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Melanie (Andres) Conklin '00 Discovers the Power of Writing, Earns Book Deal
It goes without saying that many authors follow unorthodox paths in life, not necessarily beginning in writing. J.K. Rowling was working for Amnesty International when she came up with the idea of boy-wizard Harry Potter. Diary of a Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney dreamed of being a newspaper cartoonist. Even Maurice Sendak, who famously penned Where the Wild Things Are, spent several years illustrating children's books before he began writing his own.
Melanie (Andres) Conklin '00, who recently signed a six-figure, two-book deal with Penguin/G.P. Putnam's Sons, is now a member of this club of authors who found their niche, to their own surprise, in the world of storytelling. Counting Thyme – about a young girl whose family moves across the country to treat her brother's cancer – will be her first published work.
Conklin, who resides in New Jersey, graduated from NC State as valedictorian with a bachelor's degree in industrial design and a minor in English literature studies.
Ever since she was a child, Conklin had a passion for drawing and reading.
"I really liked creative problem-solving and, for me, the design school offered all of that," said Conklin. "We worked in studios, we worked in teams, and product design was fascinating because I could use my skills to make real things in the world."
Following graduation, Conklin spent several years working for consultancies. Companies would bring in objectives for a new product, and she and other designers would research and determine what that product should look like. Conklin has had a hand in designing everything from toothbrushes to breast pumps to pens and staplers.
It wasn't until she quit her last job in product design to stay at home with her children that writing became a possibility.
"I woke up with this idea for a story," said Conklin. "I knew how I would start it, and it was while my baby was napping that I literally just started writing it. About six weeks later, I was like, 'I think I'm writing a book.'"
Conklin began researching the craft of writing and the publishing world. She discovered a vast network of resources and potential critique partners to hone her early writings.
"The story for Counting Thyme evolved quite quickly after that. Once I tapped into an idea that I cared about, the story flowed, which meant I had something say about the subject as a writer," said Conklin.
For Conklin, as both a writer and an avid reader, a story's bricks-and-mortar lies with the character and the authenticity of their strife. During Counting Thyme's genesis, Conklin read several books in which the protagonist suffered an illness. She envisioned a new approach to this theme that would speak to kids.
"I thought to myself, that's horrible, but what would it be like to be a sibling of a child facing a life-threatening disease," said Conklin. "I thought that would also be a struggle, a real conflict of interest, because you would love your sibling but you would also have to make so many sacrifices."
When delving into this topic for her book, Conklin became engaged in social networking. She developed her own blog and began attending conventions like BookCon. As a result, she established relationships with other writers across a variety of genres.
These connections became the springboard to landing her book deal.
A friend of Conklin's pitched her book through an Emerging Writers contest on Twitter.
"She had read it and was excited about it, so she was like, 'You guys have to read this book,'" Conklin said.
Several agents contacted Conklin. She queried the eight agents with whom she was most interested in working, and her now-agent Peter Knapp of the Park Literary Group got back to her immediately.
"The big secret about getting into publishing is to write a good book. Write about something you care about. Get people curious, and they will want to read your story," said Conklin.
According to Conklin, her initiative is rooted in the encouragement and resources she garnered as a Park Scholar.
"Coming from the first class of Park Scholars, we really got to lead ourselves because no one else had done it before. I would say that has seriously influenced everything I've done in my life, because the Park Scholarships program was an opportunity to take my ideas and put them into action," Conklin said.
Conklin and Park Scholarships classmate Tommy Vitolo '00 started Service Raleigh, an annual event that has grown to include more than 2,000 volunteers and generates approximately 6,000 hours of community service each year to benefit residents of the greater Raleigh area.
"It was a real learning experience, but that's what the Park Scholarship gave me – a belief that if I had an idea, and I thought it was worthwhile, that if I worked hard, I could make it a reality," said Conklin. "I think that absolutely has something to do with allowing myself to explore writing and see what I could do."
Conklin is currently making final revisions to Counting Thyme with her editor, Stacey Barney. She anticipates completing this process in early 2015, and publishing the book in 2016. In the coming months, Conklin will begin the second book in her contract. She is also exploring other projects and genres to tackle in the future.
"It's definitely been a really surprising and gratifying ride," said Conklin. "I love books and stories so much that the idea of children, and other readers who love books, reading my work and finding a sentence that they might want to highlight is a dream come true."


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Edward Zimmerman
Edward began his foodservice career in 1974. He spent four years in restaurant operations and management. Edward then worked in the retail deli/bakery business, where he set up and managed in-store operations for a 14-store chain. He had a 13-year career in the wholesale bakery industry and then did consulting work for foodservice distributors and manufacturers for 5 years.
In 1996, Edward helped to begin a foodservice marketing group that became the largest pizzeria distribution network in the United States. Edward has possibly sold, marketed, and tasted more pizza than anyone in the United States over the last 20 years.
A dynamic speaker, Edward captures audiences with a mixture of fun, facts and personal challenges for improvement. A well-known and respected sales trainer, he has developed several programs for food sales representatives designed to increase sales and improve customer relationships.
Born and raised in Baltimore, Md., Edward's career in the food industry spans more than 40 years. He holds a B.S. in Economics and an M.S. in Administrative Management and enjoys the outdoors, hiking, reading, playing the bass guitar and volunteering on behalf of organizations that feed the hungry.
Leonard Sbrocco
Leonard Sbrocco has over 25 years of experience working for multiple media outlets in the San Francisco Bay Area, including as a Publisher, Ad Director, and Online Manager at various newspapers.
Since 2008, he has provided marketing expertise to more than 25 companies as a partner at Big Cat Advertising, where he specializes in online and email promotions. Previously, he was the Director of Business Development at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he was responsible for creating and managing new products, generating $20 million in ad sales in three years.
He has had significant success marketing restaurants through innovative campaigns, such as specialty magazines and websites. Most recently, Sbrocco has focused on building sales through referral-based email marketing services and social media.
Sbrocco also co-founded a golf and travel website and was editor of a leading market research website. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served six years as a U.S. Army officer.
Dave Chapman
Dave Chapman brings his decades of experience leading global communications agency work in sustainability, B2B and consumer marketing, and corporate relations to bear, providing senior counsel, hands-on programming, writing and project execution to clients across a broad industry base – with an emphasis on food brands, foodservice and agriculture.
For 13+ years, Dave was a Partner and the Director of Ketchum West, the global agency's hub for food and foodservice marketing. He was responsible for reviving the agency's test kitchen, upgrading it to become the Ketchum Food Studio, a culinary resource with full digital communications capacity. Dave led Ketchum West's regional operations and was senior communications counselor to global multi-nationals, regional associations and emerging brands. He brought his career-long expertise in sustainability to Ketchum's client base in the food industry, helping to develop and activate company platforms, marketing programs, media outreach, internal/channel communication endeavors and reporting activities. He founded the agency's Purpose practice in 2005 and grew its engagement across Ketchum's global network.
Prior to Ketchum, Dave led the Burson-Marsteller San Francisco operation with a focus on brand marketing and corporate communications after stints in that agency's Los Angeles and Chicago operations.
He has deep experience in strategic marketing and communications, brand identity and messaging architecture, website structure, marketing collateral, video production and issues management.
Dave is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Journalism and Mass Communications and was honored to receive it Distinguished Alumni Service Award in 2016. He has been an active community member across the Bay Area serving as pro bono counselor and board member for a variety of cultural and social justice organizations.
Noah Alper
Noah Alper is a consultant specializing in entrepreneurial strategy, and executive coaching. He is the author of Business Mensch–Timeless Wisdom for Today's Entrepreneur. His experience includes concept creation, branding,marketing, retailing, and sales management.
A serial entrepreneur, Noah Alper is the founder of six ventures, including two mega-successful food businesses—the West Coast Noah's New York Bagels chain and Bread & Circus, once the Northeast's largest natural foods chain and now part of Whole Foods Market. Six and a half years after founding Noah's New York Bagels, he sold the business for $100 million. At that time, it was the largest kosher retailer in the United States.
Noah has been a guest speaker at Google, the E2 Detroit Entrepreneur's Conference, the "EO" Entrepreneur Organization, the League of Women Voters and many national and local business and community groups. He has been a guest lecturer at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the University of Wisconsin School of Business,UC Davis School of Management, Babson College, and a student advisor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
He graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BA in Economics, and grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts. He currently lives in Berkeley, California.
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Allison published her first short story at thirteen and she's since crafted content and strategy in both the social media and blogging realm in the form of ebooks and blog posts to social media copywriting and web pages with a focus in the food space and destination marketing.
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Q: Printing 0-9 in Assembly I am a complete newbie to this Language, and i am trying my best to learn it.
This is my first time dealing with low level language.
Here's my incomplete code:
;------------Block 1----------
.386
.model flat,stdcall
option casemap:none

;------------Block 2----------
include windows.inc
include user32.inc
includelib user32.lib
include kernel32.inc
includelib kernel32.lib

;------------block 3----------
.data
first DW 1 ; increment this value

;------------Block 4----------
.data?
retvalue dd ?

;------------Block 5----------
.code
start:
mov ecx,10
mov eax, '1'

l1:
    nop  ;Add code here
loop l1

xor eax,eax
invoke ExitProcess,eax
end start

Its 64bit Architecture with Intel processor.
I referred to these articles, but none of them seems to fit in my architecture of code.

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*http://www.dailyfreecode.com/code/print-digits-0-1-9-1741.aspx

*Assembly, printing ascii number

*Outputting variable values in x86 asm
It's been irritating me for 4 hours.
Any help would be highly appreciated.

A: Assembly can be a challenge to make friends with. Primarily because you are given very basic building blocks to work with, memory segments, addresses within the segments to use, processor registers to load values into and get results from, the basic system calls, and a way to invoke those system calls to operate on the values currently in the processor registers. Then it's up to you to do the rest. I'll try to give you a rough overview of the thought process you can use in approaching basic assembly calls below.
There are many web-articles that provides a small piece of the puzzle, but very few that provide a reasonably complete overview of the language. That's why I mentioned The Art of Assembly Language Programming in the comments, and I'll mention it here again. If you take time to go through the sections, you will have a good handle on how to use assembly.
In assembly, there are usually a couple ways to approach any problem. Printing 0-9 is no different. In my comment I explained the difference between the numeric values of 0-9 and the printable ASCII characters '0'-'9'. In order to output values to the screen, you must write the ASCII values to stdout (or file-descriptor number 1, where stdin - 0, stdout - 1, stderr - 2).
To write the values to stdout you must make a proper sys_write system call with the proper values in the proper processor registers. (you can find the proper system calls in unistd_32.h (32-bit) or unistd_64.h (64-bit), located in your distro dependent include directory, generally /usr/include/asm or /usr/include/asm-x86) You only need to worry about 2 for you needs, sys_write (number 4) and sys_exit (number 1).
What goes in what processor register? You know the syscall number will go in the first register eax. Thankfully, you can generally figure the rest out from the C man page for the command in question. For writing the man 2 write page will help (you can use the man page for all system functions in a similar manner). Look at the write function declaration. Your register values are generally the parameters required by the function (in order). e.g.
ssize_t write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
                  |               |           |
register:        ebx             ecx         edx

Now you know what goes in each register to write a character to stdout (the file-descriptor number), to execute the write, you generate a kernel interrupt to do it. (for x86, that is int 80h). Look at how you would write one character to stdout:
mov     eax, 4          ; linux (sys_write) in eax
mov     ebx, 1          ; fileno in ebx (stdout)
mov     ecx, achar      ; move achar address to ecx
mov     edx, 1          ; num chars to write in edx
int     0x80            ; kernel interrupt

(where achar is the memory address for the character to write)
As discussed in the comment, you can either start with the digits 0-9 and add '0' to the value to get the ASCII character value (or you can simply or the value with '0' to accomplish the same thing). You can also just start with the ASCII value '0', print it, increment its value by 1 (to get '1', etc...) and do it 10 times in total. (so a loop comes to mind)
I'll let you read further about loops in assembly, but the basic scheme is to load your loop count (10 in your case) into ecx and then jump (jmp) (or loop) to the beginning label for your loop (e.g. next: or looplbl:) and then decrement the value in ecx each time through until you hit 0.
When your looping is done, to finish up, you then load the exit value of your program into ebx and sys_exit into eax and call the kernel interrupt to exit. Now there are a lot of additional sub-issue basics to this process. This is simply an overview of one way to approach a solution. You will simply have to read and investigate the remainder because it is far more than can be crammed into this post.
To help, work through the following example. It simply subtracts the starting ASCII value '0' from the ending ASCII value '9' (then adds 1 for a total of 10-characters and uses that value for your loop count). It then loops 10-times starting by printing '0' and adding 1 to the previous value printed with each pass through the loop until all '0'-'9' have been printed. It then prints a newline so the numbers are not crammed on the same line with your prompt and exits:
section .data
    achar db '0'
    nwln db 0xa
section .text

        global _start               ; must be declared for using gcc
    _start:                         ; tell linker entry point
            xor     eax, eax        ; zero eax register
            mov     al, byte '9'    ; move byte '9` (57) to al
            sub     al, byte '0'    ; subtract byte '0' (48) from al
            inc     al              ; add 1 to al (for total chars)
            xor     ecx, ecx        ; zero exc
            mov     cx, ax          ; move result to cx (loop count)
    next:
            push    ecx             ; save value of ecx on stack
            mov     eax, 4          ; linux (sys_write) in eax
            mov     ebx, 1          ; fileno in ebx (stdout)
            mov     ecx, achar      ; move achar address to ecx
            mov     edx, 1          ; num chars to write in edx
            int     0x80            ; kernel interrupt

            pop     ecx             ; restore loop count
            mov     dx, [achar]     ; move value of achar to dx
            inc     byte [achar]    ; increment value of achar (next char)
            loop    next            ; jump to next:

            mov     eax, 4          ; linux (sys_write) in eax
            mov     ebx, 1          ; fileno in ebx (stdout)
            mov     ecx, nwln       ; move nwln (newline) to ecx
            mov     edx, 1          ; num chars to write in edx
            int     0x80            ; kernel interrupt

            xor     ebx, ebx        ; zero ebx (for exit code 0)
            mov     eax, 1          ; system call number (sys_exit)
            int 0x80                ; kernel interrupt

(note: you can output all printable characters in the ASCII character set by substituting '~' for '9' in the code above)
Compile/Link
This is a compile/link example with the nasm assembler. It will be similar if you are using fasm, or yasm. I write all my object files to an obj subdir and my binaries to a bin subdir just to reduce clutter.
nasm -f elf -o obj/prn_digits_32.o prn_digits_32.asm
ld -m elf_i386 -o bin/prn_digits_32 obj/prn_digits_32.o

Output
$ ./bin/prn_digits_32
0123456789

I hope this helps. Let me know if you have questions. There are probably 20 more ways to do this, some I'm sure much better. But it is really just a matter of taking it one-step-at-a-time and paying attention to what each register and byte in memory is doing.

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EndoBreak: FDA's Biotin Warning; Diabetes & Mouthwash?
by Kristen Monaco, Staff Writer, MedPage Today December 1, 2017
Startup company Semma Therapeutics just pocketed $114 million -- in addition to $49 million already raised -- to seek a cure for type 1 diabetes. (Business Insider)
In related news, another startup company, Fractyl Labs, raised $44 million to develop a new type 2 diabetes treatment that would resurface the duodenum. (TechCrunch)
The FDA issued a warning regarding biotin supplements which could interfere with laboratory assays, including hormone tests.
Experts project the global osteoporosis drug market, which includes bisphosphonates, calcitonin, RANKL inhibitors, parathyroid hormone therapy and selective estrogen receptor modulators, is expected to grow 4.0% annually through 2021. (Talk Daily News)
Following a pushback from a proposal to cut costs by preventing general practitioners from writing "low-priority" prescriptions which would have required endocrinologists to prescribe liothyronine (T3) -- not generalists -- England's National Health Service said the thyroid treatment will continue to be available if it was originally initiated by a consultant endocrinologist in the NHS. (BBC/The Pharmaceutical Journal)
In patients with papillary thyroid cancer, disease-related mortality risk may be assessed with lymph node density "as a useful adjunct to the current eighth edition TNM staging system," researchers suggested. (JAMA Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery)
Brain regions involved in regulating appetite may appear different in youth with obesity, through the use of diffusion tensor imaging in a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. "There was no region of higher [functional anisotropy] in obese patients compared to the control group," said study author and PhD student Pamela Bertolazzi, of the University of Saõ Paulo, in a statement. Catch up on all of MedPage Today's RSNA coverage here.
People who use mouthwash as part of their daily routine may be at an increased risk for diabetes. The risk was even more significant in those who used mouthwash more than once per day versus nonusers (rate ratio 1.49; 95% CI 1.13–1.95). (Nitric Oxide)
New Jersey dentists can get paid for chair-side diabetes screenings in at-risk patients starting in 2018. (NJ Spotlight)
A higher BMI was tied to an increased risk of dementia over time. Study authors attribute these findings to two processes: "one of which is a harmful effect of higher BMI and the other reverse causation bias contributing to an inverse association between BMI and dementia." (Alzheimer's & Dementia)


It's been awhile since I've done any sort of mash ups and with all the requests for skirts similar to Pucker Up it gave me an idea. This fun little outfit, Happy, features my favorite fabric... polka dots! Something about polka dots always makes me want to wear red shoes and the bow in the hair made the perfect accessory. Happy includes the sculpted belt seen in the picture.
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Could using Twitter create an allegation of violation of a non-compete agreement in New York?
Today's society is heavily entrenched in the worlds of technology and social media. In recent years, this has created a never-before-seen blending of our personal and professional lives. For example, if an employee uses Twitter both in his personal life and as part of his job, do the Twitter followers belong to the company? And does the former employee's continued use of the account constitute a violation of his non-compete agreement if he leaves the company to work for a competitor? While we do not currently have clear answers to these questions, courts would likely abide by the following guidelines when assessing a New York non-compete claim:
New York courts openly dislike non-compete agreements.
New York courts favor allowing former employees to use their skills to earn a living and to change jobs freely.
New York courts will enforce a non-compete in order to keep a level playing field in the business area.
If the use of social media creates unfair competition or tortious interference by poaching customers or employees, it could potentially lead to a non-compete violation claim.
It is therefore possible that the use of social media could generate a non-compete violation claim in the future. Former employees should be very careful with how they conduct themselves once leaving an employer to work for a competitor, especially if their former employment agreement contained a non-compete clause. To learn more, contact an experienced New York business litigation lawyer today. Call our office at (888) 497-3410 for a free consultation.


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Experimental Archeology: Scientific Techniques and Recipes from the Iberian Peninsula (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)
Art and Knowledge
Written Transmission: Books and Artists' Recipes
Rafael Javier Díaz Hidalgo
This project focused on the assessment of scientific and technical knowledge gained in late medieval Spain in various fields of knowledge, and its application in practical terms in trades. Rafael Javier Díaz Hidalgo conducted research using methods from experimental archeology. This methodology allows researchers to reconstruct the processes described in recipes from Hispanic manuscripts preserved between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, in order to verify the validity and effectiveness of their contents, in particular concerning industrial techniques and the artistic world of which they are part. The research objectives were, firstly, to compile a collection of recipes from Europe dating from the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, and compile an inventory of materials and techniques used. Secondly, Díaz Hidalgo facilitated an archeological reconstruction of several of the processes outlined in these recipes using the materials, tools, techniques, and processes as described. By verifying the accuracy of these prescriptions, he aimed to establish whether the most successful of these procedures refer to the same processes as described in other texts of European origin, all in all enabling a clearer evaluation of the degree of innovation occurring in late medieval society.


GRAFTON — Monday's Selectboard meeting got somewhat testy when its members considered restricting the time allotted for public comments.
Selectboard Chairman Al Sands said current and former colleagues have told him the period of time for public comment has recently not been used as intended. As a result, the board unanimously passed a motion outlining a maximum time period of 15 minutes (with three minutes per person) for public comment. Sands drafted the outline and said exceptions can be made for emergency issues.
Sands said the original intent of a public-input portion was to allow citizens an opportunity to voice their concerns about something not on a meeting's agenda if they were previously unaware it would be an issue.
He mentioned he has reviewed recorded meetings and said sometimes comments from the public lasted for an hour.
One topic of frequent discussion is the issue of Iberdrola Renewables, one of the world's largest energy companies, which erected a wind-power test tower in Grafton, generating a fair amount of controversy. It has seemingly split the town, as the tower could be a precursor to Windham County's first commercial wind turbines, depending on the weather data it produces. Two test towers were recently erected in Windham as well.
Sands also said an issue would not be put on a future meeting's agenda if it has been addressed numerous times in the past.
Kissel was told the Selectboard handbook dictates that the chairman has the right and the ability to limit the time allotted for public comments.
Sands wanted to make it clear that members of the public can still comment on each individual agenda item as it comes up.
After the Selectboard approved the outline Monday, the first agenda item was about considering increasing the number of members on the town's Planning Commission to seven.
Sands said the commission was for many years made up of five members, but that figure was soon changed to seven and eventually nine (seven members with two ex officios). Sands said the Selectboard, which approves all appointments to the Planning Commission, "jumped the gun" and attempted to fill two vacant positions on the commission before realizing it had operated with five for a long time and deciding to stick with that number.
Some citizens at Monday's meeting wanted answers from the Selectboard about why its members were content with having only five people on the Planning Commission. One man asked if it was in the name of efficiency and Sands said the Selectboard simply had to make a decision. Sam Battaglino recently resigned from the commission, bringing the total down to four, so his vacancy will have to be filled.
The Selectboard opted not to reconsider its decision until all its members were present (Bill Kearns was absent from the Monday's meeting).


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Q: Preventing access to file in .htaccess results in error on request of any page from server? i have a logging folder, where i log events, i want to include it in the admin panel or be able to search in it, but i dont want it to be accessible outside of localhost.
So i tried
<Files /var/chroot/home/content/59/10667659/html/mylogs/log.html>
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Files>

But this results in a 500 something error on all of my pages?
/var/chroot/home/content/59/10667659/html

is
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];

A: The <Files> container does not work that way. From the Apache core doc:

The  directive limits the scope of the enclosed directives by filename. It is comparable to the  and  directives. It should be matched with a  directive. The directives given within this section will be applied to any object with a basename (last component of filename) matching the specified filename.

So you can say:
<Files "log.html">
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Files>

Or if you want it to apply only in a specific directory, like in /mylogs/, then create the htaccess file in there and add the above <Files> container.


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Abstract: The East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) and Siberian high (SH) were both stronger than normal during the 2017/2018 winter, with significant intraseasonal variation. The geopotential height anomalies of mid-high latitude of Eurasia were mainly occupied by meridional circulation, with strong Ural high, and westward East Asian trough. The 2017/2018 winter was marked with frequent cold air processes, low temperature in northeasten China and abnormal warmer climate in Tibetan Plateau. Diagnostic analysis of possible mechanism for strong EAWM in 2017/2018 winter indicated that, subject to the modulation of warm phase of Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), the influence of La Ni a was comparatively weak. Meanwhile, the weak polar vortex of Northern Hemisphere, and continuously warm SST in north Atlantic, both associated with the strong EAWM in 2017/2018 winter.
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WIN.GG to present as features startup at ICE North America
Authoritative esports media portal, WIN has been selected to present to an audience of attendees at the ICE North America exhibition.
WIN was chosen as one of five companies picked from a highly competitive field of applicants. They will also present to a panel of judges who will select one winning presentation for further honours and distinction.
Founder and CEO of WIN, Serge Vardanyan will represent WIN at the exhibition, presenting to both audience members and engaging with attendees.
Serge commented on the opportunity noting: "It's a great opportunity for us to participate in the launchpad at ICE North America. I am grateful to Clarion events and organisers for providing this amazing opportunity to WIN and supporting the startup community."
ICE North America is an exhibition for companies involved in sports betting, iGaming, and affiliate marketing. This year's exhibition will also feature esports prominently as the industry continues to grow and diversify. As it has already become one of the largest markets for sports betting in the world.
Other notable exhibitors at the conference include BetConstruct, Microsoft, Sportradar, Betgenius, and 1XBet. Some of whom notably carry out esports initiatives in both iGaming and esports integrity.
WIN run the WINNERS League we started up again back in April.
SEE ALSO: Former Major champions on-board for WINNERS League Season 2
We recently announced WIN's partnership with BetConstruct, alongside the launch of Winners League Season 2.
In addition to its place as a featured presenter, WIN will also be serving as an official media partner to ICE.
WIN is an esports company built by esports fans, for esports fans. The company features multiple products. WIN.GG is an authoritative esports media portal supported by the most in-depth statistical database in esports media. Winners League is a competitive venue for esports players now in its second season of play, during which the league has successfully expanded from Europe to North America and from two divisions of play to five.
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WIN will also be presenting on its new advances in data analytics, which will serve as the basis as a new proprietary match prediction service.
Esports Insider says: Esports betting is often a contentious subject in the esports industry. Unlike most, WIN are attempting to give back to the community by providing separate tournaments and a news platform to support the industry. They are still to launch a full product so it will be interesting to see if esports bettors will find it suitable.
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Home News How Cholula plans to get more Americans hooked on its hot sauce
How Cholula plans to get more Americans hooked on its hot sauce
Right now the hot sauce, which is being acquired by spice maker McCormick, can only be found in about 4% of US households.
But it appeals to a coveted demographic — the college-educated Millennial who has a "very strong appreciation for food and loves to talk about food," in Cholula CEO Maura Mottolese's words. And the brand has been gaining share at a steady clip for the past few years, according to Euromonitor International and to Nielsen figures provided to CNN Business by Cholula.
That's in part because America's appetite for hot sauce has been growing. But it's also because Cholula has a playbook for introducing its product to new customers — albeit one that has been upended by the pandemic.
Restaurants aren't just important to Cholula for the hot sauce they buy — they're a way for the company to introduce itself to new customers. Those restaurants placed the recognizable bottle — slender, with a wooden top and a smiling, dark-haired woman on the label — on the table, where customers can potentially encounter it for the first time and then, if they like it, go buy a bottle of their own. About 40% of consumers learn about Cholula at restaurants, according to McCormick.
But when restaurants closed their doors and cleared their tables of shared items because of the pandemic, sales of the bottle "fell off dramatically" at first, Mottolese said. So Cholula had to figure out a new way to reach customers.
"We had to shift gears," Mottolese said. "It was like 'OK, how are we going to restore this business?'"
On its own, it came up with a number of solutions, including restaurant partnerships and new packaging. With the force of McCormick behind it, the brand has even more options — and, potentially, new opportunities for growth.
A spicy trend
The hot sauce market has been growing, making Cholula an attractive acquisition target. L Catterton, whose portfolio includes restaurant chain Noodles & Company and fitness upstart ClassPass, bought Cholula for an undisclosed amount in April 2019. Mottolese, an industry veteran, became Cholula's CEO soon after. Prior to this position Mottolese led Tate's Bake Shop, helping triple the size of the business before it was sold to packaged food maker Mondelez (MDLZ).
Overall, US hot sauce sales have grown an average of 9.7% annually for the past four years, according to Nielsen. The category got a boost during the pandemic: In the twelve months ending on November 7, sales surged by 24.6%, per Nielsen.
The pandemic strengthened Cholula's supermarket and e-commerce businesses as more people started cooking at home. To encourage people to buy the sauce at grocery stores, it rolled out a 2-ounce bottle at Walmart (WMT) in May to give people a chance to try out new flavors without committing to a full bottle. (The packaging was available before, but in a very limited distribution.)
Cholula's retail sales began to surge in March, and have been enough to fuel double-digit growth in overall sales year over year, Mottolese said in an interview with CNN Business.
But "on the foodservice side of our business it's been a more challenging year," she said. When the pandemic hit, restaurant sales declined. Before the crisis, foodservice accounted for one-third of the company's sales, compared to two-thirds at retail. Since the crisis, foodservice sales have made up just one-fifth of the total.
In a bid to restore those lost sales, Cholula has worked with restaurants on branded menu items and introduced new packaging.
Cholula chicken sandwiches and tiny packages
Recently, Cholula struck partnerships with restaurant chains on branded menu items.
Partnering with restaurants on products is a good way to raise awareness and secure sales, said David Henkes, senior principal at the market research firm Technomic. If restaurants highlight Cholula as a featured ingredient on their menus, they'll need a steady supply of the product.
Those deals are good for restaurants, too. They can leverage Cholula's popularity to help promote their own brands and bring in Cholula's customers.
Golden Chick, a Texas-based fried chicken chain, decided to partner with Cholula because it's "a strong brand that's very recognized in the markets that we operate in," said Golden Chick President Jim Stevens. So the company is using Cholula on its fried chicken sandwich and plans to sells Cholula mac and cheese as well.
For Del Taco, a fast food chain that serves American and Mexican food, it was mostly about finally getting "spicy" right.
"Spicy is an area that's become more popular with guests," said the brand's chief marketing officer, Tim Hackbardt, noting that Del Taco had struggled to find success within the category.
Hackbardt, who said he's been cooking with Cholula personally for years, liked the flavor and versatility of the sauce — you can have it for lunch or on eggs for breakfast. And he liked that the brand has its own following, with room for growth.
Del Taco is selling several menu items made with Cholula, including a Cholula crispy chicken taco, breakfast rollers and loaded fries. Del Taco launched a dedicated ad campaign for the Cholula menu items, including TV commercials featuring a mock metal band fronted by Crys P, a fictional rocker who loves crispy chicken tacos and, of course, Cholula.
Such partnerships have already helped Cholula stem the decline in its restaurants business. In October, Cholula's foodservice sales had improved to being flat year-over-year, Mottolese said.
McCormick plans to expand restaurant partnerships.
"Branded foodservice is a fundamental growth opportunity for Cholula," said Kurzius during a Tuesday call discussing the deal. "We plan to both expand Cholula's distribution in its existing foodservice channels and increase new restaurant penetration."
New packaging and products
Cholula has also rolled out new packaging to encourage trial and work with restaurants during the pandemic.
Once Cholula saw that its five-ounce bottles no longer made sense for restaurants, it shifted to individual packets and miniature bottles that can be added to delivery orders. Those have temporarily replaced many of the five-ounce versions, according to Mottolese.
It also recently announced a new touch-free dispenser, made by the smart home appliances company Simple Human. The contactless dispenser should help restaurants, cafeterias and other food sellers reintroduce condiments to dining rooms, said Mottolese.
McCormick, which also owns the hot sauce category leader Frank's RedHot, has its own plan to increase Cholula's reach.
It can negotiate more shelf space on grocery shelves, try to increase the brand's e-commerce sales, and double down on those restaurant partnerships.
Another possibility: Going beyond hot sauce.
"One of the things that we've been able to do with Frank's is extend it beyond hot sauce," said Kurzius. McCormick has launched Frank's frozen buffalo wings, among other things. "We can do the same with Cholula," Kurzius said. "There are a lot of opportunities to extend this brand."
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A busy surgeon has little time between procedures to eat lunch. She comes down to the cafeteria, but rather than having to stand in a long line, she can grab a sandwich, some cut-up fruit and a cold bottled water all from the merchandiser located right by the cashier. At the same time, a patient's brother has come down looking for a snack. Unable to decide what to eat, he stands at the case looking at all of the choices before finally choosing a Greek yogurt. In both of these situations, and many others, open-air, refrigerated cases fulfill the exact foodservice need that time-rushed patrons are looking for and simultaneously help ease traffic and decrease overall service times for the café.
Without having to open a door, customers are able to spend as much or as little time as they need deciding what to purchase. And with the wide array of sizes, styles and shelving options available, these merchandisers can be placed in all sorts of different locations and hold a variety of products, making it easy for people to purchase beverages, snacks or entire meals all in one spot. The openness of the case ensures there's no physical barrier to last-minute impulse buys, as well.
Products you'll find in grab-and-go merchandisers include fresh-made sandwiches and salads, cut-up fruits and vegetables, pastas and combi trays with proteins, olives, hummus, fruits, vegetables, nuts and cheese, providing new opportunities for you to generate more revenue. Sales rates for products from open-air grab-and-go merchandisers tend to be higher than those of their closed-door counterparts; there's no barrier between the customer's view of or reach to the items.
Having a good-looking merchandiser is key, but putting it in the right location is just as important. First, you'll want to think about convenience for the customer and the potential for increased sales. The standard site near the cash register is still a good spot for impulse sales. But thanks to some new designs, the options for refrigerated- case locations have expanded. Some companies offer models that inset into a wall, catching customers as they walk into the cafeteria and letting them opt out of going through the hot lines right away. These built-in options look elegant and add a lot to your operation's design. If you're going the built-in route, remember that these units exhaust hot air, which needs plenty of space to vent and dissipate or the merchandiser can overheat. Make sure they're serviceable from the front as well.
Other new options are open-air merchandisers that integrate with food stations. These merchandisers slide into the front and under service counters and let customers who are ordering a hot entrée pick up a side salad, dessert or beverage at the same counter.
In addition to thinking about the right place for optimal sales, location also is important in keeping open-air merchandisers running efficiently. Most open-air cases maintain a steady temperature between 38°F and 41°F by circulating a continuous wall of cold air from the front edges of the unit, which forms a temperature barrier between the products inside and the outside atmosphere. However, if you locate these merchandisers near an outside door, moving air from the doorway can disrupt the air curtain and jeopardize the case's ability to hold its temperature. Also, it's important to keep the merchandisers about 10 ft. away from any HVAC vents in the ceiling, out of direct sunlight and away from any heated equipment such as panini presses, soup wells and heated cabinets.
Overall efficiency can be improved not only by being mindful of the location, but also by controlling the environment of the building. Most open-air merchandisers are designed to operate optimally in a setting that's controlled at 75°F with 55% relative humidity, although some models are even more efficient, keeping a stable temperature when the outside environment is up to an 80°F/60% humidity ratio. This is an area where hospital foodservice operations have an advantage because the environment already is designed to be relatively cool and dry.
Hospitals also are typically very clean environments, which helps keep dust and debris out of the working parts of merchandisers. But it's important to regularly clean and maintain open-air merchandisers to ensure they run at optimal efficiency. Compressors and condensers need to be wiped down with a brush or cloth about once a month. It's also recommended to vacuum out the inside, fans, copper tubing and compressor about twice a year.
Better components. From compressors to fan motors, there are a lot of parts within an open-air merchandiser that each use energy to operate. Some manufacturers have been working with suppliers to get components that use less energy to operate and produce less heat while running, which contributes to improved overall efficiency of the merchandisers.
Standard night curtain. What used to be an extra option is now coming standard on many open-air cases as part of the industry's dedication to improved energy efficiency. Many of them come with locks now, too, for added security.
Innovative designs. Depending on the manufacturer, you'll see models with etched or staggered copper tubing replacing the traditional smooth tubes in evaporator and condenser coils. Etched or staggered tubing creates more surface area and allows heat to be transferred more efficiently. You also will see innovations in design, such as replacing a single large fan with several smaller fans along the length of the condenser coil; they use less energy than the single fan and cool a wider expanse. Another innovation applies to condensate. Open-air refrigerated merchandisers tend to generate a lot of ice on the evaporator coil as it cools the refrigerant and, therefore, dump a significant amount of water into the condensate pan during defrost cycles. Most units on the market use an electrically heated pan to evaporate this runoff water. One manufacturer has improved energy efficiency by switching the electric condensate pan with a hot gas pan, which uses the hot gas coming off of the compressor to burn off water from the defrost cycle.
All of this work to make open-air merchandisers more energy efficient not only helps improve operating costs but also promotes requirements set by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). While there is no Energy Star program for these types of merchandisers yet, the DOE did put out daily energy-consumption limits for foodservice operators in 2012. The acceptable amount of energy use is 35kW per day, with a little wiggle room. Many manufacturers already were making improvements that met those requirements in 2012, but the DOE plans to lower the acceptable amount of energy you can use every five years, which means there will be new numbers to meet in 2017 and equipment manufacturers continually will need to make energy- efficiency improvements.
While there already have been great strides made in energy efficiency, there is still more to be done. One change that's coming is the adoption of new types of refrigerants. The use of CO2 and hydrocarbons such as propane, already in use in Europe as a way to improve efficiency, is something we'll see applied stateside as well.
Another change in openair merchandisers over the past few years has been the switch from traditional fluorescent bulbs to LEDs. LEDs are about 30% more efficient than fluorescent bulbs and produce less heat, helping lighten the work load for the refrigeration system. But keep in mind that the switch to LEDs won't improve a merchandiser's energy efficiency by 30%, as the lighting makes up only a small part of overall energy use.
Still, even saving a little on the electrical load is helpful, and there are other benefits to LEDs as well. For one thing, LEDs last longer—up to 10 years—instead of burning out every six months to a year. You will save on replacement costs and maintenance when using equipment with LEDs.
LEDs also are aesthetically more pleasing in a number of ways. LEDs provide more consistent light. A freezer atmosphere is too cold for fluorescent lights to heat up fully and provide the same light output as they would in a warmer case, but LEDs aren't affected by case temperature and supply a more consistent look. LEDs also can be used directionally to illuminate specific products rather than just flood a cabinet with light.
From new designs to improved energy efficiencies, it's no surprise that manufacturers are seeing growth in the open-air merchandiser category. As customers ask for more choices, fresh foods and improved convenience, equipment manufacturers are stepping up to create perfect displays in ways that are both economical and appealing.


One very patriotic truck in Texas has been turning heads across the state for years.
The truck belongs to Everett Floyd, a Vietnam veteran. According to WFAA, he served two tours with the Marines. Floyd's F-150 -- which is covered in medals, flags and military memorabilia -- has become something of a local celebrity.
Very few have ever asked about the symbolism behind the elaborate ornaments, Floyd explained. He considers the truck a symbol of sacrifice, for all soldiers, especially the under-appreciated Vietnam vets.
Floyd has disabilities that occurred after being exposed to Agent Orange, a agricultural chemical used during the war. Although his time in the military personally left lasting effects, he wants those who see his truck to remember those who sacrificed it all of their country.
"Some mark the men who didn't come home," Floyd said to WFAA.


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Disney's Magical Express is a 24-hour complimentary service offered to guests who are staying at any of the Walt Disney World resorts. So yes! You will leave your resort about 3:45 am to make your way to Orlando's International Airport.
Resort Airline Check-in is not available that time of day. So you will need to bring your luggage along with you and have it stored under Disney's Magical Express motor-coach. Once you get to the airport, transport your luggage to your airline and complete the check-in process.
The night before your departure, a letter will be hanging outside of your resort room on the doorknob. This letter will indicate the exact time that you will be making your way back to the airport. If for some reason you don't receive this letter the day before your departure, be sure to stop by the front desk and ask a Cast Member to print a copy for you.
Enjoy the magical vacation awaiting you! If you have more questions, please visit with the Disney Parks Moms Panel again!


Sometimes, even when it isn't Mother's Day, I go to the Farmer's Market near where I live and pick up some tulips for my mom and my self. They always seem to make any day a lot better!
In addition to flowers, we might go on a weekend trip for Mother's Day to Weston, MO, a cute small town about an hour away from where I live. They have a lot of old shops that would be fun to visit. Maybe I'll have the owner at the hotel put some tulips in our room before we get there!
arrangement. 1800-Flowers.com is a great company that has a variety of cheerful, fun, and creative bouquets like the one above, which incorporates sunflowers, my mom's favorite flower.
On Mother's Day, I like to take my mom out to lunch with my brother. Besides a mothers day flower arrangment sent to her work beforehand (usually on a friday), we usually also get her another small gift, like a book she's been wanting to read or a few candles that smell like lilac or roses.
Even though my mom really likes the beautiful flower arrangments that my brother and I send her, I think she just appreciates what we took the time to think of her and made her feel special on this day. I'm so grateful to have a wonderful mom.
Check them out, especially if you are into social media. They are the bee's knees!
I've never really liked April Fool's, and I'm usually all about the holidays that don't get much attention. I think it is because I am so gullible and usually believe things people tell me.
One holiday I do enjoy, however, is May Day. Who doesn't like getting flowers from an unknown person?What a sweet idea. I know, it has links to the plague (at least the song 'ring around the rosie' does), but still, flowers make everything better.


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Agua Caliente leaders meet presidential hopefuls for roundtable talks at Democratic debate
Leaders of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and those from other tribes met with presidential hopefuls for roundtables at the Democratic debate.
Agua Caliente leaders meet presidential hopefuls for roundtable talks at Democratic debate Leaders of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and those from other tribes met with presidential hopefuls for roundtables at the Democratic debate. Check out this story on desertsun.com: https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/tribal-issues/2019/08/01/agua-caliente-tribal-leaders-meet-presidential-hopefuls-democratic-debates/1881234001/
Risa Johnson, Palm Springs Desert Sun Published 4:59 p.m. PT Aug. 1, 2019 | Updated 3:11 p.m. PT Aug. 2, 2019
Agua Caliente leaders stop by Democratic debate
Tribal Council Member Anthony W. Purnel, Tribal Chairman Jeff L. Grubbe and Tribal Council Member Reid D. Milanovich meet with presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren Wednesday morning, July 31, 2019, after the prior night's Democratic Presidential debate. Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
Members of Tribal Council and tribal leaders meet with Bernie Sanders before the Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday night, July 30, 2019. Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
Tribal Council Member Anthony W. Purnel, Tribal Chairman Jeff L. Grubbe and Tribal Council Member Reid D. Milanovich share smiles by the state of the Democratic Presidential Debates on July 30, 2019. Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
Agua Caliente tribal leaders and Tribal Council members flank Chairman Jeff L. Grubbe at the Democratic Presidental Debates stage on Tuesday, July 30, 2019. Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
Leaders of the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and the heads of other Native American tribes participated in roundtable discussions this week with Democratic presidential hopefuls in Detroit, where the two-night Democratic debate was held.
Kate Anderson, a spokeswoman for the Agua Caliente tribe, confirmed this was one reason tribal leaders went to the debate.
About 25 to 30 tribal leaders, several from the Agua Caliente tribe, had a chance to hear presentations from six of the candidates and then ask questions, according to the tribal publication Indianz.com.
Those who met with tribal leaders included: Montana Gov. Steve Bullock; Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana; Julián Castro, a former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California; Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont; and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts.
Agua Caliente tribal leaders were spotted posing with Warren and Sanders in photos on the tribe's Facebook page.
Tribal Chairman Jeff L. Grubbe and Tribal Council members Anthony W. Purnel and Reid D. Milanovich met with Warren on Wednesday morning, according to a post on the tribe's Facebook page which includes a picture of the group.
A post from Tuesday night shows a larger group of Agua Caliente council members and other tribal leaders posing with Sanders. In all, 18 people are pictured in the shot with Sanders.
Sanders has a page on his campaign website for his Native American policy proposals, such as the reauthorization and expansion of the Violence Against Women Act and implementation of the 10-20-30 legislation introduced in Congress to increase federal funding for communities with high rates of poverty, including Native American communities.
"Native Americans are the first Americans, yet they have for far too long been treated as third class citizens," Sanders' website reads. "It is unconscionable that today, in 2019, Native Americans still do not always have the right to decide on important issues that affect their communities."
'We're not 'R' or 'D.' We are 'I' for Indian'
Leaders of a national Native American organization also met with the candidates. Aaron Payment, first vice chairman of the National Congress of American Indians, was in the same photo with Agua Caliente members and Sanders. Payment also is chairman of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan.
Payment told The Desert Sun on Friday that the roundtables consisted of several sessions in which small groups of tribal leaders met with the six candidates individually.
He told candidates that while Native Americans make up a small percentage of the population, approximately 1.5 percent according to the 2010 census, their votes could be significant in the upcoming election.
"If they reach out to us and have a platform for us, we could make a difference," Payment said.
He noted states where the results for 2016 presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton came down to around 1 percentage point, like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida.
Payment had good things to say about all of the candidates who participated in the roundtables, noting that Sanders was "very genuine" and perhaps on equal footing with Warren in the eyes of many tribal members.
"(Warren's platform) seems a little more substantive than what I saw from other candidates," he added.
Payment said he was particularly interested to hear from Kamala Harris, who was asked by the group about her record on denying land-into-trust applications as California's attorney general. He noted that California tribal leaders who were there spoke favorably of her.
According to Payment, Harris told the tribal leaders that the state was her client at that time, but as president, they would equally be her clients.
"To me, knowing this material, it was clear she knew what she was talking about," he said.
Former Vice President Joe Biden was not present for the roundtables, but is popular with Native Americans, Payment said.
"Tribes are comfortable with him and he's a known quantity because of the Obama era," he said.
From Payment's perspective, most American Indians put their tribe above party.
"We're not 'R' or 'D'," Payment said. "We are 'I' for Indian. ... We will talk to anybody who has something to offer us and we have a right to be heard."
Payment said he encouraged all of the candidates to participate in the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum on Aug. 19 and 20 in Sioux City, Iowa, hosted by Native American voting rights group Four Directions.
Sanders, author Marianne Williamson, Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, former Rep. John Delaney of Maryland and Independent candidate Mark Charles, a member of the Navajo Nation, are confirmed to attend, according to Four Directions.
"Discussions continue with several other campaigns and additional guests are expected," according to a news release from the organization.
Community reacts to tribal leaders' meetings
Followers of the Agua Caliente tribe's Facebook page had a few things to say about the meetings, including Vincent Grandi, who wrote in response to the post with Sanders, "Thank you for representing!"
"Good company to keep," Greg Varra wrote of the photo with Warren.
Bill Caldman expressed the thoughts of many — "Now we want to know who is the favorite."
A couple of people referenced President Donald Trump's nickname for Warren, "Pocahontas," in response to Warren's previous claims of Native American heritage.
This stems from Warren identifying herself as an American Indian on some documents going back to 1986. She said that she grew up believing she had Native American ancestry based on family stories.
Warren released results of a DNA test in 2018 that suggested she may have had Native American ancestors approximately six to 10 generations ago. Earlier this year, Warren issued a public apology for her Native American claims and she also apologized to the Cherokee Nation for using a DNA test to try to prove her American Indian heritage.
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Post #DemDebate last night in Detroit with @ewarren@RogerLau and @TeamWarrenpic.twitter.com/MCHxQZwSqI
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A delegation of Connecticut legislators, prompted by the tubing death of a high school honors student last summer, wants to make getting a boating certificate in the state more in line with obtaining a driver's license.
Four Greenwich lawmakers are in the early stages of discussing possible legislation to bring forward when the new session begins Jan. 7, according to the Associated Press.
Grant Westerson, former president of the Connecticut Marine Trades Association, said that making boating licenses mirror drivers' licenses presents all kinds of logistical problems.
"In a perfect world that lengthy process may work, but that's not what we have to work with," Westerson said.
For example, figuring out who would be grandfathered into current laws, determining what kind of vessel people will be tested in and whether an applicant gets a learner's permit would be onerous, Westerson told Trade Only Today.
Even simple things such as determining who would provide the boats could cause a lot of headaches for boaters and state administrators.
The fatal tubing accident, which occurred last summer on Long Island Sound, involved a 16-year-old powerboat operator licensed in the state of Connecticut and pulling two teens on a tube. One of the girls died, and another required stitches on her leg.
Greenwich Selectman Drew Marzullo, a paramedic who responded to the boating accident that killed 16-year-old honors student Emily Fedorko on Long Island Sound, sent members of the delegation a letter urging them to tighten the laws, the AP story said.
Among his ideas was to bring the state's boat licensing requirements in line with those for obtaining a driver's license. In the letter he said a boat powered by an engine can be just as dangerous as a car, if not more so because of the risk of drowning.
"I don't want to imply that examining boating regulations in some way would have prevented the accident. I don't know," Marzullo told the AP. "I think it would be beneficial and in some ways a long overdue discussion to have examining the boating laws."
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