed to promoting a vision of a secure, safe, just, peaceful, prosperous and strong nation.
"Indeed, we shall be employing all elements of our national and human resources to ensure security, a just society, peaceful co-existence, national unity, prosperity and sustainable development, while promoting our good standing abroad.
"I believe that the graduates of the National Defence College Course 27 are sufficiently groomed in both character and learning to take up this challenge."


text:
package io.github.hidroh.materialistic;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;
import android.os.SystemClock;
import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.fragment.app.Fragment;
import android.text.format.DateUtils;

import io.github.hidroh.materialistic.annotation.Synthetic;
import io.github.hidroh.materialistic.data.HackerNewsClient;
import io.github.hidroh.materialistic.data.ItemManager;

public abstract class BaseStoriesActivity extends BaseListActivity
        implements ListFragment.RefreshCallback {

    private static final String STATE_LAST_UPDATED = "state:lastUpdated";
    @Synthetic Long mLastUpdated;
    private final Runnable mLastUpdateTask = new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            if (mLastUpdated == null) {
                return;
            }
            //noinspection ConstantConditions
            if (getSupportActionBar() == null) {
                return;
            }
            if (AppUtils.hasConnection(BaseStoriesActivity.this)) {
                getSupportActionBar().setSubtitle(getString(R.string.last_updated,
                        DateUtils.getRelativeTimeSpanString(mLastUpdated,
                                System.currentTimeMillis(),
                                DateUtils.MINUTE_IN_MILLIS,
                                DateUtils.FORMAT_ABBREV_ALL)));
                mHandler.postAtTime(this, SystemClock.uptimeMillis() + DateUtils.MINUTE_IN_MILLIS);
            } else {
                getSupportActionBar().setSubtitle(R.string.offline);
            }
        }
    };
    @Synthetic final Handler mHandler = new Handler();

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        if (savedInstanceState != null) {
            mLastUpdated = savedInstanceState.getLong(STATE_LAST_UPDATED);
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        mHandler.removeCallbacks(mLastUpdateTask);
        mHandler.post(mLastUpdateTask);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPause() {
        super.onPause();
        mHandler.removeCallbacks(mLastUpdateTask);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle outState) {
        super.onSaveInstanceState(outState);
        if (mLastUpdated != null) {
            outState.putLong(STATE_LAST_UPDATED, mLastUpdated);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onRefreshed() {
        onItemSelected(null);
        mLastUpdated = System.currentTimeMillis();
        mHandler.removeCallbacks(mLastUpdateTask);
        mHandler.post(mLastUpdateTask);
    }

    @NonNull
    @ItemManager.FetchMode
    protected abstract String getFetchMode();

    @Override
    protected Fragment instantiateListFragment() {
        Bundle args = new Bundle();
        args.putString(ListFragment.EXTRA_ITEM_MANAGER, HackerNewsClient.class.getName());
        args.putString(ListFragment.EXTRA_FILTER, getFetchMode());
        return Fragment.instantiate(this, ListFragment.class.getName(), args);
    }

}


text:
Trivium es la primera producción musical de la banda estadounidense Trivium; además es el único EP de su carrera. Esta producción fue lanzada en enero de 2003, financiada por los miembros de la banda.

Aunque es un EP (extended play: reproducción extendida, un álbum de menos de 25 minutos) oficial de la banda, algunos lo consideran un mero demo (una cinta de demostración).

La publicación de este EP ayudó a la banda a firmar un contrato con la casa disquera alemana Lifeforce Records, para publicar su álbum debut en octubre de ese mismo año.

Lista de canciones
Todas las canciones fueron compuestas por Matt Heafy.
 "To Burn the Eye" - (7:01)
 "Requiem" - (4:53)
 "Fugue" - (4:31)
 "My Hatred" - (4:53)
 "The Storm" - (6:05)
 "Sworn" - (4:21)
 "Demon" - (3:27)

Las pistas 1, 2, 3 y 4 también aparecen el en álbum Ember To Inferno, "Fugue" en el Ember To Inferno se llama Fugue (A Revelation), es alrededor de 10 segundos más corta y pierde una parte del solo.

Banda
 Matt Heafy, voz, guitarra eléctrica líder, y guitarra rítmica;
 Travis Smith, batería;
 Bred Young, bajo.

Álbumes de Trivium
Álbumes de 2003
Álbumes en inglés
EP de 2003
Álbumes de metalcore

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text:
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../spec_helper'
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/fixtures/common'
require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/shared/closed'

describe "Dir#each" do
  before :all do
    DirSpecs.create_mock_dirs
  end

  after :all do
    DirSpecs.delete_mock_dirs
  end

  before :each do
    @dir = Dir.open DirSpecs.mock_dir
  end

  after :each do
    @dir.close
  end

  it "yields each directory entry in succession" do
    a = []
    @dir.each {|dir| a << dir}

    a.sort.should == DirSpecs.expected_paths
  end

  it "returns the directory which remains open" do
    # an FS does not necessarily impose order
    ls = Dir.entries(DirSpecs.mock_dir)
    @dir.each {}.should == @dir
    @dir.read.should == nil
    @dir.rewind
    ls.should include(@dir.read)
  end

  ruby_version_is '' ... '1.8.7' do
    it 'raises a LocalJumpError if no block given' do
      lambda{ @dir.each }.should raise_error(LocalJumpError)
    end
  end

  ruby_version_is '1.8.7' do
    it 'returns an Enumerator if no block given' do
      @dir.each.should be_kind_of(enumerator_class)
      @dir.each.to_a.sort.should == DirSpecs.expected_paths
    end
  end

end

describe "Dir#each" do
  before :all do
    DirSpecs.create_mock_dirs
  end

  after :all do
    DirSpecs.delete_mock_dirs
  end

  it_behaves_like :dir_closed, :each
end


text:
Die Sonderabfalldeponie Münchehagen ist eine frühere Deponie für gefährliche Abfälle in Niedersachsen, die sich südlich des Rehburger Ortsteils Münchehagen befindet.

Lage
Das Deponiegelände liegt im westlichen Niedersachsen auf dem Gebiet der Stadt Rehburg-Loccum im Landkreis Nienburg. Es befindet sich zwischen den Orten Münchehagen, Loccum und Wiedensahl im Randbereich des Schaumburger Waldes. Die Ortskerne der Ortschaften sind etwa 3–5 km von der Deponie entfernt. Etwa einen Kilometer westlich der Deponie befindet sich die Landesgrenze zum Bundesland Nordrhein-Westfalen. In dem Gebiet liegen mehrere hundert Meter mächtige Ton- und Schluffsteinschichten mit darüber liegendem Geschiebelehm. Aus dem Boden wurde in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren Ton zur Ziegelherstellung entnommen. Zurück blieben offene Tongruben, die Ende der 1960er Jahre für die Ablagerung von Abfällen genutzt wurden.

Betrieb

In der 2,5 Hektar großen sogenannten Altdeponie wurden in den Jahren 1968–1973 in 25 offenen, bis zu sechs Meter tiefen Gruben etwa 56.000 m³ zum Teil flüssige Industrieabfälle aus der Herstellung von Pflanzenschutzmitteln, Farben und Lacken eingelagert. Unmittelbar angrenzend in östlicher Richtung wurde von der Gesellschaft für Sonderabfallbeseitigung Münchehagen eine ca. 5,5 Hektar große Sondermülldeponie eingerichtet. Von 1977 bis 1983 wurden darin in vier 25 Meter tiefen Gruben ca. 350.000 m³ überwiegend feste Abfälle eingelagert, darunter mehrere tausend Tonnen giftiger Stoffe. Dazu zählen dioxinhaltige Flugasche aus Müllverbrennungsanlagen und Rückstände des Unkrautvernichtungsmittels T-Säure mit dem Stoff TCDD, der umgangssprachlich als Seveso-Dioxin bekannt ist.

Als etwa 1979 im benachbarten Wald Rinde von den Bäumen fiel, kam es 1980 zur Gründung einer Bürgerinitiative und zu Protesten. Bundesweit in die Schlagzeilen geriet die Deponie im Jahr 1983, als darin 41 aus Seveso verschwundene Dioxin-Fässer vermutet wurden. Daraufhin blockierten Angehörige der Bürgerinitiative die Deponiezufahrt. 1985 wurde auf dem Münchehagener Deponiegelände in einer Wasserprobe die bis dahin weltweit höchste Konzentration an Dioxin festgestellt. 1985 setzte der Niedersächsische Landtag einen parlamentarischen Untersuchungsausschuss ein, der sich mit der staatlichen Kontrolle der privaten Sondermüllbeseitigung, darunter die Deponien in Münchehagen und in Hoheneggelsen, befasste. Die Kontrolle der Sonderabfalldeponie Münchehagen fiel in das Ressort des Niedersächsischen Landwirtschaftsministeriums unter Gerhard Glup.

Nachdem weitere Deponiepolder behördlich nicht genehmigt wurden und 1983 die Deponie auf Betreiben der Stadt Rehburg-Loccum nach einer Klage vor dem Oberverwaltungsgericht geschlossen wurde, ging das Betreiberunternehmen 1985 in Konkurs. Nach einer Strafanzeige der niedersächsischen Landtagsfraktion der Partei Die Grünen wegen Umweltverstößen beauftragte die Staatsanwaltschaft Verden das Landeskriminalamt Niedersachsen (LKA) mit der Aufklärung bei der Abfalleinlagerung. Dazu setzte das LKA im November 1985 eine elfköpfige Sonderkommission (Soko 318 U) ein. Ihre Ermittlungen richteten sich gegen ehemalige Betreiber der Anlage sowie Angehörige von Genehmigungs- und Aufsichtsbehörden. Laut dem Abschlussbericht der Sonderkommission vom November 1986 wurde die Deponie unter katastrophalen Bedingungen betrieben und es habe gravierende Fehler seitens der Behörden gegeben.

Sanierung

Das Land Niedersachsen übernahm nach dem Unternehmenskonkurs von 1985 die zur Altlast gewordene Deponie und überwacht seither die Anlage. Zwischen 1987 und 2004 fand bei der Evangelischen Akademie Loccum ein Mediationsverfahren statt, in dem Vertreter der Betroffenen, von Behörden und aus der Politik über den weiteren Umgang mit der Altlast verhandelten. Die Niedersächsische Landesregierung griff einige Arbeitsergebnisse der Mediation auf und beschloss 1997, die Deponie zu sanieren. Dazu gehörte eine Abdichtung nach oben und eine seitliche Verkapselung durch eine 1,26 km lange und 30 Meter tiefe Dichtwand, wofür rund 30 Millionen Euro aufgewendet wurden. Die Arbeiten wurden im Jahr 2001 abgeschlossen. Seither wird im Rahmen eines Monitoringprogramms überwacht, ob giftige Stoffe austreten, was jährlich rund 400.000 Euro an Kosten verursacht. Die Stilllegung der Deponie seit 1983 verursachte Kosten von etwa 130 Millionen Euro.

Im Mai 2014, über 30 Jahre nach Schließung der Deponie, fand auf der Deponie der zweite Tag der offenen Tür statt – ein erster Tag der offenen Tür wurde mit Abschluss der baulichen Sicherungsmaßnahmen (Dichtwandbau, Oberflächenabdichtung und Errichtung von Brunnen zur Grundwasserüberwachung) am 29. September 2001 durchgeführt, bei dem die Bevölkerung Zutritt zum Gelände erhielt und sich über die Sicherung der Altlast informieren konnte.

Siehe auch
 Sonderabfalldeponie Hoheneggelsen

Weblinks

 Münchehagens Sonderabfall auf der Website der Stadt Rehburg-Loccum

 19-seitige Website-Chronik zur Deponie mit Dokumenten und Zeitungsausschnitten bei Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Ortsverband Rehburg-Loccum

  auf der früheren Website der Bürgerinitiative
 Streit um Altdeponie: Muss der Giftmüll raus? bei  ndr.de vom 16. August 2022

Einzelnachweise

Munchehagen
Rehburg-Loccum
Wirtschaft (Niedersachsen)
Altlast


text:
North Korea—Now What After Hanoi?
March 17, 2019 Topic: Security Region: Asia Tags: North KoreaHanoiSummitKim Jong UnWar
Washington must double down on alliances and not offer more concessions.
by Wallace C. Gregson
If we've tried to do something for twenty-five years and not found success, we may wish to reconsider our objective and our plans. Four U.S. administrations pursued the elimination of North Korean nuclear weapons. Four failed.
This was not for lack of effort. We deployed many forms of negotiation and development assistance, including—most ambitiously—the international Korean Peninsula Economic Development Organization and its promise of light water reactors to supply electricity in support of the Agreed Framework in the 1990s. There was no national distribution grid, but that was something to be solved down the road. This was in the early post-Cold-War Clinton years when we had reason to think we could accomplish anything. I didn't work, for many reasons. Subsequent administrations made very credible efforts, also to no avail.
Perhaps we are pursuing the wrong objective. North Korea's nuclear weapons program started in the 1950s. They will not abandon this capability. Continued pursuit of this impossible dream allows Kim to outplay us and imposes diplomatic, reputational and financial costs on America and our allies.
Kim's nuclear and missile weapons programs are means serving more than one end. These include regime survival through deterrence against forcible regime change. Coercion is another benefit. Domestically, nuclear weapons demonstrate the power of the Kim ruling family, useful to keeping his core supporters, estimated at a million or so, in line. Beyond North Korea's borders, nuclear weapons shape the actions of Russia, China, South Korea, Japan, and the United States because North Korea cannot be ignored.
Nuclear weapons also support North Korea's diplomacy in pursuit of aid and status. North Korea skillfully mixes capability demonstrations, provocations, and conciliatory signals to leverage aid from the United States and to influence politics in South Korea, Japan and China in its favor. This "nuclear-powered diplomacy" was most recently shown as we moved from threats of "fire and fury" and a "bloody nose," and from taunts of "little rocket man," and nuclear button comparisons to "beautiful letters and we fell in love." We unilaterally canceled combined exercises and unilaterally declared that North Korea was no longer a nuclear threat. Kim's multiple individual summit meetings with the leaders of the Republic of Korea, the People's Republic of China and the United States is an unprecedented achievement. The number of his meetings with these leaders is far greater than the meetings they have had with each other.
Nuclear capability is business and revenue. Nuclear weapons technology, expertise, and material are in demand in the most odious regimes. Selling this brings major resources to the ruling family.
Moreover, Kim's influence in South Korea—not a typo—continues to be very strong. He enjoys very high poll ratings, higher than President Moon, and with this comes influence and leverage over South Korean opinion and politics. Kim exploits the desire of many in South Korea for some sort of reconciliation with their long-isolated counterparts in the North.
President Moon of South Korea is ever more vulnerable to North Korea's very effective influence campaign. Stubborn economic challenges combined with nettlesome scandals press downward on Moon's approval ratings. He was riding high at 80 percent approval following the Singapore Summit. He dropped to 50 percent before the second summit. He needed a successful Hanoi Summit, defined as an agreement sufficient for the United States to ease sanctions to permit North-South economic cooperation, to recover. He—and we—didn't get it.
Kim did get a "success," as defined by continued high approval ratings in South Korea and decreasing military preparedness south of the Demilitarized Zone. All of this sets the table for more difficulties in the U.S.-Republic of Korea Alliance, exacerbating the differing objectives of America and South Korea. Kim's success also is causing enhanced worries and doubts in Japan about North Korean capabilities and us enhancing Kim's prestige among his core supporters at home. Apparently, we even gave him a pass on the brutalization of Otto Warmbier, his family, and much of America. Nearly a clean sweep.
It may be that Kim did not get a lifting of sanctions, but in their current state, we are a long way from the "maximum pressure" sanctions that we declared earlier. North Korea will survive the sanctions as they currently exist, but of course, they will continue to complain as a component of their successful influence campaign. And their complaints will fall on many sympathetic ears.
Most importantly, there is a real possibility that Kim has a better-than-even chance to divide the United States and South Korea. President Moon must run fast to the left to get in front of the developing consensus among his constituents. That will likely take the shape of some semblance of a peace settlement, sufficient to rebuild peninsular rail lines from south to north and the recommissioning of joint industrial areas.
As in the days of President Kim Dae-jung's "Sunshine Policy"—formally titled The Reconciliation and Cooperation Policy Toward the North—the allure of mutual South-North economic power combined with the possibility of progress toward some undefined peace between a vigorous democracy that values free will and human rights in the South with a brutal totalitarian regime that treats these virtues as something to persecute, incarcerate, torture and execute, will be irresistible. Might this just succeed despite the long odds? Sure, but it's hard to bet the house on it, especially when there has been no "deep thinking" on what roadmap we might follow to get through this maze.
On our side of the Pacific, questions about the value of U.S. alliances, particularly our forward-deployed forces, recur with depressing frequency in the news. It will not have escaped President Moon's attention that we have spent far more leadership time and resources on Kim Jong-un than we have devoted to allied leaders in the region. Both can be additional indicators of success in Pyongyang.
So, now what?
Restore what we conceded unilaterally. If Kim is reconditioning his weapons sites, we can at least restore our exercises in full, perhaps even strengthening them as a clear signal that we're not intimidated or blinded by love. This will be very difficult for President Moon, so we must be ready to help him in other areas.
Start and maintain newly energized security consultations and actions with our allies and countries in the region. Double down on alliance capabilities in Japan and South Korea that directly counter North Korean capabilities. This must include, as a matter of priority, deterrence by denial of Kim's ability to attack Japan and Korea with nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction. The "Boost Phase Intercept" capabilities highlighted in public Missile Defense Agency documents must be made operational as an urgent matter. Being able to destroy nuclear-armed North Korean missiles over North Korea just about eliminates the value of the long-standing Kim family weapons investment program.
Washington should also renew cooperative programs with regional nations to attack and eliminate illicit North Korean banking activities across the region. Willie Sutton knew where the money was. We must also. And we must "rob" them and perhaps return the seized ill-gotten gains to the Southeast Asian nations that can use the help.
Keep talking to North Korea. Don't discount four-or six-party talks just because they were someone else's idea. Be realistic. This is not about "relationships," good or otherwise. This is brutal business, not personal. Talk with North Korea as Goldman Sachs would, not as if we need a "good meeting." We need reality.
Wallace C. Gregson, a retired Marine and former assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs (2009–11), is currently a senior advisor at Avascent International and senior director for China and the Pacific at the Center for the National Interest.


text:
Metrowater
Digital meters fixed for commercial consumers of Metrowater in Adyar zone
The meters use long range gateways for collecting and sending data to Metrowater servers
P Oppili
As part of the effort to prevent wastage of water, Metrowater has begun fixing in the Adyar zone digital meters for high-value commercial consumers, defined as establishments that consume more than five lakh litres of water per month. These establishments, which include hospitals and educational institutions, will soon have to pay water charges based on the consumption levels. A six month period has been set as the deadline for the completion of affixing the smart meters in the Adyar zone.
The process, which involves replacing old meters, will later be extended to bulk consumers in the other 14 zones of the corporation and is a prelude to fixing the meters for domestic consumers, a senior Metrowater official told TOI. The agency had identified 12,708 bulk consumers and 160 have so far been fitted with the new smart meters, the official said.
To collect data from the existing meters, installed a long time ago, workers of the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB), popular as Metrowater, had to enter sumps at the establishments, often ill-maintained and dingy, concerned. The realisation that the chances of errors creeping in during the tedious process is what led to the decision to opt for smart meters, said the official.
The new digital smart meters, imported from France, leave little room for errors, he said. Based on a system using radio-frequency waves for automated reading, the meters use long range gateways for collecting and sending data to Metrowater servers.
The water agency, which began the process of fixing the state-of-the-art meters a month ago, is set to fit another 700 meters in commercial establishments in the selected zone. The second consignment, of 10,000 meters, is expected to arrive by the end of September, said the official.
Officials did the necessary groundwork to ensure there will be no glitches when the system becomes operationl, he added. After receiving a prototype of the smart meters from France sometime ago, they sent it to the Fluid Control Research Institute at Palakkad in Kerala where it was run through a variety of checks and callibrated before the final seal of approval was given. It was then that Metrowater imported the first batch of meters from France, the official said.
The first phase will be devoted to fixing meters for large-volume consumers in a single zone. In the final leg of the project, the mammoth task of bringing the eight lakh plus domestic consumers under a water metering system will begin in phases. Once the meters are in place and the system becomes operational, domestic consumers will begin paying water charges according to the consumption as they currently do in the case of electricity, the official said.
Water consumption has been a major problem in the city, with domestic consumers as well as commercial establishments being regularly accused of being extravagant in use in times of plenty and activists have long called for a metering system.
metrowater in adyar zone
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I love granola bars, but the ones from the store are usually packed with preservatives and sugar. I recently came across a recipe from Ina Garten for some homemade granola bars and decided to try it out. This recipe is perfect for a brunch, breakfast, or a healthy snack. Serve them with yogurt, berries, and your favorite hot beverage. Enjoy!
Mix oats, almonds, and coconut on a cookie sheet and put in the oven at 350 degrees for about 10-12 minutes to toast a little. Make sure to mix them a few times, otherwise the mix will burn.
In the mean time chop some dates.
Dice a bunch of apricots into small pieces.
In a small saucepan put butter, honey, golden syrup, maple syrup, and vanilla. Simmer for a minute.
Put the baked oats in a big bowl.
Add the melted syrup, butter, and chopped fruits to the dry oats. Mix well.
Put the mixture into a 12 x 8 pan and press well with a spatula. Bake for 25-30 minutes in a 300 degree oven.
Cool for a couple of hours and cut into 18 squares. Enjoy with yogurt and your favorite hot beverage. Bon Appetite!