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Wing and a Prayer
Can Humboldt afford to fly?
By Grant Scott-Goforth grant@northcoastjournal.com @GScottGoforth
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Humboldt County's Aviation Division, which operates the Arcata-Eureka Airport and five non-commercial airports, will have reached a nearly $1 million deficit by the end of this fiscal year.
On an early February afternoon, 4th District Supervisor Virginia Bass found herself in a huge Denver convention hall filled with more than 100 tables. Sitting at each: potential matches. It was like speed dating, and she was prepared, despite the pressure of a giant clock ticking away the seconds of each timed interaction.
Would Bass find the perfect fit out of the dozens of attendees? The answer remains unclear. She wasn't looking for romance, but instead courting representatives from airlines, looking to impress them with Humboldt County's riches and charm.
Bass's whirlwind wooing tour was only the latest in a years-long effort to increase options for Humboldt's would-be flyers. It's been successful on many fronts. Fly Humboldt, the public-private partnership organized to add flight routes into and out of the Arcata-Eureka Airport, has raised more than $1 million to lure airlines to serve the county. But the results of that fundraising and cheerleading have been ... well, it's hard to say. Bass, and her cohorts in the airplane recruitment faction are playing close to the vest. The airline industry has changed a lot in recent years, and companies hold the cards in an extremely competitive market. Any press could wildly swing Humboldt's chances of attracting more air service, insiders say.
Meanwhile, the Aviation Division's enterprise fund, essentially the airports' operating budget, is projected to be nearly $1 million in the hole by the middle of this year. The division is borrowing from its trusts to cover costs, and considering asking for a loan from the county's general fund — a move that would take money away from other county services. The deficit is a result of fewer planes and fewer passengers, officials say. More destinations will turn that around, they insist. But when? And who will benefit? Can the county really afford a commercial airport, or, more importantly, should it?
Many people forget there are six airports operated by Humboldt County's Aviation Division. That includes small "general aviation" airports, which serve private flyers and shipping companies in Dinsmore, Garberville, Kneeland, Rohnerville and on Humboldt Bay, just north of Eureka. The only commercial airport is the Arcata-Eureka Airport on the north end of unincorporated McKinleyville. (County supervisors voted to change the airport's name to the "California Redwood Coast — Humboldt County Airport" two years ago, but they're still waiting on final Federal Aviation Administration approval before they'll officially start calling it that.)
County Public Works Director Tom Mattson is, by default, the interim Airport Manager, since former manager Jacquelyn Hulsey resigned in 2013. Hulsey's position has been frozen since then — a move that allowed the county to continue to employ Aviation Division Program Manager Emily Jacobs, who's been instrumental in the effort to expand service to ACV.
Each of Humboldt's tiny airports requires employees and regular maintenance to keep them up to safety standards, but Eureka-Arcata is by far the costliest line in the Aviation Department budget. That wasn't much of a problem in the early 2000s. The arrivals and departures of multiple airplanes brought in revenues from fuel sales, landing fees and terminal and hangar rentals that covered the county's operating costs. In the 2004-2005 fiscal year budget report to the board of supervisors, the director of public works wrote that "the operations of the county airport system are 100 percent funded by revenues collected at the airports."
At that point, local flyers could get on a plane to San Francisco, Seattle or Los Angeles through Horizon Air or United Airlines. From 2005 to 2009, more than 100,000 passengers (some of them repeat flyers, no doubt) got on planes each year in Humboldt County, bound for those West Coast hubs and beyond.
With air travel buzzing, the Aviation Division announced in 2008 it had worked out a deal with Delta Airlines to connect ACV to Salt Lake City, Utah. In exchange for service, the county offered Delta $1 million in incentives and a $500,000 minimum revenue guarantee. Financed by the Headwaters Fund, it was an insurance of sorts: If Delta's business plan didn't work out, the county would eat the loss.
Two years later, that's exactly what happened. In 2010, Delta pulled its Salt Lake City route. Horizon had ended its Seattle route in 2009, and in 2011 dropped its Los Angeles flights. That left Humboldt County flyers with one option: United Air to San Francisco.
It's arguably Humboldt County's most important hub, but the lack of options seems to have discouraged flyers. Enplanements have been falling since 2009, with just 53,000 people boarding planes out of Humboldt County in 2014.
Jacobs says that reduced service has led people to drive out of the area to catch flights, increasing enplanements at the Santa Rosa airport (which went up 6 percent between 2012 and 2013) and Medford, Oregon (which actually saw a 2 percent decrease in enplanements during the same time period).
It's a chicken-egg problem, she says. "When our community goes to other airports, all they're doing is boosting that airport. More flights and more destinations? We really don't get that until more people fly out [of ACV]."
There's less air service, certainly. But the dwindling number of flyers has to do with perception as well, Jacobs says, adding that misconceptions continue to swirl about the quality and reliability of ACV's air service.
Back-to-back runway improvement projects at ACV and San Francisco over the last several years led to cancellations and delays, which frustrated community members. Those projects are finished now, but the perception that ACV is unreliable — stemming from a 50 percent on-time arrival rate in 2008 — persists. But delays have gone down steadily in recent years; 76 percent arrived on time in 2014, and ACV beat the national average for on-time arrivals in January, 2015.
Another perception that plagues ACV is that fares are rising, and it's very real. The average cost of a one-way ticket out of ACV has more than doubled since 2005, from $129 to $275 in 2013, according to data provided by Jacobs. Part of that is due to rising fuel costs and the financial downturn of 2008, but it's hard to imagine that having an additional airline company serving the community wouldn't create some more competitive pricing.
Much of Jacobs' work consists of going out into the community — to schools, organizations, businesses — to tout the reliability of ACV, pitching for people to utilize the local airport and show airlines that the demand and need for additional destinations exist.
Another major part of her job is selling Humboldt County — hard.
Attracting airlines has become an ultra-competitive sport.
Bass didn't show up in Denver to pitch Humboldt County by herself. She described her role as that of a cheerleader — the smiling face of Humboldt County — but Jacobs was also there, bringing the down-to-business edge necessary to win over airlines.
"It's very important to show airlines love," Jacobs said. "Especially the ones we already have." She hinted that Delta's departure after two years of Salt Lake City service may have been the result of less-than-goodwill from the community.
Jacobs has been trying to rebuild that goodwill, but she also brings her networking and data to those conferences: facts and figures from previous routes out of ACV, the knowledge of airport improvements, and the feasibility of a host of incentives that can be bargained with, depending on the desirability of a route the airline might offer.
"It's a shark tank," Jacobs said. "You go very polished, you know your stuff."
As Jacobs describes it, airline companies have been losing money since the U.S. deregulated them in the late 1970s. The now-defunct regulatory agency had essentially been taken over by the industry, leading to very high fares. In 1978, "Federal controls over the entry and exit of airlines, flight schedules, airfares and quality of service were abolished," according to an article by The Public Good Initiative director David Morris. "Financial oversight was abandoned. Only airline safety remained under federal regulation."
Combined with dropping oil prices and newfound competition, fares plummeted, the standard thinking goes, democratizing air travel throughout the country. Deregulation was lauded across the political spectrum. According to Morris, the act's success goes virtually uncontested.
But, Morris writes (and he cites several studies), the drop in fare prices more or less coincided with falling prices before deregulation. Essentially, Morris says, deregulation led to concentration of ownership of airline companies, and one analyst concluded that the "grant of pricing freedom to the airline industry has generally resulted in average prices being higher than they would have been had regulation continued."
That thinking is becoming slightly broader, but economic debate aside, one thing is indisputable: Humboldt County has few options for air service. Four airline companies control 85 percent of U.S. air travel: Delta, United, American and Alaskan (which owns Horizon). And it's those same big four that Fly Humboldt and the county have pinned their hopes on.
But so has everyone else. Jacobs says there are hundreds of small communities around the country trying to expand air service, many of them with bigger populations (ergo more potential customers) than Humboldt County. Chico, Ventura, Redding and Oxnard — each of which has more than 80,000 residents, not including the surrounding areas — are all trying to expand service, just in California.
"We are so fortunate to have air service at all right now," Bass says.
So airlines, by design or by circumstance, have pitted America's small cities against each other. That means in addition to "showing the love," communities are offering hefty subsidies to airlines.
Jacobs paints a piteous portrait of the airline companies, saying they hadn't turned profits since deregulation, and that the price-wars model of the early 2000s didn't work. Low cost carriers like Southwest came in with older planes and tried to offer as many seats as possible. The legacy carriers couldn't compete, so the big four changed. No doubt, customers used to paying competition-lowered fares are bothered by the recent rise in prices, but they must pay the real cost of flying, Jacobs says.
It seems to be paying off. The airline industry posted record profits of $19.7 billion in 2014, up 50 percent from the year before, according to the Economist. The companies' biggest cost is jet fuel, and they operate on a fairly small margin, so much of their success depends on year-to-year fluctuations in oil prices.
But airlines are getting a lot more than just rising fares. It's now essential, everyone agrees, to offer a minimum revenue guarantee for an airline to even consider new service to an area.
Small planes aren't profitable like the big jets that fly out of San Francisco and New York, Jacobs says. Airline companies operate on small margins and an economy of scale. One industry association estimates that airlines profit about $6 per passenger, per flight. So when airlines offer regional service, like out of ACV, they're most often trying to get those people onto a connecting flight, where the profit margins are higher.
"They're not subsidized to have empty seats," Jacobs says. "They want a body in that seat that's connecting onto somewhere else."
A minimum revenue guarantee, or MRG, "ensures the airline that there's a huge commitment in making [a new route] successful," she says.
Gregg Foster, a banker who's worked on securing airline service since his time as the Redwood Region Economic Development Commission in the mid 2000s, said American Airlines came knocking in 2012. Foster (who's now married to Jacobs) had been flown to a meeting with the company in Tampa. "They were ready to sign a contract," Foster saiys, but it was too soon. The company wanted a $2 million revenue guarantee. "There just wasn't community commitment at the time. American felt burned. They tipped their hand to their competitors. We would have had twice-daily jet service to L.A. in fall 2012 or winter 2013."
That's when Fly Humboldt took off. The organization of public and private partners saw a need to have cash ready so ACV wouldn't get turned down again if an airline felt the timing was right.
The group began fundraising and putting money into a Humboldt Area Foundation-managed bank account. The group raised enough to earn a matching $125,000 Headwaters Fund grant, but donations had stalled again by 2014. Headwaters offered an additional $125,000 grant and Virginia Bass got involved late last year. "We started — I don't want to say pressuring — we started reaching out to people," Bass says.
In January, Fly Humboldt announced it had reached its $1 million goal. Many donations were under $1,000, but, in addition to the headwaters grants, notable donations included $320,000 from the Humboldt County Convention and Visitors Bureau, $80,000 from the city of Arcata, $80,000 from the Humboldt Lodging Alliance, $15,000 from Humboldt State University and $10,000 from Murphy's Markets.
People felt burned when Delta left, Bass says, "The agreement wasn't negotiated where it protected the county enough."
Jacobs says the county learned from a couple of problems with the Delta contract. With future contracts, the county will seek to reconcile its minimum revenue guarantee on a monthly or quarterly basis, rather than at the very end of a contract, "so you can tell how fast you're going through that money," Jacobs says.
More frequent reconciliations give the county a little more negotiating power over fare prices. Delta's flights to Salt Lake City were pretty full, she says, but the airline wasn't meeting its revenue goals because fares to East Coast destinations were low — around $300.
"The other thing is ancillary costs," Jacobs says — baggage fees, on board meals and other items the airline charges passengers. "Those were not included in the revenue for those flights. Had that been included we would've been less likely to pay that money."
Bass has confidence in Jacobs to negotiate a beneficial contract. "It's not just a blank check when we structure it right," she says.
Foster says American is "talking to us again," but says it's an example of how cautious airlines are about community perception, press and their competitors.
Jacobs says it's hard for her to return from meetings with airlines and stay tight-lipped. She won't talk about the specifics of any current contract negotiations — including which airlines she's talking with. Neither will Bass, except to say she was feeling "jazzed" after the last conference.
But even though the county has money to offer airlines, a minimum revenue guarantee is no service guarantee. Pretty much every community serious about adding service has a million dollars to offer now, Jacobs says. That's in addition to Humboldt's policy of waiving terminal rent and landing fees for two years to incoming airlines.
"Unfortunately, our history is that we haven't treated our airlines very well," Foster says. "Generally, small airports need airlines more than they need us. Treat them well with basic customer service and they appreciate it. In a time [of] lots of pressure on margins, don't start raising fees. We'll make money on parking, ancillary fees."
With a deficit in the Aviation Division projected to reach nearly $1 million by the end of the 2014-2015 fiscal year, can the county really afford to waive fees to entice airlines?
In 2004, the division's operating costs were fully covered by revenue. But by the 2012-2013 fiscal year, Public Works was bemoaning dwindling returns. "As a result of Delta Airlines ceasing air service from the Arcata-Eureka Airport in 2011, enplanements have decreased by 10 percent, thereby decreasing landing fees, parking and rental car revenues," a budget proposal read. Homeland Security funding to assist a sheriff's deputy position at the airport also declined.
Currently, six Aviation Division positions (including that of the airport manager) are frozen in an attempt to manage the budget. In an email, Public Works Director Tom Mattson wrote, "The operational budget has been hit hard by three main items starting with the loss of Delta flights to Salt Lake City then the loss of Horizon flights to Los Angeles and most recently the reduction in fuel sales to the Coast Guard as they have constructed their own fuel tank. ... We have trimmed the expenses to minimal levels."
Public works suggests that additional air service will balance the budget, but the Aviation Department is still operating at a large deficit. Mattson says the loss of a secondary airline has cost the county $250,000 per year — but that's only a quarter of the deficit projected for the end of this fiscal year.
"The simplest answer is to bring in other destinations," says Bass. But asked if additional destinations would make enough revenue to cover the deficit, she says, "I hesitate to make a guess."
United service brings in about $252,000 per year to the Aviation Division. The revenue from additional service would fluctuate depending on the size of planes and the frequency of flights, but Mattson says a quarter-million in additional revenue is a good benchmark.
That won't be an immediate injection of cash due to two-year fee waivers offered to attract airlines, but Mattson says more routes would increase parking and rental car income, as well.
Still, the division, which began this fiscal year with a $525,000 deficit, is projecting a further loss of $428,000. Some of that, according to a budget report, is due to a one-time, $145,000 tree trimming project to bring ACV into FAA compliance. That leaves the yearly deficit at around $283,000 — greater than the amount the Aviation Division anticipates gaining in additional airline revenue. The Aviation Division's enterprise fund is projected to have an ongoing annual structural deficit of more than $700,000 for the next five years.
The division is borrowing from trust funds it manages to cover costs, but anticipates seeking a loan from the county's general fund as the gap continues to widen.
"We are working to try to keep the deficit from growing, but it will grow this year," Mattson wrote in an email. "In addition to recruiting for additional air service, we are looking at trying to increase revenue from our land base by leasing additional properties and looking hard at our unreimbursed mandated security costs and how those can be reduced."
If the airport's revenues don't increase, Humboldt County taxpayers will be spending a lot of money to subsidize air service. Donations for an MRG are costs that the businesses who donated to Fly Humboldt may see returned in the form of more convenient air travel and competitive fares. But what about the average Humboldt County resident?
That's an area that's sorely lacking in hard data. While the Aviation Division gladly shows records of how many people board and disembark from planes at ACV, it's unclear how many of those people are repeat flyers, how many are county residents, and what their ages, incomes and reasons for flying are.
Did nearly 40 percent of Humboldt County's population fly out of ACV last year? Or were the more than 50,000 passengers frequent flyers? It's unclear.
"There were a lot of opportunities for research we didn't take advantage of," Bass says, when asked about the demographics of Humboldt County residents who use the airport regularly.
The Humboldt County Convention and Visitors Bureau — the largest donor to Fly Humboldt's MRG fund — did not return calls seeking comment before deadline.
It's unclear how long it will take to secure additional air service — if an airline company succumbs to Humboldt's lures at all. Most people agree L.A. is a preferred destination, but those involved in negotiations with airlines won't talk specifics.
As for the Aviation Division, Bass says there's talk about restructuring as a means of ending the deficit, though it's unclear exactly how that would help. She's trying to get more information on how other communities operate their airports.
One idea is handing operations over to a new special district, like the harbor district. That could fund airline subsidies and airport operations through voter-approved property assessments, for example — putting the brunt of public flying costs onto those more likely to utilize the service.
And while most of the energy is being spent on the airline industry's big four, Bass and Jacobs are not discounting other ways to add more destinations, like chartering planes or looking to small airline startups.
They'll continue to sell Humboldt's advantages to airline companies. They've learned from previous mistakes, they say, and have the basic funding they need to seduce airlines.
If a route's successful, Fly Humboldt won't have to touch its pledged $1 million revenue guarantee. That money can be put toward more destinations, marketing the airport to tourists, or encouraging travel by subsidizing low-cost flights in the off-season.
There's a conference in Seattle this June. Bass hopes she'll be invited along for another speed-dating session. Fly Humboldt's successful fundraising left her enthusiastic, but she's anxious to stop the Aviation Division's budgetary bleeding, to ink a deal with an airline and to announce a victory.
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Right to Life launches babysitting service for parenting graduate students
Kara Miecznikowski | Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Notre Dame's Right to Life Club now sponsors a free daycare service for the University's parenting graduate students. Once a week, graduate students with children are able to take a break from parenting and use this valuable time to study, work, run errands or purely have some time to themselves. Meanwhile, trained students from their own community will care for their children — and it's completely free.
Courtesy of Sarah Drumm
Junior and member of Right to Life Grace Enright, right, is one of the students involved with the new childcare service that Right to Life launched to benefit parenting graduate students, in which trained members of the Notre Dame community offer babysitting services once a week.
This option aims to alleviate the burden of parents who are pursuing graduate studies, the Right to Life Club's babysitting commissioner and sophomore Lorenzo Beer said.
"Raising a child is hard enough," Lorenzo Beer said. "Raising a child while being a graduate student requires superpowers."
This babysitting service is currently in its third week of operation, Beer said. He said he played an integral role in the development of this project, as he believes in its mission.
"I personally have been working constantly over the last year with administration and the University to meet the standards and requirements to get this program approved," he said.
Students must undergo a background check and attend a child care training session before volunteering, Beer said, which informs participants of the logistics of the program, reviews safety concerns and provides childcare instructions. Over 80 students have expressed interest in volunteering, and around 30 have been trained to do so, he said.
"Last week, the service provided daycare for about 11 children, coming from five different families," he said. "We can't wait to see this number grow in the near future as we reach out to graduate students on campus to let them know of our service."
The Right to Life Club created the Child Care Service to support those who choose life, not only for the unborn, but also for the suffering, Beer said.
"The Right to Life's mission is to promote and uphold the sanctity of all human life from conception until natural death through prayer, service and education," he said. "The Child Care Service is a direct, concrete action of the Right to Life Club to showcase the love the pro-life movement has for those who choose life."
The pro-life movement is often criticized for having "tunnel vision" on the abortion debate by disregarding the support that women need post-birth, Beer said. The Right to Life Club wants to refute these criticisms and show the universality of what it means to be pro-life, from conception until natural death, he said.
"[The] club realizes and understands the difficulty of choosing life, but we know it is the greatest gift of humanity," he said. "For that reason, we want to serve those who choose life, and what better way to do so than helping those right here on campus in our community."
Right to Life president Sarah Drumm said this service align's with the club's fundamental mission.
"We strive to recognize, promote, and celebrate the dignity of all human life, especially the most vulnerable," she said. "Parenting students are in a particularly difficult situation – it's a hard job. I can't imagine raising a child on top of all of the academic and extracurricular work I have to do as a student."
Drumm said she hopes parenting graduate students take advantage of this service.
"We recognize that our once-a-week child care service isn't going to dramatically improve the lives of parenting students," she said. "However, we do hope that the little we do somehow can make their workload a little lighter and their jobs as parents a little easier, at least for a few hours a week."
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Rams' Rookie Grades
January 2, 2013 · by Nater Lucas · in NFL, Sports, St. Louis Rams. ·
Andrew Luck and RG III are playoff bound, while Sam Bradford is not.
At the time, I wrote the Rams should pick RG III, but hindsight is 20/20 and who knows where the Rams would be if that scenario took place. It didn't so let's focus on the 2012 Rams rookie class.
Michael Brockers A-
Brockers finished his rookie season with 31 tackles (20 solo) and four sacks in 13 games.
Brockers was everything the Rams hoped he'd be along the defensive front line. His performance was even more impressive considering he was slowed by a high ankle sprain through the first three games and said he never quite felt 100 percent all year. Brockers has the potential to become one of the top defensive tackles in the league and should help anchor the club's defensive front for years to come.
Brian Quick C
Though the low-grade, Quick is not a huge concern. He has all the intangibles, but the jump from Appalachian State into the NFL was a big leap. Quick has pure, raw talent. He never learned an extensive playbook in college, and it became an overwhelming year one for him.
Quick finished his rookie season catching just 11 passes for 156 yards and two touchdowns, but his grab against Minnesota quickly reassured every one of his potential.
Janoris Jenkins A-
Jenk played almost every snap (aside from SF/suspended) in 2012. He immediately brought a big-play threat, scoring four defensive touchdowns.
His off-field issues only got the best of him once, but the off-season will test his character. Janoris is not a bad guy by any means. The defensive unit developed a strong camaraderie with Jenk during the year, and Cortland Finnegan plays a huge role in his development into the NFL.
Jenkins has a ways to go in pass coverage. His occasional lapses cost the Rams dearly. Jenkins has a -11.4 score in pass coverage from Pro Football Focus. Opposing quarterbacks are completing 61.5 percent of their passes against him, and he's been scored on five times.
Most of his problems stem from biting on fakes and double moves.
Isaiah Pead D+
Pead's rookie campaign was a challenge. 7th round pick Daryl Richardson ran laps around Pead's progress, and he was lost in the running back shuffle.
Pead needs to have a strong offseason and prove his second-round worth. He showed flashes in Week 17 against Seattle that were impressive, and had some nice garbage time runs against New England in London.
Unfortunately, his season will be remembered as the guy who fumbled a kickoff return against San Francisco which Frank Gore turned into a go-ahead 20-yard TD run on the very next play.
Trumaine Johnson C+
The 3rd round pick out of Montana is an exciting player. Johnson has good coverage skills, and he got better the more he played outside. Johnson finished with 2 interceptions and 8 passes defended against, but he had about five dropped interceptions.
Some project Johnson as a safety, but Jeff Fisher shot that down.
Chris Givens B+
Givens established himself as a legitimate deep target for Sam Bradford. He had a five-week span where he caught a pass over 50-yards.
Givens finished with a team-high 698 yards receiving on 42 receptions with three touchdowns.
Givens developed his underneath game as the season went on.
Rokevious Watkins NO GRADE
Rok opened the season as the starting left guard before a season-ending ankle injury.
Greg Zuerlein B
Zuerlein was the team MVP early on, connecting on his first 15 kicks before enduring a rough game in Miami. Legatron earned his nickname for his big leg, but missed a few clutch kicks.
His worst kick came on a 57-yard try, which would be hard to fault a guy for if he hadn't proclaimed he once hit a 74-yard field goal.
Here were Zuerlein's misses in 2012: 66, 58, 58, 57, 52, 50, 37, 35.
Draw your own conclusions.
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Richardson slowed down with just 24 yards rushing over the final five weeks, but he did catch eight passes for 44 yards.
He had long runs of 53, 44, 32, and 20 yards in 2012.
While he probably isn't durable enough to handle a full load, his versatility and speed make him a dangerous weapon.
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On December 2, 2015, a pack of pit bulls attacked a mother and her four-year-old son as they were walking to a school near their home on the west side of Detroit. The four-year-old boy, Xavier Strickland, was rushed to the hospital, but he did not survive. Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged the owner of the dogs with murder for his connection to the incident.
The four pit bulls were owned by Geneke Lyons and were known to be vicious animals as other neighbours had previously complained about them. On the day of the attack, Lucille and Xavier Strickland were walking on the side of the road opposite from Lyons' property specifically because the family has had problems with the dogs' behavior in the past. The pit bulls escaped from the yard, crossed the street, and began attacking the family. Though Lucille tried to shield Xavier, the dogs managed to drag her son away from her and pulled him under the fence. Neighbors heard Lucille's screams and rushed to her assistance, but mace, clubs, and bricks, could not free the child from the dogs. Police officers quickly arrived and shot three of the dogs, but sadly, it was too late to save Xavier.
Many neighborhoods in Detroit have dealt with vicious dog attacks in the past, so people are glad to see that the government is taking the issue so seriously. The Strickland family has also expressed their satisfaction after learning that Lyons had been charged with murder. Though Xavier's family knows that nothing can bring him back, they are grateful that justice will be served.
In addition to the criminal charges, the Stricklands have filed lawsuits against both Lyons and Lyons' limited licence corporation, which owns the property the dogs were on. Not only was Xavier killed, but Lucille suffered permanent injuries while trying to protect her son during the attack.


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Crunchyroll Announces 8 New "Crunchyroll Originals" Anime Series Including Tower of God, The God Of High School and Many More
Admir Zekjiri
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Crunchyroll keeps on being one of the debut websites for streaming anime, and has now declared that it will be releasing 7 new anime series to its library named "Crunchyroll Originals". While the series of In/Spectre is as of now airing on Crunchyroll, it is as yet considering to fall under this class of arrangement.
These arrangements will release this year, with the exception of In/Spectre which is as of now on the streaming service, promising an overabundance of new anime that will be added to Crunchyroll.
The up and coming anime series will include:
1. The God Of High School: "This action-packed series follows a high schooler and his friends as they compete in an epic tournament, borrowing power directly from the gods and uncovering a mysterious organization along the way… With the promise of their heart's deepest desires, motivating their tournament victory."
2. High Guardian Spice: "Four fierce girls train to become great heroes at High Guardian Academy, where they form allegiances, uncover betrayals, and discover their true identities while preparing to protect the world from an ominous unknown threat"
3. FreakAngels: "After civilization comes to a sudden and crashing end, twelve 23-year-old psychics living in the rubble of London must check their wild impulses and discover their better angels in order to rebuild society."
4. Meiji Gekken: Sword & Gun: "The anime series follows an ensemble of characters a former samurai, a yakuza bodyguard, a devious spy, and a geisha assassin – as they try to find their place in the rapidly evolving Meiji-era while escaping the sins of their pasts."
5. Onyx Equinox: "A young Aztec boy is saved from death by the gods and chosen to act as 'humanity's champion,' forced to discard his apathy toward his fellow man and prove humanity's potential in a fight that spans across fantastical-yet-authentic Mesoamerican cultures."
6. Noblesse: Awakening: "This fantasy follows a powerful vampire noble who is thrown into modern civilization after 820 years of slumber. Dangerous adventures with his new friends await as they combat a secret organization and uncover his past."
7. Tower of God: "Reach the top, and everything will be yours. At the top of the tower exists everything in this world, and all of it can be yours. You can become a god. This is the story of the beginning and the end of Rachel, the girl who climbed the tower so she could see the stars, and Bam, the boy who needed nothing but her."
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SSE delivers a proper sound bite at Wilderness Festival
Nick Lythgoe, for SSE Audio Group, got the festival bug at Wilderness – in more ways than one
By Dave Robinson
The ideal time to do your technical festival interview is late morning/early afternoon on the second or third day. The punters are still in their tents and the crew are anything but tense: the grind of getting in and setting up a memory from a few days previously, and all that needs to happen is the engineers to turn up on time, and the weather to stay fine.
Unfortunately, this wasn't the case with Wilderness Festival this summer; and despite PSNEurope's exceptional lunchtime vigilance in attempting to track down SSE Audio's systems tech Nick Lythgoe – twice – it wasn't until several days afterwards that we spoke.
"I spent those two mornings in A&E with a swollen arm!" he explains. "I suffered some form of infection from a suspected insect bite, is what they think…"
A distinctly boutique, civilised and (whisper it) middle-class affair, Wilderness offers talks, arts and crafts and fine dining alongside the music, which itself is restricted to one main stage and a handful of smaller tents and performance spaces.
In spite of being savaged by an unseen miniscule malevolence, Lythgoe's stint at the Cornbury Park Estate in Oxfordshire was nothing out of the ordinary, even though it was his first time working there.
Lythgoe (pictured): "We were using one half of a flip-flop system – that size of festival didn't warrant having the full flip-flop system." Just the 'flip' half, one would hope. Definitely not the 'flop' – though, Björk's headline performance on the Friday night was a little slow and ultimately, disappointing to PSNEurope's eyes and ears. Dave Bracey, of course, did a fine job of mixing the Icelandic innovator, on his own DiGiCo SD9; other guests desks at the Wilderness main stage mix position included an SD7 (for Ben Howard) and an Avid S3L.
"A lot of the bands at Wilderness aren't at the level where they bring their own desk," says Lythgoe, "so I mix them on the Avid Profile. It's SSE's standard festival desk."
How does he get on with it? "I love it. Everyone knows it, everyone's got a [show] file for it. If visiting engineers haven't got a file, it's very easy to get around it and write one. It's compact, and you've got the flexibility of the plug-ins – because we don't take an outboard rack to festivals."
Lythgoe, a long-time tech on the dustbin-clanging Stomp! tour and a regular name on SSE's roster, helped design the PA too. This time it's 10 boxes of L-Acoustics K1 per side, with three KSUBs at the top of the array, and four KARA underneath (pictured). Three lots of two KARA stacked serve as frontfill, with a pair of KARA as outfill per side (looking distinctly lonely). Nine stacked SB28 subs per side provide the grunt.
SSE's standard 'festival system' has evolved with the times: AES outputs from the Profile run to the drive racks (two Lake LM44 and an LM26); processed audio is transferred to an optical Dante network running down to the stage; that's picked up by two more Lake processors (26 and 44), and then distributed to the L-Acoustics amplifiers via AES. "It's a complete digital path all the way to the amps, where it becomes analogue again," explains Lythgoe. "The whole thing is protected with an analogue redundant back up."
And of course, wheeled in for the show is the 'Shout' system (of which SSE Audio MD John Penn is particularly proud, it should be noted).
"Our 'Shout' system is fully digital; it sits on the Dante network as well. We have a Yamaha LS9 16-channel at FOH and a 32-channel on stage. Not only does our 'Shout' feed us presenter mics, changeover DJs, anything we might need to put into the PA while we're using the house desks – emergency mics, evac mics – but it's also the [inter]comms so we can talk to each other while we're setting up, from the mix position to the patch guys on stage who are all on [Clear-Com] Tempest sets. So did anything unexpected at all crop up during that balmy August weekend? Other than the hospital visit, of course…
"Not really. The weird act was the aerial show on the cranes after Björk on Friday night. Even while we were doing it we weren't quite sure what was going on! We had an opera singer dangling from a crane wearing a DPA mic, singing away… you're never sure what's going to happen when you have a mic right in front of the PA…"
While Wilderness fell fairly late in the festival calendar, Lythgoe still had enough to keep him occupied for the few weeks following, prepping a system for the celebrated Cropredy folk beano and then the somewhat more sedate Shrewsbury Festival. And alongside his Leatherman and torch, you can be sure he'd be packing the repellent and the Anthisan.
The secret of the silent changeover
Changeovers between acts at festivals tend to be fairly quiet these days – no persistent snare thwacking or 'One, two, one, two'-ing. SPOILER ALERT! Lythgoe shines a light on the magic…
"Behind the screen at the back we have the next act set up, and as we roll them around we plug them all in. There's no soundcheck as such; we do a line-check on headphones so we know all the [outputs] are working. Nobody wants to sit listening to a drum kit; it's not a good audience experience.
Also, the music playlist between acts is not just a random list, it's a proper DJ set programmed by the organiser, and they were very specific and didn't want it disturbing.
"So what I do is mix together on headphones and then as a bit of a reference point, I will hear a kick drum or lead vocal through the PA, just a quick 'one, two' or a single kick. That gives you a starting point. I know the PA so well, and I mixed a lot of the bands myself, so I know what sort of level I need.
"An experienced engineer will always ease into a mix rather than coming out hell for leather and then start pulling faders down.
"By the second number you should be somewhere close."
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March 8, 2011 — Topricin Pain Relief and Healing Cream, made by Topical BioMedics Inc., has been awarded a patent as a topical treatment of neuropathy. An FDA-regulated homeopathic biomedicine, Topricin was introduced by the company in 1994 and is now a leading natural therapeutic brand, which also received a patent for the treatment of pain associated with fibromyalgia in spring 2010.
It is estimated that more than 20 million Americans suffer from neuropathy, which can be debilitating and greatly impact their quality of life. It can occur at any age, but is more common in older adults, and nearly 60 percent of all diabetic patients experience a form of neuropathy.
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Other symptoms include extreme sensitivity to touch, lack of coordination, muscle weakness or paralysis, and bowel or bladder problems. Sleep disturbance is also a significant issue for those suffering with neuropathic pain, which often leads to an increase in anxiety and depression.
There are different causes of neuropathy. Approximately 30 percent of neuropathies are "idiopathic," or of an unknown cause and another 30 percent stems from diabetes. Neuropathy can also result from such problems as traumatic injuries, autoimmune disorders, tumors, heredity, nutritional imbalances, metabolic problems, and exposure to toxins.
Drugs typically prescribed to treat neuropathy can produce serious side effects while introducing additional toxins into the body, adversely impacting the pain sufferer's quality of life. Side effects of these common drugs include: swelling of the face, lips, and tongue; breathing problems; difficulty walking or controlling muscle movements; nausea; slurred speech; and tremors.
Neuropathic pain is often a misfiring of nerve impulses caused by toxins and inflammation around the nerve tissue and surrounding micro-capillary, depriving the nerve of the oxygen it needs to function properly. Without oxygen, cells are destroyed. For healing to take place, the tissue needs to be detoxified and normal blood flow restored.
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Rep. Zinke: Iran's Influence in Iraq 'Problematic,' Will Lead to 'Horrific Scenario'
Edwin Mora
6 Mar 2015 Washington, DC
WASHINGTON, DC — Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), former commander of U.S. special forces in Iraq, sounded the alarm on the growing Iranian influence in Iraq, warning that it is "problematic" and will eventually lead to a "horrific scenario."
Breitbart News interviewed Zinke, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, about Iran backing Shiite militias in their fight against the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) in Iraq.
"It should be no surprise," Rep. Zinke, who led a special force of more than 3,500 during the Iraq war, told Breitbart News. "The Obama administration continues to believe that it can provide assistance through the centralized Iraqi government, which is Shiite and has a very close relationship with Iran."
"It's problematic because you have an Iranian influence versus an ISIS influence and both of them are leading to the same destination of a horrific scenario," continued Congress' only Navy SEAL veteran.
Iran and the Shiite militias it supports are reportedly leading the fight to retake Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's birthplace, from ISIS. This poses a military and political dilemma for the Obama administration, which has been under criticism from Republican and Democrat lawmakers over negotiations to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told lawmakers this week that the involvement of Iranian-backed Shiite militias in the battle for Tikrit could be a "positive thing" as long as it does not enflame sectarian tensions.
Reacting to Gen. Dempsey's comments, Rep. Zinke told Breitbart News that Iran will "definitely" exacerbate sectarian tensions.
"My view as a former deputy commander and [former] active commander of special forces in Iraq is that the Iranian influence has always been a destabilizing factor," he said. "In fact, we've lost a lot of American blood as a result of direct Iranian support to insurgents and make no mistake Iran is not our friend, and to support Iran is tantamount to supporting our enemy."
Rep. Zinke blasted the Obama administration for allowing Iran to take the lead of military efforts against ISIS in Iraq.
"You now have Iran in the lead, and where is this administration? We've said all along, that air operations alone are not going to be effective against ISIS," declared the congressman from Montana. "It will take a force structure by the U.S. that's embedded into the Kurds and Sunni tribes in coordination with the centralized government."
"What we'll continue to see is less things change under this administration, a lack of leadership, a lack of resolve, and that gives the signal to our enemies that we are not going to be there for our allies and that emboldens our enemies," he also said, later adding, "What we're looking at is a destabilization of the Middle East caused and fueled by this administration's lack of resolve and leadership."
Rep. Zinke pointed out that Iran is taking advantage of the Obama administration's lack of leadership and resolve in the Middle East.
"They're looking at this strategically. They understand that a stronger influence already with a Shiite centralized government [in Iraq] is in the best interest of Iran and, make no mistake, the ISIS long term play is a Sunni nation," he explained. "I believe the Iranian play, longer term, is greater Iranian influence in that region and both of them are not in the best interest of the United States or our allies."
"Iran sees that under this administration, we're not going to get serious about it, so they're filling a vacuum and gaining more and more influence in Iraq," added Zinke.
Zinke joined other Republican lawmakers in sounding the alarm on Iran's growing influence in Iraq.
Gen. Dempsey told lawmakers that Shiite militias backed by Iran make up an estimated two-thirds of the 30,000-strong offensive to retake Tikrit, adding that Iran is also providing artillery and other supplies.
Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, a notorious Iranian commander, is leading the Iraqi offensive to seize back Tikrit from ISIS, reports Newsweek. Soleimani once led the elite Quds Force, the special operations arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IGRC).
Gen. Soleimani is considered "a reviled figure in American security and military circles" because he once directed a deadly campaign against U.S. troops in Iraq, notes The New York Times.
Zinke said that the U.S. should ensure the support and logistics it provides to Iraq goes directly to the Kurds.
The Montana lawmaker also told Breitbart News that the Obama administration blew multiple opportunities to diminish the growing Iranian influence in the region.
"We need to isolate and push aside the evil part of Islam which is ISIS and I believe also Iran," he said.
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The intensive computation of Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) due to its inherent multilevel data decomposition and reconstruction operations brings a bottleneck that drastically reduces its performance and implementations for real-time applications when facing large size digital images and/or high-definition videos. Although various software-based acceleration solutions, such as the lifting scheme, have been devised and achieved a higher performance in general, the pure software accelerated DWT still struggle to cope with the demands from real-time and interactive pplications. With the growing capacity and popularity of graphics hardware, personal computers (PCs) nowadays are often equipped with programmable Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for graphics acceleration. The GPU offers a cost-effective parallel data processing mechanism for operations on large amount of data, even for applications beyond graphics. This practice is commonly referred as General-purpose Computing on GPU (GPGPU). This project presented a GPGPU framework with the corresponding parallel computing solution for waveletbased image denoising by using off-the-shelf consumer-grade pogrammable GPUs. This framework can be readily incorporated with different forms of DWT by customising the parameter of the wavelet kernel. Experiment results show that the framework gains applicability in data parallelism and satisfaction performance in accelerating computations for wavelet-based denoising.


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RadioBDC Ranked: Beck
BDCWire	 3 PM 02.12.2015
So Beck won some Grammys. I wrote about how he's in a different class than Beyoncé, and that got me thinking about Beck's catalog and legacy. So here's a ranking of Beck Hanson's twelve studio albums. I did this for the Black Keys, too. You can read that here.
12. Golden Feelings (1993)
Beck's earliest, rarest, and most experimental release provides a snapshot of the artist in his nascency. It also sounds pretty messed up at times.
11. Mutations (1998)
"Tropicalia" is the standout on a decent album whose release had the misfortune of falling between two of Beck's most popular recordings.
10. Modern Guilt (2008)
Beck's final album for Interscope has that "last-album-then-my-contract-is-fulfilled" feel. It's a lean eleven tracks that clocks in at thirty-three minutes.
9. Stereopathic Soulmanure (1994)
When you release three albums in the span of a year, they can't all be (mellow) gold. 'Stereopathic Soulmanure' feels less an album and more a collection of b-sides and outtakes, because that's pretty much what it is.
8. The Information (2008)
The majority of material on 'The Information' was recorded while Beck was in studio working on 'Guero,' so the two albums are kissing cousins of sorts. The singles "Think I'm In Love" and "Nausea" anchor this middle-of-the-pack release.
7. Midnight Vultures (1999)
Purists love this album, and for good reason: it continues the genre-bending experimentalism of Beck's early lo-fi releases, but with much better production. And it features fan-favorite "Debra."
6. One Foot In The Grave (1994)
Recorded before but released after his breakthrough 'Mellow Gold,' 'One Foot In The Grave' pushed Beck's folk leanings to the forefront. This was the album that, when "Loser" became too mainstream, Beck's early, cred-conscious supporters flocked to.
5. Guero (2005)
This is my favorite Beck release. It was a return to form of sorts after the departure marked by its predecessor 'Sea Change,' and it's a very well-balanced, well-sequenced album.
4. Morning Phase (2014)
This won the Album of the Year Grammy for good reason: the writing is heartfelt, the arrangements are rich, and it does an excellent job of showing the sensitive side Beck explored on 'Sea Change' as well as showcasing his ever-evolving sound. Sorry, Kanye.
3. Mellow Gold (1994)
Yes, "Loser." Of course. But "Beercan," too. And "Pay No Mind (Snoozer)," "Fuckin with My Head," "Soulsuckin Jerk"…the track list goes on and on. Beck's major-label debut was and is iconic and a classic.
2. Sea Change (2002)
After a decade of slacking off, folking up, and genre-dipping, Beck suddenly came of age and created a heartbreakingly beautiful work of art that took many fans by surprise, but impressed nonetheless.
1. Odelay (1996)
A near-perfect blend of all that makes Beck Hanson, well, "Beck." In other words, the one album you'd recommend if a friend said: "I'd like to get into Beck. Where should I start?"
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Sostene Munyurabatware (born 1947, died 15 May, 1994) was a Rwandan man who saved a number of Tutsis from being killed by Hutu militias during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Trusted in his area, he helped several Tutsis cross the border to the Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was killed while returning from the DRC where Interahamwe led by a cell leader called Harindintwali Jean had killed him and his cousin Leopold Munyakayanza. In 2016, he was one of the 17 Rwandese selected at national level who were recognized for their deeds of humanity during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.

Early life
Sostene was born to Land-owner Ngirumpatse and mother Malita Kangeyo.  Sostene was born on the shores of the lake like his cousin Leopold Munyakayanza. They were both known to be trusted in their area and they were close friends in the way that they always discussed before doing something. It was also known that Sostene had a prayer room in his home and was a devoted Christian.

1994 genocide
During the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, he had a boat in Lake Kivu. Many Tutsi went to him in search of help to cross to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He first took his two Tutsi women and some of his neighbours among others Gatete and Forodo. It is reported that Sostène and his younger cousin Leopold Munyakayanza helped many people to cross because on the second time Sostène took 52 people while Leopold took 47.One day, when he was coming back from DRC, Interahamwe led by a cell leader called Harindintwali Jean arrested him at the lake and took him to Mirambi Centre and beat him until he became unconscious. They buried him alive in a nearby pit. He was killed with his cousin, it was said to have been on the 15th of May 1994. They were exhumed and buried in dignity in a genocide memorial site.

His wife Belia passed away while returning from Zaire.

Leopold Munyakaynza
Born in 1952 to father Nsekanabo and mother Nyiramondo, Munyakayanza Léopopld used to go to buy things in DRC on boat before 1994. During the genocide he helped many Tutsi cross the lake to DRC. Like Sostène, Leopold also was victim of his humanitarian deeds when he was trying to save some Tutsis during the Genocide. He took them to Idjwi island in his boat.

Since the beginning of the Liberation War in 1990, the Tutsis sought refuge to Leopold Munyakayanza or his cousin Munyurabatware Sostène whenever they were attacked. When the genocide broke out in 1994, many Tutsi sought refuge in their families. Together, they planned how they could save the people pursued by the interahamwe. Some Tutsi heard that they were taking people to Idjwi island and many Tutsi from Rutsiro District and Karongi District went to them. When they were helping them to cross, the interahamwe broke their boat and they used the boat of another person and helped other Tutsis to cross. They saved many lives and they are praised for it. Leopold was killed at the fourth crossing and he was killed with his cousin Sostène who was coming back from Idjwi to drop the refugees. They were killed at Mirambi Centre and buried alive.

Leopold married Annonciata Nyinawankusi, they had 6 children.

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The House with a Clock in its Walls Starring Cate Blanchett
Movie Casting Call for Extras
Two-time Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett has teamed up with Jack Black for the new movie "The House with a Clock on its Walls". Filming is underway and the production team has put out another casting call in 2017. Producers are searching for adult models and actors for an Elementary School scene! Because the kids for this shoot have already been chosen, parents of selected children cannot work the scene. Filming will be in Atlanta, Georgia on November 4th, 2017.. A fitting will be on October 31st or November 2nd. Men and women will be portraying teacher and parent types. Extras will be needed to shoot on Saturday, November 4th. Compensation is $64.00 for 8 hours. Check out "The House with a Clock on its Walls" movie casting call below!
About The House with a Clock in its Walls
"The House With a Clock in Its Walls," is an adaptation of the 1973 John Bellairs book illustrated by Edward Gorey. Eli Roth is directing. The novel tells the tale of a recently orphaned 10-year-old boy who discovers a world of hidden passageways, magic, and danger in his uncle's old house. [Variety]
Casting for Men and Women, ages 30 to 40 for our ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCENES
to be a few teachers and parents (we cannot use real parents of our booked kids)
The movie takes place in the 1950s, so there will be hair cuts for MEN. Women must have hair that can be rolled in rollers to be styled for the period as well
Ages 30 to 40 only
ALL ethnicities!
NEW FACES only!! No repeats!
Filming will be this Sat 11/4 in Decatur (ONLY). A fitting will be held on Tues 10/31
Pay rate – $64 for 8 hours with OT after that
Fittings will pay 1/4 check ($16)
To be considered email projects1@tscasting.com and use the subject line "Time for School"
Send in current and clear photos only. If you have a professional head shot, you MUST also send some candid photos of JUST YOU, in a neutral outfit. One from the waist up and one full length.
Then please List the following:
First and Last NAME of Parent (list one please)
Phone Number (S)
City & State (where you will be coming from!)
Men: Jacket/coat, Collar, Sleeve, Waist, Inseam, Shoe
Women: Dress, Bust/bra/cup, Waist, Shoe
Please note- we can NOT book real parents with their kids for this one. If your kids are booked, do NOT submit for this. Sorry!


Facilities The hotel comprises a total of 93 rooms. Services and facilities at the hotel include a restaurant, a dining area, room service, a conference room and a business centre. Those arriving in their own vehicles can leave them in the car park of the establishment. Rooms Each of the rooms is appointed with a fan and a bathroom. A safe and a desk are also available. Guests will also find a tea/coffee station included as standard. An ironing set is also available for travellers' convenience. Little extras, including internet access, a telephone, a TV, a radio, an alarm clock and WiFi, contribute to a great stay. Amenities in the bathrooms include a shower. A hairdryer is also available. The accommodation offers family rooms and non-smoking rooms.


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Уэтамо-де-Нуньес () — город и муниципалитет в Мексике, входит в штат Мичоакан. Население 41 человек.

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В 1553 году город основал Фрай Хуан Баутиста Мойя.

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Acquire the concept of "health promotion" and "health education".
Provide students with the necessary methodologies for planning, implementation and evaluation of health education and health promotion interventions.
• definition of advocacy, empowerment, equity.
• PRECEDE-PROCEED, stages of change, ecological approach, salutogenic approach, theory of social marketing.
• Identify problems and needs, define goals, define target population, identify resources, how to fill a project plan template.
Classroom attendance is highly recommended. Students must attend at least 70% of classes in order to take the exam.


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Breed is een organisatie die voor de gemeente Nijmegen en omstreken de Wet sociale werkvoorziening uitvoert.

Breed is behalve in Nijmegen werkzaam in de volgende gemeenten: Beuningen, Druten, Groesbeek, Heumen, Millingen a/d Rijn, Ubbergen, West Maas en Waal en Wijchen. De Wsw houdt in dat mensen met een lichamelijke, verstandelijke en/of psychische handicap, die (nog) niet in staat zijn te werken op de reguliere arbeidsmarkt, aangepast werk wordt aangeboden. De huidige rechtsvorm die Breed voert is een gemeenschappelijke regeling (GR). De GR is een vorm van samenwerking tussen verschillende gemeenten.

Vanaf 2015 zal dit veranderen in de wet participatie.

Werkwijze
Breed biedt aan ruim 2250 medewerkers werk. Daarmee is Breed een van de grootste werkgevers in de regio Nijmegen. De komende jaren verandert Breed van een productie- en dienstenbedrijf naar een bedrijf met als kernactiviteit arbeidsbemiddeling. De reorganisatie en transitie zijn eind 2011 opgestart en moeten eind 2013 grotendeels afgerond zijn. Het streven is vervolgens om in 2017 85% van de medewerkers gedetacheerd te hebben op de reguliere arbeidsmarkt. Dit kan aan de hand van individuele detachering, groepsdetachering of begeleid werken.

Geschiedenis
De Wet sociale werkvoorziening trad in 1967 in werking. Breed is in 1973 ontstaan toen er een aantal sociale werkplaatsen samengevoegd werden. Dit bedrijf werd toentertijd WNO genoemd (Werkvoorzieningschap Nijmegen & Omgeving). Op dat moment was er sprake van een aantal werkverbanden, te weten:
 Het Administratief Centrum
 De Werkplaats Valkenburg
 De Gemeentelijke Werkplaatsen te Wijchen
 De Stichting Centrale Werkplaats Maas & Waal te Druten
 De Buitenobjecten: Bloemkwekerij Brakkenstein & Boomkwekerij MaasWaalkanaal.

Deze werkverbanden waren toen nog op diverse locaties gehuisvest. Door de aankoop van het pand van de failliete Robinson fabrieken aan de Groesbeekseweg te Nijmegen werd een eerste aanzet gegeven tot centralisatie, het onderbrengen van de bedrijven in één pand. De toenmalige Minister van Sociale Zaken verrichtte op 7 november 1972 de officiële opening van het nieuwe bedrijfspand.

Vanwege de eisen die er werden gesteld aan de huisvesting werd het noodzakelijk om te verhuizen. Met de gemeente werd er onderhandeld over de aankoop van een nieuw terrein aan de Nieuwe Dukenburgseweg. Bouwplannen werden gemaakt en in 1984 werd het huidige gebouw aan de Boekweitweg in Nijmegen officieel geopend. In 2001 is het bedrijf omgedoopt tot Breed. 2013 staat in het teken van het 40-jarig bestaan van Breed.

Afdelingen
Breed heeft op dit moment naast de hoofdactiviteit arbeidsbemiddeling een vijftal zgn. leerwerkplekken:
 Documentconversie (het digitaliseren van archieven en documenten)
 Groenactiviteiten (groenvoorzieningen en bestratingen)
 Productie en Logistiek (in- en ompakken)
 Schoonmaakdiensten
 Postbezorging

Medewerkers van Breed werken ook op leerwerkplekken bij:
 Afac-Nijmegen: De Algemene Fiets Afhandel Centrale in Nijmegen. AFAC Nijmegen verwerkt de fietsen (wrakken en hinderlijk geplaatste fietsen) die op last van bureau Toezicht van de gemeente worden verwijderd.
 DeBesteEHBODoos: Breed verzorgt voor 300 verschillende bedrijven het onderhoud van de verbanddozen.
 Albron: Een cateringmanager van Albron geeft leiding aan de medewerkers in het bedrijfsrestaurant van Breed die zich zo kunnen ontwikkelen naar een baan in de catering.

Externe link
 Website van Breed

Arbeid
Sociale werkvoorziening


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Prof Simon Lloyd
Consultant ENT Surgeon
MBBS, BSc(Hons), MRCS, FRCS(ORL-HNS), MPhil
Cheshire, BMI The Alexandra Hospital
Royal College of Surgeons
ENT-UK
British Society of Otology
British Skull Base Society
British Cochlear Implant Group
European Academy of Otology and Neurotology
+ ENT surgery
Cholesteatoma surgery
Grommet insertion
Septoplasty and submucous resection
Septorhinoplasty with graft or implant
Sleep studies snoring clinic
Tonsillectomy adult
+ Paediatrics
Adenoidectomy for children
Tonsillectomy child
Professor Simon Lloyd studied Medicine at the Royal Free Hospital in London qualifying in 1996. He was trained in ear nose and throat surgery at several major teaching hospitals in London including the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Charing Cross Hospital.
He has undertaken super-specialist training in surgery of the ear and skull base at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge and has had visiting fellowships to the House Institute in Los Angeles and Gentofte Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been on the specialist register since 2005.
He is experienced in dealing with all aspects of adult and children's ear nose and throat problems but has a particular interest in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the ear in adults and children.
This includes middle ear disease, skull base disease particularly acoustic neuromas and hearing restoration including stapedectomy, ossiculoplasty and cochlear and brainstem implantation. He also has a special interest in disorders of balance and tinnitus.
Professor Lloyd is a Consultant ENT surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and Salford Royal Hospital. He is part of the Manchester Skull Base Team.
This is the largest unit in the UK dealing with problems around the base of skull, particularly acoustic neuromas. He is also part of the Manchester Auditory Implant Group that specializes in restoring hearing to profoundly deaf children and adults.
He works with a very experienced team of clinicians including neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, neurologists, speech therapists and audiologists and in doing so ensures that patients receive the highest quality of care.
Professor Lloyd has a first class BSc in Biochemistry from the University of London and a Master of Philosophy in Neuroscience from Cambridge University.
He is an honorary clinical professor of otolaryngology at the University of Manchester. His research interests include hearing and quality of life of patients with acoustic neuromas, developmental changes in the temporal bone and its relevance to cochlear implantation and predictors of growth in acoustic neuromas amongst others.
He is also heavily involved in undergraduate and postgraduate training. He is widely published in the medical literature in his areas of expertise as well as authoring a number of book chapters. He regularly lectures in his field both nationally and internationally.


Just in the past two days, you wouldn't realize how many ideas came into my mind of ways I wanted to, or could, expand my business. Tons of product ideas, GOOD ideas, tasks added to my to-do list… this all on top of my existing work load.
Being an entrepreneur is very challenging and can get overwhelming quick. You must manage your existing projects well so you can increase retention and build a committed following, but then you must also have a strong focus on product creation and expansion (not to mention just maintaining the work you've produced so far).
So how to you manage the overwhelm you feel when you're getting so many good ideas and you know you don't have time to execute them all?
Obvious? Maybe, but it really works! I have an ideas folder I keep close by which is full of good ideas (if I do say so myself). Entrepreneurs by nature are creative so expect those ideas to keep flooding in.
By writing all of your ideas down, you let the paper take the weight of the idea. You don't have to stress about if you will remember, or how to execute this idea, or when because you know the idea is written down in a safe place and will be happy to see you when you return to it – whether in a few days or a few years. Write it ALL down even if it's a tiny idea.
You wouldn't believe how many ideas of mine seem to be bundled into a recent big idea I had. It is all relevant and writing down your ideas can serve your greatly in the future.
When I get an idea for a product or service, the next thing I do is create an outline for it. For example, one of my ideas is to create a DIY Guest Blogging Package where a business owner could have everything they need to setup a well-oiled machine of guest bloggers on their site to increase traffic dramatically and gain lots more subscribers. There are tons of benefits to this program and it's a hot topic for 2012 and beyond.
Well, shoot, there's TONS of ways I could produce this product – enter overwhelm. Before I think about all the success I'll have, and ways to market, and the income it could generate, I stop. I know that the product is really all about the content I deliver so I create an outline of everything the product would need to be SUPER valuable for business owners who buy it. I am totally the type that wants to give away the farm to people who put their trust in me – I'll give you everything I know and how I do it so you have the best shot at success.
The outline for this DIY Guest Blogging Package included things like: Promotion page content (what needs to be said on the 'write for us' page on your website), what the exact process is when someone wants to be a guest blogger (they need to send in a sample article with their bio and photo, I review to make sure they follow any guidelines I've given, etc.), in this product I need to create 5 emails templates that the customer can use (a rejection letter, approval letter, general inquiry response letter, etc)… Point being, I write down everything I can think of that would need to be included to make this product a success.
Honestly, it is at this point that I decide if I am going to pursue this idea aggressively, or when I get around to it, or never. I look at my material and evaluate if there is a gap in the marketplace, if this would be valuable to someone, if this would really work for people, etc. Getting the details of my idea on paper in this way reduces the overwhelm for sure!
Obvious? Of course. But do you do it? gotcha. If I have an idea that I just can't stop thinking about and one that I really want to pursue… I have my outline and I know it's a 'must' to create… then it's time to make a plan to make it happen.
Now, this is where the overwhelm really starts to come flooding in because now you actually need to execute. The fun creation part is generally behind you and now you actually have to carve out time, while managing your other projects, and make sure that you don't NOT do this product idea like so many others that have since collected dust.
The truth is that YOU have a gift; YOU have a message. It is a complete waste of your talents if you don't do something with it.
So you make a plan by taking your outline and breaking it up into 5 parts, or whatever. You make a commitment to yourself to do one part each week for the next five weeks. Caution: Look at your list and decide what you think you could pull off, then trim that list down by 30% and that is actually what you'll be able to pull off.
A primary reason people can't follow-through with their ideas is that they put way too much pressure on themselves upfront, they can't deliver because they don't plan for the unexpected, then they put it off once ("I'll get to that next week") and then you don't come back to it, then you feel like a loser so you need time to recover, then before you know it, another 2-3 months rolls by until you feel the pressure that you need to create a product and motivate yourself to get serious about this next new idea. (Ew, too much accountability there?) I've been here, that's how I know this is true.
So you have your outline, you have your plan on how many weeks it'll take to get it done, hopefully you've exercised caution to not put too much pressure on yourself and you're ready to really make it happen this time. Now, you just need to make it happen.
There are a few ways that I "make it happen" which work really well for me. First, I tell someone I really look up to about the idea and plan. I know that if I tell someone I really respect that it will create accountability for me. I want to be known for someone who makes things happen and gives tons of value to others – I would not risk taking that away just because I found eighteen excuses of why I couldn't follow-through.
Next, I dive right in. I don't waste time (because I know that if I delay on anything for too long, the idea will be lost and the product won't be completed). I make damn sure I get that first week of to-do's done, no matter what. That gives me momentum and confidence to go into week two of my plan. No matter what, I get it done… no matter what!
All we need is a little momentum and confidence. A big part of the overwhelm again is putting too much pressure on ourselves to "make it perfect" or "add more to the plate." Once you have made the outline, made the plan, you just DO. Sure, you can add little creative twists here and there… but you do not deviate from the plan!
Entrepreneurs are creative minds – we can easily think for 350 cool ways to execute on something. Trust yourself and your original plan. You can always build more products as a spin-off of this one and try out one of your fancy ideas then. For now, stick to the plan and execute it. Every week you put this off is another week the world does not get your value, and another week you are not building your business, and another week you're not making the income you need to sustain the message. This is bigger than you – make it happen.
The best path to success as an entrepreneur is to keep creating. I don't mean create a dozen half-finished products. Create one product 100%, launch it, then immediately dive in and start creating your next product. Period – there is no other plan.
If you are serious, join me and make the pledge today.


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LONDON (Reuters) - China needs to learn lessons from Japan's lost decade to ensure the world's second-largest economy does not suffer similar problems, former central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan said on Tuesday.
China's gross domestic product last year expanded at its slowest pace since 1990, while corporate bond defaults hit a record high and banks' non-performing loan ratio notched a 10-year high.
Zhou, who was the central bank governor from 2002 to 2018, making him the longest serving in that post, said he hoped high levels of household savings could be funneled into supporting the development of the equity market, although China's gross savings rate would likely slip from around 45 percent of GDP to 40 percent or lower in the future.
China would continue its financial sector reform and further open its markets to foreign investors, enabled in part by the increasing internationalization of its currency, the yuan, he said.
"After so many years China is much more confident to have further reform and open-door policy," Zhou said. But he acknowledged the pace of some reforms had been too slow and further overhauls were needed to help develop capital markets and revamp the pension system.


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Q: I've written combination program in c++ but there is no output ,can any one tell why? This program print string combinations is without result, can anyone help me ?
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

void comb(char *inp)
{
    int i, j, k;
    int len = strlen(inp);

    for (i = 0; i < len - 2; i++)
    {
        for (j = i + 1; j < len - 1; j++)
        {
            for (k = j + 1; k < len; k++)
            {
                  printf("%c%c%c\n", inp[i], inp[j], inp[k]);
            }
        }
    }
}

//======================================================================
int main ()
{
    char *str;
    cout <<"enter your string\n";
    cin >> str;

    comb(str);
    return 0;
}

A: I would recommend to use std::string instead of char[] in this case. Otherwise, you will need to dynamically allocate your memory.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

void comb(std::string inp)
{
    int len = inp.size();
    for (int i = 0; i < len - 2; i++)
    {
        for (int j = i + 1; j < len - 1; j++)
        {
            for (int k = j + 1; k < len; k++)
                std::cout << inp[i] << inp[j] << inp[k] << std::endl;
        }
    }
}

int main ()
{
    std::string str;
    std::cout << "enter your string\n";
    std::cin >> str;
    comb(str);;
    return 0;
}

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Many moons ago, I got Aaron a little smoker to hang off the side of this bbq grill. Today he fired it up.
Pretty much all day, this chunk of pork smoked away on our side porch. The aroma was maddeningly delicious.
I hope there are more smoked food goods in my futures. Pssst. PRIME RIB.