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Tulsa drug cartel probe shows few results yet
BY JARREL WADE World Staff Writer
Sunday, February 10, 2013
2/10/13 at 8:14 AM
Investigations into Mexican drug cartel operatives in Tulsa are active despite no major public blows to the alleged organization in almost six years of low-profile investigations, according to law enforcement officials.
Tulsa County Sheriff's Office Maj. Tom Huckaby, commander of the violent crimes unit, said his unit's investigation works alongside federal investigations by the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency.
"If you look at it like working the mob, if you don't work it right, all you're getting is little fish," Huckaby said. "We're taking our time and working all the angles."
Huckaby did not specify how many alleged cartel members are believed to operate in Tulsa.
"We have identified cartel drugs in our county, and the violent crimes task force is working cartel dope and cartel members," he said. "We are working that, and we continue to work that. ... It's an ongoing, slow process."
FBI Supervisory Special Agent Rich Davis, who oversees Tulsa's FBI office, said he can't discuss specific investigations but said his office's work involving cartel drugs and cartel influence in Tulsa is to disrupt and dismantle the trafficking over a long period of time.
"Cases like this are tough," Davis said. "Folks that are involved in this type of activity are very well-insulated. They have been through the system before. They are difficult cases. This is their job. Just like our job is to thwart that type of activity, their job is to conduct that activity. They take it seriously."
Davis said a lot of what the bureau does in these cases is build their intelligence of an organization so that they are in position to affect it.
"They are not easy cases," he said. "They are very compartmentalized organizations, and it's hard to sometimes put the big picture together. But you know, that's why we try to focus on intelligence around the cases to try and build the big picture."
Davis said he doesn't believe Tulsa is a headquarters for any specific cartel, saying there are "a lot of active investigations."
Court records filed in a recent Tulsa County District Court case involving former Tulsa Police Officer Kendra Miller give some insight into FBI investigations into several Tulsa Police officers and alleged drug trafficking starting in 2006.
The investigations involved alleged drug trafficking through Hispanic night clubs, and focused on Miller, Erik Benjamin Lujan, also known as Julio Lujan, and Arnulfo "Arnie" Murillo, a Tulsa nightclub owner, according to court records.
None of them apparently were ever charged with any crimes directly related to the extensive investigation.
However, records filed in Tulsa federal court show that Lujan was charged by a grand jury with unlawfully carrying a firearm in 2008.
Lujan pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 10 months in prison with a three-year term of supervised release, during which Lujan, an illegal immigrant, was to remain outside the United States, according to federal court documents.
Lujan was a manager at Club Imperio, 9379 E. 46th St., which was owned by Murillo. The club is now called "Haze" and is partially owned by Murillo, records show.
Club Imperio was the target of a 2011 multi-agency drug bust that was part of a then three-year FBI investigation, according to court documents.
The bust involved about 80 law enforcement officers, including the Tulsa County Sheriff's Office and the FBI.
Minor amounts of drugs were recovered compared to the size of the raid, several law enforcement officials agreed. Five men were arrested in the bust, arrest records show.
Tulsa Police Capt. Luther Breashears testified about the FBI's focus of the investigation during Miller's arbitration.
Quoting from an FBI memo, Breashears said the "criminal corruption case" involved Murillo, Lujan, Miller, "someone who is redacted, police corruption in the Tulsa Police Department" and CSLPO - an FBI case-type acronym for Corruption of State and Local Public Officials, Davis confirmed.
In the memo quoted by Breashears, former Tulsa Police Chief Ron Palmer signed consent forms "authorizing the placement of recording devices ... and transmitters inside of the police vehicles of Kendra Miller, John McDowell, (Stephen) Boyes and Thomas Fees."
None of the officers named in the arbitration hearing show any criminal charges against them related to the FBI's investigation.
Miller was fired from TPD in December 2009 for policy violations related to an internal affairs investigation and the inconclusive results of the FBI investigation.
McDowell and Fees are former Tulsa Police officers. Boyes is currently a Tulsa Police sergeant working in the department's Mingo Valley Division.
Boyes could not be reached for comment.
Fees resigned from Tulsa Police in 2010 after he was placed on administrative leave and charged with feloniously pointing a weapon and carrying a firearm while under the influence at a Tulsa bar.
Fees later pleaded guilty to two firearms charges and received a three-year deferred sentence, court records show.
Breashears, in his testimony during Miller's arbitration hearing, said Fees resigned as part of a plea agreement with the Tulsa County District Attorney's office in his criminal case.
"The District Attorney's Office will put conditions on our employees and have recently - as to their cooperation or a plea bargaining agreement for punishment through the court that they will resign from the department, basically getting out of law enforcement as part of their plea agreement, which happened recently with Officer Tom Fees," Breashears said.
McDowell, formerly a sergeant, was terminated in October 2011, according to TPD records.
An internal affairs investigation found he violated seven policies and rules, according to a TPD personnel order.
McDowell was the ranking police officer during an FBI sting in May 2009 at a local motel, but the termination was not related to that incident, according to the order.
At the sting, an undercover FBI agent posed as a Mexican drug dealer staying at the motel with large amounts of cash and possibly drugs, according to court records.
The FBI sting played a large role in the federal investigation and grand jury probe in 2008 that resulted in charges against six former Tulsa police officers and a federal agent, as well as accusations of criminal behavior against five unindicted officers.
McDowell was not indicted in that case.
Records from Miller's arbitration identify McDowell as a security officer at Club Imperio, working a second job in addition to working for TPD.
According to arbitration records, the FBI met with Miller nearly two years after they began the inconclusive investigation into her and alleged drug trafficking at Club Imperio.
As previously reported in the World, Miller had a romantic relationship with Lujan and was often at Club Imperio both on and off duty, according to court records.
In a Tulsa World interview with Miller in September, Miller said that when the FBI met with her and confronted her with the inconclusive investigation, they offered her immunity from the allegations to work for them in an undercover role.
Miller said she recorded the conversations but would not allow the World access to the recordings at that time.
Miller also would not say whether she participated in the FBI's investigation.
"I believe that's why I was terminated," Miller said. "Because I have evidence of crimes."
FBI Agent David Clarke, FBI Agent Lance Rollins and former Tulsa Police Sgt. David Brockman were at the meeting to ask her to go undercover with the promise of immunity, according to testimony in Miller's arbitration.
"They wanted me to go into the club and commit crimes," she said. "They wanted me to accept bribes. They wanted me to perjure myself. They wanted me to do things that are not only unethical but illegal, too."
When Miller asked them for the offer in writing, she said they refused.
"There are drugs in every Tulsa club, whether the manager or owner has" knowledge of it or not, Miller said when asked if she knew about the alleged drug ring being investigated.
Miller's termination in 2009 involved violations allegedly committed during the nearly two-year FBI investigation and Internal Affairs investigation before she met with the investigators, according to court records.
At her arbitration hearing, former Tulsa Police Chief Ron Palmer testified that he never authorized "administrative immunity" for Miller and that if "administrative immunity" exists, it could only be granted by the Tulsa mayor.
Other FBI tactics reported in Miller's testimony involve informants who allegedly sold drugs outside Club Imperio and references to many low-level arrests and charges.
Davis said the police corruption cases largely don't factor into the processes of their investigations.
"It's not just been a problem here," he said. "There's definitely some individuals who were highlighted in the past, but every agency here is very conscientious about the job that they do, and if they sense a problem in their ranks, I know that they are going to take care of it immediately."
Oklahoma meth traffic
Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics spokesman Mark Woodward said most of the meth in Oklahoma comes from Mexican cartels with a minority of cases coming from local meth labs.
"Just about every case that involves meth right now - other than meth labs - involves cartel," Woodward said. "They have operatives here. They (the operatives) get their portion of the shipments."
The portions are then divided up locally to dealers and gangs who do business with the operatives, he said.
"We call them cell groups," Woodward said. "They aren't cartel members, but they work with the cartel."
Woodward called Oklahoma "prime real estate for cartel activity" because once the drugs make it across the border states, they are more easily able to ship west toward California on Interstate 40 and east toward Chicago and the coast on Interstate 44.
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Happens with every premature weapon switch or if I deal the last blow to the monster.
Happens a lot. I have to switch weapon for it to stop the sound
I concur. I’ve had this happen quite often as well, annoying as hell lol
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On a night when the lights went out on campus, Syracuse brought all the power against Clemson.
During the evening, about 7,000 people, many of whom are students, were part of an extensive blackout. But the Orange lit up the Carrier Dome, using an 18-0 run late in the second half to come back.
Briana Day started the drive with 7:13 left, when the Orange trailed 64-58. She posted up her defender and hit a turnaround jumper, 12 feet from the basket. A minute later, Brianna Butler found her fellow sophomore, Brittney Sykes, cutting to the hoop. Sykes drove left, scored and drew a foul. Her three point play got the Orange within one. Then Butler, the nation's leader in three pointers made, added another one to retake the lead.
"Going into the second half, we were more aggressive," Butler said. "We were able to get our traps. We were able to make Clemson get out of their element and were able to get them to turn the ball over."
After a see-saw second half, all the bounces suddenly seemed to be going Syracuse's way. When Rachel Coffey finished the scoring streak by hitting a three at the 4:33 mark, the Orange held a definitive 76-64 lead.
"We did a really good job at just getting into our pressure and being aggressive," Quentin Hillsman said. "I thought that during that stretch, Taylor Ford was tremendous on the offensive glass. She had four or five put-backs pretty much in six possession and that was the difference in the game."
Up to that point, the sharpshooting Tigers stymied the Orange. Whether it was from deep, at the elbow or inside, the Clemson offense executed with absolute efficiency early on. The Tigers passed the ball extremely well, causing confusion for Coach Q. It was only the team's second time against the Orange 2-3 zone, but they looked unfazed. In the first half, Clemson went 63 percent from three, almost double its season average.
Fortunately for Syracuse, the Orange was able to dominate on the glass from the start. In the first half, Syracuse had a 13-1 advantage in offensive rebounds. Leading the way in that department was Shakeya Leary (5) and Taylor Ford (4).
"It wasn’t any scheme," Hillsman said. "I just told them that we have to go get the ball. If the ball is on the glass, we all have to crash. We can’t watch."
Syracuse scored 15 of its 25 second-chance points in the first half. The offensive rebounding also significantly limited Clemson's possessions.
Even so, the Tigers made the most of their opportunities seemingly every time they had the ball. Clemson started the game 4-4 from behind-the-arc.
As a result, the Orange went to intermission trailing, 45-42.
"At halftime, there were no adjustments made," Quentin Hillsman said. "I just told them, ‘This ain’t about basketball right now. It’s about your heart and your guts and about you being a team, about you wanting to win this basketball game’".
Sykes entered the game 10th in the ACC in scoring at 17.0 points per game. At halftime, she only totaled three points. And she knew she would have to lead the charge for the Orange to have a chance.
"Coach got on me," Sykes said. "My team definitely got on me about scoring low in the first half and getting it going late because there’s going to be games where it’s going to be too late for me to score."
Sykes scored six of her team's first eight points in the second half. She helped the Orange go back ahead, but it wasn't for long. The Orange and Tigers traded the lead back-and-forth a few times, until Syracuse finally delivered its thrashing scoring run.
Ford had a team-high 19 points and eclipsed her previous career-high of 13. Almost as important, she had eight total offensive rebounds.
"I do whatever I can to make my team win so if I have to crash the board every time and get rebounds, that’s what I’m going to do," she said.
Behind Ford, Sykes had 15 points in the half and finished the game with a respectable scoring line: 18 points, five rebounds and three assists. Also scoring in double-digits were Butler (16) and Leary (11).
Around 9:15, Syracuse University announced that power was finally coming back on around campus. Almost simultaneously, the same was happening for the Orange defense, sleepy for much of the game.
Said Butler, "In the second half, we came out with a little bit more energy. In the first half we lacked that energy."


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Taiwan’s stock market and financial markets will be closed Monday and Tuesday for the Children’s Day and Tombsweeping Day holidays.
Markets will reopen on Wednesday, April 5.
All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays.
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According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 70% of contractors believe advanced technologies can increase their productivity. 56% of businesses plan to increase their technology spend in 2021 (SpiceWorks). Among these, 38% attribute the increase to changes in their business operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while 36% say the increase will be needed to support their remote workforce during the ongoing crisis.
Automation through technology is expected to have the biggest overall impact on organizations related to other technology impact. This certainly includes contractors, and within 10 years full scale digitization across the construction industry is expected to yield savings of 13% – 21% (World Economic Forum). Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a good example, and adoption of AI powered technologies is expected to nearly triple, enabling companies to process large amounts of information quickly and more accurately. For the construction industry alone, AI has the potential to increase profits 71% by 2035 (Accenture).
Historically, the construction industry’s adoption of technology has lagged compared to other industries. For example, in 2012 only 16% of contractors were using cloud-based technology, but today nearly 85% have adopted cloud-based technology or plan to in the near future.
As a result of the COVID-19 crisis, an area of increased focus for automation is the importance of identifying ways to change and improve internal accounting/finance and technology systems that make businesses work.
The New Normal
Following the emergence of COVID-19 in the United States, contractors were forced to quickly move their finance and accounting departments to a virtual environment. This increased the importance of accurate data input in their systems from daily transactions. As many companies were forced to rapidly decrease overhead, finding ways to function more efficiently became paramount and the adoption of technology shifted from optional to essential. Studies have shown that almost 75% of accounting and related business tasks can be automated with the use of technology. Software developers have risen to the challenge and new applications have rapidly emerged, many of which are specifically designed for contractors.
Software Considerations: More is Not Always the Answer
Purchasing a new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) application may not be in your budget right now, and it may or may not be the best solution for your company. First, make sure you are fully utilizing the technology you are already paying for. Reach out to your ERP software expert for an assessment of your use of the current system vs. what the system has to offer. There are increasing numbers of high-quality third- party applications that can be integrated with your current ERP to provide extended features and functions you may need. For example, more in- depth and flexible job/project costing applications allow for real time changes to the calculation of job profitability, better time management for projects, and flexibility in communication between your team and customers. Third party applications typically tend to have a minimal or no upfront license fee but rather a monthly subscription fee.
Replacing, updating, or restructuring systems is no small task and requires an investment of time and capital from the company. Calculating the ROI on this investment is important, but it may not always be a monetary ROI. Examples of non-monetary ROI can be improved accuracy, the ability to quickly scale changes, real-time access to information for important business decisions, and improved business analytics. These investments can range from larger amounts for complete ERP implementations to a more manageable ongoing monthly fee for third party applications.
Benefits to Technology Adoption or Upgrading Your Current Systems
Now more than ever it is important to assess what you have in place and gaps that may exist related to technology. Identifying gaps in systems and processes has allowed companies to focus on ways to improve for the future. Long-term efficiencies gained will pay dividends for many years to come. Listed below are key areas of benefit:
- Improved business efficiencies
- Increased profitability
- Cost reductions
- New business insights
- Product and/or service differentiation
- Business process automation
- Increased market share
That said, not all improvements need to be overly expensive. Rather, sometimes it can simply be a change in processes or additional training to better use the systems you already have in place. Talk to your team members and primary users of your systems to find out where their pain points are, and then create your company’s action plan. Many times, the solution to a problem is closer than you think and may not always be a technology change. Some common, non-monetary, changes accounting departments can make are:
- Realigning assignment of responsibilities from a variety of tasks across the company to specific functions by person
- Standardizing month-end closing procedures
- Redesign of your profit center structure or maybe put one in place (if you could break your company into different profit centers what would they be?)
- Clean up your customer/job listing and/or take advantage of additional tracking allowed in your current system for better management reporting
- Change the way you route documents (especially paper documents) at your company to improve efficiencies and decrease duplicative entries
Challenges of Technology Adoption
As with any change you make in your company, there will be challenges to consider and barriers you may face to the success of the project. Carefully considering available resources for each of the challenges below as you build your plan will be important:
- Unproven business case
- Technology complexity
- Regulatory compliance
- Legacy technologies
- Lack of capital to fund investment
- Limited experience to interpret data into valuable insights
Key Areas for Consideration
Questions to ask yourself and seek out answers for as you navigate these opportunities are:
- How do we secure our systems, become more efficient and utilize available technology to adapt to new ways of working?
- Are we fully utilizing technology we have already purchased?
- Are current workflows causing duplication of efforts by our team?
- Do we need to revisit now that we have modified our work methods?
- Have we outlined workflows and processes to better utilize team members?
- Before we hire additional team members to process transactions/information etc. can we automate the process?
- How can our company utilize the power of AI and ML (machine learning)?
- Do we have systems that are not integrated but collect similar data?
- Will our systems delay the ability to respond quickly to a shift in material procurement processes, customized estimating to meet customer requirements or additional financial reporting?
Taking a phased approach to your next system (people, processes and technology) implementation will allow you to navigate through this process and develop a plan that will be successful:
- Assess: Evaluate current state of IT and business processes. Define target state solution requirements.
- Select: Assess and demo select ERP solutions/3rd party applications, perform fit gap analysis, and select platform to deploy.
- Deploy: Design, build, and test selected ERP solution. Train users and roll-out solution.
- Support: Provide both heightened post go-live support as well as transition to business-as-usual maintenance.
We Can Help
If you don’t have a project manager to implement new or improved processes and technology, engage with advisors who can do this for you. By taking action, companies are not only recognizing the need for change, they are embracing the challenge and keeping up with the fast pace of today’s world. If you need assistance, reach out to Denise Bailey.
Originally published as Driving Productivity Through Systems as part of the Catalyst Risk Partners Construction Journal 2020.
The information provided in this communication is of a general nature and should not be considered professional advice. You should not act upon the information provided without obtaining specific professional advice. The information above is subject to change.


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Throughout the time that Joe Biden has run for office in the 2020 presidential election, the stain of socialism is one that he hasn’t managed to remove.
The facade of being a moderate Democrat simply doesn’t align with the policies that Biden has chosen to adopt; in fact, the former vice president has repeatedly moved further to the left in order to appease the growing number of radicals within his own party.
However, it appears as though Joe Biden doesn’t want the nation to think of him as a radical socialist. On Monday, the former vice president threw Bernie Sanders under the bus, professing during an interview that he “beat the socialist,” notes Washington Examiner.
Some pundits believe this move could backfire on Biden within his own party and dissuade Sanders’ supporters from voting for him.
The Struggle to Escape the Socialist Left
Earlier this week, the former vice president engaged in an interview with an affiliate for Fox while campaigning in Wisconsin. During the socially distanced interview, Biden faced a question about the widespread notion that his campaign is merely a trojan horse for socialism.
Here’s @JoeBiden dissing Sanders & confirming (in case you didn’t know) that his record is not left, saying he, “beat the socialist!” This, after Sanders has campaigned extensively for him. Surely that will convince Sanders supporters to vote for him. pic.twitter.com/9R495iergO
— Fiorella Isabel (@Fiorella_im) September 23, 2020
Biden firmly denounced this notion, even professing that he “beat the socialist.” The 2020 Democrat nominee then went on to state that he’s “never broken [his] word” and won’t raise taxes on individuals earning less than $400,000 annually.
The former vice president then encouraged his critics to observe his political career as proof that he’s “not” a socialist.
The Unintended Blowback
In Biden’s haste to prove that he’s not a socialist, his remarks offended certain Democrats…and socialists.
Many leftists have noted the extent to which Bernie Sanders has campaigned on behalf of Biden. While the 2020 Democrat boldly claims that he “beat the socialist,” the same socialist has still significantly impacted the policies that he’s committed to enacting upon winning the 2020 election.
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— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 23, 2020
Likewise, Biden’s “I beat the socialist” line is already causing socialists within the Democrat Party to take umbrage. As a matter of fact, Democrats have become openly more radical, fringe, and socialist; talks of “burning it all down” and ripping down U.S. monuments are increasing in popularity among the Democrat Party.
Despite Biden’s claims on Monday, many Americans still believe Biden remains under the thumb of socialist handlers. He did, after all, receive an endorsement from the Communist Party in America.
Do you believe that Joe Biden is a socialist in moderate’s clothing? How will Sanders’ supporters react to Biden’s latest statement? Let us know down below in the comments section.

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Time for responsible action on Jacksonville pension reform
The time has come for city leaders to put politics aside and seek agreement on a long-term solution to Jacksonville's pension problems.
In the wake of the City's Council's rejection of Mayor Alvin Brown's pension reform plan, it is clear that achieving consensus on a necessarily grand solution will require bringing together contentious factions and other interested parties.
The group needs to be large enough that no faction is tempted to claim credit for its work. In other words, what's needed is a team working for the greater good.
First, it will be helpful to understand that the major problem is not the level of benefits for current employees or matters in a federal lawsuit.
The real issue is an unfunded liability of between $1.4 and $1.7 billion for the Police and Fire Pension Fund and an additional nearly $1 billion for the city's General Employees Retirement Plan.
Think of it as a $2.5 billion problem.
The interest on those debts will be easily the largest part of the annual pension costs in the near future.
Reducing that cost will require a combination of steps likely including increased tax revenue, selling unused city assets, increasing contributions from employees and perhaps issuing bonds to take advantage of low interest rates.
How process could work
So how do we reach a grand bargain?
The mayor's Task Force on Retirement Reform, which was formed to review his plan and make recommendations, was short-circuited after only one meeting when the council voted down Brown's plan.
Nonetheless, the 11-member task force headed by attorney Bill Scheu could be expanded to include appointees by the City Council and other stakeholders, such as the Jacksonville Civic Council, Concerned Taxpayers of Duval County, the unions and others.
A more likely and appropriate moderator in the search for consensus would be the Jacksonville Community Council, which has a demonstrated record of getting results. JCCI also has the benefit of having studied the pension issues and having developed a wealth of data and expertise on the subject.
In fact, JCCI studies have been warning for years about the need for major steps to address pension issues. And after Brown was elected, his transition team relied heavily on JCCI's work to identify pension reform steps as a high priority for his administration.
We don't need another study. All of the data is available or within easy access to make concrete decisions.
What will be needed is courage to recognize hard realities and accept a balanced approach to paying the bills.
Facing hard facts
Hard realities almost certainly will require an increase in taxes or fees dedicated to paying down the unfunded liabilities over perhaps up to 20 years. That's according to JCCI, the Civic Council and others who have studied the city's pension problems.
At issue in federal court is the validity of a 30-year agreement that allowed the city and the unions to sidestep collective bargaining for pension benefits until 2030.
In an unusual arrangement, while wages are bargained with unions, pension benefits have been negotiated with the Police and Fire Pension Fund, which isn't a collective bargaining agent.
Regardless of whether the 30-year agreement is nullified, the unfunded pension liability must be dealt with.
By raising the allowable millage rate cap sufficiently to cover next year's budget shortfall for now, the council wisely eliminated the need for a short-sighted pension solution under pressure of writing the budget, which is due by Oct. 1.
With the time pressure eased, the Mayor's Office can best recover from its setback this week by initiating a more inclusive approach to creating a solution.
Brown gets credit for taking on the pension issues; the test of his leadership will be in how well he handles the next steps.
The mayor should ask JCCI to convene a group to pull the stakeholders together in search of a solution.
Or he could ask JCCI to facilitate the expansion of the 11-member retirement task force and ensure it has the appropriate stakeholders, including representatives from the Civic Council, Chamber of Commerce and others who must be an essential part of a meaningful solution.
The pursuit of consensus must also be accomplished in the Sunshine in an open and transparent process, which will better enable a solution to garner public support.
After all, once agreement is reached on the approach, it will require strong support of broad-based community leaders to sell it to taxpayers and see it through.
Unions need to accept the fact that only they should collectively bargain benefits. We must end this charade of creating pension deals and saying they technically aren't collective bargaining.
Because it was done improperly doesn't make it right.
The time is now to finally do the right thing.


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Mudano worked with Lloyd’s Register, one of the world’s leading Business Assurance and Inspection services providers at the beginning of their digital transformation to bring a data-informed approach to margin improvement.
Lloyd’s Register had recently implemented several new systems including a suite of accounting tools. These systems were implemented through large multi-year programmes which rolled out functionality globally to more than 100 business units in waves.
The business wanted to capitalise on these enhancements and look to better utilise these systems to improve their margins.
They saw data as the asset with which to improve their financials and act as a springboard to launch a wider data strategy initiative and asked Mudano to be their strategic partner in delivering this vital first stage.
The Mudano team on the ground documented and proved there were significant opportunities in their operating model that would improve margin, identifying a gap between sales and delivery of £6.8m a year globally.
Mudano was able to demonstrate to the board in 6 weeks the significant opportunities and immediate revenue recovery. The board has now been able to define improvement initiatives and have a deeper insight into margin improvement.
Mudano instigated an iterative and agile deep-dive into Lloyd’s Register’s internal data landscape. In just six weeks, the team identified significant improvement opportunities and generated immediate revenue recovery.
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The team performed a rapid assessment over three weeks to understand the operating model. We fixed the scope on defined scenarios and used a data-led approach to trace the data flow through business process, technical landscape, MI and reconciliation.
Over the following three weeks the team further developed a rapid prototype which performed reconciliations between systems to identify where there was revenue leakage. Results were analysed with SMEs and reason codes defined. The prototype was then used by operational teams.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took a detailed review of the current status of India’s efforts in vaccine development, drug discovery, diagnosis and testing with regards to COVID-19. The respiratory disease caused by the novel Coronavirus has so far infected over 46,000 people in India and over 3.5 million worldwide. It has also killed over a lakh people in the world.
Indian vaccine companies are well known for their quality, manufacturing capacity and global presence and have come across as innovators in early-stage vaccine development research. Over 30 Indian vaccine companies are in different stages of coronavirus vaccine development, with a few going on to the trial stages.
In a statement, the government said three approaches are being taken in drug development. First, the repurposing of existing drugs. At least four drugs are undergoing synthesis and examination in this category. Secondly, the development of new candidate drugs and molecules are being driven by linking high performance computational approached with laboratory verification. Thirdly, plant extracts and products are being examined for general anti-viral properties.
In diagnosis and testing, several academic research institutions and start-ups have developed new tests, both for the RT-PCR approach and for antibody detection. In addition, by linking laboratories all over the country, capacity for both these kinds of tests have been enormously scaled up. The problem of importing reagents for testing has been addressed by the consortia of Indian startups and industry, meeting current requirements. The current thrust also holds promise for the development of a robust long-term industry in this area.
The review by the PM Modi took note of the extraordinary coming together of academia, industry and government, combined with the speedy but efficient regulatory process, the statement said. The PM desired that such coordination and speed should be embedded into a standard operating procedure.
He emphasized that what is possible in a crisis should be a part of our routine way of scientific functioning. Appreciating the scientific coming together of computer science, chemistry and biotechnology in drug discovery, the PM suggested that a hackathon be held on this subject, linking computer science to synthesis and testing in the laboratory.
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When "Pitch Perfect 2" broke hella box office bank last month, you had to figure that Universal Pictures would want to bring the Barden Bellas back -- and as of today (June 10), MTV News is thrilled to report that you were right, pitches!
The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Kay Cannon, who wrote the first two films, is already on board for a "PP3." However, no cast or director -- this time around, Elizabeth Banks did both -- has been revealed as of press time.
On that topic, THR also reports that Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson made $2 million each for "Pitch Perfect 2," which cost $29 million to make -- so if either of them were to come back, they'd cost a pretty penny. However, the popular assumption seems to be that Kendrick, who has blown up in Hollywood at this point, is done with the franchise... and the addition of Hailee Steinfeld as a new, freshman Bella definitely lent itself to that particular theory.
So who knows -- no one is in just yet, but no one has slept with a Treble and gotten themselves kicked out, either. Our money would be on Wilson and Steinfeld returning and Kendrick leaving, with Banks and second-tier stars like Brittany Snow and Sklyar Astin as the wild cards.
And as for the plot of the film, well, just let the cast explain it to you:


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On July 2, 2012, the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission announced the scheduling of an open meeting for August 22, 2012, for the purpose of adopting final rules regarding disclosure and reporting obligations with respect to (i) the use of conflict minerals and (ii) payments to governments made by resource extraction issuers, both as mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act (Sections 1502 and 1501, respectively). At the same meeting, the SEC plans to consider rules eliminating the prohibition against general solicitation and general advertising in securities offerings conducted pursuant to Rule 506 of Regulation D and Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as mandated by Section 201(a) of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act). The open meeting notice is available at this link: http://sec.gov/news/openmeetings/2012/ssamtg082212.htm. For a discussion of the JOBS Act’s impact on the general solicitation rules, see Catherine T. Dixon, “Title II of the JOBS Act: Are Reports of the Death of General Solicitation Premature?”, Insights (June 2012).
The SEC has adopted rules requiring disclosure of compensation consultant conflicts of interest and directing the NYSE and Nasdaq to propose standards relating to the independence of compensation committees and evaluation of adviser independence. The disclosure rule applies to proxy statements in connection with an annual or special meeting to be held for the election of directors on or after January 1, 2013. The exchanges must propose their independence standards by September 25, 2012; whether they will be in effect for the 2013 proxy season is not yet clear. The new rules were adopted substantially as proposed in March 2011. We discuss in this alert, the new rules and certain actions that should be taken now to prepare.
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On April 5, 2012, President Obama signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the JOBS Act). The new legislation enlarges the menu of choices that private companies will have to raise capital while also reducing the burdens on “emerging growth companies” that ultimately resort to the public markets. It also offers benefits for private investment funds. Many aspects of the JOBS Act are effective immediately; others require rulemaking by the SEC, generally on an expedited basis.
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Click here for a PDF of the related article A SIFI in Three Easy Steps? FSOC Approves Final Rule for Nonbank SIFI Designations appearing in The Banking Law Journal, May 2012
On April 3, 2012, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (“FSOC”) voted to approve its long-awaited Final Rule implementing Section 113 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the controversial provision that directs the federal government to identify systemically important financial institutions (“SIFIs”) outside the traditional banking sector that could pose a threat to the U.S. financial system. Once designated by a two-thirds majority of the FSOC (including an affirmative vote of the Treasury Secretary), each “nonbank financial company,” often referred to in short-hand as a “nonbank SIFI,” would be placed under Federal Reserve Board (“Fed”) supervision, as well as become subject to a host of enhanced prudential measures—including capital, liquidity, leverage, stress testing, resolution planning, and risk management requirements. The FSOC’s recent approval of the Final Rule—as well as its accompanying interpretive Guidance—marks the start of an important first step in the application of enhanced SIFI regulation beyond large bank holding companies with assets of $50 billion or greater.
The FSOC issued its Final Rule following consideration of over forty public comments to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposed Rule”), released in October, 2011.
The Final Rule establishes a three-step process comprising three individual “stages” by which the FSOC will apply two “Determination Standards” (one based on actual or potential material financial distress and the other based on the nature, scope, size, scale, concentration, interconnectedness or mix of activities) to analyze whether a company may pose a threat to the financial stability of the U.S., along with a six-category analytic framework to determine whether a company should be deemed a nonbank SIFI. In an effort to increase the transparency of the process, the FSOC issued accompanying Guidance providing additional [click to continue…]
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Weil partner Walter Zalenski will speak on the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), established by the Dodd-Frank Reform Act, at the Risk Management Association’s 6th Annual Governance, Compliance, and Operational Risk Conference (GCOR VI), to be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 25-26, 2012.
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I am initiating a new series of posts here at FinancialAidFinder on how to reduce the cost of college. According to the College Board, the average in-state Bachelor’s degree will run you around $50,000 today. That figure covers tuition, room and board.
The average American family earns $50,000 a year, so cash flowing that kind of money is absolutely impossible. That’s why I’m launching this new series. I’ll be looking at creative or non-traditional ways to reduce the cost of college and make it more affordable for more Americans.
This week I am looking at a new trend among some colleges: the 3-year degree. The topic of three-year degrees has recently come into vogue, causing a great deal of debate among college administrators and educators.
Setting aside the potential academic and social cost of cutting a year off your degree, there is no doubt that graduating in three years vs. four (or more realistically, five to six years, as is the average, according to the College Board) will save you thousands of dollars. After all, one-forth of $50,000 is $12,500.
The good news is that you don’t need to attend a college that awards three-year degrees to graduate in three years. You can do it all on your own. Just check with your registrar’s office to make sure they don’t have a policy against “early graduation.” (Such policies are rare these days, but if your school does prohibit graduating in less than eight semesters, you can petition the policy on the grounds of your financial situation.)
So, assuming your school is on-board, how do you manage to cut down 25% of the time to graduation? Here are three suggestions:
Double up on courses. Instead of taking four classes a semester, take five or six. If the average Bachelor’s degree requires 36 classes for graduation, you can accomplish this by taking four semesters of five classes, and two semesters of six.
Take summer classes. You can enroll in a class or two every summer session and greatly reduce your course work burden during the year. Even if you don’t spend the summer in the same town as your school, you can still take classes at the local community college and transfer in the credits. (In fact, this is a great way to further reduce the cost of school, since the per-hour fee at a 2-year college is much less than at a 4-year school.)
Take AP classes in high school. Many colleges award you credit for AP classes, which can bump up your standing a semester or even two. If you start out your freshman year with sophomore year standing, you are already on track for a three-year degree.
Are you working on the less-than-four-years-to-graduation time frame? What’s your plan for achieving that goal?
To learn more about the growing three-year trend, see this recent article from the USA Today.

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Been on holiday, Björn? Tennis ace shows off a VERY deep tan as he takes in the action from the royal box at Wimbledon
- The former World Number 1 appeared to be sporting a deep tan at Wimbledon
- The athlete, 62, has been enjoying the Swedish summer with his family
- Eleven-time Grand Slam winner splits time between Stockholm and Cape Verde
Tennis ace Björn Borg is making waves at Wimbledon a- but it's not his powerful backhand stroke that 's stealing headlines.
The former World Number 1 appeared to be sporting a deep mahogany sun tan as he took his seat in the royal box alongside wife Patricia Östfeld, 42 years after his first Wimbledon men's title.
The athlete, 62, has been making the most of a rare Swedish heatwave this summer with family according to Patricia's Instagram account.
The eleven-time Grand Slam winner, a father-of-two, splits his time between Stockholm and Cape Verde with third wife Patricia.
Been on holiday? Björn Borg appeared to be sporting a deep tan as he took his seat in the royal box (left), a far cry from his fairer complexion three years ago (right)
He is no stranger to SW19, having won five consecutive Grand Slam titles in the late seventies and early eighties.
Borg is also a regular fixture in the royal box, and has been spotted among the spectators every year since 2015.
Once dubbed the 'rock star of tennis' and 'the ice man' thanks to his cool demeanour, his rakish looks attracted a lot of attention from female fans at the height of his career.
He was previously married to childhood sweetheart, tennis player Mariana Simionescu, fathered a child with Jannike Bjorling, who he met while judging a wet T-shirt competition, and then married Loredana Berte, an Italian glamour model.
The tennis champ is no stranger to SW19, having won five consecutive Grand Slam titles in the late seventies and early eighties (pictured here in 1979)
Borg is a regular fixture in the royal box, and has been spotted among the spectators every year since 2015 (pictured here in 2016, with wife Patricia and sat near Sadiq Khan)
Seventies heartthrob: Dubbed the 'rock star of tennis' and 'the ice man' thanks to his cool demeanour, his rakish looks attracted a lot of attention from women in the height of his career
But he appears to be happily settled with Patricia, whose Instagram bio describes the Borgs as 'one happy family'.
It was 1976 when Borg won his first Wimbledon men's title, aged 20, to start a run of five wins in a row that would turn him into a bonafide tennis legend.
The retired athlete is a close friend of Boris Becker and holidayed with his family in Ibiza last summer.
After a spate of ill-fated business ventures, he now runs his own underwear line - modelled by Made in Chelsea star Josh 'JP' Patterson.
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D.A. Powell reads poetry from his new book Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys at City Lights Bookstore, Thursday, March 15, at 7pm.
In his new collection and fifth book of poetry, the formalist poet explores questions of youth and desire and takes a look backward in tackling the beauty and tragedy of boyhood.
Reviewers of Powell’s new work have noted the liveliness of his line and his conversational tone that wryly questions didacticism. Also remarked upon is his liberal use of plant metaphors as euphemism for sex and beautiful lyricism tinged with darker undertones.
The poetry reading, which begins at 7 pm, will be free to the public.

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SHOWERS FORCE JUNE 2 CANCELATION
VERNON, NY – Tonight’s Friendly Family of Dealerships of Hamilton & Geneva program has been canceled due a strong chance of showers during race time.
A pop-up storm is scheduled to hit the racing area between the 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. time frame, forcing speedway officials to nix the Friday night program.
Racing resumes next Friday June 9, when A-Verdi Storage Containers presents the first appearance for the CRSA 305 Sprint Cars of the 2023 season.
The 3 Bastards Brewing Modifieds, Worthington Industries Crate 602 Sportsman, Next Generation Graphix Pro Stocks, Fastline Performance Limited Sportsman, and Fonda Fair Four Cylinders round out the racing program.
Gates open at 5 p.m., with hot laps at 6:45 p.m. and racing at 7:30 p.m.
Grandstand admission is $18 for Adults, $16 for Seniors (ages 65 and up), with Kids 11 and under admitted FREE. Pit admission is $40 (ages 13 and up), $35 (NASCAR or Utica-Rome Members), $10 Kids (ages 6-12) and $2 for Children ages 5 and under.
The event – and all Utica-Rome 2023 races – will be broadcast live on FloRacing (www.floracing.tv) as part of the $150 annual subscription.
Utica-Rome Speedway is located at 5591 NY-5 (Seneca Turnpike) Vernon, NY 13476. The official website is www.uticaromespeedway.com and the speedway can be reached by phone at 315.953.4097. Like Utica-Rome Speedway on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @UR_Speedway.

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I very literally went through 7 versions of this recipe, and everyone that breezed through that week was stuffed with chocolate. I think that this final version had just the right amount of chewy fudginess in the center. The top still had that flakiness, and the toasted walnuts were the perfect balance to the sweetness. As I mention in all of these chocolate recipes, the chocolate or coco that you use is a big part of the recipe. This is an area where high quality ingredients will really make a difference in the flavor.
-8 oz high quality bittersweet chocolate (I prefer chocolate with 60-70% coco), finely chopped
-1 cup, plus 2 Tbs soft unsalted butter
-3 cups white sugar
-1 Tbs Vanilla
-4 Large eggs
-1 1/3 cups AP flour
-6 Tbs unsweetened coco powder
(My favorite brand is Valhrona 100% Cacao- it is the most beautiful dark red color, and has the best flavor)
-2 cups lightly toasted walnuts
-1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1) Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2) Take a 12×16″ sheet pan, (a cookie pan with sides) and put a sheet of parchment paper down on the bottom of the pan. I then spray the top of the parchment, and the sides of the pan with non-stick baking spray.
3) Take the chopped chocolate and place it in a double boiler, or a glass bowl placed over a saucepan of water.
4) Heat the water to a simmer, and let the steam gently melt the chocolate. Frequently whisk the chocolate until it is smooth. Remove the chocolate from the heat and set aside to cool.
5) In a large bowl, using an electric mixer, whip the butter, vanilla and sugar until it is light and fluffy. Beat the eggs in one at a time, until they are completely mixed in, then slowly beat in the cooled melted chocolate.
6) Sift the flour and coco together, and then slowly add it to the batter, mixing in until it is just combined.
7) Add the walnuts and the chocolate chips, and fold them in with a spatula or spoon.
8) Transfer the batter to the prepared pan, and spread evenly to the edges.
9) Bake the brownies for about 25 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Do not over bake!
10) When the brownies are finished, let them cool completely before cutting into them for the cleanest cut.
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2014 Henry Handel Richardson Writing Competition
To celebrate Richardson and her work the Henry Handel Richardson Society of Australia launches the 2014 Writing Competition, sponsored by Text Publishing.
Judge: Helen Garner
Winners will be announced at The Wheeler Centre, November 9, 2014
Clive Probyn, President of the Society and world expert on Richardson will deliver an address on Richardson’s work at this event.
Story/Essay (may be fiction, memoir, personal essay or essay): up to 5000 words. Open to anyone over the age of 18 years. Overseas entries welcome. As the Society aims to stimulate enjoyment, study and general interest in Richardson’s work, any links to her and/or her work in entries are welcome but not mandatory.
First Prize: $1500, plus $400 in books from Text Publishing
Second Prize: $500, plus $200 in books from Text Publishing
Third Prize: $250, plus $150 in books from Text Publishing
Congratulations to the twelve short-listed entries (see below) chosen from the in excess of four hundred entries received in this year’s competition. The standard of entries received was generally high.
The announcement of winners and prize-giving ceremony will be held at the Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne on Sunday November 9, commencing at 2.30pm. Competition judge Helen Garner, will discuss the entries and announce the winners. Society Chairman Clive Probyn will also talk about the evolution of his interest in Henry Handel Richardson. We’d love to see you there and if you do intend joining us on that day please let us know by the end of October. Email Graeme Charles – firstname.lastname@example.org or email@example.com
The short-listed entries are:
‘Parrot’ - Annette Trevitt
‘What I Wished’ - Rebekah Clarkson
‘The Flamingos’ - Melanie Kinsman
‘Metaphor as Illness’ - Hugh Kiernan
‘Loving It’ - Rose Allan
‘The Getting of My Father’s Wisdom’ - Cath James
‘Frangipani Kisses’ - Cheryl Hayden
‘Nosebleed’ - Melanie Napthine
‘A Lovely Afternoon’ - Stephanie Buckle
‘Pressure Okay’ - Jennifer Down
‘H’ - Ann-Marie Priest
‘Perhaps if She Had Never Been Your Friend’ - Sylvia Martin
The Society wishes to thank all those who entered this year’s competition and looks forward to receiving more of your entries in our future competitions.
2012 Henry Handel Richardson Centenary Writing Competition
Inaugural Writing Competition Winners Announced
The winners of both sections of our inaugural writing competition, together with a number of highly commended entries were presented with their awards at the Society's 2012 annual Oration event held at the State Library of Victoria on Friday, October 12.
Seventy six entries were received in the Open section, and six in the youth section of the competition. These were short-listed by a panel of three judges who then forwarded those entries to Melbourne-based author, Helen Garner, for her deliberation. Entrants names were not revealed to the judges.
Judge Helen Garner's choices were:
First Prize - The Doctor's Boy by Bronwyn Minifie, Maldon, Victoria
Four Charms by Leah Swann, Croydon, Victoria
Piano Duets by Jennifer Bryce, Elwood, Victoria
The Wrong One by Paulette Gittins, South Yarra, Victoria
My Belated Getting of Courage by Carmel Lillis, Yarraville, Victoria
Youth Section (Sponsored by Text Publishing)
First Prize - Secret Women's Business by Ashleigh Mounser, Kincumber High School, NSW
Second Prize - Just A Girl by Harriet Farlow, Canberra Girls Grammar, ACT
Third Prize - A Penny For Your Thoughts by Isabella Luk, Mac.Robertson Girls High School, Vic. Highly Commended - In Her Footsteps: Queenscliff through the eyes of Henry Handel Richardson
by Elisabeth Sandbach, Camberwell Girls Grammar School, Victoria
Comments from the judge, Helen Garner, on the winners
Open Section: The Doctor’s Boy by Bronwyn Minifie
This was a standout entry. It has a relaxed voice, easy pace and stable structure, confident command of tone, strong sense of the physical world, skilled handling of vividly painful material.
The Doctor’s Boy by Bronwyn Minifie
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Youth Section: Secret Womens’ Business by Ashleigh Mounser
Ambitious, literate, energetic, mature. It has a striding quality I liked.
Secret Womens’ Business by Ashleigh Mounser
File Size 211KB
Comments from the reading panel
We were thrilled at the high level of entries. It was a wonderful collection of writing, full of energy and urgency. It was as though we’d said ‘surprise us’ and you did.
The introductory comments - establishing the link between HHR and/or her work in the entry - were often as interesting as the pieces themselves. It was good to read many accounts of the first time entrants had read Richardson’s work. Many spoke of the way reading Richardson’s work had inspired or helped them. A number of times entrants wrote that the terms of the competition had given them the chance to write something they’d always wanted to write.
Entries covered a wide range of material: powerfully told stories of family bonds and struggles – life in a doctor’s family, parent child relationships, the deterioration and death of a parent, the experience of mental and other illnesses for the sufferer and their family and friends; wonderfully inventive re-telling of events from Richardson’s life and/or the life of her characters; imagined encounters of Richardson with historical figures; beautifully told family history stories of migration and settlement; getting of wisdom tales; stories and essays reflecting on school and other educational experiences; stories set in the towns of Maldon, Chiltern, Queenscliff and Koroit where HHR spent parts of her childhood; a story set in Richardson’s old school, PLC; stories exploring the complexities of emotional and sexual identity; academic essays and notably, a number of very powerful personal essays.
The winning entries will be published online and we hope to find ways to publish more of the material so that more of you can enjoy the pleasure we had in reading the entries.
Congratulations to the winners, but also we would like to congratulate and celebrate all those who entered. Thank you for providing such a moving and memorable collection of writing.

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First things first: Do fewer things better and do not forget the obvious
Engaging parents is a national priority
Engaging parents makes sense to increase some pupils’ life chances
Possible initial steps:
Clear the first hurdle and check your entrance: Is it welcoming or forbidding? Are there any easy wins?
Is the responsibility for promoting parental engagement drive clearly allocated or is it part of someone’s ‘catch-all’ remit?
Is the parental engagement drive organised around challenges? What can you do which requires parents, pupils and staff to work together?
Social events are good to get parents through the doors. An approach based on a common challenge will keep them coming back.
Adopt a long perspective. To get the unwilling, be ready to build a community of the willing first.
Keep track of numbers going through the doors and outcomes from day 1
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Popular retailers including John Lewis, JD Sports and Topshop have all paused click-and-collect services across the UK to help reduce the spread of coronavirus.
This comes as Scotland bans click-and-collect for all but essential retailers.
Under current lockdown rules, everyone in the UK now has to stay at home other than for essential reasons such as exercise and shopping for food.
Here, Which? explains the current rules in more detail, and reveals which types of shops can and can’t open where you are.
Shops suspending click-and-collect
In Scotland, click-and-collect is only allowed for ‘essential’ retailers – find out more here.
Though it is still permitted for non-essential shops elsewhere, some chains have taken the decision themselves to stop offering click-and-collect.
According to Retail Gazette, the list now includes FatFace, JD Sports, John Lewis, Joules and Topshop.
Find out more: Topshop owner Arcadia goes into administration
England’s latest lockdown rules
England is currently under its third national lockdown, with measures very close to those that were in place under the first lockdown in March 2020.
This means that you can only leave your home for ‘essential’ reasons, such as shopping for food, working if you absolutely can’t do so from home, or attending medical appointments. Outdoor exercise is still permitted, but only once per day, and no socialising with other households is allowed.
Primary and secondary schools will be closed throughout the lockdown, only staying open for key workers’ children and those deemed vulnerable.
Nurseries and early years childcare are allowed to remain open.
The Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that these restrictions are likely to last until at least mid-February.
You can find the full details of the rules on the government’s national lockdown page.
Scotland’s COVID-19 restrictions
All of mainland Scotland and the Isle of Skye is also under national lockdown measures at the moment, with just a few islands still in Level 3.
Everyone in locked-down areas has been told to stay at home other than for essential purposes, most businesses are closed and schools will not reopen until February.
The Scottish government’s full lockdown guidelines can be found here.
What are the rules in Wales?
Since 28 December, all of Wales has been at alert Level 4, which equates to a full lockdown with a ‘stay at home’ instruction to boot. This means that you should only leave your house for essential reasons such as shopping for food and exercise.
Non-essential retail, hospitality, entertainment venues and leisure facilities must close, and you’re not allowed to meet anyone from outside your household outdoors or indoors.
Northern Ireland’s current lockdown explained
Since 26 December, Northern Ireland has been under a strict lockdown, with people asked to stay at home other than for essential purposes.
Non-essential retail, hospitality, leisure and close-contact service businesses are closed. This includes homeware stores and garden centres, despite having been deemed ‘essential’ in previous lockdowns.
You can find Northern Ireland’s full lockdown rules here.
What counts as ‘essential’ retail?
Throughout the UK, only those retailers classed as ‘essential’ are currently allowed to open – but what exactly does this mean?
These types of shops are classed as essential in every UK nation:
- Agricultural supplies shops and livestock markets
- Banks and building societies
- Bicycle shops
- Building supply merchants and tool suppliers (sometimes listed as hardware stores)
- Car parks
- Car repair and MOT services
- Doctors’ surgeries, dentists, opticians, chiropractors, and other medical and mental health services
- Food and drink retailers, including supermarkets, off-licences, convenience stores, corner shops and newsagents
- Funeral directors
- Laundrettes and dry cleaners
- Outdoor markets
- Petrol stations
- Post Offices
- Public toilets
- Storage facilities and drop off points
- Vehicle-hire businesses
- Vets surgeries
- Garden centres
In Wales, supermarkets must cordon off sections exclusively selling non-essential items, meaning products you wouldn’t find at one of the places listed above.
Scotland’s non-essential click-and-collect ban still allows the service from garden centres, and shops selling books, clothing and electricals, even though these types of stores cannot offer in-person browsing.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has said that the furlough scheme, which was previously set to end on 31 October, will continue until April 2021 to provide support for businesses that have to close.
- Find out more: coronavirus job retention scheme extended into 2021
What about travel and holidays?
Under the current lockdown rules, you can only travel for essential reasons – and these don’t include a holiday.
Even where people are legally allowed to travel, the government is asking them to think carefully about the journeys they take and the people they meet.
On top of this, it’s currently difficult to leave and return to the UK.
Many countries have banned incoming travellers from the UK due to the new variant present here.
And the UK has now closed all its ‘travel corridors’, meaning you need a negative COVID-19 test to be allowed into the UK, and have to quarantine when you return home.
All of this means that you should be offered a refund if your flight is cancelled or hotel is closed. But if your flight goes ahead, you may not be able to get your money back.
While many insurers now offer ‘coronavirus cancellation cover’, this often only covers you if you or someone you’re travelling with catches the virus. Only a handful of insurers will cover you for cancelling due to a new lockdown.
- Find out more: travel corridor removal: what it means for you
This story was first published on 23 June 2020 and has been updated. The latest update was on 18 January to reflect the latest lockdown rules.


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The energy revolution and climate policyThe election is over and Washington's attention must now turn to governing. One area that's sure to generate debate is what comes next for U.S. energy policy.
When President Obama took office in 2009, the pervasive sentiment was that America's best oil days were behind us. It's a view that's prevailed since the first Arab Oil Embargo in 1973, but it turned out to be a fallacy. Instead, over the past four years, the U.S. has become less dependent on oil imports and will soon start exporting liquefied natural gas.
Many believe a key marker for U.S. fossil fuel policy will come early in 2013, when the president will decide the fate of the TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline project, which could bring petroleum from Canadian oil sands to Gulf Coast refineries.
Yet, alternatives will figure prominently in our energy future. An extension for a renewable energy production tax credit (scheduled to expire at year's end) has attracted bipartisan support from a coalition of 28 governors, including Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback.
Brownback's support of wind power goes back to his days in the Senate where he supported a renewable energy standard. But, Brownback also opposed cap and trade legislation, insisting that climate legislation would hurt the U.S. economy while doing little to reduce global temperatures.
In the wake of last summer's record droughts that wrecked havoc across the South and the Plains, followed by Hurricane Sandy destruction in the east, the climate change discussion is back on the front burner once again. Regardless of the national debate, support for climate legislation will vary from state to state.
While poll after poll has demonstrated overwhelming support for a clean energy economy, the early test over the tax credit could signal whether there's a new willingness to revisit climate change legislation that was derailed in the run-up and aftermath of the 2010 mid-term election.
That 2010 legislation was sponsored by Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman. But there's uncertainty about where the congressional leadership needed to address climate change will come from this time around. Lieberman is retiring at the end of 2012, and McCain and Graham are currently battling the administration over the handling of the Benghazi tragedy.
Further, while Obama made climate change a campaign issue in 2008, he hasn't pressed the issue much in the past two years. His most significant act was to increase automobile fuel economy standards, a move designed to cut the nation's carbon pollution from new cars in half by 2025.
Obama was relatively silent on climate change during the 2012 campaign - the exception being at his nominating-convention in September, where the president proclaimed that "Climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They are a threat to our children's future."
Another policy skirmish will likely center on proposed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules regulating electricity from coal-fired plants. These regulations will profoundly influence the nation's electricity sector.
In Kansas, which relies heavily on electricity from coal, the EPA rules are likely to bring about some major changes. But natural gas prices could offset the impact, influencing such decisions as whether to add costly air pollution control equipment to existing plants or retire some older and smaller coal plants, while also determining what type of new capacity will come online in the future.
Although most experts agree that these regulations will result in coal plant retirements there is far less agreement on how this would impact generation.
As these policy issues start to play out, my optimism tells me that unlike conventional wisdom four years ago, the U.S. energy industry is poised to grow.
The demand for energy is not going away, and as a result, I believe the administration will issue a permit for the XL pipeline, which would cross Kansas - running from the Washington County area near the Nebraska border - south to Crowley County on its way to Port Arthur, Texas.
It also seems a reasonable bet that the production tax credit will be extended for four years, thereby forestalling massive layoffs in the wind industry that would cripple manufacturing efforts, particularly in the Midwest.
And while the EPA rules begin to take effect, waivers will likely be issued to allow utilities time to make necessary changes. At the same time, the nation must increase research into clean coal technologies. The coal resource is too abundant in the U.S. to ignore, and the global demand for coal will continue regardless of U.S. regulations. There will also be a global market for cleaner coal innovation.
The withering drought of 2012 and Hurricane Sandy were the latest in a series of early signs pointing to the consequences of climate change. I believe more citizens understand that if we fail to address greenhouse gas production, we do so literally at our peril.
It is an "all of the above" energy strategy that is likely to emerge - shaping how Kansans generate and use energy for decades to come. Jim Arwood, a native of Lyons, has been working in the energy field for five decades, starting right out of high school as a roughneck in the Kansas oil fields. Before his retirement in 2010, he was director of the State Energy Office in Arizona.
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Paris fashion week can’t fizzle out on a low note; of course not. There’s Louis Vuitton kicking off the last day, after all. And so the final day’s street style remains unmissable. From Olivia Palermo’s mod green mini to Ulyana Sergeenko’s leather overalls, you can find 15 of the best street style shots at the gallery.
What is that’s drawing all eyes on her? Is it the strappy gladiator heels? The off-the-shoulder top and vibrant aqua skirt? Or the way the whole outfit gels perfectly together into a coherent whole? Any of those answers might be correct, but there’s one thing more important than all of that: the confidence in her walk.


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Media Kit, Excerpts and Illustrations Valentina and the Haunted Mansion
I spent most of today working on setting up a media kit for Valentina and the Haunted Mansion, and to add a bit more info about the book on my website.
Without further delay, I present to you, the updated picture books page.
- Excerpts for Valentina and the Haunted Mansion.
- Three interior images to match the excerpts.
- A downloadable media kit in .zip file format.
The media kit includes author bio, author picture, info about Valentina and the Haunted Mansion, full cover, front cover, illustrator bio, illustrator picture, book excerpts, reviews, three interior images, info about free reads, sample interview questions and coming soon books.

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I’m actually surprised that I was able to get all of these blocks done this week! So glad to be caught up!!
I’m still challenging myself with the Sugar Block Club fabrics. I wasn’t sure whether I liked this one or not by the time I was done with it. After looking at it for a day or so, I’ve decided this block pretty much rocks. And those points!! Who did that?!?!
I finished the 4th block for the 2014 Skill Builder BOM. It looks a lot better in “real life”. The dark fabric is Kona Mulberry… A pretty plum color. It turns out almost black in the picture. In retrospect I probably should have used a lighter colored fabric in the churn dash block, but it will be okay like this.
This past week was our last two blocks for the Vintage Quilt Revival Block-Along. I am SO excited to get this top assembled! These blocks were so much fun to make. Using the Modern Solids fabrics really made these blocks pop!
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Whether we like them or not, it’s nice to finally have some finality around the Government’s changes to superannuation.
Q. We’re ready to tie the knot. What are the key financial issues we need to consider first?
GETTING married, or even just moving in together, is not just a major life event. It is also a huge long-term financial commitment.
Money, more than almost any other topic, can make or break a relationship, according to relationship experts.
Chris Morcom has given advice on purchasing an annuity in the latest smart investor publication.
As detailed in my colleague Nathan Lear’s recent blog titled ‘Hillary Trumped’, markets reacted wildly to the result of the recent presidential election, initially falling four per cent only to recover sharply the following day.


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Notre Dame marched to an impressive victory over Oklahoma this past Saturday vaulting the Irish to the No. 3 spot in the BCS. This week they take on an easier opponent on paper, but the Pitt rushing attack may put fear into the eyes of the Irish by the end of this weekend’s showdown.
Notre Dame has played impressive defense through the first half of the season, holding its opponents to just 95.25 yards per game on the ground giving the Irish the No. 9 rushing defense in the country.
Pitt is bringing only the No. 77 rushing attack to South Bend, but the Panthers will field two very good running backs—one of whom is a rising star freshman.
Ray Graham and Rushel Shell have become a very dangerous tandem from the Pitt backfield. Graham is the leading carrier for the Panthers, gaining 622 yards on 134 carries so far this season. He has also added seven rushing touchdowns and 244 receiving yards to his credit.
Graham is a major dual threat force from the backfield that has not yet been witnessed by the Notre Dame defense.
Shell will add another dimension to the game for the Panthers. He is a much bigger back for Pitt, bringing a tough downhill rushing style to the offense. He has accounted for 441 yards on the ground on 87 carries.
Against Virginia Tech the freshman had his highest output of the year, gaining 157 yards on the ground in the contest. The big game brought out big production and it should do the same this week.
For Notre Dame this is a win that should come easily. The Irish defense is playing better than anyone outside of the SEC against the run and they have earned their way into the national title discussion.
While they are very strong defensively against the rush this year, the competition has not been very strong running the ball. The best rushing attack the Irish have faced was Navy who is ranked No. 6, but they are a one dimensional team.
No other team that Notre Dame has faced will bring this type of tandem to the field. The next best rushing attack was Michigan currently at No. 27 and the Wolverines gained 161 yards on the ground. Without Denard Robinson's three sacks losing big yards, Michigan was close to 200 yards on the ground against the Irish.
Michigan is the closest comparison to the tandem runner approach that will come with Pitt.
This is a game that could sneak up on this Notre Dame team if they are not prepared. The way a surprise will happen is with the Pitt rushing attack.
Oklahoma has a talented backfield, but they only ran the ball 22 times against the Irish while throwing the ball 52 times. There was no balance in the Sooners' attack and it showed.
Tino Sunseri is a strong player and will add a solid passing threat to the Pitt attack. Sunseri has been more productive this season than Landry Jones of Oklahoma, so this Notre Dame team has to take notice of the Pitt offense.
The Panthers will use their backs to control the clock and grind out tough yards as often as possible. Add in a few big throws from Sunseri and this could be a much tougher game than the Irish are expecting.
This is a letdown game waiting to happen for the Irish and it all starts on the ground. Stop the Pitt ground attack and the win will come.
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When Friendswood went scoreless in its first four soccer games of the season, it didn’t take a member of Mensa to determine where the Mustangs needed improvement.
“And scoring goals is the hardest thing to do in the game so we have to find somebody that can consistently get good looks.
After two losses and a three ties to start the season, Friendswood finally picked up its first win in the Aggieland Invitational with a 2-0 victory over Huntsville.
Peter believes that once everyone has a chance to take the field during a game, he’ll have a better gauge on how to move the chess pieces.
The Mustangs took on Crowley, Ridge Point, Huntsville and College Park this past weekend in trying to move forward.
A 2-0 win over Huntsville and a narrow 2-1 loss to College Park in the championship bracket revealed signs of progress.
If Peter can put a productive lineup on the field and complement it with savvy substituting, a bright future could await the Mustangs in District 24-6A.


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A survey has suggested that more than half the country’s priests wished to have wives and families.
It indicated that 54 percent of Polish priests favoured an end to celibacy while it said 12 percent claimed already to be living with women.
A third of the clerics had admitted to “loose contacts” with women, or “sex without obligations”, said Baniak. He said he had received “many letters” from priests explaining their “need for personal relations” with women.
“This is becoming a problem for younger priests a few years after ordination, especially those with unformed emotions and sexualities,” said the researcher, who specialises in the sociology of religion and morality.
“School leavers often enter seminaries facing serious problems with their faith and religiosity. In addition, celibate priests have stopped being the only moral authority and model to follow,” Baniak noted.
The survey follows a 36 percent drop in enrolments to Poland’s 84 Catholic seminaries since 2004, with 953 students enrolling in 2008, compared to 1500 four years previously, and 362 women applying to join religious orders compared to twice as many in 2004.
Outlining his findings to the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper on 30 January, Baniak said more than half the 823 surveyed Polish clergy had reported a “deep and protracted crisis in their priestly identity”. They cited problems with celibacy as the most common cause, well ahead of conflicts with church superiors or doubts about the faith.
The deputy dean of the Poznan theology faculty, the Rev. Pawel Bortkiewicz, was quoted as saying by Gazeta Wyborcza that Professor Baniak’s “views and positions” contradicted Catholic teaching. Baniak had been asked to “modify his position”, said Bortkiewicz.
“I know it’s not true that every second priest wants a child,” Bortkiewicz stated. “If someone asked me whether I missed a warm family, I couldn’t deny it. But that doesn’t mean I’m for abolishing celibacy.” [ENI]


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Memory Access Training 2 Master O.P.H.®
Access to the cellular memories - 2nd Brain
Category: training/formation, 2021,
Themes: strengthen your resources, rebalance energy,
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It is a master on cellular memories and on the beliefs related to them.
The heart, the second brain. The heart is the center from which we received nourishment through the mother’s breast; It is on our mother’s and our father’s heart that we were carried while “in their arms”. Love is what we are all searching for, what we act for and how we move in life. Accessing its memories opens a door to a balance of inner male and female energies. It opens a contact with the source of love and, therefore, to the release of the tensions we have accumulated around loving. It opens to joy, as a dimension of love and relaxed expansion of your energy.
“Cellular memory is the collective cellular energy field, generated by individual cellular memories. Our body contains our history and that of our ancestors, and therefore individual and collective experiences and emotions.” (Lipton)
The nine months spent in the womb have a greater impact than so far imagined, in the reiteration of automatic behaviors, both positive and negative. The process opens the possibility of bringing memories to the surface, has the potential to reintegrate each person’s essential qualities, improves relationships, brings awareness to those mechanisms that occur in everyday life connected to prenatal experiences and collective memories, which limit and prevent flowering completely.
During this training we work, with energy, to activate memories or body sensations connected to what we have lived and of which there is often neither memory nor conscience. In this way, the automatisms that emerge in life can be recognized, understood, and transformed. It is a delicate process, lived in a protected atmosphere to make space for acceptance and relaxation, to allow only what in the system is ready to dissolve to emerge with no effort. The work is divided into three levels that correspond to the “three brains” of the human system (navel, heart and third eye), those energy centers where both the intelligences and the issues that limit them live. It is a path that can be used, both to find balance and personal well-being and to learn a cycle of help sessions.
Memory Access is also suggested for those who already work in the holistic field and who want to enrich their experience and their field of action. After each module and the appropriate training, it is possible to give Memory Access sessions.
It is necessary to have taken part in O.P.H.1 and 2 or in groups related to early childhood, also an interview is required.

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I get a lot of questions about what exactly ALL THE DEAD BOYS is. A film? a website? A book? All of the above? None of them? At one point or another, it’s been all of those things – but it never felt right to settle on just one.
Gradually, I’ve come to think of ALL THE DEAD BOYS more like a container.
Filled with the creepy stories and dark sticky images that don’t belong anywhere else. Work you might want to look away from at first. But then your eye is drawn back. It’s a place to explore that precarious spot where beauty and horror meet. It’s never work that’s done for someone else. Always just for me.
Now that you’re here.
At this first real online home for ALL THE DEAD BOYS. I’ve been on (and deleted from) Instagram, but it never felt like the best fit. Too sanitized and fleeting. (You can still find me @all_the_dead_boys )
ALL THE DEAD BOYS is something I started shooting on the side, over ten years ago. When I wasn’t working in fashion or making movies I was shooting “boys” with bruises and cuts and disturbing skin conditions ( I was also trying to teach myself special fx makeup). I’ve shot hundreds of guys (and a few girls) for ATDB. Which is probably why it’s taken me so long to create this website. It just seemed overwhelming. So many images. So many dead boys. Each of them with a story to tell.
At its heart, ALL THE DEAD BOYS is about storytelling.
Sometimes the stories lurk under the surface – requiring you to fill in the details on your own. Sometimes they’re right in your face – dripping with blood, sweat, and tears. Each story brought to you by a different “dead boy”.
So let me know which boys you like.
Who you want to see more of.
Because I’ve always loved the idea of ATDB as a fucked up Choose Your Own Adventure type experience. Where the audience helps to steer the story. Decide whose drama they want to see.
There’s one about a down and dirty Atlantic City strip club called SUCKERS. THROB is a queer apocalyptic body horror love story. CURFEW is set in an underground fight ring where the defeat equals death. SWALLOWED is about a routine border crossing into Canada gone horribly wrong.
I’m excited for all of these stories. And curious to hear which ones you’re most interested in.
This goes for behind the scenes content as well. I’ve never really done any BTS for ALL THE DEAD BOYS. But I could. Especially if it’s something you’re interested in. Want to know about cameras and lights? Or maybe makeup and prosthetics…I’m an expert at neither but happy to share what my process is like. Let me know in the comments below.
So what I’m saying is that ALL THE DEAD BOYS can be all of these things. And so many more.
If you’ve made it this far, you just might be in the right place.
For a more in-depth breakdown of the ATDB origin story, you can check out 31 DAYS OF ALL THE DEAD BOYS on my @all_the_dead_boys Instagram. Starting October 1st, 2020 I posted a different “chapter” of the story for 31 days.
I love this description of ALL THE DEAD BOYS by Erik Spink.
“One of the few places I can see something that both horrifies and excites me. And nothing is closer to the gay experience than that.”


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Home Retail Group (LON:HOME) shares jumped this morning as a rival offer was launched for the Argos owner by South African company Steinhoff.
Steinhoff’s offer of 175 pence per share, offered late on Friday, is well above the Sainsbury’s offer that was rejected by Home Retail last month. Sainsbury’s is now expected to ask for an extension of the Tuesday deadline in order to consider launching a competing offer against Steinhoff – a tough competitior who owns both Bensons for Beds and Harveys. The rise in share price has been seen by analysts as a positive market reaction to the offer.
Sainsbury’s were hoping to acquire Argos in an attempt to widen the supermarket’s market share by including Argos’s home retail selection, creating the UK’s largest general merchandise retail business. Whether Sainsbury’s will make another bid remains to be seen.
Home Retail is currently trading up 13.02 percent at 173.60 pence per share.


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Have You Checked Out LocumTenens.com Lately?
We launched our brand new website last week, redesigned with the user in mind. The new LocumTenens.com has better navigation and is more mobile-friendly for your cellphone or tablet, making your job search easier than ever before. Make sure to check out the new resources, including our interactive tools. We are updating the website every week with more exciting content, tools and jobs, so keep checking back!
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40 Unnecessary Procedures You Should Avoid According to Choosing Wisely Campaign
The Choosing Wisely Campaign, originating from the American Board of Internal Medicine, recently launched in the UK with a list of 40 common procedures which could be unnecessary and wasteful. The list of procedures to consider avoiding includes preoperative tests before minor surgery, plaster casts for toes, sterile saline instead of regular tap water, certain imaging procedures and blood tests for pregnant women.

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