Earlier this year, a Cartoon Network marketing promotion became a huge story in the city of Boston when police assumed that some promotional light-up boxes were actually bombs. Rather than admit that they made a mistake and overreacted, the authorities in Boston continued to accuse the folks behind the promotion of perpetrating a "hoax" on the city. Of course, a hoax is where you try and trick people. None of the folks involved in the promotion were trying to trick anyone into believing the promotional devices were bombs. They were simply promotional. However, Boston still seems to be focused on calling any electronics device they don't understand a hoax device. The latest situation involves an MIT student wearing a sweatshirt that included a homemade electrical component that would light up LEDs on the sweatshirt. It's certainly understandable that security would want to check out the device and understand it. It's even somewhat understandable that they would be quite concerned about a homemade electrical device found in a sweatshirt. Walking into an airport with such a device is asking for trouble. However, to then accuse her of possessing a "hoax device," seems a bit absurd. This wasn't a "hoax" device at all. She wasn't trying to trick anyone.
The cops should stop going to adventure movies and read this article.
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Eight Stories Getting More News Coverage Than Justin Miller
May 26, 2015 Jesse Harris
You'd think that the story of a sitting member of the Utah House of Representatives embezzling a good $34K from one of the state's brightest political stars would end up creating an endless stream of front page news.
Utah House Member Justin Miller (Democrat, Millcreek)
Instead, the Utah media got in their initial stories and have been almost entirely silent. Even folks like Paul Rolly and Pat Bagley who delight in poking powerful people in the eye have been keeping their mouths shut (because I suppose it's only interesting if a Republican does it). But, apparently, other news stories are WAY more important to keep in the minds of voters these days. Here's a few examples.
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes taking a legal donation from 1-800-Contacts. Never mind that they've managed to contribute money to darn near never elected official in the state, we should be getting incensed that the AG is defending a state law that may benefit a donor. And, you know, a bunch of other businesses, consumers, and the free market in general. But who cares about those guys?
Moudi Sbeity and Derek Kitchen getting married 18 months after same-sex marriage was recognized in Utah. Seriously, every TV station is making it their lead story, papers are snapping up pictures like mad, and the Social Media Outrage Brigade is WAY too busy gushing to continue to ask why Justin Miller hasn't resigned yet. You'd think they were some kind of English royalty or something.
Who may or may not challenge Mike Lee. The media seems to be absolutely desperate for some kind of big senate race showdown when Mike Lee's term is up in 2016. (It sure did sell a lot of papers in 2010 and 2012.) As would-be challengers continue to drop like flies, they scramble to find the next possible challenger they can pull out of a hat. Look, I get that a competitive race against an incumbent is really interesting. Do we really need to have weekly columns speculating on who will or won't step up to the plate?
That the Huntsmans and Romneys really hate each other. This would have been interesting to talk about in 2011/2012 when, you know, they were running against each other. But three years later? Now is when we start tossing around the political gossip on a couple of guys who have basically retreated from public political life? I guess we should expect the blistering inside story of what Justin Miller has been doing sometime in 2019. Only $19.95 at your favorite bookseller or the exclusive Alta Club!
Whatever thing some person said about CMV and/or SB54. The legal challenge from the Utah GOP doesn't look so good and they'll most likely end up complying some way or another with the existing law. So… what are we still talking about? There's no organized effort to change or overturn the law. We're getting kind of numb to James Evans saying dumb things about it. The horse is a fine red mist now, gentlemen.
New charges filed against John Swallow. He's already facing about a bazillion charges with little hope of not being convicted of at least a few of them. But hey, at least we can pay attention to the Republican doing bad things instead of the Democrat!
If and where the state prison will be located in the future. It's a contentious issue, but also one that's kind of been beaten to death. I'm not sure how you can say more about the potential prison move without repeating yourself. And how it would end up being considered a top story of the week.
Medical marijuana. Because maybe you need to be high to think the Justin Miller story should be getting top billing until the judge hands down a sentence.
I'm starting to get the feeling that people are hoping that by not talking about Justin Miller, it will just go away. Good luck with that one.
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You have always dreamed of owning a kitchen with all the perks; a top-class stove, a freezer and fridge and only the best of microwaves. However, when all this is in place, you may still feel like something is missing. Well, it is. The cherry on top of any suavely designed kitchen is to install a wine fridge. Whether you want a large one that stands out and is ready to serve guests, or a smaller version which can keep your favorite supply tucked away for special occasions, a wine fridge can be a subtle hint to anyone in your house that you are always ready to start a party with a fresh bottle. Here are some tips on how you can find the perfect wine fridge for your home.
Why do I need a Wine Fridge?
Before we dive into buying the perfect Wine Fridge, you need to be clear on why you want to actually install a wine cooler. For wine to taste its best, it needs to be kept at the correct temperature. Leaving it in a normal fridge can be expensive and also leave it as far too cold to be enjoyed. Wine Coolers provide a similar temperature to a Wine cave, and are proven to be extremely eco-friendly as they do not produce any harmful chemicals or gases.
Therefore, if you want to enjoy your wine at the perfect temperature, and keep an essence of class about your kitchen, it is essential that you get a wine fridge as quickly as possible. It is a far better option than simply storing them in the fridge.
When you are picking your perfect Wine Fridge, you need to be concise about what sort of ambience you want it to bring to your room. Do you want it to have LED lighting? Be fitted into a certain cabinet or wall? Or do you want it to be simplistic and only have a specific energy saving feature to it? These questions are essential so that you can maintain your budget when buying your first fridge. Wine fridges can be quite expensive if you go for the larger models, some ranging to $1000, thus the best way is to start with a smaller model of around $100. Plan a list and be clear and precise about what you want. That means you can stop spending more than you actually have to, and focus on what space you have in the kitchen.
If you have a stylish, chrome or monochrome colored kitchen, then you do not want your wine fridge to stick out like a sore thumb by being brightly colored. The same could be said for if you have light wooden cabinets and then go for a black and white metal cooler. The outside of the appliance can be just as important as the inside, as you will need to have it suit the room so it doesn't look odd or out of place. Be sure to pick colors that will best suit its environment, as well as the materials that it is made out of or covered in. This way it can suit your room and provide a hidden surprise should any guests be over for drinks.
What Temperatures would best suit my Wine Fridge?
When purchasing your first wine fridge, you may think that it only has a single temperature within it to keep all wine at their peak condition. However, this is incorrect. If you carry a mixture of wines and beers, you may need to indulge in a triple temperature zone, which allows for all your bottles to be placed in certain slots to keep them cool. Whilst this is the most expensive option, if you want to keep things simple for simple red and white wines, then it would be best to look into single temperature zones, or two if you want to have more than a few mixed bottles.
If you need some examples of the best Wine Fridges you can buy on the marketplace, then why not check out the Supentown Dual-Zone Thermo Electric Cooler with Heating. This is an example of a fantastic duel temperature cooler, where it incorporates heat as well as the cold to keep your bottles at the best drinking temperature. It is sleek but wide enough to incorporate up to 18 bottles within it. It even has touch screen LED lights which an easily illuminate different parts of the different cabinets of the cooler.
However, if you are looking for something slighter smaller why not take a look at the Wine Enthusiast Silent 8-Bottle Touchscreen Wine Refrigerator. Whilst this cooler is compact enough to be placed under any table, it can carry up to 8 bottles at a time and even has the option to flick between Celsius and Fahrenheit, meaning it is simply perfect for anyone who is overseas.


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Craig Evans began as the preaching minister in 2018. Craig is married to Briana Lutes Evans and is the proud father of Ezekiel who was born in early 2019. He has served as the preaching minister for the Spring Hill Church of Christ from 2010-2018, and the youth minister for the Calvert City Church of Christ from 1998-2010. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Special Education and Bible and a Master's degree in Ministry from Freed-Hardeman University.
Philip Jenkins has been the youth minister at Mt. Juliet Church of Christ since 2010. He and his wife Laura have two kids named Lucas and Holley. Philip is the chairman of the board of Evangelism University and has authored two books, The Lunch Ladies and Take Route.
Bryan LeMasters became our Discipleship Minister in the summer of 2019. He has a passion for connecting people to Jesus and helping them to live out the Gospel. Before joining the Mt. Juliet family, he served as a youth minister for eight years with Madison Church of Christ in Madison, AL. He has a B.S. in Bible from Freed-Hardeman University and is currently pursuing a M.A. in Biblical Studies from Faulkner University. He and his wife, Allyson, were blessed with the birth of their daughter, Ava, in June of 2017.
Tim Martin began serving as our Education Minister in 2011. He married his wife, Tracy in 1997 and they have one daughter, Presley. Tim holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Tennessee and a MMin in Biblical Studies degree from Heritage Christian University. He is currently working on his PhD in New Testament Studies at Amridge University. Tim also oversees our Wilson County Jail and Transportation ministries.
Blaine McKinney, originally from Owensville, MO, started his work as our youth minister in residence in early 2019. Previously, he has been a summer intern in our youth ministry as well as a youth minister for the Juno Church of Christ during his time in college. He graduated from Freed-Hardeman University with an undergraduate degree in Missions.
Laura Jenkins has served as a counselor at Mt. Juliet Church of Christ since 2010. She graduated from Freed-Hardeman University in 2006 and received her Masters of Social Work from the University of Tennessee in 2010. She and her husband Philip have two children, Lucas and Holley.
Lauren Moss grew up in Murfreesboro, Tennessee before attending Freed-Hardeman University, where she earned degrees in Child & Family Studies and Early Childhood Education. She began working as the Children's Program Coordinator at Mt. Juliet Church of Christ in June of 2016.


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Home Dispatches Most Wis. Unions Recertify Despite Voting Problems
Most Wis. Unions Recertify Despite Voting Problems
by Ruth Conniff
The union recertification elections in Wisconsin, which concluded Thursday, resulted in about a 90 percent success rate for the local teachers unions that participated, according to Wisconsin Education Association Council spokesperson Christina Brey.
"It's very exciting for WEAC members," Brey said. 'Those local associations who decided to recertify saw overwhelming success."
Fewer support staff locals participated in the elections, but also won a majority of the elections where they were held, for a total of about an 80 percent success rate.
Union leaders hastened to point out that local unions will still exist even if they don't recertify.
"Those unions still exist, and we will be looking for ways to engage the community on workplace issues," Brey said.
About 40 percent of local unions around Wisconsin refused to take part in recertification and are foregoing state recognition since, even if they did recertify, Act 10 limits their bargaining rights to the extremely narrow issue of "base wages" and cost of living adjustments. But 60 percent of local unions took part in recertification in the hope that a strong win would send a message to employers and the governor.
Those who did participate "overcame a lot of union-busting obstacles and unfair elections," Brey said. "This just shows how determined they are,"
The obstacles included both the high bar to recertification and major problems with the state-administered voting process.
Under Act 10, public-worker unions have to hold these elections each year in order to be state-recognized bargaining representatives for their membership. And not only do they have to win a majority of the vote, they have to garner "yes" votes from 51 percent of their total membership. Members who don't cast votes are counted as "no" votes.
Legal challenges to this incredibly high bar, among other aspects of the law, went all the way to the state Supreme Court, where attorney Lester Pines pointed out that not a single sitting justice on the Court could survive this standard. Imagine, in a spring election with 20 to 30 percent turnout, trying to win 51% of all eligible voters in Wisconsin. "None of you would make it," Pines pointed out.
But that didn't persuade a majority on the Court to stop the elections. Nor did it stop the state from moving forward with them immediately, as soon as the Court cleared the way -- on a very compressed timeline.
While Act 10 was tied up in court, Peter G. Davis of the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission warned in an affidavit that if the courts did not clear the way for elections to move forward by November 5, there would not be enough time to run them. After the Supreme Court ruled on November 21, the state rushed into action anyway.
"Some employers didn't post the required notice that the election would be taking place until the Friday the election began," says John Wedge, director of WEAC's Capital Area Uniserv North. And that was the Friday after Thanksgiving, when people were gone for the holiday.
The result was the kinds of errors you would expect from a hasty rollout of a complex process.
Most rank and file members voted by phone, keying in a voter ID code provided by the state. The codes were a combination of members' last names and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers. But when people typed their codes into telephone keypads, hundreds of duplicate ID codes emerged, thanks to the three letters on every telephone key.
Over 300 eligible voters had duplicate voter ID data. The WERC sent letters to half of those people around December 2, providing them with new ID data. But some of the people who got the letters had already voted, making a messy process even worse.
Then people in the other half of the pool began calling their union leaders, complaining that they had not been allowed to vote.
Other anecdotes from local union leadership around the state include members who repeatedly got a busy signal and could not get through to vote. Other voters got a recorded message informing them that they were voting in locals that do not actually employ them, and were confused about whether they should proceed.
Peter G. Davis acknowledged the problems, and said that he and the rest of the WERC staff "felt badly" about them.
"I can imagine their frustration," he said of the members who tried to vote and ran into the problems outlined above. In the end, though, he insisted that WERC was "confident everybody voted in the right election."
"If I'm a teacher in Racine and I'm told I'm voting in Rhinelander, actually my vote was recorded in Racine," Davis said. As for the hasty rollout: "Waiting would have created a new legal issue," he added.
But these kinds of problems, needless to say, do not inspire confidence that the state is serious about running fair elections.
"You shake your head and say, 'Come on now. This is Wisconsin. This is America,'" Brey said.
Of the error-ridden recertification process, she added: "It's just one more thing in a mountain of unfair practices and lopsided rules of the game in this administration."
"We did have local associations who had significant problems," Brey said of the election outcome. "We will look at everything on a case-by-case basis, and we will decide what to do."
Get ready for more legal wrangling over Act 10.
Contrast the state's attitude toward the messed-up recertification process with its attitude toward the Affordable Care Act and problems with the sign-up on the federal web site. Walker refused to set up a state exchange, and state residents are having more problems signing up for exchanges that residents of states that did not take a stand against "Obamacare."
"How can you rely on a federal government that can't get a basic website up and going that they've spent all those millions of dollars on, years on?" Walker said recently. "It's not like this is some sidebar issue. This is their legacy and they can't get it up and working."
The same could be said of Walker's Act 10.
The difference is that, while the Affordable Care Act is an effort to expand access to health care, at its core Act 10 was always intended to kill off public employee unions. But the screw-ups in the election process also have implications beyond the very real problems of public employee unions.
Consider the new voter ID laws state Republicans are pushing: If they want people to believe that these new processes are anything other than an aggressive effort to shut down democracy, they will have to do a lot better than the Act 10 rollout.
Photo: AAraujo / Shutterstock.com.
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Editor-at-large for The Progressive magazine, and editor in chief of the Wisconsin Examiner.
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The visit of Castle Stenico, building that is now seat of the Art museum of the Province of Trento, and of the Castle Campo is recommended, for the beautifulnesses of the places.
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An offer full of culture and tradition, dominated by an intact nature.
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IG finds vast improper payments in DoD contract to move military members' cars
Jared Serbu@jserbuWFED
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When U.S. Transportation Command transitioned a nearly $1 billion contract to move service members' vehicles around the world to a new company a year and a half ago, seemingly everything that could have gone wrong actually went wrong. Hundreds of personally owned vehicles were temporarily lost, others were damaged, destroyed or improperly stored. Now it appears TRANSCOM also made up to $162 million in improper payments to its new vendor.
The estimate comes from a newly-released DoD inspector general report in which auditors say TRANSCOM and its subordinate Army Surface Deployment and Distribution Command maintained an ongoing stream of payments to the vendor, International Auto Logistics, even though many of the firm's invoices lacked basic, required information like invoice numbers, payment terms and total dollar amounts.
Also, at least $5 million of the payments were for 27,000 cars that were delivered late and for which TRANSCOM should have pursued penalties against the contractor, but generally didn't.
Most of the problems that caused the delays have been fixed by now, but the initial troubles started almost immediately when IAL took over the contract on May 1, 2014, just in time for the peak of the military's summer moving season. Service members quickly started complaining that their cars hadn't shown up, were sent to the wrong location, the tracking information on the company's website was wrong or that they couldn't contact anyone at IAL.
According to the IG, the problem was at its worst in October 2014, when 5,800 cars were delivered later than the deadlines set by the contract. But the percentage of on-time deliveries never rose above 70 percent during the 2014 summer season (the contract required a 98 percent on-time delivery rate).
By August 2015, the on-time rate had risen to 97 percent after DoD stood up a "fusion team" to fix issues and field complaint calls from service members.
While the new vendor was unprepared for the new work in the contract's early months, the IG also blamed TRANSCOM for poor oversight and poor communication between its contracting officer and the contracting officer representatives (CORs) who were stationed at IAL's facilities around the world to monitor its performance.
For instance, the CORs did not have access to the IT system TRANSCOM uses to process invoices, so they couldn't ensure the amounts the agency was paying the vendor were in line with the local work they'd overseen. The contracting officer also told the CORs not to issue reports on late deliveries or discrepancies in contract performance.
In one case, a COR had sent the contracting officer numerous photos and emails from a vehicle storage warehouse in Chester, Virginia, concerned about leaking roofs and damaged cars. But the problem wasn't fixed until 10 months later, when the IG paid its own visit to the facility.
Military servicemembers' vehicles stored in a warehouse in Chester, Va. in Apr. 2015 (Photo courtesy DoD IG)
"The contract required vehicles be covered, locked, and stored in accordance with standard commercial practices … numerous leaks were present throughout the facility, which allowed water to drip onto numerous vehicles," the IG wrote. "In addition, vehicles were unlocked, dirt and debris accumulated on uncovered vehicles and vehicles were parked in standing water."
In a written response to the report, Lt. Gen. Stephen Lyons, TRANSCOM's deputy commander, disputed that the CORs' inability to access the command's financial systems or the directives to not issue deficiency reports had any impact on the agency's overall oversight of the contract, though he acknowledged that the vehicle moving program's performance in 2014 was "unacceptable."
"The contractor has, and will continue to be held accountable for performance failures," Lyons wrote, including through negotiations in which the contracting officer and the company review every late delivery to recoup previous improper payments. The formal process the contract lays out for missed deliveries is "contentious and fact driven for every single POV. To avoid litigation, USTRANSCOM elected to pursue a negotiated process in order to avoid the dispute."
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IAL has not been able to avoid litigation by individual service members. In an ongoing class action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Georgia, the plaintiff's attorneys have said in court documents that they expect more than 1,000 people to join in claims for late, damaged or "total loss" vehicles.
IAL filed motions to dismiss the case, arguing in part that since its contract is with the government and with not individual vehicle owners, the service members have no standing to sue the company. But a federal judge dismissed most of those arguments and allowed the case to move forward so far.
TRANSCOM's decision to take the vehicle moving program away from the incumbent who'd run it since 1998 was almost entirely about saving money. The command first awarded the contract in 2013 during the height of sequestration. If nothing else, it has saved the government even more than expected so far: $50 million in the first year, according to Lyons.
The contract was initially delayed by a bid protest from incumbent American Auto Logistics, which argued to the Government Accountability Office that TRANSCOM was going back on its promise in the initial solicitation to pay special attention to past performance. AAL had relatively few problems during the 16 years it was running the program; the upstart IAL was relying mostly on the track record of a proposed European subcontractor in order to show it could handle the work.
But IAL's total estimated costs were lower: $919 million over five years compared to AAL's $958 million, so TRANSCOM opted for the lower bid.
In dismissing the protest, GAO's general counsel wrote: "We find unobjectionable the agency's conclusion that, although the protester had a superior record of performance, that superiority was not worth a price premium of $38 million."
TRANSCOM is apparently satisfied with how the vehicle moving program is operating today. In October, the command exercised the first of four options to extend its contract with IAL for $100 million. The current modification runs through September 2016.
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Chris Had Gone, (ss) The Ladies' Home Journal November 1926
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Inches and Ells, (ss) Munsey's Magazine June 1928
It Is a Two-Edged Sword, (ss) McCall's June 1928
Proud and Pig-Headed, (ss) Pictorial Review July 1928
Too Late, (ss) Liberty July 21 1928
Outside the Door, (ss) The Elks Magazine October 1928
Hard as Nails, (ss) Liberty October 20 1928
Important Things, (ss) Liberty November 17 1928
A Dinner Date, (ss) The American Magazine January 1929
Vera's Superior Smile, (ss) Pictorial Review January 1929
Saving Up, (ss) Liberty January 5 1929
Flow and Ebb, (ss) Liberty January 26 1929
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The Sin of Angels, (ss) The American Magazine April 1929
Dare-Devil, (ss) The American Magazine June 1929
Little Deeds of Kindness, (ss) Liberty July 6 1929
Prelude, (ss) The Delineator September 1929
Broken Faith, (ss) The American Magazine October 1929
Far-Off Hills Are Blue, (ss) Woman's Home Companion October 1929
Carline, (ss) Liberty October 12 1929
Rose-Leaves, (ss) Liberty January 18 1930
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It's All Right for Men, (ss) Liberty October 10 1931
Brides of Crime, (sl) Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine November 7 1931, etc.
Humility, (ss) Maclean's November 15 1931
Hound's Bay, (sl) Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine March 5 1932, etc.
The Preposterous Mrs. Manders, (ss) Woman's Home Companion March 1932
Wonderful Day, (ss) Good Housekeeping January 1933
If It Hadn't Been for Laurel, (ss) Liberty January 28 1933
"Bring a Man, Dear", (ss) The Delineator June 1933
No Personal Calls, (ss) Maclean's July 15 1933
That Woman, (ss) The Delineator October 1933
Like Father, Like Son, (ss) The Novel Magazine January 1934
Unknown Land, (nv) Collier's January 13 1934
Mrs. Cochrane Mayne and Mrs. Haggerty, (ss) The Novel Magazine March 1934
A Man Can Take It, (??) Collier's May 12 1934
The Green Bathtub, (??) Collier's June 16 1934
Vital Interlude, (ss) Redbook Magazine July 1934
The Last Night, (ss) The Passing Show July 14 1934
All She Could Get, (??) Collier's September 15 1934
The Unfinished Crime, (ss) Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine November 10 1934
Don't Care!, (ss) Cosmopolitan December 1934
"I Could Brighten Your Life!", (ss) The American Magazine January 1935
The Bride Comes Home, (ss) Cosmopolitan February 1935
Dawn Smile, (ss) The Strand Magazine April 1935
The Root of Evil, (??) Collier's April 27 1935
A Hardy Minx, (ss) Redbook Magazine August 1935
Nobody Would Listen, (ss) Mystery August 1935
Somebody's Cynthia, (ss) Collier's August 3 1935
It's Time Life Began!, (ss) Redbook Magazine December 1935
You Never Can Tell, (??) Collier's December 14 1935
Unscathed, (ss) Ladies' Home Journal January 1936
Lost, (ss) Redbook Magazine February 1936
Cross Purposes, (??) Collier's May 30 1936
Bermuda Murder, (ss) Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine July 1936
Can Do!, (ss) Pictorial Review July 1936
Scandal, (ss) Woman's Home Companion July 1936
Background, (ss) Redbook Magazine August 1936
Intent to Kill, (ss) Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine September 1936
Night Life, (ss) Redbook Magazine September 1936
Murder Solicited, (ss) Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine November 1936
Third Act, (ss) Pictorial Review April 1937
Drifting, (ss) McCall's May 1937
Wedding Day, (ss) Cosmopolitan September 1937
The Nicest Little Lunch, (ss) Cosmopolitan November 1937
Echo of a Careless Voice, (na) McCall's January 1938
Proud Girl, (ss) This Week July 17 1938
Illusion, (ss) Good Housekeeping August 1938
They Take It So Lightly!, (ss) Cosmopolitan October 1938
Two Passes for the Show, (ss) Liberty November 5 1938
So Sort of Proud, (ss) Good Housekeeping March 1939
I'll See You Later, (ss) McCall's May 1939
Cad?, (ss) This Week May 21 1939
Money Can't Buy It, (ss) Liberty August 5 1939
Open That Door, (ss) Liberty August 26 1939
Blonde on a Boat, (ss) The American Magazine December 1939
Who's Afraid, (n.) Duell, Sloane, Pearce, 1940
Late Date, (ss) Cosmopolitan May 1940
Proposal, (ss) McCall's May 1940
Lesson for Pete, (ss) This Week October 6 1940
Speak of the Devil, (n.) Duell, Sloane, Pearce, 1941
Tropical Secretary, (ss) The American Magazine February 1941
Tomorrow's Not Soon Enough, (ss) McCall's March 1941
What It Takes, (ss) Grit Story Section March 9 1941
Loved I Not Honor More, (ss) Liberty April 12 1941
The Fearful Night, (na) The American Magazine June 1941
Another Baby, (ss) Woman's Home Companion November 1941
Kill Joy, (n.) Duell, Sloane, Pearce, 1942
Lady Killer, (n.) Duell, Sloane, Pearce, 1942
I'll Never Forgive You, (ss) The American Magazine May 1942
Not Goodbye but Au Revoir, (ss) McCall's October 1942
The Old Battle-Ax, (n.) 1943
The Kiskadee Bird, (ss) Cosmopolitan July 1944
Mrs. Henry Gibson, (ss) Cosmopolitan August 1944
The Blue Envelope, (ss) Collier's September 30 1944
Net of Cobwebs, (sl) Collier's January 6 1945, etc.
Ten-Cent Wedding Ring, (na) Cosmopolitan February 1945
An Unbelievable Baroness, (ss) The American Magazine May 1945
Invictus, (ss) The New Yorker March 23 1946
The Other Mrs. Minor, (sl) Cosmopolitan September 1946, etc.
Farewell to a Corpse, (na) Mystery Book Magazine October 1946
The Blank Wall, (n.) Simon & Schuster, 1947, etc.
"Be Careful, Mrs. Williams", (na) Cosmopolitan July 1947
People Do Fall Downstairs, (nv) Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine #45, August 1947
Second Marriage, (nv) Cosmopolitan April 1948
The Bird of Time, (ss) Cosmopolitan May 1948
The Stranger in the Car, (na) The American Magazine July 1949
Friday, the Nineteenth, (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Summer 1950
La Signora from Brooklyn, (ss) Cosmopolitan December 1951
Farewell, Big Sister, (ss) Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine #104, July 1952
The Death Wish, (ss) Cosmopolitan February 1953
Most Audacious Crime, (ss) Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine January 1954
Shadow of Wings, (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1954
Glitter of Diamonds, (ss) Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine March 1955
Mrs. Daugherty & Mrs. Depew, (ss) Canadian Home Journal July 1955
The Strange Children, (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1955
Very, Very Dark Mink, (ss) The Saint Detective Magazine December 1956
The Darling Doctor, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine March 1957
Game for Four Players, (ss) Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine June 1958
Funny Kind of Love, (ss)
Seeing Nellie Home, (ss) Woman's Home Companion


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Posted on May 16, 2011 January 30, 2017 By Patrick Maines
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Can't Miss TV
Comes now the news that Michael Moore, the merry propagandist, is joining Keith Olbermann on Al Gore's Current TV, the legendary television network. It's practically a miracle! Even now the crowds are queuing up to catch a glimpse of this dynamic duo.
One can only imagine the kind of material that, in collaboration, they may produce. Perhaps an investigative report on the link between Citizens United, the Tea Party, and global warming. Or maybe something even more intellectual, like a video essay on how the alleged indebtedness of the federal and state governments is just a rumor started by the gnomes of Zurich.
Whatever, isn't it great to know that we live in a country where bombast and imbecility can have their day in the court of public opinion? As they say in the ad – "mm, mm, good!"
Those 'Public' Airwaves
The Speaking Freely essay written by Erwin Krasnow, recently co-published by The Media Institute and The Thomas Jefferson Center, is striking in a number of ways, not least because its author is a former general counsel of the National Association of Broadcasters. As such, Mr. Krasnow has known for years of broadcasting's embrace of concepts like "scarcity" and the "public interest" standard as useful tools in re certain policy issues, like cable TV's "must carry" obligations.
So how to get a handle on Krasnow's call now for an end to such concepts, and to the notion that the public "owns" the airwaves? Perhaps it's the prospect of forced spectrum surrender, or maybe the notion that broadcasters are able these days to charge for their carriage by cable that explains it all. Whatever, it will be interesting to see if, in days ahead, the NAB echoes some of Krasnow's arguments. For that matter, it would be interesting to know what those at NAB think of Krasnow's essay, which has attracted rather a lot of attention. Goes without saying that we at TMI would be more than happy to publish any such.
It's the Gospel ('Jesus Dropped the Charges')
Doubling down on my earlier reckless confession of love for the blues and gospel music, herewith a link to a piece by the late O'Neil Twins. (Yes, the title is amusing, but I'll fight any man in the bar who says he doesn't like the music.) Check it out here.
Drudging Respect
Writing in The New York Times, David Carr has this to say about the extraordinary influence of the Drudge Report: "Yes, Mr. Drudge is a conservative ideologue whose site also serves as a crib sheet for the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. But if you believe that his huge traffic numbers are a byproduct of an ideologically motivated readership, consider that 15 percent of the traffic at Washington Post.com, which is not exactly a hotbed of Tea Party foment, comes from The Drudge Report."
Say what? Featuring, on its editorial pages, such as George Will, Charles Krauthammer, Jennifer Rubin, Robert Samuelson, Mark Thiessen, and Michael Gerson, the WAPO may not be a hotbed of "Tea Party foment," but it is the source of a lot of conservative opinion of the sort that Drudge links to often.
Carr's opinion to the contrary notwithstanding (and how many times do we have to say this?), the primary reason for Drudge's success – as for the success of conservative talk radio and the Fox News Channel – is its political point of view, which is different from that of most of the MSM, and popular with a large number of people. Sheesh!
The opinions expressed above are those of the writer and not necessarily of The Media Institute, its Board, contributors, or advisory councils.
Posted on February 9, 2011 January 30, 2017 By Patrick Maines
We're All Centrists Now
The excitement is almost more than a person can bear. From one corner of medialand to the other, progressives are on the march! From out of New York comes the report, sure to send a frisson through who knows how many strange people, that Keith Olbermann is joining Al Gore's Current TV. As Olbermann's PR firm put it: "He and his new partners will make an exciting announcement regarding the next chapter in his remarkable career." Remarkable indeed, since if codswallop were diamonds, Olbermann would be the shiniest man on television.
Meanwhile, Arianna Huffington, than whom no one better amalgamates progressive politics and uber commercialism, just sold the Huffington Post to AOL for more than $300 million. And as for those cranks who have qualms about AOL acquiring a property with HuffPo's pronounced political slant, not to worry, because Arianna says it isn't "left" since only 15 percent of the site's traffic goes to the politics section.
Indeed, Huffington's denial of being a purveyor of liberalism is a familiar refrain these days. Over at the New York Daily News, Josh Greenman recently wrote that the success of Rush Limbaugh, the Drudge Report, and Fox News proves the nonexistence of the "dominant liberal media," while John Harris, the editor of Politico, has opined on the subject in print and on the air.
Interviewed on Hugh Hewitt's radio show last month because he wanted "to rebut" Hewitt's earlier claim that Politico has veered left in the last two years, Harris mostly avoided answering Hewitt's questions, and this week published an essay in Politico where he claimed that most reporters "might more accurately be accused of centrist bias."
So what to make of all this? Why the rush to deny liberalism and lay journalistic claim on the center? Several theories present themselves. The first is opportunism and the second is obfuscation. Beyond these lurk other possibilities, such as: (1) that certain reporters see the political handwriting on the wall and want not to be seen as among the victims; or (2) that many political reporters just don't get it; that when they say, as Harris says in his Politico piece, that they "believe broadly in government activism" they've just conceded conservatives' principal complaint, and cannot then go on and blithely characterize that stance as "centrist."
The ideological composition of the citizenry differs by country, but in the USA the math is clear: There are at least twice as many conservatives as liberals, and not to take anything away from Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, or Roger Ailes, this is the primary reason for their success: They have delivered products that appeal to a large number of people whose views are, and have been, badly underrepresented by the vast majority of news organizations, political reporters especially.


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Follow along to learn everything you need to know about window graphics, from a basic definition to the answers to some common questions about window decals.
What is a window graphic?
Why use window graphics for my business?
How to maintain a window graphic?
What size does a window graphic need to be?
How long does a window graphic last?
Can window graphics be reused?
A window graphic, also known as a window decal, is an image printed on a self-adhesive substrate and placed on a panel of glass.
Window graphics are an ideal solution for storefronts and shop windows. However, as more and more modern buildings incorporate glass as a building material, the visual possibilities of window graphics have grown exponentially.
Nowadays it's not uncommon to see entire buildings where glass is the predominant material, offering a giant canvas to create monumental window graphics.
There are three good reasons why you should consider using window graphics to promote your products or services:
High Impact. Window graphics are guaranteed to capture the attention of your audience, raising brand awareness and increasing your sales.
Affordable. Digital printing technology reduces costs, which makes window graphics a budget-friendly option to advertise your business.
Fast turnaround times. In addition to containing costs, digital printing also compresses production times. If you are in a rush to bring a visual idea to life, window graphics are one of your best bets.
Giving your window graphics proper maintenance is important for aesthetic reasons, but also because it can extend the life of your graphics.
If your decals are placed outdoors, they come in contact with a variety of harmful agents that may damage them in the long run. That's why you should clean any stains or splatter as soon as possible.
To clean your window graphics, use a microfiber cloth and a mild solution of soap and water. Make sure to avoid solvents or other corrosive products, as they may damage the graphic.
From a technical standpoint, there are no limits to the size of window graphics. However, each city has regulations in place for window signs, so make sure to check these requirements on your city's website before designing your window graphic
For example, according to the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety, the area of "Any sign attached to, affixed to, leaning against, or within 6 feet of a window or door and visible from the outside of a building" must not exceed 10% of the area of the window.
There's no definitive answer to this question because the useful life of a window graphic depends upon several factors such as the weather, location, exposure to the elements, and maintenance.
No, window graphics are one-use only. Keep in mind that window graphics are printed on a self-adhesive substrate (usually vinyl). The adhesive is strong, so very often it's impossible to remove a window graphic in one piece.
This is especially true of large window graphics, where removal involves scoring the graphic with a sharp tool and then peeling it off in sections.
Finally, window decals can't be reused because the adhesive on a window graphic loses most of its strength after removal, making it practically impossible to install the graphic again.
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Regrettably emergency situations are happening around the world this summer, from flooding in Germany, to air quality in Singapore, tornado activity in the U.S., and fires elsewhere.
All of these emergency situations affect daily traffic and travel and the public need to quickly change their travel plans based on accurate updated information. GEWI's TIC product can be used to keep people informed by processing data about emergency situations by collecting, harmonizing, and distributing useful information to individuals via many methods. In this issue you will read a few ways TIC can be used for a variety of emergency situations.
Stability is a word that can be used to describe both the TIC product and GEWI's available product development resources. 2013 marks the 20th year of service for Holger Kuske, GEWI's first employee. Holger is responsible for the data modeling needed when developing new data types for new services such as emergency information. Read more about Holger in the GEWI profile section.
In the meantime, customers continue to purchase and use TIC, including a North America service provider who has deployed a TIC3 system since our last newsletter, and two German Police agencies who have upgraded to TIC3. Read about both in this issue.
Should you have any questions on anything in this newsletter, or to discuss your requirements or make a request, please contact us at info@gewi.com.
a wide range of traffic and travel related projects, including services which could provide benefits during emergency situations.
GEWI's is evaluating a new project which could have far reaching safety benefits and potential to save lives by alerting drivers of approaching emergency vehicles. Due to improved auto cabin isolation and driver distraction, drivers are often unaware of approaching emergency vehicles.
The project would collect data from the approaching emergency vehicle and deliver an in-vehicle warning, and possible advice, alerting the driver of the location of emergency vehicles in the area. The result could be shorter delays for ambulances and increased safety at intersections and crossings by reducing emergency vehicle collisions.
TIC3's mapping capabilities could be used to manage many different types of data for emergency evacuations. In a hurricane, for example, staged evacuation zones could be created and managed to deliver alerts and information about how residents in each zone should respond, and which routes are acceptable for travel. Pre-defined routes can be set for various scenarios, and then delivered to travelers using a wide range of distribution methods.
Recent flooding in Germany and air quality issues in Singapore are two examples of data that can be managed by the TIC3 system. Sensors can deliver water level information to the TIC system which would then distribute alerts to the appropriate agency or system based on the sensor location and data parameters. Once specific thresholds are reached, predefined alternate routes could be distributed to divert drivers away from the flooding.
Air quality alerts could be delivered in a similar fashion using data from air quality sensors. Specific advice could be distributed to a variety of systems based on the data thresholds and locations of air quality data.
GEWI was easily found by attendees at the 9th European Congress and Exhibition held in Dublin in June, 2013. GEWI had exhibits at both the ITS Germany and TISA (Traveller Information Services Association) stands at the congress and welcomed visitors from all over the world who viewed the latest TIC3 product features.
The theme of ITS Dublin 2013 was "Real Solutions for Real Needs" which is exactly what TIC has provided as a global solution for its customer traffic and travel information projects since 1997.
The primary focus of the Dublin 2013 Congress was on proven deployed solutions and innovative R&D that solve real problems and deliver value for money in today's challenging economic environment. To this end, GEWI demonstrated how TIC is being used to run a wide range of Traffic Information Projects of all scopes and sizes, from small city projects, to connecting 22 countries in 7 different languages.
TIC 3 Ballgame Logo The first state police information center in the German federal state of Thuringia, known as LMS TH and based in Erfurt, Germany, completed a successful upgraded to TIC3, the latest generation of GEWI's popular traffic data processing software, in April 2013.
Soon after in May 2013, a second state police center in Saxony known LMS SN also completed their upgrade to TIC3. Upgrades by other police are expected to follow later in 2013.
Saxony police have been long-time users of TIC, starting first with TIC1 in 2000, and then upgrading to TIC2 in 2010. This 13 year history with TIC demonstrates product stability, reliability and continual evolution to meet GEWI customer requirements.
TIC3 is trusted by the police to be used on their existing command and control system. Operators manually create traffic events, which are then distributed directly to the public, to local and national customers in Germany, and even internationally in Europe.
TIC3 enables the police to use the same digital maps that are used by drivers' in-vehicle navigation devices, thereby improving the accuracy of traffic event locations, especially for navigation systems and services.
Government departments and agencies can also extend the use of TIC3 for additional purposes, such as for providing information about road works, and for use by government employees when planning road maintenance.
The latest generation of GEWI's TIC software "TIC3" has been successfully launched in productive operations throughout North America, covering both the USA and Canada.
TIC3 replaced a major traffic information service provider's own-built traffic data entry system, and the new TIC system is now used by the provider's own operators to create and update traffic and travel information.
TIC then distributes the resulting data to other systems that ultimately inform millions of motorists across North America of traffic and travel conditions through smart phones, navigation devices, websites, and radio and TV broadcasts.
In other customer projects around the globe, customers are using powerful TIC3 product features to collect, harmonize, and quickly identify related data such as weather, cameras, speed and flow, traffic and travel incidents, roadwork and more, and by providing operators with time-saving tools to help create valuable data.
TIC is used by a wide range of organizations worldwide including automobile clubs, commercial service providers, car and navigation device manufacturers, road operators, broadcasters, and government agencies including police and DOT's.
As a commercial off-the-shelf product (COTS), TIC can be configured for additional purposes such as work zones, connected vehicles, parking information, RDS-TMC and TPEG services, radio data, and data harmonization and exchange.
While the average GEWI employee has over 10 years' experience with the company, Holger Kuske is about to double that figure. Holger joined GEWI as the company's first employee in 1993 and in an excellent example of GEWI's resource stability.
Holger is one of GEWI's experts in the structure and handling of TMC location tables and one of the world's leading experts in RDS-TMC encoding and decoding.
He is also involved in modeling new data types such as data which can be used for emergency services described in this issue.
In 2001, Holger was instrumental in the development of the ERIC3000 system for the European Road Information Center which is still in use today exchanging data from over 20 countries.
The many valuable contributions Holger has made over the past 20 years have helped make TIC become the "gold standard" for traffic information services worldwide.


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In-depth news coverage of the Greater Boston Area.
Mass. Teen Killed in Crash Honored at Local Hockey Games, By Boston Bruins
16-year-old Dylan Quinn, a goalie for the Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical School boys hockey team, was killed in a car crash on Jan. 15 in Berkley
By Kaitlin McKinley Becker • Published January 22, 2023 • Updated on January 22, 2023 at 7:34 pm
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A Massachusetts high school hockey team won an emotional game Saturday night as players honored their teammate who was killed in a car crash last weekend.
The Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical School hockey team beat Southeastern Regional at Raynham Ice Arena, NBC affiliate WJAR reported, with players sporting the number 33 in honor of Dylan Quinn.
The 16-year-old was a passenger in his friend's Mazda pickup truck when the vehicle crashed around 7:30 a.m. last Sunday on Myricks Street in Berkley, striking a utility pole and then tree before coming to a rest upside down.
The Bristol County District Attorney's Office said the two teens had just left a Dunkin before the fatal crash. Quinn was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford where he was pronounced dead. The 16-year-old driver, whose name has not been released, suffered non-life threatening injuries in the crash.
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Quinn was a junior at Bristol-Plymouth in Taunton, with the superintendent calling his death "a tragic loss" last weekend.
A goalie for the boys varsity hockey team, Quinn started playing the sport when he was just four years old and was a born athlete, according to his obituary. He also enjoyed lacrosse and snowboarding, and loved anything that involved adventure and risk.
"Dylan was known for his infectious grin, his ability to make people laugh, brighten a day, and for his many pranks," read his obituary, which also described him as a natural leader, a kind person, and a true and loyal friend.
In the days following the tragedy, Quinn's friends and family began using the hashtag "Sticks out for Dylan" in social media posts to honor the teen, with people across the Bay State placing hockey sticks out on their front porches to show their love for Quinn and the Mass. hockey community.
A moment of silence was held for the Rehoboth teen before Attleboro's hockey game vs. Holliston on Monday night, with the team writing in a Facebook post, "The Attleboro Hockey Family mourns the loss of friend and teammate to many, Dylan Quinn. We stand with the Quinn family and Southeastern Regional-Bristol Plymouth Hockey in honoring and remembering Dylan's young life."
The Attleboro High School hockey team also held a lottery ticket raffle at Saturday night's game, with all of the proceeds going to a GoFundMe started for the Quinn family.
Also in Attleboro, the Bishop Feehan hockey team shared a post on Facebook, writing, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the family of Dylan Quinn and the entire Bristol/Plymouth Community after learning of this tragic loss."
The Boston Bruins are also honoring Quinn, noting the goalie was involved with some of the organization's hockey clinics.
The Bruins hung a #33 jersey with Quinn's name on it in their locker room Sunday night ahead of their game against the San Jose Sharks at TD Garden.
"The #NHLBruins are extremely saddened by the tragic passing of BP-Southeastern goalie Dylan Quinn, who was a volunteer at several of our Learn to Play clinics over the years," the Bruins wrote in an Instagram post. "Our hearts are with his family, friends, and teammates during this difficult time."
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Quinn is survived by his younger brother Connor and his parents Michael and Cara.
Relatives and friends are invited to attend a visitation that will be held on Saturday, Feb, 4, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Waring-Sullivan Home at Birchcrest in Swansea. On Sunday, Feb. 5, a celebration of life service will be held at 1 p.m. in the gymnasium at Bristol-Plymouth high school, located at 207 Hart St. in Taunton.
Berkley and state police continue to investigate the cause of the crash that killed Quinn.
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Robert Winship Woodruff (* 6. Dezember 1889 in Columbus in Georgia; † 7. März 1985 in Atlanta) war von 1923 bis 1954 Präsident der Coca-Cola Company. Mit einem großen Vermögen war er auch ein bedeutender Philanthrop und viele Bildungs- und Kulturdenkmäler in Atlanta (Georgia) tragen seinen Namen. Dazu gehören das Woodruff Arts Center, der Woodruff Park und die Robert W. Woodruff Library.

Herkunft und Bildung

Woodruff war ein Sohn von Ernest Woodruff (1863–1944) und dessen Ehefrau Emily Caroline, geb. Winship, die beide am 22. April 1885 geheiratet hatten. Sein Vater war ein Unternehmer aus Atlanta und Präsident der Trust Company of Georgia, des Vorgängers der SunTrust Bank, der u. a. eine Investorengruppe geleitet und 1919 die Coca-Cola Company von Asa Griggs Candler gekauft hatte. Sein Großvater war der prominente ebenfalls aus Atlanta stammende Produktionsmagnat Robert Winship (1834–1899).

Ab 1905 besuchte er die Georgia Military Academy, die er später als "der einzige Ort, an dem ich jemals einen Abschluss gemacht habe" bezeichnete. Im Anschluss besuchte er kurzzeitig das Georgia Institute of Technology, wo er jedoch durchfiel und so wechselte er 1908 auf das Oxford College der Emory-Universität in Georgia, wo er sich durch "Klassenkürzungen und Geldspenden" auszeichnete, jedoch nach einem Semester als gleichgültiger Student entlassen wurde. Jahrzehnte später widmete Emory seine Bibliothek Robert W. Woodruff mit der Aussage: "Mr. Woodruff ist vor seinem formellen Abschluss bei Emory ins Geschäft eingestiegen."

Leben und Karriere
Im Februar 1909 im Alter von 19 Jahren, nahm er, die Arbeitsangebote seines Vaters immer ablehnend, seine erste Stelle als Arbeiter in der Giesserei bei der General Pipe and Foundry Company im Inman Park im Osten von Atlanta an. Hier schaufelte er eine Woche lang Erde für 60 Cent pro Tag, dann arbeitete er als Maschinenschlosserlehrling an einer Drehbank. Nach einem Jahr wurde er gefeuert und von der Muttergesellschaft General's, der General Fire Extinguisher, wieder eingestellt, wo er sich in den Verkauf einarbeitete.  Dann nahm er ein Jobangebot seines Vaters bei der Atlantic Ice and Coal Company an, verließ diese nach Differenzen mit ihm aber wieder. Nachdem Woodruff von Walter White von der White Motor Company in Cleveland (Ohio) abgeworben worden war, spielte er seine Liebe zu den frühen Automobilen in einer Verkaufsposition bei der Firma aus und wurde bald darauf zum Vizepräsidenten des Unternehmens ernannt. Während des Ersten Weltkriegs trat Woodruff in das Ordnance Corps der United States Army ein, wo er für eine Lkw-Konstruktion warb, die nur White Motors erfüllen konnte, was dem Unternehmen in Kriegszeiten enorme Verkaufszahlen bescherte. 1921 bot ihm der Automobilhersteller eine Position im Verwaltungsrat an und noch im gleichen Jahr machte Woodruff sein erstes Geschäft mit der Coca-Cola Company, als er der Firma 30 Lastwagen für ihr prosperierendes Unternehmen verkaufte.

In seinem Bemühen, persönliche Differenzen zu überwinden, bot ihm sein Vater Ernest 1923 den Posten als Präsident der Coca-Cola Company an. Zu dieser Zeit hatte das Unternehmen, auch wegen hoher Zuckerpreise und langwierigen Prozessen zu Markenschutz und Abfüllverträgen, mit Schulden in Millionenhöhe zu kämpfen und der Aktienkurs war bereits auf 18 Dollar je Aktie gefallen. Woodruff stimmte dem Jobangebot, auch trotz einer starken Gehaltskürzung von 50.000 USD, mit den Worten zu: "Ich dachte mir, wenn ich den Aktienpreis jemals wieder auf das Niveau dessen bringen würde, was ich dafür bezahlt habe, würde ich verkaufen und mich rächen. Dann würde ich wieder Autos und Lastwagen verkaufen."

Im Jahre 1926, im Alter von 37 Jahren, baute Woodruff Coca-Cola zu einem internationalen Unternehmen aus und gründete eine Auslandsabteilung.  Das Unternehmen meisterte die Weltwirtschaftskrise mit jährlich steigenden Gewinnen, da "jeder einen Nickel" für eine Cola ausgeben konnte. Ende der 1930er Jahre war Coca-Cola ein bekannter Name geworden und hatte Abfüllanlagen in 44 Ländern in Betrieb.

1937 gründete Woodruff die Trebor-Stiftung ("Trebor" ist Robert rückwärts buchstabiert), um seine Philanthropie zu verwirklichen. Durch eine Schenkung von Robert W. Woodruff in Höhe von 50.000 Dollar für die Einrichtung eines Krebszentrums im Emory University Hospital, konnte 1937 die Robert Winship-Klinik gegründet werden. Die großzügige Spende hatte er zu Ehren seiner Mutter Emily Winship Woodruff, die im gleichen Jahr ihren Kampf gegen den Krebs verloren hatte, gemacht. Benannt wurde das Zentrum nach seinem Großvater mütterlicherseits, Robert Winship.

Im Jahr 1954 trat er als Präsident zurück, blieb aber bis 1984 im Verwaltungsrat. Sein großer Aktienbesitz und sein Einfluss auf den mächtigen Finanzausschuss des Vorstands verschafften ihm fast 60 Jahre lang eine bedeutende Kontrolle über einen Großteil der Leitung des Unternehmens.

Nach einem erfüllten und geschichtsträchtigen Leben wurde Woodruff auf dem Friedhof von Westview zur Ruhe gelegt. Seine eigene Einschätzung seines Lebens lässt sich durch die Worte einer Tafel zusammenfassen, die er an prominenter Stelle in seinem Schlafzimmer angebracht hatte: "Wenn ich die Dinge, die ich verloren habe, mit den Dingen, die ich gewonnen habe, vergleiche, die Dinge, die ich verpasst habe, mit dem, was ich hätte erreichen können, bleibt wenig Raum für Stolz."

Woodruff's Vermächtnis

1979 spendeten Woodruff und sein Bruder George W. Woodruff der Emory-Universität 105 Millionen Dollar; sie würden schließlich insgesamt 230 Millionen Dollar geben. Mehrere Gebäude auf dem Emory-Campus sind nach ihm und Mitgliedern seiner Familie benannt und alle Robert W. Woodruff-Professuren sind nach ihm benannt.

Er spendete auch große Summen an andere Colleges und Universitäten in der Region sowie an die Woodward Academy (ehemals Georgia Military Academy), in College Park und die Westminster-Schulen in Atlanta. Ein Pfadfinderlager in Blairsville (Georgia), wurde im Anschluss an große Spenden der Woodruff Foundation und von Coca-Cola als Robert W. Woodruff Scout Reservat eingerichtet, das vom Atlanta Area Council verwaltet wird.

Atlanta's größte kulturelle Einrichtung, das Woodruff Arts Center, profitierte von seinen Geschenken und ist nach ihm benannt, ebenso wie der Woodruff Park. Eine Robert W. Woodruff-Bibliothek befindet sich im Atlanta University Center und dient dem Morehouse College, dem Spelman College und der Clark Atlanta University. Eine weitere Robert W. Woodruff-Bibliothek beherbergt die Hauptbibliothek der Emory University. 1977 wurde er in die Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame aufgenommen.

Woodruff war maßgeblich am Erfolg des Dinners beteiligt, das in Atlanta zu Ehren von Reverend Martin Luther King stattfand, nachdem King 1964 den Friedensnobelpreis erhalten hatte. Der Kartenverkauf hinkte hinterher, bis Woodruff seine Unterstützung für das Dinner signalisierte.

Nell Kendall Hodgson
Robert Woodruff war seit dem 17. Oktober 1912 mit Nell Kendall Hodgson verheiratet, was er später als "den befriedigendsten Moment seines Lebens" bezeichnete. Nell Kandall wurde am 20. Oktober 1892 als Tochter der Eheleute Edward Hodgson und Mary Strahan in  Athens (Georgia) geboren. Vor ihrer Ehe absolvierte sie ein zweijähriges Krankenpflegerprogramm am St. Mary´s Hospital in Athen. Während des Ersten Weltkriegs diente sie als freiwillige Krankenschwester des Amerikanischen Roten Kreuzes und bildete andere Krankenschwesternhelfer aus. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs meldete sie sich erneut freiwillig und erhielt die Erlaubnis, in jedem Krankenhaus der Vereinigten Staaten als Krankenschwesternhilfe zu dienen.

1946 würdigte die Emory's Nursing School Alumni Association ihre Hingabe an die Krankenpflegeausbildung mit ihrer ersten Ehrenmitgliedschaft auf Lebenszeit. Auch die Georgia State Nursing Association verlieh Woodruff 1952 eine lebenslange Mitgliedschaft für ihre Verdienste um den Krankenpflegeberuf in Georgia. Als langjährige Führungspersönlichkeit im Bereich der Krankenpflege und des Gesundheitswesens diente sie 1954 und 1955 als offizielle Delegierte der Vereinigten Staaten bei den Weltgesundheitsversammlungen. 1967 benannte die Emory University ihre Krankenpflegeschule in Nell Woodruff um. Sie starb weniger als ein Jahr später, am 23. Januar 1968, in Albany, Georgia. Nell's Ehe mit Robert Woodruff blieb Kinderlos.

Weblinks
 Robert W. Woodruff Facts, In: biography.yourdictionary.com (englisch)
 Robert W. Woodruff, "It always gave me pleasure to do something for somebody without being asked to do it. I don't like to be asked. I didn't want to be given credit.", In: emory.edu (englisch)
 Robert Woodruff, Global Distribution Network, In: pbs.org (englisch)
 Alliance Theatre, In: woodruffcenter.org (englisch)
 Robert W. Woodruff, In: atlantamagazine.com (englisch)
 Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library, In: lyrasis.org (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Unternehmer (Vereinigte Staaten)
The Coca-Cola Company
US-Amerikaner
Geboren 1889
Gestorben 1985
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