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WICHITA, Kan.—Rosenblatt Stadium had a way of sneaking up on you, even if you were expecting it. One moment you’d be lazily climbing a hill through a working-class Omaha neighborhood on 10th Street, and the next instant Rosenblatt’s royal blue facade would be stretching skyward in front of you, monolithic against the horizon.
Wichita’s Eck Stadium does that, too. Like Rosenblatt, it has a larger-than-life quality, and it dominates its surrounding area. The first thing people always comment on about Eck Stadium is the height of the thing.
“The stadium kind of reminds me of the University of Texas,” said Todd Butler, Wichita State’s first-year head coach. “It’s up, it’s on top of the pitcher and the catcher. When you pull up, it’s kind of a shocking stadium—as tall as it is, the top of the press box is almost as high as the light standards.”
The second thing you notice about Eck Stadium is that it is covered with the trappings of its rich history. The Shockers treasure the memories of their seven trips to Rosenblatt from 1982 to 1996, and they celebrate their tradition in three giant murals above the concourse behind home plate; in trophies displayed in the All-American club that sits atop the press box; in banners saluting each of their 55 All-Americans lining the walls of their large indoor practice complex; and in the grand entry plaza known as the Ring of Honor that greets visitors outside Eck Stadium.
In the center of that Ring of Honor is a statue of a boy with a baseball glove and cap. He stands on a brick pedestal that is adorned with plaques on three sides. The plaque on the front says, “Gene Stephenson’s Wichita State University All-Americans.” The second says, “Gene Stephenson’s Wichita State University Freshman All-Americans.” The third says, “Gene Stephenson’s Wichita State University Scholastic All-Americans.” All three plaques are topped by bronzed carvings of Stephenson’s face, with his familiar mustache and stylized “W” cap.
Stephenson’s fingerprints—and his face—are all over Eck Stadium, of course. He was hired in 1977 to resuscitate a program that had been dormant since 1970, and had never been to the NCAA tournament. When he left his post as an assistant at Oklahoma—where he’d been a part of four College World Series teams in five years—he was told repeatedly by every coach and scout he knew that he didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of ever building a winning program at Wichita State.
Three years later, Stephenson had the Shockers in a regional. Five years in, they were national runners-up. In 1989, Stephenson led Wichita State to the school’s lone national title in any sport, before or since. He spent 36 years at Wichita State, winning 1,837 games (the second-most in Division I history). And last June, with a year left on his contract, he was fired—after leading the Shockers to a regional.
People around the program say they saw it coming. WSU had missed regionals three straight years before 2013, and the program hadn’t been to Omaha since 1996. Even the memories of Wichita’s back-to-back trips to super regionals in 2007 and ’08 were starting to fade. But Stephenson, 68, wasn’t ready to retire, not yet. He had a veteran team coming back in 2014—his best club since 2008, as he saw it—and he wanted a chance to make one more run at Omaha in the final year of his contract. But the administration was ready for a change and wasn’t willing to wait another year. The breakup was messy, and Stephenson said he was “devastated” by it for several weeks.
“For obvious reasons, for whatever it’s worth, I was humiliated and embarrassed over the way this whole deal went down, the way it was handled,” Stephenson said. “I think I was wronged, but you can’t change things. All you can do is think, somewhere, somehow, some good will happen. Right now, at least, I feel good, and at least I can do a lot of things very well for some people who might want me.
“Of course I wish it had been different here. All I can tell you is I’m probably the first guy who’s ever been fired for never having a losing season and winning the conference championship and going to the NCAA tournament. If they wanted to get rid of me, I would have lived with that, that’s fine. But at least give me some dignity and allow me to finish out the year, announce my retirement.”
So Butler found himself in a delicate spot after taking over as Stephenson’s successor. He must walk the fine line between celebrating Wichita State’s history—and making peace with the donors and alumni who supported Stephenson—and putting his own stamp on the program. He seems to have struck the right balance. He’ll have plenty of years to make his mark at Wichita—there’s no reason to turn his back on the past.
“I credit coach Stephenson,” Butler said. “He recruited me in ’86, so I kept up with the Shockers since 1986. So I have great respect for him and his vision and his commitment to the program. He built all of this, through the help of the city of Wichita and the state. To walk in here, you cannot replace him. But this is a great place. I just want to build on what he’s done, and give him all the recognition of the great things he’s done in the 36 years. We just want to keep building on what he’s done, and get all the former all-Americans and major leaguers involved. It’s going to take a little bit of time, but we’re going to take it one step at a time.”
Brent Kemnitz, Stephenson’s pitching coach for 35 years, found himself in an even more delicate position last summer. He is 11 years Stephenson’s junior, and he had made it clear for some time that he hoped to stay on as pitching coach under whomever eventually replaced Stephenson when he retired. WSU’s athletics director asked Kemnitz to remain in his role as pitching coach after Stephenson was fired, and he even enlisted Kemnitz to help with the coaching search.
Kemnitz said he got to know Butler as a coaching colleague in 1993, when Butler was the head coach of the Jayhawk League’s Liberal Bee Jays, and the Shockers sent some players to Liberal that summer. Butler went on to serve two stints as an assistant at Alabama sandwiched around three years as McNeese State’s head coach, and he joined Dave Van Horn’s staff at Arkansas in 2006. One by one, Butler watched his premier assistant coaching peers get their chances to run major programs, and he started to wonder when his chance would come.
He was near the top of WSU’s list from the beginning of their coaching search. As one of the nation’s best recruiters, Butler won his share of recruiting battles against the Shockers.
“When we recruited against him, it was draining,” Kemnitz said. “My joke when he got here was I knew he could recruit—I just didn’t know he could coach a lick. I’m joking, of course. Talking to my scout buddies in the area, they always said he was one of the best hitting guys around. I think he’s made us all better. He’s a home run hire.”
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It’s certainly an unusual dynamic—the 35-year veteran from the previous coaching staff working alongside the first-year head coach. After Wichita State’s win March 29 against Cal State Fullerton, Kemnitz headed up to the press box for his weekly radio show. He’s something of a radio celebrity in Wichita; from August to January, he appears regularly on a local show called “Sports Daily,” offering up opinions on college and professional basketball and football, and whatever else is happening in the sporting world. At Wichita State’s autograph day, fans kept approaching Kemnitz and telling him they love his radio work. Butler asked him, “Does anybody know you’re a pitching coach? Everybody things you’re a sports radio analyst.”
The two of them have great respect for each other, and their partnership makes plenty of sense. Kemnitz has long been one of the nation’s most respected pitching coaches, and Butler is content to let him run the staff. Butler said he likes the way Kemnitz keeps it simple with players, and he appreciates how Kemnitz has helped ease his own transition. Kemnitz knows what kind of pressure there is to win at Wichita State, and he knows how much fun it can be when the Shockers are winning.
“We’d kind of created our own monster,” Kemnitz said. “The Omaha trips, the super regionals in ’07 and ’08. Then ’10, ’11 and ’12 we didn’t go. So when you create a new watermark of here’s what we expect, there’s people that grumble, because people care. Baseball here is treated like a major sport—I mean, it’s treated big-time. Which is good, because people are into it, it’s a headline in the paper, people are talking about it on talk radio, I have my own radio show. That doesn’t happen. But it’s big time, people love it. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to stay here, because you don’t want to labor in obscurity. The last three or four years, attendance was down, we hadn’t performed to what people expected—still good, still at the top of the league, but our RPI wasn’t getting us in regionals if we didn’t win the tournament.”
Change In Philosophy
When Butler took over, he was stunned to learn that Wichita State had zero players committed from the class of 2014 as of June 16, 2013. These days, major college baseball programs begin recruiting players as young as high school freshmen, and getting commitments from sophomores is fairly common. By the time they head into the summer before their senior years, most of the top players are committed. It’s the nature of college recruiting in the 21st century. But Stephenson balked at the prospect of signing players so early, and he found the idea of signing large classes to cover potential draft losses to be distasteful as well.
“One thing I want you to know we tried to do at Wichita State was never oversign,” Stephenson said. “We always told parents, we tried to take the best care of your young son, we’re going to make him a man and make him the best he can be. You have to take a philosophy, a way of doing things. I just couldn’t go into homes, sit down with parents and sell them that this is the place for them, and oversign a bunch of kids knowing that I had to run some off. I could not do that. Most coaches are saying today they have to do it to win. I don’t believe that—I really don’t. But there’s going to be a change of philosophy at Wichita State, I can already see that.”
Butler said it took him about five or six months to get caught up on the 2014 and ’15 signing classes. There has been plenty of overlap with players he recruited at Arkansas, and his vast network of connections in the Midwest has allowed him to hit the ground running at Wichita State. Kemnitz spearheaded WSU’s recruiting efforts under Stephenson, so between the two of them, they have many years of recruiting contacts and good will built up.
Kemnitz and Stephenson both wonder what could have been if their 2007 recruiting class hadn’t gotten decimated by the draft. If Derek Norris, Jon Gilmore and Pete Kozma had followed through with their commitments to Wichita State, maybe the Shockers would have kept winning regionals, and the fans would have kept filling up Eck Stadium, and Stephenson would still be there.
But Stephenson says that’s crying over spilled milk. After he dealt with the initial shock of being fired, Stephenson challenged himself to turn it into a positive. In October, he had his second back surgery in three years, and he said he is now pain-free for the first time in three years or more. He wants to coach again—he’s not looking to make a lot of money, and he is willing to groom a coach-in-waiting to take over for him when he retires for real—on his terms—in three to five years.
“I started thinking about it, and I thought, ‘You’ve been preaching this; let’s see how you live it.’ If things happen you can’t control, then you can’t change them,” Stephenson said. “You need to work on trying to make good things happen. I’m still trying to make good things happen. I still think I have a lot to offer a lot of people in a multitude of ways.
“A lot of people think we did great things here. One thing that people have always said about us, that are baseball people, is if you go to Wichita State, it may not be the best weather, it may not be the biggest campus life/atmosphere, it may not be the best conference, but all of them said if you go to Wichita State, you’ll leave there a better player and a better man. We never gave up on anyone, we always tried to make the most of every player. So if someone were to make an offer to me about improving their program—I don’t want to start another one like we did here. That was just really, really difficult, and required seven days a week every week of the year for years and years and years, of raising money. All of it that you see there was raised from numerous different times, eight or nine different major improvements there. It took its toll, because it was not easy to do that. We’ll never have that kind of money that the BCS schools have, the major conferences. I think we could have done even more if we’d been freed up to simply coach and work with our players, as opposed to having to raise money all the time.”
Stephenson sounds a bit wistful as he describes all the upgrades he pushed through over the years at Eck Stadium. He takes great pride in the amenities for the fans and the facilities for the players, including the huge indoor practice field, which has the same turf the Shockers use on their outdoor field and features three drop-down batting cages and a full-size infield. As Scott Gurss, Wichita State’s director of baseball operations, gives a tour of the indoor structure, he points out the photos honoring each of WSU’s College World Series teams, and a wall that lists all of the school’s major league alumni—in addition to those 55 banners saluting the All-Americans.
“Everywhere they look, they see the tradition,” Gurss says. “When you’re recruiting kids, they are impressed with the facility. Mom and dad come in and they know all about Shocker baseball and the history. The kids are like, ‘Really? OK.'”
Eck Stadium has a seating capacity of nearly 8,000, and hundreds more can bring their coolers of beer and food through the right-field gate and watch the game from Coleman Hill. Attendance has been very poor this year thanks to poor weather, the basketball team’s success, and the baseball program’s dip over the last few years. But Butler is confident the fans will come back in full force once they realize the Shockers are pretty darn good. They’re 16-11 right now, coming off a big series win against Cal State Fullerton, and they have the balance and experience to be very dangerous in the postseason.
“At Wichita State, just like basketball, they pack it in, and they love a winner like any program in the country,” Butler said. “I think if we can do something with this team—I would really like for this team to be special, and do something special to kick it off. I remember at Alabama in ’95, we go in there and they’d won 19 games, and we went to Omaha in two years and played for a national championship in three. So this first group needs to be that special group to get us back on track. They went to regionals last year, did a fantastic job. And you know we’re recruiting our tails off right now.”
A new chapter of Shocker baseball is underway. Before long, that tall stadium will be packed with people again, roaring at visiting teams.
“If you’re somebody from the outside, and you roll into campus, and you’re like, ‘Wow, look at that stadium.’ Because it goes up,” Kemnitz said. “Which I like, and that’s one thing Todd talks about: Arkansas goes out, and they have great crowds and a great stadium. We go up. I like that. It has more of an intimidating factor. Todd’s big on the bonding and the mental side, and I am too. Just the mystique, we’ve got to get the mystique back. We’ve got to get, when people come in here, they think they can’t beat us—we’ve got to get that back. And the intimidation, and the swagger. We’ve had a lot of talks with the players about that, and I think they’re embracing it.”

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But a headline Wednesday on the official Granma newspaper _ _The Country Will Not Go On Sale_ _ made clear the ...
But a headline Wednesday on the official Granma newspaper _ _The Country Will Not Go On Sale_ _ made clear the communist government_s apprehensions about flinging the doors to foreign investment too wide.
The National Assembly of Peoples_ Power will hold a special session March 29 to analyze the proposed law, it was announced Wednesday. The rubber-stamp parliament, which usually meets only a few days in July and December, has never rejected a bill.
The government_s decision to send the proposal to the Assembly _ the vast majority of measures are enacted by executive decree _ appeared aimed at highlighting its interest in assuring foreigners that investing in Cuba will be safe, transparent and profitable.
Jos__ Luis Toledo Santander, chairman of the constitutional committee of the 612-member parliament that has been reviewing the bill, was quoted earlier this week as saying the proposed law will _reinforce the guarantees_ offered to foreign investors.
More foreign capital means increased productivity and jobs on the island, which will in turn lead to increased exports that bring in hard currency and fewer imports that eat up the money, government officials have said.
Most details of the proposed law remain unknown, but it is expected to address several of the shortcomings of the current foreign investment law. That law was adopted in 1995, as Cuba was first trying to attract western capital following the Soviet Union_s collapse.
Foreign investors are currently limited to 49 percent ownership of joint ventures with the government, must hire from state-run labor pools and pay a 30 percent tax on profits and a 20 percent tax on labor.
Former Minister of the Economy Jos__ Luis Rodr__guez has said that the proposed new law will _broaden the complementary character (to state investments) of the foreign investments_ allowed under the existing law.
And Granma reported Tuesday that Assembly members discussing the bill have highlighted _the certainty that the modifications introduced __ in no way will mean the sale of the country or the return to the past_ capitalist times.
One of the key aspects of the proposed law for Cubans is expected to be the labor regulations, including salaries in a country where the average monthly salary officially stands at about $20.
Cuba reported 402 joint ventures in 2002. But the number plunged after the island, flush with Venezuelan subsidies, began giving preference to Venezuelan and Chinese enterprises and shuttering others for alleged corruption. It now has about 200 joint ventures.
The island_s economy has been all but stagnant for several years, and the violent protests against Venezuelan President Nicol__s Maduro are highlighting the risks of losing the subsidies, including an estimated 115,000 barrels of oil per day.
Cuba reported a 2.7 percent growth in Gross National Product last year, low even though its way of counting GNP exaggerates the figure. Its Gross National Income ranked 26th out of 33 in Latin America and the Caribbean, a U.N report in 2011 showed.
Granma_s report Tuesday quoted Toledo as saying the proposed law _ drafted by the Council of State, akin to a ministerial cabinet _ also will establish a list of investments sought by the government and detail possible tax rebates and exemptions.
The special Economic Development Zone established last year in the port of Mariel west of Havana gives investors a 10-year amnesty on paying tax on profits but requires payment of other taxes and fees.
Toledo was also quoted as saying that Assembly deputies, provincial and municipal government officials have been meeting around the island this week to debate the proposed law.
_That way, we will get to the Assembly with the highest possible degree of clarity and consensus,_ he said.
Miami Herald | BY JUAN O. TAMAYO

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In ‘Good Witch’ season 7 episode 8, Daniel sets up a new job prospect for his brother Donovan but taking it up would mean moving to a different area which could hamper his relationship with Abigail. Speaking of which, Abigail’s rivalry with Flower Universe continues, and Martha also gets roped into it. If you haven’t watched the previous episode, you can check out the recap section. Now, you can take a look at the details for ‘Good Witch’ season 7 episode 9!
Good Witch Season 7 Episode 9 Release Date
‘Good Witch’ season 7 episode 9 will release on July 18, 2021, at 9 pm ET on Hallmark. The show usually airs new episodes every week, and each one has a runtime of around 48 minutes.
Where to Watch Good Witch Season 7 Episode 9 Online?
You can watch ‘Good Witch’ season 7 episode 9 live as and when it airs by tuning in to Hallmark at the above-mentioned timeslot. Live streaming options are available on DirecTV, Fubo TV, Philo TV, and Sling TV, where previous seasons can also be streamed. You can additionally buy/rent the episodes on VOD services such as iTunes, Apple TV, Vudu, and Amazon Prime Video. Netflix currently has the first five seasons of the show that you can watch here if you’re a subscriber of the streaming giant.
Good Witch Season 7 Episode 9 Spoilers
In the ninth episode of ‘Good witch’ season 7, titled ‘The Search,’ the sisters will be unable to use their abilities to their full potential. Besides that, Cassie will be forced to deal with a crucial moment in her past. In the next episode, we might finally see Abigail and Donovan set a date for their wedding, and Daniel also might have some unexpected news to share. Up until this point, we have seen the Merriwicks search far and wide for the missing amulet, but Sam will suggest looking at Grey House and will call upon the sisters’ help. This will bring shocking revelations to the surface! Here’s a promo for the episode 9!
Good Witch Season 7 Episode 8 Recap
In episode 8, titled ‘The Sprint,’ the Merriwick cousins try to find the location of the amulet. Sam is anxious about being back, and Cassie’s absence does not help his case. He also might end up overworking himself, so Grant wants to make sure he doesn’t bite what he can’t chew. It’s Martha and Tom’s anniversary, and they search for ways to surprise each other. Elsewhere, Daniel entertains the thought of his brother taking over the district’s state senator seat, which could oblige them to transfer to Springfield.
Joy and Zoey, in the meantime, are excited about their second date, but the latter gets an emergency call from Apple Valley, which derails their plans. Meanwhile, Stephanie wants to chase her dreams and enroll in the academy. Flower Universe offers Abigail a deal 30% lower than the initial rate because she has done a horrible job in keeping customers. When Donovan seeks advice from his mother, she suggests that he should not take up a job if it means staying away from Abigail.
Donovan’s mother further mentions David and Dotty’s long-distance marriage as an example. Donovan is stunned to hear that. Furthermore, Samantha opens up about her trust issues to George while Martha comes to an understanding with both Abigail and Flower Universe as they both needed her workspace to set up shop. As Sam enters the bistro, Cassie confronts him about his habit of pushing himself too far, and Charlotte owns up to her mistake of being emotionally unavailable to her friends.
In the end, Donovan refuses to take up his new job offer. Although the situation is settled, for now, he will soon be running for governor, which might again put him in a dilemma. The Merriwicks are slowly fading out because a plant in the botanical gardens is beginning to die. Once the red haloed moon touches the sky, they’ll be obliterated. Adam and Stephanie are still trying to know what their friendship means to both of them.
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Initial results from Monday’s plebiscite to ratify the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) are in.
Maguindanao, a stronghold of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), has voted overwhelmingly for the BOL, or Republic Act 11054, which aims to bring lasting peace in Mindanao.
The law, the product of lengthy negotiations between the MILF and the government, has also been ratified by more than half of the residents in Cotabato City.
Monday’s plebiscite, the first of two, was held in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao–Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi–and the cities of Isabela and Cotabato. The second will be on Feb. 6, in Lanao Del Norte and North Cotabato.
A Social Weather Stations survey released Monday night showed 79 percent of Muslims nationwide favor the approval of BOL. Should the law indeed be ratified, here are at least three things that will happen when the law takes effect.
The ARMM, which the Aquino administration had dubbed as a “failed experiment,” will be abolished and replaced by a new entity to be called the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM)
Maguindanao, Lanao Del Sur, Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-tawi as well as the cities of Marawi, Lamitan and Cotabato will now be part of BARMM.
The province of Lanao del Norte except Iligan City; the towns of Kabacan, Carmen, Aleosan, Pigcawayan, Pikit and Midsayap in North Cotabato; and the city of Isabela in Basilan will become part of the Bangsamoro region should their residents vote in favor of their inclusion in BARMM.
To ensure no disruption while the Bangsamoro Transition Authority (BTA), the interim government, is being constituted, the following will be designated as the “caretakers” of the administration of the BARMM:
- 25 incumbent elected ARMM officials
- Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC)
The BTC, chaired by the MILF’s Ghazali Jafaar, has 21 members appointed by President Rodrigo Duterte in February 2017.
The BTA will serve until 2022.
The law provides that:
- The BTA will be led by the MILF, without prejudice to the Moro National Liberation Front’s membership.
- It will be composed of 80 members appointed by the President.
- Incumbent elected ARMM officials automatically become members of the BTA until June 30, 2019
- Non-Moro indigenous groups, women, youth, settler communities, traditional leaders and other sectors shall have its representative at the BTA.
The transitory government will possess both legislative and administrative powers. Its functions include enactment of priority legislation during the transition period such as the:
- Bangsamoro Administrative Code
- BangsamoroRevenue Code
- Bangsamoro Electoral Code
- Bangsamoro Local Government Code
- Bangsamoro Education Code
The BTA will schedule the gradual phasing out of ARMM offices, taking into consideration public interest and delivery of services.
The first regular elections for the Bangsamoro government will be held in 2022, the same time as the national elections.
The new Bangsamoro government will be in parliamentary form composed of 80 members:
- A chief minister to be elected by the parliament
- Two deputy ministers to be appointed by the chief minister
- 50 percent party representatives
- not more than 40 percent parliamentary district seats
- 10 percent sectoral representatives
Once the elected officials assume office, the BTA will be dissolved. It will submit a final report and recommendations on the status of the Bangsamoro government during the transition period to the newly elected officials, the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Office of the President.
Official Gazette, Organic Law for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Articles XV to XVI
Official Gazette, Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro
Official Gazette, Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro
Official Gazette, Executive Order No. 08, Series of 2016
Social Weather Station, Fourth Quarter 2018 Social Weather Survey: 79% of Muslims nationwide favor approval of the BOL


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text: UltraStar Cinemas which claims to be the first and largest theatre chain in the nation to be 100 percent equipped with digital cinema capabilities has claimed another industry milestone by setting up digital menu boards on concession counters and box offices. Corn Digital supplied the technology. “Our new digital menu board system presents well-designed content featuring motions that really attract moviegoers’ eye balls ” says Kevin Stengle UltraStar Cinemas. “We have seen unexpected success in promotions of special items at several locations and were forced to turn off some of those digital signs because we ran out of stock of the promoted items.” At some of UltraStar’s new theatres customers are first greeted by two Ceres-200N 20-inch network signage at the entrances which show movie schedules pricing and special event information according to the company. Once inside moviegoers see an array of 42-inch and 20-inch LCD displays showing movie trailers and dynamic menu board content.

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When Australian media entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch began buying newspapers in the United States in the 1970s, media watchers were quick to condemn him and his brand of journalism. British journalist Anthony Smith characterized his approach as "an unceasing flow of titillation, sensation, voyeuristic excitement... "(1) The Nation agreed that Murdoch's secret "...might be called the Four "S" Formula -- scare headlines, sex, scandal and sensation... ,"(2)
Murdoch seems to enjoy provoking people, particularly those who consider themselves the elite. His combative spirit has been sharpened by years of criticism from rival journalists and from academics. But with his media empire spanning three continents, he has rarely felt compelled to explain, much less defend, himself: "I don't give a damn what the media critics say. It's what your readers say."(3) American newspapers take themselves too seriously, he has said. "The role of a newspaper is to inform, but in such a way that people buy your paper. It is not for us to say what public taste ought to be."(4) But Murdoch, who cut his journalistic teeth at dailies in Australia and class conscious Britain, followed a model of circulation-based newspaper financing that produced mixed results in the United States.
This article takes a before-and-after look at Murdoch's U.S. daily newspaper acquisitions to determine what happened to the content of those newspapers under his direction. Two earlier studies of changes at his U.S. newspaper acquisitions are consulted as are present findings from two additional similar studies in an attempt to draw conclusions as to the existence of a Murdoch formula of daily journalism.
Murdoch's first newspaper properties
Murdoch first became a newspaper owner when he inherited the Adelaide (Australia) News and the Sunday Mail from his father. In 1960 he bought the Sydney Daily Mirror, a tabloid about to expire. It was here that he first practiced the sensationalistic formula for which he later became known, filling the Mirror's pages with crime and cheesecake. Murdoch won the circulation war in Sydney, and the tactics he learned there became the pattern for his acquisitions elsewhere -- buy the underdog in a market, then go under the competition with crime, sex, sensation and scandal. But while he w as practicing his sensationalistic journalism, he also started Australia's prestige newspaper, The Australian, in 1964. It was the country's first national newspaper, published simultaneously in all major cities in the country. Though the newspaper has suffered some damage to its reputation since its founding, it is considered the premiere Australian newspaper.(5)
In 1969 he bought the British News of the World, a popular Sunday paper with the largest circulation in the world. Shortly thereafter he bought The (London) Sun, a broadsheet about to fold, made it a tabloid and inaugurated the first daily photo of a nude in a British paper. Circulation soared from 700,000 at his takeover to more than 4 million by 1982. In Australia Murdoch had seemed to reach for balance by publishing both the most sensationalistic and the most respectable newspapers. In London he did the same with his 1981 purchase of the venerable Times, which was struggling to stay alive, and the Sunday Times. While producing some of the world's most sensationalistic journalism in The Sun, he did not apply those tactics to content in The Times, though he did introduce more conservative content and a shake-up of management practices.(6)
Murdoch in the United States
The San Antonio Express-News
Murdoch bought his first U.S. dailies in 1973: the San Antonio Express and San Antonio News. The News was marginally profitable against its competition, the Hearst-owned p.m. Light, for years considered the most sensationalistic daily in Texas. The News went under (became more sensational than) the Light not only with headlines, but also with front-page makeup that looked, as Time observed, ". …

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By Nate Adcock on Tue, 04/18/2017
Years ago, you could buy headphones that allowed you to adjust volume levels or balance for each ear. Though there are still some options out there, adjustable headphones are not common. In case you were wondering what the big deal is, most people do not have the exact same hearing ability in each ear (studies show most of us in the louder digital age suffer some form of hearing loss). Though we may perceive that we have perfectly balanced hearing, the truth is usually much different. Enter Aumeo ($199). Not only does it Bluetoothify your music, but also processes it according to a specific profile tailored to your unique left and right hearing ability. The result is actually pretty impressive.
Aumeo is a pillbox-sized block of what feels like aluminum casing covering presumably some electronic bit—a board, processor, Bluetooth radio, input/out audio jacks—and some clever programming to fine-tune and process the audio mix received from your iPhone. After the processing, Aumeo sends the specially tuned signal out to the left and right channels of your headphones. Aumeo can also be an effective wireless bridge for analog audio devices like an old stereo system, but there are a ton of those gadgets on the market and at much cheaper prices. Aumeo is really best suited to be used with iPhone (or any 3.5 mm wired audio source) and practically any set of wired headphones (earbuds included). The setup is a little wonky and I had a few challenges, but I was loving the quality produced by this pint-sized gadget!
To get Aumeo working with the iPhone requires you to download the free Aumeo app, pair the device using Bluetooth, and then create a profile. I had to reset my phone and reset Aumeo a couple of times before I could get the app to recognize it was connected and commence with the profile creation. Once it works, it walks you through a simple hearing test in which you adjust the volume knob on the Aumeo down to a barely detectable level for the various frequencies and for each ear. Save the profile and setup is complete. Multiple profiles can be created for separate users.
To play audio using Aumeo, plug in your favorite earphones, and press play on your fav app. I also tested it with some other speakers I have lying around, including a Sonos speaker. The sound difference is not evident through speakers; but when used with headphones, the Aumeo processing produced a much more subtle and clear range of tones. The music sounded more textured= and rich. Push down on the handy volume thumbwheel and easily toggle off the fancy processing and amplification. You hear what you would from almost any set of headphones sans signal processing. You can also easily adjust the volume using the wheel, and a toggle button allows control of wireless versus wired input. While not the sophisticated tuning that Aumeo provides, the iPhone does have a setting that will allow you to adjust left and right volume if that's all you wanted to do (under Settings > General > Accessibility > Hearing).
As far as Bluetooth range was concerned, I definitely feel Aumeo is a bit underpowered. I could not carry the device more than around 15 feet before dropouts and problems were evident. Other Bluetooth devices I have similarly tested in the same areas of my house can almost double this range. Not sure if this is due to the effort to more greatly miniaturize the device and power usage, or if the unit I received was defective. Either way, if you are considering this to allow you longer distance separation between phone and headphones, maybe look elsewhere. Also, Aumeo only processes sound out to your earphones. It does not feature hands free or any voice features. Again, a pair of Bluetooth headphones with a microphone might be a better choice for someone looking for those capabilities.
- Amazing sound processing
- Bluetooth wireless
- Range seemed weak even for Bluetooth
- Setup took several attempts
Aumeo audio has created a quality, audiophile-centric gadget in Aumeo. The device has recently gotten rave reviews at CES and other prominent technology news sites have also showcased it, and deservedly so. The unit I received was a press evaluation unit, so may have been defective, thus causing the Bluetooth difficulties. Still, I was impressed by the sound, and recommend it for the avid music lover, or really anyone trying to have a more finely-tailored mobile audio experience


The stakes are high as some of NYC’s *TOP* comedians vie for the approval of a judging panel of parents. The most parent-pleasing comedian of the night wins the love and acceptance of the parent judges and a special prize.
This month's parental judges are comedian and filmmaker Matt Porter's parents!
This month's competitors:
Matt Porter (Good Cop Great Cop)
Bardia Salimi (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)
Shalewa Sharpe (The Tonight Show)
Meaghan Strickland (Late Night Show that is Also Live)
and more TBA
Hosted by me: Colin Burgess (Vice)


When one thinks of environmentally friendly practices, building roads and bridges might not come to mind. Yet MoDOT strives every day to protect, conserve, restore and enhance our natural resource while dealing with the challenges of planning, designing, building, maintaining and operating a complex transportation infrastructure.
- Alternative fuels are one way MoDOT is helping the environment.
- Recycling also plays a huge role in MoDOT's efforts to watch over the environment. MoDOT is the national leader in the "roofs to roads" shingle recycling effort. How does MoDOT recycle entire roads and bridges?
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- Resource conservation is another way MoDOT helps the environment.
MoDOT uses more ethanol and biodiesel fuel a year - three million gallons of E-85 and B20 - than all other state agencies combined. That’s enough fuel to drive a car to Mars and back.
Missouri law requires new state vehicles to meet or exceed the corporate average fuel efficiency standards of 27.5 miles per gallon for passenger cars and 20.7 miles per gallon for light duty trucks. MoDOT has exceeded these mandates, achieving 34.4 miles per gallon for passenger cars and 23.8 miles per gallon for light duty trucks.
MoDOT's efforts to use alternative fuels has been at the forefront of the nation. In fact, the department recently received an award for it's work in this area.
In November of 2008, the National Conference of State Fleet Administrators bestowed its 2008 Honda Environmental Leadership award to MoDOT's Fleet Management Team.
The NCSFA specifically noted several of MoDOT’s environmentally friendly accomplishments. Here are a few:
- More than 45% of the diesel fuel purchased by MODOT in FY ‘07 was biodiesel, or B20.
- MoDOT has earned a large amount of Biodiesel Tax Credits in the amount of $453,898.
- In the past three years, MoDOT's E85 bulk sites have expanded from two to seven facilities.
- MoDOT participated in a pilot group that tested Hybrid Aerial Trucks -- all other participants were private utility companies.
We're not just separating glass from plastic. Recycling takes place on a gigantic scale with MoDOT. Sometimes, the department recycles entire sections of roads!
- I-64. When reconstruction of a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 64 in the heart of St. Louis is completed in 2010, 325,000 tons of concrete and asphalt will be recycled and reused in the new highway.
- Hermann Bridge. When the Route 19 Missouri River Bridge near Hermann was taken down in spring 2008 to make way for a new river crossing, about 2,000 tons of steel from the structure was recycled.
- Roofs to Roads. In the past four years, MoDOT has used enough recycled shingles to roof 305 houses.
- Mixing it up. In 2007, MoDOT used more than three million tons of asphalt containing recycled material – about the weight of all the people in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, Illinois, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Tennessee combined.
- That's a lot of retreads. MoDOT has used enough recycled tires in its construction projects over the past two years to equip 20,000 cars.
- Look for the signs. About 70 percent of state highway signs are produced from reclaimed material, making the signs cheaper and faster to get. Using reclaimed materials on signs saved $714,000 in 2007.
- Recycling Accolades. MoDOT's effort are recognized by leaders in the recycling industry. In fact, the department received the Missouri Recycling Association’s Outstanding Use of Recycled Material award in 2008.
- Recycle Asphalt. Using the latest technology, MoDOT can actually recycle entire asphalt roads.
Roofs to Roads
MoDOT is among the first state agencies in the nation to recycle shingles to resurface or rebuild highways.
In recent years, MoDOT has allowed contractors to put used shingles that have been removed from rooftops into their asphalt mix. The result is a very durable, more-rut resistant asphalt at a much lower price.
MoDOT embraces new ideas that not only help us become a more cost-efficient agency, but a more environmentally friendly one, too. By recycling asphalt shingles, MoDOT keeps them out of landfills, preserve petroleum resources and lower our construction costs while maintaining high quality asphalt pavement.
The use of recycled shingles saves $3 to $5 per ton of asphalt. That may not sound like much at first, but consider this: a typical resurfacing project would use about 30,000 tons of asphalt, for a savings of $90,000 to $150,000.
Beyond the cost savings, this practice also helps MoDOT in its efforts to be environmentally responsible. According to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, an estimated 146,500 tons of roofing materials are disposed of in Missouri landfills each year. By reusing tear-off shingles, the department reduces the amount that ends up in landfills.
Shingle recycling also helps MoDOT reduce the amount of petroleum it uses in its road construction program. By using recycled asphalt shingles, the department reduces the amount of liquid asphalt in a mix design by 20 percent to 25 percent."
MoDOT has incorporated a variety of waste materials on roadways," said Joe Schroer, field materials engineer. "However, we are on the cutting edge nationally for our efforts to reuse roofing shingles."
MoDOT is working with other agencies and organizations nationally to refine the specifications for the use of asphalt shingles as a hot-mix asphalt material. Shingles are ground up and processed Once the shingles have been processed, they are turned into materials for Missouri roads.
MoDOT Recycles Roads and Bridges
MoDOT can actually reuse asphalt directly in place by heating it, processing it on the road and relaying it. The process is called "Hot In-Place Recycling" and it saves Missourians millions of dollars every year. Here's how it works.
|8,417,020,000 is quite a large number. That is how many total pounds of waste MoDOT has either recycled back into our roads or kept from area landfills from 2005 through 2009.
MoDOT has recycled 3.56 billion pounds of industrial waste from mines, steel furnaces and power plants, as well as shingles and tires over these five years. Industrial waste is usually disposed of in landfills, but MoDOT has recycled every pound for future uses. Area landfill managers tell MoDOT that 3.56 billion pounds is the equivalent of 89,000 semi-truck loads that would fill the Empire State Building four times.
"There's no reason to dump materials into our landfills that can be recycled," says Joe Schroer, MoDOT Field Materials Engineer. "MoDOT embraces being green and we're getting better at it every day."
Adding to the grand total is reclaimed material. Many of the miles of pavement you drive on and projects you see across Missouri are made of recycled material; in fact, MoDOT has recycled 4.86 billion pounds of reclaimed material that has been used on construction projects since 2005. This helps our environment and saves taxpayer money too.
During 2009, MoDOT recycled more than two billion pounds of waste from construction projects and 6.2 million pounds of paper, cardboard, aluminum and electronics.
"MoDOT wants to be a leader for recycling, conserving and being environmentally aware," said Schroer. "We hope to increase our efforts in the future."
The idea of taking care of what we have has always been at the core of MoDOT's environmental philosophy. Here is how the department makes that idea a reality.
Made in the shade. Under the Trees for Tomorrow program, MoDOT and its partner, the Missouri Department of Conservation, is providing half a million trees a year to youth groups throughout the state through 2012. The program helps replace trees taken down during highway construction.
Elect to protect. When designing projects MoDOT keeps sensitive species and habitats in mind. In 2007, 15 projects were completed using measures to ensure the safety of nine protected species.
Replace the space. MoDOT replaced wetlands at a rate of three acres to one on projects built in 2007.
It's on the web. To conserve energy and paper, MoDOT has begun providing project plans via the Internet, a move that will save about $200,000 a year.
From Tires to Fuel. MoDOT crews clean up more than 80,000 car tires – about 600 tons – that are left on state highways every year. These tires are ground up and used as fuel for power plants.


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Really more of a concept than a recipe, this never fails to please in my house. This mint-infused ice cream makes a refreshing accompaniment to a dense chocolate cake, and it's also fantastic sandwiched between two homemade chocolate chip cookies. If you're a purist who thinks that chocolate and mint should never co-mingle, you can rest assured this ice cream is great all by itself. —Merrill Stubbs
homemade or good store-bought vanilla ice cream
crushed candy canes or starlight mints (I like to smash them up in a heavy duty plastic bag with a rolling pin but you can also use a food processor)
Pure peppermint extract
Soften the ice cream at room temperature for about 20 minutes. Scoop it into the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Beat the ice cream on low speed for about 30 seconds, until it starts to become smooth. (If you don't have a standing mixer, you can use a bowl and a wooden spoon -- just be ready for a bit of a workout!)
Add the crushed candy canes and 1 teaspoon peppermint extract to the bowl and continue to beat on low speed just until these are combined with the ice cream. Taste and beat in more peppermint extract if the peppermint flavor is too faint. Quickly transfer the ice cream to an airtight container and return to the freezer for a couple of hours before serving so it can re-harden.

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In his book Hallucinations, the acclaimed British-American neurologist Oliver Sacks chronicles a wide range of hallucinatory conditions reported by his patients throughout his illustrious career. I have chosen five of those cases as the inspiration for this concerto, creating an imaginary musical representation of each mental state. These particular hallucinations were comparatively benign for those who experienced them, and in some cases were positively welcome.
Hallucinations are fascinating phenomena - instantaneous random inventions of our brains overlaid on the sensation of common reality and indistinguishable from it. Many of us will experience them in some way during our lives. When we sleep for example, we are aware that our brain is in free flight and its muddled dream scenarios are not real. On the edges of sleep however, we can confuse random mental impressions with reality, and are hallucinating. A typical example is hearing one’s name spoken by an unknown person; another is when the tail end of a dream impinges on perceived reality.
Sufferers of brain damage or a range of neurological disorders regularly hallucinate. Others without mental illness but under great stress or fatigue can also hallucinate, as of course can those who use psychotropic drugs. It is this bridge between the real world and some of the surprising ways in which our brains interpret the mundane reality around us that I find endlessly fascinating.
Carl Vine, February 2016
Five Hallucinations was co-commissioned by the Edward F. Schmidt Family Commissioning Fund for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and by Kim Williams AM, Geoff Ainsworth & Johanna Featherstone for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. It will be first performed by Michael Mulcahy and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Gaffigan at the Chicago Symphony Center on October 6th 2016. It was written for and is dedicated to trombonist Michael Mulcahy.
- I smell the unicorn
One of Sacks’ patients frequently hears complete sentences spoken outside herself while drifting off to sleep. The phrases have no special personal meaning, and bear witness to the extraordinary and unexpected creative power of the brain as it freewheels into sleep.
- The lemonade speaks
Hearing voices is a hallucination common in schizophrenia, especially as threats or curses. Less threatening versions may be experienced by just about anybody on waking up, either disembodied or from inanimate objects. In this case an effervescent beverage has discovered the power of speech. What it says is not clear.
- Mama wants some cookies
Sufferers of Charles Bonnet Syndrome often hallucinate text or other visual material superimposed repeatedly across their entire field of vision. The sentence “Mama wants some cookies” is actually another auditory hallucination like “unicorn” above, but I’ve used some poetic licence to imagine that incongruous sentence as text filling one’s entire visible world.
- The Doppelgänger
Many people have experienced the sense of being followed when it is clear that it isn’t happening. A special version of this hallucination is the sense of being followed by oneself - a permanent mirror aping one’s every motion, and in extreme cases affording such close identification with the simulacrum that the individual swaps places with the Doppelgänger.
- Hexagons in pink
Hallucinating repeated visual patterns like arabesques and hexagons is common to many conditions including extreme migraine and the use of psychotropic drugs, and can be detected, for instance, in the repetitive decorations on Persian rugs. Losing control of one’s visible universe to a randomly reinvented geometrical animation can be disturbing, but it can also be pleasurable.

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With an excessive heat warning in effect for the next six days, the Unified Government Parks Department has come up with another way for kids to cool off.
They are offering 10 kits for “pop-up splash parks.” The kits are being distributed to organizations in Wyandotte County that will then hold their own cooling events here with sprinklers, slip-and-slides, garden hoses, snacks and water for about 30 participants each.
The kits are valued at $275 each and are given free of charge to community organizations, said Ashley Hand, a Unified Government spokesman. It will be so hot this weekend that a few organizations were willing to jump on it right away, she added.
So far, about six of the kits have been claimed for different organizations, including churches, the Salvation Army, and Warriors 4 Wyandotte, she said.
They have received some other applications, and there are still a few kits remaining, she added. Hand said the UG was trying to make sure the location of the organizations’ events was not very close to the existing three permanent spray parks in Wyandotte County – Heathwood Spray Park, 10th and Parallel; Pierson Spray Park, 1800 S. 55th; and Eisenhower Spray Park, 2901 N. 72nd. They would like to have the kits distributed to a wide area.
Organizations that receive pop-up splash park kits are being asked to allow as many as they possibly can to participate, and to hold more than one event if possible, she said. The splash park kits will be available for use by kids of all ages.
“We know with the summer heat it is important for youth to stay cool while getting outside,” said assistant director of parks and recreation Angel Obert, in a news release. “We are excited to partner with our community to help reach more people in our neighborhoods.”
There has been community reaction this year to the closing of Parkwood Pool this summer, and the issue came up at a campaign forum earlier this week.
“While we all missed the use of Parkwood Pool this year,” said Commissioner Gayle E. Townsend in a news release, “the distribution of these cool off kits will give kids in our neighborhoods an opportunity for some welcome water fun relief. Thanks to all the sponsoring neighborhood groups, churches and other organizations for their participation as hosts of these events.”
The UG’s three existing permanent spray parks are operating every day. Hand said they are regularly cleaned and the water is treated. Staff has been vigilant in maintaining the spray parks, she said.
The spray parks, open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., are free. The spray parks are accessible and have zero-depth entry. The water is controlled by a sensor that turns on when a person steps into the area, then turns off when they leave. Those going to the spray park should wear swim suits.
With a lack of lifeguards, the Parkwood Pool will remain closed this summer, according to Hand. The UG Parks Department now plans to reopen the Parkwood Pool in the summer of 2022, she said.
As of April of this year, only one person applied to be a lifeguard, she said. They then extended the program and got seven applicants, which was promising, but not enough to physically staff the pool, she added.
Currently there is a lifeguard training program in place. Three of seven candidates have successfully passed a swim test and are eligible for a paid work-study program beginning this week to receive lifeguard certification.
“Congratulations to the seven young people who responded to our call for lifeguard applicants,” Commissioner Townsend said in a news release. “Each one of them showed great enthusiasm and heart during the swim test drills. We look forward to continuing to work with them to further develop their lifeguard skills in preparation for the next pool season.”
The UG is currently working with the Kansas City, Kansas, Public Schools, Turner Public Schools and the Kansas State School for the Blind, to discuss increasing access to indoor swimming facilities during the school year and offering swim lessons and lifeguard training to more students. Water safety is important to the UG, and learning to swim is also important, according to a spokesman.
The Parkwood Pool at 950 Quindaro will be drained for the remainder of the 2021 season, according to the UG. When it reopens next year, the Parks Department is hoping to contract with a third party to staff the Parkwood Pool, Hand said. The contractor will provide staffing as part of the contract.
“While we are truly disappointed we cannot offer this service this year due to COVID and labor shortages,” Obert said in the news release, “we are already working towards a fantastic 2022 season at the pool.”
Unified Government County Clerk Bridgette Cobbins has been named the UG’s interim assistant county administrator.
Cobbins will assume the duties and responsibilities of recently retired Assistant County Administrator Gordon Criswell, according to an announcement.
“Mrs. Cobbins has served Kansas City, Kansas and Wyandotte County dutifully for nearly twenty-five years in multiple positions with increasing levels of responsibility,” said Doug Bach, county administrator, in a news release. “I have full confidence in her ability to lead with integrity, honesty, and openness.”
Cobbins’ interim position began on Jan. 11, and she will continue in this role through 2021, according to the announcement.
A lifelong Wyandotte County resident, Cobbins graduated from Wyandotte High School before completing her undergraduate degree in business administration at Ottawa University and Master of Business Administration at Benedictine College.
She first joined the UG nearly 25 years ago as a data entry cerk and control clerk at the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department. Since then, she has held a number of positions with increasing levels of responsibility. Most recently, she served as the UG’s county clerk.
In her new capacity as interim assistant county administrator, Cobbins will be responsible for overseeing and supporting the Area Agency on Aging, Community Corrections, Human Services, Municipal Court, the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department and the Clerk’s office.
“I consider it an honor and privilege to serve my community in this new capacity,” Cobbins said in the news release. “My approach to leadership is straightforward: my job is to let the subject matter experts do their work and support them in any way needed to make sure they are successful. I also want our community to know that their public servants are never out of reach. Your participation and partnership matter and every individual is welcomed to provide their input.”
The Unified Government Commission saved the T-Bones baseball stadium once before, in 2014, and on Thursday night, another lifeline was thrown their way.
UG commissioners mostly viewed the T-Bones as an essential part of the Village West picture, and approved a new agreement with them on Thursday night.
It will change from a lease to a management agreement. The deal is a restructuring; the UG would pay 55 percent of the T-Bones’ utility bills; and the UG will not be liable to pay $246,000 annually in property taxes, according to officials.
Jon Stephens, UG interim director of economic development, said the direct and indirect economic impact of the T-Bones is $4.2 million a year. However, attendance at the T-Bones games has declined in recent years.
“We view it as an integral part of the Village West development, as part of the No. 1 tourist attraction in the state of Kansas,” Stephens said.
The vote was 8-1 approving the deal with the T-Bones, with Commissioner Mike Kane voting no.
During a public comment period, Bill Hurrelbrink, formerly the mayor’s spokesman, said the T-Bones were a great partner for the community, and the T-Bones are a great draw for the community. The economic impact of $4 million to the community is substantial, he said. It draws in people from a regional area of Topeka, Independence, Omaha, and Arkansas, he said. They spend money not only at the ballpark but also at Village West, he said.
In the last several years, the T-Bones have helped build ADA playgrounds across the community with the parks foundation, and have partnered with youth groups and other organizations, he added.
Lee Irvin said the T-Bones are an integral part of the Village West and Legends tourist attraction from a regional perspective.
“Where can you go to get this level of entertainment at an affordable price? It’s an amazing family venue that you can’t get anywhere else in the region,” he said.
He said it is good business because it is a $4 million economic impact against a $150,000 annual investment, with a business with a 15-year track record. It is especially good because there is substantial property tax savings.
An Olathe woman who is from Wyandotte County and works here said she was proud to have the T-Bones here. Some people with lower incomes can go out there and enjoy entertainment. While they can’t afford to go to the Royals, they can afford the T-Bones, she said.
“I can’t imagine the UG not supporting this type of business, because it’s a perfect business model for Wyandotte County, a perfect price point, a perfect area,” she said.
Lisa Thurlow of Overland Park, who was originally from the Turner area of Kansas City, Kansas, talked about the opportunities for youth who work at the stadium during the summer, and said she hoped there will still be an opportunity for kids to work there.
Matt Watkins of Kansas City, Kansas, said Adam Ehlert, owner of the T-Bones, has done a lot of work in the community during the past 15 years. He said it would be a shame if the UG did not support him in this endeavor, especially since he does a lot of work for the parks and the community.
Cheryl Reitmeyer of Kansas City, Kansas, a season ticket holder, said she has been a volunteer host family coordinator for three years for the T-Bones.
“How proud we are that we have professional baseball that’s affordable family fun here in Wyandotte County,” she said. “I can’t imagine that we would let that leave this county. What that does bring to the county is amazing.”
She believes the stands are filling up more this year with the extra marketing efforts.
Eric Martinez, who said he bought his first home in Wyandotte County, said one of the reasons he moved to the area was because he liked baseball.
“I want to do whatever I can to support Wyandotte County,” he said. He likes the T-Bones because it’s affordable, walkable, and one can bring one’s friends there.
The economic component is strongly in favor of Wyandotte County residents, as T-Bones games bring people into the community to stay at hotels, shop and eat at restaurants, he said.
‘Not fair to all citizens’
Jeff Bryant, BPU board vice president, said he was appearing as an individual in opposition to the deal.
“We enjoy the baseball game,” he said. “Like any other business, it needs to stand on its own.”
He doubted if the UG would help out many other businesses that may be having trouble.
The new agreement shows the UG is paying 55 percent of the utility bill. “The UG is not paying 55 percent, the residents of Wyandotte County are paying 55 percent,” he said.
Taxes already are high, and this helps support a for-profit business, he said.
“I don’t believe that is fair to all the citizens of our county,” Bryant said. Many license plates in their parking lot are not from Wyandotte County; therefore, Wyandotte County is subsidizing the entertainment for other counties, he added.
He believes the past due bill should be paid 100 percent, he said.
Marcia Rupp of Kansas City, Kansas, suggested turning the field from a baseball field in the summer into a football field in the winter.
“If we could somehow find a minor league football team, or the soccer was playing there for a while,” she said. “If we could find something to do in the winter ….”
Other professional stadiums do that, she said. “Something could be used all year and maybe bring in a little more revenue,” Rupp said.
Mayor: Why not ‘offer the best deal?’
Mayor Mark Holland said his thoughts were why not offer their best deal to their best partners. In 15 years, the T-Bones have brought in 3 million people, he said. Other cities have spent more on teams; for example, Jackson County, Mo., gave almost $6 million to the Chiefs and Royals, Holland said.
The UG has given a 30-year abatement to NASCAR, and $150 million in STAR bonds to the soccer stadium, he said.
“We have been in the public sports business in Wyandotte County, and it has paid huge dividends,” Holland said. All the STAR bonds paid off early, and the community is seeing the benefits of it, he added.
“We’re the No. 1 tourist attraction in the state and in the region,” Holland said. There are more than 10 million visitors outside a 50-mile radius, he added, with the T-Bones a big part of it.
The T-Bones were one of the first investors, when there was little at Village West, he said. Without their initial investment, Village West wouldn’t be where it is now.
Holland said he was comfortable with the level of incentive, because the investment yielding a $4 million plus return annually with an ancillary benefit from the T-Bones was worth the investment. He said it was a good investment and would bear a positive return.
Commissioner Brian McKiernan said it is a small business. He disagreed with the word “bailout,” and he said it was an “investment.”
“We are investing in an amenity that improves the quality of life for our citizens,” McKiernan said.
Markley: No option that would allow UG to pay zero dollars
Commissioner Angela Markley said although she didn’t support buying the baseball stadium, now they had to face reality.
“If we say no to this deal, we still have to pay taxes on a stadium we own, we still have to pay Legends common area fees, and parking lot fees, and some level of maintenance for a facility that is in our shining star tourist area,” Markley said. “The two options are we’re going to spend tax dollars on a stadium, or we’re going to spend tax dollars on a stadium that has an operation ready in a stadium, and that operation is going to pay part of those costs. There is no option that results in us paying zero dollars, because we own this facility.”
Commissioner Melissa Bynum said one of the things she has always appreciated about the T-Bones was its affordability. In answer to her question, UG officials said there would still be sales tax collected at the stadium.
Commissioner Hal Walker said the T-Bones had been a great amenity for the community.
“It’s the role of government, and I include the BPU, to do everything we can to make this community a livable, likable place,” Walker said.
“I think this is an excellent deal. It’s between keeping them or losing them, and I want to keep them around for a while longer,” he said.
Commissioner Jane Philbrook said she didn’t mind paying taxes to support a group of people so dedicated to bringing something to the community that kids and families could enjoy, that is affordable and helps create a bond in a family.
History of the deal
The UG took over ownership of CommunityAmerica Ballpark, where the T-Bones play, in 2014, Stephens said. The T-Bones are now a tenant, leasing the stadium.
In June of 2016 a demand letter was sent to the T-Bones, and they responded their income was not sufficient to meet the current lease obligations, he said. The UG then paid $125,000 in September of 2016 for the obligations related to property taxes on the parking lot, and The Legends common area and maintenance (CAM) charges, he said.
The UG used $5.5 million in STAR bonds when it purchased the T-Bones stadium in 2014, and the bonds were paid off in December of 2016, so there is no debt now on the stadium itself, he said.
Independent auditors determined that the declines in attendance correlated with the revenue projections, Stephens said. The sales and travel expenses are consistent with the size and type of team, he said. Reviews of financial transactions showed the T-Bones practiced proper financial controls, he said.
Stephens said staff compared 11 publicly owned baseball teams, and several were consistent with the T-Bones, some others did not require teams to pay the utilities, and most included provisions for revenue-sharing arrangements.
Details of the deal
The UG is moving from a lease agreement to a management agreement, he said. The T-Bones will be named as manager of the facility. The UG and T-Bones will be trying to change the tax status on the stadium, and if granted, the UG will not be liable for $246,000 in property taxes annually for the stadium, he said. Also, the T-Bones will not pay an annualized lease payment to the UG, he said.
The new agreement would change the term from 20 years, ending in 2034, to a six-year agreement ending in 2022, Stephens said.
The UG would be responsible for the Legends parking lot property tax, about $119,000 a year, and the CAM charges at about $25,000 a year, he said.
Under the new agreement, the Board of Public Utilities’ bills would be put in the UG’s name for bills beginning in June 2017, he said. There are also UG utility bills for the stadium to be put in the UG’s name. Under the agreement, the T-Bones would pay the UG a discounted rate of the total bill, estimated to be 45 percent of the total bill, he said. The electric rate would be set at 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour, with the water rate at $1.77 per CCF, he said.
The UG would pay the remaining cost of the utility bill of the stadium, which is estimated at 55 percent of the bill, he said.
The T-Bones would agree to pay past due bills over four years at $20,000 per year, he said. The unpaid UG sewer and stormwater bills would be paid at $3,000, which is reduced from the $6,000 amount owed.
The T-Bones should be able to cover the outlined costs, since the contract used actual performance numbers, he said.
Also, he said the T-Bones will be required to obtain a surety bond of $135,000, which will include the annual utilities estimate with sales taxes and payment in lieu of taxes fee of $115,000; and one-fourth of other obligations paid by the UG, estimated at $20,000.
Stephens said the T-Bones have made efforts to improve attendance and revenue, including improved sales efforts, group ticket sales, increased promotions, and increased corporate sales.


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Written and directed by ex-Army officer Tom Petch, The Patrol takes a piercing look at the conflict in Afghanistan through the eyes of a British Army patrol.
If you are looking for an action-packed and glamorised war film full of explosions, heroism and valiancy then you will not find that in The Patrol. What you will get is an honest portrayal of the war in Afghanistan that leaves you wondering whether there is any point in the war in the first place.
The Patrol has the feel of a documentary and that is not really surprising since the film was created from real accounts of British Army experiences in Afghanistan. The Patrol seems as though the in-film patrol are being followed by a cameraman. This naturalistic feel is most likely down to Petch’s painstaking research that went into the films creation. He researched everything from the tactics used in the specific war, the weaponry and other equipment and even the language used by the soldiers there.
The film is highly political, taking an anti Afghan war standpoint, and particularly puts forward the question of the role of the British soldiers out there. The army patrol is left isolated and out of the loop throughout the film, without support from the US Army. They are left fighting blindly whilst coming under periodical attack from an unseen enemy and even ‘friendly’ troops.
The combination of a short supply of poor equipment and a lack of purpose cause morale to plummet and tempers to fray as the film progresses and the frustrations of the patrol are brilliantly evoked throughout.
The film has a small but talented cast which includes Nav Sidhu (Edge of Heaven) as Smudge, Daniel Fraser (Lab Rats, Scar Tissue) as Lieutenant Jonathan Bradshaw and Nicholas Beveney (Funland) as Sergeant ‘Sol’ Campbell to name but a few. The cast have varied acting experience, yet this is not evident and each character puts in a performance as good as one another. They succeed at playing believable characters with refined performances.
The Patrol is a personal portrayal of war coming from someone who knows it best: a soldier. Tom Petch’s feature film debut is a brave but brilliant one. The films 80 minute run time is more than enough to get its message across and will stick in your mind for much longer.
The Patrol is out now on DVD, RRP £17.99, or currently a £9 bargain online at Amazon.
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Former central advisor of Rastriya Janamorcha Suresh Thapa said that four persons identifying themselves as the CPN-M cadres hurled bomb at around 5.00 pm.
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International Women’s Day was an opportunity to honour the contribution and leadership of girls and women in our community. Various activities took place at NBCS including the profiling of inspirational women across our campus screens and the library. Two of our Secondary girls also represented NBCS at the Young Women’s Leadership Seminar at Parliament.
Hon Catherine Cusack MLC wrote on her Facebook page on 8 March at 13:01 , “👏 Thank you to the Parliament of NSW for organising this year’s Young women’s leadership Seminar today on International Women’s Day. It was so fantastic to be able to participate again in the forum and meet students like Charlie and Bella from Northern Beaches Christian School – two of more than 45 students from 20 schools who joined us in the NSW Legislative Council chamber along with another 600 students online. #IWD #GoTheGirls 💪”

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Inland Cellular, the regionally owned and operated wireless communications company that serves Dayton and Walla Walla, has launched an all-inclusive music app.
Infusion, powered through Neurotic Media Powers, offers unlimited music downloads from all major labels with up to 4GB of device storage, according to an announcement from Inland Cellular.
Music downloads are available on the Android devices, including smartphones and tablets, with access to all music on or off network across the country. Monthly charges can be billed to an existing wireless account.
“IC is proud to partner with Neurotic Media and major record labels to bring a unique and convenient universal mobile service offering to a regional market,” said the company’s Director of Business Strategies Chip Damato, in a prepared statement.
Users can create their own custom playlists and take their collections with them and listen offline. Features include searching and downloading unlimited songs; creating custom playlists from any song, artist or album; no ads; and one-touch access to purchase high resolution MP3s by download. Infusion can be downloaded from the Google Play store or at inlandcellular.com .
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Denmark SailGP Team presented by ROCKWOOL made history on Sunday, becoming the first SailGP team to touch down in Danish waters ahead of the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix on in Aarhus 20-21 August.
The team – which will race a homecoming Grand Prix for the first time since joining SailGP in late 2019 – saw its F50 hit the water ahead of an action-packed race weekend which will see the sport’s best athletes racing SailGP’s supercharged, identical, foiling catamarans in Scandinavia for the first time.
Driver Nicolai Sehested said: “It’s a huge day, not just for our team and for ROCKWOOL, but for the whole of Danish sport.
“To finally sail the F50 at home, and to bring a global, world-class sailing league like SailGP to Danish waters is a dream come true, and we can’t wait to show everyone just how epic the racing is.”
The home team’s first day of training also marked a first return to the water for Denmark’s Olympic gold medalist and Aarhus resident Anne-Marie Rindom since her dramatic triumph in Tokyo in the Laser Radial class, which saw her crowned Olympic champion.
Rindom said: “It was amazing to get back onto the F50 after a few months away to focus on my Olympic campaign – and it was just as extreme as I remember!”
“Aarhus is an amazing place for sailing, and I really hope that the locals will turn out to celebrate that we have these world-class sailors and crazy boats racing in our waters. I think it will be the Danish event of the summer.”
Rindom and fellow Danish 2016 Olympic bronze medalist Katja Salskov-Iversen joined the Danish team ahead of Season 2 as part of SailGP’s Race for the Future purpose-led agenda – driving towards a better sport and a better planet – and fast-tracking the inclusion of female athletes into the sport.
Denmark SailGP Team lines up with home advantage following some impressive performances in the previous events – including a pair of podium race finishes in Plymouth at the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix last month – suggesting that it is closing the gap on some of the more experienced teams in the league.
But Sehested admits that the competition will be extremely tough in Denmark, with many Olympic sailors – plus Great Britain SailGP Team driver Ben Ainslie – returning to the water.
“Season 2 of SailGP is without doubt the most impressive line-up ever seen in sailing, and we’re all pushing the limits further and faster to stay ahead of our rivals. I’m super excited that our fans back home have the chance to see these athletes and boats doing their thing for real.
“As a team, we are making progress, and we’re confident coming into our home event. We know that, on our day, we can beat any team in SailGP.
He adds: “Now we’re focused on putting on a show for our Danish fans, who I’m sure will make this a Grand Prix to remember for a long time to come.”
Limited tickets are still remaining – on shore and on-water – to the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix – but they’re going fast. To find out more, and to purchase tickets before they sell out, head to SailGP.com/Tickets.
For those unable to make it to the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix in person, head to SailGP.com/Watch to find out how to catch the action in your market.
Denmark SailGP Team presented by ROCKWOOL will be training for the next few days, before the whole SailGP fleet hits the water on Wednesday. Official practice racing will take place on Thursday 19 August ahead of the ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix on 20-21 August.


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Wow. My trip had only just begun, and Geneva was well on its way to being a complete and total disaster — but in typical fashion, it turned out amazingly!
Geneva isn’t a typical city for backpackers to visit. For starters, it’s expensive. How expensive? 10 CHF ($10) for two coffees at an outdoor cafe; 16 CHF ($17) for a salad at a casual kebab place; 22 CHF ($24) for a one-way ticket to Lausanne, 30-45 minutes away; 7 CHF ($7) for a large bottle of water in a restaurant; 18 CHF ($19) for a five-minute taxi ride.
Beyond that, Geneva has a reputation for being, well, quite boring.
But I had a connection. My friend Helena, whom I met on my December trip to Paris, works for World Radio Switzerland.
So Geneva was a surefire stop for me, sandwiched in between Paris and Bologna. Then once I got to Paris, things started falling apart.
Setback #1: No hostels or simple guesthouses were available. At all. Geneva doesn’t have many hostels to begin with, but the hotels started at a shocking $300 per night. I really don’t have that kind of money, and at this point, I opted to stay an extra night in Paris. My friend Marie-Claire generously offered me another night at her Paris flat.
Setback #2: Helena wasn’t going to be town. Though I was sad to miss her, she kindly talked to her colleagues at World Radio Switzerland and got them to bring me on anyway.
Setback #3: I sent out Couchsurfing requests, but didn’t receive a single reply. A few local Couchsurfers offered me space, but they were either single guys with blank profiles and zero recommendations, which I consider to be a red flag, or people whose homes weren’t accessible by public transportation.
Setback #4: I found affordable lodging on Airbnb at about $75 per night, but when I booked it, I was told by the host that it was too late to make a reservation.
Then a miracle happened — My friend Julie lives in Lausanne, about a 45-minute train ride from Geneva, and she offered to put me up for the first night. Incredibly, a friend of Julie’s in Geneva owed her a favor — so he offered me his apartment for the second night, even staying over a friend’s place so I could be alone!
Could you imagine giving up your apartment to people you’ve never met, handing over the key without even seeing them face to face or Skyping them to make sure they’re not axe murderers?!
What a wonderful guy. And what wonderful, generous people I’ve met on my trip so far.
So I arrived at Gare de Lyon in Paris, ready to book my TGV train to Geneva, when I was hit with:
Setback #5: No trains were available. With my Eurail pass, I’m free to hop on local trains, but fast trains need to be reserved in advance. It turns out that the lightning-fast TGV trains sell out super-fast, and there was almost nothing left.
Instead of an immediate three-hour train from Paris to Geneva, I had to take the only option available for the next few days: a five-hour local train from Paris to Lyon, a two-hour layover, then a two-hour local train from Lyon to Geneva. Instead of getting to Geneva by 2:15 PM, we’d be getting in at 10:40 PM, just in time to catch the final 45-minute local train to Lausanne for the night.
I learned my lesson: from now on, I am booking the rest of my train journeys as soon as possible. That lesson was particularly hammered home when getting on that five-hour train to learn that there wasn’t any food or drink on board (!).
But then things turned around. I got to Lausanne and had a great night’s sleep in Julie’s adorable apartment. An early departure to Geneva got me there in time for the interview on World Radio Switzerland at 8:40 AM.
Then I got to explore Geneva. The stereotypes are true, to a degree — it’s a very orderly place without much of a personality. In lots of ways, I found Geneva to be the opposite of Berlin: Geneva is quiet where Berlin is loud, sedate where Berlin is artsy, small where Berlin is large, and incredibly expensive where Berlin is dirt cheap. Geneva plays it safe while Berlin lives dangerously.
But Geneva was a pretty and exceedingly pleasant place to spend a day, especially since the sun was shining. And I LOVED the fact that the buses and trams have screens telling you where you are, what the next three stops are, and what lines you can connect to at each stop!
Cafe Marius, in particular, was a wonderful surprise. I needed to find a bar for a meetup and I picked it on a whim after a bit of Googling. It’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it wine bar with outdoor seating and an excellent selection of local wines — all of them organic! Could this be where Geneva’s hipster side had been lurking all along?
After a few hours, I even noticed more hipstery footprints: a cute coffeeshop attached to a bookstore. A hair salon with wild cartoon fonts. A boutique with crazy hand-knit sweaters.
Things aren’t always what they seem, and that goes double for Geneva. While I feel no need to return, I had a very nice day here.
Essential Info: Geneva is a very expensive city, and lodging is particularly pricey. If you can’t find a hostel or a couch to surf, take a look at Airbnb — rates were astronomically lower than what I could find at hotels. If you do prefer a hotel, you can find the best prices here.
You can buy daylong unlimited transportation tickets for 10 CHF ($10), which work on the buses and trams. But if you buy after 9:00 AM, the price drops to 8 CHF ($8).
Free wifi is tough to find in town. Your best bets? One of the Starbucks, or Amo Cafe in the train station. McDonald’s has wifi but will only send passwords via SMS, so you need a working phone.
I never travel without travel insurance and used World Nomads while in Switzerland. I always recommend purchasing it before a trip because it will protect you financially if anything goes wrong.
Many thanks to Eurail.com for their support of the European leg of the SOTM Tour. All opinions, as always, are my own.
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“He offered us his apartment for the second night, even staying over a friend’s place so we could be alone!’
– I love, love, love this. It warms my heart to know there are such people in the world.
Isn’t that amazing of him!
I was just in Geneva this weekend, visiting my sister who’s working there for a few months. You sure are right that it’s expensive — I was blown away by how much everything costs. And it is a bit dull, but I had a nice time nonetheless. The highlight was taking a local bus to the French border and then a cable-car up Mount Saleve and hiking around there. I definitely recommend it for anyone’s next trip to Geneva!
Cool tip! Will keep that in mind. Thanks.
Great test of your travelling together right off the bat – I’m glad to hear everything worked out so well!
Having lived 2 years in Lausanne, I can agree – it’s plain simply expensive. There’s no local tip of where to go to find drinks under 8 CHF, no trick to find cheaper accommodation or anything like that.
Lausanne is a little more affordable, though (which is also why you often see students coming from Geneva to Lausanne to party). Did you get to see Geneva’s old town? It’s so much nicer than the surroundings!
I have to agree with Kerry – that was a good test for the two of you traveling together and it sounds like you handled it quite well even after multiple setbacks! I am glad that everything worked out and look forward to more about your trip
Ha. Long-term travel is a relationship test in itself. I’m glad it’s been going well so far.
Sounds like a rough start but everything seemed to work out. It’s been years since I’ve been to Switzerland but I haven’t been to Geneva. Great tips on visiting the city despite the setbacks.
Glad everything worked out in the end! I would never pick a couchsurfing host with no profile and zero recommendations either– too paranoid.
Geneva looks beautiful though despite the high prices!
Ahh, you have to love it when things fall together like that. “Pleasant” does seem like one of the most appropriate ways to describe Geneva.
Glad things turned around for you in the end. The kindness of strangers is a wonderful thing. It usually happens when you least expect it.
So happy to have been able to take part in your project – it was super fun and the idea is so original!
Now, about Geneva… yes, it’s all of those things. But it does have a gritty underbelly you don’t really get to see unless you’ve spent a few days walking around. There’s a lively art and music scene and artisans and micro-cafes and even, yes, dirt and graffiti! That’s not Geneva at first sight, and even though I’ve lived here on and off for a quarter of a century, it took me a while to find the more ‘human’ face of the city. So… come back sometime and we’ll give Berlin a run for her money!
Thanks, Leyla! It was great seeing you in Geneva, and thanks for taking part in the project.
Maybe I do have to return and go on your Alternative Geneva tour! 😉
Beautyful Pictures! If have change, i will come there soon.
Thanks for sharing
Things have a habit of working out, don’t they? I really ought to believe in that sentiment more myself.
So great when the kindness of friends and strangers really comes through.
Reminds me of when I was island hopping in Greece and the owner of the car rental business gave me a ride from the airport to my guesthouse and then outright refused a tip.
It’s amazing how generous people can be! Glad that things turned out in the end.
I had a similar experience in Paris three years ago. A friend of a friend let me crash at his studio flat in Paris, spending the night at a friend’s house so I had privacy, then brought me coffee and pastries in the morning before helping me get on the correct train to Bayonne later that morning. Sadly, he passed away at a very young age last year. Vincent’s hospitality is something I will never forget and hope I can repay someday to someone else.
I’m sorry about Vincent. Sounds like he was a great guy. Do pass it on!
What a story! The kindness of strangers never ceases to astonish.
I nearly choked at the $300 a night. Eek.
Why not use hotel points? Are you not collecting those?
I just use my points for flights.
Good things really do happen when you least expected it! 🙂 Glad things went well with you and Mario!
I have been really behind in catching up with blogs lately and was so happy to stumble straight upon this post as I am going to Geneva next week! I also have a friend who is working at the UN there and she is very kindly putting us up for four days.
I was a little doubtful about what we would be able to get up to on our small budgets but she has been emailing me all month with ideas including an outdoor cinema on the lake and even a FREE concert! It just goes to show that assumptions can be, and usually are, wrong.
I’ll definitely be sure to take her to Cafe Marius too, thanks Kate!
Sounds like fun! Enjoy Cafe Marius — it’s a great place.
Isn’t it funny you also know Helena!! She told me about you while we were working together in Geneva and I mentioned I have a travel blog. I’m living in Barcelona now and will head to TBEX at Lloret del Mar, will you be there?? 😉
Ah, that’s so funny! Sorry I missed you at TBEX!
Wow, It looks like that was a great adventure, but you could count with the support of good people.
Geneva is the perfect city for the weekend. Beautiful, peaceful and with lots of attractions. I really liked the view from the top of Saleve and swimming in the lake.

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Recently, Vijay Deverakonda’s maiden Tamil-Telugu bilingual political drama was launched in style. Young beauty Mehreen Pirzada has been roped in as the film’s leading lady. Incidentally, Vijay and Mehreen had worked with each other in the Holi song directed by Vamshi Paidipally for the World Telugu Conference.
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Mehreen is all praises for Vijay Deverakonda and calls him a brilliant and focused actor. “After Arjun Reddy, Vijay’s popularity has sky rocketed, especially among the youth. So I’m very kicked about sharing the screen with him. Anand Shankar of Vikram’s Inkokkadu fame is directing the movie and Studio Green’s Gnanavel Raja is producing it.
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Abstract: Collaboration is the foundation to strengthen disaster preparedness and for effective emergency response actions at all levels. Some studies have highlighted that remote volunteers, i.e., volunteers supported by Web 2.0 technologies, possess the potential to strengthen humanitarian relief organizations by offering information regarding disaster-affected people and infrastructure. Although studies have explored various aspects of this topic, none of those provided an overview of the state-of-the-art of researches on the collaboration among humanitarian organizations and communities of remote volunteers. With the aim of overcoming this gap, a systematic literature review was conducted on the existing research works. Therefore, the main contribution of this work lies in examining the state of research in this field and in identifying potential research gaps. The results show that most of the research works addresses the general domain of disaster management, whereas only few of them address the domain of humanitarian logistics.