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THE Australian looks back on some of the more unusual and amusing financial gambits of 2012 in a bid to remind all of us that capitalism includes a rich mix of comedy, ego, hubris and regular folly on the bumpy road to riches.
Answers at the bottom.
1 Teetering coal king Nathan Tinkler recently referred to Whitehaven coal director Philip Christensen as:
a) A well-intentioned man who is out of his depth
b) A force for good in a complex industry
c) Like a piece of gum on the bottom of my shoe
2 Tinkler's previous failed attempt to take over Whitehaven Coal was at what price?
a) $5 a share
3 Tinkler has a 19.4 per cent holding in Whitehaven, whose shares are now worth:
a) Between $5 and $6
b) Between $4 and $5
c) Between $3 and $4
4 Andrew Forrest of Fortescue Metals has in recent years had:
a) A win against an ASIC disqualification action in the Federal Court
b) A loss against ASIC in front of the Full Bench of the Federal Court
c) A win against ASIC in the High Court?
d) All of the above
5 After which, Forrest:
a) Set fire to an effigy of ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft
b) Offered to help ASIC revise its continuous disclosure laws
c) Put a top silk on the payroll just in case
6 Which leading Australian telco chief grew a moustache for Movember?
a) Telstra's David Thodey
b) Optus's Kevin Russell
c) Vodafone's Bill Morrow
d) NBN Co's Mike Quigley
7 The Australian PGA championship at Coolum, owned by Clive Palmer, featured:
a) An 8.5m moving model Tyrannosaurus Rex
b) About 60 signs painted around the course promoting Palmer causes such as his Titanic II reconstruction
c) A statue of John F. Kennedy
d) A US flag painted on the ninth fairway
e) All of the above
8 Talking to the press after the event, Palmer said:
a) Maybe it was a bit over the top and I realise it detracted from the golf
b) I don't think the PGA is annoyed. They love the media attention
c) Next time I'm going to be all introverted and you'll hardly know I'm there
9 Mid-year, Rio and Fortescue said iron ore would form a price floor of $US120 a tonne. Prices bottomed in September at:
10 Local UBS boss Matthew Grounds was called a "rock star" by which billionaire?
a) Rupert Murdoch
b) James Packer
c) Gina Rinehart
11 UBS is top of the pops in Australia, but overseas in 2012:
a) It suffered a $7 billion "rogue trading" mishap
b) It was fined a record $1.5 billion for manipulating Libor
c) It slashed 10,000 jobs and in London staff found out only when their passes were rejected
d) All of the above
12 Elders said in November it would sell off its rural services business after rejecting an unsolicited takeover from which major shareholder?
b) Washington H. Soul Pattinson
13 Name the gold and copper developer thrown off its own project in Java, Indonesia:
a) Hard Rock Mines
b) Hard Luck Mines
c) Intrepid Resources
d) Endeavour Resources
14 Name the legendary confectionery re-launched on local and US markets and listed on the ASX:
a) Kinder Surprise
b) Darrell Lea Rocky Road
d) Castlemaine Rock
15 Which former Australian politician said in June of the US President: "He's got three months of falling labour force numbers, growth has topped out and Bernanke has downed tools. I think Obama is toast"?
a) Peter Costello
b) Paul Keating
c) Bob Hawke
d) John Howard
16 Who said: "Some days you are the pigeon and some days you are the statue"?
a) Tony Abbott
b) Lord Nelson
c) Barnaby Joyce
d) Reg Kermode
17 It has been a tough year in stockbroking, but which firm poached five of rival Wilson HTM's top advisers for a total of $5.4 million in sign-on bonuses?
b) E.L. & C. Baillieu
c) Ord Minnett
18 Early in November Clive Palmer took a swipe at a Queensland trade mission to India, saying Premier Campbell Newman was going "not for a proper purpose" in visiting Indian coal company GVK, a rival to Palmer's Waratah Coal. The Queensland government responded with:
a) Wasn't he a golf tournament promoter?
b) They much preferred the welcome they got from GVK
c) Waratah had in fact signed up originally to go on the same trade mission
19 Clive Palmer thinks environment group Greenpeace is:
a) Working hard to build a better tomorrow
b) Backed by the CIA to help destroy Australia's coal industry
c) In total harmony with his aims
20 Commodities exporters Rio Tinto, Xstrata and Rusal recently joined with Incitec Pivot to form a lobby group. Their goal is to:
a) Remove protectionist policies in Australian trading partners
b) get governments to provide a buffer against export-parity prices for Australian gas users
c) Get governments to provide a buffer against export-parity prices on iron ore for Australian steelmakers
21 Gina Rinehart has been dishing out unsolicited advice to Australians who want to get rich. Which of the following recommendations did she NOT make in 2012?
a) Get out of the pub and go to work in the mines
b) Don't take overseas holidays
c) Stop smoking
d) Beware of Africans who will work for less than $2 a day
e) None of the above
22 At the annual general meeting of which company this year was the chief financial officer referred to as Flanno,
the investor relations man as Haydo, the managing director as Skroo, and the chief operating officer as Mel?
a) SuperCheap Auto
b) Something to do with John Singleton
c) Flight Centre
23 Former Billabong CEO Matthew Perrin came unstuck financially:
a) On a thoroughbred investment
b) On a retail adventure in China
c) On a beachwear investment in Japan
24 How many barristers appeared on behalf of the nine parties in the Centro Class Action?
25 Which law firm was instrumental in brokering the Centro settlement despite not representing any party?
b) Arnold Bloch Leibler
d) Clayton Utz
26 British law firms are gobbling up Australian firms at an awesome rate because:
a) Those poms just love our lawyers
b) They have shares in the companies that make office signs
c) They are trying to amortise the cost of their marginal China offices
27 US hedge fund guru David Tepper was rubbing what talisman during the interminable Greek sovereign debt bailout negotiations:
a) A small bust of Ben Bernanke
b) A pair of brass testicles
c) A miniature Parthenon
28 Gina Rinehart's youngest daughter, Ginia, has switched careers and is now working as a mining trainee with Rio Tinto. What was she doing before this?
a) Driving her $1.2 million Rolls-Royce around Perth
b) Standing by her mother in a legal action brought by her three siblings
c) Taking up key board appointments on companies in the family empire
d) Working as a PR representative party planner at the House of Faberge in London
e) All of the above
29 In late August Fortescue chief executive Nev Power stressed that:
a) All the miner's employees were highly valued and reiterated that nothing would curtail his expansion plans
b) You can never tell in the mining game whether you're going to be a rooster or a feather duster
c) You have to try to look at the big picture all the time
30 How many people did Fortescue sack in September when the iron ore price dropped below $US90 a tonne?
31 BHP Billiton's desk tidiness policy at Australian offices, instituted under chief executive Marius Kloppers, limits the number of photos of family allowed to be left out at employees' desks overnight to:
a) Two, but they must not have more than four people in each
b) One, but it must be smaller than A5 and is not permissible if the allowance is used instead to display a work award
32 How much did the minerals resource rent tax raise in its first quarter from iron ore and coal miners?
b) $3 billion
c) $5 billion
33 OneSteel renamed itself Arrium this year in an attempt to stop investors focusing so much on its struggling steel business. The name:
a) Is inspired by the acronym for Accounting Rate of Return
b) Is a vital raw material used by the company's mining consumables business
c) Was inspired by a figure from Greek mythology
d) Was entirely made up, to sound like an element on the periodic table
34 When South Korea's Posco, Hong Kong's Noble Group and a bunch of South Korean sovereign wealth funds banded together to try to take over Arrium, they called themselves:
a) Steelmakers Asia
b) Steelmakers Australia
35 AGL Energy, which has been branding itself as a renewable energy company, registered its confidence in the Gillard government's ability to move the nation away from coal-fired power by:
a) Paying $1.5bn to buy 68 per cent of a Victorian brown coal power station
b) Starting up a $1bn solar division to study photovoltaic cells in the desert
c) Lobbying to open more hydroelectric power in Australia
36 When Santos raised the expected cost of its Gladstone LNG project from $US16bn to $US18.5bn, the company said it should not be viewed as a cost blowout because:
a) The same thing is happening to all resources projects
b) Most of the increase was due to the fact it needed to drill 300 extra wells
c) Currency moves were to blame
37 Three weeks after responding to an ASX query by saying it was unaware of why its share price had slumped, mining contractor Boart Longyear:
a) Said it would meet previous profit guidance, sending shares back up
b) Cut $100m from profit guidance, sending its shares down a further 37 per cent
c) Announced it was the subject of a takeover offer from China
38 Amid a coal price slump that saw hundreds of jobs being lost and many mines become unprofitable, Queensland Premier Campbell Newman:
a) Cut coal royalties payable to the state government
b) Raised coal royalties
c) Raised coal royalties, but only on projects associated with Clive Palmer
39 In November, the government's resources forecaster BREE said investment in under-construction major resources projects had risen $8bn to a record $268bn in the previous half. This was because:
a) Reports of the end of the investment boom were wrong and resources projects are really going full steam ahead
b) The investment boom is not set to end until 2013
c) The increase was due to cost blowouts, not new projects, with the number of projects under construction actually decreasing
40 When Seven West Media chief Don Voelte was asked by the Australian Shareholders Association to explain how he had time to also be chairman of Nexus Energy, Voelte replied:
a) I'm not, probably, the poster boy for life versus work
b) How do you have time to attend all these AGMs?
c) My role at Seven is temporary
41 Which Brisbane-based airline folded in February and left several thousand passengers stranded in Bali, Thailand and Hawaii?
a) Asian Holiday Travel
b) Air Australia.
c) Air Adventure
42 Chevron's latest cost estimate for the massive Gorgon LNG project in WA, originally estimated to be $43 billion, is:
c) $52 bn
43 One of Australia's longest-serving managing directors, CSL's Brian McNamee, announced plans to step down from the company next year. What year was he appointed CEO?
44 Leighton Holdings this year received the maximum penalty imposed by ASIC for breaching its continuous disclosure obligations. It was fined:
45 During 2012, Clive Palmer publicly considered or took legal action over:
a) His expulsion from Queensland's Liberal National Party
b) QR National's plan to run a railway to the Galilee Basin, rivalling his plan
c) A dispute with a stevedoring company at Townsville over nickel ore imports
d) The Queensland government's Economic Development Act
e) A shareholders meeting of Central Petroleum
f) All of the above, and more
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A very good friend of mine Adele Walsh is the Program Coordinator at the Centre for Youth Literature as part of the State Library of Victoria. She has a particular passion for Youth Literature (YA) and she has written a piece about encouraging reading in older children, when they have moved beyond younger picture books. It is a quick read and I think it's actually a very useful article if you are finding it difficult to engage children in reading.
You can find the article here.
You can also read more from Adele in her Read Alert blog.

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Sure, it’s proven, and a lot of people use it. But like many proprietary technologies, it also has some unappealing characteristics. It demands specialized expertise. It’s not always as fast as advertised. It’s not completely reliable. It certainly doesn’t work and play well with others. Yes, we are talking about InfiniBand.
InfiniBand has been a comfort zone for those tightly-coupled HPC applications that can’t live without their addiction to low latency and high speed. If your application is a science experiment with good funding and no firm schedule, that’s OK. If your application involves business, deadlines, and ROI, it’s time to break out of that comfort zone and acquaint yourself with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE).
Fifty seven percent of the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites are already using Gigabit Ethernet interconnects. For many of those sites, that one Gigabit will give them all the speed they’ll ever need. For those applications that really do need a higher performance interconnect, 10GE can provide it — and a host of other advantages as well.
Technology You Know
InfiniBand might be the obvious choice in the HPC world, but compared to the well-known and widely-used Ethernet standard, the comfort level of InfiniBand might be equated to sleeping on a bed of nails. IT executives, network administrators, server vendors, and managed service providers around the world understand Ethernet. They can integrate and update an Ethernet installation within an existing infrastructure, without specialized gateways. They know how to manage it and how to benchmark it. They know what to do if something goes wrong. When it comes to Ethernet, familiarity breeds peace of mind.
More Cost-Effective and Already There
With costs going up, power at a premium, and manageability critical, it’s no surprise that converging and consolidating have become central themes in networking. Converged voice and data networks are becoming pervasive. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) will merge storage and standard network applications on a common infrastructure. Virtualization is fast becoming a critical technology to support server and storage consolidation in the datacenter.
When it comes to reducing capital and operating expenses, one infrastructure is simply better than two — or more — and the HPC environment is no exception. High-performance computing clusters that use an InfiniBand interconnect also use Ethernet. Ethernet is necessary for user and storage connectivity, and for the management network that orchestrates the cluster. Replacing the InfiniBand interconnect with 10GE to create a single, all-inclusive infrastructure will cut hardware and power costs, and simplify manageability. And, that infrastructure combines high performance with low power needs and a sufficiently low latency for many HPC applications, making it an excellent fit for technical and budget requirements.
Prices are Plummeting
As with many technologies, 10GE was not initially cost-effective for widespread use. In fact, at one point a 10GE connection cost more than the server. But that ship has sailed. Now 10GE is so cost-effective that server vendors are starting to include the technology as a built-in standard feature. And switch prices are falling too. A number of switch vendors are offering 10 GE switches with a list price less than $500 per port.
Stable Network Interface
Some early adopters of 10GE were discouraged by problems with network interface cards (NICs). These problems were related to immature hardware and software drivers and have since been corrected. NIC vendors that could not adapt have dropped out of the market, and 10GE now has a stable network interface environment.
Physical Layer Selected
Many users expected that 10GBase-T would provide a simple, cost-effective solution, but were disappointed with the high cost, high power requirements and 2.6 µsec latency per cable hop. Multiple optics standards also led to some customer confusion, with XenPak, X2, XFP, and now SFP+.
It took a while for 10GE to converge on a single type of attachment, but many users today believe that SFP+ Direct Attach Cable (also known as twinax) is the right solution. SFP+ Direct Attach Cable is a low-cost, low-latency, interoperable solution that uses existing SFP+ sockets and addresses most 10GE challenges for distances up to around ten meters.
Broad Vendor Support
Every networking vendor supports Ethernet, and that support will extend to 40GE and 100GE in the future. Support for InfiniBand is limited to a handful of vendors. With less competition, there will be less innovation, and less incentive to offer competitive pricing and to increase reliability.
New products and advancing technologies have overcome the last hurdles that prevented 10GE from addressing HPC needs:
- NIC prices will continue to drop as LAN-on-Motherboard (LOM) technology lets NIC vendors reach the high volumes they need to keep costs down.
- Switch prices are also dropping–prices under $500 per port make 10GE switches cost-effective for business applications.
- The emerging SFP+ Direct Attach cabling standard avoids the problem of expensive optics and presents a clear solution.
- Many HPC applications such as Reuter’s RMDS and others achieve equivalent performance numbers on 10GbE and InfiniBand
- Using some of the latest server blades and comparing DDR InfiniBand with RDMA to 10GE iWarp using a BLADE Network Technologies switch, we have observed similar performance on common HPC applications such as FLUENT, PAM CRASH, VASP and others.
It’s time to bring the benefits of ubiquitous 10GE to the HPC community. For most clusters and most applications, Ethernet brings the advantages of better pricing, higher reliability, plenty of performance, and lower operating costs than InfiniBand. A holistic approach with a single infrastructure will also contribute to reduced costs, while widespread Ethernet expertise will reduce management headaches and support a more efficient environment.
When InfiniBand is Necessary
Some applications will still require the extremely high performance and low latency that is achievable only with InfiniBand. However, IT teams should evaluate project needs carefully before selecting an interconnect technology. Situations that invite InfiniBand include:
The Need For Speed — Performance is a key driver for InfiniBand, but designers need to be aware of the bottom line for performance statistics. Double Data Rate (DDR) technology claims to provide 20 Gbps performance, but the reality is closer to 16 Gbps. Hardware limits in the PCIe gen1 bus in many machines reduce this number even further. With a measurable performance of about 13 Gbps, InfiniBand isn’t a whole lot faster than 10GE. Similarly, Quad Data Rate (QDR) claims 40 Gbps performance, but actually delivers closer to 26 Gbps due to the PCIe gen2 bus–not that much faster than a two-port 10GE switch.
Really Low Latency — Some compute-intensive, tightly-coupled applications, such as those found in the largest national science labs, do demand the extremely low latency that only InfiniBand can provide. However, other applications that are either loosely coupled or simply don’t have an excessive demand for low latency can run perfectly well over 10GE. Many TCP/IP-based applications fall into this category, and many more can be supported by adapters that offload TCP/IP processing. In fact, some TCP/IP applications actually run faster and with lower latency over 10GE than over InfiniBand.
About the Author
Dan Tuchler is Vice President of Strategy and Product Management at BLADE Network Technologies (www.bladenetwork.net). His technology experience spans emerging Ethernet standards, InfiniBand, security, load balancing, content-aware networking, and high-availability.


List of Japanese trainer aircraft during World War II
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This is a List of trainer aircraft (練習機 Renshuu-ki - Trainer) the Japanese used during World War II. Names in quotes are Allied code names for clarity for English speakers and do not reflect the Japanese usage.
- Tachikawa Ki-24 Basic training glider
- Kokusai Ki-86/K9W1 "Cypress" (Bücker Bü 131 built under license)
- Tachikawa Ki-9 "Spruce"
- Tachikawa Ki-17 "Cedar"
- Kawanishi K8K Navy Type 0 Primary Trainer Seaplane
- Mitsubishi K3M Navy Type 90 "Pine" also used by Army as Ki-7
- Yokosuka K5Y Navy Type 93 "Willow"
- Tokyo Koku Ki-107
- Mansyu Ki-79 (1 or 2 seat version of Ki-27 fighter modified for training)
- Tachikawa Ki-55 "Ida" (Version of Ki-36 "Ida" modified for training)
- Tachikawa Ki-54 (Model b) "Hickory" (modified for training)
- Nakajima Ki-34 "Thora" (advanced flying and paratroop trainer)
- Kyushu K10W1 Oak Intermediate/Advanced Trainer and Target tug
- Mitsubishi K7M Multi-engine trainer
- Kyushu K11W Shiragiku Navy Operations Trainer
- Mitsubishi A5M A5M2-K "Claude" (2 seat version of fighter)
- Mitsubishi A6M Zero A6M5-K "Zero" (2 seat version of fighter)
- Aichi M6A1-K Nanzan Land based trainer version of Aichi M6A Seiran floatplane.
Combat Aircraft used as Trainers
Many of these were either obsolete types used as trainers, or for crew familiarization similar in concept to the British use of OTU/OCU units and are not strictly trainers.
- Nakajima Type 91 (NC)
- Kawasaki Ki-10 "Perry"
- Nakajima Ki-27 "Nate"
- Nakajima Ki-43 "Oscar"
- Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki "Tojo"
- Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate "Frank"
- Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien "Tony"
- Kawasaki Ki-100 Goshikisen
- Kawasaki Ki-45 Toryu "Nick" (Heavy Fighter)
- Yokoi (Ku) Ki-13 Shusui (Rocket/Jet)
Light bomber trainers
- Kawasaki Type 88 (KDA-2)
- Kawasaki Ki-3
- Nakajima Ki-4
- Mitsubishi Ki-30 "Ann"
- Kawasaki Ki-32 "Mary"
- Tachikawa Ki-36 "Ida"
- Kawasaki Ki-48 "Lily"
- Mitsubishi Ki-51 "Sonia"
Twin-engined bomber trainers
- Mitsubishi Ki-1
- Mitsubishi Ki-2 "Louise"
- Mitsubishi Ki-21 "Sally"
- Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu "Helen"
- Mitsubishi Ki-67 Hiryu "Peggy"


text: Directory of Artists juried in to participate in the 2016 Santa Fe Plein Air Festival. Congratulations! This directory contains the co-chairs as well: Tobi Clement -also a participating artist - and Deb Stup, a patron. Click on the artist's name for additional artist information. Participating artists who are no longer PAPNM members are not listed. However, their paintings are still in the album.

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text: John Coy’s novel Crackback is a football story and a family story. Miles Manning is not that smart, not that good looking, but he can play football. Miles’ father is very angry and critical of his son’s football performances. Miles walks on eggshells and home and now with a change in coaching, he has to be guarded at school also. Mix in the regular high school drama of finding a homecoming date and the pressure is intense. Does Miles take steroids to bulk up and improve his chances on the field and make his coach happy? What is hiding in his family’s past that causes so much tension. A tight story where ‘you can’t always get what you want’ is the rule and not every story ends happily ever after. A good story and a quick read.

domain: sports


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No other season necessitates a colourful interior update quite like spring. After months of dreary browns and sensible cosy neutrals, the cheery effect of a bright pop of colour cannot be understated. Of course, not everyone has the time or budget to be running around buying new sofas on a whim at the advent of a new season, but chromatic updates don’t have to be extensive. They can be as simple as a vibrantly hued accent wall in your living room or a fresh coat of paint to give an old table new life.
The best thing about spring colour trends for 2019 is that each hue is completely adaptable to both large-scale changes and smaller design updates.
With the changing season in mind, our interior design team here at ASK and New frontier developments, have used some of the leading textures, colours and accessories to creative our latest Executive rooms ,released this spring, boasting the latest colour trends. From the bold to the demure, there is a fresh, vibrant feeling in how we are creating luxury, affordable comfortable living space here at ASK, though you may notice a few colours, in particular, are gaining widespread attention


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What can we do to keep ourselves healthy during the current Coronavirus pandemic?
Firstly, we encourage everyone keep up to date with the latest recommendations issued by the UK government and the World Health Organisation. Please follow the guidelines for self-isolation if you or anyone in your household experience symptoms associated with the virus to protect others in the community, especially the elderly and other vulnerable people.
The best way to reduce the likelihood that you will come into contact with the virus is to practice good hygiene and social distancing. Ideally, starting at least a couple of weeks ago!
However, many people will contract the virus (or already have), in which case the strength of their immune system, and their general level of health will play a part in determining the severity of their symptoms. General health and wellbeing is what we’re all about, and we recognise that there’s no one-size-fits-all lifestyle, dietary change, supplement or traditional remedy that will benefit everyone. However, here are a few basics to help keep you sane and healthy over the coming weeks and months:
- Engage in gentle daily exercise and stretching – especially important if you’re stuck at home.
- Learn some breathing exercises, qigong or yoga – great for helping to reduce stress in these stressful times.
- Keep in contact with friends and family on the phone or via Skype/Facetime. Especially keep in touch with any elderly or vulnerable people who are having to self-isolate for an extended period of time.
- Stay well hydrated.
- Eat well – simple, fresh, seasonal, home-cooked foods are generally a good way to go – there’s plenty more about this on our blog.
- Understand your own constitution and tendencies and eat, move and live in such a way as to keep them in balance. This is something we can help you with.
We’re offering remote consultations during this time to reach people who are self-isolating or otherwise unable to get to us.

domain: health


Projects Begin on Monday, April 11
INDIANAPOLIS – As Citizens Energy Group continues to invest in its wastewater and water systems, upcoming work will result in road closures and lane restrictions on the southeast side of Indianapolis beginning on Monday, April 11. In all project areas, commuters should exercise caution and follow posted detour signage.
English Ave. and E. Pleasant Run Parkway N. Dr.
Sewer rehabilitation work will result in the closure of English Ave. between Lakewood Dr. and S. Sherman Dr. Additionally, E. Pleasant Run Parkway N. Dr. between English Ave. and S. Gale St. also will be closed (see map). Work will begin on Monday, April 11 and last for approximately two months. Local access will remain open.
E. Pleasant Run Parkway N. Dr.
Sewer rehabilitation work will result in the closure of E. Pleasant Run Parkway N. Dr. between Keystone Ave. and Prospect St. (see map). Work will begin on Monday, April 11 and last for approximately three months. Local access will remain open.
Prospect St. and Dequincy St.
Water system work will result in daytime (7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.) road closures of portions of Prospect St. between Southeastern Ave. and Dequincy St. Work will begin on Wednesday, April 13 and will last for approximately one month. Following the completion of the Prospect St. work, daytime lane restrictions will take place on portions of Dequincy St. between Prospect St. and Terrace Ave. (see map). That work also will last for approximately one month. Local access will remain open.
We know construction is never without its challenges, and we greatly appreciate your patience. For more information on Citizens’ construction projects, visit www.CitizensEnergyGroup.com/Construction.
About Citizens Energy Group
Citizens Energy Group provides safe and reliable utility services to about 900,000 people in the Indianapolis area. Citizens operates its utilities for the benefit of customers and the community.


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HOW TO OUTLINE AN EFFECTIVE SCREENPLAY
There is no magic formula when it comes to structuring your screenplay, however there are some essential items you should include. When I go to write a script, I start with a very basic idea and outline to see where it goes. I start with genre, add a character and then figure out the adventure I take them on. From these elements, I’m able to build out the story.
After identifying genre, character and adventure, I set a 25% goal for my character to work towards and build it out. The 25% mark gets your character on the adventure and into the actual story that is being told. This gives us some direction and a better understanding of what the story is and who is in it.
As I outline my way to that 25% mark, I fill my story with several characters outside of my main character which was established early on. This helps bring the story to life but I need to give these characters qualities so I know who they are and how they will interact with each other throughout. This is the most important part of the process.
Character work can seem daunting but there’s a simple technique you can use to help build them out quickly. I like to call this, the game of opposites. Starting with the main character, figure out their flaws and a few characteristics. Also think about your adventure and give them a quality that plays against that adventure. For example, if the adventure is a love story, maybe your character has commitment issues.
Once you finish work on the main character, move onto the other players. Work on their characteristics but try to make them opposite of the main character. Again, if your main character has commitment issues, then his love interest doesn’t. If your character is afraid of heights, the love interest isn’t. If the main character is an introvert, the love interest is an extrovert.
With our characters built out, we can work through the second act of our outline.
At this point I typically set a 50% goal and work towards it. I keep in mind that I need to move my character towards the goal and slowly away from their flaws. I also consider the ending. If I want a happy ending, I set a 50% goal that’s also something good and happy. If I want a sad ending, I set my 50% goal as something bad for my character.
After working to my 50% goal, the job gets easier. I develop out any new characters that may show up and then set a 75% goal. Again, I must keep in mind that we are moving away from the flaws and towards the goal. If it’s a happy story, then the 75% mark is sad or ends on a down note. Opposite if it’s a sad story.
Outlining to 75%, we either need to hit rock bottom or touch the heavens. In a happy story, you need to seem as though your character lost and will NEVER achieve their goal. Opposite holds true for a sad story. This is all to set up the audience for an emotional wave, overcoming them in act 3.
As we reach act 3, your character has officially overcome their flaws and won the day. It’s time to wrap this thing up and hand the gift off to the audience.
I set my act 3 goal, again keeping in mind whether it's a happy or sad story, and work towards it. The other thing we need to remember is answering any questions that might still be out there. We don’t want to leave any gaps in our story that shouldn’t be there. It’s time to make the story complete.
The simple steps above are exactly how I approach outlining a screenplay. Upon finishing the outline, I determine any modifications I want to make to the story and finalize the idea. If I like it, I write the script. If I hate it, I start over!
The steps are listed below.
Set genre, character, adventure
Outline to 25%, getting us to the adventure
Outline to 50%, moving away from flaws and keeping in mind happy vs. sad story
Outline to 75%, overcoming flaws and keeping in mind happy vs. sad story
Outline to completion, answering any last questions
If the above remains unclear, you can get a more in depth look as I walk through the process, step by step, in my screenwriting seminar.
Do you have a similar method? How do you approach an outline? I’d love to hear about your methods in the comments!


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NEW YORK - The Empire State Building blinked red this week as New York became ground zero in the international battle against the coronavirus - a siren not just for battered Manhattan but for state and local authorities across the country racing to avoid a similar fate. New cases this week drove the state's total above 75,000, surpassing China's Hubei province, where the virus emerged in December. The grim milestone was recorded as Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, acknowledged having underestimated how overwhelming the situation would become. "It's more dangerous than we expected," he said. That miscalculation, made especially stark by the rapid rate of infection in densely populated New York City, has forced the state to transform itself. Officials have sought to outpace a mounting death toll by pooling resources, erecting field hospitals, coaxing health-care workers out of retirement, pleading for reinforcements and desperately angling to outbid other states for lifesaving breathing devices and other equipment. But New York is running out of time, quickly approaching an expected apex of cases. Exactly when that peak will arrive is the "$64,000 question," Cuomo told reporters this week, saying the range of available models suggested that the state had seven to 21 days to prepare for the worst. The tight window will be a critical test of how quickly the state can relieve its overwhelmed hospitals, which have already been directed to increase their capacity by 50% while being enlisted in an ambitious burden-sharing plan spanning the state's public and private systems. The small window will also accelerate efforts to screen volunteers to maximize health-care staffs; 78,000 in-state medical workers came forward to help. "I am really nervous about possibly being called to work, actually, as I do have three kids at home, and my parents also live with me, and they are both in their 70s, but it feels like my duty as a nurse to be there in an emergency," Melissa Ferrara, a nurse practitioner from White Plains, New York, said, explaining why she offered her assistance. The critical period will also test the supply chain for coveted medical equipments Cuomo said he was looking as far away as China to locate new ventilators, including 17,000 from the original epicenter of the virus. The test, however, is not New York's alone. The travails are being closely watched across the country, as the escalating emergency in New York adds fuel to preparations in many states as well as scores of cities, especially those already buffeted by severe outbreaks. In California, more than 25,000 health-care workers signed up in 24 hours to supplement hospital staffs, Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said Tuesday. Maryanne Bombaugh, president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, said 24,000 volunteers had stepped up since the weekend. The effort to certify their credentials illustrated how the pandemic was requiring improvisation on a massive scale. Forty-two states have waived licensure requirements for physicians to practice across state lines. In New York, about 175 people were involved in running background checks and sorting volunteers by region and specialty, according to Jim Malatras, president of Empire State College and a member of the governor's coronavirus task force. He said in-state volunteers would be assigned to hospitals by Thursday. "In normal life it can take months," Bombaugh said. "Hopefully it will be expedited to be much quicker than that. How fast? I don't know." Nationally, there were additional hurdles, including to the construction of pop-up medical facilities. The owner of the shuttered Hahnemann Hospital in Philadelphia asked the city to pay market value for use of the location, said the city's managing director, Brian Abernathy. Instead, the city sought quarantine space at a Holiday Inn Express, and was in talks with five other hotels. It was also beginning to build a field hospital at Temple University's basketball arena. "We're watching New York City's hospitals become overwhelmed by the number of cases that they're seeing, and they're standing up resources in the midst of a surge," Abernathy said. "Our hope is that those resources are stood up before a surge actually happens." President Donald Trump on Tuesday praised Samaritan's Purse, an evangelical disaster-aid organization that erected tents for a 68-bed hospital in a meadow in Manhattan's Central Park. "They did it so fast," he remarked. The site had eight ventilators and was staffed by more than 70 clinicians. These "Christian doctors and nurses" from across the country will administer intensive care for patients with respiratory problems and will also "pray for each patient," said Franklin Graham, the group's president and son of the influential minister Billy Graham. Samaritan's Purse workers must agree with a statement of faith that, among other things, disavows same-sex marriage. Non-coronavirus patients will be cared for at the 1,000-bed USNS Comfort, which docked in New York this week, as well as the 2,500-bed site built at Manhattan's Javits Center convention hall. Construction of similar but smaller facilities is underway elsewhere throughout the metropolitan area, including a makeshift 350-bed facility at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center - home to the U.S. Open - that will receive patients from Queens's Elmhurst Hospital. Workers there were overwhelmed by coronavirus patients in late March. Cuomo, in outlining the public-private hospital plan, said the objective is to distribute burdens over the state's web of medical systems. When one of New York City's 11 public hospitals becomes "overrun," he said, patients will be transferred to another public hospital "immediately . . . on a daily basis." Hospitals that exceed a "load threshold" are eligible to transfer patients to hospitals with vacant beds, he said. Private medical centers in New York will do the same, including the transfer of patients into hospitals owned by their competitors, easing people through a health-care system that the governor described as "Balkanized." Coronavirus patients already have been moved upstate from New York City to Albany Medical Center, Cuomo said Wednesday. "The distinction of private-public, that has to go out the window," Cuomo has said. "We are one health-care system." It is unclear whether other states may follow this radical model. In addition to transferring patients to areas with vacant beds, officials said, the network will pool equipment and staff where needed across the state. The state has asked upstate New York facilities for volunteers to work in the coronavirus epicenter in the south. A main priority, officials said, is assisting Elmhurst Hospital and other hard-hit medical centers. A "command center" overseen by the state's health department began operations Tuesday and will make the potentially life-or-death decisions about the transfer of supplies, ventilators and patients. Its duties will include setting patient thresholds, monitoring supplies and acting as a central purchaser. Throughout the country, officials said they were aiming to move just as quickly as their counterparts in New York. San Francisco, which has held off a rapid surge of cases, opened its emergency operations center on Jan. 24, according to Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of the Department of Emergency Management. "What New York tells us to do is keep moving forward and be as prepared as we possibly can," she said. The lesson was similar in Detroit, which recorded nearly two dozen additional deaths between Monday and Tuesday. "We're anticipating similar demands here," said Charlene Babcock, an emergency physician who traveled to Washington last week to demonstrate to members of government how to split a ventilator among multiple patients, which recently became necessary in New York as resources grew thin. Babcock predicted that Michigan, which had reported 9,334 cases as of Wednesday, was one to two weeks behind New York in the severity of the outbreak. The state's Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, had already moved to relax scope-of-practice rules and accepted a recommendation from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to repurpose the TCF Center, home of Detroit's North American International Auto Show, as a field hospital. Nationally, however, only seven alternative sites had been fully approved and contracted as of Tuesday, according to an Army Corps of Engineers planning document obtained by The Washington Post. They included four in New York and three in Illinois. Four would be equipped to treat patients sickened with covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, while the remaining three would absorb patients with other illnesses to relieve traditional hospitals. By Tuesday, more than 500 assessments had been requested across the country, and 421 of them had already been completed, according to the document. Eight sites were pending a contract. - - - Stanley-Becker reported from Washington.


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We recently learned that there would be no slowing down the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) under the leadership of Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt at the EPA. So what’s that going to mean for the American economy? One area to keep an eye on is fuel prices which have recently been driven to crowd-pleasing lows because of surging American energy production. But with the RFS still going strong, requirements for biodiesel in particular are likely to cause problems.
One aspect of this complicated puzzle is the fact that the United States is now proposing even higher anti-dumping duties on imported biodiesel. This started in August and the trend is likely to continue. (NACS)
Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Commerce imposed preliminary duties on biodiesel shipments from Argentina and Indonesia. This is the result of a trade case brought by the National Biodiesel Board and 15 domestic biodiesel producers. The National Biodiesel Board received early notification because the trade association is a party to the trade case. The department has not yet formally announced this decision in the Federal Register.
The agency found that Argentina and Indonesia set up subsidies in violation of international trade laws and that penalties are needed to even out prices. This ruling is preliminary, which means that companies importing biodiesel from Argentina and Indonesia will have to pay a cash deposit on the imports to the United States to cover potential future penalties. Cash deposit rates will range from 50.29% to 64.17% of the value of Argentinian biodiesel and from 41.06% to 68.28% for product from Indonesia.
Foreign countries heavily subsidizing their exports is always bad for the American economy (one reason we need smarter trade deals), but in this case we’ve been shooting ourselves in the foot. There’s no reason for any significant demand for biodiesel in the United States other than the Renewable Fuel Standard mandates. We wouldn’t need to worry about imposing tarrifs such as this if we weren’t importing it.
The fact is that our imports of crude oil and LNG (natural gas products) have plummeted since 2009, but our imports of biodiesel have gone up by a factor of seven in the same time period. This chart is from Smarter Fuel Future.
Why does this matter? Because even without imposing duties on the imports, biodiesel is already stupidly more expensive than petroleum diesel. (On average $1.36 more per gallon.) Considering how much of it we import, it’s only going to get more expensive with these new duties being imposed.
Again, we wouldn’t be using all of this biodiesel if it weren’t for the Renewable Fuel Standard. As demand goes down, supply goes up and prices go down. But right now, we’re in the reverse situation because the government has created an artificial demand for biodiesel and Argentina and Indonesia are only all too glad to supply it.
Here’s a quote from Marlo Lewis at the Competitive Enterprise Institute which should give everyone pause:
This sort of cheating is inevitable when the U.S. government subsidizes domestic biofuel companies via the RFS, which forces consumers to buy biodiesel in increasing quantities, whether they want to or not. The RFS is a reversion to Soviet-style central planning. Tariffs on subsidized imports further subsidize U.S. biofuel manufacturers. Result: U.S. consumers get fleeced twice.
And we’re doing all of this for what? To keep the Senators and congressmen from a few corn producing states happy? I understand that President Trump promised to support the RFS on the campaign trail when he was trying to win in Iowa, but every leader is obligated to at least look at new information when it becomes available and may sometimes need to modify their positions. The RFS is a horrible deal for America. It always has been. And we have the chance to do something about it if a bit of sanity can prevail at the White House.

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Adani Agri Fresh acquired approximately 2,500 tonnes of apples from farmers inside the first three days of the acquisition season for these 12 months. The firm witnessed a tremendous acknowledgment from the farmers because the Adani Agri Fresh contributed costs higher than the mandis.
Adani Agri Fresh obtains apples with ‘managed environment amenities’ in Shimla district and benefits it beneath the model identity ‘Farm-Pik'. ‘
The apple procurement season rose in the final week and can go on until the end of October.
Adani Agri Fresh officials at Himachal Pradesh declared that they collected about 1,000 tonnes of apples to about 300 tonnes in prior years on the first day of the procurement season.
“Adani Agri Fresh procures apples per kilogram while they have to sell it per box in the mandis. Farmers are happy to get returns for every gram of apple instead of the size of the box,” the official stated, requesting anonymity.
Adani Agri Fresh got under assault from politicians after some media announced that Adani Agri Fresh has updated apple procurement costs downward this season.
The firm official declared that the mandis are enforced to prolong their apple procurement costs because they render higher offers to the farmers. “Adani Agri Fresh has determined the procurement price in line with the market and interests of farmers,” he added.
The official quoted above mentioned, “Hundreds of traders, commission agents and other middlemen in apple trade. It is farmers’ choice whom they wish to sell their produce. However, they have continued to supply to Adani Agri Fresh that offers prices higher than the mandis, where apple prices have gone down. Besides paying per kilogram, we also offer accurate sorting and grading for price determination, which benefits the farmers immensely,” exposing the experiences by a bit of media and critique by politicians on Adani Agri Fresh’s acquisition costs for the season.
He added that Adani Agri Fresh originated higher farm practices and worldwide elements within the packaging and logistics of apples within the pursuances of each farmer and end-users.
Adani Agri Fresh entered the apple business in Himachal Pradesh about 15 years ago. It offers over 17,000 farmers from Shimla, Kinnaur, and Kullu valleys display throughout 700 villages.
The firm affords pre-and post-harvest advisory to the farmer by its subject workforce and spices up production with intensified high quality. Unlike the standard worth chain in apple buying and selling, farmers should not be dependent on the middlemen and misleading staggered money transactions to promote their apples. The corporate secure them morally and proceeds speedy funds by the online switch.

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I was invited by the Assembly House in Norwich to create my own exhibition based around anything I liked.
Along with four other friends who I studied with at Norwich University College of the Arts, we themed the exhibition around the concept of the Ark.
The reasoning behind this was that despite our stylistic differences at art school, we all loved depicting animals in our imagery. We also all enjoyed incorporating vibrant colours and pattern into our work. The story of the Ark immediately sprang to mind. We just wanted a fun theme which would incorporate well with our work.
As shown here, I am still predominantly working in acrylic and pencil.
I particularly enjoyed integrating small references to rainfall in my work. It has inspired me to create future projects involving water/raindrops/transparency.
Here is the address of the exhibition if you have time to come view it.
June 2 - 30, 2011
The Noverre Gallery
All the work in this displayed project is my own.
June-July will see the set up of my website and this summer I am sending out promotional materials with all new work.


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Jude G. Akudinobi, UC Santa Barbara
African cinema, given its originative ethos as a revolutionary cinema, has largely favored ideological contestations and ‘social realist’ paradigms of representation. As will be shown, using Pumzi (Wanuri Kahui, Kenya, 2009), contemporary African cinema has evolved from the foundational predilections to richly diverse conceptual, thematic and aesthetic registers. With this film and, notably, engaging the unwieldy genre of science-fiction, Kahui extends African cinema’s penchant for the provocative by posing its fascinating narrative as a parable for and cautionary tale about contemporary global concerns. Thus, through the film’s evocative post-apocalyptic realms, she explores questions of gender, power, humanity, scientific inquiry, resource control, environmental sustainability and, crucially, Africa’s future.
PUMZI: A 20 minute Sci-Fi film about futuristic Africa, 35 years after World War III: “The Water War”.
Nature is extinct. The outside is dead. Asha lives and works as a museum curator in one of the indoor communities set up by the Maitu Council. When she receives a box in the mail containing soil, she plants an old seed in it and the seed starts to germinate instantly. Asha appeals to the Council to grant her permission to investigate the possibility of life on the outside but the Council denies her exit visa. Asha breaks out of the inside community to go into the dead and derelict outside to plant the growing seedling and possibly find life on the outside.
Jude G. Akudinobi earned his PhD in Cinema-Television from the University of Southern California and he teaches at UC Santa Barbara. His research interests span the complexities of post-colonial literatures, cultural politics, media and cinematic representations, merges theory with practice through poetry, fiction, screenplays, and experimentations with the expressive capacities of the cinematic medium. President of the Advisory Board for African Voices Cinema Series, he has consulted for production companies, reviewed for scholarly journals and presses, served on film festival juries, delivered keynote lectures, and been a special guest at various distinguished workshops, seminars, and conferences
NEW APPROACHES TO AFRICAN CINEMA
Monday African Seminar Series (MAAS)
UCLA African Studies Center, Co-sponsored by the Mellon Postdoctural Program "Cultures in Transnational Perspectives."
Faculty Coordinators: Francoise Lionnet
MASS Winter 2012
What does African cinema contribute to a better understanding of global aesthetics and to film studies in general? What is specific about the field of African visual media and what are some of the new conceptual and interpretive issues that confront its scholars today? The series showcases the work of three critics who will take turn focusing on questions of memory and trauma (Sheila Petty), fantasy and science fiction (Jude Akudinobi), power, control, and biopolitics (Akin Adesokan).
The historical and the social, gender and the environment, and the serious new challenges posed to the poetic imagination by neoliberal authoritarianism are some of the topics that will be explored. This is a unique opportunity to learn more about established and emerging filmmakers, from Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Angola, and Kenya, who draw from rich multilingual traditions and challenge viewers to rethink their relation to global genres.
Monday, February 6, 10367 Bunche Hall
“Sites of Memory in Sub-Saharan African Cinema”
Sheila Petty, University of Regina
Tuesday, February 21, 10383 Bunche Hall.
"Expanding Horizons: Pumzi, Science Fiction and African Cinema"
Jude G. Akudinobi, UC Santa Barbara
Thursday, February, 23, 6275 Bunche Hall
“The Arte Wave”
Manthia Diawara, NYU
Monday, February 27, 10383 Bunche Hall
“Framing Biopolitics: Jo Ramaka's Cinema of Power”
Akinwumi Adesokan, Indiana University
Monday, March 12, 10383 Bunche Hall
"Azmari in Hollywood"
Leelai Demoz, Filmmaker
Cost: Free and open to the public; pay-by-space and all-day parking ($11) available in lot 3.
Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, Co-sponsored by the Mellon Postdoctoral Program "Cultures in Transnational Perspective."
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The FMCSA Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse officially went live on January 6th, 2020. The purpose of the FMCSA's Clearinghouse is to improve highway safety by reducing crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving commercial motor vehicles. To accomplish this mission of enhancing safety on our nation's thousands of miles of highways, CMV drivers and their employers are now required to register drivers' alcohol and drug violations on a federal clearinghouse. That clearinghouse will then need to be consulted before drivers are officially deemed fit to operate a commercial vehicle.
While the clearinghouse rule has been in effect for almost six months, it's also been a very challenging time in America over that time span. Between COVID-19 shutdowns and consistent political unrest, it's safe to say the FMCSA clearinghouse hasn’t been the first thing on everyone's mind. If you’re a CMV professional who hasn’t had the time to fully understand the new rule and how to follow it, this article has got you covered.
Here’s everything you need to know about the FMCSA drug and alcohol clearinghouse.
As we explained in the paragraphs above, the main goal of the FMCSA's Clearinghouse is to save lives by reducing crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving commercial motor vehicles. Both the FMCSA and the U.S government recognized the startlingly high number of highway accidents, and to combat the problem, congress directed the Secretary of Transportation to establish the new Clearinghouse rule.
The Clearinghouse is one part of a larger mission that's intended to educate, enforce, and partner with other areas of the transportation industry, and hold drivers and employers accountable for dangerous drug and alcohol violations. Authorized users will be required to report drug and alcohol violations, either their own violations or those of their employees, in order to improve highway safety.
We’ve established that the new rule pertains to alcohol and drug violations, but what, exactly, classifies as a violation?
Violations that must be reported on the Clearinghouse will include Positive DOT drug test results, DOT alcohol results of 0.04 BAC and above, refusals to submit to DOT tests, Instances of alcohol use within four hours prior to performing a "safety-sensitive” function, and alcohol use prior to post-accident alcohol testing. These violations will be reported by the employer, the employee’s medical review officer, or a third-party administrator in order to ensure transparency and accuracy.
When the Clearinghouse rule was first introduced, there was a fair amount of confusion regarding the specifics of exactly how CMV employers and drivers can, and should, properly follow the guidelines. That’s why we decided to launch Clearinghouse Navigator.
Clearinghouse Navigator simplifies the FMCSA's Clearinghouse requirement by combining carefully developed eLearning solutions, answers to frequently asked questions, a vast resource of knowledge-base articles and so much more. Clearinghouse Navigator has every necessary resource for CMV and related professionals to learn, implement, and follow the new rule.
The country is United behind improving highway safety, and the FMCSA drug and alcohol clearinghouse is a major first step towards doing that. In the long run, we'll all benefit from this new rule.
*For answers to more FAQs, visit Clearinghouse Navigators’ FAQ page.*


New airline powdair announces routes from Sion
powdair has announced its new operating routes from Sion in the Valais region of Switzerland that include two flights a week from Manchester Airport.
The airline, that commences flights from December 2017 onwards, will significantly cut transfer times to some of Switzerland’s most popular ski resorts for winter sports enthusiasts with prices averaging at around £140 each way including ski carriage.
Manchester Airport will have flights departing on Thursdays and Saturdays – every week, commencing on Saturday 16th December, 2017.
Head of Marketing and Customer Experience, Zoë Ombler, comments: “following a period of consultation between our management team and by popular demand from our market research, we are delighted to announce that Manchester Airport will serve our route to Sion, Switzerland this winter. We know there’s a healthy community of skiers and snowboarders in the North West region and many people we spoke to were excited at the prospect of flying into the heart of the Alps, to an airport not currently serviced by anyone else.”
Commercial Director for Manchester Airport, Stephen Turner, said: “We are delighted to welcome powdair to Manchester Airport, I am sure they will prove a popular choice with skiers from our catchment area.
“With 26.5m passengers, and constantly adding new routes and airlines like powdair, we will continue to aim to provide as much choice and direct routes as possible for all traveller types, be those looking for ski, snow, sun or sea.”
Online ticket sales will be available soon.


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Mailers and printers are watching a recent spate of late mail deliveries in the Southwest and West, as well as reports of mail being delivered at night.
Reports surfaced last month that areas in California and New Mexico were having regular delays of one or two days, and in some cases four. In other cases, mail was being delivered to residences as late as 10 p.m.
Steve LeNoir, president of the National League of Postmasters, said service has taken a beating in the two states because of hiring issues. LeNoir said the league has been working on these problems at the local and national level and met with officials at postal headquarters last week.
“Many carriers are out until 9 p.m. or even past 10 p.m. delivering mail,” he said.
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA, ranking minority member on the House Committee on Government Reform, and chairman Tom Davis, R-VA, cited problems in the Los Angeles area in a Jan. 31 letter to Postmaster General John E. Potter.
“Customers have complained of receiving mail late in the evening; other accounts involve misdirected mail and personnel shortages in postal facilities,” the letter said.
Waxman and Davis also asked Potter to provide information on staffing, plant closures and delivery schedules in advance of the committee's oversight hearing on the U.S. Postal Service, set for Feb. 16.
Waxman wants to know what percentage of mail in the Los Angeles area is being delivered after 5 p.m. He also has requested data on staffing levels over the past three years, copies of customer complaint logs and any analyses of cost savings related to plant closings.
“We would like to better understand precisely why service standards in the area appear to have dropped,” the letter said. “In addition, we would like to examine whether similar patterns are occurring elsewhere in the United States.”
The letter also said postal officials have acknowledged problems and pledged to take steps to remedy them, including earlier start times for carriers, hiring more personnel and improving mail processing.
USPS spokesman Gerry McKiernan said officials are “conducting numerous route adjustment studies in the Los Angeles area with an eye toward improving service there.” He also said Potter promised New Mexico's senators that their state would get better service. Republican Pete Domenici and Democrat Jeff Bingaman approached Potter after hearing complaints from constituents about long lines and late mail in Albuquerque as well as service concerns in Santa Fe and Las Cruces.
McKiernan said the problem is holiday related.
“Businesses obviously increase their mail during the holidays, and then there is an adjustment in the period that follows,” he said. “We are also trying to look at whether there is an increase in Standard mail in those areas so we can make adjustments accordingly.”
Another factor is that 2 million addresses were added last year, mostly in warmer areas of the country.
“Basically, we are seeing more mail, and it is not being evenly distributed on routes,” McKiernan said.
Large printers are monitoring the situation.
“We have noticed — and our customers have told us of — some late deliveries and some delayed Standard mail deliveries in pockets in the West,” said Michael J. Winn, director of postal affairs at R.R. Donnelley & Sons Inc., Chicago. “Right now, the West Coast is in the spotlight.”
Winn agreed with the postal service's assessment that the USPS simply has more addresses to deliver to.
“There are some very simple facts that make it a challenge for the postal service to always have consistent deliveries,” Winn said. “The fact is they are adding 2 million delivery points a year, and they are constantly shifting the network to compensate for that.”
A published list designates sites that are under consideration for consolidation or closing, he said, and “that gives you an indication that their network is constantly in flux, and they are constantly deploying automation to handle all the volumes they are getting.
“To me, it's like trying to remodel your kitchen while you are cooking Thanksgiving dinner. You can't stop. You have to keep doing what you are doing, but at the same time make big changes.”
McKiernan, however, said that the plant consolidations were unrelated to the delivery delays on the West Coast.
“We've noticed that deliveries have been about a day or two behind in the Southwest and West and also in some other areas of the country,” said Joseph E. Schick, director of postal affairs at Quad/Graphics Inc., Sussex, WI. “At this time of year, when volumes are down, that can be significant. [Still,] it hasn't gotten to the point where I'd have to bring the issue up at headquarters.”
Schick said he addressed the issue with the postal service's business service network, which offers large business mailers personalized service and help.
A representative from another large printer who requested anonymity said the West Coast delivery problem has arisen in “nearly every industry meeting over the past few months, and it is becoming problematic. One publisher says it takes two weeks for a magazine to get delivered in California.”
Kate Muth, vice president of the Association for Postal Commerce, said the delivery problems only exacerbate the need for performance measurements for more classes of mail. The USPS tracks service performance only for single-piece First-Class mail.
“If there were delivery performance measurements for Standard mail and Periodicals, there wouldn't be as much speculation,” she said. “Folks would know where the problems are, and it would provide a snapshot of the trouble spots or where things are running smoothly. Standard mail is where the growth in the system is, and Periodicals mail is the consumers' anchor to the mailbox. You certainly can't afford to lose these classes of mail to service problems.”
Muth said the association supports the postal service's efforts to address the issues of efficiencies, “but it can't be at the expense of service.”
Melissa Campanelli covers postal news, CRM and database marketing for DM News and DMNews.com. To keep up with the latest developments in these areas, subscribe to our daily and weekly e-mail newsletters by visiting www.dmnews.com/newsletters


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In a previous blog, we talked about understanding new customer move-ins. But what about existing customer move-outs? This “flip side” key performance index (KPI) is equally important to understand, because it is about losing customers as they decide to move out.
Analyzing the same data as before, we are looking at a self-storage operator who has experienced relatively stable occupancy for the past 18 months. We highlighted several core KPI’s of especially strong interest based on revenue per square foot.
We talked about how revenue per square foot (when based on total square feet of a facility) is often a good, and easily understood metric for total revenue. It “normalizes” revenue, so it is often a more robust metric when used in trend analysis. For existing customer move-outs, we look at two aspects of revenue per square foot:
- Based only on occupied units.
- Based on existing customer move-outs.
Analyzing Move-Outs in Isolation
If we strictly focus on the purple line, existing customer move-outs, we see that it bumps along with ups and downs depending on month:
- Notice increases in move-out revenue (loss) on January, March, June, August, October, December of 2021, and February 2022.
- Conversely, there were decreases move-outs in the month or months following.
- There are no observable cyclicality in the data presented. There was an increase in move-outs in January 2021, followed by a dip in February. The opposite is true in 2022, where there was a dip in January, followed by an increase in February.
- However, the overall move-out trend is in an upward trajectory. That means the losses of move-out revenue over time is increasing. In isolation, this would be an disconcerting trend. As we shall see, this may not be the case.
Analyzing Move-Outs Relative to Occupied Units.
If we look at move-out data compared to occupied data, the black line, a different perspective emerges:
- Occupied revenues per square foot has steadily increased over time. That is a good thing, as the operator is able to gain more revenue per square foot over time, as long as the trend exceeds that of inflation.
- Looking again back to move-out revenues (loss), it makes sense that those revenues will increase over time as well. Those higher revenue occupied units, when customers move out, will likewise result in a higher loss of revenues as well.
What if Move-Out and Occupied Revenues Trend in Opposite Directions?
We noted there were months where move-out revenues increased over the previous month. In this case, profitability will take a hit. Existing customers of units yielding higher revenue per square foot are moving out more. It is worthwhile to consider why.
- Are rent increases too aggressive for those already higher-paying customers?
- Or is it a delayed response to a previous, lower move-out month?
- If there were observable cycles, that could explain increases (and decreases). However, based on the data, this is not the case.
We also noted there were months where move-out revenues decreased over the previous month. This is good for profits, and it’s worthwhile to identify factors to replicate this scenario.
- What were the rent increases during that month?
- Which particular type of unit were rent increases made, and which ones were the move-outs?
- Could rents have been increased a bit more to further profitability?
- What were the rent increase “tipping points” where, if exceeded, would push a increase in move-out revenues, the bad-for-profit scenario.
Looking at customer move-outs is a continuation of a data-drive approach. By truly understanding the factors driving the data, operators can significantly improve their overall revenues, and thereby profits, over time.
In a future blog, we will see the interplay between occupied unit revenues, new customer move-ins, and existing customer move-outs.

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The Government of India has invited nominations/applications for the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar (RVP) 2024 from individuals or in teams in various fields of science, technology and technology led innovation.
The Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar is a means to recognise and honour outstanding and inspiring scientific, technological and innovative contributions of researchers, technologists and innovators.
Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar Details
Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar shall be given in following four categories:
Vigyan Ratna (VR): Maximum three awards to be bestowed to recognize lifetime achievements & contributions made in given field of Science and Technology.
Vigyan Shri (VS): Maximum of 25 awards to be given to recognize the distinguished contributions in given field of Science and Technology.
Vigyan Yuva: Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (VY-SSB) award: Maximum of 25 awards to be given to recognize and encourage young scientists who made an exceptional contribution in given field of Science and Technology.
Vigyan Team (VT) award: Maximum of three awards may be awarded to a team comprising of three or more scientists/researchers/innovators who have made an exceptional contribution working in a team in given field of Science and Technology.
The Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar shall be given in the following 13 domains, namely: Physics, Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Mathematics & Computer Science, Earth Science, Medicine, Engineering Sciences, Agricultural Science, Environmental Science, Technology & Innovation, Atomic Energy, Space Science and Technology, and others.
The nominations for this bouquet of awards are invited on Award Portal of Ministry of Home Affairs (https://awards.gov.in/) from January 14 to February 28, 2024. The awards this year are being coordinated by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) under the Ministry of Science and Technology.
The awards shall be announced on May 11 (National Technology Day). The Award Ceremony for all categories of awards will be held on 23rd August 2024 (National Space Day), reported PIB.