When baby birds hatch from their eggs they are absolutely adorable, even if they do look like a bit of a mess.
Their feathers are sparse, if not completely nonexistent. Their little wings are scrawny, and their beaks can look far too big for their heads because they've yet to grow that beautiful plumage. But they still manage to put a smile on any animal lover's face.
Baby owls are especially cute, in their own little way. Now that it's springtime, you may have already seen some baby owls in your very own backyard!
But how much do you really know about baby owls, the adorable tiny creatures that "hoo-hoo" in the night?
These 10 facts about owl babies will give you a whole new glimpse into their world.
As much as I would love to get my hands on one of these carnivorous cuties, I know it's best to leave them alone. So, looking at them and learning about them will just have to do.
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Most baby birds are just called chicks, but baby owls have their own special title: owlets!
Owl chicks are born with the help of an egg tooth, which will fall off after a week or two. This is, in fact, a part of all bird births.
Owls lay their eggs over the course of a few days, so there will always be a size difference in the owl siblings, as they hatch at different times.
This also means that sometimes the youngest may not survive through years with food shortages, as the bigger babies will win the sustenance. An evolutionary tactic, this is actually beneficial to the species, because even in tougher years it means at least some of the chicks will survive.
When hand-rearing baby owls with rehabilitation in mind, caretakers have to be very careful not to let the babies imprint on them.
Rescuers must take extreme measures, such as cloaking themselves in camouflage and feeding the baby with tweezers held in the beak of an owl puppet. No, I'm totally not kidding.
For many species of owls, the babies will have a set of parents who will stay mates for a lifetime.
Owls don't make their own nests. Instead, they take over the abandoned nests of other birds.
If you find a baby owl on the ground, there is most likely no need to fear. Fledgelings are supposed to spend time on the ground. And even if the babies aren't fledgelings yet, it's best to keep them near their nest rather than taking them into your home and out of their natural environment.
Unless of course the baby is seriously, visibly injured, in which case you should call a local rescue group. Don't disturb him or her much, other than moving the baby closer to the nest.
Baby owls will stay in the nest for just about six weeks after hatching, give or take, depending on the species.
Baby owls will grow up fast, as birds of prey are the fastest growing vertebrates. Within eight or nine weeks, barn owls are at full adult weight and feathering.
As one of the biggest birds in the arctic, the snowy owl can reach a staggering two feet tall when fully mature. When born, a snowy owlet is a muddy brown color, and is about the size of a baby chicken is at birth.
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GraceLinBlog: Belated Hong Kong post: Pocket Pacy in Hong Kong and around the world!
Belated Hong Kong post: Pocket Pacy in Hong Kong and around the world!
Remember those pocket pacys I made before Hong Kong?
this boy laminated his pocket pacy bookmark and took it underwater!
Thanks so much, HKIS students!!!


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A majority of hospitals, including private and state-run health facilities operating inside Kathmandu Valley, have been dumping waste and sewage directly into drainage without treatment, increasing the risk to public health.
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The staff of Jajarkot District Hospital have started a strike saying they have not received their salaries for the past six months.
The government has formed a panel to review the costs of health care in hospitals across the country.
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When you start noticing such reluctance in your dog, it is recommended that you stop giving your dog the treat for a few days. If your dog is healthy, then this wouldn't be a problem. When you eventually introduce the treat again, your dog will be very happy to eat it. Another way you can get through this process is by breaking the tablet in half and hiding in their food or something that smells yummy. You can use a little piece of cheese or a glob of peanut butter. Dogs tend to respond very well to smell. So when the food smells nice, they will find it appetizing. So after hiding the wafer in their meals, you can return to using it without any coating. You can as well grind the treat and mix it with their regular meals.
It is important to note that you can make up for your dog's poor nutrition. Every dog needs exercise, fresh water, high-quality Nuvet vitamins and nutrition, love, and basic companion training.
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Don't just strictly adhere to what a salesperson tells you. Most of them don't know much about pet nutrition, and they are just following someone else's instruction.
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The new community college evolved in response to the educational and economic development needs for the State of West Virginia. Associate degree program offerings in the region began in the late 1940s and early 1950s at West Virginia State College and West Virginia Institute of Technology. In the 1960s, each of these colleges created "community college components" on the respective campuses. In 1999, the state legislature created a separate community and technical college system. Community college components hosted by baccalaureate institutions began the process of becoming independent colleges. In 2004, independent accreditation was achieved. The Community and Technical College at West Virginia University Institute of Technology and West Virginia State Community and Technical College were formed.
BridgeValley Community and Technical College is a multi-campus institution with locations in South Charleston and Montgomery, WV. The two campuses are 34 miles apart, both situated near the Kanawha River in the rugged Allegheny Mountains. This diverse service area includes the New River Gorge National Park reserve near Fayetteville, the state Capitol complex in Charleston, and the chemical, energy and manufacturing center for the southern part of the state.
The South Charleston facilities are located on the campus of the West Virginia Regional Technology Park, a mixed-use research and industry property. The college buildings include Main, Annex, and the Advanced Technology Center for South Central West Virginia.
Davis Hall, the main building for the Montgomery campus and, is located on the campus of West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech); the Publishing Innovation Center and Diesel Technology Center resides in the leased facilities on Third Avenue.
Access to both campuses in provided through Interstate Routes 64, 77, and 79, U.S. Route 60, Charleston Yeager Airport, and the Beckley/Raleigh County Airport. Bus service is available through Charleston and Beckley, as well as more distant points. The Kanawha Rapid Transit (KRT), with convenient schedules between Montgomery, Charleston, and other towns in the Kanawha Valley. Amtrak service is available in Montgomery to Chicago.


Join us for Christmas breakfast!
What do you usually have for breakfast on Christmas morning? Hamburgers? No? Well, that's what we'll be having at our Christmas breakfast gathering.
Sound yummy? We'd love to have you drop by (between 7 and 9 am) and enjoy breakfast with the street church family. And of course, if you think Christmas breakfast should include something other than hamburgers, why not bring along some of your favourite Christmas breakfast goodies to share!
Many of our family don't have what most people consider a "traditional Christmas day." Some don't even have a roof over their head, never mind stockings and gifts under the Christmas tree. Some wouldn't even have breakfast on Christmas if it weren't for this breakfast gathering. We'd love for you to come by and share some of your "Christmas tradition and Christmas Spirit" with our street family. Hope to see you there!
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Q: How to calculate the center of gravity of multiple weights placed along the perimeter of a circle? We want to attach n various weights to the perimeter of a circular turbine, equidistant from each other.
I thought about using the cosine function of the position, the weight and the radius somehow (maybe just simple multiplication), which would give us some sort of directional force (not a physics major, sorry I'm completely butchering this) and then we would maybe add that up for all the weights to get the total force/center of gravity? I don't completely understand that theory in itself, so even if it's somehow correct, which I doubt, please tell me why. And other than this, I have no clue.
Thank you

A: Let's recall the definition of the gravity center $\vec{r}_G$ for a system of $N$ point masses :
$$
\vec{r}_G = \frac{1}{M}\sum_{k=1}^Nm_k\vec{r}_k
$$
where $m_k$ are the individual masses, $\vec{r}_k$ their positions and $M = \displaystyle\sum_{i=k}^Nm_i$ the total mass in the system. Given that the weights are positioned equidistantly on the perimeter of a circle of radius $R$, one has :
$$
\vec{r}_k = \begin{pmatrix} R\cos(k\theta) \\ R\sin(k\theta) \end{pmatrix} \quad\mathrm{with}\quad \theta = \frac{2\pi}{N},
$$
hence
$$
\vec{r}_G = \frac{R}{M}\sum_{k=1}^Nm_k\begin{pmatrix} \cos(k\theta) \\ \sin(k\theta) \end{pmatrix}
$$
which cannot be simplified further, because the weights aren't identical.

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In my hometown, in ancient times and even in my childhood in the village, the people were always washing rice in the river before they cooked it, and washing their clothes in the river, washing their bodies in the river. I had the experience of living with the water, playing with the water, listening to the water. It was very important to me.
Three or four years ago, when my wife was pregnant, we went to the doctor for an ultrasound, and there I could see this beautiful baby and hear the heart. Suddenly I heard this beautiful water sound and I realized: this is the sound all human beings hear first. At that time I had just gotten the commission for the Water Passion. I said, "I've got to start with water"— it's the beginning, and the beginning is the ending, and the end is the beginning. That's the meaning of resurrection. Resurrection isn't just a new life, but a new idea.
Discography - Water Passion After St. Matthew
Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus
Maya Beiser, Stephen Bryant, David Sheppard, Elizabeth Keusch, Martin Homann, Adam Weisman, Chen Yuanlin, David Cossin, Mark O'Connor
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[Tan Dun] applies bold strokes throughout in vocal as well as instrumental writing.
James R. Oestreich, The New York Times,01/01/0001
17 bowls filled with water form a cross. At three ends of the cross, percussionists sit with drums, tumblers, stones. At the fourth stands the composer and conductor Tan Dun. Members of London Voices [are] bathed in blue light...throughout they weave Tan's equivalent of Bach's four-part chorales. WATER PASSION AFTER ST. MATTHEW, commissioned for this year's Bach anniversary by the International Bach-Akademie Stuttgart, is an astonishing piece conceptually. The Passion story is prised from its perch in Western Christianity, re-imagined and re-heard in the light of natural sounds and the myriad musical traditions of the Far East. It is ritual. It is opera.
Geoff Brown, The Times (London),01/01/0001
Tan Dun's Water Passion [is] a refined and intensely contemplative setting of St. Matthew in English. It is a work of captivating visual music and sound meticulously disposed in space. Tan plays virtuosically with watery symbols of baptism, creation and rebirth. At the center of the stage are 17 large bowls, filled with water, lit from below and arranged in the shape of a cross. Tan is sensationally inventive with sound, and the play of timbres. The three percussionists make water drip, flow, burble, crash and hiss. They lift handfuls of water than fling it back down. They stir it, strike it with pairs of plastic cups, float soup bowls upside down in it and play them. Then there is the chorus, a stunning ensemble of whispered syllables and precise howls. Two vocal soloists rendered the drama in a mix of Chinese vocal techniques. Cellist Maya Beiser and violinist Cho-Liang Lin evoked the sounds of the Mongolian steppes and the scales of Central Asia. The whole polyglot mixture [was] spectacularly performed.
Justin Davidson, New York Newsday,01/01/0001
Water Passion After St. Matthew took place nearly three weeks ago, but memories of it continue to resonate... ...The East and West, ancient and avant-garde, provocative and primordial, come together in angry collisions, gentle embraces, and seamless fusion. It is impossible to imagine a stronger or more skillfully produced performance than that provided by Tan Dun. He led an extraordinary group of international artists...[and the] audience on a compelling, otherworldly journey unlike any other.
Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post,01/01/0001
...a wondrous array of haunting and elemental sounds proved the most striking quality of Water Passion after St. Matthew.
Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times,01/01/0001

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Always the futurist, Rebecca leads the way in identifying new trends and technology – which is exactly why those who want to be market leaders value her insight. Rebecca removes the mystery to reveal value in emerging trends to empower attendees to leverage best practices every day to build long-term success.
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We live and work in rapidly changing world. A futurist is continually identifying the next big thing as it comes on to the scene. So, instead of talking about what has worked in the past, Rebecca Murtagh is a powerful Keynote Speaker continually introducing audiences to emerging trends that create competitive advantage, opportunities to grow market share and win customers for life.
Rebecca offers keynote topics that leverage her subject matter expertise in Competitive Business Strategy, Brand Strategy, E-Business, Digital Strategy, Website Planning & Optimization, Integrated Marketing, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Google Analytic, Conversion, and all things digital to motivate and inspire her audiences to embrace the new enlightened economy.
Rebecca is continually sought out for her depth of knowledge and passion for helping others seize opportunities that support their goals. With an extensive career that began before the commercial internet, Rebecca easily adapts insights to be relevant to audiences of CEO's, executives, marketers, entrepreneurs, small business owners and students.
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An active entrepreneur, Rebecca understands the challenges organizations face in today's ever-changing marketplace and is passionate about helping others see opportunity where others don't.
A trusted adviser to organizations that range Fortune 500 company, international consumer brand, to Silicon Valley start-up, global software company, small business; and everything in between; Rebecca Murtagh can captivate audiences of any level.
As an author, chief strategist and founder of an award-winning marketing firm, columnist for Search Engine Watch, quoted by Entrepreneur Magazine, Money Magazine, Search Engine Journal and numerous business and trade publications around the globe; Rebecca is recognized around the world as a thought-leader.
Rebecca believes that state-of-the-art technology and applications are powerful only when the people responsible for leveraging them fully understand the opportunities and how to adapt their own thinking to solve problems, innovate and achieve results.
A diverse professional career with experience in multiple industries enables Rebecca's keynotes aren't just cool and up-to-date in theory. She offers actionable insights that can be implemented to impact the bottom line for organizations of all sizes.
I feel very blessed to have had the opportunities and experiences that now enable me to help others be more successful!
-Rebecca Murtagh
A Keynote Speaker With Unrivaled Experience In The Digital Space
Driven by over 25 years of professional experience, Rebecca pursued an opportunity to shift focus from business development, marketing and creative communication to the Internet in the mid 1990′s. Her initial involvement in the strategy, planning, creation and marketing of the first few websites of a 80 million dollar publishing imprint of International Thomson Publishing would be just the beginning of a highly successful career as a practitioner, educator and adviser.
After catching the web bug, in the late 1990's Rebecca left the stability of a corporate job to work along side highly talented and innovative web architects, programmers and scripters in a new media start-up. Working on the earliest forms of Intranets, CMS, e-commerce and custom web applications, Rebecca absorbed everything she could as the firm created web environments for Time Warner to support the roll out of high-speed internet, Plug Power as it approached an IPO, created the first Tech Valley website, the first e-commerce website for TroyBilt, an award-winning website for the Albany Colonie Chamber of Commerce, and a multitude of websites for business in various sectors.
She went on to take the lead for on-time, in budget completion of the first $1 million dollar budget e-commerce website for Harte Hanks Interactive of Harte Hanks Worldwide, which led to accounts with the U.S. Postal Service and Casual Corner. Rebecca then accepted a position as Director of New Media Services and Corporate Marketing for Wave Systems Corp (WAVS) to support R&D and deployment of streaming media subscription services, proprietary wallet technology, and partnering with players such as Philips, Microsoft, various OEMs and Cyber-COMM electronic payments, amidst early efforts to promote convergence of internet, digital streaming and television broadcast.
In 2001, Rebecca founded the award-winning marketing firm Karner Blue Marketing which has been engaged by large consumer brands, start-ups and enterprises in a multitude of industries.
Throughout her career, has earned recognition as an internationally-recognized expert on topics related to business strategy, e-business, search, social media, e-business, digital and integrated marketing. Her straightforward, teaching style has earned Rebecca invitations to speak at some of the industry's largest international events, in addition to providing consulting, corporate training to private organizations throughout North America and Bahamas.
Illuminating Opportunities to Compete and Win
Always the futurist, Rebecca has earned a reputation for identifying new trends and opportunities for businesses and brands to leverage to build their brand and grow market share.
Brands rely upon her to help them connect-the-dots, define an actionable strategy, and stay one step ahead of their competition.
Her Expertise and Passion Inspire Confidence
Rebecca's passion and mastery of subject matter quickly earns the trust and confidence of audiences of all levels. Her ability to adapt the conversation to C-level executives, mid-level professionals or first-time entrepreneurs can be attributed to mastery of the topics, and her ease in translating complex topics into information that can be applied to executable strategies that deliver results. Its no wonder clients and colleagues turn to Rebecca for advice again and again as the digital landscape evolves, to help them adapt strategies, overcome new challenges and deploy methods that impact the bottom line.
In 2013, Rebecca's acclaimed book Million Dollar Websites: Build a Better Website Using Best Practices of the Web Elite in E-Business, Design, SEO, Usability, Social, Mobile and Conversion was published and continues to receive high praise and 5 star reviews from industry experts and readers.
In addition to maintaining a Google+ Community to provide ongoing support to readers and website enthusiasts, Rebecca has been a regular contributor to Search Engine Watch, one of the industry's most trusted sources for breaking news, best practices and expert insights in SEO, Social Media, Marketing, Mobile, Video and the digital landscape.
A Highly-Engaging Keynote Speaker & Educator
Rebecca Murtagh continually researches, tests and monitors developments that impact brands and businesses
of every size across multiple industries. Her engaging personality and ability to provide a glimpse into the future often draws standing-room only attendance to seminars and conference sessions, as well as large audiences in convention settings. Rebecca is dedicated to helping professionals gain a better understanding of how to leverage the current landscape with timely and relevant information to achieve their goals.
Rebecca has presented workshops, conference sessions, lectures and seminars at a large variety of industry conferences as well as conventions for international, national and local organizations, including, (but not limited to):
::SFIMA – Pubcon South Florida Interactive Marketing Association Summit April 2018, Ft. Lauderdale, FL USA February 2017: invited to return for a fourth year to speak at Pubcon's "Marketing Spring Break" conference to share insight with internet marketing professionals, business owners, and entrepreneurs from around the world on how to use User-Generated Content to improve visibility of the brand, engage audiences, and create brand assets.
::Pubcon Austin, Texas USA February 2018: Rebecca was invited to present at University of Texas, Austin on "The Science of Influence".
::NYC Brand Summit, Brooklyn, New York USA: Rebecca Murtagh was invited by Incite to be chairperson of the Storytelling and Content track where she facilitated sessions and discussion about case studies delivered by CMO's and top marketing professionals from American Express, KFC, Weight Watchers, and other global brands.
::Pubcon Las Vegas, Nevada October 2017: Rebeca Murtagh was invited to return to Pubcon Las Vegas, the #1 Marketing Conference (rated by Marketing Professionals) to speak about Merging Psychology and Content Creation.
::SFIMA – South Florida Interactive Marketing Association Summit February 2017: selected as one of the world's top 50 experts invited to speak to professional marketers and entrepreneurs around the world on How to Use Psychology to Develop Content and Promote Conversion.
:: Pubcon Las Vegas 2016 – Rebecca Murtagh invited to return as one of the top 200 expert speakers at Pubcon, deemed a Forbes "Must Attend Conference" and Inc. "Top conference for growing your business".
:: Northeast Biofeedback Society – Rebecca Murtagh presented a 1/2 day workshop on how to use Digital Marketing (the website, social media, search and email) to build a brand, and private practice.
:: Pubcon Las Vegas 2016 – Rebecca Murtagh was invited back as one of the world's top experts to present on emerging trends and opportunities for entrepreneurs, business owners and marketers to reach target audiences.
::SFIMA – South Florida Interactive Marketing Association Summit 2016: one of the world's top speakers selected to present to professional marketers, Rebecca Murtagh spoke about the role of Big Data, Little Data, All Data being vital to direct investment in building a marketing plan and conducting ongoing analysis for optimum ROI.
:: Pubcon Las Vegas 2015 – Rebecca Murtagh was invited to return to speak at the largest Pubcon conference to date, attracting attendees from around the world.
::NANP – National Association of Nutrition Professionals, Tucson, AZ USA : Rebecca Murtagh was a featured speaker chosen to speak about the use of social media to build a business. This session drew a highly-captivated standing room only crowd!
::SFIMA – South Florida Interactive Marketing Association Summit 2015
:: Pubcon Las Vegas 2014 – Million Dollar Websites book-signing and speaker for two sessions: Social Media in the
::Chamber of Commerce – Guilderland, NY February 2014: Rebecca Murtagh was invited to present Social Media: A Vital Business Leadership, Sales, Marketing and Customer Relations Tool for the Sustainable Business to members and guests.
::Pubcon Austin Regional 2014 at University of Texas, Austin TX USA: Rebecca Murtagh presented a spotlight session: 'The Convergence of Social Media and Search' to share latest research on the indisputable relationship between social and search to professional marketers and SEO's.
:: Pubcon Las Vegas 2013 – Million Dollar Websites book-signing and speaker for two sessions: Social Media in the Overall Marketing Plan, and Social Media and Search Today.
::AOA Conference 2013 Albuquerque, NM USA – Speaker for two sessions at the Annual Management and Marketing Conference for America Outdoors Association in Albuquerque, NM.
The Future of Digital Commerce and The Power of Google+ and Hangouts, were standing-room only sessions, followed by a private hangout for attendees to join to become more familiar with the webinar, video conferencing, social engagement platform.
::SFIMA – South Florida Interactive Marketing Association Summit 2013: as one of the Pubcon speakers invited to present to professional marketers representing some of America's largest brands with a standing-room only session 'All Roads Lead to Home'.
:: Pubcon New Orleans – Million Dollar Websites book-signing and presented two sessions: Social Media in the Overall Marketing Plan, and Social Media and Search Today.
:: SESNY: Search Engine Strategies NYC – Meet the Experts, meeting with business owners to answer burning questions about website Conversion.
:: The Special Event: Chicago, IL How to Reach Your "Ideal Customers" Using Today's Digital Landscape.
:: PubCon Las Vegas 2012: Las Vegas – Two Sessions: Social Media, Search and Your Brand; Integrating Social Media Into the Marketing Plan
:: Digital World Expo Las Vegas, Nevada: Two Sessions – LinkedIn and Loaded; Google+ Inside and Out
:: PubCon Paradise 2012 Presenter and Panelist: The Convergence of Social Media , Search and Real-Time Search
:: PubCon Las Vegas 2011 Presenter and Panelist: The Convergence of Social Media , Search and Real-Time Search
:: Rebecca's Post on the PubCon Social Media and Search Blog: Social Media Without Optimization Don't Mean a Thing
:: NASCAR RV Resorts – Morgan RV Resorts: Keynote Speaker and Corporate Trainer. Rebecca created custom Keynote Speech followed by a custom workshop in Social Media Marketing for the management team from locations across the U.S.
:: PubCon Dallas 2010 Presenter and Panelist: How Search and Social Media Intersect, Including Real-Time Search
:: "Official Tweeter" for Silicon Valley Brand Forum SVBF Event at: Electronic Arts Managing Brand in the Social Media Jungle
:: exl Pharma 3 Hour SEO Pre-Conference Workshop: exl Pharma SEM Annual Conference
:: Web 2.0 – San Franciso, CA SEO Seminar: Integrating SEO, Usability, and Internet Marketing for High Performance and Results
:: NHFA – National Home Furnishings Association Annual Conference: Paradise Island, Bahamas: Presenting Two Search Engine Marketing and Website Strategy Seminars at the All-Industries Convention
What is Search Engine Marketing?
Million Dollar Website
:: ISA – International Sign Assocition Annual Convention: Orlando, FL: Search Engine Myths and Facts
:: NAPM – National Association of Purchasing Management: New York Chapter: The Future of the Internet
:: PRSA – Public Relations Society of America: WRBG Studios Niskayuna: Search Engine Optimization Strategies for the Public Relations Industry
:: American College of Surgeons – COSM – Boca Raton Resort & Club, Boca Raton, FL USA: Rebecca was invited to speak to plastic surgeons and their practice managers on: How Search Engine Optimization Can Help You Grow Your Practice
:: ALTA Tech Forum – Association of Land Title Professionals – New Orleans, LA
:: RPI – Engineering Internet Symposium, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY – 2009, 2008, 2007
:: AdFacs – Business Expo – Albany, NY – 2003, 2004, 2005
"Passion is Power"
:: U-Start Union College Entrepreneur Series – Schenectady, NY
:: American Marketing Association NY Capital Region Internet Symposium – Albany, NY
:: EAP – Entrepreneurship Assistance Program Instructor – Albany Colonie Regional Chamber of Commerce – Albany, NY
:: Society of Marketing Professionals – Association of Strategic Marketing
:: Schenectady Business Center Entrepreneurship Course Instructor – Schenectady, NY
:: Capital Leadership – Albany, NY
:: Private Corporate on-Site Training and Seminars Throughout North America
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Internet Marketing Pioneer Becomes a Keynote Speaker
Unlike the traditional perspective of the time that websites were IT assets, Rebecca recognized early on that the website was a marketing asset. Rebecca was an early advocate of this shift, promoting the involvement of marketing professionals in working with corporate clients.
When given the opportunity, Rebecca pursued an opportunity to become Marketing Director at an early new media start-up in the beginning days of the commercial internet website development. Working side-by-side with website developers, architects and e-commerce pioneers to develop innovative new web-based applications, tools and environments, Rebecca developed a true appreciation for the development of innovative problem-solving technologies that businesses could use. Her involvement in the design, development and promotion of websites began the early formation of the methodologies for website design, email, SEO and internet marketing. Rebecca discovered her love of training at this organization, teaching executives and practitioners how to leverage their website, statistics and tools to impact the bottom line for their organizations.
A Keynote Speaker With Years of Experience in Helping Brands Embrace New Technology With a Marketing Perspective
Rebecca was then enticed to move on to Harte Hanks Worldwide to lead the new media team of developers, website designers and SEO staff to launch the firm's first $1 million dollar budget e-commerce website for Rhodes Furniture to rival Furniture.com.
Rebecca led the creation of innovative new applications of Flash technology in the 1990′s to build the web's first interactive "room planner" which integrated size and dimensions of e-commerce assets to enable pre-purchase room design for home owners and interior designers to save and manipulate…resulting in one of the Internet's earliest fully interactive tools. Upon successful launch, Rebecca immediately accepted an invitation to become Director of Marketing, New Media Services for the publicly traded technology company, Wave Systems, to develop OEM and international distribution of a very early Web 2.0 social media platform, DRM for streaming media and transactional security "wallet" platform. Becoming Corporate Marketing Director, Rebecca was part of the team developing marketing partnerships with Philips, Compaq, Sony and CyberComm in Europe.
Business Owner & Entrepreneur
Rebecca has been speaking since the 1990's to groups of all sizes. Her real-world experience gives her credibility and makes her extremely relevant as a keynote speaker.
In 2001, the very day Rebecca was downsized out of her position, she initiated the start of her marketing firm, Karner Blue Marketing, integrating everything she'd learned from working with outstanding professionals in web, application development, marketing, publicity, search engine optimization, internet marketing, and the creation of innovative new technologies to deliver new services, brand recognition, sales and increased market share for her clients.
In 2005, Rebecca led the creation of the nation's first long-distance WiFi service for a commercial transportation system for a client, accompanied by an award-winning campaign, recognized with the prestigious American Marketing Association's "Mark of Excellence" for New York Capital Region Chapter's most prestigious award, recognizing marketing effectiveness and performance.
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The year ahead – A compliance primer for 2013
2012 was a momentous year for company secretaries in Hong Kong. In the wake of the dragon's passing, CSj assesses the implications going forward of the major corporate governance reforms and professional developments of last year. One thing is very clear, all compliance professionals in Hong Kong, company secretaries included, have a lot of homework to do.
The year of the dragon is supposed to be characterised by abundant good energy but last year's dragon, if he is judged by GDP growth and economic activity, was a rather mellow fellow. In one area, however, the dragon lived up to his reputation – it was a bumper year for corporate regulation.
'Bumper' is perhaps something of an understatement. 2012 gave us the gargantuan new Companies Ordinance, published in August, which will significantly change Hong Kong's compliance landscape in areas such as corporate reporting, directors' duties, corporate administration and management of the AGM.
In any ordinary year, the Ordinance's 900 sections and 11 schedules would have been quite enough to keep company secretaries busy, but the dragon had other surprises up his sleeve. In May the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) published the Securities and Futures (Amendment) Ordinance 2012 – substantially expanding the existing framework for the disclosure of price-sensitive information by listed companies. 2012 also saw the introduction of Hong Kong's new Competition Ordinance; new requirements on anti- money laundering and counter-terrorist financing; amendments to the Codes on Takeovers and Mergers and Share Repurchases; new rules on company announcements during share trading hours; and a substantial revision of the Corporate Governance Code and associated Listing Rules.
Quite a lot for busy company secretaries to be getting on with, even without considering the overseas legislation they need to keep tabs on. As a result of the financial crisis, the international community has been implementing what the SFC has called 'the most radical financial reform proposals since the Great Depression'. Dodd-Frank, the UK Bribery Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act (see 'FATCA: the facts' on page 12) and Basel III may have compliance implications for Hong Kong companies.
The new Companies Ordinance
The final draft of the long-awaited Companies Ordinance was published in August last year. Of all the pieces of legislation brought in during 2012, it will undoubtedly have the most impact on company secretaries. The sheer scale of the law is daunting and most of the reforms it ushers in will have relevance for company secretaries.
The reforms topping the compliance 'to do' list at the moment are the Ordinance's corporate reporting provisions. Public companies, together with 'larger' private companies and guarantee companies, will be required to include an analytical and forward-looking Business Review in a Directors' Report section in their annual reports. The Review must include information relating to environmental and employee matters that have a significant effect on the company (see Schedule 5 to the new Ordinance for more on this).
Further details of the required contents of the Directors' Report are set out in the first phase of public consultation on the subsidiary legislation to be implemented this year as a precursor to the implementation of the new Companies Ordinance in 2014. The Companies (Directors' Report) Regulation will require a directors' report to include information on directors' interests, donations made by the company and its subsidiary undertakings, reasons for the resignation of a director, and other matters.
Despite the fact that these provisions will not come into force until 2014, company secretaries would do well to prepare now for their implementation. That said, not all companies will need to comply since the new Companies Ordinance includes provisions designed to facilitate 'small private companies' to prepare simplified financial and directors' reports. Company secretaries need to look at the detailed size and other criteria stipulated in the new Ordinance to see whether their company qualifies for this simplified reporting. Other relevant reforms implemented, or to be implemented, by the Companies Ordinance are set out below.
Deregulatory reforms relating to annual general meetings (AGMs). One of the primary goals of the Companies Ordinance rewrite exercise was to reduce, where possible, companies' compliance burden. This is evident in a number of provisions relating to the AGM, for example enabling companies to dispense with AGMs by unanimous shareholders' consent and hold general meetings at more than one location using electronic technology.
Deregulatory reforms relating to company administration. The Ordinance abolishes the memorandum of association and the concept of par value shares. Current provisions in a company's memorandum of association will be regarded as part of the company's articles, and existing balances in the share premium account and capital redemption reserve will become part of the company's share capital.
Reforms relating to officers of the company. Several provisions of the new ordinance will have implications for company secretaries as officers of the company and may affect their personal liability. For example, the Ordinance lowers the threshold for prosecuting an officer of the company for a breach of various administrative requirements, such as a failure to file returns and documents on time with the Companies Registry.
Codification of directors duties of care, skill and diligence. Directors' duties of care, skill and diligence have been codified, including both subjective and objective tests. Directors' fiduciary duties remain uncodified and will continue to be defined by case law.
The second phase of public consultation on the subsidiary legislation to be implemented as a precursor to the implementation of the new Companies Ordinance closed last month. The consultation conclusions should be published in the first quarter of 2013 on the websites of the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (www.fstb. gov.hk/fsb) and the Companies Registry (www.cr.gov.hk).
The Securities and Futures (Amendment) Ordinance
A more immediate concern from a compliance perspective is the Securities and Futures (Amendment) Ordinance 2012 which was enacted in May last year and became effective at the beginning of this month. The Ordinance introduces a statutory regime which substantially expands the existing framework for the disclosure of price-sensitive information by companies listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. The new regime has been of particular interest to company secretaries both from a compliance perspective and because of the potential personal liability it imposes on company officers. These issues are dealt with in full in the following cover story (see pages 14–19).
Corporate Governance Code and Listing Rule changes
In addition to raising company secretaries' work burden, the year of the dragon brought some significant benefits to members of the profession in Hong Kong. The changes to Hong Kong's Corporate Governance Code and associated Listing Rules brought in by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) in April last year, saw the roles and responsibilities of company secretaries defined for the first time in regulation (see new Section F of the revised Code).
Equally significant for company secretaries' standing in Hong Kong were the changes brought in relating to practitioners' qualifications, experience and training. In particular, new Listing Rule 3.29 requiring company secretaries to undertake 15 hours' professional training per year, which matches the Institute's mandatory CPD requirement implemented in August 2011.
Some other changes may seem fairly minor but are likely to have a significant impact on the way the company secretary role is perceived. For example, the requirement for any board decision to appoint or dismiss the company secretary to be made at a physical board meeting rather than by written resolution and the provision that the company secretary should report to the chairman and/ or chief executive.
Many other revisions to the Code and associated Listing Rules will have implications for the company secretary's advisory and compliance functions. For example:
the board is now specified as being responsible for corporate governance and there is a new Listing Rule requiring the corporate governance policy and duties to be disclosed in the corporate governance report
there is a new main board and GEM Listing Rule requiring one-third of the board to be INEDs
the board is required to regularly review the contribution of directors and whether they are spending sufficient time on duties
expanded Listing Rule 3.08 requires directors to take an active interest in the issuer's affairs, obtain a general understanding of its business and follow up anything untoward that comes to their attention
new Code provision A.6.6 requires directors to inform the issuer of any change to their significant commitments in a timely manner, and
directors need to disclose in the corporate governance report details of how they complied with the code provision on training, which involves providing records of training they received.
The Competition Ordinance
In June last year, the Legislative Council enacted Hong Kong's new Competition Ordinance (Cap 619). Competition compliance will be a new area for most members of the profession since this is Hong Kong's first comprehensive competition law – it will apply to any company, listed or unlisted, so long as they are 'engaged in economic activity'.
The Ordinance prohibits the making or giving effect to anti-competitive agreements, concerted practices or the decisions of a [trade] association 'if the object or effect… is to prevent, restrict or distort competition in Hong Kong'. It also prohibits an undertaking with substantial market power [from] abusing such power by engaging in conduct that has as its object or effect the prevention, restriction or distortion of competition in Hong Kong.
These prohibitions are expected to come into force in late 2013 or 2014.
In his article on the new Ordinance (see pages 20–24 of this edition of CSj), Mark Williams, Professor of Law, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, urges company secretaries to take immediate action to ensure that they, and their boards, fully appreciate how these new prohibitions will affect the business of their companies.
The compliance challenge
It is too early to measure the success of the corporate governance reforms brought in last year, most of them are as yet untested. Moreover, in many cases, a fair degree of uncertainty remains as to how they will be implemented in practice.
The new PSI disclosure regime, for example, has raised a lot of concern in the market about the definition of 'inside information'. The revised Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO) does provide a definition of 'inside information' but it raises as many questions as it answers. Charles Grieve, Senior Director of Corporate Finance, SFC, pointed out in his presentation at the Institute's Annual Corporate and Regulatory Update seminar in May last year that the uncertainty surrounding this definition is not the result of vague drafting. There are limits on how precise you can be when drafting rules on complex matters of corporate regulation – 'It is going to be a judgement call', he said.
The good news for companies somewhat daunted by this uncertainty is that the SFC has issued draft guidelines (effective this month) on the implementation of the statutory PSI disclosure regime. These guidelines include a list of examples of events and circumstances which may constitute inside information. Mr Grieve warned, however, that the list is 'non- exhaustive and purely indicative'.
There are similar concerns in the market about the definition of 'anti-competitive behaviour' in the new competition ordinance. Price fixing, bid-rigging, market allocation or limiting production are fairly obviously anti-competitive, but are there routine business practices which will now be caught by the ordinance? As Professor Mark Williams points out, determining whether an adverse effect on competition has occurred in a market requires an assessment of the product or service concerned, the nature of the supply or distribution channel, the size and market share of the suppliers or customers, etc.
The new legislation and regulation brought in last year reinforces the point that regulatory compliance cannot be a routine box-ticking process – it requires considered and well-informed judgement. This, of course, is where company secretaries come in. As Edith Shih, HKCIS President, points out in this month's President's Message: 'while legislation introduced last year has certainly increased the complexity and difficulty
of company secretarial practice in Hong Kong, it has also provided a timely reminder to companies of the value such professionals bring'.
The SFC guidelines on the implementation of the statutory PSI disclosure regime became effective at the beginning of this month and are available on the SFC website (www.sfc.hk). Since December 2012, the SFC has also been providing an informal consultation service on the new disclosure requirements.
SIDEBAR: Hong Kong's governance scorecard
Company secretaries need to focus on the compliance implications of the new legislation and regulation brought in last year, but it is worth looking for a moment at the bigger picture. How effective will these new rules be? A law may start with its publication in the government Gazette, but its effectiveness is largely determined by what happens to it once it is unleashed on the market. How will it be perceived by the market? How effectively will it be implemented and enforced?
Moreover, where do these new laws and regulations place Hong Kong in the global corporate governance rankings? Global markets are increasingly compared on their corporate governance requirements – the rights of shareholders, equitable treatment of shareholders, disclosure and transparency, board responsibilities, etc – so where do we now stand in comparison with other major jurisdictions?
Over the course of 2013 and beyond, CSj will be tracking the major pieces of legislation and regulation brought in last year.
SIDEBAR: New rules: compliance homework for 2013
SIDEBAR: FATCA: the facts
Ensuring compliance with Hong Kong's changing legislation is a tough call, but these days compliance professionals also need to keep on eye on international compliance developments. Companies anywhere in the world might be subject to the requirements of global regulatory bodies, such as the World Trade Organisation and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, or to the increasing number of domestic national laws with an extraterritorial reach, such as the UK Bribery Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
There is some doubt under international law as to the legality of national states imposing jurisdiction over organisations operating outside their national borders, but this has not stopped the US and the UK in particular from imposing ever wider international jurisdiction in such areas as anti-corruption and anti-tax evasion legislation.
The latest battleground in this latter area is the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) – a new US law designed to combat tax evasion by US persons holding investments in offshore accounts. Enacted in 2010, FATCA will be subject to a phased implementation starting on 1 January 2014 and concluding in 2017. Under FATCA, US taxpayers holding financial assets that exceed certain thresholds outside the US must report those assets to the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In addition, FATCA will require foreign financial institutions to report directly to the IRS certain information about financial accounts held by US taxpayers, or by foreign entities in which US taxpayers hold a substantial ownership interest.
FATCA is highly controversial and there have been some doubts about its enforceability, particularly since it shifts the regulatory burden for anti-tax evasion onto international financial institutions. FATCA will mean that financial institutions in Hong Kong with financial accounts held by US taxpayers, or held by foreign entities with substantial US ownership, will be expected to enter into a special agreement with the IRS by 30 June 2013 under which they will be obligated to:
• undertake certain identification and due diligence procedures with respect to its account holders
• report annually to the IRS on its account holders who are US persons or foreign entities with substantial US ownership, and
• withhold and pay over to the IRS 30% of any payments of US source income, as well as gross proceeds from the sale of securities that generate US source income, made to foreign financial institutions not participating with FATCA, individual account holders failing to provide sufficient information to determine whether or not they are a US person, or foreign entity account holders failing to provide sufficient information about the identity of its substantial US owners.


I had to work on 3 big projects. Porject number one was Video production for the online trade show CADMesse for Man and Machine this project is still on going.
Project two was creating a new web side for MCD Media Consulting.The old portal remained for nearly 8 years without any improvement. It was time for a complete make over and now it is finished I hope you like the new metro style of www.MCDCAD.de. It may take a while sins Google and the other search engines have replaced the old links.
Anyway, the third one was moving CADRelations to MYSQL 5 and this got finished last week. It wasn't easy to change, but we made it, if you need assistance in such a project we can now point you to the right solutions, – just drop me a mail.


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By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff
Posted Oct 24, 2017 5:49 PM CDT
Members of the 3rd Special Forces Group Airborne 2nd Battalion leave pins and salute the casket after the burial of Army Sgt. La David Johnson at the Hollywood Memorial Gardens in Hollywood, Fla., on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. (Mike Stocker/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP)
(Newser) – A survivor of the ambush on US Special Ops forces in Niger offers new details of the Oct. 4 attack to ABC News, declaring that Sgt. La David Johnson was killed while going "above and beyond" to defend others in the group. "He died fighting for his brothers on his team," the survivor says. "He grabbed any and every weapon available to him. The guy is a true war hero." A senior US intelligence official also spoke to ABC News, raising questions about why the team had a second mission added late in the day despite a second team being unable to join them as planned. The team was originally on a reconnaissance mission to talk to local leaders, both sources say, but then a kill-or-capture objective focused on a high-value target with ties to al-Qaeda and ISIS was added on. Multiple US officials confirmed that the team was looking for a high-value target to NBC News as well.
"They should have been up and back in a day. Because they were up there so f---ing long on a mission that morphed, they were spotted, surveilled, and ultimately hit," the official who spoke to ABC says. The team of 12 Americans and 30 Nigerien soldiers was out for more than a full day and was on its way back when it was asked to turn around and find the high-value target, the sources say; that directive did not change even when a second US Special Forces team that was supposed to meet up with the original team could not. The team found nothing at the target location and was again on its way back when they stopped to eat, and a village elder who met with the US soldiers was "obviously and deliberately trying to stall them," per both sources. The team also saw two motorcycle riders watching them and then quickly leaving the village. Shortly after the team departed, they were attacked. (Read more Niger stories.)


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Human Rights Commission Charges Serious Violations, 76 Deaths in Nicaragua
Commission condemns abuses during Nicaragua protests
Modified date: May 22, 2018
MANAGUA – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on Monday condemned Nicaragua's response to weeks of protests against President Daniel Ortega, criticising a crackdown that resulted in rights abuses including torture and possibly even murder.
The IACHR charged on Monday that the material it obtained during its recent fieldwork in Nicaragua shows evidence of "grave violations of human rights" and 76 deaths during the past month of protests.
In a preliminary report of its findings, the IACHR said that since April 18, it had documented at least 76 people killed, and 868 injured, after protests broke out over discontent with a new law that raised worker and employer social security contributions while cutting benefits.
Commissioner Antonia Urrejola, Rapporteur for Nicaragua of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), speaks during a press conference in Managua, Nicaragua May 21, 2018. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas
"The IACHR gathered documentary and audiovisual evidence, and heard hundreds of testimonies that reveal grave violations of human rights during a month of protests, characterized by the excessive use of force by state security forces and armed third parties," commissioner Antonia Urrejola said regarding Nicaragua.
Urrejola said that the result of the use of force. "This resulted in dozens of deaths and hundreds of people injured, illegal and arbitrary detentions, torture, cruel inhuman and degrading treatment, censure and attacks against the press, and other forms of intimidation."
The report also said that "there could have been extrajudicial executions."
Students carry candles during a protest demanding that Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and his wife,
Nicaragua "must urgently adopt measures to guarantee the free and full rights of freedom of expression, peaceful gathering and political participation," the IACHR said, and it urged Managua to adopt 15 recommendations, including investigating human rights abuses and prosecuting those responsible for them.
The IACHR also asked that information on people treated for injuries at hospitals be systematized and all international instruments on human rights and openness to international monitoring be implemented.
Commissioner Antonia Urrejola, Rapporteur for Nicaragua of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), speaks with executive secretary Paulo Abrao during a press conference in Managua, Nicaragua May 21, 2018.REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas
The protests mark the most sustained crisis of Ortega's 11-years in power, and the IACHR's findings heighten international pressure on the former leftist guerrilla, who has delivered steady growth, despite criticism he has turned the poor Central American nation into a family dictatorship.
Nicaraguan officials are currently in talks with students and business leaders to resolve weeks of tension with the increasingly unpopular Ortega.
At the talks last week, the president was berated by students, who accused him of destroying the country.
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