When music was a physical item – a vinyl record, a tape or a CD – ownership could be verified and quality could be assured. In the last decade, music progressively morphed into little more than a file which can be easily shared and edited. Now, the vast and rapid technological advances being catalysed by three dimensional printing could see this phenomenon repeated for a much wider range of products.
The 3D printing industry is predicted to be worth over $8bn globally by 2020. Physical items, mass produced and bought in outlet stores, will become replicable and editable by anyone with knowledge of computer-aided drawing and access to a 3D printer.
Already, 3D printing technology is being used to manufacture a wide array of items – from auto parts and prototypes to human skin and organs. In a world where mass-manufacturing takes place on scales never seen before, 3D printing is starting to spell big changes for the way the world thinks about production. This inevitably means we will face new frontiers in global trade as well.
The technology underlying 3D printers has been around since the 1970s, but the devices have come into prominence only in recent years, as patent expiry and new innovation have led to drastic decreases in the price of the devices. To fully appreciate the way 3D printing might impact our lives, consider this: in under an hour, your $2,000 3D printer can turn a couple of metres of coiled plastic filament into anything from jewellery and artworks to gadgets and kitchen tools. By far the more significant applications of 3D printing are in industry. At that scale, the material can be plastic, wood, glass, metal and more. Industrial 3D printers can use as many as 10 materials at a time to make complex, multi-component objects relatively cheaply.
It is too early to describe the emergence of 3D printing as a new industrial revolution (although The New Scientist has done just that). But as the technology becomes faster, cheaper and more sophisticated, it will have wide-reaching impacts on industry and the global economy.
A more efficient 3D printing process would allow industry an opportunity it never had before: for production on the small-scale to be as efficient as large scale production. Think about it: using the techniques of traditional manufacturing, the production of one-off items and prototypes is very costly or impossible as the absence of specialised machines and moulds makes production labour-intensive. This labour-intensity has driven many types of production offshore. The flight of relatively low-skilled manufacturing jobs to nations with lower wage rates and a comparative advantage in manufacturing has been one of the largest structural economic shifts over the past 30 years.
The advent of widespread 3D printing makes it possible for some forms of one-off manufacturing and prototyping to return. For 3D printers, it doesn't matter if one item or one thousand items are produced; the price of production per item remains constant.
As a result, 3D printing has the capability of bringing the design process and the manufacturing process closer together. With greater ease of innovation, small and medium-sized enterprises will be able to experiment more readily with new ideas, and then see the fruits of their creativity produced quickly and with fewer hurdles than at present. This is not to say, of course, that 3D printing will ever completely replace assembly lines or machining. It will more likely serve to complement, rather than compete with traditional manufacturing.
It also brings challenges, like when plans were released for a working gun which could be produced by anyone with access to a 3D printer – an issue covered in a very recent 60 Minutes piece by Ray Martin. This, like many web-based developments, is incredibly difficult for government to regulate and monitor effectively.
This goes further than just the question of intellectual property. 3D printing and similar technologies have led to a further blurring of the lines between goods and services. There are challenges for global trade as a result, associated with measurement, assigning property rights and responsibility for quality assurance. But the opportunities dwarf the challenges. As the WTO observed in its 2013 World Trade Report, the possibility to edit and create physical objects through 3D printing will feed the burgeoning global middle class desire for variety and individuality in their goods. This is just one of many technological advances challenging us to change our way of thinking about international trade and economic growth. Advances in robotics, data sharing and medical technology are others.


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Two Palm Beach condo sales set price records in their buildings
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Two oceanview condominiums at opposite ends of Palm Beach have sold for more than $6 million each, according to courthouse records and the local multiple listing service. Both sales appear to have set price records in their buildings.
A deed recorded today shows the sale of Penthouse 7 in Bellaria on the South End closed at $6.7 million, or $932 per square foot, based on the condo's gross square footage in property records.
And at the Leverett House — just north of The Breakers — a fourth-floor apartment traded for $6.4 million, according to its updated sales listing in the Palm Beach Board of Realtors' MLS. That price works out to $1,730 per square foot, figured on the unit's overall size.
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Toronto hedge-fund manager Anne L. Spork sold her three-bedroom penthouse and its poolside cabana at Bellaria, 3000 S. Ocean Blvd. Spork had paid a recorded $4 million for the condo in 2009.
In Bellaria's south building, the condo has 7,191 total square feet of living space inside and on its balconies, with 5,067 square feet under air-conditioning.
Financial executive Dexter D. Earle and his wife, Carol A. Zipkin, bought the penthouse, the deed shows. With ties to New Jersey, Earle's professional resume includes tenure with Goldman Sachs, the investment bank and securities firm, according to public records. The couple owns no other property in Palm Beach County under their names, according to records on the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser's website.
Agents John M. Campbell and Colleen Jackson Hanson, both of the Corcoran Group, had listed the apartment in mid-August at $8.75 million and later reduced the price to $7.9 million. Campbell said the buyers bought the condo's furnishings, which were not included in the recorded price.
Brown Harris Stevens agents A. Whitney McGurk and Liza Pulitzer acted on behalf of Earle and Zipkin.
The apartment is the southernmost penthouse in Bellaria, so it affords wide "wraparound" vistas stretching from the ocean to the Intracoastal Waterway, Campbell said.
"The view is spectacular," he added.
The sales price beat a 2015 sale in Bellaria in which the Penthouse 4 sold for $6.3 million. But it has slightly less interior space and changed hands without a cabana. Agent Nicola "Niki" Higgins of Seaside Properties Group at Douglas Elliman handled both sides of that sale. She currently has the same penthouse listed at $6.5 million.
Higgins also had marketed for sale the condo that just changed hands before Corcoran acquired the listing last summer.
RELATED: Bellaria penthouse sells for $6.3 million
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The condo sale at Leverett House involved Unit W 4-C, a two-bedroom penthouse at 120 Sunset Ave., the westernmost of the two buildings that comprise the complex. The apartment has 3,700 total square feet of living space, inside and out.
The sellers, Ronald G. and Cindy L. McMackin, had owned the condo for about a year.
No deed has yet been recorded by the Palm Beach County Clerk's office, so the buyer hasn't been identified.
Broker Lawrence A. Moens handled both sides of the deal, just as he did when the condo sold for a recorded $6.25 million in late April 2017. Last year's deal also broke a price record for the Leverett House's west building — a record that had been set in April 2008 when the same penthouse sold for $4.8 million, courthouse records show.
Moens couldn't be reached.
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In this week's sale, Moens had the condo and its poolside cabana listed at $6.9 million.
The condo captures wide sea views directly across the roof of The Palm Beach Biltmore's oceanfront beach cabana-and-restaurant building.
Property records show the McMackins have a mailing address in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, where a branch of Pan-Pacific Mechanical, their Fountain Valley, Calif.-based family company, is located. Ronald McMackin is chairman and CEO and his wife is president, according to the company's website. The firm sells, engineers and constructs piping systems for commercial, public works and residential projects.
The condo's rarity also helped justify its noteworthy price. Leverett House's west building has 14 units. Another six condos are in the building that stands directly on the beach at 100 Sunset Ave.
RELATED: Condo's $4.2M sale second-priciest ever in Bellaria in Palm Beach

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Politics eclipse reason in county's coalition rejection
Forging alliances with neighboring counties of similar needs, views and politics is one of the most common — and natural — elements of governmental organization.
Oregon groupings that follow natural fault line include Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas; Deschutes, Jefferson and Crook; Clatsop, Columbia and Tillamook; and, of course, our own Marion, Polk and Yamhill.
The three local counties share rural, agricultural roots and agricultural-driven economics. An interstate freeway, prominent state highway, major rail corridor, mighty river and networks of secondary arterials connecting each. A tradition of moderate-to-conservative political representation, borrowing elements from both parties. As a result, they have a history of collaboration on trade and transportation, agriculture and education, social services and economic development, travel and tourism.
The ties that unite them include the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments, Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency, Willamette Education Service District, Marion-Polk-Yamhill Central Labor Council and Mid-Willamette Valley United Way, to name a few among many. They have used those ties to promote projects as ambitious and far-reaching as the largely state and federally funded Newberg-Dundee Bypass.
So what would lead Yamhill County to spurn its neighboring counties when they proposed joining forces in a regional Continuum of Care, dedicated to battling homelessness? We can think of only two reasons: ideologically driven politics, on the part of Commissioner Mary Starrett, and pragmatically driven politics, on the part of Commissioner Rick Olson, up for re-election next year.
Starrett reliably tilts against any and all windmills appearing to represent an expansion of government reach, however small. And of late, the more moderate Olson seems to be reliably tilting Starrett's way at every opportunity.
If Olson thinks belatedly currying favor with the county's conservative wing is going to keep Starrett from promoting a rival to the right, he's badly misjudged and greatly underestimated her.
The way we see it, she has a candidate in mind to challenge Olson and will be pulling out all the stops in backing the rival campaign. All Olson is doing is dampening any enthusiasm more moderate elements might muster for his retention.
The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development channels its affordable housing funds exclusively through Continuum of Care agencies, six of which are currently operating in Oregon. Yamhill is one of 28 members of the "other counties" group, where its influence approaches zero.
Teaming up with its neighbors, one of whom serves as Oregon's seat of government and hub of one of its largest concentrations of population, would help Yamhill's prospects enormously.
Starrett argued the county is already mounting an aggressive campaign, doesn't need anyone else's money or assistance, and probably wouldn't fare any better in a coalition of three than in a coalition of 28. Olson contended that Yamhill County is already leading the way and probably wouldn't realize any benefit from throwing new money at the problem.
The federal funds earmarked for Oregon will go somewhere, but as a result of misguided local reasoning, that somewhere is less likely to be here.
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Good editorial, Jeb. With roads & land use being their primary job responsibilities, you'd think they'd learn. This is just another example in a long history of politicking in Yamhill County by thumbing its nose at established protocol and doing things 'my way', often from scratch. The County seems convinced that re-inventing the wheel in so many opportunities justify their stalling, flailing around, and their waste of time, resources, and expertise that would come from direct participation in many shared resources.
Idiots.
It is sad to watch.
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Pembina Pipeline Corporation Declares January 2022 Common Share Dividend, Quarterly Preferred Share Dividends and Announces Fourth Quarter 2021 Results Conference Call and Webcast PR Newswire (US) - 1/6/2022 5:01:00 PM
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Pembina Pipeline Corporation ("Pembina" or the "Company") (TSX: PPL; NYSE: PBA) announced today that its Board of Directors declared a common share cash dividend for April 2015 of $0.145 per share to be paid, subject to applicable law, on May 15, 2015 to shareholders of record on April 25, 2015.


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The Ozone Layer – drumroll, please – is finally on the Mend
A researcher releases a weather balloon at the South Pole to measure the level of ozone in the stratosphere. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
When it comes to the environment, good news is hard to come by. Hard but not impossible. Here's a bit of great news: the ozone layer over Antarctica is on the mend.
Back in the 1980s scientists and environmentalists the world over were becoming increasingly concerned over a large hole in the ozone layer, which protects the biosphere below from the Sun's ultraviolet radiation. The cause: ozone-depleting chemicals from aerosols, dry cleaners and refrigerators that we were releasing into the atmosphere with wanton abandon.
Thanks to global action, following the signing of the Montreal Protocol in 1987, however, these chemicals were phased out. Now a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US reports that since 2000 the ozone hole has shrunk by more 4 million square kilometers, or about half the size of the continental United States. The ozone hole, in other words, is closing up at last.
"We can now be confident that the things we've done have put the planet on a path to heal," said Susan Solomon, a professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Science at MIT who was a lead author of a study published in the journal Science. "Which is pretty good for us, isn't it? Aren't we amazing humans, that we did something that created a situation that we decided collectively, as a world, 'Let's get rid of these molecules'? We got rid of them, and now we're seeing the planet respond."
Such enthusiasm may sound like a bit of boosterism, but so be it. We need far more of such concentrated collective actions to try and fix the myriad ills that ail the planet: climate change, overfishing, extensive deforestation, air and water pollution. Our success in helping fix the rapid depletion of ozone in the atmosphere should give us hope that we can achieve similar environmental successes in future. When there's a will, there's a way, as the saying goes.
Even as we may have solved one environmental problem, however, there are several more that demand urgent attention. Some climate scientists, for instance, believe that as matters stand we have no hope of keeping global warming at manageable levels. That's not because we don't have the tools but rather because we are not universally committed to enacting the necessary carbon emission cuts. That is to say, we can't be sitting on our laurels. We must continue to work together to tackle environmental problems.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Arizona coach Sean Miller can understand why Belmont was the trendy pick to upset his sixth-seeded Wildcats.
"Their style is such a nightmare," Miller said of a great backcourt that has the ability to hit the 3 and make a lot of steals.
Instead, the Wildcats proved a major headache for the Bruins and coach Rick Byrd.
Mark Lyons scored 23 points and Arizona used its size to dominate in an 81-64 second-round NCAA tournament victory Thursday night.
Arizona moves on to face 14th-seeded Harvard, which upset New Mexico.
The Wildcats (26-7) held a 44-18 edge on the boards, outscored Belmont 36-18 in the paint, blocked five shots and outshot the Bruins from 3-point range. Arizona made 9 of 17 3-pointers, including a critical one from Solomon Hill with 4:40 remaining to stop an 11-2 Belmont run, and shot 57 percent overall.
Hill ended up making as many 3s as Ian Clark, who entered the game shooting better than 46 percent for Belmont but was 3 of 8 from beyond the arc.
Credit goes to Nick Johnson and Jordin Mayes, who made Clark earn every one of his 21 points on 8-of-14 shooting. Kerron Johnson led Belmont with 22 points.


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Fairfax Media: Dell Case Study
Published on Tuesday, 24 November 2009 in the category Research & Resources
This case study demonstrates the effectiveness of brand advertising over performance advertising in increasing consumer brand awareness and buying intention.
Lynx Party across the Internet
Published on Tuesday, 24 November 2009 in the categories Research & Resources, Case Studies
To launch Lynx's new Superfresh range, Soap Creative decided to stage an unforgettable celebration: an interactive video experience that immersed the audience in an unexpected and exciting journey across 5 major web portals.
Rich media & video advertising issues addressed in IAB Australia's updated Ad Standards
Published on Wednesday, 11 November 2009 in the category IAB News
IAB Australia today released its updated Universal Ad Package Guidelines The new proposed standards will bring Australia into line with most other countries internationally.
Online Advertising posts highest quarter ever – $466 million
Published on Monday, 09 November 2009 in the category IAB News
The Report, which is compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), showed that online advertising expenditure in Australia for the quarter ending 30 September 2009 was the highest ever recorded, totalling $466 million.
Clemenger Takes Out Creative Showcase 4.1 Top Spot
Published on Friday, 30 October 2009 in the category IAB News
Clemenger has been declared the winner of Creative Showcase 4.1, Australia's best free online award for creativity in digital advertising for its campaign, Vodafone's "Make the Most of Now".
Alex Littlejohn Elected to IAB Australia Board for 2010
Published on Tuesday, 27 October 2009 in the category IAB News
IAB Australia today announced that Alex Littlejohn, managing director of Adconion will join the IAB Australia Board for a one year term commencing in November 2009.
IAB Presentation: Building Brands Online
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Online has long been renowned as an effective direct response medium. But what about building brands online? This presentation will give you some of the latest research into how others have successfully built brands online.
IAB Australia: Quarter ended September 2009
Published on Thursday, 01 October 2009 in the categories Advertising Expenditure, Research & Resources
Online advertising expenditure in Australia for the third-quarter 2009 totalled $466.25 million. General Display advertising and Classifieds advertising accounted for 25.9% and 23.2% of the total advertising expenditure for the third-quarter 2009, respectively, while Search & Directories advertising comprised the remaining 50.9%.
Australia dominates New York's MIXX Awards snaring eight awards including Best of Show
Published on Thursday, 24 September 2009 in the category IAB News
Australia's agencies Sapient Nitro, JWT Australia & ZenithOptimedia & Soap Creative have dominated the IAB's fifth annual MIXX Awards in New York, collected 8 awards between them.
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This Code has been adopted by the AANA as part of advertising and marketing self-regulation. The object of this Code is to ensure that advertisers and marketers develop and maintain a high sense of social responsibility in advertising and marketing food and beverage products in Australia.
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The British arm of German discount supermarket Aldi reported its first rise in annual operating profit for four years on Monday and signalled no let-up in its approach with plans to open 130 stores in 2019 and 2020.
The investment in new stores and in new and existing regional distribution centres would create 5,000 jobs, it said.
Aldi is Britain's fifth biggest supermarket and holds a market share of 7.6%, the latest industry data shows. Its larger rivals are market leader Tesco, Sainsbury's , Asda and Morrisons.
It currently trades from about 775 UK stores and plans to have over 1,000 by 2022. It opened 70 stores in 2017 and is on track to open 70 in 2018.
For the year to Dec. 31 2017, Aldi UK and Ireland made an operating profit of £265.9 million ($346.4 million), up 26%t from £211.3 million made in 2016.
Sales rose 16.4% to a record £10.18 billion.
The firm said it attracted 15.8 million customers, an increase of 1.1 million.
"While other grocers introduced more complexity into their businesses in their struggle to win back customers, we stuck to our guns and focused on doing what Aldi does best – buying smart, staying lean, improving quality and keeping prices low," Chief Executive Giles Hurley said.
Britain's food retailing market has been transformed over the last decade by the rise of privately owned budget chains Aldi and Lidl, which has driven down the returns of the industry's big four players.
The big four have fought back by cutting their own prices and improving service. They have also sought greater buying power through consolidation with Tesco purchasing wholesaler Booker for nearly 4 billion pounds earlier this year and Sainsbury's agreeing a 7.3-billion-pound takeover of Walmart's Asda.
Tesco is also taking on Aldi and Lidl at their own game, launching the Jack's discount format last month.
However, the big four are still losing market share to Aldi and Lidl who are opening new stores at a rapid pace and attracting customers with more premium ranges.
Aldi's "Speciality Selected" premium range now generates over £1 billion annually, with products such as Aberdeen Angus Beef and Oliver Cromwell Pink Gin.
Combined, the two discounters have 13.1% of the UK grocery market and analysts forecast it will be 15% by 2020.
Aldi UK also said it was actively looking to source more products from Britain by expanding its UK supply base.
It already sources its core range of fresh meat, eggs, milk, butter and cream from British suppliers, as well as mushrooms, potatoes and seasonal spinach.


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The leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has petitioned the United Nations Security Council to establish an independent commission to investigate the alleged complicity of Nigerian and Kenyan government officials in the detention of the 54-year-old.
Kanu's foreign lawyer, Bruce Fein, made this known in a letter dated April 9, 2022 which was addressed to Barbara Woodward, United Kingdom Ambassador to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Security Council.
The letter was made available to our correspondent on Sunday by Kanu's Special Counsel, Aloy Ejimakor, and was signed by Fein and Kanu's wife, Uche.
It was titled, 'Re: Petition to the United Nations Security Council to establish an independent Commission to investigate the complicity of Nigerian and Kenyan government officials or their agents in the criminal kidnapping, torture, extraordinary rendition, and indefinite arbitrary detention of United Kingdom citizens Nnamdi Kanu from Nairobi to Abuja and for the establishment of a Special Tribunal outside either Nigeria or Kenya to prosecute the suspects identified by the Commission'.
It read, "We, the undersigned respectfully petition the United Nations Security Council, acting under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, to pass a resolution establishing an international independent investigation Commission to establish criminal responsibility for Nnamdi Kanu's kidnapping, torture, and extraordinary rendition from Nairobi, Kenya to Abuja, Nigeria on or about June 2021, and indefinite, ongoing, arbitrary detention in solitary confinement thereafter by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The resolution should also establish a Special Tribunal to prosecute persons the Commission finds have been responsible for Nnamdi Kanu's kidnapping, torture, extraordinary rendition, and arbitrary detention.
"Convincing evidence in the public domain, direct and circumstantial, implicate Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian Attorney General Abubakar Malami, and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, among others, in the above-referenced crimes against Nnamdi Kanu. The governments of Nigeria and Kenya cannot be trusted to investigate or prosecute themselves. The universal legal principle that a person cannot be a judge in his own case applies here.
"We submit that Security Council Resolution 1595, which established an independent Commission to investigate the assassins of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Harari, and Security Council Resolution 1757, which established a Special Tribunal for the prosecution of the responsible parties found by the independent Commission, should be considered as templates for the corresponding resolutions we are requesting for investigation and prosecution of the crimes against Nnamdi Kanu by Nigerian and Kenyan government officials or their agents.
"We would welcome the opportunity to meet with you or your staff in person or over the internet to further elaborate on this petition."
Kanu has been in the custody of the Department of State Services since June 2021 when he was brought back to the country and has seen been re-arraigned before Justice Binta Nyako for terrorism-related offences.
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ROAD RACING WARS: The Fight For Control of Post-War Sports Car Racing in America (Part TWO)
This is Part TWO of the behind-the-scenes story of how sports car racing emerged in America during the post-war era, who organized the races and the all-out war that erupted for control. This post is excerpted from the book: "IMSA 1969-1989: The Inside Story of How John Bishop Built the World's Greatest Sports Car Racing Series", authored by Mitch Bishop and Mark Raffauf, scheduled for publication in January 2019 from Octane Press.
There was plenty of professional racing going on in the world by the late 1950s. Outside of the U.S., international racing was governed by the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Some Americans like Phil Hill, Dan Gurney and Carroll Shelby achieved professional status by racing in Europe against the best drivers of the day, but for most drivers in the U.S. racing for money risked the loss of their SCCA licenses.
Bringing international caliber drivers to the U.S. became an obsession for early race organizers like Bill France Sr., the founder of NASCAR, and the leaders of the FIA correspondingly saw the U.S. market as a huge opportunity. With the withdrawal of the AAA from race sanctioning in 1955, representatives from the FIA came to America in 1956 with the intention of hitching their wagon to one of the established sanctioning bodies already functioning in the U.S.: NASCAR, USAC and the SCCA.
The emissaries from Europe met with France Sr., Colonel Arthur Harrington, former president of the AAA Contest Board and one of the founders of USAC, and Jim Kimberley, who represented the SCCA. The leadership at USAC saw this as an enormous opportunity to take control of professional road racing if they could convince the FIA representatives to give them their seal of approval. But France Sr. had other ideas. He understood that if just one organization owned the FIA relationship, it would quickly put the others at a disadvantage. He instead proposed a committee comprised of all three sanctioning organizations, each with the ability to apply for the FIA's international listings for their events. The FIA agreed and the Automobile Competition Committee of the United States (ACCUS) was formed in 1957. ACCUS continues to operate today as the representative of American racing to the FIA, albeit with more member organizations.
Shortly after the creation of ACCUS, race organizers secured FIA listings for Formula One Grand Prix events at Sebring in 1959 and Riverside in 1960, running them under the FIA banner without a U.S. sanctioning body. These professional events were groundbreaking; they introduced world-class race drivers and their exotic machines to American audiences. By 1961, USAC had taken over the sanction of the L.A. Times Grand Prix and a similar event held at Laguna Seca.
The first Watkins Glen-based Formula One race was held in 1961 under direct FIA sanction. These races, along with Alec Ulmann's 12 Hours of Sebring held in March, became a powerful magnet for American drivers who wanted in on the action.
Despite the success of these major events, SCCA races were still understood to be strictly amateur. Drivers began to bristle at the draconian restrictions being imposed on them by the Club. They wanted to compete at the next level of motorsport, test themselves against the best from the rest of the world and make some money along the way. But was the penalty for participation worth it?
In response, in the summer of 1961, the SCCA began to ease its restrictions on members participating in certain, designated professional events. But confusion reigned – it wasn't clear which events were approved and which were not. Ultimately, after much hand-wringing, the Club's Board once again withdrew public support for professional racing, leaving American drivers in limbo. Privately, however, the Board voted that summer to move forward with a plan that had been drawn up by John Bishop. It was a blueprint for professional racing that put a high priority on reclaiming the sanction of the most important races in the U.S. operating at the time: the 12 Hours of Sebring, The L.A. Times Grand Prix at Riverside, The U.S. Grand Prix at Wakins Glen, and the San Francisco Examiner Grand Prix at Laguna Seca.
Roger Penske on his way to winning the L.A. Times Grand Prix in the Zerex Special at Riverside International Raceway in 1962. The race was sanctioned that year by USAC. Photo credit: IMRRC Archives
USAC held six road racing events in1961 with limited support from SCCA drivers, although some did cross the line. The SCCA licenses for these transgressors were promptly revoked, further fanning the flames of discontent. But the door had been cracked open and it was now just a matter of time before professional racing became a reality at the Club.
There was mass confusion during the 1962 season as USAC and the SCCA sparred over dates, rules and drivers. In the December 1962 issue of Sports Car magazine, the Club announced the formation of the United States Road Racing Championship (USRRC) to be run the next year in classes of cars with engines over 2.0 liters and under 2.0 liters. This was the Club's first openly professional series, starting with the Daytona Continental in January of 1963.
Bob Johnson leads Dave MacDonald during the 1963 USRRC event at Watkins Glen. Both are driving Shelby Cobras, a mainstay of the series in its first year. Photo credit: IMRRC Archives
With full FIA listings and open invitations to professional drivers from both the U.S. and Europe, the USRRC quickly became the go-to sports car racing series in the country. Support for USAC's road racing events withered, never to return. Over the next two years, the SCCA took over the sanction of the L.A. Times Grand Prix, the San Francisco Examiner Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, the U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen and the 12 Hours of Sebring. SCCA drivers that had been patiently sitting on the fence were now able to put both feet in with the new series.
The start of the USRRC race at Watkins Glen in 1964. Photo credit: Ozzie Lyons/© Pete Lyons at petelyons.com
The SCCA quickly followed up the USRRC success with the Can-Am, Trans-Am and Formula 5000 series, further cementing its status as the sanctioning body with the most competitive professional road racing circuits in the U.S. by the late 1960s.
After the end of World War II, sports car racing experienced a renaissance, unlike anything America had ever witnessed before. The post-war economy was booming. And when combined with a growing workforce of educated, skilled workers created by the G.I. Bill, it helped create a vibrant American middle class. For the first time since the Great Depression, families began to have money for more than just the basics, including sports cars, which were beginning to show up from exotic places such as Italy, Britain, Germany and other countries.
The small trickle of imported machines grew steadily and the inevitable happened – races started to emerge. This is the behind-the-scenes story of what happened next, how sports car racing emerged in America during the post-war era, who organized the races and the all-out war that erupted for control.
My father, John Bishop, started his career with the SCCA in 1956, at the very beginning of the knock-down fight between the SCCA and USAC over control of professional road racing in America. He later would take over as executive director of the SCCA at the beginning of 1962, putting him squarely in the middle of the drama. What follows is an account of that period, excerpted from the book: "IMSA 1969-1989: The Inside Story of How John Bishop Built the World's Greatest Sports Car Racing Series," authored by Mitch Bishop and Mark Raffauf, scheduled for publication in January 2019 from Octane Press.
-Mitch Bishop
The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) was founded in 1944 by a group of wealthy sports car enthusiasts from Boston as a kind of gentleman's club, according to Peter Hylton, SCCA archivist and historian. The original members were all friends that shared the same economic status and liked cars, the more exotic the better. Joining was not easy. Prospective members of the SCCA had to be formally endorsed by an existing member and voted into the Club by the rest of the membership.
Those first meetings consisted of shared meals and conversation followed by rallies on public roads. Soon, the footprint of the SCCA began to grow as it began to sanction races over fixed courses on public roads. The Club expanded westward and southward by formally chartering regional chapters. But even as the Club grew, it always adhered to the notion that racing was strictly an amateur activity and for Club members only.
By 1955, the SCCA had become the sports car road racing alternative to the American Automobile Association (AAA), which sanctioned champ car, sprint car and midget racing on ovals and to the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), which ran stock car races in the South and through alliances with promoters in the Northeast, Midwest and on the West Coast. In many respects, the early success of the SCCA reflected the post-war economic boom. As the economy grew, so did the ranks of the middle class. New prosperity brought increased interest in European sports cars like MGs, Jaguars, Porsches, Ferraris, Alfa Romeos, and others. And once these cars were on the street, competition was inevitable.
Racing through the streets of Watkins Glen began in 1948 and Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin in 1950, but racing on public roads was deemed too dangerous after a spectator fatality at Watkins Glen in 1952. Demand for road racing venues escalated quickly, but there were simply not enough purpose-built tracks at the time – building permanent race tracks was an expensive and slow process. The shortage was partly relieved with the help of Curtis LeMay, an Air Force General in charge of the Strategic Air Command (and car guy), who opened up a few decommissioned WWII airfields for racing events.
The 12 Hours of Sebring was held on a decommissioned B-17 training base south of Orlando, Florida starting in 1952. As this photo shows, the condition of the pit area had improved only slightly by 1957. Photo credit: IMRRC Archive
Mike Hawthorne in a D-Type Jaguar during the 12 Hours of Sebring held in 1955, when the race was sanctioned by the AAA. After the debacle at Le Mans later that year, Alec and Mary Ulmann formed the Automobile Racing Club of Florida (ARCF) as an entity to produce and promote the race. The SCCA took over sanction of the Sebring event in 1964. Photo credit: IMRRC Archive
The landscape changed dramatically and suddenly with the infamous disaster at Le Mans in 1955. Pierre Levegh, co-driving with American John Fitch, made contact with a slower car on the main straight, vaulting his Mercedes-Benz into the air, which struck a retaining wall and exploded, sending components into the crowd. Levegh and more than 80 spectators were killed. As a direct result of this horrific accident, the AAA decided to drop out of race sanctioning altogether. This left a void in the sanctioning world that was quickly filled by the newly formed United States Auto Club (USAC), organized at the behest of Indianapolis Motor Speedway owner Tony Hulman.
But rather than just focus just on the AAA's former turf, USAC had bigger ambitions. It had designs on becoming the single dominant player in all forms of motor racing – short tracks, stock cars and road racing. Knowing the SCCA was committed to amateur racing, USAC announced a professional road racing series for 1958.
USAC ran its first road races at Lime Rock Park, Marlboro Motor Raceway and the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Circuit in 1958, which caught the attention of the top drivers of the day. The concept of racing for money instead of just trophies was enticing. The SCCA Board of Governors hotly debated whether to respond with the Club's own professional series or to maintain strict, amateur-only status.
In the end, the Board decided to keep the status quo. But as part of this decision, the Board of Governors decreed that SCCA licensed drivers and corner workers who participated in, or assisted with, USAC events would be banished from the Club. Further, it was announced that any SCCA region participating in a racing event where remuneration was offered would have its charter revoked. This form of harsh excommunication was designed to keep the membership in line. Ultimately, this strategy failed, but a seven-year war for control of road racing in America had been formally declared.


The Graco SnugRide Click Connect 35 LX is one of several rear facing only seats in the Graco lineup. We've been given the chance to give it a test run and have been pleasantly surprised by how it does.
Two position adjustable crotch strap, measuring 5.5 and 7 inches, helps keep both small and big infants comfortable without the crotch strap sitting either too far or too close to them. Graco gives no recommendations for when is the appropriate time to move the buckle, but ideally the buckle should be as close to the child as possible.
The no rethread harness adjusts by squeezing together two red buttons on the back of the car seat, then sliding the adjuster to the correct position. The harness and head support move together when adjusting.
Infant insert for smaller infants can be used up to 12 pounds and does a great job of keeping little infants correctly positioned and comfortable.
Adjustable recline foot is adjustable with just the twist of a red knob on the front of the base. This allows the Click Connect 35 LX the ability to be correctly reclined in a wide array of vehicles.
Push button lower anchor connectors are stored on the underside of the base and easily push onto vehicle lower anchor connectors. They are released by pressing the red button.
Multi-age level indicator on the base allows the infant to be more reclined (under 3 months of age) or to sit more upright (3 months plus). This allows older infants the chance the sit up more and look out the window and the younger infants to have the proper recline so there is no head slump.
Seat belt lock-off on base helps with ease of seat belt installation by allowing the seat belt to be locked using the base, rather than locking the belt in another way. Learn more about how to lock your vehicle's seat belt.
The Graco SnugRide Click Connect 35 LX can be installed with either seat belt or lower anchors. To install via lower anchors, just thread the straps through the belt path over the seat belt lock off, connect the push button connectors to the vehicle anchors and tighten.
The only potential issue I had with lower anchor installation in my vehicle is the button to loosen the strap sits right under the belt path. This could cause the base to potentially push the button. I just made sure the button laid all the way through the belt path so it didn't push on it.
Seat belt installation is easy with a seat belt lockoff incorporated into the base. To install using these lock-off you just unclip the red lever from under the gray clip, thread the seat belt through the belt path, tighten, then clip the red lever under the grey clip.
Like most other rear facing only seats on the market, the Graco SnugRide Click Connect 35 LX can also be installed without the base. This can help with tight 3 across situations, routinely switching the seat between vehicles, and traveling. To install, set the car seat on the vehicle seat, line up the level to ground line to level, thread the seat belt through the plastic guides on the car seat, lock the seat belt, press your weight into the back of the car seat, and tighten. The lap belt will be the only belt going through the belt guides on the car seat. The shoulder belt will lay against the vehicle seat back. It does NOT allow Euro routing, where the shoulder belt routes behind the car seat, like some other rear facing only car seats on the market.
Our preemie had a great fit in the Graco SnugRide Click Connect 35 LX. The infant insert is optional for children who weigh up to 12 pounds, so we left it in the seat for her. Even with the insert, the harness is just barely below her shoulders. That's about what we'd expect since she's a preemie!
The crotch buckle is allowed to be threaded through the front slot, then through the slot closer to the child. This pulled the buckle down nicely so it doesn't sit awkwardly on her belly. The large head support gave her ample support as well.
Our newborn Huggable Images Newborn doll weighs 7 pounds and is 17 inches long. The seat fit her well. She had ample head support and body support from the infant insert. Her shoulders were just a bit over the bottom harness position and I left the crotch buckle at the smaller setting.
Our older infant fits great in this seat! Plenty of room to grow still. He has plenty of harness length left still and a few more clicks of the headrest. I don't foresee it lasting him until the stated 35 pound weight limit, but he will most likely hit the height limit before his head is 1 inch from the top of the head support. The head support fits him nicely as well. The car seat is also wide so it accommodates his larger width.
FAA certification can be found on page 42 of the instruction manual and on a sticker on the side of the seat.
Date of manufacture can be found on the bottom of the car seat and on the inside top of the base.
Expiration range can be found on page 7 of the manual as well as stamped into the plastic on the bottom of the car seat.
I've been very impressed with the Graco SnugRide Click Connect 35 LX. It fits my bigger child well, isn't overly heavy, easily adjustable, and installs like a breeze. The only downfall I've seen with it is that the harness can be difficult to tighten all the way. This is due to the harness routing through both the head support and shell thus adding a little extra friction. I've struggled with almost every no rethread harness rear facing only seat we've used with Anders though, so this wasn't something overly different from normal. I love the longevity of this seat and would recommend it as a great option for parents/caregivers looking for a rear facing only seat that will last them as long as possible.
Discover the differences between Graco's SnugRide lineup of car seats on our Graco Rear Facing Only Comparison.
Think the Graco SnugRide Click Connect 35 LX is the right seat for your child? Find yours on Amazon.com !
Graco graciously provided the SnugRide Click Connect 35 LX used in this review. As always, the opinions are our own. Originally written by Angela Tastad. Edits maintained by the CSFTL team.


Master P in the studio droppin real bars from the new single "Goin Thru It" from the Empire Album in Stores November 28th 2015. This is just a taste for what fans about to get from the Colonel and the No Limit Tank. Master P say "He spitting nothing but real life on this record" It don't matter how much money you have whether rich or poor. Whether you live in the hood or a mansion we all Goin Thru something.


Lock in a great price for B&B Bed and Beyond – rated 9.7 by recent guests!
Elke and Bert were the perfect hosts with a perfect B&B. Can't wait to go back!
Quiet site, relaxing. Surprising comfortable and beautiful interior decoration, very attentive service, excellent quality breakfast.
The bed was very good. All were very good designed with attention to details. Breakfast was really delicious.
Spontane ontvangst. Relaxte sfeer. Rustgevende omgeving.
Le déjeuner était excellent et la baignoire dans la chambre !!!
Alles perfekt. Sehr freundlichen Empfang. Das Zimmer sehr schön. Sehr gutes Bett.Ich kann nur weiter empfehlen.
Vriendelijke ontvangst. Comfortabele kamer. Uitstekend ontbijt.
Zeer mooie, ruime kamer. Fijn bed en lekker uitgebreid ontbijt. De eigenaars waren zeer vriendelijk en behulpzaam!
This design bed and breakfast in Opglabbeek features wellness facilities including an indoor plunge pool, a sauna and a sanarium. Bed and Beyond offers elegant rooms with free Wi-Fi and has a spacious garden with a covered terrace and barbecue facilities.
The Hoge Kempen National Park is only a 5-minute drive away. Bed and Beyond is 6.2 mi from the Maasmechelen Village shopping outlet. Genk can be reached within 20 minutes' drive. Free parking is available on site.
Each of the rooms at Bed and Beyond comes with flat-screen cable TV, a desk and tea/coffee making facilities. They look out over the garden and have a modern bathroom with a shower, sink, toilet and a hairdryer.
This property also has one of the top-rated locations in Opglabbeek! Guests are happier about it compared to other properties in the area.
This property is also rated for the best value in Opglabbeek! Guests are getting more for their money when compared to other properties in this city.
When would you like to stay at B&B Bed and Beyond?
This room features a retro design, box-spring beds and a bathroom with a walk-in shower.
The wellness facilities can be rented for private use for an extra fee.
This ground-floor room features a mezzanine level, which can be reached by a ladder, for the children.
House Rules B&B Bed and Beyond takes special requests – add in the next step!
One child from 2 to 12 years is charged EUR 25 per person per night in an extra bed.
One child from 13 to 18 years is charged EUR 35 per person per night in an extra bed.


The final day of the challenge began with torrential rain, but the mood was brightened immediately when I walked into Moorsholm Memorial Hall to be greeted by some 50 residents, together with the local MP, Tom Blenkinsopp, who were passionate and committed in their determination to do something about the poor quality of broadband in their North Yorkshire village. As resident after resident pointed out, Moorsholm is not particularly remote, and yet there are people there who get landline broadband speeds as low as 68kbps. Particularly frustrating is that next-door neighbours can get wildly different speeds to each other. There were tales about the impossibility of doing business online; about having to move away to study, and a story about the lady who is unable to use Skype to see her grandchildren in Australia.
The really good news is that Moorsholm seems to have a plan coming together to address its problems, led by local resident, Trevor Watson. As Tom Blenkinsop, MP agreed, poor broadband has become a powerful catalyst for community action in the village.
Here, Moorsholm residents tell their stories.
I was sorry to leave Moorsholm, where the community spirit was truly infectious, but it was back in the car and over the foggy and very wet heights of the North Yorkshire Moors, heading for the next venue, The Triton Inn, at Sledmere, near Driffield. This visit was covered by BBC TV's "Look North", and was remarkable for the only occasion when the WiBE failed to get a signal.
Here Simon Ullyott talks about the problems of trying to do business online in the area.
When we emerged from the Triton Inn, the sun had come out and it shone all the way to the next venue, in the church at South Stainley, near Harrogate. This was the final venue of the week, and there was another interesting community gathering. Discussion started with residents venting their frustration with their current lack of connectivity, again in a not particularly remote community, on the main road between Harrogate and Ripon. As the discussion progressed, resolution grew to do something about the situation, and Parish Councillor, John Denton, agreed to call people together so they could explore the options.
Here John Denton and Hugh Lewis talk about the problems poor broadband causes them.
It was perhaps fitting that the final event of Can't Get Online Week ended with a practical demonstration of the issues such communities face. One resident received a call that her son had missed the school bus because he had been kept behind after school to talk about the late submission of his online homework. The homework had been late because he had to wait to visit his grandmother in London to do it, not being able to do it at home. As the meeting ended, A.J. and his mum arrived, and A.J. agreed to talk on camera about the issue.
And so, that was that. What a week it was.
I'll post some more reflective thoughts when I have time, but at the moment, the overwhelming feelings are tiredness and inspiration. It is truly inspiring that communities are using their frustration with poor connections to come together and do something about it.
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What controls the magnetic exchange and anisotropy in a family of tetranuclear {Mn2 IIMn2 III} single-molecule magnets?
Kuduva R. Vignesh, Stuart K. Langley, Christopher J Gartshore, Boujemaa Moubaraki, Keith S Murray, Gopalan Rajaraman
Twelve heterovalent, tetranuclear manganese(II/III) planar diamond or "butterfly" complexes, 1-12, have been synthesized and structurally characterized, and their magnetic properties have been probed using experimental and theoretical techniques. The 12 structures are divided into two distinct "classes". Compounds 1-8 place the Mn(III), S = 2, ions in the body positions of the butterfly metallic core, while the Mn(II), S = 5/2, ions occupy the outer wing sites and are described as "Class 1". Compounds 9-12 display the reverse arrangement of ions and are described as "Class 2". Direct current susceptibility measurements for 1-12 reveal ground spin states ranging from S = 1 to S = 9, with each complex displaying unique magnetic exchange parameters (J). Alternating current susceptibility measurements found that that slow magnetic relaxation is observed for all complexes, except for 10 and 12, and display differing anisotropy barriers to magnetization reversal. First, we determined the magnitude of the magnetic exchange parameters for all complexes. Three exchange coupling constants (Jbb, Jwb, and Jww) were determined by DFT methods which are found to be in good agreement with the experimental fits. It was found that the orientation of the Jahn-Teller axes and the Mn-Mn distances play a pivotal role in determining the sign and strength of the Jbb parameter. Extensive magneto-structural correlations have been developed for the two classes of {MnII 2MnIII 2} butterfly complexes by varying the Mnb-O distance, Mnw-O distance, Mnb-O-Mnb angle (α), Mnb-O-Mnb-O dihedral angle (γ), and out-of-plane shift of the Mnw atoms (β). For the magnetic anisotropy the DFT calculations yielded larger negative D value for complexes 2, 3, 4, and 6 compared to the other complexes. This is found to be correlated to the electron-donating/withdrawing substituents attached to the ligand moiety and suggests a possible way to fine tune the magnetic anisotropy in polynuclear Mn ion complexes.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02527
10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02527
Vignesh, K. R., Langley, S. K., Gartshore, C. J., Moubaraki, B., Murray, K. S., & Rajaraman, G. (2017). What controls the magnetic exchange and anisotropy in a family of tetranuclear {Mn2 IIMn2 III} single-molecule magnets? Inorganic Chemistry, 56(4), 1932-1949. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02527
Vignesh, Kuduva R. ; Langley, Stuart K. ; Gartshore, Christopher J ; Moubaraki, Boujemaa ; Murray, Keith S ; Rajaraman, Gopalan. / What controls the magnetic exchange and anisotropy in a family of tetranuclear {Mn2 IIMn2 III} single-molecule magnets?. In: Inorganic Chemistry. 2017 ; Vol. 56, No. 4. pp. 1932-1949.
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Q: How can I use the same ExtJS model proxy with modifications in different ViewModels? I'm using ExtJS 5 and I'm trying to figure out a way to use a proxy defined in a model in several different ViewModels, adding different extraParams to any specific ViewModel.  Here is pared-down code to try to illustrate what I'm trying to do (please forgive any minor errors that don't relate to the question- this is not my actual code).  Basically, I have a proxy in the model with some paramsToPath that all ViewModels will want.  In a specific ViewModel I want to add some extra params (optional, that may not be added in other ViewModels).  This is NOT working- I was hoping that I could use a proxy defined in a model (or store) with modifications added in the ViewModel.  I've tried adding some extraParams in the ViewModel with the hope that those extraParams would merge to the proxy defined in the model, but it is not working.  Any ideas of how I can accomplish this?
Here is the model:
Ext.define('EmployeeManager.model.Employee', {
extend : 'EmployeeManager.model.Base',

idProperty : 'id',
fields : [ {
  name : 'id',
  type : 'string'
}, {
  name : 'name',
  reference : 'string'
} ],

proxy : {
  paramsToPaths : [ {
    params : [ 'locationId' ],
    path : '/location/{0}'
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});

Here is the store:
Ext.define('EmployeeManager.store.Employees', {
  extend : 'Ext.data.Store',
  alias : 'store.employees',
  requires : [ 'EmployeeManager.model.Employee' ],

  model : 'EmployeeManager.model.Employee'
});

Here is the ViewModel:
Ext.define('DpcManager.view.dpc.copy.EmployeeModel', {
  extend : 'Ext.app.ViewModel',
  alias : 'viewmodel.employee',

  data : {
    locationId: null,
    employeeName: null
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  stores : {
    employeeStore : {
        type : 'employees',
        remoteFilter : true
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             url : '../employee-services/employee/',
             extraParams: {
                 fields: 'id,personId',
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Join me in welcoming Dr. Kristie Brooks and her family as the newest members of the ChattCo Family! Dr. Brooks was introduced this evening as the new Chattahoochee County School Superintendent. Welcome Dr. Brooks!
Happy Holidays to everyone in the ChattCo Family! Looking forward to a new semester and the New Year!
On behalf of the entire ChattCo Family we thank all current and former military service members and your families for the sacrifices you've made to protect our freedom. Happy Veterans Day!
Congratulations ChattCo students, teachers, staff, parents, and community! Statewide CCRPI scores released today. The ChattCo district score exceeds the state average, and the individual school scores are among the highest in our RESA! Awesome job!!
Happy Friday ChattCo Family! Be reminded that the board of education seeks your input for ChattCo's next superintendent. Please visit "News" at chattco.org for the survey link. The survey will close at noon on November 6.
Congratulations to our 2018 REACH Scholar, Alyssa Hunter! We are proud of you!
Good morning ChattCo Family! In preperation for the hiring of a new superintendent next spring, the school board seeks your input. Please take time to visit the "News" section of the district web page for a survey link. The link will be available until noon on November 6.
Good afternoon ChattCo Family! Due to the expected tropical weather, the Chattahoochee County School System will close at noon on October 10 and remain closed Thursday, October 11. Classes will resume at usual for all teachers, staff, and students on Friday, October 12.
The Chattahoochee County Board of Education recognized Columbus Technical College this past week at the September school board meeting. Receiving the certificate on behalf of CTC was Tommy Wilson, Vice President of Operations. Thank you CTC for all your support of Chattco!
Good morning ChattCo Family! Please join me in congratulating Roy Brown as the 2018 Teacher of the Year for Chattahoochee County. Mr. Brown is an outstanding science teacher at ChattCo High. CCEC's Kandice McGlaun was named the other finalist. We are proud of you both!
Great first day back for our ChattCo teachers and staff! We look forward to students returning on August 6!
We enjoyed hosting our new teachers today for orientation. They did an awesome job! Welcome to the ChattCo Family!
Classes will resume Tuesday May 22nd at CCEC and the Daycare Center. The Chattahoochee County School System would like to thank everyone for your patience and understanding of today's closure.
Due to a boil water advisory for parts of Chattahoochee County tomorrow, Chattahoochee County Elementary School and Daycare Center students will not report on May 21, 2018. All employees should report at their regular time. This does not effect ChattCo Middle/High School. They will have classes as usual.
"All parents are invited to a Chattco Parent Activity Booster Club meeting on Monday, April 23rd at 6:00pm in the CCMHS Media Center. This meeting is to discuss the future of our parent organization. This organization is a PTO and Booster club and benefits the entire student body. We are looking for leadership and committed volunteers to carry the organization forward for the 2018-2019 school year. Please consider coming. If you have any questions, you may email chattcopabc@gmail.com or check us out on Facebook. One Heart Beat!"
Congratulations to the ChattCo Elementary students, teachers, and staff for being recognized by Georgia DOE as a 2018 Title I High Progress Rewards School. Great job!
All parents are invited to a Chattco Parent Activity Booster Club meeting on Monday, April 23rd at 6:00pm in the Media Center. This meeting is to discuss the future of our parent organization. This organization is a PTO and Booster club and benefits the entire student body. We are looking for leadership and committed volunteers to carry the organization forward for the 2018-2019 school year. Please consider coming. If you have any questions, you may email chattcopabc@gmail.com or check us out on Facebook. One Heart Beat!"
We enjoyed hosting State School Superintendent Richard Woods Tuesday morning. We appreciate his support of the Chattahoochee County School System!
Thanks to our ChattCo Board of Education for all your leadership and support. Happy School Board Appreciation Week!!
Good afternoon! Parents and all community members are reminded of the community engagement meeting Thursday evening at 5:00. See posting on the news section of the district web page for full details.
Good morning ChattCo Family! I'd like to invite all parents and community members to a Communications Review meeting on Thursday, March 1. See "News" section of our website for details.
The Chattahoochee County School System would like to thank our community partners that represented us at the Georgia School Boards Association Conference in Atlanta on Friday, December 1. At the conference, the team delivered a presentation to school board members from around the state about how the ChattCo School System works with community partners to help achieve the goals of the school system's newly redesigned strategic plan. Team members included Thomas Weaver, County Manager; Jamie Crozier, CareConnect Health; Major Jon Godwin, US Army 4th Ranger Training Battalion; Roger Hatcher, Columbus State University; Jamie Loyd, Columbus Technical College; Tabatha Walton, Chattco Assistant Superintendent; and Tim Buchanan, Chattahoochee Valley Academy CEO.
Congratulations to Maeletha Dixon, Chattahoochee County's District Teacher of the Year!
Congratulations one more time to our REACH Scholarship recipients Preston White, Ja'keria Watson, Mia Harris, Bentley Long, and William Shope. The entire ChattCo Family is very proud of you!
Good afternoon ChattCo Family. I hope you're all safe and doing well. Classes will resume Wednesday, September 13. See you all tomorrow!
The Chattahoochee County School System expresses our appreciation to the Ft. Benning Garrison Command Team and School Liaison Officer for facilitating meetings to coordinate a safer, more efficient bus route system. More so, the school system is very appreciative to the parents of Ft. Benning students for your patience, cooperation, and understanding of our busing issues this first few weeks of school. Ft. Benning parents received notice of the route changes on the Ft. Benning Facebook page Wednesday evening, followed by notifications from the school system yesterday. Additional information will be sent home with students today. This new route system will hopefully eliminate missed instructional time in the mornings and late bus rides in the afternoon. Again, we are very appreciative of the patience, cooperation, and understanding of our parents. Please call the school or our transportation office if you have questions.
Welcome back students! Your teachers have been working hard all week in preparation for your return on Monday, August 7. We look forward to seeing you! I've had the pleasure of meeting many of our new students and their parents. I hope to have the opportunity to meet everyone else soon. Please feel free to call or email if I can be of service.
Chattahoochee County Schools would like to welcome our new faculty members. Thank you for your attendance at today's orientation. We're looking forward to a great school year!
The Chattahoochee County School System would like to thank members of the Ft. Benning 4th Ranger Training Battalion for providing leadership training to employees of the Chattahoochee County School System. The school system's district leaders will be able to take the leadership principles of the US Army Rangers and apply them to their day to day roles as school system leaders. A special thanks to LTC Craig Butera, MAJ Jon Godwin, and SSG Andy McMullen for conducting the training session. The 4th Ranger Training Battalion serves as the Chattahoochee County School System's Partner in Education.
To all returning members of the ChattCo Family, welcome back for what will be an exciting school year! For those new to our community, I look forward to meeting you soon. I hope you find our new website useful. If there's anything you need that you can't find on our website, feel free to call or email me. I'm looking forward to a new school year. See you all soon!


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Fed may raise rates to 8%-9%, economist says
The big question racing through the financial markets is how much more the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates.
Since the beginning of the rate hike campaign in March, the Fed has raised the Federal Funds rate by 375 basis points (3.75 percentage points) to a range of 3.75% to 4%. In September, Fed officials predicted interest rates will peak at around 4.6% next year.
But in November, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said the Fed may have to go further than expected. And now experts, including interest rate traders, have united around a 5% forecast.
But James Bullard, president of the St. Louis Fed, said last week that the Fed may need to raise rates further.
Using the so-called Taylor rule for monetary policy, Bullard suggested that the federal funds rate may need to go beyond 5%, to as high as 7%.
Good for savings accounts, bad for loans
That's good for you if you have a savings account or money market fund or want to buy single bonds. That's because it would drive up interest rates on those assets. But it is bad if you are planning to take out a loan as you will have to pay back at higher interest rates.
As for the Taylor rule, it states that the federal funds rate should be guided by two factors: the difference between actual and target inflation and that between actual and target GDP growth.
The Fed has an inflation target of 2%. But the favorite inflation indicator, the personal consumer spending index, rose 6.2% in the 12 months through September.
"So far, the change in monetary policy appears to have had only limited effects on perceived inflation," Bullard said. The September figure was unchanged from August and only slightly down from July's 6.4%, although it was down more significantly from June's 7%.
"To reach a sufficiently restrictive level, policy rates will have to be raised further," he said.
Federal funds can reach 9%
Lindsey Piegza, chief economist at securities firm Stifel, says Federal Funds rates may need to be raised above 7%.
"While Bullard's calculation seems reasonable on the lower bound, even at 7%, the upper bound may be an underestimation of the high interest rate needed given the potential for more aggressive assumptions," she said.
Complicated calculations related to economic growth indicate "a potential need" for the federal funds rate to rise to 8% to 9%, Piegza said.
"The recent improvement in inflationary pressures transitioning from peak levels has seemingly… blinded many investors to the need for the Fed to continue aggressively on the path to higher rates," she said.
The consumer price index's 7.7% increase in the 12 months through October represents an improvement from the 8.2% increase through September, Piegza said.
But, "it's hardly something to celebrate or a clear signal for the Fed to move to a simpler policy, with a target range of 2%. [for inflation] another distant achievement," she said.
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Missouri Lawmakers Take Aim At Local Coronavirus Restrictions
St. Louis Public Radio | By Jason Rosenbaum
Sen. Andrew Koenig, R-Manchester, speaks at a press conference in Chesterfield to talk about his legislation aimed at curtailing local COVID-19 orders.
Some Missouri lawmakers want to curtail local governments' ability to enact COVID-19 restrictions. This comes amid some GOP outcry over indoor dining limitations and reduced bar hours.
Updated at 9:40 p.m. Dec. 1 with information on the county council's resolution against Page's restrictions
Missouri lawmakers are pushing back against local COVID-19 restrictions, in reaction to St. Louis County Executive Sam Page curtailing indoor dining at restaurants.
It's a move that Republican lawmakers say is necessary to protect businesses that have been harmed by health orders limiting how they can operate. The idea, though, chafes against Gov. Mike Parson's policy of giving counties and cities leeway to put in place tougher restrictions against the virus than the state has. And it follows Page's election last month as county executive, after a campaign in which his response to the pandemic was front and center.
With COVID-19 cases rising and more people heading to area hospitals, Page announced several weeks ago that he was barring county restaurants from having indoor dining. That decision outraged restaurant owners and a number of Republican officials, such as state Sen. Andrew Koenig of Manchester.
During a press conference Tuesday in front of Satchmo's Bar and Grill in Chesterfield, Koenig laid out elements of a bill he plans to file before the 2021 session. Among other things, it would bar local governments from enacting any "public health orders, ordinances, rules, or regulations during a declared state of emergency and pertaining to such state of emergency" for a cumulative period longer than 14 days in a two-year period. State lawmakers would have to pass a resolution to go beyond that time period.
Koenig's bill also states that a legislative body, such as a county council, would have to approve any COVID-19 restriction. It would bar any COVID-19 restrictions on religious institutions or gatherings on private residential property. And it would offer businesses affected by shutdowns relief on their property taxes.
"We happen to be living in a constitutional republic, where we have separation of powers," Koenig said. "No one person should have the power to make law and shut our businesses down."
In addition to a number of GOP lawmakers, Koenig was joined at the press conference by Missouri Restaurant Association CEO Bob Bonney. He said suspending indoor dining in St. Louis County has had devastating economic consequences.
"We were hopeful that nine months into this pandemic, we could collectively recognize that there is an inherent desire for humans to congregate and often over food," Bonney said. "Shutting down dine-in service removes the ability to accommodate that need in a highly regulated, sanitized, seat-limited and appropriately spaced seating. Instead, it will drive that behavior to innumerable residential social gatherings, which are likely less safe."
The association has joined more than 50 restaurants in suing to try to block the restrictions. Satchmo's is one of a number of restaurants that have received warnings about violating the county's health order.
Later on Tuesday, the county health department moved to close four restaurants, including Satchmo's, for violating the indoor dining restrictions. In addition to Satchmo's, health department spokesman Christopher Ave said the county took action against Bartolino's South, Final Destination and OT's Bar. A fifth restaurant, Acapulco, will be given notice of suspension if it continues to operate with indoor dining.
Ave said each restaurant was given three written warnings before their permits to operate were revoked. He added that the eateries have 10 days to request a hearing.
It was evident on Tuesday night that not everyone on the St. Louis County Council agrees with how Page is navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.
The council passed a resolution on a 4-3 vote undoing many of the COVID-19 restrictions, including occupancy limits for businesses and the ban on indoor dining at restaurants. It keeps in place the mask mandate, but does away with the mask requirement while working out at gyms or playing sports.
Council members Rita Days, D-Bel Nor, Mark Harder, R-Ballwin, Ernie Trakas, R-South St. Louis County, and Tim Fitch, R-St. Louis County voted for the resolution. Councilwomen Lisa Clancy, D-Maplewood, Rochelle Walton Gray, D-Black Jack, and Kelli Dunaway, D-Chesterfield, voted against it.
Page spokesman Doug Moore said the resolution is nonbinding and "expressed the council's opinion about public health restrictions." But he added "the resolution does not have the force of law."
"St. Louis County will continue to follow the County Charter as well as the state statutes and regulations that empower the public health director to issue orders necessary to protect people from COVID-19," Moore said.
Fitch, though, disagreed with the idea that the resolution was symbolic, adding that council members consulted with outside lawyers on the issue. He said that a court would likely decide about the resolution's impact, perhaps with the previous litigation filed by the Missouri Restaurant Association.
"At the end of the day, he doesn't just get to say it's nonbinding," Fitch said. "That would be up to a judge to decide that."
Before the vote was taken, Trakas said he had concerns about the effectiveness of a resolution versus an ordinance.
"I think it is preferable that we pass an ordinance and I have so stated to my colleagues," Trakas said. "Nonetheless, this is an important vote because it allows us to state clearly where we stand on this issue. Many of my constituents are frustrated by the emergency health restrictions. They understand that things need to be restricted. But they also believe in personal responsibility."
Dunaway said that the council members supporting the resolution were speaking for a "very loud minority in St. Louis County that has simply had enough of this pandemic and want the freedom to live like we aren't in a global pandemic."
She noted that both Page and herself won decisively in the November general election.
"So can we please stop this and just get back to the work of governing and making sure that we are prepared to move into the future?" Dunaway said.
For his part, Page said he would maintain the course of action he has been following.
In a statement issued after the press conference on Tuesday, Page said he "will continue to support the recommendations of our public health directors and the Pandemic Task Force."
"Hospitals are overrun, and our health care workers are begging for reasonable public health decisions," Page said. "The election is over. Stop politicizing the pandemic."
St. Louis County is the only Missouri governmental jurisdiction in the region that has placed restrictions on indoor dining in recent weeks. Other places, like the city of St. Louis and St. Charles County, have declined to issue similar regulations.
When asked on Monday about whether the county's restrictions were having an impact when other local counties or cities were not following suit, Page said it's too early to tell.
"It's been a couple of weeks. We know it takes a couple of weeks to bend the curve," Page said. "We've seen some flattening in the cases over the past four or five days. But we also know that testing has been down some over the Thanksgiving holiday. And we don't know yet the impact of gatherings around Thanksgiving."
Page said on Monday that lawmakers file hundreds of bills every year and that only a few of them actually make it over the legislative finish line.
"This legislation does provide the opportunity to discuss these difficult decisions around public health orders," Page said. "But what I've seen around St. Louis County, and even across the country, is that the vast majority of residents understand the difficult sacrifices we are making, including restrictions on restaurants and bars for indoor dining and recognizing that these are difficult but necessary decisions."
Page won an additional two years in office by soundly defeating Republican candidate Paul Berry III. He also emerged victorious in a hard-fought Democratic primary in which his leadership during the pandemic was the central issue.
Asked if those elections showcased that county residents support Page's actions during the COVID-19 pandemic, Koenig replied: "There's a lot of people who probably do support what he's doing. But we govern under a set of laws, and we have a constitutional republic."
"And we don't live in a society that's mob rule," Koenig said.
But it's not just Page who has previously had a cool reaction to efforts for the state to clamp down on what local governments can do during the COVID-19 pandemic. Parson has repeatedly stressed that cities and counties should have the ability to enact curbs that are more stringent than the state's.
In fact, during an appearance with Page in late May, Parson responded to criticism of the county executive's actions from residents who didn't like his business restrictions by saying: "I don't like the federal government coming in and telling me what to do as a governor. I don't want to be telling these cities and counties exactly how to run their business."
"They know better on the ground here," Parson said at the time. "And the other thing is they're elected. There's consequences to elections. We're all responsible for what we do every day as elected officials."
Asked for reaction Tuesday to the proposed state legislation, Kelli Jones, a spokeswoman for Parson, said in an email that the governor expects the legislature to address this issue in January.
Koenig said he has spoken with Parson's staff about his legislation. But he hasn't gone over all the details since they were finalized on Monday.
"I've been working on the language very hard," Koenig said. "We have had five different drafts with multiple changes in each draft. I'm sure there's going to be changes to the bill. But I think it's in a pretty good place right now."
Lawmakers could start prefiling legislation Tuesday. Assuming Parson doesn't expand the current special session to accommodate Koenig's legislation, lawmakers can take up the proposal when they reconvene in January.
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