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State sticks counties with surprise election tab
Written by Caitlin Bowling
Counties in North Carolina are being forced to shoulder the burden of electronic voting machines alone after the General Assembly turned down federal aid that would have greatly offset the costs.
State pledges to clamp down on improper activity at Haywood DOT
Waste, favoritism and possible fraud and corruption by state highway workers in Haywood County enriched a local contractor and cost state taxpayers, according to a sweeping investigation released late last week by the N.C. State Auditor's Office.
Wielding a symbolic veto against fracking's unknown downsides
Written by Don Hendershot
Gov. Perdue has to be weary. This weariness was apparent months ago when she declared she would not seek re-election. Her vetoes are little more than symbolic with the current make up of the General Assembly and here she is with another bombshell on her desk — fracking in North Carolina.
Here's the simple fracking definition according to the oil and gas industry: hydraulic fracturing is the benign process of injecting fluids that are primarily composed of water and sand and maybe a couple of chemicals, at high pressure, into shale or other rock formations to create cracks that then allow the natural gas to escape and be captured.
It's time to reverse this regressive course	North Carolina is headed down
By Martin Dyckman • Guest Columnist
My wife and I moved here from Florida because we wanted to live in a state that valued its people, its environment, and its future as much as North Carolina did. We knew this would mean paying a state income tax, but we considered the value we would be getting in return.
Campaign to save specialty plates hits road block in the Senate
An effort to save those colorful specialty license plates has stalled in the N.C. Senate, which seems reluctant to take a bill up that would spare the popular plates.
Supporters of the specialty plates have rallied to save them from the chopping block. Lawmakers last year passed a bill that would gut the iconic plates, stripping them of their full color images such as the black bear, the scenic
All hands on deck: live gaming approved by state
After nearly a decade of negotiations and broken promises, the state finally approved an agreement that allows table games with live dealers at Harrah's Cherokee Casino.
The Eastern Band has worked since the early 2000s to get the state's John Hancock on a live gaming compact, and now, it's just a matter of weeks before the longtime dream comes to fruition.
With a nose for trouble, K9s are put on trial
By Paul Clark • Contributor •
Norris Bunch called his dog Maxo to attention. Maxo, alert and ready, waited for his release.
Barbara Holt, a judge for the U.S. Police Canine Association, gave the go-ahead, and Bunch, a K9 handler at the nuclear Savannah River Site, shouted for Maxo to move.
Laser-quick, Maxo charged toward the "decoy" – a fellow K9 officer acting as a criminal suspect. The decoy had a 25-yard head start on the football field at Waynesville Middle School. And, he certainly had the sympathy of the civilians spending a sunny June morning watching the police dog trials from the stands.
Fate of live dealers hinges on state House
The quest to bring live table games to Harrah's Cherokee Casino faces a final political hurdle.
Both the Governor and N.C. Senate have given live table games their blessing, with the N.C. House of Representatives now the lone hold-out.
Harrah's Casino is limited to video-based gambling only. Adding live table games like roulette and poker would attract a new clientele of player, and in turn more money and jobs flowing through the entire region, according to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.
"We aren't going to see a big influx of industry coming in to Western North Carolina, so we have to do what we can to ensure we have economic development," said Rep. Roger West, R-Marble. West sees the casino, which could employ more than 2,000 if it gets live dealers, as a key economic pillar that spins off in the region.
Whether the Eastern Band has the requisite votes to get the measure passed is unclear at the moment, however. But West is hopeful.
"I think the votes are there. If they aren't, it is just a matter of getting them," said West, who represents Macon, Clay, Graham and Cherokee counties.
However, many of the House legislators who are opposing live dealers cite moral and religious grounds, and convincing them to relinquish their convictions in the name of economic development might not be easy.
"My opposition stems from my longstanding belief that state sanctioned gambling has a corrosive effect on our society," said Rep. Ray Rapp, D-Mars Hill.
Rep. Phil Haire, D-Sylva, said the good the casino has done in the region outweighs any negatives.
"I remember the days before they had Harrah's — it has brought a whole lot of prosperity to the Eastern Band," Haire said.
Haire said the jobs provided by Harrah's are significant, not only the salaries but the health insurance. And Haire personally enjoys going to the concerts at Harrah's major performance venue. He saw Diana Ross recently, and is headed to see Natalie Cole this weekend.
Haire hopes Cherokee's casino operation won't be held hostage to personal ideology.
"I think some people want to put a moral tag on it, but nobody makes you go to Cherokee to gamble. It is all voluntary," Haire said.
Rapp was willing to go along with live table games for the existing casino campus, since gambling was already going on there. But Rapp is not comfortable with the prospect of Cherokee opening more casinos in the region on their land holdings.
The deal initially inked with the governor would have permitted Cherokee to open more casinos anywhere on land holdings it owned currently.
However, in an attempt to assuage legislators uncomfortable with expansion of gambling onto some of Cherokee's more recently acquired holdings, new language was added. The new language limits the Eastern Band to a max of four more casinos, and they can only be built on land under the tribe's domain as of 1988 — making newer land acquisitions off the table.
Live table games passed the senate last week by 33 to 14. All four state senators from the mountains voted for it: Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin; Sen. Ralph Hise, R-Spruce Pine; Sen. Tom Apadoca, R-Hendersonville; and Martin Nesbitt, D-Buncombe.
The tribe has hired lobbyist Steve Metcalf, a former legislator from Asheville, to shepherd live table games through the General Assembly. Metcalf declined to comment for this article.
A vote could come as early as next week. If it doesn't come, it could be a bad sign.
"You never go to a vote unless you have the votes," West said.
The General Assembly will only be in session for about six weeks.
Education fight resolved
It took years of lobbying and negotiations for the tribe to reach where it is now. In an historic agreement signed with Gov. Bev Perdue last November, the tribe agreed to give up a cut of its revenue from the new table games — on a sliding scale starting at 4 percent and maxing out at 8 percent over the next 30 years. In exchange, the state would grant live dealers and a guarantee that no other casinos would be allowed to encroach on its core territory, namely anywhere west of Interstate 26.
While Perdue and Republican leaders in the General Assembly had agreed in theory to live dealers last fall, they had locked horns on a seemingly obscure sticking point. Perdue wanted the state's cut of casino revenue to go directly to schools, bypassing the General Assembly. That way, lawmakers couldn't be tempted to tap the money for other uses.
The Republican leaders, however, said casino revenue couldn't legally be put in a lockbox and earmarked for future years. One set of lawmakers today can't impose mandates on how future lawmakers can spend money.
A compromise was reached that places the money in a special "Indian Gaming Education Revenue Fund." The General Assembly can tap the fund at will — so it does put legislators hand in the till — but they have to hold a special vote to get money out. Otherwise, the money will be disbursed quarterly to school systems across the state based on their student body population, and can only be spent on "classroom teachers, teacher assistants, classroom materials or supplies, or textbooks."
Annexation and fracking and voter ID, oh my! A look at the General Assembly's short session
While arguments over the state budget are likely to dominate everything in Raleigh as the General Assembly convenes for the next six weeks, there are certain bills and aspects of the budget making their way through the chambers that are of special interest to this region.
Annexation, automobile inspections and certain local bills will be considered during this short session. But the budget is definitely the gorilla in the room, the three lawmakers — Rep. Ray Rapp, D-Mars Hill; Rep. Phil Haire, D-Sylva; and Sen. Jim Davis, R-Franklin — from this region unanimously agreed.
"That's the major point of why you even have the short session," Rapp said of the budget.
Aspects of the state's financial plan as written by GOP House budget writers will be unveiled for the first time this week, Rapp said, which will undoubtedly set the stage for fierce debate between the two parties.
Education is likely to emerge as the hot-button issue in regards to the budget. Schools are losing federal stimulus money and are looking at steep budget cuts if things stay as they are. Gov. Beverly Perdue proposed increasing the education budget by $785 million using new sales tax revenue. But while Republicans have indicated they want to find more money for schools, that might be difficult in these fiscally austere times and with their promises of adhering to a fiscally austere budget path and stout opposition to a sales tax hike.
"This has major implications in education," Rapp said. "There's the possibility of losing more teachers and school employees — this is the frontline battle that will grab headlines (this) week."
In regards to various bills that are moving through the General Assembly, Davis said the one on annexation is capturing a lot of attention.
"This is particularly aimed at some municipalities that have involuntarily annexed people in outlying areas. In some cases the people haven't received services for 12 years," Davis said.
The State senate last week approved two bills that were written in response to a judge who disallowed annexation rules passed in 2011, Rapp said.
One bill would kill certain annexations that have already taken place and the other gives people the ability to stop a municipality from annexing their land into the town limits against their will.
"That one says that if you want to annex an area you have to have a referendum and a plurality of people must say they want to have this happen," Davis said.
One GOP-backed proposal that Davis supported did not make the cut. Under the proposal, new-car owners wouldn't have to get safety inspections until the cars were more than three years old.
Davis said he favored the idea because the safety inspection of new cars seems unnecessary. The proposal went down in flames, however, under a barrage of phone calls and lobbying by garage owners who make money off the inspections.
Fracking, a method of extracting natural gas hydraulically, is another hot-button issue identified by area lawmakers. There are several bills that will be introduced promoting fracking that are expected to pass. If they do, North Carolina would form an oil and gas board to oversee the procedure. Conservationists oppose fracking as posing an unnecessary risk to the environment.
Davis also pointed to voter identification as another bill to keep an eye on. This is a holdover from the 2011 session. The bill would require that voters show photo identification at the polls before they could vote. Democrats have fought the bill as a voter-rights violation.
On a more local level, several bills are being introduced that are of special interest to this region.
In yet another step in a tangled tale, Haire is introducing a bill that would allow Jackson County to delay the implementation of legislation passed last year seeking an additional 3 tax on overnight lodging.
The county inadvertently triggered a mandate governing county tourism entities when it sought the room tax increase, requiring it to form a single tourism development authority. Jackson County has had two tourism agencies — one representing the Cashiers area and one for Jackson County as a whole — that oversee room tax money collected by the lodging industry. Whether to merge the two into a single countywide entity has been a source of debate. In the meantime, the county learned recently that its current structure is out of compliance with state law.
Haire said that his bill would give Jackson County until Jan. 1 to make that change, giving county leaders the opportunity to best decide what structure the single countywide tourism agency should take.
Davis, for his part, is overseeing legislation that would finalize an agreement between Graham and Swain counties over Fontana Dam money.
Swain and Graham counties have finally agreed on where to draw the county line signifying their portions of the Fontana Dam and hydropower generators. The dam straddles the two counties. How much of the dam lies in each county determines how much they each get in property tax money from the Tennessee Valley Authority for the dam, its hydropower equipment and generators. This bill nails down the dividing line as an old monument marking the center of the river on the dam that surveyors discovered.
Rapp is introducing a bill that would restore funding to the N.C. Center for the Advancement for Teaching. The center would receive $3 million in recurring funds beginning July 1 from the Department of Public Instruction under the bill.
The N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching went from a state-funded budget of $6.1 million to $3.1 million last year.
The 25-year institution is credited with helping the state to retain teachers by inspiring them through professional development. In Cullowhee, 22 fulltime positions and 11 hourly-contracted positions were eliminated because of the budget cut.
The short session is expected to conclude July 4.
"The rumor down here was if you wanted to make plans for the Fourth of July you could do so," Haire said.
WNC cops frustrated by lack of drug, alcohol testing at regional crime lab
Waynesville Police Department is one of several law enforcement agencies hoping to see an expansion of the Western North Carolina crime lab in the next several years to speed up processing, trials and convictions of offenders.
"Our evidence has to go all the way to Raleigh," said Waynesville Police Chief Bill Hollingsed. "We would love to see the expansion of the lab in Western North Carolina."
The current lab serving WNC, based in the Skyland area of Asheville, can run tests to identify specific drugs and fingerprints as well as process firearms, tool markings and fire-related evidence. However, it is not certified to run toxicology tests, which are most often used to show an individual's blood alcohol concentration or if they have ingested any drugs. Those tests can only be run at the state lab in Raleigh.
"Right now, our biggest backlog in the system … is toxicology," Hollingsed said.
What ends up happening is situations like this: A police officer pulls over and arrests a motorist suspected of driving under the influence. At some point, a blood sample is drawn and sent to the lab in Raleigh. While town and county law enforcement officials wait for the results, prosecutors must repeatedly ask for the judge to postpone a hearing or trial as they wait for the results. However, a judge will only delay a case for so long. And, without the toxicology report or other proof that a person was over the legal limit or on drugs, an offender may get off or get a looser punishment than the crime deserves.
Defense attorneys may also request that the crime lab technician who conducted the testing appear in court. In that case, the lab technician must spend a whole day driving from Raleigh to Western North Carolina and back — precious time that could be spent testing evidence for other cases.
"It's breaking the state," Hollingsed said.
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Lenard Whiting, has been course instructor and director of the UTSC Concert Choir for the past nine years.
Some said it couldn't be done. But when Professor Kwong-loi Shun, the principal and vice-president of the University of Toronto at Scarborough, launched the first Faculty and Staff Campaign at the Scarborough campus, he was confident that his colleagues and co-workers would step up to his ambitious fundraising goal of $100,000.
In fact, more than $130,000 was raised to support scholarships and capital projects in five areas: the Centre for Neurobiology of Stress, the Management Building, the Academic Resource Centre, the Student Centre and arts initiatives such as the Doris McCarthy Gallery and student exhibition space.
Lenard Whiting, a UTSC lecturer in the music program and a choir director, made a $14,000 contribution to establish the Lawrence B. Leverington Mentor Award. The scholarship is named after Whiting's music teacher and mentor – the former choir director at St. Alban's Anglican Cathedral in Kenora, Ont., where Whiting was raised. "He was a brilliant lounge entertainer and inspiring music teacher throughout his entire career," says Whiting.
The award will support a student enrolled in the second, third or fourth year of the visual and performing arts program at UTSC, who has demonstrated outstanding musical ability in direction, composition or performance.


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Texas Traffic Stop
A guy cruises thru a stop sign and gets pulled over by a local policeman. Guy hands the cop his driver's license, insurance verification, plus his concealed carry permit.
"Okay, Mr. Smith," the cop says, "I see your CCW permit. Are you carrying today?"
"Yes, I am."
"Well then, better tell me what you got."
Smith says, "Well, I got a .357 revolver in my inside coat pocket. There's a 9mm semi-auto in the glove box. And, I've got a .22 magnum derringer in my right boot."
"Okay," the cop says. "Anything else?"
"Yeah, back in the trunk, there's an AR15 and a shotgun. That's about it."
"Mr. Smith, are you on your way to or from a gun range...?"
"Nope."
"Well then, what are you afraid of...?"
"Not much...."
Nice one FOUR... !!
If it really happened in Texas the officer would be asking to see all those and exchanging stories.
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eldarbeast said:
when the occifer aks...shur, if you knew you were so drunk why are you driving?
becaush occifer when I tried to walk I kept falling down...
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Too funny!
Always remember, you're too drunk to drive when you fall down and hear the sidewalk say ouch.
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The Oxford Dictionary has just added a lot of new words to is vocabulary which I always like to see.
There's already a zillion words in the English language, but the more the merrier.
Purists think a lot of these trendy words shouldn't be in the dictionary, we should stick to the tried and true. But these people are "catastrophizing" (one of the new words) which means to think things will be worse than they already are.
But I always think of the English language as a living, breathing animal that evolves over time.
A lot of the words do what I do: Take existing words and mash them up, combine them or squeeze them into new words. One of Oxford's new words is "bromance," which means a close, non-sexual relationship between two men. As you can see someone just mushed "brother" and "romance" together to come up with the word.
Some of the new words are jargon that we got from the government and news media. "Exit strategy," a plan for getting out of a situation and "toxic debt" referring to a cause of he financial crisis.
The people who came up with these jargony words are "cheeseballs," meaning people who lack taste or originality.
Some of the words are too cute, clearly coming from teenagers or, like, whatever, as the young 'uns say.
"Matchy-matchy" means too color coordinated and LBD refers to "little black dress." I want to "defriend" the people who came up with those words. "Defriend" is a new Oxford word; it's pretty self-explanatory.
I was once credited in some on-line slang site as coming up with a new word "Seinfeldian" which refers to an inane conversation or situation. They cited a story I wrote for the Burlington Free Press about a tavern conversation. But I don't think I was the first person to use that word.
I alter the English language all the time. I call butterflies "flutterbys" because that's what they do. "Bigamist" is widespread fog in Italy. Say it with an Italian accent and you'll see what I mean.
Do you have any words you invented? Any words you've seen that you want brought into more widespread use? Leave a message in the comments section.
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Schmingle. To schmooze and mingle, simultaneously. Plus, I like anything that sounds like it might be yiddish. Oh hey. I just googled. It's a Jewish networking event in the UK. Dang.
some of these words seemed to have been around forever (chil pilll, buzzkill, national treasure) i've been accused of at least one of the works for years now (overthink). i think to describe a negative person is way too strong a word…i think would have been better.


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Two is always better than one, so utilizing two 860 MiniZaprs to sterilize surfaces is a win-win for everyone using the University of Rhode Island athletic facilities. In 2014, the University of Rhode Island was looking for a chemical free way to protect its students and athletes against potentially harmful microorganisms. Harmful microorganisms like Staph and MRSA are ever present in facilities but are invisible. Helping to combat these dangers, the 860 MiniZapr is a real solution. The 860 MiniZapr uses UV-C light to sterilize surfaces. Maintaining a healthy facility includes both maintaining health equipment and preventing dangerous health issues to humans.
In 2016, the Athletic Strength & Conditioning facility for the University of Rhode Island purchased their very own MiniZapr. The benefit of two MiniZaprs is covering more surface area. For those of you asking the question of why would a health facility need equipment to sterilize surfaces? The danger lies with bodily fluids and how bodily fluids interact with skin.
Bodily fluids can be quite harmful if not addressed immediately. A proactive approach to treating contaminated surfaces before health issues appear is progressive thinking. The University of Rhode Island is being progressive and is leader for other institutions.
Sports facilities and parents are not connecting the dots between the interaction of bodily fluids and humans. The negative health issues related to staph, MRSA and Ringworm is very real. A simple Google Search using the words, staph infection mats, or MRSA and sports will allow you to read for yourself about the harmful potential athletes face.
For over five years now, I have spoken about how sports facilities need to protect against harmful microorganisms. Every week I receive phone calls and emails from parents, athletes and facility operators looking for answers to staph and MRSA.
Institutions like the University of Rhode Island are thinking outside of the box. UVC technology had been around for many decades and proven its capabilities. When the University of Rhode Island was looking for an alternative method to using chemicals, the 860 MiniZapr became that solution. The UV-C sterilizing light of the MiniZapr is a great resource to combat harmful microorganisms.
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Google uses enough energy to continuously power 200,000 homes.
Murders in the Rue Morgue". What was the Rue Morgue?
"Hurry on down to _______ where the burgers are charcoal broiled."
3. Three of these moons belong to Uranus; which one belongs to Jupiter?
4. "Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs" is the theme song to what TV sitcom ?
5. What's the longest (land) mountain chain in the world ?
7. In Greek Mythology, what sort of creature was Medusa ?
8. Which country has, as of 2018, the most Miss Universe winners ?
Julian date, your fail-safe guide to fresh eggs.
they'll keep in your fridge for four to five weeks.
not expired, they might be weeks old.
food-borne disease from them increases.
usda.gov "egg carton labeling / dating"
Egg processors typically print dates commonly called "Code Dates" on cartons for purposes of rotating stock or controlling inventory. "EXP", "Sell By", "Best if Used Before" are examples of terminology used for code dating. Use of code dates on USDA graded eggs is optional, however, if they are used, certain rules must be followed.
If an expiration date is used, it must be printed in month/day format and preceded by the appropriate prefix. "EXP", "Sell By", "Not to be sold after the date at the end of the carton" are examples of expiration dates. Expiration dates can be no more than 30 days from the day the eggs were packed into the carton.
Another type of code dating used indicates the recommended maximum length of time that the consumer can expect eggs to maintain their quality when stored under ideal conditions. Terminology such as "Use by", Use before", "Best before" indicates a period that the eggs should be consumed before overall quality diminishes. Code dating using these terms may not exceed 45 days including the day the eggs were packed into the carton.
note that some states are more strict than USDA regs.
another unpleasant issue: there is / was nothing to preclude egg packagers from taking back "expired" eggs for rewashing/repacking/redating/resale.


Pressure gradient only -.07″ and NBR reporting light winds. NOAA weather radio calling for SW flow all day. Weather map showing an approaching NW cold front. Aviation weather calling for light westerly winds this morning getting stronger this afternoon. Will local up slope flow over power weak westerlies this morning?
Are there any NOTAMS out there right now?
You lost me. NOTAM—Notices to Airmen? What are you referring to?


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Mayor Bill de Blasio weighs in on BuzzFeed union dispute
Anthony Ha	@anthonyha / 2 years
An apparent breakdown in talks between BuzzFeed management and the company's newsroom union spurred expressions of solidarity from other unions — and even from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The employees of BuzzFeed News (the company's journalistic arm) voted to unionize in February, following major layoffs. At the time, Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith reportedly responded, "We look forward to meeting with the organizers to discuss a way toward voluntarily recognizing their union."
But those discussions appear to have come to a halt. The union said that yesterday, BuzzFeed executives failed to show up for a meeting, only informing union representatives of this five minutes after the scheduled start time.
We came to the table today ready to meet with BuzzFeed execs about finally recognizing our union. Five minutes after the meeting was scheduled to start, they told us they weren't going to show up. pic.twitter.com/Pa9aBsOeaM
— BuzzFeed News Union (@bfnewsunion) April 3, 2019
"The biggest sticking point has been the company's opposition to an 'editorial unit' — a recognition of the newsroom as a whole rather than a list of specific titles," the union wrote in a letter to BuzzFeed News staff. "Recognizing an editorial unit is the industry standard across digital and print newsrooms and is a part of all NewsGuild contracts, from the New York Times, Daily Beast, Los Angeles Times, and New Yorker. We were ready to discuss this issue, along with which employees should be included in the union, with management at today's meeting."
In response, a BuzzFeed spokesperson told Splinter, "BuzzFeed has made specific, reasonable offers (and concessions) with the goal of voluntarily recognizing a BuzzFeed News union. We hope the union will return to discussing specific titles and positions — the subject of weeks of negotiations — rather than focusing on an area where we continue to disagree."
A number of other newsroom unions criticized BuzzFeed management's behavior. For example, the Gizmodo Media Group union wrote, "do BuzzFeed execs know that flagrantly disrespecting your workers' time and efforts in this manner is, uh, a pretty great way to make a rock solid case for why your company needs a union immediately?"
Memo to @BuzzFeedNews: New York City is a union town. You didn't just snub @bfnewsunion yesterday, you insulted all working New Yorkers.
To the union: This city stands with you.
To the management: Come. To. The. Table.
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) April 4, 2019
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted in support of the union as well, declaring that New York is "a union town" and that BuzzFeed management "insulted all working New Yorkers."
"To the union: This city stands with you," de Blasio wrote. "To the management: Come. To. The. Table."
According to The Daily Beast, BuzzFeed responded with the following statement (it's not clear in what context): "This process is not going to benefit from the involvement of a deeply unpopular mayor who has expressed an open disdain for journalists during his time in office."
We've reached out to BuzzFeed for comment and will update if we hear back.
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Recruiter.com Group, Inc. Interview to Air on Bloomberg U.S. on the RedChip Money Report(R)
ORLANDO, FL / ACCESSWIRE / January 20, 2023 / RedChip Companies will air an interview with Recruiter.com Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:RCRT)(NASDAQ:RCRTW) ('Recruiter.com'), an on-demand recruiting platform, on The RedChip Money Report® on Bloomberg TV, this Saturday, January 21, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). Bloomberg TV is available in an estimated 73 million homes across the U.S.
In the exclusive RedChip Money Report interview, Recruiter.com Group, Inc.'s Chairman and CEO Evan Sohn discusses the Company's double-digit revenue growth, high insider ownership, the state of the job market, and much more.
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High School: Named First Team Eastern Cincinnati Conference athletically and academically all four years...Earned Second Team All-Ohio honors in her senior season...Nine hole average of 38.1 as a senior.
Personal: Daughter of Amy and Keith Swensen...Has two siblings, Andrea and Kyle...Also played basketball, soccer, softball and ultimate frisbee in high school...Picked ODU because the small class sizes makes it easier to make new friends.
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Patent Trolls
Legislative Solutions for Patent Reform
Deep Dive: Software Patents and the Rise of Patent Trolls
Saved by Alice
Stupid Patent of the Month
The U.S. Patent System is supposed to represent a bargain between inventors and the public. In theory, it is simple: in exchange for dedicating a novel invention to society, along with a clear explanation of how to practice that invention, a patent applicant gets a 20-year monopoly.
But, lately, we've watched as the system appears to fall apart, harming innovation, the very thing it was designed to foster. Many factors contribute to the problems we've seen with the patent system, but perhaps none so much as the rise of the patent troll. To be sure, the patent troll problem is not a new one (remember the infamous RIM v NTP case?), but recently, we've followed a troubling new trend: more and more small developers and companies targeted by trolls.
What is a patent troll?
A patent troll uses patents as legal weapons, instead of actually creating any new products or coming up with new ideas. Instead, trolls are in the business of litigation (or even just threatening litigation). They often buy up patents cheaply from companies down on their luck who are looking to monetize what resources they have left, such as patents. Unfortunately, the Patent Office has a habit of issuing patents for ideas that are neither new nor revolutionary, and these patents can be very broad, covering everyday or commonsense types of computing – things that should never have been patented in the first place. Armed with these overbroad and vague patents, the troll will then send out threatening letters to those they argue infringe their patent(s). These letters threaten legal action unless the alleged infringer agrees to pay a licensing fee, which can often range to the tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Many who receive infringement letters will choose to pay the licensing fee, even if they believe the patent is bogus or their product did not infringe. That's because patent litigation is extremely expensive — often millions of dollars per suit — and can take years of court battles. It's faster and easier for companies to settle.
Lodsys
In particular, we've watched with dismay as Lodsys, a company that neither makes nor sells a product, targets small app developers, claiming the use of in-app purchasing technology (usually provided by Apple or Google) infringes Lodsys' patents.
It's impossible to know how many app developers Lodsys has actually threatened, but we do know that it has sued at least 11. Apple has moved to intervene in that suit, claiming that the license it took from the patents' former owner covers its app developer's uses of that technology, and Google has filed a Notice of Reexamination with the Patent Office challenging the validity of Lodsys' patents. But Apple's and Google's actions — while noteworthy — will take years to reach resolution. In the meantime, app developers are faced with an unenviable choice: either take a license from Lodsys or live with the fear that they could be the next party facing a lawsuit.
Trolling Effects (EFF's online database of patent demand letters)
EFF's Virtual Boot Camp (video)
FAQs for Lodsys Targets
EFF Related Content: Patent Trolls
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Today is my sweetiepie's birthday! Here's wishing a wonderful birthday to the most amazing man!
This is one of my favourite pictures ever! It was taken in 2005 on our very first trip to Scotland (almost exactly six years ago today!). This at the Loch Ness museum and that's Nessie herself in the background!
Happy birthday, David!! I hope you have a marvellous day and I know Debi will spoil you rotten.
Great photo. Very fun. Happy birthday to David.
Aw! Happy birthday David. Cute pic!
This really is a great picture, Debi. Happy Birthday, David!
WOW! Thanks, everyone. And thank you, Debi, for the post. You're the best wife a man could ever hope for! Here's to another year together! Yeah, I love this photo too. Still have it in my wallet.
outstanding photo. and umm, ^^^^^ how sweet is your husband?! happy birthday david!
I can see why you both love the photo :) It's a good one!
Happy Birthday Day. Your hair is so long here, wow! Great Photo! Have a fab day!
Love that photo. Happy Birthday David, your birthday is the day before mine!
Believe it or not, my hubby and did that same pose in front of Loch Lomond, only I was holding him (no, I can't do that anymore more than a decade later, hehe). I need to dig out that photo.
Great photo. HAPPY BIRTHDAY David!
That is an awesome photo! Happy birthday David!


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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;

import org.springframework.http.HttpMethod;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.CrossOrigin;
import org.springframework.web.cors.CorsConfiguration;

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 * {@code CorsRegistration} assists with the creation of a
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 * @author Sebastien Deleuze
 * @author Sam Brannen
 * @since 4.2
 * @see CorsConfiguration
 * @see CorsRegistry
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	private final String pathPattern;

	private final CorsConfiguration config;

	public CorsRegistration(String pathPattern) {
		this.pathPattern = pathPattern;
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		this.config.setAllowedOrigins(Arrays.asList(CrossOrigin.DEFAULT_ORIGINS));
		this.config.setAllowedMethods(Arrays.asList(HttpMethod.GET.name(),
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		this.config.setAllowedHeaders(Arrays.asList(CrossOrigin.DEFAULT_ALLOWED_HEADERS));
		this.config.setAllowCredentials(CrossOrigin.DEFAULT_ALLOW_CREDENTIALS);
		this.config.setMaxAge(CrossOrigin.DEFAULT_MAX_AGE);
	}

	public CorsRegistration allowedOrigins(String... origins) {
		this.config.setAllowedOrigins(new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(origins)));
		return this;
	}

	public CorsRegistration allowedMethods(String... methods) {
		this.config.setAllowedMethods(new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(methods)));
		return this;
	}

	public CorsRegistration allowedHeaders(String... headers) {
		this.config.setAllowedHeaders(new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(headers)));
		return this;
	}

	public CorsRegistration exposedHeaders(String... headers) {
		this.config.setExposedHeaders(new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(headers)));
		return this;
	}

	public CorsRegistration maxAge(long maxAge) {
		this.config.setMaxAge(maxAge);
		return this;
	}

	public CorsRegistration allowCredentials(boolean allowCredentials) {
		this.config.setAllowCredentials(allowCredentials);
		return this;
	}

	protected String getPathPattern() {
		return this.pathPattern;
	}

	protected CorsConfiguration getCorsConfiguration() {
		return this.config;
	}

}

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More than 10% of HIV-infected pregnant women use marijuana — up from 7% in 2007, study shows
By Jeffrey Bailey	 On Dec 3, 2021
Marijuana use among pregnant women infected with HIV has increased over the past decade, a new study suggests.
Researchers surveyed women with the condition, who were expecting babies or had recently given birth, about their substance use.
They found that more than 10 percent of mothers-to-be with HIV reported using cannabis, compared to seven percent who reported doing the same in 2007.
The team, led by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, says the findings suggest future studies are needed to find out why marijuana use has increased among pregnant women, as more states legalize recreational marijuana.
A new study led by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine looked at 2,310 women with HIV who were pregnant or had given birth less than a year ago from 2007 to 2019 (file image)
For the study, published in JAMA Network Open, the team collected data from the Surveillance Monitoring for Antiretroviral Toxicities (SMARTT) study of the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Women with HIV who were pregnant or who had given birth less than a year ago were enrolled between January 1, 2007 and July 1, 2019/
In the US, more than 1.2 million people are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, the virus that leads to the potentially deadly disease AIDS.
About 13 percent with HIV do not know they have the virus.
Once a person contracts HIV, the virus begins to attack and destroy the immune cells that normally protect the body from infection.
It's not known how many U.S. women with HIV give birth each year, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests it's less than 5,000.
The survey asked the women about their use of various substances, including marijuana, alcohol, opioids, and concomitant alcohol and marijuana.
Data was collected from 2,926 pregnancies of 2,310 women with HIV.
Researchers found that in 2019, 11.7 percent of pregnant women with HIV used marijuana.
That is an increase from the 7.1 percent who reported the same in 2007.
However, the use of alcohol and opioids during pregnancy remained stable over the 12-year study period.
In addition, marijuana use among postpartum women increased from 10.2 percent in 2007 to 23.7 percent in 2019.
The use of marijuana is sometimes recommended in pregnant women to relieve symptoms such as nausea.
However, several studies have suggested that marijuana use in pregnant women can be harmful to the health of babies.
An August 2020 study found that women who use marijuana during pregnancy are almost twice as likely to give birth to a child with autism.
In 2019, 11.7% of pregnant women with HIV used marijuana, compared to 7% in 2007, but alcohol consumption remained the same (above)
And a separate September 2020 study found that children exposed to cannabis in utero were more likely to experience psychotic behaviors, such as delusions and hallucinations.
"While opioid use among pregnant people with HIV was stable, marijuana use increased in this cohort, and the legalization of medical marijuana may be associated with increased marijuana use in this population," the authors wrote.
"These patterns of increasing marijuana use among pregnant and postpartum people living with HIV warrant increased clinical attention given the potential health implications of substance use for mothers and children.
"These results suggest that future research should examine postpartum opioid use, the longitudinal patterns of use from pregnancy to postpartum, and the association of use with extensive recreational legalization of marijuana."
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Since I've known for a time that the office would eventually be converted into a nursery and later a kids room, I have been on the hunt for a Roll Top Desk. We wanted something that would leave a small footprint in what I call the parlor section of our living room because that is really the only place left that would make sense for my office space. I don't need much since I do most of my work on a laptop but a place for my monitor and desktop to live is definitely a nice to have.
The next thing to do -- after cleaning up the mess that re-arranging the parlor to fit this desk caused -- is cut some holes in the back so I can run the needed cables through it. I'm going to hold off for a short time though and let it occur more organically. While I would not normally advocate defiling an antique just for the sake of modern convenience, I don't think this is a valuable rare antique worth any more than the $80 I paid for it off Craigslist.
On another note, it kinda of concerns me that we are placing furniture in a very similar fashion to how the previous owners placed theirs. I suppose it is because the overall layout of the house doesn't allow for too much flexibility. There is only one good spot for the treadmill in the basement, there is only one good place to put the TV in the living room, etc.
I did write a quick piece about this on ChicagoNow so you go there and give me a pageclick, a like and a share if you are so inclined. After all, I now have babies to feed.


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The problem today is that most small business owners have no idea what to aim for each month in terms of "unit" sales.
They find themselves getting so involved in the daily staff issues, checking supplier invoices to stock received and ringing up the till to the Joe Blog customers of the world.
They don't know how many "widgets" they need to sell to make a profit, and even worse how many "widgets" are needed to be sold to simply pay their fixed costs… like their rent.
They base decisions which increase and decrease costs based on "feelings" more than real numbers.
One of the hardest decisions small business face is the "Cost vs. Benefit" decision.
Are these some of the questions you keep asking?
This question can actually be easily solved by means of a really simple calculation called: The Breakeven Point calculation.
The power in this "number crunch" is not just in the number, but more importantly the understanding of how it affects your business.
The mark-up is the average profit achieved after paying any direct costs for those products.
Sales valueless : Raw materials, freight cost, direct sales commissions and the like = Gross profit.
When this is calculated as a % in proportion to the sales value, it stands to reason that the higher this %, the easier it is going to be to cover costs.
It also stands to reason that the more units you sell, the $ value profit per unit is going to add up allot quicker and therefore allow you to be able to pay for the big ticket costs like rent, fixed advertising cost, permanent wage cost etc – including your salary.
These "big ticket costs" which do not change as our sales increase and decrease are called Fixed costs. Your rent does not change if you sell 10 000 units in a month or just 1 unit. Your staff still expects their wage packet at the end of each week / month, no matter how many "feet" walk through the door.
The costs that do change as sales increase and decrease are the raw material costs, freight charge paid per unit, sales commissions or any related "per unit" charge. These are called Variable costs.
The higher the variable costs are, the smaller the Gross profit. And the smaller the Gross profit, the more units you need to sell to pay your Fixed costs.
The same applies as your Sales value increases and decreases. If your sales price does not increase proportionately as your Variable costs increase, your Gross profit % will be lower. And once again, you will need to sell more units to cover your fixed costs.
This is a trap most small business owners fall into far too easily. The (Variable cost) supplier (ie Raw Material supplier) increases their costs marginally over time, and if you the business owner is not keeping your finger on the Gross Profit pulse, before you know it, your Gross profit % is lower and it seems to be getting more and more difficult make a profit or just pay the bills, like the rent.
Do you feel your business may be falling into this trap?
Do you need to take more notice of how much Gross profit you make on your products?
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What is even more powerful than just a simple Breakeven calculation is adding your set target Profit $ value as a Fixed cost (We call this Breakeven + profit). By therefore increasing your Fixed cost by your profit, you are now able to set a number of unit sales target per month. By breaking that down to a daily unit sales target, you are now able to keep your sales team "on track" with performance incentives that actually drive profit!
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Copper River Salmon is hosting me and my mom in Cordova, Alaska this summer! I have never been to Alaska, and I am super excited. We get to go and experience Cordova, a remote fishing village that can only be reached by boat or small plane. We are going salmon fishing too! I've heard a lot about Cordova from my neighbor who used to live in Alaska. He says that it is one of the most beautiful places in the whole world. I am very excited to have this amazing trip.
This is Cordova. It is very small, and nestled right at the mouth of the famous Copper River. From this picture it looks like the marina is bigger than the town! Sadly we won't see much snow because my mom and I are going in the summer, but we will still have a wicked awesome time.
This is the Copper River. It looks like it has a lot of bends, and it seems like it would be hard to navigate by ship. My hands are shaking as I'm typing because I am so excited!!!
Look at the breathtaking views. The only thing that can get better than this, is seeing it in person. 🙂 During our stay in Cordova, Copper River Salmon has planned out quite the itinerary for me and my mom. Last year's itinerary included salmon fishing, kayaking, a salmon barbecue, the history of Copper River Seafoods, and even a glacier trip! I just hope the glaciers don't melt before I get there. Stupid global warming!
I've seen pictures of two different kinds of salmon fishing so far. I have seen netting and just plain rod-fishing. I'm curious as to what kind of fishing we will be doing in Alaska. It seems to me like netting is kind of unfair. There is no struggle. It seems too easy for the fisherman, so I hope my mom and I will be rod-fishing.
Fishing is all about the fight. Each fish has different memories that come with it. I can't wait to be catching salmon with the pros in Alaska.
All of the desolate land in Alaska seems so cool. There are vast tundras in between mountains and the ocean, filled with animals as abundant as rocks on the ground. While I'm in Alaska it would be cool if I could ride a dog sled. I have always wondered how fast dog sleds can go. The Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race every year is so cool. It runs from Anchorage to Nome, and is around 1,100 miles long. The race is the most popular sporting event in Alaska, and the top mushers and dogs are celebrities. The teams race through narrow mountain passes, over flat tundras, across rivers, and through dense forests. The thrill of the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race is contagious!
That is some good, quality salmon right there. I personally don't like skin though when I'm eating salmon.
This picture reminded me of Pike's Place Market in Seattle, Washington. There are tons of fish and other foods piled onto ice in the cramped market. It's causes quite a smell, believe me.
That is a perfect fillet. Does that not make you hungry? When I'm fishing in Alaska, I should bring some rice and make a piece of nigiri (sushi with just rice and a small cut of fish) with some salmon while I'm on the boat.
Keep calm and fish on! I totally have to get this T-shirt. I'm sooo excited for Alaska! Thank you Copper River Salmon for inviting us on this very special trip! If you guys have any questions about Copper River Salmon you can visit copperriversalmon.org What's your favorite type of fish?
And even a kid that turns 13 on Tuesday can get invited to go to Alaska… Like Me!
Note: I didn't take any of these pictures- I searched the internet and borrowed them for my post. I hope that's ok with the photo owners!
My cousin lives in Alaska and she loves it! Anytime she posts pictures of being outside, it is so beautiful!! Have fun when you go there!
welcome to the Great Land, Brooks! Copper River Red (Sockeye) salmon is the best! You're going to love Cordova and Prince William Sound. Be sure and try some fresh delicious PWS spot shrimp! I'm going to Farmer's Market in the morning for my first fresh shrimp since last fall. My very favorite two proteins. Best in the world, I think. I think your trip will be life altering. Have fun and bon appétit!
Have a wonderful trip! We will all look forward to reading your posts upon your return. You can do a tutorial on how to gut a fish!
You will have a wonderful time. Alaska is fascinating! Look for some native crafts. My favorites are the sculptures done by locals – not mass produced or imported. By buying those you are supporting the local economy.
My ailing computer finally let me look at what's been going on at RecipeBoy's website.Looking good. I loved reading all about your future trip to Alaska. Sounds like you learned a lot about Alaska already. Thanks for sharing.


How much do you know about your business's health? It's important to understand what's going on within your business—because it's how you plan for growth.
I think it's safe to say that most new business owners don't jump into their entrepreneurial dream because they are financial experts or are particularly excited about spending a lot of time knee deep in their business's financial reports.
But, it is important to understand what's going on within their business—it's really the only way to plan for growth.
Whether you're simply trying to scale your business or seeking equity investment, having a plan is key.
I can't think of too many people more qualified to answer this question from the investor's perspective.
"Shark Tank" judge Barbara Corcoran.
"When pitching a potential investor, it's important to have a complete understanding of your company's financials and prospects.
The best way to demonstrate this is to become intimately familiar with your financial position—be able to explain your statements inside and out and even more importantly, illustrate the thinking behind the projections.
In a nutshell, Corcoran suggests that you need to be "intimate" with how your business is doing financially as well as understand what potential opportunities or challenges you see for the future (a SWOT analysis can be helpful here).
When Corcoran suggests you need to "…have a complete understanding of your company's…prospects," she's alluding to a business plan and the potential your business has for future growth. It's not uncommon for many business owners to rely on informal plans or Lean Planning to map out the future of their business.
The idea of a formal, written plan can feel like a lot of work with minimum benefit, but I don't believe that's the case. What's more, a formal plan doesn't necessarily mean cumbersome. A formal business plan can be a great tool for businesses at any stage of development—not just for startups looking for capital. Your business plan can and should be the platform for understanding and leveraging your financials and comparing actuals with your projections.
Many business owners fail to see the value of regular planning and forecasting, and it hurts their businesses because they haven't planned for potential challenges and don't have any kind of strategy for dealing with them. The same is true for opportunities. Planning for how you will take advantage of opportunities for growth could even be vitally important as you work to build a healthy and thriving business.
2. Do you regularly review your plan?
If you do devote the time to crafting a well thought out business plan, how often do you revisit it? I believe your business plan should be a living document that you regularly consult (think at least quarterly) to measure how you're doing today versus what you forecasted in your plan. Big businesses devote time to regular planning and reviewing their actual performance to the plan as part of how they measure success.
A big part of your plan review should center on financials—comparing your actual performance with what you forecasted. If doing this on a regular basis sounds daunting, using a dashboard that integrates with your accounting software to track your financials can make it easier.
Regular planning helps businesses to take advantage of opportunities within their markets. I believe this is a big business behavior small businesses should be modeling. Nevertheless, your business plan should be a living document you can review regularly, and not something so unwieldy that it gets put on the shelf and never referenced again.
What's more, when an investor asks to see your plan, they are likely even more interested in how your business is performing against that plan.
For more on how to hold a monthly plan review meeting, check out this article.
3. Do you work on your business, or in your business?
According to the SBA, roughly two-thirds of business with employees survive at least two years, and only about half make it to their fifth birthday, so it's important to understand what it means to work on your business.
You don't really need to be a financial expert or an accountant to work on your business, but there are a handful of financial metrics that will help you better understand your business financials and make it easier for you to demonstrate to a potential investor that you've got a handle on the important metrics associated with running a successful business.
As a small business owner, I found these metrics to be crucial to understanding the health of my business from a financial perspective.
Without revenue, nothing else in your business can really go very far. When talking to any investor (or a lender for that matter), be prepared to talk about your business's revenue and growth.
I tracked this number on a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis so I could compare how my business was doing today to last year, last month, last week, and so on.
There are several ways to categorize your expenses, and your accountant can help you decide which is best for your business, but you need to have a thorough understanding of what it costs you to do business to demonstrate your profit-earning potential to a prospective investor.
Don't forget, an investor may not be looking for a regular loan payment (like a bank or other lender), but they are looking for a return, so showing you have expenses under control is a first step to demonstrating you are (or can be) profitable.
Poor cash flow has been the death of many small businesses, so it's critical. It's not enough to know that you have money in the bank at the end of the month; you need to understand the ratio and what it's telling you.
Your accountant will tell you that your cash flow ratio is obtained by dividing your assets and your liabilities. The ideal, or the goal for every business owner, should be a ratio of 2:1. Or, twice as many assets as liabilities. For most businesses, that's a pretty tall order, but anything below 1:1, should be a big red warning flag that your business doesn't have adequate cash flow to maintain business operations.
How long does it take your customers, to whom you offer credit terms, to pay their invoices? If you offer 30-day terms, do they consistently pay in 30 days or do they sometimes go 45 or 60 days?
I found that there was a point where it actually cost me to do business. If a customer went over roughly 65 days, the negative impact on my cash flow basically chewed up any profits that I might have earned. What's more, for every day over 45, it became exponentially more difficult to collect. This is a metric you just can't ignore.
This is another number you should have at your fingertips, and how you manage your accounts payable could help you capture an additional percentage or two of profit.
For example, because many of your vendors and suppliers that offer payments terms, also offer what is often called a prompt payment discount, if you pay in 10 days instead of the 30 days, you could capture an additional percent or two discount on your invoice. It also demonstrates to creditors and potential investors that you are capable of managing your financial obligations.
Establishing some rigor regarding planning and setting aside time to address the financial side of a small business can initially seem like a lot of extra work for a marginal return. But actually, it's what sets those entrepreneurs who work on their businesses apart from those that simply work in them. Regular analysis and planning can be very attractive to investors, will also help build a healthy and thriving enterprise.
A main street business evangelist and author with more than 30 years in the trenches, Ty makes the maze of small business and small business finance accessible within a regular discussion of this regular challenge for small businesses for OnDeck.


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Martin produces atmospheric pieces; employing a rich, muted colour palette and velvet blacks to create a dream-like sensuality that pervades his work. The artist's forays into clay have also opened up an interesting dialogue between his sculpture and figure painting. Working across a broad range of mediums including chalk, pen and ink, pencil, oils, pastels, etching and clay, Martin has developed a style that draws inspiration from Francisco De Goya and Eugene Delacroix. His variety of mediums is matched by his diversity of subjects and genres, which include landscapes, seascapes, urban scenes, portraits, figure painting, sculpture and still lifes.
The artist prefers to sketch and paint from life. In his portraiture Martin feels it is important to get to know his sitter and will often request 6-7 sittings. Weather-permitting, landscapes will be produced in situ, but where this isn't possible, Martin will complete works in the studio using his sketches for reference. Martin's art is rooted in personal impression and for this reason he does not work from photographs.
Martin Yeoman was born in 1953 and trained from 1975-1979 at the Royal Academy Schools, London. Since then he has been prolific in portraiture, still life, landscape and sculpture, and has undertaken notable commissions including Ed Sheeran and Her Majesty the Queen's Grandchildren.


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The Recollections of Encolpius
The Satyrica of Petronius as Milesian Fiction
Gottskálk Jensson
Series: Ancient Narrative Supplements 2
Publication type: Book
Pages: XII, 329 pp
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While nineteenth-century scholars debated whether the fragmentary Satyrica of Petronius should be regarded as a traditional or an original work in ancient literary history, twentieth-century Petronian scholarship tended to take for granted that the author was a unique innovator and his work a synthetic composition with respect to genre. The consequence of this was an excessive emphasis on authorial intention as well as a focus on parts of the text taken out of the larger context, which has increased the already severe state of fragmentation in which today's reader finds the Satyrica.
The present study offers a reading of the Satyrica as the mimetic performance of its fictional auctor Encolpius; as an ancient "road novel" told from memory by a Greek exile who relates how on his travels through Italy he had dealings with people who told stories, gave speeches, recited poetry and made other statements, which he then weaves into his own story and retells through the performance technique of vocal impersonation. The result is a skillfully made narrative fabric, a travelogue carried by a desultory narrative voice that switches identity from time to time to deliver discursively varied and often longish statements in the personae of encountered characters.
This study also makes a renewed effort to reconstruct the story told in the Satyrica and to explain how it relates to the identity and origin of its fictional auctor, a poor young scholar who volunteered to act the scapegoat in his Greek home city, Massalia (ancient Marseille), and was driven into exile in a bizarre archaic ritual. Besides relating his erotic suffering on account of his love for the beautiful boy Giton, Encolpius intertwines the various discourses and character statements of his narrative into a subtle brand of satire and social criticism (e.g. a critique of ancient capitalism) in the style of Cynic popular philosophy.
Finally, it is argued that Petronius' Satyrica is a Roman remake of a lost Greek text of the same title and belongs – together with Apuleius' Metamorphoses – to the oldest type of Greco-Roman novel, known to antiquity as Milesian fiction.
Gottskálk Jensson teaches classics and comparative literature at University of Iceland.
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More about the series Ancient Narrative Supplements.
Preface IX
PART 1 NARRATIVE 1
1.1 Text, Context and Identity 3
1.2 The Desultory Voice of Encolpius 29
PART 2 STORY 85
2.1 Sorting the Fragments 87
2.2 Retrospective Soliloquies and Dialogues 136
2.3 Rewriting the Satyrica (My Turn) 174
PART 3 GENRE 189
3.1 Ancient Narrative in Personis 191
3.2 The Hidden Genre 245
Abbreviations 303
"The modestly stated aim of Jensson's book is "to interpret the Satyrica in accordance with its original design as an extended fictional narrative, in defiance of the severe limitations imposed by the fragmented state of the extant text" (p. 3). Yet while this may sound like little more than the purpose of virtually every major study of the Satyrica, in fact Jensson is also arguing 'in defiance' of a whole raft of assumptions prevalent in Petronian scholarship since the nineteenth century, making this book a significant contribution to the field, with important correctives to the work of others and some genuinely groundbreaking conclusions." Anton Bitel in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.01.33. Read the complete review at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2006/2006-01-33.html.
- Gareth Schmeling in Latomus (2007), LXVI, 448-450
- Max Goldman, Ancient Narrative Volume 4, 181-186; http://www.ancientnarrative.com/
- F. Jones, The Classical Review (2006), 56: 123-125.
- Nuno Somôes Rodrigues, Evphrosyne (2006), 34: 435-436
- J. L. Hilton, Scholia Reviews (2006), 15: 40; http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/06-40jen.htm
- Marcos Carmignani, Ordia Prima 5 (2006). 235-238
- Maeve O'Brien, Journal of Roman Studies (2006), 96: 270-272
- Bruno Rochette, l'Antiquité classique (2006), 75: 356-358
- Carlo Pellegrino, Gnomon (2006), 78: 600-604
- Peter Habermehl, Museum Helveticum (2006), 63, 232
- Joëlle Soler, Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes (2006), 211-213
- René Martin, Revue des études latines (2005): 345-348
The Greek and the Roman Novel: Parallel Readings
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Popular pieces arranged for easy clarinet and piano. In three sections – folk, bluegrass, country and blues/rags. Includes 'Scarborough Fair' and 'Morning Has Broken'. The 'Skill Builders' series also includes Flute, Saxophone, Trumpet and Violin.


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