This year had quite a few reissues, records resurrected by record labels or individuals that weren't previously on seven inch, records that were just plain banging and deserved to be on seven inch, and rarities(ie bigger money sides) that were repressed so that the common record collector could enjoy them. No matter how you feel about these records, they were here in 2016. Here are some of our favorites we wrote about (in no particular order). Enjoy!
Mukatsuku is always on point with a variety of sides. These two Roy Ayers sides were featured on the Virgin Ubiquity II record but never on 45 before. Two heat rocks from one of the best to ever do it. A great collabo by Mukatsuku and BBE. With these two you can't miss.
Jamie Guyden with some help from Brewerytown Beats in Philadelphia has been releasing some great records from the vaults of the label. This Philly heater is sister funk through and through. Bringing in the great Tom Moulton to mix, you can't lose with what he uses.
Rocafort Records has a knack for putting out great records, whether it be latin heaters, funk, soul, and more. This jazzy funk 45 was just what we needed to light up the dance floor. The great Melvin Sparks asked if you wanted his love, and the dancers responded.
This slice of disco heaven, very tough to find in its original form, was remixed by the great Tom Noble and put out on the Favorite Record label. Tough French disco that is finally available for the people.
Big Crown have proven this year that they are a label to be reckoned with. Releasing original disco, funk, soul, and more, they also have gotten their hands on some great tough to get your hands on music. Boco's "Running The Mardi Gras" is one of them. This highly coveted psychedelic soul record deserves to be in your collection. Great stuff indeed.
Another banger out of the Jamie/ Guyden camp, it even came with the instrumental on the flip. If Pete Rock flipped it lovely, I believe he copped from the boys at Brewerytown as well. This was a hot reissue in 2016.
VP Records decided to mark the 50th Anniversary of Rocksteady with a fantastic box set. The music, the record labels, and the packaging were all first class. It even came with some dope Jamaica post cards. Highly recommended for that reggae lover or champion of JA.
Get On Down have been really pushing their game higher and higher with each special release. This recording, which had never been available previously on CD or vinyl, quenched the thirst for more JB music for beat heads, funksters, and any one who wanted to complete their Godfather of Soul discography. A great live record, get up on this!
Crates of Soul went big for their second release, and hit us with Spaceark's "Do What You Can Do" an upbeat stepper reintroduced to the public in 2016. The flip is heavy too, proving that some music just stands the test of time. A great side if you can find this one because of its limited release.
In the third series of NOLA Breaks, DJ Yamin's series of classic New Orleans records remixed and reissued for your listening pleasure, he chose the Meters "Handclapping Song" and Ernie K. Doe's "Here Come The Girls" get the Professor Shorthair treatment of funkiness. A great label releasing some classic records with a twist. If you are in the Big Easy, stop in and grab a few.


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IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books, graphic novels, art books, and comic strip collections. It was founded in 1999 as the publishing division of Idea and Design Works, LLC (IDW), itself formed in 1999, and is regularly recognized as the fifth-largest comic book publisher in the United States, behind Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image Comics, ahead of other major comic book publishers such as Archie, Boom!, Dynamite, Valiant, and Oni Press. The company is perhaps best known for its licensed comic book adaptations of films, television shows, video games, and cartoons.

History

1990s
Idea and Design Works (IDW) was formed in 1999 by a group of comic book managers and artists (Ted Adams, Robbie Robbins, Alex Garner, and Kris Oprisko) that first met while working at Wildstorm Productions. Each of the four was equal partners, owning 25%. When Jim Lee sold Wildstorm to DC Comics in 1999, Lee turned that company's creative service department, previously run by Adams, over to IDW, allowing IDW to be profitable in its first year. With these profits, the firm decided to fund a new venture every year.

2000s
In 2000, IDW developed a TV show concept, getting as far as a pilot episode. For the 2001's project, Adams's Ashley Wood talked to them about publishing an art book, thus starting up IDW Publishing. Una Fanta was published in March 2002. Woods had Steve Niles send Adams some of his rejected screenplays. Adams selected one, 30 Days of Night, and paired him with artist Ben Templesmith for a comic adaptation as a three-issue series, beginning in August 2002. With low pre-orders, Adams personally pushed the comic with the distributor and major comic book stores. Soon the title's back issues were hot and were followed up with Wood's Popbot.

In 2007, IDT Corporation purchased a 53% majority interest in IDW from the company's founders, removing Garner & Oprisko, while reducing Adams & Robbins to minority owners collectively at 47%. Then, in 2009, IDT proceeded to increase its interest to the current 76%, reducing Adams & Robbins's interest once again to the current 24%. Then, shortly afterwards, IDT created CTM Media Holdings via a tax-free spin-off. This new company consisted of the majority interest in IDW and CTM Media Group. Eight years later, on April 3, 2015, CTM Media Holdings announced it would continue operations under a new name, becoming IDW Media Holdings, which would continue to consist of the majority interest in IDW and CTM Media Group.

The company's first traditional comic series, 30 Days of Night, created by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith started a seven-figure bidding war between DreamWorks, MGM, and Senator International, with Senator winning and Sam Raimi attached to produce.

IDW Publishing's second title, Popbot, won two Gold Spectrum Awards.

IDW Publishing also publishes comics based on the TV franchises Star Trek and CSI. The company's other licensed comics include Topps' Mars Attacks, Sony's Underworld, FX' The Shield, Fox' 24, and Angel; Universal's Land of the Dead and Shaun of the Dead; and Konami's Silent Hill, Castlevania, Metal Gear Solid, and Speed Racer. The company has also had success with comic license from toy company Hasbro brands: The Transformers (with Takara), G.I. Joe, My Little Pony, and Jem. Transformers has had as many as five different titles running concurrently.

Beginning in 2008, the company licensed the Doctor Who series from the BBC, launching two concurrent titles: Doctor Who Classics, which reprints colorized comic strips featuring the past Doctors such as the Fourth Doctor and Fifth Doctor originally published in the late 1970s-early 1980s by Doctor Who Magazine, and Doctor Who: Agent Provocateur, an original six-part limited series featuring the Tenth Doctor and overseen and written by TV series script editor Gary Russell. An additional six-part limited series titled Doctor Who: The Forgotten started in mid-2008 by Tony Lee and Pia Guerra, as well as a series of monthly one-shot, self-contained stories. July 2009 saw the beginning of Doctor Who, an ongoing series featuring the Tenth Doctor, written by Tony Lee and illustrated by a rotating art team.

IDW Publishing acquired the G.I. Joe comics license in May 2008 (previously held by Devil's Due Publishing) and released three new series under editor Andy Schmidt, from writers such as Chuck Dixon, Larry Hama, and Christos Gage. Other comics were released in time to tie-in with the summer 2009 G.I. Joe film.

In March 2009, IDW Publishing forged an agreement with Mike Gold's Comicmix.com to publish print versions of Comicmix's online comic books. The agreement stipulates Comicmix must provide two comic books a month to IDW Publishing to publish, as well as graphic novels and trade paperbacks as demanded by the market. The books are published with both the IDW Publishing and Comicmix.com logos on the covers. As of the end of 2009, the agreement has produced print versions of the Grimjack series The Manx Cat; the Jon Sable series Ashes of Eden; Mark Wheatley and Robert Tinnell's pulp hero series Lone Justice; the graphic novel Demons of Sherwood by Tinnell and Bo Hampton; and a graphic novel collecting Trevor Von Eeden's The Original Johnson. A collection of Munden's Bar stories original to Comicmix's website is also forthcoming.

In 2004, 2005, and 2006 IDW Publishing was named Publisher of the Year by Diamond Comic Distributors.

2010s

In 2010, IDW Publishing released the sequel to Michael San Giacomo's "Phantom Jack" Image Comics series with "Phantom Jack: The Nowhere Man Agenda." The graphic novel is notable because it features the death of the main character, a reporter who can turn invisible.

IDW Publishing formed an imprint with EA Games in late 2009, called EA Comics, to focus on adaptations of the latter's video games, with initial titles including Army of Two and
Dragon Age.

In January 2011, IDW Publishing announced a new Dungeons & Dragons comic series, under license from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast. Set in the D&D 4th Edition core setting, the new ongoing series Dungeons & Dragons (Fell's Five) ran for 16 issues. Several mini-series were also published including The Legend of Drizzt: Neverwinter Tales written by R.A. Salvatore. Since 2014, five five-issue mini-series have been published in the D&D 5th Edition core setting. A sixth five-issue mini-series, Infernal Tide, is set to be published in November 2019.

In April 2011, IDW Publishing acquired the license to publish new collections of older Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics, as well as a new ongoing series beginning in August of that year. In August 2017 issue #73 of the main ongoing series was published, making it the longest running comic series in the franchise's history.

September 6, 2011, for the 10th anniversary of 9/11, IDW Publishing teamed up Charlie Foxtrot Entertainment and released the graphic novel Code Word: Geronimo, written by retired Marine Corps Captain Dale Dye and Julia Dye, drawn by Gerry Kissell with inker Amin Amat. Code Word: Geronimo reached #22 on Diamond Comics top 100 list its first month after release. During that same year, the company has published its first crossover series Infestation.

In March 2012 IDW Publishing announced it would release new comics based on Judge Dredd and The Crow. Also in 2012, Hasbro licensed the use of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic for an IDW comic book series. The company also published Infestation 2.

In February 2013, IDW Publishing announced a partnership with Cartoon Network to publish comics based on the network's television series and reprint older Cartoon Network comics.

On January 6, 2015, IDW Publishing announced it had acquired Top Shelf Productions.

In February 2015, it was announced that IDW Publishing made a deal with Disney to continue the publication of the following comic books: Uncle Scrooge, Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, and Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.

In 2016, IDW launched the Hasbro Reconstruction initiative to present a shared universe of Hasbro brands, which was later known as the Hasbro Comic Book Universe. The first event was Revolution, followed by First Strike on 2017.

In April 2017, IDW Publishing acquired a license from Lucasfilm to produce a range of all-ages Star Wars comics.

In July 2017, Sega announced a partnership with IDW to publish comics based on Sonic the Hedgehog beginning in 2018, following the conclusion/cancellation of the previous series by Archie Comics. IDW has also launched new imprint called Black Crown, handling creator-owned comics.

In April 2018, publishers IDW Publishing and Oni Press announced a crossover between the Rick and Morty comic book and Dungeons & Dragons co-written by Jim Zub and Patrick Rothfuss with art by Troy Little. The four issue mini-series, Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons, was first published in August 2018. In May 2019, a sequel mini-series was announced: Rick and Morty vs. Dungeons & Dragons: Chapter II: Painscape. It will be written by Jim Zub and Sarah Stern with art by Troy Little.

In 2019, the company went under financial difficulties and got help from JPMorgan Chase evaluating strategies to be profitable.

In May 2019, IDW offered itself as an investor in Clover Press, a new independent publisher founded by Ted Adams (cofounder and former CEO of IDW) and Robbie Robbins (cofounder, executive vice president, and art director at IDW).

In July 2019, it was announced that IDW Publishing had acquired the classic Sunday strip publisher Sunday Press Books.

2020s
Between April and May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, IDW was forced to furlough and then layoff several employees, including Managing Editor Denton Tipton, Associate Publisher David Hedgecock, Senior Graphic Artist Gilberto Lazcano, Senior Graphic Designer Christa Miesner, and Brand & Marketing Manager Spencer Reeve. In July 2020, Chris Ryall announced to step down from his position of President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer to launch a new imprint named Syzygy Publishing, but he is still editor of future Locke & Key projects. Jerry Bennington was promoted to President, Nachie Marsham was promoted to Publisher, and Rebekah Cahalin was promoted to General Manager and Executive Vice President of Operations covering IDW Publishing, and Veronica Brooks was promoted to Vice President of Creative Affairs.

Around 2021, IDW announced that the comic book license for Disney properties would pass to Marvel Comics, while the license for Lucasfilm's Star Wars passed back to Dark Horse Comics. In September 2021, IDW announced that its partnership with Diamond Comic Distributors would switch to Penguin Random House. In December 2021, The Library of American Comics announced that they would be moving to Clover Press. That same month, John Barber announced that he would step away from the role of Editor-in-Chief.

In January 2022, IDW announced that they would lose the comic book licenses for Hasbro's Transformers and G.I. Joe by the end of the year, but would continue publishing other Hasbro licenses, including My Little Pony and Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons.

Key people
 Jerry Bennington – President
 Nachie Marsham – Publisher
 Rebekah Cahalin – General Manager and Executive Vice President of Operations covering IDW Publishing.
 Veronica Brooks – Vice President of Creative Affairs.

Imprints
IDW has several imprints that they have developed or acquired:

Current
Blue Dream Studios
EA Comics
Sunday Press Books
Top Shelf Productions
Worthwhile Books
Yoe! Books

Former
 Black Crown
The Library of American Comics (moved to Clover Press)

Publications

IDW Publishing

Yoe! Books

The Art of Ditko
The Creativity of Ditko
Barney Google: Gambling, Horse Races & High-Toned Women
The Carl Barks' Big Book of Barney Bear
The Complete Milt Gross
Dan DeCarlo's Jetta
Dick Briefer's Frankenstein (The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics)
Felix the Cat's Greatest Comic Book Tails
The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics
The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories
Krazy & Ignatz: Tiger Tea
Bob Powell's Terror (The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics)
Popeye: The Great Comic Book Tales by Bud Sagendorf
Zombie (The Chilling Archives of Horror Comics)

Adaptations in other media

Konami acquired the video game rights, and minority ownership, in IDW Publishing's CVO: Covert Vampiric Operations.

30 Days of Night has been adapted into a film of the same name in 2007, starring Josh Hartnett and Melissa George, directed by David Slade, and produced by Spider-Man director Sam Raimi. It is distributed by Columbia Pictures.

Dimension Films has an option on two Steve Niles/IDW Publishing properties: Wake the Dead, with X2 screenwriter Michael Dougherty attached to write, and Hyde, with Mike Fleiss (The Bachelor, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) attached to produce.

The motion comic version of Transformers: Movie Prequel titled Transformers: Beginnings (albeit excluding characters not present in the movie) is included in the Transformers DVD.

Syfy announced a television adaptation of Wynonna Earp, which premiered on April 1, 2016, and ended on April 9, 2021.

October Faction created by Steve Niles received a 10 episode series order from Netflix on September 28, 2018, with High Park Entertainment producing in association with IDW Entertainment, who would also be involved in the distribution of the series internationally. The series debuted on Netflix on January 23, 2020, and was canceled after one season.

V Wars created by William Laurin and Glenn Davis, received a 10 episode order from Netflix on April 16, 2018, with High Park Entertainment producing in association with IDW Entertainment, who would also be involved in the distribution of the series internationally. The series debuted on Netflix on December 5, 2019, and was canceled after one season.

Netflix announced a television adaptation of Locke & Key, which premiered on February 7, 2020.

Upcoming projects
In June 2012, Deadline reported that Hideo Nakata will direct the film adaptation of The Suicide Forest for Vertigo Entertainment.
USA Network announced a pilot for Brooklyn Animal Control produced by David Goyer.
Paramount Pictures has an option on the Steve Niles/IDW Publishing property Aleister Arcane. In June 2016, Variety reported that Jim Carrey will star in Eli Roth's film adaptation of Aleister Arcane for Amblin Entertainment.
Darkness Visible by Mike Carey is being developed as a TV series

References

External links

IDW Media Holdings
 Dueben, Alex (January 17, 2008). "In-Depth with IDW Publisher Chris Ryall". Comic Book Resources.

American companies established in 1999
Book publishing companies based in California
Comic book publishing companies of the United States
Companies based in San Diego
Disney comics publishers
Publishing companies established in 1999

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DTI orders probe on imported glass
Source: Mindanaotimes.com
TRADE and Industry Secretary Manuel Roxas II has ordered an investigation on the importation of figured glass and glass mirrors from various countries based on a petition filed by Asahi Glass Philippines.
Asahi Glass Philippines claimed that entry of imported figured glass and glass mirrors posed negative impact to the local glass industry, such as: decrease in market size, net loss in sales, decrease in production, adverse effects on productivity, diminishing profitability, retrenchment in employment, and increased inventory.
Roxas said: "What we would like to achieve with our efforts is to further shield the local industries from unfair competition and provide them a level playing field to enhance our products' competitive advantage."
The import share of figured glass rose from 11 percent in 1997 to 28 percent in August 2002. It was during this period when the industry suffered a 72 percent decline in domestic sales. In fact, sales revenues dipped to P214 million from P345 million in 1997.
This significant decline is also manifested in the industry's production capacity down to 434, 000 cases from 768, 000 in 1997, while the rated capacity suffered a downtrend at 72 percent from 93 percent in the same year.
Also, inventories were logged at 73 percent of 2001 level of 143,000 cases and cost of production shot up to P534 per case from its 1997 cost of P 374 per case. Industry net losses were incurred from 1998 until August 2002 from a net profit of P68 million in 1997. Gross profit rates dipped to 10 percent from 34 percent in 1997 and employment rate was down at 26 percent. The rest of the industry's losses are further shown by price undercutting at an average of 10 percent and price depression at 11 percent of domestic prices. Also, margins of profits declined from 60 percent to 13 percent in five years.
Observers also noted that at the time when the volume of glass imports surged in 1997-1999 and August 2002, the overall performance of the domestic industry suffered. This is shown in the 12 percent price undercutting in 2001 and lowered landed cost at 10 percent in August 2002 than most local products.
On the other hand, the import volume for glass mirrors posted a 151 percent of the 1997 level from January until August 2002, higher by 30 percent in terms of 2001 imports. Its import share to domestic productions was also up by 104% with an increased market share of 51 percent from 34 percent in 2001.
Aside from these, its reported sales volume was up by 64 percent with sales revenue at 56 percent higher than the 2001 level. Its production was also up at 44 percent of the 1997 level with capacity utilization recorded at 42 percent.
Other significant increases were inventories at 47 percent over 2001 at 22,000 cases, cost of production at P1, 200/case from a low of P864/case in 1999 and gross profit logged at P5 million or 26 percent of the 2001 level.
Sales revenue for glass mirrors was at P71 million, 56 percent of 2001 with net profit of negative two centavos for every peso earned. Also, employment rate dipped to 26 from its 58 employees in 1997. Other losses were also posted in terms of price undercutting at landed cost of 26 percent lower than domestic prices, price depression at five percent of domestic selling price and domestic prices depressed by 13 percent to retain its competitiveness in the Philippine market. Notably too, landed cost of import was much lower than the domestic selling prices and the margins of profit on a downtrend.
These negative developments were recorded at the same time that increased imports from various countries entered the Philippine market. Figured glass came mostly from China, Thailand and South Africa while glass mirrors came from China, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand and Korea.
Figured glass is used for window, partitions, screens, doors and fluorescent fixtures of residence, offices, hotels, shops and other commercial and industrial buildings.
Glass mirrors, whether framed or otherwise, are used for wardrobe doors, bathroom, furniture, projection screens, display cases, decorative wall and ceiling/pillar cases.
The Bureau of Import Services (BIS) is a DTI agency under Consumer Welfare and Trade Regulation Group (CWTRG) tasked to monitor the transactions. Comments and positions from interested parties may be sent to the office of the Bureau of Import Services at 3F OPPEN Bldg., 349 Sen. G. Puyat Ave., Makati City. /The DTI is mandated to conduct safeguard measures investigation under Section 6 of RA 8880 or the Safeguard Measures Act.
Mindanaotimes.com
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Emirates Glass wins major deals
Local quality glass producer Emirates Glass Limited has won contracts to supply 68,000 square metres of its high quality EmiCool glass to five major projects in Dubai.
Southwall Technologies Secures New Bank Loan and Equity Financing Agreement Led by Needham & Company
Southwall Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:SWTX), a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of thin-film coatings for the electronic display, automotive glass and architectural markets, today announced that on Dec. 18, 2003, it secured an agreement for a new bank loan guarantee and equity financing package of up to $7.5 million from Needham & Company, Inc., its affiliates and Dolphin Asset Management.
History of Glass Wine Bottles
When did the wine industry start using glass bottles, and how did they settle on their current size of 750ml? For the answer to these questions, you have to go back in time - back thousands of years to when wine was first cultivated and enjoyed.
Praxair's Specialty Gases Plant Attains New ISO 9000 Standard
Praxair, Inc. (NYSE: PX) today announced that its subsidiary Praxair Canada Inc.'s specialty gases plant in Paris, Ontario, Canada, is one of Praxair's first specialty gases plants in North America to complete the upgrade to ISO 9001:2000, the latest ISO 9000 standard for quality.
KUB accepts Nippon Sheet Glass offer
KUB Malaysia Bhd has accepted an offer from Nippon Sheet Glass Co Ltd (NSG) to acquire its 15% stake in Malaysian Sheet Glass Bhd (MSG) for RM32.6 million in cash, or RM2.68 per share.
Micro-Tek Canada, Inc. and Co-Ventures in Glass Containers, Ltd.
Co-Ventures in Glass Containers (CVIGC, Ltd.) of Tampa, Florida, USA and Micro-Tek Canada, Inc. Of Toronto, Canada are excited to announce the beginning of a long term joint venture to combine their extensive experiences and resources to offer the Glass Container Industry globally a best value alternative for all their outsourcing needs in manufacturing, operations and technical assistance agreements, specifically targeted to the smaller manufacturers who have found the larger service companies to be cost and profit prohibitive.The principals of the two companies have found a global need for smaller glass companies who require excellent technical resources to properly compete within the industry without the high costs of employing their own staffs or outsourcing their requirements to the larger service companies whose own operating costs and overhead are substantial.

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El condado de York (en inglés, York County) es un condado del estado de Nebraska, Estados Unidos. Según el censo de 2020, tiene una población de 14 125 habitantes.

La sede del condado es York.

Geografía
Según la Oficina del Censo, el condado tiene una superficie total de 1492 km², de los que 1483 km² son tierra y 9 km² son agua.

Condados adyacentes
 Condado de Seward - este
 Condado de Fillmore - sur
 Condado de Hamilton - oeste
 Condado de Polk - norte
 Condado de Butler - noreste
 Condado de Clay - suroeste
 Condado de Saline - sureste

Demografía
Según el censo del 2000, los ingresos promedio de los hogares del condado eran de 37.093 dólares y los ingresos promedio de las familias eran de 44.741 dólares. Los hombres tenían unos ingresos anuales de 30.658 dólares frente a 19.874 dólares que percibían las mujeres. Los ingresos por habitante eran de 17.670 dólares. Alrededor de un 8,50% de la población estaba bajo el umbral de pobreza nacional.

De acuerdo con la estimación 2016-2020 de la Oficina del Censo, los ingresos promedio de los hogares del condado son de 63.105 dólares y los ingresos promedio de las familias son de 78.187 dólares. Los ingresos per cápita en los últimos doce meses, medidos en dólares de 2020, son de 34.259 dólares. Alrededor de un 8,6% de la población está bajo el umbral de pobreza nacional.

Ciudades y pueblos
 Benedict
 Bradshaw
 Gresham
 Henderson
 Lushton
 McCool Junction
 Thayer
 Waco
 York

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Sitio web gubernamental del condado. (en inglés)

Condado de York (Nebraska)


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South Sudan peace talks falter as Uganda sends in troops
Sticking point is over political prisoners but real issue is a power struggle in which ethnicity is being exploited to divide country
Associated Press in Addis Ababa
Wed 8 Jan 2014 08.35 EST First published on Wed 8 Jan 2014 08.35 EST
A peace march in Juba on Wednesday denouncing the fighting between the president and the deposed vice-president's camps. Photograph: Charles Atiki Lomodong/AFP
The South Sudan peace talks being held in Ethiopia have stalled, officials say, as a rebel commander claims big victories against the South Sudanese government and Uganda sends in more troops and military hardware.
Even as several dozen people held a peace march in Juba, South Sudan's capital, on Wednesday, there was little evidence that the conflict is moving toward resolution, more than three weeks after spiralling violence broke out.
Two officials in Ethiopia said the peace talks had stalled over the issue of political prisoners. The special envoy of Igad, a bloc of East African countries, has flown to Juba to speak about political detainees.
A political dispute that turned violence on 15 December has since become ethnic in dimension. President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, says his former vice-president, Riek Machar, a Nuer, tried to launch a coup. The latter denies this and is demanding the release of 11 high-level detainees. Kiir has said they will be released according to the country's judicial process.
A spokesman for the Machar side in Ethiopia, Brigadier General Lul Raui Kong, a member of South Sudan's armed forces who has defected, spoke in an interview on Wednesday about military battles between the country's army and renegade troops.
Kong said that in the battle for Bor, the state capital of Jonglei about 70 miles north of Juba, rebel fighters destroyed two T-72 tanks and four military trucks. He said his side has killed dozens of government soldiers, including a general, outside Bor. There was no way to verify the claim. Kong said his side has benefited from senior defections in the states of Central Equatorial, Upper Nile and Jonglei.
Uganda, he said, had sent 1,200 troops to secure installations such as the airport and state house, adding that Ugandan military aircraft had bombed several rebel-held positions.
Uganda says its deployment of more troops and military hardware to Juba this week came at the request of Kiir. Lieutenant Colonel Paddy Ankunda, a Ugandan military spokesman, said on Wednesday that reinforcements were dispatched on Monday and Tuesday "to plug security gaps". He denied the Ugandans were actively involved in combat.
Yoweri Museveni, the president of Uganda, is a strong ally of Kiir. The neighbouring countries have built a bond that goes back to South Sudan's armed struggle for independence from Sudan and the Khartoum government. Museveni recently warned Machar that East African countries would unite to defeat him militarily if he does not agree to attend peace talks.
Some analysts say Museveni distrusts Machar and that stems, in part, from the latter's alleged links to the Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony, who once operated in jungles that now fall in South Sudan's territory and with the alleged support of Sudan's government.
In 2005, as South Sudan moved closer to autonomy, Kony agreed to negotiate with Uganda's government under the mediation of Machar. Those talks failed and, in late 2008, Kony and his top commanders fled their base in the forests of east Congo only hours before Uganda's military moved in to launch an aerial assault. Some in Uganda's military believe Machar warned Kony of the impending attack.
"Machar is an independent actor whose shifting loyalties – especially his ability to work with Khartoum – probably unnerves Museveni, who sees his assent to power in South Sudan as riskier for Ugandan interests," said Angelo Izama, a Ugandan analyst who runs Fanaka Kwawote, a regional security thinktank. "Even now I suspect he considers Machar as a proxy for Khartoum ... Any situation that gives Machar advantage may be considered a danger to Museveni and a direct threat to Uganda."
Yoweri Museveni
At least 200 drown in South Sudan ferry accident while fleeing fighting
Between 200 and 300 people feared drowned after overcrowded ferry sinks on the White Nile river
South Sudan is divided by the spoils of oil, not ethnicity
Khalid Mustafa Medani
Khalid Mustafa Medani: The violence in South Sudan can be ended if the west uses its influence. Talks between the ruling party's warring factions will achieve little
South Sudan: thousands flee city as government troops launch offensive
Oil-rich state capital Bentiu is left a ghost town as soldiers loyal to President Salva Kir try to recapture it from rival Riek Machar
Was South Sudan a mistake?
With the world's newest country on the brink of collapse, the wisdom of separating north and south Sudan is in question, says Simon Allison
South Sudan: internally displaced people flee Bor region – in pictures
China urges immediate end to conflict in South Sudan
African leaders broker South Sudan government ceasefire - video


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Newfoundland & Labrador > News
Former students say St. John's-based Rabbittown Learners Program changes lives
Sam Mcneish | Posted: May 2, 2018, 4:59 p.m. | Updated: May 3, 2018, 4:58 p.m. | 4 Min Read
Almohannad Allou (right) and his family — wife Esraa (left) and daughter Maab, 4, are from Syria. The couple also has a son, Ahmab, 7. They are one of the countless success stories of people who have completed the Rabbittown Learners Program Inc. during its 30-year history. - Joe Gibbons
For 30 years, the Rabbittown Learners Program has helped people make their lives better.
Through its relaxed and supportive learning environment, students of the program can work at their own pace to achieve a higher level of education that will help them increase their chances for employment or to carry on to higher education.
The program's philosophy is that with respect, encouragement, understanding and patience, anything is possible. It's a basic literacy/adult basic education Level 1 program for people wanting to advance to the Grade 6 level. It's available to local residents and new Canadians, who are required to pass the Level 5 Canadian language benchmark in order to be enrolled in the program.
Almohannad Allou and his wife, Esraa, parents to two children, daughter Maab, 4, and seven-year-old son Ahmab, left their home in Daraa, Syria, in 2013 and headed to Jordan seeking refuge from the perils of war.
They spent nearly three years there before they got a call from the United Nations in late 2015 saying they had been chosen to go to Canada if they wished. After a month of paperwork and medical tests, they arrived in St. John's on Jan. 1, 2016.
"It was tough at first — the weather, language — but we met a lot of good people, nice people, who were friendly to us here," Allou said.
"The Association here has been so good to us. Everything was great here. The first time we came here, the people were so nice and friendly, even giving us gifts, things like a sofa, microwave and other things for our home."
While they were getting settled, they worked with people in the Rabbittown Learners Program to learn English and other skills they would need to enhance their lives in Canada.
Allou worked as a mason in Syria, a trade he took with him to Jordan. He was always busy because of the brick and mortar composition of the buildings there.
"There are not a lot of buildings like that here," he said. "Everything is wood, so that wouldn't be a good job.
"If you have a diploma, you have many choices. I may be a mechanic or architect or may go to nursing, I am not sure right now."
He spent three months in the Rabbittown program, finishing the Level 1 designation before moving to Academy Canada in May 2017 for the next phase of his studies.
Allou is working diligently to achieve his high school equivalency and has his eyes firmly set on a bright future for himself and his family.
Another student who understands the importance of the Rabbittown Learners Program is Stephen Withers, 29, who now lives in Mount Pearl.
"This place is like a family and that has helped me so much," Withers said Wednesday during the program's 30th anniversary celebrations at its Merrymeeting Road location in St. John's.
He completed the Rabbittown Learners Program last year and is furthering his education at Academy Canada.
"A couple of times I almost dropped out and they would talk to me and convince me to come back. Things happen in life, so I would walk away for awhile. I had to go to work to provide for myself, but I wasn't happy with that decision because I knew getting educated was important," he said.
In addition to reading, students in the program study communication, math, science, social studies, government, workplace, computers and consumer education.
Withers credits Doris Barrington, current chair of the board of directors, with being a sounding board for him during his many attempts to stick with and finish the program.
"They have done a whole lot for me here. I have gotten dinners, like around Christmas. There are people I can talk to when I have a problem.
"They care about you and want you to do well. They care about any problems you may have in your life."
Withers, like most young people, is great with computers, and that was his outlet during his teenage years. But the educational component that goes with being computer literate, in particular reading, was missing for him.
"My goal is to learn to read, and through this program at Rabbittown, I was able to get much better at it, so I can move to another program and get where I should have from an early age," Withers said.
"My biggest mistakes were falling in with a bad crowd and dropping out of school. I made some bad choices, but the people here at Rabbittown looked past that and really helped me get to where I want to go."
He said video games helped him to stay away from trouble as a youth, and the knowledge he has of computers is helping him educate himself. He is reading a host of textbooks on his tablet and if he doesn't understand a word or can't pronounce another, he highlights it and the tablet will read it to him.
The students who attend Rabbittown Learners Program are first tested to determine their individual education level and then are accepted if they are identified as being at a grade level from kindergarten to Grade 6, are 19 years of age or older, and if seats are available.
The program operates on a continuous intake basis, so enrolment continues throughout the academic year.
For most students there is no cost, and all books and materials are provided free of charge. The program is funded significantly by the Newfoundland and Labrador government and requires 24 students to operate at any given time.
Financial support is also provided by other agencies to purchase seats in the program and, in some cases, provide financial support to students.


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The Memory Keeper's Daughter – Kim Edwards
Date: September 28, 2019Author: theFerkel 1 Comment
When I picked up the Reader's Digest collections of stories, this is the one I really wanted to read, but I had to start with a crap one called "An Offer you can't refuse".
In the year 1964, a set of twin is born in the peaceful house of a country doctor and his young lovely wife. The delivery doctor recognised that the girl has Down Syndrome, and suggests that the child is given to a home as they have short lives and can suffer from heart defects.
The father, having lost a sister to heart issues, decides to give away the daughter and to tell his wife that she died at birth. It's a crap move but his intentions were good – to protect the family from the grief of early death and from psychological scarring further down the road. He gave the girl to Nurse Caroline and that's when the story actually starts – a secret.
The secret had worked its way through their marriage, an insidious vine, twisting; she drank too much, and then she began having affairs, that sleazy realtor at the beach, and then the others; he's tried not to notice, to forgive her, for he knew that in some real sense the fault was his. Photo after photo, as if he could stop time or make an image powerful enough to obscure the moment when he had turned and handed his daughter to Caroline Gill.
Instead of taking the girl to the institution, Caroline raises the girl as her own in a different city. She tries to take her to school when she's old enough but it's a different era and people with Down's were called "retarded" and pushed into "special" schools where she could get the attention she needed.
The book talks about Caroline's love for the child, her constant letters to the father and her new found love with a truck driver who helped her in the first night and then managed to find her in her new life.
The Doctor continues with his life with his perfect wife, perfect house and perfect son, but under the surface, something's rotten. The wife no longer cares for him, mourns her still-birth daughter to the anger of her husband.
"Why can't you let it go?"
Norah buys the doctor a camera which has written on it "The Memory Keeper" – this is where the title of the book comes. As time goes, Paul and Phoebe grow older and apart from each other, Norah starts cheating on the doctor and the doctor finds solace in taking pictures – even one of his wife laughing in the arms of another.
Caroline and the Doctor meet after he'd had an argument with his son and he wished to see how his daughter had turned out. The feelings come out to the surface and Caroline admits to something the Doctor already knew – she was in love with him and there was no future for them. He sends her money and she saves it up for Phoebe.
"You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy."
As life goes on, Paul finds a girlfriend and Phoebe goes to a new community where she can live independently called "Upside Down" and she falls in love with a boy called Robert. The sad moments keep on rolling when Phoebe is told she can't marry Robert, she can't have babies with him and she can't have her own house.
It's a story about loneliness, about hope, about life-shattering secrets. The attitude that David and the birth doctor had about Down Syndrome may seem outrageous to us know, but there was a time not that long ago, when these ideas were widely held.
Things have changed for the better over the past decades but it's an ongoing process. The reason attitudes have improved is because parents of children with Down's refused (like Caroline) to accept normal limitations for their children. Changes do not happen easily or without personal costs for those who struggle to make their children visible.
All in all, it was a sappy story, characters uni-dimensional and the "happy-end" more like an inevitable destination. Norah was depicted as a wanton mother, more interested in alcohol and men and her self-improvement than the life at home. After the deed is done, David the doctor is characterised by his wife as a terrible man with insufficient redeeming qualities and wonders why she married him (like she was just a puppet and had no say in the courtship and marriage!) And I have no idea how David pulled off the fake death. He had a burial plot and all but the casket was empty? Was there a doll in it?
So many times, the plot seemed to be building up to a climax which inevitably fell flat – son Paul's drugged-out ransacking of his father's workroom, for example, could've led to his discovering the file on his sister, but instead was resolved with no revelations, just a lame father-son chat and an admonition to clean up the mess – what was the point? As for David and his photography, the title "Memory Keeper" would've been more poignant if, say, David had kept his photography a private thing, albums filled with desperately orchestrated scenes of 'happy' family moments that never were; instead, the author chose another Steele-worthy plot of turning him into a detached, semi-pro photo artist with some high-concept obsession with linking anatomy with nature scenes. Whatever.
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Standing over a spiny dogfish shark in a college zoology class set the course for David Stamps' journalism career, although he didn't know it at the time.
For Stamps, knowing what he didn't want to do in life was the key to finding his passion. Stamps had been "infected" by the newspaper business and its hot metal type as a boy when he was a carrier for the Daily Leader in Pontiac, Ill. But it took a few years for him to realize that passion could determine his career. The Daily Leader would become the first newspaper to publish his stories: reports from Vietnam battlefields.
But in the early 1960s, while standing over that shark for a quiz, trying to identify the body part each pin was pointing to, he realized "I didn't care," Stamps said. He dropped the class, left the college pre-med program and returned to what he knew he liked: English.
He brought his passion for protecting and improving journalism to his position as director of the Hoosier State Press Association for the past 15 years – a span of exceptional achievement that propelled him into the Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame.
When he came to the Wheaton, Ill., newspaper, Stamps "took a rather stodgy newspaper, heavily laden with wire and canned news, and transformed it into a lively and timely, community-focused newspaper," then co-worker Don Asher recalls.
In Elgin, Ill., Stamps built the Courier-News "into a lightning fast, breaking news operation, providing quality enterprise and investigative work and winning award after award," Asher said.
Uncovered illegal activities by a community police officer who was using his powers to collect and sell information in his private investigation business.
Exposed inappropriate funding practices by the College of DuPage.
Discovered illegal toxic waste dumps on 28 acres of Forest Preserve land in DuPage County.
Stamps continued to seek new challenges. A stint as director of advertising and marketing at the Elgin Daily Courier-News gave him an understanding of the business end of journalism. The experience would later become valuable as HSPA director. His Master of Business Administration degree from Northern Illinois University helped develop his management style.
Stamps is credited by Indiana news executives with regenerating HSPA.
"If Stamps had not stepped into the breach when he did, HSPA might have ceased to exist," said Scott Schurz of Hoosier Times Inc.
The association and its Indiana Display Advertising Service were near financial collapse when Stamps assumed the directorship in 1996. His business sense gave him the tools to work with others to find solutions. He partnered with Kentucky and later Pennsylvania to re-establish a profitable advertising service.
After the series, "The State of Secrecy in Indiana," ran in seven newspapers, in which 92 counties were audited to see if public agencies were complying with public access laws, Stamps and HSPA asked then-Gov. Frank O'Bannon to create a task force on the issue. O'Bannon went further than expected by appointing a Public Access Counselor. Then HSPA appealed to the Legislature to ensure that position became permanent under state law.
"It was the biggest advance in public access in 20 years," Stamps said.
Thirty states replicated the series, and Stamps proudly notes that the public is responsible for the majority of calls to Indiana's Public Access Counselor. Government officials are second; journalists generate only 10 to 12 percent of the requests. "So this wasn't just for us," he said.
Stamps was the driving force in creating the HSPA Foundation dedicated to fostering public understanding of the role of a free press in society. He set and met a fund-raising goal of $1 million to fund the foundation. It lobbies for journalism, public access, freedom of information and literacy. It offers training programs and internships for young journalists and helps fund Newspapers in Education.
The same perseverance Stamps applied to his work in journalism was needed in 2003 when he successfully battled a life-threatening brain aneurysm.
Stamps was born in Evansville in February 1944, but his family moved to Pontiac when his father, Erwin G. Stamps, joined his brother, Roy, in a car repair business. David went on to become a high school football star, homecoming king, write a column for the school newspaper and join the yearbook staff. He graduated from Illinois State University with an English degree.
And when he settled into a job teaching at Proviso High School in Hillsdale, Ill., he again found himself in a job that didn't satisfy him. After a semester of teaching, he was drafted and headed to Vietnam. On a firebase, he encountered journalism again. Two men from the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division newspaper were looking for correspondents. He agreed and began sending stories by helicopter. Gradually his stories, first without bylines, began appearing in the division newspaper. When the men rotated home, they recommended him for their jobs.
"The more I did, the more I liked it," he said.
When he was discharged, Stamps had no desire to teach, so he joined the weekly Press Publications in Elmhurst, Ill., as a reporter. His work there caught the attention of editors in Elgin who hired him as the DuPage County bureau chief. He eventually became managing editor for the Wheaton, Ill., Daily Journal in 1971, managing editor for the Elgin Daily Courier-News in 1973; director of sales and marketing for the Elgin newspaper in 1981; and publisher of the Beacon-News in Aurora, Ill., in 1989. In 1995 he also became publisher of the Daily Courier-News. He became executive director of HSPA in 1996, a position from which he will retire this fall to spend more time with his family.
Stamps, his wife Sandra, and his 95-year-old mother, Leola C. Stamps, who lives with them, plan to move to Bellingham, Wash., to live near their children, Sarah Woolson and Mathew Stamps, and grandson, Eli. Stamps has two sisters, Patricia Madson of Kingston, Wash., and Katy Lootens of Moline, Ill.
And now he has the distinction of joining a select group of Indiana journalists.


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DATA: Over 3,100 Bay Area businesses receive at least $229 million in PPP loans
The loans saved at least 37,693 local jobs. (Community Impact staff)
By Jake Magee | 10:15 AM Jul 10, 2020 CDT
A total of 3,114 businesses in Clear Lake, League City, Webster, Seabrook and Kemah received Paycheck Protection Program loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration totaling at least $229.19 million, according to SBA data.
The loans saved at least 37,693 local jobs, according to the data.
The SBA awarded low- or no-interest PPP loans to thousands of businesses nationwide to curb the economic effects brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. The SBA released data July 6 on who received PPP loans and for how much and how many jobs were saved as a result.
The data is broken down into two sets: businesses that received less than $150,000 in loans and those that received $150,000 or more. The first data set does not include the names of businesses that received loans but shows the exact loan amounts each business received. The second one includes the name of businesses that received loans but only a range of money received, not an exact amount.
Of the seven ZIP codes in the area—77058, 77059, 77062, 77565, 77573, 77586 and 77598—businesses in the ZIP code 77573, which makes up League City, received the most loans. A total of 1,046 League City businesses received PPP loans, 93 of which were for $150,000 or more, according to the data.
The ZIP code 77058, which includes part of Clear Lake, received 559 loans, 99 of which were for $150,000 or more. ZIP code 77598, which includes Webster, received a similar number of loans, at 548, 105 of which were for $150,000 or more, the data shows.
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ZIP codes 77062, which includes part of Clear Lake; 77565, which includes Kemah and Clear Lake Shores; and 77586, which includes Seabrook, received 243, 242 and 272 loans respectively. Of the total 757 loans, 89 were for $150,000 or more, according to the data.
Finally, ZIP code 77059, which includes part of Clear Lake, received the lowest number of loans at 177, 10 of which were for $150,000 or more, according to the data.
Of the more than 3,100 loans, only two were for $5 million-$10 million: Bastion Technologies in Houston and American Homestar Corporation in League City, the data shows.
Another 14 businesses received loans from $2 million-$5 million, and all but four of them are located in Houston. Another three are Webster-based, and one is based in Seabrook, according to the data.
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By Jake Magee
Jake Magee has been a print journalist for several years, covering numerous beats including city government, education, business and more. Starting off at a daily newspaper in southern Wisconsin, Magee covered two small cities before being promoted to covering city government in the heart of newspaper's coverage area. He moved to Houston in mid-2018 to be the editor for and launch the Bay Area edition of Community Impact Newspaper.
NEW: League City's Walter Hall Park closed to become potential mass vaccination site
Two other vaccine hubs are currently established in Galveston County, neither of which are offering new vaccine appointments the week of Jan. 18.
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Bay Area-based company Intuitive Machines has selected SpaceX as the company that will deliver two of its payloads to the moon, according to a Jan. 13 press release.
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The bed of this stream is armored with rocks, some very rounded (having had a longer life in the stream) and some not.
A stream bed is the channel bottom of a stream, river or creek; the physical confine of the normal water flow. The lateral confines or channel margins, during all but flood stage, are known as the stream banks or river banks. In fact, a flood occurs when a stream overflows its banks and flows onto its flood plain. As a general rule, the bed is that part of the channel, just at the "normal" water line and the banks are that part above the water line. However, because water flow varies, this differentiation is subject to local interpretation. Usually, the bed is kept clear of terrestrial vegetation, whereas the banks are subjected to water flow only during unusual or perhaps infrequent high water stages and therefore, might support vegetation some or much of the time.
The descriptive terms "right bank" and "left bank" are relative to an observer looking downstream, in which the right bank is to the observer's right, and vice versa. A famous example of this is the naming of the two sides of the river Seine in Paris.
The nature of any stream bed is always a function of the flow dynamics and the local geologic materials, influenced by that flow. With small streams in mesophytic regions, the nature of the stream bed is strongly responsive to conditions of precipitation runoff. Where natural conditions of either grassland or forest ameliorate peak flows, stream beds are stable, possibly rich, with organic matter and exhibit minimal scour. These streams support a rich biota. Where conditions produce unnatural levels of runoff, such as occurs below roads, the stream beds will exhibit a greater amount of scour, often down to bedrock and banks may be undercut. This process greatly increases watershed erosion and results in thinner soils, upslope from the stream bed, as the channel adjusts to the increase in flow.
Beds are usually what would be left once a stream is no longer in existence; the beds are usually well preserved even if they get buried, because the walls and canyons made by the stream usually have hard walls, usually soft sand and debris fill the bed. Dry stream beds are also subject to becoming underground water pockets (buried stream beds only) and flooding by heavy rains and water rising from the ground and may sometimes be part of the rejuvenation of the stream.


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A Report on the September 2018 ABA Board Meeting
By Dan Cullen
The American Booksellers Association's Board of Directors met from September 21–23, 2018, in Carrboro, North Carolina.
Over the course of the meeting, the Board:
Heard a report from ABA President Robert Sindelar of Third Place Books, in the Seattle, Washington area, on his activities on behalf of the association, including:
Writing his president's letter for BTW;
Participating in conference call meetings with both the Diversity Task Force and the Pre-Orders Task Force;
Preparing for the fall ABA Board meeting;
Coordinating the annual CEO review;
Conducting calls with regional association presidents;
Responding to bookstore member questions and comments.
Heard a report from ABA CEO Oren Teicher on his activities since the last full Board meeting, including:
Working to prepare the association budget for the 2018–2019 fiscal year;
Ongoing work regarding the programming and logistics for the upcoming ABA Winter Institute, which will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on January 22–25, 2019;
Working with staff to prepare ABA's educational session for the fall regional trade shows, "Maximizing Pre-Order Campaigns";
Working with staff to launch the redesigned BookWeb.org;
Continuing work on the development of Batch, the U.K. Booksellers Association's centralized online invoice and e-payment system, to prepare for a launch of Batch in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2019;
Working with ABA Senior Program Officer Joy Dallanegra-Sanger to develop new Indies First terms for 2018;
Meeting, along with ABA staff, with the BookExpo management team to discuss ways that next year's event might better meet the needs of independent bookstores;
Conducting ongoing discussions with other industry trade associations to explore possible health care options for member stores;
Working with the ABA Pre-Orders Task Force;
Meeting, together with Ms. Dallanegra-Sanger, with Above the Treeline/Edelweiss CEO John Rubin;
Meeting with the Shelf Awareness co-founder and publisher, Jenn Risko, and its Board of Directors;
Meeting with the MPIBA Board at their meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico;
Preparing for ABA's participation in Banned Books Week;
Leading in New York City a debriefing session for Ci6 publisher sponsors, and continuing work on the upcoming Children's Institute, set for June 26–28, 2019, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Continuing to conduct and respond to multiple media inquiries about the state of indie bookselling with national and local media;
Speaking, together with Ms. Dallanegra-Sanger, via conference call with students at the most recent Paz & Associates Introduction to Bookselling Workshop, held from August 26–29, on Florida's Amelia Island; and
Attending, with ABA colleagues, the SIBA fall trade show, held from September 13–15 in Tampa, Florida.
Unanimously approved a combined ABA/BSI FY19 budget of $7.49 million (which does not include ABA's insurance company, LIBRIS). Because of the Board's belief in the appropriate use of the association's endowment to invest in programming, the approved budget anticipates utilizing approximately $365,000 from ABA's endowment to supplement ABA's other sources of income toward initiatives on behalf of association members. Among the funded initiatives are: Batch; marketing the indie story to the press and on social media; strengthening ABA's educational initiatives, including on-demand educational content for booksellers; development of ABA web assets; relevant research studies; and support of ABA's free speech efforts and advocacy efforts.
Received a financial report from ABA Chief Financial Officer Robyn DesHotel reviewing the results of ABA's operations and investment portfolio.
Met with Williams Jones Investment Management representatives John Cummings, partner and senior fixed income portfolio manager, and, via conference call, Tom MacCowatt, partner and senior equity portfolio manager, to receive a report on the association's investment portfolio.
Heard from Annie Philbrick, current chair of the Nominating Committee, who updated the Board regarding the committee's plans for the upcoming ABA Board elections.
Received a briefing from ABA IndieCommerce Director Phil Davies on a number of issues, including an update regarding ongoing enhancements to IndieCommerce and IndieLite.
Received reports from Mr. Teicher and Ms. Dallanegra-Sanger on a number of issues, including the work of ABA's Pre-Orders Task force; changes in ABA operations to more effectively incorporate timely and accurate new title data as well as marketing collateral and digital assets for the indie channel; and the development of the fall trade show education session, "Maximizing Pre-Order Campaigns," to be presented at all eight regional shows.
Was briefed by Ms. Dallanegra-Sanger on the status of The Great American Read, which on September 11 aired the first of eight episodes designed to generate a country-wide conversation about reading.
Received a report from Mr. Teicher and Ms. Dallanegra-Sanger on Indies First, including the update that Indies First spokesperson Jason Reynolds will launch the "Indie Bookstores Give Back on Small Business Saturday" campaign (#IndiesGiveBack) at Miami Book Fair at Miami Dade College on November 15, 2018. (More than 500 independent bookstores have signed up to participate in the #IndiesGiveBack campaign, for which ABA and American Express are working together with Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing to make available 20,000 special edition copies of Reynolds' Ghost to young readers in underserved communities this holiday season.)
Received a report from ABA Senior Strategy Officer Dan Cullen and Ms. Dallanegra-Sanger on the upcoming Winter Institute (Wi14), which included updates on registration, educational and other programming, and sponsorship.
Were briefed by Mr. Cullen on the initial results of the latest ABACUS financial survey of independent bookstores, which will be sent to participating stores in October.


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Q: Error with inputFrame.gray() opencv android This is the code that throws an error:
@Override
public Mat onCameraFrame(Mat inputFrame) {
    mrgb=inputFrame.gray();
    return mrgb;
}

return inputFrame.gray(); gray() can not resolve in OpenCv android

A: I'm not sure about OpenCV android, but normally it would be
@Override public Mat onCameraFrame(Mat inputFrame){
    Mat gray;
    cvtColor(inputFrame, gray, COLOR_BGR2GRAY);
    return gray;
}

A: There's no such method gray() in the class Mat. If you are trying to convert the image to gray-scale, use the following code:
Imgproc.cvtColor(src, dest, Imgproc.COLOR_BGR2GRAY);

A: inputFrame is not a Mat. It has to be CvCameraViewFrame inputFrame. So it should be:
public Mat onCameraFrame(CvCameraViewFrame inputFrame)

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Best things I did in 2018!
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas? I actually can't believe it's over – seemingly endless days of eating chocolates and watching movies!
So with the end of 2018 fast approaching, I wanted to take a look back over the year and think of the highlights and the best things I did during the year. Obviously there were some "not so happy" moments during the year too, but I think it's important to be grateful for the good times and achievements and not dwell on everything else!
I also want to say a huge thanks to everyone for reading my blogs this year, and for all the support throughout 2018- the likes and comments don't go unnoticed! And obviously to the unseen heroes who take all my photos – usually Chloe or some of the girls 🙈 They deserve a mention too! So these are some of my highlights of 2018/best things I did!
Being nominated for Best Newcomer in the Aussie Blog Awards.
So you might remember I was nominated for best newcomer in this years Aussie Blog Awards. It was such a huge honour for me especially because my blog is relatively new and I was nominated along with so many other amazing bloggers that I followed before I ever had my own blog! It was an amazing evening and to top it off I had my UCD Music ball afterwards!
Ok so this obviously had to be included in the list. The J1 as I have said before was one of the most amazing experiences of my life and I would 100% recommend it! I had the summer of my life from starting in Cannes, coming home for two days and then flying on to Chicago for the summer and getting to travel at the end! Definitely one of the highlights of 2018! Click here to read my J1 blog!
Another milestone in my life this year was graduating from UCD. I absolutely loved my time in UCD, now don't get me wrong there were a few times I thought about dropping out but thanks to the girls for putting up with my meltdowns, the degree is now literally in the bag and I'm so happy to be finished. Obviously I miss college life- not college work though. And for anyone doing the leaving cert or thinking of college next year, don't worry if it doesn't work out, just do your best because it will all work itself out in the end!
Being an Eyrebrushed Brand Ambassador.
I have been so lucky to get some amazing opportunities since I started this blog, but I think working with Eyrebrushed Beauty and Skin Clinic has been one of the best opportunities. It has been such a pleasure to work with Emma, Marie and everyone at Eyrebrushed throughout the year and my skin is in such good condition compared to this time last year. I definitely didn't think products and treatments would have such an effect on the appearance of my skin but starting my skincare journey at Eyrebrushed has really been a game-changer for my skin. So let 2019 be the year you start thinking about your skincare and treat yourself to a skin consultation at Eyrebrushed! They have some fantastic offers for January so there's no excuse!
Ok so I know I only joined a gym for the last two months of the year, but it was honestly one of the best things I did in 2018. I joined TJ Reid Health and Fitness and I can't recommend it enough. The gym is absolutely fab and everyone working there is so helpful and friendly which in my opinion is a huge thing because joining a new gym can be daunting but after going once or twice I was completely settled in! You'd swear I was in a new job or something but there's just a lovely atmosphere in the gym and I don't feel pressured or self-conscious at all. It was also a fantastic distraction for me and anyone who knows me knows that I love to walk or run the ring road to clear my head, but on the long cold winter nights, its hard to get out and I don't like running on my own in the dark so joining a gym was the perfect solution. I can also say that there was a few times I was fairly pissed off and the poor treadmill got the brunt of it but it really does help to burn off some steam- while getting fit. I feel like I'm going into 2019 much fitter and healthier and hopefully a few pounds down!
I would insert a photo here, but I can't say I've been taking blog photos in the gym!
So that's just a short synopsis of my year. Obviously there was some really hard times too especially finishing college and being faced with the future is probably one of the scariest things but you get through it and you just take one day at a time until you figure out what you want to do or where you want to go. Until then I'm enjoying life!


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