What is SCOR?
Supply Chain Operations Reference model or SCOR is the planning and diagnostic system of supply chain management. SCOR is the product of Supply-Chain Council (a global non-profit consortium) whose methodology, diagnostic and benchmarking tools help organizations make dramatic and rapid improvements in supply chain processes. The SCOR model is also used to evaluate and compare supply chain activities and performance.
SCOR Model Diagram:
SCOR captures the Council’s consensus view of supply chain management. It provides a unique framework that links business process, metrics, best practices and technology into a unified structure to support communication among supply chain partners and to improve the effectiveness of supply chain management and related supply chain improvement activities. SCC membership is open to all companies and organizations interested in applying and advancing the state-of-the-art in supply-chain management systems and practices.
Figure: SCOR is organized around five major management processes.
Supply Chain Council:
The SCC was organized in 1996 and initially included 69 practitioner companies meeting in an informal consortium. Subsequently, the companies of the Council elected to form an independent not for profit trade association. The majority of the SCC’s members are practitioners and represent a broad cross-section of industries, including manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Equally important to the Council and the advancement of the SCOR Model are the technology suppliers and implementers, the academicians, and the government organizations that participate in Council activities and the development and maintenance of the Model. At the time of this release, the Council has approximately 800 corporate members worldwide and has established international chapters in Australia/New Zealand, Latin America, Greater China, Europe, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Southern Africa with additional requests for regional chapters pending.
The Supply-Chain Council is interested in providing the widest possible dissemination of the Supply Chain Operations Reference Model. The wide-spread use of the Model results in better customer-supplier relationships, software systems that can better support members through the use of common measurements and terms, and the ability to rapidly recognize and adopt best practice no matter where it originates. SCC requests that all who use the SCOR Model provide attribution to the Supply-Chain Council.
End to End Supply Chain:
This introduction is provided to assist new users of the Supply Chain Operations Reference Model to begin analytic and implementation projects. It is intended to remind experienced users of the framework and structure of the Model when tackling more complex applications of the Model for their businesses. Finally, it is provided to orient members to the changes between Version 9.0 and Version 10.0.
Version 10.0 of the Supply Chain Model is the twelfth revision since the Model’s introduction in 1996.xRevisions of the Model are made when it is determined by Council members that changes should bexmade to facilitate the use of the Model in practice. Specific changes in Version 10.0 are outlined later in this Introduction.
SCOR Model Phases & Activities:
The SCOR has been developed to describe the business activities associated with all phases of satisfying a customer’s demand. The Model itself contains several sections and is organized around the five primary management processes of Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, and Return (shown in Figure 1). By describing supply chains using these process building blocks, the Model can be used to describe supply chains that are very simple or very complex using a common set of definitions. As a result, disparate industries can be linked to describe the depth and breadth of virtually any supply chain. The Model has been able to successfully describe and provide a basis for supply chain management improvement for global projects as well as site-specific projects.
It spans: all customer interactions (order entry through paid invoice), all physical material transactions (supplier’s supplier to customer’s customer, including equipment, supplies, spare parts, bulk product, software, etc.) and all market interactions (from the understanding of aggregate demand to the fulfillment of each order). It does not attempt to describe every business process or activity. Specifically, the Model does not address: sales and marketing (demand generation), product development, research and development, and some elements of post-delivery customer support.
It should be noted that the scope of the Model has changed and is anticipated to change based on Council member requirements. With the introduction of Return, the Model was extended into the area of post-delivery customer support (although it does not include all activities in that area).
As shown in Figure, the Model is designed and maintained to support supply chains of various complexities and across multiple industries. The Council has focused on three process levels and does not attempt to prescribe how a particular organization should conduct its business or tailor its systems / information flow. Every organization that implements supply chain improvements using the Supply Chain Model will need to extend the Model, at least to Level 4, using organization-specific processes, systems, and practice.
The Model is silent in the areas of human resources, training, and quality assurance. Currently, it is the position of the Council that these horizontal activities are implicit in the Model and there are other highly qualified organizations that are chiefly concerned with how an organization should train, retain, organize, and conduct their quality programs. Just as the Council recognized the requirements for marketing and sales in commercial organizations, the Council is not minimizing the importance of these activities, but they are currently out of scope for Supply Chain Operations Reference Model.
The Practices section consists of best practices organized by original objective:
- SCOR Model: Improving overall supply chain operational performance. These best practices focus on the Reliability, Responsiveness, Agility, Cost and/or Asset Management Efficiency performance attributes.
- GreenSCOR: Improving the environmental footprint of the supply chain.
- Risk Management: Improving (mitigating) the risks of an undesired event taking place, limiting the impact of such an event and improving the ability to recover from the event.
Best practices are best described as unique ways to configure a set of processes (Configuration), unique ways to automate a set of processes (Technology) and/or unique ways to perform a set of processes (Knowledge) that result in significant better results. No codification exists for Best Practices at this time.
The People section of Supply Chain Operations Reference Model is new. Starting revision 10 Supply Chain Model incorporates a standard for describing skills required to perform tasks and manage processes. Generally these skills are supply chain specific. Some skills identified may be applicable outside the supply chain process domain.
Skills are described by a standard definition and association to other People aspects: Aptitudes, Experiences, Trainings and Competency level. Competency level is not included in the framework descriptions. Supply Chain Operations Reference Model recognizes 5 commonly accepted competency levels:
- Novice: Untrained beginner, no experience, requires and follows detailed documentation.
- Beginner: Performs the work, with limited situational perception.
- Competent: Understands the work and can determine priorities to reach goals.
- Proficient: Oversees all aspects of the work and can prioritize based on situational aspects.
- Expert: Intuitive understanding. Experts can apply experience patterns to new situations.
These competency levels are used similarly as process or practice maturity levels. The person or job specification is evaluated on the found (person) or desired (job specification) level of competency.
Codification within the People section consists of coding of the Skills as well as the Aptitudes, Experiences and Trainings that define the Skills. All People elements start with a capital letter H followed by a capital letter representing the element: S for Skills, A for Aptitudes, E for Experiences and T for Trainings. These are followed by a period and a for digit number. For example HS.0010 is the code for Basic Finance skill, HT.0039 is the code for CTPAT training.
Note: The number in the ID – for example the 0018 in HA.0018 – does NOT indicate any kind of priority, importance, or other meaning. It is a unique identifier.
Since the inception of the SCOR model companies have looked at how to best utilize the rich content of Supply Chain Model. Supply Chain Council has supported and continuous to support practitioners by offering training focused on the interpretation and use of Supply Chain Operations Reference Model. Experience tells us that SCOR model as a tool needs to be integrated into existing project methodologies used, where they exist. Effective supply chain organizations have learned that using the Supply Chain Model is not a business goal; it is a tool to reach the true business goal: An integrated optimized supply chain, meeting market requirements.
A typical Supply Chain Operations Reference project comprises of the following phases:
UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE:
The scope of a Supply Chain Operations Reference Model project is defined by the following components – Business: Understanding the markets the supply chain serves, the products and/or services the supply chain delivers and competitive landscape for each product and market;
- Configuration: Understanding the high level processes. Develop geographic maps and thread diagrams to understand material flows and supporting processes.
- Performance: Understanding the areas of under performance. Companies develop scorecards and may organize a benchmark to understand how their supply chains perform in comparison to similar supply chains.
- Opportunity: Defining the improvement opportunity. Setting the scope of the effort. Focus on one or few supply chains and one or few metrics per supply chain.
- Plan the next steps.
Determine where the root causes are: Metrics decomposition: For each problem metric identify the diagnostic metrics and collect the data to calculate these diagnostic metrics. Determine the the problem metric or metrics. Repeat this process until no more diagnostic metrics can be identified;
- Process problem discovery: For all diagnostic metrics, determine the associated processes. For each process collect information about how the process operates. (‘operates’ not ‘is supposed to operate’). Collect relevant information about who performs the work, sources or lack of relevant information to perform the work, rules and regulations that apply, tools and software supporting the process. Collect observed performance information from those who perform the work.
- Classify the problems: Group relevant observed process and performance problems together and determine how this impacts the overall problem. (Cause and Effect).
- Plan the next steps.
Review different ways to solve the individual observed problems and the overall problem.
- Research better practices: Determine how others have solved similar problems. Identify best practices, leading practices and software and tools that may address individual problems and/or the overall problem;
- Develop what-if scenarios: Using information about alternative practices, new technology, internal knowledge and external resources* describe new ways to configure and organize the processes. (*) External resources can be paid consultancies, peers in other industries or peers in other business units in the same company. Internal resources and knowledge refers to workers in or close to the process. Some IT resources may qualify as internal resources;
- Review and select: Review each scenario. Weigh improvement impact against estimated cost, risk, effort, lead-time, and feasibility. Select the appropriate (or best) solution scenario for each problem. The collection of these solutions is the supply chain strategy to resolve the overall problem.
- Plan the next steps.
Document the new processes, technologies and organizations. Describe the To-Be state.
- Document processes: Develop the detailed transactional information.
- Develop detailed process flows and descriptions. Document how the process is organized, who does what and what information is used and created in each process step.
- Develop detailed work instructions. Document how the work is done. Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for new processes. Update SOPs for all processes impacted by the change.
- Document organizational designs:
- Develop detailed job descriptions.
- Document authority, responsibility and span of control.
- Document training needs, develop training if needed.
- Document metrics, describe how the processes (and process owners) will be measured upon implementation of the new process.
- Document technology requirements: Describe how existing and/or new technology will support the new process. A business requirements document will enable internal and/or external technology providers to match their tools to the process needs. Solution design may require significant resources and time for projects with large dependencies on technology and maybe considered separate IT projects.
- Document transitions: Describe the dependencies and restrictions related to the change. Estimate resource needs
- Plan the next steps.
PLAN AND LAUNCH CHANGE PROJECTS:
Create a roadmap to implement the changes.
- Define projects: Define unique projects for implementation. Combine changes that impact the same technology, organizations, products, processes as required. Note: Not all projects are equal: Large scope changes need managed projects, small changes may need a memo to a manager with documentation.
- Critical path and dependencies: Document the interdependencies of projects. “Project D requires Project K to be completed”. “Project F can start at any time”.
- Manage the project portfolio: Prioritize projects based on expected return, business strategy and other relevant projects. Allocate resources; people, funds, time.
- Launch and oversee the projects: Make sure the project deliverables result in the desired change.
Supply Chain Council recognizes that not every Supply Chain Operations Reference Model project is the same. Some projects require all or most detailed activities listed to take place to ensure the project outcomes. Most projects however do not. For example: Supply chains that have previously identified realistic improvement targets do not necessarily require another round of benchmarking. Or, if the changes do not require changes to software, do not spend months on documenting the technology requirements.
Note: The lecture on supply chain operations reference model is developed by AIMS’ supply chain academy. AIMS offers supply chain certification online, diploma in supply chain management, and mba supply chain management.


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Sheriff: Man had sex with minor victim from previous arrest
STONE COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - A Stone County man out on bond is back behind bars after deputies said he had sex with a minor victim from his previous arrest.
According to the Stone County Sheriff’s Office, the victim’s father reported to deputies on Sept. 8 that 23-year-old Allen Keith Godfrey of Fox was having sex with his 14-year-old daughter.
Godfrey was already out on bond from a previous arrest in March for an alleged sexual relationship with the same child.
Investigators said Godfrey admitted he contacted the minor through Facebook Messenger to have sex with her.
He confirmed they had sex at least twice in August, the sheriff stated.
Godfrey now faces internet stalking of a child and two counts of fourth-degree sexual assault.
The judge revoked his bond on the first case and issued a $300,000 bond on the new charges.
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Foods that spoil easily, such as meats, dairy, and seafood, must be prepared a certain way to avoid contaminating the people for whom they are prepared. As such, the rule of thumb is that cold foods (such as dairy products) should be kept cold and hot foods (such as soup) should be kept hot until storage. Cold meats, such as chicken, that are to be cooked should not be placed at room temperature for thawing, at the risk of dangerous bacterial growth, such as Salmonella or E. coli.
Some traditional foods have geographical indications and traditional specialities in the European Union designations per European Union schemes of geographical indications and traditional specialties: Protected designation of origin (PDO), Protected geographical indication (PGI) and Traditional specialities guaranteed (TSG). These standards serve to promote and protect names of quality agricultural products and foodstuffs.
Saltiness is the taste of alkali metal ions such as sodium and potassium. It is found in almost every food in low to moderate proportions to enhance flavor, although to eat pure salt is regarded as highly unpleasant. There are many different types of salt, with each having a different degree of saltiness, including sea salt, fleur de sel, kosher salt, mined salt, and grey salt. Other than enhancing flavor, its significance is that the body needs and maintains a delicate electrolyte balance, which is the kidney's function. Salt may be iodized, meaning iodine has been added to it, a necessary nutrient that promotes thyroid function. Some canned foods, notably soups or packaged broths, tend to be high in salt as a means of preserving the food longer. Historically salt has long been used as a meat preservative as salt promotes water excretion. Similarly, dried foods also promote food safety.
During aeration, a younger wine's exposure to air often "relaxes" the drink, making it smoother and better integrated in aroma, texture, and flavor. Older wines generally fade (lose their character and flavor intensity) with extended aeration. Despite these general rules, breathing does not necessarily benefit all wines. Wine may be tasted as soon as the bottle is opened to determine how long it should be aerated, if at all.[better source needed] When tasting wine, individual flavors may also be detected, due to the complex mix of organic molecules (e.g. esters and terpenes) that grape juice and wine can contain. Experienced tasters can distinguish between flavors characteristic of a specific grape and flavors that result from other factors in wine-making. Typical intentional flavor elements in wine—chocolate, vanilla, or coffee—are those imparted by aging in oak casks rather than the grape itself.
Food is traded and marketed on a global basis. The variety and availability of food is no longer restricted by the diversity of locally grown food or the limitations of the local growing season. Between 1961 and 1999, there was a 400% increase in worldwide food exports. Some countries are now economically dependent on food exports, which in some cases account for over 80% of all exports.
Alcoholic drinks, including wine, are forbidden under most interpretations of Islamic law. In many Muslim countries, possession or consumption of alcoholic drinks carry legal penalties. Iran had previously had a thriving wine industry that disappeared after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. In Greater Persia, mey (Persian wine) was a central theme of poetry for more than a thousand years, long before the advent of Islam. Some Alevi sects–one of the two main branches of Islam in Turkey (the other being Sunni Islam)–use wine in their religious services.
The Mayo Clinic Diet is a long-term weight management program created by a team of weight-loss experts at Mayo Clinic. The Mayo Clinic Diet is designed to help you reshape your lifestyle by adopting healthy new habits and breaking unhealthy old ones. The goal is to make simple, pleasurable changes that will result in a healthy weight that you can maintain for the rest of your life.
“Natural foods” are often assumed to be foods that are not processed, or do not contain any food additives, or do not contain particular additives such as hormones, antibiotics, sweeteners, food colors, or flavorings that were not originally in the food. In fact, many people (63%) when surveyed showed a preference for products labeled "natural" compared to the unmarked counterparts, based on the common belief (86% of polled consumers) that the term "natural" indicated that the food does not contain any artificial ingredients. The terms are variously used and misused on labels and in advertisements.
Wine cellars, or wine rooms, if they are above-ground, are places designed specifically for the storage and aging of wine. Fine restaurants and some private homes have wine cellars. In an active wine cellar, temperature and humidity are maintained by a climate-control system. Passive wine cellars are not climate-controlled, and so must be carefully located. Because wine is a natural, perishable food product, all types—including red, white, sparkling, and fortified—can spoil when exposed to heat, light, vibration or fluctuations in temperature and humidity. When properly stored, wines can maintain their quality and in some cases improve in aroma, flavor, and complexity as they age. Some wine experts contend that the optimal temperature for aging wine is 13 °C (55 °F), others 15 °C (59 °F).
We all know whole grains are good for us, but we’ve collected the best whole-grain recipes to make them a regular part of your cooking routine. The fiber and nutrients associated with whole grains make them an essential part of a healthy diet, but it’s often difficult to work them into your everyday cooking. This collection of recipes uses whole grains—from brown rice to whole-wheat pasta—in a delicious variety of ways.
Wine is an integral part of Jewish laws and traditions. The Kiddush is a blessing recited over wine or grape juice to sanctify the Shabbat. On Pesach (Passover) during the Seder, it is a Rabbinic obligation of adults to drink four cups of wine. In the Tabernacle and in the Temple in Jerusalem, the libation of wine was part of the sacrificial service. Note that this does not mean that wine is a symbol of blood, a common misconception that contributes to the Christian myth of the blood libel. "It has been one of history's cruel ironies that the blood libel—accusations against Jews using the blood of murdered gentile children for the making of wine and matzot—became the false pretext for numerous pogroms. And due to the danger, those who live in a place where blood libels occur are halachically exempted from using red wine, lest it be seized as "evidence" against them."
In the 20th century, supermarkets were born. Supermarkets brought with them a self service approach to shopping using shopping carts, and were able to offer quality food at lower cost through economies of scale and reduced staffing costs. In the latter part of the 20th century, this has been further revolutionized by the development of vast warehouse-sized, out-of-town supermarkets, selling a wide range of food from around the world.
Food products produced by animals include milk produced by mammary glands, which in many cultures is drunk or processed into dairy products (cheese, butter, etc.). In addition, birds and other animals lay eggs, which are often eaten, and bees produce honey, a reduced nectar from flowers, which is a popular sweetener in many cultures. Some cultures consume blood, sometimes in the form of blood sausage, as a thickener for sauces, or in a cured, salted form for times of food scarcity, and others use blood in stews such as jugged hare.

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Dear friends of the Los Alamos County Summer Concert Series,
The Series is coming to a close and hopefully we’ll be back next May. There are only two shows left, Friday and Sept. 5.
We’ve had to change our artist for the Friday concert.
Rosie Ledet is ill and can’t make either of her New Mexico concerts that she had planned for this weekend.
Thankfully, my dear friends, the Nomads will replace Rosie. The Nomads play ‘50s and ‘60s rock ‘n roll.
Great stuff like the music of Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, Elvis, The Beatles, The Stones, The Doors, Bill Haley, The Beach Boys, Johnny Burnette, The Big Bopper, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and many others that are either in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or should be. Almost everyone will know and like and/or love almost every song.
I’m gonna request that they play “Do you Wanna Dance” by Bobby Freeman and maybe “At The Hop,” a great song by Danny and the Juniors. This is The Nomads and they’re a whole lotta fun. Matter of fact, there will be a “whole lotta shakin’ going on.”
Come and sing along but not on the stage, The Nomads got that covered. The show will be at our sponsor’s, Del Norte Credit Union.
The last concert of the 2008 season will be the rock and blues-rock band, Julie Stewart and the Motor Kings. They cover songs by such artists as Etta James, The Allman Bros., James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Robben Ford and Tina Turner. Much of the band’s original music is by Los Alamos’ Greg Woodfin. Woodfin is also a fantastic B3 organ player.
The bass player is one of my best friends, Rob Heineman. (Another great friend is Eddy Partridge, the lead singer and guitarist of the Nomads.)
The last two shows are family affairs. Heineman has played almost every year of the series with such bands as the New Huevos, Fat Guys with Money (with Greg Woodfin,) Ramon Bermudez Band (with Heineman,) and Julie Stewart and the Motor Kings. The Nomads have played every year of the series. The Julie Stewart and The Motor Kings show will be at our sponsor’s Zia Credit Union, which is next door to our other sponsors, Don Taylor’s Photography and Golgen Gun Luxury Plating. You can listen to The Motor Kings at www.motorkings.com.
A few notes: There’s a tremendous two days of concerts this weekend at Eave’s Ranch on the road to Madrid and Cerrillos. You can buy tickets at The Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce. The event is called the Thirsty Ear Festival and some of the acts are some of my favorites in music industry: Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin, Buckwheat Zydeco, Junior Brown and Shemekia Copeland. Rosie Ledet was supposed to play there also. Oh well, stuff happens. My other note is that my good friends Rick and Deanna Martinez have tickets to the Telluride Brews and Blues Festival, Sept. 12-14. He also has a condo that sleeps “eight comfortably.” Rick’s father is ill and he can’t go. Some of the headliners are John Hiatt, Gov’t Mule, Etta James, Blind Boys of Alabama and G. Love & Special Sauce. For more info check www.tellurideblues.com. To reach Rick and Deanna (sounds like a Mellencamp song), call 983-5643 or e-mail email@example.com.
Hope you’ve enjoyed the Series and can catch the last two shows.
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KENYAN police spokesperson Charles Owino says police officers accused of using excessive force during the dusk-to-dawn curfew are young, still erratic and sometimes get carried away with a little power.
In a live television interview on NTV Kenya on Tuesday evening, police spokesperson Charles Owino responded to police brutality complaints by the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA).
The only legal oversight body which investigates alleged crimes committed by the police, IPOA has noted 87 complaints against the Kenyan police service since March 27, when the country’s dusk-to-dawn curfew was enforced to mitigate the spread of Covid-19.
On Tuesday, IPOA chairperson Anne Makori said ‘after preliminary investigations, 15 deaths and 31 incidents where victims sustained injuries have directly been linked to actions of police officers during the curfew enforcement,’ according to daily newspaper The Star.
Responding on NTV to the 15 deaths, Owino said: ‘I want you to understand that any death where a person has been shot, the preliminary belief would be the person who has the gun is the policeman.’
However, he has labelled the amount of nonlethal police brutality reports as an exaggeration. Owino said that ‘some of these policemen are very young, and they still very erratic’.
‘They can easily get drunk with the little power they have and do very wrong things.’
Human Rights Watch has recorded robberies, beatings and unjustified shootings by police, a mere two hours into the enforcement of the curfew regulations on March 27.
The most recent victim is a homeless man, 51-year-old James Mureithi, who violated the curfew and was shot dead by police as a result. Hundreds of people burnt tyres and protested the murder and police brutality on Monday night, according to the Washington Post.
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Artist to Discuss Socially and Community Engaged Art Practice March 26
The School of Education will welcome Rick Lowe, an artist and member of the National Council on the Arts, to speak on Wednesday, March 26, at 4 p.m. in the Public Events Room at 220 Eggers Hall.
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This lecture will address a wide range of issues and questions related to socially and community engaged art practice. Lowe will discuss the value and advantages of long-term and short-term projects on both large and small scales. Lowe emphasizes the importance of the symbolic and the practical nature of community-engaged work, and the advantages of artist-initiated projects and institutions, such as museum-commissioned projects. He will talk about Project Row Houses, a 20-year-old neighborhood-size project in Houston, and Trans.lation: Vickery Meadow, a one-year-old project commissioned by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. On a smaller scale, Lowe will talk about “Brother-N-Law’s” a project with a single community member.
Lowe resides in Houston, and his formal training is in the visual arts. He has participated in national and international art exhibitions and programs since 1995. In 2012, Lowe was an artist in residence at the Community Innovators Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm, Sweden. Previously, he was a master artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in 2011, a visiting artist at the Otis College of Art in Los Angeles in 2010 and a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design from 2001 to 2002.
Lowe also serves as a board member of the Menil Foundation. He received the Creative Time’s Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art & Social Justice in 2010, the United States Artists Fellowship in Design in 2009 and the Heinz Award in the Arts and Humanities in 2002. In December 2013, Lowe was appointed as a member of the National Council on the Arts by President Barack Obama.
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Set in the Engine Drivers Commonroom, the 13 new sketches will move from studio to location settings across several of the United Kingdom's railways.
Speaking to Roll Along Thomas, Lighting Cameraman, Ben Jones, revealed more on the interactive series' new beginning; [We] went out on location filming on the South Tyndale Railway and the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
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Alan Kyerematen submitted his resignation letter to the President on January 5, 2023.
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Charles Barkley isn’t afraid to roast his former team.
Barkley, who played four seasons with the Phoenix, being named league MVP in 1993 while leading the team to the NBA Finals, decided to have fun at the expense of the current Suns team. During Thursday’s NBA on TNT, Barkley pulled out his phone and expressed shock Phoenix led the Boston Celtics 11-3 in the first quarter.
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Barkley’s assessment was bang on. Despite leading by 19 after the first quarter and 18 at the half, the Suns managed to blow the lead, allowing a last-second three-pointer to force overtime, before ultimately losing the game 116-109. With the loss, Phoenix fell to 2-9 on the season.
The Suns haven’t made the playoffs in eight consecutive seasons and there’s little hope they’ll end that run this year. Ultimately, Barkley wants to see the team succeed, but after seeing the Suns struggle for nearly a decade, he’s making some lighthearted jokes at their expense. He’s a Suns legend so he’s allowed to do exactly that.


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EL CAJON – A dispute over who is entitled to a $1.1 million insurance settlement has delayed the rebuilding of an El Cajon mosque and Kurdish cultural center that burned down in August 2006.
A Los Angeles-area man who says he represents the Saudi Arabian owner of the property doesn't want to split the proceeds with a company that helped arrange the settlement.
A lawyer for the insurers says the representative shouldn't receive the settlement money – let alone decide where it goes – because he isn't a licensed attorney.
“It's just a mess,” said Derrick Sturm, attorney for Amco Insurance, who filed a lawsuit in San Diego Superior Court seeking to resolve the situation.
The building on Magnolia Avenue housed a mosque – a house of prayer for East County Muslims – and the Kurdish Community Islamic Center before it was destroyed in an early morning fire Aug. 17, 2006.
El Cajon fire officials never determined the cause of the fire, but said its origin was not suspicious. The FBI and other federal authorities were called in to investigate the fire because it occurred at a place of worship.
The property where the mosque once stood is a barren patch of land. The people who used to convene there now say their prayers at other mosques around the county.
The owner of the property is Saad A.S. Al-Habeeb Inc., a corporation owned by Saad al-Habeeb, who lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The mosque was in the news soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when the FBI investigated Omar al-Bayoumi, whom al-Habeeb had hired as the building's maintenance manager.
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No. 30 Florida State Downs Wake Forest in ACC Championship
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By Alex Botoman, Wake Forest Athletic Communications (@WakeWTennis)
CARY, N.C. - No. 30 Florida State proved to be too much for Wake Forest, downing the Demon Deacons 4-1 in the first round of the ACC Championship on Thursday at Cary Tennis Park in Cary, N.C.
The seventh-seeded Seminoles (14-8) took the doubles point and won three straight-set singles matches to earn the win. Wake Forest's lone point came at No. 3 singles, where Kasey Gardiner's opponent Mia Vriens retired early in the first set with an injury.
"I'm really proud of this team," said head coach Jeff Wyshner. "Like we have for the past few months, we refused to quit today. Kathryn battled back from down 4-1 in the second set, knowing that if she lost it would end the match, to get to 4-4 and Andrea saved four match points. This is a character team."
The Seminoles took the doubles point by virtue of quick wins at the bottom two positions. Kerrie Cartwright and Kristina Schleich of Florida State took down Brigita Bercyte and Andrea Retolaza Andrade 8-2 at No. 3 doubles, and Mia Vriens and Amy Sargeant clinched the point with an 8-3 win over Karen Forman and Xue Zhang at No. 2.
At the time the point was clinched and the No. 1 match stopped, Wake Forest's Kasey Gardiner and Kathryn Talbert were only points away from beating the Seminoles' top doubles team of Daneika Borthwick and Francesca Segarelli with Talbert serving at 7-6.
The match would quickly become tied again though as the Seminoles' Vriens retired early in the first set at No. 3 singles despite leading Gardiner 3-2 at the time.
But the Seminoles were still able to take three straight-set singles matches to earn the win. At No. 2 singles, No. 96 Segarelli took down Zhang 6-2, 6-1, and Sargeant followed with a 6-0, 6-4 victory over Forman at No. 4 to put Florida State in front 3-1.
Kerrie Cartwright sealed the victory for Florida State at the No.5 position, downing Retolaza Andrade 6-1, 6-3.
#30 Florida State 4, Wake Forest 1


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Ministerial PMIZ Concerns Spot On
The Commerce and Industry Minister has raised serious concerns over expenditure on the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone. Criminologist and author of the bookUncovering the Crimes of Urbanisation, Professor Kristian Lasslett, reveals new evidence which should make the Minister shudder.
In 2016 the public was taught a valuable lesson on why we ought to carefully scrutnise loans provided to PNG by The Export-Import Bank (EXIM Bank) of China, an institution set up by the Chinese government to advance its industrial, foreign trade, and diplomatic policies.
Singapore Courts disclosed evidence which suggests kick backs were paid to Chinese officials during 2010 by a Singaporean intermediary in order to secure a Chinese EXIM Bank loan for the national government, which would be applied to build a series of community colleges at a premium price.
The EXIM Bank loan obliged the PNG government to use a Chinese contractor.
ZTE Corporation was awarded the contract. According to Judge Hong in Singapore’s District Court, kick backs were then paid by ZTE Corporation to Sir Michael Somare, his son Michael Somare Jnr, and a number of family friends who were acting as intermediaries.
In addition, ZTE Corporation subcontracted for a substantial price, a PNG company part owned by Somare Jnr – the full details can be examined here.
Against this backdrop Commerce and Industry Minister Wera Mori is right to show concern over the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone (PMIZ), which is being built using a EXIM bank loan secured from China, in addition to funding from the national government.
He is also right to scrutinise the eye-watering prices being paid for basic construction work, including ‘four million … paid for only one item, that is the main gate’.
It is not yet clear what happened in the instance of PMIZ, but more generally speaking price inflation has often been employed to misappropriate public money. Mori is on solid ground when asking these sums to be investigated.
We now have further documentary evidence which add weight to the Minister’s criticisms, and justifies a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the original loan, and the subsequent award of PMIZ contracts to a company, Aces Ventures Limited.
Aces Ventures is part-owned and managed by the former Commerce and Industry Minister, Gabriel Kapris, who secured the original loan and was integral to establishing the PMIZ project.
Origins of PMIZ
In November 2007 the Minister for Commerce and Industry, Gabriel Kapris, announced that his government had bold plans to transform Madang into the ‘tuna capital’ of the world.
This, he explained, would be facilitated through the construction of a special economic zone, named the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone (PMIZ).
The Minister later noted that the project would be built on state land twenty minutes north of Madang town, known as Vidar plantation.
He claimed, the site would ‘house up to 10 tuna factories, capable of creating more than 30,000 jobs and hundreds of spin off opportunities’.
Image: Artist’s impression of the proposed PMIZ project.
To fund the project’s construction costs, in 2009 a tied loan from the Chinese state was secured by Minister Kapris on behalf of the Somare government.
Loan conditionalities include the use of Chinese contractors in the PMIZ’s construction and operation. NGO Act Now claims 70% of the soft loan would have to be awarded to a Chinese contractor.
According to the current Minister for Commerce and Industry the contract for phase one of PMIZ was indeed awarded to China Shenyang International Economic & Technical Co-operation Limited, without approval from the Central Supply and Tender Board – a fact that should put any advocate of good governance on immediate notice.
Matters get more worrying once we turn to a local company which has been subcontracted to conduct key PMIZ construction work, which the current Minister alleges is marked by outrageous costs and derisory results.
The company’s name is Aces Ventures, its Managing Director and joint-owner is the former Commerce and Industry Minister and PMIZ architect, Gabriel Kapris.
The blessed history of Aces Ventures
Incorporated on 3 October 2008, Aces Ventures was initially owned by a Papua New Guinea citizen, Ernesto Bautista (51%), along with Filipino national, Jeanie Nieva (49%).
Ernesto Bautista is something of a road construction magnate. One of his other companies, Greenhill Investments, for instance, has benefited from sizeable government contracts.
The Public Accounts Committee observes, for instance, that ‘Greenhill Investment was paid K 2,001,222 between 2002 and 2004 for road maintenance work [in East Sepik Province]’.
The Committee claims: ‘Procurement processes were apparently not followed but despite this fact three payments amounting to K881,590 were made to Greenhill Investments for the Sepik Highway Road Construction Project’.
The Committee continues:
Subsequent to these payments, the Provincial Supply & Tenders Board agreed to a contract with Greenhill Investment and the balance of K 1,119,632 of the K 2,001,222 appears to have been paid upon the approval. Both the Committee and the Auditor General found great difficulty in tracing details of the payments due to a lack of any records at all. No attempt at all has been made by the Department of Finance (or any one else) to bring any accountability to this transaction.
Nevertheless, Greenhill continued to win lucrative public works contracts in East Sepik. Notably, in light of the current topic, the company was awarded a K7.9 million contract to build a ’60m all-weather bridge over the Brugham River’.
We are told by The National that ‘the bridge is an initiative’ of the ‘Maprik MP Gabriel Kapris who sought funding from the national government [in 2011]’.
Like Greenhill Investments, Bautista’s other business Aces Ventures has also been the beneficiary of large government work contracts. For example, Aces Ventures was awarded K8 million to build a bridge in the Maprik electorate whose MP at the time was – you probably guessed, Gabriel Kapris. It was funded through the District Support Improvements Program.
According to the Post-Courier, the Commerce and Industry Minister (Gabriel Kapris) ‘said the contractor had delivered on past projects and he was confident that they would again deliver on the bridge project’.
It appears Minister Kapris was so impressed by the work of Aces Ventures, that shortly after he lost his parliamentary seat in 2012,he acquired a 26% stake in the company, which Kapris evidently purchased from Ernesto Bautista for K300,000.
Imagine: Aces Ventures Meeting Minutes, 5 June 2013
The deal was a particularly good one for Kapris. By 2012 the infant company had a stated net worth of K3,448,560, in effect he had purchased a K896,625.60 stake for K300,000 (and this does not take into account the value of its existing contracts, future potential contracts).
Kapris also became the company’s Managing Director and Chairman.
Image: Share Transfer Form, 8 August 2013
Image: Annual Return 2012
After the Somare government was ousted by Peter O’Neill, Aces Ventures new shareholder Gabriel Kapris warned the O’Neill government against mothballing the PMIZ project.
He claimed such a move would put the PNG state ‘in question internationally and this is not good for the country’.
PMIZ and Aces Ventures
One can understand why Kapris may oppose the mothballing of PMIZ. Under Kapris’ stewardship Aces Ventures has enjoyed significant success in Madang, as it cleans up on PMIZ construction work.
According to media reports and a National Court judgement, Aces Ventures has been involved in clearing land, construction of fencing, and building roads in the PMIZ area. In addition to its PMIZ work, Aces Ventures obtained a K973,390.20 contract to upgrade and seal 9.2km of the Ramu Highway in Madang (its not clear if this is PMIZ related).
However, now serious questions are being raised over the PMIZ construction efforts by the new Minister for Commerce and Industry, Wera Mori.
The Minister claims:
The perimeter fencing, which we spent K17 million on, was for 9.27km. What it translates to is that the cost of covering one metre was K1833. Likewise with the 2.47km access road, which was built for K5.57 million. That equates to K328,000 for one kilometre of road.
Despite sufficient funding, the status of the 2.47 kilometre access road is unsatisfactory, including a 400m segment of the road for which K5.5 million was already paid. Four million was paid for only one item, that is the main gate. Survey and physical zoning remains incomplete, despite K2.25 million paid to land mark valuers eight years ago.
The Post-Courier claims that the Department of Commerce and Industry has raised serious concerns over this ‘unjustifiable and excessive expenditure’.
However, it is not clear from the Minister’s statement, to what extent Aces Ventures is responsible for this cost blow-out.
Further Concerns Over Aces Ventures
Compounding the Minister’s recent statement, an examination of National Court records implicate Aces Ventures in a range of improper transactions.
For instance, it was successfully sued in court by local landowners for K26,400.00, after Aces Ventures refused to pay them an agreed rate for building 162 metres of fencing.
It also purchased land adjacent to the PMIZ from a vendor, Selon Limited, in 2009. A contract of sale for portions 1214 (36.11 hectares) and 1215 (16.92 hectares) was signed with Aces Ventures for the amount of K558,700.
The National Court subsequently found that Selon’s principal, Sali Tagau, acquired the land through fraud. Although there is no indication that Aces Ventures was implicated in this fraud.
Completion of the landed acquisition in Madang faced a final hindrance. Portion 1214 housed a residential settlement made up of former plantation workers, who had lived on the location for over two decades.
According to subsequent court proceedings, settlements households were given several hundred Kina each by Aces Ventures to vacate the land. When residents refused, the National Court contends that police were sent to the site by Aces Ventures on 8 December 2010. Then without:
warning or notice … [police] conducted an eviction exercise: the Police forced them out of their houses and burned down their houses and destroyed their food gardens. As a result, their houses, which were made of bush materials, were destroyed together with their personal possessions and they had nowhere to live and no food to eat.
The National Court found in favour of evicted residents in tort. It was noted that the police had raised the site at the behest of Aces Ventures, without a court order, and then proceeded to unlawfully destroy homes and personal property.
Aces Ventures also owns other prime plots of land which it has acquired through the controversial SABL lease mechanism.
These transactions, it ought to be noted, occurred before Kapris formally took executive control of the company, with a substantive beneficial interest. However, they create a worrying snapshot of corporate governance within an organisation that has received significant works contracts from government authorities.
Aces Ventures' Property Portfolio
While we know Aces Ventures has been a key subcontractor involved in the construction of PMIZ, no information has been publicly disclosed on the contracts issued to Aces Ventures, or the conditions stipulated in the contract.
Nor is it clear from the Minister’s statement, to what extent Aces Ventures is implicated in his department’s damning assessment. However, if we cross-match this assessment with press reporting, and national court judgements, it is certainly looking more likely, than not.
Added to this the joint-owner and Manager Director of Aces Ventures, is the former Minister responsible for establishing the PMIZ project and securing an EXIM bank loan from China.
This loan was awarded at a time when the Somare government had acquired another EXIM loan, allegedly through bribery, which led to a series of kickbacks being paid to the Prime Minister, his son and intermediaries, if the decision of the Singaporean Court is to believed – given it was a criminal trial, the burden of proof in this case was high.
We cannot infer from this because one EXIM bank loan, along with National Government co-funding, was subsequently used to solicit kickbacks and contracts to politicians and politically exposed individuals, that this necessarily happened in the case of PMIZ.
However, the fact this arrangement was set up in the same approximate period, by the same government, while a key subcontractor is now co-owned and managed by a former politician who set up this initiative, there is reasonable grounds for concern and thorough investigation.
Added to this, one of the principles of Aces Ventures, Ernesto Bautista, received a range of lucrative contracts from Kapris when a politician. It is certainly eye-brow raising that both men are now in bed together through Aces Ventures.
It is encouraging that the current Minister has publicly drawn attention to his Department’s serious concerns over PMIZ expenditure. But this concern must be followed up by decisive action, including criminal investigations that can confirm whether or not, the PMIZ has been abused in a similar way to the Community College project initiated by the Somare government.
Particular scrutiny needs to be given to Aces Ventures, and the relationship between Bautista and Kapris.
Lastly, it might be asked, why pick on a local politician come businessman, when foreigners are gaming the system at a frightening pace? The answer is simple. If we take the Somare case in Singapore as an instructive example, it is clear that PNG’s vulnerability to predation by foreign companies and investors, is significantly increased when there is a culture of corruption among local leaders who are prepared to turn a blind eye to graft and inflated contracts, in return for kickbacks.
To inoculate the body politic from diseases spread by such foreign bodies, we must first ensure the national immune system is boosted by leaders, and a culture, that are focused on the public good and national interest, over their own private fortunes.
Of course, we do not know if the PMIZ case has been compromised by corruption. But clearly the time has come to find out the circumstances behind the premium prices being paid for prefatory construction work at the Madang site.


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Because cooking takes so many nutrients and vitamins OUT of food, you automatically start feeding your body what it needs when you stop cooking food and start eating uncooked, nutrient-rich foods. A raw carrot has exponentially more nutrition than a cooked carrot.
Cooking also alters the chemistry of foods, often making them harder to digest. Why do we have so many digestive problems in this country? Because we’re putting foods into our bodies in a form that we weren't designed to absorb. High fiber, high water content fresh produce abolishes constipation of the bowels, cells and circulatory system. Obstructions are cleared and blood flow increases to each and every cell in the body. Enhanced blood flow is significant for two reasons: as mentioned above, blood delivers nutrients and oxygen to living cells, and carries away their toxic metabolites.
Obesity is endemic in this country. The diet industry is more profitable than the oil companies. Why? Because the way we eat and prepare our food practically guarantees that we’ll overeat. Psychologists tell us that we overeat because our souls are hungry. But in reality, our bodies are hungry, even though we may feel full. When you start giving your body the nutrients it craves, overeating will cease.
Eating raw foods is a boost to your metabolism as well. It takes a little more energy to digest raw foods, but it’s a healthy process. Rather than spending energy to rid itself of toxins produced by cooking food, the body uses its energy to feed every cell, sending vitamins, fluids, enzymes and oxygen to make your body the efficient machine it was intended to be.
You’ll naturally stop overeating, because your body and brain will no longer be starving for the nutrients they need. A starving brain will trigger the thoughts that make you overeat. The brain and the rest of your body don’t need quantity; they need quality.
It's a trite, but often repeated saying: The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. So why, when Father's Day rolls around, do we buy endless ties and "message" T shirts? Is the way to his heart through his clothes? Not likely. It's the stomach, people, and that means good food. For many men, good food comes in the form of a great steak.
So what if you're not a steak eater, or you eat it only in restaurants and the thought of purchasing a raw slab scares you to death? Fear not. It's not that complicated, really. Even a caveman can handle this job.
It's important to know your cuts of meat before planning the menu. You don't want to cook the dad in your life a tasteless, tough piece of leather. You might not notice the difference, but let's face it - he will. Since you'll likely be grilling, it's important to know the best cuts of meat for the grill.
You want to choose the most tender portions of meat for grilling. Experts generally consider these cuts of beef to be the best for grilling:
If there is the word "loin" on the package, you're in good shape, though most grill experts agree the T-bone is the most superior cut of beef for grilling. It stays tender and juicy, and is thick enough to withstand a fair amount of time on the grill without overcooking. Stay away from top round or anything with "round" or "chuck" in the name. These will not cook well on the grill. Flank steak and London broil can also be tough.
Next, it's important to know how to choose a steak. Don't just grab the first package that looks good to you. Look for some good marbling in the steak. Yes, this is another word for fat. But we're not cooking for the dieter in the family on this special day, we're trying to give dad a good steak, remember? Those little bits of fat scattered about the steak will essentially melt while the meat is cooking, giving the meat a rich and more tender flavor.
In that same vein, don't trim the fat from your steak before cooking. It might be the diet book author in you coming out, but that thick layer of fat around your steak is what will give the steak a wonderful juicy quality and rich flavor. You can cook the steak, and then trim the fat, but cook the steak while it's still dressed in its fat clothes. It's worth it.
Do you need to buy a "name brand" steak? Experts say it's not necessary, even though branded meat is a new commodity and becoming more widely available. Nor is it necessary to choose a steak from a butcher shop or from behind the glass window in the meat department at your local grocery store. Usually the pre-packaged steaks are the same you would get from behind the glass, and since the butcher is a dying breed, you could certainly go that route if you have a neighborhood butcher, but if not, a good quality grocery store will provide what you need.
Finally, it's important to know your grades of steak.
Prime is the top grade, and it features the most marbling and is the most tender, but most of us don't have access to this grade in mainstream grocery stores. This is often what you get in a restaurant.
Choice is the best grade most of us can get in the grocery store. But choice does not guarantee high quality as this grade encompasses meat that can be almost as good as prime, or almost as bad as select, our next grade.
Select beef is the most lean and least expensive beef and is the grade of beef most commonly found in your grocery store meat case. Since this is Father's Day, try to find choice and splurge a little.
If you are unsure about your ability to pick up a good steak locally, consider ordering online and having fresh, high-quality steaks delivered to your door.
At OmahaSteaks.com, you can buy a large variety pack of meat, grill some for dad, and then send him home with a few spares for another day. KansasCitySteaks.com offers prime quality steaks for a restaurant-quality dad's meal.
When it comes to barbecuing, what could be more fun than whipping up sumptuous food on the grill in the company of family and friends? The thing of course is finding the right place for grilling and barbecuing. One favorite spot among true barbecue aficionados would be their very own backyard or outdoor kitchen with their own brick barbecue pit. Actually, any outdoor area is a potential spot for a barbecue but truth be known, the best places for a barbecue are the safest ones.
Choose a location for your BBQ grill that is away from trees, leaves, brush and overhanging limbs. Do not setup your gill in a high traffic area where someone may accidentally brush up against the hot grill.
When barbecuing in your backyard, be sure that you're 5 to 10 feet away from your house or any material that can potentially catch fire. Also, be sure the grill is stable and is away from children or pets that may bump into it. It would also be a good idea to have a water supply nearby like a garden hose.
If you live in an apartment building with a balcony or rooftop or any other outdoor space, be sure to consult with your building administrator (or in some instances, your local fire department) regarding specific restrictions. Generally, using charcoal and gas grills indoors or anywhere above the first storey is prohibited so you may want to consider electric grills instead for your barbecuing efforts.
Another great place to barbecue is in a campsite. Camping is such an exciting way to experience the great outdoors and barbecuing food over a campfire is definitely one of those practical yet cozy things you can do. Just be sure that you are at least 15 feet away from your tent and other camping gears.
Protect yourself by using the correct BBQ utensils such as oven mitts, thongs and a good spatula. Avoid wearing loose clothing while near the grill.
Always leave the lid to a gas grill open when lighting the fire so the gas does not build up under the cover. If the fire does not initially start, turn off the gas, leave the lid open and wait for at lest five minutes before trying again.
It is always a good idea to give your grill a checkup before using for the first time of the season and always store your tanks outside in a upright position where the temperature will never go over 125 degrees.
Of course, it's not just the atmosphere of being outdoors that can make a barbecue fun and special. It's also in the delicious barbecue dishes that you share with your loved ones. To make it all the more special, try a variety of BBQ rubs, marinades, salsas and BBQ sauce to capture the true taste of great outdoor barbecuing.
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