Towards a New Model of Acquisition: Product-Line Architectures for the DoD - Second in a Series
This post was co-authored by Douglas Schmidt and William Scherlis.
It is widely recognized that the Department of Defense (DoD) needs to have a nimble response to nimble adversaries. However, the inflexibility of many DoD development and acquisition practices begets inflexible architectures that often slow progress and increase risk to operational forces. This rejection of modern development methods actually increases program risk and extends development timelines, effectively reducing the value of the DoD's acquisition portfolio. As a result, the current lack of capacity for breadth and pace of change impedes our ability to evolve capability quickly and robustly enough to meet new requirements in emerging technical and warfighting environments. The push to deliver artificial intelligence (AI)-based capabilities (and respond effectively to AI-based threats) increases both the urgency and importance of addressing the challenges.
This post is the second installment in a series examining how layered business and technical architectures can leverage modern modular component design practices to establish new approaches for capability acquisition. These architectures are more effective than existing system of systems (SoS) strategies. In this post, which was excerpted from a recently published paper, Capability Composition and Data Interoperability to Achieve More Effective Results than DoD System-of-Systems Strategies, we examine a new model of acquisition that applies a coherent set of methods to develop military mission capabilities as sets of composed modules. This kind of architectural approach is commonplace in mobile-device ecosystems, in big-data analytic frameworks, and in nearly all modern web applications. Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert also advocated for this approach in his essay Payloads over Platforms: Charting a New Course.
Our first post in this series examined emerging opportunities in modularity and open systems architectures. Subsequent posts will identify key change drivers, and technical and organization structures, associated with the new model of acquisition we propose for DoD software-reliant systems. We will also examine the impacts associated with the implementation and organizational structure of our proposed acquisition model.
Towards a More Nimble Response from the DoD
The DoD's current pattern of upgrading ships and aircraft applies a system-by-system, "rip-out and install" process. This pattern incurs long upgrade periods that reduce operational availability and make interoperability more challenging. Consequently, the DoD is hampered by its inability to respond nimbly to any situation.
A set of alternative approaches is being investigated, including prototyping, model-based systems engineering, and virtualization. All have their value, but a comprehensive approach is needed to bring these together into a strategy. For example, the DoD has often found it hard to "cross the chasm" when trying to transition research prototypes that are good enough to experiment with into robust production-ready products that suitable for wide-spread use and provide the quality, support, and training needed by operational systems. Likewise, designs built as prototypes are often fielded in a way that does not match the business needs of the organization (full support for maintenance, training, in-service robustness, etc.).
In general, the benefits of rapidly attempting new ideas and quickly declaring success or failure may be lost if they lack sound structure at the start. Without good architecture practices, these efforts may only provide a short-term salve on an urgent problem. Over the lifecycle, however, users and program offices may be exasperated with the long, slow slog needed to make the prototype production ready, with no overall improvement in capability.
The use of enterprise technical frameworks, with data architectures that support both interoperability and secure and safe use of evolving prototypes, can change the game for rapidly delivering innovative advantages to the DoD. The ability to choose an alternative capability, however, must be prudent. Sweeping large-scale change-out of functionality increases programmatic and operational risk, which motivates adoption of smaller, more easily replaced modules of functionality.
A different—more pragmatic—alignment of programmatic and technical architectures is therefore needed to deliver smaller capability improvements (along with associated hardware updates) that can be installed quickly and automatically tested as certified for use at the time of installation. This approach requires a new means to leverage commercial and open source investment in data center technologies as well as products built to take full advantage of new development tools, techniques, and certification approaches.
By applying this approach, the DoD will only pay for a unique military capability that can be delivered quickly and reliably, as shown in Figure 1. This figure shows a highly simplified automotive example of product line engineering and payload/platform management for flexible integration of functional capability. This framework highlights the breakdown of major automobile functional elements (such as power train, suspension, interior, etc.) into product line segments.
Figure 1: The Renault-Nissan Common Module Framework.
The DoD also needs a new procurement and delivery strategy that values shared responsibility, improved warfighter capability, increased operational robustness, outstanding support, and continuous improvement. Ideally, this strategy should ensure that the resulting products are defect-free to the warfighter, tested early and often, certified for operational use when deployed, fully supported, highly reliable, and able to provide the required capability in the face of component failures for protracted periods of time. These are ambitious goals, but they should be front and center in driving software engineering strategy, analogous to the ambitious software engineering goals set by the Defense Innovation Board.
Relevant Technology Trends
Development paradigms are constantly in motion. These paradigms advance on the basis of technical improvements in the ability to decouple implementation decisions to better support incremental development processes by separating features of capability, thus enabling higher levels of scale and capability without increasing uncertainty and risk. For example, service-oriented architecture (SOA) was a useful approach for a time, but the development methods and underlying technologies that made SOA attractive have evolved to the next step. In particular, containerization and micro-services are emerging development practices that facilitate more granular decision making and that have achieved broad adoption, as described below:
- Containerization (also known as "operating-system-level virtualization") is an operating system feature in which the kernel supports the existence of multiple isolated user-space instances that enable the deployment and running of distributed applications without launching an entire virtual machine (VM) for each module. Containerization can be applied to convert many architecture design elements into interchangeable elements that better support modern iterative and incremental software development practices, such as DevOps.
- Micro-services are a variant of the SOA architectural style that structures an application as a collection of loosely coupled fine-grained services connected via lightweight protocols. Modular capabilities implemented as micro-services more efficiently and safely manage data and can exploit the next generation of computing infrastructure, including multiple cores, cloud technology, storage evolutions, etc.
Containerization and micro-services also help reduce development risk and increase overall product robustness. Likewise, they can be combined with Agile and DevOps methodologies that development and quality assurance teams can use to focus on a capability as a new unit of functionality that works with other containers as a part of a capability architecture.
Requirements for a New DoD Acquisition Model
A new acquisition model for the DoD must address how the organization will evolve into a revamped set of business, organizational, contracting, technical, financial, and ultimately cultural behaviors. The core of this model involves transitioning from a collection of independently acquired systems into a highly interdependent ecosystem of rapidly delivered capability modules that integrate and interoperate as a foundational principle. This team-centric approach will require constant communication and collaboration across historically partisan divides. New practices will be needed to align stakeholders to new organizational identities and reward mechanisms.
Transforming from conventional DoD acquisition models to the model espoused here will only happen by having a clear-eyed future objective structure that emerges from a thoughtful progression from the current state. This model should start with an architectural approach that establishes and ensures the following properties:
- loose coupling and independent development for components,
- early and continuous production/evaluation
- an orchestration of capabilities crafted to present a user experience that appears fully integrated
The remainder of this blog post explores the organizational implications of this model.
An Overarching Business Model
Both sides of the Goldwater-Nichols divide that separate capability acquisition from requirements ownership in the DoD should be reorganized on the principle that has guided dynamic markets. The automobile industry is an analogous example of the type of enterprise approach the DoD could emulate. The trend in that industry is to limit the number of different organizations that create similar value elements. Moreover, the automotive industry has evolved to use product line architectures (PLAs) to maximize flexibility and reuse of common elements.
A PLA is a design that has built-in flexibility to encompass all the different ways a product could be used. This approach is accomplished through configurable design features that are intentionally built to accommodate customizations that support specific customer use-cases. In this way, a PLA design can maximize reuse while also providing the variations that customers demand. The goal of applying PLAs in the automotive industry is to maximize the utility of a platform to serve multiple-vehicle products, providing greater flexibility and efficiency in offering products that meet customer needs.
Several industries that develop complex, safety-critical, and large-scale cyber-physical systems have adopted and improved upon the product line approach. Figure 1 above showed the breakdown of major automobile functional elements (such as power train, suspension, interior, etc.) into product line segments. Likewise, Figure 2 below shows the strategic trajectory of a major U.S. automotive manufacturer to reduce duplicative infrastructure and embrace product lines as a central organizing theme. This move to product lines promotes flexible and adaptable products while simultaneously improving efficiency.
Figure 2: General Motors Platform Reduction Strategy.
Another market that needs to manage complexity, value reliability as well as provide change to customer needs is the manufacturing robot industry. Companies with product lines in this industry support specific classes of machines that can be configured for a near infinite field of manufacturing processes. They use common modules (controllers, user interfaces, digital process interoperability, selectable manipulators, etc.) to provide an integrated solution. In an odd twist of irony, the most popular and reliable manufacturing robot companies change their baselines relatively slowly while supporting manufacturing processes that facilitate client companies that respond to mass customization and a blistering array of user selections.
Mobile devices are another example where the hardware platform changes slowly (most people upgrade every few years) and the operating system updates come every few months. This opens up the application space to move quickly and respond to changing user needs and evolving capability. These open platforms invited many alternative suppliers to create innovations on top of the managed environment. Manufacturers that did not adjust to this change in business architecture (Nokia, Motorola, Blackberry, Microsoft, etc.) rapidly lost market share.
Figure 3: Open Platforms for Mass Customization
To achieve the efficiencies experienced in other domains, many aspects of the DoD acquisition structure should be retooled. In particular, the organizational constructs in the Army, Navy, Air Force Services, and DoD-affiliated agencies (services/agencies) should be retooled from independent system deliverers into the following three distinct categories:
- Platform Acquisition, which provides the outer shell and integration environment of the platform being acquired, such as an aircraft, ship, tank, etc.
- Deployment Environment, which defines a set of software-intensive architecture frameworks
- Capability Commodities, which provide flexible and adaptable capabilities that get added to or run on the enterprise architectures, and provided to platform integrators that share a common, managed set of features satisfying the specific needs of a particular market segment or mission and that are developed from a common set of core assets in a prescribed way.
Figure 4: Business and Organizational Impacts for Modular Flexible Ships.
This framework for capability acquisition will require new programmatic approaches, tooling, and techniques to help the DoD acquisition structure manage loose coupling and independence of modular functional elements with ongoing integration. Software-intensive modules of fielded military products can be updated or replaced frequently and risk-prudently, so they can be thought of as more of a commodity.
The budget structure should also reflect this strategic approach and embrace a different lifecycle reality of continuous engineering to include early and often validation and verification by the test and evaluation (T&E) community, starting at a very early stage of the development process. The trade-off is that the testing associated with fielding will require far less time and cost as the risk of fielding has already been addressed. As such, the capabilities developed and deployed into the field can no longer be thought of as produced in their final state, but subject to regular maintenance or product improvement.
The military environment will be constantly evolving as a result of changes in the threat environment, cyber-vulnerability management, and the underlying COTS technology ecosystem changes. The products the acquisition community provides must therefore be upgraded continuously and fielded rapidly in quantity as modularized capabilities. Cyber-physical systems can be improved through both software and hardware changes. Although the DoD Acquisition Framework (DoD Instruction 5000.02) enables significant tailoring and flexibility, the vast majority of acquisitions still follow a classic spiral development model to achieve a production end-state and a corresponding near-elimination of research and development funding for capability improvement. This approach is particularly problematic in cyber-physical or software-reliant solutions for the following reasons:
- The dynamic cyber threat environment requires constant vigilance for counter penetration and protection measures (even if no capability changes are required).
- The COTS components used to build these systems (hardware, operating systems, tools, etc.) are all in motion, responding to various market pressures. The usable in-service life-span may therefore be much shorter than the longevity of the hardware (e.g., deprecation of software versions or termination of support for obsolete hardware baselines).
- The deployment of new software functions is often an affordable way of improving warfighting performance and addressing evolving mission needs, long after the production run might otherwise be considered complete.
Implementing the recommendations discussed in this blog posting will establish a DoD acquisition environment that is more efficient and capable of delivering much higher quality, with far greater innovation, in a much shorter time frame. Future posts in this series will present key change drivers and technical and/or organization structures associated with the new model of acquisition we propose for the DoD, as well as the impacts associated with the implementation and organizational structure of our proposed acquisition model.
This post was adapted from a recently published paper, Capability Composition and Data Interoperability to Achieve More Effective Results than DoD System-of-Systems Strategies, which examines a new model of acquisition that applies a coherent set of methods to develop military mission capabilities as sets of composed modules.
Read the first post in this series, Emerging Opportunities in Modularity and Open Systems Architectures.
Read an interview that Nick Guertin gave with Federal News Radio on how open systems are evolving to improve DoD buying power.
Read the SEI Blog Post by Don Firesmith Open Systems Architectures: When and Where to Be Closed.


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In certain main-panel setups, neutral and ground are simply landed on the same bus. As such, they seem like simply two redundant wires doing the same job, that are doubled up for some reason. That is an illusion.
Actually, the neutral system and the ground system are totally separate systems tasked with totally separate jobs. They act independently, passing like ships in the night. It's not wrong that they are connected in one location, but that is an intentional bond that has a specific job to do. In fact, it could be replaced with other types of bonding, at which point the roles would become more clear.
The neutral's job is to be the normal return path for service current. It connects from the transformer and supply neutral, via the neutral bus, to each of the points-of-use which require neutral.
Ground's job is to provide safety earthing. It originates at the Grounding Electrode System (ground rods/Ufer ground), connects to the ground bus in the panel, to the ground wires of each feeder and circuit. Note that ground is not supplied by the utility.
These are separate systems. Really.
Ground was added as a "safety shield" to protect people from current faults - not to give a more favorable path (current follows every path in proportion to its conductance), but to prevent fault current from getting anywhere near anyone in the first place. This meant that a piece of equipment could be rendered vastly safer simply by having a metal enclosure.
It was all part of a much greater effort to improve electrical safety. For instance it allowed UL to require 2-prong plug appliances to have double insulation. Since if double insulation was impracticable, the manufacturer had an alternative: metal chassis and ground the chassis.
Now, there are a couple of problems which must be solved.
- Line and neutral will be 120V or 230V from each other, but we don't want them floating (as a group) at potentially thousands of volts above ground e.g. due to a transformer leak. So to prevent that kind of floating, we want to bond one of the wires reasonably close to earth - do so, and the others will follow. The very definition of "neutral" is "the wire we picked for this bonding".
- Current flows in loops. Human-generated stray current wants to go back to source (not earth). If current leaks from a conductor to safety earthing, we want that to efficiently return to source - preferably with plenty of conductors (very low resistance) - that way a bolted fault to ground will flow enough current to trip the circuit breaker. Doing so is called "clearing the fault". This is why outbuildings need ground wires and not simply ground rods (and using the dirt to carry current back). This function is less urgent when "whole house RCDs/GFCIs" are present; they only need to flow 5-30 milliamps to trip, and dirt can handle that much current.
So we need a bond between the ground bar and the neutral bar which can flow a lot of current to clear faults, but keeps neutral voltage near earth voltage.
We could choose, for instance, a transformer with a 1-volt secondary. That would result in a 1-volt bias between neutral and ground. A sufficiently large transformer could flow 10 KA, enough to assure instant trip of any breaker.
Or, we could choose a car battery: creating a 12-volt DC bias (but 0 volt AC bias) between neutral and ground. The car battery handles 1000A routinely when starting an engine, so 10 KA of fault current for 8 milliseconds needed for instant trip won't faze the battery. It would work.
Let's cut costs, shall we?
However, there's an even cheaper solution: a piece of copper or aluminum wire. It's cheap, passive and creates a 0-volt bias between neutral and ground. I'm particularly fond of this one, because then, I can put a clamp meter around the wire! Of course it also feeds the myth that neutral and ground are the same thing.
Now then. Builders want to cut costs at every turn. They said "Hey NFPA. Why should we have to use two completely separate bars, connected by a jumper? Why not just use one bar? It's electrically the same." And, NFPA said "Yeah, we can't really argue against that." And so that's what they do.
That's all that is. It does not make them the same thing at all.
They do different jobs.
we're in the same situation we were in back with two wires.
Not at all.
If the neutral wire breaks, what's supposed to happen is nothing. The current can no longer complete the loop. The device stops working. The user calls an electrician, who finds the loose neutral wire and repairs it. Absolutely no current flows on ground. Ground is not an "alt neutral".
If the ground wire breaks, what's supposed to happen is nothing. The current still travels the live-neutral loop as its normal route. No power goes onto ground because nothing is supposed to put power on ground*. So when the ground breaks, nobody even notices. However, a layer of safety is lost: If the ground breaks, and then, a device has a "hot-ground fault", now safety ground is energized and no one is aware until an accident occurs, or a GFCI/RCD trips.
Electrical Codes are written with "defense in depth". They don't like it when an ordinary failure causes a hazardous condition. A neutral wire break is such an ordinary failure, and that's why 3-prong dryer/range connections (bootlegging ground to neutral) were banned in 1996.
* UL is allowing certain "smart switches" and "dimmers" to function without neutral, by leaking a very small amount of current onto the ground wire. The device must be designed so no conceivable failure could allow this current to exceed a milliamp or so, and the normal service current must not exceed 0.5 milliamps.


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There's "a case that could be made" for election interference by President Joe Biden's call for Saudi Arabia to wait a month before announcing oil supply cuts, Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., said Monday.
In an interview on Newsmax's "Wake Up America," Tiffany joked that "the Saudis told Joe Biden a week ago to go pound sand."
"We shot off a letter from my office to [House] Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., saying it might be time to have hearings because it appears that the Biden administration by asking to put off for a month these supply cuts from Saudi Arabia — that they were doing it simply for political purposes," he said.
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Tiffany also noted Democrats are "in real trouble" in his home state — and cited that as the reason for former President Barack Obama going on the stump there.
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Tiffany added that according to his team's take on what concerns voters, Democrats are ignoring priorities for the American people.
"It is consistently the economy, it is energy prices, the border is up there and just in the last couple of weeks, crime has climbed into our top three," he said. "Consistently as we do knock on these doors throughout the 7th congressional district, that is exactly what people are talking about, and not the stuff the Democrats are talking about across the nation."
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This was in reaction to reports that Federal Government gave the Miyetti Allah group the sum of a N100billion for the insecurity in the country to come to an end.
The minister described information that government gave the group money as the ”fabrication of mischief makers’ while fielding questions from newsmen.
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The minister also spoke about the purpose of his visit to Zamfara State.
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Chennai - AIADMK General Secretary and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa met her long-time aide V.K. Sasikala at her Poes Garden residence here Monday evening, two days after she revoked Sasikala's suspension from the party.
According to party officials Sasikala met Jayalalithaa at Poes Garden Monday evening.
Jayalalitha had three months ago expelled Sasikala from the party and her residence.
On Saturday, Jayalalithaa revoked the disciplinary action initiated against Sasikala, but reiterated that the action taken against her friend's relatives and close associates would continue.
Jayalalithaa said that Sasikala had written her a letter which was accepted by her. Sasikala later issued the contents of the letter as a statement.
Jayalalithaa said the disciplinary action (suspension from the party's primary membership) against Sasikala last December has been revoked.
However, the disciplinary action against close relatives of Sasikala, including against M. Natarajan and others, would continue and party members are advised not to have any contacts with them, Jayalalithaa said.
Jayalalithaa's change of heart came after Sasikala wrote a letter to her and later issued a statement on March 28 declaring that she wants to keep serving the Tamil Nadu chief minister.
Sasikala also said that she had severed her connections with her relatives and those who thought of betraying Jayalalithaa cannot be pardoned.
In her statement, Sasikala said she never dreamt of betraying the trust the former reposed in her and it had shocked her that her relatives had misused the AIADMK leader's position.
According to Sasikala, it was only in December, after Jayalalithaa cracked down on her family members, that she realized that her relatives and friends had misused her proximity to the chief
In December, Jayalalithaa sacked Sasikala and several others from the basic membership of the party without giving any reason.
Sasikala had to leave Jayalaltihaa's residence where she had been living with the actor-turned-politician since 1988.
Jayalalithaa told party members not to have any contact with the lot.

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Hospital looks toward future
Pat Solis, finance director for the Connally Memorial Medical Center, presents the December 2012 financial and statistical report during the Jan. 17 board meeting of the Wilson Memorial Hospital District.
Amid continued growth, the year 2013 could come with a lot of changes for the Wilson Memorial Hospital District. Change was the overriding theme of the district’s Jan. 17 board meeting.
Perhaps the board itself could experience a change in its makeup. Connally Memorial Medical Center Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Jerome Brooks told the board that the terms on five of its nine elected seats end in May. This is why the board voted to order an election May 11, in which voters will select a representative from each of the county’s four precincts and an at-large representative. These seats currently are held by:
•Monica Flores, Precinct 1
•Ronnie Eckel, Precinct 2
•Sue Coats, Precinct 3
•Sam Carter, Precinct 4
•Jimmy Fietsam, at large
The filing deadline for places on the ballot is Friday, March 1, at 5 p.m.
Another change will come in the form of a hospital CEO. Karl Hittle of Endeavor Healthcare, which manages the hospital, said 73 applicants responded to a recent posting for the position. The field already has been narrowed to 35, he said, and it again will be narrowed to 15. From there, Hittle said he would narrow the list to five, which he will bring before the board at its February meeting.
The board in November had selected Tim Jones as Brooks’ successor, after the current CEO announced he was leaving Connally to perform regional management duties for Endeavor. Jones since has decided against leaving his current position as CEO of the Heart of Texas Healthcare System in Brady, Brooks said.
In other business, board members reached a consensus to hold a strategic planning workshop during a special meeting in February. Among the items to be included in the discussion are:
•Updates on the status of goals the hospital set in 2012.
•Alternative means of physician recruitment.
•The future of the North County Health Center on U.S. 181 near F.M. 775, following the termination of the hospital’s agreement with Jerome Kizzart P.C. The board since has approved an agreement with another group -- which will include Dr. Rodney D. Ekmark -- to practice there.
•Improved utilization of the two-story medical office building adjacent to the hospital on U.S. 181, for which the hospital is seven years into a 15-year lease at $29,000 per month.
In attendance: Board members Amy Clark, Sue Coats, Monica Flores, Keith Johanson, Sam Carter, Tommy Soriero, Ronny Eckel, Jimmy Fietsam, and Sandy Yow; Chief of Staff Emily Frye, Administrative Assistant Shirley Bienek, Finance Director Pat Solis, Marketing Director Nancy Preyor-Johnson, Chief Executive Officer Jerome Brooks; and Curtis Rojas and Karl Hittle of Endeavor Healthcare.
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Can A Person Be Both LGBT And Religious?
Description: Rizi Xavier Timane has a message for the world and for the LGBT community in particular, “God loves you just the way you are.” For centuries, misguided individuals and entire societies have used religious texts to condemn and persecute minorities and anyone perceived as “different,” and as a transgendered minister and a person of color, Dr. Timane has experienced such discrimination and hatred firsthand. In An Uncommon Compromise: A Spiritual Guide for LGBT People of Faith, he shares the struggles he’s gone through since childhood to find his own identity and his place in the world—especially in his parents’ strict Christian religion. “Many LGBT persons want to know God and have some form of spirituality but they have been discouraged by religious abuse. This is wrong, unfortunate and usually based on biblical misinterpretation. It is important for the LGBT community to know that there exists a spiritual path for them in which God loves ALL people regardless of gender or sexual identity,” says Timane. What he’s found and what he shares in this book is that one person can change the world by telling people the truth about God’s unconditional love for us all. “It all begins with loving yourself just as you are. That is God’s way, and it can be, it must be ours as well,” Dr. Timane adds.

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H. J. Busness
H. J. Busness is a prosperous farmer of Paint Creek township
whose successful life merits exceptional praise owing to the fact
that when he was still a child he was obliged to earn his own
livelihood., He possesses the elements of success and by
industry, thrift and economy worked his way upward to prosperity
until he is today one of the successful and enterprising farmers
of Allamakee county.
He was born in Paint Creek township, March 25, 1863, and is a son of Ole Olson, a native of the province of Hardanger, Norway, born in 1828. Upon coming to America the father found so many by the name of Olson the he adopted the name of Ole O. Busness, that being the title of the farm on which the family had lived in the old country. The father married Martha Djonne a native also of Hardanger, Norway, and they came to Allamakee county in 1859. The father purchased forty acres of wild land on section 13, Paint Creek township, and upon it built a log house in which he resided until 1864, when he removed to the farm where the subject of this review now resides. This also was entirely unimproved and covered with a dense growth of brush and heavy timber. The father cleared his one hundred and sixty acres and from the timber cut down build another log house, a portion of which still stands. Although it has been moved from its original location, weather-boarded and plastered. Substantial additions have also been made to the original dwelling. Upon this property Ole Busness continued to reside for many years, dying in 1908, when he was within a week of his eightieth birthday. His wife passed away in the same year. To them were born seven children: Olena, a native of Norway and now the wife of Harold Hanson, of Paint Creek township; Julia, who was also born in Norway and who married O. N. Hegg. of Lansing; Caroline, who was born in Allamakee county and who married Bernt Michelson, of Clear Lake, South Dakota; H.J., of this review; Nels, whose home is in Fort Dodge, Iowa; and Mrs. J. M. Anderson and Edward, both of whom reside in Paint Creek township.
As the oldest son H. J. Busness was obliged to lay aside his books at a very early age and to assume the entire control of the homestead in Paint Creek township, his father having become crippled with rheumatism. With the energy, self-reliance and independence which are still prominent qualities in his character he set himself to his task and throughout the period of his boyhood and early youth was practically the entire support of the family. Eventually he purchased the homestead, which he now operates and which he has made one of the finest agricultural properties in this vicinity. It comprises one hundred and eighty-eight acres and is well improved with barns and outbuildings and reflects everywhere the owners many years of careful supervision and practical labor.
Mr. Busness married Miss Caroline Anderson, a daughter of Martin Anderson, of whom more extended mention is made elsewhere in this work. Mr. and Mrs. Busness have seven children, Otinus, Martha, Mabel, Emma, Nora, Holger and Carl.
Mr. Busness is a member of the Lutheran church and politically gives his allegiance to the republican party, serving in a creditable and able way as school director. His career offers many excellent examples of the value of industry, self-reliance and perseverance in achieving success, for his prosperity is entirely the result of his own labor, enterprise and good management. He is an upright man, interested in everything that pertains to the development and welfare of his native county, and he has gained the confidence and respect of his neighbors both as a prosperous farmer and as a public-spirited citizen.
-source: Past & Present of Allamakee County; by
Ellery M. Hancock; S. J. Clarke Pub. Co.; 1913
-transcribed by Diana Diedrich
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Surveys are made in accordance with the harmonised survey system for ships, to harmonize intervals between surveys of all legitimate certificates issued to all marine vessels.
The harmonized system is presumed to facilitate all the troubles of periods between surveys so that any ship would not have to worry about going into the process of a survey schedule required by one convention right after having gone through the same thing concerned in connection with another instrument.
The harmonized system provides for:
- A one-year standard interval between surveys, based on initial, annual, intermediate, periodical and renewal surveys as appropriate;
- A scheme for providing the necessary flexibility for the execution of each survey with the provision that the renewal survey may be completed within three months before the expiry date of the existing certificate with no loss of its period of validity;
- A maximum period of validity of five years for all certificates for cargo ships;
- A maximum period of validity of 12 months for the Passenger Ship Safety Certificate;
- A system for the extension of certificates limited to three months to enable a ship to complete its voyage (or one month for ships engaged on short voyages);
- When an extension has been granted, the period of validity of the new certificate is to start from the expiry date of the existing certificate before its extension.

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Vestavia Hills is a beautiful city whose epicenter sits on the crest of lovely Shades Crest Mountain. The vibrant city economy is supported by many small to medium sized businesses that attract people from all walks of life. The city's residential real estate is always in demand due to the convenient central location, well thought of school system, economic stability of the city itself, and the attractiveness of the homes located in Vestavia Hills. The city contains a great mix of old, new, and restored homes which all have a character of their own!
Take a moment and tour the city's website through the link below, visit the city's Wikipedia page by clicking HERE, and also scroll through all of the homes for sale in Vestavia Hills, AL at the bottom of this page.
Copyright 2019 RealTracs Solutions. All rights reserved. Information Is Believed To Be Accurate But Not Guaranteed.
The data relating to real estate for sale on this website comes in part from the Internet Data Exchange Program of RealTracs Solutions. Real estate listings held by brokerage firms other than RE/MAX Alabama are marked with the Internet Data Exchange Program logo and detailed information about them includes the names of the listing brokers. Listing broker has attempted to offer accurate data, but buyers are advised to confirm all items.


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12 Mar 2018 By Paul Yandall
French giant AccorHotels’ proposed A$1.2bn (NZ$1.3bn) takeover of Australia’s Mantra Group looks set to go ahead creating a 50,000-room behemoth in the Asia Pacific region.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has decided not to oppose the deal saying it was unlikely to substantially lessen competition in any relevant market.
The takeover will create the largest hotel group in Australasia with Mantra and its Peppers, Art-series and BreakFree brands joining Accor’s Ibis, Novotel and Mercure hotels.
Mantra operates 125 properties across the Asia Pacific region with hotels in Queenstown and Tekapo as well as two BreakFree and five Peppers sites in New Zealand.
The New Zealand Commerce Commission did not scrutinise the deal and the ACCC said it was satisfied consumers would not be disadvanatged by the takeover.
“The combined Accor-Mantra will still compete with other international and national hotel chains, as well as many independent hotels and accommodation providers,” said ACCC chairman Rod Sims.
“The combined Accor-Mantra will have a large number of properties in some areas, particularly in certain holiday destinations in Queensland. However, in each case and after a detailed review the ACCC has found that there are also sufficient other options nearby for visitors which will provide competition to Accor-Mantra.”
The deal, which is now being sent to Mantra shareholders for approval, will see AccorHotels control more than 50,000 rooms in over 200 properties across Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia and Hawaii.
In New Zealand, AccorHotels is already the biggest operator in the hotel market controlling around 35 sites and about 17% of New Zealand’s 27,000+ hotel rooms.
Mantra would add another nine sites to AccorHotels’ New Zealand portfolio and nudge it closer to controlling a fifth of the country’s hotel rooms. The next largest operator would be Millennium Hotels & Resorts with 18 properties and 8% of total rooms.
24 May 2018 Watch: Queenstown’s $37m Amway bonanza

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Jorge Perez, the billionaire who helped turn South Florida’s skyline into a beacon for Latin America’s wealthiest, is preparing to hand over his empire.
The 66-year-old developer, known as Miami’s “Condo King,” said he hopes his sons Jon Paul and Nicholas will take the reins of the Related Group soon so he can focus more on travel, philanthropy and his art collection. Jon Paul, 31, has been working with his father out of the Miami office, while younger brother Nicholas, 28, works for New York-based Related Cos., a partner on some Related Group projects that operates independently.
“They’ll keep on earning their place in the company, and of course my hope would be that they would come to run the company a few years from now,” Perez said in an interview at his Miami office, where the walls are lined with works from the art collection he handpicks with two full-time curators. “I can act much more as sort of the true chairman of the company and do some of the things that I want to do.”
Jorge Perez survived South Florida’s real estate crash, restructuring more than $1.5 billion of debt on condominium projects in 2010 after buyers couldn’t get mortgages or simply walked away from deals after putting down deposits. As he plans to take a lesser role in running his company, the luxury-home market is softening again. The stronger U.S. dollar is diminishing the buying power of overseas investors, whose cash purchases stoked Miami’s condo boom. Brazilians in particular have seen their fortunes dwindle as their home currency lost about a third of its value in the past two years.
Perez is still one of South Florida’s most prolific residential builders, with 15 condo projects under way, and said he’s learned lessons from the bust. Like other developers this cycle, Related has built many of its recent projects with large cash deposits, making both buyers and the company less dependent on financing. And while Miami is still the heart of his business, Related Group has diversified geographically, expanding to countries such as Mexico and India.
“The one person who could teach me something about real estate is Jorge Perez,” Donald Trump, the property mogul turned U.S. presidential candidate, wrote in the foreword to Perez’s 2008 book, “Powerhouse Principles.” (Perez remains friends with Trump, according to his public-relations firm, but he plans to vote for Hillary Clinton in November.)
The elder son, Jon Paul, participates in staff meetings across divisions -- condos, rentals and affordable housing -- and is being groomed to take leadership on development and finding land deals. For the first time, he was put in charge of marketing and building out the sales office for a Related project, the Auberge Miami, a planned three-tower complex on downtown’s Biscayne Boulevard with 1,400 units priced at a median of $1 million.
Jon Paul recently brought in a deal in the Miami Beach area that he said would be the site of the company’s priciest-ever condo project on a per-square-foot basis, with units costing more than $2,500 a square foot.


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The Kingdom of England VS The Kingdom of Scotland. Under the rule of King Edward the first and Sir William Oliphant respectivley.
Date/Location of Battle:
The battle occured in 1304 at Stirling castle in Stirling Scotland, Until around 1307 in which King Edward died, however his forces winning the seige and continued to hold rule of the castle for the rest of the first scottish war of independence.
How and Why the Weapon was Used:
The trebuchet used in the seige of the stirling castle was called the Warwolf, which is believed to be the largest trebuchet ever made, used by the English as they were atempting to gain the castle from the Scottish.
Effectiveness of the Seige Weapon
There is not much knowledge about how the seige weapon was used, the Warwolf was being assembled during the seige and it is said that before even being completed, the scottish were so imtimidated by the size and power of such a weapon that they pleaded king Edwards for mercy, however instead Edwards sent a messenger who explained that he would not grant them this mercy they so desired. He instead carried on with the siege and build the Warwolf which during the battle was said to hurdle around 136 kg's, leveling an entire wall of the castle.

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Wichita brothers indicted on $3.7 million healthcare fraud scheme
WICHITA, Kan. (WIBW) - Two Wichita brothers have been indicted for a $3.7 million healthcare fraud scheme in which they stole the identity of a physician to do so.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas says a federal grand jury indicted Bradley Eck, 54, and Todd Eck, 58, both of Wichita, on Friday, Aug. 19, for their alleged engagement in a healthcare fraud scheme that stole more than $3.7 million from Medicare and Tricare over a 3-year period.
Court records indicate that between 2017 and 2019, the brothers allegedly created several businesses and misrepresented their ownership in documents, submitted false bills for medical services not given to patients.
The Office said the pair allegedly used a doctor’s provider number without his authorization and falsified his electronic signature which indicated on documents that he performed medical procedures - which he did not - to collect insurance payments.
Both Eck brothers have been charged with the following:
- One count of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud
- Two counts of false statements related to healthcare matters
- One count of healthcare fraud
- Three counts of aggravated identity theft
- Two counts of money laundering
- One count of money laundering conspiracy.
The U.S. Department of Defense - Defense Criminal Investigative Service and Defense Contract Audit Agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigations investigated the case.
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Karl Marx - Critic of the System, 1800s
Critic of the System and His Contribution to British Heritage.
Thomas Robert Malthus, a prominent English cleric and economist, left an enduring legacy with his groundbreaking work on population growth and its impact on society. His Malthusian Trap, which highlighted the cyclical relationship between population growth and resources, generated significant deb...
The First Paper Money Banker and an Architect of Modern Economics.
Contribution of Ronald Coase to British Heritage.
A Pioneering Free Market Economist and British Intellectual Heritage.
Scottish Enlightenment Empiricist and his Contribution to British Heritage.


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Blitzen Trapper w/ The Moondoggies FRI 6/18
PLAYING IN LANCASTER on JUNE 18th! @ the Chameleon Club downtown
–Courtesy of XPN’s website
Blitzen Trapper is an experimental rock/folk sextet which formed in Portland, Oregon, United States in 2000. In various combinations and guises, the group had already played a long time together before the “crystalization event” in July 2000 on the slopes of the famous volcano Mt Hood. Since then they have performed for audiences of all ages and socioeconomic groups, mostly playing close to home and for many years distributing recordings like itinerant madmen, for free.
- Courtesy of The Moondoggies Facebook page
The Moondoggies -The Moondoggies are a four-piece band from Seattle that plays timeless American music. Warm three-part harmonies, gothic Rhodes organ, and wanderlust guitar mark a sound rooted in boogie blues and cosmic country; whip-smart songwriting leads to hook-heavy tunes that bristle with originality. Led by 22-year-old singer/guitarist Kevin Murphy, the Moondoggies are intent on artistic balance. They’re a serious band with a silly name. They play music that speaks of travel but is strongly connected to its place of origin. They’re young musicians continuing a legacy that goes back generations. Songs that unravel over seven sinuous minutes are somehow catchy and compact.


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I know that pets are so significant in many of our lives. Most give us unconditional love, make us laugh, become integral members of our family, and much more. As a person with bipolar disorder (a mental illness), I’ve also experienced pets as a source of great emotional support. During my life, I have primarily been a cat or parrot owner, but I love all animals. When I see any animal struggling or injured (or dead alongside the road) it breaks my heart. The sad thing is that such observations are far too numerous. Obviously some of these occurrences are just the reality of nature, others are clearly caused by humans, unintentionally, and tragically sometimes intentionally. Though many of us wish we could end humans’ negative impact on animals, often we have to become partially numb to it, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to do some things that can make a difference. Continue reading
The new boy in our life
I am so excited to announce that after grieving the loss of my pet Pacific Parrotlet for seven months, my husband and I finally decided it was time to welcome a new pet friend into our household. This time we decided to adopt a Hahn’s macaw. Hahn’s macaws are like mini macaws. They look a bit like a regular large macaw, but are more the size of a conure, or a little bigger than a cockatiel.
We are yet to name our young lad, but we have already fallen in love with him. He is four months old, and will need to get used to being in a household with people. He seems to be a mild-mannered guy, but that could change once he gets used to us and our home.
I am home almost all day long, so he will get lots and lots of attention. He will also surely serve as my new emotional support animal. Back in February, after I lost my pet parrotlet, I wrote about the significance of emotional support animals, both official and unofficial. If anyone is interested in that post you can find it at The Emotional Support Pet.
Please wish me luck with my new friend, and feel free to share your loving stories about your pet(s). They are so so important to many of us.

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This little shoulder bag is an absolute stunner! It's beautiful in a pretty shade of apple green, encrusted in shimmery beads with incredible beaded tassels. It has a silver tone clasp and silver chain shoulder strap (which you can tuck away inside if you would rather use it as a clutch bag). An absolute must for any Great Gatsby themed party!
The bag measures 6" tall by 6" wide. Strap is 23".
Condition: excellent vintage condition.

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- Popular singer Davido has been spotted feeding his son Ifeanyi
- The singer was seen trying to type on his phone and feed his son at the same time
- Davido also shared cute videos of himself, his son and his beautiful wife-to-be
Nigerian singer David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has been spotted in a video shared on social media feeding his newborn son, Ifeanyi David Adeleke Junior.
The singer, who is a father to three beautiful children, was seen feeding his third child and first son in the cute video.
In the video, the singer was seen bottle-feeding his son while also trying to type on his phone. Davido, who was filmed by a friend, started to smile immediately he realised that he was being filmed.
Davido shared other cute videos of himself and his wife-to-be, Chioma Avril Rowland, on parenting duties. The singer shared one of Chioma holding her baby boy and rocking him to sleep.
Another video showed Davido carrying the baby boy on his laps. In the video, he was seen trying to make the baby dance.
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Federal judge won’t play Grinch by declaring Christmas holiday unconstitutional
Editor's note: On Dec. 20, 2000, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court decision.
A federal judge in Cincinnati has said humbug to a lawsuit that sought to
declare unconstitutional the federal law making Christmas a national
Last year, Richard Ganulin, a Cincinnati attorney, brought a federal lawsuit
challenging the statute that declares Christmas a legal, public holiday and
gives federal workers a paid day off. Ganulin argued that federal recognition of
Christmas, which he asserted is a time for Christians to celebrate the birth of
their Messiah, violated the First Amendment's establishment clause.
Shortly after Ganulin filed his lawsuit, three federal employees, represented
by the nonprofit, religious-liberty group the Becket Fund, filed a motion
seeking its dismissal.
On Dec. 6, U.S. District Judge Susan J. Dlott ruled in the Becket Fund's
favor and dismissed the lawsuit. Dlott preceded her opinion with a nine-stanza poem influenced by Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole
Christmas. It read, in part:
The court will address
Plaintiff's seasonal confusion
Erroneously believing Christmas
Merely a religious intrusion.
Whatever the reason
Constitutional or other
Christmas is not
An act of Big Brother!
An extra day off
Is hardly high treason
It may be spent as you wish
Regardless of reason.
Dlott did not cite Seuss or any other Christmas fable in the body of her
opinion, which included several references to Supreme Court decisions on
government recognition of religion. The judge concluded, after discussing
federal court precedent, that a “reasonable observer” could not construe the
federal Christmas holiday as an unconstitutional government endorsement of
Ganulin had argued before the court that federal recognition of Christmas was
intended to and in fact — did — promote Christianity. Dlott, however, said that
courts could “accept the religious origins of the Christmas holiday and still
conclude that the government is merely acknowledging the secular aspects of
Christmas by declaring Christmas to be a legal holiday.”
Citing high court decisions from 1984 and 1989, Dlott noted that Christmas
has long been recognized by government officials, largely for secular reasons.
In the high court's 1984 decision in Lynch v. Donnelly, Justice Sandra
Day O'Connor said that Christmas “has very strong secular components and
traditions.” Justice Harry Blackmun, writing for the majority in the 1989
Allegheny County v. ACLU decision, referred to Christmas as a winter
holiday that “has attained a secular status in our society.”
Blackmun continued that “government may acknowledge Christmas as a cultural
phenomenon, but under the First Amendment it may not observe it as a Christian
holy day by suggesting that people praise God for the birth of Jesus.”
Dlott concluded that by “giving federal employees a paid vacation day on
Christmas, the government is doing no more than recognizing the cultural
significance of the holiday.” She called it “inaccurate” to argue, as Ganulin
also did, that federal recognition of Christmas amounted to an unconstitutional
“The government's role is limited to declaring December 25th to be a legal
public holiday,” Dlott wrote in Ganulin v. U.S. “How federal employees
and other citizens choose to observe the holiday is their own concern. The
government has no right to or interest in monitoring its citizens to determine
if they engage in religious celebrations on Christmas.”
Kevin J. Hasson, president and general counsel of the Becket Fund, said that Dlott's ruling was important because it recognized that
government could acknowledge the role religion plays in Christmas without
subverting the establishment clause.
“This decision is not just a victory for the Christmas holiday,” Hasson said.
“It's a victory for the place of religion in American culture. You can't weed
religion out of the culture without uprooting the whole culture in the
A call placed to Ganulin was not returned. He did,
however, tell The Cincinnati Enquirer that he would appeal Dlott's


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Many patients are nervous about getting in the dental chair, but there are ways to make the experience less stressful for them.
The fear of dental work is a common one.
While it isn’t the most pleasant experience for patients to have their teeth poked and prodded, you can make a huge impact on anxiety levels if you know how to calm your patients and ensure a quick, virtually painless experience.
Continue to the next page to see four helpful steps for treating nervous dental patients.
1. Communicate with your patient
Anxiety is a legitimate mental and physiological response to a stimulus that is associated with anything perceived as scary, unfamiliar or negative. When you encounter a patient with dental anxiety, you’ll want to use your best communication skills to figure out the root cause of their fear. Listen to your patients’ concerns, and encourage them to speak up if they become too uncomfortable.
To get an even better picture, allow your patient the opportunity to rate the quality of your services. You can either use a scale that ranges from one to 10, or provide a questionnaire that allows them to go into greater detail. From there, you can use their answers to help you gauge how to proceed with their future treatments. Finally, let your patient know that they are in control, and that you only wish to help them, not hurt them.
2. Guided relaxation techniques
If a patient appears nervous or expresses concern, you can help calm them down with simple guided relaxation techniques. Breathing exercises are effective in relieving anxiety, so encourage your patient to take a deep breath, hold for a few seconds, and then slowly release that breath. Repeat this exercise until they are relaxed and communicate that they are ready to begin.
However, some patients respond better to visualization, and therefore may require further preparation. Instruct your patient to close their eyes, and describe a peaceful scenario, such as a warm beach during sunset or a shady meadow in their favorite local park. And with both of these exercises, you can supplement the experience with calming music – try a New Age soundtrack, or ask for their favorite music and set it to a playlist of those artists.
3. Keep wait times short
A patient's anxiety can increase dramatically the longer they are stuck in a waiting room. While it is important to keep your waiting room stocked with books, magazines, a fish tank, a drink machine and a television to distract antsy patients, you’ll find it more effective to bring your patients back sooner so they don’t have time to become caught up in their imagination.
The average dental patient waits 13 minutes and 30 seconds to be seen. This might not seem like a long time, but for individuals with dental anxiety, this wait can feel agonizing and might even deter them from returning in the future. Of course, sometimes you have situations where appointments run over or equipment malfunctions. In these cases, apologize for the wait time, and politely suggest that they make appointments first thing in the morning or after break times to ensure they are seen as quickly as possible.
4. Keep patients informed
If your patients are the type who like to be aware of a procedure before it happens, then it is wise to be completely transparent with the details. Review your proposed treatment plan with a patient and allow them to ask as many questions as they want.
Also, give them options so they don’t feel pressured into more work than they’re comfortable with; for example, if your patient’s wisdom teeth have erupted but only one of them will cause serious issues, then let them know that they have the option to only get the one extracted.
After the procedure, thoroughly explain the after-care routine with your patient, making sure to speak in plain terms and avoid complex jargon that will only foster more anxiety.
Remember, if your patient expresses extreme discomfort or anxiety, there’s always the possibility that you will have to pause the procedure in order to allow your patient to collect themselves. Always be sure to offer assistance and reassurance when you can, especially during these circumstances. With this extra effort on your part, your patient might just walk away with a new perspective on dentistry.


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In a riveting clash on NPFL24 Matchday 10, Lobi Stars reaffirmed their dominance with a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Shooting Stars, securing their top spot in the league standings. Waheed Adebayo opened the scoring for Lobi, Gideon Monday responded for Shooting Stars, but Orji Kalu’s late penalty sealed the win for the home side.
Enyimba scripted a memorable away triumph over Oriental rivals Heartland, marking their first win on Heartland’s turf since 2015. The People’s Elephant dashed Kennedy Boboye’s debut hopes with a solitary goal from Stephen Chukwude in the 81st minute, clinching a significant victory.
Kwara United continued to impress with a commanding 2-0 win over Gombe United. Alao Muhammed’s early goal set the tone for the Afonja Warriors, and Abubakar Garba added a second in the second half, solidifying Kwara United’s strong performance.
Sunshine Stars emerged victorious in the Southwest derby against Sporting Lagos, securing a 1-0 win in Akure. Moses Omodumueke’s lone goal proved decisive, earning the Owena Waves maximum points in an intense regional showdown.
Bendel Insurance and Kano Pillars battled to a goalless draw at the Sani Abacha Stadium in Kano. Super Eagles goalkeeper Amas Obasogie played a pivotal role, saving a penalty for Bendel Insurance and securing an important away point against the formidable Kano Pillars.
Remo Stars and Doma United played out a goalless draw in Ikenne, extending Doma United’s impressive unbeaten run to six games in NPFL24. The stalemate showcased both teams’ defensive resilience and ensured Doma United’s continued ascent in the league.
In the Oriental derby, Abia Warriors edged past Enugu Rangers with a narrow 1-0 victory. Collins Nwoburuoke’s solitary goal secured the Umiahia Landlords three crucial points in a tightly contested NPFL24 Matchday 10 clash.
Niger Tornadoes broke a five-game winless streak by defeating Akwa United, thanks to a decisive strike from Bashiru Usman. The Ikon Allah boys climbed to 17th place in the standings following their hard-fought triumph.
Katsina United and Bayelsa United played to a 1-1 draw in their NPFL24 Matchday 10 encounter. Tekena Garando opened the scoring for Bayelsa United, countered by Lukman Bello’s equalizer for Katsina United, ensuring both teams shared the spoils in an evenly contested match.
The NPFL24 Matchday 10 fixtures showcased a thrilling blend of competitive clashes, historic moments, and impressive performances, keeping football enthusiasts on the edge of their seats as the league action continues to unfold.


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By Richard Gaines
---- — Jane Lubchenco, the celebrated academic scientist whose four years at the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration devolved into a bitter political battle with the fishing industry and its congressional and political allies of both parties, yesterday announced her resignation effective at the end of February.
Lubchenco brought to her sub-cabinet position a faith that creating commodity markets trading in catch shares would induce conservation, efficiency of effort and a new profitability for the ports.
In her internal NOAA email yesterday, she proclaimed success on all fronts, but she leaves with the Northeast groundfishery, the high profile case study for catch shares, in shambles, declared a “disaster” by the acting commerce secretary in September, 11 months after Gov. Deval Patrick sought the declaration.
Adding insult to injury, Lubchenco inexplicably went to pains to protect the careers, salaries and reputations of the enforcement agents and litigators, including the chief of law enforcement, who had undertaken campaigns of legal terror against fishermen, extracting irrationally heavy fines for often minute violations of bureaucratic regulations, as multiple reports by the Commerce Department inspector general documented.
Although her internal email announcing her decision to resign proudly proclaimed her service as defined by “transparency, integrity, innovation, teamwork and communications,” she ignored or deflected countless written requests for her reasoning in keeping around the discredited old guard, after the inspector general testified to Congress that then NOAA law enforcement chief Dale Jones shredded the majority of documents in his office during the first active investigation of law enforcement excesses in 2010.
Lubchenco, a MacArthur “genius” award winner, implied in her email announcement that her resignation was induced by yearning for family and academia. “... As wonderful as Skype is for staying in touch, it is not a viable long-term arrangement!” she wrote.
But as recently as Oct. 4, she told Science Magazine’s blog ScienceInsider she hoped to remain a member of a second Obama administration. “There is so much more yet to do, and I want to do everything possible to make [it] happen,” she is quoted as saying.
The White House did not respond to questions about the impetus for her decision to resign.
Lubchenco’s imperious manner — ignoring long letters on fisheries policy from Congressman Barney Frank, breaking numerous commitments to U.S. Sen. John Kerry to testify before the Senate Commerce Committee — as well as her pivotal role at the center of an antifishing conservation movement and her relentless promotion of investor-ready catch shares once in office all contributed to the widespread feeling in Congress and along the docks that Lubchenco was no friend of the fishermen, who had over the centuries maintained a business model emphasizing small scale and local control.
Democratic Congressmen Frank and John Tierney were joined by Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Republican Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina in declaring Lubchenco a failed leader whose continued presence at NOAA barred progress in rebuilding industry trust in government. Alone in the delegation, Kerry maintained a nuanced aggravation with Lubchenco, as was clear in his statement Wednesday.
“This is a really critical time for our fishermen’s economic situation, and I hope it’ll also be the moment when we begin a new era for our fishing communities in terms of their relationships and their dealing with NOAA,” he said in an email. “The next NOAA administrator can set a tone on Day One by proactively offering a seat at the table for our fishermen in the decision-making ... .”
“Administrator Lubchenco has implemented job-killing policies that have decimated the Massachusetts fishing fleet,” said Brown, who was defeated in November by Democrat Elizabeth Warren. Brown and Warren agreed that the catch share policy and Lubchenco’s support for discredited law enforcers were corrosive to trust.
“Those failed policies should go out the door along with Administrator Lubchenco,” said Brown, who added he had urged the appointment of a successor capable of ending “this sad chapter of mismanagement, accountability, and hostility to American fishing communities.”
“Our fishing community has suffered under Jane Lubchenco’s leadership at NOAA,” said Tierney. “Reports that she will resign in the coming months are certainly welcomed and provide the administration with an opportunity to set NOAA on a different course.”
Lubchenco’s to ascent to power over oceans and atmosphere for President Obama grew from plans hatched in 1991 to tap the billions in new industrial foundations — Intel, Hewlett Packard, Wal-Mart — for peer-reviewed science alleging an emptying of the oceans by avaricious fishermen, and money for hands-on member-seeking green groups. These studies and reports, disputed by many independent scientists and defined as reflecting an ends-driven “faith-based fisheries” in one critique by a highly regarded scientist-writer, were meant to underpin radical controls on wild harvesting via marine protected areas and other constricting statutory concepts — 10-year rebuilding timetables, hard catch limits and increased hedging against scientific uncertainty.
As an organizer of the Pew Oceans Commission in 2003, Lubchenco forged new alliances with the likes of Leon Panetta, now U.S. defense secretary, and afterward became vice chairwoman of Environmental Defense Fund, which, with its corporate partner Wal-Mart, campaigned for President Obama to fix the fisheries by reconfiguring them to fit into the globalized investment world — ignoring that the United States had become a global leader in fisheries conservation and was importing more than 80 percent of its seafood.
“Dr. Lubchenco has dedicated her career to science and the environment, and with the appointment of John Bullard as NOAA’s regional administrator she has done a huge service to fishing families and communities during a crucial period for the industry,” EDF’s senior fisheries adviser Johanna Thomas said in an email.
A member of the faculty at Oregon State University, Lubchenco was introduced at her Senate confirmation hearing by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon as “the bionic woman of good science.”
But Lubchenco neglected to mention her single issue agenda — convert fisheries into commodity markets, with the Northeast groundfishery as the immediate target for transformation, an event that has brought accelerated consolidation, as she hoped. In an email to the Times soon after taking office, her press secretary said she hoped to see “a significant fraction” of the boats eliminated.
“While Dr. Lubchenco’s departure will provide a welcome opportunity for NOAA to have a different perspective in February, critical decisions will be made between now and then that could do significant damage to our fishing families,” said state Sen. Bruce Tarr, R-Gloucester. “Hopefully she will use the time remaining in her tenure to change the current course of devastating regulations, questionable science and persistent distrust to create the chance for her successor to initiate a new era in fisheries management.”


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Do you have questions about the cemetery?
Who ARE You?
We’re the descendants of early settlers in Toronto – Captain John Denison and his wife Sophia. Burials in this cemetery are for their descendants and spouses.
The cemetery is located on the original family farm established in the early 1800’s. Captain John’s Will called for a section of the farm to be carved off as a family burial ground. Since then, a small group of descendants of Captain John have operated the cemetery on behalf of the entire family.
Can I look Around?
Absolutely. As a member of the public, you’re welcome to enjoy the property and explore it’s history.
Please remember that the cemetery is private property and is a sacred place to the Denison family. Please clean up after your pet and conduct yourself in a respectful manner.
During funerals or other services at the cemetery, the gates will be closed and admittance limited to those invited.
Can I learn MORE?
Of course. The Denison family has a long history of significant contributions to Toronto – especially in the 1800’s.
The families primary contributions were to military and public service.
You can learn more at our Resources page.


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I was really excited about hearing the band's debut album, I'd bought and loved, both 'Last Nite' and 'Hard To Explain' and 'Is This It' didn't disappoint, I probably listened to it everyday for six months.
The Killers scrapped almost every song they were working on for their debut album Hot Fuss after hearing Is This It. "That record just sounded so perfect," frontman Brandon Flowers told NME. "We threw away everything we were working on and the only song that made the cut and remained on the record was Mr Brightside."
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The frames we use are made from solid wood, sourced from a sustainable forest.


The team at Ernst Hansch Construction Ltd. values their long term relationship with Transcontinental LGM – Coronet, a North American leader in flexible packaging and Canada’s largest printer and leader in specialty media segments
One of the many projects completed by Ernst Hansch Construction Ltd. for Transcontinental was a new 11,200 ft2 press base, completed in 2014. This project required lifting a portion of the existing roof to accommodate a higher press than the current structure would allow. Construction also included a 925 ft2 exterior pad required to house Transcontinental’s new oxidizer equipment.
Working within an active print shop, hoarding of the construction work areas is critical for all projects completed for Transcontinental. This project included extensive hoarding, demolition of the existing structure, cutting and removal of the existing concrete slab.
To accommodate the new, larger printing press, the area was excavated, large capacity piles and a deep reinforced concrete press base were installed. The old existing roof and support structure were demolished and structural steel was erected to support the installation of the new roof.
In 2017 and 2018, Ernst Hansch Construction Ltd. completed the reskinning of 83,400 ft2 of roofing for Transcontinental. Working over an active work space, thousands of feet of wet and damaged roof insulation were removed and replaced. Work included the removal and repair of hundreds of existing roof openings.
Over 30 mechanical units were removed and replaced or renewed, gas piping was removed or replaced and abandoned old large ductwork was removed from the roof while working around live duct runs. Roof drains were installed, complete with new internal piping to separate these drains from the combined sewer and divert rainwater to the land drainage system instead.


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The healthiest way to start your day ?
The healthiest way to start your day ?
That’s a healthy dessert that looks and tastes totally decadent.
In this cold, bananas seem to take an eternity to mature. I can’t eat them white, that gives me bloating. I wanted to eat some.
I microwaved the bananas with very little butter. Added cocoa mass chips (100% cocoa) and covered by batter (flour with rice bran, pure cocoa powder, a little baking powder, very little kurozato black sugar).
I like it when the chips melt… I’ve let the oven decide how to baked them. Verdict : 40 minutes.
Upside-down…. Yeah !
Melty banana, on melty chocolate. A delicious Winter dessert to eat warm.
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All those that didn’t fit into :
Most of these sweets (not all) are very healthy and can be eaten every day. Whenever it is possible, I use only natural and whole ingredients, little or no added sugar. Many desserts are vegan. A few are decadent…
Made with agar (kanten) seaweed.
CLASSICS FROM EVERYWHERE
ASIAN JOURNEY :
Red rice Budwig cream.
Dr Kousmine and her friend scientist Ms Budwig propose their recipe of Bircher Muesli. It contains the oils and good omegas, the minerals and vitamins our body needs to start a healthy day.
That’s a breakfast… which means a brunch for me.
Budwig Cream generic recipe (you’ll find many variations on the web)
The idea is to very each day those ingredients so you get the benefits of different nuts, cereals, oils, and to follow seasons for fruits.
A : dairy base (cottage cheese, yogurt, soy-gurt…) 4 tbs, a small bowl
B : sweetener (honey, pasted ripe 1/2 banana, brown sugar…) 1 tbs
C : cold press oil (flaxseed, olive, sesame-the white one…) 1 tbs
D : acid (1/2 lemon juice, acid citrus juice…) 1/2 cup
E : whole raw cereal but not wheat or grains with gluten (rice, buckwheat, oats, barley…) 1 tbs
F : nuts or seeds (flax seeds, walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, pumpkin seeds….) 1 tbs
G : fresh fruits – 3 servings
Mix very well the wet ingredients. Mill the dry ingredients just before (if you buy nuts or grains in their meal form, they lose taste and qualities quickly, their oils become rancid, less healthy).
Mix it in. Add chunks of fresh fruits.
Today’s Creme :
100 g yogurt
1 tbs cold press olive oil
1/2 banana pasted
1/2 cup grapefruit juice
Toppings (they are in season som’where) :
1/2 banana, 1/2 mango, 1/2 grapefruit
Cal448 F11.6g C85.1g P11.1g
Recently, old cultivars of rice have become popular. You thought that whole rice was brown, and polished rice was white. In fact, there exist many colors of rice skin. The black sticky rice starts to be known in the West. Here we can get red, green and green-beige Japanese rices. They call them “old rices”. 古代米 kodaimai ( ancient time rice)
La creme Budwig est le “muesli” conseille par le Dr Kousmine. On trouve beaucoup de variantes de la recette.
La base :
Elements liquides :
A : un laitage (fromage blanc, yahourt, mais aussi laitage de soja…) 4 cs, un petit bol
B : un element sucre (miel, 1/2 banane mure ecrasee, cassonade…) 1 cs
C : huile pressee a froid (lin, olive, sesame-celle qui est incolore…) 1 cs
D : acide (1/2 jus de citron ou autre agrume…) 1/2 verre
Elements secs :
E : une cereale entiere cru, mais pas de ble ni grains contenant du gluten (riz, sarrasin, orge…) 1 cs
F : une noix ou graine (graines de lin, noix, noisettes, amandes, pepins de potiron….) 1 cs
G : fruits frais – 3 portions
Moudre les noix et cereales au dernier moment.
Ici : yahourt, banane mure, huile d’olive, jus de pamplemousse, graines de lin, riz rouge.
Dessus : banane, pamplemousse et mangue.
Le cake tout nu.
Sur son trente et un.
Flocons d’avoine, banane, oeuf, cannelle, levure… et voila.
Oat meal, a banana, an egg, cinnamon, baking powder…that’s all.
Le decor, c’est du sirop de sucre brun (kurozato) et des noix.
Topping is brown sugar (kurozato) syrup and walnuts.
4 cup-cakes + a mini naked cake
Cal 549.1 F20.9g C86.0g P19.4g

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Contact: Matt Laible, Communications Dept., (612) 673-2786
June 18, 2008
NRP work group reports its progress
WHAT: The Minneapolis City Council Comm itt ee of the Whole will hear a report from the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP) Work Group on its progress toward shaping a proposal for the future of a neighborhood and community engagement program.
WHEN: 10 a.m. Thursday, June 19, 2008
WHERE: City Council Chambers, room 317 of City Hall, 350 S. Fifth St.
MORE: City leaders have been working since 2006 to improve the City’s community engagement system and to address how community engagement is affected by changes in population demographics, financial constraints, and the approaching sunset of legislation that created the funding source for the NRP. This effort seeks to ensure that neighborhoods remain a valued part of the City’s culture and serve as an important link between City government and our residents and businesses.
As part of that process, the City set up the NRP Work Group, which is currently adding detail to a program proposal that continues the work of the NRP and strengthens the partnership between neighborhoods and the City. The Work Group expects to present the completed program proposal to the Committee of the Whole on July 24. In the meantime, the group will make a progress report to the committee June 19.
A number of the NRP Work Groups working documents will be presented at the meeting, and they are now available online at Committee of the Whole Agenda June 19, 2008. The documents include:
- A description of a proposed Neighborhood and Community Advisory Board;
- A description of the functions of a proposed Neighborhood and Community Relations Department;
- A Minneapolis organization chart illustrating the proposed department;
- An outline of the proposed process for hiring a Neighborhood and Community Relations Department director; and
- A work plan for the NRP Work Group
In December 2007, the City Council voted unanimously to adopt Core P rinciples of Community Engag ement that guide the City’s work with its residents and businesses. The core principles and the other recommendations developed by the Community Engagement Task Force informed the NRP Work Group’s initial report, the "Framework for the Future" that was also presented to Mayor R.T. Rybak and the Committee of the Whole in December.
To view meeting minutes or sign up for e-mail updates on the process, please visit Community Engagement.Communications Department
301M City Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Published Jun 18, 2008