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Two more Navy Capatains walk the PC Navy's plank
Thread starter APACHERAT
APACHERAT
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I've lost track of how many Navy commanders have been relieved of their commands during the past four years. Have even lost track for this year, I know it's well over twenty and there's still three more months left in the year.
There's the old phrase, "A fish stinks from the head down."
In layman terms, when an organization, state, nation (or any establishment) fails, it is because the leadership was the root cause of the failure.
To dumb it down some more, if a servant is disorderly, it is because the master is disorderly.
>" All of a sudden it's dangerous to command a medical treatment facility on board a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
Both CAPT William Cogar and Kevin Koop found the brass have no "Comfort" or "Mercy" for them, despite the names of their two respective naval vessels.
Each officer has been relieved. Cogar for lying about his weight on a PFA, and Koop for having what the Navy calls a "lack of leadership" and "poor-command climate."
CAPT Cogar was commanding officer of the med treatment facility aboard the USNS Comfort at San Diego, and Koop had the same position on his boat, the Norfolk-based USNS Mercy.
"TIMES ARE CHANGING," CHIEFS SAY
Old salts of the sea, and some of our favorite master chief petty officer informants, tell us they cannot remember a medical officer in such a position walking the plank, much less two in the space of 30 days.
"It must be the new Navy," griped one, snorting about the sudden celebration of gay couples, same-sex marriages and joint assignments. "Maybe Obama will come out of the closet himself before his term is up," said one military member, who preferred to remain anonymous.
FALLEN FROM A LOFTY HEIGHT
Cogar's fall can be traced to a false entry on his PFA. Investigators said he knowingly had an incorrect weight entered on his records and that as many as four crew members of the COMFORT also had falsified records.
The 59 year-old native of Akron, Ohio started his long career as a Navy hospital corpsman in the 1970's and was commissioned an ensign in the USNR in 1984.
Cogar is holder of the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, the MSM with two gold stars, Navy Commendation Medal with gold star, Navy Achievement Medal, Humanitarian Assistance medal, and Iraq Campaign Medal.
Koop has a similarly distinguished background. He was awarded the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star and served in Afghanistan.
Now both men are the latest names on a long list of Navy commanders whose careers have come to a sudden and ignominious end."<
CAPT WILLIAM COGAR
StillBallin75
Salty Specialist
Fort Drum, New York
So what's the point of this article other than to NOT actually tell us why these officers were relieved and insinuate that somehow political correctness and Obama are to blame for all the Navy's failures while failing to make any argument of substance?
Surtr
The greatest planet in the world.
It did say. Coger lied about his weight by knowingly falsifing documents, which is a huge no no for an officer. That **** can get an officer kicked out of service entirely. If the guy is fat, he needs to man up and do something about it, not lie on official documents.
RabidAlpaca
American Refugee in Europe
APACHERAT said:
I don't know what ****ty service you were in, but in the Army, falsifying documents is a serious offense. I have absolutely no idea why you would defend that or make this one of your idiotic "it's Obama's PC" cases.
For the second guy, they said he had poor leadership and poor command climate, which means he was being a terrible leader and making his sailors' lives miserable. Are you also opposed to military leaders ever being relieved, no matter how incompetent they are? Unbelievable.
notquiteright
okla-freakin-homa
RabidAlpaca said:
I don't know what ****ty service you were in, but in the Army, falsifying documents is a serious offense. I have absolutely no idea why you would defend that or make this one of your idiotic "it's Obama's PC" cases. For the second guy, they said he had poor leadership and poor command climate, which means he was being a terrible leader and making his sailors' lives miserable. Are you also opposed to military leaders ever being relieved, no matter how incompetent they are? Unbelievable.
In Apache's case I think it is quite simple, he only has one drum and only knows one beat.
Falsifying multiple records seems to be the one Officer's offense. Being an incompetent prick the other's. Usually Apache makes it about 'social engineering' and attacking GAWD fearing folks, but I guess he thinks officers can do no wrong and should slide through no matter what...
Some would see this as bold, long overdue house cleaning. I guess others see a bit of gold braid and think the wearer is semi-sacred... :roll:
notquiteright said:
Yeah, I've seen my share of really, really, awful officers. "Bad leadership and bad command climate" means exactly what you think it means; he was a terrible leader and probably made everyone's lives a living hell.
All well, I never take Apacherat seriously anyways. Just let him mumble on about Obama and he'll eventually get tired and take his afternoon nap.
pinqy
Centrist
Yeah, I'm struggling with what's supposed to be "PC" about these cases.
Lower Hudson Valley, NY
pinqy said:
In right wing circles, calling anything that happens to the military "PC" is the "in" thing to do
In another thread, MMC called the sacking of military officers for being involved in defrauding the Navy "PC"
Argument here seems to be "two hospital ship captains got relieved and this has never happened before! Therefore Aliens. And PC and Obama."
sangha said:
I missed the PC claim in the other thread. But come on...companies can't bribe government officials with prostitutes anymore?? Political correctness gone amuck!
StillBallin75 said:
Well, ok, now it all makes perfect sense.
roguenuke
Rolesville, NC
The Mercy is technically my husband's command, so he told me about the CO being relieved a week or two ago (he is cross-assigned, so he actually reports to Balboa, not the Mercy for his duties). I don't know why anyone would think it is wrong to kick out a CO for lying. And it honestly wasn't just like he lied once on one PRT and they caught him on it. There was a bit more to it, everyone basically just has the official story. He deserved it though.
And it sounds like the other CO deserved his as well.
Heck, the CO in Bahrain fired last year was because he was having inappropriate parties at his rented place there, including inviting younger officers and enlisted sailors (junior enlisted) and skinny dipping in the river outside his place.
Many of the firings are well deserved. Heck, there have been a lot of COs who have gotten away with a lot of stuff that is completely inappropriate. Prior to getting on the Lincoln, the guys told me the CO they had just before it wasted all sorts of government money and ship's time to further his own political aspirations, including taking the ship to Santa Barbara (we were stationed in WA and Santa Barbara isn't exactly a normal port for the Navy, particularly not an aircraft carrier) in order for him to attend a political function and redecorated his state room right after knowing that it had already been redecorated by the previous CO (tradition in the Navy is that the leaving CO redecorates the state room for the oncoming CO) (both done with Navy funding).
Re: Two more Navy Captains walk the PC Navy's plank
I'm not defending the Captain who falsified his records, Like I even the U.S. Navy Institute are asking why are there all of a sudden so many navy commanders being relieved of their commands ? When the Navy had a 900 or even a 600 ship fleet there were less commanders walking the plank than today with a fleet at it's smallest size since 1916, less than 300 ships and the majority aren't even able to put to sea and fight.
And it's just not the Navy but all four branches of the service. Why are members of the service doing things today that they weren't or wouldn't have been doing five years ago ? Like MCC thread about the naval officers who were taking bribes.
This is where the fish rots from the head comes in. Obama is redefining the purpose and character of the U.S. military. If your an officer and in some case a SNCO and your not politically correct enough for the left, your going to be targeted.
The fact are those serving in the military don't respect their Cn'C. If the Cn'C don't respect them how do you expect those who serve under his command to respect him. Even in the military respect has to be earned.
Just awhile back the Marine commander of all Marine bases on Hawaii was relieved of his command for poor leadership and poor command climate. What finally came out was he was fired over pigs. That's right pigs. He was relieved of his command as a political payback to PETA by Obama.
Today when you see "poor leadership and poor command climate" or loss of confidence it's probably not something for some strange reason just began, it's for not being politically correct enough for todays new PC military. You have thousands of career officers who are scared to talk and they all look at each other wondering who's next on the Obama hit list ?
Now half of these walking the planks have to do with sexual misconduct. True, years ago there was no big problem because it was before social engineering. Congress and the activist didn't take the time to think what will be the consequences using the military for social engineering ? Today you are seeing the consequences and there's nothing you can do about it, it's biological science and no matter how hard the left uses revisionism and tries to rewrite science, boys and girls are going to be attracted to each other.
Wiseone
Ft. Campbell, KY
Smallest Navy since 1916?
No officers misbehaved up until 5 years ago?
Political payback to PETA?
Targeting of officers and NCOs?
Thousands of officers scared into silence?
Obama hit list?
Sexual misconduct was not a big problem a few years ago?
This has to be the craziest and dumbest post I've ever read.
It isn't that the officers and higher ups are just now doing stuff. It is that they are just now being held accountable in such high numbers for the things they do. They aren't simply being transferred or the problems hidden. We find about what does happen more because we have many more sources.
Thats been the observation, so many commanders being sacked than in the past and our military is half of it's size today.
Remember, this all just began a few years ago. These officers who are walking the plank for what ever reasons have twenty to thirty years of service under their belts.
What's different today than five years ago ?
When you say things like the pigs thing, you sound like a conspiracy theorist. That's a really, really weak connection your'e drawing with everything here.
Fact is, you have absolutely no idea what the officer climate of 2013 is. I just got out and I can tell you because the economy makes it an employer's market. I came in in 2005 and it was completely different. They were so desperate for bodies for the wars they were taking felons with neck tattoos. Now they've been told to downsize since the wars are drawing to a close, but nobody wants to leave because the economy sucks.
So what do they do? They start taking out the trash. Get rid of the terrible leaders and bad apples. Listen, I don't like Obama either, but making up ****ty connections like this just makes YOU look crazy, and you're doing it at the cost of advocating for terrible officers. Just think about that.
Did you seriously just ask that? Have you heard nothing of the draw down in Iraq and the downsizing of the military? They're kicking a LOT of people out.
roguenuke said:
Heck, there have been a lot of COs who have gotten away with a lot of stuff that is completely inappropriate. Prior to getting on the Lincoln, the guys told me the CO they had just before it wasted all sorts of government money and ship's time to further his own political aspirations, including taking the ship to Santa Barbara (we were stationed in WA and Santa Barbara isn't exactly a normal port for the Navy, particularly not an aircraft carrier) in order for him to attend a political function and redecorated his state room right after knowing that it had already been redecorated by the previous CO (tradition in the Navy is that the leaving CO redecorates the state room for the oncoming CO) (both done with Navy funding).
What's the lure of Santa Barbara and ships captains ? Is there a top secret goats locker club or a secret captains brothel in Santa Barbara ?
Back in the early 60's one day the CVS USS Bennington showed up offshore of Santa Barbara and dropped anchor. They lowered the captains launch and he came ashore.
Back in the 90's one weekend a LHA or LHD was anchored off shore and there was a LCU on the beach. The papers never mentioned if Clinton had ordered the invasion of Santa Barbara. And I can't picture Barbra Streisand throwing a party for the Navy.
Maybe there's a top secret military installation hidden within the city of Santa Barbara ?
BTW, did the ships crew on the Lincoln get shore leave in Santa Barbara ?
Actually it's not that uncommon to see navy ships anchored offshore of Santa Barbara. No one really knows why but with the close proximity to Point Mugu NAS and Port Hueneme and the channel islands just offshore where the navy does all kinds of stuff who knows what's going on in Santa Barbara ?
They got very little and it was busted by a storm which screwed up the liberty boats. A portion of the crew was stuck on shore, while the others had to take up the slack.
It isn't normal for an aircraft carrier. CVNs are way too big. West coast carriers usually go to San Diego or Pearl for liberty ports, or up to Victoria Canada.
And from the info I got, it is possible that it is a place with high political influence.
Did Pigs Get a U.S. Marine Colonel Fired?
>" U.S. Marine Corps Installations Pacific Commander Maj. Gen. Peter Talleri replaced Col. Jeffrey R. Woods this week "due a lack of confidence" in Woods' leadership. No other information was released about the change other than it is a "private matter."
This announcement came on the heels of a national social media campaign launched October 3 by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and October 5 by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to get the military to stop using live pigs in their military training in Hawaii..."<
Did Pigs Get a U.S. Marine Colonel Fired? | Hawaii Reporter
>" It's often unfair to those fired, as well as their families, when the military announces a relief of command, but declines to disclose the reason why.
That starts the rumor mill going, and in the Aloha State, stories about why Col. Jeffrey Woods, commander of Marine Corps Base Hawaii, was canned are thicker than fleas. We have touched base with our sources on the island and can say it "might" have something to do with the ex-commander drinking too much in the club and having several "inappropriate relationships" with female Marines.
But just why the brass are hiding behind the Privacy Act, could also have something to do with PETA and pigs. That's right. You read that correctly. Some civilians have been raising cain over the Marine's use of sows in certain experiments in Hawaii. Woods, reportedly, was outspoken on the issue. In other words, this career Marine may have been brought down and career ended because of his lack of "political correctness."..."<
COL. JEFFREY R. WOODS
https://ssl.congress.org/congressorg/bio/userletter/?id=9501&letter_id=7490695551
I think you're on track. The last bastion of conservatives have taken up refuge overlooking Santa Barbara in Montecito Heights but some how Oprah and Ellen Degeneres snuck in disguised as illegal alien toilet cleaners and are now well entrenched and standing their ground.
Any neighborhood where the average person can't even afford to eat at the local greasy spoon and is overpopulated with liberals at night and illegal alien gardeners, toilet cleaners and nannies during the day usually has a high political influence.
Possibly. However, this would have started many decades ago, from your own stories and my own experience (my ship would have been in the first part of 2000). But it doesn't make what they are doing right. I don't care what political affiliation they are or what are current military affairs are (at the time, no wars, a selling point I used to appease my own mother), it is wrong to waste money, taxpayer money, on the political ambitions of a ship's captain.
Like I said I don't know why large Navy ships all of a sudden drop anchor off of Santa Barbara. It happens every once in awhile. I forgot that Vandenberg AFB is also up the road from Santa Barbara.
Santa Barbara doesn't even have a harbor, just a small yacht harbor.
During the 1700's and until the late 1860's Santa Barbara could only be reached by the sea or on horseback. The first wagon trail was built during the 1860's which is Hwy. 101 today.
Come to think of it, when I'm on the east coast in the DC area the DC Navy Yard is always one of my stops. I like reading all of the Navy's old ship logs and Santa Barbara was always a port of call with the Pacific Squadron.
I suppose today, Santa Barbra becoming so blue and the common people aren't really welcomed, it's just too expensive today to be a liberty town for sailors.
Slightly Liberal
But that's the point of all of his posts!
Wiggen said:
You and many others just don't get it.
Lets try again.
Below is an opinion piece from the U.S. Naval Institute, the same people who publish "Proceedings." If you don't read or even know what "Proceedings" is, this topic is out of the ball park for you.
>" As of this date, 16 Navy commanding officers, including five ship captains, have been relieved of their respective commands in 2013.
Is this number particularly significant? Well, while the number of ships in commission has continued to decline, to what is now the lowest number since 1916, the number of ship captains being relieved of their commands is steadily increasing. So, the percentage of ship captains being fired is rising, every year, and that should be a concern.
These officers are, quite literally, the best we have — the best we could make. Each has risen to command following years of intense competition and preparation. How could these captains be so ferociously competitive and yet fail at such a high rate?
According to Commander, Surface Forces, ship captains get relieved for two primary reasons: operational misconduct and personal misconduct.
Operational misconduct should be thought of as (almost exclusively) collision or grounding. While no electronic records related to ship captain firings exist before 2000, U-T San Diego has quoted sources in the Naval Personnel Command saying "nearly every commander fired 50 years ago got into trouble for running the ship aground or hitting a pier." In other words, captains have been getting relieved for this sort of misadventure for as long as ships have been at sea.
Yet, no one seems especially concerned about this. It is understood that naval operations are inherently risky propositions, involving countless variables. Frankly, it is a testament to our commanding officers' excellence that more accidents don't happen. At the end of the day, it seems a certain number of accidents — and associated captain reliefs — are simply considered to be the cost of doing business on the high seas.
This brings us to "personal misconduct," and the cause of the dramatic rise in firings in the past decade. Beginning in the early 1990s, post-Tailhook, women have been fully integrated into combat ships and squadrons. At first, men and women in ships had a healthy fear of one another, and the rules were rigidly enforced.
However, over time, everyone has become comfortable with the presence of the opposite sex, and naturally that comfort has led to an exploding rate of fraternization, at every level..."<
Continue -> Opinion: Why More Commanding Officers are Getting Fired | USNI News
apdst
Bagdad, La.
Obama is the commander-in-chief. A commander is responsible for the conduct of the men under his command.
The higher frequency of impropriety among the officer corps of our military goes to show how Obama's lack of leadership has caused a break down in discipline.
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Former boxing champ dies after she's run over
By MARK GILLISPIE - Associated Press - Thursday, July 17, 2014
CLEVELAND (AP) - A former national boxing champion died after she jumped onto the hood of a car that was driving toward her, fell off and then was accidentally run over by a different vehicle, Cleveland police said.
Cashmere Jackson, 26, died after what appeared to be an altercation Wednesday at a gas station on Cleveland's east side. Jackson exited the car she was riding in after another car bumped it. When the second car drove toward Jackson, she jumped onto the hood, police said.
Police said the driver of the second car pulled onto a busy street with Jackson on the hood, and that she fell off just before the vehicle collided with a car stopped at a traffic light. Jackson was then accidentally run over by another vehicle.
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Q: Align labels to left on form using CSS I have a login form with labels and input, i can not get the labels to go on the left and input on the right. Currently they are sitting on top of each other.
Here is the HTML:

    <form name="login" action="submit" method="get" accept- charset="utf-8">

                Username
                <input type="email" name="usermail"  placeholder="yourname@email.com" required>

                Password
                <input type="password" name="password" placeholder="password" required>

                <input type="submit" value="Login">

    </form>

Here is the CSS:
form   {
margin:auto;
position:relative;
width:375px;
height:250px;
font-family: Lucida Sans, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-style: italic;
line-height: 24px;
font-weight: bold;
text-decoration: none;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
-moz-border-radius: 10px;
 border-radius: 10px;
 padding:10px;
 border: 1px solid #999;
 border: inset 1px solid #333;

 }
 input    { float:right;
 width:350px;
 display:block;
 border: 1px solid #999;
 height: 25px;

 }

Here is the JSFiddle https://jsfiddle.net/ojz87d0x/

A: On input, change display:block; to display:inline-block;, and add the following:
label {
    display: inline-block;
    float:left;
    clear:both;
}

input[type="submit"] {
    clear: both;
}

You'll also need to make sure that the width of the input and the width of the form are different enough to allow space for the label. In this example [in the fiddle]. I set input to 275px and form to 375px.
Here's a newer update to your fiddle.

A: First of all, the inputs are too wide for both the labels and inputs to be next to each other inside the form. So either widen the form or shorten the inputs.
Next, add float: left to the labels.

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The Social Security Agreement between India and Japan was signed in Tokyo on November 16, 2012. The Ministry of External Affairs (Investment, Technology Promotion and Energy Security Division), the competent authority for negotiating and concluding SSAs along with the Employee's Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has completed the formalities for the Agreement to enter into force.
The Implementing Arrangement under the SSA and the Administrative Arrangement for implementation of the agreement between the two countries were exchanged on 9th June 2016. Earlier today the two sides have exchanged Note Verbales in accordance with Article 28 of the Agreement notifying the completion of the respective constitutional and legal procedures required for the entry into force of the Agreement. The Article 28 also mentions that the Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the fourth month following the date of receipt of last notification. Therefore, the Agreement on Social Security between India and Japan shall enter into force with effect from 1st October 2016.
As on date, India has signed and operationalized similar comprehensive Social Security Agreements (SSAs) with 15 countries. They are Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea, Austria, and Australia. We have also signed a comprehensive SSA with Portugal, which is in the process of getting operationalized. In addition, we have a partial SSA with Germany, which is already operationalized.
The comprehensive SSA between India and Japan when operational from 1st October 2016 will favourably impact the profitability and competitive position of Indian and Japanese companies with foreign operations in either countries by reducing their cost of doing business abroad. Thousands of Indian and Japanese workers who are working in Japan and India respectively will benefit from the agreement. The SSA will also help more Japanese companies to consider India as a destination for their manufacturing investments.


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Ontario puts an end to the use of taxpayer dollars for tickets to events featuring politicians
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Austin Mayor tells residents to stay home while on vacation in Mexico
The Democratic Mayor of Austin is facing blowback for telling his constituents to stay inside while on vacation in Mexico.
According to the BBC, "Steve Adler, leader of Austin, Texas, went on a family getaway to Mexico as he told people to keep indoors amid spiralling virus caseloads. He recorded a video from the beach resort instructing residents back home: 'This is not the time to relax.'"
The BBC added that the Mayor defended his plans because he said he didn't travel when travel was forbidden.
Adler isn't the first politician to face accusations of hypocrisy related to COVID-19. Only a few weeks ago, California Governor Gavin Newsom was caught going out to a crowded dinner after telling Californians to be careful with people outside their household.
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Porsche Classic restores genuine 911 ST for 2016 Techno Classica
Today marks the opening of the 2016 Techno Classica, the annual historic automotive celebration held in Essen. To coincide with the opening of the show, Porsche Classic has unveiled its latest completed project: a perfectly restored, Porsche 911 2.5 S/T.
Just 24 genuine 911 S/Ts – based on the Porsche 911 2.4S road car – were built in period, with this particular car having enjoyed a class victory at the 1972 24 Hours of Le Mans with none other than Jürgen Barth at the wheel.
Despite its incredible history – including appearances at Sebring, Nürburgring and the Targa Florio in 1972 – this particular Porsche 911 was found by a US collector a few years ago in what Alexander Fabig, head of Porsche Classic, describes as "a really dilapidated condition".
Costing 49,680 Deutschmarks in period (a 61 per cent hike over the standard 2.4S), this Porsche 911 2.5 S/T had, at some point in its life, been updated to G-Series specification and had also suffered accident damage, crudely repaired by a previous owner.
Like many classic Porsche 911s, the dreaded rust worm had also set in, eating away at the rear arches. The body shell, therefore required extensive work by Porsche Classic, Zuffenhausen's restoration arm having to carefully repair the rare flared arches while fitting new panels where appropriate.
To protect the newly rebuilt shell from further corrosion, Porsche put the 911 2.5 S/T through the same process as its latest production cars using cathodic dip painting to protect the body before the shell was finished in the original Light Yellow (paint code 117 for those, like us, who find that sort of detail fascinating).
The end result looks truly stunning but, as Fabig points out, the project was not just a showcase of Porsche Classic's skills. "This project is unparalleled and of great historical significane," he explains.
Much of Porsche's reputation has been built on its racing successes, with the lessons learned on the Porsche 911 2.5 S/T directly feeding into the development of the original Porsche 911 Carrera 2.8 RSR.
In turn, the 911 RSR breed has continued to accrue myriad international victories since its inception while also allowing Porsche to transfer the knowledge it gains on the track into its road cars, like the latest 991 GT3 RS.
In issue 130, we got behind the wheel of genuine, factory-built Porsche 911 2.5 S/T. To read our high-octane test drive in full, order your copy online for home delivery, or download it straight to your digital device now.


Clark Dumont, M.S., APR, is a FORTUNE 500 C-level communicator. He is the Principal & Founder of Dumont Communications, LLC where he focuses on organizational reputation and relationships for organizations, and the people in them.
Prior to the founding of his practice in 2018, he was Senior Vice President & Chief of Staff to the Chairman & CEO of MGM Resorts International. He previously served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications, where he led the company's executive communications, corporate citizenship and public affairs functions. As Chief of Staff he also chaired the company's Executive Communications Council, Communications Management Team, and was a member of the company's Corporate Social Responsibility Team.
He has served in other senior communications positions with BAE Systems, Inc.; Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield and Blue Cross & Blue Shield of New Hampshire and Nevada Cancer Institute. He began his career as a broadcast journalist where he covered several Presidential Primaries.
He has a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from The American University, and a Master's Degree in Communications Management from Syracuse University. He is accredited as a public relations practitioner by the Public Relations Society of America (APR) and is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society. He serves on the Dean's Council at the Greenspun School of Urban Affairs at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He has also served on the National Dean's Council of the Columbia School of Arts & Sciences at George Washington University.
His volunteerism portfolio includes chairing a community United Way Campaign, serving as a board member of public radio and public television stations and a member of the board of City Year New Hampshire which recognized him and his wife, Anne Dumont, with a life time achievement award for community leadership, as well as other health and social agencies. He is a member of the board of directors for VegasPBS as well as the American Red Cross of Southern Nevada, where he is board vice chair and received the board member recognition award.


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package org.apache.stratos.messaging.message.processor.topology;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.apache.stratos.messaging.domain.topology.Cluster;
import org.apache.stratos.messaging.domain.topology.Service;
import org.apache.stratos.messaging.domain.topology.Topology;
import org.apache.stratos.messaging.event.topology.ApplicationClustersCreatedEvent;
import org.apache.stratos.messaging.message.filter.topology.TopologyClusterFilter;
import org.apache.stratos.messaging.message.filter.topology.TopologyServiceFilter;
import org.apache.stratos.messaging.message.processor.MessageProcessor;
import org.apache.stratos.messaging.message.processor.topology.updater.TopologyUpdater;
import org.apache.stratos.messaging.util.MessagingUtil;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * This will process the clusters and add them to relevant service.
 */
public class ApplicationClustersCreatedMessageProcessor extends MessageProcessor {
    private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(ApplicationClustersCreatedMessageProcessor.class);
    private MessageProcessor nextProcessor;

    @Override
    public void setNext(MessageProcessor nextProcessor) {
        this.nextProcessor = nextProcessor;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean process(String type, String message, Object object) {
        Topology topology = (Topology) object;
        if (ApplicationClustersCreatedEvent.class.getName().equals(type)) {
            // Return if topology has not been initialized
            if (!topology.isInitialized()) {
                return false;
            }

            // Parse complete message and build event
            ApplicationClustersCreatedEvent event = (ApplicationClustersCreatedEvent) MessagingUtil.
                    jsonToObject(message, ApplicationClustersCreatedEvent.class);
            return doProcess(event, topology);

        } else {
            if (nextProcessor != null) {
                // ask the next processor to take care of the message.
                return nextProcessor.process(type, message, topology);
            } else {
                throw new RuntimeException(String.format("Failed to process message using available message processors: [type] %s [body] %s", type, message));
            }
        }
    }

    private boolean doProcess(ApplicationClustersCreatedEvent event, Topology topology) {
        List<Cluster> clusters = event.getClusterList();

        for (Cluster cluster : clusters) {
            String serviceUuid = cluster.getServiceName();
            String clusterId = cluster.getClusterId();
            TopologyUpdater.acquireWriteLockForService(serviceUuid);
            try {

                // Apply service filter
                if (TopologyServiceFilter.apply(serviceUuid)) {
                    continue;
                }

                // Apply cluster filter
                if (TopologyClusterFilter.apply(clusterId)) {
                    continue;
                }

                // Validate event against the existing topology
                Service service = topology.getService(serviceUuid);
                if (service == null) {
                    if (log.isWarnEnabled()) {
                        log.warn(String.format("Service does not exist: [service] %s",
                                serviceUuid));
                    }
                    return false;
                }
                if (service.clusterExists(clusterId)) {
                    if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
                        log.debug(String.format("Cluster already exists in service: [service] %s " +
                                        "[cluster] %s", serviceUuid,
                                clusterId));
                    }
                } else {

                    // Apply changes to the topology
                    service.addCluster(cluster);
                    topology.addToCluterMap(cluster);
                    if (log.isInfoEnabled()) {
                        log.info(String.format("Cluster created: %s",
                                cluster.toString()));
                    }
                }

            } finally {
                TopologyUpdater.releaseWriteLockForService(serviceUuid);
            }
        }

        // Notify event listeners
        notifyEventListeners(event);
        return true;
    }
}

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Space Rush Game
Space Rush Game belongs to Action and it is often associated with Survival Games and Flying Games. This game has received 11 votes, 9 positive ones and 2 negative ones and has an average score of 3.9.
It is a game played in landscape and it's playable on Desktop on www.gamepix.com. This game has been published on 2021-04-07 and updated on 2021-04-07.
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Hyatt's current largest promotion is "Stay More, Play More". For every 5 eligible nights you stay, you'll earn an additional 5000 Hyatt Gold Passport points.
This promotion can be used for up to 25 eligible nights, giving a total possible bonus of 75,000 points.
While Hyatt's in Australia aren't exactly widespread beyond the major capitals, they are much more frequented overseas and Gold Passport points are valued for their good redemption values at many of their high-end properties overseas.
To be eligible, you must be a Hyatt Gold Passport member and register for this promotion. Eligible nights are from April 1 to June 30.
All up, this has the potential to be a fairly lucrative promotion if you have a large number of hotel nights coming up and can switch your allegiance readily to Hyatt.


I'm unsure how to rate or describe After the Romance Novel. The narrators are 17-year-old best friends, one experienced and one not. So it has a coming-of-age, young adult feel, but not.
Adam is snooping in his best friend's laptop, and discovers a smutty MM romance with two men named Adam and Evan. When questioned, Evan admits the books are his – he writes and publishes them, and this opens up the conflict.
Both boys are questioning their sexuality, fearful whatever they decide will harm their friendship, and also wanting more but fearful it will destroy their friendship. They're a ball of teenage angst.
I enjoyed this short story, read it in under and hour, and was entertained. However, the boys' dialogue and monologue sounded more like someone over fifty, not a teenager. Many phrases used are ones my parents used, long gone out of style for me, and I'm 38, whereas these boys are only 17 – I doubt they would have even heard those phrases, let alone put them to use in everyday language. The sole focus was on the conflict resolution, with little else shown on the pages. While I like a fast-paced story, this removed a connection between the reader and characters, as well as made the character development shallow.
I've read the standalone series unwittingly out of order, as this is the first in the series. I read Kissing Lessons (Before... and After Book 2) and 5-starred it. It had a lot more depth, tension and angst, and interactions between the characters.
I enjoy this author, and do recommend for readers who want to be entertained in an hour or so, and don't have a lot of time to read a 400-page book. Also, to those who want to read about young adults. A quick and easy, light read, which would be a great palate cleanser in between longer, or more 'stressful' books.
For reviews & more info, check out our Kissing Lessons post.
Reviewers on the Wicked Reads Review Team were provided a free copy of After the Romance Novel (Before... and After #1) by Susan Laine to read and review.


Holidays home are meant to encourage relaxation, to offer the right amount of homey touches and to offer the optimal enjoyment of the sun. This cosy villa, complete with a vast backyard and the private pool does just that.
The inside is bright, airy and a mix of modern and more traditional furnishings. The open plan living and dining room are cosy, with enough room for everyone to gather around the table for a meal or relax on the couch to watch the cable television. The kitchen is in a separate room but features a pass-through window between the kitchen and the dining area, making serving meals and tidying the table a breeze. This also means the cook is never out of the conversation, of course, you could hire a cook service should you wish for an additional fee.
Not only boasting an incredibly conveniently placed window, the kitchen has everything you need such as a gas hob and gas oven, microwave, dishwasher, refrigerator-freezer, coffee machine and toaster. The utility room also houses a washing machine.
The bedrooms are bright and white with wooden finishings and furnishings, which creates a real Mediterranean holiday feel. Each bedroom has two single beds, which can be pushed close together to create the illusion of a double. Both rooms open out onto the patio by the pool, so it is unlikely the private pool will be left uninhabited for long.
The bathrooms, both are incredibly modern, continue this light and airy feel that is felt throughout the house. One bathroom has a bath and shower and the other a shower.
Of course, a lot of the time at the villa is spent outside. Whether basking in the glorious sun on the deck chairs by the pool or enjoying an ice-cold beverage one of the two terraces, one of which is covered. As you follow the sun, from terrace to sun chair, to another terrace, a barbeque is a perfect way to end (or start) a day, with fresh, local cuisine cooking. High fencing and mature trees create a private oasis when you are outside, embracing your own little bubble in Spain.
Location is one of the most spectacular things about this villa, less than one kilometre from the town of Calpe and just two kilometres from the beach.
Villa Pepita is a an unpretentious 2- bedroom villa, that can sleep up to 4-guests. Being in an excellent location – you and your guests have a bountiful selection of local amenities within close proximity of this charming Spanish villa.
This villa is located less than one kilometre from Calpe, a town on Spain's Mediterranean coast that is renowned for sandy beaches, sea pools and medieval ruins, like that of the Pobla de Ifac. The town has an incredibly rich history, with its position on the coast having attracted many voyagers and settlers throughout history, in fact, remains of Iberian tribes have been found around the town. During the 14th to 17th centuries, those who lived in the area were subjected to attacks by pirates, and in the 18th-century peace enabled the town to regenerate and become the tourist location we know and visit today. All of this history provides glorious tales over dinner and offers plenty of stunning attractions, such as the ancient town centre next to the Moorish quarter and the church known as Iglesia Vieja, Valencia's only remaining example of Mudejar-Gothic architecture.
This history-rich town also boasts stunning beaches, in fact, it is said to have some of the most beautiful sandy beaches along the Costa Blanca coast, such as Playa de la Fosa, Arenal-Bol and La Fossa-Levante.
The cuisine on offer reflects the history and civilisations that have lived in this area, such as Celts, Iberians, Greeks, Romans and Muslims.
Calpe is at the heart of the Costa Blanca, which means there are plenty of options when it comes to exploring surrounding areas, and the tourist magnet is easily accessible to the A-7 motorway, making for stress-free day-trips. Should you not want to drive, there are also public transport options within five kilometres of the villa. The airports are not far away, with the nearest airport, Alicante, just over an hour's drive from the villa and the second nearest airport, Valencia, is over 100 kilometres away.
When travelling with kids there are often a lot of questions you need to ask - will they be happy at the villa, is it safe and is there enough to do in the area? Villa Pepita ticks all of these boxes so you can rest assured this is a spot fit for the whole family.
The private pool is sure to keep children entertained from dawn to dusk, but should they need more offerings for entertainment the villa has a large outdoor paved area, perfect for games and sports.
The villa is set on one level, so there is no need to worry about wandering children having accidents on stairs. Other facilities at the villa that make life easier with kids in tow include a bath, shaded areas outdoors, cable television and a washing machine.
As for the surrounding areas, kids of all ages (and big kids at heart) can dabble in some water sports such as surfing or water skiing, or stick to dry land and play tennis, mountain bike, cycle or hike all of which is available within 10 kilometres of the villa. Further afield, and a guaranteed day of fun, is an amusement park, theme park, wildlife park and waterpark all within 25 kilometres of the villa.


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A multiplayer survival game where a crew of spacemen must maintain the space base in order to survive, while using social deduction to figure out who among them are "impostors" sent to murder them.
PC iPhone Android Xbox One PlayStation 4 Nintendo Switch PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X|S
Among Us is a multiplayer-only sci-fi social deduction game developed and released by Innersloth for Android and iOS devices on June 16, 2018 (as a free-to-play game), with later standalone digital releases for the PC on November 16, 2018 and for the Nintendo Switch on December 15, 2020). It will be released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on December 14, 2021.
Each match of Among Us follows a 4-15 man crew as they navigate the space base in a top-down fashion and complete tasks (as simple mini-games) to keep the crew alive. However, some members of the crew are secretly given the role of "impostor", whose goal instead is to murder the other crewmates undetected (as they risk being voted off, similar to other social deduction games).
The game support cross-platform multiplayer between all platforms and was originally intended to be used as a multi-screen party game. While the game received limited attention on release, it received a sharp increase in popularity in 2020 following the studio's next release The Henry Stickmin Collection and the popularity of online multiplayer party games during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 2019, the game received additional bases as paid DLC ("MIRA HQ" and "Polus Outpost"), each introducing new cosmetic and gameplay changes. Both bases were made free on June 11, 2020, with some cosmetics available as separate DLC. A third base, "Airship", was released on March 31, 2021.
A sequel was announced in August 2020, but was quickly cancelled a month later. Further development was put into the original game in updates, adding new quality-of-life updates such as an updated text chat system using a series of pre-set phrases (intended for console players and younger audiences).
Crewmates
The majority of the players are Crewmates, whose goal is to either vote out all Impostor players or to complete all assigned tasks scattered throughout the base.
While they cannot kill players directly, they can call a group meeting (either by discovering a dead body or by pressing a special "emergency" button somewhere in the map), where they discuss and perform a majority vote to determine who to jettison off the base to their death. While this is used to eliminate Impostor players, players can be deceived to eliminate Crewmate players instead.
Dead crewmates, as ghosts, cannot directly interact with the other players but can help complete tasks.
With the release of the November 2021 roles update, players can enable three additional "roles", which are given to Crewmates at random:
Scientist - Can use the "Vitals" ability, which pulls up a tablet to check which players are dead regardless of location. This ability recharges by completing tasks.
Engineer - Can use the "Vent" ability, which allows them to use same ventilation shafts as Impostors. This ability recharges after 30 seconds, by default.
Guardian Angel - Only given to the first Crewmate that dies. Can use the "Protect" ability to shield a player from a Kill. This ability recharges after 60 seconds, by default.
Impostors
The minority of the players are secretly Impostors, whose goal is to eliminate all Crewmate players (by either having them voted out or by murdering them directly).
Unlike Crewmates, Impostors have special abilities that can aid them in sabotaging other players. They are given a fake list of tasks that can be used as an alibi and can traverse the base quickly by using special ventilation shafts. They can also sabotage key systems of the base, either forcing Crewmates to manage them or locking out areas.
Dead impostors, as ghosts, cannot directly interact with the other players but can help sabotage.
With the release of the November 2021 roles update, players can enable an additional "role" given to Impostors at random:
Shapeshifter - Can use the "Shift" ability, which allows them to temporarily change their appearance into another player. This ability lasts 60 seconds and recharges after 10 seconds, by default.
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Trying to predict the future of IT jobs is...shall we say, like trying to predict the stock market - and we all know how that worked in '07!. But, even taking into account that "the only certainty is change," the general shape of tech landscape now gives us ideas about good directions to move in.
"What is expected is that traditional IT roles of managing software and hardware will no longer be needed in the new cloud-heavy world."
I think that is a statement you can bank on with certainty. Naturally, as the traditional roles of the IT workforce become increasingly automated and mediated through the cloud, they will become obsolete. And new IT roles will inevitably crop up in other areas, such as helping clients integrate with the company's platform. And jobs will grow with cloud vendors.
1. You cannot afford to keep your head down and just work. You've got to be heads-up and constantly assessing the technology direction your company (and the market) is heading and whether your job will be part of it going forward. That also means reading industry blogs, following LinkedIn groups, and following IT thought leaders on Twitter, as well as general news feeds.
2. If you see where the jobs are going, start evolving towards them - either re-train, volunteer with the team doing the transition to cloud technology, or work with a mentor who can help you make a transition. Cloud computing, business analytics, big data, security, mobile - all are areas to watch now.
3. Build your interpersonal, relationship, and communication skills. They will be increasingly important as IT folks interface more with other departments (product development) and with clients connecting through the cloud.
4. Build your project management skills. PMI's PMP certification - Project Management Professional - is one that is fairly reliable at this time in terms of giving you a valuable credential.
5. Enrich your brand by becoming an expert in one aspect of IT that will be relevant for the foreseeable future. At the same time that it is desirable to differentiate yourself as an irreplaceable specialist, don't jump in with both feet. Keep broad competencies that will enable you to move flexibly towards the next change coming.
It's no small task - preparing yourself and your career for constantly shifting tides. But if you can stay smart, alert, and agile while feeding off the energy, excitement, and opportunity that come with any profound new technology change, you may be able to ride the waves and land a great new job!


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You have defeated Tirnoch, and defied destiny.
Found Aubrey Gilcrest's severed hand.
You have defeated the great Balor.
Gravehal Keep has been fully restored.
Located all eight message bottles in Gallows End.
You have met High King Titarion, and have been confronted with the true scope of your powers.
You were reborn from the Well of Souls, and have escaped Allestar Tower.
A ruse has baited Octienne into betraying the necromantic nature of his experiments.
1. Go to Mel Senshir 2. SAVE YOUR GAME. !!! 3. Kill the Dokkalfar merchant to the left of where you spawn. * 4. Pay the fine or go to jail. 5. Go to one of your houses and sleep for 4 days. 6. Go back to Mel Senshir. 7. The Dokkalfar merchant you killed will have respawned with fresh inventory. 8. Buy a new backpack. 9. Repeat steps 3 - 8 as needed. * Try to kill him close to where he is supposed to be since when he respawns he winds up wherever he initially dropped.
There are 40 Bronze Trophies, 8 Silver Trophies, 2 Gold Trophies, and 1 Platinum Trophy.
Get caught committing a crime 25 times.
Succeed at 50 Persuasion attempts.
Kill 500 enemies with abilities.
Acquire 10 Unique weapons (Special Delivery weapons excluded).
Spend over 10,000 gold in crime bribes.
Make a potion with the Essence of Fate.
Steal and fence an item.
Repair a piece of equipment.
Harvest 10 of each type of reagent.
Complete the House of Ballads storyline quests.
Complete the House of Sorrows storyline quests.
Make a stable potion by experimenting.
Unlock a top tier destiny.
Land 5 consecutive hits on a launched enemy.
Kill an enemy 4 levels higher than you.
Kill 5 enemies with a single Fateshift.
Land 25 special attacks out of Parry.
Complete the Scholia Arcana storyline quests.
Kill 100 enemies with abilities.
Craft a piece of equipment with Blacksmithing.
Kill 25 enemies with traps.
Complete the Warsworn storyline quests.
Land 100 complete attack chains.
After you have 3 pets, talk to Cillian Keen again and choose the "I want a trained beast" option. When he mentions that you need to release one of your pets, choose the "Raise pets?" option. After he is done talking, the "release pat" option will be replaced by the "I'd like a pet" option. This allows you to train all 7 pets.
Locate all eight message bottles in Gallows End.
When you get Pet Training, you can't train more than 3 pets, normally. When asked to select a pet to discard, select "Raise Pets" option [it is middle option on left side]. After it you will be able to select option to train another pet. You can train all possible pets this way.
Any traps laid in the Combat Training Arena beforehand will stay there. If you are struggling to beat any record, lay traps before you begin training. They will damage and slow down enemies, letting you kill them faster.
Used the Henge to enter Idylla.
Fell to your death from the Idylla Concourse.
You've found a strange Almain who has been hiding in the sewers of Idylla.
You've bested Kahrunk without killing his attendants.
You helped the Kollossae in the Teeth of Naros break free from their fate.


The Trump administration has moved to ease Obama-era automotive fuel standards and to push back on stricter state of California rules.
The White House proposal, released Thursday, freezes fuel economy standards at year 2020 levels and eliminates the expectation that vehicles will reach a fleet average 50 mpg by 2025.
The change also sets up a potential fight with the state of California, with the Trump administration insisting it has the power to eliminate California's waiver to create its own rules.
The new proposal is still subject to a 60-day public comment period, but it dramatically lowers once-expected longer-term requirements through the year 2026.
"This is a huge shift in regulatory oversight, and while it initially looks like a benefit for automakers, it will likely add a level of uncertainty none of them want," said Karl Brauer, executive publisher of Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book.
"Producing and selling automobiles is a long-term process. It requires long-term planning that can't easily be modified without costing car companies a lot of money. Government policy changes are similarly protracted, often requiring years to resolve. This combination will keep courtrooms busy and boardrooms nervous for the foreseeable future," Brauer said.
"While many environmentalists will see this move as an attack, the reality is sales of hybrid and electric vehicles are not growing, even with incentives on the vehicles and home chargers and the like," said Rebecca Lindland, executive analyst, Kelley Blue Book.
"If and when consumers demand more fuel efficiency from their vehicles, or we finally get a noticeable gas tax, OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) will build them," Lindland also said.
She added that "smart" automakers will continue to develop electric vehicles and hybrids.