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21 July 2015
Fifa must make big changes, says Leo Martin
Fifa has recently seen seven executives arrested, 18 charged with money laundering, tax evasion and racketeering, and its president 'resign' after just four days of his fifth term. For decades Fifa has faced allegations of corruption, yet much of it has been dismissed as sour grapes from countries unsuccessful in their World Cup bids.
However when Blatter's reform process was derided as a sham, and the head of the ethics committee resigned, it was clear that there must be a problem. To say that Fifa is operating with a trust deficit is an understatement, yet there are a number of ways this can be put right.
There are often demands that those responsible for corrupt practices in major corporates are dismissed from the organisation. So too at Fifa – which will need to embark on a wholesale restructuring, removing the complete layer of senior management involved in the running of the organisation. A new team must be built, preferably bringing in qualified outsiders who have no prior association with Fifa or related organisations. This restructuring should also involve the creation of a new and transparent hierarchy that will review and redesign the bidding process for each Fifa competition, creating a system that is monitored, reviewed and reported on.
A robust governance structure should be imposed to ensure appropriate levels of scrutiny. In most well-run organisations, there would be a split between those running the organisation on a day-to-day basis and the body that holds them to account and is answerable to all stakeholders. Each ought to have a separate head to mirror the CEO/chair split. Regular meetings between these two parts of the organisation must be held with published minutes to ensure openness, transparency and appropriate levels of scrutiny.
The organisation should demonstrate total commitment to open-book reporting and accountancy. Complete transparency is necessary with every contract, including those with suppliers, federations, contractors and countries. The salaries of all senior executives should be made public and audited accounts published each year.
Fifa is currently located in Switzerland, which has gained a reputation for allowing organisations to operate behind a veil of opacity and secrecy. Relocating its headquarters to a jurisdiction with a reputation for transparency will demonstrate a real commitment to reform.
Many corporations, particularly those in heavily regulated industries, employ teams of ethics and compliance professionals to ensure that the right corporate culture is created and embedded throughout the organisation. Fifa tried, but its head of ethics resigned because its report had been edited. It must create a new ethics and compliance team and take heed of its recommendations. It should be responsible for driving cultural change and required to monitor and report publicly and freely.
Organisations require a code of conduct to ensure that expectations of behaviour are clearly laid out and understood. Although Fifa has a code of ethics, it appears that the code of conduct is only available in draft form. It must develop a robust code that applies to all board members, committee members, employees, associations and confederations. Expectations of behaviour, together with clear sanctions, need to be made explicit and clearly communicated throughout the Fifa group. This code must be separate from the existing code of ethics which seems to apply to players, coaches, match officials and agents.
Conflicts of interest can lead to poor decision making, wholesale corruption and fraud, and are best avoided. That does not mean that directors of Fifa cannot ever work with someone they are connected with, but such interests should be declared and steps taken to mitigate any potential risk. Fifa needs a policy and process for registering and managing conflicts of interests to ensure that this is properly monitored.
Carefully written and properly implemented policies are vital for protecting organisations. Fifa should review, revise and almost certainly rewrite its policies. It must look carefully at all the possible risks and identify the areas where the organisation is exposed. From the possible cases pending it would seem that a thorough review of bribery and corruption, whistleblowing and procurement polices would be a good place to start.
Once a code of conduct and a good set of policies are developed, Fifa needs to embark on a training and communications programme to ensure all the correct messages are received and understood. This could involve workshops, digital training, conferences and seminars, as well as communication via social and traditional media outlets. The organisation needs to demonstrate zero tolerance to all forms of corruption and malpractice and this should be explicit throughout its global operations.
Finally, once the people, structures and processes are in place, with an agreed system of checks and balances through on-going monitoring and review, Fifa should instate a speak-up policy. Most well-run organisations have a whistleblowing system that can be used as a last line of defence if malpractice is going unchecked. Whistleblowing is an essential component of good corporate governance and should be embraced as part of an open and transparent culture. Such a system should be set up and monitored by the ethics and compliance team with annual reporting on how the lines are used and how the calls are dealt with.
ICSA delivers training in association with UK Sport and will be launching a sports governance qualification developed in association with the Sports & Recreation Alliance.
Leo Martin is Director of Good Corporation


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There's not a lot of really creative cooking going on in my kitchen right now. I'm packing up infrequently-used gadgets and gear and trying to creatively use only what's in my pantry and freezer so that I won't have to move it. When cleaning out, I realized I had a ridiculous amount of rice. White rice, brown rice, white basmati rice, brown basmati rice, Forbidden rice, short grain rice (for sushi or paella), and jasmine rice. And, of course, a "wild rice blend." My rice habit is worse than my pasta habit!
So now you know why rice is the center of this recipe, one I adapted to use with my new slow cooker from Hamilton Beach, the Set 'n Forget® 6 Qt. Programmable Slow Cooker.
First, let me tell you about this slow cooker. It is awesome. Right out of the box, I knew I liked it when I saw clamps that keep the lid on for transport. I've owned three different slow cookers and none have had this feature! I'm glad someone finally thought of it. Also, even though there are several settings (not just one knob for "off – low – high"), it was very intuitive and easy to use. I got everything going for my recipe without even opening the user guide. I also love the removable crock for washing. Best of all is the programmable timer. It's a nice feature to be able to determine the time for your slow cooker to turn off if you're going to be away from the house for a while and you don't want your food to be overcooked.
Next, the recipe. Slow cooker rice pudding. I've never made rice pudding before, but I've enjoyed it when other people have made it. I've also been looking for "treats" for the rest of the Eats family that are a bit healthier than cakes and cookies. So this worked out perfectly. I used this recipe as my guide and realized that I could make it even easier by using So Delicious Coconut Milk Beverage Nog instead. There's also a pumpkin spice version and a chocolate mint version and any of the three would work just as well (note, though: these are limited edition flavors only available in the fall and holiday season; other times of the year, you'll need to follow the original recipe or just put some So Delicious in the freezer for emergencies!). The finished product wasn't quite sweet enough for a treat, but that was quickly remedied with a drizzle of maple syrup. I added some toasted slivered almonds for a little crunch, too. But I bet pistachios would be even better. This was a great treat for the members of my family that always like a little sweet after dinner. It's satisfying without being junk food!
Slow Cooker Rice Pudding
serves 4
adapted from With Style and Grace
½ cup basmati rice
1 can light or regular coconut milk
¾ cup So Delicious Coconut Milk Beverage Nog
1 cup water
Maple syrup or agave nectar
Optional: toasted slivered almonds, walnuts or pecans or ground pistachios
Pour all ingredients in the slow cooker, stir and cook on high for 2 to 2 ½ hours. Serve warm and drizzle with maple syrup or agave nectar and top with toasted nuts or ground pistachios if you like a little crunch or texture for your pudding.
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Disclosure: Hamilton Beach provided the slow cooker free of charge. So Delicious also provided free samples in advance of market availability of their holiday line of products. Opinions expressed in this post are solely my own and were not influenced by either organization. I only advocate for brands and products I truly like.

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Monday's 30-Second Read: Festive pit-scent!
Chelsea Edwards headed to Westfield Palm Desert to do some Christmas shopping and watch a movie. Little did she know the trip was part of an elaborate wedding proposal organized by her boyfriend.
Random thoughts, anecdotes and specks of whimsy from Jeff Gauger
An editor's email inbox is a cornucopia of the serious and important and urgent — and the silly, time-wasting and goofy.
'Tis a challenge to separate the truly urgent from fake calls to act. Tip: Time-wasters often have exclamation points.
Lowlights from one day:
"Sexting Isn't Intimacy: Relationship Therapist on Love in the Modern World."
"Chicago: The City America Must Watch in 2019? How their Election will Impact the Country." (Note how the pronoun "their" doesn't match its antecedent, "city.")
"Be Happy Podcast — What Self-Made Millionaires Do That Most People Don't."
And this doozy: "Native Launches Candy Cane Deodorant."
Oh my.
"A festive pit-scent! Introducing candy cane deodorant." That's the headline on a "report" at WGNO TV in New Orleans about the deodorant. Note the exclamation point.
I prefer that my co-workers, friends and family not stink. But must they reek of peppermint? Must I?
Native is a San Francisco company that says it uses only safe ingredients and never conducts animal tests. Nice.
Still, candy cane?
The company also offers cucumber and grapefruit.
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The teachings of the Buddha have provided solace and comfort to countless people over the last two thousand five hundred years. During this time their influence has been felt largely in Asian countries, although in recent decades interest has grown remarkably throughout the world. Heartening evidence of this is that persons like Venerable Thubten Chodron, who were neither born nor brought up in traditionally Buddhist countries, have been inspired to devote their time and effort to helping others to benefit from Buddhist practice.
I am happy that she has prepared this book, Open Heart, Clear Mind based on her own experience, which conveys a clear understanding of Buddhism as it has been practiced by Tibetans, in easily comprehensible language. These teachings are both subtle and profound, but it is very important that they are made accessible in a way that people can actually put them into practice and derive real benefit from them. I am sure this book will achieve this and that it will prove helpful to general readers, especially those who have little previous acquaintance with Buddhism.


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West Texas Intermediate and Brent crudes charted the biggest weekly gains this year as Islamist fighters extended their advance in Iraq, triggering concern of a return to civil war.
Futures in New York climbed 4.1 percent this week while they added 4.4 percent in London. Government forces in Iraq, OPEC's second-biggest oil producer, are seeking to dislodge Islamist militants from cities north of Baghdad after they overran army positions in Mosul this week. U.S. President Barack Obama said yesterday he won't rule out using airstrikes to help the government.
"Prices have jumped to nine-month highs as the upsurge of violence in Iraq has raised additional risk of supply disruption," said Gene McGillian, an analyst and broker at Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut. "The situation in Iraq is going to continue to guide the market for a while."
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In an excellent first SC Congress in the UK, held this spring, the ILEC Conference Centre in London played host to a raft of industry expert speakers and an audience of some 180 senior industry professionals, chewing the fat on everything from Edward Snowden and privacy, to BYOD, cyber-crime and boardroom security awareness.
Some discussions got the audience really hot and bothered – the panel on privacy expectations raised questions over NSA and GCHQ surveillance, while the fact that these details had been collected by Edward Snowden – a contractor for the CIA at the time – saw concerns over the insider threat increase.
"Insider threats, I think, are actually one of the biggest problems," said Frank Florentine, director of LilyCo, during the panel "Inside, outside, upside-down: Staying ahead of the threat". He concluded, "At the end of the day you have to trust somebody - but its trust and verify."
Elsewhere attendees packed out the main conference room for the talk on BYOD management, while the earlier keynote on security awareness for the boardroom drew a heated debate on the media's role in educating senior executives on cyber security dangers.
One audience member questioned whether the media is having a detrimental effect on security in the event of a data breach, but Channel 4 CISO Brian Brackenborough, formerly of the BBC, said that the media can have a positive role in getting C-level to talk with their IT department.
With the conference seemingly drawing to a close, the Met Police's Mark Jackson tore up the script by delivering a surprisingly honest assessment of the force's expertise with cyber-crime.
"Online is the high street that hasn't been policed," he said during his keynote speech. He added that catching these criminals was hard enough – crimes often appear anonymous and come across via proxies from different countries – and are made harder by not having the right staff with the right skills."We're still trying to train our people like its 1987 so we need to look how we train our people," said Jackson who added that he needed people with "multidisciplinary tech skills and a detective's investigative mentality."
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Keating Supercars chooses Discovery Park District for US launch pad
April 24, 2018
Keating Supercars establish presence at Purdue's Discovery Park District as part of a collaboration that will include Purdue's Motorsports STEM program and a similar program emerging in Great Britain.
Move over IndyCar racers, you could soon be passed by the fastest U.S. street-legal cars, which Keating Supercars LLC will make at Purdue's Discovery Park District as part of a collaboration that will include Purdue's Motorsports STEM program and a similar automotive STEM program emerging in Great Britain.
Tony Keating, CEO of Keating Supercars, announced that his company will build the Viperia Berus, a coupe that can reach speeds of more than 230 mph, which are the speeds IndyCar racers hit during qualifying. Purdue students will play a major role in their production.
Keating plans to open a showroom in the Purdue Discovery Park District on the west side of the Purdue University campus with a ribbon-cutting ceremony planned for the last week of May. Cars are expected to be available for sale in November and a local manufacturing location is being established.
"I take pride in this collaborative effort with Purdue University and I'm excited to be able to take advantage of the vibrant Discovery Park District," Keating said. "As an organization, Keating Supercars have the courage and the capability to design and build cars for the American sportscar market, where high performance is a must."
Keating Supercars plans to ramp up production to about 100 cars a year at Purdue that will sell for between $180,000 and $250,000. For each car sold, Keating Supercars will donate $30,000 to support automotive STEM-based education.
"We are delighted that Keating Supercars have chosen Purdue and the Discovery Park District to be its U.S. launch pad," said Dan Hasler, the chief entrepreneurial officers for the Purdue Research Foundation.
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Phytosterols, which encompass plant sterols and stanols, are steroid compounds similar to cholesterol which occur in plants and vary only in carbon side chains and/or presence or absence of a double bond. Phytosterols includes 4- No methyl sterol and 4-Methyl sterol on the base of classification, which represent 58% and 22% of global Phytosterols market.
Food and Beverage Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry and Cosmetics Industry are the main application of Phytosterols product and North American is the largest Phytosterols market on production and consumption.
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Drama right on the start line as not only did the Maltese Falson decide to occupy the starting area but our 1st reef pulled away from the mainsail with 10 seconds to go. A wet and bumpy ride up to Green Island before bearing away and un-leashing our fractional reaching sail to spend a lot of time doing 20+ knots en-route to the Barbuda mark. We're currently heading down-wind towards Nevis hopefully clawing back some miles against Paradox with some great VMG and bonus hump-back whale breaches off to starboard. Currently we have 24 knots TWS with 20 knots SOG as we close in on Nevis.


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Timed no doubt to chime with this weekend's Mothering Sunday, Kate Middleton spoke at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists this week of her experience of motherhood, "Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me, who has support at home … Continue reading It's a mother of a day
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It looks like handbags at dawn for these head girls
The roaring row this week between the First Minister of Scotland and the Prime Minister looks set to become a proper female feud - up there with fashion designers, Elsa Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel - who "accidentally" set Schiaparelli on fire by pushing her into a candle chandelier, in a moment of rivalrous madness. Nicola Sturgeon's determination to force another Scottish referendum … Continue reading It looks like handbags at dawn for these head girls
We want she-Bobbies, with faults and all
Have a little think about the Police. Who comes to mind? A man in uniform, likely. Quickly imagine a police detective? That'll be Rebus, Maigret, Wallander, Frost, Zen, Morse, or Columbo then? Yes there's a theme here. We think of the police as men, yes we do. And the women who come to mind are probably … Continue reading We want she-Bobbies, with faults and all
Let's help Renee & Courteney out
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When I put my arm around Lance, it felt like he was made of granite. Seriously. That's not just mancrushination—it's true. I will not forget that feeling. Ever.
I like this photo cos Pablo is looking at our camera, being operated by one of the Child Life Specialists from the play room and Lance is looking at his official photographer Liz Kreutz and the TV/photogs of the pres corp.How do I start to describe our Livestrong+Pablove=Pabstrong Saturday? The whole day was amazing. I woke early and did 50 miles in the San Gabriel mountains with my Piero Giramonti and Michael Tedesco. These guys have been tireless supports in my life—friends who've pedalled thousands of miles and climbed tens of thousands of feet of mountain roads with me before and throughout Pablo's treatment. Jo Ann woke when I did. Unusual, but she had to flush Pablo's port, connect the antibiotic pump, and be sure everything was smooth.
Lance with Nike CEO Mark Parker and Shepard Fairey. That's Shepard's stunning 'Defiance Courage Action' mural in the background. He is giving us the much-smaller version off the side of his building in Echo Park after it runs its course. So excited. We're going to hang it in the back yard at Dangerbird. We have the perfect spot for it.
Lance with Nike CEO Mark Parker and Shepard Fairey. That's Shepard's stunning 'Defiance Courage Action' mural in the background. He is giving us the much-smaller version off the side of his building in Echo Park after it runs its course. So excited. We're going to hang it in the back yard at Dangerbird. We have the perfect spot for it.
At 11 a.m., Polly came over so Jo Ann could go to the Eulogies video shoot downtown. Eulogies is my partner Peter's band—they're about to leave for an unending tour, so this is Jo Ann is our video commissioner at Dangerbird, so while she had plenty of work at home, she had to punch the clock like Fred Flintstone, and check in on the shoot. Our friend Scott Henriksen directed (Helen McCusker's husband—many of you know her from your food and blood coordination), and Grady was the Director's assistant. I wasn't able to attend, but Peter, Jo Ann and Adam Harrison from DB all told me that G did a top-notch job as Scott's assistant/slate guy.
After my ride, I wolfed down my post-ride meal, showered, and headed to the Montalban Theater in Hollywood with Polly and Pablo. We went there for lights, cameras and a bit of different kinda action. Last week, Nike and Livestrong invited us to be filmed for a Livestrong TV / web commercial. Instead of showing Lance on a bike or whatever, they're doing 'people from the front lines of cancer.' That would be us. Pablo wasn't too interested in the TV cameras or the idea of sitting in a tiny room under hot lights, so I did it by myself. That was fine with me. I knew that I didn't want him in the room for part of it anyway. I had things to say that will not be appropriate to say to him or in front of him until he's much older.
There were four people in the room—director George Hickenlooper, two cameramen and an audio tech. 60 seconds in, we were all crying. It was ill. I say that cos they were there to get authentic s**t. I assumed by their tears at several points of the interview that they got what they needed. The energy in me that would normally be nervousness in a situation like that transformed into calmness and clarity. I was able to put together words and sentences that conveyed the horrifying forgotten moments, the gradual numbness to anything in our lives except Pablo and his well-being, and, of course, the incredible grace and serenity and power we have found in ourselves, in our family and in our community. We sat in there for what seemed like an hour. So we covered a lot of ground. I talked a LOT about our community—if you are reading this, that means YOU!—and how the Pablog has had over 135,000 page views since we wrote the first post on May 18 2008. George was extremely gentle and nurturing in his interview direction. Great questions and great care in how he phrased each sentence.
From the moment I met him, I could tell that George was a very talented dude. He sat right in front of me, with my left knee touching his. As I spoke I looked him in the eyes. He did not flinch once. From writing this blog and speaking about Pablo's cancer journey to all of you and at CHLA events, I realize why God gave me these talents. I've put them to good use for years, but never really felt like I'd found the precise purpose for those talents. Communication from the front lines about the darkness before dawn; the watching Pablo as he sleeps wondering...and wondering...and wondering; advocating for P on every level every day about everything (I spoke a LOT about Jo Ann in this realm); the absolute need for Jo Ann and I to have self-care and self-respect during this time; the soul-pummelling pressure of working 14-16 hours at the office and then pulling the overnight shift at CHLA; my misapprehension that the lightning bolt of cancer wouldn't strike twice in my life; and many other topics I can't recall.
After the taping, I rode my bike to CHLA and met up with Jo Ann, Polly and Pablo. We met lance in the fourth floor playroom—a room that's become P's home away from home. It was so natural and wonderful to meet him in our environment. It was so cool. He walked up to me and said, 'Hey—we talked on the phone!' As he shook Jo Ann's hand, he said, 'Hey Mom!" She swears it was because she wasn't looking. Lance is known for incredible focus. In a room full of screaming kids, we had a 10 minute convo as if we were in a private place. He also turned Pablo from a cranky mood to sedate just by asking, 'Hey Pablo, you wanna take your picture with me?' Without hesitation, Pablo flipped his frown upside down and walked over to Lance. He put his arm around Lance's leg, and the shutters started flying. I'll never forget that....There was a press corp covering the event, huddled in the middle of the play room as about a dozen cancer kids and their parents waited their turn to meet the man who beats the odds and has lived his dream for the past 13 years. After the meet + greet P, P and J A went home and I went to the ride start area.
The ride itself was fun. Very short—only two miles. We all wore street clothes and regular shoes. Strange. I hooked up with Ben Harper at the start line. Our friend Justin Meldal-Johnsen, one of the most upstanding dudes I've ever met and whom I'm honored to manage, is producing an album with Ben at the moment. He was meant to come on the ride, but, like so many people lately, is sick as heck. He rang Ben prior to the ride to let him know I'd be coming by to say hi. Like so many people JMJ introduces me to, Ben spoke to me like an old friend from the jump. We rode all the way down Sunset Boulevard talking and laughing. He heckled Lance at the start line—joking about racing him. He and Lance are dear friends. Lance called him 'a brother from a different mother' in his introduction of Ben's performance at the post-ride Livestrong event at the Montalban Theater.
Ben's a great guy, hands down. His son Ellery was at Walther School with Pablo during P's first year there. I'm not sure we ever met, but Ben swears we did. Ben hadn't heard about Pablo, and was shocked when I told him. Have to say, he took it pretty hard. I could see his kids' faces flash in his mind. Then he said that he couldn't help but wonder how he'd feel if one of his kids were in Pablo's shoes. Prior to this journey starting 10 months ago, Ben's words and energy would have stopped me in my tracks for a couple days. Today, that 'what would I do if...' sentiment is something I deeply respect coming from others, but I can't hold onto it too long.
At the theater, I realized there was something else really powerful going on: I was standing there with many of my core cycling friends, sharing the experience. The experience of being around treatment, docs, scientists, and advocates like Lance—has become just life to me. Standing with me watchin Lance speak were: my coach, Rick Babington (who works with Lance's coach Chris Carmichael), Piero and Michael, who I ridden with earlier in the day, our Friday morning compatriot Diarmuid Quinn, and Adam Harrison from Dangerbird who introduced me to the Nike people and got the whole Livestrong ball rolling in the first place. Another major detail about Adam: many years ago when he was my assistant, he would not stop goading me until I asked Jo Ann on a date. Standing behind the mixing and lighting desks, I experienced a warmth, and basked in a real moment.
All of these dudes have walked the path with me. Helped me to stay alive and sane. Helped me to be a better person. As we stood there listening to our idol speak about changing the world through cycling + art + music + action, it was clear that I was witnessing one of the gifts of being a cancer parent.
One of the many gifts of being Pablo's papa.


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The federal government reopened last Thursday after a last-minute deal was reached to fund agencies through mid-January and raise the $16.7 trillion debt limit. Though Congress reached the critical Treasury Department deadline with one day to spare, lawmakers stress that the economy did not go unscathed and cannot continue to face these moments of crisis. Ultimately, the deal is only a temporary solution, and these issues will continue to be debated in coming months through FY 2014 appropriations and yet another debt limit increase.
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The Senate is on recess until October 28. There is a chance that upon return, the Shaheen-Portman energy efficiency legislation could receive renewed attention. Politico reports that the bill's authors, Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH), are open to incorporating some non-controversial and bipartisan amendments into the underlying bill in an effort to secure additional Republican support and reach the 60-vote threshold. The bill has at least one Republican supporter in the House. Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Chairman of the Energy and Power Subcommittee, suggested that he and his colleagues will be ready to "move the bill" once it comes over from the Senate. Speaking at a DLA Piper energy summit, Whitfield also predicted that the White House will reject the Keystone XL pipeline proposal.
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In August, AEE wrote to the General Services Administration urging that its pending Delivery Service contract require vendors to meet goals for reducing emissions, cutting petroleum use, and increasing the use of alternative fuel vehicles. We're pleased to report that GSA's final solicitation calls for continuous annual improvements in fleetwide fuel efficiency, alternative fuels use, and greenhouse gas emissions intensity, as well as rigorous reporting of these metrics. The contractor is also expected to participate in EPA's SmartWay Transport Partnership to achieve fuel- and emissions-reductions in freight and small package transport.
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In another benevolent look at an aging legend, Morgan Neville's latest documentary boils down Rick Rubin's atypical path to greatness into a universal message of inspiration, using the variety of musicians who visit his mythic Southern California recording studio as avenues into the record producer's guiding ethos, as well as a resource of widely applicable words for the audience at home. Tyler the Creator, Ezra Koenig, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, LL Cool J, as well as non-musicians like David Lynch, David Blaine, and Jerrod Carmichael all stop by "Shangri-La" to shoot the shit with the bearded, barefoot Rubin, his long white hair and white-walled retreat lending added calm to the therapeutic vibes — he's there to help with whatever's blocking their creativity, and Neville's four-part docuseries is here to do the same for viewers.
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TOKYO (REUTERS) - Japan's exports fell in April at the fastest pace in three months as a stronger yen and weakness in China and other emerging markets take their toll on the country's shipments, boding ill for growth prospects for the current quarter.
Exports declined 10.1 per cent year-on-year in April, Ministry of Finance data showed on Monday (May 23(, in line with a 10.0 percent annual drop expected by economists in a Reuters poll and worse than a 6.8 per cent drop in March.
It marked the seventh straight month of declines and was the biggest drop since 12.9 per cent in January, when Japanese shipments to Asia slowed sharply ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays.
The data underscores the challenge for policymakers to rev up the flagging growth in the face of sluggish external and domestic demand, with analysts warning about the risk of an economic contraction in the current quarter.
Exports to China - Japan's largest trading partner - fell 7.6 per cent in April, while the US-bound shipments fell 11.8 per cent year-on-year.
Damage from last month's earthquakes that disrupted supply chains in the southern manufacturing hub of Kumamoto curbed car shipments to the United States, a ministry official said. US-bound car exports fell 4.4 per cent, down for the first time since November 2014.
Exports to Asia, which accounts for more than half of Japan's shipments, fell 11.1 per cent in the year to April, while EU-bound shipments rose 9.9 per cent.
Imports fell 23.3 per cent in the year to April, versus a 19.0 per cent annual decline expected by economists.
The trade balance came to a surplus of 823.5 billion yen (S$10.34 billion), against the median estimate for a 492.8 billion yen surplus, posting a third straight month of surplus.
Data last week showed the world's third-largest economy unexpectedly expanded at the fastest pace in a year in the first quarter, but analysts said the rebound is not strong enough to dispel concerns over a contraction this quarter.
The first-quarter data showed exports rose 0.6 per cent quarter-on-quarter, despite a gain of around 9 per cent in the yen since the start of the year.
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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A Sacramento man was arrested on charges of drug possession and evading police after he allegedly refused to pull over during a traffic stop overnight.
At 1:42 a.m. Wednesday officers tried to pull over a car over for a traffic violation, but instead of pulling over, the driver reportedly kept going. Police followed the car, and during the chase, the suspect allegedly threw some things out the window that were later found to be narcotics, according to a police statement.
Police pulled the man over in the area of El Camino and Grove Avenues.
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A trial in Alberta, Canada has been postponed, because one of the defence lawyers has tickets to see AC/DC.
The trial of Joshua M. MacInnis, charged with impaired operation of a motor vehicle and failure to provide a breath sample, was supposed to start on August 27. But Kevin Gubbins asked for the postponement, because his partner Christain Banks is going to see 'DC. And Judge Morris Golden agreed to adjourn the case until December 15.
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Friday, August 21, 2009
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White plumes of smoke trail behind the hulking yellow water truck as it pulls away from St. Bonaventure Indian Mission in Thoreau, New Mexico. Easing into second gear, Darlene Arviso rumbles past the trailer park where she has lived with her family for three years, past St. Bonaventure's Catholic grade school where, earlier this morning, she dropped off the students from her bus route, over the bridge spanning the train tracks, and onto the I-40 frontage road.
She heads east, the horizon tinged purple and royal blue. Through the windshield the open landscape rolls for mile after mile while the red sandstone cliffs of the Continental Divide tower to the north. Ten miles down the road, Darlene takes the turnoff for the community of Baca, water sloshing over the sides of the tank as asphalt gives way to dust and gravel. She comes to a stop behind a blue house next to four plastic 55-gallon barrels. With the truck still running, she hops out, unhooks a bulky, 25-foot hose from the back, and drags it over to the barrels. After filling them, she bends to lift the rusty metal lid of a pipe jutting from the ground, which leads to a 1,000-gallon subterranean tank connected to the house's kitchen and bathroom. Thirty minutes later the tank is full, and she's on her way.
The average American uses 100 gallons of water per day and would single-handedly drain that tank in just 10 days. But here on the Navajo Nation people average 7 gallons a day. It will be about a month before Darlene returns to replenish this family's supply.
Darlene, a reserved 51-year-old with a wry sense of humor, delivers to more than 250 rural households surrounding Thoreau on the Navajo Nation, the largest, most populous American Indian reservation. Spanning 27,000 square miles across New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, it was established in 1868 and is now home to more than 170,000 people.
Many of the households Darlene serves completely lack in-home access to running water, a reality for 40 percent of the reservation's residents. Those lucky enough to own indoor taps still rely on her because the mineral-heavy water that flows from their pipes isn't suitable for drinking. "I stopped wearing white when I moved out here because the water turned my socks yellow," says Chris Halter, St. Bonaventure's executive director. "When you drank it, it felt like you had a stomach full
of lead."
Just after noon, Darlene parks in front of a gray trailer house, a Navajo-language radio station booming through her speakers.
Half-listening, she pulls out a weathered clipboard and begins committing to paper her mental records from the morning's deliveries: P. Yazzie – 1,200. D. Yazzie – 165. J.V. – 55. O.M. – 275. E. Long – 55.
Math was her favorite subject in school; numbers always clicked for her. With the deliveries she's made so far, she calculates that there's still enough in the truck's 3,500-gallon tank to visit six more houses before she has to turn back for her afternoon school bus shift.
A muffled clatter draws her eyes from the clipboard, prompting her to peek at the side-view mirror. She laughs and jumps out. The trailer home's owner, Benjamin Lewis, has commandeered the water hose. Darlene ambles over, teasing him good-naturedly in Navajo. Dressed in jeans, a striped button-up shirt, and a cream-colored cowboy hat, the 68-year-old Vietnam veteran cracks a grin and shouts, "I wish I could stay young like this forever!"
Benjamin grew up nearby on the reservation and remembers trekking a mile each way, at least twice a week, to a windmill-powered well with his siblings and the neighbors' kids. Someone would push a wheelbarrow filled with empty containers. "It was kind of fun," he recalls. They enjoyed playing in the area around the windmill. When they got tired of horsing around, the kids would fill the containers and push them back to the house, leaving them outside on a wooden bench for communal use.
Since he moved to his current home in 1998, Benjamin has been waiting for the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority to put in a new water line. Baca Chapter, the division of the Navajo Nation that governs this area, installed a septic tank for his bathroom, but he had to haul water from a nearby windmill-powered well for it to work. He used to fill his drinking barrels there too, until he found a sign posted on the well warning that the unregulated, untreated water had tested positive for uranium (a vestige of the area's now shuttered mining industry), coliform bacteria, and nitrates from livestock waste.
Benjamin wasn't surprised. "There's a lot of other windmills besides the one here that I know have been contaminated. Just about almost every windmill out here, you can see signs on."
He could have gotten water at his mom's house, a little over 8 miles to the north, but he would have only been able to carry small containers. After seeing the yellow truck out for delivery, he approached Darlene and asked to be added to her route. Now Benjamin has relied on her to supply water for the past two years.
Workers from the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority showed up on Benjamin's property with a backhoe last year, and he was hopeful they would move ahead with the new water line. Instead, they only dug a shallow hole that they covered up again before the end of the day. The ground was too hard, they explained, and regulations forbade them from using dynamite to break through it. They promised to return with different equipment. That was last summer. He hasn't heard a word since.
"I'm well-set here," Benjamin says. "Really, I don't have anything to complain about but the water. But one of these days I'll get it. With the coming spring, I'll probably have running water."
When Darlene was growing up on the reservation, her family didn't have an indoor tap. At least once a week they hauled their barrels several miles to fill them at their church's well. She and her sisters washed their hair only on Sundays and Thursdays. When doing the dishes, they would save the rinse water for washing the next round. She remembers her grandfather, a medicine man who made the family's moccasins, frequently chastising her and her siblings, "You need to save the water!"
She graduated from Thoreau High School and settled nearby after marrying a ranch hand, Tom, who had also grown up on the Navajo Nation. The couple worked hard to provide for their family—four kids, plus Darlene's mom, grandmother, and several nieces and nephews. Back then, Darlene was a self-employed jewelry maker, crafting earrings and other pieces out of silver.
As the kids got older, though, she grew tired of being a silversmith. In 2002, she told Tom she wanted to work as a school bus driver. He went with her to an employment office, where she signed up to earn her commercial driver's license. Driving home, the future looked bright.
But one week before her test, a horse fell on top of Tom while he was training it, and he died of his injuries. Their oldest child had just graduated from high school; their youngest was 8. The burden of providing for the family rested squarely on Darlene's shoulders.
She took a job driving a water truck for an Albuquerque, New Mexico–based construction company, which laid her off after a few months. She went to a similar job at another company, only to be laid off again.
Between Darlene's unemployment benefits, her eldest daughter's income as a heavy machinery operator, the younger children's survivors' benefits, and the extra cash that her two sons brought in chopping and selling firewood, the family cobbled together a living. "We had our own house—all we needed was to pay for water, electricity, and propane for cooking. We made it through," she says. It was a difficult, frustrating time, "but there were more blessings."
She knew that St. Bonaventure Indian Mission offered help to people in the community, including house repairs, food, clothing, and utility assistance, "but I thought it was for people who really needed help."
It wasn't until the family couldn't pay their electric bill that she finally went to ask for assistance. While filling out the paper-work, she gave her CDL to the receptionist, who immediately called executive director Chris Halter.
A new diesel-powered Chevy C8500 had arrived just one month earlier. It was custom-fitted with a food-grade water tank, as well as a special suspension system designed to mitigate the wear and tear brought on by the reservation's rocky terrain. But Chris hesitated to send it out for delivery. "I needed someone to take care of this water truck and make it last for a long time." Watching how roughly his drivers—all men—handled the old truck and the mission's other vehicles convinced him that St. Bonaventure needed a female driver.
So Chris told his staff to pass along the word about the opening to any female truck drivers they knew. And then Darlene walked in. "I thought, She's precisely what I'm looking for," he recalls. He hired her the next day.
After eight years she still finds the work deeply rewarding—it resonates with the values of her Navajo upbringing and her Christian faith. "Plus I know how it is to have no water," she says, "so I want to help."
Today, everyone in the community knows Darlene as the Water Lady, waving when they pass on remote stretches of road and coming out to chat when she arrives at their home. The staff at St. Bonaventure calls her their eyes and ears—and her help isn't limited to water delivery.
If someone's roof is wearing out, Darlene tells the mission to dispatch a repair crew to the residence. If a household needs lamp oil or warm clothing or nonperishable food, she drops by the next time she's in the area. She often spends extra time visiting with the elderly, filling them in on their kids' lives or just listening when they want to talk. "Sometimes, if they're sick and need prayer, I'll pray with them," she says.
When she stops by the gas station one morning for a cup of coffee, she runs into a young man whose mother passed away two years ago. Darlene knows he's been struggling lately, and she offers encouragement and kind words in Navajo.
Back in the truck minutes later, she says, "I'm everybody's auntie, sister, mom … "
St. Bonaventure began trucking water out to the surrounding community in 1978, four years after the mission's founding. At the time the service reached far fewer people. It was a matter of resources: The truck that was used until 2008 held only 3,000 gallons and was notoriously unreliable. "It spent more days in the shop than it did delivering water," Chris says.
The same year that St. Bonaventure started up the service, the Navajo Tribal Utility Authority drilled wells in Smith Lake, a town just across the Continental Divide from Thoreau. As houses were hooked up to the resulting infrastructure, they were removed from the mission's delivery route. But the staff soon discovered these households still needed them.
The wells hadn't been dug deep enough, and the water was laced with all sorts of minerals. It didn't pose any immediate health risks, but what flowed out of the taps was often tinted brown or black and smelled of sulfur.
Until a donor visited the Navajo Nation, George had no idea that there were people living without running water in the United States.
Chris sent out a plea for donations so St. Bonaventure could expand its service. In response, a couple from Texas stepped forward and bought the truck Darlene drives now. Smith Lake residents were added back to the route. "The program is definitely bigger and better now than it ever was," Chris says. "But we can't get by on just one truck, and we need to deliver more water."
The number of homes with indoor taps has grown at a plodding pace, and rocky land isn't the only obstacle. Some people live on land so remote that connecting a house to the existing infrastructure would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, an expense that neither residents nor their chapters can come close to affording.
People can purchase bottled drinking water at the gas station or the Dollar General, but it's too expensive to buy what a family needs for everyday cleaning and cooking. Some visit coin-operated filling stations in the cities of Crownpoint or Gallup, lugging barrels, tanks, and buckets up to 100 miles round-trip.
St. Bonaventure has an on-site well with a free public spigot, but people are asked to self-limit how much they take home. "You got to look out for the next person," says office manager Cindy Howe. But hauling water, whether from the city or from the mission, requires transportation—and the strength to lift the full barrels and jugs (5 gallons weighs 40 pounds). For the elderly and the rural poor, delivery is the only option.
Thankfully, St. Bonaventure has help. The mission is collaborating with DigDeep, a Los Angeles–based nonprofit focused on defending the human right to water. Before the partnership with St. Bonaventure, called the Navajo Water Project, DigDeep helped build infrastructure exclusively in Africa. Executive director George McGraw, who studied international law at the United Nations' University for Peace, was shocked—and embarrassed—when, in 2012, he found out about the conditions on the reservation.
Until he heard from a donor who had visited the Navajo Nation on a mission trip, George hadn't known that there were people living without running water in the United States. According to the most recent American Community Survey, one-half of one percent of households in the U.S.—about 1.6 million people—lack complete indoor plumbing systems. DigDeep is working to change that, beginning with the Navajo Water Project.
"There are three problems that we're solving on the reservation," George says. "First, our current clients aren't getting enough water. Second, they're keeping it in barrels, buckets, pickle jars, cups—whatever can hold it. Finally, there are more potential clients that we need to hook up to the project, and the whole system needs to be made more efficient in order to be able to serve them."
So far, they've procured another water truck—which was retrofitted with a new engine and a food-grade tank—and a second driver, allowing St. Bonaventure to double the monthly deliveries. Last November, the next phase began: installing in-home water systems complete with 1,200-gallon underground cisterns, sinks, showers, and electric water heaters. The goal is to equip 205 households by the end of 2018. By far the costliest and most complicated objective is still in the works: drilling a new well at Smith Lake. If all goes according to plan, construction will be underway by March or April, and clients could receive clean Smith Lake water as early as mid-2016.
Eventually the goal is to get running water into all the houses, but realistically that's a very long-term aim. "I think that, as much as I'd like to say we'll phase out the water truck in my lifetime, we won't," says Chris, who's 48.
Darlene will continue delivering to every household on the list. She'll also keep driving the old truck. "This one has air conditioning," she says with a sly smile.
In the scant shade of a scrawny tree, Darlene peers inside a blue barrel. "That one's still dirty." The small plastic caps used to plug the barrels' openings tend to go missing, letting in bugs and wind-borne debris.
Holding the hose over the barrel, Darlene grips the nozzle's red handle and releases a gushing stream. She gives the container a swirl and, after dumping out the dirty water, discovers something at the bottom. Tipping the barrel over, she reaches in and pulls out a piece of red garden hose used as a siphon. She hangs it from a tree branch
Darlene turns at the sound of the young voice to see two boys, 8 and 7, who've ventured out of the house at the end of the lot.
She knows the kids well; she brought water here to their grandmother before the grandmother passed away and the boys' parents moved onto the land. "I took out the hose," Darlene tells them.
"My mom says the barrel was dirty," the older kid says, drawing closer. His brother hangs back, observing silently but curiously.
"I cleaned it," Darlene says. She chats with them about school—they have the day off for Columbus Day—asking where they go, even though she already knows the answer. Then she asks if they have anything else for her to fill. The two kids disappear into a nearby hogan—an eight-sided house built in traditional Navajo style—and return with an empty 1-gallon apple juice jug. Darlene fills it up at the spigot on the side of the truck. The brothers thank her and turn back toward their house, carrying the now heavy bottle between them.
Back in the driver's seat, Darlene glances in her side-view mirror and catches sight of the boys pumping their fists. She obliges and honks the horn, laughing as their faces disappear from view.


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ILLINOIS (RFD) — Get them while they are hot. Tickets are selling quickly for some concerts at this year's Illinois State Fair. And one act is smashing records – Reba McEntire has more than 11,000 tickets so far. Fair Manager Kevin Gordon says it's gonna be a big show.
Over all more than 28,000 tickets have been sold and the fair won't open till August 8th.


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First Three Global Scholars Graduate
The Ursuline Education Network (UEN) has conferred the Ursuline Global Scholars Certificate upon three graduating students who have stretched beyond traditional core curriculum requirements and have demonstrated intellectual achievement, a commitment to service, passion for international issues and a desire to be involved in global change.
St. Louis students in the Global Scholars program study a world language for four consecutive years and take at least four globally-focused courses in addition to completing independent reviews or reflections on at least eight works of international/cultural media. They must also complete four co-curricular requirements that include holding a leadership role in the Leadership for Diversity Team or one of the three world language honor societies, participating in a Global Education Trip, hosting a visiting student, attending a conference or engaging in other globally-focused activities. In addition, 20 hours of service with a focus on global/international issues must be completed as well as a 20-minute capstone presentation given by the student about her global experience.
Ursuline Academy St. Louis is one of the first three Ursuline-sponsored schools in the world tooffer this program and we are proud to announce our first recipients and share summaries of their work.
Samantha Abel '17
Co-curricular activities included participation in the United Nations' 60th Commission on the Status of Women and the Archdiocese of St. Louis Immigration Teach-In, interviews with Ursuline Sisters from Slovenia and involvement in the United Nations Club
Cultural literacy readings/viewings included Night, Kite Runner, Forgotten Girls, America Divided, He Named Me Malala, and The Girl in the River
Community service focused on the field of human sex trafficking
Madison Corsi '17
Co-curricular activities included membership in the Leadership for Diversity Team and Latin Honor Society, hosting a South African student, participation in UA trips to France and England, and attending the UES Leadership Conference
Cultural literacy readings/viewings include Nudge, Global Health Care: Issues and Policies, The Healing of America, A Closer Walk, Sick Around the World and The Painted Veil
Community service focused on healthcare with service performed at St. Louis Children's Hospital
Colleen Hannegan '17
Co-curricular activities included membership in the Hispanic Honor Society, participation in the Saints & Scholars Summer Theology Institute at Holy Cross College at Notre Dame as well as the Archdiocese of St. Louis Immigration Teach-In, and education regarding immigration in El Salvador
Cultural literacy readings/viewings include Trojan Women, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, America Divided, Day of the Dead, Girl Rising and Romero
Community service performed in El Salvador through Project FIAT (Faith In Action Together)


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Lepidoptera The Speckled Wood Or Wood Argus Butterfly – Pararge Egeria
Most of our butterflies delight in the hot sun, and are to be seen on the wing only when it is shining brightly. This fact is particularly noticeable on a bright day with occasional heavy clouds. While the sun's rays are pouring uninterruptedly on the landscape, numbers of these light-lovers are to be observed flitting about; but when the dense shadow of a passing cloud creeps over the ground they rapidly disappear from view, having settled down to rest on leaves and stems. Then, as soon as the shadow passes away, the air is again enlivened with their sports and flittings.
The Wood Argus is a marked exception to this rule. It delights in the cool shade of the narrow paths of woods, where it slowly flies up and down the lonely footpath, taking but little heed of strangers that intrude on its haunts, and seldom venturing into the full blaze of the sun unless pursued. Even on dull days it continues its solitary flight, and may even be seen on the wing while a soft rain is bathing the dripping foliage.
The upper surface of this pretty butterfly is shown on Plate V, fig. 5, and the under side in the accompanying woodcut. Both sides are prettily marked with various shades of brown and buff, and adorned with white-centred dark eye-spots which have earned for it the name of Argus.
It first appears on the wing in April, and may be seen from this month continuously to the end of August.
The food plants probably consist of many species of grasses, the cock's-foot (Dactylis glomerata) and couch grass (Agropyron repens) being among the number, and the eggs are laid on or in the neighbourhood of these during the summer months.
The caterpillar of this species is of a dull greenish or brownish colour, and it has two whitish stripes (sometimes three) down the middle of the back, and similar stripes along each side. It hybernates during the winter, and is full grown in March, when it changes to a dull green or brownish chrysalis, which is streaked with black, and has a few white dots on the back.
It has been stated that the butterfly is on the wing from April to August, and, according to some authorities, there are no less than three broods during this time, following each other in rapid succession. It is common throughout England and Ireland, and is known in parts of Scotland.


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September 2015
Letter from the Editor
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Trends Analyses
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Transportation Issues Impacting Cattle Well-Being in the U.S. and Considerations for the Future >
Slowdown in Australia's Beef Production and Exports Finally Materializing >
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Q&A with Pia Untalan Olafson and the Tick-Induced Meat Allergy >
Issues Updates
Antibiotic Stewardship is Not New to Cattle Ranchers: Update on New Regulations and What It Means for the Beef Industry >
Carbon Footprint of U.S. Beef vs. Global Beef and Understanding the U.S. Beef Water Footprint >
Research Findings
The Beef Industry's New Long Range Plan Sets Important Direction >
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The Beef Industry's New Long Range Plan Sets Important Direction
The beef industry has adopted a new long range plan (LRP) that will guide the industry from 2016-2020. Developed by a task force of industry leaders, this new plan will focus on growing demand for beef over the next five years by addressing key challenges and opportunities
by Rick Husted, MBA, Vice President-Strategic Planning and Market Research, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff
The beef industry has adopted a new long range plan (LRP) that will guide the industry from 2016-2020. Developed by a task force of industry leaders, this new plan will focus on growing demand for beef over the next five years by addressing key challenges and opportunities. The plan's vision is simple and straightforward, "To responsibly produce the most trusted and preferred protein in the world." The mission statement summarizes key elements the plan will focus on and states, "A beef community dedicated to growing beef demand by producing and marketing the safest, healthiest, most delicious beef that satisfies the desires of an increasing global population while responsibly managing our livestock and natural resources."
The plan's overall objective is to increase wholesale beef demand by 2 percent annually over the next five years. Taking the turnaround in supply that is underway, that will be no small task. Given that, the LRP task force is challenging industry stakeholders across the supply chain to support the plan by taking specific action on those strategic initiatives most relevant to their area of expertise.
In today's global marketplace, every successful cattle producer or other beef industry stakeholder knows the importance of planning when it comes to business success.
In fact, every decision companies and organizations make is ideally based on sound research and strategic foresight. While all beef related businesses likely have their own internal plans and objectives, the beef industry recently funded the development of a five-year beef industry long range plan to help ensure the industry, at a minimum, has the underpinnings to engage in and align to a consistent direction. More specifically, the beef checkoff will use this plan to very directly guide their efforts and funding decisions moving forward.
Developed by a task force of 16 industry leaders, the plan took about eight months to complete and was ultimately adopted by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff, and the Cattlemen's Beef Board during July's 2015 Cattle Industry Summer Conference in Denver.
"While the beef industry has faced many challenges, the future holds tremendous promise for the industry," according to Don Schiefelbein, owner/operator of Schiefelbein Farms and task force co-chairman. "The task force took a research-based approach to not only determine where the industry is and how we got here, but also at the trends and issues potentially impacting the beef community so that we can be most successful moving forward."
The task force identified increasing beef demand as the single most important strategic objective for the industry to pursue and established a specific objective to "increase the wholesale beef demand index by 2 percent annually over the next five years" through focus on four core strategies: drive growth in beef exports; protect and enhance the business and political climate for beef; grow consumer trust in beef and beef production; and promote and strengthen beef's value proposition.
"The overall vision of the task force was straightforward," said John Butler, CEO of Beef Marketing Group and task force co-chairman. "Recognizing the growing demand among the world's middle class for high-quality protein, we want the U.S. beef industry to responsibly produce the most trusted and preferred protein in the world. At this pivotal point in the U.S. beef industry's history we need to focus our energies and limited resources on those areas that can provide our industry the best results."
Beyond these four core strategies, the task force identified specific strategic initiatives that support each. These initiatives are much more focused and at times more aggressive than direction provided by long range plans in the past. The task force clearly recognized the importance of calling out ways to address current issues facing the beef industry today.
A High Level Overview of the Long Range Plan Core Strategies and Strategic Initiatives (see the plan for more detail)
A Call to Action
Challenge yourself and your organization to help achieve the long range plan's objectives by taking specific action on those strategic initiatives you believe you could most positively impact. The plan will only be as good as the outcomes it achieves. Make your mark and get involved today.
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New and Simplified Rules on the Way for Turkish Citizenship
* Update: In accordance with the decision published in the Official Gazette, a new convenience was added to the regulation on 07.12.2018. Foreigners who regulate a contract from the notary for the housing sale and commit to buy a property worth of 250.000 USD, can obtain Turkish citizenship. Read more about the news
With the decision published on 19.09.2018 on the Turkish Official Gazette, some regulations regarding the transition of foreigners to Turkish citizenship changed. Turkish citizenship will be given directly to foreigners who buy at least 250.000 USD worth real estate in Turkey.
As this law is declared by Turkish President just yesterday, we expect the new decrees and instructions at Immigration Directorate, Land & Cadastro Registry Directorate and Ministry of Interior Affairs and Tax Office. All instructions of new citizenship rules will be clear within a few weeks. We advise you to sign up for the newsletter to get updates evenly to your e-mail.
New conditions for foreigners to obtain Turkish citizenship were passed in Parliament. The fixed capital amount for foreigners to be entitled to Turkish citizenship reduced to 500.000 USD from 2.000.000 USD. The amount envisaged to obtain Turkish citizenship through the acquisition of property was reduced to 250.000 USD from 1.000.000 USD. The employment limit was also reduced to 50 from 100 people.
According to the latest updates made on the Turkish citizenship law published in the Turkish Official Gazette, foreigners who meet the following criteria can apply for Turkish Citizenship exceptionally with the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers:
• Proven by the Ministry of Economy to make the fixed capital investment in the amount of minimum 500.000 USD;
• Proven by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanism to purchase property in the amount of minimum 250.000 USD provided that it is registered in the Title Deed Registry not to be sold for 3 years;
• Proven by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security to provide employment for at least 50 people;
• Proven by the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency to deposit minimum 500.000 USD in banks operating in Turkey provided that such amount shall be kept in the banks for three years;
• Proven by the Undersecreteriat of Treasury to purchase State debt instruments in the amount of minimum 500.000 USD provided that such instruments are kept for three years.
Further Information: See the Citizenship in Turkey page if you have more questions about the Turkish citizenship.
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In our home, we're a pretty emotionally-attached bunch. I'm sure we're not alone in this, but we are very open with our affections, both me and the hubby and us with the boys. The boys are therefore very comfortable with hugging and yes, even kissing their friends goodbye. (This was quite something for their friends to get to used to at first.) I'm sure there will come a time when we'll have to curb this activity, but for now, I'm not worried about it.
One of the phrases we are found of sharing with the boys is, "I love you with my whole heart!" (Daddy started it, believe it or not.) They love reiterating this back to us in various forms:
No, I love you with MY whole heart.
And I love you with my ENTIRE heart.
My whole heart is hungry.
Mommy, my heart is hungry for fruit snacks.
Mommy, did you hear me? Let me shout this one out, just to be sure. I SAID MY HEART IS HUNGRY FOR FRUIT SNACKS.
No, my heart is not hungry for a banana.
My heart is sad because you won't give me fruit snacks.


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Murdered U.S. agent's family wants answers
The murder of U.S. Special Agent Jaime Zapata on assignment in Mexico happened more than eight months ago, but has been shrouded in mystery.
Not a day goes by that Amador and Mary Zapata don't think about their son Jaime, a Special Agent with Immigration and Customs (ICE).
"I think about a young man with a loving heart who loved fishing, who loved family and friends," said his mother Mary.
Jaime was one of five brothers, all in the field of criminal justice. Earlier this year, he was sent to Mexico City on what he said would be a "safe" assignment.
"He had told us that he was going to be detailed to Mexico, that he was going to be working out of the embassy, that he was going to be in an armored vehicle," said his father Amador.
But on Feb. 15, Zapata and his partner Victor Avila were attacked in their government SUV by suspected Mexican cartel members.
Nobody knows exact details, but the ICE agents were traveling hundreds of miles from their Embassy assignment on a notorious stretch of highway, believed unarmed with no escort. Their vehicle was cut off and bandits attacked. Both agents were critically injured by gunfire.
Fellow agents told the Zapatas Jaime had been hurt. Mary phoned relatives to ask for prayers.
"When I got off the phone, my son says, 'Mom, Jaime is dead,'" she recalled.
"It was horrible," said Amador. "And to this day, I still think of it and it devastates me."
Suspect says ICE agent was slain in error
ICE Agent Death Highlights Risks in Drug War
What upsets the couple most is their belief that U.S. law enforcement could have stopped the sale of a gun used to kill their son.
CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has obtained law enforcement records that show the gun that killed him came from the U.S., and the suspects who allegedly trafficked the firearm had been under law enforcement's watch for months in Dallas - even videotaped taking part in trafficking crimes.
Three traffickers who provided that weapon had been on law enforcement's radar screen five months BEFORE Jaime was shot. ATF had traced them to a cache of illegal firearms being smuggled to Mexico, yet apparently made no move to question or charge them.
Trace reports show the suspects then trafficked dozens more weapons, including the gun used against Zapata, and they even transferred 40 illegal firearms to a DEA and ATF informant.
But they were only arrested months later, after Zapata was killed.
In a letter, Senator Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, accuses the Justice Department - which oversees ATF - of trying to hide how long the suspects had been under watch.
The Justice Department responded by saying ATF "was not aware of" the suspect's purchase of the gun that killed Zapata when it happened. The agency says answering further questions would jeopardize the investigation.
Eight months after Jamie's death, the Zapatas haven't been given so much as an autopsy report.
"What are your thoughts on why you have so few answers?" Attkisson asked.
"I hope that it's not a cover up," Mary Zapata replied. "I pray that the weapon that killed my son didn't come from the United States and was allowed to travel to Mexico."
Desperate for answers, they've filed Freedom of Information requests with the very agencies whose leaders spoke at Jaime's funeral: ICE Director John Morton; Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano; and Attorney General Eric Holder.
"Agent Zapata's story is one that we must not forget, and it is one that we won't," Holder said at Zapata's funeral service. "He was a hero in every sense of the word."
When asked what her son might say now about his case, if he could talk, Mary Zapata replied, "A few days after he passed away, he came to me in a dream and he pointed to his lips. And he said, 'Mom, I cannot speak. You have to speak for me. Seek justice. Make sure another person does not have to go through what I went through.'"
ICE told Attkisson that the agency communicates regularly with the family and are doing all they can for them.
The three trafficking suspects recently agreed to plead guilty to weapons charges.
The Justice Department won't provide any information on arrests or identities of those suspected of actually shooting Zapata with the illegal weapon. An official also refused to comment on a report that Mexico may have just turned over the man believed to be responsible for the agent's death.


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Hire Cars Manchester Airport UK – Top Tips On Booking Your Car Hire
Hire cars Manchester Airport UK are available via a number of different rental companies. However, if you have never hired a car in the UK before, you may be feeling a bit overwhelmed and at a loss regarding where to start. No need to fret; we have some top tips to help you out below.
Firstly, make sure you know your insurance options when it comes to car hire Manchester Airport. You need to know what is included in the insurance plan the car rental firm is offering you. Some policies will include high excess charges if any incidents do occur, and consequently it can be a good idea to consider an additional damage refund policy instead. You also need to take a look at the fuel policy. The most economical option tends to be to pick up the vehicle with a full tank of fuel. There are some companies that will ask you to pay for a full tank of petrol and diesel, and then you are able to return it empty. However, you do need to be mindful, as the rental company may charge you way over the odds for the initial tank of fuel. Another tip is to book a hire car Manchester Airport as soon as possible to lock in the best prices, and check for age restrictions. Most rental companies will not allow those under the age of 21 to rent a car and even for under 25 year olds, the hire car is likely to charge a premium rate.
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2017 – Sweden
Are you ready to return to that (your) age of wonder?
Since 2011, Fria Liga (Free League), have released a host of interesting and unique RPGs. Their latest, Things from the Flood (TFTL) has a massive 2.79 million Krona pledged of their 100,000 Krona goal. They're doing great!
So great, Fria Liga have won a guh'Jillion awards already. Shiny gold ones, too.
Based on the strange technology inspired artwork from Simon Stalenhag, TFTL is a retro RPG set in the "80's that never was" complete with elements of Stranger Things, ET and perhaps even the Goonies.
After the completion of an underground particle accelerator in 1969, things start to get weird. Machines start to populate the landscape and unusual events pull you away from your family life.
You start the game playing as kids in a juvenile and private era of wonder, exploration and mystery. The secretive world of kids on the loose… are yours again.
There's no death in TFTL – you just get too old and leave for your adult life of humdrum – but there are still dangers.
So why is it good and why should you try it?
The primary element of play-ability is that you play a child… again. Let's say your character is 10 years old – hey you can role-play that already, you were there once! The concept is much easier to comprehend than playing a 300-year-old elven wizard in a culture you've never seen before!
I'm agreeing with Fria Liga; this game is newbie safe.
The adventures are more like mysteries in which the characters have to solve the enigma in a world that is only slightly different from our own. I think Stranger Things is a good way of looking at it.
Check out some of the art work:
And as ever, it gets better.
2018 – Things from the Flood.
So, it's a decade later, you're now in your teenage years and life is different. You're growing up, changing not just in yourself but in a world that is rapidly developing. And the dark waters have risen.
Things from the Flood brings new elements of danger and "raises the stakes" to Fria Liga's previous game.
I wonder if they're going to go all the way into retirement?
With familiar iconic archetypes such as the outsider and the party animal (available in the Kickstarter project) you'll not be in over your head for character concepts.
The Kickstarter is still open with just a week left to go.
Grab your copy for about £30 (not including the postage) with the extra bits for backing the Kickstarter project and seek out those mysteries!
I'm waiting eagerly to see how it goes!