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When Evander Holyfield meets Larry Holmes for the heavyweight boxing title next week, they will step in the ring, shake hands and come out fighting.
But what if boxer George Foreman jumps into the ring at the same time? Would Holyfield, the champ, have to flatten Foreman first and then go after Holmes? Would he jab Holmes, then Foreman, then Holmes? Would Holmes let Foreman and Holyfield slug it out?
In a three-way boxing match the strategy, obviously, would have to change.
Translate that into presidential politics, and in much the same way, the old predictable tactics no longer make sense.
In 1990, the battle for Connecticut's governorship became a three-cornered fight, and in 1992, the race for the presidency is looking like the same kind of three-way slugfest.
As a result, the people who ran Connecticut's campaigns say there are important lessons this year's presidential strategists can learn from the strategies of 1990, both failed and successful.
"The analogy is close," said former U.S. Rep. Bruce A. Morrison, the Democratic candidate in the 1990 race. Gov. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., who ran as an independent and won, said the same mood that drove the state race is driving the national race.
"People were dissatisfied with how the state was governed, and they're dissatisfied with how the country is governed," he said.
There are lots of differences between a two- and a three-way matchup, they said. Things are unpredictable.
You cannot simply attack an opponent and wait for the benefit, as you can in a head-to-head match; you still have that third person ready to flail away.
You have to define yourself succinctly and early, or risk getting lost in the crowd as someone who's hard to describe.
You have to spend more time making sure your base of support is intact, and more time identifying narrow groups that may warm to your cause.
"You're no longer battling for 51 percent; you figure you only need 38 or 39 percent," said former U.S. Rep. John G. Rowland, the
1990 Republican gubernatorial nominee who narrowly lost to Weicker after receiving 38 percent percent of the vote.
To be sure, the strategies are still being devised by the presidential campaigns of President Bush, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee, and Texas billionaire Ross Perot, who is expected to declare his independent candidacy this month. No one will talk publicly about them.
"At this point, we're not even focusing on a three-way race," said Bush spokeswoman Darcey Campbell. "Ross Perot still hasn't declared his candidacy, and we're simply focusing on the president's message."
Certainly, there are differences between the presidential race and the Connecticut race. As Weicker put it, "I had a long career of public service," and a record people knew. Perot does not.
Also, the national candidates will not face money problems that state candidates did.
In the presidential campaign, the federal government will give $55.2 million to Bush and Clinton each to run their campaigns. Perot has said he will pump as much as $100 million of his own money into his effort.
A third difference is the Electoral College. In Connecticut, whoever got the most votes won. In the nation, it's whoever gets 270 electoral votes. If no one gets a majority, the race goes to the House, where each state gets one vote.
Under that scenario, it's not inconceivable that if Democrats retain control of the House, Clinton would wind up as president even if he runs third in the popular vote.
The first rule of a three-way battle: Stay out of the cellar.
"Being third is a great danger," said Peter W. Gold, co-chairman of Weicker's 1990 campaign.
In American politics, as in American life, the third force is usually forgotten. "Generally," said J. Brian Gaffney, Bush's state co-chairman, "you're dead."
"People like two choices. They like to punch the button on the computer that asks them yes or no," Morrison added.
He remembered the feeling of sinking to the point where people thought he could not win: "When you think you have a new supporter, they say, `I must be the only guy in Connecticut who switched to Morrison. I must be a jerk. I'm throwing my vote away.' "
That feeling has doomed many third-party presidential efforts. The best any third party has done this century was former President Theodore Roosevelt's 27.4 percent showing as a Progressive in 1912.
But since then, third parties that appeared strong in the spring and summer have tended to fade. American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace polled 19 percent in an early September 1968 Gallup Poll, but wound up with 13.5 percent of the vote that year.
In 1980, the most recent major third-party effort, Illinois Rep. John B. Anderson seemed to be within striking distance of Republican Ronald Reagan and Democrat Jimmy Carter throughout the spring and summer.
A Gallup poll in early June 1980 had Carter with 39 percent, Reagan with 32 percent and Anderson with 21 percent. But Anderson dropped to 14 percent by September, debated Reagan that month, and could not climb above 15 percent.
The erosion began. The media began writing that Anderson could not win. His campaign organization began to seem threadbare. He
sank in the polls, and was not invited to the October Reagan-Carter debate. He wound up with 7 percent of the vote.
Bush seems to be the least likely to fall into third, since he is the incumbent and still has a Gallup job-approval rating of about 40 percent.
"He still has the bully pulpit," said Connecticut Lt. Gov. Eunice S. Groark, Weicker's 1990 ticket-mate, "and he will still look presidential by going to Rio and other places."
Bush plans to go to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro this week, to meet Boris N. Yeltsin in Washington next week, and to attend the international economic summit in Munich next month.
Perot, though leading in some national polls, probably has the greatest danger of slipping into irrelevancy, experts say.
"So far," said Weicker, "his support is being built on a spontaneous feeling for him, not on any commitment."
What Perot must do, said Gold, is continue to define himself clearly. Once Perot's image as a tree-shaking Washington outsider is cemented in people's minds, it will be hard to undo.
"It's important to make that first impression, and then it's important to keep that impression by playing defense," Gold said. Perot should not go on the attack against the other candidates; just stay strong and fight them off.
That is essentially what Weicker did, saying he would "kick the tails of the politicians."
Morrison recalled the futility of trying to ruin Weicker's self-made image as an outsider. "He had been in Washington longer than I was," said Morrison, who served eight years to Weicker's 20, "but no one would believe it."
There are lots of signs that Clinton is facing what Morrison went through. He has the look of an also-ran. His favorability rating in a CBS poll released this week was 15 percent. In 27 states that have surveyed voters about a three-way race since March, he is ahead only in his native Arkansas.
Experts thus say Clinton, too, has to start redefining himself. John F. Droney Jr., his Connecticut chairman, says one way to do that is to emphasize Clinton's detailed plans for rebuilding the economy -- something Droney contended Bush and Perot do not have.
But others warn that that may not matter if Clinton is seen as the odd candidate out, not the incumbent and not the outsider.
Clinton's best shot is to strengthen his base, Connecticut strategists say, a tactic that becomes vitally important in three-way races.
In politics, the base is considered the voter who's almost assuredly yours. For national Democrats, that has tended to be black voters, Jewish voters, pro-choice women and, to some extent, labor union members.
"Clinton should be very encouraged if the strategy is to turn out the base," said Droney, "because Democrats have consistently turned out 42 or 43 percent of the vote for their candidate in national elections."
In addition, Democratic base voters tend to be big blocs in some key states, notably black voters in the South and union members in Northeastern and Midwestern industrial states.
At the same time, Bush has a potentially strong base of his own. He tends to run well among people opposed to abortion, as well as among self-described conservatives and people wanting a strong military.
By concentrating on this base, Richard Foley Jr., Connecticut GOP chairman, said he believes Bush is in little danger of falling to third. "You remind people Democrats are not trustworthy on taxes," Foley said.
Playing loudly to the choir almost worked for Rowland. He kept his bases with views such as refusing to consider a state income tax. He also hardened his conservative base by coming out strongly against state workers.
Cementing the foundation worked less well for Morrison because Weicker appealed to many of the same union and minority constituencies Democrats had traditionally won. "I had to fight for what I normally would have taken for granted," Morrison said.
In the end, Rowland kept 60 percent of the Republican vote, but Morrison got just 35 percent of the Democratic vote. Weicker pulled 50 percent of his votes from registered Democrats, according to an exit poll.
The mystery of the 1992 election is whose base Perot, who has never run for public office, will tap.
Weicker noted that he was able to count on a base of support because he had won previous elections. Perot has not, and thus creating and then holding a base is his biggest problem, the governor said.
The key to winning that extra few percentage points is probably contained deep in the poll numbers.
Connecticut's experience demonstrated that daily tracking polls are vitally important -- polling daily, instead of less frequently, to find the group that could lean your way, and then pouncing.
"You look for people who as a class are strongly for you, say over-50 females in urban areas," said Foley. Or, in Rowland's case, people in the 4th Congressional District, the usually Republican Fairfield County area where Weicker was elected a congressman in 1968.
Rowland bombarded New York media, hoping to do well there. He wound up winning much of southwestern Connecticut, but it was not enough.
Tracking, or calling 100 to 300 people each night and then comparing those numbers with trends found on previous nights, is a campaign's weather vane. The polling shows what is working and from where new support may come.
Gold, a marketing expert, found it particularly important in a three-way race. "You treat the campaign like a marketing problem," he said. "Don't get caught up with spin doctors or media gurus."
Being the third-party candidate is useful because you can tap a marketing adage: "Define yourself before the others," Gold said, "and remember the most powerful marketing ideas can be expressed in a single word."
Thus Weicker was the doer. So is Perot.
"The first thing into the brain always has the greatest strength," Gold said. Everyone remembers Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, Gold said, but how many remember who stepped out afterward?
It is easier for an independent to use this strategy, experts believe. If people seem to be losing touch with the candidate, Groark said, it is easier for a Weicker or Perot to quickly say things that will reverberate.
"You don't have these intra-party problems, where you need to talk to 14 people in the East and 13 people in the South before
making a decision," she said.
It also keeps the other people off guard, because it allows the independent to raise issues instantly and dominate the agenda.
Suppose, for instance, Perot found that people worried that problems of inner cities are not being addressed. Clinton and Bush would probably rather talk about tax cuts for the middle class, but if Perot keeps raising the inner-city matter, he cannot be ignored.
"It's really very liberating," Groark said.
The main piece of advice the 1990 campaigners have is simple: Be ready for things you never expected.
Nothing is predictable. "In a two-way race," said Morrison, "you know if you knock the other guy down, you'll be built up."
But when three are playing, "you may take votes away from the other guy, but that doesn't necessarily mean they'll go to you."
Weicker, as the front-runner from the beginning, had another complaint: "I had two guys shooting at me all the time instead of one."
It's also hard to predict who will remain strong, and thus difficult to say where you should seek new votes. Rowland, for instance, was confident that if Morrison's support held between 25 percent and 30 percent, Rowland would win. The Republican felt he had a strong base of supporters, roughly 35 percent to 40 percent. The rest would go to Weicker.
The danger Rowland saw was that too many people could reject Morrison and go to Weicker. Rowland figured that if people rejected Morrison, they would probably go to Weicker, not a partisan Republican.
But, Rowland said, "there was no way I figured the nominee of the Democratic Party in Connecticut could drop under 25 percent."
Morrison did -- to 21 percent -- and Rowland found that three of every four of those Democrats leaving Morrison went to Weicker. "There was nothing we could do," Rowland said. "We couldn't run Morrison's campaign."
It became tough enough just to run one. "The dilemma everyone is facing," Rowland said, "is exactly what I faced.


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ExtractorsThe extractor is used in the oil extraction shops of enterprises that process vegetable oils to separate the oil from the oilseed meal with the help of solvent.
One of the most common and effective methods of extracting vegetable oils from the seeds of oil crops used in industrial enterprises today is the technology of oil extraction using organic solvents. This technology allows obtaining oil and high-protein meal with a residual oil content of less than 1%. The heart of this technology is extractors, which have been produced by “TAN” company for more than 10 years already.
The extractor is used to separate the oil from the cake granules of oil crops using an organic solvent. Depending on the design and principle of operation, the extractors can be divided into several types:
– carousel (in other words – rotary).
Extractors produced by the company “TAN” are of the carousel type.
The carousel extractor is a cylindrical device, consisting of one or two storeys with an internal rotor. The rotor consists of a number of segment cells that are continuously loaded with extracted material. Material in the form of granules is supplied from the expander to the feeding bunker of the extractor with the help of a screw conveyor. The cells move along stainless steel slotted bottoms, in which the gaps between the rods increase downwards. This design eliminates the risk of clogging of the grid with material particles and allows the solvent or miscella to escape freely from the material layer, and, accordingly, to extract oil more efficiently. The extracted material is discharged into a gas-tight bin, which is part of the extractor. The bin is equipped with a screw conveyor that feeds the extracted material (meal) to an inclined scraper conveyor (“gooseneck” type), which in turn feeds the meal for further processing into the toaster.
The solvent is fed into the extractor countercurrently to the direction of rotation of the extractor. The liquid solvent seeps (percolates) through the layer of material and the grid bottom into the lower part of the extractor (miscella collector), which is divided into several segmental compartments designed to collect the miscella and transfer it to the pumps. Each segment has its own pump. These segmental compartments separate miscella of different concentration and prevent it from mixing. Miscella is fed by pumps through the nozzles into the extractor from above the raw material, passes (percolates) through the layer of raw material, dissolving the oil, and flows through the grid bottom into the next segment of the miscella collector. Thus, miscella moves countercurrently to the raw material, increasing the oil concentration. The concentrated miscella from the extractor is fed into miscella tank from where it is fed by a pump into the distillers for the solvent removal, and its further condensation in condensers.
The extractor drive consists of an adjustable speed motor, a worm gear box and a chain around the extractor rotor. The rotation speed of the extractor is regulated depending on the amount of material supplied.
The carousel-type extractors produced by “TAN” company have a number of advantages:
- constant level of material in the cells, regardless of the speed of product supply;
- uniform extraction;
- permanent sealing;
- the possibility of increasing the capacity of the extractor by adding storeys.
“TAN” company manufactures fully automated extractors and complex extraction lines. The electronic control system consists of a large number of sensors, a programmable controller (PLC) and frequency converters. The control system also synchronizes the speed of the extractor’s feeding screw, the extractor itself and its discharging screw, allowing control of the entire material flow and guaranteeing a constant level of material in the cells and uniform extraction. Also, complex automation allows achieve compliance with all necessary safety standards, as well as other standards for high-risk areas in the production of vegetable oils
“TAN” company produces extractors of three capacities: 250 tpd, 500 tpd and 1000 tpd based on sunflower seeds. More detailed technical characteristics of carousel extractors manufactured by TAN LLC are given in the table below:
Capacity (based on sunflower seeds), tpd
Height of a layer of the extracted material, mm, no more
Number of rotors, pcs.
Diameter of rotor, mm
Installed power, kW
– Height of extractor with loading and unloading bins
Net weight, kg
More detailed information about extractors and extraction lines of our production, their availability and prices, can be received by contacting us at the specified phone numbers or using the feedback form in the contact section of our website. You can also buy other equipment from us for completing production and oil processing lines

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The concept of winning comes down to one of two things; being smart, or being lucky. Call me pessimistic, but I just don’t believe that people ‘get lucky’. Despite what Daft Punk might think. If I ever win the euro millions, I may have a different opinion. But until that day, I’ll go with the fact that I strongly believe you make your own luck in life.
Like it or not, we’re all in a battleground of competition, and there is an on-going fight to be the top dog. Whether you’re fighting to get there, or fighting to stay there, it’s still a battle, and let’s face it; luck isn’t going to play any part in placing your company ahead of the competition – strategy and tactics are.
When thinking of social media marketing, everyone wants to know about the ‘L’ word. Leads. Possibly the biggest misconception of social media marketing, is that it’s a quick fix for leads. For those of you with this mind-set, allow me to burst your bubble. Social media is far from a quick-fix. It requires effort, resources and patience. Now while this may not be selling it to you, it is a fact that must be acknowledged if you are to successfully implement a social media strategy.
I’m not out to dismiss lead generation entirely. But it is a result of something bigger. So, when it comes to social media, you have to look at the bigger picture; and if you can’t, you’re going to struggle.
Dorothy might have got home merely by clicking her heels, but anybody else would’ve had to walk there. Or drive. You get the picture. The point I’m making is that in order to get from A to B you have a process. And social media marketing is a process, and a complex one at that. Think of it as a relationship channel. A continuous process, with the purpose to nurture leads through a range of different tactics.
If you’re still with me this far, you probably want to know what these tactics may be. What exactly you can do between A and B. Well, lucky for you here are a few examples of what to do and what not to do when it comes to tactics. Actually, scrap that, you make your own luck remember.
Be THE thought leader
Or at the least be A thought leader. If you can’t beat them, join them. Your prospects and customers want value, and if you’re not going to give them it then someone else will. Potentially you’re competitors. Position yourself as an expert in your industry by establishing yourself as the go-to for your customers’ needs; this will enable you to stand out in a potentially crowded marketplace. Try and mix it up with your own captivating content, as well as good quality curated content.
Phase one, identify the industry influencers. This is where you’re just gonna have to use your social intelligence. Once you have mastered this skill, you will be in the position to add value to their posts. While it can be easy to dive straight in and comment, please refrain from writing just anything for the sake of commenting. Instead, contribute something thought-provoking and interesting. If you can make these influencers think you’re interesting and worthwhile, you can make the many people who care about their opinions take notice. Occasionally you just do need the middle man.
Quality above quantity. But don’t forget quantity.
The key is to aim for a balance. Every company will be different, so what will work for one company won’t for another. This also comes down to the choice of social media channels. For instance Twitter may potentially require more updates than LinkedIn, but despite the importance of a certain frequency of social updates, quality is key, and quality is what will establish you as a thought leader and a valuable source of information.
Avoid being a jack of all trades
Everybody has an opinion on this; and not all opinions are the same. The fact is there are umpteen social media channels to choose from, but 1) not all of them will be right for your company and 2) even if they them are, focus your attention on a select few. I’m sure you’ve heard the expression “don’t spread yourself too thin”, and this most definitely applies to social media activity. If you’ve got a whole social media department, knock yourself out, but most companies won’t have this luxury, and if you want a shot at being amazing, you’re just going to have to invest your resources in fewer channels. If that means waving goodbye to Facebook, then so be it.
Don’t Neglect Opportunities
Social media is constantly evolving, and this is opening a whole array of doors in the form of new platforms, features and techniques. I’m probably not alone in being resistant to change, but the honest truth is; if you’re to succeed in social media, or anything digital for that matter, you’re going to have to leave your resistance to change at the door. I guess the point I’m trying to make is that it’s no good just integrating social media into your marketing mix; you need to remain alert to the volatile world of social media, and act accordingly.


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A sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot after responding to a call Saturday evening in western Wisconsin. The suspected shooter is also dead.
Deputy Kaitie Leising, 29, is the fourth law enforcement officer in the region to be fatally shot while responding to calls in the past month.
The latest shooting happened at about 6:15 p.m. Saturday in St. Croix County near Glenwood City, about 40 miles east of the Twin Cities.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice reported that the St. Croix County deputy was responding to a report of a potential drunk driver in a ditch, along with another vehicle of individuals that stopped to assist.
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Leising requested the suspect, Jeremiah D. Johnson, 34, participate in a field sobriety test before returning to his vehicle. Johnson was evasive, and after about 8 minutes of dialogue, turned toward Leising, drew a handgun and shot her.
According to the state justice department, Leising fired three times but didn’t strike Johnson before he ran into a nearby wooded area. The department said the event was captured on body camera.
Individuals in the assisting vehicle attempted to give lifesaving measures for Leising, according to the state justice department. She was transported to a local hospital where she died.
Other officers began searching the wooded area near the scene. After an hour after Leising was shot, an officer spotted Johnson, heard a gunshot and witnessed him collapse to the ground. The state justice department said no officers discharged their weapons during their search, and a handgun was recovered at the scene where Johnson was found deceased.
Authorities said the suspect fled the scene and was later found dead from a gunshot wound in a wooded area.
An initial news release from the Wisconsin DOJ said there was no ongoing threat to the community, but did not provide further details.
Leising served with the St. Croix County Sheriff’s Office since 2022. Prior to that, she served with the Pennington County Sheriff’s Office in South Dakota for about two years.
“Our love and condolences go out to the family of Kaitie Leising and all those with whom she served,” St. Croix Sheriff Scott Knudson said in a release. “We will miss her infectious smile and personality.”
State officials are leading the investigation.
A procession of law enforcement vehicles from both Minnesota and Wisconsin escorted Leising’s remains from the Ramsey County Sheriff’s Office in St. Paul to a funeral home in Baldwin, Wis.
James Stuart is the executive director for the Minnesota Sheriff's Association. He told MPR News his association would be doing whatever it can to support the communities in Wisconsin impacted by the loss.
“I was just disgusted and sad and heartbroken, and it's just so painful to see our protectors being taken from us by such pointless and evil actions,” Stuart said.
It was a show of support that has become familiar in the region over the past month.
Last month, on April 8, two western Wisconsin police officers — one from Chetek, the other from Cameron — were fatally shot during a traffic stop in Barron County.
And in Minnesota, Pope County Sheriff’s Deputy Josh Owen was fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence call in Cyrus on April 15.

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I would be TOTALLY remiss if I did not give a huge
to my dear friend Anne Hall.
For those of you who don't know her, Anne is an accomplished teacher and adjudicator of Irish dancing and she lives in Denver. It was also Anne who began this blog over two years ago, so in a way she's the mother of my ramblings these last few years.
So please join me in wishing Anne a very happy birthday. Anne, thank you so much for being such a good friend...you've taught me more about love and friendship than you'll ever know and I am a better man for having known you.
My favorite Anne Hall birthday story (well, my only one): Several years ago Anne's birthday coincided with the Baltimore feis. Well, due to horrible weather the building where the feis was to be held was totally without power and a number of the stages had to be moved outdoors. Sitting outside under an umbrella is not my idea of a fun day...even if I'm at the beach...and by the end of the day I was pretty dang exhausted. Well, during an interminable line of slow hornpipes, didn't some awful grasshopper see fit to jump down my shirt and then, unable to escape, begin to flutter about madly in my shirt. I look pretty ridiculous when I'm playing the accordion, so imagine me jumping up and down - playing all the while because I didn't want to throw a kid off time - while trying to rid myself of my unwanted guest.
That night, we went out with Anne's friend Nicole for a lovely dinner (I recall only that we had wine and crabcakes, although I suspect there was more food than that) and then walked along the waterfront.
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This column continues with the Turners of Greasy Creek, a discussion begun in the last column in which mention was made of David and William Turner, two brothers who came to southeast Kentucky early in the 1800's with their brother-in-law, Israel Miniard.
By 1840, David was settled in Perry County, near the Harlan County line, an area which became Leslie County in 1878. His brother, William. lived nearby as did Israel Miniard with his wife Mary, David's sister.
David Turner was born about 1802 in Virginia. He probably met and married his wife Tabitha, daughter of Abner Lewis, here in southeast Kentucky. They finally settled on Greasy Creek where they raised 12 children.
Their oldest son, James, was born about 1825. In 1850, James and his wife, Sarah, were living near his parents. By 1860, James and Sarah had moved their growing family to Perry County. Records concerning Sarah's maiden name are contradictory. A birth record for one child gives her surname as Begley while another child's records states her maiden name was Bailey.
David and Tabitha's second son was named Abner after Tabitha's father. Born about 1827, Abner married Simeon and Nancy Willeford Wilson's daughter, Catherine, in 1846 in Harlan County. Abner and Catherine had 12 children, Drusha, Simon W., David Y., John C., Nancy, Tabitha, Sarah, Henry M., Jane, James, Richard, Emily and William R.
John, third of David and Tabitha's children, was born about 1832. Although listed in his parents' household in 1850, no further trace has yet been found of him and he may have died as a young man.
Mary, fourth child and oldest daughter of David and Tabitha, was born about 1833. In 1852, in Harlan, she married her first cousin, Wilson B. Lewis, son of Wilson and Margaret Lewis. Mary and their children, Leticia, David, Henry M., Felix and Wilson, are listed alone in 1870 and it is possible that Wilson B. died during the Civil War.
David Turner, born about 1835, was the fifth child of David and Tabitha. In 1863, he married his first cousin Robert's daughter, Stacy who was born about 1848. In 1870, they are listed with four children, Robert, David, Emily and Amanda.
Elizabeth, David and Tabitha's second daughter, was born about 1836. In 1855, in Harlan, she married John Halcomb/Early, John's father Linsey Holcomb had been David's neighbor in 1840 Perry county. By 1860 they had settled in Perry County.
Elizabeth's sister Nancy was born about 1838. In 1854, she married Hiram and Lucinda Jenkins Lewis' son Jesse. By 1870 Jesse and Nancy had settled in Clay County with their children, Tabitha, Hiram, Lucinda, Amanda, Elizabeth, Nancy, Elihu, John, Martha, Mary and Clarinda.
Next in order of birth were William, born about 1840, and Tabitha, born about 1843.
David and Tabitha's 10th child and youngest son was John Ransom Turner, born about 1846. Usually known by his middle name, Ransom served for the Union in the Civil War, after which, in 1865, he married his first cousin Robert's daughter, Juda Turner who was born in the summer of 1849.
Ranson and Juda had 10 known children, Lewis, Hampton, Hiram, Henry, John, Harmon, Daniel, Monroe, Stacy Ellen and Mary.
Amanda Turner, sometimes known as Hannah, was born about 1848 and was next to the youngest of David and Tabitha's 12 children. In 1864, she married Lewis, son of Preston and Mary Farmer Harris. Lewis and Amanda had at least seven children, Leonard, Mary, Tabitha, Jane, Preston, Ransom, David and Lewis.
Amanda's sister Delia, born about 1849, married Henry Clay Thomas in 1866. Henry was the son of William and Polly Clay Thomas of Yocums Creek. Henry and Delia had James B., David, William, Samuel, Mary, Joseph C., John D., Leonard, Bertha E., and Elijah.

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The Department of Labor presents the “Our Journey Together TA Series.” This training will include a review of the eligibility portion of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth Final Rule webinar and a live questions and answers session on WIOA youth eligibility through the webinar platform chat feature.
One of the most common topics which we receive questions on is WIOA youth eligibility. This is not surprising as the eligibility requirements are fairly complex. We will replay the WIOA youth eligibility portion of the WIOA Youth Final rule previously recorded webinar as a refresher on WIOA youth eligibility and will provide an opportunity for live questions and answers on all issues related to WIOA youth eligibility. Come prepared with all of your eligibility questions.
WIOA Youth Eligibility Live Question and Answer Session
Presenter(s): Evan Rosenberg, Division of Youth Services, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
Moderator(s): Sara Hastings, Division of Youth Services, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Time: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM ET
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An addendum to my post yesterday on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s decision process at the West Side rail yards: Almost four months after the five development teams first submitted proposals (and spent millions of dollars to do so), it seems the MTA is nearly ready to narrow the field.
The MTA, which owns the 26-acre rail yards, has asked the development teams to send in “supplemental proposals” that give a detailed financial payment plan for a 99-year lease on the property. In a letter to developers, the MTA said the proposals will be used for “(i) eliminating proposals that are not to fall within the competitive range and (ii) commencing negotiations with the remaining eligible Proposers.”
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Races and Events reflect the person who had the idea and makes sure they come together in a fun and safe way. Here is a question and answer with Old Man Winter’s Josh Kravetz.
1. How many years has Old Man Winter been running and how and why did it start?
This will be the 7th year for Old Man Winter. I’ve always been a fan of winter riding. It must be something about breathing the cold air or gearing up for a ride when everybody else is staying inside. When I was a pro MTB racer in Austin, we just to get a big crew together in winter to do our annual “600 minute” ride. I loved the camaraderie of this – riding all day, stopping for lunch, and getting in some great training. This is one of the feelings that inspired the Old Man Winter Rally originally. Read more
Colorado’s favorite Epic Winter Adventure for runners and riders. Old Man Winter Rally offers two bike course options: the 50km route tours some of the scenic, rolling terrain that has made Boulder County, CO one of the country¹s most popularRead More
Cycling lifestyle brand grows their heritage of creating two-wheeled adventures through support of this Colorado winter epic. Read more
Held Saturday, January 27, the Old Man Winter Official Course Pre-Ride, hosted by Old Man Winter Rally and Sports Garage Cycling was a great success, according to Full Cycle Liv Ambassador Shelley Hartman… “Sports Garage put on 4 amazingRead More
By Erin Trail Over 800 racers gathered at Sandstone Park in Lyons, CO for the third annual Old Man Winter Rally. We had ahhhhhmazing weather, despite forecasts for overnight snow (which fortunately stayed away). Temps were in the mid-40s, theRead More

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Advanced Practice Registered Nurses / Physician Assistants
Internal Number: 18579
Providence Medical Group is seeking a full-time nurse practitioner to join its Behavioral Health team in Olympia, Washington. You will be part of the outpatient psychiatric team at the Providence St. Peter Hospital which treats a full array of mild to severe psychiatric conditions. Here, you will be working with adult patients providing diagnosis and treatment in the outpatient clinic as part of a collaborative team of four other providers. You can also expect to prescribe and exam illnesses and order and interpret diagnostic tests while developing and implementing care plans. Take advantage of this opportunity to join a mission-driven organization providing a robust range of psychiatric services to patients across the Pacific Northwest.
Monday to Thursday schedule
Outpatient care focus with call for both inpatient and outpatient clinics
Must have 1 to 2 years' experience
Compensation between $60.39 and $76.21 per hour
The compensation amounts listed may include productivity or quality/service incentives, call pay, extra shift incentives, as applicable to the position. In addition, providers may have CME benefits available to them.
Comprehensive benefits include health, vision, dental and retirement
Where You'll Work
Providence Medical Group - Southwest Washington is an organization of employed physicians and advanced-practice clinicians, providing services in two hospitals and 38 Primary and Specialty Care Clinics within 5 counties in the South Puget Sound region. With more than 300 employed medical providers in 22 specialties, the group offers highly coordinated care for patients by using a shared EMR system. The National Committee for Quality Assurance has recognized its primary care clinics as patient-centered medical homes.
Where You'll Live
Olympia is on the southern tip of scenic Puget Sound, which offers an abundance of activities from beachcombing to salmon fishing to sailing. Olympia and its primary neighboring cities of Tumwater and Lacey have a population of 250,000, offering an abundance of culture, entertainment and an outstanding school system from elementary through university, including The Evergreen State College and Saint Martin's University.
Who You'll Work For
Providence is a nationally recognized, comprehensive health care organization spanning seven states with a universal mission - to provide compassionate care to all who need its services, especially the poor and vulnerable. Its 119,000-plus caregivers/employees serve in 51 hospitals, more than 800 clinics and a comprehensive range of health and social services. Providence: one name, one family, one extraordinary health system.
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Tell us your why, we'll find your where.
Provider Solutions & Development is a community of experts founded within Providence, a purpose-driven, 51-hospital health system, out of a clear need to change recruitment. We’re not focused on quotas, and we don’t work on commission. We support and serve physicians and advanced practice clinicians with heart, from residency to retirement, so you can do the same for your patients. With exclusive access to hundreds of positions across the nation, we offer holistic, personal career coaching that puts your needs first. We don’t just fill positions, we fulfill individuals by taking the time to help you find where you’re meant to be at every step of your journey.
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At Beaver Creek Mountain Resort and Village. Steps to ski school, shops, and restaurants. Ski-in/Ski-out, with assigned ski lockers, covered garage parking, fitness room, indoor/outdoor pool, sauna, fireplace, and more. Available now and year round! Winter is gorgeous! Summer is majestic.
Start making memories with your family and friends in one of the best winter ski locations and scenic summer mountain locations in the United States! Stay at a comfortable home nestled in the tranquil Colorado Rocky Mountains. Enjoy the comforts of a spacious condo in one of the prime ski-in/ski-out building locations on Beaver Creek mountain. You'll be able to escape with just yourself or include a group of your favorite friends to share in adventures, picturesque views, quiet hikes and plenty of unique experiences. Relax in the living room next to the log fireplace during the winter or sit in the rocking chair at the balcony during the summer and breath in the fresh mountain air. Many came to experience winters but made the area home for the summers! Whichever vacation you decide to create, make it come true in the comforts of this affordable home away from home. Look at the calendar for available dates. RETURNING GUESTS ELIGIBLE FOR A FREE NIGHT DISCOUNT ON 5 NIGHT STAYS WHEN MENTIONING PAST VISIT.
Winters at Beaver Creek are what has given this resort its popularity. The snow is often times referred to as powder. It is soft yet compact and the crunch that it makes under your snow boots when you walk on it, reminds you that this is great snow to ski on! The mountain is groomed daily, the staff is knowledgeable, and the locals are friendly. Convenience is key at Beaver Creek, making it one of the best places to have a winter vacation with the entire family. Kids ski school is exceptional and includes The Magic Carpet and a safe kids lift. A children's nursery accepts babies 2 months-6 years old. Teenagers & Adults will also find a spot whether taking a group or private lesson. After skiing enjoy a hot chocolate or a complimentary freshly baked chocolate chip cookie. At night enjoy dinner at some of the finest restaurants and afterwards make smores at one of the outdoor fire pits. In the village enjoys the many boutique shops, ice skating and the many events year round.
Winters are amazing for visiting but locals say that they stayed for the summers. It is almost a secret, but the beauty during the months when there is no snow can be breath taking. The mountains come alive with shades of green and the many colors of the wild flowers. There are many more activities during this time of the year. In the Beaver Creek Resort camps, festivals and special events draw in vacationers. Nearby towns let you explore antiquing, participate in the local rodeo, take scenic motorcycle rides, experience a kayaking adventure, try panning for gold, soak in one a the many hot springs, among many more activities. The lifts open to give a ride up the mountain. Hike down or mountain bike down and discover a cool creek to swim in or a fishing pond to picnic near. At night, temperatures take a dip, allowing you the option to sleep with windows open and enjoy the fresh mountain air. Don't miss out on a peaceful get away to an exclusive destination this summer.
If you thought Beaver Creek Resort was only a place to go skiing, think again! You can also take a sleigh ride, visit a dude ranch, go tubing, go snow mobiling, watch the Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony, coem to a food festival, see a live Reindeer, enter the gingerbread house competition, watch the men's alpine World Cup, partcipate in the Talons challenge, see a show at the Vilar center (Sheryl Crow on June 27, Travis Tritt on July 27, Peter Frampton on August 18 and many more), go kayaking, Come for the 4th of July, go to the hot springs, visit a national park, check out the caverns, visit the gold mines, go fly fishing, visit the wineries and breweries, visit Celestial Seasoning Tea Factory, go to Glenwood caverns Adventure Park, go rock climbing, go caving/spelunking, visit the prairie dogs, come to a music festival, take a hot air balloon ride, take a train ride, visit a ghost town, visit the heavy equipment playground (Dig This), ride the zip line, try the spa and so much more!

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Mount Falcon Park, Morrison, CO 80465
We discovered Mount Falcon Castle Trail late March, during quarantine, when we were looking for an outdoor activity that would provide opportunity for a little exercise and spectacular views. And, this hike did not disappoint! Originally, we had a little difficulty finding the trailhead. Probably because I sent jason the wrong map marker and we ended up in a neighborhood cul-de-sac…OOPS!
We hiked this trail mid-morning on a Sunday and the lot was packed. But, we easily found parking along the street and were ready to go. This is a pretty moderate hike, with a steady incline and little shade. The lack of shade wasn’t an issue for us as it was a cool and cloudy day, but in summer months I would definitely plan to go early. Fortunately, the incline didn’t slow Keegan’s four year old legs down much on the hike up. In fact, we struggled to keep up with him much of the time.
The views of Red Rocks were stunning along this trail. We stopped for water, snacks and photos several times while taking in all the natural beauty. Mount Falcon Castle Trail is a 6.7 mile loop from start to finish, so we knew going in that we wouldn’t be able to complete it with Keegan. We turned around to head down around the 2.5 mile mark as Keegan started running out of steam. Wrapping it up so we didn’t have to do piggyback rides all the way back to the car! We stopped at a giant rock pile close to the trailhead on the way back to play a little King of the Mountain before calling it a day and getting a late lunch.
We will definitely bring family and friends visiting Colorado on this hike! Probably making a day of it, enjoying a late lunch at one of Morrison’s delicious rooftop patio restaurants!

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The State Department experienced significant publishing delays with the November 2020 Visa Bulletin but December’s bulletin, while still delayed, has come out more quickly. The industry is hopeful this indicates a concerted effort to play catch-up. In the meantime, arguably the biggest highlight of fiscal 2021 for the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program thus far has been that most countries have maintained their current final action status. Still, the December 2020 Visa Bulletin didn’t bring news as promising as the EB-5 community had anticipated.
Nearly Zero Movement in Chart A’s Final Action Dates
The end of FY2020 brought on a flurry of chatter regarding the influx of visas following an unimaginable year. Unfortunately, the December 2020 Visa Bulletin shows no sign of the marked advances EB-5 professionals hoped would come. Chinese investors in the EB-5 program saw zero movement in final action dates for the country (the date remains August 15, 2015). And EB-5 investment participants from Vietnam will merely inch forward in line as their final action date advances by just two weeks (September 1, 2017).
Dates for Filing in Chart B Haven’t Moved Either
Sure enough, Chinese investors have not seen any additional forward momentum on their application filing dates, as Chart B in the visa bulletin indicates a repeat date stamp (15DEC15). Affected investors are those foreign nationals participating in an EB5 investment who are allowed to submit their green card applications with the National Visa Center (NVC). Interested parties typically include those EB-5 investors who apply outside of U.S borders, and China hasn’t seen a shift from mid-December 2015 in months.
The Fate of the EB-5 Regional Center Hangs in the Balance
The last extension for the EB-5 Regional Center Program is set to expire on December 11, 2020. In order to avoid it, Congress needs to reauthorize the program, or at least pass a temporary measure on expenditures. Otherwise, immigration visas through the regional program* will no longer be available as of midnight on that date. Those EB-5 investors already entrenched in the program would need to be admitted into the U.S. before the clock strikes 12. Should the program be saved, however, cut-off dates will likely mirror current bulletin data across the board.
Ultimately, Q1 of the new fiscal year seems to be closing without the outpour of extra visas expected…without an influx of petitions processed…and now maybe without the incentive of working through a regional center on an EB-5 investment for half the start-up capital. It has been a rough year for the industry as a whole. Perhaps the folks at United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will surprise us all and launch refreshed and in full-force into the brand new calendar year. We certainly hope so!
*Note: EB5 investment participants who are not working through a regional center will not be impacted directly by an expiration of the regional program.


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Portsmouth's homeless served up meal to celebrate Ramadan
HOMELESS people across the city were given a boost on Saturday in the form of a special meal served up to celebrate Eid.
Charity Don’t Hate, Donate fed dozens of Portsmouth’s rough sleepers in Guildhall Square as part of the celebrations during the holy month of Ramadan.
The meal was themed around types of food traditionally eaten. The charity looks to feed the city’s homeless every Saturday as it says that regular services for rough sleepers aren’t as available on weekends as they are during the week.
It was organised by Shipa Khan, who said: ‘We thought that it would be good to celebrate Eid by serving up a traditionally-themed meal for all the city’s rough sleepers.
‘We have also given them packs to take away that have toiletries and little things to help them out.’
All the food served was either donated by Portsmouth restaurants or was from the charity’s supplies.
She added: ‘It is good to see so many happy faces, but it does look like there are a lot of people here today.
‘When you look around in the city, there seems to be more homeless people.
‘Providing them with a meal is important as they do not get much to eat on a Saturday usually.’
Chantelle Burton, the charity’s CEO, was helping serve food to people.
She said: ‘A lot of this food has been donated from the city’s Muslim community to help feed the homeless.
‘We have also got people fasting who are serving the food. This meal is very special and we just hope it helps them all out.’
Russell Hutton, a rough sleeper who has been on Portsmouth’s streets for the past six months said: ‘I think it is brilliant that they do this for us.
‘There’s not much really available on a Saturday so I really appreciate this.’
The charity serves meals in the square every Saturday.

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2017 Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award. The award recognizes Chris Hagen as one of the top young engineering educators in the nation. Hagen is the only the second recipient of this award who is from Oregon State University, since it was established in 1963.
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No Presidential commission to investigate Ranjan’s tapes-Govt.
Co-Government Spokesman Mahindananda Aluthgamage says that there is no need to appoint a presidential commission as requested by Ranjan Ramanayake to look into all his audio recordings as he can present them to the court when his case is being heard. hearings.
Speaking to media this morning (22 Jan), the state minister although MP Ramanayake said that he is going to table all his recordings in Parliament, he had not done so yesterday.
Also, he said that it is proven through these conversations how Ramanayake had interfered in the cases against Duminda Silva and Lalith Weeratunga PC while pressuring the police and judges to file cases against Minister Johnston Fernando, MP Namal Rajapaksa and himself to suppress the opposition during the previous government.
During the past four years, there were 15 court cases filed against Ranjan Ramanayake which includes one contempt of court case, 7 defamation cases and one case where he had deceived a woman after taking her money.
Because of the recordings, Ranjan has already lost his UNP membership after a disciplinary inquiry and two judges are already interdicted while a high court judge has given a statement to police.
He also praised the Chief Justice for taking the necessary actions against the judges as an effort to rebuild the confidence in the judiciary system among the people.
The state minister also challenged Ramanayake to release the audio recordings where the former president, cabinet ministers their wives and children have made deals with him in interfering court cases.

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After numerous mixtapes and EP’s, Los Angeles rapper Luke Christopher will finally be releasing his debut album. TMRWFRVR tomorrow, through RCA Records and Sony Music Entertainment. The project has no features guests and is led by the single “Waterfalls”. Support him and buy his new album out, July 28th !
“Give Me Your Pain”
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THE LAST WORD: Tapping Social Workers
Alsop, Ronald J., Workforce Management
"Our good name is also his good name. The two are intertwined."
Ford must be a good company because my neighbor likes working there."
That comment about Ford Motor Co. came from a respondent to a corporate reputation study I was the editor of a few years ago. Though it was simply put, the statement impressed upon me just how powerful employee word-of-mouth can be in forming favorable--or negative--perceptions. Indeed in a later reputation study, my colleagues and I found that 84 percent of respondents considered word-of-mouth messages from employees credible, compared with 75 percent for media coverage of a company and 70 percent for PR and advertising spiels. Only an individual's own personal experiences with a company carried more weight than the words of its workers.
As this month's story on employee "brand ambassadors" shows, companies can try to shape word-of-mouth messages to work to their advantage. They can encourage workers to become ambassadors of sorts to burnish their reputation as a good employer and corporate citizen, and to tout products and services. Of course, employers can't be heavy-handed and dictate what people say.
But like PepsiCo Inc. and IBM Corp. in our article, companies can provide communication tools and suggested messages to enable employees to spread positive information to friends and family. And these days, employees' reach can extend well beyond their inner circle as their tweets and posts ripple through the blogosphere and social media networks.
Yet, because of the untamed nature of social media, companies increasingly view employee communication to the outside world with more wariness than eagerness. They worry that workers are more apt to gripe about them than glorify them on Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.
A recent study by Forrester Research Inc. indicates that, unfortunately, employers' fears appear to be well-founded. The survey of 5,519 workers in North America and Europe found that critics far outnumber cheerleaders. When asked whether they would recommend a job at their employer to a friend or family member, 27 percent were classified as promoters; 29 percent, neutrals; and 43 percent, detractors. As for touting their company's products and services, 27 percent were promoters; 24 percent, neutrals; and 49 percent, detractors. Forrester observed that, "It's entirely possible that the struggling economy has kept disgruntled workers in their jobs longer than normal, artificially depressing scores. …

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After initial photography wrapped in 2017, followed by extensive reshoots and complicated scheduling with the film's high-profile leads who star in other mega properties (Marvel Cinematic Universe, "Star Wars"), "Chaos Walking" hit theaters last month and arrives today (April 2) on premium video on demand. The big blockbuster, young adult saga is based on the 2008 trilogy of the same name by Patrick Ness and has all the trappings of a successful dystopian series: two young, attractive leads; a diabolical villain; a sci-fi element that sets both the protagonist and its pursuer apart; and a lesson on morals that highlights a fundamental inequality, in this case gender. Yet even those eye-catching factors and a hyper talented cast don't prevent the film from turning chaos into a formulaic action-adventure that perhaps too structured for its own good.
Set a couple hundred years in the future, "Chaos Walking" is a sci-fi western that follows human settlers as they abandon earth and voyage to a distant habitable planet. The first wave of pioneers arrived many decades prior and have established villages across the land. Todd Hewitt (Tom Holland) is the youngest resident of Prentisstown, a settlement comprised of just men. The women mysteriously died when Todd was a baby, allegedly at the hand of the new world's indigenous people. The only life he's known has been under the burden of "Noise", a disease that affects only the male inhabitants and allows each man's inner thoughts to be broadcasted to those around him. Like a walking talking projector for your mind.
Todd is particularly bad at controlling his Noise which barbarically grumbles a persistent hum of garble detailing each idea as it flits through his mind. Mayor Prentiss (Mads Mikkelsen), the trusted town leader with a grizzled visage and hypnotic confidence, has a talent for contorting his Noise into whatever he pleases, making others see things that appear real, but are in fact just figments of his mind. The film anthropomorphizes each man's thoughts with clouds of purple and blue that swirl over his head. They come through like a broken radio, rarely complete ideas, but fragments of thoughts and emotions. Other times, when the idea is strong, we see fleeting images of people or places that project in the air before dissolving and moving on to the next.
The concept that one's thoughts are visible to others is, if given the time and space that a full-length novel allows, fun and intriguing and can operate as a useful, innovative tool for storytelling and character development. On screen, however, that piece of the puzzle - a central, highly visible piece that is integral to the story as a whole - muddies up the audio, is difficult to discern through its visuals and overall becomes a pesky inconvenience you can't quite embrace and you certainly can't ignore. There really is chaos walking through each scene, and though at first you may find it alluring, by film's end, you'll be screaming into the void and cursing at the Noise.
When Viola (Daisy Ridley) crash lands in the woods near Prentisstown, she is the only survivor on her ship and is rightfully wary of the men who capture and question her. She hasn't seen Noise before, and her lack of Noise is unsettling to the mob of undereducated, sexually repressed men. You can feel their interest in her, though her capacity to get herself out of the situation is never questioned. She is technologically advanced and has been trained to fight. Her only weakness is not knowing the area.
Which is why Viola has no option but to trust Todd who quickly develops a crush on the first woman in his life he's laid his eyes on. Viola at least knows where she stands with Todd at all times. His Noise gives away his feelings immediately. Todd is the exception to the rule of Prentisstown men and is perhaps the only "good" guy. The mayor's son (Nick Jonas), though a similar age as Todd's, holds loyalty only to his father and plays a rather one-note malefactor necessary for certain plot developments. The town preacher (David Oyelowo) is a raving heresy denouncer whose Noise is constantly swarming his head with fire and brimstone personified.
Viola and Todd trek through the wooded wilderness to find people who are, they hope, more forgiving of her gender. Somewhat protected by Hildy (Cynthia Erivo), the leader at another settlement and a woman to boot, the duo must fight off the pack of rabid Prentisstown men and find a way to warn the larger ship carrying the second wave of pilgrims headed towards this flawed new world.
There is plenty to dissect, particularly with the story at face value. There are thoughtful, thought-provoking themes and motifs that run throughout - the power of ideas, a woman's role in a male-dominated world, etc. The film is a divergence from other YA properties in that regard, adding something to the dialogue rather than merely perpetuating young people's interest in attractive actors falling in love under various, varying circumstances. Unfortunately, theory and reality are most often at odds with one another, and all the Noise in the world can't save this flashy bit of futuristic melodrama from being blinded by its own conceit.
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CARSON CITY -- The Legislature passed a $781 million tax increase and delivered it to Gov. Jim Gibbons on Friday, barely meeting a 5 p.m. deadline and setting the stage for Gibbons' expected veto.
After intense negotiations between Republicans and Democrats, the tax package finally came to a vote in the state Senate late Friday afternoon, winning approval by a 17-4 margin. All 12 Democrats plus five Republicans voted for the bill.
It then was rushed across the building to the Assembly, which had already held a pre-emptive debate on the provisions to raise the rates of existing sales, payroll, vehicle and business license taxes. The Assembly swiftly passed the bill 29-13, with all 28 Democrats plus Assemblyman John Carpenter, R-Elko, in favor.
Trailed by a pack of reporters, photographers and cameramen, legislative staffer Lauren Soper carried the bill across the courtyard separating the legislative building from the Capitol and into the reception area of Gibbons' office. Gibbons emerged to take possession of the bill and address the media about 4:30 p.m.
Thanking legislators for "doing their job," Gibbons said he needed to spend some time looking over the bill but had little doubt about how he would act on it.
"A billion-dollar tax increase in a recession is the worst thing we can do for the American and the Nevada people, and most of all for the hard-working families of this state," Gibbons said. "I intend to veto this bill."
Gibbons has five days to issue his veto, not counting Sunday. He wouldn't say when he plans to do so.
Once he does, the bill goes back to the Legislature, where the same two-thirds supermajority needed to pass a tax increase is required to override a governor's veto. The legislative session must end by June 1.
The tax increases were needed to bridge the gap between projected revenues for the next biennium and the $6.8 billion in spending legislators have approved. (This approved spending is more than the governor's proposed budget of $6.3 billion, more than actual spending in the current biennium of about $6.3 billion, and about the same as the budget approved by lawmakers two years ago. It is less than the estimated $8.1 billion it would take to maintain current service levels.)
The bills authorizing the spending also saw final passage through the Legislature on Friday.
Though the specific tax increases in the bill were endorsed by Democratic and Republican leaders days ago, side issues stalled the process. Republicans said they would not vote for the taxes without reforms to public employee pensions and a provision guaranteeing the tax hikes will expire in two years.
The parties reached a compromise on the pension reforms but hadn't yet approved that legislation Friday. After trying to come up with an alternative to the sunset clause for the tax hikes, Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, D-Las Vegas, finally gave in, saying passing the bill was too important to let relatively minor issues hold it up.
Horsford also agreed to remove a provision from the bill that would have authorized a commission to look for ways to implement a broad-based tax on Nevada businesses. Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Reno, said he also wanted a tax study but wanted to leave it open-ended.
"It is more important to fund the budget than to continue to disagree in this chamber," Horsford said. He and Raggio pledged to work together on a separate bill authorizing the desired study.
WAITING ON THE SENATE
Getting the tax bill to the floor of the Senate was the culmination of a week of arduous work.
The two-thirds vote requirement meant the majority Democrats, who make up 12 of the upper house's 21 members, needed at least two Republicans on board to pass their tax package. (Democrats comprise two-thirds of the 42 Assembly members.)
That made for a tense dynamic. Democrats, being the ones in charge, felt their wishes should take precedence and did not want to be seen selling out the public employee unions who are loyal to them. Republicans, being the ones with the needed votes, were determined to extract their concessions, particularly the pension reforms for which business interests have spent months lobbying and campaigning.
Leaders of both parties from both houses engaged in weeks of marathon negotiating sessions behind closed doors. They agreed to furloughs for state workers, cuts to K-12 education and a higher education budget that, while $300 million richer than Gibbons' proposal, still trims the state's colleges and universities by 12.5 percent. More than $1 billion was cut from state services for the next two years.
But when it came to how to pay for the $6.8 billion in proposed spending, the tussling only got more intense. Matters reached an ugly impasse after a long and contentious Wednesday night.
At 2:30 a.m. Thursday, Horsford compelled all senators back to the floor, by force if necessary, and kept them there until 4 a.m., prompting angry complaints by Republicans that he was trying to bully their votes out of them.
Horsford recited the pension reform proposals Democrats had offered. He said they were significant but Republicans were refusing to compromise and endangering education funding by doing so.
Later Thursday, weary senators finally reached an agreement on the reforms. But the deal still was not done.
On Friday, the issues were whether the new taxes should expire after two years and how a commission should study the state's tax structure over the next two years, so that the next Legislature might make more lasting changes to a revenue stream that leans heavily on sales and gaming taxes to fund state government.
From the beginning, Raggio said on the Senate floor, "I indicated that for me to vote for and approve any tax plan, that not only would it have to be on existing taxes, but these taxes would have to be temporary."
Democrats proposed a weaker sunset provision that would make the tax hikes expire only if the economy improves to the point where the revenue is no longer needed.
Raggio said it was not enough. He also took issue with Horsford's proposed study commission.
Hours went by, the deadline loomed. Some began to fear the worst.
Finally, at 3:30 p.m., Horsford introduced an amendment giving Raggio the hard sunsets but keeping the directed commission. When Raggio again took issue with the commission, Horsford removed it from the bill.
"It is more important to meet our obligations to the state of Nevada than it is to have differences about the language in a study," Horsford said. "I will concede deleting the provisions in the amendment so we can fund education in Nevada."
The amendment approved, it was time, around 4 p.m., to vote on the tax bill.
Sen. Barbara Cegavske, R-Las Vegas, said she was concerned businesses would be forced to lay people off by the 0.54 percent increase levied on payrolls above $250,000 annually.
At a time when unemployment is at a 25-year high, she said, "I am very concerned about what we are doing to our economy. ... I do believe this is a job-killing tax and a business-killing tax."
Cegavske and fellow Republicans Mark Amodei of Carson City, Mike McGinness of Fallon and Maurice Washington of Sparks voted against the bill.
RUSH TO THE ASSEMBLY
Seeing the clock winding down earlier Friday afternoon, Assembly Speaker Barbara Buckley, D-Las Vegas, decided she couldn't wait on the Senate. She opened debate on the tax package even though there was no bill before the Assembly.
Buckley opened the debate by saying times have never been worse for business, but legislators simply could not cut public school and higher education at the levels Gibbons requested.
"We can't let them (prisoners) out because we have a shortfall," she said. "We can't cut human services caseloads. We can't cut education. We can trot out the platitude that government has to live within its means and 'no new taxes.' But when 50 percent of our budget is education, you can't cut it by 44 percent."
Assembly Minority Leader Heidi Gansert, R-Reno, had helped negotiate the budget and tax package. She said she has a diverse caucus and some of the members backed parts of the tax plan, but they could not support the entire package.
Assemblyman Ty Cobb, R-Reno, said half the employees in the company where he works have been laid off. "We can't add to the burden they face if we ever expect a turnaround in our economy," Cobb said.
Six minutes after the Senate passed the tax package, it came to a vote in the Assembly. Buckley said any more comments could wait until afterward, and the 29-13 vote assured the bill's passage.
As the bill was being sprinted over to Gibbons' office, Carpenter, the only Republican to back the taxes, spoke, saying it was the toughest decision of his life.
"If my career was not at an end, this might have brought it to an end," said Carpenter, a 22-year legislator who cannot run again because of term limits. But he said his goal throughout his career has been to improve schools and colleges and reduce the sizes of school classes.
His own children and grandchildren have received fine educations, he added, and all children should have an opportunity for a quality education. "Most of all I asked the Lord," Carpenter said. "The Lord said: 'This is the thing you should do. Tonight you are going to sleep and sleep well.'"
Members, including Republicans, gave Carpenter a standing ovation.
Because Friday was also a deadline for bills to pass their second legislative house, lawmakers remained in floor session until about 9 p.m. in both houses, and both the Senate and Assembly are scheduled to hold floor sessions today.
Both houses, however, plan to take Sunday and Monday off, an unusual occurrence for the Nevada Legislature since Memorial Day always falls during the final week of the session.
Gibbons' veto could come anytime before Thursday, which should give the legislators four days to override the veto and end the session. But the votes needed for the veto override now also can be used as bargaining chips as lawmakers demand passage of other priorities.
Out of deference to the office of the governor, veto overrides by the Legislature have generally been rare, with the last one before Friday occurring 20 years ago. Earlier Friday, they overrode his veto on a bill increasing fees charged by the state engineer.
The major tasks for lawmakers now include passage of the pension reform package, currently stalled in the Senate Finance Committee, and the formulation of a tax study that both Horsford and Raggio can live with.
On Friday night, however, the feeling in the legislative building was one of overwhelming relief. Had the 5 p.m. deadline not been met, lawmakers had feared Gibbons might close his office and refuse to accept the tax bill until Tuesday, meaning by the time five days passed for the veto, there might not be time to override.
Now, it appears at least possible that the Legislature will finish in 120 days for the first time since 1999.


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Malaga was a location in Spain.
Behind the scenes
Málaga is the name of both a Spanish province and its capital. The audio story Orr mentions it as one of flight destinations from Cardiff, alongside Paris and Amsterdam, thus, referring to the city. The independent state mentioned in the audio story The Two Irises may refer to the future of the province.


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June 06, 2019
As Independence Day celebrations occur, the Johns Creek Fire Department reminds residents of the fireworks law and fireworks safety tips.
As of July 1, 2018, the Georgia General Assembly adjusted the law regarding when fireworks can be used and how they may be regulated.
The law (HB 419) allows consumer fireworks to be used or ignited at the following times:
(1) Any day beginning at 10 a.m. and ending at 11:59 p.m.
(unless such use or ignition during such times is not in compliance with the local noise ordinance in effect in that jurisdiction) The City of Johns Creek follows state law and the city noise ordinance
. It is prohibited to use or ignite fireworks in the city’s public parks without an approved written permit from the City of Johns Creek.
(2) The use of fireworks is legal until 11:59 p.m. statewide around certain holidays (regardless of local legislation):
- on Jan. 1,
- the last Saturday and Sunday in May (before Memorial Day),
- July 3 & July 4,
- the first Monday in September (Labor Day),
- Dec. 31, 10 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. time period; and Jan. 1 from 12 a.m. (midnight) to 1 a.m.
For noise complaints, residents can call 911.
The Johns Creek Fire Department offers the following safety ips for residents:
- If you are planning on using fireworks during your celebration, please use extreme caution.
- Only use fireworks that are lawful in Georgia.
- Fireworks should only be used outdoors, and in open areas away from other homes, structures, and other combustible areas.
- Afterwards, carefully place all used fireworks in a bucket of water to make sure that they are completely extinguished before placing them in the trash.


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Skipinnish The Seventh Wave
In the world of lore and legend, the seventh wave was bigger and more
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the Seventh Wave is released upon the ocean.
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Over 20 Things Guys Should Know About Their Cocktail, But Don't
This article is sponsored in part by Bombay Sapphire.
HISTORY / COCKTAIL CULTURE
The 17th Century: While distilled spirits date back possibly thousands of years, it was the mid-17th century — during the age of exploration — that mixed drinks and hard alcohol attracted the public. At one point, gin was one of the most consumed alcoholic liquids in all of England, until the competing beer industry besmirched gin fans in the press. The horror!
The 19th Century: The young country of America, where both ice and sugar were plentiful, was home to the cocktail (the word's origin varies depending on whose blog post you're reading). By the second half of the 19th century, many bartenders — including Jerry Thomas and Harry Johnson — were as wealthy and popular as rock stars today. Professor Jerry Thomas wrote what is widely considered to be the first cocktail recipe book: How to Mix Drinks, or The Bon-Vivant's Companion. Pick up a reprint off Amazon, and start at the beginning.
The Early Drinks: In the 19th Century, many of the cocktails we associate today with other spirits were generally made with Cognac, Rye and Gin. From the 1870s to 1920, many of our favorite cocktails today, from the Manhattan, Martini and Gin Daisy (great-aunt of the Margarita) to the Sazerac and Singapore Sling, appear around this time.
Prohibition: In 1920, The Volstead Act was passed, enforcing the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting the production, sale, transport and consumption of alcoholic beverages. On the plus side, women's equality advanced, Cuba became a cocktail mecca, the rise of the Cocktail Hour and… speakeasies. On the negative: The empowerment of organized crime, all the good American bartenders fled to Europe (or Cuba) leaving no one behind to train the next generation, and Irish whiskey (once the most popular whiskey in America) got sidelined till the 21st Century. While plenty of people were drinking, surprisingly few decent cocktails hail from this era. A few notables: The Mary Pickford, The French 75 and, most definitively, the Sidecar.
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1946 - 1970s: The Mad Men era. Post-war prosperity and a rise in suburban home entertaining led to a renewed interest in spirits, though much depth and education had been lost to Prohibition, the Depression and WWII. Still, cocktail parties and cocktail hours were all the rage in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Tiki drinks flourished. By the ‘70s, beer, wine and vodka all take center stage, as cocktails are viewed derisively as part of The Establishment.
1980s: Though cocktails of this period are largely best forgotten (think Sex on the Beach and Tom Cruise bartending), we can thank the Fabulous '80s for the Single Malt. Before that, almost all Scotch whisky went into blends (still does, statistically). It was the Gordon Geckos (Wall Street) of the world who popularized 10-, 12- and 18-year single malt Scotch whisky. Greed, we guess, is good for something.
The 21st Century: We are currently enjoying the spoils of the Cocktail Renaissance. Thanks in part to TV shows like Sex and the City and Mad Men, the general public rediscovered the joys of the cocktail. More importantly, in London, New York and San Francisco, skilled bartenders were once again rediscovering the nuances of both craft and profession and the world is a better place for it.
Want to learn more? You'll find no shortage of places to learn about the history and fine technique of the cocktail, online and off. For the serious cocktail geek, consider the following books:
- David Wondrich is considered the pre-eminent cocktail historian, and his books Imbibe! and Punch! are excellent places to kick off your journey.
- The PDT Cocktail Book by Jim Meehan is as detailed as the original tomes of the 1880s and '90s (minus the paid ads), instructing you not only on a myriad of concoctions, but nearly all the details you'll need to Kickstart your own bar.
- Jeffrey Morganthaler is a bartender and blogger extraordinaire out of Portland, Oregon (he is widely credited with launching contemporary interest in barrel-aged and bottled/carbonated cocktails). He just released The Bar Book: Elements of Cocktail Techniques. Carefully toeing the line between preciously pedantic and layperson approachable, it's an excellent primer.
- When you're ready to go full savant, look for Liquid Intelligence: The Art and Science of the Perfect Cocktail by culinary instructor, bar owner and mad scientist Dave Arnold. Dive deep into gels, amalgams, clarifications, nitro muddling and all the other modern "molecular" (he hates that term) cocktail techniques (not yet released).


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TULSA, Okla. -- USC wouldn't go away and finally pulled off the upset of SMU.
The 11th-seeded Trojans erased multiple double-digit deficits on their way to a 66-65 victory over sixth-seeded SMU in the East Region on Friday at the BOK Center.
Trojans guard Elijah Stewart hit a 3-pointer from the right corner with 37 seconds left and ultimately felled the Mustangs. SMU guard Shake Milton took a running jumper in the lane with one second left but it bounced away off the rim as the buzzer sounded.
Stewart led USC (26-9) with 22 points while forwards Chimezie Metu and Bennie Boatwright each added 14.
Forward Semi Ojeleye scored 24 points to lead SMU (30-5), guard Sterling Brown added 17 and Milton had 11.
Boatwright nailed a 3-pointer from the top of the arc that gave USC its first lead of the contest with 2:03 left. But Milton, who had a pair of key 3-pointers late in the game, answered with a trey that put the Mustangs back in front.
That set up Stewart's game-winner that completed a resilient effort for the Trojans, who advance to play Baylor in the second round on Sunday.
SMU saw its 16-game winning streak snapped and failed in its attempt to notch its first NCAA Tournament victory since 1988.
USC opened the second half with a 10-2 surge to erase SMU's 38-30 halftime lead.
Metu threw down a dunk to tie it at 40 with 15:39 left. But SMU stopped the run on the other end when Ojeleye got inside for a layup and completed a three-point play.
SMU extended a double-digit lead in the first half when Ojeleye got to the basket for a layup, capping a 14-3 run that gave the Mustangs a 30-18 lead with 7:31 left in the first half.
USC punched back with a 10-2 run and cut SMU's lead to four when Stewart made a layup. But the Mustangs still led by eight at the break after holding USC to 39 percent shooting and outrebounding the Trojans 19-14 in the first half.
Ojeleye led SMU with 11 points and seven rebounds in the first 20 minutes. Stewart scored 11 in the first half to pace USC.
NOTES: USC defeated SMU earlier this season, winning 78-73 on Nov. 25 in Los Angeles. The Trojans lead their all-time series versus SMU, 5-1. ... The Mustangs' three games versus ranked opponents so far this season were all against the same team -- Cincinnati. SMU defeated the Bearcats in the AAC tournament championship game and on Feb. 25 in Dallas, and lost on Jan. 12 in Cincinnati. ... USC coach Andy Enfield is now 4-2 in the NCAA Tournament after the Trojans lost in the first round last season. Enfield led Florida Gulf Coast to the Sweet 16 in his first NCAA Tournament appearance as a coach in 2013.


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Manufacturers of cement in Kenya are racing to meet high demand of cement in the wake of many infrastructure construction projects and booming real estate industry in the country, Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has observed.
According to statistics from the (KNBS), the production of cement in Kenya last year was 5.88m tones which is a 16 per cent increase compared to the previous year.
KNBS also said that between the period of January and June; the cement in Kenya produced increased to 3.04m tones from 2.77m when compared to 2014.
High cement production has been attributed to the rising urban population, the mega infrastructure projects and the increased housing demand,KNBS noted.
“This is normal for a fast-growing economy due to infrastructure development, increased housing demand and rapid urbanization,” ARM Cement managing Director Pradeep Paunrana said.
East Africa and Kenya in particular has recorded an increased demand for cement because of the many kinds of infrastructure projects that are ongoing. Some of them include; the Standard Gauge Railway, Lamu Port South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport corridor, Terminal Four at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, and real estate ventures.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced that government entities in five jurisdictions impacted by Tropical Depression Gaston on Aug. 30 are eligible for federal disaster aid through FEMA’s Public Assistance program.
The cities of Colonial Heights and Richmond, and the counties of Chesterfield, Hanover and Henrico may receive reimbursement for eligible costs of emergency work such as traffic control and permanent work to repair damages to public facilities. Certain private nonprofit organizations also may be eligible if they provide essential government services.
FEMA will pay 75 percent of the cost, with the state and local governments providing 25 percent.
On Sept. 3, the President issued a major disaster declaration, triggering aid to renters, homeowners and businesses in the cities of Richmond, Petersburg, Colonial Heights, Hopewell, and the counties of Henrico, Hanover, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie and Prince George.
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