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Publishing News: B&N embraces the web
Here are a few stories that caught my attention in the publishing space this week.
B&N launches Nook for Web
Just last week, Valobox co-founder Anna Lewis (@anna_cn) wrote a post about the strengths of the web and lamented that ebook publishers have "remained oblivious" to the advantages — her post was part of last week's Publishing WIR. This week, Barnes & Noble stepped up to the webby plate and announced Nook for Web.
Chris Davies at SlashGear reports that "the new service runs in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer, with instant access — registration free — to ebook samples, and then the same purchase options as on a Nook Tablet or similar device. … There's also synchronization with any other Nook device or app you may be using, so you can stop reading on the web and pick up where you left off on your tablet."
B&N also is giving away six bestseller titles as a promotion until July 26, but as Matt Elliott at CNET discovered, "before you can add one to your library, Barnes & Noble forces you to sign up for an account, which entails providing a credit card number, billing address, e-mail, and phone number." So, anything beyond reading a sample will require registration.
The company also hasn't completely embraced the advantages of the web — as Davies points out in his post, readers still can't annotate on the platform, and on a browser-based system, "it would be easy enough for B&N to add such a feature."
The other thing you can't do with this new platform is view it on your iPad or iPhone, as Sarah Perez reports at TechCrunch. As counterintuitive as this seemed on first blush (B&N's website says iPad support is "coming soon"), I recalled statistics from a recent survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project (which I wrote about here):
42% of readers of e-books in the past 12 months said they consume their books on a computer.
41% of readers of e-books consume their books on an e-book reader like original Kindles or Nooks.
29% of readers of e-books consume their books on their cell phones.
23% of readers of e-books consume their books on a tablet computer.
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Ebook landscape is dominated by "madness"
Baldur Bjarnason wrote a blog this week following an interview he participated in, during which he came upon a realization: He writes, "I discovered just how bloody annoyed I am about the farce that is today's ebook landscape. Much to my own surprise, I found that I'm more than a little bit angry about the madness that dominates ebooks."
Overall, the post is a transcript of the interview — questions addressed DRM (Bjarnason says, "Once you require DRM you impose a set of conditions on every level of the publishing industry. The requirement puts limits not just on what everybody can do, but also on how they do it."); format standardization ("Standardisation should mean a reasonably standard rendering across all platforms … Standardisation is not what we've got."); and the interaction of EPUB3 and DRM ("Adobe's system isn't likely to support EPUB3 for a long while, which means that EPUB3 support is on hold for most players on EPUB side of the ebook world.").
Bjarnason added a tangential aside to the interview as well, addressing fixed layout ebooks. He writes:
"Whoever at Apple had the bright idea of taking HTML+CSS, discard its strengths (adaptability, multi-device support, etc.) and focus on its weaknesses (limited and complex layout systems) should have their computer privileges revoked. … What Apple could have — should have — done is to introduce responsive layout ebooks. By default they would have adapted to whatever rendering space they were in but would have had the option of setting a fixed dimension."
Bjarnason's post is this week's recommended read — you can find it here.
The newspaper and music industries wish they had it so good
The annual BookStats Survey was released this week, and the overall news for the book industry, all things considered, is fairly positive. Peter Kafka at All Things Digital summarizes the sales stats:
"[The survey] finds that Amazon and other digital distributors are taking an increasing chunk of the market, and that sales of 'trade' e-books — basically, everything except educational and professional texts — doubled in the last year. That helped keep the publishing business more or less flat in 2011, even as print sales dropped off. Net publisher revenue for trade books increased 0.5 percent, to $13.97 billion, with e-books accounting for $2.1 billion of that. Meanwhile, overall net revenue dropped 2.5 percent, to $27.2 billion."
That the overall drop in industry sales was only 2.5% speaks volumes. Sourcebooks publisher Dominique Raccah told Julie Bosman at the New York Times (NYT): "I would never dare to call an industry healthy, but it certainly seems to be robust."
In that vein, Kafka points out in his post at AllThingsD, "[t]hat's the kind of year executives in the newspaper and music business would have loved to have over the last decade."
Bosman also notes in her NYT piece the relatively good news from the survey for physical stores: "Despite the closing of hundreds of Borders stores, brick-and-mortar stores remained the largest sales channel for books, the survey found."
News tips and suggestions are always welcome, so please send them along.
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Publishing News: NewCo's global spread
Here are a few items that caught my attention in the publishing space this week.
NewCo needs to focus beyond the Nook
Jim Milliot at Publishers Weekly reported this week that Barnes & Noble is looking to open Nook digital bookstores across the globe. He writes that according to Barnes & Noble's 10-K filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, "B&N says that through NewCo it plans to launch the Nook digital bookstore in 10 countries within 12 months." [Link added.]
Joe Wikert (@jwikert), GM and publisher at O'Reilly Media, has written much this year about B&N business strategies and where the company needs to go. I reached out to find out what he thinks of this latest move. He says the important factor is what they're going to do with the stores — opening B&N stores overseas similar to stores in the U.S. would be "silly," he says, and that B&N and NewCo really should focus on opening technology-oriented stores that focus on more than just the Nook.
His entire (lightly edited) response is reprinted here with permission:
"I definitely think B&N needs to reinvent itself. It's still very much stuck in the traditional brick-and-mortar mold. I was excited when Microsoft announced its investment and likely joint creation of NewCo with B&N, but, of course, we haven't heard much since that original announcement.
"The latest news that B&N is looking to expand overseas isn't earth shattering, and what I'd really love to know more about is how they intend to branch out. Let's face it. Bookstores in pretty much every other country are feeling much the same pain stores in the U.S. are dealing with. So, it would be silly for B&N to simply think they could open up a bunch of stores overseas that look like the ones they have here. In my opinion, what they really need to do is reimagine the in-person experience they can offer, both here in the U.S. and everywhere else on the planet. That's where Microsoft could come in.
"I'd love to see B&N's stores evolve into more technology and solutions outlets. They've undoubtedly had some success by adding the Nook kiosks into their existing stores. Let's see if they can take that a step further and create technology stores within the stores, featuring much more than just the Nook. For example, what about Xbox? Or Kinect? Those areas in Best Buy seem to be the last ones that are getting much foot traffic these days. Microsoft has their own small chain of stores, 16 or so, I believe. Rather than building that chain out any further, why not work with B&N to have a Microsoft consumer technology area within the B&N stores? And not just here in the U.S. This could be done around the globe.
"Everything about NewCo up to now seems to indicate it's only about digital and online, not the brick-and-mortar stores that are the very foundation of B&N. I hope that changes over time. The opportunity for NewCo isn't just with Nooks and ebooks. It's also about a much broader technology play that can help both companies compete with the likes of Amazon."
Ereading data leads to new content forms
Alexandra Alter posted an interesting piece this week at The Wall Street Journal on how ereading not only is changing reading behavior and the reading experience, but how ebooks are putting valuable never-before-seen data into publishers' hands. She notes that traditionally, publishers measured reader satisfaction via reviews and sales data, but that such limited metrics are a thing of the past as the publishing industry begins to embrace big data "and more tech companies turn their sights on publishing." Focusing on Barnes & Noble as an example, Alter reports:
"Barnes & Noble ... has recently started studying customers' digital reading behavior. Data collected from Nooks reveals, for example, how far readers get in particular books, how quickly they read and how readers of particular genres engage with books. Jim Hilt, the company's vice president of e-books, says the company is starting to share their insights with publishers to help them create books that better hold people's attention. ... Barnes & Noble has determined, through analyzing Nook data, that nonfiction books tend to be read in fits and starts, while novels are generally read straight through, and that nonfiction books, particularly long ones, tend to get dropped earlier. Science-fiction, romance and crime-fiction fans often read more books more quickly than readers of literary fiction do, and finish most of the books they start. Readers of literary fiction quit books more often and tend skip around between books.
Hilt told Alter that the data has already affected B&N's offerings on the Nook. For example, data showing readers often abandon long nonfiction works led to Nook Snaps.
Books as great datasets for the web
Hugh McGuire (@hughmcguire), founder of PressBooks, recently spoke at TEDxMontreal about the blurring lines between books and the Internet, and the value the web can bring to books. Here are a few short snippets from his talk:
"It turns out that ebooks are just made of HTML, which is the programming language or the markup language that drives the Internet ... So, it makes sense since we've been making these kinds of structured collections of text available as websites for many many years that we would use the same kinds of technologies to make ebooks. But, of course, there's a terror here — and a catch. That's that publishers are deathly afraid of the Internet. And, in a way, they have very good reason to be afraid of the Internet because the Internet is famous for gobbling up business models and spitting out total chaos.
"But it hasn't been so bad yet because ebooks look pretty similar to books, in terms of the structure of the business and what we can do with them. That, really, I think is a problem. It's a problem because in order to get this similarity with the past, we've ended up constraining ebooks and making them look a lot more like print books and a lot less like the Internet.
"There are all sorts of things you can do with a website or information that's on a website that you can't do with ebooks. You can't link to a canonical version of an ebook. You can't link to a specific chapter or a specific page ... So, this poses a question to all of you, as readers. The question is this: Would you have more value if books were available in print and ebooks and a web version, or if you just had print and ebooks?"
McGuire talks about what we can do with books on the Internet, the value web versions can add to books, and thinking about books as great datasets that could be explored in new ways once they're opened up on the web. You can watch his full TEDxTalk below:
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Publishing News: DoJ lawsuit is great news for Amazon
Here are a few stories from the publishing space that caught my eye this week.
Amazon does a little Snoopy dance
The biggest story this week was the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) filing a lawsuit against Apple and publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and Penguin, accusing them of colluding over ebook prices. If you unplugged or dropped off-grid for the past several days, solid roundups and analyses can be found with Tim Carmody at Wired and Laura Hazard Owen at PaidContent, and you can read the complaint itself here (PDF).
Right off the bat, three publishers — Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster — settled, and Macmillan and Penguin stood their ground. Amazon responded to the situation almost immediately as well:
"This is a big win for Kindle owners, and we look forward to being allowed to lower prices on more Kindle books."
Book publishing analyst Michael Norris told the New York Times: "Amazon must be unbelievably happy today. Had they been puppeteering this whole play, it could not have worked out better for them."
Apple finally responded yesterday. As reported by Peter Kafka at All Things Digital, Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said:
"The DOJ's accusation of collusion against Apple is simply not true. The launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and competition, breaking Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry. Since then customers have benefited from eBooks that are more interactive and engaging. Just as we've allowed developers to set prices on the App Store, publishers set prices on the iBookstore."
Much discussion and analysis has ensued in the aftermath — and I'm sure it will continue in the coming days and weeks.
Some are purporting that even if the collusion between the publishers proves to be true, Apple might walk away squeaky clean. A report at CNET noted why this may be the case:
"One reason lies in the Justice Department's 36-page complaint, which recounts how publishers met over breakfast in a London hotel and dinners at Manhattan's posh Picholine restaurant, which boasts a "Best of Award of Excellence" from Wine Spectator magazine. The key point is that Apple wasn't present."
Bryan Chaffin at the Mac Observer argued that yes, collusion most probably occurred but that it will be a mistake to undo it: "Doing so will clear the way for Amazon to dump books below price, taking ever more share (and power) in the book industry — that is the greater anticompetitive threat."
On the flipside, Mike Cane argued on his xBlog that the suit didn't go far enough and that the DoJ needs to sue Apple again. In a letter sent to all of the Department of Justice attorneys listed in the antitrust suit papers filed, he said:
"The advantage iPhone and iPad owners have in using the iBooks app is that they can browse and purchase eBooks from within that app. It's a seamless customer experience.
By contrast, all eBook apps from competing eBook stores — such as those from Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and others — cannot offer an identical shopping experience. They are disallowed by Apple. Apple has demanded from each of its iBookstore competitors a 30% cut of any purchases made using Apple APIs for what is called 'in-app purchasing.'
To me, this is every bit as much restraint of trade as the collusive price-fixing that made the Department bring Apple and its co-conspirators before the court for remedy."
Individual U.S. states have thrown in as well: 16 State Attorneys have filed suit, alleging that agency pricing cost consumers $100 million.
Earlier this week before any suits were filed, at least two of the Big Six publishers refused to sign new contracts with Amazon. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out and whether or not publishers are spurred into action to do more to prevent Amazon from totally monopolizing the market, such as dropping DRM.
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Just about a year ago, Amazon introduced an ad-supported Kindle at a reduced cost in exchange for the consumer enduring ads on the home and screen saver pages. Now, Yahoo has filed patent applications that indicate a plan to bring those ads directly into ebook content. A report at the BBC explained:
"The filings suggest that users could be offered titles at a variety of prices depending on the ads' prominence. They add that the products shown could be determined by the type of book being read, or even the contents of a specific chapter, phrase or word ... It suggests users could be offered ads as hyperlinks based within the book's text, in-laid text or even 'dynamic content' such as video. Another idea suggests boxes at the bottom of a page could trail later chapters or quotes saying 'brought to you by Company A.'"
From a revenue perspective, ads in ebook content makes all kinds of sense. From a reader perspective, I just hope there's always a price point for those of us who prefer to do our reading sans corporate sponsorship.
B&N one-ups Amazon
A close friend recently told me a story highlighting an issue with his Kindle: While reading in the car on a road trip, he had to give up his Kindle and resort to the Kindle app on his iPad to keep reading when it got dark. Maybe he should have waited and bought a Nook.
B&N introduced the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight this week — the first e-ink device to employ light. Alexandra Chang described the device in a post for Wired:
"The GlowLight resembles B&N's flagship Nook Simple Touch — same 6-inch touchscreen display, same size and includes the same internal parts. The Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, however, is slightly lighter at just 6.95 ounces, compared to the Nook Simple Touch's 7.48 ounces ... The GlowLight technology consists of LED lights located at the top of the Nook's screen and an anti-glare screen protector. The light is evenly scattered across the screen and is adjustable via the menu."
The timing of the release is interesting, as rumors surfaced last week that Amazon was readying a front-lit display for its Kindle device.
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Publishing News: Can the Nook be a viable business by itself?
Here are a few of the publishing stories from that caught my eye this week.
B&N looks at spinning off its Nook
Barnes & Noble made a few ripples in the news this week when it announced the sale of its Sterling Publishing arm. But news that it might also spin off its Nook business caused a bigger stir.
Publisher's Weekly took a look at the Nook's numbers, noting that Nook device sales overall were up 70% year over year during a nine-week holiday period, with the Nook Tablet exceeding expectations and the Nook Touch falling short. The PW post also outlined the planned revenue streams of the proposed Nook business:
The new Nook group would be comprised of four revenue streams: devices; digital content, including e-books, subscriptions, apps, textbooks; accessories; and warranties and extended service plans. While e-books and other digital content sales would be made through BN.com, those sales would become part of the Nook business.
MarketWatch said there's not enough data to determine the profitability of B&N's ebook business on its own. Losses are expected to exceed expectations for 2011:
[Barnes & Noble] said it expects digital content sales to total about $450 million for the fiscal year ending in April — which is about 6% of the total revenues estimated for the company for that period. The total Nook business, including hardware, content and accessories, sold about $448 million in the nine-week holiday period, up 43% from the same period last year. But its investments in the business — along with a shortfall in sales of its E-Ink-based SimpleTouch reader — will crimp the bottom line for the year, bringing in a loss that is deeper than Wall Street had been expecting previously.
In an interview for the MarketWatch post, analyst Scott Tilghman said a Nook spin-off could be good for investors: "My sense is that the brick and mortar booksellers and related valuations are such that a spin of a more highly valued (in the eyes of investors) asset could boost overall shareholder returns."
Others, however, are arguing that the move signals B&N is closer to bankruptcy. In any case, the Publisher's Weekly post pointed out that "B&N said it was not a certainty that it would go ahead with the spin off."
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Newspapers look to capitalize on aggregators
Twenty-nine news organizations, including the Associated Press (AP), The Washington Post Co., and The New York Times Co., banded together this week to launch News Right, a news rights clearinghouse that, according to the AP story, will "measure the unpaid online use of their original reporting and seek to convert unauthorized websites, blogs and other news-gathering services into paying customers." The AP explains how it will identify the use of news:
NewsRight encodes original stories with hidden data that includes the writer's name and when it was published. The encoded stories send back reports to the registry that describe where a story is being used and who is reading it. The technology can even locate stories that have been cut and pasted in whole or in part.
Edmund Lee at Businessweek compared the venture to the way the music industry manages — and polices — rights:
The larger aim for NewsRight is to capitalize on interest among digital enterprises that want to legitimately use content, much the way the music industry manages rights through ASCAP [American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers] , which helps musicians get paid for their songs played in public.
NewsRight isn't just a policing move, however. Newspaper analyst Ken Doctor pointed out in the AP story that the data gathered will be a selling point for advertisers, too, and could help them "measure the audience they want to reach more effectively."
Apple rumors fire up: Will iBooks support EPUB 3?
Straight out of the gate is as good a time as any to get the Apple rumors milling in 2012. Apple (probably) won't be announcing an iPhone5 (so, I won't be able to put my 3GS to rest just yet) or the anticipated Apple TV, but "sources close to the situation" report that "Apple is planning an important — but not large-scale — event to be held in New York at the end of this month that will focus on a media-related announcement."
Many are presuming the event will center around Apple's publishing arm, including its iBooks platform. Chris Foresman at ArsTechnica highlighted Apple's recent offering of a free ebook version of "The Yellow Submarine" to show off the platform and said, "based on information from our own sources, we believe the announcement could likely involve support for the EPUB 3 standard." That would be welcome news, indeed.
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Publishing News: Tech patent wars spill into the book world
Here are a few stories that caught my eye this week in the publishing space.
Patent wars heat up as B&N's position against Microsoft goes public
Barnes & Noble's presentation and accompanying exhibits outlining its position against Microsoft's patent licensing fees for Android devices were made public this week (see the lawsuit here and some background here). Groklaw summed up the situation succinctly, saying, "In effect, Barnes & Noble says Microsoft is doing what's it's done in the past against Netscape and Java, only now the target is Android and the weapon of choice is patents." A later Groklaw post excerpted one of the letters Barnes & Noble gave to the Justice Department:
Simply put, Microsoft is attempting to monopolize the mobile operating systems market and suppress competition by Android and other open source operating systems by, inter alia, demanding oppressive licensing terms directed to the entirety of Android, asserting this dominant position over Android on the basis of patents covering only trivial design choices and entering into a horizontal offensive patent agreement with Nokia ...
Instead of focusing on innovation and the development of new products for consumers, Microsoft has decided to invest its efforts into driving open source developers from the mobile operating systems market. Through the use of offensive licensing agreements and the demand for unreasonable licensing fees, Microsoft is hindering creativity in the mobile operating systems market ... Through the use of oppressive licensing terms that amount to a veto power over a wide variety of innovative features in Android devices of all kinds, as well as its prohibitively expensive licensing fees, Microsoft is attempting to push open source software developers out of the market altogether.
The summary slide from the presentation highlights B&N's main assertions of Microsoft's anti-competitive offenses:
Geekwire posted the entire presentation, and Groklaw has a nice presentation and analysis of the other five exhibits Barnes & Noble presented with the slides.
Anti-SOPA equals pro-pirate?
Congress was busy this week with the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) hearing, in which Google boldly stood against, well, pretty much everyone else at the hearing. A post at Ars Technica reported that "Google's lawyer was the only one of the six to object to the bill in a meaningful way," and that "[t]his wasn't a hearing designed to elicit complex thoughts about complex issues of free speech, censorship, and online piracy ... the hearing was designed to shove the legislation forward and to brand companies who object as siding with 'the pirates'."
The controversial act (nicely explained here) looks to establish legislation to punish companies and websites that allow pirated content. Opponents of the act, including Google, Yahoo and Facebook, say it goes too far and would give the government too much power (Ars Technica outlines the major issues here). The Washington Post explains:
SOPA protects artists' intellectual property, enabling them to pursue a profit — which, in the case of record labels and movie companies, cuts off consumers' paths to free downloads and pushes them toward purchasing the work. But the types of content that would be prohibited under SOPA would also include amateur remix works, like YouTube covers of songs or mash-ups of movies. These works would be considered copyright violations, and not only could the creator of the work be legally vulnerable, but also could the host of the content.
The Washington Post also quoted Michael O'Leary, who represents the Motion Picture Association of America (which supports the Act), as saying, "Fundamentally, this is about jobs." In a tongue-in-cheek post, Edward J. Black at HuffPo agreed the Act will create jobs ... for lawyers, judicial employees, cyber security engineers, government, Internet monitors/censors, and pornographers. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) — who, as Ars Technica points out, "helped author the key Internet safe harbors that keep sites like Google, Yahoo, and eBay from being sued into oblivion for the actions of others" had a succinct, level-headed comment on the situation:
We took the opportunity to pass a law that said that neutral parties on the net are not liable for the actions of bad actors. So now, as we again debate web censorship, let's ask ourselves: what next generation of innovations won't be realized if we backtrack on that principal now? Yes, the Internet needs reasonable laws and bad actors need to be pursued, but the freedoms of billions of individual Internet users should not be sacrificed in the interest of easing that pursuit.
Authors now cry foul on Amazon's Kindle Owner's Lending Library
The Kindle Owner's Lending Library took a hit this week from the Authors Guild. When Amazon launched its new lending service a couple weeks ago, publishers — including O'Reilly's GM Joe Wikert — were the first to voice concerns. Now, the Authors Guild is arguing the program is a breach of contract. A post on the Guild's site asks, "Are any of the books in Amazon's new e-book subscription/lending program properly there?" The post purports that the Big Six refused to participate in Amazon's program, but "[n]o matter. Amazon simply disregarded these publishers' wishes, and enrolled many of their titles in the program anyway."
The Authors Guild post also points out that the smaller publishing houses that agreed to participate in the Lending Library program might not have the right to:
While these publishers generally have the right to license e-book uses for many of their authors' titles (just as most trade publishers do), our reading of the standard terms of these contracts is that they do not have the right to do so without the prior approval of the books' authors.
The Guild concludes with instructions on how authors can get their books removed from the program and says:
Under most (perhaps all) publishing contracts, a license to Amazon's Lending Library is outside the bounds of the publisher's licensing authority. This isn't a minor matter — in order to protect the author's interests, all publishers should be asking permission before entering into such a bulk licensing agreement, and most would need to seek a contract amendment to do so.
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Q: How to apply patch to a destination original source code as a jar file or maven repository url I want to apply a patch file in eclipse. I just simply followed these steps:
Right clicked my project
Team -> Apply patch
File -> Given the input patch file
Apply the patch to the selected file, folder or project -> Selected my project

Patch contents show me:
file does not exist
In the patch file, mentioned a source file to change (src/main/java/org/apache/tapestry5/internal/spring/SpringModuleDef.java). But that source file is my framework's tapestry5/internal/spring/SpringModuleDef.java file & I included that tapestry-spring using maven repository dependency.
while selecting the "Apply the patch to the selected file" I don't have the option to select maven things.
So I removed that dependency url & included as a jar in my project, I tried by selecting the jar file, still now the same error throws. I can't be able to apply that patch.
Anyone help me?

A: You are applying the patch to a different folder to where it was created. You will need to apply the patch at exactly the same level/folder as it was created. Usually this is done in the root folder of the trunk or a specific branch / tag.
It seems strange to me that you consider your root to be some arbitrary child folder in source tree. I suggest that you checkout from the root folder and create and apply patches from root.

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK: Things feel stale in my life. Even though I keep busy and have lots to do, I seem to be stuck in a rut. I crave change, but I don't know what type of change I need. Can you suggest anything I can do in my home to help me make some shifts?
Change is important and we all need it from time to time, but too much change can be stressful and hard to manage, and no change at all can be dull and boring. Small changes in your environment can enliven the energy in your home without overpowering your sense of order.
I often hear from people that they had their home "feng shui'd" many years ago. While that may have been exactly what they needed at that time, chances are they have changed and their homes probably need a change too. In other words, much has likely happened in their lives since then, and the feng shui that worked in the past no longer works in the present.
Have you ever felt as if you needed a change in your appearance? We think nothing of changing our clothing to match where we are going, or, if we live on the mainland, we automatically change them seasonally. Maybe you thought to try a new hairstyle or hair color. The reasons for changing your physical environment are similar to the reasons for needing a change in your physical appearance — you are evolving and changing.
In your home, the change could be something as simple as moving the trashcan to another area of the room or changing your overall color scheme, duvet covers, curtains, a rug, or a pillow, even your furniture, to create a new and exciting experience in a room. When you change something in your physical environment, you force yourself to move differently, change your routine, or gain a new perspective, supporting change in your life generally.
Changing anything gives you the opportunity to experience a new awareness, and you can do more than clean things up or make things neat (although that is important). By making simple changes to the physical environment, you engage with it in a different way, sometimes unearthing parts of your personality you forgot about. Incorporate the following simple ideas that resonate with you. Commit to keeping your home alive and letting it grow with you!
1. Rearrange the items you have on all the surfaces in your home, including coffee tables, shelves and mantles. Put statues and figurines in different places or groupings.
2. Place all the plants in the home in areas different from their original spots. Plants have a consciousness and do not always respond well to change, so if you move a plant that was thriving in one spot and it does not thrive in the new space, return it to its original spot, and perhaps change the pot it was in.
3. Change your bedding color scheme. A new color in the bedroom can enhance your sleep and spark physical intimacy with your partner, bringing new energy and a new vibe.
4. Change the color of your sofa pillows.
5. Change your welcome rug, whether it is outside or inside the home. Make sure it looks and feels different from the old one. As far as the "right" color, just find something you like.
Using color to make change is always a good place to start. Color is a universal non-verbal language that can create a healthy and happy environment, and each season evokes new colors, encouraging us to be mindful that change is always occurring. Some colors and hues encourage certain activities. For instance, warm colors like red, yellows, and oranges or earth tones like brown and beige, work well in your living room, as they encourage people to sit around and talk. Even if you already have these colors on your walls or your furniture, going up or down a hue can make a world of difference.
During the Christmas and Chanukah holidays, we typically experience changes in the environment because of the decorations we put up. When the space is different, it enlivens us, even if only for a short time. Any change takes a room out of the routine and supports us to do likewise by trying new and different things in our lives.
When you last redecorated your home, you aligned and adjusted it to suit your family or yourself at that time. Each time you change something, it is an acknowledgment of your growth and evolution, keeping you in the moment and mindful of your journey.
Even our concept of what is perfect changes as we do. Things are always great until it is time to change them. Stay present and make choices that better align with who you are in the now.
Use your home to support your life. Change doesn't have to be dramatic; even the smallest bit of change counts. Give yourself the gift of support through your home!
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Sunrise Beach Fire District Loses In Camden County Court
A tough break for the Sunrise Beach Fire District as a Camden County Judge dismisses a case that would have removed a sitting board member who continues to not show up for meetings.
Judge Kenneth Hayden indicated to the Department that Board Member Bob Heman was still considered an active member and the board still has quorum, even if he and Board President Denise Dill refuse to agree to a meeting time.
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Fire Chief Joseph LaPlant tells KRMS News this is a major blow to the department, as a 2021 budget hasn't been decided, instead they have to work under the 2020 budget.
UPDATE ON SUNRISE BEACH COURT FILING
On January 7, 2021 the petition filed in Camden County Circuit Court, Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District v. Bob Hemen, was presented in the court room of Judge Kenneth Hayden.
Prior to the hearing, District Counsel Tom Loraine advised President Dill and Chief LaPlant of an option to offer Bob Hemen a settlement out of court. Counsel Loraine advised this would be the best option for all involved. Mr. Hemen refused.
After numerous delays due to court scheduling Judge Hayden was able to schedule the case, all parties gathered in the court room at 4:30 pm.
Judge Hayden called legal counsels for both sides into his chambers prior to addressing the court room. Upon concluding that meeting, Judge Hayden took to the bench and dismissed the case. Judge Hayden stated that because the Fire Chief signed the petition, there was no order from the board as a quorum authorizing such action.
When asked if the petition could be refiled with President Dill's signature, the Judge stated that the District is subject to statute and a quorum would still need to vote to authorize such action. Chief LaPlant asked for clarification and argued that the existence of a quorum was in question under 321.200.2. Judge Hayden stated that Mr. Hemen stated he has not resigned and that a quorum existed. Chief LaPlant then asked that it be explained to Mr. Hemen that meeting times are set by quorum, to which Judge Hayden stated the Board should be able to settle this dispute.
Legal Counsels for both sides, Mr. Hemen, Mrs. Dill and Chief LaPlant met in a private room outside the court room to resolve this matter.
Mr. Hemen insisted the Board Meeting times be changed to 7:00 pm, to which Mrs. Dill refused. Mr. Hemen's legal counsel attempted to make light of the situation and wanted to flip a coin to determine meeting times. Chief LaPlant stated that the Board Meetings could continue at 5:30 pm until April when the new members were sworn in and then the new Board could decide on a meeting time change, to which Mr. Hemen replied that Mrs. Dill just wanted to do everything with a full board. Mr. Hemen's legal counsel abruptly ended the meeting and Mr. Hemen and his counsel left.
This District's legal counsel advises there is no path to appeal based on the judge's decision. This means that the District will continue to conduct business as it has, per District policy, and meetings will either happen if Mr. Hemen attends at the Board set time of 5:30 pm until a quorum changes that time or meetings will continue to be scheduled and called no quorum if one of the two Board Members are not in attendance until April when the new members of the board are elected and sworn in.
Legal Counsel Tom Loraine stated the crux of this case is that any lawsuit has to have a authority of quorum of board members to be valid, we simply do not have that because Mr. Hemen will not vote to have a court decide anything, even if the legal work to accomplish is donated.
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Oleksandr Mykolayovych Bondar is a Ukrainian politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine, Member of the parliamentary fraction of OUR UKRAINE - People's Self-Defence. Bondar is a member of Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor".

Biography

Oleksandr Bondar was born on 7 January 1955, in Kiev. He is married with two sons:
 wife Victoria (b. 1965) - economist
sons:
 Artem Bondar (b. 1978) - lawyer
 Gennady (b. 1990) - student

Education

Oleksandr Bondar graduated from Kiev Shevchenko University in 1977, Faculty of Cybernetics, with qualification of economist and mathematician. In 2001 he obtained his PhD at Kyiv National Economic University with thesis "Organizational-economic mechanism of privatization of strategic enterprises (based on industrial enterprises of Ukraine)".

Career

 August 1977 - October 1978 - engineer-economist at "Ukrglavsnabsistema", Glavsnab of USSR (Main Administration of Supply Management), Kiev
 October 1978-September 1981 - engineer at Moscow Automation Institute, Moscow
 October 1981-April 1987 - leading engineer at the Central scientific-production association (NPO) "Cascade", Moscow
 April 1987-September 1990 - senior engineer, software engineer at the Institute of Automation Systems, Central NPO "Cascade", Moscow
 September 1990-May 1991 - senior adviser on the economy issues, Moscovskiy Rayon Council, Kiev
 May 1991-May 1992 - Vice President for Economic Affairs of the Moscow District Executive Committee, Kyiv
 May 1992-August 1993 - Head of the privatization department at Kyiv City State Administration
 August 1993-August 1994 - Deputy Chairman of the Foundation on issues of privatization of communal property of Kyiv
 August 1994-February 1998 - Deputy Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine
 February - November 1998 - 1st Deputy Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine
 November 1998-April 2003 - Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine
 April 2003 - June 2005 - 1st Deputy Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine for relations with Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
 July 2005 - April 2006 - Deputy Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine

Politics

 April 2006-June 2007 - People's Deputy in the 5th convocation of Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; elected from the Bloc "Our Ukraine", No. 37 in the list. Chairman of the subcommittee on property and other proprietary rights of the Committee on Economic Policy (since July 2006). Member of the fraction "Our Ukraine" (since April 2006)
 since November 2007 - People's Deputy of the 6th convocation of Verkhovna Rada; elected from block "Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense", No. 66 in the list.
 First Deputy Chairman of the Special Control Commission of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on privatization
 Chairman of the Subcommittee on privatization of state and communal property, nationalization (re) bankruptcy and property management, which is in a state or municipal ownership of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on economic policy
 Member of the Group for Interparliamentary Relations with Romania

Awards
 Order of Merit, III class (2002), II class (2005)
 Order of Saint Stanislav, II class (2000)
 Order of Saint Volodymyr, IV class (2001)
 Honoured economist of Ukraine (August 1999).

References

See also
2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election
List of Ukrainian Parliament Members 2007

Republican Platform politicians
Party of Greens of Ukraine politicians
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 2nd class
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
Fifth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Sixth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
Living people
1955 births
Politicians from Kyiv
Directors of the State Property Fund of Ukraine

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TO LIVE, OR TO SOJOURN?
(this is a continuation of the post of 2 weeks ago,
A Place Called Bethel)
How Are We Then to Live?
It took a direct command by God, but Jacob finally does return to Bethel, to the "house of God."
You will notice that God told Jacob not only to return to Bethel, but that he also told him that he was to "live" in that place. Other translations of the Bible put it that he was to dwell there or to settle down there. The word in Hebrew is yashab.
This is a much different word than the word God once used when he was speaking to Jacob's father Isaac at a time when Isaac was in the land of the Philistines. At that time, there was a severe famine in the land, and Isaac apparently had thoughts of going down to Egypt. God told him explicitly not to do this.
He said to Isaac:"Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you. Sojourn in this land (the land where Isaac was at the time), and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father." (Genesis 26:2-3 ESV)
In these instructions that God gives to Isaac, he uses two words in telling him what he was to do. First, God told Isaac he should remain or to dwell only in the land that he would show him. That is, Isaac was only to settle down and live where God wanted him to live. God did not want Isaac to go to Egypt, since Isaac apparently was thinking of making this a permanent move.
Because of this, God told Isaac to stay where he was for a while—to sojourn (gur) with the Philistines. His residence there was only to be temporary. God was indicating to Isaac that the stay in the place where he was living at the moment was for a limited time, but it was not to be his permanent home. Isaac was to stay there as a foreigner in a strange land.
It would be in the future that God would show him the land where he was to settle down. It would be also at that time when God would fulfill the promises that he had made to Abraham and was then also making to Isaac.
Back to Jacob
However, with Isaac's son Jacob, God was giving a different sort of instruction. God told Jacob that when he returned to Bethel, he was to settle down there. The word this time was yashab. Jacob was to live there and make it his home. God intended this move to be a more permanent one.
God in fact intended this move for Jacob to mark a very significant time in his life. It was when Jacob arrived at Bethel that the Lord again spoke to Jacob about the covenant promise that he was making to him. Also, to emphasize the significance of the moment, God now called him by the name of Israel.
"No longer shall your name be called Jacob," God told him, "but Israel shall be your name." It was Jacob's new covenant name.
The Oath of Jacob
It seems astounding indeed that it was so difficult for Jacob to remember the oath that he had made some years earlier. It is astonishing that Jacob could become so used to living by his own trickery and manipulation in the world that he seemingly forgot his relationship to the One whom he had asked to protect him.
As we saw in the post of two weeks ago, Abraham had also fallen into the same deception of self-sufficiency, but he at least quickly returned to the place where he remembered "calling upon the name of the Lord." When he was reprimanded for his deeds and attitude in the world, he remembered and returned to God.
Jacob would not be quite so quick to understand.
Jacob could have spared himself and his family much trouble and heartache if he would have quickly returned to Bethel to renew his relationship with the Lord and allow God to reaffirm the promise and blessing that the Lord had made to him.
Certainly, it was not the site itself that was holy, except that for Jacob, it should have been. It was where he had met God. After his time of having lived in the world, Bethel was to be for Jacob a place where he could return to renew his relationship with the Lord.
Abraham was quick to recognize this. Jacob much less so. Jacob had to be reminded.
The Temple of Jerusalem
Many years after Abraham and Jacob, another of their line and their descendant wrote the following words. He wrote them not about Bethel, but about the temple at Jerusalem. The words are part of a song that was sung as the descendants of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob went up to the temple of Jerusalem to worship. The author is King David.
The words that David wrote came from someone who had grown tired of dealing with the world. "Woe is me," David writes, "for I sojourn in Meshech, for I dwell among the tents of Kedar!"
David was not really from these places, but he used them as metaphors for living in the world and dealing with the things of the world. He continues:
In my trouble I cried to the LORD, and He answered me.
Too long has my soul had its dwelling with those who hate peace.
I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; from whence shall my help come?
My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth…
I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go to the house of the Lord.
Our feet are standing within your gates, O Jerusalem."
(Psalm 120:1-2a; 6-7 122:1-2; 122:1-2 NAS).
The temple was, to the people of that day, a holy site. Like Bethel, it was not as if there was something magical or enchanted about the place itself, but only because it was set aside for worship.
What Later Happened at Bethel
Some years after the time of David, the site of Bethel itself fell into corruption. An apostate king arose in the nation of Israel; a man by the name of Jeroboam. This evil king constructed a golden calf at Bethel as a place of worship to this idol.
Similar to what happened during the Exodus in that event with the golden calf, this king also proclaimed to the people, "Behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt" (1 Kings 12:28). The very place that was once set aside for worshiping God had been converted to a place of idolatry!
Bethel, "the house of God," had lost its significance. It instead had become a place of rebellion against God. Nearby, another site was constructed that was that Joshua called Beth-avan: "the house of wickedness." This was also how the prophet Hosea later referred to it (Joshua 7:2; Hosea 4:15).
What Later Happened at the Temple in Jerusalem
This happened not only to Bethel, for just as that sacred site, the holy temple of Jerusalem also later fell into corruption. The prophet Ezekiel, who lived long after the time of David and even after the time of Jeroboam, documents for us how he witnessed the glory of the Lord departing from the temple in Jerusalem:
Then the glory of the Lord rose from above the cherubim and moved to the threshold of the temple…The glory of the Lord then departed from over the threshold of the temple… and went up from within the city and stopped above the mountain east of it. (Ezekiel 10:4, 18; 11:23)
Even up until the time of Jesus, we read that when Jesus entered the temple area, he found right in the temple, those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves. Moneychangers were also seated within the temple area, making a profit from the exchange of currencies.
Seeing all of this, Jesus made a whip of cords, and drove them all out. He also drove out the sheep and the oxen. Jesus then took the coins of the moneychangers and poured them all over the floor and overturned their tables. Then, to those who were selling the doves he said, "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a marketplace!" (John 2:14-16).
Present Day Places of Worship
Today, we have moved ahead in history another few thousand years. Our situation has changed considerably from that of our forefathers in the faith. In many ways, the meaning of the place of worship has changed, because God no longer has chosen to meet with his people in any single specific location on the earth. He now lives within each one of his redeemed ones. Those people who have been redeemed by the blood and work of Jesus Christ now meet with God through the Holy Spirit dwelling inside each individual.
The Apostle Paul writes to us: "Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?" (1 Corinthians 3:16 NAS)
Nevertheless, even though we as Christians no longer need to look to only a single place on earth where God resides, it is also a fact that we still retain the heritage of faith based upon those who worshiped at Bethel and at Jerusalem. What is more, the Bible teaches us that all of God's children, made so by redemption through the Son of God, are actually the very descendants of Abraham—perhaps not straightforwardly by flesh, but certainly by faith. And faith, after all, is the most important component of our relationship with God.
"If you are Christ's," Paul says of believers in Christ, "then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" (Galatians 3:29 ESV; see also Romans 4:16; 9:7-8). Like Abraham did, we also must conduct our lives based upon the promises of God.
We are still a body of believers, and as God's children, we still meet together to worship. It is not Bethel or Jerusalem that we gather, but we also have designated our houses of worship. It is in our coming together in the name of Christ that our lives are renewed in the Lord.
Our sojourning is also different. We are not dwelling in Egypt or Haran, nor do we sojourn in Meshech or among the tents of Kedar, as David sang in his song. We do not dwell in these places except for the fact that we dwell in the world. We are still surrounded daily by the trickery and deceit of the world. Like Abraham and like Jacob, we also still have a need to renew our relationship to God and to receive again his promise to us.
"Where two or three are gathered in my name," Jesus tells us, "I am also there with them" (Matthew 18:20).
Arise; Let us Go to the House of the Lord
Because of this spiritual need in our lives, it is surprising to me, and more than a little distressing, how lightly many today regard attending our own places of worship. Like Jacob in his return from living in the world at Haran, we pass right on by our Bethel, our house of God, without even a thought of stopping to renew our relationship with the Lord. The time when we should be meeting in worship comes and goes, and if we had even thought about attending our worship service in the first place, we had come up with some reason why we could not attend this time.
So lightly do we regard our presence at our place of worship! Do we not know that we cannot exist long in the world without it affecting the way that we live? As a result of our uncaring attitude, many Christians live their entire lives struggling with the very same personal problems as they did when they first began as believers. This is not a victorious life!
Do you intend to live your entire life battling against the very same problems year after year? The Christian life is not about struggle. The Christian live is about overcoming struggle! The reason many people cannot see victory is because they do not rid themselves of the idols in their lives. They say that they want to change and they make vows to change, but they do not come to the point where the actually divest themselves of those things of the world that keep them under the control of the world.
When Jacob finally had come to his senses, he said this: "Let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone" (Genesis 35:3 NAS).
What about us? What about you and about me? It is time also for us to remember the God who answered us in our day of distress. Let us rid ourselves of those idols in our lives that keep us separated from God. We live in a world that operates largely by trickery and deceit. If we fail to take care of our relationship with God, we also will descend into that same manner of living.
Jacob returned to Bethel. David went up to the temple in Jerusalem. As for us, where are we to turn in the day of our own distress? We too must deal with people who have lying lips and deceitful tongues. Where are we to go?
As David said so long ago, "I was glad when they said unto me "let us go to the house of the Lord."
We may sojourn in the world, but our life is with Christ.
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This GrowSouth Community Indicators Year Three Progress Report provides statistical updates on changes in eight focus areas.
The foundational briefing presented to Dallas City Council in February 2012 laid out a framework for the focus areas and a set of expectations tied to their potential for growth. Each focus area requires a customized approach to a unique set of opportunities and challenges. Neighborhoods must receive a critical mass of new investment to change market perceptions, so each focus area has a core investment area and a detailed improvement plan. The core investment area is the area most likely to grow in the next two-to-five years. The focus areas are divided into three categories.
The second category is comprised of areas that have anchors in place, and are about to attract large- scale private development. The Education Corridor / International Inland Port of Dallas (IIPOD) has two such anchors: the growing University of North Texas at Dallas campus and the IIPOD, a multi- jurisdictional industrial and warehousing district. The Red Bird neighborhood is building around Dallas Executive Airport and Southwest Center Mall. The West Dallas Gateway, at the foot of the new Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, has the burgeoning Trinity Groves project's restaurants and banquet facilities. Mixed-use development including residential is planned to begin in 2015.


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Apr 09 2018 Allen Gunn
Hello OSM-US community. By way of introductions, I'm Allen Gunn, aka Gunner, and I'm excited to be supporting the OpenStreetMap US Executive Director Search. This is part of the work I do running a US nonprofit called Aspiration, where a big part of our mission is supporting free and open source projects and communities.
I'm writing on behalf of the Hiring Committee to share our thinking on the process for identifying the new Executive Director.
We have taken some initial steps, including seating a hiring committee and identifying a group of community members who expressed interest in serving as observers in the process.
That said, we want to make sure to "think out loud" on the full process and invite community feedback before moving much farther ahead. Here's what we are thinking in terms of the steps we will take in order to identify the new Executive Director:
Draft the job description: The job description will describe both the responsibilities of the role we are filling as well as the type of person we are looking for. We'll share the draft with the OSM US community and encourage feedback before posting more broadly.
Define the application procedure: We'll try to keep things clear and simple in terms of how and what applicants should submit in order to apply, the anticipated timeline, and the interview process. We'll invite members of our observers group to weigh in on all these points, and if anyone else is interested in providing input, please let us know.
Draft the outreach plan: Our goal will be to publicize the opening as broadly as possible, and the plan will enumerate the channels and the content we'll use, as well as partners and allies we'll engage for support.
Announce and publicize the job announcement: We'll spread the word as widely as possible in order to recruit a rich and diverse set of applicants. We will ask all community members to both amplify the announcement and to let us know other communities and online spaces where we should be engaging. We hope to announce the position later in April.
Filter applications and engage promising candidates: This will include identifying strongest applications, scheduling hiring committee interviews with the most promising candidates, checking references for any who are still in contention after the interviews, and identifying 2-3 finalists for the position.
Identify and confirm new Executive Director: With our final candidates, we'll host OSM US community interviews with finalists, along with final interviews with the hiring committee. Once we have all the information and input we need, we'll decide on a new ED, make a formal job offer and hopefully close the deal, agreeing on a start date and making arrangements to welcome them into the role.
We don't have a specific date by which we home to complete the hire, but our aim is to do it as fast as possible and ideally have a confirmed hire by September 2018.
Throughout the process, we'll be reachable on the #ed-hire channel on OpenStreetMap US Slack. All are welcome! Visit https://osmus-slack.herokuapp.com/ to sign up.
So our questions to you:
Does this process make sense?
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Overall, we want to make sure the path we follow to hire the first-ever OpenStreetMap US Executive Director is as inclusive, transparent and collaborative as possible.
We welcome your comments, suggestions, questions and concerns, and look forward to working with the whole community to find our first Executive Director.
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Steven Macon Greer: How UFOs Work and Why ETs Make Their Ships
The post goes into great detail about the various forms of UFOs, and also what Greer believes is the ultimate purpose of UFO visitation.
Some people believe that the ETs or extraterrestrial beings are visiting Earth to steal our resources and destruction of our planet. This is not true because they are just as worried as we are about Earth's future. We need to work together to solve the problems that we have, which might be too difficult for any one race in the universe. to do on their own. The ETs are in the process of creating a new planet called Heaven so that Earth can be re-colonized when it becomes uninhabitable. There is one caveat, however, if Earth is not able to support life for a certain period of time then no one goes there because it will only hurt our chances of getting back home.
We have seen a number of UFO sightings recorded by humans in video and on camera. Throughout these sightings, there are four main shapes of UFOs. These shapes correspond with different types of propulsion systems used by the ETS, which is called an orthogonal propulsion system and it allows the ship to hover instead of fly through the air like most spaceships do on earth.
Steven Macon Greer wanted to know how UFOs work. So, this American retired medical doctor and ufologist created CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) and the Disclosure Project to answer this question and many more. His team of experts is trying to uncover the hidden truths of the universe and the restricted information about UFOs.
He once claimed that anyone with the knowledge and answers to these things has a bullet with their names written. And he is not lying.
Before everything else, let's discuss who he is.
Steven Macon Greer was born on June 28, 1955. Since then, he has made his way to the medical and ufology communities. His work is best known for offering an alternative perspective to the mainstream notion of extraterrestrial narratives.
Unlike most witnesses, he claims to have proven how aliens initiate contact and discuss it with convincing detail. And his discussion about how UFOs work is one of his magnum opuses.
He claims that the genius of the 20th century was Nikola Tesla, and his research was the closest we got to developing our UFO-like vehicles. Since then, he has partnered with the Science Application International Corporation as they develop anti-gravity technology. Once successful, we could use this technology to make our UFOs.
They also worked together to uncover the truths about ETs and why different alien races made practically similar space-traveling vehicles.
For now, they're working on collaborating with different governments and asking them to disclose information they're hiding from the public. He claims that we need to hurry and release this information. He is convinced that the implications of having this information will profoundly affect human life, and we would be safer with this information.
While most think ETs have ulterior motives, Steven thinks this is a misconception and is only set to discourage people from studying life on other planets. He says that any civilization capable of traveling the vast voids of space will be too advanced to even bother destroying other planets.
Once his team's work bears fruit, the world will start its ascend to a higher plane of evolution. He believes humanity will travel to the stars, and his team is here to ensure it happens.
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The Mysterious 2 Million-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor from Ancient Africa
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January 27, 2014 SAN MATEO, Calif. – Keynote has acquired Meucci Solutions NV, the global leader in mobile fraud detection and end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring. Meucci will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Keynote reporting into Keynote SIGOS. It will continue to provide uninterrupted support to customers from Gent, Belgium.
"The acquisition brings together two market leaders – Meucci in mobile fraud detection and end-to-end Quality of Service monitoring and Keynote SIGOS in automated end-to-end active testing of telco networks, providers and services – to establish Keynote as the world's leading provider of fraud detection and end-to-end testing and monitoring solutions for mobile communication companies," said Jennifer Tejada, President and Chief Executive Officer of Keynote.
SIM box fraud, or the interception of international calls and theft of interconnection fees, is a growing problem for the telecommunications and wireless industry within emerging markets, costing network operators and governments globally an estimated $2.9 billion every year. SIM boxes also cause service quality deterioration, damage company brands and increase the risk of customer churn.
Meucci is the clear market leader for mobile fraud solutions, offering the most advanced SIM box detection technology and experiences, the broadest coverage of routes, fast integrated reporting and best-in-class customer service. With a highly complementary product portfolio, large customer base and a robust platform capable of hosting other services such as roaming QoS and revenue assurance, Meucci provides Keynote with a highly scalable platform for future growth.
Meucci brings to Keynote a world-class service delivery team consisting of 47 people, worldwide coverage of carrier routes and VoIP subscriptions and an extensive calling card platform. With more than 100 customers across 80 countries, Meucci has extensive experience testing interconnect and roaming quality of customer networks, as well as detecting bypass fraud and implementing roaming agreements.
"Through the combination of Meucci's solutions with the Keynote SIGOS product portfolio and a highly sophisticated, scaled technology platform, we will be able to provide our customers with additional high value services and solutions that enable significant and quick returns on their investment by reducing the financial impact of fraud," said Jennifer Tejada.
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Rosy Cushion is the Exhibition Name.
Soft pink, almost single blooms are borne in large clusters in June-July.
Growth is dense, bushy and spreading.
"Almost single, soft pink flowers are held in clusters. The buds and the outer edges of the petals are a deeper shade of pink, paling to white at the centre of the bloom, creating a lovely effect. Healthy, dense and bushy growth. Repeat flowers continuously over a long season. An excellent, well-rounded shrub with good foliage. 4½ x 3ft." from David Austin Rose Nursery Limited.
"(ALOrobin). Link pink with a white centre. Raised by Peter Ilsink in 1979." from R.V. Roger Ltd.
"Bred by G. Peter Ilsink (Netherlands, 1979).
Light pink, white center. None to mild fragrance. 7 to 8 petals. Small to medium, single to semi-double, cluster-flowered, in large clusters, flat bloom form. Prolific, blooms in flushes throughout the season. Ovoid buds.
Armed with thorns / prickles, spreading. Large, glossy, dark green foliage.
Width of 3' to 4' (90 to 120 cm).
Can be used for garden or ground cover.
Photo from Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden in Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams on 1 July 2013.
Photo from Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden in Wisley by Chris Garnons-Williams on 14 August 2013.
Middle-aged Mid-Green and Dark Green Mature Foliage.


The Organization shall be called THE ADIRONDACK FORTY-SIXERS, INC.
The Purpose of the Organization shall be to protect and foster the natural resources within the Forest Preserve located in the Adirondack Park of the State of New York and to preserve the wilderness character of the region.
In furtherance of such purpose, the Organization will seek to recognize those climbing the forty-six Adirondack major peaks; to foster appreciation of the Adirondack wilderness and the climbing experience; to educate its members and the public to become users who are safe, well-informed, and prepared; to encourage enjoyment of the Forest Preserve in a manner consistent with preservation of the wilderness; to protect the wilderness through its programs in trail maintenance, education, and conservation, and to support projects of other organizations and communities which further the goals of the Organization.
Eligibility for membership shall be limited to those who have climbed and descended the summits of the forty-six Adirondack Peaks (hereinafter called the major peaks) which have an altitude above sea level, of 4,000 feet or over, according to the USGS survey of the region concluded in 1897. The list of the "forty-six peaks" given in Russell M. L. Carson's "Peaks and People of the Adirondacks" is adopted as official for the purpose of membership in the Organization. The Executive Committee may designate as eligible for membership such other persons who have in its opinion demonstrated a comparable commitment to the purposes of the Organization.
Those who are climbing the forty six peaks are invited to correspond with the Organization. Those who have completed the major peaks must file a questionnaire and mountain list with the Office of the Historian to become a "Recorded Adirondack Forty-Sixer" and be assigned a climbing number.
Except as set forth in paragraph B of this article, only persons eligible for membership who pay current dues shall be considered "Members." "Members" are entitled to vote at meetings or by proxy, and they shall receive all publications and general Organizational mailings.
Those persons who have continually held membership since becoming eligible and who have reached the age of 70; or who have been Members for 35 consecutive years, or more, may elect to become "Senior Active/Past Service" Members. Those so electing will continue to enjoy all privileges of a member including a vote, but will not be required to pay dues. The Executive Committee may also confer such status on an individual for good cause shown.
Members and those pursuing membership are expected to adhere to and support the purposes of the Organization set forth in Article 2.
1) Place safety first and foremost. This includes their own safety, that of members in their party, and especially that of children and others dependent upon them, and that of other hikers on the trail.
2) Obey official rules and laws, comply with DEC regulations and announcements, and respect the rights of private property owners.
3) Follow the principles of Carry In/Carry Out, Walk Softly, and Leave No Trace.
4) Neither damage nor deface the natural environment or objects of historical importance.
A failure to abide by these responsibilities may lead to the loss of membership through action of the Executive Committee.
Members are strongly urged to give something back to the mountains, whether by trail work or by other service.
Dues are payable no later than December 31st for the period of June 1st to May 31st of the following year. The power to determine the amount of the Annual Dues is vested in the Executive Committee.
The Administration of the Adirondack Forty-Sixers, Inc. shall be vested in the Executive Committee. Final decisions of the Committee shall be rendered by the elected officers, consisting of the President, Vice President, Immediate Past President, and six (6) Directors.
The Recording Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Office of the Historian Chairperson(s) shall be ex officio non-voting members of the Executive Committee, appointed in accordance with Article 7 of these bylaws.
The Advisory members to the Executive Committee shall be appointed by the President and approved by the Executive Committee. They include the Recording Secretary, the Treasurer, the Chair of the Office of the Historian, Trailmaster(s), "PEEKS Magazine" Editor(s), the Outdoor Leadership Coordinator., and the Merchandise Coordinator.
The President may appoint such other staff and appoint such Committees as may be appropriate to carry out the business of the Organization.
Section 2: Duties of the Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee shall be responsible for the establishment of policy and the administration and implementation of such projects deemed appropriate and worthy to further the purposes of the Organization. The advisory members shall report to the Executive Committee on a regular basis, may attend and participate in meetings of the Executive Committee, but shall not be entitled to a vote.
A) All members of the Executive Committee shall file with the Secretary at least annually a statement setting forth any interest they may have in any business or other organization which may create a conflict of interest with the Organization. The Executive Committee shall adopt a written conflict of interest policy.
B) The Executive Committee shall make an independent review of any transaction between the Organization and any related entity or party and affirmatively determine that such is in the best interest of the Organization.
C) No member of the Executive Committee shall participate in deliberations or votes concerning his or her own compensation.
Semi-annual General Meetings shall normally be held in the Spring and in the Fall, the place and date to be determined by the President.
All Members (including "Senior Active/Past Service" Members) present may vote. A person qualified to vote may do so by a properly executed proxy delivered to the Recording Secretary prior to the meeting.
A. Executive Committee meetings will be called by the President during the weekends of the Semi-Annual General Meetings. Other Executive Committee meetings may be called at the request of any elected officer, upon two weeks notice to all members of the Executive Committee. A quorum must be present for action to be taken; the presence of five (5) of the nine (9) voting members shall constitute a quorum.
B. The President may communicate an issue to the Executive Committee by mail or email and request approval of a proposed action by return mail or email. The President shall set a reasonable deadline for return response, after which he/she shall advise each member of the results of any vote called for, and account for each member's individual response. For action to be taken, at least five (5) members must respond. In no event shall a mail or email vote be allowed under Article 8, Section 7, and Article 10.
For all issues voted on at a General Meeting or by the Executive Committee, decisions will be rendered based upon a plurality of those votes cast, except as specified under Article 8, Section 7, and Article 10.
Only "Members" eighteen years or older or "Senior Active/Past Service" Members may hold office. No employee of the Organization shall be eligible to hold office as President or Vice President.
A. President: The President shall be the chief executive of the Organization, shall chair the executive committee, shall be responsible for performing the duties otherwise set forth in these bylaws, and shall be responsible for calling meetings and conducting the business of the Organization.
B. Vice President: The Vice President shall advise and assist the President. Should the President become temporarily unable to act as such, or should the office become vacant, the Vice President shall perform all the duties of the President until such disability ceases; or in event of a vacancy until the next election.
C. Directors (6): The Directors as members of the Executive Committee shall have responsibility with the other elected officers, to set policy, to approve expenditures of funds and revenue generating activities, help oversee the operation of the Organization, and to do such other acts as may be deemed appropriate to effectuate the purposes of the Organization.
D. Immediate Past-President: He/she serves as an advisor to the President and the Executive Committee. In the absence of the President and the Vice President, the Immediate Past-President shall preside at meetings.
The Treasurer, Chairperson(s) of the Office of Historian, and Recording Secretary shall be appointed by the President immediately following the election of the new officers at the Spring meeting. These appointments are for one year. The remaining appointed officers shall continue in office at the pleasure of the President. The following positions shall be considered ex-officio, non-voting members of the Executive Committee.
A. Treasurer: His/her duties and compensation shall be specified by the Executive Committee.
B. B. Chairperson(s) of the Office of Historian: His/her duties shall consist of recording the history of the Organization, tracing the growth of its membership, and maintaining data relative to each individual's climbs of the Adirondack major peaks. His/her remuneration shall be specified by the Executive Committee.
C. Recording Secretary: His/Her duties shall consist of recording the Minutes of all Executive Committee and Membership meetings and after approval by the President, transmitting membership meeting minutes to the Webmaster for inclusion on the 46er website.
D. Trailmaster(s): The duties of this position include coordination of trail-related volunteer activities, preparation and supervision of trail maintenance work, and administration of appropriate awards as approved by the Executive Committee.
F. PEEKS Editor(s): The Organization shall publish and distribute to its membership a magazine called "Adirondack PEEKS." The "PEEKS" editor (or editors) shall be responsible for editing, publishing and distribution of the publication.
G. Outdoor Skills Workshop Coordinators: These individuals are responsible for organizing and conducting educational workshops.
H. Merchandise Coordinator: This person shall be responsible for selection, ordering, and sale of the Organization's merchandise.
The President, with the approval of the Executive Committee, may create and fill such other positions as may by necessary to carry out the business of the Organization. Such positions shall not be ex-officio members of the Executive Committee but may be invited to attend such meetings from time to time as may be appropriate.
The late Grace Hudowalski is permanently designated Historian of this Organization.
Elections shall be held during each Annual Spring Meeting.
The President's and Vice President's terms of office shall be one (1) year. Each Director's term shall be three years in duration. Two (2) directors shall be elected each year, with a total of six Directors serving at one time.
The President shall appoint, subject to the approval of the Executive Committee, three (3) Active or Senior Active/Past Service members at the Annual Fall Meeting to form a nominating committee. This Committee shall deliver a slate of candidates for President, Vice President, and two (2) Directors to the Treasurer by February 1st.
Additional nominations may be made by petition signed by at least fifty members filed with the President at least twenty days before the Spring Meeting. Notification of such nominations shall be posted on the website.
Notices of the nominations by the committee shall be sent to all members entitled to vote not later than the notice of the Spring Meeting. Members may vote by mail to the Recording Secretary. Mailed votes must be received no later than the day prior to the Spring Meeting. Members attending the meeting may vote in person.
The Recording Secretary shall count the votes received. The candidate for each office who receives a plurality of the votes cast shall be declared elected. The Recording Secretary shall include the results of the election in the minutes of the meeting.
Individuals elected take office immediately upon the conclusion of elections and shall serve until their successors are elected. A Director who has served a full term of three (3) years shall not be eligible for reelection for a period of one year, but may be designated during that time to fill a vacancy.
Any vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term thereof may be filled by the President with the approval of the voting members of the Executive Committee at a special meeting or by a mail or email vote. When appointed to fill a vacancy, the individual so designated shall serve only until the following election at which time a person shall be elected to fill the unexpired term of the office.
An elected or appointed officer can be removed from office by a two thirds (2/3) vote of the members present at a properly constituted meeting of the Executive Committee where a quorum is present.
The current colors are yellow pantone 123C, green pantone 356C, and red pantone 485C. The Executive Committee shall have the authority to modify these as necessary.
Use or reproduction of the emblem for commercial purposes without the express permission of The Adirondack Forty-Sixers, Inc. is prohibited. Reproduction by members shall be for their personal use only.
The By-Laws may be amended by a favorable vote of three-fourths (3/4ths) of those voting either in person or by proxy at a semiannual meeting, provided notice of such proposed amendment(s) is posted on the website at least twenty (20) days in advance or sent by mail to all members entitled to vote at least twenty (20) days in advance of the meeting date.
A. No part of the net earnings of the corporation shall inure to the benefit of, or be distributable to its members, officers, or other private persons, except that the corporation shall be authorized and empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services rendered and to make payments and distributions in furtherance of the purposes of the corporation set forth in the Articles of Incorporation and Article Two hereof. No substantial part of the activities of the corporation shall be the carrying on of propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation, and the corporation shall not participate in, or intervene in (including the publishing or distribution of statements) any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office. Notwithstanding any other provision of these articles, the corporation shall not carry on any other activities not permitted to be carried on by a corporation exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code. Notwithstanding any other provision of these articles, this corporation shall not, except to an insubstantial degree, engage in any activities or exercise any powers that are not in furtherance of the purposes of this corporation.
B. Upon the dissolution of the corporation, assets shall be distributed for one or more exempt purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or the corresponding section of any future federal tax code, or shall be distributed to the federal government, or to a state or local government, for a public purpose. Any such assets not so disposed of shall be disposed of by a court of competent jurisdiction of the county in which the principal office of the corporation is then located, exclusively for such purposes or to such organization or organizations, as said Court shall determine, which are organized and operated exclusively for such purposes.


It is the purpose of the Keystone Oaks School District to provide for its students and residents a comprehensive program of aquatic activities. This program will include activities designed to improve the swimming ability of its participants, to create a safety conscious public, to promote participation in recreational aquatic activities, and to promote sportsmanship and competition through competitive programs.
The following information pertains to the 2018-2019 Keystone Oaks School District Recreational Swim Program. All residents of the district are invited to participate in the program of aquatic activities.
Any questions pertaining to the program or the operation of the pool should be directed to Mrs. Amy Torcaso, Aquatics Director at torcaso@kosd.org.
Open Swim - The pool will be open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-8 PM and Sundays from NOON – 2 PM for all residents to swim.
Adult Swim - The pool will be open for adults only on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8-8:45 PM and Sunday from 2-2:45 PM. This time is for adults to enjoy the pool; this is not the time for coaches to work with swimmers.
Dates of Operation - The pool will be open for operation from September 10th through May 5th during the school year.
2018: October 4 & 31; November 20 -- December 31st OPEN SUNDAYS : November 11, 18; December 2, 9, 16th.
2019: January 1 -- March 1; April 18 - 22 (Spring Break) OPEN SUNDAYS : January 6, 13, 20, 27; February 3, 10, 17, & 24.
Passes may be purchased at the pool during normal hours of operation. Children under 4' tall must be accompanied by a guardian.
ONLY ONE SESSION : TO BE DETERMINED MARCH/APRIL???
Registration: Register by mail only. Applications will be available at the high school pool starting FEBRUARY 1. Registration by mail only. You may email Mrs. Torcaso at torcaso@kosd.org starting February 1 to receive an application, but it must still be mailed in for registration. Number of students will be limited each session based on staffing; first come, first serve. Students will be assigned to groups based on age and ability. Parents will be contacted the week before lessons start to verify registration. Parents MAY NOT go into the water.
Registration: Register by mail only. Applications available starting February 1st. You may email Mrs. Torcaso at torcaso@kosd.org to receive an application, but it must still be mailed in for registration. This is a water acclamation class where fun activities are done in the water lead by a certified Water Safety Instructor. Registration by mail only. Limit to 15 children with parents per session who are willing to go into the water with them. If child is NOT potty trained--swimmer pants are required. NO DIAPERS permitted.
The KOAC is a non-profit parent run organization affiliated with Western Pennsylvania Swimming Association. Keystone Oaks provides use of its facility for the activities of the KOAC as a service to the community.
Age group competitive swimming instruction and competition is offered through the Keystone Oaks Aqua Club. Children of all ages are welcome to participate. The team normally practices 5 days per week from 5-7 PM. All fees and registrations are handled through the KOAC. THIS PREPARES STUDENTS FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL SWIM TEAMS. Any questions please contact Ms. Maria Lydon at lydonswim12@gmail.com.
PLEASE Contact Mrs. Torcaso at the email below after March 1st for the class information sheet. I am waiting on high school spring musical dates. NORMALLY class is run in May. To register; email Mrs. Torcaso at torcaso@kosd.org to receive an application.
Ages: 15 or older who can pass prerequisites FIRST DAY INCLUDING 300 yards continuous swim, 2 minute tread water, and retrieval of object at bottom of pool.
We offer our own water aerobics classes on Monday and Wednesday Nights with Joanne Dressler as the instructor. We will initially offer two sessions one from 7-8 pm and a second from 8-9pm. If there is not enough interest, then the two sessions will be combined. Class size will be limited to 25 per session. Our first session will begin in September through November 14, 2018. Other sessions will be offered throughout the school year and those dates will be announced on the web page. Registration can be done by email or the night of the first class. If you would like to pay as you go, each individual class is $7 cash as a walk in rate. Please contact Amy Torcaso at torcaso@kosd.org if you are interested in more information.
School sponsored activities will have first priority in the use of the pool. Groups or organizations planning to offer serious programs will be given second consideration. Private individuals may also rent the pool for parties and gatherings if time is available. Lifeguards and supervisory personnel will be provided by the District for pool rentals. There are very few dates and times available.
A PHOTOCOPY OF ID WILL BE REQUIRED WITH COMPLETED PERMIT AND CHECKED ON RENTAL DATE.
For rental information contact Mrs. Amy Torcaso at Torcaso@kosd.org.
If entering from Kelton or Eastmont Avenues, turn right into parking lot. Continue through the lot to the "T" with the basketball and tennis courts in front of you. MAKE a LEFT. At stop sign with the track in front of you, turn RIGHT and parking is on the right. (If parking is unavailable, please go around the flagpole island and go back into the first parking lot). The pool is located in the building with ground level entrances A1 and A3.
If entering from McNeilly Road, continue along the edge of parking lot along the hillside. Make a RIGHT to continue BEHIND the Middle School. After stopping at stop sign BESIDE the basketball court, continue to second stop sign with the high school track in front of you. Turn RIGHT and parking is on the right. The pool is located in the building with ground level entrances A1 and A3.


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Home International Russia, India ink cooperation MoU with Bangladesh on Rooppur N-plant
Russia, India ink cooperation MoU with Bangladesh on Rooppur N-plant
Russian new generation air defense system S-400 missile system. (Photo Credit: SPUTNIK/IANS)
Moscow– Russia, India and Bangladesh signed a trilateral agreement on Thursday to cooperate in the construction of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Bangladesh, work on which started late last year, according to an announcement from Russian state-run atomic energy corporation Rosatom.
Rosatom, the equipment supplier and technical consultant for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in Tamil Nadu, said in a statement here that the MoU for cooperation was signed by Rosatom Deputy Director General Nikolay Spassky, Indian Ambassador to Russia Pankaj Saran and Bangladesh Ambassador here S.M. Saiful Hoque.
"The parties will cooperate, in particular, in the field of personnel training and mentoring, exchange of experience and provision of consulting support," Rosatom said.
"Indian companies can be involved in construction and installation works, the supply of materials and equipment of a non-critical category for the project."
An inter-agency agreement was signed last year between the Global Centre for Nuclear Energy Partnership (GCNEP), Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) and India's Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) for cooperation on nuclear projects in Bangladesh.
As per this agreement, the DAE through GCNEP would provide training services to BAEC personnel involved in the Rooppur Nuclear Power Project.
Rosatom started work in December last year on the first nuclear power plant in Bangladesh at Rooppur which will have two VVER 1200 type reactors for a total capacity of 2,400 MW.
Russia has offered to supply to India the VVER-1200 reactors that are powered by advanced fuel for the second nuclear power project to follow Kudankulam, which envisages the construction of six reactors of the earlier generation VVER type of 1,000 MW capacity each.
The VVER-1200 has 20 per cent more capacity than the VVER-1000. The first two units at Kudankulam have been commissioned, with four other units in various stages of implementation or planning. (IANS)
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