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Deadliest day in Houston Fire Department history
Popular burger restaurant shuts down Heights location
Local // Houston
James Pinkerton, Dale Lezon, Mike Tolson
May 31, 2013 Updated: June 1, 2013 12:39 a.m.
1of17A firefighter is wheeled to an ambulance after fighting a 5-alarm blaze at the Southwest Inn on Hornwood, Friday, May 31, 2013, in Houston. Four firefighters were transported in critical condition, and one was with a knee injury.Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of17A firefighter is wheeled to an ambulance Friday after being pulled from the scene at the Southwest Inn.Cody Duty/MBIShow MoreShow Less
3of17Medics line up in preparation to transport patients during the five-alarm inferno in southwest Houston on Friday. Four firefighters, with ranks from captain to rookie, were killed inside the burning structure when a roof collapsed, fire department officials said.James Nielsen/StaffShow MoreShow Less
4of17Medics line up in preparation to transport patients during the five-alarm inferno in southwest Houston on Friday. Four firefighters, with ranks from captain to rookie, were killed inside the burning structure when a roof collapsed, fire department officials said.Cody Duty/StaffShow MoreShow Less
A procession of ambulances travels after the massive blaze along the Southwest Freeway on Friday. (Cody Duty / Houston Chronicle)
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7of17Houston firefighters embrace near the scene of a fatal five-alarm fire at a motel on the Southwest Freeway Friday, May 31, 2013, in Houston.Brett Coomer/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
8of17A 4-alarm fire sent black smoke billowing over the Southwest Freeway near Hillcroft Friday afternoon.Houston TranstarShow MoreShow Less
10of17Smoke from a 4-alarm blaze at the Southwest Inn on Hornwood drifts over motorists traveling the inbound lane of 59, Friday, May 31, 2013, in Houston. Four firefighters were transported in critical condition, and one was with a knee injury.Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Smoke from a 4-alarm blaze at the Southwest Inn on Hornwood drifts over motorists traveling the inbound lane of 59, Friday, May 31, 2013, in Houston. Four firefighters were transported in critical condition, and one was with a knee injury.
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13of17Houston firefighters embrace near the scene of a fatal five-alarm fire at a motel on the Southwest Freeway Friday, May 31, 2013, in Houston.Brett Coomer/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
15of17A procession lead by ambulances carrying the bodies of the four fallen firefighters drive to the Forensic Center of Harris County to be examined, Friday, May 31, 2013, in Houston. The firefighters died fighting a five-alarm fire at the Southwest Inn earlier in the day.Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
16of17Police salute as an ambulance carrying the body of a fallen firefighter drives into the Forensic Center of Harris County to be examined, Friday, May 31, 2013, in Houston. The firefighters died fighting a five-alarm fire at the Southwest Inn earlier in the day.Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
17of17Friends and family hug outside of the Forensic Center of Harris County after the bodies of the four fallen firefighters were taken to be examined, Friday, May 31, 2013, in Houston. The firefighters died fighting a five-alarm fire at the Southwest Inn earlier in the day.Cody Duty/Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
What started as a small restaurant fire - a bit of business faced daily by firefighters everywhere - turned into a motel-engulfing inferno that claimed the lives of four responders from the Houston Fire Department when part of the building collapsed on them Friday. It was the department's worst loss of life ever.
"We arrived on the scene and about 14 minutes after our arrival we had a mayday," said HFD Chief Terry Garrison.
In an instant or close to it, a group of firefighters who had put themselves in deliberate jeopardy out of concern that people might be trapped inside the Southwest Inn were buried in burning debris. The precise series of events is at the heart of an investigation to be led by ATF specialists, who arrived at the scene later in the day. But the gist of it was clear in seconds.
"We had an early and quick catastrophic failure of the roof," Garrison said. "There's no way that I would have anticipated that we would lose four firefighters. I want to tell the residents of Houston their firefighters acted absolutely courageously today, that there was probably a dozen acts of heroism on that scene."
Across the city people were shocked by news of the loss. In addition to the dead, 13 other firefighters were taken to local hospitals with injuries. One was in critical condition.
"There is nothing that will heal the hurt we all feel," said a shaken Mayor Annise Parker.
All from two stations
Friday's fire was the latest horrific incident in what has become a spring of mayhem - from the Boston Marathon bombing to the fertilizer plant explosion in Central Texas to the devastating tornados in Oklahoma. Only once before have as many as three Houston firefighters been killed in one day, in a fluke accident in 1929 when a fire engine was hit by a train.
Friday's dead were from stations 68 and 51 and included a 12-year-veteran and a recent graduate from the fire academy. They left behind spouses, children and parents, all to wonder how so many could have been taken so quickly.
Those killed fighting the fire were:
Capt. EMT Matthew Renaud, 35, of Station 51.
Engineer Operator EMT Robert Bebee, 41, of Station 51.
Firefighter EMT Robert Garner, 29, of Station 68.
Probationary Firefighter Anne Sullivan, 24, of Station 68.
Garrison, stunned, vowed that something would come from his department's darkest hour besides grief and tears.
"We will improve," the chief said. "We will get better. We will learn from this, and we will keep on keepin' on."
The fire was reported at 12:09 as the lunch crowd was sitting down at Bhojan Restaurant, a vegetarian Indian cafe attached to the hotel. The front desk clerk at Southwest Inn, Martha Lopez, said a restaurant employee ran into the hotel saying that a fire had started. The two began knocking on doors and windows, telling guests to get out of the hotel, which can accommodate 100 guests and had 45 registered at the time of the fire.
Sammy Sewell, 29, had been staying at the hotel for six months. He said he stepped out of his room and heard yelling. He turned a corner, saw three women screaming and running toward him down a hallway, and then heard three blasts.
"Next thing you know, it was 'boom!' It scared the crap out of me," Sewell said. "I mean, it sounded like a cannon going off. That's how loud it was. I could have sworn it picked this building up and put it back down."
It was unclear what sparked the blaze. An ATF task force will lead in the investigation.
One of the owners of the restaurant, Pratima Mathuria, said she was running errands at the time of the fire and had no knowledge of how it may have started.
"We don't have any idea yet," she said. "All the people there came out OK. There were people eating at the time, but they got out and the employees got out. We are in such a shock. It's a big loss."
Eatery cited in past
The restaurant, which leased its building, has been cited by city inspectors in the past, most recently in March, for grease traps that had not been cleaned as often as required. But it is not known whether Friday's blaze started as a grease fire. Bhojan's Facebook page expressed condolences to the firefighters' families and said the owners will help authorities in any way possible to determine a cause.
Though details were sketchy on the progress of the fire as it spread into the hotel, the firefighters were killed when a section of roof and wall collapsed. Canyon said he believed the roof fell after fire weakened its support structure, though the precise position of the four who died was unclear.
"The roof collapsed," Canyon said. "I don't know if that was folks outside next to the structure or inside when it collapsed (who died), but the collapse is going to be the cause."
Guests bolt to safety
Hotel guest Deric Smith, shocked to see the hotel on fire when she returned from filling out an apartment application, wondered whether those who died were the same ones he saw on a portion of roof spraying water on other parts of the building.
"All I could see was the roof caving in and all the fire just shooting up," Smith said. "When the roof caved in, I knew something had to have happened to those firemen."
Guest Natasha Mosley was in her room with her five children when someone banged on the door to warn her about the fire. They bolted out, not bothering with any of their possessions. As they left, they saw the firefighters working hard above them.
"A big fireball shot up and all of a sudden they weren't there," Mosley said. "They came here to try and help us and get us out. But they ended up losing their lives. It's very sad."
Department officials said the firefighters who died likely were inside the building when the roof gave way. One who was in the room where the firefighters were found described it as looking like a "war zone." When they first got there, the fire was manageable enough to try to attack from the inside, he said.
Chief Garrison said firefighters could not be as cautious as they can with some structure fires because of the fear that employees or hotel guests might have been trapped inside.
"We took the highest amount of risk possible because we thought we had civilians in the structure," Garrison said. "I want to reassure the citizens of the city of Houston that our firefighters acted appropriately. We place ourselves between the fire and the victim, and that only way we can do that, if we think there's a saveable victim, is from the inside. The structure collapsed and our members who were trying to save lives were lost. "
The bodies of the fallen firefighters were at last removed to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Science. Awaiting them were about 20 fire department vehicles, ambulances and fire trucks with lights flashing.
More than a dozen motorcycle officers with the Houston Police Department stood shoulder to shoulder nearby.
Plea for prayers
Among the fire department officials there was Executive Assistant Chief Rick Flanagan.
"This is the worst day of my entire life. I could never fathom losing four comrades in one day," Flanagan said. "And we've got a couple of days ahead of us with some tough times. To the public, please keep us in your prayers."
The bodies will remain at the facility until they are delivered to funeral homes in a few days. An honor guard will stand beside them the entire time, until the they are laid to rest.
'A calculated risk'
One of the last HFD officials to leave the institute Friday evening was Richard Mann, executive assistant chief of emergency operations, who was among about two dozen firefighters at the medical examiner's office. Like the others, he left with a long face and exhausted gait, still wearing his filthy fireproof pants.
His fellow firefighters had been lost because they took an aggressive approach, Mann said, explaining that it's what they are trained to do when there is a possibility of people trapped inside a burning building.
"They were serving the citizens of Houston," Mann said. They took a calculated risk to save lives. In the end, they lost theirs."
Mike Glenn, Cindy George, Dane Schiller, Ericka Mellon, Carol Christian, Anita Hassan and Robert Stanton contributed to this report.
James Pinkerton
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James Pinkerton is a Houston Chronicle reporter assigned to cover police administration and criminal justice issues. His other assignments for the Chronicle have included covering immigration and running a news bureau in the Rio Grande Valley. During decades of daily newspaper experience, he has worked for the Fort Worth Star Telegram, the Austin American Statesman and the Brownsville Herald.
Dale Lezon
Dale has worked at the Houston Chronicle as a reporter since 2000, when he moved to Houston from New Mexico. As a General Assignment reporter, he has covered criminal and civil trials, City Hall matters, environmental issues and many other news stories. He also has written human-interest features. Among his stories are breaking news reports from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and from Galveston during Hurricane Ike. He also reported from east Texas during the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster. Currently, he handles breaking news, including homicides, fires and other fast-breaking stories.
Mike Tolson
Mike Tolson has been a journalist for more than 30 years and has worked for five newspapers, four of them in Texas. Although most of his career has been spent as a news reporter, he also wrote for features and sports sections in earlier years, and he was the city columnist for four years at the San Antonio Light.
At the Houston Chronicle, he has specialized in long-term projects and long-form weekend articles, while also handling daily reporting duties.
As a general assignments reporter, Tolson has written articles on just about every subject imaginable over the course of his career. However, he has specialized knowledge of civil and criminal justice matters.
A Georgia native, Tolson moved to Texas in 1964 and graduated from The University of Texas in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He has lived in Texas' three major cities as well as Austin, Abilene and Temple. He is married and has two children.


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Ramsey County Board votes to continue refugee resettlement
Those seeking asylum will continue to be welcomed after unanimous vote.
By Shannon Prather Star Tribune
January 14, 2020 — 10:21pm
Ramsey County, already home to the largest percentage of foreign-born residents in the state, will continue to welcome refugees.
The County Board unanimously voted Tuesday to continue to accept refugees, noting that the county resettled more refugees than any other in Minnesota last year.
"We recognize that refugees and foreign-born residents are an important part of Ramsey County," said Board Chairwoman Toni Carter. She added: "It's important we honor and respect all who are among us."
Ramsey County accepted 4,215 refugees from 2015 to 2019, according to a county report. In the past year, the county accepted 71% of all refugees who initially settled in Minnesota, compared with 12% in Hennepin County and 8% in Anoka County, said Elizabeth Tolzmann, Ramsey County's policy and planning director.
The Washington County Board also voted unanimously Tuesday to continue to accept refugees. Refugee resettlement is hardly an issue in the county, where just nine refugees settled last year, according to Deputy County Administrator Kevin Corbid. He said Minnesota saw 900 refugees arrive last year, most of them joining relatives already in the state.
The Trump administration issued an executive order in September requiring all local governments to submit their written consent to the U.S. Department of State before refugee resettlement could continue, sparking intense debate in some communities across Minnesota and the nation.
Last week, Beltrami County became the first Minnesota county to ban refugee resettlement. About 1.7% of Beltrami County's 47,000 residents are foreign-born, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
At Tuesday's Ramsey County Board meeting, several commissioners spoke passionately in favor of accepting refugees, saying they add to the workforce, tax base and the region's cultural mosaic.
"For me this is a celebration of our good work and the good work of our refugee communities," said Commissioner Trista MatasCastillo. "We have all benefited from having refugees in our community."
MatasCastillo said she's received e-mails from those defending refugee resettlement and others opposing it who point to rising numbers of homeless people, lagging care for veterans and other problems.
"We can do both," said MatasCastillo, her voice breaking with emotion. "I reject the notion that refugees are a burden we can't afford."
Commissioner Victoria Reinhardt said that, aside from Native Americans, nearly all Americans can trace their roots to immigration. "I am glad this country welcomed my German and Irish ancestors. That is what makes this place rich," she said.
The board did not allow public comment before the vote, and few members of the public were in attendance.
St. Paul resident Antonio Nerios quietly took pictures on his phone during the meeting. Outside the chambers, he said the public should have had more input and criticized holding board meetings on a midweek morning when many working people can't go. He said he's heard the frustration on social media.
"They feel like the commissioners are not listening to their voices," said Nerios, chairman of the newly formed Veterans Party of Minnesota, which has an office in White Bear Lake.
Nerios said he personally did not agree with the board's vote.
"I think we have enough," he said. "We need to solve the problems at DHS," referring to the financial problems and mismanagement that have rocked the Minnesota Department of Human Services in recent months.
About 16% of Ramsey County's overall population is foreign-born, higher than that of neighboring Hennepin County, where foreign-born residents make up 14.1% of the population.
The number of refugees the U.S. accepts has fallen under the Trump administration. The country plans to admit 22,000 refugees in fiscal year 2020, according to a Pew Research Center report.
"This would be the lowest number of refugees resettled by the U.S. in a single year since 1980, when Congress created the nation's refugee resettlement program," according to the report.
From 1990 to 1995, an average of about 116,000 refugees arrived annually in the U.S., with many coming from the former Soviet Union. The U.S. largely suspended admissions following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001 but those numbers bounced back, with the U.S. taking in an average of 67,100 refugees each year from 2008 to 2017, according to the Pew report.
From 2001 to 2019, the most refugees have come from Burma (about 177,700), Iraq (144,400) and Somalia (104,100), according to Pew.
Minnesota took in just 663 refugees in 2018, the lowest number in more than a decade. The state resettled more than 5,000 in 2005.
Staff writers Matt McKinney and Maya Rao contributed to this story.
Shannon Prather covers Ramsey County for the Star Tribune. Previously, she covered philanthropy and nonprofits. Prather has two decades of experience reporting for newspapers in Minnesota, California, Idaho, Wisconsin and North Dakota. She has covered a variety of topics including the legal system, law enforcement, education, municipal government and slice-of-life community news.
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Nagygereblyés (1899-ig Orosz-Hrabócz, ) község Szlovákiában, a Kassai kerület Szobránci járásában.

Fekvése
Szobránctól 18 km-re északkeletre, az ukrán határ mellett fekszik.

Története
1567-ben említik először, amikor a vlach jog alapján ruszinokkal telepítették be. A közepes nagyságú települések közé tartozott.

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Fényes Elek 1851-ben kiadott geográfiai szótárában így ír a faluról: "Orosz-Hrabocz, orosz falu, Zemplén vmegyében, Szinna fil. 503 g. kath., 17 zsidó lak., g. kath. paroch. templommal, 515 hold szántófölddel, hegyes határral. F. u. b. Vécsey. Ut. p. Homonna (fiók)."

Borovszky Samu monográfiasorozatának Zemplén vármegyét tárgyaló része szerint: "Nagygereblyés, azelőtt Oroszhrabócz. Ung vármegye határán fekvő ruthén kisközség, 84 házzal s 736, nagyobbára gör. kath. vallású lakossal. Postája Ublya, távírója és vasúti állomása Kisberezna. Hagyomány szerint hajdan a község a Szteski nevű dűlő helyén állott s a neve Stezsna volt. Állítólag a tatárjáráskor pusztult el. Újabb nyomait csak 1588-ban találjuk, a mikor a Malikóczy Gábor és Miklós birtoka. 1714-ben Klobusitzky István volt a földesura, később azután a Tomsics család, majd az Isépyek bírták s most özv. Isépy Tamásnénak van itt nagyobb birtoka. Itt is pusztított 1663-ban a pestis. Az itteni gőzfűrész egy bécsi czég tulajdona. Gör. kath. temploma 1836-ban épült."

A trianoni diktátumig Zemplén vármegye Szinnai járásához tartozott, majd az újonnan létrehozott csehszlovák államhoz csatolták. 1939 és 1945 között ismét Magyarország része.

Népessége
1910-ben 715-en, többségében ruszin lakosa volt, jelentős magyar kisebbséggel.

2001-ben 385 lakosa volt.

2011-ben 327 lakosából 196 szlovák és 110 ruszin.

Nevezetességei
Görögkatolikus temploma 1838-ban épült.

További információk
Községinfó
 Nagygereblyés Szlovákia térképén
Fotógaléria
 E-obce.sk
 A nagygereblyési görögkatolikus plébánia

Jegyzetek

Nagygereblyes
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Payback: A Hot Sports Romance
By: Amy Daws
Narrated by: Aaron Shedlock, Erin Mallon, Will Watt, and others
On and off the field he's at the top of his game. Roan respects hard work, dedication, and follow through. He's not a one-and-done kind of man, and he's far from being done with Allie Harris. One sexy night and two years later, Allie's job brings her back to town. An opportunity for the perfect replay Roan has been fantasizing about since they slept together.
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Save Point: Upload
Sci-Fi litRPG Series, Book 1
By: Matthew Siege
Narrated by: Will M. Watt, Annie Ellicott, Jeff Hays
Adam Harris's name has just appeared on a top secret list of extraterrestrial origin. Unbeknownst to him, he's one of a handful of individuals capable of implementing a Save Point, a static moment in time he's able to revisit over and over upon death. It's a good thing, too. Brain cancer was turning into a real drag. The government owns the list though, and they've wasted no time snapping him up. According to them, he has 13 days in an alien realm to learn as much as he can before the inevitable.
Series: Save Point Series, Book 1
First Debt
Indebted, Book 2
By: Pepper Winters
Narrated by: Will M. Watt, Kylie C. Stewart
"You say I'll never own you. If I win - you willingly give me that right. You sign not only the debt agreement, but another - one that makes me your master until your last breath is taken. You do that, and I'll give you this." Nila Weaver's family is indebted. Stolen, taken, and bound not by monsters but by an agreement written over 600 years ago, she has no way out. She belongs to Jethro as much as she denies it.
Series: Indebted, Book 2
Magical Compass: A Supernatural Prison Story
By: Jaymin Eve
Narrated by: Rachel Rauch, Will M. Watt
Tyson Compass, as one of the famed Compass quads, is not a wizard used to living with regrets. Except for one: Grace Carter. Grace is a healer witch he rejected many years ago. After completely disappearing from his life, she has returned and turned his world upside down. Tyson does everything he can to prove he will never hurt her again, and just when he thinks there might be a chance for them, she has to leave again. She makes him promise not to follow her, but after almost two months with no word, he's done waiting. He's going to find his girl.
***MAGICAL***
By IMEE B on 30-05-2019
Stone and Claw
A Novel in the Alastair Stone Chronicles
By: R. L. King
Narrated by: Will M. Watt
Things are looking up for Alastair Stone. He's just moved into his new house, Jason's opening his investigation agency, and best of all, the university has finally hired a new professor for the occult studies department. Carefree days never last long for Stone, though. The smart, sexy new professor turns out to have secrets - dangerous secrets. When he agrees to help her track down a powerful, magical artifact, Stone is drawn into a deadly conspiracy involving a mysterious and reclusive clan, alchemical mayhem, and crimes even more horrific than either of them suspected.
Series: The Alastair Stone Chronicles, Book 15
Narrated by: Will M. Watt, Charlotte Cole, Martin Foster
Camden Harris, the famously hot, hulk of a footballer is laid up in a London hospital. But his busted knee doesn't stop him from running his well-practiced game on Indie Porter - his redheaded spitfire of a doctor. She's not his type, not even close. But she could be the perfect distraction from the soul-crushing damage this injury could cost him.
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Series: Harris Brothers, Book 1
Mask of Duplicity
The Jacobite Chronicles, Book 1
By: Julia Brannan
Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor, Will M. Watt
Following the death of their father, Beth's brother, Richard, returns from the army to claim his share of the family estate. However, Beth's hopes of a quiet life are dashed when Richard, dissatisfied with his meager inheritance and desperate for promotion, decides to force her into a marriage for his military gain. He will stop at nothing to get his way.
By Jodie Hoger on 10-03-2019
Narrated by: Will M. Watt, Charlotte Cole
Tanner Harris has been busy shagging his way through the ladies of east London, but getting caught by the paparazzi buck-naked with his trouser snake in his hands means he's sowed his last wild oat. Dr. Belle Ryan once thought Tanner Harris was the perfect kind of bearded bad boy she needed to relieve a bit of stress after her intense job as a surgical fellow, but an icy cold rejection from London's sluttiest footballer puts the two at each other's throats.
Star Child
Places of Power
By: Leonard Petracci
Powers are determined by geographic birth locations, and only the rich and powerful are permitted access to prized sites. SC is the first person born in space. The punishment for unauthorized births is death. Out of fear, SC keeps his strange abilities as his darkest secret. But when his mother is kidnapped by an unknown organization, SC has no choice but to act.
By Troy on 11-02-2018
Series: Star Child - Places of Power, Book 1
Negative Film
Star Child - Places of Power, Book 2
The raids happen at night. Searches by the police are regular, tearing homes apart down to the nails, the officers' intentions a mystery. This time, it's not SC they are trying to find, but someone else entirely. Nothing will stop them, even if it means traveling halfway across the globe to chase a centuries-old myth of a rare power.
The Boy and His Ribbon
Ribbon Duet, Book 1
Narrated by: Will M Watt, Hayden Bishop
From New York Times best seller Pepper Winters comes one of her best tales yet... "What do you do when you meet your soul mate? No wait...that's too easy. What do you do when you meet your soul mate and have to spend a lifetime loving him in secret? I'll tell you what you do. You lie." Ren was eight when he learned that love doesn't exist - that the one person who was supposed to adore him only cared how much he was worth. His mother sold him and for two years, he lived in terror. But then...he ran.
Series: The Ribbon Duet Series, Book 1
Debt Inheritance
Nila Weaver's family is indebted. Being the first born daughter, her life is forfeit to the first born son of the Hawks to pay for sins of ancestors' past. The dark ages might have come and gone, but debts never leave. She has no choice in the matter. She is no longer free. Jethro Hawk receives Nila as an inheritance present on his 29th birthday. Her life is his until she's paid off a debt that's centuries old. He can do what he likes with her - nothing is out of bounds - she has to obey.
Good but!!!!
By Kaye Melilli on 13-10-2017
Alastair Stone, determined to harness enigmatic mage Trevor Harrison's potent power source, takes a desperate chance - he travels to the dimension where it originates, hoping to convince Harrison to teach him its secrets. He should have expected things wouldn't go as planned. Stranded without his power in an exotic, unfamiliar world rich in magic and ruled by tyrannical practitioners, Stone knows his only chance of getting his magic back is to find Harrison - a man who has good reasons for not wanting to be found.
Harris Brothers, Book 4
Narrated by: Will Watt, Piper Goodeve, Charlotte Cole
Gareth Harris is Manchester United's reclusive star defender. He has control over all aspects of his life. But a lifetime of supporting his siblings and filling in for an emotionally absent father has taken its toll. Sloan Montgomery is a clothing stylist whose world was turned upside down when she found herself pregnant and moving to Manchester with a man who was never supposed to be her forever. Now recently divorced and struggling with shared custody of her daughter, control is a fleeting concept for this American living in England.
By Maria on 24-10-2018
They were best friends until they became roommates. Booker Harris has spent the last several years pushing himself to become the best goalkeeper in the Championship League. Tired of living in the shadows of his headline-splashing brothers, he has finally carved a path of his own. As a child, Poppy McAdams was content in her own little make-believe world, until the boy next door with dimples and pained eyes came barreling into her makeshift fort demanding all her attention. Best friends for most of their lives, everything changes when Poppy abruptly leaves London for University. Now she is back, and gone is the awkward girl from Booker's youth.
By SamK on 12-06-2018
Switch of Fate, Book 1
By: Lisa Ladew, Grace Quillen
Jameson Montreat is a lonely wolf shifter who had one job that was essential to the protection of the human species. A job he was unable to do. Now, with more vampires throwing their hat into the political ring every day, he can't stop it. He can't kill vampires, none of the shifters can. Only a switch can kill a vampire, and they died out 100 years ago. But then an impossibly captivating switch walks right into the anti-vampire meeting, turning every shifter head in the place. She is not meant for him, as much as he might need her to be.
Series: Switch of Fate, Book 1
Happily Ever Ninja
Knitting in the City, Book 5
By: Penny Reid
Narrated by: Em Eldridge, Will M. Watt
There are three things you need to know about Fiona Archer...I would tell you what they are, but then I'd have to kill you. But I can tell you that Fiona's husband - the always irrepressible and often cantankerous Greg Archer - is desperately in love with his wife. He aches for her when they are apart, and is insatiable when they are together. Yet as the years pass, Greg has begun to suspect that Fiona is a ninja. A ninja mom. A ninja wife. A ninja friend. After 14 years of marriage, Greg is trying not to panic.
fight of wits 🤣🤣🤣
Series: Knitting in the City, Book 5
The Girl and Her Ren
Narrated by: Hayden Bishop, Will M Watt
Ren didn't know the meaning of love until he took Della for his own. To begin with, he hated her, but as the months bled into years, he learned the opposite of hate, dedicating his life to giving her everything. Every sacrifice, every gift, he gave wholeheartedly. But then love turned to lust and ruined everything.
Read these books!!!
By Claudia on 14-12-2018
After the harrowing attack against Gareth and Sloan, there are more than just physical wounds that must be healed. Recovering and moving on from their dark pasts is the only way they can truly find their bright futures. Who will surrender? And who will dominate?
Waking the Watcher
By: Kim Loraine
Narrated by: Will M. Watt, Susan Fouche
Lust. My ultimate downfall and demise. I'm shackled to a life I can't escape. A life I never asked for. Now, I'm trapped - soulless, burdened by a Watcher lurking within. He wants out, he wants her. But I can't let that happen, won't let that happen. She's mine. Somehow that doesn't matter. I can't have what I crave. What I want. What I need. As the Watcher fights me, battles for control, I refuse to succumb. It's a power I'll never relinquish. I can't unleash what lies beneath without paying the ultimate price and losing her in the end.
Series: The Fallen Angel Trilogy (Loraine), Book 1
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Fragrance in gold; fruit in sugarcane; big flowers too in sandalwood; an educated who is rich; a king who lives forever - (alas!) there were no counsellors for the creator earlier!
The poet is suggesting ideas for the Creator (brahma) that would have been nice additions to the creation itself! Shouldn't He have created the world like this poet's suggestions?
Gold is precious and liked by most. What if it came with a sweet fragrance too? One could smell the fragrance of their precious gold!
Sugarcane is sweet alright, what if it bore easily edible fruit that carried its sweetness! The sweetness would be readily accessible to people.
Sandalwood retains fragrance for decades, what if it bloomed beautiful big flowers bearing its sweet fragrance! They would beautify a home even as they spread their aroma.
Riches make one's life easy and comfortable. What if the educated were bestowed with lots of wealth? Hopefully, they would put their wealth to good use too! He would have the best of both worlds and hence, an envious life.
A good king is a rare find. What if such a leader lived forever! There would be no worries for the future or unanticipated anarchy.
The world mentioned as above would certainly be great! But then, doesn't the Creator know what's best! If everything was perfect and everyone had all their wishes granted, would there be any point in the existence of the world itself? He would not put all the arrows in one quiver! He knows what's best and wants beings to work with available resources as if a message - that the world is not a utopia, but a reality!
One has to bring out the best from what there is and be content with what is! One needs to appreciate anything for what it is, rather than count its shortcomings.
Typo fixed Vishnu. The creator certainly is from the धा dhaatu :). For it stands for holding, containing, causing.


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The Lonely, Often Murky World of the Change Agent
NUGGET: Change, by definition, is something new and culturally unsupported. In its initial stages it is only fueled by one or a few people's vision or desire for something different. This is true even when the change has institutional backing. It takes courage and commitment to get any change going. When that's your job, be prepared to launch into headwinds!
It's difficult and often lonely to be somebody who is spearheading changes in organization processes, systems, and more.
If you resonate with this statement, then you are, like me, a change agent – a business or government leader, an academic or professional who develops people, a person who is passionate about creating a better institution and society. You want to influence what is happening around you – to consciously affect the future rather than abdicate to the status quo or accept change as an inevitable and evolving process that will occur with or without you. As a change agent, you are impatient with the natural pace and direction of some of the events and changes around you. You foresee problems if your organization stays on current paths, and you want to support and guide the success of individuals, groups and even society. I understand these intentions and the profound difficulty of being a change agent at any stage of the change process – and especially at the beginning when you may be the only one advocating something new.
My goal in this article is to recognize and acknowledge the difficulty of change work – and to say, "keep on going!"
As change leaders, with or without formal authority, we embark on journeys of deliberate change. We set development and life goals for ourselves. We strategize to make our organizations more agile, cost-effective, innovative, relevant, vibrant. We envision, develop plans for, and mobilize resources in order to create the future that we and others desire. Our passion for change sometimes deceives us into believing that we can be in control. But when we discover that we are dealing with often chaotic and complex forces in ourselves (emotions, shadows) and around us in our institutions or in the world at large (politics, values differences, culture clashes, power grabs), we are tempted to give up or to slip into an existential crisis. We are sometimes demoralized and feel defeated.
As a change agent, I have experienced all of these intentions and reactions – and have worked with and watched change leaders inside organizations as they struggle with the challenges of orchestrating deliberate change. I've witnessed great courage, walked with and observed clients as they push and pull, retreat, recalibrate, pour increasing amounts of money and energy into their causes, make mistakes, learn, and even give up. The military describe the situations we often find ourselves in as the "fog of war," the fray that strategists conceptualize but where people in the trenches must ultimately improvise – hopefully with the mission in mind. I have experienced this fog while in the midst of many change programs. So, probably, have you.
Then, there is the time factor. Inevitably, even the small changes –personal habits, simple behavior changes, adoption of new tools and processes – take longer than we expected. Our changes run into problems from all sides, or they simply don't have enough oomph to compete with the status quo. What we thought could occur according to an initial plan takes twice as long, is far more expensive, and somehow doesn't meet other expectations.
Should we continue to fight an uphill battle in the fog of change, or just accept that deliberate change is antithetical to the way the world works – thus its +/-70% failure rate?
I think we are meant to be powerful players in our own evolution and that of our institutions and society. I believe that our consciousness and intelligence has emerged so that we can play that role. However, I think our mental models and expectations related to deliberate change are often insufficient and sometimes flawed.
Most big changes are messy and take time to unfold. Their path is not linear even though there are patterns we can work with if we are able to recognize them. Also, it is often impossible to know which action or cluster of actions create tipping points, what failed experiments are actually critical for learning, or which changes are due to deliberate interventions and which would have occurred (or occurred faster) without us. The shift to a more inclusive society, the transition from authoritarian to more participative ways, the creation of really global or digitally enabled organizations, the development of self-aware leaders, the elimination of deeply entrenched destructive behavior patterns – changes like these are not one-night or even one-year programs. And for complex changes, the paths we launch at the outset are almost never the ones we ultimately walk.
Leaders of complex organizational and social changes are often compared to medieval cathedral builders. The story goes: successive generations of builders devoted their lives to advancing a vision of the cathedral and its ultimate spiritual function even though they would never see the completed building. The analogy doesn't work for me, though, because it assumes there is a fixed end state – a definable pot at the end of the rainbow. In my experience few successful transformational changes actually end up where we initially planned.
It is true that some of the transformational change goals that we are working toward today won't be fully realized in our lifetime. But is that what's important? Is it possible that we sometimes engage in deliberate change work NOT to achieve an initial goal, but rather to be an intelligent force influencing a larger process that is unfolding toward end points that we can't imagine. Think Martin Luther King's 'the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."
But what about goals and visions? Plans? Optimism in the face of complexity? If change is inevitable and if many of the investments we make in changes take us to other destinations than those we had in mind, should we bother? Change agents are inevitably bruised and bloodied in the battles, with failure more frequent than success. Still, we are designed to trudge forward and on high alert, face into resistance, admit to failures, stay committed during long desert walks, and be sure that others take ownership and get credit and recognition so that their energy can carry things past the tipping point. Sometimes in the process, the change agent leaves, is rejected, self-immolates, loses steam before anyone sets foot in a "promised land."
For some of us the challenges of change only increase our commitment to our role. We keep taking on change roles in spite of the loneliness and uncertainty that sometimes surrounds every complex change. While it may not always be possible to attribute changes to the work we do, I'm convinced that this role we play is a vital one for the future of our institutions, societies and the planet itself. But we must continue to learn how to better perform this sometimes thankless role and support ourselves psychically given the complexity of change dynamics around us.
Why commit to such an often difficult role? Because the future calls on us to bring its possibilities to life rather than to accept that the past is in charge and limits us.
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This light and spacious apartment, with the most spectacular sea views, could just be the perfect coastal retreat.
Sitting on the Sunny Corner side of Coverack, above the pretty arc-shaped bay, this recently refurbished apartment, previously part of the old Channel View Hotel, is a great base to explore this popular part of the Lizard peninsula. Thoughtfully designed and furnished 76 Degrees Blue offers guests a welcoming combination of style and comfort with many of the Owners' homely finishing touches.
With only a short walk to the local pub, shop and cafes, and a garden gate opening onto the South West Coast Path, 76 Degrees Blue is where some of the best holiday memories are made.
Accessed via a flight of 50 exterior steps and a further internal flight of stairs, you may want to stop halfway to take in and enjoy the views but rest assured, the prize at the bottom is more than worth the trip. Also if you prefer, you can take the walk along the coast path from the chapel and enter the apartment on ground level through the front door to avoid the steps.
Once inside the light and spacious sitting/dining-room, with comfy sofas and furnishings, opens through French doors onto the outside deck where the views can be enjoyed at any time of day. A well-equipped kitchen with all modern facilities, two comfortable bedrooms, a shower-room with double shower and a private parking space complete this holiday haven.
Located in the heart of the pretty village of Coverack, a short walk down the path leads you to the friendly pub and if you are feeling competitive there is a weekly quiz night to enter. Further along the bay you will find the cafe, restaurant and hotel all offering a mouth-watering selection of local produce depending on what you fancy, breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner can all be found right on your doorstep as well as the small local shop for those essential items (closed on Sundays).
For those seeking more activity you can join the coast path towards Porthallow and onto the Helford or in the other direction towards the Lizard, stopping at the sculpture gardens just off Chynhalls Point on the way. Or if you prefer to get closer to the water, why not pop down to the windsurfing school for a lesson or two!
There are 50 exterior steps and a further internal flight of stairs to the apartment.
A birds eye view of the garden terrace which can be a real sun trap in summer.
Comfortable, stylish, light and relaxing throughout the apartment.
The dining-area, perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Looking back from the kitchen through to the dining-area.
The French doors open out onto the private terrace garden.
The gorgeous bathroom with walk-in double shower.
The twin bedroom is furnished with two full-size single beds.
Wonderful views at any time of year.
Step outside the little gate and you are on the coastpath, walk down to the pub or up to Chynhalls Point and the sculpture gardens.
Doors open from the kitchen onto the patio terrace.
Welcome to 76 Degrees Blue, one of four apartments in this former hotel.
The spacious kitchen is stylish.
The rear door of the main building opens onto steps down to the coastal path with a short walk to the pub or your access into the building if you want to avoid the steps.
The open plan sitting/dining-room is a bright, light and calm space.
A birds eye view of the garden terrace.
The shower-room sits between the living-room and bedrooms.
The bedrooms are to the rear of the apartment but the double aspect windows bring in the light.
With shutters at the windows to shut out the light at bedtime.
Downhill all the way there.
The views from 76 Degrees are stunning.
Eat in the kitchen or in the living-room, the choice is yours.
Enjoy a drink on your private terrace.
The fishing boats at Coverack harbour.
The view of Coverack bay as you enter the village from the Lizard.
You will never tire of the views from the sun terrace.
The view from the parking-area towards the steps down to the apartments and the sea beyond.
The Paris hotel is a welcoming pub serving good food and a quiz night every Tuesday!
The wind surfing school is open from April to September.
The old Lifeboat House is now a fish restaurant. (Please note closed in November and not open every day in winter months).
Just up the lane from Roskillys Farm and tea shop are the ponds which offer lovely shaded walks around the pretty gardens.
Elizabeths is one place to get tea and cake in the village although some of the smaller businesses are only open seasonally.
The fishing boats have returned to the harbour with their catch.
The crescent shaped beach at low tide is sandy and perfect for dipping your toes and building sand castles.
The colourful boats in the harbour.
The views from the harbour and all around the bay in Coverack are quite something.


Yamaha is a well established firm in the Indian two-wheeler segment and it has been 27 years since the Japanese major entered our country. Very rarely it happens that a manufacturer exports a product to its hometown from one of its bases set up in a different country as the same would already be offering top notch products in its own country.
In what is a first in the history of Indian two-wheeler Industry, Yamaha Motor India will be exporting one of its motorcycles to Japan. Yamaha R15 is the motorcycle that the company is going to export to Japan and the first lot of this premium bike will contain 300 units. And if the response is good enough, the company will consider exporting Yamaha FZ-16 too.
"The motorcycles manufactured in India meet the advanced specification of developed markets and they are produced at a lower cost. We are sending R15 to Japan to test market them in the Japanese market and if the response is good, we may explore more products for export to Japan and other advanced markets."
"Japan is a market for big bikes and racing motorcycles and within that, the 150 cc segment is emerging. Our R15 fits the image; not only is it easy to race and manoeuvre, but it could also be an ideal choice for entry-level racing," he added.
At present 4,00,000 two-wheelers are sold in Japan annually and with the changing times the market is readily accepting performance bikes. The bike is priced at Rs. 1.15 Lakh INR in the Indian market but in Japan it will bear a price tag of ¥3.42 lakh, or 2.45 lakh INR.
"If the response is good, our next target would be Europe," says Suzuki.
If the response is good, the company will surely look at other global markets as well. Beside Japan the company has also started exploring Portugal, Spain and Turkey to export R15 and FZ in 2013.
The export strategy is not new for the market as established players like Bajaj and TVS export their products to Africa, Latin America and other ASEAN markets. The fact is Yamaha is one of bike makers to send products to developed markets from India.
In the last year, the two-wheeler export business from the country grew by 27.13 % at 1.94 million units with Bajaj being at the top position and Yamaha bagging the fourth spot. We do hope that the R15 does well in Japanese market and strengthen the company's position.


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World of X Games 2019 schedule
"World of X Games" is a weekly TV show on ABC featuring a variety of X Games and athlete-focused content. The series will profile iconic action sports figures and will also highlight athletes, artists, event previews and recaps around X Games Aspen, Norway, Sydney and Minneapolis.
"World of X Games" on ABC
January 6 SLS Skateboarding: Stop #3 from Huntington Beach 3 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT
January 12 World of X Games: Aspen Preview Show 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT
January 12 World of X Games: Joss Christensen's The Missing Peace 3:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT
January 19 World of X Games: The Being Series 2 p.m. ET
January 26 X Games Aspen Live 1 p.m. ET
February 2 X Games Aspen Anthology, Part 1 3 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT
February 9 X Games Aspen Anthology: Part 2 1 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT
February 16 World of X Games: Street League Skateboarding World Championship 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. ET
February 23 World of X Games: Best of Aspen 2019 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT
March 2 World of X Games: Real Ski 2019 3 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT
March 9 World of X Games: Flat Out Friday Presented by Harley-Davidson 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT
March 17 World of X Games: The Best of Aspen 2019 1 p.m. ET
March 23 World of X Games: Jackson Strong's Moto X Dirt Part 2 2 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. ET
March 30 World of X Games: Real Snow 2019 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT
April 6 World of X Games: King of the Hammers 2019 UTV and EMC Races 4 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT
April 13 World of X Games: Desert Invitational T1 Race 2:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT
April 20 World of X Games: King of the Hammers 2019 Ultra4 4400 Race 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT
May 4 World of X Games: Real Street Skateboarding 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT
May 11 World of X Games: Ten Years of Real Street 2 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT
May 18 World of X Games: Monster Energy Big Wave Invitational 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT
May 25 World of X Games: Real BMX 2019 2:30 p.m. ET
June 1 World of X Games: Score San Felipe 250 2:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT
June 9 World of X Games: X Games Shanghai Best of BMX 12:30 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT
June 15 World of X Games: X Games Shanghai Best of Moto X 3 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT
June 15 Jackson Strong: Outback to X Games 4 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT
June 22 World of X Games: X Games Shanghai Best of Skateboarding 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT
June 29 World of X Games: The 2019 Mint 400 2:30 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT
June 29 World of X Games: Freesurfer Part 6 3:30 p.m. ET / 2:30 p.m. PT
July 6 World of X Games: The Score Baja 500 2 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT
July 13 World of X Games: Road to X Games Boise Park Qualifier 2 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT
July 20 World of X Games: The Being Series 2 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT
July 28 World of X Games: X Games Minneapolis 2019 Preview Show 3 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. PT
July 28 World of X Games: Harley-Davidson Hooligan Qualifier 4 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT
August 3-4 X Games Minneapolis 2019 1-6 p.m. ET
August 10 World of X Games: X Games Minneapolis 2019 Anthology 1 p.m. ET / 12 p.m. PT
August 17 World of X Games: Best of X Games Minneapolis 2019 2 p.m. ET / 2:30 p.m. PT
August 18 World of X Games 1 p.m. ET / 1:30 p.m. PT
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King Philip DECA held its annual senior banquet to mark the end of another success year at the high school, recognize the members of the program, hand out superlatives and awards.
DECA is an internationally recognized, entrepreneurship-based organization that allows students to familiarize themselves with business principles. KP has a long successful tradition in the program. This season, that tradition continued with 8 teams placing at the International Career Development Conference in Nashville, TN, and 5 teams reaching the top 10, resulting in 3 teams winning glass trophies.
All of the seniors where then recognized for their involvement within the program for the previous two years and commended on their hard work and worthy accomplishments. The senior officer team said there last words in front of the DECA chapter as they said goodbye to the organization that has become a second home to many. The senior officers for this academic year are; president Theresa McGrory, director of membership Camille Beaulieu, director of communications Kristin Corrigan, director of finance Robbie Anderson, director of initiatives Addie Lotito, director of public relations Elizabeth Cyr, and state officer Michela Del Mastro.
The banquet was organized by Paul Macrina and Ryan Coulter.
The Norfolk Lions in conjunction with a number of local organizations are in the final planning stages for the 24rd annual Norfolk Community Day to be held on June 4th at the Holmes Complex on 22 Myrtle St. in Norfolk. Community Day events start at 11 a.m.
This year's Community Day include a children's art contest, touch a DPW truck, golf ball drop 50/50 raffle and many new and old favorite amusements including the Circus Obstacle Course, Knights & Dragons Bounce and Slide, Soccer Shoot, The Joust and the Bungee Bull Ride.
The black top entertainment will include a number of local groups who have participated for the last 23 years. Also for the first time this year, we will be entertained by Mike Piazza and his Flying High Frisbee Dogs. He and his highly athletic dogs will perform a variety of frisbee and other entertaining tricks.
There will be food, games and fun that are all sponsored by various local groups. Many of our local organizations are selling goodies to raise funds and providing literature on their organizations. It's a great day for everyone to get together and celebrate Norfolk.
The food pantry supplies are at its lowest during the summer months, especially toward the end of the summer. To help alleviate this problem, the Lions are running a food drive at Community Day and hope to Stuff-A-Truck full of food to be shared between the Norfolk and Franklin food pantries. Some items that are currently needed are jelly, maple syrup, hamburger/tuna helper, mayonnaise, tooth paste and hand soap. Please help us to reach our goal by bringing your donation to Community Day so we can fill that truck.
The Norfolk Lions could not undertake this fun event without the wide-spread assistance of all those who volunteer their funds, materials and time. The Lions would like to thank the Norfolk Fire, Police and Highway Departments and the Norfolk Recreation Department for their ongoing support. We are also pleased to acknowledge our platinum, gold and silver sponsors for this year's Community Day. Platinum: Holmes Transportation, 1776 Financial Services, Carpentry by Tom Antonellis, Dedham Savings Bank, Foxboro Federal Savings Bank, Norfolk Cultural Council; Gold: George T. Cronin & Sons, DiPlacido Development Corporation, Dover Trucking, ECO Structures Inc., Emmanuel Baptist Church, Minuteman Press of West Newton, Norfolk Community League, Rocky's Auto Body, Rodman Ford; Silver: Berkshire Hathaway Page Realty, Carrison Design, Colonial Fence, Dunkin Donuts, Elite Foods, Federated Church of Norfolk, New England Revolution, Norfolk Auto Inc., Peter Conti, Roche Brothers, State Representative Shawn Dooley, Snead Retirement Consulting, St. Jude's Church, Stop & Shop, Taylor Rental of Norfolk and William Reveis Delta Realtors.
The Lions are a non-profit organization known for working to end preventable blindness. Norfolk Lions participate in a vast variety of projects important to our community and proceeds of Community Day are donated back into local charities or to meet community needs. For more information regarding Community Day, you may check out the Norfolk Lions website www.norfolkmalions.org or call Ed Melanson @ 508-528-9302 or Patti McCarty @ 508-520-0540.
Margaretha Antonia Euwen De Kreijger McDonough, 93, of Norfolk, passed peacefully at home on May 19, 2016 She was the beloved wife of Joseph McDonough of Norfolk.
Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands on November 17, 1922, she was the daughter of the late Derk and Margaretha (Van De Huevel) Euwen. At 59 years of age, Margaretha became a graduate of Dean Jr. College. She volunteered at the Norfolk Public Library for many years, retiring recently. She enjoyed playing golf and tennis and was secretary of a golf club years ago. She liked going on cruises and ballroom dancing with Joseph. Always a leader and organizer, she enjoyed leading and instructing children at summer camp when she was in the Netherlands.
In addition to her husband Joseph, Margaretha is survived by a daughter; Elly Verhoeve De Rooij of the Netherlands, two sisters; N. Schryijver of Montreal, Canada, Rie Van Dyk of Brisbane, Australia, and two brothers; Bas Euwen of Hungary, and Leo Euwen of Toronto, Canada.
Seventh graders at King Philip Middle School raised $10,371.38 for the children of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital by participating in the Math-A-Thon. Every seventh grader completed the 250 problems in the Math-A-Thon booklet, and 190 of the students also collected sponsors. The money raised will help St. Jude in its ongoing fight against childhood catastrophic diseases. Much of the work done by St. Jude supports children with cancer and their families.
The top five fundraisers from King Philip Middle School were Luke Morreale ($500), Emma Garabedian ($370), Lillian Carlow ($320), Mackenzie Manning and Matt Plumb ($300 each). The amount raised this year during the Math-A-Thon was about $100 more than last year. Since 2007, King Philip Middle School has raised over $122,300 for this cause.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering work in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, and based in Memphis, Tennessee, St. Jude freely shares its discoveries with scientific and medical communities around the world. No family ever pays for treatments not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay.
St. Jude is financially supported by ALSAC®, its fund-raising organization, through such events as the Math-A-Thon. For more information, please visit www.mathathon.org.
KP Cares, a student group at King Philip Regional High School, is planning to hold a special fundraiser to support Relay for Life and also help out the four legged friends of Norfolk, Plainville and Wrentham. On Saturday, May 14, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., KP Cares will hold a dog washing fundraiser with all the proceeds being donated to Relay for Life, an organized overnight community fundraising walk to support the American Cancer Society. The dog washing event is being held at King Philip High School, 201 Franklin St.
Last week, King Philip Regional High School senior Harrison Fallon signed a ceremonial commitment letter to play Men's Lacrosse at Curry College in the fall of 2016. Curry College Head Coach Tim Murphy, who recruited Fallon, has followed Fallon's high school lacrosse career while he played at King Philip Regional High School, under Head Coach Jacob Kravitz, and for Warrior Elite Club Lacrosse, under Hall of Fame player, Coach Jack Piatelli.
Fallon is a four-year Varsity player at both midfield and attack, scoring a number of goals and assists during his high school career. He will study business at Curry College.
On April 23rd, 2016 the King Philip High School DECA Chapter embarked on their journey to the International Career Development Conference in Nashville, TN, hosted by DECA an organization that prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality, and management in high schools and colleges across the globe. The conference hosted eighteen thousand state and provincial winners from across the United States, Canada, Germany, China, and Guam. King Philip sent 19 written projects to compete at the highest level of competition and remarkably placed eight teams in the top 16 internationally. Also worth noting, is the King Philip DECA entered our first round of competition in 2016 with 41 projects, qualifying 40 to attend out State Conference.
At the MASS-DECA State Conference, 19 of those earned state recognition to be able to represent Team MASS-DECA in Nashville. Each written project consisted of an eleven or thirty page manual and a fifteen minute presentation evaluated by a judge in business. Some categories were also required to take a test that challenged the competitor's knowledge of entrepreneurship and marketing. Students in competitive areas were split into categories ranging from A to G depending on how many competitors were in a given category. Each letter grouping presented for a specific judge. The judge combined each team's written and presentation score to get a competitive score out of 100. The top two groups that were selected by each judge competed in the final round of competition to each a spot in the prestigious top ten.
Also, Ryan Nee and Theresa McGrory were awarded Certificates of Excellence for scoring among the highest scores in their categories.
All year long chapter members poured their time and effort into perfecting their written and presentation projects. The 42 students who attended this conference developed a strong bond, supporting and motivating each other to reach their fullest potential. For many this was truly a once in a lifetime experience and highly unique opportunity.
King Philip DECA will hold its annual banquet in one week, hosted by our DECA Advisor James Dow.
King Philip Middle School has announced the honor roll for term 3.
Senator Richard Ross will hold morning meeting hours in Norfolk on Tuesday, May 10, at Norfolk Town Hall, 1 Liberty Lane. from 10 to 11 a.m. The morning meetings provide constituents an opportunity to meet with Ross or a member of staff and discuss any matters of importance to them. To register for a meeting, please call the office of Senator Ross at (617) 722-1555 or email Richard.Ross@masenate.gov with a preferred time and a brief description of the topics you would like to discuss.


If you realized your house had just been robbed, what would you do? If you were an internet-savvy teenager like Max Malkin, you would immediately call the police and then use your iPhone GPS and a laptop to help police track down your stolen electronics and nab the suspect.
On Saturday, 14 year old Max Malkin was able to help Seattle police track down a felon who was arrested with thousands of dollars in electronics equipment that had just been stolen from the young man's home, the Seattle Times reported.
The teen's father, Harold Malkin, said he heard a noise around 2 a.m. Saturday coming from the main level of his house. He said he figured it was the family cat running around, so he fell back to sleep.
To his dismay, when he woke up hours later, he went downstairs and found the back door wide open and discovered that several items were missing — his BlackBerry, his wife's iPhone, his iPad, a MacBook and an iPod Nano, as well as the family's Xbox and Wii game systems. Also gone were $150 in cash and a brown, rolling duffel bag Malkin had bought for his wife's upcoming trip to Europe.
The family immediately called 911 and Officer Kurt Knox responded to the call.
After interviewing the family, officers learned that the mother's iPhone was equipped with GPS tracking software. Knox suggested they try a GPS tracking app to locate the stolen phone, Mr. Malkin said.
Harold Malkin, who didn't know how to run the "Find My iPhone" program, woke Max up. The teen quickly got online, logged onto iCloud.com — the Apple site where products can be registered and tracked via GPS — and pulled up a map that showed the iPhone was in downtown Seattle. Knox broadcast the information over his police radio, directing West Precinct officers to the phone's location.
An officer spotted a man with a large, rolling duffel bag at his feet inside the McDonald's restaurant at Third Avenue and Pine Street, according to a police report. The man and the officer made eye contact, and the man immediately got up and left, the report says.
The officer followed him to the bus tunnel at Fourth Avenue and Pine and stopped him at the bottom of the stairs, the report says.
The officer radioed Knox, still in Malkin's kitchen, and asked Malkin to dial the number to his wife's iPhone.
Back in the bus tunnel, the phone started ringing and the man pulled it out of a jacket pocket, according to the police report.
Malkin and Knox drove downtown so Malkin could identify his belongings, which were found along with a woman's Bank of America card and another computer, which also appears to have been stolen, according to the report.
The suspect, who initially was taken to Harborview Medical Center after vomiting in a West Precinct holding cell, was booked into the King County Jail on Sunday afternoon, according to the police report and jail records. The man could face a residential-burglary charge if fingerprints lifted from Malkin's home place him inside the house, Malkin said.
Sunday's jail booking was the man's third this year.
Jail records show he was booked into the jail early Thursday on investigation of theft and criminal trespass. He was given a conditional release Friday afternoon, roughly 12 hours before the burglary at Malkin's home. The man also was booked into the jail Jan. 7 on a drug charge and was released two days later, records show.
According to court records, he has convictions for second-degree burglary and second-degree possession of stolen property, as well as three drug convictions, along with several juvenile and adult misdemeanor convictions.


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Чемпионат мира по крикету () — международный турнир по крикету, проводимый под эгидой ICC. Является самым престижным турниром для мужских национальных сборных по данному виду спорта. Почти все участвующие сборные представляют Великобританию и её бывшие колонии. Финальные турниры чемпионатов мира проводятся раз в четыре года. Первый чемпионат мира по крикету был проведен в 1975 году в Англии. Лидером по количеству выигранных званий чемпионов мира по крикету является сборная Австралии, становившаяся чемпионом мира 5 раз. Дважды чемпионами мира становились сборные Вест-Индии и Индии, по разу чемпионами становились сборные  Пакистана и Шри-Ланки. Аналогичный турнир для женских национальных сборных проводится с 1973 года.

Чемпионат мира по крикету 2007 года был проведен  в период с 13 марта по 28 апреля 2007 года в Вест-Индии. В финальном этапе приняли участие шестнадцать команд. На первом групповом этапе команды были разбиты на 4 группы, по две лучшие сборные вышли в следующий раунд, в котором 8 сборных провели матчи между собой, определив таким образом 4 сильнейшие сборные по количеству набранных очков. Далее  были проведены полуфинальные поединки и финал. Победителем чемпионата мира стала сборная Австралии.

Освещение в прессе

Турнир — один из тех, которые смотрят наиболее часто. Финал Чемпионата мира по крикету 2011 показывался в 200 странах, его смотрели 2,2 млрд зрителей.  Права на трансляцию турниров продавались по цене 1,1 млрд долларов США, компании, желавшие стать спонсором турнира, платили 500 млн долларов. Матчи Чемпионата мира по крикету 2003 посетило 626 845 человек. На матчи Чемпионат мира по крикету 2007 было продано более 672 000 билетов, на матчи турнира 2015 года — 1,1 млн билетов.

На турнире 2003 года появился талисман: зебра Dazzler. Талисманом турнира 2007 года стал Mello, 2011 года — слон Stumpy.

13 февраля 2015 года компания Google выпустила дудл, посвящённый турниру.

Победители

Примечания

Ссылки
 Официальный сайт чемпионата мира
 Официальный сайт ICC
 The Cricket World Cup

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RABAT (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Morocco's capital Rabat on Sunday to demonstrate against the jailing of leaders of a protest movement in the predominantly Berber region of Rif.
Carrying pictures of the detained activists and waving Berber blue, green, yellow and red flags, demonstrators chanted "Freedom, dignity and social justice", "Long live the Rif", and "The people want immediate release of Rif detainees".
In June, a court in Casablanca sentenced 39 people, including protest leader Nasser Zefzafi, to terms of up to 20 years in jail in connection with a protest movement that shook Morocco in late 2016 and early 2017.
Detainees' relatives, exhausted by a 12-hour bus journey from Al-Hoceima to Rabat, expressed grief and frustration as they marched.
"We will keep up our protests until the release of our sons," Zefzafi's mother Zoulikha told Reuters.
Addressing crowds that activists said numbered at least 30,000, Zefzafi's father, Ahmed, invoked post-independence grievances and marginalisation in the Rif region and denounced what he called a political verdict.
"Rif is uniting Morocco in this march," he said.
Moroccan authorities estimated that 6,000 to 8,000 of protesters at the march were Al-Adl wal-Ihsan supporters. They did not give an overall estimate of the crowd size.
"The security approach adopted by the state derailed the peaceful protests in the Rif, leading to confrontations and arrests," he told Reuters.
Senior Al-Adl wal-Ihsan leader Omar Amkasso said the march was "to call for the immediate release of activists and the development of Morocco's marginalised regions".


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Byron G. Rogers Federal Building: Denver, Colo.
From Retro to Retrofit
Matthew C. Bartels, AIA, Michelle L. Swanson, P.E.,
© Raul Garcia
Modernizing Denver's 1960s-era Byron G. Rogers Federal Building capitalized on a decision made in 1850 by the original city planners to lay out the downtown streets at 45 degrees to the four cardinal points. Without considering the solar orientation, the Byron Rogers complex design respected the street orientation and the result placed the main buildings facing southwest and the hot afternoon sun. While this is great for watching the sun set over the mountains, the building becomes a giant solar heat collector.
When it came time to renovate the building, one of the design-build team's major goals was to reduce the building's energy use to below 30 kBtu/ft2·year (which was more aggressive than the General Services Administration's project requirement to be lower than 39.1 kBtu/ft2·year). The challenge was how to achieve these aggressive energy targets with this old, poorly sited building. Rather than fight the building, the team changed its perspective and thought about how it could use the original attributes to its benefit.
Because the southwest elevation was an unintended solar heat collector, the team pushed forward the idea to "capture" the unwanted heat, store it and then move the heat around the building to areas that needed it using a 50,000 gallon thermal storage tank, magnetic-bearing chillers, and chilled beams.
This project was a balancing act of multiple, sometimes competing, goals and expectations and necessitated an integrated team that brought creativity, longevity and confidence to the final solutions:
Preserve the historic design and provide a contemporary interior design in harmony with the building's original architecture. Built in 1965, the building remains an emblem of its time, and is a noteworthy piece of federal architecture in Denver (see sidebar Modern Architecture: A Stellar Example).
Upgrade the existing envelope to support aggressive energy reduction goals, improve occupant comfort, and reduce stack effect.
Provide significant safety improvement, invisibly, for progressive collapse, blast protection and seismic upgrades.
Set the building on a path to achieve GSA's 2030 energy goals.
A nearly total gut of the building's interior (including complete asbestos abatement) only left historically significant interior design elements, the primary structure, and the historic exterior envelope. These bones served as the framework on how to best rethink, design, and operate the high-rise building in the future.
Guided by the GSA's First Impressions Initiative, the design improved the appearance and efficiency of the public spaces, articulated the entrance area and alleviated security-check queuing delays.
A major focus was to reorganize the core building functions into a more efficient and flexible arrangement. The team focused on the user's experience to simplify wayfinding while creating a memorable experience. The design of the central core and primary circulation paths provides: unobstructed views to the exterior; equally obvious men's and women's toilet locations (relocated from the ends of the building); a consolidated, symmetrical core maximizing efficient and flexible tenant layouts for single or multi-tenant floors; and the "race track" circulation path on each floor. The interior design includes forms and finishes that reinforce wayfinding around each floor and limit the need for signage.
Mechanical and electrical rooms were moved to building ends to free up room within the central core and better serve the different zones of the building. A centralized phone and data distribution network was stacked to provide efficient flexibility for changing tenants. The project required structural seismic upgrades, and interior columns were carefully organized in the ceilings around the central core to support seismic needs and to create a zone of heavy floor loading for tenants.
Floor-by-floor main distribution pathways (ducts, hydronic pipes, and conduit) were organized above the racetrack circulation hallway. These lower ceilings reinforce the main circulation path, celebrate the "fish" shape of the building, and provide flexibility for multi-tenant floors. Higher ceilings were achieved at the perimeter, which allowed natural daylight to penetrate further into the building and into enclosed internal offices.
Envelope and Windows
Solving the building envelope issues required a highly integrated team. The envelope system had to address several factors: maintain the historic building design, keep the existing precast in place, accurately match window frame profiles and details, provide glass tint that is historically accurate yet reduces heat gain and maximizes daylight admittance, install blast windows and supporting structure, install progressive collapse structure, achieve an effective R-9 exterior wall (total of all window and opaque walls), and maintain vapor barrier continuity around existing structural elements.
The most prominent historic design element of the building is the pattern of slender aluminum windows and carefully articulated polished aggregate precast concrete panels. The tall windows on the upper floors project out past the face of the precast panels, while at the lower floors the windows are recessed deeply into the building plane. The precast is irreplaceable and known to be brittle when handled; therefore, it was decided to keep the existing precast panels in place and perform all work from the building interior. This also avoided scaffolding 18 stories or performing work from a swing stage.
The upper floors' 1,500 dark bronze windows project 4 inches out from the precast panels. While architecturally critical to the building design, the solution was a nightmare for energy efficiency because the aluminum frames act much like fins on a radiator that effectively transfer heat in and out of the building. However, changing the projection was forbidden.
Fortunately, the frames were generally in good shape and could remain if alternative solutions were developed to reduce heat loss and address blast requirements. The frame manufacturer studied ways to recreate a new and better projected window frame that limited the "radiator" effect and could resist blast loads. Unfortunately, it was not possible.
The team developed another option: to keep the existing frame in place, and then install a new blast window on the interior. This proved to be the most viable option because it also increased the thermal performance of the window system and facilitated an easier installation and fabrication of blast structural steel and window. It was determined that an operable glazing unit on the interior side of the existing frame would provide an insulating chamber between layers of glass, could accommodate breather tubes to prevent heat buildup, and would allow for routine maintenance at the inside faces of the window chamber. Careful engineering and modeling software studied how solar orientation and temperature/relative humidity differentials affected the cavity.
Ultimately, everyone contributed to the solution by fine-tuning each piece of the assembly: the building's relative humidity was controlled more accurately, the tint color performance was fine-tuned, the type and face of low-e coatings were adjusted to allow more heat from the building interior, the thickness of blast film adjusted, and vent holes to the exterior were added to relieve pressure.
The precast panels are supported by a secondary structure that is held off the primary structure/slab edge by a few inches. The secondary structure vastly complicated solutions to insulate the wall, separate floor-to-floor air atmospheres, and maintain continuity of the air/vapor barrier. The final solution placed mineral wool directly against the back of the precast, which was then covered with spray foam insulation that functions as the thermal, air, and vapor barriers. A 15-minute thermal (think fire) barrier was added to allow the spray foam to be exposed to the ceiling plenum space. Vapor barrier transition membranes were designed where materials changed. Cementitious fireproofing was studied to determine its vapor permeance and maintain continuity of the vapor barrier. Through this process, the team reduced the thickness of the exterior wall assembly, increasing leasable area.
The window and opaque wall upgrades were a success. The solution was invisible from the outside (and ostensibly from the inside, too), protected occupants from a bomb blast and progressive collapse, and achieved superior thermal performance with an effective wall value of R-9 (effective R-3.7 windows and R-20 opaque walls). In addition, through the integrated team approach, several steps were simplified to reduce construction time and increase quality.
From the outset, an overarching goal was to deliver a project that sets the standard for public and private sector office renovation projects alike. Active chilled beams, heat pump chillers, thermal storage, and 100% LED lighting were determined to be viable design strategies for future General Services Administration (GSA) office renovation projects, in part, through their successful performance on this project.
In addition, the Byron Rogers project informed the GSA's then-new Green Proving Ground (GPG) program, which leverages GSA's real estate portfolio to test innovative building technologies and to accelerate the transition between bench-scale technology and commercial viability. Changes to GSA's design standards have also been informed by the emerging technologies successfully used on the Byron Rogers project.
Also, due to its age and condition, the building was selected to receive funding for a complete remodel through the 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA). Because the GSA received additional ARRA funding strictly to incorporate emerging energy-efficiency technologies such as LED lighting into the design, the GSA established aggressive sustainability targets well beyond federal requirements for the project.
A key challenge to the project was procuring American-made fixtures to meet the GSA requirements of using 100% LED lighting throughout the tower. At the time of the design, domestic production of LED fixtures was in its infancy, and there simply were not enough manufacturers with the capability or capacity to adequately serve the needs of the project (see sidebar Emerging Technologies).
To circumvent this, GSA and the design-build team worked closely with manufacturers to help them develop solutions to meet design criteria, while making certain concessions that enabled lamp and fixture production to ramp up to meet quality specifications.
An ambitious project goal was to light the entire building with LEDs at 0.55 W/ft2. Achieving this goal was complicated because "standard" office-type LED fixtures where not commercially available at the time. To address this issue, the team conducted a design competition to compare custom-designed LED fixture prototypes from different manufacturers. A workable LED fixture was selected for the project, and a majority of the custom-designed prototypes ultimately went into full-scale production.
Reorganization of the building core, coupled with active chilled beam and LED lighting, supported the design for exemplary environments including open office areas along the exterior, allowing daylight to penetrate deep into the floor plate.
Light fixtures within 15 ft of the building perimeter have daylight sensors. These fixtures were originally programmed not to provide any light if a sufficient amount of daylight entered a given space. On average, the lights were turned off approximately 40% of the time on the southwest façade and 20% of the time on the northeast façade. After occupancy, a tenant survey was done, in part, to evaluate the performance and user satisfaction of the lighting controls. Based on the results, it was determined that more light was needed in the perimeter zones for a combination of reasons (e.g., height and width of the windows, configurations of columns and pilasters, desk location within the office). The lighting was reprogrammed so the lowest light output level during occupied hours would be 20% of the light source's maximum output level. Reprogramming the lighting was relatively easy due to the adjustable nature of LED fixtures, and the reprogramming had a very minimal impact on energy savings or ROI.
One building façade faces northeast while the other building façade faces southwest, making one side of the building much warmer than the other.
Therefore, the design team applied a whole-systems approach featuring heat reclamation, chilled beams, and a thermal storage system that transfers heat from the warmer side of the building to the cooler side and vice versa. A chilled beam system primarily uses moderate temperature water (an extremely efficient heating/cooling medium) to condition building spaces. After capturing heat generated in the building by occupants, computers, lighting and solar gain, a hybrid magnetic bearing heat recovery chiller and a 50,000-gallon thermal storage tank were designed to circulate stored heat through the building's chilled beam system as needed. The tank was sized to accommodate the heating and cooling needs overnight and weekends by only operating pumps and avoiding operating energy-consuming chillers and boilers during unoccupied hours.
Magnetic bearing chillers.
The building is ventilated via two dedicated outdoor air system (DOAS) units located in the penthouse. These units are dual tunnel and contain a heat recovery wheel that draws the heat out of the restroom exhaust. The DOAS system serves the floor level blower coils, which mix ventilation air and return air on the floors. This air is circulated to the active chilled beams, which provide heating and cooling via a system similar to a two-pipe changeover for each of the three exposure zones on the floor.
Before the building automation program was implemented, the design-build team tested the program without controlling any devices. The desired condition parameters were set, and the team observed how the program reacted to those parameters. If certain components did not respond as intended, adjustments were made to reconfigure the system. Also, the design-build contractor and subcontractors conducted training sessions of all building systems for the building management staff. These training sessions were video-recorded for future reference. "Refresher courses" were conducted several months after occupancy to familiarize existing and new O&M staff. During the second round of training, manufacturer representatives and subcontractors assisted O&M staff with issue resolution. These step-by-step tutorials help O&M staff diagnose and troubleshoot common issues.
A chilled beam system uses water pipes that require significantly less space than conditioned air ducts, allowing for greater floor-to-ceiling heights throughout the building. With the greater ceiling heights and removal of the induction units, 30% more window area was created for daylight and views. For spaces with private offices on the perimeter, the design-build team encouraged tenants to install translucent or transparent side lights to provide more light into the interior spaces. •
Matthew C. Bartels, AIA, is a principal with BWG Architects. Michelle L. Swanson, P.E., LEED BD+C, is a senior mechanical project manager from The RMH Group.
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Chief minister Vasundhara Raje's visit to Peeplaj Mata temple in Dausa district will mark the launch of the fifth leg of her ongoing Rajasthan Gaurav Yatra, on Thursday.
JAIPUR: Chief minister Vasundhara Raje's visit to Peeplaj Mata temple in Dausa district will mark the launch of the fifth leg of her ongoing Rajasthan Gaurav Yatra, on Thursday.
Having covered the divisions of Udaipur, Jodhpur, Bikaner and Kota, Raje's yatra will now tour the Jaipur division, covering 26 of the 50 assembly constituencies over the next five days. Raje would tour through Dausa, Alwar, Sikar, Jhunjhunu and Jaipur districts, addressing 15 public rallies.
While the yatra will pass through four of the five assembly constituencies in Dausa, it will cover five of the seven each at Sikar and Jhunjhunu and 11 of the 12 assembly constituencies in Alwar district. However, Raje in her present tour, will skip all but one assembly constituency of the 19 in Jaipur district.
Raje's focus would largely be on the districts of Alwar, Sikar and Jhunjhunu, where the state BJP is believed to be facing some tough opposition. The recent incidents of lynching and cow-related crime in the Mewat region of Alwar, have caused much embarrassment to the state government. Politically too, the ruling party has a major ground to cover in Alwar, where it faced a big defeat on the Alwar lok sabha constituency in the January by-polls.
Raje's yatra is scheduled to reach Alwar district on Thursday afternoon, after addressing public rallies in Dausa district while she will address public at Ramgarh, Tijara and Kishangarh Bas.
Raje's tour to Jhunjhunu and Sikar districts on September 23 and 24 too would be crucial, as the local Rajput community in the districts, are upset with the BJP. The local community outfits have announced a boycott of Raje's yatra.
Do you (CM Vasundhara Raje) feel the "gaurav'' (honour) about going back on your word on regularising anganwadi workers, who work on a minimum honorarium?'' state PCC president Sachin Pilot asked on Wednesday.


We see retail branding everywhere we go, but how does branding come about? How does a company get a positive brand associated with it? How does one get a negative one? What are some of the prevalent brands within the boardgame industry today?
These are some of the questions Lance and Michael try to address and answer in this weeks podcast.


Two of Southland's largest IT service providers are merging, with Focus Technology Group (NZ) and CGNZ set to deliver IT services under the Focus Technology name.
Focus Technologies Group (NZ) Ltd chief executive Rod Sinclair said CGNZ had sold its Auckland and Tauranga operations to Spark recently and Focus had now purchased CGNZ's Southland assets.
"We're pleased to be in a position to deliver continuity of service to CGNZ clients as a Southland-owned-and-operated IT service provider," Mr Sinclair said.
The transition would mean several of CGNZ's 25 staff would be made redundant, although Focus had taken on seven of those staff and Mr Sinclair said he understood several others had been offered employment elsewhere within the sector in Southland.
While it was unfortunate some staff would not be coming across to Focus, it was inevitable as one of CGNZ's clients had decided to switch to providing IT service in-house, he said.
CGNZ's remaining clients would receive the same high level of service, which would be bolstered through the addition of Focus's considerable resources, Mr Sinclair said.
Staff would continue to operate out of the former CGNZ premises on the corner of Clyde and Forth Sts in the short-term and would transition to Focus's Spey St premises during the next few weeks.
Focus Technology Group was founded in 1994 by Mr Sinclair and has 50 staff and five branches throughout the South Island, with clients throughout New Zealand and Australia.
Focus offers IT, software, network infrastructure consultancy, project management, software development, support services and cloud-based solutions.