This study has been a long time in the works and I am excited to invite you to be curious and watch this space. Through RMIT, and in collaboration with Professor Supriya Singh, Professor Heather Horst and Dr Greg Adamson, I am launching an ethnographic study of bitcoin use.
Bitcoin is a digital cash, exchanged through a peer-to-peer payment system, that is designed to bypass state controls and operate outside of the banking system. We are interested in whether this online currency may support financial inclusion and how its use impacts the conditions of trust, security and privacy of money.
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The preliminary study will run for three months, starting from January 2017.
The ethnography will be conducted across the environments where bitcoin use and discussion about its use are "native". This means that we will be engaging in online environments as well as attending events and meetings where cryptocurrency use, such as Bitcoin, is the primary focus.
We anticipate interviewing up to 50 people, including key community members, on their experiences of using Bitcoin. Here is the link where you can download a pdf of the plain language statement for the study here (pls-and-consent_bitcoin-study). It describes what the interviews will cover and provides the consent form.
Why are we doing this study now? This research is being conducted because there is currently limited understanding of the use of Bitcoin, and cryptocurrencies more generally, across diverse socio-cultural contexts. It is timely because alternative payment systems gain more appeal during periods of economic instability and resulting waves of political backlash from disaffected groups.
As we are based in Melbourne, Australia, we will start here, but will also attend events wherever we end up over the course of 2017. This will include other major cities in Australia, but is also likely to include major cities in the US, such as New York, London (UK), major cities in India and potentially a couple of locations Africa.
This study is currently unfunded, however if you would like to support the project, I have launched a crowdfunding campaign over at the Experiment where you can donate. This campaign will run for the month of January (2017) and I hope to gain financial support to do the data collection. From this seed funding and early findings, we will then be able to make a case for furthering this study to the global scale and scope that it deserves.


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Watain's The Wild Hunt: A Track By Track Review
Toby Cook , August 6th, 2013 06:18
Toby Cook fires up the life pipe and reclines on a chaise lounge made from human thigh bones to give you his first listen impressions of the new Watain album
When Bathory's self titled debut record was released nearly 27 years ago, surely no-one had the slightest inkling as to just what a cultural phenomenon black metal would become. The genre has eclipsed the (often inaccurate and irrelevant) stories of associated church burnings, Nazism, murders and suicides, but on top of this black metal has grown far beyond being a simple genre classification and evolved into an ethos, a musical philosophy and cultural identifier. It is no longer simply defined by intentionally shitty production, shrill guitars and a 'no bass' policy. Instead it is a means of delving into and attempting to express something greater than yourself, to express one's experiences of terrestrial environment; the sublimity of life.
There will always be a place for the likes of Mayhem and Immortal, but in the last decade a genre that many dismiss and few properly understand has produced artists as varied and unique as The Botanist, a one man project whose tracks about plants are made using a drum kit and a hammered dulcimer, and Wardruna, who feature one of black metal's true enigmas, former Gorgoroth vocalist Ghaal, and craft folksy meanders dedicated to the runes of Elder Futhark using near ancient instrumentation, some of which is genuinely loaned from museums. Then there are the various projects of Dutchman Mories de Jong – Gnaw Their Tongues and De Magia Veterum in particular – that take in everything from psychedelically twisted, vaudevillian noise horror, to impenetrably dense swathes of colossal, bristling static.
As anyone with the ability to type W, A, T, A, I, N into Wikipedia will know, Watain drew some pretty strong criticism upon the release of their debut LP in 2000, Rabid Death's Curse, including the accusation that they were "at best, content to produce intentionally crude facsimiles of inspirational forefathers ranging from Bathory to Mayhem and, at worst, unable to do anything else". In the years since its release, however, the Swedes have arguably grown into one of the most important black metal bands on the planet – thanks as much to the bloody and near-transcendental nature of their live show as much as anything else.
Whilst Watain still kill the old way, their sound has favoured gradual evolution over jarring revolution. And although the twin shadows of Bathory and Mayhem still loomed large over 2010's Lawless Darkness, a decidedly un-black metal atmosphere bled through the album, with tracks like the 15 minute closer 'Waters Of Ain' showing off a band that were equally, if not more concerned with progressive song riting as their peers were with total sonic destruction. Three years in the making, then, The Wild Hunt is perhaps the most eagerly anticipated extreme metal album of 2013. So, what can we expect...?
'Night Visions'
This is far from the near-instant explosion of 'Death's Cold Dark' that opened previous LP Lawless Darkness. 'Night Visions' is a far more considered affair, more of an instrumental tone-setter that, as it unfurls, seems to suggest that what you are about to experience is more than just a mere collection of songs – it's an incantation that summons open the gateway to Watain's world and beckons you to journey inside. It's epic yet brooding, as first decidedly mournful and bleak guitar picking bursts into tidal swells of noise which sweep and pulsate, conjuring the sort of cyclonic atmosphere one presumably senses when approaching the Black Gate of Mordor.
'De Profundis'
…And then all hell breaks loose. There is a sudden, apocalyptic explosion which heralds the violent decent into classic Watain territory. It's searing, sulphurous chaos; a dirge of conflagrant guitars, cataclysmic drum rolls and the throat-shredding eruption of Erik Danielsson's vocals. Like some sort of flash flood of white hot lava, there is a pivotal, wailing, Slayer-esque mid-song guitar solo, whilst the relentless pace and dense, impenetrable production give it a furious directness and rigidity. There's a burning sense of ordered chaos as Erik "screams forth the rebel yell" and introduces us to the themes of the outlaw that are key in the album's narrative. And then, as abruptly as it started, it stops, the distant rumbles of thunder sounding like the death groans of some sort of Hadean colossus.
'Black Flames March'
When speaking to Metal Hammer, Danielsson commented that 'Black Flames March' is perhaps the most classically Watain-sounding track on the album, and with the opening thunder of drums and shrill gale of guitars collapsing into taut, stabbing rhythms, you can certainly see where he's coming from. And yet this still feels more like a further evolution of their sound than a mere refinement. More staccato guitars follow, punctuating Erik's blood-curdling caterwauls, which are so cloaked in reverb they sound as if they're emanating from the very bottom of the deepest pit in the most remote caves of hell. Then shrill squalls of guitar again take over and things lurch into almost marching band pace – classic, righteous and supremely confident.
'All That May Bleed'
The album's first single – although perhaps not the most obvious choice – and as it opens with a chugging crunch of phased guitars you know that this is going to be yet another modest yet manifest departure from narrow realms of pure, old school black metal. It germinates initially from a maniacally escalating progression that brings to mind early Emperor, yet stripped of all symphonic tendencies. The build never abates, becoming only ever more intense. It is a calculated, deeply unsettling, purposefully unfulfilled climb that ratchets continually up, like the slow, sadistically pleasurable twists of the garrote forever delaying the gratification that can only come with the release of death… There is also the surprising inclusion of a mid-song power metal solo which sounds like a twisted take on the solo from The Smiths' 'Shoplifters Of The World Unite'.
'The Child Must Die'
Sinking almost into the same realm of melodic death metal populated by the likes of Dissection – which is hardly surprising given their shared history – this mid-paced stomp, although never increasing in velocity, somehow by sheer relentlessness alone is arguably one of the album's heaviest and darkest tracks. The heaviness comes from the music. One would hope the title is purely metaphorical, of course. And yet closer inspections of the lyrical content does illustrate the depth of the Watain belief system – as Danielsson growls, "the fear of change is the fear of death". Perhaps we're all the "children of fire", and death is the last great adventure; the 'child' in all of us must die in order for us to be truly free and ascend to something greater than our mere mortal selves? Regardless, with unexpected bass solo interludes and the most deep-set groove of any track on the album, this is one of those Watain tracks that is destined to gnaw away at you for a long, long time.
'They Rode On'
Think you know Watain? Think again. Warm, rich and almost soft rock open chords usher in, for the first time, clean sung and surprisingly textured, deeply emotive vocals from Danielsson. Then the epic-o-meter gets turned up to eleven, and things proceed into the sort of territory that makes you yearn for Nick Cave and Warren Ellis to re-imagine their soundtrack to The Proposition as a rock concept album. While the fleeting moments of departure form the core Watain sound have so far still been rooted in the blackened death metal ground, there is absolutely no way in hell you could call this black metal in anything other than spirit. Apparently inspired by Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, Danielsson croons: "Out of the dark / Into the light / The dawn of terrestrial birth", and the instrumentation becomes increasingly melancholic, largely due to the increased presence of multiple acoustic guitar tracks. It calls to mind Alejandro Jodorowsky's disturbing surrealist western El Topo, and raises questions about faith and existence itself. Epic, stunning and the most potent expression of why Watain are currently the most important black metal band in the world.
'Sleepless Evil'
Don't get too comfortable… Blastbeats and stuttering guitar chugs herald the return of Danielsson's sulphurous vocal attack to the fore. From the warmth to the icy cold; jagged, angular conflicting guitar lines fill every inch of the air itself, before it stops dead and in creeps a lone, chapel-haunting piano, awash with layers of reverb, bringing you back from the edge only to morph once more into caustic and violently chaotic percussive stabs. From opaque melancholy to punishingly direct, doomy and agitated guitar leads, this serves as the storm after the calm. Except it's the sort of storm that flays the flesh from your bones and fires icy needles directly into what remains of your cerebellum.
'The Wild Hunt'
Over the years, one thing that has increasingly marked out Watain albums is the band's unique ability to imbue their sound with musical influences drawn from outside of metal. The Wild Hunt does this more masterfully than any previous album, and it's perhaps fitting that the title track is one of the most subtle yet perfectly realised examples of this ability. Beginning with the sort of mid-paced melancholy that could almost be described as post-metal (owing to its faintly Neurosis-esque lurch), it soon withers into low, monastic chanting before rising again into what sounds like a deranged Pink Floyd playing alt. country with epic solos. Then it finally unfurls into anthemic, fist pumping classic metal with clean vocals. Built around an impenetrable citadel of contrasting multiple guitar lines – including more low-mixed acoustic excursions and a limber Spanish guitar refrain at its close – it's bleak, baleful and more than a little Bathory.
'Outlaw'
'Outlaw' continues the theme of the rebel and the outlaw that casts a shadow over The Wild Hunt. We're still very much on the peripheries of standard Watain territory here, as proceedings erupt in a slew of punching, minimal drum work and squealing, harmonic-filled guitar lines and what sounds like the thuggee cult from Temple Of Doom chanting ceaselessly as your body is lowered into a flaming pit of hell. This sensation persists, despite the caterwauling, wah-wah heavy mid-song solo offering some semblance of order. Even by the standards set out so far through The Wild Hunt, here the band take a journey deep into the disorientating depths, with its stuttering guitars becoming utterly twisted by the song's close, which seamlessly provides the intro to…
'Ignem Veni Mittere'
The album's second instrumental track, lone guitar picking that sounds like the lost score to a banned psychological horror movie bleeds into more Nick Cave/Warren Ellis-ish widescreen Southern gothic chord progressions, before rupturing into Chthonian grandeur. There is a truly rich, deeply soulful and utterly anthemic guitar solo which glides over proceedings and makes you want to raise your lighter… Until all light is sucked from proceedings by lightning bolt cracks of cymbal and thunderous drum pummels that usher in repetitive guitar chuggery and eerie, Burzum-like lead guitar refrains. Naturally, the whole thing is eventually swallowed by a gaping maw of endless static.
'Holocaust Dawn'
Closing what is, by some distance, the most ambitious and fully realised Watain album to date, this classic-sounding track soon morphs into a downtempo, waltz-time dirge, as blunt hammer blows of guitar rain down. There is an almost-percussive vocal delivery from Danielsson, again displaying just what a cultured vocalist he has grown into, and again hinting at their willingness not to be constrained by accepted genre practices. Later this groundwork almost completely evaporates, to be replaced by vaguely Eastern sounding guitar lines and string augmentation. It features tense, almost-agitated and strained strings that nod to the John Cage 'treated' model, all squeals, squeaks and dissonant howls. And then things change yet again, as the whole thing fractures completely and explodes in a blast of caustic, abrasive black metal – all kickdrum blasts, searching, shrill guitars and vocals that sound like ancient howls emanating from inhospitable and remote forests.
In a genre defined by extremes, yet that is producing some of the most diverse and inventive music around, the glory of Watain – although obvious by the time of previous album Lawless Darkness – is shown in full, transcendent majesty here, and throughout the entire album. If the question is, 'how do you stay true to black metal and yet fill arenas?', then The Wild Hunt is the answer.
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Coal production in the Middle East in oil equivalent 1998-2018
Published by M. Garside, Jun 25, 2019
This statistic shows the coal production in the Middle East between 1998 and 2018. In 2018, this region's coal production came to approximately 700,000 metric tons of oil equivalent. According to the source, the data only include solid fuels, i.e. bituminous coal and anthracite (hard coal), and lignite and brown (sub-bituminous) coal.
Coal production in the Middle East from 1998 to 2018 (in million metric tons of oil equivalent)
Production in million metric tons of oil equivalent
Includes commercial solid fuels only, i.e. bituminous coal and anthracite (hard coal), lignite and brown (sub-bituminous) coal, and other commercial solid fuels. Includes coal produced for coal-to-liquids and coal-to-gas transformations.
This statistic was assembled using several editions of the report.
Employment in coal mining industry in the United Kingdom (UK) 1920-2018
Coal price per metric ton for power producers in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013-2019
Deep and surface mining coal production in the United Kingdom (UK) 1970-2018
Coal mining trade in the United Kingdom (UK) 1970-2018
Statistics on "Coal industry in the United Kingdom"
Surface mined coal production in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018, by month
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UK coal consumption - in oil equivalent 1998-2018
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Industry consumption of coal in the United Kingdom (UK) 2015-2018
Coal net imports in the United Kingdom (UK) 2013-2019, by month
Steam coal imports to the United Kingdom (UK) 2002-2018, by country
Coking coal imports to the United Kingdom (UK) 2002-2018, by country
Anthracite coal imports to the United Kingdom (UK) 2008-2018, by country
Number of enterprises in the UK coal & lignite mining industry 2019, by turnover
Number of enterprises in the UK coal and lignite mining sector, by employment 2019
Local enterprise units in the UK mining of coal & lignite industry, by size 2019
Local enterprise units in the UK coke manufacturing sector 2019, by employees
Creditors' voluntary liquidations in the refined petroleum sector UK 2012-2019
Price of fuels for major power producers in the United Kingdom (UK) 2012-2018
Price of coal per tonne: manufacturing industry in the United Kingdom (UK) 2010-2018
Prices of fossil fuels: manufacturing industry in the United Kingdom (UK) 2018
GHG emissions from coal and lignite mining in the United Kingdom (UK) 1990-2017
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Methane emissions from coal and lignite mining in the UK from 1990-2017
PM2.5 emissions from coal and lignite mining in the United Kingdom (UK) 1990-2017
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SO2 emissions from the production of electricity from coal in the UK 1990-2017
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Penderyn reveals location of second distillery
By Sonya Hook
| 30 September, 2019
Penderyn has revealed the location of its second distillery and visitor centre with the promise of a third distillery in the near future.
The whisky producer's second site will be in the Old Board School, latterly a council office, in Llandudno and it will open in 2021.
The announcement follows an offer of funding support from the Welsh Government. The proposed development will be the Welsh Whisky Company's first expansion from its site in Penderyn, in the Brecon Beacons, and subject to planning permission, the £5 million project will see the new development opening in Llandudno by 2021.
A third distillery for Penderyn is planned for Swansea, and is set to open in 2022/23.
Stephen Davies, chief executive of Penderyn Distillery, said: "The confirmation of Welsh Government support is a major step towards achieving our plans for a brand new distillery and visitor centre in Llandudno. We believe the distillery will allow us to introduce unique and innovative single malt whiskies, distilled in North Wales, as well as providing an attraction that will complement the already vibrant and diverse tourism scene in north Wales, and contribute towards extending the visitor season further.
"With our funding package now in place, we will be developing our proposals further over the coming months and engaging with stakeholders and the local community as we prepare our planning application."
The development has been offered £1.4 million from the Tourism Investment Support Scheme and Food Business Investment Scheme.
Penderyn gets go-ahead for distillery in Swansea
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SA youth support government's decision to ban captive lion breeding
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This is an excerpt from an article written by Karen Singh and published online by IOL on 16 June, 2021
DURBAN: South African youth from the Youth For Lions campaign have voiced their support for the decision made by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment (DFFE), to put an end to captive lion breeding in the country.
Minister Barbara Creecy made the announcement to ban breeding lions in captivity for hunting last month.
This comes after the findings of the High-Level Panel (HLP) report, which recommended that South Africa should no longer breed captive lions, keep lions in captivity, or use captive lions or their derivatives commercially.
The aim of the Youth For Lions campaign, which is a is a sub-campaign of Blood Lions, is to educate the world's youth about how cub petting, walking with predators and volunteering at predator farms is enabling and contributing to the wider captive predator breeding industry in South Africa.
Campaign co-ordinator Cath Jakins said the minister and the government were listening now more than ever before to the public discourse around these issues.
"We have been lobbying the government to make changes to their policies for years, so now that they have started listening and responding with positive action, we need to take the opportunity to thank them.
"We need them to know that this decision, as contentious as it may seem, is an extremely positive step in the right direction," she said.


PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul. 14, 2015-- Green Dot Corporation (NYSE:GDOT) today announced the official opening of Green Dot Shanghai Software Technology Co. Ltd. "Green Dot Shanghai" is a new wholly-owned subsidiary of Green Dot Corporation that is located in the Zhangjiang Hi Technology Park in the Pudong district of Shanghai. The 24,000 square foot facility will employ Shanghai's finest technology leaders and engineers with the goal of further increasing Green Dot's ability to quickly, expertly and efficiently bring cutting-edge technology solutions to Green Dot's large-scale branchless banking platform in the United States.
Green Dot's presence in Shanghai, which is both a global financial hub and China's biggest city, is part of Green Dot's long-term strategy to invest in infrastructural excellence and efficiency as a competitive advantage and a way to achieve greater levels of productivity and margin expansion, leading to increasing shareholder value over time.
"We believe that the future of financial services belongs to those institutions that are tech-centric in their vision and tech-savvy in how they execute that vision. Green Dot is a financial technology innovator and the opening of our new software development center in China is intended to further power our ability to efficiently create cool products that solve important problems," said Kuan Archer, Chief Operating Officer of Green Dot Corporation and Executive Director of Green Dot Shanghai.
Green Dot Shanghai is designed to integrate seamlessly into Green Dot's multi-site domestic technology presence where technology facilities in Florida, northern and southern California and, now, Shanghai use a "follow the sun" strategy to deliver high-scale, high-quality and efficient technology work product around the clock.


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Health — May 29, 2019
New study asks: Should we replace mental health meds with exercise?
We know exercise is necessary, but this research takes it to another level.
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Jockey Wendy Peel trains in the gym with personal trainer Trent Langlands as she continues preparations for her return to racing on May 20, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.
Researchers at the University of Vermont believe exercise should be prescribed to patients with mental health issues before psychiatric drugs.
In a study of roughly a hundred volunteers, 95 percent of patients reported feeling better, while 63 percent reported feeling happy or very happy.
The researchers suggest that mental health facilities should be built with gyms moving forward.
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Exercise has long been prescribed as part of a healthy lifestyle — an important directive, considering that 80 percent of Americans are insufficiently active. Previous research has shown that lifting weights helps lift depression, cardiovascular activities reduce the effects of anxiety, and any type of movement improves mental health.
A new study at the University of Vermont Medical Center published in the journal Global Advances in Health and Medicine takes that last claim one step further: Exercise should be prescribed to patients with mental health issues before psychiatric drugs.
This research follows a growing acknowledgment of the chronic problems associated with SSRIs and other pharmacological interventions. The efficacy of antidepressants diminishes over time, leaving patients hooked as they suffer more side effects than benefits. As Jerome Groopman recently reported in The New Yorker, the field of psychiatry has long offered contentious treatments because we do not have a biology for mental illness. Mental health scripts are guesswork, more of an art than science.
For this study, lead author David Tomasi, a psychotherapist and lecturer at the University of Vermont, alongside the center's Sheri Gates and Emily Reyns, built a gym for the hundred-or-so members of the inpatient psychiatry unit. Tomasi says that most patients in the U.S. are first treated with medications, with exercise-based treatments offered in either a limited capacity or not at all. The center is the first to prescribe exercise as the first form of treatment.
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The results were stunning. After leading the patients in structured exercises — each 60-minute session included a combination of strength training, flexibility training, and cardio — 95 percent of patients reported feeling better, while 63 percent reported feeling happy or very happy instead of sad, very sad, or neutral. A whopping 91.8 percent said they were pleased with their bodies during the sessions. Tomasi continues,
The general attitude of medicine is that you treat the primary problem first, and exercise was never considered to be a life or death treatment option. Now that we know it's so effective, it can become as fundamental as pharmacological intervention.
Blame, in large part, Cartesian dualism. The mind-body split has destroyed our understanding of our inherent animal nature. The notion that there's an ethereal process inside the biological workings of our bodies — the ambiguous "soul" — has resulted in a severe disassociation between physical movement and psychology. We've come to believe we can treat the brain separately from the body.
Humans were designed to move. Bipedalism offers us serious advantages in lung capacity and communication systems. Humans are generally weak and slow for mammals, but the combination of mental ingenuity and physical dexterity gave us a competitive advantage, one we've exploited so effectively that, thanks to our technology, we now bow to the cult of the mind while abandoning the reality of our bodies. Yet we're paying the price for our conveniences.
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As we enter a world dominated by AR and VR, in which e-sports players actually consider themselves athletes, this disconnection deepens. As Robert McFarlane writes in Landmarks, the removal of nature-based words from our dictionaries to make room for terms associated with technology is another nail in the coffin of our relationship with nature. When we have a richer vocabulary for items on a screen than for what we see when we lift our gaze, we lose a sense of what formed the very essence of who we are.
A man does pull-ups exercises at a beach on the Philippine island of Boracay on October 25, 2018.Photo by Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images
From escaping predators and chasing prey to squatting for foraging and for the dexterous engagement required to build shelter, our physiological plate was full for eons. Now, we've constructed a world in which most of the population survives by performing minimal physical activity. To believe this would not have profound consequences on our mental health is to be ignorant of the journey that brought us here.
No one involved in the study is suggesting abandoning psychotropic medications — yet. For the time being, the team suggests integrating gyms into psychiatric facilities to conduct more real-world testing. As Tomasi concludes,
The priority is to provide more natural strategies for the treatment of mood disorders, depression and anxiety. In practice, we hope that every psychiatric facility will include integrative therapies — in our case, exercise in particular — as the primary resource for their patients' psycho-physical wellbeing.
This isn't a fusion of mind and body, but a recognition that "mind" needs "body" in order to thrive. A sedentary existence does not ultimately provide meaning. Humans need to own every aspect of our birthright. That a prescription as simple as "move" could alleviate a range of mental health issues is not simplistic, even if it is simple. Of course, its efficacy can only be measured through movement, which is what nature demands of us.
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A student at an Arkansas school on Monday shot a fellow student in an apparent "premeditated attack," according to school officials.
The 14-year-old allegedly opened fire at a school in Prescott, a city roughly 90 miles southwest of Little Rock. The Prescott School District wrote on Facebook that the student "brought a concealed handgun to campus and shot another District student."
The school "went into immediate lockdown" and the student was "apprehended by law enforcement," officials said, adding: "It appears this was a premediated attack specifically targeting the injured student."
The student who was injured in the shooting was airlifted to Arkansas Children's Hospital and was hospitalized in stable condition, Prescott Police Chief Joseph Beavers told The Associated Press. He declined to release any more information on the alleged shooter and victim, including their names and whether they were male or female.
Local police were called around 9:15 a.m. about the incident at the school, but school resource officers on campus at the time were able to contain the incident "in a matter of seconds," Beavers said.
"The safety of our students is our number one priority," the school district wrote online. "We are in the business of educating students and an incident like this is heartbreaking."


The night of his discovery, Tooth ran naked as an aphid on a rose bush through our neighborhood. "It's in the water! It's in the water!" he shouted, finally giving it a rest at our mailboxes. "We're percolated, Dunc!" Tooth said as the Krupschanks and Stones gathered around and Virginia Millbauer offered Tooth her robe.
The conversation carries on while Sue slips headphones over her ears and resumes typing Jim's endless dictation. As crazy as Jim drives her, she's half partial to him. Truth is, if Sue left, Jim would retire. She knows it. He does too, but won't admit it. The man's just shy of helpless. He's a fine trial lawyer. Tried over a hundred cases in his time, but the world is changing, and old dogs don't always follow smoothly.
Your brain can only be Oxygen deprived for so long. I felt like those helpless victims in Jaws. What would be worse? Getting ripped apart by that giant sea monster or not being able to get to the surface for a breath? One time in high school a jock had cold-cocked me upside the head for calling his sister a tramp. Afterwards I couldn't stand straight or stop the ringing in my ears. This was no different, although that was a smidge more enjoyable.
With matching beards and weight, Fisherman and mom had a special tag-team wrestling clown act. She died. He's been reduced in stature to a common roustabout. Once a star; he's no longer billed as The Mad Greek Fisherman.
Within minutes, I discovered the artifact. It was a pistol, mostly intact I assumed. Tarnish and rust flourished upon the graymetal. I held it close to me like a newborn babe whilst scanning the area with my widened eyes. My heart pounded in my chest, awaiting the wayward voice shouting to disarm myself at once; to seize their rightful property from my wavering hands.
Ma Lieberman had been a turning point, not only for the Jew Strangler project, but for Rivka's mother too. They'd never met, except through Rivka's anecdotes about one mother to another. Now Rivka's mother speaks to Rivka again. She serves Rivka's dinners hot. They eat together. They discuss the Liebermans.
One can't spend all day gazing up at the living, just as one can't spend every living day pondering death. So we walk and talk. We share the stories of our lives. We develop friendships. We again pretend that we have infinite time.


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Norwegian diplomat appointed UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process
'I am pleased that the UN Secretary-General has given one of our most experienced diplomats, Tor Wennesland, the task of leading and coordinating UN efforts relating to the peace process between the Israelis and the Palestinians,' said Minister of Foreign Affairs Ine Eriksen Søreide.
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The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has been high on the agenda of both the UN General Assembly and the Security Council since the state of Israel was established in 1948. One of the key tasks of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process is to brief the Security Council. The special coordinator is the personal representative of the UN Secretary-General António Guterres to the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), and the Secretary-General's envoy in the Middle East Quartet.
Mr Wennesland will be based at the Office of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) in Jerusalem. UNSCO also has offices in Ramallah and Gaza.
'With his many years of experience from the region and his extensive contact network, Mr Wennesland is in a good position to make a valuable contribution to the global community's efforts to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict. I look forward to continuing our excellent cooperation with him when Norway becomes a member of the UN Security Council on 1 January,' said Ms Eriksen Søreide.
Tor Wennesland is Norway's Special Representative to the Middle East Peace Process, including the responsibility for Norway's chairmanship of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) for Palestine. He has extensive experience from the Middle East going back to 1994 when he was advisor on the Middle East Desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the process leading to the Oslo II Agreement. He worked for Quartet Representative Tony Blair in 2006-2007. Mr Wennesland was Norway's Representative to the Palestinian Authority from 2007-2011 and Norway's Ambassador to Egypt and Libya from 2012-2015. From 1993-1995 Mr Wennesland was the Secretary General of the European Movement of Norway.
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World War Two vets prepare for "Honor Flight"
July 31, 2009 By Dar Danielson
A delegation of World War Two veterans from central Iowa will take part in the latest in a series of so-called Honor Flights to Washington D.C. early next month. Jeff Ballenger, of Omaha, is coordinating the one-day chartered trip for 350 central Iowa veterans.
"We'll be flying out of Des Moines on August 11th, bright and early in the morning," Ballenger says. "The day before that, we'll be having a pre-flight dinner where there'll be a chance for the World War Two veterans to get together for some entertainment — some music and some good food."
Ballenger says the purpose of the Honor Flight is to allow these veterans to see the memorial dedicated to them in the nation's capitol. Besides the World War Two Memorial, they'll see the Iwo Jima Monument, the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as well as the Korean and Vietnam memorials and Arlington Cemetery.
The Des Moines-based grocery chain Hy-Vee donated more than $250,000 to make the flight possible. While a few previous Honor Flights have taken veterans from western Iowa to Washington D.C., Ballenger says this flight is the first one originating in central Iowa.
"It should've been done many years before," Ballenger says, "but you know what? The memorial has been built and now I think we owe it to these veterans for them to have an opportunity to see it. We're losing 1,100 World War Two veterans a day in this country, so time is running out." Ballenger said there is a possibility for yet another Honor Flight from Iowa later this year.
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 Dennis' Twist est un groupe de musique français
 Derek N. Twist (1905-1979), monteur, réalisateur, scénariste et producteur anglais.
 Jack Twist est un personnage d'une nouvelle d'Annie Proulx et d'un film d'Ang Lee
 John Twist (1898-1976), scénariste américain.
  est un personnage du romancier Charles Dickens.
 Tony Twist est un ancien joueur de hockey sur glace canadien.

Musique
 Twist est un genre musical et une danse, dérivé du rock'n'roll.
 The Twist est une chanson rendue populaire par Chubby Checker. La chanson a lancé la mode du twist en 1960.
 Twist est un album du groupe français Au bonheur des dames.
 Twist and Shout est un standard du rock et du rhythm and blues, qui fut notamment interprété par les Isley Brothers et par les Beatles.
 A Twist in the Myth est un album du groupe de metal Blind Guardian.
 Twist est un album de Dick Annegarn paru en 2016.

Titres
 un Twist est un retournement de situation d'un film ou d'une œuvre.
 Twist final, une technique cinématographique.
 Les Twist est une série télévisée australienne.
 Twist again à Moscou est un film français de Jean-Marie Poiré sorti en 1986.
 Twist est un film canadien de Jacob Tierney sorti en 2003.
 Twist à Bamako est un film français de Robert Guédiguian sorti en 2022.
 , roman de Charles Dickens (1839) ayant connu de nombreuses adaptations.
 Twist est un projet de comic de Joss Whedon.
 Twist est une émission culturelle de la chaîne de télévision Arte.

Divers
 Twist est une municipalité allemande de Basse-Saxe.
 Twist est une attraction de type manège.
 Twist-lock est une pièce de métal servant à unir deux conteneurs.
 Lorsque l'on demande un Twist dans un café, on se voit servir un demi-citron (bière et sirop de citron).
 Les renversements de situation et le retournement final sont nommés twist, plot twist ou ending twist en anglais, expressions parfois réutilisées dans le contexte francophone.

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Review: 'The Nap' at Manhattan Theatre Club
The cast of 'The Nap' at Manhattan Theatre Club. (Photo: Joan Marcus)
By Matthew Wexler
It's not as sleepy as the title suggests, but neither is The Nap more than a mildly entertaining romp through the world of snooker — Great Britain's version of pool.
The name refers to the vertical lay of the green baize that covers the table's surface, which we observe in the play's final sequences thanks to an overhead video feed that broadcasts a championship match between a rising-star player Dylan Spokes (Ben Schnetzer) and Baghawi Quereshi (real-life U.S. National Snooker Champion Ahmed Aly Elsayed). Plenty of oddball characters and plot twists emerge before those final shots land, but the payoff isn't nearly as substantial as that won by Dylan's sponsor, a transgender racketeer named Waxy Bush (Alexandra Billings).
Waxy's pockets run deep, and cohorts appear that are ultimately not who they say they are. Dylan's estranged parents (John Ellison Conlee and Johanna Day) also find themselves wrapped up in the action as the young player falls for the play's obligatory love interest Eleanor (Heather Lind). If this all sounds ambiguously uninteresting… well, that may be snooker for you. A lot of effort has been made to energize the snooker championship climax, but even with Mr. Elsayed's cameo, the table action lacks high stakes and momentum. Dylan and Eleanor's quickly-escalating romance also feels like a forced conclusion.
Playwright Richard Bean (One Man, Two Guvnors) flip-flops between naturalism and farce resulting in stylistic inconsistencies that trickle down like a dull British rain. Still, Director Daniel Sullivan manages to polish it all into a well-positioned cue ball with the actors potting most of their shots (esoteric snooker reference noted). He's helped by David Rockwell's Russian-doll-style nesting sets, which seamlessly transform from a British Legion snooker room to a hotel to Waxy's garishly appointed country house and finally, the World Snooker Championship.
Ms. Billings earned most of the big laughs at the performance I attended, delivering a sharp, bigger-than-life performance peppered with malapropisms. ("If God gives you only lemons, make some marmalade.") Fleeting British dialect notwithstanding, I hope the New York theater scene can once again lure her back from Los Angeles.
British papers considered the play "outrageously funny" and "ingenious" when it premiered at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre in 2016, but it feels like an awkward choice to launch Manhattan Theatre Club's 2018-19 season. The Nap delivers quirky performances and laugh-out-loud one-liners, but I'll unlikely be breaking out a cue stick to have my hand at snooker anytime soon.
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Susan è una serie televisiva statunitense andata in onda sulla NBC dal 1996 al 2000, con protagonista l'attrice Brooke Shields.

In Italia la serie è stata trasmessa nel maggio del 1999 su Rai 3 ed in seguito su Rai 2.

Trama
La serie è ambientata a San Francisco nella redazione della fittizia rivista The Gate, dove vengono raccontate le vicende di Susan Keane e dei suoi colleghi. La serie comincia quando Susan abbandona sull'altare il ricco fidanzato Kip Richmond; da quel momento inizia per lei una nuova vita da nubile. Susan dovrà affrontare quotidianamente le vicende della redazione in cui lavora, comandata da Jack Richmond, ribelle fratello dell'ex fidanzato, che ironicamente le affida una rubrica sull'essere «improvvisamente single». Gli altri colleghi e amici di Susan sono il fotografo Luis Rivera (Nestor Carbonell), il critico musicale Todd Stites (David Strickland), la critica gastronomica Vicki Groener (Kathy Griffin) e la giornalista investigativa Maddy Piper (Andrea Bendewald). Susan trova conforto a fine giornata grazie alla confidenza e alla complicità di sua nonna Nana (Barbara Barrie).

Personaggi e interpreti
 Susan Keane (stagioni 1 – 4), interpretata da Brooke Shields.
 Luis Rivera (stagioni 1 – 4), interpretato da Nestor Carbonell.
 Vicki Groener (stagioni 1 – 4), interpretata da Kathy Griffin.
 Helen "Nana" Keane (stagioni 1 – 4), interpretata da Barbara Barrie.
 Jack Richmond (stagioni 1 – 3), interpretato da Judd Nelson.
 Todd Styles (stagioni 1 – 3), interpretato da David Strickland.
 Maddy Piper (stagioni 2 – 3), interpretata da Andrea Bendewald.
 Miranda Charles (stagione 4), interpretata da Sherri Shepherd.
 Ian Maxtone-Graham (stagione 4), interpretato da Eric Idle.
 Nate Knaborski (stagione 4), interpretato da Currie Graham.
 Oliver Browne (stagione 4), interpretato da Rob Estes.

Episodi

Produzione
L'episodio pilota della serie fu scritto da Billy Van Zandt e Jane Milmore, basandosi su una sceneggiatura drammatica di Clyde Phillips. La protagonista, Brooke Shields, recitava al fianco di attori che in seguito furono tutti sostituiti, Nancy Marchand interpretava sua nonna Nana, mentre i suoi amici e colleghi erano interpretati da Maggie Wheeler e David Krumholtz.

Il 22 marzo 1999 l'attore David Strickland, che nella serie interpretava Todd, si tolse la vita. La morte di Strickland fu inserita nel finale della terza stagione trasformandola in un tributo al personaggio da lui interpretato. L'episodio racconta della scomparsa di Todd e della frenetica ricerca di Susan per trovarlo; durante l'episodio si scoprono diverse buone azioni che Todd aveva fatto per il suo quartiere, di cui Susan era ignara. Dopo che ogni personaggio racconta le proprie esperienze personali avute con Todd, l'episodio si conclude con l'intero cast che si tiene per mano in cerchio sulle note di Praise You di Fatboy Slim. L'episodio termina con una clip con varie immagini di Strickland con la scritta "The Gods of comedy looked down upon you and smiled" (gli dei della commedia guardano giù e sorridono).

A partire dalla quarta stagione Andrea Bendewald e Judd Nelson lasciano la serie, che viene notevolmente rinnovata con l'introduzione di nuovi personaggi: Eric Idle è Ian Maxtone-Graham, nuovo proprietario della rivista. Ian portò con sé uno nuovo gruppo di lavoro, che comprendeva l'assistente Miranda Charles (Sherri Shepherd) il giornalista sportivo Nate Knaborski (Currie Graham) e il fotografo indipendente Oliver Browne (Rob Estes).
La quarta stagione segna la fine della sitcom, che termina nel dicembre del 2000.

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Dougall won this lovely rosette by entering the Rodents with Attitude Piggy of the Month (POTM) competition. The theme for July was Bad Hair Day, and Mummy entered a picture she took of him when he'd had all his hair cut off! As you can see, his hair is growing back very fast!
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July 5, 2018 • By From the College
UnitedHealthcare (UHC) recently proposed two policy changes that would have a negative impact on reimbursement for consultation services and evaluation and management (E/M) services when billed with modifier 25. The effective date for both of these proposed changes is Oct. 1, 2018.
Under the proposed consultation codes policy, UHC would end reimbursement for Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes 99241–99245 and 99251–99255. UHC announced a similar plan last year, but ultimately rescinded the policy after receiving outcry from a number of physician groups. As the ACR argued last year, the decision to end reimbursement for consultation services is misguided and would have a negative impact on physicians, especially the rheumatology community. Rheumatologists are often asked to provide consultations addressing patients' most challenging and complex medical problems. This requires not only specialized experience and expertise, but also a significant amount of work, beyond that which is required for a new patient visit, and should therefore be appropriately reimbursed.
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A second policy change would reduce reimbursement for E/M services by 25% when billed with modifier 25. This plan is similar to a policy that was announced then rescinded by Anthem earlier this year. The ACR strongly opposes this change and believes that providers should be reimbursed appropriately and in accordance with the CPT coding guidelines when performing significant, separately identifiable and medically necessary E/M services on the same day as a procedure.
The ACR is engaging UHC directly and also coordinating with other specialty societies to voice opposition to these policies. For questions or more information, contact practice@rheumatology.org.
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The United States was founded on immigration and it was also founded on the rule of law. Congressman Scalise wants to secure the United States' borders with stronger security, including a border wall, and supports the Administration's purposeful enforcement of existing laws.
Legal immigration has and always will be an integral part of our national identity. However, our legal immigration processes must be respected and followed. Congressman Scalise is opposed to giving amnesty to the millions of illegal immigrants currently living in our country. He does not want to reward those who have committed a crime. Amnesty programs will only encourage more illegal aliens to cross our borders and drain our nation's resources. In 1986, the federal government granted amnesty to illegal immigrants, and millions more illegal immigrants have crossed our borders since. Amnesty failed then, and it will fail now.
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Milena Kon
Milena started off in graphic design and direct sales before realizing that she wanted to do more with animals. So, she went into grooming in 2013. She is now the owner of Driving Me Knots (Mobile Grooming), DMK Bowtique (Pet Accessories), and DMK Marketing Solutions (Custom Graphic Designs). She started competing in Extreme Creative Styling & Creative Abstract grooming contests in 2015, and won Up-and-Coming Creative Groomer that same year. Her creative work has also been seen on "The Greatest Showman" with Hugh Jackman and "Orange is the New Black" on Netflix. She was awarded the Barkleigh Honors Creative Groomer of the Year in 2018.
Jessica Adorno
Jessica Adorno is the owner/founder of Pupparazzi Pets Mobile Pet Grooming. She has been involved in the grooming industry for 15 years with both knowledge of grooming salon and mobile pet grooming. Jessica was formally trained at American Academy of Dog Grooming located in NYC. She is CPR certified and has extensive knowledge in skin and coat conditions. Jessica is no stranger to this business and her work reflects just that. At the start of her career, Jessica worked in a grooming salon for 4 years where she gathered knowledge of several breeds and the complexities that groomers, pet owners, and pups face. In 2007, Pupparazzi Pets was born as Jessica started one of the first mobile pet grooming businesses in Bronx, NY. She first started her business in a horse trailer with little knowledge in running a mobile business. Brick by brick Jessica gained the knowledge and with time she went from running a small simple trailer to three elite mobile vans. Throughout the years, she has continued her education and is dedicated to her craft.
Chris Anthony, weary from her travails in retail management and office work, found her calling when she discovered pet grooming. Her near fifteen year journey in this career has led her through many opportunities, experiences & life lessons, including grooming and managing in both small and corporate salons, and starting her own successful house call grooming business in New Jersey. Supplementing those life lessons by educating herself on the varying aspects of her career, she always sought out innovations in pet care, education, grooming techniques, tools and products. Now her passion for grooming & education has added more in depth knowledge on scissors, scissoring techniques and ergonomics to help preserve her own health and longevity in her chosen profession.
Khris Berry
Khris Berry has been involved in the Pet Services industry since the early 1990's. She has owned grooming shops, boarding kennels, and obedience training schools and is a Certified AKC Canine Good Citizen Evaluator. She is the co-founder of See Spot Grooming & Daycare which currently operates 3 locations in 2 states. Her vision has led her to create a Groomer - centric company which provides education, a positive work atmosphere, and benefits for all Spots. She owns and competes in a variety of events with Wirehaired Vizslas including dock diving and obedience.
Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins, ICMG
Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins, ICMG, is the owner and Master Groomer at Love Fur Dogs in Glencoe, Illinois. Named by the Chicago Tribune as the "Best Groomer in Chicagoland", Jennifer can be seen this fall 2018 on the Hulu Network national television program Small Business Revolution (Season Three) as a Grooming Expert. Jennifer founded the Illinois Professional Pet Groomers Association and has been grooming, breeding, and showing various breeds of dogs and cats for four decades. She authored several published articles on various grooming issues, and has an award-winning blog. Jennifer was one of the first generation of "CMGs" but spent most of her career as a professional educator teaching high school, college, and also in vocational grooming schools. Jennifer and husband Bill are nationally prominent victim advocates, and love the fun they have showing their newest Grand Champion Miniature Poodle "Bowie".
Nadia Bongelli
Nadia Bongelli has been grooming pets since 2009 and competing since 2012. Her accolades include Barkleigh Honors Up and Coming Groomer of the Year in 2016, Best All Around International Groomer at Intergroom 2017, five Rising Star Gold Medals, Rising Star of the Year award at Intergroom 2016, two Canadian BIS awards and had numerous Open Level placements in Canada and several in the United States. Nadia's proudest moment was being awarded Canadian Groomer of the Year at the very first Canadian Grooming Industry Awards. She is a Nationally Certified Master Groomer with the National Dog Groomers Assoc. of America, Inc. and a certifier with the Intellectual Groomers Association. Her ultimate goal is to represent her country on Groom Team Canada with her peers.
Dave Campanella
Dave Campanella is an informative and entertaining seminar speaker, contributing trade columnist and genuine grooming enthusiast. He is Best Shot Pet Products sales and marketing director and has over 25 years of pet industry knowledge and experience. He and his wife Tracy co-owned a full service pet salon and self-wash in Ohio prior to relocating with Best Shot to Kentucky. Together they enjoy exhibiting at grooming shows, being industry ambassadors and showing their Kerry Blue Terrier and Samoyed dogs.
Dana Chavez-Rey
Dana got her start as a lead veterinary technician at the North Peninsula Humane Society from 1998. While working there she witnessed firsthand the importance of basic care for our pets. She worked in many areas of the veterinary world before becoming a groomer in 2005 and founded A Purrfect Groomer. After 10 years in the brick and mortar salon she decided to go mobile and has been at it ever since. As a feline grooming expert, Dana was a founding member of the Intellectual Groomers Association and she wrote the guidelines that were used in feline certification. Now a Global Educator with Andis, Dana brings her vast knowledge of feline grooming to the everyday groomer.
Malissa Conti-Diener
Malissa Conti-Diener is an entrepreneur, Certified Aromatherapist, Master Massage Therapist, a Professional Holistic Pet Groomer and animal wellness advocate, as well as a published author, educator, speaker, business coach, ordained minister, Level 2 Reiki Energy worker, animal communicator, and a proponent of the mindful, compassionate, and holistic style of pet grooming. She has a background in pet psychology, western herbalism and personal/business coaching. Her life has always encompassed a deep love and respect of animals. Cultivating a mindset of deep connection and kindness are staples in Malissa's life and my practice.
Jeri Ann Cook
As the owner and managing partner of Sunstone Bookkeeping, LLC, Jeri Ann Cook combines her financial management and organizational skills with her love of animals to provide cloud-based bookkeeping services to pet professionals around the country from her office in Stratford, Connecticut. Jeri Ann received her M.B.A. from A.B. Freeman School of Business, is a certified advisor of both QuickBooks Online and Xero, and is a member of the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers and the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers USA.
Brian Cuoco
Brian is a National Certified Master Groomer with the NDGAA, winning the 2019 Barkleigh Honors Up & Coming Groomer of the Year Award. He began professionally grooming in 2015 and started competitively grooming at the end of 2018. Brian grew up competing in dog shows as a junior handler and working for various professional handlers, gaining a vast knowledge of different breeds and trims. He found success in the competition ring, earning multiple first place wins and group placements. He is eager to bring a fresh new prospective to the grooming industry and excited to work towards his future goal of making GroomTeam USA.
Jonathan David
Jonathan David has been the recipient of multiple scissoring awards, multiple Best All Around Groomer awards and Best in Show earning him a position on Groomteam USA in 2008 and 2009. Jonathan was also a contestant on Animal Planets "Groomer Has It" and has been featured as a grooming expert on multiple television shows. Currently, Jonathan owns and operates his salon, Lap of Luxury Dog Spa in Delray Beach Florida and is a board member of multiple dog clubs.
Lis De Souza
Lis De Souza is a National Master Certified groomer and owner of Serenity Pet Spa in Madison, WI. She has 15 years of experience as a professional groomer and more than 20 years showing dogs. She has won multiple awards across the United States and Internationally. She made GroomTeam USA in 2018 and continues to strive for her goal to become a member of the USA travel team. She runs two full service, kennel free grooming salons with an apprentice programs to help groomers become master certified.
Jeff Dickerson
Jeff Dickerson is the CEO of DaySmart Software, the makers of 123Pet, a leading pet business management software. Jeff has 25+ years of experience building software companies and developing technology that empowers and drives real business results for customers. He previously held the role of CEO at Nutonian, The Neat Company, Sonian, Metatomix and eCredit. Jeff earned his bachelor's degree in finance and economics from North Adams State College.
Teri DiMarino
An industry veteran, Teri has owned and operated successful salons and mobiles in Florida and California. A winning grooming contest competitor, Teri was a member of three groomteam USA Gold Medal teams. A multiple Barkleigh Honors and Cardinal Crystal Award winner, Teri is a regular columnist for Groomer to Groomer Magazine as well as a popular speaker and judge at seminars and trade shows across the United States, Canada, Europe, South America, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.
Mindy Dinwiddie
Mindy Dinwiddie owns Classy Canine in Litchfield, Michigan. She began grooming in 2007, having her own shop by 2008. She started in a back bedroom of her house, growing her business to a storefront. Her experiences include daycare, boarding and training. All while consistently furthering her education by attending expos, seminars and private lessons from top stylists in the industry, Mindy has been competing for three years. With a passion for learning and teaching, she began speaking in 2017 after having one of her grooms published in Doodle Modern Styles Special Edition. Mindy is also a Brand Ambassador for Evolution Shears.
Kathryn Dixon
Kathryn Dixon, a Nationally Certified Master Groomer, has been involved in the grooming industry since 2006. She owns and operates The Houndstooth LLC, a mobile pet spa fleet which services the majority of Rhode Island. She is an active competitor in grooming competitions across the country, holding multiple placements in Hand Stripping, Sporting, and All Other Pure-Bred classes. In her free time Kathryn trains in Canine Scent Work and has earned titles on two of her dogs. She is also a Veteran of the United States Marine Corps, having served 6 years as an intelligence analyst and translator of Afghan languages.
Sarah Drouin
Sarah Drouin, NCMG, has been in the grooming industry since 2010, where she started as a bather in a corporation, and through years of hard work, dedication and continued education, has moved her way up the ranks to get to the top of her game. Not only is she an Award-winning groomer, she also makes videos to help other groomers advance their skills. Sarah has won multiple first, second and third place awards in grooming competitions and was nominated for Barkleigh Honors Up & Coming Groomer in 2018. Her strengths are creating Sustainable Pet Styles that separate her to be the best in her community.
Anne has been a professional pet stylist for over 20 years, joining the team at The Village Groomer & Pet Supply in Walpole, Mass in 1995. Anne was the recipient of the Cardinal Crystal Award for Journalist of The Year for her work on the instructional article in Grooming Business Magazine, "The Grooming Table." She was a member of GroomTeam USA in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and winner of "Taxi Award" at the NEPGP for the best expression and character on a mixed breed. Anne is excited to share her knowledge she has gathered over the years as she transitions into being an educator in the industry that she loves.
Bryanna Fretz
Bryanna Fretz started grooming pets approximately 10 years ago and entered into the competitive industry just over two and a half years ago. In 2018 she was awarded Up and Coming Canadian groomer of the year. She won Rising star at Intergroom in 2019 with Kuiper the standard poodle and was a nominee for the Barkleigh honours Up and coming groomer of the year. Grooming and poodles are her passion in life and she is excited to see what the future holds in the competitive grooming world!
Anny Godwin
Anny Godwin has been in the pet industry since 2005 when she started pet sitting horses and dogs. In 2012, she began working for a private foster kennel where she learned her love of training. In 2014 she did a shadow program with a well-known trainer and in 2015 she started her own business, NorCal Adventure Dogs. In 2018, she teamed with A Purrfect Groomer to create a program that involves including grooming as a training option. In 2019, Anny moved her family and her business from California to Tennessee where she is currently re-building her training business.
Jill Hailey
Jill Hailey has created a virtual empire since opening her first mobile pet salon in 2014. Today her mobile business runs eight units in California. She owns Foxy Roxy's Supply Co. which began in 2017 and includes Scissor of the Month Club and Groomer Supply Box. Along with her partner Blake Hernandez, she also runs multiple continuing education platforms, including the Foxify weekend retreats and GROOM Source. Jill came into the industry with plenty of experience in business management and graphic design, but oddly, none in grooming! And she believes that has brought a unique perspective with her that has contributed to her success.
Blake Hernandez
Blake Hernandez, NCMG, is a passionate and valued industry leader. Blake has worked tirelessly to go from complete novice to nationally ranked competitor in record pace. This certain determination and love for dogs and their care has led him to multiple State-Level Groomer of the Year awards and five Barkleigh Honor Nominations. When he is not managing his own Salon in San Diego, he is most commonly found exhibiting Bichon or Standard Poodles at his nearest Conformation Show. Blake is also a Brand Ambassador for Foxy Roxy Supply Co. with whom he partnered to develop his very own line of shears. He has recently garnered an additional Brand Representative position with iGroom.
Jameson Kon
Jameson has a degree in International Business Management & Marketing, and has always had interests in working with animals at a young age. After working for a massive online retail company, managing over 300+ employees amongst 7 different call centers both domestically and internationally, he decided to jump right into the world of grooming with his wife, Milena. Now the proud owner of Driving Me Knots (Mobile Grooming), DMK Bowtique (Pet Accessories), and DMK Marketing Solutions (Custom Graphic Designs), his ability to multi-task and market the companies since 2013 is only the beginning for the DMK branding.
Jennifer Started competing in 2005. Since then she has won over 70 grooming competition awards, multiple Best in Show and Best All Around Groomer awards. Jennifer is a member of GroomTeam USA hall of fame, she was honored to become GroomTeam USA's traveling team member to Belgium in 2011. In 2015, Jennifer also won International Groomer of the year award in Master Groom England. Jennifer is an international grooming seminar speaker, and has taught in many countries, including England, Sweden, Brazil, China, and Korea. Jennifer is an All Around EGA and USA grooming competition Judge, and a grooming certifier for Barkleigh Certification South Korea and IGU (International Groomers Union).
Melissa Mitchner
Melissa Mitchner is the CEO and founder of The Bark Shoppe, located in Harlem, NY. Melissa has over a decade in business management and expansion. Prior to entering the pet care industry, she worked for one of the largest retail companies in the nation and was responsible for hiring over 6,000 + people. She has 7 yrs experience in owning and managing a profitable salon. Since opening in 2012 she has expanded her services from grooming, to boarding, daycare and self-service facility and has also created private label products for her brand. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs grow and establish their brands. And is currently a license grooming instructor by NY State.
Jessica Moore CMG, IGMS is the owner of Show Stoppers Pet Styling in Waukegan, Illinois. Jessica has been a pet stylist for 18 years and began competing in 2006. After accelerating in the competition ring quickly she moved from entry level to open in a matter of a few shows. In 2007-10 she ended the years in the top 20. Jessica has walked away with multitude of 1st, 2nd and 3rd place wins, including many group placements in every level as well as several Best Groomed Dog Awards and Best in Show.
Joshua Morales
Joshua is a Master Certified Groomer with The NDGAA and a Certified Member with the ISCC. He is a trend setting artist and President of The Dog Beautician Company and Founder of the Puerto Rican National Grooming Team, Grooming Team of Puerto Rico (GTPR), and a brand Ambassador for Hydra Cosmetics, Loyalty Pet Products and Liberty Star Equipment, as well as a 2017 and 2018 Barkleigh Honors award winner and nominee. Now a Learn2groomdogs.com educator for thousands of professional Groomers worldwide and the Co-Owner of the world renowned Päsh The Canine Boudoir located in South Florida, Joshua has become an internationally celebrated, respected and popular speaker/educator in the pet grooming industry.
Mackensie Murphy
Mackensie Murphy is a second-generation pet stylist, following in her mother's footsteps and becoming the very first second generation GroomTeam USA. In 2005, Mackensie started her own grooming career at the young age of 18. Mackensie began her competition career in early 2011 and has been awarded multiple Best in Show awards, Best All Around Groomer awards and is a five-time winner of the prestigious Liz Paul Memorial Best Scissored Poodle Award. Mackensie consistently stayed among the top three competitors and earned herself a position on GroomTeam USA in 2012 which she has sustained up to this current year.
Sam Nelson
Sam Nelson's roots in the grooming industry began in 2006, when he worked in sales for a grooming supply distributor. After working for two major distribution companies, Sam took a leap of faith in 2015, and with just three product lines, he opened Love Groomers. Over the last three years, Sam has spent countless hours attending product training workshops, pet expos, AKC dog shows and grooming trade shows all over the country, broadening his knowledge and understanding of grooming products and equipment. Making customer service and strong relationships with his customers and peers a top priority, he has become a staple in the grooming industry. His hard work and dedication to those customers paid off, earning Love Groomers two back to back Barkleigh Honors Awards for Vendor of the Year in 2017 and 2018.
Ashley Pacini
Ashley is a groomer in Port St Lucie, FL and has been in the grooming industry since the age of 14 as both a bather and a groomer. She graduated from Merryfield School of Pet Grooming, and became a Nationally Certified Master Groomer with the NDGAA only 6 months later. Ashley is the winner of numerous grooming competition awards, including a Best in Show, jumping from lowest division to being ranked in the top 15 in just one year, and was nominated for Barkleigh Honors "Up and Coming Groomer of the Year" award for 2018.
Julie Pantages
Julie owns Best in Show Pet Salon in Gloucester, MA and has been in the Grooming world since 1994. Since Graduating Essex Agricultural and Technical Institute's Grooming and Kennel Management program, she has worked in many different venues including Schutzhund, Obedience, Agility, Tracking, Breed conformation and of course grooming. Julie has won Multiple Best Groomed Dog and Best All Around awards over the years, was ranked in the top 10 on GroomTeam USA for multiple years from 2003 on, and qualified to compete in Milan Italy in 2007. Julie has always had a passion for Poodles and is very active in the Conformation ring showing many Toy, Mini and Standard Poodles to their AKC Championships.
Jill Pipino
Jill Pipino started grooming in 2000. She bought a turnkey operation, turning it into a successful business offering her clients everything from daycare to spa services and personality trims to show styles. She began regularly attending seminars and trade shows at the beginning of her career, and started competing in 2007. She has been a regular in the competition circuit ever since. In an effort to further her understanding of pet styling, she has trained privately with top stylists and breeders. She also works with breeders and handlers at dog shows and is looking forward to showing her field spaniel, Brucie.
Macie Pisa
As a second-generation groomer, Macie has been immersed in the dog world her whole life. She has been grooming professionally since 2010. Macie started competing in 2014 and quickly rose to the top, becoming one of the youngest competitors in open division. In 2016 she was nominated for the Barkleigh Honors Up and Coming Groomer of the Year Award. She will continue to travel and compete nationally until she achieves her dream of making GroomTeam USA. Macie co-owns the Laundromutt in Kenmore, NY.
Adriane Pope
Adriane Pope is an award-winning Pet stylist in Breed Profile and Creative Grooming. Her specialty is extreme creative styling and creative abstract design. Adriane is owner/groomer of Adriane's Groom and Go Mobile Grooming in Conway, SC., and also the owner of Rivertown Bed and Biscuit Luxury Kennel since 2004. She has 24 years of grooming experience, and has been mobile for 22 years. She started competing in breed profile in 1997 and started the creative world in 2004.
Victor Rosado
With 26 years of experience in professional grooming and conformation, Victor Rosado is a NCMG with NDGAA, ICMG, and is a certifier with IPG, as well as a Grooming Contest Judge and a Licensed All Breeds Conformation Judge for FCPR/FCI. As a competitive groomer, Victor Rosado is a multiple Best All Around and Best in Show winner, and one of the top groomers on GroomTeam USA. Victor is a member of American Spaniel Club, an AKC Breeder of Merit, and an exhibitor of American Cocker Spaniels for 20 years with multiple Best in Show and Best in Specialty Shows wins. Victor is also an Oster Ambassador in Latin America and owner of Davis Puerto Rico.
Madeline Rothwell
Madeline has always adored animals and knew from a young age that she would one day work with them. At sixteen, after watching "Groomer Has It", she started a mobile grooming company, and at seventeen got her first job at a grooming salon. Madeline then decided on a college education and went to Pima Medical Institute where she earned a degree as a Vet Tech. By age twenty-one, she opened her own salon which has been flourishing ever since, with over two hundred five-star reviews. Madeline's specialty, along with poodles and doodles, are hard to handle dogs. She also grooms and fosters for a local poodle rescue. In 2016, Madeline entered her first competition and placed third, and she has been hooked ever since. Madeline is also a self-taught Creative groomer and has received two people's choice awards.
Laura Jayne Sabbah
Laura Jayne is the owner of Hair of the Dog Mobile Pet Spa in New York, New York. She is a competitive groomer, small business owner and known for her online persona.
Philip Schafmayer
Philip Schafmayer, NCMG was a Professional All Breed AKC Handler for over 18 years. Philip has been a professional pet stylist since 1997 and became a Certified Master Groomer with NDGAA in 2017. He was awarded Best in Show and Best All Around Groomer at NEPGP 2017 at his very first competition, then again at NEPGP 2018. Philip made the GroomTeam USA Top 10 Pet Stylists for 2017 as well as 2018, and earned the #5 GroomTeam USA spot for 2018, as well as being announced as the 2020 World Travel Team Alternate. In February 2018 Philip retired from Professional Handling and opened Dogs by Design Pet Salon in Danielson, CT, and is getting ready to open his second salon in Cranston, RI.
Jay Scruggs
Jay and his wife, Michelle, own Here Comes the Groom, a highly successful mobile grooming salon in Germantown, Tennessee. Jay has won multiple Best in Show and Best All-Around Groomer awards and helped Groomteam USA win the Gold medal in Calgary, Canada, in 2001. Jay was named American Groomer of the Year in 2001, Groomer of the Year Award at Westminster Dog Show in 2002, and Grooming Judge of the Year in 2004. In 2003 Jay won an International Gold and Bronze medal in Barcelona, Spain, helping groomteam USA win the silver team medal. He and Sue Zecco offer seminars nationally. Jay won a Barkleigh Honors Award at the event that he emceed.
Susan Sholar
Susan has been grooming dogs and cats for over forty years and has taught grooming for fifteen years. Her first love of dogs began very young while on the television set of Rin Tin Tin and then in her teens on the set of Hogan's Heroes. Like many groomers, Susan turned a "hobby" into her life work. Her career began with showing and grooming her own dogs, progressed to showing and grooming for others as a Certified Professional Handler and, in 1997, Susan turned in her show leash for a judge's book. She now judges breeds in five groups and has judged grooming competitions. Susan is presently an AKC Delegate for the Black Russian Terrier Club of America, where she holds the office of Recording Secretary and serves as Chairman of the Judges Education Committee.
Corina Stammworthy
Corina stumbled into the dog grooming industry by chance, but has brought fresh eyes and new ideas. She opened The Laundromutt, a self-service dog wash and grooming salon, on the concept that washing your own dog should be easy and fun. She believes that your dog should always be in the most educated hands, and in the cleanest and calmest environment possible. Corina is a college biology instructor and is currently in graduate school for Biotechnology.
Ralph Whitman
Ralph is the Owner/Sharpener of Whitman's Sharpening, one of the largest sharpeners and grooming tool suppliers in the Mid-West. Whitman's provides sales and services to over 40 AKC/UKC dog shows and trade shows annually. Ralph noticed there was a need for higher quality, safer, more effective and easier to use products within the pet industry. So, these concepts have been in the forefront of their ideals since conception of the company in 1995. Whitman's is the developer and manufacturer of the USA quality pet safe clipper blade cleaner/storage solution The Redip and The Diamastripper Tool. They operate out of Farwell, MI where they have a full retail area, as well host clinics and seminars all over the country.
Olga Zabelinskaya
Olga is a Certified Master Groomer and owns two grooming salons, Elite Pet Spa & Boutique in Madison, NJ and Grooming Gallery in Morris Plains, NJ. She has multiple BIS and Best All-Around Groomer wins as well as two prestigious Winners Circle Champion titles. Olga is 2009 and 2010 American Groomer of the Year by Cardinal Pet, and was awarded the Lynne Carver Memorial Award as Best All Around Stylist 2009. Olga was born in Russia where she had a Master Degree in Engineering and finished law school. Olga was a GroomTeam USA member 2008-2012 and won the Silver medal in Belgium, 2011 as a part of the traveling team. Olga co-hosts many pet fundraising events.
Joe Zuccarello
Joe's journey in the pet industry started in 1986. Joe helped advance one of the World's most prestigious Pet Resorts for nearly 20 years. Joe then began a 10-year focus on grooming product development as Director of Innovation and Product Development. In 2018, Joe joined the team at Paragon, the leading pet professional development and education solutions company. Joe leads the company's efforts in providing learning solutions for the pet grooming services industry which are used by individuals, pet salon owners, and multi-unit retailers as their core training tools for new groomers and enhancing the skills of existing staff.
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One of the smallest cars in Chevrolet history, the Chevette is small even by today's standards. Introduced for the 1976 model year, the 'vette was initially offered in only a 2-door hatchback body style. It's platform was shared with Opel's Kadett model overseas.
Providing the power were the 1.4L I4 and 1.6L I4. A 4-speed manual or 3-speed automatic were doing the shifting.
For 1978, the 1.4 was dropped. Newly added this year was the 1.6L High Output. Toys on this engine were a dual outlet exhaust manifold, larger intake manifold, and larger carburetor. A 4-door hatchback also became available this year.
A 'Scooter' two-seat base model was offered right out of the gate. A Woody package with faux exterior wood was offered for the first two model years.
A notable 'sort-of' performance package was the '76/'77 Chevette Rally. It came with the 1.6L, special body graphics, plus a rear sway bar.
The grille and headlights were updated for 1979. The 1.6L now had a 2 barrel carburetor standard.
The High Output 1.6L engine's last year was 1980. For 1981, a 1.8L Diesel I4 became an option. For 1982, a 5-speed transmission was optional on the 1.6L.
For 1983, the Chevette CS arrived. This was basically the 'Eurosport' package for the car, which included color-keyed bumpers and blacked out trim.
While more challenging than a Vega, it's not too hard to put a V6 or even a V8 in these cars. In the US, 2 door and 4 door hatch body styles were the only variants offered. The Chevette was also a popular choice in the U.S. Postal Service lease-fleet.