FSM Actively Experiencing Extensive Saltwater Inundation in High & Low-Lying Islands; State Governments Encouraged to Request Assistance, if Necessary; Citizens Encouraged to Document the Event
By FSMPublic InformationPosted December 6, 2021
PALIKIR, Pohnpei—Originally through voluminous reporting across social media, and subsequently through dialoguing with the Nation's State Governments, the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) has been made aware of extensive saltwater inundation across the Nation's islands as a result of ongoing King Tides and storm surges. The Government has received numerous requests from citizens asking for support.
As of December 6th, 2021, the FSM National Government is communicating with the States of Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and Kosrae, to determine the extent of any possible damage. As the flooding event is ongoing as of this release's publication, it is plausible that such determination will occur after the event has concluded.
Supposing that the flooding constitutes a natural disaster, the first step following the flooding event would be for the relevant State Government to conduct an assessment of the damage. If a given State Government requires the assistance of the FSM National Government in such an assessment, then the State Government would formalize the request in a communication to the Office of the President.
Following the initial assessment, the FSM National Government would verify the assessment's authenticity. From there, the Government would work to determine what relief efforts, if any, would be necessary.
Citizens affected by the ongoing flooding activity are encouraged to document the event extensively, both with photographs and in writing. Cataloging the damage and the effects as they occur will assist the State and National Government assessments following the event, and expedite the issuance of necessary assistance.
"We are watching what's happening," said His Excellency David W. Panuelo, President of the FSM, in a statement, "And, first and foremost, I would ask our citizens to feel assured that their Government is aware of what's happening, and is ready to take action. We stand by to offer our full support to the State Governments when the requests come in, and I encourage the States to make these requests without any hesitation or reservation if they feel it's necessary. Whether it's construction supplies or food, we will never abandon our citizens to the existential threat of Climate Change."
The FSM National Government will continue to monitor this situation as it develops.
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tivon@uw.edu
Background and Experience
Tivon Rice (b. 1978) holds a PhD from the University of Washington's Center for Digital Art and Experimental Media, and was a 2011-12 Fulbright Scholar.
Rice's work critically explores representation and communication in the context of digital technologies. Both fascinated with and wary of the speed of televisual media, Rice creates systems that pair immediate materials such as light, space, and tangible forms with live and recorded sound and video. With these installations, he engages spectators and participants with direct physical situations, as well as processes that unfold over longer durations. By activating one's awareness of color, time and space Rice creates opportunities for dynamic, active viewing.
While his practice is primarily concerned with emerging social relationships to digital technology, Rice draws heavily from art historical themes. In doing so, he examines the conditions of surrealist and minimalist attitudes in contemporary new-media arts. This practice informs recent large-scale installations, as well as images and sculptures which incorporate the particular patterns, textures, and processes inherent in digital media.
Tivon began his exploration of image and form at the University of Colorado, where he received a BFA in both Electronic Media and Sculpture (2000). He continued these investigations in the University of Washington's masters program in sculpture, during which time he began his study of experimental video in DXARTS.
Since earning his MFA, Tivon has received numerous awards including the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, the Boeing International Fellowship, and most-recently a Fulbright Scholarship for research in South Korea. Rice has exhibited extensively with solo shows throughout the northwest and group shows in Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, and Miami.
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Site Machines Tivon Rice
Adviser(s): Juan Pampin, James Coupe, Paul Berger Electronic Media, Immersive Media, Installation, Mechatronic Art, Robotics, Site Specific Art, Video Art, Visual Arts
Arcade Zero Tivon Rice
Adviser(s): Juan Pampin, James Coupe, Paul Berger Electronic Media, Immersive Media, Installation, Mechatronic Art, Robotics, Video Art, Visual Arts
Summer 2017 A-term
DXARTS 490 A: Special Topics in Digital Arts and Experimental Media: Photogrammetric Modeling
DXARTS 451 A: Experiments in Video Art I
DXARTS 450 A: Digital Video Foundations
DXARTS 450 A: Digital Video Foundations - Course Website
DXARTS 200 AA: Digital Art and New Media: History, Theory, and Practice
DXARTS Alumnus Tivon Rice receives two major grants from the Dutch Cultural Fund for Architecture, Design, and Digital Culture - Published: January 9, 2019
Modern Body Festival - Published: October 17, 2014
James Coupe Exhibits "Swarm" At Toronto International Film Festival (Mocca, Toronto) - Published: September 17, 2013
DXARTS Video Art Student Exhibition - Jun 1 2017 - 7:00pm
Tivon Rice: "Façades + Drone Photogrammetry" at Threshold Gallery, Seattle - Jun 2 2016 to Jul 26 2016
Black Box 2.0 Festival - May 6 2015 to Jun 7 2015
Tivon Rice's "Site Machines" - Jan 20 2014 - 9:00am to Apr 11 2014 - 5:00pm


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28th day of curfew a reality check in Kashmir
Dr Syed Nazir Gilani
Future generations in Kashmir and Pakistan in particular and in the rest of the world in general would judge the quality and merits of our response, to Indian occupation of the part of Jammu and Kashmir on her side of cease fire line. It is interesting that India has used military force a second time in her dispute with Pakistan since 1947 to seal an occupation for the time being.
Hyderabad acceded to Pakistan but India used military force, to undo the accession and occupied it forcibly. Kashmir and Hyderabad are both pending disputes at the UN Security Council. Pakistan has almost given up on Hyderabad at the UN Security Council. We have always avoided a reality check and missed to improve upon our strategy. It was first under the simplification process under rule 11 of UN Security Council Procedural Rules that we were told in September 1996 by the UN that since Kashmir had not been debated at the UN Security Council from November 1965 to August 1996, it needed to be dropped from the agenda. We ran helter skelter for a cover up, to keep our people in the dark. If Modi had not gone mad on Kashmir on 5 August 2019, the Government would not have accepted that it has taken Kashmir to UN Security Council after a lapse of 50 years. Many of the officers in the Foreign Office who credit today, the present Government for taking the Kashmir issue to UN Security Council, have in fact also remained involved in the cover up from November 1965 to August 1996. This generation of officers is always malleable in their own interests.
Kashmir militancy and Kashmir political Alliance (United Hurriyat of 31 July 1993) had driven India to her den and Kashmiris were prevailing. Indian administration in the Valley came to a standstill and collapsed for a good time. Prime Minister Narasimha Rao offered "sky is the limit", Prime Minister Vajpayee offered a formula of "insaniyat, Kashmiriyat& jamhooriyat" and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offered five working groups to make a comprehensive progress on the resolution of Kashmiris right of self-determination. Government of India or anyone in majority Hindus would not have even dreamed to lock down Kashmir in this way in August 2019, hunt down Kashmiris on the streets of India and give calls to their youth to get ready to take Kashmiri girls (women) as wives after the abrogation of 35A. It may be happening, as no one knows what has happened under the cover of CURFEW. The Hindu Ruler could not hold on to his first ever September 1931 curfew beyond 11 days. On the contrary Modi Government has been using curfew in Kashmir as a hobby. August 5 curfew is far different and one can easily liken it to Hitler's gas chambers. Something urgent has to be done to vacate the aggression, occupation and curfew.
Pakistan is faced with a situation in Kashmir as it faced a similar situation in Hyderabad. The encouraging difference is that, here we have unwilling Kashmiris physically fighting Indian occupation
What has gone wrong that Modi Government turned its back on three previous Prime Ministers of India and decided to go in a bacchanalian mood to annex Kashmir? A reality check is highly desired. It seems that militancy was not authored as a means to a just and final resolution. Kashmiri militants almost got recognised by the Government of India as a legitimate Kashmir army, as a consequence of a dialogue offer. A smart militant and political leadership should have gone in for one or two or more dialogue session, to gain legitimacy and then pull out if required. Opportunity of gaining legitimacy, would have defeated India move to label them as terrorists. Our militants shelved their guns. Many of them took to Muzaffarabad-Srinagar trade, local trade activities and some even decided to seek refuge in Europe and other countries. Authors of military and political strategy were taken over by greed, corruption and private interests. Indian Government and its various elements kept their course. They kept a vigil on our failings. It ultimately boiled down to a mad, unlawful and unconvincing Indian action of 5 August 2019. Pakistan is faced with a situation in Kashmir as it faced a similar situation in Hyderabad. The encouraging difference is that, here we have unwilling Kashmiris physically fighting Indian occupation. Pakistan has a strong constituency in the valley and among Kashmiris all over the world. The question is would Pakistan be able to oblige and keep this constituency intact? Not easy but not difficult either.
Government of Pakistan and the people of Pakistan have a fundamental role to play in helping the people of Kashmir out of this occupation. It needs a revision of past and a reality check of the present. We have a UN mechanism on Kashmir and it was on the basis of this connection with UN that Pakistan was able to seek a meeting at the UN Security Council. It has helped. The pending UN template of a UN supervised vote in Kashmir, is the first point of interest for any country or community to help us. Foreign Office keeps the same files as were kept during Mushtaq Gumani's time or during the times of President Musharraf. A majority of officers also remain the same and their effort to press PTI Government mode button, would not help. We need to learn from the past and there is an urgent need for a fresh approach. It has to be knowledgeable and inclusive approach. The circle of wisdom could not be perfected without a convincing Kashmiri input. We should not use UN Security Council as a threat to force India for a bilateral dialogue. We should have full faith in the jurisprudence of UN package on Kashmir. Kashmiris right of self-determination should not be stripped of its merit, available to it under UN Security Council and UNCIP Resolutions. Kashmiri input could be assured and secured through the institution of "Plebiscite Advisor" envisaged in AJK Act 1970 and AJK Constitution Act 1974.
Under Act 1974 Government of Pakistan has accepted to perform duties under UNCIP Resolutions in Azad Kashmir. The office of the Plebiscite Advisor is directly linked to the main duty under UNCIP Resolutions of a UN supervised Plebiscite. It is discouraging to note that Government of Azad Kashmir has failed to discharge this constitutional duty of immense international interest for the last 49 years. JKCHR during its arguments in the High Court of Azad Kashmir(1992-1999) found that an appointment was made on 19 January 1991. The process appeared to be suspect and against the spirit of the constitutional duty.
It is high time that we appoint a Plebiscite Advisor to create an institution in equity with Kashmir Committee in the Parliament of Pakistan. The principles and criterion of the appointment have been set out in the full court judgment of High Court of Azad Kashmir given in the JKCHR writ petition Number 122 of 1992, decided on 2 April 1999. The High Court Judgement insulates the dignity of the appointment (a personality of high international standing and commanding general confidence) and keeps out any possible party or other interests. It is the principal constitutional duty which connects Kashmir with UN and this office should have been working on the jurisprudence of Kashmir case for the last 49 years. Sooner we act the better it is.
The author is President of London based Jammu and Kashmir Council for Human Rights – NGO in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations


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Why Croaky "Vocal Fry" Seems Expressive in Women but Not So Much in Men
The often-maligned Kardashian-speak plays an important — and gendered — role in pop music.
Pop music enthusiasts are no strangers to vocal fry, the raspy, croaky tone iconically deployed by Britney Spears in "Baby One More Time" and copied over the ensuing years. The technique, so often criticized as sounding Kardashian-esque in normal speech, has enjoyed longevity in the music world, and vocal researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio think they've figured out why.
Presenting the findings of a small study today at the 171st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, the scientists, who were aiming to investigate the emotional properties of music, report that female singers that use vocal fry are rated as more expressive, but the opposite is true for men.
"If you put on any recording of Britney Spears 'oh baby baby' — that is fry," says John Nix, an associate professor of voice and vocal pedagogy at the university. "It's a habit that we're hearing more and more in popular styles."
The vocal fry double standard is nothing new: Women who use it in their normal speaking voices have been criticized for sounding incompetent and untrustworthy, while male voices have largely been spared, even though it's been documented in men as well (even Ira Glass has admitted to it). What's interesting is that vocal fry's seemingly gendered effect in music — that it's considered more expressive in women — seems to finally make a positive case for its use.
It makes sense, then, that Ariana Grande would use the technique to crackle sensually at the beginning of every verse on "Let Me Love You," in the same way Rihanna does in "This Is What You Came For," Alessia Cara does on "Here," and Kesha does in every Kesha song ever.
"You don't hear a classical opera singer who has to sing [without a] microphone to a 4,000-person audience using vocal fry," Nix says, "but someone who has a microphone next to their mouth does use it."
The physiology of vocal fry sheds some light on why it might be considered especially expressive. If you slow it down, vocal fry is a burst of sound punctuated by moments of silence, shorter than the time it takes to blink an eye. To achieve this tone, singers need to make their vocal cords slack and compact; air that's pushed through moves more slowly, bubbling out and forming the characteristic low popping sound. The tone is by no means a natural one — although many people use it so often that it seems that way — so using it requires some intentionality on the singer's part.
The researchers also provided an explanation for why vocal fry is such a prominent phenomenon in pop: It produces such a low sound that it has to be consistently amplified. We measure our ability to hear music in terms of pitch, which is measured in hertz; our normal listening range extends from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. Vocal fry comes into our ears at the low end of the acoustic spectrum at 70 Hz, which is practically impossible to hear without a microphone. (Mariah Carey, the researchers point out, registers at 3,135.96 Hz.)
Ultimately, the reasons we perceive vocal fry as expressive in women and not in men won't be explained by physiology or in hertz; the way we respond to our favorite pop singers' voices will always come down to what we expect from them.
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21st Century Leadership Letter
21st Century Leadership Posted on August 17, 2020 • Updated April 21, 2021 —by Lisen Stromberg 1332 0
Call me nosy, but I couldn't help but to listen in when my son and his two best friends were discussing their job prospects post college graduation next year. Their conversation went as follows:
Boy #1: "Yo, the company I'm interning with this summer just gave me a full-time offer."
Boy #2: "Dude, that's awesome"
Boy #1: " Yeah, but the top is filled with a bunch of white guys. No diversity at all. And their board has no women or people of color."
Boy #3: "That sucks. They know that's bad for business, right?"
As the conversation went on, these three white, straight, male economics majors agreed that unless companies make diversity a priority, they wouldn't want to work there. As one of them said, "I want to be in an environment that challenges me to be better and allows me to learn. Working with a bunch of guys who look and think like me? Meh." Call these young men naive, call them idealistic, or call them, as I do, the next wave of talent your company is going to want to hire.
Did you know that companies that put profits and people on a level playing field deliver a total return to shareholders 3x greater than their peers? "Inspiring Individuals is the New Competitive Advantage" – McKinsey
But the truth is, despite all of the upheaval we are experiencing right now in the world and the ongoing calls for change, companies are still resistant to do the work. Why? Because, as one CEO told me, "It's uncomfortable."
The result? In the past two weeks alone, we have seen case study after case study of companies hurting their businesses because they weren't walking the talk when it comes to aligning their external branding with their workplace culture.
Case study #1: Fair Equity Should be Table Stakes
That's the headline of the billboard that software start-up Carta displayed up and down Silicon Valley's Highway 101. Carta makes software used by more than 14,000 companies, to manage data for stockholders. They built their marketing around the power and importance of fair compensation. But they weren't walking the talk according to Emily Kramer, former VP of Marketing and current plaintiff in a lawsuit against the company. According to Emily Kramer, "Companies have an obligation to issue equity more fairly. That's what Carta stood for, and I was really excited for the opportunity to tell that story." Instead, she's suing the company for gender discrimination and pay inequity. So the question at hands is whether your company is at risk?
Commit to pay equity.
When it comes to fair pay, don't just sign a pledge, deliver the results. Join Adobe, SalesForce, Nordstroms and many others and commit to pay equity with the Fair Pay Certification.
Case study #2: People Before Profits
That's how REI has positioned itself since its origins in 1938 as an employee cooperative. But profits took center stage before the store reopening on July 4th weekend when an employee reported to her manager that she was positive for COVID-19. Her employer told her to keep quiet. Instead, she sent out a company wide message warning her colleagues they were at risk. The employees banded together and created an online petition accusing the co-op of "prioritizing sales above workers." REI was forced to change its employee notification policy and is now managing its tarnished image across stakeholders.
Commit to aligning people and profits. Your company should give employees a safe way for their voice to be heard to ensure you get the information you need in order to protect both of you.
Case study #3: Black Lives Matter, Or Do They?
This one isn't in the headlines, it's in the day-to-day reality of right now. A prospective client reached out to ask about our diversity and inclusion work. We shared our belief that diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging are table-stakes for companies that want to succeed in the 21st century. We told them it doesn't start with a one-off webinar, it starts with understanding where their company is and helping them get to where they need to be. It starts with data and understanding the lived experience of their employees. We provided them with a detailed proposal of how they could begin the journey to making sure culture is a competitive advantage. Their CEO took one look and said, "This is too much work. Can't we just do a lunch and learn?"
Commit to diversity and inclusion. Try to track your employee analytics. You can track your hiring, retentions, and promotions of your employees to ensure you are keeping up with diversity and inclusion in your workplace.
Saying one thing and doing another or hoping a one-off lunch to learn will make "this all go away" is not the answer. As a recent article in the Washington Post stated, "Pushed by employees in some cases, and in others by a fear of losing customers, corporations are being forced to examine their roles in perpetuating inequalities in hiring, pay and promotion, fostering toxic workplace cultures and consumer discrimination."
Here's the truth: Corporate America is in the midst of a reckoning. If you are doing what you've always done, you're going to get what you've always gotten. And in today's world, that's a recipe for failure.
So where do your leaders stand and how does your culture measure up when it comes to 21st century readiness? Feeling unsure or afraid to get uncomfortable? We can help.
It's time to stop talking and start doing because your employees, your customers, and the future talent you need is watching.
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Lisen Stromberg is the CEO and founder of PrismWork and a 2GO Advisory Group consultant. She is a workplace culture innovation and leadership expert who works with clients to help them build next-in-class 21st century cultures with the future-forward leaders their company needs to succeed. As an award-winning independent journalist, her work can be found in The New York Times, Fortune, Newsweek, and other top media outlets. Her book, Work Pause Thrive: How to Pause for Parenthood Without Killing Your Career, reveals how trailblazing women disrupted the traditional career paradigm to achieve their personal and professional goals and how forward-thinking companies create workplaces that enable women to thrive.
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Closing Information Gaps in Emergency Response
When natural hazards strike, emergency service providers must be prepared to act quickly and decisively to respond to people in need. Whether dealing with hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, or earthquakes, these crises require fast, informed action.
But that's easier said than done when the data that first responders use comes from scores of disparate sources. Even though more information than ever before is available to today's emergency personnel, the data is often stored in disconnected systems that make use of many different tools. This makes it tough to combine all the necessary information into a single source of truth. It also makes it hard to share critically needed information with people on the front line.
Esri partner First Due—a graduate of the Esri Startup program—offers a cloud-based, end-to-end software suite that brings together much-needed data for fire and emergency medical services (EMS) operations, prevention, and administration. With First Due, emergency service providers can run their entire operation in one place using tools for pre-incident planning, community engagement, mobile response, inspections, and asset and personnel management, as well as the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) and electronic patient care reports (ePCR). First Due also works on any computer or mobile device.
Residential structures in Arcadia's First Due environment are shown next to real-time fire perimeter data.
A key feature of First Due is that it allows fire department and EMS staff to operate directly on top of crucial data layers from Esri, such as floodplain and elevation maps or live fire data, while out in the field. First Due's solution employs ArcGIS technology throughout, including in tools for pre-incident planning, inspections, and community risk reduction.
"By partnering with Esri, we're able to give our customers across the country the critical geospatial information they need—at their fingertips and at a moment's notice," said First Due cofounder and CEO Andreas Huber. "Our customers are using this data to tackle incredibly complex and quickly moving natural disasters."
Out of the box, First Due's pre-incident planning functionality automatically aggregates public and private sources of critical information within an agency's response area to provide a profile of every structure, including single-family homes. Additionally, First Due's Community Connect solution enriches automatically sourced data by enabling residents to submit their own life-safety information. This gives responders and emergency planners access to details like people's contact information, mobility concerns, language preferences, and building features that only occupants would know.
Real-Time Incident Management for the Bobcat Fire
During the devastating 2020 California wildfire season, the Bobcat Fire burned more than 115,000 acres in September in and around the Angeles National Forest. As one of the largest fires on record for Los Angeles County, the Bobcat Fire resulted in large-scale natural and structural damage, caused residents to evacuate, and contributed to hazardous air pollution across the region. For the first responders fighting the blaze, the Bobcat Fire was a dangerous, hard-to-contain, quickly moving challenge.
Using First Due's Pre-Incident Planning function, the nearby City of Arcadia had collected comprehensive community data before the fire broke out. As the wildfire progressed, city officials were able to see this data in First Due in the same operating picture as real-time data layers from Esri to help first responders monitor and battle the blaze.
"MODIS [Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer] and VIIRS [Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite] layers in GIS are up-to-date information made available by the folks at NASA [the National Aeronautics and Space Administration] to understand, through high-tech thermal imaging, what areas are showing spikes in abnormal heat and where the fire has most likely spread," Arcadia fire chief Barry Spriggs said. "In conjunction with fire perimeter data from other sources, we were able to gain an accurate, real-time picture of what we were dealing with."
Spriggs said that First Due and ArcGIS helped all the agencies responding to the disaster set priorities and drive a consistent, organized response.
"Having an accurate map was huge when deciding how and where to place resources for all agencies involved in response to the event—our personnel, local [police departments], and city officials in the EOC [emergency operations center]," he said. "Early on, it was determined that we needed to take advantage of Arcadia-specific GIS layers and wildfire-specific GIS layers to make sure we could utilize our computers and tablets in the command post and emergency operations center so that we could stay current with the fire perimeter and best understand how it can impact our city."
Sharing Data in Real Time to Combat Hurricane Sally
Like the Bobcat Fire, Alabama's Hurricane Sally—also in September 2020—brought fast-moving destruction to a region that had already been battered by storms during last year's active hurricane season. Hurricanes can swiftly change direction, intensity, and speed, making for a hazardous set of circumstances. This intensifies the need for accurate, readily available data.
Offshore weather buoys delivered real-time data to First Due users during Hurricane Sally.
For the Orange Beach Fire Department in Orange Beach, Alabama, prehurricane preparation was key.
"First and foremost, we had to get on the same playbook and act quickly to provide our task force partners with our incident alerting, mapping data, and all of our pre-incident plans—including details on our residential structures," said Jeff Smith, Orange Beach deputy fire chief. "We took it a big step further by just as quickly enabling our crews to track outside task force apparatus locations, just as we do ours, so we could make sure the closest unit to any emergency was the one responding."
But the team realized that more external data would be needed to accurately plan for and track Sally's path.
"With the way we were already using data in the First Due platform, there were no big changes that needed to be made, even for a situation like a major storm," said Smith. "However, when we developed strategies to incorporate data from outside sources to understand how our preparations would hold up against projected storm tracks, we needed to bring in platform expertise to make these things a reality."
Live data from weather buoys, the National Hurricane Center, floodplain elevation markers, and more was brought into First Due, where it could be viewed alongside other data layers. This enabled responders from all agencies to access and use the same information in real time.
Delivering Data and Getting Results
For the agencies responding to the Bobcat Fire, Hurricane Sally, and other natural hazards, First Due—together with ArcGIS technology—gives emergency personnel the tools they need to deliver better, more accurate, and more comprehensive services to people in peril. The seamless, up-to-date data and simple user experience improve crisis response for those who need it most.
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Reckoning (2)
Pacific Blue's season opener picks up from the cliffhanger season-ender, ""The Right Thing,"" in which Bobby Cruz and the three other rookie cops were arrested for withholding evidence in the murder of gang conciliator, JOHN PATRONE.
The entire unit is pressured by IA officer SUSAN JESSUP, as BRUCE BEST is tried for the killing with Bobby Cruz as an accessory before Santa Monica's notorious hanging judge, J. GUNNAR HALLORAN.
After a sorority girl turns up dead, Monica and Chris go undercover at a very select sorority at Pacific University. Harper discovers that freshman pledges are being forced to strip at a local nightclub as part of their initiation, but then are being blackmailed to continue their activities or risk exposure to their parents and on the internet.
Blue Hawaii (1)
While in Waikiki to train the Honolulu bike patrol, Bobby Cruz (Mario Lopez) and Russ Granger (Jeff Stearns) back into an undercover case when they are mistaken for buyers in a large scale drug smuggling operation. They team up with four young, hip undercover officers in Honolulu to bust a ring working out of a surf shop.
Cruz winds up falling for CLAIRE KEENE, one of the young undercover officers, and considers transferring to Hawaii, while she considers transferring to the mainland. Granger gets involved with a gorgeous, young exotic dancer who is thinking of moving to Japan to continue her trade.
Silicon Valley of the Dolls
A doctor running an underground clinic for plastic surgery causes the death of a young co-ed. The world of high school girls obsessed with plastic surgery is explored when Russ Granger and Monica Harper go undercover. Struck by the beautiful perfection of the students, Monica and Granger learn that their boyfriends have been financing plastic surgery by stealing cars.
Hostile Witness
Granger and Cruz are sent to Ventura County on a seemingly simple case to return a witness to a murder trial in Santa Monica. The wild young woman makes their life miserable, escaping numerous times, and causing them to miss their date with two gorgeous women headed for Catalina.
Dead Ringers
A pair of twins are killing people who rub them the wrong way. One of their victims is a Federal Witness, which brings an FBI agent, who thinks that one of the people he testified against lashed back. Chris finds herself fascinated with the case, which causes more friction between her and T.C. Chris suspects that they have a serial killer and the agent is impressed with her, that she requests that Chris help her, which makes T.C. unhappy. When a person who saw the twins in one of their moods tries to call Chris but is not around so T.C. takes the call. The twins kills him and when T.C. arrives they tell him that the one who called him went away. Bobby who thinks that something is wrong and who thinks that T.C. is letting his problems with Chris cloud his judgement, tells the FBI agent about the twins and the agent says that it's been theorized that the killer is nore than one person, and the twins could be it. One of the twins lures Chris into a trap but Chris escapes and when one of
After saving a woman who was about to kill herself, Granger learns that she's being blackmailed by a male escort service she used. While she won't testify, she tells him that they pose as auto servicemen. Granger and Cruz convince Cory to let them work undercover. They find out that one of the men who work there has a record and convince him to introduce them to the boss. The boss gives them a job. Cruz learns that one of the guys wants to leave and open his own escort business. The woman who saved takes a liking to him so much that she is practically splurging on him. When the boss catches the guy who wants to leave, stealing the client list, he kills him. When Granger and Cruz can't get anything on the operation, Cory wants to pull the plug. But they convince her to be the next mark. She goes to the service center, hoping to snag the boss but the boss sends Granger instead. While having dinner, the woman who like Granger sees them and blows his cover. The guys then grab her and Cory
A female boxer dies after an exhibition match. Cory decides to investigate but the new D.A. whom she is attrracted to, is concerned that she might not handle it properly. So he calls T.C. who has depressed ever since Chris left, to come back and he does, which doesn't make Cory happy. She Strickland and Cruz undercover as a boxer and her handler. They discover that the bottle the girl drank from was poisoned and has the fingerprints of Mia St. John on it. They bring her in for questioning and learn that the water bottle is hers and suspect that maybe she was the target. Strickland then meets Joey another boxer who feels that she is being passed over because she is not as attractive as the others. They then learn that Rick who manages Joey was once involved with Mia both personally and professionally. When they try to bring him in he runs away, they manage to catch him, and they grill him about trying to kill Mia but realize that he gave the bottle to the other girl. Cory decides to han
While working on a Haitian whom they suspect is smuggling in drugs Bobby sees a man whom he arrested a few years ago who is still in prison.
Jamie who was about to go on vacation encounters a singer whose songs gave inspiration and hope when she was incarcerated. After finding her passed out Jamie brings her home. When she comes to she grabs Jamie's gun and tells her to stay away and she then leaves. Jamie needing to find her and her gun tracks her down to her mother's house. She finds her and upon convincing her that she only wants to help her, the singer tells her that she is down and outr because of her record producer. It seems that he is crooked; he takes very large cuts and when someone wants to leave he threatens them, which is what he did to her. Jamie tries to convince Cory that her claims have to be investigated, but Cory saying that this is not a criminal matter declines so Jamie decides to do it on her own. With Monica's help and one of the singers unpublished songs they try to goad the producer into doing something. He then sends his man to get the singer but Jamie saves her. Later Jamie gets the singer a gig o
God's Gift
Jamie Strickland and Cory McNamara go undercover in a sex cult operation. The master is very seductive and has convinced women to prostitute themselves in the name of God.
Meanwhile Russ Granger and Monica Harper are on rollerblades trying to catch criminals.
Swimming in the Dead Pool
A controversial and outspoken attorney, whose specialty is suing the police department; presently he has a wrongful death suit against them over the death of a young (black) man, whose death he believes was cause by the actions of the two policemen who were pursuing him. He then announces that he has found a witness, who will prove that he is right but he won't name the witness right now. Later at his apartment, someone knocks on the door and shoots him. When the department hears of this, the Chief, who is afraid that the press will assume that a cop is the killer, decides to let the Pacific Blue unit handle the investigation. Cory decides to first look into the possibility that this was the act of a scorned lover or wife, because the way the place was set up, it appears that he was expecting someone. Cory then learns that, that person is his assistant, so Cory goes to her place and finds the murder weapon. She says that she didn't do it and Cory thinks that she is innocent. Cory then
A female radio talk show host witnesses a murder on her way home. As the killers are about to shoot her too, TC saves her life. But the flash from his gun blinds the woman. TC becomes obsessed with protecting her due to his guilt and her resemblance to the love of his life, Chris Kelly. The woman doesn't know he's the one who robbed her from her sight, she just thinks he's a caring cop. This leads to a romans. But after a while the womans sight beings to return.
Jamie's sister Jennie returns to Santa Monica, but is kidnapped by young juveniles. The guy Jamie is dating is somehow involved, also the dirty narc Detective Perry Marcus.
Russ and Cory go undercover in the ugly, violent world of the Nazis, trying to catch the killers of several African-American and Mexican young men. Jamie goes undercover and tries to protect a young boy, a very talented photographer, who has captured a meeting between two powerful adversaries.
Fifty-Nine Minutes
When a pretty 15 year old girl is kidnapped from a shopping mall parking lot, Cory and the rest of the unit must band together to find her within 59 minutes. The officers must deal with the hysterical mother and false leads before their 59 minutes is up.
Disrobed
After Russ and Bobby arrest a murder suspect, the trial lands before hanging Judge J. Gunnar Halloran. After tossing the weapon because of an illegal search, the heat is turned up on Bobby and Russ, who are accused of planting evidence. The case is further hampered by the fact that Judge Halloran has fallen in love with the exotic dancer sent to blackmail him into releasing the defendant.
Bobby Cruz' sister, Teresa, witnesses the suicide of a high school classmate and begins to fall under the spell of the girl's manipulative boyfriend.
An ambitious rookie cop, recently assigned to Pacific Blue, turns out to be a spy for Internal Affairs. Things get complicated when he's let into the young Pac Blue officers' scheme to frame a ruthless drug dealer.
Cory learns she is pregnant, but is unsure whether the father is T.C. Callaway, a one night stand, or Will Blake, her District Attorney boyfriend. Before she can tell either one, she's kidnapped by two jewel thieves who offer to let her go in exchange for the release from jail of their ace safecracker, who happens to be a crazy, violent, female bodybuilder (played by WWF superstar Chyna). T.C. is shot in the leg while saving Cory McNamara.
T.C., now hooked on painkillers from being shot in the leg, leads Pacific Blue on the trail of a potential serial killer who preys on young runaways that he locates via the Internet.
Cory and Monica convince a woman psychic, who used to help the police back East, into helping on the case.
S.N.A.F.U.
While Russ, Bobby, Monica and Jamie are out tracking pot growers in the Santa Monica mountains, Chris Kelly returns to visit a wounded T.C. Callaway, who's fighting addiction to pain pills, as well as kidnap victim Cory McNamara.All hell breaks loose when Chris finds out T.C. slept with her best friend, Cory, and that Cory doesn't know if her pregnancy is the result of Will Blake or T.C. Callaway. The season-ending cliffhanger occurs when Cory opens the blood test results to find out which one is the father.


Updated: October 29, 2020.
Walking through the doors at LIXIL's former Kasumigaseki headquarters in 2015, it would be hard to differentiate the office from any one of the traditional Japan Inc. or government offices that dominate the central Tokyo neighborhood. The long rows of desks and top-down corporate culture were at odds with the company's focus on developing innovative water and housing products to make our homes more comfortable and livable.
After taking over as President and CEO in 2016, Kinya Seto set LIXIL on a new path to become a purpose-driven entrepreneurial company. The aim was to radically transform from being a complex and often-times inefficient conglomerate, into an agile, consumer-focused organization that understands and meets consumers' fast changing needs.
For LIXIL, this would be achieved through a combination of concrete structural changes to create a simpler, stronger organization, as well as by embedding a more agile, empowering, and open culture that enables employees to succeed to their full potential.
One of the first signs that old ways of operating were changing came when Seto abandoned the company's dress code. There was a clear message; the focus would be on the work, not the formalities of corporate Japan. This was just the beginning of a transformation journey to create a more agile organization. Since then, the company has unified globally around a standard set of LIXIL Behaviors and transformed internal collaboration through new digital platforms and global integration. LIXIL also divested non-core businesses and will soon formally transition to a simplified operating company structure.
Being Ready to Face Unprecedented Challenges
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the focus on agility was given a real-time stress test. With a simplified organization in Japan and all international markets integrated under LIXIL International, as well as a more digitally enabled workforce, the company was ready to face this new challenge.
Supply chain teams worked globally across time-zones to balance the increased demand for bidets in the Americas against Asia demand. With fewer layers, shorter report lines, cross-regional project teams, and a global view of key processes, LIXIL was demonstrating its newfound agility.
LIXIL's people embracing more agile work styles
Individual contributors have themselves started to break the mold of rigorous, hierarchical barriers. Leveraging the internal collaboration and communication platform, Workplace, employees have been inspiring and connecting with one another across borders: teams in EMENA and Japan came together to collaborate on 3D printing of the same 'elbow-controlled' door handles in response to COVID-19. During the pandemic many employees were now working from home, but 66%¹ said they felt more productive, taking advantage of the digital tools the company had at the ready and improving their work-life balance.
Focusing on the Job, Not the Title
Kinya Seto (CEO) and Bijoy Mohan (Leader, LIXIL International)
touring the Lahr factory in Germany
LIXIL is now taking another transformational step to remove barriers to agility and ensure the focus stays firmly on the work. The company is simplifying and harmonizing titles for managers and above across the entire company. For managers across LIXIL International and working in global roles at corporate functions, titles will be standardized as "Leader" along with area of responsibility, applying to everyone including Bijoy Mohan, formerly CEO and now Leader, LIXIL International.
Along with the simplification of titles, LIXIL has this year also redefined the role of Corporate Officers to consist of one President and two classes of Officers: Executive Vice President and Senior Vice President, bringing the number of Corporate Officers down from 50 to 24. This change also reflected the shift to a simpler, more agile organization, and has clarified the roles and responsibilities of the top leadership team with fiduciary responsibility for managing and setting the direction of the company, thereby strengthening governance.
For Seto, "Everyone has the capacity to lead – not just the person carrying the biggest title. People's contributions shouldn' t be limited to the title they hold. An environment without concerns about titles enables employees to stretch beyond where they believed their title would have allowed them to participate."
Mohan said, "This is a milestone step towards us becoming a simpler, more open culture. What's important is the actual work individuals are responsible for, not the title or rank they carry. We are focused on strengthening agile, team-based work. Teams create value for the organization by capitalizing on the collective strengths and diversity of thought. However, deference to hierarchy, fear of consequences, and lack of transparency can be barriers to effective teamwork. We want the best ideas to win, rather than a person's rank."
Office environments are becoming more collaborative and innovative
The move is also aimed at LIXIL better serving its partners and consumers, by placing an even greater focus on the actual services provided. With right expertise and decision-making capabilities at the table, the emphasis will be on collaboration and innovation to quickly find the right solutions, not the title on the business cards LIXIL people carry.
Yugo Kanazawa, Leader, Digital added, "The simplification of titles across the organization can be a catalyst for further positive culture change in LIXIL, ensuring that we embed a more agile and empowering culture. Our LIXIL Behaviors of "Do the Right Thing" , "Work with Respect" , and "Experiment and Learn" are all anchored in specific notions to encourage speaking-up and sharing views, acknowledging that everyone is a steward of our company's success."
The WING campus encourages employees to explore various working styles
LIXIL moved from Kasumigaseki to a consolidated global headquarters in November 2019. Sitting on the riverside in a largely residential part of Tokyo, the WING campus is home to a new R&D facility, design center, and spaces that encourage open communication and new ways of thinking. LIXIL is also redefining the role of the office at its regional bases in Piscataway, Singapore, and Dusseldorf. With a collaborative and innovative work environment that opens doors to creativity, employees are empowered to do their best work. Ways of working have changed dramatically since 2015 and the future will be more agile.
The company's transformation continues.
¹ Internal survey conducted internally between June 9 and 19, 2020, with 1,896 respondents.


On June 22, 2021 FCC the FCC released circulation draft for a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in MB Docket 21-263 that intends to merely harmonize and/or streamline codified regulation regarding broadcast AM/FM stations. There are nominal changes -- if maybe just paperwork conveniences and slight ease of proposals for certain stations, such in the Case of Class D. In all:
1. Eliminate the maximum rated transmitter power limit rule for AM stations set out in section 73.1665(b);
2. Update the NCE FM community of license coverage requirement set out in sections 73.316(c)(2)(ix)(B) and 73.1690(c)(8)(i) to match that used in section 73.515;
3. Eliminate the requirement that applicants demonstrate the effect of any FM applicant transmitting antenna on nearby FM or TV broadcast antennas set out in section 73.316(d);
4. Update the signal strength contour overlap requirements for NCE FM Class D stations set out in section 73.509(b) to harmonize with the contour overlap requirements for all other NCE FM stations, set out in section 73.509(a);
5. Eliminate the requirement for broadcast services to protect grandfathered common carrier services in Alaska operating in the 76-100 MHz frequency band set out in sections 73.501(b), 74.1202(b)(3), the second sentence of 74.702(a)(1), and the second sentence of 74.786(b) given that there are no longer such common carrier services;
6. Amend the definition of an "AM fill-in area" set out in section 74.1201(j) to conform to section 74.1201(g); 7. Amend the allocation and power limitations for broadcast stations within 320 kilometers of the Mexican and Canadian borders, set out in sections 73.207(b) and 74.1235(d), to comply with current treaty provisions.


How Your Critical Inner Voice Gets in the Way of Love
Communication Between Couples, Critical Inner Voice, Relationship Advice, Relationship Problems, Relationships By Tamsen Firestone
There's a nasty defense mechanism that undermines and sabotages your efforts to have love in your life: your critical inner voice. It comes at you from all sides; it goes after you, it badmouths your partner, it slams your relationship, and it attacks love in general. We are mostly unaware of this internal enemy and the subversive operation that it runs just below our consciousness. But we get a glimpse of it when we have a thought like, "He won't be interested in me. I'm not in his league." Or "I'm not sure about what I see in her. She's not really all that great." Or "Maybe we're being too affectionate." Or "Love always fades. I should never expect it to last."
What is this the critical inner voice?
The critical inner voice is a byproduct of the defenses we developed as children in order to cope with any stressful or painful events. It was formed early on when we were vulnerable youngsters trying to protect ourselves against frustration and emotional pain, and it was reinforced throughout our childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood.
This was part of a necessary coping strategy when we were very young, but as adults, we no longer need its protection. In fact, the critical inner voice actually limits us and prevents us from developing to our true potential, especially in our romantic relationships. It functions as a malevolent coach in our heads, making inaccurate interpretations of present day events and pessimistic predictions about the future based on negative experiences that occurred in our past.
It's helpful to remember that the critical inner voice is the language of the defended, negative side of your personality, the side that is opposed to your ongoing personal development. It promotes feelings of self-doubt or inadequacy that interfere with you establishing a loving relationship or performing at your optimal potential. The positive side of your personality is the real you, the side that is undefended and made up of your unique qualities, such as physical attributes or ability, temperament, certain dispositions, and a natural identification with the positive traits your caregivers possessed.
All of this begs the question: Is there a way to bring your critical inner voice out into the open, so you can challenge it directly and stop it from interfering with you having what you want, and deserve, in life. The answer is: Yes!
How to challenge your critical inner voice
Using the Voice Therapy method, you can expose the critical inner voice by giving a voice to the negative thoughts and attitudes that are turning you against yourself and interfering with your achieving your personal goals. Once it is exposed, you can confront it and take constructive action to go against it. Here is a summary of this method, as it has been adapted for journaling in the upcoming book, Daring to Love:
Identify your critical thoughts about yourself, using "I" statements. Write these statements down in your journal.
Rewrite your "I" statements as "you" statements. These are expressions of attacks coming from your critical inner voice. Expand on them, continuing to rewrite them as "you" statements.
Reflect on what you have written, and record any new thoughts and insights, as "I" statements.
Confront the attacks coming from your critical inner voice, using "I" statements to stand up for yourself.
Plan the actions you will take to counter the critical inner voice and the behavior, attitude, or emotion that it is supporting. Write these actions down, being detailed and specific about what you will do with respect to particular people, communication, behavior, situations, and so on.
Implement your plan.
With this understanding of how to challenge your critical inner voice, let's look at the different ways that this internal enemy tries to sabotage your love life.
Your critical inner voice attacks you.
The critical inner voice goes after you. Take, for example, the woman who tries to laugh off the thought, "He/she won't be interested in me. I'm not in his/her league." But then she takes a closer look by rewriting her thought as a "you" statement: He/she won't be interested in you. You're not in his/her league. Not so funny anymore. Continuing along that vein, Do you actually think he could be attracted to you? Don't fool yourself. Now she's getting to the heart of the matter, Do you think someone like that could love you? Now her critical inner voice is exposed, and she's not laughing anymore. Now she's thinking, "I don't want to end up in the self-hating place that I often end up in. I want to fight for myself this time." So, she confronts these attacks, "Stop evaluating me. Stop telling me what I do and don't deserve. I will not let you undermine me. There is no 'league' that I am in or out of. Life is not the way you see it." She feels relief from taking a strong position in relation to her critical inner voice, and she is able to continue to express her interest in and feelings for this man.
The critical inner voice attacks your partner.
The critical inner voice badmouths your partner. Consider the man who tries to ignore the thought, "I'm not sure about what I see in her. She's not really all that great." But instead he frames this thought as a "you" statement, What do you see in her? She's not all that great. Then more attacks come, So, what's the big deal about her? I don't get it. She seems like a loser to me. And, finally, You could do better than her. Dump her! At first he's confused. Then he's reminded of how his mother thought no one was good enough for him. Once he makes this connection, he knows how he wants to confront these attacks, "I'm not listening to you and I'm not letting you influence me. If I did, I would leave every relationship I had. I value her, and I want to give this relationship a chance to develop." And he does.
The critical inner voice attacks your relationship.
The critical inner voice slams your relationship. What about the woman who has the fleeting thought, "Maybe we're being too affectionate." When she starts to feel self-conscious and hold back her affection, she decides to translate this thought into the critical inner voice as a "you" statement, You two are being too affectionate. She continues, You're all over each other. You're so clingy. Then, with distain, Have some decency. Have some respect! You're embarrassing yourselves. She feels angry at being talked to this way. The tone sounds like her mother's voice, and she thinks of her parents' cold, loveless relationship. She confronts this voice, "There's nothing wrong with us or embarrassing about how we're being. We're expressing our love and we're proud of it." She feels confident and not self-conscious about her affection.
The critical inner voice attacks love in general.
The critical inner voice attacks love in general. Think of the man who says, "Love always fades. I should never expect it to last." He decides that this might be a voice, and he rewrites this belief as a "you" statement. Love always fades. You should never expect it to last. His next thought is, All relationships are doomed. Only a fool believes in love. And then his voice says, Don't even bother investing in a relationship. Spare yourself the disappointment and failure. At this point, he is able to see how destructive this advice is, and he stands up to his voice, "You don't know what you're talking about. I don't have to be self-protective. I can be vulnerable and open to love. I want to take a chance on love. My life is more exciting when I do."
This advice for dealing with your critical inner voice may sound simplistic, especially in the context of a short blog. But it's hard and takes perseverance. You are tackling a defense mechanism that's been part of your life for a very long time. Confronting it will make you uncomfortable, and it's going to bring up a lot of anxiety at first. The voice will get louder as you begin to challenge it, almost like a parent yelling at their child to get back in line. But if you hang in there and don't let the voice influence your behavior, it will eventually give up, and its attacks will subside. It's helpful to think of your critical inner voice as an internal monster that grows stronger when you feed it by listening to it and heeding its advice. But when you disregard it, you starve the monster and it fades away.
Does the critical inner voice ever go away completely? Of course not, we will always have self-critical thoughts, especially when we are vulnerable and developing ourselves in a new way. This is particularly true in a love relationship. But when we do start doubting ourselves, our partner, our relationship, or love in general, we can be aware that our critical inner voice is causing these attacks, and we can take steps to identify, confront, and take action to challenge it and stop it from getting in the way of our having a loving and gratifying relationship in our life.
Read More in Tamsen Firestone's upcoming book — Daring to Love: Move Beyond Fear of Intimacy, Embrace Vulnerability, and Create Lasting Connection
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The producer of Paranormal Lockdown Nick is a married man. He tied the knot to his wife Veronique in 2004. The couple has been living a blissful married life for more than a decade long.
Veronique Roussel is his school sweetheart and got married after dating several years. Nick and Veronique is blessed with two beautiful daughters named Annabella, born on 7 December 2010 and Chloe, born in 2014.
Nicl Groff with his wife Veronique and with their kids (Annabella and Chloe)
The 39 years old enjoys flaunting his love life with his wife and children on his social media platforms. Nick currently lives with his wife and kids in Boston, Massachusetts.
Nick Groff teamed up with 'Ghost Adventures' producer Zak Bagans back in 2004. Nick Groff is a paranormal investigator, musician and TV personality. The trio produced a documentary series 'Ghost Adventures' that aired on Travel Channel. The team investigate locations that are reported to be haunted.
Nick Groff from the TV show, Ghost Adventures
After ten seasons, Nick announced that he would not be returning to the show for the upcoming season in 2014. That same year, he produced his own paranormal show called 'Ghost Stalkers' that premiered on Destination American. Thereafter, Nick appeared along with fellow paranormal investigator Katrina Weidman in the new show 'Paranormal Lockdown' in 2016.
They locked down themselves fr 72 straight hours in some of the most haunted locations. The show ran a total of three-season and ended in the year 2020. Nick announced via Instagram video post that Paranormal Lockdown would not be returning on Destination America.
Talking about his income, his most earnings come from the show and some from his music and acting career. Nick Groff has a net worth of $1 million. He has released two albums; 'The Other Side' and 'Spiritual War.'
TV Personality, Nick Groff net worth is $1 million
Aside from that, he appeared in such movies as 'Malevolence' and 'Primo.' Besides, he also generates extra money as an executive producer working on many television series.
Moreover, Groff makes extra income from his business. He has his own clothing brand called 'Phantom Collection.' In addition, he has also authored a book titled 'Chasing Spirits: The Building of the Ghost Adventure Crew.'
Nick Groff is a co-founder, executive producer and cast member of Travel's show 'Ghost Adventures.' On the show, he worked along with Zak Bagans and his collegemate, Aaron Goodwin.
Nick left the show under the unexplained circumstance in 2014. After years, he explained why he left the Ghost Adventures, stating he has no choice, so he decided to leave. He never quit the show by himself.
Nick Groff, Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin from the TV show, Ghost Advantures
However, many people speculated due to his new paranormal series on Destination American; he left the show. Susequrntually, the show couldn't catch much viewers and end after the first season.
Some sources acclaimed, between him and Zak, there were ego problems and Zaks partying nature.
Now, he is working on his new paranormal film 'Momo: The Missouri Monsters' that aired on VIDI Space. He shared the news through his Facebook account on 17 June 2020.
Apart from that, Nick along with Mike Couch and Johnny Houser are raising funds for a non-profit organisation, Lost Limbs Foundation. The organisation provides money to the families of amputee children who are in need of medical and prosthetic assistance.
Nick Groff was born in 1980 in San Jose, California and raised in Nashua, New Hampshire. He celebrates his birthday on April 19, and now, his age is 39. He studied at the Pelham High School and then went on to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas where he met Aaron Goodwin.
His nationality is American and is of Caucasian descent. When he was eight, Nick fell out of a tree that nearly killed him. At the age of 10, Groff said he saw a ghost of a black man.
Full Name Nick Groff
Birth Date April 9, 1980
Birth Place San Jose, California
Profession Paranormal Investigator, TV Personality, Musician
Spouse Veronique Groff
Children Two
Known For Ghost Adventures
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Michael Dehn is new Managing Director of Messe Frankfurt South Africa
Michael Dehn is the new Managing Director of Messe Frankfurt South Africa. He starts on October 1 this year and succeeds Joshua Low, who has elected to resign from the company.
"In Michael Dehn, we have found an excellent expert from our own ranks who brings with him extensive international trade fair expertise from his management positions in our subsidiaries, most recently as General Manager of our Indian subsidiary at the Mumbai and Delhi sites," says Detlef Braun, Member of the Board of Management of Messe Frankfurt.
Braun would like to express his gratitude to his predecessor Low, who has been Managing Director at the South African subsidiary since April 2019 and has elected to pursue his own entrepreneurial opportunities, for which he is well placed, having run several of his own businesses in the past.: "We greatly appreciate Joshua Low's successful work, especially in these challenging pandemic times. During his time at the subsidiary, Joshua Low oversaw the growth of the subsidiary, from two trade fairs in 2017 to over eleven in 2021. He has made a significant contribution in building a strong team and growing the reputation of the subsidiary in the local market. With his background in management consulting, he was able to brings strong strategic direction to the team and company. We wish him every success in his future career."
The new Managing Director Dehn (43) looks back on more than two decades of trade show experience. Before becoming General Manager of Messe Frankfurt India in September 2018, where he was responsible for over 18 trade fairs, he worked for Messe Frankfurt Middle East for 16 years, serving as Group Exhibitions Director since 2012 and in charge of the entire exhibition portfolio, including Automechanika Dubai, Beautyworld Middle East and Intersec. During this time, he also expanded the business in Saudi Arabia by adding four new trade fairs.
Prior to that, he worked as Exhibition Manager, launching Automechanika Dubai, which became one of the largest and most successful trade fairs in the region under his leadership. Dehn began his training in 1998 as a dual student at Messe Frankfurt and completed it in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in business management at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) in Ravensburg. The portfolio of Messe Frankfurt South Africa, founded in 2014, currently includes eleven trade fairs, including Automechanika and the Festival of Motoring in Johannesburg, Allfashion Sourcing Cape Town and Solar Power Africa in Cape Town, as well as AERO South Africa in Pretoria and Emerald Speed Fest in Vanderbijlpark.


Find out more about Policy on the Reproduction of Images of Namibian Currency.
Currency Reproduction Conditions
To avoid the risk of potential criminal activity and civil consequences, the Bank of Namibia's permission for the reproduction of banknote and coin images for purposes other than authentic Namibian currency must be applied for and granted in writing before the image is used for the intended reproduction. This is in accordance with Section 80 (1)(d) and (e) of the Bank of Namibia Act, 2020 (Act No. 1 of 2020).
The conditions for reproducing Namibian currency images, as set out in the Policy on the Reproduction of Images of Namibian Currency, must meet the following minimum requirements:
Banknotes:
The reproduction must either be in black and white or retain the colours of the authentic banknote.
Electronic and printed reproductions must be overprinted with the word SPECIMEN in solid black uppercase lettering, which must not be less than one third of the reproduction's size and must extend diagonally from the bottom left corner to the top right corner of the entire banknote.
Printed reproductions must be at least 30 per cent larger than the authentic banknote, and they must be overprinted with the words IMAGE NOT LEGAL TENDER in solid black uppercase lettering, which must extend diagonally across the reproduced note without obscuring the portrait in any way.
Printed reproductions can only be printed on a single side of the paper; the reverse side must remain unprinted.
Printed reproductions must not be produced on any material similar to the material used in the production of the authentic banknote.
Electronic reproductions must be depicted on the screen at an offset angle (i.e. not flat on the screen), and they must form part of a larger pictorial design.
The reproductions must maintain the dignity of the image, emblem and design of the authentic banknotes.
Authentic and reproduced currency depicted in a motion picture (e.g. video clips and film and television productions) must be portrayed in a way that resembles a legal commercial transaction.
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Reproduced flat illustrations or designs can reflect the original size and colour of the authentic coins.
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The mission of Key West Literary Seminar is to promote the understanding and discussion of important literary works and their authors; to recognize and support new voices in American literature; and to preserve and promote Key West's literary heritage while providing resources that strengthen literary culture.
Established in 1983, the annual Seminar explores a different literary theme each January. The best writers of our time join readers from all over the world for four days of readings, conversations, lectures, panel discussions, and parties that add up to one of today's smartest and most high-spirited literary gatherings. Our Writers' Workshop Program is led by esteemed faculty and provides writers at all stages of development with opportunities to explore the craft of writing in a focused and nurturing environment. As part of our commitment to emerging writers, we present three annual awards; provide financial assistance to teachers, librarians, students, and writers; and provide writers' residencies to support the production of new and compelling work. Our Audio Archives Project makes unique presentations from the Seminar available online for use by educators, students, and readers worldwide; and our blog, LITTORAL, explores Key West's unique literary heritage in essays, interviews, and images.
All of our programs are relatively small and intimate: this is our delight, our charm, and the secret of our success. Attendance at the Seminar is limited to about 375 people: this is a full house in the theater of our home at the San Carlos Institute, one of Florida's most beautiful and historic landmarks. Each writers' workshop is limited to 12 participants in order to ensure individual attention; they take place at various locations throughout Key West's "old town" neighborhood, never far from the Gulf of Mexico or Atlantic Ocean, the library, and good places to eat, drink, or catch a movie. Writers' residencies serve a handful of writers each year, providing an opportunity to engage with Key West and the work of writing in a private and focused setting.
An island of only five square miles, nearer to Havana than Miami, Key West has one of the most intriguing literary heritages of any place in America. Whether drawn by the climate or its famed anything-goes atmosphere, many of the greatest writers of the modern era have called Key West home. Ernest Hemingway wrote To Have and Have Not from his house here on Whitehead Street. Elizabeth Bishop worked on North and South from her place near the corner of White and Southard; she later rented the home to Charles Olson, who wrote his first published poems here. Many of Wallace Stevens's poems were influenced by his stays at the Casa Marina hotel in Key West, where he walked on the beach with Robert Frost and brawled with Hemingway. Tennessee Williams lived on Duncan Street and partied with Truman Capote, James Leo Herlihy, and Thomas McGuane. Richard Wilbur and James Merrill lived in old town just a few blocks from one another, and played a regular game of anagrams with John Hersey. And the list goes on: Ann Beattie, Judy Blume, and Annie Dillard are just a handful of the writers who continue to make a home in Key West. It is a special place. We hope you will join us here soon.
Michael Blades, vice president, was a fifteen-year attendee of the seminar prior to joining the board in 2009. He worked for many years for the coral reef conservation organization Reef Relief before taking a position as logistics director for the RPM Nautical Foundation in 2006. This is Michael's tenth year as volunteer coordinator for the Seminar.
Judy Blume is the author of twenty-nine books. She has written for children, teens, and adults. Her latest novel, In the Unlikely Event, set in New Jersey in the 1950s, was inspired by a speaker at the 2009 Seminar. She is the founder, with her husband, George Cooper, of Books & Books @ the Studios of Key West, Key West's newest full-service, independent, nonprofit bookstore. Come by and say hello!
Meg Cabot is the best-selling author of more than eighty books for children, teens, and adults, including the Princess Diaries series. A frequent Seminar attendee, she has lived in Key West since 2004 with her husband, Benjamin Egnatz, board chair of the Tropic Cinema. Meg also volunteers with the Tropic Cinema, as well as Take Stock in Children.
Leslie Concepcion, treasurer, is a 25-year Key West resident, previously from Miami. She has worked in banking and finance for thirty years and is currently manager of the main branch at First State Bank of the Florida Keys. She is a member of the Key West Chamber of Commerce, Key West High School SAC Committee, and past board chair and volunteer at May Sands Montessori School. She also volunteers at Books & Books @ the Studios and enjoys yoga and boating with her family. Leslie shares her love of books with her teenage son, and they have been attending the Sunday free session of the Key West Literary Seminar together for many years.
Peyton Evans was for many years a writer and editor in New York City (Condé Nast, Hearst, Avon Books). She joined the KWLS board in 2001 and was program chair for Wondrous Strange (2007) and Writers on Writers (2013). With the exception of a two-year hiatus in California, Peyton has lived in Key West since 1998.
Lynn Kaufelt is past board president and was the Seminar's first director in 1983. She is an active real estate agent, the author of Key West Writers and Their Houses, and serves on the advisory boards of the Studios of Key West and Take Stock in Children. Lynn was the 2009 Florence Spottswood Humanitarian of the Year.
Nancy Klingener, secretary, is the Keys reporter for WLRN, South Florida's public radio station. She has lived in Key West since 1991 and has worked as a staff writer for the Miami Herald, editor of Solares Hill, (a news and culture weekly), and news editor of the Key West Citizen, the Florida Keys' only daily newspaper. For five years she worked at the Monroe County Public Library in Key West.
David McConnell is the author of the novels The Firebrat and The Silver Hearted and a narrative account of hate crimes, American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage among Men, which won a 2014 American Library Association Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction. His short fiction and literary journalism have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies. He was co–chair of Lambda Literary from 2009 to 2011. With his partner, Darrell Crawford, he divides his time between Key West and New York City.
Michael Nelson has been a public librarian for more than thirteen years, and he joined the staff of the Key West Public Library in 2015. He has master's degrees in both library science and creative writing from the University of South Florida in Tampa. He joined the KWLS board in 2017.
Hilary Parmentier is currently an English faculty member and chair of the English, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Art Department at Florida Keys Community College. She has worked to connect FKCC students, staff, and faculty to the community in many ways, including through the Key West Literary Seminar. Hilary was a five-year volunteer for the Seminar before joining the board in 2017.
Lori Reid has worked for nonprofits in Key West since moving here in 1999. She worked at the Tropic Cinema for twelve years, eight of those as theater manager, retiring in December 2017. She joined the staff at Books & Books @ The Studios of Key West in March 2018. Semi-retirement has afforded her the opportunity to spend more time reading—a lifelong pleasure. She joined the KWLS Board in 2018 and looks forward to being exposed to new genres and authors.
Diane Shelby, president, first attended the Seminar in 1995 during the free and open-to-the-public Sunday afternoon session. She then became a Seminar volunteer and eventually joined the board of directors in 2005. Professionally, she works as a consultant to businesses and nonprofits in matters relating to accounting and financial analysis.
Carey Winfrey worked as a journalist for newspapers, television, and magazines before embracing self-unemployment in 2011. He is the co-author, with John Leslie, of Hail to the Chief, a political thriller published in 2016; was program chair of the 2017 Seminar; and recently completed Writers on Bicycles, a documentary film about literary Key West.
Arlo Haskell, executive director, has championed the expansion of the Seminar's scholarship program and created new initiatives such as the Young Writers Studio. He is also a historian and the author of The Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers, and Revolutionaries, which received this year's Florida Book Award. He lives in old town with his wife, Ashley, and their daughters, Aviva and Zadie.
Katie Leigh began working for the Seminar as administrative assistant in 2016. Her previous careers include public relations account executive, ESL teacher, volunteer coordinator, writer, waitress, ice cream vendor at Wrigley Field, and kayak tour guide. She moved to Key West from Chicago in 2004, and in her free time she enjoys running 5Ks and running after her two boys, Owen, 10, and Dawson, 4.
Ben Pegg, technical director, is a Florida Keys based producer and songwriter. He is the resident sound designer at the historic Waterfront Playhouse and was the apprentice of Brenton Evans in New Haven, Connecticut, where he studied to become a piano technician. Ben was recently credited as the assistant producer on the award-winning science documentary film, Monster in the Mind, for his production work.
Kate Peters is KWLS education coordinator and lead teacher for the Young Writers Studio, our summer program for local high school students. She teaches English at Saint Catherine's School in Richmond, Virginia.
Katrin Schumann, program coordinator, is the author of the novel The Forgotten Hours and numerous nonfiction titles. For the past ten years, she has been teaching writing, most recently at GrubStreet (the largest writing center in the United States) and in the Massachusetts prison system. She helped design and run "The Launch Lab," GrubStreet's program for debut authors. Born in Germany and raised in Brooklyn and London, Katrin now lives in Boston and Key West.
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Ngauruhoe from Oteirere
John Gully
Title inscribed in artist's hand unsigned
Illustrated: New Zealands Romantic Landscape Paintings by John Gully. p.143
John Gully was a New Zealand landscape painter. He was born in Bath, and was the son of Philip Gully, a porter, and Mary Vincent. He was largely self-taught, though he did take a few private lessons. After reading Hursthouse's 'Account of the Settlement of New Plymouth', Gully emigrated to New Zealand with his wife and three children in 1852.
Gully originally settled on a small block of land in Omata, Taranaki, working in various jobs including farming and clerical work. During this time he advertised as a painter of 'views' of properties to send back to England. He eventually ended up bankrupt and so took some art pupils. In 1860 driven out by the land wars of Taranaki Gully moved with his family to Nelson.
He was appointed part-time art master at Nelson College, though because he was self-taught and not schooled in the classical style, he was not popular with the principal.
Eventually in 1863 Gully got a full-time job, with the assistance of his friend, politician and amateur painter James Crowe Richmond, as a draughtsman at the Department of Lands and Survey. Gully and Richmond painted landscapes together at Milford Sound, Lake Manapouri, and other locations.
In the same year he successfully applied to illustrate a paper that was to be presented to the Royal Geographical Society by the famous explorer and geologist Julius von Haast. Haast had reservations about Gully's skill, but both the paper and Gully's twelve illustrations of lakes, mountains and glaciers in the South Island were a great success and established Gully's reputation.
Gully sold the watercolours he submitted to the 1865 Otago Exhibition before it even opened, and when it did open, he gained a silver medal. Gully's large watercolours became immensely popular at the Art Society shows, even if some were based on sketches by other artists, or on photographs. 'His "two views of Mount Cook from the West Coast," carefully drawn on the spot by John Rochfort excited favourable comment. It was generally opined to the best watercolour in the [1865 Otago] exhibition'.
In 1871 a work of Gully's, Mount Cook and the Southern Alps, West Coast of New Zealand, was included in the British Royal Academy's summer exhibition. Gully saw acceptance by this group as the high point of his career. This was a considerable achievement for a self-taught artist from the colonies. Gully had thought that success in England would confirm his ability and was particularly anxious to sell his work on the English market.
Gully accompanied Governor of New Zealand, Sir James Fergusson, on a trip aboard HMS Blanche to Milford Sound in 1874. His intention was to make sketches for a book on New Zealand scenery, though the weather was too bad to draw most of the time. In the end Gully painted some scenes from photos taken by Alfred Burton, the eldest of the famous Burton Brothers.
In 1877 Gully published a portfolio of chromo-lithographs, with text written by Sir Julius von Haast. Gully was not happy with the way his paintings reproduced – 'he could not see that his work, too weak to reproduce well, was bound to produce a "washy" effect'. Nevertheless, the portfolio sold quite well and is now a collector's item.
The next year Gully retired from his job as a draughtsman and turned to painting full-time. He continued to paint and exhibit, his last big exhibition being the Wellington Industrial Exhibition in 1885. John Gully died in 1888, in Nelson.