Believe it or not, good bridge players are smarter than computers.
That's the word from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who says computers can't compete in a high-level game of bridge.
He says software is unable to replicate the strategy and mental activity needed for a bridge victory.
"Computers can't play at any reasonable level. Even I can probably beat the best bridge software," he boasts.
A beloved waitress who's worked 16 years at a Westchester Friendly's restaurant was suspended for three days – for being one minute late in serving a breakfast order.
Maureen Kennedy, 60, is so upset, she's quitting her $3.30 an hour job at the Mount Kisco eatery. Customers are also up in arms,and some may boycott.
A Louisiana man says a vicious pink pig stormed into his sister's house and attacked him.
Boston Kyles, 20, of Pineville, told deputies he was cleaning fish in the front room when the porker barged in, charged him and bit his leg and hand.
Cops, who unsuccessfully searched for the beast, said pigs sometimes go after people in the woods but an assault inside a residence is rare.
An Illinois sportsman – mad that his fishing pal wanted to go home – went berserk and drowned him, cops say.
Lorenzo Barrios, 37, of Highwood, is charged with the murder of Odon Perez Sanchez, 40, after the incident at a pond in Cuniff Park.
The suspect then allegedly took $25 from Sanchez's pants pocket and left.
A female sports reporter who got the dream job of covering the Los Angeles Dodgers may quit the job after just a few days – because she doesn't want to see ballplayers naked in the locker room.
Patti Shea of the Santa Clarita Signal complained: "I'm just trying not to look like I'm ogling a major league baseball player and his goodies!


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by Santa Barbara News-Press Editorial October 31, 2021 0 comment
PURELY POLITICAL, by James Buckley
Count me conspiratorial, but judging from recent results, Democrats — particularly those on the far left — have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in re-forming the United States.
Not only is the pandemic part of the reason, it is also the entire reason, as President Joe Biden's mask and vaccine mandates have created the perfect storm of retirements, transfers and firings of personnel most likely to resist the "progressive" march forward.
If you think about it, why else would he force firefighters, police officers, teachers, airline personnel, members of the military including Navy SEALs, truck drivers, union workers and even sports figures, entertainers, restaurant and daycare workers to leave the workforce in the middle of a labor shortage?
As I see it, it's because all those folks who resist either a first or second inoculation, or the presentation of a vax certificate, a booster shot, or the mandated wearing of masks are all likely not on the same side of the political aisle. Anyone who resists — not all but a huge majority of them — probably vote Republican.
So the perfect storm of pandemic and mandates allows a clean sweep of the ranks of the resisters and opponents, who will be replaced by more subservient types, likely to vote the "correct" way.
REACTION TO MY LAST COLUMN
I received the following letter refuting my "Making Elections Secure Is Not Suppression" column from Mr. Robert Baruch, who now lives in South Korea but is a former Goleta resident.
Here Mr. Baruch's letter is, along with my retort:
"Contrary to the opinion of certain right-wing pundits, today's Republican Party has no philosophical or moral connection to the legacy of Abraham Lincoln and today's Democratic Party has no connection to the infamous Ku Klux Klan, whatsoever. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 caused a 180-degree realignment in U.S. politics. In the presidential election of that year, Barry Goldwater, the GOP candidate, carried only six states. Five were states of the Old Confederacy and the sixth was his home state of Arizona. The 'Jim Crow' South, the birthplace of voter suppression, has been a Republican stronghold ever since.
"Mr. Buckley clutches his pearls and swoons over concerns of 'election integrity,' mail-in ballots, and voter I.D. requirements. How does he feel about states proposing and passing laws which give GOP-controlled state legislatures the power to overturn the results of any election in which their candidate loses? This is the antithesis of election integrity. It's election subversion. In past decades, mail-in voting had been embraced by the GOP because it was to their benefit.
"It was only when Democrats successfully used it (Nov. 2020 and Jan. 2021) that it allegedly transformed into a satanic conduit for voter fraud. Voter ID requirements remain intact in the Freedom to Vote Act at the insistence of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, so that's not even an issue.
"Mr. Buckley continues to make baseless, anecdotal claims of massive voter fraud without a scintilla of evidence. All of his claims have been rejected in court or dismissed outright as frivolous and without merit. Votes have been counted, recounted, certified, audited and fraudited.
"Donald Trump and his sycophants come up three bases short of a home run every time, yet they still demand high fives, champagne, and a victory parade."
Here's my reply to Mr. Baruch's letter.
First of all, it's important to remind one and all of the sordid history of the Democrat Party and its support and reliance on the idea that one drop of African blood was enough to classify another human as the property of someone else.
While it's true that the once solidly Democratic South became a Republican stronghold after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it's also good to remember that the South was in the process of becoming a Republican stronghold right after the Civil War, when most black voters voted for the party of Lincoln. That trend ended after the Democrat insurrectionists successfully introduced their Jim Crow statutes, effectively transforming former slaves into second-class citizens.
The "single drop of blood" test remains to this day. Otherwise half-white President Barack Obama, Vice President Kamala Harris and many others of mixed race, wouldn't be classified as "black." They'd just be our fellow citizens, and like most of us, of varied heritage.
As for not having a connection to that past, West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, a former Klan Exalted Cyclops, for example, was elected and served as a U.S. senator from 1959 to 2010 and was Senate majority or minority Leader for the Democrats from 1977 through 1986. He also served three terms as Senate president pro tempore, right up until his departure in 2010.
The other connection to the past is the party's insistence of classifying everyone by race and by instituting what can only be called racial quotas via those classifications.
Oh, and Republicans still revere the memory of former President Abraham Lincoln.
As for other points in Mr. Baruch's letter:
Please, I keep my pearls in a safe deposit box so I have no need or desire to clutch them.
Republicans have been warning about the abuse of mail-in voting for years. The idea that unmonitored voter drop-boxes, mass-mailing of mail-in ballots, and unrestricted voter harvesting would be anything other than an invitation to fraud is ludicrous. You'd just be re-creating the same kind of chaos that's taking place on our southern border right now. But I guess that's what you'd want.
There's nothing "frivolous" or "without merit" about the attempt to safeguard America's election process. It's easy enough to count votes without ascertaining the validity of them and once they haven't been signature-checked and with no chain of custody, all that's left is the sheer number of votes, not whether they were cast by qualified voters.
The only thing frivolous and without merit is the attempt to destroy voter integrity, which is what the "For The People Act" would do.
ANOTHER LETTER
And, finally, a nice letter from abroad:
"I am a former Santa Barbarian now living in a little town in Colombia. My best friend, a third-generation local, gave me your column (dealing with the indictment of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann) from the Sept. 26 Santa Barbara News-Press when I visited him last week.
"Shocking reading actually. I'm afraid I'm 'old school' and this level of dishonesty staggers me. Indeed it seems the parasites in Washington attach themselves easily to the "right people."
"I would have dreaded a Hillary Clinton presidency and am amazed at how inept (Joe) Biden is in (Donald) Trump's place. I worry about the U.S. that I proudly became a citizen of in the early 2000s and can see few hopeful signs ahead.
"However, I thank you for the tenacity and strength of purpose to bring this sordid saga to light.
Andy Easton
James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes comments or questions at voices@newspress.com.
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Kaiser's Coffee & Candy has been a locally-owned and family-operated business in Barbour County since 1995. It supplies coffee equipment and related products along with pre-packaged and bulk candy products. It features friendly and competent service with reliable delivery. The company maintains a two-week delivery schedule.
Owner Joseph Kaiser III was born and raised on Long Island, New York, and moved to Barbour County at the age of 15. Kaiser's Coffee & Candy has long been a supporter of the local community, donating time and money over the years to help others. Owners Joseph and Melissa Kaiser service all of their accounts in a personal and friendly manner, they say.
Allegheny Insurance was founded more than 100 years ago by N. G. Keim and has since grown to become a responsible and stable insurance agency dedicated to its clients. The company's two locations serve more than 10,000 individuals and businesses with a staff representing 181 combined years of professional experience in the insurance industry. Allegheny is located at 24 South Main Street in Philippi, telephone 457-2525 and at 104 Third Street, in Elkins, telephone 636-1680.
"Allegheny is unique," says Higgins, "in that we are an independent agency which can shop insurance coverage among quality insurance carriers. We are also compartmentalized," she says, "with specialists in personal commercial, life, health, and benefits. The sole responsibility of our dedicated claims representative is to assist insurers at the time of their loss. We follow each sale with prompt and personal service," she says.
Amber Higgins is a resident of Philippi and native of Georgia. For the past 17 years she has prepared and reviewed collision estimates and handled claims. She volunteers at the Philippi Public Library, Barbour County Family Resource Network, and with Philippi Main Street. She is Vice President of the Barbour County Arts & Humanities Council and currently is helping with the revitalization of the Barbour Country Club.


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How Social Media and Big Data Shaped the Brexit Campaign Strategy
Adam Henshall
Business Processes, Processes, Social Media
From September 1st 2015 to June 23rd 2016 the polls were clear that Britain would vote to remain in the EU.
According to the Financial Times, there were only two weeks over that period where the Leave campaign were ahead.
Yet, when the results came through, British voters had opted to leave the EU with 51.9% voting out.
How did the leave campaign strategy overcome the clear gap held for the year leading up to the vote?
A clear narrative and a range of big promises?
Well, yes. But also by selling those narratives and promises through a slick targeted marketing campaign powered by social media and big data.
How the European Union was Trumped
In my previous Process Street article looking at political processes and campaign strategies, we analyzed Donald Trump's campaign for President of the United States.
Underneath his media dominance and ubiquitous online presence lay the unlikely driver of Jared Kushner. Trump's son-in-law operated as COO of the Republican campaign.
He brought in his Silicon Valley connections and established a data center where analytics and social media marketing were able to define the campaign's targeting.
Kushner used Facebook micro-targeting to increase the Trump campaign's daily revenue from $8,000 to $80,000 and leveraged the popularity of short-form video content across social media to generate umpteen millions of views of Donald Trump delivering his policy proposals.
This marketing effort strategically targeted winnable states and the core demographics who resided in them.
Trump and Kushner felt they no longer needed to rely on the media to disseminate their message and validate their policies. Rather, the media worked as an amplifier while the social media campaigns informed voters of Trump's views and stances on different issues.
The Brexit campaign shares many similarities with the Trump campaign, and their respective victories were both jointly celebrated.
The Brexit battleground
Unlike in the American election, Brexit was not a two horse race. There may have only been two eventual outcomes, but there were multiple campaigns pushing for results.
On the side wanting to stay in the EU, we had the official remain campaign Britain Stronger In Europe which represented a cross-party coalition of politicians. From Conservative Prime-Minister David Cameron to Labour Lord Peter Mandelson and Green Party Member of Parliament Caroline Lucas.
Alongside the so-called official campaign, there were multiple other supporting bodies: British Influence, Labour In For Britain, Conservatives In, and Scientists for EU, to name a few.
These different groups often shared the same rhetoric and approach to the issue, and other times made different arguments concerning EU matters. The Remain campaign as a whole was well-funded and diverse.
On the opposing side, there were again multiple groups campaigning to leave the EU. Two, in particular, are of importance; Vote Leave and Leave.EU.
Vote Leave were the out campaign's equivalent to Stronger In. Both were cross-party platforms which were comprised mainly of politicians and household names. They both campaigned for their respective stances through typical political tactics. They held rallies, appeared on television shows, gave speeches in Parliament, and went door-knocking round key neighborhoods.
The anomaly in this scenario is the Leave.EU organization. Leave.EU was founded by committed eurosceptics, businessmen Aaron Banks and Richard Tice, who were aligned with the United Kingdom Independence Party.
While Vote Leave and Stronger In treated the vote like a normal election, attempting to win over middle England – who generally decide general elections – Leave.EU aimed at a different demographic.
How Leave.EU identified its audience
Hannes Grassegger and Mikael Krogerus, writing originally in Das Magazin and republished in English in Vice, explain how the application of psychologist Michal Kosinski's behavioral mapping techniques by British data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica impacted on the major electoral outcomes of 2016.
Kosinski had developed a method to analyze individuals in minute detail based on their Facebook activity.
If you want to try this out for yourself to see what data can be gathered, you can run a basic check on your own profile using this public tool ran by the psychometrics center at Cambridge University.
This should give you an idea of the kind of analysis being done, only on a significantly larger and more powerful scale.
Cambridge Analytica used their analysis of big data for both the Brexit campaign and, as discussed in a previous article, the Trump campaign.
The foundation for understanding the data available was to generate scores for the Big 5 psychometric variables – which you'll have seen if you took the above test. This is supposed to give an overview of someone's personality.
Kosinski uncovered the use of Facebook for gathering this information when he joined Cambridge University to undertake his PhD in 2008. A simple psychometric study where participants gave their Facebook access happened to go viral and left Kosinski with millions of respondents.
Ultimately, after 4 years of doctoral work Kosinski had fine-tuned the prediction machine:
"Kosinski and his team tirelessly refined their models. In 2012, Kosinski proved that on the basis of an average of 68 Facebook "likes" by a user, it was possible to predict their skin color (with 95 percent accuracy), their sexual orientation (88 percent accuracy), and their affiliation to the Democratic or Republican party (85 percent). But it didn't stop there. Intelligence, religious affiliation, as well as alcohol, cigarette and drug use, could all be determined. From the data it was even possible to deduce whether someone's parents were divorced."
The key to being able to make these predictions and make them increasingly accurate is the amount of data available:
"Kosinski continued to work on the models incessantly: before long, he was able to evaluate a person better than the average work colleague, merely on the basis of ten Facebook "likes." Seventy "likes" were enough to outdo what a person's friends knew, 150 what their parents knew, and 300 "likes" what their partner knew. More "likes" could even surpass what a person thought they knew about themselves."
With the effective use of big data it was possible to have an intimate knowledge of a huge number of people.
The result of this knowledge?
Facebook becomes a huge search engine, not just for people but types of people.
This technique was leaked from Kosinski and Cambridge University by Aleksander Kogan to a company called Strategic Communications Laboratories. SCL billed themselves as an election influencer, with some of their subsidiaries having worked on influencing elections all around the world, and others doing public relations influence in war zones for NATO.
In 2013, another SCL group was established: Cambridge Analytica.
Come 2015, Cambridge Analytica, of which Trump's Chief Strategist Steve Bannon sits on the board, were hired by Leave.EU to drive its political marketing through personality targeting.
Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica is quoted in Grassegger and Krogerus' article as describing demographic targeting as:
"A really ridiculous idea. The idea that all women should receive the same message because of their gender—or all African-Americans because of their race."
Nix, pictured below, wanted to zone in on the core elements of people's personalities to influence their decisions.
Executing the campaign strategy on social media
In an extended article on Aaron Banks by Martin Fletcher for the New Statesman, we learn how Banks provided a considerable amount of initial funding for the Leave.EU campaign.
With this money and other donations, Cambridge Analytica would be hired. Then it was a case of reaching out to the identified voters and doing so in a way which was affordable for the campaign. The Leave.EU campaign, after all, did not have comparable funding to the Trump campaign.
This gives the campaign two approaches.
The first was to run specially tailored individually targeted Facebook advertising to key personality groups – much in the same way that the Trump campaign leveraged their data.
This is a very effective route to victory, but also expensive to have as the only outlet.
The second was to utilize this knowledge and run lower-cost accompanying promotion.
Under Banks' leadership, the Leave.EU campaign worked out of Banks' offices in Bristol and created Facebook pages for a range of local areas where they hoped to target. Almost the entire UK was covered by some sub-page.
With a strong psychometric knowledge of what key issues motivate on-the-fence voters to join sides with the Leave campaign, Banks essentially begins a media startup. His goal was to target immigration as the key issue and says:
"'Facts don't work,' and that's it. The Remain campaign featured fact, fact, fact, fact, fact. It just doesn't work. You have got to connect with people emotionally. It's the Trump success."
Further to that, he was told by the Trump campaign in early meetings with them:
"The more outrageous you are, the more attention you get."
These bits of information would influence the directed social media approach which would help Banks' team sway the nation.
Since Brexit, Banks – pictured below – has published the book The Bad Boys of Brexit: Tales of Mischief, Mayhem, and Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum (2016). The title summarizes nicely the approach Banks took to accuracy versus attention.
The Brexit social media promotion process was relatively simple:
Create provocative media content which appeals to your audience's key fears or targets your opponents' weaknesses.
Publish that content through as many different media channels as possible.
Use a 70 person call center/social media hub operating out of Bristol to follow up with everyone who engages with the post.
This third step could be to promote further content to them, to invite them to like the particular Facebook page which shared it, or to direct them to the Leave.EU website to volunteer.
Step 3, in a sense, operated as a lead generation tactic for outbound election sales.
Is big data deciding big elections?
There may be a host of other reasons why these two elections went in the direction they did.
Correlation is not causation, etc.
However, the fact that both election campaigns utilized similar tactics and even employed the same private companies shows their shared successes are likely linked.
The demographics Leave.EU aimed for voted in droves to leave the EU, with only cities in England bucking the trend south of the border.
The Trump campaign and Leave both share the key factor this article started with: the polls said they wouldn't win.
Big data driven approaches operate on a much grander scale than the polling methodologies generally employed by YouGov or ComRes, or other UK pollsters. Unless we assume both campaigns won by luck, the pollsters were likely not looking at the right things.
As the analytical abilities of key companies in this sector grow, we may have to recognize that big data will decide more than just the elections of 2016.
Was Leave.EU instrumental in the Brexit victory or were there other key factors in play? Let us know in the comments and we might follow up with you for more.
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Nathan Rofkahr says:
Awesome article Adam. Top notch stuff. This is intriguing – I feel like I'm reading a 'secret' document 🙂
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Glad to hear you enjoyed it, Nathan. The more you dig into the area the more interesting stuff you find!
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Adam it so splendid article please do write this type of article
Adam, thanks! This was an informative read. Keep up the great work.
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RADAMEL FALCAO has suggested Chelsea have until April 29 to decide whether to sign him for £38million.
The Colombian striker has been unable to reproduce the goalscoring prowess he showed at Porto and Atletico Madrid since he arrived in English football in 2014 with Manchester United.
This season, he has scored just once in 11 appearances in all competitions for the Blues with his loan move hampered by poor form and injury.
The 30-year-old looks almost certain to leave Stamford Bridge and return to Monaco in the summer.
Leaked documents showed Chelsea must notify the French club in writing if they want to make Falcao's move permanent for £38m.
But the forward confirmed Chelsea's decision needs to be sorted by the end of April.
"I am focused on the club and just live in the present," Falcao told El Tiempo. "Football changes very fast and what today can't happen, tomorrow can.


Up to 85% of technologies developed globally never see the commercial light of day because they founder in the so-called Valley of Death - the virtual chasm so often separating applied research from technology demonstration.
To help investors circumnavigate these dangers, market researcher Frost & Sullivan has compiled a short list of top ten hot and emerging technology platforms well poised to profoundly impact manifold sectors across the globe while offering potential high ROI for investors. The winning technologies are: nanomaterials, flexible electronics, advanced batteries and energy storage, smart materials, green IT, CIGS solar, 3D integration, autonomous systems, white biotech and lasers. Nanomaterials including nanotubes and nanoparticles have experienced many years of R&D efforts on a global scale. "Thanks to substantial advances in nanotech-enabled products, the markets for nanomaterials including nanotubes and nanocomposites will flourish in the coming decade," states Ankit Shukla, Industry Manager for Frost & Sullivan Technical Insights Group. "Similarly, flexible electronics, for example smart plastic used in ultra thin chip packages and flexible printed batteries, have applications in diverse industries including global medical devices, military, food packaging, supply chain, and consumer electronics markets, among others." The thin film batteries(TFB), advanced batteries and energy storage markets will continue to benefit from increased R&D. They will find use in military applications such as soldier modernization and human energy harvesting and in consumer applications like portable devises, electric vehicles and micro UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles). As this technology develops, the market will likely see the entrance of consumer applications using TFB in niche segments and alternate markets. Smart materials, including autonomic materials, self-repairing plastic products and smart polymers for biomedical applications, sense changes in the surrounding environment and respond predictably. They hold immense potential across a wide range of industries. "Piezoelectric materials, which are useful in the production and detection of sound, generation of high voltages, electronic frequency generation, microbalances, and ultra fine focusing of optical assemblies, are expected to be among the fastest growth areas with a major portion of the overall market, according to Frost & Sullivan findings," notes Shukla. Initiatives targeted at improving the energy efficiency of data centres have gained a lot of momentum in the past few years. Governments, standard bodies, and industry leading companies are actively involved in developing technologies that could improve data centre energy efficiency. "We rank high Green IT technologies as one of the top 10 taking into consideration that 18 per cent of total energy in the world is consumed by IT. Nowadays, with everybody looking to reduce operating costs, we anticipate a lot of developments in this technology in the short term," says Beatrice Shepherd. The CIGS technology is expected to increase global solar power penetration significantly in the coming years thanks to its technological advantages, low manufacturing costs and high yield rates. Module costs are expected to fall by up to 45 per cent in the next four years, leading to massive deployments and growth opportunities for stakeholders involved in the CIGS solar markets. Key markets to watch are USA, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Germany, China, South Korea and Japan. Frost & Sullivan also recognises autonomous systems as the next important technology. Most of the developments and technology breakthroughs in autonomous systems have their origin in military projects and applications. However, civilian demand is also picking up with applications including civil services, first responders, homeland security, etc. Globally, on-going programs in related areas are currently worth 11 billion USD. White biotech is considered by many to be a hidden solution. It involves the use of micro-organisms and biological catalysts like enzymes in the production of bio-based chemicals, materials and fuels. According to Frost & Sullivan, white biotech is expected to outstrip Green and Red Biotech as market demand picks up in the coming years. The potential market size for chemicals using White Biotech is expected to exceed 72 billion USD by 2014. Lasers, including solid state, fibre, Ti:sapphire, diode, CO2, helium neon are expected to have a CAGR of 8.2 per cent from 2008 to 2014. The market for CO2 lasers is expected to grow due to demand for high power lasers in industrial applications (cutting and welding). YAG lasers also offer significant opportunity in industrial laser applications and medical lasers. High power solid state lasers are being increasingly used in military applications. Excimer lasers show promise in semiconductor and medical applications.


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Bouncer presented to Jubilee veterinary centre 2 weeks ago and could hardly stand on his hind legs. He had gone lame on one back leg 4 months before and a strain had been diagnosed. In the following months however both knees had gotten progressively worse to the point that he was struggling to get up and down at all. Bouncer is a big dog weighing 44kgs.
On examining him, Gareth Torney found that both of his knees were unstable and that he had a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in both knees. No wonder he was so sore.
Traditionally we have repaired this condition by removing the diseased ligaments and creating new ones using 100lb breaking strain surgical nylon drilled through holes in the tibia and the fabellar bones at the back of the knee. This procedure has served us very well over the years. Recently new procedures have been developed for large active breeds with plenty of energy. They are supposed to return the patient back to better soundness long term.
The Modified Maquet Procedure was developed 50 years ago by a Belgian human surgeon to reduce the pain associated with arthritis of the knee. It went out of favour for controlling knee arthritis in people with the introduction of knee replacements. An interesting strength of this procedure was noted that if you advance the attachment of the patellar tendon so that it is perpendicular to the tibial plateau angle of the knee, you no longer need your cruciate ligament. This theory has encouraged its use in our canine patients over the last few years.
This is Bouncers right Knee before the surgery. You can see a lot of arthritis around the joint which will cause pain. You can't see the ruptured ligament because it is soft tissue.
During the operation, an oscillating saw is used to make a cut in the bone of the tibia behind the tendon of the kneecap. This fragment of bone is carefully advanced with pre measured sterile wedges.
When the advancement is fully made we insert a very advanced sterile titanium wedge called orthofoam into the space and secure it down with a pin and orthopaedic wire. The wedge is specially designed to be very inert and eventually becomes a part of the bone itself.
The orthofoam wedge in place secured with a kirschener wire and 2 titanium staples.
Hopefully you can see how the implant sits in place and how it pushes the kneecap forward. Bouncer continues to do very well. Dogs having this procedure are xrayed again at 4 weeks and need controlled physiotherapy plans while the bone heals. When the first knee is adequately healed we can then go about fixing the other one. We expect Bouncer to be 100% sound and back to a good level of exercise in this knee by 12 weeks.
If you have any questions about cruciate disease in your dog or would like to discuss the M.M.P procedure, please feel free to make an appointment and come and see Gareth Torney at the surgery.


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WW – feels a Merger coming on?
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The Waverley Web fears it may be watching "Your Waverley's" death throes. Oh dear – does that mean we may have to go too?
Just in case you were unaware folks – the Government wants to "help" our local authorities become "more self sufficient."
In short it is withdrawing some, and then all, its funding!
So to "help it" prepare for the evil day and help" plan services – the ones that are left – and "strengthen financial management and efficiency" and "make use of its reserves" (you know the money it has in the Bank) it wants to give "Your Waverley" a four year "funding settlement."
Phew we hear you say, that's alright then … isn't it?
No, actually it isn't ! Because "Your Waverley" is between a very big rock and a very hard place! If they don't take the settlement now – they lose the chance. And… it could be worse, in other words the Government says, "take it or leave it."
If they take it? This is what it gets:
RSG stands for – Revenue Support Grant
If the council takes the four year option – it has "certainty" of losing Government money year on year until it gets nothing in 2018/19 and then gets minus £814,000 in 2019/20.
If it doesn't accept – then quite simply the only way is DOWN!
How much further down do you go than down? Answers on a postcard please !
All a bit hard to swallow for a council that once received many millions in its annual grant from Government!
And… it gets worse because it is unlikely to get more than a smidgen of the business rates it has been promised. Why? Because the Government intends to distribute what Waverley and other SE Local authorities collect around the rest of the country.
And only moments before the Corporate Overview & Scrutiny Committee debated the lamentable situation – one councillor asked if the rumour was true that Waverley was telling the public if they wanted a home – go to the private sector – or go North.
Well they may be right – is that where the money is going?
Or is the Government seeking more radical steps? Perhaps it wants council to merge with neighbouring authorities – to save waste – maximise efficiency – and perhaps consider stopping their unaffordable Final Salary Pension Schemes?
This is what the Council Report said:
Ah, not to worry there is the New Homes Bonus? Isn't there going to be a whole lot of new homes in the borough – almost 10,000 and counting? Could this be the reason?
How did councillors react? With incredulity – one said it was "Iniquitous, that Waverley would lose income that would be spent further afield, this was totally wrong and should be resisted at all costs!"
A council officer said : "We do not know where will find £3m over the next four years." and warned: "there were no magic bullets!"
What message would the committee be sending to The Executive? "Waverley has a difficult nettle to grasp." And…
The report goes on to say:
The offer made by the Government, as part of the Spending Review, is to any council that wished to take up a four year funding settlement up to 2019/20. The purpose of this offer is to help local authorities prepare for the move to a more self- sufficient resource base by 2020. The multi-year settlements are intended to provide more funding certainty and stability for the sector that would enable more proactive planning of service delivery. The Government expects these multi-year settlements to be used to "strengthen financial management and efficiency, including maximising value in arrangements with suppliers and making strategic use of reserves in the interests of residents".
A copy of the conditions from the Secretary of State is attached at Annexe 1 of this report. In theory this offer is fixed, however, this does not mean that other changes may not arise outside of this offer. It is not clear what the impact would be of not accepting this offer and it is unlikely that this would become clear at least until December 2016, at which point the 4 year offer will no longer be available. On balance it is being recommended to accept the offer as it provides an element of certainty and is difficult to see authorities who choose not to accept the offer benefiting as a result. In fact, they could suffer a disproportionately high share of any further reductions.
The Budget report agreed by Council in February 2016 incorporates the funding provided within the four year settlement offer. If this offer is accepted, it provides greater certainty as the funding received will not be less than outlined in the final settlement and should not be subject to the yearly process determining the local government finance settlement. The following table sets out the Revenue Support Grant (RSG).*Indicative – subject to confirmation from Government pending decision on timing of business rate funding reform.
In order to take up the four year funding settlement for the period 2016/17 to 2019/20, an Efficiency Plan must be prepared and published by 14 October 2016. This offer relates to the RSG funding incorporated within the MTFS for the 4 year period 2016/17 to 2019/20 and ensures that it will remain uncharged "barring exceptional circumstances and subject to the normal statutory consultation process for the local government finance settlement.
4.1 If the four year offer is not accepted the RSG funding would be subject to the existing yearly process for determining the local government finance settlement. Allocations could be subject to additional reductions dependent on the fiscal climate and the need to make further savings to reduce the deficit.
4.2 There are only two options available to the Executive. The first option is to approve the Efficiency Plan and accept the Settlement offer and thereby provide a degree of certainty over the level of funding up to an including 2019/20. Alternatively, the Executive could decide not to accept the government 4 year offer and wait to find out the financial impact of this decision, accepting that at this point there will be no ability to switch back and accept the 4 year offer.
To accept the four year offer, an Efficiency Plan has been prepared and is included within Annexe 2. No guidance has been issued from Government for the production of these plans but it must cover the full 4 year period and be open and transparent about the benefits this will bring to both the council and the community. Further, the Government does not expect this document to be a significant burden on councils but rather a drawing together of existing corporate plans and strategies, and this has been the approach adopted to produce this Efficiency Plan.
2016/17 £m
-814*
6. Business Rates
The Government has announced that it intends to move to a position where all business rates collected will be retained by the local government sector. This does not mean that each local authority will keep all of the business rates it collects and it has been confirmed that the system of tariffs and top ups will continue to enable the Government to redistribute business rates collected between local authorities nationally.
The current position or Waverley is that it collects £35million of business rates each year and retains approximately £2million. The Government is consulting on its detailed proposals which are due to be implemented in 2019/20. Based on early indications, it is estimated that Waverley's position will not improve. Key risks around business rates are:
 How appeals will be treated
 How much business rates growth will be retained
 When and how frequently the whole system will be reset.Officers will report to Members as the Government's review develops.
7. New Homes Bonus (NHB)
Earlier in 2016, the Government launched a review and consultation on the future of New Homes Bonus. The outcome of this review was due to be published in July but the Government delayed it to the autumn. Waverley will receive £2.2m of NHB in 2016/17 and with significant house growth projected this is a very important source of funding for the Council. Officers will report to members when the Government's proposals are known and the impact has been assessed.
8. If this proposal is approved, the Council will write to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government to accept the 4 year settlement and publish the Council's Efficiency Plan. Where appropriate, consultation will be carried out for individual proposals by the relevant service.
Corporate Overview & Scrutiny Committee is invited to consider the proposal that Waverley accepts the four year funding settlement for the period 2016/17 to 2019/20 on the terms set out in the report, and agree any comments to be passed to the Executive.
The Government will offer any council that wishes to take it up a four-year funding settlement to 2019-20. This includes:
 Common Council of the City of London
 London borough councils
 district councils
 county councils
 Council of the Isles of Scilly
 Greater London Authority
 metropolitan county fire and rescue authorities
 combined fire and rescue authorities.The Government is making a clear commitment to provide minimum allocations for each year of the Spending Review period, should councils choose to accept the offer and if they have published an efficiency plan.What the offer includesgive them control over an additional £13 billion of tax that they collect.
To ensure that the reforms are fiscally neutral local government will need to take on extra responsibilities and functions. DCLG and the Local Government Association will soon be publishing a series of discussion papers which will inform this and other areas of the reform debate.The new burdens doctrine operates outside the settlement, so accepting this offer will not impact on any new burden payments agreed over the course of the four years.The Government will also need to take account of future events such as the transfer of functions to local government, transfers of responsibility for functions between local authorities, mergers between authorities and any other unforeseen events. However, barring exceptional circumstances and subject to the normal statutory consultation process for the local government finance settlement, the Government expects these to be the amounts presented to Parliament each year.
Interest in accepting this offer will only be considered if a link to a published efficiency plan is received by 5pm Friday 14th October. We will provide confirmation of the offer shortly after the deadline.
Process for those who do not take up the offer
Those councils that chose not to accept the offer, or do not qualify, will be subject to the existing yearly process for determining the local government finance settlement.
Allocations could be subject to additional reductions dependant on the fiscal climate and the need to make further savings to reduce the deficit.
At present we do not expect any further multi-year settlements to be offered over the course of this parliament
Addressing the Gap
The Council faces a significant challenge in addressing its forecasted budget deficit over the next 4 years in an environment where there is significant uncertainty and increasing levels of risks. The Council will need to adopt a mixed approach to addressing the projected £2.7m budget shortfall on the General Fund over the 4 year period (see figure 1).
Purpose of Efficiency Plan
 Provide a high level framework for addressing the projected budget shortfall in the medium term.
 Demonstrate that sufficient resources will be available to meet Waverley's objectives and priorities, particularly in the delivery of value for money.
 Look ahead to the longer term to protect and help plan sustainable services within an extremely challenging external economic and funding environment.
 Strengthen Waverley's financial resilience and manage volatility and risk, including maintaining an adequate level of reserves.
 Secure, maintain and develop Waverley's capital assets consistent with the Asset Management Plan.
 Anticipate financial pressures and identify potential ways to balance Waverley's budget including through efficiency measures.The Council recognises that its ability to continue to deliver the full range of front line services will depend on its ability to generate new funding streams, manage costs and improve the way that the residents access services whilst supporting those that cannot help themselves.Managing Financial Risk and UncertaintyAs the Council's funding becomes increasingly reliant on local sources and exposed to greater fluctuations, it is increasingly important to have appropriate strategies for managing any impact. The Council has identified the main areas of risk as:
 reducing business rates yield
 falling income from services from demand changes and other external barriers
 rising operational asset running costs
 rising demand and expectation of core services
 new and extended legal duties
 future of New Homes Bonus funding and business rates funding share
To manage the impact of a reducing business rates yield, the Council has:
 Agreed new staff structure in the revenues team to divert staff resources towards debt collection and enforcement
 Worked with the District Valuer and partners to try and develop reliable forecasts of business rates valuation changes
 Reviewed the benefits and risks of 'pooling' with neighbouring authorities and joined the pool in 2016/17.
 Progressed WBC led schemes leading to growth in business rates yield including Brightwells.To address falling income from services, the Council will continue to:
 Implement measures to improve collection and enforcement.
 Review fee structures and tariffs to generate more income and ensureefficiency of collection.
 Approach government individually and in partnership with others to seekchanges which frustrate income opportunities which currently require Council Tax payers to subsidise services which could be paid for by the 'users' of those services.To address uncertainty over the future of the New Homes Bonus and Government Funding the Council has:
 Restricted use of NHB to within the revenue budget with the balance being used for invest to save and investment opportunities.
 Set up an 'Equalisation Fund' to manage in year deficits and surpluses in funding to act as a buffer to deal with in year volatility to ensure that sudden changes in business rate yield can be managed without the need to make service reductionsKey Actions in Efficiency Plan
 Review the approach to budget reviews and the Foresight Efficiency Programme to ensure budgets deliver good value for money and are aligned to Corporate Plan priorities.
 Optimising return on cash surplus in times of low interest rates, balancing security, liquidity and return.
 Undertake a fundamental review of capital spending plans to ensure a sustainable Business case with affordable capital programmes.
 Utilise General Fund asset strategies including disposals and acquisitions including SANG where appropriate and establish a new Investment Advisory Board.
 Maximise invest to save opportunities to generate income, improve processes and/or make savings.
 Identify further efficiencies under the 'Foresight' Efficiency Plan including from reconfiguring IT systems procurement.
 Secure new funding opportunities t
2 thoughts on "WW – feels a Merger coming on?"
Jerry Hyman (Cllr) on September 26, 2016 at 4:54 pm said:
Thanks for highlighting this particular daftness – though readers should be aware that where the table heading in the Committee Report says £ 'millions', it means 'thousands'.
Hence the sums of money involved are not as scary as they might first appear. Nevertheless, this is still a fine example of government demanding that we make an impossible/stupid decision.
We might just as well replace the 'debate' on this Item with a game of pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey.
waverleyweb on September 26, 2016 at 7:30 pm said:
WW had rather hoped residents would realise it was thousands rather than million, but thank you Councillor Hyman for pointing this out and making it quite clear.


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This highly informative and interactive institute will explore interventions and practices that contribute to reducing health disparities and promote health equity. Through insightful presentations, self-reflection and group discussions, participants will learn how libraries can deepen their work in health literacy to ensure a lasting impact for improving the health of their community. Organizers will provide a packet of useful resources to support health literacy in the library including tools to identify their local communities' health needs.
Know how to utilize health literacy as a tool to address health disparities and priority community health needs with support from the NNLM All of Us Community Engagement Network (CEN).
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For the last three years, Aileen Luppert has been the managing librarian of one of the largest branches of the Spokane County (WA) Library District. From 2013–2016, under her supervision, SCLD was the only library system in Washington, and one of a few in the country, to train and certify staff as navigators to assist patrons signing up for health insurance. She is on the leadership team for two local coalitions focused on resources for families and individuals in need. Luppert has presented to state and national library associations on topics ranging from jobseeker support in libraries, community engagement, and serving patrons experiencing homelessness.
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Report on Bezymianny (Russia) — 7 March-13 March 2012
Smithsonian / US Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 7 March-13 March 2012
Global Volcanism Program, 2012. Report on Bezymianny (Russia). In: Sennert, S K (ed.), Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 7 March-13 March 2012. Smithsonian Institution and US Geological Survey.
Volcano Profile | Weekly Report (7 March-13 March 2012)
KVERT reported that a strong explosive eruption from Bezymianny was detected by seismic instruments on 9 March. Ash plumes rose to altitudes of 3.5-5 km (11,500-16,400 ft) a.s.l. and drifted NE. During the most intense phase of the eruption ash plumes from pyroclastic flows rose to an altitude of 8 km (26,200 ft) a.s.l. Satellite imagery showed the plume drifting 700 km NE. Ashfall was reported in Ust-Kamchatsk Village (120 km ENE). Later that day activity decreased significantly and the Aviation Color Code was lowered to Orange. During 9-13 March strong gas-and-steam emissions were noted, a viscous lava flow effused onto the lava-dome flank, and a thermal anomaly continued to be detected in satellite imagery. The Aviation Color Code was lowered to Orange on 14 March.
Geologic Background. Prior to its noted 1955-56 eruption, Bezymianny had been considered extinct. The modern volcano, much smaller in size than its massive neighbors Kamen and Kliuchevskoi, was formed about 4700 years ago over a late-Pleistocene lava-dome complex and an ancestral edifice built about 11,000-7000 years ago. Three periods of intensified activity have occurred during the past 3000 years. The latest period, which was preceded by a 1000-year quiescence, began with the dramatic 1955-56 eruption. This eruption, similar to that of St. Helens in 1980, produced a large horseshoe-shaped crater that was formed by collapse of the summit and an associated lateral blast. Subsequent episodic but ongoing lava-dome growth, accompanied by intermittent explosive activity and pyroclastic flows, has largely filled the 1956 crater.


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Q: apt-get could not open lock file I am trying to get an nfs client running on a Sheeva-plug running debian 2.6.22. The host is Ubuntu 12.04 and claims (from showmount -e) to be exporting the desired directory. There is no showmount binary in the sheeva-plug, so I'm trying to install it from the nfs-common package:
 # apt-get install nfs-common

The response ends with
 E: could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (no such file or directory)
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I am root while doing this. Similar errors arise when trying to install other packages.
How do I correct these errors so apt-get will do its work?

A: According to the error message the file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock doesn't exist anymore on your computer. You can just simply create it:
sudo touch /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

However maybe there is also another directory missing. Please have a look if /var/cache/apt/archives/partial exists. If not create it:
sudo mkdir -p /var/cache/apt/archives/partial

Now your installation should work as expected.

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Analyze the important muscles needed to create convincing figures and learn about surface anatomy such as the fat distribution and the fasciae that surrounds every inch of the living form. Well thought out and easily understood assignments enable the student to better understand the living form of the model and more easily create form from the imagination. Most importantly, the student will gain the confidence to edit the living model and therefore interpret more poetically what he/she sees to make their drawing or painting more personal.
Rey introduces the class by describing his background and approach to teaching anatomy. He discusses the importance of the skeleton in figure drawing.
An overview of the skeleton is given, with a focus on the function of each structure. A lecture will introduce the major parts of the pelvis.
The structure of the pelvis is broken down with a demonstration. The major parts of the pelvis are analyzed.
Rey goes in depth with the diagram of a pelvis from the front view. The function of each part is explained as it is added to the diagram.
A diagram from a side angle is done to help show the three dimensional forms of the pelvis. The differences of the pelvis in men and women is demonstrated.
The bones in the arm are introduced. Materials are discussed and the first homework assignment is given.
The materials and syllabus are discussed as Rey explains what is expected in the class. The muscle sheet that will guide the curriculum is introduced.
The major muscles of the lower leg will be reviewed. To help visualize the leg in 3D, Rey references an ecorché model as he groups the essential muscles.
The rest of the lower leg muscles are added to the diagram. The leg is drawn in several different positions to clarify the placement and function of the muscles.
The homework assignment is given.
A lecture on the quadriceps will review the muscles 9 through 11. There will be demonstrations from different angles explaining the structure and function.
A lecture will review the muscles 12 through 18. A demo will be drawn showing how the leg muscles appear from the side. Each muscle will be explained as it is added to a diagram.
The muscles reviewed will be 19 through 21. The lecture will move to the gluteal muscles as they are added to the diagram.
The last muscle on the list for today is 22, the iliotibial band. The sartorius muscle and the band of Richer will be discussed and added to the diagrams.
Rey breaks out his ecorché to give a more detailed explanation of the thigh and legs. He attaches the muscles and tendons, giving a 3D analysis of each muscle.
Rey will demo a drawing of the thigh and leg while offering tips on how to sharpen pencils. He uses a Leonardo da Vinci drawing as a reference and discusses his approach to beginning a drawing.
Rey continues his demonstration on drawing the leg. He identifies each muscle as he develops the forms on the leg.
Rey introduces the class to the torso by demonstrating how to locate the landmarks of the body.
Rey continues his torso demo by introducing the neck muscles. He continues locating landmarks as he adds muscles to the diagram.
The abdominal muscles will be explained and added to the diagram. The front and some of the back muscles will be discussed and added to the diagram.
Rey will give critiques on last week's homework.
A demo using a Pierre-Paul Prud'hon drawing as a reference will be blocked-in lightly. The landmarks will be located and lightly drawn in with an explanation of how the muscles fit.
Shadows are added and values are darkened to develop forms. Values slowly built, working light to dark.
A critique is given of last week's homework.
Rey will work with students to help improve their drawings.
An overview of the back will be presented to the class. The sacrospinalis muscle will be discussed and added on a diagram.
Muscles 26 through 31 will be reviewed and added to a diagram. The muscles will be drawn from different angles to help visualize in 3D space.
Muscles 32 through 33 will be reviewed and added to a diagram. The triangle of auscultation is explained and located on the diagram for clarity.
A demo on how to draw the muscles on the back will be done using a Pontormo drawing as a reference. Each muscle will be explained as it is added to the drawing.
Muscles made of clay will be placed on an ecorché for a 3 dimensional visualization of the back muscles.
A critique of the previous week's homework will be given.
A drawing by Raphael is used as a reference in a demo to help clarify the muscles on the back. The back muscles will be reviewed as they are drawn onto the figure.
The arm muscles are added to the drawing, showing how they weave into the back. There will be explanations of how each muscle appears on the pose as they are added.
The fatty muscles are draped along the figure as the drawing is developed. The goal is have an understanding of how the muscles drape along the body, and not rely on copying.
A live model will be used as the reference for the class. A critique of student's work will help guide their drawings.
The back and arm muscles are reviewed as the class moves on to another pose with the model.
A critique of last week's homework will be done.
The class will end with a third and final pose by the model.
Today's lecture will begin with a brief overview of the arm. The Triceps will be reviewed, covering the muscles 34a and 34b.
Muscles 35 and 36 will be reviewed. Rey will go in depth with the brachialis and the biceps will be discussed.
An in depth lecture on the extensors and flexors of the forearm will be given with diagrams drawn from different angles to help visualize in 3D. The muscles 38 through 47 will be reviewed.
The arm muscles will be explained as they are added to a drawing of the arm. A painting by Guiseppi Crespi will be used as a reference for the demo.
Clay muscles will be placed on an ecorché to help visualize the arm three dimensionally.
The expectations for the homework assignment are discussed and presented for the class.
A slideshow presentation of models in various poses will show how the landmarks of the body line up.
The slideshow continues with pictures of models in different poses.
Previous lessons will be revisited with a slideshow of images. Pictures of classical art depicting the human body throughout history will be presented.
Images of drawings made by Leonardo DaVinci are discussed and presented for the class. Rey will show his gallery of more than 50 panels that depict his notes and drawings of human anatomy on the blackboard.
A lecture on the skull will be given with a diagram on the blackboard. The major muscles of the face will be drawn in two demonstrations.
The final lecture will cover the hands. A demo will be drawn with an explanation of the major muscles.
The final homework assignment will be reviewed to end the class.
If you are interested in drawing, painting or sculpting the figure, knowledge of anatomy will take your art to the next level. If your like me, I learn better through video rather than reading a book. Although I do have all of the artist anatomy books and have taken some great anatomy classes as well, but I wanted a refresher class to solidify my knowledge.
This class is not only good for an anatomy refresher, but even better for anyone who has not studied anatomy before.
I found Rey to not only be very knowledgeable about anatomy, but a good instructor as well. The bonus is that he is passionate about anatomy, and this is conveyed through his lectures.
I found myself looking forward to the each lecture because of his enthusiasm. If you want to take your figurative work to the next level, this is the class for you! I highly recommend this one!


PETITION TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS AND PLACE CUSTODY WITH THE GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, ACTING THROUGH THE APPLING COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, Jessica Nicole Spivey Jewell, mother of said children, Charles Spivey and Dustin Wingate, putative fathers of said children, and any other party claiming to have a parental interest in said minor child born to Jessica Nicole Spivey Jewell.
YOU ARE NOTIFIED that the above styled action seeking the termination of the parental rights of the parents of the named children was filed against you in said Court on the 30th day of June, 2011 by reason of an Order for Service by Publication.
YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED AND REQUIRED to appear before the Juvenile Court of Appling County, Georgia, Baxley, Georgia on the 28th day of September, 2011 at 9:30 o'clock A.M. The hearing is for the purpose of determining whether your parental rights should be terminated. The effect of an order terminating parental rights under O.C.G.A. Section 15-11-93 is without limit as to duration and terminates all the parents rights and obligations with respect to the children and all rights and obligations of the children to the parent arising from the parental relationship, including rights of inheritance. The parent whose rights are terminated is not thereafter entitled to notice of proceedings for the adoption of the children by another, nor has the parent any right to object to the adoption or otherwise to participate in the proceedings.
A copy of the petition may be obtained by the parents from the Clerk of the Juvenile Court at Appling County Courthouse, Baxley, Georgia, during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:30 o'clock A.M. until 5:00 o'clock P.M. exclusive of holidays. A free copy shall be available to the parent. Upon request, the copy will be mailed to the requester-parents or alleged parents only. The children are in the present physical custody of the Petitioner, the Appling County Department of Family and Children Services.
The general nature of the allegations is termination of the parental rights.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFED that while responsive pleadings are not mandatory, they are permissible and you are encouraged to file with the Clerk of this Court and serve upon Petitioner's attorney, Sarah Tipton-Downie, Attorney at Law, P. O. Box 926, Vidalia, Georgia 30475, an answer or other responsive pleading within sixty (60) days of the date of the order for service by publication.
WITNESS THE HONORABLE Judge of said Juvenile Court.
This the 13th day of July, 2011.


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What the Supreme Court Online Sales Tax Ruling Means For Retailers
It may help in the short term, but be careful what you wish for. The real competition has been in providing consumers with what they want, which is cheaper, faster, easier to use purchasing mechanisms. And on all of those the online merchants already have an advantage.
And with their deeper financial pockets, they may now ramp up their growth into physical retail where, again, they have a strong competitive head start in data mining and marketing. JL
Matthew Townsend reports in Bloomberg:
States were already collecting 75% of the potential taxes from online purchases. "What's driving the success of online players is this is how the consumer wants to shop today."If the new state sales tax requirement does end up hurting some marketplace sellers, that may actually help Amazon. The company could benefit by selling more of those items directly
Ring up another victory for brick-and-mortar retailers.
Stores with physical locations like Walmart Inc. and Target Corp. are on a winning streak after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can require the collection of sales tax on internet purchases, overturning a 1992 decision that traditional retailers said put them at a disadvantage with online competitors. National retailers with actual stores were already required to collect the taxes, while internet-only competitors and upstarts could sometimes skip them, making their online goods look cheaper.
The news is a welcome change for a sector that's endured a brutal few years with surging bankruptcies, store closings and the liquidation of big-name chains like Sports Authority Inc. and Toys "R" Us Inc. It also follows last year's string of successes, when retailers helped to kill a levy on imported goods and saw their federal taxes slashed with a national overhaul.
Now, the retail survivors have one less excuse to blame for their woes.
"They have, in some ways, been hiding behind excuses like a tax differential," said Edward Yruma, an analyst for KeyBanc Capital Markets. Their complaints have resonated less in recent years as shoppers' migration online has been more rooted in convenience than price, he said.
"What's driving the success of online players is this is how the consumer wants to shop today," Yruma said. "It's that simple."
Shares of Wayfair Inc. initially plunged as much as 9.5 percent to $105.11 after the ruling was announced, before paring most of the loss after the company said it doesn't expect "any noticeable impact." Amazon.com Inc. dropped as much as 1.9 percent to $1,717.56, while Walmart Inc. reversed earlier declines to gain as much as 1.1 percent to $84.55.
Industry representatives immediately hailed the decision. Matthew Shay, head of the National Retail Federation, said the Supreme Court ruling "clears the way for a fair and level playing field where all retailers compete under the same sales-tax rules." Deborah White, general counsel for the Retail Industry Leaders Association, said her group "couldn't be more pleased with the outcome."
What's Ahead
The long-term impact of the Supreme Court's decision remains to be seen. States were already collecting about 75 percent of the potential taxes from online purchases, according to the Government Accountability Office. The portion not being taxed could total as much as $13 billion a year, the GAO said.
Many large online sellers were already collecting sales tax in states where they have a physical presence -- a legal qualifier under the 1992 ruling in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota. Furniture-seller Wayfair, for example, collects the levy on about 80 percent of its sales -- a reflection of its expansion as it opens more warehouses distribution centers across the country.
Related: Supreme Court Ruling Means States Can Tax Amazon Marketplace
Amazon says it does collect state taxes on its online sales. But levies on sales from its online marketplace, where third parties offer goods, are collected at the seller's discretion. These sales account for about half of online giant's retail revenue. A handful of states already have laws requiring marketplace participants to collect state levies.
If the new state sales tax requirement does end up hurting some of the marketplace sellers, that may actually help Amazon, according to retail analysts at Loop Capital Markets. The company could benefit by selling more of those items directly, which would boost its revenue because Amazon would receive the full price of the transaction instead of just a commission, the research firm said in a note.
Small Companies
Smaller companies may be the most impacted by the decision, according to some of the big online retailers, who say they may lack the staff to follow the rules across thousands of U.S. tax jurisdictions.
"The burden now is reporting in over 9,000 jurisdictions, and will put many sellers in jeopardy," said Robert Roque, managing director of Beautyvice, an online seller of health and beauty products based in Florida.
The decision may also create more legal questions, since states may begin passing their own statutes with the goal of raising revenue from online retailers, according to Bruce Ely, a tax attorney at Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP. Some may even try to collect levies from previous years, he said.
The ruling may also finally spur Congress to pass a law setting a federal standard for which companies have to collect the tax. The statute in South Dakota, which the court upheld, requires collection for retailers with more than $100,000 in annual sales.
Bills trying to address this matter have languished in Congress for years. The main issue is that elected officials didn't want to be seen as administering a new tax on consumers or businesses. But now, they can act in the interest of bringing clarity to the marketplace, Ely said.
"Here's a perfect time for Congress to save the business community from the big, bad taxing authorities," Ely said. "They can look like the good guy, rather than the bad guy, which has a certain political appeal to it."


Happy 2014! – Let's Volt IN!
After finally getting a brand-new layout and coming up with a new concept of turning this domain in to a collective, I can now celebrate a brand-new year for all of us. Hello 2014!
I recently updated the Headway base framework to its latest features. It has a lot of changes in there but the current child theme I built based on Headway still remains the same. I don't think I plan to do any major changes soon, but I do have other plans on expanding my website projects hosted under this domain sometime this year. Hopefully.
That's about it for this one little update, as well as my New Year greeting. Time to get back to life!
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